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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    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.

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    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.

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    The seventh planet from the sun should be called Caelus not Uranus. All the other planets get named after the Roman equivalent of their respective god, why should that one get special treatment just so people can make puerile jokes.

    EDIT: spelling

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    It’s a water heater, not a hot water heater, why would anyone want to heat water that’s already hot?

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    a couple always means two.

    every time anyone says “a couple”, i ask them if they mean two. it’s not pleasant exchange for either of us, but it must be done

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    Anyway not anyways. I don’t care what the dictionary says. Anyways sounds backwoods, plural, and the “s” is pointless.

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      Same with toward, backward, forward, etc. Not true of sideways when referring to orientation.

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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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      I’m gonna be representative of the idiots here and ask:

      I don’t get the difference. Please help.

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        Homer once explained it to his daughter Lisa. If you’re jealous, it means you are scared that someone else might take away what you already have. Being envious means that you want to have what somebody else has.

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    If you can’t scan your groceries at self check out under 3 minutes go to a register when it’s busy. You’re people are holding the rest of us up. I can scan a full cart faster than some can scan their 10 items.

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    I hate hate hate when people try to discredit a theory because “it’s a theory not a fact” as if the label of “fact” exists on some kind of science ladder for an idea. “Facts” is a colloquial word like any other, it’s not some special category above theories.

    Moreover, the most tried and tested theories are facts. Science rarely just disproves an established theory outright. Einstein’s General Relatively equations reduces into Newton’s Laws of Motion in most situations. Newton’s Laws of Motion weren’t “wrong”, it’s just General Relatively is more specific and accurate.

    The Scientific Method usually just builds on what already exists without claiming we were all unfactual for working with what we had.