For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!
That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”
I can recline my seat. And you can recline yours.
Good lord that less/fewer shit is nit picky and annoying.
The use of apostrophe’s to denote plural’s need’s to stop. I will dispatch a syphilitic spidermonkey to fuck your face in your sleep if you do that shit when talking to me.
Anyway not anyways. I don’t care what the dictionary says. Anyways sounds backwoods, plural, and the “s” is pointless.
The reason I won’t get a Tesla has nothing to do with Musk or the car’s sketchy reliability.
It has everything to do with the simple fact that I don’t like having my basic instruments over in the center console instead of in front of me.
Pluto is a MOTHER FUCKING PLANET
It has enough mass to deform into a spheroid, it orbits on the major plane of every other planet.
“Clearing their orbit” is utter bullshit, Earth hasn’t even cleared its orbit that’s why we get the Perseid and The Leonid meteor showers.
Fuck you NDT, I know you didn’t start it but you SURE as FUCK popularized it.
And I will literally fistfight any of you who disagree idgaf where or when.
a couple always means two.
every time anyone says “a couple”, i ask them if they mean two. it’s not pleasant exchange for either of us, but it must be done
The word “literally” has been forever ruined by people who use it to mean “figuratively.” Worse, there is now literally no way to actually convey the original meaning of the word “literally” in a concise, clear way.
You have to say something like, “A is literally 10 times bigger than B…and I mean that ACTUALLY literally.” And then people will STILL assume that you’re speaking figuratively.
“white chocolate” doesn’t exist. It’s just sugar and a little bit of cocoa butter. It’s edible wax. It’s not chocolate and it doesn’t belong in any assortment of sweets, ever. Cocoa butter is skin moisturizer and that’s it.
It provably does exist. And it’s delicious. I could go to the supermarket and buy some right now. Except I’m fat and trying to lose weight.
I’m allergic to chocolate solids but can eat cocoa butter. So, in a society that is unreasonably obsessed with chocolate, it is nice that there is occasionally a “white chocolate” option on things that for some reason come in 15 flavors of chocolate and little else.
It does exist in the way that chocolate ‘solids’ exist as an element of chocolate. A typical chocolate bar consists of both chocolate solids and cocoa butter. It’s still an element of what you’re eating,
So just cuz you eat ‘chocolate’ because you think you only favor the solids, you’re still eating the butter too in what makes chocolate. It’s like drinking milk products and then getting pedantic over people who use butter as a food even though milk contains some the same elements.
But again this is about stupid hills to die on. And you picked an intolerant and ignorant stance so I guess you technically win in this particular topic.
The most delicious edible wax I’ve ever had.
I’m fine with changing the name for it, but you sir can fuck right off if you want me to stop eating it instead of your “real” chocolate
I would argue it’s actually congealed demon jizz but it’s definitely not fucking chocolate.
TIL I like eating wax
You have my sword.
And my bow.
And my axe!
Oh crap, I zoned out. What are we doing?
Hey, you. You’re finally awake.
Dunking on a dude that doesn’t think white chocolate is chocolate, hope that helps
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Have you tried ruby chocolate yet? I’m guessing you won’t be impressed.
I agree with your feeling for the most part. White chocolate is not chocolate and does not belong in chocolate assortments or in the lofty company of actual chocolate. It’s a byproduct of chocolate making more than a chocolate itself. That being said, candy and sweets that are made with cocoa butter can be nice. I’m just not going to eat it when I want chocolate.
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If you can’t scan your groceries at self check out under 3 minutes go to a register when it’s busy. You’re people are holding the rest of us up. I can scan a full cart faster than some can scan their 10 items.
I can’t take people who say “your guyses” seriously.
Two spaces after periods.
Don’t use the term impacted when you mean affected. Use impacted only for when physical bodies collide. Never use bastardized variants of impact such as impacts, impactfullness, impactedly, etc.
Don’t use the term concept when you mean idea.
How about if I use “slammed” instead. Seems to be all the rage with headline writers these days.
In journalism school, one of our profs had us watch this video (and then tested us on it) to cement that simple words make a big difference (I won’t lie, I was tempted to say impact there).
Simple words are more effective.
You got it Mr. Carlin.
This statement has impacted my grumpiness level this morning.
This post really left an impact on my thought process.
I have no concept of why any of the above matters
I’ve heard effect and affect so many times but never this one.
Oh, so you really hate scientific writing…join the club.
Use impacted only for when physical bodies collide.
Like when referring to impacted bowels!
Exactly
If Shakespeare can change the meaning of words, so can I
A modest comparison to offer, for sure. 🙄
Get bent. Impacted is absolutely acceptable usage to describe a direct or follow on affect from an action or initiative. It’s useful precisely because it’s an intensifier that conveys not just that there is a detectable change in an indicator, but there is a major change that directly attributable to the manipulated variable.
ETA: I think I have this figured out. That 70s Show use the phrase “get bent” as a synonym for “fuck off”. That’s not how I learned the meaning in the actual 70s. It was closer in meaning to “get real” and in line with the reported etymology of “go have a drink”.
Get bent
Now, Bob, let’s keep it civil here
I thought that was a civil statement. I may be miscalibrated but I thought it was among the mildest of four letter words. I’d be happy to extend my vocabulary in the gentle art of dismissal.
I agree but you can be less offensive saying it
You’re right. Funny how language can evolve, like if a phrase from an obscure German sociologist takes on a colloquial meaning not quite in line with its academic definition in the original treatise. 🤣
This is probably the best thread in a while for all of us Lemmings to display our true selves to each other. I love it.
Lol.
You can be a duck and a banana at the same time.
Petty hill
If you keep correcting very minor grammatical mistakes when I am speaking, such as “you mean fewer, not less”, I will just stop talking to you entirely
Technically, I wait until you’re done speaking to strike
Turns out language is pretty damn flexible. Even if I made an obvious mistake, you meant what I knew.
It’s simple though. If you can count it, it’s fewer. If not, it’s less.
Fewer people. Less noise.
That isn’t a grammatic rule. Some guy in the recent past was like “I think it sounds better that way.” It was his personal preference.
That’s all.
They’ve always been used interchangeably, for as long as English has been a written language.
People who love to “correct” this are just showing ass to anyone who knows any better haha.
This is a way in which you can discredit any attempt at proposing correct or logical language use. Yes, language changes. Your assertions are still debatable. English is ambiguous enough as is. It’s not ‘showing ads’ to propose some form of consistent or logical usage of words. I’m happy to count that as a petty hill I’m willing to die on.
And since we’re being petty, it’s either ‘grammatical rule’, or ‘Grammar rule’.
This is a way in which you can discredit any attempt at proposing correct or logical language use
It absolutely is not. You’re just talking out of your ass.
The same one that you are, in fact, showing when you demand that the personal preference of some random stranger is the way that everyone has to talk from now on. Ludicrous.
You need some salsa for that chip on your shoulder, or is there another reason why you’re getting so personal?
Don’t answer. I don’t actually care.
