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”

  • FridayLives@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    I know this is unpopular. Have had several long winded discussions on this with friends and folks alike. “All religions are cults”, doesn’t matter the person is alive, dead or imaginary, you’re just following a charismatic leader(s).

    • Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 months ago

      I’ve never actually heard anyone call it X before, unless they were making a joke about the whole thing. Everybody I know still calls it Twitter. Calling it X is just embarrassing.

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    7 months ago

    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.

  • nick@midwest.social
    3·
    7 months ago

    It’s concrete, not cement. (Sidewalks for example, or foundations of buildings, etc)

    Cement is an ingredient in concrete.

  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    7 months ago

    The “is a hot dog a sandwich” and similar discussions are solved with the mighty sword of language and not some rigid taxonomy about fillings and bread.

    Imagine a set of food items on a table, hot dog amongst them, but not other pseudo-sandwiches. I ask you to “Please pass me that sandwich.” If there is but a moment’s pause in your mind before you reach for the hot dog, even if it’s as you surmise I must be speaking about the hot dog as there are no other sandwich-like items available, then it is not a sandwich.

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Psycholinguisitics understands this effect. The “wrong” word is increasing cognitive load and slowing down the listener’s comprehension. The exact same thing happens when pronoun use is unclear and a person has to parse the most likely referent from context.

      Language, especially English, is not computer code but leveraging the existing “libraries” of meaning and declaring variables carefully is usually very useful.

    • tourist@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      taxonomy

      shit

      Is that the right word

      I’ve been using “ontology” when talking about item classification to sound smart

      I guess it worked bc no one said “You mean taxonomy, right?” yet. My illusion of pretending I’m not a dumbass to people IRL isn’t broken yet I hope.

    • Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 months ago

      I agree with this statement, but I never notice its wrong until someone points it out. Then my inner grammar teacher has an aneurysm and I go off on a tangent.

      It’s so close to being right that you don’t think about it, until you do. Then OCD sets in.

  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 months ago

    Discord is not a good replacement for support forums. Discord isn’t searchable by search engines.

    Historically, if I had an issue with a product and I googled “[product] [issue]” I’d be met with a support forum post, with someone describing the same issue. I could read the thread to find how they resolved it. I don’t actually have to interact with the post at all, and I don’t need to ask the same question again. For most (decent) forums I don’t even need to make an account just to read the post.

    Discord throws that all out the window. Now I’m met with a “JoiN OUr dIScoRd SerVEr to GEt suPPorT” page. Nothing is searchable via a search engine. And Discord’s server searchability (even in the app) has always been, at best, absolute dogshit. You already need to know exactly which text thread things were posted in, (because you can’t search the entire server at once), and you need to know exactly what was said, (because there’s no fuzzed search terms).

    So 99% of the time, you just end up asking the same question that has already been asked a hundred times in the past, and now you need to wait for someone to respond. It also puts a lot more strain on the support staff, because they’re answering the same question a hundred times instead of just the once in a forum.

    And don’t come at me with the “but Discord recently added a support forum feature where people can start threads and save the conversation for later” bullshit. That’s a band-aid, at best. It still isn’t searchable via search engines, so it means the above issues with Discord’s search function still apply, and the forum function is essentially useless as support forums.

    Lastly, why the fuck should I be forced to join another server just to get support? What if I don’t have a discord account? What if I live in a region that Discord doesn’t support? What if I just plain don’t want to clog up my server sidebar with dozens of servers that I have only visited once? What if I just really hate the fact that your server has been configured to push notifications for every single message by default? What if I just fucking want to google my issue, and get an answer without any further effort?

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
        0·
        7 months ago

        I’d argue that this is petty, because you’re still technically able to get support for your issue in the end. It just takes a lot more effort in everyone involved; More effort on your end to actually get support, and more effort on support staff because they have already answered your question a hundred times further up the thread.

  • medgremlin@midwest.social
    2·
    7 months ago

    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.

  • Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Using 12 AM or 12 PM is useless. Midnight is both and noon is neither.

    The saying “hindsight is 20/20” is stupid. 20/20 is average. As someone with better than 20/20, my hindsight would be worse than normal.

  • verity_kindle@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 months ago

    “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.

    • Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world
      21·
      3 months ago

      Same. Don’t get me wrong, short form content is okay (I prefer long form). But the shit you see on Tick Tock and YouTube Shorts is so ridiculous that I can’t help but reactively close the app out of self preservation…

      It all started when someone wanted to fry chicken in Pepto-Bismol…

  • cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
    2·
    7 months ago

    The reverse toilet paper thing is useful when you have pet that’s like to mess with it.

    But either way is ok for me, I guess.

    I mean, I couldn’t care fewer about it.

  • Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world
    21·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • NotNotMike@programming.devOP
      1·
      3 months ago

      I can only assume your friend is the one who downvoted you

      Also, I say “irregardless” when I want to sound like the mobster from It’s Always Sunny in Philidelphia