Those who are insecure often project their supposed superiority in a variety of ways. One of the most popular ones is pointing out others' mistakes. However, sometimes the fact-checkers rely too much on their emotions and too little on the truth.
There's a Facebook group called 'People Incorrectly Correcting Other People' and it's full of humorous reminders that you need to be absolutely certain of what you're about to say when you're getting ready to bask someone, or else you're going to make a fool of yourself.
From folks who can't tell the time to grammar gurus stumbling on their own words, here are some of the most popular recent posts that were shared by the online community.
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Oh dear. Every day I have to remind myself some people really are that dumb
When people disagree on an issue, there are several possible routes they can take. Some might avoid it altogether (either by putting off the discussion or just agreeing with the other person in order to end the conversation). But, as you see in the pictures, it's not for everyone — others believe they need to actively resolve the matter.
In that case, they have a choice between being competitive or cooperative.
"Cooperative resolution means that people are seeking some kind of middle ground," explains Art Markman, Ph.D., and Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin. "Competitive resolution means that people are trying to convince the other person to change their belief."
This is one of those "bible is good enough for me" soccer moms, guaranteed.
Many factors lead people to take a cooperative or competitive stance when dealing with a disagreement. For instance, the personality characteristic of openness reflects how willing we are to consider new ideas, and people high in openness are more likely to be cooperative than those who are low in openness.
The characteristic of agreeableness reflects how much people want to get along with others — agreeable people are also more likely to seek a compromise than disagreeable people.
The concept of Satan's bride is a new one on me and I grew up Catholic - fairly sure this would have come up if it was part of Christian mythology. I also have some questions: why is she referred to as his bride and not his wife? Does Satan get married every year? If so, what happens to the others? If it's the same bride each time, how many kids do they have? Did this happen before we had a Halloween/October 31st? How does Satan find a bride? Is she also a fallen angel or is she the soul of some person in hell? I NEED ANSWERS.
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Since this is the day when Satan is most busy ( impregnating his wife), shouldn't Christians be safest and happiest on that day?
Christian! Not making sense since almost 2000 years
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Why are there so many native speakers who cannot properly use the past perfect. It's maddening! "Should have wrote" is an abomination.
Halloween is just a day. Some fellow Christians really need to think. October 31 way a day before they made it Halloween as I once heard someone say. Satan doesnt work on a certain day just like God doesn't work on a certain day. Common sense is so rare now smh.
It makes me mad when Christians say this when they don't even know the origin of Halloween!! It was originally created *by Christians* to scare *away* the devil and demons etc. That's the reason people dress up scary. P.S. Happy Halloween guys!!
So did the note writer get impregnated by Satan? Are they married now? So many questions
No wonder he's so angry, only getting laid once a year I would rage too
By "some of us" the author of that note meant the author was offended. Btw...the author may also suffer from mpd - multiple personality disorder.
When is it "wrote"and when is it "written"? I'm just curious. I swear I'm smart but I keep reading it differently than they wrote it.
How close were you to the wicked emanations before you s**t your pants4?
But but... affecting is correct and effecting is wrong..I do not understand how the comment in any way improves the post. Did BP screw the pooch where?
Good. Makes me see less of you. Perhaps i should leave it up all year long! =D
That note is a grab bag of willful ignorance, make believe gone wrong, and damnation of pop culture. But it has very neat handwriting. Clean and concise with no sign of it being written by a psycho.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO I CAN'T F'ING TELL
This might be stupid, and I’m a pretty big grammar nerd, but isn’t this one of the cases where either ‘affecting’ or effecting’ could both be acceptable? Because an action can have an effect, but the action can also affect you.
No, it should actually be “affecting” in this case (she said confidently).
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I'd be blasting this out the hifi as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vkFHdTsjSM
Day of the year when the wall between the living and dead comes down.
Markman also suggests a paper by Kimberly Rios, Kenneth DeMarree, and Johnathan Statzer in the July 2014 issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin to better understand what affects our tendency to be cooperative or competitive.
Turns out, people's certainty about their beliefs can be broken down into two components: clarity and correctness. Clarity determines if we are sure about what we believe. Each of us has some beliefs that we hold deeply and others to which we are not as firmly attached. Correctness focuses on whether we think our belief is 'correct' in some broader cultural context or not.
The authors suggested that the more strongly people believe their attitude is correct, the more competitive they will be in their discussions with others. (Interestingly, they did not assume that clarity would be as strongly related to competitiveness.)
"Being certain of your attitude can affect whether you try to convince other people that you are right," Markman writes. "In particular, the more strongly you believe that your attitude is the right one, the more you will focus on convincing others."
"That also means that if you find yourself in conflict with others on a regular basis, you might want to evaluate whether you generally assume that your attitudes are the correct ones."
Manners mentor Maralee McKee finds it sad that sometimes, when people speak, their words seem more spit out than thought out.
"Stories abound, and it has happened to me, about being called out in person in front of family members, coworkers, friends, and anybody and everybody else for minor things, from incorrectly quoting a movie line, to saying something happened on a Tuesday when it occurred on a Wednesday, to getting the name wrong of the restaurant an incident occurred in while telling a great story," she says.
But even if you're skinny your weight is still distributed fairly evenly around your body
According to McKee, even if the 'correctors,' 'nit-pickers,' and 'accusers' are right, correcting others over small things is rarely called for, it seldom wins anyone friends, and on the rare occasion when it is called for, it's tricky to accomplish politely.
For more people incorrectly correcting other people, fire up our older publications on the Facebook group, called 50 People That Had More Courage Than Brains To Go Incorrectly Correcting Someone and 45 Painfully Cringe Moments When People Thought They Knew Better, But Embarrassed Themselves Instead.
Except we'd still have to do a leapyear but with four extra days.
Dumb fűck probably doesn't even know it's the symbol for the Euro.
Which is correct sulphur or sulfur? Sulfur has been the preferred spelling of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) since 1990, and is the default form employed by many scientific journals 1. The alternative spelling sulphur may still be found in common use in the UK and Commonwealth, especially by laypeople.Mar 15, 2019
four is germanic. Colour is latin. The "u" was artificially introduced to make consistency with french spelling (french descends from latin). Original old english for four was "feower".
I use these differently even though we supposedly use UK english here. I use mold for the fungus and mould for shaping-something (verb or noun). I do the same with disc/disk and program/programme. I use disc = a circle, disk = a computer disk; and program = verb, to make a computer do something; programme = series of in-person/person-attended events , e.g. wedding programme.
This one shouldn't be here. It's simply the difference between British English and American English. Both are correct ,it simply depends on which English you use.
“Spelling and Grammar” would be replaced by the pronoun they, meaning are is perfectly valid.
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These people are walking among us, voting, and reproducing. Please excuse me while I go and find a little cave far,far away from these idiots.
It stopped getting funny after the first few. Idiocy is terrifying sometimes
One of the most confused pairs of words nowadays is "lie" and "lay". You lie in bed. A chicken lays eggs.
But "I lay in bed yesterday' is correct again, because the past tense of 'lie' is 'lay'.
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These people are walking among us, voting, and reproducing. Please excuse me while I go and find a little cave far,far away from these idiots.
It stopped getting funny after the first few. Idiocy is terrifying sometimes
One of the most confused pairs of words nowadays is "lie" and "lay". You lie in bed. A chicken lays eggs.
But "I lay in bed yesterday' is correct again, because the past tense of 'lie' is 'lay'.
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