Personally I love oranges but cant stand orange juice.
Island has an ‘s’ in it. This was started as a stylistic choice to make the word look more Latin despite the fact that the English word has no Latin roots.
This is proof enough that English is a stupid language for the unwashed masses. There are no rules, all that matters is how it is used and understood. Anyone who tries argue that “literally can not mean figuratively” or that gif has to be pronouced a specific way is an idiot trying to force logic into a system that has none. Don’t waste your time trying to explain that you know the only true and proper rules to Calvinball.
That ‘s,’ that’s what broke me.
as a French speaker, I’d say the same about French… I don’t know how many languages are based strongly on logic though
Pineapple on pizza is fine. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to eat it.
Saying “bless you” for sneezing is the most bothersome human interaction (to me) that serves literally no purpose but people pretend that it does to justify doing it out of habit. And, oh boy, have I gotten so much shit for it.
Horsepower is a stupid way to measure how powerful a car is. What is this the 1800s?
Its not even accurate to its name! Horses have more than 1 horse power!
You can leave salt out of 90% of dishes without noticing.
YouI can leave salt out of 90% of dishes without noticing.Thats what you meant to say.
False. I’d argue 90% of recipes need more salt
A connoisseur of English cuisine, I see!
I don’t know how to leave salt out of fried sausage/bacon. Also chips/fried potatoes are part of the 10%.
Toilet paper roll side doesn’t matter.
Based.
It does. Greatly.
There are many entirely-valid ways to write out the sound of laughter including endless variations of “heehee,” “heh-heh,” “hahaha,” and more, but I believe “hehehe” is just incorrect.
But some people hehehe when they laugh? Hell, I’ve done it. I’m not proud of it, but I’m man enough to admit I’ve hehehed.
People pronouncing processes (and biases) like they rhyme with “chimpanzees”, instead of “addresses”.
Since the English language has done words that borrow the Greek and make an -eez sound, like crisis to crises, people seem to think process is Greekified. It doesn’t follow the same pattern at all.
English is hard enough as it is without inventing extra rules to try to make us sound smarter. Meanwhile, I try to de-Greekify the language with octopuses, syllabuses, and cactuses - all valid plurals in English.
Source: Bachelor’s degree in English
Why say normalcy when you have a perfectly good normality right there?
A kilobyte is 1024 bytes. Yes, I know “kilo” means 1000 - I don’t care since it’s obvious from context.
Back in the day, using base-10 prefixes for base-2 stuff was considered fine. 1024 is close enough to 1000, after all. It only changed when some dickhead realised that, by insisting that a kilobyte (and the bigger units) was 1000 bytes, they could sell you less hard drive space without lowering the number on the box.
If you don’t believe me, look at your RAM. Nobody’s ever sold RAM by the “gibibyte”.
Numerical marketing is nonsense all around.
Video, which was always counted by vertical resolution (lines on analog TV), suddenly became horizontal with 4K, 8K, and it’s not even close, 4K usually referring to 3840x2160.
There are three entirely different things that “5G” can refer to: the mobile network standard, 5GHz WiFi standard, or 5Gbps network connection.
ty this always struck me as odd but yeah that makes prefect sense now that I see it written that way. Obviously it’s a marketing thing. Obviously!
Keep spreading the good word, brother. Amen.
People shouldn’t be able to be told what color to paint their house. More people should experiment with wild colors inside and out.
I had to get a new roof and siding due to hail damage. I got a blue metal roof with white trim and sage green vinyl siding. I took a bit of a risk and depending on how cloudy it is the blue roof reflects too much blue and the too colors start clashing instead of complimenting. But most importantly it’s not boring! Also it’ll look really good as the vinyl starts fading
i see they are pressured into painting colors that are similar to neighborhood houses, to "maintain some arbitrary value.
Sounds like someone has butted heads with an HOA or enforcement of some other covenant on look and feel.
Some people apparently have unseemly feelings about everything fitting to a certain design plan.
At the other end of the scale, there’s painting your house neon yellow. A house is not a tennis ball. It should not cause road accidents.
Thanks, here’s the mock-up of my new place:
In a suburb about half an hours drive from me theres a pink house, like an almost barbie-pink. Its eye-catching, i love it for them. I bet theres a real character in that household!
Putting garbage in clean plastic bags to throw it away is an absurd practise. Why can’t we just transfer it in reusable bins?
In Western Australia we’ve been rolling out FOGO bins (Food and Garden organics waste), last summer i didn’t tie off one of the bags properly and there were maggots everywhere, spilling out of the bin.
I guess this could happen with general waste bins as well, so i suppose i’ve changed my attitude on the wrapping up waste to go in your bin idea. The only way i see around it is more home composting.
I don’t think you sufficiently respect the mess, the smell, the vermin, from a week of rotting exposed food waste. Not to mention the dog waste
I respect the hell out of it!
Caramel is the soft kind that usually has butter in it and carmel is the hard kind of only melted sugar. I will instantly correct anyone who uses them wrong.
Quantum leap means the tiniest jump and not at all what it’s (internationally) used for.
Ziggy’s done messing around.
Sometimes a game being a little unbalanced can make it more fun.
Sometimes you just want to sit down and feel like a god damned hero.
Jank and weird voice acting just adds charm
