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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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The Doom Song 2 years ago
Oh dear. Every day I have to remind myself some people really are that dumb
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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."
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
This is one of those "bible is good enough for me" soccer moms, guaranteed.
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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.
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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."
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Hawkmoon 2 years ago
It always reminds me of the legend of the inventor of the game of chess who just asked for a grain of wheat on one square, then two on the next, four on the next, etc.
Julian Gerretsen 2 years ago
This equates to 18,446,744,073,709,600,000 grains of rice (Eighteen Quintillion Four Hundred Forty-Six Quadrillion grains of rice) 1kg of rice holds approximately 15,432 grains of rice. 1 metric ton of rice is 1kg X 1000. rice / 15,432 / 1000 = number of tons We therefore have 1,195,356,666,259 (One Trillion Two Hundred Billion roughly) Rice is approximately $620 currently per metric ton. Hence, if you used the chessboard example, you'd have around around $741,121,133,080,607. That's about 740.12 Trillion Dollars, about 22.45 X the current USA national debt. That's a lot of rice/money. In volume, there are baout 43 million grains of rice in a cubic metre. Our rice windfall would therefore fill a cubic box measuring 7.5 km square on all sides. That's a big a$$ box of rice....
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carne asada 2 years ago
ok so i did calculations (correct me if im wrong) but folding a paper 42 times theoretically means it is equivalent to 4.3980465e+12 (idk what number that is) pieces of paper stacked on top of each other. The average stack of copy paper sold consists of 500 pieces, equaling 1.875 inches in height. If you divide 4.3980465e+12 by 500 to get the number of stacks of paper, you get 8796093022.21 stacks. If you multiply this by 1.875 for the height of the stacks you get 16492674416.6 inches. this is equivalent to 260301.048242 miles (418913.9301819732 km). the moon is 238,900 miles (384472.282 km) away from earth. This theory has just been proven, your welcome. again i may be wrong but im only 14
Tabitha 2 years ago (edited)
There comes a point, at about 7 or 8 folds, where you can’t fold a sheet of paper “in half” anymore, no matter how big a sheet it is. Yes, you can fold it in parts, or in pleats way more times, but but if you’re talking about in half then in half again, you’re done at 7 or 8 folds.
Celesta 2 years ago
They did thos on Mythbusters, using a sheet almost as latge as a hanger and still barely cracked 11 folds and that was with heavy machinery.
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Stephen Smith 2 years ago
fold paper once =2 fold it again =4 again =8 so it's not 42 sheets of paper. it will workout to 4,398,046,511,104 sheets of paper , wont get you to the moon, but you may find it difficult to breath if you stand on top.
Stephen Smith 2 years ago
I've been thinking more about this. First we all know it's almost impossible to fold a paper more than 7 times. So let's pretend we can, or the best way to get the same result would be to stack the correct number of A4 sheets, which would be 4,398,046,511,104 sheets. The 80gsm thickness per sheet is 0.1mm, that times by 4,398,046,511,104 = 439,805 Km. The average distance to the moon is 384,400Km, so yes you can reach the moon. But there is something else to thick about, the best price I can find on A4 paper is £313.15 for 25,000 sheets. If you work out the cost it is £55,089,930,598.09 It would cost less to build your own rocket. Or just wait to book a holiday to the moon on SpaceX spaceship. BTW the surface area of all that paper is 274,306.16 SqKm that's more than the surface area of the UK.
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Julian Gerretsen 2 years ago
An average piece of paper is roughly speaking, about 0.1mm thick. Whilst it's not physically possible to fold it in half more than about 7 or 8 times (try it yourself with a sheet of paper, results may vary with paper make-up!!!), let's pretend that this is possible. See the attached EXCEL snapshot to see how few times you need to fold the paper to reach the moon.... EXCEL_zFFS...ba3209.png 
hyperfixationACTIVATED 2 years ago
The person who said the first thing has been on neal.fun (there's a game on there in which your fold paper until it reaches the moon)
Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
In 2001, high school student Britney Gallivan of Pomona, California, successfully managed to fold a paper in half 12 times by using a roll of long, thin specialty toilet paper that was 1.2 kilometers in length. The resulting 'pile' of paper did not reach to around a third of the distance to the Moon.
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
12 times folded isn't ⅓ the height of 42 times folded. 13 times would be x2 of the 12 times, 14 times x4 etc. How ever high the 12 times folded was, the 42 times would be that times 2³⁶ which is something like 69 billion
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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.
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lily jones 2 years ago
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.
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Lexekon 2 years ago
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
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
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".
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago (edited)
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.
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Jill Rhodry 2 years ago (edited)
Yeah nah, this does not belong here - but it's absolutely hilarious🤣🤣🤣
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BlueBlazer999 2 years ago
“Spelling and Grammar” would be replaced by the pronoun they, meaning are is perfectly valid.
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Stardust she/her 2 years ago
Reminds me of the time I saw a YouTube skit where someone doesn’t have pronouns at all. They’re referred to only by name and nothing else
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Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
That's not Drew Wrong. I went to school with Drew Wrong, and it looks nothing like him.
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Anna Stephenson 2 years ago
I was expecting another reply like "My Dear, it's "dear" not "deer"
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Kelly H. Wilder 2 years ago (edited)
This one doesn't fit the theme, but it is funny anyway. 😁 (Edit: retrieving)
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Bored Potato 2 years ago
It stopped getting funny after the first few. Idiocy is terrifying sometimes
Corvus 2 years ago
One of the most confused pairs of words nowadays is "lie" and "lay". You lie in bed. A chicken lays eggs.
Jaya 2 years ago
But "I lay in bed yesterday' is correct again, because the past tense of 'lie' is 'lay'.
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Bored Potato 2 years ago
It stopped getting funny after the first few. Idiocy is terrifying sometimes
Corvus 2 years ago
One of the most confused pairs of words nowadays is "lie" and "lay". You lie in bed. A chicken lays eggs.
Jaya 2 years ago
But "I lay in bed yesterday' is correct again, because the past tense of 'lie' is 'lay'.
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