There might be certain issues, mistakes, or potential improvements that go unnoticed by many. Yet someone who recognizes them might quite on the contrary be determined to correct them no matter the cost of their time and energy.
And they might be right if we think about someone like Ignaz Semmelweis discovering that by disinfecting their hands healthcare workers could drastically reduce the incidence of infection in obstetrical clinics. Yet it might be something smaller, for example pointing out the fact that bees have six legs rather than four! These Redditors shared things they refuse to let go, answering one Redditor’s question: “What is the smallest hill you’ll die on?”
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Im with the boomers on this one, f**k your QR code. Bring me a paper menu
Had this happen at a restaurant, there was 0 internet connection so it was hell trying to load the menu lol
Social media has been one of the most damaging things to ever happen to our societies mental health.
I'm sooooooo happy I was not a young person in the age of social media.
Burgers should be wider not taller, if you need to put a skewer through it its no longer a burger its a keebab.
I will consistently, persistently, and always use the Oxford F*****g Comma.
As you should, unless you intentionally mean to imply that the last 2 items on the list are joined/connected etc.
If you’re going to serve room temp bread at a restaurant, don’t serve me ice cold butter. Warm one of the two things up
It is not impolite to correct someone who is spreading misinformation, regardless of whether they’re lying or just plain incorrect.
Also nobody should be obligated to "respect the opinions" of bigots and generally hateful people. "Trans women are predatory men" is not an opinion. "Illegal immigrants should be put to detention camps" is not an opinion.
(Able) People who don’t return their shopping carts are s****y people.
If someone is behind me, I will always throw my arm back and hold the door. The amount of times people just let it shut in my face has me irate.
I had walked through the doorway, and saw an elderly man approaching. Naturally, I held the door open for him. He looked me up and down and said, "Thank you, sir." Placing my hand on his forearm, I gently said, "You need to book a sight test if you think I am a man." ....For some reason, it appears he took it as an affront to his masculinity that a woman would hold a door open for him. In my world, people hold doors open for others. (Edited to add: this man's sight was good enough for him to drive a car. He had a good look and me, and then chose to call me 'sir'. I'm a small woman with long hair, and I was wearing a summer dress. He chose to be rude and sexist.)
It's "I couldn't care less", not "I could care less"! If you could care less then you care!
Cut the god damn tails off my shrimp before putting it in pasta, I don’t care what the French say.
For pasta French also cut the tails. There are some dishes, where the shrimps are the main protein, and must be shown, so they are with tails served. But in paste or rice dishes, where they are mixed with other ingredients, it's cut. You suppose to can eat the dish as full, and not search for unedible pieces in every bite.
Every single time someone posts a picture or article about Istanbul, I comment "not Constantinople." I will usually get downvoted to hell for it, but I think it's hilarious. So I'll die on that hill.
So if you've a date in Constantinople. She'll be waiting in Istanbul...
It's important, because if you've a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul
I'm Greek American. I was in the car with a couple of Turkish friends of mine and the song came on and they both said "change the station... we hate this song". I explained to them that it wasn't an insult to Turks at all. In fact, if anything, it was poking fun at the Greeks who still call the city Constantinople because that is where the Patriarchate of the Greek Orthodox Church is located. Not sure they wrote the song with that detailed of a thought in mind (1953) but I assured them that it wasn't an insult to Turks.
"Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" by They Might Be Giants. Classic, worth looking up
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TMBG played a concert at my tiny, single-sex, liberal arts college back in the late 90's. It was awesome, but I always wondered how they randomly ended up there performing in our English department building! It's not even in a major city either. Were they desperate by then? If so, I'm glad they were!! :)
Not an original TMBG song btw — it was written by Nat Simon & Jimmy Kennedy in 1953. My favorite version is performed by Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGgWka9-naI
I’ve been known to do this too. But it’s nobody’s business but the Turks’.
“It’s Istanbul not Constantinople, now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople…” wasn’t that Bing Crosby who sang that?
Growing up in the Orthodox Church, I would get this song stuck in my head every time that the Archbishop of Constantinople was mentioned.
I wonder what is hilarious about the comment "not Constantinople". I understand the downvotes; it is a rather well-known fact (I think/hope) that this was an earlier name of Istanbul. There even exists a song about the two names, my mother used to sing it sometimes
It is hilarious and I'll dance with you if you like. I play a mean air violin.
Thanks a lot. Now I have that song on replay in my head. Now I have to go to YouTube and look up the Animaniacs episode that featured that song by They Might Be Giants.
Why does not anyone ask about the etymology of "Istanbul"? We know what "Constantinopolis" means ... but, the other? (Wikipedia has some information.) : ))
Been a long time gone, Constantinople. Now a Turkish Delight on a moonlit night.
A couple means 2, a few is more than 2. There is no debating this.
And a slew is more than 10, while a shitload is anything over 25.
Tipping for carryout is the biggest scam in restaurant history.
Mandatory tipping in the US restaurants is the biggest one. Pay your servers a 25-30 bucks/hour, and pay your cooks a 30-35 bucks/hour at least. No, you don't have to raise prices, because with these hourly pays, the guest will pay likely the same amount as now with 20% tip "obligatory". Your greed will just loose. Don't even try me to shame into paying your staff!
Burgers come WITH fries. Stop trying to charge me an extra $7 for 1/4 of a potato’s worth of shoestring fries that get cold before they even reach the plate just because you put truffle oil or some other b******t on them.
HATE when restaurants do this. $11 for the burger, you want fries? $5 for plain fries...
Utensils need to be at the END of a buffet.
So many places put them at the beginning of a buffet. You don't know what utensils you'll need yet and then you have to carry them around the whole time. Madness.
If you are on the highway and you try to move over two lanes to sneak into a packed exit right before the guard rail, you have already missed your f*****g turn. Go to the next exit and turn around or try another route.
Before anyone brings it up, no, I am not talking about merging. I am talking about seeing a long line of people waiting to get off an exit, and you breaking the law by crossing solid lines to cut in because you couldn't be f****d to read the signs for the last two miles telling you which lane you need to be in for your exit.
What gets me are the people who see the long line up, keep driving all the way to the front and then try to force their way in.
Don't force me to download your f*****g app.
Went to Chipotle, at 6pm. They told me they weren't accepting anything but online orders. This had happened to me once during covid due to supply issues so I asked if they were low on food. They said no. I asked if they were short staffed or something. They said no. So I said "you're telling me you can't give me the food that is literally sitting in between us, by giving you this money that is literally in my hand unless I have a smart phone and make an account and type my order in?" They said that's correct. So yeah, for absolutely no reason besides wanting to sell my data probably, they're willing to lose customers.
Another time I went into a Firehouse Subs that has had open dine in for over a year since covid died down. The employees looked at me like I was crazy or trespassing when I walked in. One girl was like "hi?" I said "hi..." She said "are you here for an online pickup?" I said "no, I'd like to order and eat my food here, your dining room is open right?" She said "oh...ok.." Dining room didn't have chairs on the tables or anything, it looked normal.
Why? How did we get here as a society?
Because people weirdly want to do away with people for some strange, self-damning reason.
Everyday and every day are different. And not interchangeable.
“An everyday walk in the park” vs “I walk in the park every day.”
People need to stop bringing animals into the grocery store. No Brenda, your s**t-bull mix that lunges at everything isn't a service animal.
Leaving time left on a communal microwave means you're a bad person.
Its okay not to tip at Starbucks.
You should not have to tip anywhere. It is not my responsibility to subsidize your own staff's life, and you will not guilt trip me into it.
“Two piece” dresses are not dresses.
If there are "two piece" dresses, then I've been wearing "two piece" overalls my whole life.
Actual physical push buttons are way better than sensor buttons. (Like the xbox 360 sensor buttons)
Halloween decorations that are animal skeletons shouldn't have ears! Ears aren't bone!
Typing Like This Will Make Me Stop Respecting You Instantly.
How do people confuse lose with loose?
Because English is a very difficult language to learn, especially with a dumpster fire of an education system here in America.
If the automatic door does not open fast enough for me not to break stride, it is broken!
If I had to pay for sauce I better have sauce in the bag.
If I have to pay for sauce then I won't bother having sauce (I'm looking at you McDonalds) There's a guy on YouTube called Jordan Howlett who will tell you how to make all the fast food restaurants 'secret recipes' and he will do it because of the attitude the restaurants give. On one occasion he heard a woman being refused a particular sauce for some dumb reason so he posted a video on how to make your own at home
Baby Jesus should never wear a cross.
Like why? Its anachronistic. It's completely backwards and don't make no sense.
You can't use "exponential" to describe every large increase, especially if you're only looking at two data points.
Unless you're describing the population of Ireland because that's always Dublin.
If I order a chicken sandwich and you give me two pieces of bread with chunks of chicken, a 1/4 cup of mustard and raisins in it I’m out. You’re dead to me, your cafe is dead to me. That is not a sandwich, it’s a disappointment.
Bees have 6 legs! (My school mascot is a bee, and every representation I see has only 4 legs.)
It's pronounced GIF
Hard G. If you want a soft g, Go buy some peanut butter. I will die on this hill.
There is no 's' in the plural of LEGO. This is the Danish hill I will die on, and I'll go down swinging my battle axe:)
It literally does. It's been used that way since the 18th century and is one sense of the word listed in the dictionary. See Mirriam Webster
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Mine's overuse of "two times as"... especially in tv adverts. "this sponge is two times as absorbent"... TWICE. What is wrong with using the word twice?
Mine is that overly pedantic people need to get over themselves. If you're able to understand what someone is saying, why get worked up about small errors in grammar or word usage? There are better things to worry about.
It's irritating when it comes from a source that should be aware of correct grammar and usage. Journalists, teachers, businesspeople with college degrees. You expect people like that to know the language if they make a living using it.
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Filling in questionnaires about EVERYTHING, no thank you I do not actually want to rate my recent interaction with your chat bot.
These are so stupid. Can you imagine how biased the responses are. The data must be worthless, and they know it.
Load More Replies... I am all for name changes. Instead of saying one word that is deemed insensitive, we call it something more appropriate. That being said, I refuse to censor death, kill, murder, etc. Absolutely refuse. Death is and will always be a part of life. You want to censor something that happens to everyone and has happened to everyone since the dawn of time? You want to dishonor those who died for the greater good by censoring their death? I will die on this hill, wording intended.
Will you people PLEASE stop shooting video in portrait mode? Thank you, lazybones.
Mine is the overuse of "there's" in English. People will say, "There's like fifty cars outside." "There's too many choices on this menu." "There's many twists and turns in the movie." No. NO. NO! NO!!! "There're like fifty cars outside. -OR- There are like fifty cars outside." [there + is = there's | there + are = there're (People will swear is incorrect to write or say because of the repeating of letters. Well, sometimes letters repeat!)] The word "is" is for singular usage while the word "are" is for plural usage, in this case (excluding the beginnings of questions and such). It's not that complex and it drives me up the freakin' wall!
Better still without the ubiquitous "like".
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Using "are" instead of "is" with a collective noun. It started on Wikipedia and now it's everywhere.
That's the norm in UK English. It drives me crazy, too, but we're the odd ones out on the subject.
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This was a good conversation. Interesting observations that I agreed and disagreed with, but all cool. Congrats to who started / created this page.
Don't know why you got downvoted, have a upvote (
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I'm surprised no one mentioned one of mine. I despise self checkout, and avoid it whenever possible.
I'm the opposite, I hate having to wait in line for someone else to ring up my groceries. Not only can I often do it more quickly myself, but I also won't leave the store with 47 bags because they decided to only put 3 items per bag (I have reusable ones but I'm only human and sometimes forget them).
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Mine is that there's even any debate over sex not being the same as gender. It's bloody obvious to anyone who is intersex, or who lives in a culture that's historically had 3+ genders. They're frequently correlated, but not casual or equivalent!
It's just that in the old, prim days, people wouldn't use the term sex in case it was suggesting intercourse, so gender was just the polite term for the male/female split (which was all that was accepted) and the two were interchangeable. Sex was how we got created.
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I need to stop this topic in a hurry. I'm slamming on the breaks!!!
The word 'mathematics' is plural, therefore it's 'maths' and not 'math'. Also, would of, could of, should of. Just stop.
Using “of” for “ve/ have”. E.g., I could of used that. Grrrrrrrrrr. No, you could’ve, or, could have eased that!
Me and I. Me and my friend went to the movies. There's nothing going on between her and I.
The way I was taught to remember this was, if you remove the other person, does it still make sense? For example, “she and I went to the movies” becomes “I went to the movies”. Yes, good. “Me and her went to the movies” becomes “me went to the movies”. Nope.
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I hope it’s not too late to chime in! I contend that Mark Rothko, Frida Kayla, and Jean-Michel Basquiat were all no-talent hacks.
There are Australians who will kill me for this. "Aboriginal" is an adjective, not a noun. The noun is "Aborigine" not "Aboriginal".
My hill: In the Monty Hall Problem, there is no value in switching. It's surreal that this became a political/social issue, so now we just have to repeat the official line.
Something that is recurring happens over and over again, possibly at regular intervals. In contrast, something that is reoccurring is simply happening again but not always repeatedly.
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One of a number of words where we use both interchangeably in Australia :) Very few people would 'correct' you because we have strong history with the British version but strong influence from the US.
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It’s “my friend and I”, not “me and my friend”. You always come last in a sentence.
Just let people talk. This excessive correction of grammar needs to stop. How can you possibly be listening to what someone is trying to say when you're picking apart their grammar in your head the whole time? Gross. I had a grandmother who did this constantly. It was obnoxious and made it pretty clear she was more interested in how I was saying things than in what I was actually trying to share with her. Maybe she felt super smart though.
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Someone asking Do you mind (if I sit down, or come in, etc). People reply sure or yeah and the person comes in or sits down. The reply of yeah or sure means I DO mind please DON"T come in or sit down. The correct response is No, meaning I DO NOT mind. Get it straight people!
You're wrong. Just because you're version is obviously the logically coherent one doesn't mean it's correct!
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if I order a burger that says it has burger and bacon and cheese, I should not receive a burger with burger, bacon, cheese, tomato, onion, condiment, etc. say on the menu if there are extra toppings so I know to request something be taken off.
I have two. 1) When you're giving a speech, that thing on which you put your notes? That's a LECTERN! NOT a podium. A podium is a raised dais upon which a speaker stands. 2) When referring to a strong point using the word forte, it's pronounced /fort/, NOT /for-tay/! A /for-tay/ is a musical passage that is to be played or sung loudly.
Pluralizing stores. "Aldis." "Krogers." No. Stop it.
mine is carmel and caramel are not the same thing; Carmel is the solid candy, caramel is the liquid.
Carmel is a city in California and a mountain in Israel. There is no candy named carmel
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t's in the middle of a word ought not be pronounced. Me and my Michigander accent will go down saying zero of the t's in the word important, thank you very much.
There is simply no way that every single hospital patient forgets the name of the pain medication that they insist is "the only one that helps." Stop pretending that you don't know what it's called. If you insist upon waffling around it with statements like "I think it started with a D..." then I'm going to go right ahead and guess every other medication that "starts with a D" before I land on the name Dilaudid. Stop BS-ing and just come out with it. 🙄
Are you evil or stupid?!? If someone is in desperate pain, you help them or get into a different field of work and let a decent human being care for them!! I hope karma kicks you in the azz very hard and you realize that when one is in brutal pain, the words don't always come easily. 🤬🤬🤬
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There is no 's' in the plural of LEGO. This is the Danish hill I will die on, and I'll go down swinging my battle axe:)
It literally does. It's been used that way since the 18th century and is one sense of the word listed in the dictionary. See Mirriam Webster
Load More Replies... Mine's overuse of "two times as"... especially in tv adverts. "this sponge is two times as absorbent"... TWICE. What is wrong with using the word twice?
Mine is that overly pedantic people need to get over themselves. If you're able to understand what someone is saying, why get worked up about small errors in grammar or word usage? There are better things to worry about.
It's irritating when it comes from a source that should be aware of correct grammar and usage. Journalists, teachers, businesspeople with college degrees. You expect people like that to know the language if they make a living using it.
Load More Replies... Filling in questionnaires about EVERYTHING, no thank you I do not actually want to rate my recent interaction with your chat bot.
These are so stupid. Can you imagine how biased the responses are. The data must be worthless, and they know it.
Load More Replies... I am all for name changes. Instead of saying one word that is deemed insensitive, we call it something more appropriate. That being said, I refuse to censor death, kill, murder, etc. Absolutely refuse. Death is and will always be a part of life. You want to censor something that happens to everyone and has happened to everyone since the dawn of time? You want to dishonor those who died for the greater good by censoring their death? I will die on this hill, wording intended.
Will you people PLEASE stop shooting video in portrait mode? Thank you, lazybones.
Mine is the overuse of "there's" in English. People will say, "There's like fifty cars outside." "There's too many choices on this menu." "There's many twists and turns in the movie." No. NO. NO! NO!!! "There're like fifty cars outside. -OR- There are like fifty cars outside." [there + is = there's | there + are = there're (People will swear is incorrect to write or say because of the repeating of letters. Well, sometimes letters repeat!)] The word "is" is for singular usage while the word "are" is for plural usage, in this case (excluding the beginnings of questions and such). It's not that complex and it drives me up the freakin' wall!
Better still without the ubiquitous "like".
Load More Replies... Using "are" instead of "is" with a collective noun. It started on Wikipedia and now it's everywhere.
That's the norm in UK English. It drives me crazy, too, but we're the odd ones out on the subject.
Load More Replies... This was a good conversation. Interesting observations that I agreed and disagreed with, but all cool. Congrats to who started / created this page.
Don't know why you got downvoted, have a upvote (
Load More Replies... I'm surprised no one mentioned one of mine. I despise self checkout, and avoid it whenever possible.
I'm the opposite, I hate having to wait in line for someone else to ring up my groceries. Not only can I often do it more quickly myself, but I also won't leave the store with 47 bags because they decided to only put 3 items per bag (I have reusable ones but I'm only human and sometimes forget them).
Load More Replies... Mine is that there's even any debate over sex not being the same as gender. It's bloody obvious to anyone who is intersex, or who lives in a culture that's historically had 3+ genders. They're frequently correlated, but not casual or equivalent!
It's just that in the old, prim days, people wouldn't use the term sex in case it was suggesting intercourse, so gender was just the polite term for the male/female split (which was all that was accepted) and the two were interchangeable. Sex was how we got created.
Load More Replies... I need to stop this topic in a hurry. I'm slamming on the breaks!!!
The word 'mathematics' is plural, therefore it's 'maths' and not 'math'. Also, would of, could of, should of. Just stop.
Using “of” for “ve/ have”. E.g., I could of used that. Grrrrrrrrrr. No, you could’ve, or, could have eased that!
Me and I. Me and my friend went to the movies. There's nothing going on between her and I.
The way I was taught to remember this was, if you remove the other person, does it still make sense? For example, “she and I went to the movies” becomes “I went to the movies”. Yes, good. “Me and her went to the movies” becomes “me went to the movies”. Nope.
Load More Replies... I hope it’s not too late to chime in! I contend that Mark Rothko, Frida Kayla, and Jean-Michel Basquiat were all no-talent hacks.
There are Australians who will kill me for this. "Aboriginal" is an adjective, not a noun. The noun is "Aborigine" not "Aboriginal".
My hill: In the Monty Hall Problem, there is no value in switching. It's surreal that this became a political/social issue, so now we just have to repeat the official line.
Something that is recurring happens over and over again, possibly at regular intervals. In contrast, something that is reoccurring is simply happening again but not always repeatedly.
Load More Replies... One of a number of words where we use both interchangeably in Australia :) Very few people would 'correct' you because we have strong history with the British version but strong influence from the US.
Load More Replies... It’s “my friend and I”, not “me and my friend”. You always come last in a sentence.
Just let people talk. This excessive correction of grammar needs to stop. How can you possibly be listening to what someone is trying to say when you're picking apart their grammar in your head the whole time? Gross. I had a grandmother who did this constantly. It was obnoxious and made it pretty clear she was more interested in how I was saying things than in what I was actually trying to share with her. Maybe she felt super smart though.
Load More Replies... Someone asking Do you mind (if I sit down, or come in, etc). People reply sure or yeah and the person comes in or sits down. The reply of yeah or sure means I DO mind please DON"T come in or sit down. The correct response is No, meaning I DO NOT mind. Get it straight people!
You're wrong. Just because you're version is obviously the logically coherent one doesn't mean it's correct!
Load More Replies... if I order a burger that says it has burger and bacon and cheese, I should not receive a burger with burger, bacon, cheese, tomato, onion, condiment, etc. say on the menu if there are extra toppings so I know to request something be taken off.
I have two. 1) When you're giving a speech, that thing on which you put your notes? That's a LECTERN! NOT a podium. A podium is a raised dais upon which a speaker stands. 2) When referring to a strong point using the word forte, it's pronounced /fort/, NOT /for-tay/! A /for-tay/ is a musical passage that is to be played or sung loudly.
Pluralizing stores. "Aldis." "Krogers." No. Stop it.
mine is carmel and caramel are not the same thing; Carmel is the solid candy, caramel is the liquid.
Carmel is a city in California and a mountain in Israel. There is no candy named carmel
Load More Replies... t's in the middle of a word ought not be pronounced. Me and my Michigander accent will go down saying zero of the t's in the word important, thank you very much.
There is simply no way that every single hospital patient forgets the name of the pain medication that they insist is "the only one that helps." Stop pretending that you don't know what it's called. If you insist upon waffling around it with statements like "I think it started with a D..." then I'm going to go right ahead and guess every other medication that "starts with a D" before I land on the name Dilaudid. Stop BS-ing and just come out with it. 🙄
Are you evil or stupid?!? If someone is in desperate pain, you help them or get into a different field of work and let a decent human being care for them!! I hope karma kicks you in the azz very hard and you realize that when one is in brutal pain, the words don't always come easily. 🤬🤬🤬
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