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”
envy and jealousy are supposed to have different meanings, but idiots always use jealous when they mean envious. Annoys the fuck out of me.
I’m gonna be representative of the idiots here and ask:
I don’t get the difference. Please help.
Homer once explained it to his daughter Lisa. If you’re jealous, it means you are scared that someone else might take away what you already have. Being envious means that you want to have what somebody else has.
Using 12 AM or 12 PM is useless. Midnight is both and noon is neither.
The saying “hindsight is 20/20” is stupid. 20/20 is average. As someone with better than 20/20, my hindsight would be worse than normal.
Stick to the side of the path your country drives on or at least move to that side if someones comming the otherway. I don’t get how this isn’t common knowledge but it also doesn’t matter all that much.
Except when you’re walking on a road, you should walk on the opposite side of vehicle traffic.
If it were supposed to be pronounced “jif” it would have been spelled that way, I don’t give two fucks what Stephen Wilhite said about it either.
Same with Gnome wanting to be pronounced “Gah-nome”, or Latex “Latech”. Just spell stuff the way you want it to be pronounced, or accept that people pronounce it another way
or Latex “Latech”. Just spell stuff the way you want it to be pronounced
But they did! You’re the one who fucked it up by using an “x” (Latin letter x) instead of a “χ” (Greek letter chi).
(Also, you didn’t capitalize or format it correctly. It’s supposed to be rendered as “LAΤΕΧ”, and yes, those last three letters are
Τ Ε ΧGreek capital tau, epsilon, chi.)🤓
YYYY/MM/DD
The medical symbol of the staff with the snake is only supposed to have 1 (one) snake on it. A staff with 1 snake is the Rod of Asclepius (the son of Apollo and Greek demigod of medicine), a staff with 2 snakes is a Caduceus which is carried by Hermes as a messenger or herald.
Physicians get 1 snake. Couriers and heralds get 2 snakes. Any medical professional or organization that uses 2 snakes is wrong and needs to go study the humanities and classics for a bit.
Isn’t the one snake staff more of a trans symbol?
Look I’m all for trans homies and positivity but not everything has to be a fuckin trans symbol.
This is what I was thinking of, which does have two snakes and a stick in it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiresias
That would be more similar to the Caduceus anyways given the number of snakes.
using “he/she” to refer to an ambiguous party. just use they for fucks sake
agreed for humans, but I do like calling cars/boats/bikes/machines “she”. makes me feel like a pirate :)
oh im not talking about that.
i’m talking about quasi-legalese phrases like “he/she may […]” “if he/she agrees”, you know. the places where “they” would be both more grammatical and easier to understandI have been learning Spanish with Babbel and the
El/Ella Compra
Will never not sound wrong to me. El & Ella are two people, they Compran something they don’t Compra it.
But They as a singular in English absolutely just rolls off my tongue, makes absolute sense, it is what I use.
he/she refers to a single individual, they can refer to multiple
They can also refer to an individual though.
yeah, but its an ambiguity that can be picked at in legal settings. He/she makes it very clear that only singular person is being referred to
I guess I found my hill:
If you are worried about your sentence leaving ambiguity for your pronouns, then write a better sentence.
Alright, that’s fair, they did specifically say legalese.
Are you familiar with the comedian James Acaster? He has a relevant bit: https://youtu.be/Zt5qJC1xQ8A
i wasn’t, thanks for introducing them
The seventh planet from the sun should be called Caelus not Uranus. All the other planets get named after the Roman equivalent of their respective god, why should that one get special treatment just so people can make puerile jokes.
EDIT: spelling
You know before this post I didn’t have a dog in this fight but now I am right beside you on this hill and it will be Caelus in my mind from now on.
So easier to talk seriously about, as you point out.
There are dozens of us!
I think fewer of people when they misuse words. Their not that hard too tail a part.
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
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.
The main issue is that if Pluto is a planet, there’s like 30 or so others that have to be also, for consistency.
Nah… Just take the current definition of planet and append “and also Pluto because we’re emotionally attached to it” and you’re good.
Do they orbit on the general plane of the other planets in the system? COOL! Add them to the list!
IDGAF if we have hundreds of planets, it’s always been an arbitrary number and the only reason to keep it small is so kids can memorize the list and that isn’t good enough to DISRESPECT motherfucking PLUTO
its “I could not care less” and not “I could care less”. This one drives me nuts
I adore David Mitchell and his rants. I really liked the one about how “rape” should not become socially acceptable and silly when followed by “pillage” just because the Vikings are depicted as having worn silly hats.
Ever since I saw that video 14 years ago, I always pause for a moment to make sure I actually say it properly
Thank you for fighting the good fight.
It’s concrete, not cement. (Sidewalks for example, or foundations of buildings, etc)
Cement is an ingredient in concrete.
It’s “cement concrete,” or in other words, concrete with a cementitious binder (e.g. lime, Portland cement, pozzolan, fly ash, etc.).
That’s in contrast to “asphalt concrete” (the black stuff roads are often paved with), which is concrete with a heavy petroleum (asphalt, a.k.a. bitumen) binder.
“Concrete” just means aggregate plus a fluid binder that cures and hardens. Arguably, things like epoxy quartz countertops and terrazzo flooring are “concrete,” too.
quite a concrete answer
Really cements my understanding of the topic.
I didn’t know you were on Lemmy, dad!
Rofl. My dad is WHY I do this.
A simple one I think, I refuse to call twitter by other names.
I do love, however calling it Xitter where X is pronounced “sh”
Like Xi Jinping. (Shi )
Wonder if Xi scrolls through Xitter on the xitter.
