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40 Of The Smallest Hills People Are Prepared To Die On, As Shared In This Online Group
When people don’t believe in facts, you can try to explain to them the science behind it, but you will not necessarily succeed and there is no point in arguing. People like to do that anyway. Sometimes it’s very important, such as when it comes to huge topics like vaccination, and it’s actually useful to make the other person see it your way, but other times it’s just small little things like usage of a word or food preference.
Even though these are small things when looking at the big picture, people are wholeheartedly convinced in them and we all probably have an opinion about an insignificant thing that doesn’t coincide with what the majority thinks. It actually reveals the way you think, so Reddit user FunWithAPorpoise asked people what are their smallest hills that they’ll die on.
This fun thread went a bit viral on Reddit with almost 34k upvotes and nearly 26k people got involved in the conversation, sometimes pointing out valid truths and in other cases making you want to argue with them.
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Those new LED headlights should be banned. They might make the owner safer but not other drivers as they drive into f**king ditches because they were blinded by Klieg lights masquerading as car lights.
Speaker phone is not meant for using in public.
I hate this so much! It's so rude. No one cares about your conversation or your life. It's also rude to be on your phone while going through checkout at a store. Hangup and be courteous to the people waiting on you. If you can't do that stay home and browse Amazon ffs.
You should always use your signals when turning or changing lanes. If you don't, you're just lazy and the worst. Communicate what you plan to do with your screaming metal death trap before you are in the process of doing it!
Tall burgers completely nullify all the benefits of burgers, and are an abomination unto cuisine.
A good burger is the perfect portable food. It should be edible using only your hands and mouth,without cutlery, and without making too much mess.
You should also be able to sample every layer of ingredient in one bite, without dislocating your jaw
It always happens when people try to complicate a recipe...leave it simple, just the basics. Once it's done right it'll taste amazing.
Returning a shopping cart is not that hard. It's the least you can do when utilizing a service.
This annoys me to no end. Walking through the car park and there are carts everywhere. The collection point isn't that far away people...geez.
It's even better when they leave the carts in the middle of parking spots. Parking spots are for cars, not carts. There's a spot for carts 10 feet to the left you lazy turd.
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In my country you have to deposit a coin to unlock a cart and return it to get your money back. So we don't have that problem. But I agree, that everybody should do it regardless.
THANK YOU! It’s usually the baggers job to get the carts. Hopefully with the majority being in the corrals. It’s not a wholly unique job at stores.
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This is why carts in Ireland need a 1 or 2 euro coin to unlock from the trolley bay then you get it back when you return it. You still get some arseholes but not as many as without
Some places in the U.S. have this as well. You'll usually have to put a quarter in a slot to release the cart. Not in all places, sure, but in many.
Load More Replies... I once watched a dude walk the further that it would have taken to put it in the return just to shove it onto the sidewalk, and another time I pulled a cart someone had lifted over the curb into a flowerbed. Quite frankly, it was pretty hard to lift it out so I don't see how putting it there was any easier than walking it to the return
Most places put change recepticles on them, you can't take one unless you have a 1 euro coin. And you're not getting it back unless you return it
Enforce customers to use a coin [euro/dollar] to release a cart from its row, problem solved.
It's 10 friggin feet you just waked 10miles in the store! You can't go 10 more ft? Also ppl who drive around the lot for an hour looking for a closer spot
I 100% agreed with this before I became a mom. Now, while it still irks me when people don't return carts, I have had a few instances where I had to do this. If I have my small infant in the car and I need to walk across the lot and into the store to return it, it's not going to happen. I do my best to avoid this by parking closer to the door or cart corral, carrying my groceries to the car or even flagging a passerby and asking if they'll take it back. But I'm not letting my child out of my sight.
I'm a wheelchair user, if I'm out by myself, I will gladly pay someone to put the cart away for me. I'm completely exhausted by the time I get the cart and groceries to my truck and put in the back. Those carts aren't made for wheelchair users and no there aren't any specially made wheelchair carts in my area.
Since I can barely get to my car with the help of my rollator, I no longer sweat taking the cart to the corral. Those extra steps seriously deplete what little strength I have left.
Gods, you should see them all over the town where I live. I keep telling my kids to start an Instagram page with stories of their adventures. There are sometimes gangs/groups of them and they look to be plotting something. I saw one waiting for a bus today and another must have been posting a letter near the big red mailbox down the hill. Some have been murdered and thrown in the creek, there are even mourner trolleys on the banks. They’re all over this suburb and they lead interesting but sad lives.
People are lazy and selfish. They do this without thinking about it because they don't want to realize how lazy and selfish they are. When my grandma does it, she has this little plastic chuckle. "I'll just put this here, *chuckle chuckle*". It's basically to cover up bad behavior so she can dismiss it without being considerate. I imagine other people doing it the same way. To be clear, my grandma can walk just fine, so it's not like she's using the cart as a walker.
And then all the sheeple decide to park their carts near the carts that others were to lazy to return! Baaa baaa!
According to some experts it's a red flag that signifys potential the of ppl having psychopathic tendancies Narcissistic behaviour. No empathy. Lack of awareness of unwritten rules & general polite behaviour.
Aldi's system is such a game changer, no complaints for the small hassle it takes.
I live in England, so it's a £1 coin to go in the slot, to get the trolley out. I keep a coin in the side of my bag, which is also handy if I run out of change. Why doesn't everywhere have this?
My thoughts on this "issue" is that it is false flag... being pushed via social media and presented to make it appear to be a "social good" we should all adhere to... when it is something that really only benefits a large corporation. They've already got ya'all bagging and ringing up your own groceries without even the slightest discount for saving THEM money and increasing their profits by not having to employee as many people. What's next... getting you guys to stock shelves or unload trucks?
This picture! DO NOT PUT YOUR PETS IN THE TROLLEY I HAVE TO USE TO BUY MY FOOD. I love animals, but they do not belong in shopping trolleys.
I hate it even more when they are eft all over the sidewalk in front of the front parking spaces and when they put them in the areas with lines next to the handicap parking spaces and in the handicap parking spaces.
What kills me is watching people walk past dozens of carts on their way into the store from the parking lot. I've literally watched a person move a cart out of a space so they can park there, then not take the cart in with them, getting one out of the stack by the door. Sorry, but that drives me crazy.
I can't stand people who are too self absorbed to have any sort of consideration for basically anyone else in the world. Unless it benefits them in some way, it's not even an afterthought.
YES! I always return the cart. If the carts in the cart corral are all tangled up, I take a minute -- just a minute -- to straighten them out and put my cart in line. If the cart corral is empty, I take my cart back inside the store. Really, people, it's just common courtesy in appreciation of having a cart to put your shopping into.
I will say goddamn in the middle of a church, were I ever to find myself in one. I absolutely believe we'd have never tried to invent so many forms of criminal justice if karma were actually *real*. I adore black cats crossing my path. Not the least bit superstitious, is what I'm driving at. Until I meet a shopping cart. I'm convinced not returning my shopping cart, THAT'S the place the universe is truly watching.
Pure laziness, isn't it? These are folks who manage to walk throughout the store with the cart, but can't walk another few feet to put it in the cart corral? 🙄 Sheesh.
I worked at a grocery store it is literally someone's job to clean and retrieve the carts it's a customer perk to leave the cart wherever.
Every grocery store here uses their baggers to retrieve the carts from the corrals. And, the parking spots that are blocked off screwing others arriving. It forces the cashiers to bag and slows down the lines, causing more people to chose self-checkout, this decreasing need for cashiers. And if it’s a perk to screw handicap drivers from parking or forcing my grandmother to park out by the street, it’s a shitty perk.
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Buuuuuuut...... Then you're putting a high school student out of a job!
Nah, someone still has to go out & collect the carts from the corrals. They just don't have to wander thru the entire parking lot to get them all.
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RAM… GOD ARE YOU OK? SOMEONE HELP I JUST RAN OVER A SHOPPING CART BECAUSE SOMEONE WAS TOO LAZY TOO PUT IT AWAY!
If everybody put the cart box they wouldn't need to hire a cartboys then some poor teenagers would not have a job
Tax should be included in the price with no exceptions.
Also, was $9.99....now $9.99...what a great deal. This wasn't usually the custom here but I've begun to see some stores doing it and it is very annoying.
Kids can be annoying. You’re allowed to think someone’s kid is annoying. You don’t have to tell the kid or their parents. But you can distance yourself if you want.
You don’t have to tolerate any kid if you don’t want to is what I’m getting at.
It’s “couldn’t care less” and not “could care less”.. this shouldn’t even be a question but you’d be surprised how many people are willing to die on the could care less hill.
One that annoys me..."Fewer" and "number of" are used with things that can be counted. "Less" and "amount of" are used with things that can be measured. Fewer calories and less fat. Number of people, but amount of water.
mayonnaise and Miracle Whip are not interchangeable, they are drastically different.
Fantasy football is just DND for people who like sports. Dressing up to go the Stadium is sports cosplay.
I never thought about it this way but he's not wrong. Now I can't get the image of some guy in a yankees outfit going "I CAST BASEBALL WITH MY POWERFUL BAT OF BASEBALLING!!!" out of my head.
It's not a hot water heater. It's a water heater.
In real life I would never correct someone who says hot water heater when they're talking about their water heater, but it sure has been fun to do it here! Thanks for the awards and the most upvotes I've ever received and especially thanks for keeping this very important debate fun and civil!
Other common redundancies: ATM machine, shrimp scampi, pita bread, chai tea...
I shouldn’t have to pay more for safety features in a car
I saw a Tiktok yesterday that said a car company either already has started or is thinking about charging you a subscription fee to use features in your car, like heated seats... John Deere has something like this, a farmer buys a super expensive tractor but is not allowed to fix it themselves, it has to be taken to a licensed John Deere mechanic.
Carpet flooring in bathrooms trigger me :/ just don’t put a carpet in a bathroom. A bath mat is fine so you don’t slip when you get out the shower but not the whole carpet floor
Learn how to spell a name before you saddle a kid with it, for f**k's sake.
Macaroons are not macarons. One has coconut, and one is a sandwich cookie.
A thousand upvotes. The macaroon is awful. The macaron is, when done well, sublime. And I'd hardly rate it as a "sandwich cookie" like it's an Oreo. It's gorgeous and amazing and is not just a lot of coconut held together by sugar.
JAWS must not EVER be re-made, or retconned, or re-imagined, or re-anything. Ever.
There are about 100 films I feel the same way about. Please don't turn the Godfather into a musical on ABC. Or remake Apocalypse Now with Timothee Chalamet and Finn Wolfhard. No no no.
If you don't like being around others you're not "anti-social", you're asocial. Anti-social is the Joker.
Incredibly petty and meaningless but this always bothers me for some reason
I'm generally asocial, but large groups of people make me antisocial.
It’s espresso. Not expresso
I used to say "Advocado" instead of "Avocado". Mine could win a lawsuit after all...
Not all water is the same.
True. Not just for bottled water. Tap water in different cities tastes, completely different. I can't stand to drink the tap water in the city I am, currently, living.
Freshly grated sharp cheddar cheese is better than store bought grated cheese and the difference is noticeable in the meal, especially in tacos
Yep, store bought stuff is coated in crappy anti-caking agents to stop the pieces sticking together in the bag. Nasty.
Frozen isn’t a Christmas or even a winter movie.
It is literally set in the summer, a big part of the plot is that everyone was unprepared for the summer freeze.
I will die on this hill.
I feel this about the song from the sound of music "these are a few of my favorite things". It's not a Christmas song! Why do they play it every Christmas?!
It's more convenient to type something into Google than to say the words aloud to Alexa
Does anyone else get a weird anxiety when they have to do voice commands? Like...a sort of embarrassment?
Snakes are venomous, not poisonous
If it bites you and you die, it was venomous. If you bite it and you die, it was poisonous.
If it doesn't have shelves, drawers, or any storage space, it is a table. Not a desk!
Greeters in shop entrances are annoying and unnecessary.
Just to clarify I’m from the UK so the American customer styles don’t work here very well since we are grumpy gooses. Our big stores (like supermarkets) don’t tend to have greeter anymore they will have security guards and customer service desks near by so you can ask questions. It’s the small shop that have them and they stand by the door watching you and jump on you the second you even look in the window.
Totally agree. Loiter outside the venue (especially restaurants), trying to entice me in and I WILL cross the road to avoid you and take my business elsewhere. It's weird, annoying and sometimes creepy.
There is no need for people to say 7 am in the morning. The use of am let's us know its morning
Everyday and every day are different. And not interchangeable.
“An everyday walk in the park” vs “I walk in the park every day.”
Why does the sign have quotation marks? And for that matter, punctuation.
Squeeze the air out of a ziploc bag before you put the bag in the fridge or freezer. I don't understand why my wife doesn't and one of these days I'll have a decision to make.
Actual physical push buttons are way better than sensor buttons. (Like the xbox 360 sensor buttons)
I have recently been informed that they are called tactile buttons (physical) And haptic buttons (sensor) So thanks for the bit of knowledge and the awards!
You can’t just go around calling every bean paste hummus.
Hummus contains (among other things) significant amounts of tahini, chickpeas, and olive oil. If it doesn’t contain these things, it is not hummus. I repeat, not hummus.
No, Ashley and Brayden from the juice bar, you don’t get to tell me that the white-bean-and-kale mush on that $13 veggie wrap is goddamn hummus.
Mobile gaming is better when it's simple games like Angry Birds or Fruit Ninja.
The parents from Parent Trap are WAAAY worse than the parents from Home Alone.
The parents in home alone made an honest mistake. It shouldn't happen, but I'm sure it has happened IRL. The same parents in home alone 2 need to be investigated for neglect. By the third time, they probably need to be in a nursing home!
Sexy lyrics in a song does not make the song inherently sexy
I am so sick of sexy songs. Give me "The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas" anyday.
Chronicles of Narnia should be read in the order they were written not the chronological order they are being published nowadays.
Sesame Oil is better than Truffle Oil, and it's not even close.
No one knows the difference between lose and loose or choose and chose anymore. I don't correct people bc that's annoying but I don't understand how it's been lost.
I'd upvote a million times if I could. Autofill is the culprit I suspect. "It looks like it sounds like it" syndrome?
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People who want a 'vegan' interior on a car as they 'care' about the environment but don't mind driving at speed splattering other life forms on the front of the car.
it's the caring about the environment while using plastic things and cynically calling them 'vegan' that gets to me. Use mushroom leather. or literally ANYTHING OTHER THAN FOSSIL FUELS, CHARISSE.
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...and you use it at the ATM, not the "ATM machine."
Load More Replies... Devastate means to destroy something. Decimate means to destroy only 1/10 of something. Stop using decimate when you mean devastate. Even people all over the news get this one wrong. So wrong. I WILL die on this molehill.
"Who's" means who is and "whose" means who does this belong to? Everyone just uses who's
Please for all that holy learn grammar spelling and punctuation. Even if you're not very smart you can do this. Its what separates us as civilized beings. i.e. littler is not a word and yet google has now recognized it as a word due to rampant ignorance.
Webster dictionary has officially changed the definition of the word "literally" to include today's more common misuse of it to mean figuratively or virtually. So there's literally no word for literally anymore!
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Insure vs Ensure. Makes my brain hurt every time I see them misused (mostly when Insure misplaces ensure).
my pet hate is apostrophes. It's really not hard to get it right. The rules: if the S is to make the noun plural, then there's no apostrophe. If there is a missing word or letter, like "is", or the O of "not", then there IS an apostrophe. If it's a pronoun (his, hers, theirs) then there's no apostrophe, except for "one" (neutral singular case), where it's debatable. If it's possessive case (genitive), then there's an apostrophe. If it's plural and genitive, the apostrophe is there but comes after the S. If it's an acronym, like CD or DVD, and you want plural, just use -s and keep the acronym in caps. There you go.
Apostrophes are used for two reasons, either omission or possession. So if a letter is omitted, (left out) that's one reason, or if something belongs to someone or something, that's the other reason. Some people seem compelled to use an apostrophe every time there is a letter "s", and it drives me mad! I confess I've never heard the word "genitive" before, but maybe that's because I'm in the UK.
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At my office building there's a bank of 10 elevators. The person who has to stick their hand in to stop this elevator from closing instead of waiting for the next one.
Apostrophe abuse. "Welcome to the Peterson's House" tells me the house belongs to The Peterson. The produce stand does not have cucumber's, it has cucumbers. Also, "It's" = It is. ALWAYS. If I see a sentence such as "The dog wagged it's tail.", I purposely read that as "The dog wagged it is tail."
I have a few... It is NOT a podium! It is a LECTERN!... When referring to a strong point, it is pronounced /fort/, NOT /for-tay/!!... If it sounds the same, but is spelled differently, it is a homophone, NOT a homonym.
That's interesting, I didn't realise anyone said /fort/ for forte - but it appears it's different between UK and US (I'm in the UK). https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/forte
Load More Replies... The hill I will die on: Social media is making people miserable by manipulating them into fighting about petty b******t while the owners make bank off of advertising being pushed on those who engage the most. Minimize your time on social media, it's not the real world in there, it's much, much worse and it's bad for your mental health.
When you're giving a range, the SMALLER number goes first. "This will take 2 to 3 days." "Jakie has somewhere between 3 and 5 siblings." "Mark needs to buy between 2 and 7 cakes."
So glad I've yet to run into anyone that talks like that. That's terrible!
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Greedo shooting at him and missing from point blank is just dumb and pointless
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I refuse to recognise "Indigo" as a colour in the rainbow. It's just a second blue.
It's not like you can see much blue in a rainbow anyway, what with the sky and all. I do wish people would stop teaching kids that indigo is a shade of purple, though. Occasionally the dye can have a purplish hue, but emphasis on the occasionally... c'mon, people...
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Restaurants should NEVER put condiments on food by default. I hate whipped cream on desserts and I despise butter on pancakes/waffles/french toast. If you ask them not to put it, they do anyways. STOP! Not everyone wants the same thing. You can always put it on if you want it, but you can't take it off once it's there!
Lie vs lay. If you do it or you observe something become horizontal, it's lie. If you place something down. (Direct object) it's lay. "After I lay down my phone and electronics, I'm going to go lie in bed for quick nap"
Brought when you mean bought (as in past tense of buy). *lights a match Wednesday Addams style*
wow, someone says that? Are they like, fourth language immigrants or just illiterate?
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I grew up in NJ. A state somewhat notorious for being pushy. If you are on the highway and you want to merge into another lane, and you put your signal on, they people in that lane will "close up" and not let you in. So, you learn to find a safe opening and then go in, without "asking permission". Personally, I prefer people who look for a safe opening and then go without signalling, to people who signal and then just start to merge... Just because you signal what you want to do, it does not mean we want to let you in...
I always let these drivers in they may need to change lanes to get to the next exit. In heavy traffic especially this is unnecessary stress for them. Where I draw the line is if more than one car tries to take advantage of the space I create. Scissor people, one left or right for every second vehicle in traffic is the fair way to go.
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Just because a book is "a bestseller", has had major critical acclaim, been translated into multiple languages, and had a movie/TV adaptation made, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's actually any good and worth your time reading.
If you drink grape juice or wine you can't be vegan. There are insect, spider, frog, mouse and snake parts in your cup. Actually this goes for any mechanically harvested food.
I hate when people say samwich instead of sandwich. Especially professional chefs (I watch the Food Network a lot). They should know better.
The hill that I will die on is that pedantic people are boring and probably classist. The purpose of language is to communicate a thought, fact, or idea. If you understand what someone is trying to convey, then they have communicated "correctly."
Made me think of this Reddit post: To poor spellers out there....the reason people don't respect your poor spelling isn't purely because you spell poorly. It's because you don't respect your reader enough to look up words you don't remember before using them. People you think of as "good spellers" don't know how to spell a number of words you've seen them spell correctly. But they take the time to look up those words before they use them, if they're unsure. They take that time, so that the burden isn't on the reader to discern through context what the writer meant. It's a sign of respect and consideration. Poor spelling, and the lack of effort shown by poor spelling, is a sign of disrespect. And that's why people don't respect your poor spelling...not because people think you're stupid for not remembering how a word is spelled
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It seems nobody knows that Loki and Thor aren’t brothers! Marvel got some things wrong about the two.
Correct. Loki is Thor's uncle in the original mythos.
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Thank you person who said mayo and miracle whip are NOT the same. Could you tell that to my stupid SIL who thinks you can interchange anything...but when the recipe is not edible she complains that she got glop because she "followed" the recipe religiously. She told me her kids wouldn't eat her cookies. OMG, they were poison!!! I gave her a recipe for a 7 layer salad. Told her DO NOT USE MIRACLE WHIP. guess what? She used miracle whip and EVERYONE dumped the salad in the garbage. The next year I made the salad and when she ate it she said it didn't taste like hers...my brother said "yes, hers is good". If it says FROZEN PEAS, you can't use canned. When it says "bacon bits" you don't use REAL bacon. When it says cheddar cheese, you don't use parmesan. And she NEVER LEARNS. I think she has a brain tumor or just incredibly stupid. When you don't have chocolate chips for the cookies...you can't use raisins...but she does!!!!
Either the headline writer didn't know the correct subject or the OP got lost. Most of these are NOT small hills and I doubt many are prepared to die for them. Though some of them may have caused actual deaths (so again, not small).
American pronunciations are fine, if you live in America. Here it should be Harass (As you would say Palace), not Hah-Rass. Grrr!!
Mine is that sweet potatoes, and yams are not even remotely close to being the same. Most people in the US (myself included,) have never even SEEN a yam before, let alone, ever tasted one. Every single "yam" you see in an American grocery store, around the holidays, is a sweet potato. "Candied yams" are actually "candied sweet potatoes."
Persp Gold, if you really feel that way, how did you get this far?
Load More Replies... No one knows the difference between lose and loose or choose and chose anymore. I don't correct people bc that's annoying but I don't understand how it's been lost.
I'd upvote a million times if I could. Autofill is the culprit I suspect. "It looks like it sounds like it" syndrome?
Load More Replies... People who want a 'vegan' interior on a car as they 'care' about the environment but don't mind driving at speed splattering other life forms on the front of the car.
it's the caring about the environment while using plastic things and cynically calling them 'vegan' that gets to me. Use mushroom leather. or literally ANYTHING OTHER THAN FOSSIL FUELS, CHARISSE.
Load More Replies... ...and you use it at the ATM, not the "ATM machine."
Load More Replies... Devastate means to destroy something. Decimate means to destroy only 1/10 of something. Stop using decimate when you mean devastate. Even people all over the news get this one wrong. So wrong. I WILL die on this molehill.
"Who's" means who is and "whose" means who does this belong to? Everyone just uses who's
Please for all that holy learn grammar spelling and punctuation. Even if you're not very smart you can do this. Its what separates us as civilized beings. i.e. littler is not a word and yet google has now recognized it as a word due to rampant ignorance.
Webster dictionary has officially changed the definition of the word "literally" to include today's more common misuse of it to mean figuratively or virtually. So there's literally no word for literally anymore!
Load More Replies... Insure vs Ensure. Makes my brain hurt every time I see them misused (mostly when Insure misplaces ensure).
my pet hate is apostrophes. It's really not hard to get it right. The rules: if the S is to make the noun plural, then there's no apostrophe. If there is a missing word or letter, like "is", or the O of "not", then there IS an apostrophe. If it's a pronoun (his, hers, theirs) then there's no apostrophe, except for "one" (neutral singular case), where it's debatable. If it's possessive case (genitive), then there's an apostrophe. If it's plural and genitive, the apostrophe is there but comes after the S. If it's an acronym, like CD or DVD, and you want plural, just use -s and keep the acronym in caps. There you go.
Apostrophes are used for two reasons, either omission or possession. So if a letter is omitted, (left out) that's one reason, or if something belongs to someone or something, that's the other reason. Some people seem compelled to use an apostrophe every time there is a letter "s", and it drives me mad! I confess I've never heard the word "genitive" before, but maybe that's because I'm in the UK.
Load More Replies... At my office building there's a bank of 10 elevators. The person who has to stick their hand in to stop this elevator from closing instead of waiting for the next one.
Apostrophe abuse. "Welcome to the Peterson's House" tells me the house belongs to The Peterson. The produce stand does not have cucumber's, it has cucumbers. Also, "It's" = It is. ALWAYS. If I see a sentence such as "The dog wagged it's tail.", I purposely read that as "The dog wagged it is tail."
I have a few... It is NOT a podium! It is a LECTERN!... When referring to a strong point, it is pronounced /fort/, NOT /for-tay/!!... If it sounds the same, but is spelled differently, it is a homophone, NOT a homonym.
That's interesting, I didn't realise anyone said /fort/ for forte - but it appears it's different between UK and US (I'm in the UK). https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/forte
Load More Replies... The hill I will die on: Social media is making people miserable by manipulating them into fighting about petty b******t while the owners make bank off of advertising being pushed on those who engage the most. Minimize your time on social media, it's not the real world in there, it's much, much worse and it's bad for your mental health.
When you're giving a range, the SMALLER number goes first. "This will take 2 to 3 days." "Jakie has somewhere between 3 and 5 siblings." "Mark needs to buy between 2 and 7 cakes."
So glad I've yet to run into anyone that talks like that. That's terrible!
Load More Replies... Greedo shooting at him and missing from point blank is just dumb and pointless
Load More Replies... I refuse to recognise "Indigo" as a colour in the rainbow. It's just a second blue.
It's not like you can see much blue in a rainbow anyway, what with the sky and all. I do wish people would stop teaching kids that indigo is a shade of purple, though. Occasionally the dye can have a purplish hue, but emphasis on the occasionally... c'mon, people...
Load More Replies... Restaurants should NEVER put condiments on food by default. I hate whipped cream on desserts and I despise butter on pancakes/waffles/french toast. If you ask them not to put it, they do anyways. STOP! Not everyone wants the same thing. You can always put it on if you want it, but you can't take it off once it's there!
Lie vs lay. If you do it or you observe something become horizontal, it's lie. If you place something down. (Direct object) it's lay. "After I lay down my phone and electronics, I'm going to go lie in bed for quick nap"
Brought when you mean bought (as in past tense of buy). *lights a match Wednesday Addams style*
wow, someone says that? Are they like, fourth language immigrants or just illiterate?
Load More Replies... I grew up in NJ. A state somewhat notorious for being pushy. If you are on the highway and you want to merge into another lane, and you put your signal on, they people in that lane will "close up" and not let you in. So, you learn to find a safe opening and then go in, without "asking permission". Personally, I prefer people who look for a safe opening and then go without signalling, to people who signal and then just start to merge... Just because you signal what you want to do, it does not mean we want to let you in...
I always let these drivers in they may need to change lanes to get to the next exit. In heavy traffic especially this is unnecessary stress for them. Where I draw the line is if more than one car tries to take advantage of the space I create. Scissor people, one left or right for every second vehicle in traffic is the fair way to go.
Load More Replies... Just because a book is "a bestseller", has had major critical acclaim, been translated into multiple languages, and had a movie/TV adaptation made, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's actually any good and worth your time reading.
If you drink grape juice or wine you can't be vegan. There are insect, spider, frog, mouse and snake parts in your cup. Actually this goes for any mechanically harvested food.
I hate when people say samwich instead of sandwich. Especially professional chefs (I watch the Food Network a lot). They should know better.
The hill that I will die on is that pedantic people are boring and probably classist. The purpose of language is to communicate a thought, fact, or idea. If you understand what someone is trying to convey, then they have communicated "correctly."
Made me think of this Reddit post: To poor spellers out there....the reason people don't respect your poor spelling isn't purely because you spell poorly. It's because you don't respect your reader enough to look up words you don't remember before using them. People you think of as "good spellers" don't know how to spell a number of words you've seen them spell correctly. But they take the time to look up those words before they use them, if they're unsure. They take that time, so that the burden isn't on the reader to discern through context what the writer meant. It's a sign of respect and consideration. Poor spelling, and the lack of effort shown by poor spelling, is a sign of disrespect. And that's why people don't respect your poor spelling...not because people think you're stupid for not remembering how a word is spelled
Load More Replies... It seems nobody knows that Loki and Thor aren’t brothers! Marvel got some things wrong about the two.
Correct. Loki is Thor's uncle in the original mythos.
Load More Replies... Thank you person who said mayo and miracle whip are NOT the same. Could you tell that to my stupid SIL who thinks you can interchange anything...but when the recipe is not edible she complains that she got glop because she "followed" the recipe religiously. She told me her kids wouldn't eat her cookies. OMG, they were poison!!! I gave her a recipe for a 7 layer salad. Told her DO NOT USE MIRACLE WHIP. guess what? She used miracle whip and EVERYONE dumped the salad in the garbage. The next year I made the salad and when she ate it she said it didn't taste like hers...my brother said "yes, hers is good". If it says FROZEN PEAS, you can't use canned. When it says "bacon bits" you don't use REAL bacon. When it says cheddar cheese, you don't use parmesan. And she NEVER LEARNS. I think she has a brain tumor or just incredibly stupid. When you don't have chocolate chips for the cookies...you can't use raisins...but she does!!!!
Either the headline writer didn't know the correct subject or the OP got lost. Most of these are NOT small hills and I doubt many are prepared to die for them. Though some of them may have caused actual deaths (so again, not small).
American pronunciations are fine, if you live in America. Here it should be Harass (As you would say Palace), not Hah-Rass. Grrr!!
Mine is that sweet potatoes, and yams are not even remotely close to being the same. Most people in the US (myself included,) have never even SEEN a yam before, let alone, ever tasted one. Every single "yam" you see in an American grocery store, around the holidays, is a sweet potato. "Candied yams" are actually "candied sweet potatoes."
Persp Gold, if you really feel that way, how did you get this far?
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