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For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"

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[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

envy and jealousy are supposed to have different meanings, but idiots always use jealous when they mean envious. Annoys the fuck out of me.

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[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If someone offers you something you don't want, simply say no thank you. Don't say "no I don't like that" as if you are 4.

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[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

CEREAL FIRST, THEN MILK!!! COLD MILK! I DON'T CARE HOW YOUR MOM USED TO FIX IT, THIS IS THE ONLY CORRECT WAY!!!

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[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The most pointless hill I will die on is the whole regardless, irregardless thing.

They mean the same thing, but irregardless is redundant. My friend uses that word purely because he knows it pisses me off.

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[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Using 12 AM or 12 PM is useless. Midnight is both and noon is neither.

The saying "hindsight is 20/20" is stupid. 20/20 is average. As someone with better than 20/20, my hindsight would be worse than normal.

[–] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Toilet paper over the top

[–] simple@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nuts only make sense in something that's already hard, like a cookie. It complements it by going from something hard-ish to another hard-ish texture.

Nuts in cake DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. I hate having to chew something smooth and spongy and suddenly - CRONCH. It's repulsive. 99% of the time it also tastes worse than the cake itself. If you actually want to put nuts on your damn cake, put it on the top so I can slide it off and eat it separately. Thank you.

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[–] supamanc@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It's addictive, not addicting.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 points 10 months ago

I will always choose to read stupidly spelled product or brand names exactly as written.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"Roguelike" has become overused to the point that it's basically meaningless. Nobody's even played Rogue so it just means "a game that's like other games that are described as roguelike," which is like, any game. There's a set of games where the term originated where it actually made sense, games like Angband, ADOM, Castle of the Winds, etc, that are all closely related where the term makes sense. Cogmind and Pixel Dungeon are more recent examples.

Some of it gets resolved by describing those as "traditional roguelikes," and using other descriptors like "action rougelike" for Hades or "rougelike deckbuilder" for Slay the Spire, but like at that point why not just use "Hadeslike" or "Spirelike" instead of constantly harking back to this 40 year old game?

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[–] hellothere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Romeo and Juliet is a comedy, not a tragedy.

Two teenagers thinking their first crush is worth literally killing themselves in the dumbest scenario imaginable, I mean come on!

[–] Traegert@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

It's pronounced Herb not Erb

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The little separator bars on the conveyor belts thingies at the cashier in a super market should always be placed for the person behind you. If the bozo in front of me wants to pay for my shit he can go right ahead.

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[–] anothermember@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

People should respect the intent of top level domains. e.g. videos at youtu.be should be related to Belgium, and podcasts with a .fm domain should only be podcasts related to the Federated States of Micronesia. Users at lemm.ee should be from Estonia.

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[–] cmoney@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It's a water heater, not a hot water heater, why would anyone want to heat water that's already hot?

[–] ulkesh@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (8 children)
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[–] Brocon@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Black and White Checkered Vans High Tops are not good shoes.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

You've been Affected by something, not Effected, you enimal.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

✅ “What it looks like”

✅ “How it looks”

🚫 “How it looks like”

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[–] noxy@yiffit.net 2 points 10 months ago

Chicago style pizza is not a style of pizza

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

People should stop purchasing things from Nintendo. The literal worst company I've ever been a fan of.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

No ticket, no support.

Even if it is for batteries for your wireless keyboard and mouse. Ticket please.

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[–] Onionguy@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

The toilet paper roll has to be placed so the tear off sheet faces the shitting person, and not the wall.

[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Loose and lose bother me. When I see these words used incorrectly, I become mildly irritated.

I figuratively would of had fewer of a reaction if less persons made that missed steak… literally.

[–] psion1369@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I can't stand when people are violently opposed to words because they sound bad somewhere else. Like "moist". If you think I'm being lewd when talking about how much I liked the stupid cake, that's on you and your perverted mind.

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