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”

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    Crunchy peanut butter shouldn’t exist. It’s lazy, unfinished peanut butter. At the very least, it should cost less. Why are we paying the same price for a job half finished?

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    envy and jealousy are supposed to have different meanings, but idiots always use jealous when they mean envious. Annoys the fuck out of me.

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    Slackware is still an important and useful distro.
    It doesn’t make any assumptions about how you want to use your computer.
    Do you want a system that’s more stable than Debian or as bleeding edge as Arch?
    Do you want a minimal system that runs on an old 486 or a full-featured KDE desktop?
    Do you want to compile from source, download tarballs from Github, install .deb packages, .rpm packages or FlatPaks?
    Are you running a web server or a laptop?
    Slackware don’t care. There’s no “Debian way”, no “partial upgrades are unsupported”, no “don’t mix in other repos”, no “don’t edit this file, it will be overwritten”. Do whatever the fuck you want, it’s your PC.

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    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.

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    The little separator bars on the conveyor belts thingies at the cashier in a super market should always be placed for the person behind you. If the bozo in front of me wants to pay for my shit he can go right ahead.

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    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.

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    “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.

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    Load the goddamn plane by column, window seats to aisle seats, grouped by odd/even seat numbers and make people line up largest seat number to smallest. It takes an extra five minutes before you board the plane and saves you twenty or thirty. It wouldn’t even cost you the five if it was the standard.

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    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

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      It’s simple though. If you can count it, it’s fewer. If not, it’s less.

      Fewer people. Less noise.

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        That isn’t a grammatic rule. Some guy one time was like “I think it sounds better that way.”

        That’s all.

        They’ve always been used interchangeably.

        People who love to “correct” this are just showing ass to anyone who knows any better haha.

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          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’.

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            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.

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              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.

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      Turns out language is pretty damn flexible. Even if I made an obvious mistake, you meant what I knew.

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    People say “I’m just gonna go try and do it”

    No.

    Say “I’m just gonna go try to do it.”

    really stupid, really pointless, I’ve never corrected anyone on it, but oh, how I want to