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
Perhaps not as dumb as the people who ask "Are they identical? Yes! Are they boy & girl?"
Load More Replies...I have a friend who is a twin and he says that when he tells someone that his twin is female, he is invariably asked if they are identical.
I have argued with multiple people who insist they know "identical" twins that consist of one boy and one girl.
Load More Replies...Some people drink deeply from the well of knowledge. Some just rinse and spit.
They can only be real twins if their heads exit the mother simultaneously, no matter the gender. 🥴
I don't know what kind of bucket you assume women have, but that's not possible...
Load More Replies...I have twins that are a boy and a girl and I’ve had multiple people argue with my that they can’t possibly be twins bc they are different genders
That blows my mind because twins seems like such a simple concept to understand. I guess it’s because they only notice twins when they’re identical? As teenagers or adults they just assume they’re siblings.
Load More Replies...Amazes me that a stranger thinks they know where someone was born better than the person themself. Pity the OP's mother wasn't there too, the stranger probably would have contradicted her too
Typical American who thinks he knows everything and refuses to acknowledge he could be wrong (Yes, I know .... bring on the down votes, lol)
Load More Replies...What does that even mean? Did they extensively cover world accents?
Load More Replies...My Australian husband to American tourist here in Australia, “Have you seen any emus since you got here?” (Emu being a native Australian bird) American tourist, “Yeah, so it’s actually pronounced eeeemoo” All Australians everywhere, “Yeah nah, it absolutely isn’t”
"It's not at phase mom" /jk (the emo pronunciation got me that thought. )
Load More Replies...That's one dense mötherfücker.. 'Hmm, everyone at the hotel has the same accent her in NZ. Ofcourse they're all Scottish, they just dont want to admit it'.
What’s even funnier is that NZ doesn’t sound Scottish in the first place. It’s gone way down the language evolution track. This dude probably thinks Welsh and Cornish accents sound Scottish too
Load More Replies...As a New Zealander of mostly Scots descent, I'm lost as to how the two accents could be confused. I think someone was taking the p**s. However, I don't agree with OP's response either.
As an American, I'm a bit skeptical about the story, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's true. Some of my fellow countrymen really are this dumb and arrogant.
Load More Replies...She did say SOME americans think they know everything, not all?
Load More Replies...American here. You were a lot nicer than I would’ve been. I’ve said way worse stuff to other Americans when they’re being a******s. He greatly insulted you. You tried to tell him he’s wrong and to stop. He persisted, so obviously has no clue about common courtesy and not trodding on people’s boundaries. You weren’t even the only person he did it to the entire time he was there—-as a guest, ffs. Yeah, you were nice. I would’ve verbally burned him to the ground.
Sundes leek it… I mean sounds like it (still in Scottish accent from last joke)
Load More Replies...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.
Ah yes... God is so wise. He made the distance between our ears and our mouth the same distance as the microphone and the receiver on the phone 🤣
"Okay that's cool and all but don't ever comment on my status telling me that I am wrong everrrr again. Im cool with my massive ignorance and am attempting to bring down everyone else with low IQs who'll just believe me because they read it on Facebook." That's what she meant to say.
"If I say something's a FACT then it is, even if I'm WRONG!"
Load More Replies...I got this same reaction once on Facebook when a "friend" posted some silly wolf meme and I pointed out that wild wolf pack are families and the leaders are the mom & dad.
I hear that, the poor guy who invented the whole alpha theory later tried to retract it, but it had become too popular for many to listen.
Load More Replies...that last comment just made me cringe so hard. Poor ickle baby can't stand being corrected.
If you don't want to be corrected for saying stupid stuff, don't say stupid stuff.
And if you really want to say stupid stuff in a public post, be prepared for the answers. It's public, so anybody can see it *and* answer it. You don't like the answers? Tough luck!
Load More Replies...So do these people all live on the first floor? Because, you know, anything above first floor would be closer to the sun.
Aren't the highest parts of the world also the coldest, by this logic, wouldn't you burn to death at the top of a mountain?
No, it's an "everywhere except this one country" thing.
Load More Replies...I love how Americans refer to it as military time, and the rest of the world refer to it as the time.
Before you downvote, this is a common internet meme, not someone being dumb
Load More Replies...All of Europe use 24-hour clocks and probably all or most of Asia. Most of the world can handle 24-hour clockwork. I'd guess even many Americans can handle it.
And just for a bit of fun.... *unbareable
Load More Replies...I started confident but by the end of the post I was confused about who was right and who was wrong.
It's kind of impressive when someone is so completely wrong but so confident about it that they start to make you question yourself. I've been in this situation and it's annoying lol
Load More Replies...You bear a burden. You stand bare-footed. You should drop the burdens you bear when chased by a bear, and pray that you have shoes, because bare feet will bruise.
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.
It is an adjective. 'Yours' is a possessive pronoun. 'Your' is, broadly speaking, a determiner, and more specifically a possessive adjective. Like other adjectives, it is used with nouns. Pronouns, such as 'yours', are nouns themselves.
Load More Replies..."Oh oh and by the way, Y-O-U-apostophe-R-E means YOU ARE. Y-O-U-R means YOUR!"
I see this mistake so often, it's like nails on a blackboard for me. I've never corrected anyone as I don't want to be one of "those" people!
"I could of forgotten my password", translation: "I could originating from forgotten my password" - sheer gibberish.
That assumes it's a lexical mistake, which it is not - it is a mistake that has its roots in pronunciation - a contracted 'have' and a weak form 'of' have identical pronunciation, so people who learned English firstly spoken secondly written may make this mistake when transcribing what they say. It's also primarily a written error, as in natural spoken English "could of" and "could've" are indistinguishable (of course there are some exceptions where the written error causes a feedback loop into someone's spoken English and they stress the 'of'). Non-natives rarely make this mistake as they learn English firstly/simultaneously written.
Load More Replies...This is a current pet peeve of mine. So many people are nearly illiterate. They hear "could've" and likely never read and so we have "could of". Drives me bonkers.
"I have forgotten my password" - makes sense. "I could have forgotten my password" - makes sense. "I could of forgotten my password" would be inextricably linked with the phrase " I of forgotten my password" - those DO NOT make sense.
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.
Load More Replies...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.
Send the kid in the next day with a gift for the teacher. A big box of sandwich bags.
Or a dictionary opened to that page, with the word highlighted.
Load More Replies...Answer correct, spelling wrong (well actually not) - can students appeal this kind of thing?
Load More Replies...This teacher is not qualified. Once I heard of a teacher telling her students that the moon is the only place in the universe without gravity . . . what the heck??
I had a teacher once who told her class that corned beef comes from cows fed on corn . . . .
Load More Replies...My parents got called into the school by a teacher who complained I was being rude ... I wasn't, I was politely correcting her spelling mistakes. Multiple times. She just didn't like being embarrassed when she got it wrong. I was 5 and could spell better than the teacher.
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.)
I sell auto parts. At least once a week someone asks me for a "Cadillac converter". I also regularly get asked for a heater coil (heater core), ignition modem (module) and was twice asked for diabolic grease (dielectric).
I definitely need some diabolic grease, can you send some?
Load More Replies...Is it just me, or is the blackout bar wrongly placed on the third text balloon?
Kala is the person who took the screenshot, so it was up to her whether to block out her pic/name. If a fourth person had come across this and posted it instead of Kala, then her name would be blocked out too.
Load More Replies...This kind of person would rather carry a ton of feathers than ten kilograms of iron.
Don't bring the metric system into it, we'll be here all night.
Load More Replies...Have you seen the video of this experiment?!?! It's really cool! In a total vacuum the feather and the bowling ball do indeed fall at the same rate :)
Which is heavier: 200 pounds of feathers or 200 pounds of bowling balls? 😏
Load More Replies...The sidekick on Neal DeGrasse Tyson’s podcast once said he was on the Galileo diet. It’s where it doesn’t matter how fat you get because you are going to fall down at same rate as a skinny person
Load More Replies...They fall at the same RATE not the same speed. Hate that teachers never clear that part up. They can and do indeed fall at different speeds, but they gain speed at the same rate if dropped simultaneously. that feather is going to have a terminal velocity of like 5mph and the bowling ball is going to keep on going.
yeah and that's why we explored so much of antarctica back then... wait no we didn't..
He's not 100% wrong. The flowers are blossoming on the Antarctic Peninsula, which had flowers on it since its discovery in the 19th century. Like almost all climate stories, there is a germ of truth (the flowers *are* spreading, indicating warming) with sensationalist coverage.
Load More Replies...Oh, OK. So, what was with all that ice and stuff that Captain James Cook RN ran into way down south back in 1774?
That was a prank to make a large ice tea that got out of control.
Load More Replies...I wonder where the writer found THAT information. Unless they just made it up
It did, the Elder Gods lived there, I read a book about it by same Arabic chap whose name escapes me.
I think they're confusing the Arctic Circle with Antarctica.
The arctic circle mostly isn’t land at all. It certainly froze in the winter in the 1800s.
Load More Replies...Always amuses me - one of the most popular pop groups of all time and their name is a s**t pun 😂
Load More Replies...Well, maybe the guy DID mean the beetles. Who knows if there is a band with that name?
I am a 100% convinced that there are multiple Beatles cover bands that are called Beetles.
Load More Replies...Go listen to... "Eleanor Rigby" and "I am the Walrus" for example and see if they sound the same.
I mean, if a bunch of beetles can write music, that's an amazing achievement whether or not it sounds the same each time.
Beetles do make music and it mostly sounds the same every season
Load More Replies...It was reportedly John Lennon's idea, based off Buddy Holly's band, the Crickets but with the "beat" pun thrown in.
"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."
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.
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....
Load More Replies...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
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.
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.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
Load More Replies...Or sheep dogs- those odd little hoofed dogs that are covered in will and go "Baaaaaaah" instead of "wood"!
Load More Replies...Like, this person didn't know there was a dog breed called a Boxer? OMG
🤣 thanks - I was trying to think of a good sentence along those lines...
Load More Replies...Que? Introduce una oración en la que se indican ciertas características del nombre al que dicha oración complementa.
I can’t help it. Though “que” in American regional slang is short for “barbecue”, in proper English “que” is not a word, but either another form of “-ck” used in some English-speaking countries, like using “cheque” instead of “check” to describe the piece of paper recognized by a bank, or as part of a suffix, such as the descriptive “-esque” part of the word “picturesque’. A “queue” is a line for something like a bus, or lunch, or to get back into the anthill when there are other ants ahead of you, or anything where more than one individual shows up and they all form an orderly line. Lastly, a “cue” was, and still is, a prompt to speak or appear in a stage play. It has also been given wider applications than just the dramatic arts hence the “Cue the Boomers” remark above.
As someone who actually once graduated as an art student once upon a time, I know the difference between Cue , *Queue and the Spanish word "que" >.>
For anyone still confused, it's you're as in...can't take belongings if you are 18.
Correct sentence Fun fact, schools can't take your belongings of you're 18
Remember when they thought ignorance was caused by a lack of access to information, the internet shot that theory all to hell.
'Your' = shows possession. You're (as said by Libstak) = You are. Again, this is as common a mistake as 'loose' (not fixed in place) instead of 'lose' (cease to keep). But, I reckon we all have at least one word we misuse.
Some people, may I say, you must retake your kindergarten English class. (Joking I know it’s your)
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.
And men, even though you might not think you have to wash your hands after peeing because you don’t hold it while you’re peeing, you do still touch it to take it out of your pants, shake those last drops off it, then put it back in your pants—-all of which also count. So, since you can’t train it to do all of that on command all by itself, you still need to wash your f*****g disgusting hands after you pee.
Statistics can be used to prove anything, 36% of all people know that
Careful what you believe, 80% of statistics are made up
Load More Replies...My problem with washing your hands in a public bathroom is touching the same door handle as the fookers that haven't.
This is a good example of how it is about how you present statistics. If 31 and 65% DO wash their hands then it also tells us that 69 and 35 do not. So taken together, 104% of people do NOT wash their hands. So remember kids, it's cool because literally everyone is (not) doing it. /S
Reminds me of when I was searching for a Sephora and asked a random woman on the street where Sephiroth is instead.
But even if you're skinny your weight is still distributed fairly evenly around your body
The late British entertainer Roy Castle (I think it was he, could have been Charlie Drake) did this back in the 60s - his shoes were clipped to the floor. He was conducting an orchestra, and leaned farther and farther forward.
There was a craze of guys from my secondary school trying to see how far they could lean. They were all convinced that they would manage the 45°
Does anybody remember a dance routine D**k Van Dyke did in - I THINK - it was the original Mary Poppins movie. He leans way over at one point, kind of similar to what Michael is doing here. I think in that routine he leans in several directions. I would normally think 'wire' but I think I read some place that he actually just did it. Was good at staying just shy of the tipping point. But I'm having trouble finding any info on it. This post just made me think about it. Any pandas know more?
The first time I came across the word 'edible' I had no idea what it could mean. I know it's a correct word, but it's totally illogical imo
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.
Didn't Leonardo da Vinci draw something kinda close to that ?
He drew up plans, but never actually successfully accomplished building/flying it.
Load More Replies...I would like to show it to someone from over 500 years ago, and that's Leonardo da Vinci, and find out what he thinks about us getting his invention to work.
It’s true. It’s 2023. 200 years ago was 1823. The first successful flight, lasting 12 seconds and traveling a whopping 180 feet, was made by Wilbur Wright, with his brother Orville monitoring him from the ground, in Kitty Hawk, NC in 1903, 80 years after 1823. Humans have been flying by using air currents instead of being completely at the mercy of them (though planes can still be affected by them, pilots are trained in how to maneuver through or around them) for 120 years.
We know. That’s not why it made the list. It’s on here because the person pointing that out doesn’t seem to understand that this is exactly why it would have blown people’s mind’s 200 years ago. That was the point OP was trying to make and the commenter missed it. Kind of like what you just did.
Load More Replies...A cheese and pasta baked dish was first recorded in "Liber de Coquina" in the 14th C. In the same century, there was a cheese and pasta dish 'makerouns' in medieval English cookbook the 'Forme of Cury'. However, the later sounds more like a proto lasagne. In modern times, the first known macaroni and cheese recipe was in .The Experienced English Housekeeper' by Elizabeth Raffald in 1769 . It has a béchamel sauce with cheddar cheese.
Load More Replies...To play the devil's advocate, they aren't COMPLETELY wrong. Mostly, but not completely. As with all aspects of culture, there is always an exchange with and appropriation by neighbors which eventually gets baked (pun intended) into the local cultural canon. For example, a lot of dishes we consider German, such as the Bratwurst, were originally Roman, and pan-searing came here from France. Yet nobody would consider a Bratwurst to be French cuisine, right? So, the United States, being the cultural and ethnic melting pot they are (despite efforts to the contrary) have had hundreds of different cultures and cuisines freely mixing and mingling with each other, resulting in dishen and customs with identifiable foreign roots but still being uniquely American. Oh, and in Germany we consider the Hamburger to be very much American.
Diaspora cuisine is totally fascinating in its own right.
Load More Replies...Hamburgers, as we know them, were indeed invented in the U.S. in the 19th century by German migrants, and are derived from the German hamburg steak (which is NOT served between slices of bread, and is more akin to what we call "Salisbury steak" today). The Chinese food you get at your local restaurant is also an American creation, devised by Chinese migrants to better appease western tastes, and is drastically different from what you find in China.
Google Louis' lunch in New Haven Connecticut. 1900.
Load More Replies...My UK friends were able to explain that many foods, pasta and Chinese dishes included, have regional variations with seasoning and preparation. The American version was one way of making it, but it was notably different from how many were prepared in other regions. Example FYI: Don't try to tell a person from Italy, that you like Italian food, if you never had it prepared the way actual Italians make it. They see our versions as quite different, I promise.
Not completely wrong, though, as not only Mac & Cheese, but also spaghetti meatballs are as american as it gets. Also deep-fried noodles are hardly genuine chinese food. Hamburgers are more complicated in origin, though (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger#History). International food often tends to be heavily americanized.
To be fair, food found in the US is often changed to make Americans like it more. Our foods may not be particularly inventive, but plenty of "Foreign Cuisine" restaurants in America have food likely considered alien by people from the culture that the food is supposed to be from.
I get the joke but food for thought (no pun intended) - a country's food is about what is common there, not whether or not they invented it. I think most folks would consider fish and chips to be a classic British thing. I have watched them eat it in so many BBC shows. But the British did not invent either of those things. French Fries (chips) were invented in either France or Belgium depending on who you ask. Vinegar was invented in 5000 BC in Babylon. Steak and potato might be considered classic American food but baked potatoes were invented in Peru and I reckon anyone who could catch meat since the beginning of time had some version of steak. TLDR: This is a stupid thing to argue about.
I wouldn't assume the person doing the correcting was that intelligent :D
Load More Replies...I have a t shirt that says "roll model" with a photo of a wheelchair underneath as in a wheelchair user. Also have one that says "only in it for the free parking" but free disabled parking in car parks is becoming rarer and rarer- least I'll always be a roll model!
Not exactly. The International Fixed Calendar is a 13 month calendar (13 months of 28 days, with every month starting on Sunday, and ending on Saturday. The extra month is called Sol and is between June & July). It uses the Gregorian "leap year" rule. Meaning a leap year every 4 years. Instead of one extra day, it adds 2. There's no Feb 29 in this calendar, it uses June 29 and December 29 as the leap days. But...these leap days don't occur on a regular day (ie Sunday, Monday etc). Both Leap Day (June 29) and Year Day (Dec 29) take place between a Saturday & a Sunday. In other words, Saturday Dec 28 would be followed by Year Day, which would then be followed by Sunday Jan 1
Load More Replies...That's why there's a new Zodiac sign. Ophiuchus the serpent bearer. Changing your astrological sign depending on the year you were born. GASP.
I think we should decimalise time. If we just made a second a bit shorter, you won't notice if we decreased it by dividing the second by 1.15741. We then could have 10 seconds in a minute, 100 minutes in a hour and 100 hours in a day, that would be 100,000 seconds in a day more than the 86,400 seconds we have at the moment, but because we have shortened the second it's the same time.
I don't know why we can't just have nice even months, then have a giant party with the extra days
Abracadabra is the term used in many european countries. It's origin is "adhadda kedhabhra", from aramean langage, meaning "destroy this thing". And if this reminds you of another magic formula in some books and movies, that's not a coincidence.
Used in Harry potter as the 'killing curse' "Avada Kedavra"
Load More Replies...They're not technically wrong, though; I'm assuming this is the title for other countries.
In other parts of the English-speaking world, the old comedy movie 'Airplane' was released as 'Flying High'.
"The unbelievable journey in a crazy airplane" - German title (they loved to make it complicated back then)
Load More Replies...It reminds me how book titles you see in the UK, for example, can be changed when published in other Countries/Continents. Until recently, these changes were common – for commercial reasons, cultural sensitivity or because of a pre-existing book with a similar moniker. Also, a bit of a pain when you are collecting them and inadvertently pick one up (usually 2nd hand) and realise you have the same book with a different title.
Like Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in the USA was change to the Sorcerer's Stone. Was at platform 9 3/4 in London Kings Cross train station (they have an exhibit where you have your photo taken like you're running into the wall and then there is a gift shop) Saw an American having an argument with the shop keeper as something had the British title (as shock horror, we're in the UK) on it and not the American. Guy just wouldn't listen to the explanation from the poor staff member.
Load More Replies...They really spelled "classics" wrongly.... Can you imagine... with a "q"? And wait until he sees how they misspelled "rediscovered!"
I can’t tell if that’s sarcastic but the content in question in French
Load More Replies...If you're playing Monopoly - boredgame kinda fits...
Load More Replies...Mercilessly = correct. But mom " that " allowed it ... " who " allowed it.
Mercifully means that you are glad something good has happened. Unmercifully means that you do something a lot and don't show pity.
Load More Replies...This is a joke. There is no German dish called "Suppenfuß" (soup foot). I would know that. I'm German an I eat everything. :)
Really? So you're not cannibals? Are you even looking at the meat?
Load More Replies...Assuming (99% sure) the commenter to the OP is US-American. I fücking hate what the US has done to its once excellent education system over the past 40yrs, and the dumbing down continues.
I'm German. There is no linguistic/cultural/geographic/historical reference involved. It really is just a bizarre photoshop fun post. We do have "Suppenfleisch" ("soup meat" - boiling meat, like beef shank or similar, for preparing broth) and "Suppengrün" ("soup green" - veggies for broth, generally onion, celeriac, carrots, leek and parsley).
Load More Replies...“You know it’s fake” well it’s a foot in a food store container what do you expect.
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
British chemist graduate here. You are correct however even when I did my Chemistry BSc in the 90s, "sulphur" was taught. Only when I did my PhD was "sulfur" more widely used in British Universities.
Load More Replies...Right so in Latin it was Sulpur, which became Sulphur and then Sulfur. The Brits stuck with our spelling.
True. Depending on which audience I am writing for (America or rest of the world) I have to change the spelling of a lot of words. That is why I prefer writing for ROW sites, they all get it!
Load More Replies...Not according to dictionaries. Opnen your OpenOffice and hit language settings. It has evolved beyond belief.
Load More Replies...Many of the lovely yellow and orange butterflies in the family Pieridae are called Sulphurs. Perhaps that is where the confusion comes from? IMG_2762-6...80003.jpeg
then there's me, an american who writes in a horrid mashup of british and american english.
like i spell humour with a u, colour with a u, and rumour with a u, but i say math not maths lol
Load More Replies...Don’t you use lye (Drano, sodium hydroxide), not acid, to clear a drain?
I think most people do know or understand what a light year is, in that it is the distance that light travels in a year. The problem is that they don't realize or know that vision is possible because of light reflected off an object and that everything a person sees is actually a version of that thing in the past.
Load More Replies...It’s really wild to think about it. The light we see from the moon is already 1.3 seconds old, the light from Saturn is 80 minutes old, and the light from the farthest star seen by the Hubble Telescope is 12.9 billion years old. When that beam of light left that planet on its journey to Earth, our planet didn’t even exist, because Earth was finally formed only 4.6 billion years ago.
All light travels. To travel you use time. Imagine you take a photograph of your house today. You put it in an envelope and a rocket takes it into space. As it travels, time keeps passing. Your house changes but the photo of it remains the same. Everyone who will ever see that photo again will only see how your house looked like today. No matter how far it goes. Light is an endless stream of photographs traveling through space. It takes time to get where they are going.
/nerd mode on This is one that always bothered me, ever since I got it literally while I was in the theater watching it for the first time. They established that once you're in hyperspace, the Imperials can't catch you - hyperspace is safe. They also established that if you pop out of hyperspace when there is space debris (exploded planets, asteroid fields, etc) you could be smashed to pieces if you're not a damn hotshot pilot. Therefore, the riskiest smugglers are the ones who spend the least amount of their run in normal space. Safer smugglers come out of hyper further out - and are easier to catch. Hotshot smugglers come out of hyper closer in - and are harder to catch, but more likely to get flattened against an asteroid. Therefore, one SHOULD boast about how little normal space distance you did the run in - how FEW parsecs you "did the Kessel run in." It's like telling someone who boasts of winning a chess match in ten moves that "a move is not a unit of time."
Load More Replies...In 65 million years time, that alien will be looking through their telescope, into my window at my computer screen reading this, and be thinking what a load of unintelligent life forms there are on that planet.
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".
Different countries different spellings. In this 1 I don't think anyone is wrong and I spell it colour
Fourty is incorrect in every English speaking country.
Load More Replies...As a person from who is not from a English speaking country, this war of spelling between UK and USA is actually affecting the ability to write fast. Especially when I have to decide if it is s or z. Like is it Authorisation or Authorization. Messes with my exam brain...
I used to teach English as a foreign language and this is the advice I would give my students: choose the one that you like and stick with it. Either 1) always learn/use the British way of pronouncing/spelling words or 2) always learn/use the American way of pronouncing/spelling words. Don't try to make the decision for each individual word; this only leads to confusion and frustration, due to the additional burden of trying to remember what version you decided to use for each and every word. Pick one overall style and consistently stick with it. Consistency is your friend! But that's just my unsolicited two cents! :)
Load More Replies...Forty is Forty in the UK, so ... (e.g., behaviour, colour, favour, flavour, harbour, honour, humour, labour, neighbour, rumour, splendour) ‑ or in American English (behavior, color, favor, flavor, harbor, honor, humor, labor, neighbor, rumor, splendor) = ending in 'our' instead of 'or'.
I am american and I spell flavor like Flavour because I wanna b fancy lol
Fancy nothing! You want to be Canadian! That's our way of spelling!
Load More Replies...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.
The fungus is always "mold." But for shaping liquids, it gets stupidly complex. "Molten" means liquified. "Moulten" would mean something that has lost its feathers. So U.S. English uses "mold" for shaping liquids, which actually is the older spelling, while the British use "mould." But it gets more complicated yet. The U.S. often still uses "moulding" for architectural embellishments, to avoid confusion with something going moldy.
Load More Replies...No. In the UK the fungus is also "mould". As in "mouldy old Tory Sir John Major"
Load More Replies...I use Mould for the guitarist, Hart for the drummer and Norton for the bassist
Load More Replies...Yeah nah, this does not belong here - but it's absolutely hilarious🤣🤣🤣
I have a better question. Wtf is that thing in the picture, badly pretending to be a car?
To express it in the simpler, easier-to-understand Imperial system: 1 km = 264.5 roods, just under 5 furlongs, just under 50 chains (or 50 cricket pitches), about 1/5 of a league (land), and about 0.17 of a league (nautical). Hope that clears it up for you.
Oh geez! My American southern self is cringing hard because of the photo!
It's 1,000 of a basic SI unit, which btw, defines your inch, thus miles and everything else you use. Quite in fact, currently, all of the imperial units has it's definition in the metric system.
English English is the only English that should be called English.
Betelgeuse is also the name of a star... still pronounced like Beetlejuice.
In the Orion constellation. Or should that be Oh Ryan? ;-)
Load More Replies...Didn’t see that! My brain added in the second e automatically!
Load More Replies...I never thought of that and I've seen that movie 10 times at least
Load More Replies...I recall my astronomy professor saying "Beetlejuice" as an astronomers joke pronunciation, but actual pronunciation was Bet-el-geeze.
IIRC, they didn't know how to pronounce it when they first encountered it, but then magically pronounced it right when summoning him. Why? Who knows.
lmao I can imagine "salty voters are lose on the streets, mad because they loost!"
Load More Replies...I'd lose my mind if I lost my shoes while loosening the my laces then I'd be loosing my tongue with a loose use of expletives.
Yeah I'm a bit OCD about this one. See it all the time and I have to force myself to not correct them. . . well. . sometimes I can't resist.
I'll lose my nose and shoes and cancel the truce if you use those hues to set the moose loose. (Please, someone, improve on that sentence with more loose, lose, and nose rhymes)
When I worked in an office, people always did "adviced" is dread of advised. Drove me nuts! And only a few got it after some explanation!
Someone should tell them an aardvark is essentially an ant vacuum. That should blow their minds.
I don’t know if this is still true, but I was taught “AEIOU, and sometimes Y”. Now that was in 1966-1967, and I understood the use of a “Y” as a vowel from the get-go (gym, myth, rhythm, etc), so I hope that’s how they still teach vowels in school.
I learned "AEIOU and sometimes Y and W". I rarely if ever come across words where W is a vowel, and the only teacher I've ever had say that was in Kindergarten. AEIOU and sometimes Y is how it works.
Load More Replies...'Y' can also be a vowel in words that already have a vowel, eg deny, angry, etc. Normally it is at the end of the word, but it is a vowel in words like 'psychiatric' and 'physiotherapist'.
Y being a consonant is some weird English thing. Isn't it a vowel in all other languages who use this type of alphabet?
Load More Replies..."Oo" and "ee" make sounds distinct from the standard sound of the letter. "Aa" and "uu" don't so much.
Load More Replies...They needed to give the imbecile a series of words with Y as a vowel as well, you know like, cry, fly, try etc. And maybe for good measure a word with w as a vowel: cwm.
ok so there's a song from my childhood ( which is like four years ago but I don't care) called Jackie Chan by Dzeko and Tiesto ( and a few other people) which played all the time on the radio and I knew all the words too ( well the sounds I didn't know the words actually). This post brought back memories of singing along to the song in the car. I searched up the lyrics and realized that I was singing along to lots of swears and also I think talks about sex. So now I'm sad and kinda weirded out.
Kids often quote or parrot things they know little to nothing about. Like last Friday I had to call out a grade 6 boy for referencing Johnny Sins. I said, "Make sure your response is school appropriate" and he was all "But it's Johnny Sins from the meme." And I was like, "Yes, Johnny Sins from the meme is a porn actor." Kid's mind was blown. He had no idea memes came from somewhere or could reference things or that he should actually think about what he references.
Load More Replies...Both are diminutives (of John, actually) but that doesn't mean they're not also names in their own right now. People name their babies "Jack" rather than John, so they also choose a spelling and it's polite to use that correct spelling. If Chan chose his anglicised name himself, then we should respect the spelling he also chose.
Load More Replies...Without watching that movie I would still be watering my houseplants with Gatorade. 👍
Everyone knows you only water your houseplants with Brawndo. Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.
Load More Replies...Ever since someone pointed out that they wear crocs in that movie I take the shoes even less seriously
Load More Replies...I always said the movie is becoming more of a documentary and less of a comedy.
Maybe I mean maybe the team was run by a bunch of idiots and that's why the person commented indiocracy? Again it is just my assumption. 🤷♀️
But he's correct saying that they are a tribe of the canine family
Load More Replies...“Spelling and Grammar” would be replaced by the pronoun they, meaning are is perfectly valid.
Either is valid depending on intent. If expressed as a singular group, "is" is correct. If as a list of disparate items, then "are" is correct. Since this is ambiguous here, either is acceptable.
Finnally someone in the comments said it clear enough for a non native speaker to understand
Load More Replies...Why? Non native speaker here. I would have used "are" in this sentence and can't understand why that would be wrong.
As native speaker, so would I. There are two things, so it is "are".
Load More Replies...Hate me, but I would use 'is' with "spelling & grammar" because I use ampersand (as opposed to 'and') to represent a single (in my mind, anyway) object.
Yep. They probably thought the person spelled repost incorrectly on purpose, as they did git and gud.
Load More Replies...I reposted this riposte. It was such a burn that it cooked my repast. Now I have to eat spaghetti again.
You know what's cool: if you highlight a word or phrase in Google, it will bring up the definition for you. In a Kindle or other electronic device as well. I'm certain that many people already knew this but I learned it not too long ago. I have to use it all of the time on BP!
Intentional misspelling of 'get good', as in improving. It's slang that's often used by people playing computer games, it's often meant as an insult ('you suck, you should get better at this game').
Load More Replies...Actually blue is wrong! Horse chestnuts and buckeyes are in a different family than sweet chestnuts.
Ah weII conkers, because you need to define it from chestnuts somehow downvote me if you wish
Just gonna add for the terminally stupid - please don't try eating one of each.
Load More Replies...You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish!
Load More Replies...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
When people use apostrophes for plurals, my eye twitches. 😡😡😡😡
Load More Replies...Chalk another one up to DUHHH ANY WORD I HATE IS A PRONOUN
... and the apostrophe on "pronouns" is another one of my pet peeves.
I know few people who are never referred to with pronouns - just head shakes.
Oh look fellow Aussies, we've taken New Zealand in a bloodless war at some point and nobody even raised a news alert.
Also love that we have been referred to as "an Australian island" as if we're just one island!
Load More Replies...Ever since they took down the border, they might as well be one country. (Yes, I'm making fun of a previous post.)
In Australia, people in remote areas depend on satellite links for phone, internet, and GPS. There's no cell towers in the middle of the Simpson Desert.
Load More Replies...Does anybody have pictures of the antenna towers they built out in/across the oceans? I'd love to see what kind of structure they came up with to keep them stable through time.
Funny thing, most communication across oceans is handled through cable
Load More Replies...The tacky ring is worse but at least that could be easily removed.
Load More Replies..."I have no other personality than my car 🥰". Also:why did someone feel the need to point out his almost empty tank?
For anyone confused I think the tattoo isn't meant to be viewed from that angle
You can see the letters BMW starting at the bottom left. It matches the logo perfectly.
Load More Replies...If he was a real fan his watch would be matching as well, with the actual logo, not just the brand and colours. :(
The stupid tattoo probably will be right when he keeps his hands on the steering wheel.
Ok- but wait!- I use this as a prayer emoji- not a high five- so which is it???? Inquiring minds wanna know!?
I searched it in my emojis and it is for prayers and high fives.
Load More Replies...Mine too. There's a family at my school that is very proud of their heritage, their little girls have Aztec names like this. Tricky to remember, but beautiful.
Load More Replies...Mosquitoes are not fun. Also, since it's the female that does the biting, they're not guys, either. 😆
Load More Replies...That's not Drew Wrong. I went to school with Drew Wrong, and it looks nothing like him.
LMAO MADE ME SPIT MY KOMBUCHA OUT 😭 Thanks for making my night lol
Load More Replies...Apparently they make something like beer, also. By reputation is closer to making love in a canoe. Happily, Canada has some good beers.
Load More Replies...How shallow do you have to be to not date someone just because they use a different word for something?
You mean it's not made from the corns on their feet?
Load More Replies...We call that Canadian bacon where I'm from. No idea why - it's not very polite. ;)
The word is connoting. A word or phrase may have a connotation, implying an idea or feeling beyond its literal definition. Connotating is not a word.
Water will start to freeze at 32.01f or 0.01c. It can exist as a solid, liquid or gas at that temperature
Er, they believe that the water in their freezer (I mean ice cubes) are 32F?
Put it under about 1GPa of pressure. See https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/60170/how-does-the-freezing-temperature-of-water-vary-with-respect-to-pressure
Load More Replies...Wow its crazy there, because 32 degrees in the UK is quite warm, my shower is set to 38, so i shouldn't drop the temp by 6 degrees, good to know.
I was so sad, omg now i have a fear of my dad, who has a heart condition, getting into pools or hot tubs... :(
Load More Replies...yeah just like how hawaii isn't apart of the us, it's a country and how alaska is an island. /s
Well, yeah. It's out in the ocean next to Hawaii on all the maps! 😂
Load More Replies...I was expecting another reply like "My Dear, it's "dear" not "deer"
Yeah. Not the way i might have written it, but quite acceptable.
Load More Replies...This one doesn't fit the theme, but it is funny anyway. 😁 (Edit: retrieving)
It fits with correcting the wrong "reteaving" with also wrong "retreaving" rather than the correct "retrieving"
Load More Replies...Fax haha. I know the person who wrote Twighlight, (bad flex ik) and they have the same imagination as a literal rock.
Load More Replies...Interestingly enough, Nederland is part of Koninkrijk der Nederlanden ('Kingdom of the Netherlands'), which is plural again. The fact that it's 'der Nederlanden' and not 'der Nederland' suggests that it consists of multiple places that are called Netherlands or make up the Netherlands together, but the Kingdom is just the 1 Netherlands and some small countries that used to be colonies that are obviously not called Netherlands themselves because they have their own names. Interestingly, the Netherlands itself is part of the EU, but those other parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands don't belong to the EU, but their citizens are EU citizens, even though the places they live are not EU territory.
Nope, it's Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in Dutch, also plural.
Load More Replies...I don't believe this belongs, pretty sure the Dutch say Nederland - no 's'
But that's in Dutch. The map is in English, which is The Netherlands. Nederlands refers to the language
Load More Replies...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'.
Load More Replies...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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