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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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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

No ticket, no support.

Even if it is for batteries for your wireless keyboard and mouse. Ticket please.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

It's pronounced niche, not niche, damn it.

[–] minibyte@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Pickles should be served as a spear on the side as a palate cleanser between the sandwich and the fries/chips and have no place on the sandwich.

Of course there’s always the exception to the rule, the Cuban sub.

[–] verity_kindle@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Preach it. The pickles just turn to mush from the heat of the sandwich and that ain't right.

[–] Onionguy@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

The toilet paper roll has to be placed so the tear off sheet faces the shitting person, and not the wall.

[–] monsterpiece42@reddthat.com 1 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

You've been Affected by something, not Effected, you enimal.

[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

The word "literally" has been forever ruined by people who use it to mean "figuratively." Worse, there is now literally no way to actually convey the original meaning of the word "literally" in a concise, clear way.

You have to say something like, "A is literally 10 times bigger than B...and I mean that ACTUALLY literally." And then people will STILL assume that you're speaking figuratively.

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The paperclip character from Microsoft Office is called Clippit, not Clippy.

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[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 0 points 6 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.

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)
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[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’ve always wanted to write a bot that replies to comments that say „I have no words” with a list of random words

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[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Abolishing the word "automobile" since it mixes Greek and latin.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why is it an issue to mix greek and latin ?

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Its just a silly notion that you either choose a Greek root or a Latin root for a word. No mixing, just "wrong"😊

It bugs me less than directly translating English expression into Norwegian (my native toung). Some of them just sounds weird

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