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”
The most pointless hill I will die on is the whole regardless, irregardless thing.
They mean the same thing, but irregardless is redundant. My friend uses that word purely because he knows it pisses me off.
Preach brotha.
“Roguelike” has become overused to the point that it’s basically meaningless. Nobody’s even played Rogue so it just means “a game that’s like other games that are described as roguelike,” which is like, any game. There’s a set of games where the term originated where it actually made sense, games like Angband, ADOM, Castle of the Winds, etc, that are all closely related where the term makes sense. Cogmind and Pixel Dungeon are more recent examples.
Some of it gets resolved by describing those as “traditional roguelikes,” and using other descriptors like “action rougelike” for Hades or “rougelike deckbuilder” for Slay the Spire, but like at that point why not just use “Hadeslike” or “Spirelike” instead of constantly harking back to this 40 year old game?
The miss use of the term “billet”. As in “Made from Billet Aluminum to military specs” I have literally sourced metals from all over the world. Ain’t no one ever tried to sell me “billet” anything.
A billet is an old term that was used when iron and steels were smelted and then poured in to either kind of a bread loaf mold or a round shape called a bloom. It would then be reheated at a later time and then formed into the final shape. No one would use “billet” or a “bloom” to make anything from it. It would have been “sponge” like and to soft to be useful for anything.
Fecking sales trying to market to ignorant people with a term that doesn’t mean what anyone thinks it means.
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.
Skydive terminology. Its not a chute, dammit, it’s a canopy or a wing.
The reason I won’t get a Tesla has nothing to do with Musk or the car’s sketchy reliability.
It has everything to do with the simple fact that I don’t like having my basic instruments over in the center console instead of in front of me.
envy and jealousy are supposed to have different meanings, but idiots always use jealous when they mean envious. Annoys the fuck out of me.
Trucks should be used for working and not hauling groceries. Get a fucking car or a van. Roads are safer with more crash compatibe vehicles that also weigh less. Large trucks should need a special licence to drive/own Driving should also be taught in school
Natural scrolling is wrong. Mouse, touchpad, doesn’t matter, it’s wrong.
Most people do not know the meaning of the word “Feminism/Feminist” and use it to describe crazy people on twitter…
3 meals a day is completely unnecessary, and just eating one large meal works just as well. Saves time, too. I can sleep in because no breakfast to worry about cooking, lunch can be used to just relax or do something else, and then dinner is larger, but cooking more of the same food doesn’t generally take that much longer.
You’ve been Affected by something, not Effected, you enimal.
I can recline my seat. And you can recline yours.
Standard wedding photography is set up to make photos look “old”. And it’s so hideous and awful. Most filters used for wedding photography look atrocious.
Let major moments in time look like they were experienced at that time! I’m looking at you, black and white photograph from 2016. Artificially making something old, when at one time they were the present, gives so much incongruity to the experience.
Let something as important as a wedding day look like it’s a product of that time. Not from decades previously.
I don’t care what Big Dictionary has to say about it, “literally” does NOT mean “figuratively.”
If “literally” means “figuratively,” then we literally have no word for “literally.”