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For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My version of the "could care less" pet peeve (which is annoying but tolerable) is when people reverse the order of the cases in a "let alone" phrase. The entire point of "let alone" is that you fail to meet the general case, so of course you don't satisfy the specific case.

For example, if I asked someone "Have you ever been to Germany?" they might answer "I've never been to Germany, let alone Europe!" As is, this is nonsensical, but if you reverse the order, all is well. Most examples in the wild aren't this obvious, but they're commonplace once you start looking for them.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Quilted" toilet paper is just scam to get you to buy less toilet paper for the same money.
It's not stronger.
It's not softer.
It weighs half as much as regular toilet paper and lasts half as long for the same price.
You are paying for air.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The ability to spell well has nothing, or very little, to do with intelligence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

If someone uses the phrase “assless chaps” I will not rest until they admit that if chaps had an ass, they would be pants.

Fight me.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Similar to yours, an SUV or CUV is just a lifted hatchback on steroids, and they have 0 upsides and a lot of downsides (higher fuel consumption, rollover risk and pedestrian and cyclist safety).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know it has a long history of not being used literally, but I think literally should only be used to mean literally.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Tabs make more sense than spaces.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

There are no dragons in Skyrim and many other games because wyverns are NOT dragons. and don’t use the “well the overarching category is dragon so it still counts” argument on me, because I will dismiss it out of hand!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cats are an environmental disaster and if you let your cat roam outside or feed wild cats, you're just a bad person and directly responsible for hundreds of bird deaths.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The original 151 Pokemon had just as many bland, poor, and lazy designs as any generation since (and legitimately good designs, dont get me wrong) and anyone claiming the ice cream cone is automatically worse than 'pile of goo that becomes bigger pile of goo' is just talking through nostalgia

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I will never switch to wireless headphones until the quality is as good as wired.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Will never buy another phone without a headphone jack for this reason.

Nothing against Bluetooth audio, either (it's very nice to have as an extra option). The expectation should be support for both wired and wireless.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's "different from".

"Similar to"; "different from"; "less/greater than". "Different than" doesn't make sense.

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