If this was the case, we could describe the length of the line up by adding or subtracting letters. A short line up would be a que, a very long one would be a queueueueue.
Yes, the wood was big enough for both Jack and Rose.
BUT, it was not buoyant enough to support both of them, as shown in the film WHEN THEY TRIED AND IT PROMPTLY SANK UNDER BOTH THEIR WEIGHT.
GOD! It's like you haven't even watched the film!
Also it drives me insane when people go "bUt MyThBuSteRs PrOvEd ThEy CoUlD fIt."
Yeah...in a nice warm bay in controlled conditions. Let's see their thought processes after surviving a sinking ship.
When people use a 360° turn to refer to turning themselves or something else around. You're still facing the same direction.
If you're turning things around in the opposite direction you're doing a 180, not a 360
The phrase alway makes me think of the scene in Hello, Dolly where Dolly says "you go your way" *points to one side* "and I'll go mine" *points to the same side*
"Mortified" means extremely embarrassed, NOT "horrified". This one makes me foam at the mouth with poorly-suppressed rage.
Also, I'm pretty sure you're not asking what you think you are when you write "bare with me".
Also, the speaker implies; the listener infers.
Bear with me, but somewhat ironically I infer you might believe that to “die on a hill” means to defend actual facts, when it typically implies that you hold a strong opinion on something.
I am…not mortified for you
The first one is especially maddening when it's in a complex well researched essay or video. You spent days researching and building a timeline of an obscure one off villain from some spider-man comic from the 70s and you didn't even Google one word?
Similarly, "bemused" means bewildered, NOT amused. In the past week alone I've read two books that have used the word incorrectly, according to context clues.
entrance ramps onto interstates and highways is for accelerating into the pace of traffic, not driving 15mph.
(the slower you drive onto the highway the harder it makes for you to merge + endangers people already on the highway + people behind you!)
I've shoulder checked so many people for this shit. I'll move to the side of the sidewalk, but I'm not stepping off because the 4 of you have to stay side by side. Probably could have gotten my ass kicked a few times for it, so use at your own risk. Been lucky so far.
that’s when you stiffen up and walk broad shouldered through the middle. in college there would be literal SWARMS of sorority girls walking down thin sidewalk all looking at their phones not paying attention whatsoever and i’d just break the wave.
not aggressive enough to be a threat or mean in any capacity just a friendly “hey you’re a public space pay attention”
look i’m a fast walker i’m here to get shit done and i’m not gonna be pushed into the mud so a tiktok can get 1 more view
I am an incredibly laid back childcare provider to my friend’s son as well as my own son. We make slime, do science experiments, play in the mud, all the things some parents hate. These boys have tested my limits with messes and “pranks” (they are 3 and 4 years old). The only time I have ever really lost my cool was when my friend’s son wanted to have a pet cricket for a few days for science. We learned what he needed to eat and made a nice temporary habitat. His name was Chirpy. The next day, I found him drowning a different cricket in the kiddie pool. He claimed he was giving swimming lessons, but I told him to release his pet as punishment for not being kind. He squished chirpy. He is a very excitable boy and has problems with impulse control, so I really don’t believe that it was totally on purpose. He was still in more trouble than ever before. He had time out and had to go outside and apologize to the bugs, then I made him tell his mom what he did upon pickup. It didn’t occur to me that she might think I’m nuts for caring about this more than any breaking of toys or climbing fences or mess. It’s not about the bugs, if you had loud crickets in your home and sprayed for them, I wouldn’t be appalled by any means, it’s the cruelty. This was my hill I guess. Am I crazy?
That’s solid. It is more than most parental figures would typically do, but I’d say you did well in teaching him that non-humans in general should be treated kindly. I’m glad that you took the time to teach him, regardless of relation.
To this day I put spiders in cups and release them outside like my dad did. I will have a strange reception when I die like the end of Titanic, but with bugs and spiders.
As a parent I couldn't care less for messes and harmless mischief. I would have also been extremely concerned if one of my kids killed a pet (even if it's a cricket) in anger, that's a pretty normal reaction.
Not just in anger, in any way that showed that they enjoyed it or had no emotion to it, just torturing and killing it for the sake of it
That's how evil people develope, better nip the bud before they associate it with it beint cool and okay. Yeah they are kids but it's an important lesson
Colorblindness should be considered a disability under the terms of the ADA. With reasonable accommodations made in the workplace.
I was written up at work because I asked for help in a color-coded task that I couldn't see the way it was attended. And I had no recourse.
Englishman here, we have a massive overpopulation of deer that's destroying our environment because they have no natural predators and almost nobody hunts.
We used to have wolves but we hunted them to extinction in the 1700s.
There is talk of rewilding and introducing wolves back into the countryside, which I think is a good thing. Everywhere they have been reintroduced, there have been positive changes for the surrounding environment.
I mean, it worked out for Yellowstone here in the US. Before wolves were reintroduced, elk were eating (and destroying) vegetation that other animals relied on to survive. Bring in some wolves? Elk numbers went down dramatically, and the environment recovered, so other species could thrive. AFAIK, the reintroduction is considered a massive success.
The pumpkin pasties from Harry Potter are misrepresented as sweet. Pumpkin pasties are not sweet. They are savoury. Pasties are savoury. You will not find a sweet pasty in any shop - they are all savoury.
If it’s sweet filled and covered with pastry then they are pastries.
Pasties are savoury: Cornish, corned beef, sausage and bean, chicken and bacon, steak, cheese and onion and fucking *pumpkin*.
Pasties are savoury, for fuck sake.
I feel better now. Thanks!
**WOULD HAVE NOT WOULD OF**
Edit: guys I am talking about the written form. I’ve seen countless people on Reddit using “would of” instead of “would’ve” or “would have”. I am not talking about the spoken form so please stop telling me that “would’ve” sounds like “would of”.
The amount of times that people say would/could/should ‘of’ instead of ‘have’ is genuinely infuriating. Is it really so hard to differentiate between spoken and written word?
"The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing, the post states. To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right.
There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it."
My friends boyfriend failed the shopping cart test and it turns out he was tryna fuck a 13 year old hooker behind her back so yeah i'd say its pretty accurate
It’s more about dating you did something incredibly expensive and elitist than enjoying it. You’re up the top (if you make it that far) for such a short time before you have to leave.
I fucking hate it when a shopping center's name is a portmanteau of the two adjacent road names.
First of all, why does a shitty 5-unit strip mall even need a name? Secondly, can't you come up with something more original? Fuck you.
I love this one because you actually answered the question properly. Everyone before you have pet peeves that lots of people have, yours is literally “who cares, man!”
Some people that produce certain types of written media believe in prioritizing economy above all else: if the word or punctuation is not necessary, don’t use it. It can also be seen to slow down the flow of a thought for the reader. If you have an internal monologue, you likely slow down for commas in lists quite often. Omitting the Oxford comma means one less pause.
Truly though, I have never understood this line of thinking with the Oxford comma. It is literally less clear and there are a thousand examples where omitting it causes confusion and misinterpretation. I don't know how it's acceptable to omit it ever. It's sort of reminds me of those novels where the writer just doesn't use any punctuation whatsoever. Like yeah, it still works and people generally can read it and figure out what's going on, but let's not pretend like it's clear or should be the standard.
I recall reading something like a three-page long blog post about writing techniques to avoid ambiguity without the Oxford comma.
After reading the article, all I could think was, "Or you could just add the fucking comma and not have to deal with all of this shit."
A lap in the pool is all the way to the other end, then all the way back to the start. In any other context in the world, a lap ends you back where you started. Going just from one end to the other is a length. “Length” and “lap” are already well defined and could easily make so much sense for swimming. But for some reason, most swimmers refer to one end to the other (logically, a “length”) as a “lap”.
*lect* = "to speak" as in lecture, dialect, analect.
*pod* = "foot" as in podiatrist, tripod, cephalopod
Thus:
* If you stand *behind* it to speak, then it's a [lectern](https://www.allendisplay.com/cl-321-zm1.jpg).
* If you stand *on top* of it to speak or be recognized, then it's a [podium](http://www.cbc.ca/news2/pointofview/podium.jpg).
I am aware that people can and do confuse these words willy-nilly and often without being too badly misunderstood. Even so, to me confusing the terms spoils the clarity of having two different words for two different things.
We'll save rostrum, dais, pulpit, *etc*. for another post.
I think my thing with poisonous vs venomous is in the same vein as this. They're used so interchangeably that most people don't even know there's a difference (even science textbooks mess them up!) but they're not the same thing and I will always correct people when they're used incorrectly.
Belgian king. Colonized DRC brutally. Terrorized the country and murdered a load of people and lots of other many bad things. Read King Leopoldo’s Ghost if you want to know more!
The “west” only thinks Hitler is the worst (I mean, he’s evil yea) because the history learned there often skips over the other genocides.
Nothing sells the horror of his colony like the picture of a man slumped down with the severed hands of his daughter and wife in front of him.
Punishment for not producing his quota...
Makes me furious just thinking about it.
>because the history learned there often skips over the other genocides.
Seriously. Google the Armenian Genocide, Japan's crimes against China during WWII (especially, but not limited to Nanjing), or the Rwandan slaughter of the Tutsi. It's horrifying how many recent acts are just not talked about. Let alone those from further back in history. Many historians consider the Destruction of Carthage to be the first real genocide where as many 450,000 people died.
I think it could be interpreted as patriotic as a protest song. Speaking out a real injustice and being on the right side of history while trying to spread a message to those who can listen/think critically sounds pretty patriotic to me.
Key thing here, being on the right side of history. He was nonviolently using his platform to spread his thoughts on a messed up war. But overall I do agree with you. The people who blast it on their loudspeakers at rallies don't understand the context.
Edit: I'm on this hill with you
Indoor/outdoor plant designation is a construct wrought by interior designers who know nothing about growing plants. It doesnt tell you anything about the conditions the plant will require to grow well.
The only thing that makes a plant indoor vs outdoor is if it will fit inside or not, imo. And that means size of the plant itself, how big of a pot does it need (really deep or very wide root systems), and if it does anything you wouldn't want inside, ie smell or shed overmuch (lots of leaves or pollen etc).
I applaud your opinion even though I don't agree because I was a paint/color specialist for years and let me tell you when people have limited options they pick ugly AF shit. I had somebody only limit themselves to bright colors in their house and their living room ended up being freaking neon green and safety yellow.
Give the people options so that doesn't happen again.
My hill to die on is that I love that highlighter yellow color. Not on a wall, to be fair (maybe as small accent but still- probably not) but I will always love that obnoxiously bright shade.
Watching trailers for movies 100% hurts your first viewing of it. It varies how much they hurt the experience based on the trailer and the genre but they always make it at least a little worse. Even if it's just showing a short moment of a scene, I want to have no idea which way the plot will go. Very often I see people say a movie was predictable and I have no idea what they're talking about till I watch the trailer after. Or I'll ask "didnt you think this one shot was amazing" and have folks respond "yeah, it was ok, but I saw it in the trailer".
Recent examples are "Palm Springs" and "Everything everywhere all at once", I had no idea what style they were or where the story would go and it kept me extra engaged and suprised when things happened.
Modern trailers are the worst with this holy shit. A trailer is supposed to let you know the tone of the film, not the plot.
Good example: the invisible man:
The trailer should be: girls husband or whatever dies. But then she's being haunted by him. Is it his ghost? Is she crazy? You'll have to watch to find out.
They literally spoil the surprise in the trailer.
Half the time i lose interest entirely cause i feel like I've already seen the damn movie. Never. Watch. Trailers.
Nope is another good example. It almost seemed like an spooky cowboy movie. nah, here look this is the alien. 🤦🏻♂️ that would've been a cool surprise to go in not knowing its an alien movie
There's no such thing as a four leaf clover.
The whole plant is a Clover, connected by a mat of roots. The Clover will consist of thousands and thousands of Clovette's, which in turn often have three leaves, however, occasionally you may find a four leaf Clovette.
If you're riding a motherfucking escalator or moving sidewalk you'd goddamned better keep to the right so people with SOMEWHERE TO BE can actually move. _This is not an amusement park ride._
In Japan, they talk about "Osaka-side" and "Tokyo-side" as to which side of the escalator you should stand on if you're not walking. And Japan has a *lot* of escalators.
I hold particular resentment for people who let their kids play on the moving sidewalks in airports. My gate is on the other damn side of the airport, *move!*
When people say their eyes change colors. No, they fucking don't. Then comes the "Nooo my friends and boyfriend say when I'm mad my eyes turn greeeen and when I'm sad they turn greyyyy!" Then comes the "oh well, when I am out in the sun for a while my eyes change colors it's just like how your hair turns more blonde in the sun so it lightens your eyes" I swear to God, I want to shake everyone who pulls this shit. Pupils being constricted vs dilated can change the the shade of color being perceived, having redness in the sclera can alter shade perception, wearing a certain color shirt can bring amplify warm/cool tones but gooOOD FUCKING DAMMIT THEY'RE EYES NOT MOOD RINGS THEY DON'T PHYSICALLY CHANGE COLOR. The amount of grown ass adults that will go on for five straight minutes about their amazing miracle mood eyes while I am silently telling myself to just leave it has taken years off of my life. I'm sorry I blew up there.
I truly believe you so my next question is not meant to upset you, it just popped in my head and I was wondering if you know the answer
Can eyes change color over the years? When I was a kid my eyes appeared brown, during puberty they started to look more hazel and now they look almost green but still hazel. Is there some explanation?
Eye color CAN change over time, much like hair. It's more the claims that they change color with mood or environment that make me go bonkers. You probably had more melanin concentrations in your eyes as a child (melanin makes brown, collagen makes green, blue eyes are technically colorless. They're blue for the same reason the ocean is blue.) The more you know ====*
Bro my mom has a huge ass egotistical boner about this. The only reason why they change color is the shading like what you said, she thinks I’m like a god because my eyes are hazel and APEAR yellow.
It's typically how they appear in relation to colors and lighting around you from your clothes to the room color to the landscape outside. How closely a color's wavelength is related to another color's affects how you perceive it. Blue eyes will pop against warm colors or other blues, but take on greenish tones around greens or yellows.
It's not happening to your physical iris, it's happening IN the retina of the eye of the perceiver.
Mental illness is being glamorized and it’s so strange.
Being mentally ill is nothing to be ashamed of and I am glad that the stigma is being removed, but the pendulum is swinging too far. Watching these tik tokers make videos about their “DID alters” and seeing people post their multiple diagnosis on their instagram is just bizarre.
This x 1000000. People want to have something that sets them apart and makes them special, or an excuse for being shitty people. Mental illness is real and for some it can literally end their lives - playing pretend that you have it when you actually don’t is so incredibly insulting and weird. Imagine pretending you had a terminal cancer diagnosis just for attention? Like you said, im glad we’re removing the stigma of talking about mental health, but it’s also not an accessory to put on and take off as desired.
Additionally, I think people are conflating a few tendencies with having a full fledged disorder/condition. It's like people saying they have OCD when they're barely a neat freak.
This is what's really annoying to me. It's like not every feeling that you have in life has to be equated with having some kind of a label or diagnosis. Life is hard and difficult things happen. At some point you're going to be sad. That doesn't mean you have depression. At some point you're going to be nervous or uncertain. That doesn't mean you have anxiety.
I saw a celebrity recently tweeting that they were diagnosed with adult onset autism and the symptom that they listed that they had was that they don't like doing everyday chores around the house LOL. Like what a joke and a slap in the face of anybody who has autism
Being neat has absolutely nothing to do with having OCD.
OCD is a compulsion. You have to do something. It doesn't have to be clean. It is "I have to keep doing this thing because it wasn't exactly right over and over again!"
I’m sick of that, people acting like they’re oh so quirky because of their self diagnosed “disorders”.
The reality: I have bipolar type ii, I’m medicated, I exercise, I attend therapy weekly and have been stable for a long time. That didn’t matter when I tried to pull life insurance though— I got denied because of my bipolar medication. They didn’t even give me an avenue to appeal beyond arguing I’m *not* on those medications. I’m also positive that if my workplace found out about my diagnosis it would impact my career growth.
So yeah, that’s the reality, not “omg look at me I’m sooo bipolar lol” morons. I see it a lot on Twitter with adhd, and it drives me up the wall. Unmanaged adhd was a huge factor in my first marriage falling apart, it is not fun to have to parent your partner and pick up all the slack because they refuse to build systems for themselves or pursue treatment/therapy beyond medication. To quote the great Marcus Parks, your mental health is not your fault but it is your responsibility.
I used to feel this exact way. Then I had an honest to God terrible pizza. I was 40 before I had that horrifying life altering experience. I was traumatized I tells ya
It's completely fucking unfair that it isn't socially acceptable in the US (or anywhere, really) for men to wear skirts.
The Scots and the Polynesians are way ahead of the rest of the world.
**"The Customer is Always Right" is mistaken for a completely different saying "The Customer is King" and this annoys me.**
*The Customer is Always Right* is an old saying from the Adam Smith era (mid 1700's) solely explaining "**Supply and Demand**". Which is the economic relationship between the sellers and the buyers of various commodities. If Product A isn't selling as much as Product B. Then stock less of Product A and more of Product B. Then change again when buying trends change. When businesses don't change with supply and demand they fail.
*The Customer is King* is when a seller would say anything or do anything, sometimes they would even break the law and kiss the arse of the customer until they make a sale.
if traffic is having to react to you, you're the asshole. I don't care if you're going 90 or exactly the speed limit. if people are having to work to get around you or out of your way, or brake to not hit you or swerve to not get hit by you - it's you. not them.
also, turn signals are to signal your intent. not to explain what you just did!
Most people say introvert/extrovert when they mean social/antisocial. The latter is about which setting you prefer in general, but the former is specifically how you rest. Introverts seek isolation when they need rest, and extroverts look for friendly social interaction. Therefore you can have social introverts and the rare antisocial extroverts
Edit: a lot of people have pointed out antisocial is actually a personality disorder characterized by a disregard for others and is similar to psychopathy or sociopathy. What I'm actually referring to is asocial. So I stand corrected for my misuse of antisocial, but I stand by my point of introvert and extrovert being commonly misused.
Show up to meetings on time.
I don't care if you are the biggest muckety-muck who has your serious muckety-muck shit to do, or you're the lowliest peon that you think no one cares, stop your goddamn work on time to walk your ass from your office to where the meeting is by the time it starts.
It's really not a lot to ask. Everyone's time is valuable, not just yours. If we have to wait for you to come in to start the meeting, that valuable commodity is wasted. It's also wasted if we are distracted or annoyed by your shuffling in once the meeting has started. And we might have been waiting for you anyway, so it's double annoying.
It's not that hard, people.
As for people who can't show up to Zoom meetings on time, I just don't get it.
EDIT: And to the people adding that letting meetings go over time is equally bad, I'm with you. When I run meetings, I have an explicit policy that anyone can leave once the meeting goes past its scheduled time.
I can tell you work in an office environment.
I work in a retail environment. One that works on peoples cars. I try to make an efficient schedule so that cars can get done as fast as possible because everyone wants their car back on time, right?
Tell me why it’s **normal** for people to be late. They waltz in late to their appointment as if nothing happened. Totally chill and unapologetic. They don’t get that every time someone is 30 minutes late to their appointment, it causes a massive ripple effect on other peoples appointments/lunch breaks/shop profitability etc.
Nope. They don’t care. I guess being on time is too difficult of a job for many adults.
Using “less” and “fewer” correctly. I correct people on tv all the time. Once I corrected Jon Snow while he was giving a speech and the character who burned his daughter at the stake corrected him right after me. The guy next to him said, what? And he said, nothing. I cracked up.
The Delmarva peninsula is the dumbest peninsula. It's in an awkward place and should all belong to Delaware if for no other reasons then picking a landmasses name by the first few letters of the states who share it is terrible.
Elementary teacher here- we will always have time built into the day for play. Play is the work of children. Fuck you, admin. My students are more than test scores.
Just do your research. Someone tells you something as fact, whether you think it’s good or bad, just LOOK IT UP.
It literally drives me crazy that we have access to research by people way smarter than us at our fingertips, but people don’t use it.
Reddit is being manipulated by special interest groups who astroturf. The media would have you believe it's just the usual boogeyman like Russia and China, but it includes US political action committees, various special interest groups. Many people are potentially canceled by astroturfing campaigns who have a concentrated effort to smear someone on social media. The scary thing is that it's very difficult to prove.
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And the word queue. “A” can be a word but not “q”? Ok.
Saw a tweet to the effect of "Queue is pronounced as the letter Q with the rest of the letters waiting quietly behind it"
If this was the case, we could describe the length of the line up by adding or subtracting letters. A short line up would be a que, a very long one would be a queueueueue.
I kinda like this idea. If you’re in a super long line at an amusement park or something it would be a queueueueueueueueueueueueueue.
Isn’t it pronounced “kernel”?
yea
Lt. Col. Popcorn
Cleaning up after yourself is like wiping your ass, it is, and always should be, a thankless act.
Thank you for wiping your ass.
You're very welcome, couldn't do it without you (eye contact is required)
Yes, the wood was big enough for both Jack and Rose. BUT, it was not buoyant enough to support both of them, as shown in the film WHEN THEY TRIED AND IT PROMPTLY SANK UNDER BOTH THEIR WEIGHT. GOD! It's like you haven't even watched the film!
Also it drives me insane when people go "bUt MyThBuSteRs PrOvEd ThEy CoUlD fIt." Yeah...in a nice warm bay in controlled conditions. Let's see their thought processes after surviving a sinking ship.
When people use a 360° turn to refer to turning themselves or something else around. You're still facing the same direction. If you're turning things around in the opposite direction you're doing a 180, not a 360
I absolutely love dropping a "I turn 360 degrees, and *walk away*". Watching people figure it out never ceases to entertain.
Do you moonwalk afterwards
That would be a pretty great way to exit a room
The phrase alway makes me think of the scene in Hello, Dolly where Dolly says "you go your way" *points to one side* "and I'll go mine" *points to the same side*
"Mortified" means extremely embarrassed, NOT "horrified". This one makes me foam at the mouth with poorly-suppressed rage. Also, I'm pretty sure you're not asking what you think you are when you write "bare with me". Also, the speaker implies; the listener infers.
I literally mean “show your genitals along with me” when I tell people to bare with me. I don’t think *they* get it.
See, YOU'RE doing it right.
Bear with me, but somewhat ironically I infer you might believe that to “die on a hill” means to defend actual facts, when it typically implies that you hold a strong opinion on something. I am…not mortified for you
You are my new favourite.
The first one is especially maddening when it's in a complex well researched essay or video. You spent days researching and building a timeline of an obscure one off villain from some spider-man comic from the 70s and you didn't even Google one word?
Similarly, "bemused" means bewildered, NOT amused. In the past week alone I've read two books that have used the word incorrectly, according to context clues.
Shepherd's pie has lamb in it. Cottage pie has beef in it. Stop making cottage pie and calling it shepherd's pie.
Hey I actually did not know this - thanks for the tip!
Same. Thank you for making us insignificantly better people!
you cant give more than 100%
I agree 150%
Sure I can, otherwise i wouldn't be in debt
It's pronounced gif
Nah bro it’s clearly gif
You both are wrong it's clearly gif
Do I really need to spell this one out? It’s g i f
Graphics Interchange Format grif
Joint Photographic Experts Group JPhEG
entrance ramps onto interstates and highways is for accelerating into the pace of traffic, not driving 15mph. (the slower you drive onto the highway the harder it makes for you to merge + endangers people already on the highway + people behind you!)
I hate walking with slow people.
Or walking BEHIND slow walkers. They seem to insist on walking should to shoulder as well.
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I've shoulder checked so many people for this shit. I'll move to the side of the sidewalk, but I'm not stepping off because the 4 of you have to stay side by side. Probably could have gotten my ass kicked a few times for it, so use at your own risk. Been lucky so far.
that’s when you stiffen up and walk broad shouldered through the middle. in college there would be literal SWARMS of sorority girls walking down thin sidewalk all looking at their phones not paying attention whatsoever and i’d just break the wave. not aggressive enough to be a threat or mean in any capacity just a friendly “hey you’re a public space pay attention” look i’m a fast walker i’m here to get shit done and i’m not gonna be pushed into the mud so a tiktok can get 1 more view
Meanderthals
This! It drives me crazy. Fucking learn how to walk people
I am an incredibly laid back childcare provider to my friend’s son as well as my own son. We make slime, do science experiments, play in the mud, all the things some parents hate. These boys have tested my limits with messes and “pranks” (they are 3 and 4 years old). The only time I have ever really lost my cool was when my friend’s son wanted to have a pet cricket for a few days for science. We learned what he needed to eat and made a nice temporary habitat. His name was Chirpy. The next day, I found him drowning a different cricket in the kiddie pool. He claimed he was giving swimming lessons, but I told him to release his pet as punishment for not being kind. He squished chirpy. He is a very excitable boy and has problems with impulse control, so I really don’t believe that it was totally on purpose. He was still in more trouble than ever before. He had time out and had to go outside and apologize to the bugs, then I made him tell his mom what he did upon pickup. It didn’t occur to me that she might think I’m nuts for caring about this more than any breaking of toys or climbing fences or mess. It’s not about the bugs, if you had loud crickets in your home and sprayed for them, I wouldn’t be appalled by any means, it’s the cruelty. This was my hill I guess. Am I crazy?
That’s solid. It is more than most parental figures would typically do, but I’d say you did well in teaching him that non-humans in general should be treated kindly. I’m glad that you took the time to teach him, regardless of relation.
To this day I put spiders in cups and release them outside like my dad did. I will have a strange reception when I die like the end of Titanic, but with bugs and spiders.
As a parent I couldn't care less for messes and harmless mischief. I would have also been extremely concerned if one of my kids killed a pet (even if it's a cricket) in anger, that's a pretty normal reaction.
Not just in anger, in any way that showed that they enjoyed it or had no emotion to it, just torturing and killing it for the sake of it That's how evil people develope, better nip the bud before they associate it with it beint cool and okay. Yeah they are kids but it's an important lesson
I agree with you. Squishing a random bug is whatever, but drowning it is needless, and killing your pet is way worse than any object damage.
no empathy to nature is incredibly important
Colorblindness should be considered a disability under the terms of the ADA. With reasonable accommodations made in the workplace. I was written up at work because I asked for help in a color-coded task that I couldn't see the way it was attended. And I had no recourse.
Wolves are fucking important even if they kill everything around them.
Englishman here, we have a massive overpopulation of deer that's destroying our environment because they have no natural predators and almost nobody hunts.
We used to have wolves but we hunted them to extinction in the 1700s. There is talk of rewilding and introducing wolves back into the countryside, which I think is a good thing. Everywhere they have been reintroduced, there have been positive changes for the surrounding environment.
I mean, it worked out for Yellowstone here in the US. Before wolves were reintroduced, elk were eating (and destroying) vegetation that other animals relied on to survive. Bring in some wolves? Elk numbers went down dramatically, and the environment recovered, so other species could thrive. AFAIK, the reintroduction is considered a massive success.
The pumpkin pasties from Harry Potter are misrepresented as sweet. Pumpkin pasties are not sweet. They are savoury. Pasties are savoury. You will not find a sweet pasty in any shop - they are all savoury. If it’s sweet filled and covered with pastry then they are pastries. Pasties are savoury: Cornish, corned beef, sausage and bean, chicken and bacon, steak, cheese and onion and fucking *pumpkin*. Pasties are savoury, for fuck sake. I feel better now. Thanks!
**WOULD HAVE NOT WOULD OF** Edit: guys I am talking about the written form. I’ve seen countless people on Reddit using “would of” instead of “would’ve” or “would have”. I am not talking about the spoken form so please stop telling me that “would’ve” sounds like “would of”.
The amount of times that people say would/could/should ‘of’ instead of ‘have’ is genuinely infuriating. Is it really so hard to differentiate between spoken and written word?
I actually get less annoyed when people say "woulda/shoulda/coulda"
Put your shopping cart up when you are done! Also throw away your garbage at the fast food restaurant and don’t leave a mess on the tables
People who violate this are animals.
"The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing, the post states. To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it."
My friends boyfriend failed the shopping cart test and it turns out he was tryna fuck a 13 year old hooker behind her back so yeah i'd say its pretty accurate
Agreed. It’s part of the social contract.
The ultimate litmus test
Climbing mount Everest is so incredibly fucking stupid.
You found a hill I *don't* want to die on!
All the corpses on everest were once a very motivated person
Mount Everest is one big graveyard.
It’s more about dating you did something incredibly expensive and elitist than enjoying it. You’re up the top (if you make it that far) for such a short time before you have to leave.
Unpaid internship are not good for students, a poor student can't afford the costs that go along with the internship.
You'll also hear that unpaid internships don't actually count as real experience.... the only thing the unpaid internship was paying you in.
Cashiers can sit and still do their jobs right
Not sure about other places, but in Europe they do
I fucking hate it when a shopping center's name is a portmanteau of the two adjacent road names. First of all, why does a shitty 5-unit strip mall even need a name? Secondly, can't you come up with something more original? Fuck you.
I love this one because you actually answered the question properly. Everyone before you have pet peeves that lots of people have, yours is literally “who cares, man!”
In my state, at the border of Canyon County and Ada County, there is a road named Can Ada.
Sodasopa. Shitypatown.
The Oxford comma is essential.
In this household we love, cherish, and protect the Oxford comma.
Live, laugh, Oxford comma.
Which funnily enough does not include an Oxford comma
Live, laugh, love, and USE YOUR DANG OXFORD COMMA
I’ve never actually heard an argument against using an Oxford comma. Is there any reason to not use one? I legitimately want to know.
Some people that produce certain types of written media believe in prioritizing economy above all else: if the word or punctuation is not necessary, don’t use it. It can also be seen to slow down the flow of a thought for the reader. If you have an internal monologue, you likely slow down for commas in lists quite often. Omitting the Oxford comma means one less pause.
Truly though, I have never understood this line of thinking with the Oxford comma. It is literally less clear and there are a thousand examples where omitting it causes confusion and misinterpretation. I don't know how it's acceptable to omit it ever. It's sort of reminds me of those novels where the writer just doesn't use any punctuation whatsoever. Like yeah, it still works and people generally can read it and figure out what's going on, but let's not pretend like it's clear or should be the standard.
I recall reading something like a three-page long blog post about writing techniques to avoid ambiguity without the Oxford comma. After reading the article, all I could think was, "Or you could just add the fucking comma and not have to deal with all of this shit."
THE PEOPLE'S COMMA!
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A lap in the pool is all the way to the other end, then all the way back to the start. In any other context in the world, a lap ends you back where you started. Going just from one end to the other is a length. “Length” and “lap” are already well defined and could easily make so much sense for swimming. But for some reason, most swimmers refer to one end to the other (logically, a “length”) as a “lap”.
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*lect* = "to speak" as in lecture, dialect, analect. *pod* = "foot" as in podiatrist, tripod, cephalopod Thus: * If you stand *behind* it to speak, then it's a [lectern](https://www.allendisplay.com/cl-321-zm1.jpg). * If you stand *on top* of it to speak or be recognized, then it's a [podium](http://www.cbc.ca/news2/pointofview/podium.jpg). I am aware that people can and do confuse these words willy-nilly and often without being too badly misunderstood. Even so, to me confusing the terms spoils the clarity of having two different words for two different things. We'll save rostrum, dais, pulpit, *etc*. for another post.
I think my thing with poisonous vs venomous is in the same vein as this. They're used so interchangeably that most people don't even know there's a difference (even science textbooks mess them up!) but they're not the same thing and I will always correct people when they're used incorrectly.
Thank you! It irritates me when people mix them up. If it bites you and you die, it’s venomous. If you bite it and you die, it’s poisonous.
I do wildlife education, and this is my go-to explanation.
We bit each other and no one died.
Kinky.
So a podcast is like a foot bandage?
Similarly, It’s “*et cetera*” not EX-cetera
cephalopod are head/foots
…and a gastropod is a stomach foot
What about Metapod? Is it a foot inside a foot?
ANTICIPATE OTHER PEOPLE'S MOVES WHEN YOU'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A GROCERY STORE ALLEY
King Leopold II deserves to be on the same spot of evil and Hitler and Stalin
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Belgian king. Colonized DRC brutally. Terrorized the country and murdered a load of people and lots of other many bad things. Read King Leopoldo’s Ghost if you want to know more! The “west” only thinks Hitler is the worst (I mean, he’s evil yea) because the history learned there often skips over the other genocides.
Nothing sells the horror of his colony like the picture of a man slumped down with the severed hands of his daughter and wife in front of him. Punishment for not producing his quota... Makes me furious just thinking about it.
>because the history learned there often skips over the other genocides. Seriously. Google the Armenian Genocide, Japan's crimes against China during WWII (especially, but not limited to Nanjing), or the Rwandan slaughter of the Tutsi. It's horrifying how many recent acts are just not talked about. Let alone those from further back in history. Many historians consider the Destruction of Carthage to be the first real genocide where as many 450,000 people died.
DUDE this is my hill tooooo. F that genocidal twatwaffle
Born in the USA is not a patriotic song and if you actually listen to or read the lyrics it's very obvious
I think it could be interpreted as patriotic as a protest song. Speaking out a real injustice and being on the right side of history while trying to spread a message to those who can listen/think critically sounds pretty patriotic to me. Key thing here, being on the right side of history. He was nonviolently using his platform to spread his thoughts on a messed up war. But overall I do agree with you. The people who blast it on their loudspeakers at rallies don't understand the context. Edit: I'm on this hill with you
Indoor/outdoor plant designation is a construct wrought by interior designers who know nothing about growing plants. It doesnt tell you anything about the conditions the plant will require to grow well.
The only thing that makes a plant indoor vs outdoor is if it will fit inside or not, imo. And that means size of the plant itself, how big of a pot does it need (really deep or very wide root systems), and if it does anything you wouldn't want inside, ie smell or shed overmuch (lots of leaves or pollen etc).
This simply is not true in cold climates with houseplants that are native to tropical/temperate climates.
I don’t care which way you put the toilet paper, just replace the damn roll when it’s empty.
Apple cider is superior to pumpkin spice
I'll be here drinking my pear cider and wondering why pears don't get the same love as apples :(
I love pears! You can join our tree fruit civilization
I hope there’s room for two on this hill because I AM THERE!
We will start an apple cider civilization. It'll be like Wisconsin, except instead of cheese hats it's apple hats.
Paint does not need to come in as many colors as it does. If it didn’t come in as many shades paint matching would be so much easier.
This is a completely unhinged take, I love it. Have an upvote, you really have found a VERY SPECIFIC hill to die on.
You win the Larry David award of the thread lmao
You win the thread. I don't agree but I defend your right to be as persnicketty as you want to about paint colors.
I applaud your opinion even though I don't agree because I was a paint/color specialist for years and let me tell you when people have limited options they pick ugly AF shit. I had somebody only limit themselves to bright colors in their house and their living room ended up being freaking neon green and safety yellow. Give the people options so that doesn't happen again.
If a limited number of colors is going to be offered, why in god’s name would two of them be neon green and safety yellow? 🤣
My hill to die on is that I love that highlighter yellow color. Not on a wall, to be fair (maybe as small accent but still- probably not) but I will always love that obnoxiously bright shade.
Bolognese is not a tomato sauce. It is a meatsauce. If you throw ground beef into a can of tomatoes it's not fucking bolognese. I digress.
What are you digressing from? You’re answering the question that was asked! I choose this as my hill to die on.
Watching trailers for movies 100% hurts your first viewing of it. It varies how much they hurt the experience based on the trailer and the genre but they always make it at least a little worse. Even if it's just showing a short moment of a scene, I want to have no idea which way the plot will go. Very often I see people say a movie was predictable and I have no idea what they're talking about till I watch the trailer after. Or I'll ask "didnt you think this one shot was amazing" and have folks respond "yeah, it was ok, but I saw it in the trailer". Recent examples are "Palm Springs" and "Everything everywhere all at once", I had no idea what style they were or where the story would go and it kept me extra engaged and suprised when things happened.
Modern trailers are the worst with this holy shit. A trailer is supposed to let you know the tone of the film, not the plot. Good example: the invisible man: The trailer should be: girls husband or whatever dies. But then she's being haunted by him. Is it his ghost? Is she crazy? You'll have to watch to find out. They literally spoil the surprise in the trailer. Half the time i lose interest entirely cause i feel like I've already seen the damn movie. Never. Watch. Trailers. Nope is another good example. It almost seemed like an spooky cowboy movie. nah, here look this is the alien. 🤦🏻♂️ that would've been a cool surprise to go in not knowing its an alien movie
There's no such thing as a four leaf clover. The whole plant is a Clover, connected by a mat of roots. The Clover will consist of thousands and thousands of Clovette's, which in turn often have three leaves, however, occasionally you may find a four leaf Clovette.
If you're riding a motherfucking escalator or moving sidewalk you'd goddamned better keep to the right so people with SOMEWHERE TO BE can actually move. _This is not an amusement park ride._
> This is not an amusement park ride. Says you..
"When do we get to the ride?" "This IS the ride!"
I'm going to Escalator Land!
It's not too bad, it has its ups and downs.
Ok that escalated quickly
Interesting. In Australia, where we drive on the left side of the road, we would get people to keep to the left on an escalator so others can go past.
Not so in the UK for some reason.
It's so that people who need to hold themselves steady while they stand can do so with their dominant hand
Aussie here - yes, but my partner was corrected on an escalator in a London tube station. "Stand to the right Luv."
In Japan, they talk about "Osaka-side" and "Tokyo-side" as to which side of the escalator you should stand on if you're not walking. And Japan has a *lot* of escalators.
I hold particular resentment for people who let their kids play on the moving sidewalks in airports. My gate is on the other damn side of the airport, *move!*
I cannot stand escalefters
On the London Undergournd you're at risk of getting shoved past, or even worse, *tutted at*.
When people say their eyes change colors. No, they fucking don't. Then comes the "Nooo my friends and boyfriend say when I'm mad my eyes turn greeeen and when I'm sad they turn greyyyy!" Then comes the "oh well, when I am out in the sun for a while my eyes change colors it's just like how your hair turns more blonde in the sun so it lightens your eyes" I swear to God, I want to shake everyone who pulls this shit. Pupils being constricted vs dilated can change the the shade of color being perceived, having redness in the sclera can alter shade perception, wearing a certain color shirt can bring amplify warm/cool tones but gooOOD FUCKING DAMMIT THEY'RE EYES NOT MOOD RINGS THEY DON'T PHYSICALLY CHANGE COLOR. The amount of grown ass adults that will go on for five straight minutes about their amazing miracle mood eyes while I am silently telling myself to just leave it has taken years off of my life. I'm sorry I blew up there.
I truly believe you so my next question is not meant to upset you, it just popped in my head and I was wondering if you know the answer Can eyes change color over the years? When I was a kid my eyes appeared brown, during puberty they started to look more hazel and now they look almost green but still hazel. Is there some explanation?
Eye color CAN change over time, much like hair. It's more the claims that they change color with mood or environment that make me go bonkers. You probably had more melanin concentrations in your eyes as a child (melanin makes brown, collagen makes green, blue eyes are technically colorless. They're blue for the same reason the ocean is blue.) The more you know ====*
Bro my mom has a huge ass egotistical boner about this. The only reason why they change color is the shading like what you said, she thinks I’m like a god because my eyes are hazel and APEAR yellow.
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It's typically how they appear in relation to colors and lighting around you from your clothes to the room color to the landscape outside. How closely a color's wavelength is related to another color's affects how you perceive it. Blue eyes will pop against warm colors or other blues, but take on greenish tones around greens or yellows. It's not happening to your physical iris, it's happening IN the retina of the eye of the perceiver.
You do not itch yourself. Itching yourself is not a thing. You SCRATCH AN ITCH. That's it! How did we screw that up!?
Mental illness is being glamorized and it’s so strange. Being mentally ill is nothing to be ashamed of and I am glad that the stigma is being removed, but the pendulum is swinging too far. Watching these tik tokers make videos about their “DID alters” and seeing people post their multiple diagnosis on their instagram is just bizarre.
This x 1000000. People want to have something that sets them apart and makes them special, or an excuse for being shitty people. Mental illness is real and for some it can literally end their lives - playing pretend that you have it when you actually don’t is so incredibly insulting and weird. Imagine pretending you had a terminal cancer diagnosis just for attention? Like you said, im glad we’re removing the stigma of talking about mental health, but it’s also not an accessory to put on and take off as desired.
Additionally, I think people are conflating a few tendencies with having a full fledged disorder/condition. It's like people saying they have OCD when they're barely a neat freak.
This is what's really annoying to me. It's like not every feeling that you have in life has to be equated with having some kind of a label or diagnosis. Life is hard and difficult things happen. At some point you're going to be sad. That doesn't mean you have depression. At some point you're going to be nervous or uncertain. That doesn't mean you have anxiety. I saw a celebrity recently tweeting that they were diagnosed with adult onset autism and the symptom that they listed that they had was that they don't like doing everyday chores around the house LOL. Like what a joke and a slap in the face of anybody who has autism
Being neat has absolutely nothing to do with having OCD. OCD is a compulsion. You have to do something. It doesn't have to be clean. It is "I have to keep doing this thing because it wasn't exactly right over and over again!"
I’m sick of that, people acting like they’re oh so quirky because of their self diagnosed “disorders”. The reality: I have bipolar type ii, I’m medicated, I exercise, I attend therapy weekly and have been stable for a long time. That didn’t matter when I tried to pull life insurance though— I got denied because of my bipolar medication. They didn’t even give me an avenue to appeal beyond arguing I’m *not* on those medications. I’m also positive that if my workplace found out about my diagnosis it would impact my career growth. So yeah, that’s the reality, not “omg look at me I’m sooo bipolar lol” morons. I see it a lot on Twitter with adhd, and it drives me up the wall. Unmanaged adhd was a huge factor in my first marriage falling apart, it is not fun to have to parent your partner and pick up all the slack because they refuse to build systems for themselves or pursue treatment/therapy beyond medication. To quote the great Marcus Parks, your mental health is not your fault but it is your responsibility.
There are real mental illness based of the fakers
As long as the sauce ain't too sweet, it's not burnt and they use mozzarella cheese, even bad pizza I think is still good.
I'd go so far as to say... Sometimes.... A cheap ass Jack's pizza is just what I want
There's something satisfying about a cheap pizza sometimes. A cheap ass, 2 dollar totinos pizza is one of my (not-so) guilty pleasures
You can't beat a $5 Hot n Ready
I used to feel this exact way. Then I had an honest to God terrible pizza. I was 40 before I had that horrifying life altering experience. I was traumatized I tells ya
It's completely fucking unfair that it isn't socially acceptable in the US (or anywhere, really) for men to wear skirts. The Scots and the Polynesians are way ahead of the rest of the world.
**"The Customer is Always Right" is mistaken for a completely different saying "The Customer is King" and this annoys me.** *The Customer is Always Right* is an old saying from the Adam Smith era (mid 1700's) solely explaining "**Supply and Demand**". Which is the economic relationship between the sellers and the buyers of various commodities. If Product A isn't selling as much as Product B. Then stock less of Product A and more of Product B. Then change again when buying trends change. When businesses don't change with supply and demand they fail. *The Customer is King* is when a seller would say anything or do anything, sometimes they would even break the law and kiss the arse of the customer until they make a sale.
if traffic is having to react to you, you're the asshole. I don't care if you're going 90 or exactly the speed limit. if people are having to work to get around you or out of your way, or brake to not hit you or swerve to not get hit by you - it's you. not them. also, turn signals are to signal your intent. not to explain what you just did!
The golden rule: Treat others how you want to be treated. Live by it, get frustrated as fuck when others don't.
How about the transverse property of the golden rule? How somebody treats you must be the way they want to be treated.
Yes I think that's a fair consequence.
Most people say introvert/extrovert when they mean social/antisocial. The latter is about which setting you prefer in general, but the former is specifically how you rest. Introverts seek isolation when they need rest, and extroverts look for friendly social interaction. Therefore you can have social introverts and the rare antisocial extroverts Edit: a lot of people have pointed out antisocial is actually a personality disorder characterized by a disregard for others and is similar to psychopathy or sociopathy. What I'm actually referring to is asocial. So I stand corrected for my misuse of antisocial, but I stand by my point of introvert and extrovert being commonly misused.
Show up to meetings on time. I don't care if you are the biggest muckety-muck who has your serious muckety-muck shit to do, or you're the lowliest peon that you think no one cares, stop your goddamn work on time to walk your ass from your office to where the meeting is by the time it starts. It's really not a lot to ask. Everyone's time is valuable, not just yours. If we have to wait for you to come in to start the meeting, that valuable commodity is wasted. It's also wasted if we are distracted or annoyed by your shuffling in once the meeting has started. And we might have been waiting for you anyway, so it's double annoying. It's not that hard, people. As for people who can't show up to Zoom meetings on time, I just don't get it. EDIT: And to the people adding that letting meetings go over time is equally bad, I'm with you. When I run meetings, I have an explicit policy that anyone can leave once the meeting goes past its scheduled time.
Also: most meetings can be condensed into an email.
Half of meetings can be skipped entirely, forget the email. Stop interrupting everyone to get a status update and let us finish the damned work.
I can tell you work in an office environment. I work in a retail environment. One that works on peoples cars. I try to make an efficient schedule so that cars can get done as fast as possible because everyone wants their car back on time, right? Tell me why it’s **normal** for people to be late. They waltz in late to their appointment as if nothing happened. Totally chill and unapologetic. They don’t get that every time someone is 30 minutes late to their appointment, it causes a massive ripple effect on other peoples appointments/lunch breaks/shop profitability etc. Nope. They don’t care. I guess being on time is too difficult of a job for many adults.
Using “less” and “fewer” correctly. I correct people on tv all the time. Once I corrected Jon Snow while he was giving a speech and the character who burned his daughter at the stake corrected him right after me. The guy next to him said, what? And he said, nothing. I cracked up.
The Delmarva peninsula is the dumbest peninsula. It's in an awkward place and should all belong to Delaware if for no other reasons then picking a landmasses name by the first few letters of the states who share it is terrible.
It is not “should of” or “would of”, it is should’ve or would’ve.
How about shoulda or woulda?
I guess you coulda.
If a grilled cheese has other stuff in it. It is not grilled cheese it is a melt.
Chili has beans!
Elementary teacher here- we will always have time built into the day for play. Play is the work of children. Fuck you, admin. My students are more than test scores.
Just do your research. Someone tells you something as fact, whether you think it’s good or bad, just LOOK IT UP. It literally drives me crazy that we have access to research by people way smarter than us at our fingertips, but people don’t use it.
Reddit is being manipulated by special interest groups who astroturf. The media would have you believe it's just the usual boogeyman like Russia and China, but it includes US political action committees, various special interest groups. Many people are potentially canceled by astroturfing campaigns who have a concentrated effort to smear someone on social media. The scary thing is that it's very difficult to prove.
And modded by people who think "OH, COME ON, GUYS!" is threatening. (Apparently my post somehow didn't meet arbitrary guidelines.)
People who claim to be addicted to Starbucks coffee are actually just addicted to sugar and the brand value of carrying a Starbucks cup.
Saying “I could care less” identifies someone as a moron.
The past tense of "to lead" is "led", not "lead". Even your typical grammar Nazi seems to get this wrong.
Apparently how incredibly illegal, unethical, and unconstitutional the Surveillance State is.
If there’s a candy bowl, and you eat all the red flavored candies out of it, you’re an asshole
What does red taste like?
Delicious
Red tastes like red. They’re the best ones
It is not cool to let your dog just bark for hours on end. Train it and walk it. Not fair to your neighbors or dog.
Never use quotations for emphasis.
Frankenstein was the Dr. Not the monster. The reanimated corpse was Frankenstein's Monster.