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- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 3 days ago:
Definitely not 5 because it looks like it’s trying to be a spoon, but you can’t eat soup with a fork (well, technically you can but it’d take a long time).
- Comment on Remember the Nega-Wojak. 6 days ago:
I feel ya bro. Every time there’s an English accent on an American program you know that’s going to turn out to be a baddie.
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- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 2 weeks ago:
You’re not crazy. Nobody wants their grammar correcting; they lash out and call people who do that “grammar nazis” instead of thanking them for helping them improve. So they get to post whatever they like, and of course as more people see stuff spelt incorrectly they assume that’s correct and use those errors themselves, but intentionally. And of course the dictionary writers realise they are descriptive, not proscriptive, so the argument “the dictionary says…” is voided.
Autocorrect is OK to an extent but it’s not smart enough yet to understand what people are actually saying. So it gets switched off.
Also it is worth mentioning that English is a complex language with many inconsistencies. “extream” is incorrect, but “stream” isn’t, and that “eam/eme” is pronounced the same way. So “extream” is at least understandable. It’s similar to “ect” instead of “etc”, which is commonly mispronounced as “ek-setera” so you can see why people think the C is after the E.
I used to try to help people a lot but just got a whole load of abuse back. These days I only query something if I genuinely can’t grok what they’re trying to say. Or I just ignore it. If the question is so badly garbled that I can’t understand it I just assume they won’t be able to understand may answer, which will probably be quite detailed.
- Comment on Do it 2 weeks ago:
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in my Arse
- Comment on Rawr XD 2 weeks ago:
It’s a trap!
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 2 weeks ago:
If it makes a difference to someone, yes. Otherwise I don’t bother.
- Comment on Anon learns the truth about "The Art of the Deal" 2 weeks ago:
They can redeem themselves by writing Trump 2 The Art of the Moron.
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 2 weeks ago:
Don’t you mean Eramicans?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Moist Ron in the dry US sounds terse
- Comment on Interesting logic 2 weeks ago:
Well God is an alien, by definition.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 weeks ago:
It annoys the heck out of me too. Generally what I do is reply with the remaining questions they haven’t answered; sometimes they get the message and answer all of them, sometimes we go round and round until I have all the answers I need.
I work in IT so for the most part, if I have 5 questions, that’s because there are 5 things I need to know. And I need to know because they want me to solve their problem, so if they want to do this one question at a time that’s fine, but if I start out going one at a time I get complained at for being too slow.
I’ve also tried everything I can think of short of being explicitly rude in my messages. Numbering them doesn’t work. Bullet-points don’t work. One question per paragraph doesn’t work. Asking them explicitly to answer all questions doesn’t work (how did these people ever pass an exam?).
(And yes I’m aware I haven’t answered all your questions (-: )
- Comment on Special K 2 weeks ago:
Breakfast cereal
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 2 weeks ago:
Do it. Who cares what girls think! But if you’re trying to attract one then maybe wait a bit before showing her the dumb shit you like doing with your mates.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
I wiped it after I left my last job so there’s next to nothing on it anyway now. They did give me a laptop but due to a stupid conflict between the AV and VPN one of the processor threads was maxed out causing the fan to run on full noise mode all the time.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
My laptop still works perfectly well so if Microsoft don’t want to support it any more then I’ll bung Linux on it. I’ve already got my Mint stick ready, just need to get round to it.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 3 weeks ago:
Null pwang! Maybe I should consider entering Eurovision.
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 4 weeks ago:
Ceci n’est pas une pierre.
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 4 weeks ago:
The scale isn’t too clear from the image but it looks more like a pebble to me.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 4 weeks ago:
As long as it Just Writes™ I don’t care. I want to pick it up, and I want to write. I don’t want to try writing only to find it’s dried up and I have to scribble on some other bit of paper before it comes back to life. Now OK if I’ve left the lid off then that’s my bad, but if I haven’t then it should just flipping work.
- Comment on Win win 5 weeks ago:
Yes of course that’d be their primary source. But if that doesn’t cover all the payouts then it’ll lead to a general increase in insurance premiums for everyone.
- Comment on Win win 5 weeks ago:
Well, no, it’s all of us, because of how insurance works. Payouts go up, premiums go up. As long as the number of destroyed Teslas is a drop in the ocean we won’t notice, but lots of companies love a good excuse to put prices up and this is just handing them a gold plated excuse on a silver platter.
- Comment on Mythbusters 5 weeks ago:
It was definitely an awesome show but I hated the interlaced format. Every time they skipped from one section to the next they had to reintroduce it and give a “we got this far” segment; it always felt like the show was at least twice as long as it needed to be.
It’d have been so much better (for me at least) if they just focussed on one thing at a time from start to end, especially when one of the experiments was fairly gruesome exploding bits of dead pig or whatever, you could skip over that in its entirety.
But maybe the show was aimed at people with the attention span of a ferret.
- Comment on Type C 5 weeks ago:
G
- Comment on Type C 5 weeks ago:
W
- Comment on Ever wonder how the term "pink slip" came about? This is how you were fired. A pink slip on your desk. 5 weeks ago:
British humour innit mate. Remember where we are.
- Comment on Ever wonder how the term "pink slip" came about? This is how you were fired. A pink slip on your desk. 5 weeks ago:
Ohh I thought it was something to do with sexy underwear. This actually makes a lot more sense.
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 5 weeks ago:
(Of course, I realise arguing with an American about guns is a fool’s errand but sometime you’ve got to try.)
OK so hypothetically let’s suppose a right-wing cop has decided to add you to his list of murdered innocent civilians, has parked his car on the boundary of your house and is walking towards you.
At what point exactly do you get your gun out and shoot first? Spell it out please, I’d really like to understand how this plays out.
Please include the response of his partner who is still in the car, what that partner radios back to base, and describe the multiple responses of those who will now respond to the reports of a cop-killer. Explain how you think the resulting siege will play out and describe exactly how you win this scenario (where “win” is defined in terms of you living and not going to jail).
- Comment on Good morning. What's wrong honey? 5 weeks ago:
Tha mi an dòchas nach coinnich thu ris a’ Ghàidhlig
- Comment on AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality 5 weeks ago:
The uBlacklist extension brings it back