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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    When saying “Next” in reference to a time “Next” means the soonest occurrence of that. Don’t skip one. If today is friday and I say “Next Saturday”, that is tomorrow, not 8 days from now.

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    Stoplights at a junction should be done in phases and not in straight on green and turn on green only if it’s clear.

    If you have a 4 way junction then each way should green for you to go straight or turn off for a period of time.

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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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    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.

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    replace ‘I purchased …’ with ‘I bought …’. Just something about the p word grates my nerves… Suspect it’s something like using the word ‘moist’ for some people. probably some forgotten trauma over something I bought.

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    Nuts only make sense in something that’s already hard, like a cookie. It complements it by going from something hard-ish to another hard-ish texture.

    Nuts in cake DOESN’T MAKE SENSE. I hate having to chew something smooth and spongy and suddenly - CRONCH. It’s repulsive. 99% of the time it also tastes worse than the cake itself. If you actually want to put nuts on your damn cake, put it on the top so I can slide it off and eat it separately. Thank you.

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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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    If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound?

    The answer is unequivocally “NO”.

    A sound is not a sound until it vibrates the listeners eardrums. Before that it’s just a pressure wave. Ergo, if no eardrums are around, there is no sound…

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    The kilometre—with the accent on the ki and the re ending—is a unit of distance. A kilometer—with the accent on the lo and the er ending—would be a device that measures kilos, like perhaps a bathroom scale? centimetre, millimetre, speedometer, altimeter.

    I’m actually fairly forgiving about people saying it the wrong way, but when Siri gives me GPS directions, it really grinds my gears. She should know better!

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    I live in a high altitude area. It gets very hot. People will say that it’s because we’re “closer to the sun” as if the 6000ft/1800m difference is what matters vs the 93,000,000mi/150,000,000km distance to the sun is affected by something so small.

    The difference is the lack of atmosphere to soften the various types of light from the sun.