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- Comment on Is it "Their name is Trevor," or "Their names are Trevor" if you know 2 Trevors? 1 week ago:
They’re not. “They’re named Trevors” is a correct but unbelievably clunky sentence no one would actually say. They are both named Trevor. So since there is two of them saying “They’re named Trevors” is factually correct. As there are two people named Trevor there. Hence two named Trevors.
I was just being stupid and having fun with the English language. Did get doubly funny when I created Trevi as the plural and then there was some daft point about the plural of Liverpool.
- Comment on Is it "Their name is Trevor," or "Their names are Trevor" if you know 2 Trevors? 1 week ago:
It’s perfectly correct. There are two people named Trevor.
So the plural is named Trevors.
Are you trying to suggest the correct plural of named Trevors is Trevi?
They’re named Trevi is completely wrong.
- Comment on Is it "Their name is Trevor," or "Their names are Trevor" if you know 2 Trevors? 1 week ago:
What? If you saw them walking down the street together would you say
There go the Trevors
Or there go the Trevor?
- Comment on Is it "Their name is Trevor," or "Their names are Trevor" if you know 2 Trevors? 1 week ago:
They’re named Trevors
It’s clearly plural
- Comment on Is it "Their name is Trevor," or "Their names are Trevor" if you know 2 Trevors? 1 week ago:
A lot of posts but no-one has yet to say.
They’re named Trevors
Clears the whole thing up.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Enshitfication
- Comment on Examples of roles where actors from Star Trek give better performances than they did on Star Trek? 4 months ago:
For me Colm Meaney wins this hands down. Good in Star Trek but great in other things.
Layer Cake, It’s always sunny in Philadelphia and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa are the 3 that come to mind first.
- Comment on What do you think about the dead internet theory? 4 months ago:
I like the way you capitalised THE WHOLE INTERNET
I’m not having a go at you. Just make me chuckle like it’s like the way an old person would refer to the “WHOLE INTERNET”.
Again just to be clear not having a go at you or suggesting anything about your age. It just made me laugh.
- Comment on How were maps created back in the day? 5 months ago:
Yep and in the UK os maps still have many of the trig points on them. Sometimes there are actual markers on the ground as well.
- Comment on Finally—my XL pack of fragile crushable poison arrived. 5 months ago:
Don’t forget caution it’s heavy as well.
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 7 months ago:
This is becoming my default position for so many things now it’s ridiculous.
- Comment on Thank Goodness You're Here - most absurd & hilarious game what did I just play? 10 months ago:
Brilliant, original game.
Certainly never thought I’d play a game with “On Ilkla Mooar Baht 'at” as part of the soundtrack!
- Comment on American exceptionalism 10 months ago:
Vomiting won’t get them out. If when you vomit you’re bringing up matter from where they live then you’ve got much bigger problems than just a worms infection.
- Comment on Cope 11 months ago:
Need further information.
What do mustaches do?
Asking for a friend…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Instead of the patients coming in already bleeding you’ll have to make them bleed and then stop it.
Seems like extra work to me.
- Comment on Time to pluralize titles. 1 year ago:
Rogue Two.
- Comment on Time to pluralize titles. 1 year ago:
Babes 2 pigs in the cities
- Comment on Signs that rhyme 1 year ago:
Zed’s shed baby. Zed’s shed.
- Comment on Nightmare fuel 1 year ago:
It’s wasps all the way down…
- Comment on What was the 'bear vs man' controversy? 1 year ago:
The major issue I had with this is that it plays into the alpha male misogynistic ideal of strength.
Some of them will almost certainly see it as a badge of honour. That they are so dominant that some stupid women (their opinion) will misinterpret that and get into trouble with a bear.
I was trying to come up with a way to rephrase it.
Something like would you rather be alone with a man or separate but you both have to eat a bowl of dog shit.
If women choose the bowl there are nasty consequences for both and it’s clearer they would rather deal with that than the man.
Nowhere near as catchy though…
- Comment on Is using MicroSD cards a good way to store data that you can destroy quickly incase an adversary is about to seize control of it? 1 year ago:
Snapping sounds like a real faff.
Keep them all in a special plastic box that is inside a powerful electromagnet.
Push button and a field that is strong enough to damage the cards almost instantly and over a short time would generate enough heat to physically damage the cards.
With enough power and time you could turn them into one hot blob that wouldn’t even be recognisable.
So near instant data damage and then physical destruction probably before someone can work out what’s going on.
- Comment on why dont we do this??? are we stupid?? 1 year ago:
This is what those woke liberals want!
- Comment on Understandable, copy that. 1 year ago:
It’s fucking laminated as well!
Must have needed to make sure no one defaced it and changed the meaning.
- Comment on Actress Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89 2 years ago:
That’s a shame. Although living in that van all those years probably didn’t help.
- Comment on ASA bans adverts for Nike and Sky for using ‘dark pattern’ tactics 2 years ago:
I’m trying to coin the phrase distopia.
To make it clear we’re talking about this dystopia we’re living in now.
I’m also open to it meaning a world where everyone’s disses are completely on point.
- Comment on Launches 2 years ago:
Wouldn’t shooting them into Jupiter be the easiest?
I’m sure I’ve read a few things about what an impact that big bugger has on trajectories in our solar system.
Intuitively I feel like a push towards Jupiter would be easier than a push to get all the way out of the solar system avoiding Jupiter.
- Comment on Lord of the Rings Characters: Screen Time vs. Mentions in the Books 2 years ago:
The balance of this doesn’t surprise me. The shift between book and film is quite heavily based on gender.
The books were certainly much more male character based and the films evened it up a bit more. Although obviously still not even.
- Comment on Would it count in basketball, if a player found themselves directly under the hoop, threw the ball up through the hoop from underneath, and the ball fell back down, again through the hoop? 2 years ago:
I could be wrong but I seem to remember this is one of the reasons why the baskets have a net.
You’re not allowed to do that but if the net wasn’t there then in pre-video games the refs might not be able to spot if the ball went up through the hoop.
Think they were also to stop players reaching up through the hoop to defend as well.
- Comment on sweet dreams 2 years ago:
You specifically said “electrons do not orbit with any kind of movement”
So by your own argument they’re not moving. We know the mass. So if we find one by your logic we know everything about it.
Yes that is the probability cloud model well done.
However my point again. You seem to think saying this renders the simile of planetary orbit obsolete. It doesn’t it’s a simile. It’s a way of explaining something that doesn’t have to exactly explain it.
If someone said “that fell on my head like a ton of bricks” would you go and examine the object and check it was exactly a ton of bricks or that it exactly exhibited the properties of a ton of bricks?
Or perhaps would you understand something from that about what had happened to them.
You may find this useful. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simile
- Comment on Dawkins 2 years ago:
Here’s an example. The thoughts of the 1966 world cup winning squad on the disappearance of Lord Lucan
