|
Trying to walk past a cat and they just like, slow down and fill the entire floor with cat
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2022 13:11
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 13:38 |
|
|
Brawnfire posted:Trying to walk past a cat and they just like, slow down and fill the entire floor with cat Feature, not a bug
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2022 13:17
|
|
|
I don't understand why otherwise intelligent people say things like "You're bias!" instead of "You're biased!". This is second grade language arts, and you're a grown adult.
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2022 16:29
|
|
|
F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I don't understand why otherwise intelligent people say things like "You're bias!" instead of "You're biased!". This is second grade language arts, and you're a grown adult. I've never heard anyone say "you're bias"  But making weird diminutive words out of slightly more correct words has been a function of social media for at least two decades now. I suspect I just haven't noticed it, and now that you've said this, I'm going to realize everyone around me have been accusing people of being bias.
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2022 17:34
|
|
|
On that line of thought, I know its a legit british english-ism, but I just hate 'expiry'
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2022 17:36
|
|
|
credburn posted:I've never heard anyone say "you're bias"
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2022 17:40
|
|
cowboy
|
Hey if the parking garage at a popular place is 100% full, maybe make a point of departing with a *little* haste? Like not saying you should leave the place any earlier than you want, just that you're kind of a dick if you come back to your car and just hang out for an hour before you go? While I'm at it, I love jaywalking and all, but cross perpendicular to the drat road. Your objective here is to cross as quickly as possible, you know?
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2022 20:56
|
|
|
credburn posted:I've never heard anyone say "you're bias" I've mostly seen this online, and it's baffling. A mistake like mixing up its/it's is understandable because English is a weird rear end language. But putting -ed on the end of words is something people should have learned when they were seven. Another unrelated peeve: a recent trend where random numbers call my cell phone, I don't answer, and they immediately call again thinking that I'm going to be stupid enough to pick up. I don't answer numbers I don't know, so just stop wasting your loving time.
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2022 21:52
|
|
|
I've seen "biast" once or twice on Twitter
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2022 23:51
|
|
|
I guess if you've not seen it written that often, you might hear it as "bias." Then your incorrect assumption is reaffirmed by others who write it that way. Then the new version of word acquires mass usage, the dictionary gets updated, and people who use the old word are recategorized as "pedants" or "grammar nazis" or just "out of touch".
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2022 00:13
|
|
|
F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I don't understand why otherwise intelligent people say things like "You're bias!" instead of "You're biased!". This is second grade language arts, and you're a grown adult. I have bad news about the reading comprehension level of most adults.
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2022 01:31
|
|
|
F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Another unrelated peeve: a recent trend where random numbers call my cell phone, I don't answer, and they immediately call again thinking that I'm going to be stupid enough to pick up. I don't answer numbers I don't know, so just stop wasting your loving time. I think there was some sort of anti-solicitation thing that used to work by blocking every call the first time but letting it through the second time assuming it was urgent, I presume that setup is to break through that.
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2022 02:45
|
|
|
F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I've mostly seen this online, and it's baffling. A mistake like mixing up its/it's is understandable because English is a weird rear end language. But putting -ed on the end of words is something people should have learned when they were seven.
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2022 11:09
|
|
|
Wasn't "bias" used as a noun a few years back to mean a thing you support? Or something along those lines, it's ringing a bell for me. I think this might be being influenced by that usage of the word.
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2022 11:12
|
|
|
Tenebrais posted:Wasn't "bias" used as a noun a few years back to mean a thing you support? Or something along those lines, it's ringing a bell for me. I think this might be being influenced by that usage of the word. "Bias" is a noun. It means an "inclination towards something". Or diagonal.
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2022 11:24
|
|
|
Tiggum posted:"Bias" is a noun. It means an "inclination towards something". Or diagonal. Yes, I know. It also got picked up to mean a thing you are a fan of.
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2022 11:30
|
|
|
Tenebrais posted:Wasn't "bias" used as a noun a few years back to mean a thing you support? Or something along those lines, it's ringing a bell for me. I think this might be being influenced by that usage of the word. Kpop fans use it in reference to their favourite member of a group, if that's what you're thinking of
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2022 12:59
|
|
|
People using “addicting” instead of “addictive” used to really bother me but apparently they’re both right so I just need to get over myself 
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2022 19:19
|
|
|
Tenebrais posted:Yes, I know. It also got picked up to mean a thing you are a fan of.
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2022 19:22
|
|
|
Bending over to casually pick something up and missing with your grasp. Then when it happens a second time.
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2022 19:23
|
|
|
Brawnfire posted:Bending over to casually pick something up and missing with your grasp. Then when it happens a second time. Lmfao All the time.
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2022 21:02
|
|
|
do y'all not have depth perception or something
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2022 00:01
|
|
|
loving skunks man. At least once a month they bust their sick rear end nut outside and its always at night when Ive got fans blowing in and it just floods the house with noxious fumes. If I could thanos snap these assholes from existence Id do it in a heartbeat.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2022 05:49
|
|
|
Riatsala posted:Hey if the parking garage at a popular place is 100% full, maybe make a point of departing with a *little* haste? Like not saying you should leave the place any earlier than you want, just that you're kind of a dick if you come back to your car and just hang out for an hour before you go? What IS the actual deal with people that get into their car, start the engine, and sit there with it idling for 1-2 hours? It doesn't even affect me because I don't drive, but what the poo poo? Edit: my next door neighbor starts his pickup at 5 AM, gets in and starts revving the engine at 6, and actually departs for work at 7. It's hosed. Dip Viscous has a new favorite as of 11:20 on Sep 8, 2022 |
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2022 11:04
|
|
|
Dip Viscous posted:What IS the actual deal with people that get into their car, start the engine, and sit there with it idling for 1-2 hours? First thing that came to mind is those boomer humor cartoons where every married couple hates each other and will do anything to avoid each other. So those two hours alone in the car are the only moment of enjoyment in their day.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2022 11:49
|
|
|
AcidCat posted:loving skunks man. At least once a month they bust their sick rear end nut outside and its always at night when Ive got fans blowing in and it just floods the house with noxious fumes. If I could thanos snap these assholes from existence Id do it in a heartbeat. wtf skunks aren't going around ejaculating all over your house. They're spraying it with their anuses.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2022 15:55
|
|
|
Yeah, sick rear end-nut
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2022 16:03
|
|
|
TTRPG peeve: my group hates high fantasy tropes, but refuses to play anything but D&D. Oh, this is taking place in our world circa 1935, no magic, the characters are investigating mysterious happenings in a small town? That's Call of Cthulhu. You want to play Call of Cthulhu. Same thing, but we're in the Weird West? That's Deadlands. There are so many. But it's always "I just want to keep things simple! ... So make sure if you're playing a magic class you can reflavor any spells you use to be non-magic effects. I'll give you first aid kits instead of potions, stuff like Healing Word I guess you could rewrite it so it gives you enough movement to get to the injured person and use one of your first aid kits, but then you have to move back to where you were before..." For the love of God, we're adults, we can learn a different way to roll dice if you have such an aversion to the game you insist on playing.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2022 21:23
|
|
|
Parasol Prophet posted:TTRPG peeve: my group hates high fantasy tropes, but refuses to play anything but D&D. Oh, this is taking place in our world circa 1935, no magic, the characters are investigating mysterious happenings in a small town? That's Call of Cthulhu. You want to play Call of Cthulhu. Same thing, but we're in the Weird West? That's Deadlands. There are so many.  That's wild.
|
|
#
?
Sep 8, 2022 22:12
|
|
|
I deal with it because they're my friends and I wind up having fun anyway, but it is starting to get excessive. Also I like all those other systems and I want to use them more, dang it.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2022 02:04
|
|
|
Drive one into left field and introduce them to Paranoia, or Gamma World.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2022 04:39
|
|
|
There's a semi idling out front of my neighbor's house and it's filling my house with diesel fumes I've had to close all my windows on a beautiful day What the gently caress, gently caress off
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2022 17:48
|
|
|
I was at a professional conference yesterday and of course people in the audience wouldn't shut the gently caress up. Stop whispering and listen to the loving speaker. You're paying for this and so is everyone else. Why can't people just shut the gently caress up. Also people sneezing, coughing, phone ringing, clearing throat, shuffling through their bag, clearing their throats again, shaking their legs so that the keys jangle. And mulitply that by a hundred people in a room. Get hosed! And do we really need to gather thousands of people in one place during a pandemic.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2022 19:15
|
|
|
Parasol Prophet posted:TTRPG peeve: my group hates high fantasy tropes, but refuses to play anything but D&D. WTF, Deadlands and GURPS are both free. Like all you need to do is buy some poker chips.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2022 20:12
|
|
|
Mu Zeta posted:I was at a professional conference yesterday and of course people in the audience wouldn't shut the gently caress up. Stop whispering and listen to the loving speaker. You're paying for this and so is everyone else. Why can't people just shut the gently caress up. I'm a member of one professional organization which puts on an annual conference, and it is like 70% of their operating income, so, yes.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2022 20:31
|
|
|
Tenebrais posted:Yes, I know. It also got picked up to mean a thing you are a fan of. That's the literal meaning of it. "PSY is my bias, and I love when he gangnam styled into that stable. Jungkook is overrated poo poo for zoomers." HOLY gently caress posted:People using “addicting” instead of “addictive” used to really bother me but apparently they’re both right so I just need to get over myself Yes, that is a gerund and it's a super common thing in english, and considered to be "official" proper grammar for the learned smarts. "Heroin is addictive (adjective)." "Heroin is addicting (also adjective.)" "That post is shocking." (adjective, another gerund formed by taking a verb and slapping the -ing on to express "wow this is a very stupid post") My pet peeve is prescriptive linguistics. Especially when it's just "that seems wrong" but no it's accepted, it's just not how you talk. I'm definitely not using punctuation correctly here, and I ain't give a poo poo. I tried to sound generic newscaster american in the freedom fries era, and now I just miss my native accent and wish I could go back. This here post is not an academic paper, y'all all understand what I'm saying, so who cares? Look upon my comma splices, ye mighty, and despair. e: or hell let's compare to french. "Je marche" is both "I walk" and "I am walking." Because french doesn't use gerunds like that. In english those have different connotations. You take walks vs you are currently en route to a location as a pedestrian. It's a convenient construction. Other ways english lacks convenient constructions, like I how I keep saying "you" but I mean general person, I don't mean to specifically call out poster HOLY gently caress. In french perhaps I'd use "on" but using "one" for that in modern american english makes you sound real weird. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 23:47 on Sep 9, 2022 |
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2022 23:29
|
|
|
Edgar Allen Ho posted:Yes, that is a gerund and it's a super common thing in english, and considered to be "official" proper grammar for the learned smarts. "Heroin is addictive (adjective)." "Heroin is addicting (also adjective.)" If we're talking "official proper grammar for the learned smarts" I might as well point out that's not a gerund, it's a present participle. A present participle is when you use an "-ing" verb as an adjective; a gerund is when you use an "-ing" verb as a noun. E.g., "I enjoy posting dumb grammar poo poo;" posting is the thing/noun that is the object of verb "enjoy". Why do these things have different names? I assume, like most things with formal English grammar, its original purpose was to enable discrimination against 19th century poor people who couldn't afford a formal education.
|
|
#
?
Sep 10, 2022 00:08
|
|
|
Edgar Allen Ho posted:
|
|
#
?
Sep 10, 2022 01:22
|
|
|
Just in case: I wasn’t trying to be snarky or anything, I just find the feeling that there’s something wrong when I know there isn’t to be kind of disturbing, especially when it’s over something minor like word usage and I’m annoyed at myself for it
|
|
#
?
Sep 10, 2022 07:40
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 13:38 |
|
|
When I make a comment to someone and its met with silence. Then I assume they didn't hear me the first time, and I repeat myself, but they cut in with "yeah i heard you the first time". Oh really? Did you? Can I get an mhm or oh yeah or yep or SOME acknowledgement that you have received the information to your ears? Its like I am talking to a brick wall sometimes! Might as well be.
|
|
#
?
Sep 10, 2022 11:36
|
|
