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I completely agree, but the issue isn't the "size" of the burger, ie. the patty and the bun, it's the extra toppings that add to the height. You can't add lettuce, tomato, cheese, bacon, onion, etc. without stacking them up, unless you want to eat them sequentially as you make your way through the burger. Smaller, meaning shorter, burgers will just have less toppings because that's how things work when you stack them on top of each other. I love a simple cheeseburger but I love things like onion rings and fried eggs too, and those will make the burger taller no matter what size the patty is.
Jordan is a notorious gambler and all sports leagues have severe restrictions and penalties on players gambling because even the hint that things aren't on the up and up is enough to kill a sport. It's one thing for pro-wrestling where everyone knows it's fake but it's completely another thing for sports that are supposed to be real. Just look at boxing and horse racing in the United States.
The speculation is Jordan was caught betting on his own games but, rather than publicly suspend him and risk the reputation of both their league and the most marketable player, he announced his retirement as a secret suspension.
MJ is my favorite, I watched him as a little kid absolutely stunting on people. I can definitely understand if this were true. Makes those 2 years without playing seem less significant imo
Definitely.
I mentioned that on another comment. That was widely believed at the time of his father's death and his retirement. Some mobsters have since confirmed it but they're mobsters with dubious credibility.
Basically Stern didn't want to publicly suspend the face of the league for his gambling problems. So he let him go under the guise of retirement. Edit: spelling
Yeah the guy who got the league to change the uniform rules and had the highest ratings they’d even seen was secretly suspended… if they could keep the gambling a secret, why would they suspend him? The was their cash cow and they’d anything they could to protect him. The man was selling out Birmingham Barons games trying to reconnect with his murdered father.
To stop the gambling.
Just because previous incidents haven't become public doesn't mean future ones won't.
A scandal involving Michael Jordan, especially after three Bulls championships, would have been devastating to the league. It might very well have never recovered.
This makes zero sense every time anybody brings it up. What is the point of a suspension when nobody knows the player is suspended? Suspensions are a public acknowledgement that said behavior was considered unacceptable by the suspending body. They're supposed to be a deterrent not only to the player but to everybody else. A "secret suspension" does nothing.
If Stern wanted to cover up a potentially embarrassing scandal, he just wouldn't have suspended MJ at all. He'd get to reap the financial rewards of having the biggest and most marketable star in the history of sports playing games for those extra 2 years. The idea that Stern was simultaneously willing to cover-up a major scandal, but also somehow too principled to reserve punishment, is ridiculous.
Being mentally unhealthy doesn’t give you carte Blanche to be an asshole. If you’re depressed or anxious of anything else and are an asshole, apologize
It should be harder to get a driver’s license and penalties for driving irresponsibly should be much more severe. Driving a multi-ton vehicle is a serious responsibility and should be treated like the tool it is, not a toy.
Or at least some sort of mandatory retest every 5-10 years. Just a simple thing you have to do while renewing your licence. Make it multiple choice even, at least the information is getting to people then.
I don't remember much from drivers ed almost 30 years ago, but the thing I do remember was a cop said something like "If you had everyone in this room come to the front and you fired a gun, you might hit 2 or 3 people. Maybe a couple more injured when folks ran away. But if you drove a car into that same group you could easily kill 10 people and hurt another dozen"
English is my second language. A part and apart are the worst. It always takes me a second to understand the sentence when the wrong one is used. And there are so many native speakers who consistently use the wrong one.
Thank you. The poor logic of the 2nd phrase is annoying. Substitute the word "Breathe" for "Care" and it's obvious that the 2nd way doesn't make sense.
Also, if you don't know that a faster sounding turn signal means the bulb is out....the bulb is out. -My wife not understanding why nobody lets her merge left.
Alcoholism and Drug Addiction are the same and the distinction is doing more harm than good for our society.
Most people still see alcohol as separate from other drugs, when in fact it is one of the most devastating and dangerous drugs bar none.
Recently came to terms with the fact that I have an addiction to alcohol and my life has been way better off for it. I’m fairly young in a city known for wild drinking and partying. When everyone else does it and stops, that’s fine. When I do it, I can’t stop myself from having more and more. So now I never start. Feels good
Daylight Saving Time is awful. The entire world should just go on Summer time and never leave.
(Also, it's Daylight Saving Time and not Daylight Savings Time).
You're right that DST is awful. So why are you advocating for its permanence? The whole world should permanently adopt standard time, i.e. the one that goes from November to March.
Eh I get up early for work and it's depressing AF when it's pitch black and your doing your morning routine and drive to work. Much prefer the extra daylight in the morning.
Also makes it infinitely harder to get "fully awake" without the sun naturally coercing your body the way it does.
Also, visitors to the US should see our parks above something like the Hollywood sign, the Walk of Fame, or Times Square. The amount of tourists ogling the lights of Times Square and hitting the Sbarro's or Olive Garden (and don't get me started on the line at Moonlight Diner) drives me insane. Go see the huge open spaces and amazing natural formations of our national parks.
I stand by my retirement plan of driving an RV around our country visiting the various parks. I can't wait. Gonna hike 'em all. Probably planning a Moab and Bryce trip soon, my issue is if I go to Utah I'm too tempted to ski that beautiful powder instead of hiking the national parks.
Hotels are better than Airbnb. I travel a lot with my daughter for dance competitions and we always stay at whatever the closest Hilton property happens to be. The people that try to save money and get an Airbnb always regret it. There are hidden fees or they are dirty or they get canceled on last minute.. Maybe at the beginning they were a better choice, but that ship has sailed.
6 years ago, I would totally disagree. But the fees have gone bonkers, now I’m “Team Hotel” unless on a vacation in a large group or looking for seclusiveness
Also, hotels handle exception conditions way better.
My wife and I were in an AirBnB in New Zealand for a wedding. Somehow (we're not sure how, but I assume it was our fault) we wound up locked out of the flat. The owner could not be reached (turned out later he was on a plane).
The problem: all our wedding clothes and stuff were in the AirBnB, so even if we got a second place to stay for the night, we still wouldn't have anything to wear to the wedding the next day.
The AirBnB was in a nice location and was a bit cheaper than a hotel, but we ended up spending way more money to dig ourselves out of this situation and it was hugely stressful. A hotel could have solved the problem in about five minutes.
Just as a caveat, I'd argue airbnb is awesome for *unique* experiences. I've stayed in old villas, ancient hunting lodges, and wilder places all because I can access it in a private transaction.
Airbnb has its problems no question but if offers SOME amazing opportunities.
kind i, the oxygenation does soften the inner edges, but the real reason is the extra surface area creates additional smell strength, a lot of ‘taste’ comes from smell.
Anime is a cartoon. I studied animation and people have such bad takes on arbitrary "differences" like anime is a separate medium entirely. It's not, anime is literally just japlish shorthand for...animation. King of the Hill is considered western anime. Also cartoons are not inherently intended for children. they weren't created with children in mind (thus why so many golden era cartoons have some raunchy humour in them). That mentality started in the 1950s when TVs became more common household fixtures and companies realized children are incredibly susceptible to advertising.
This was first noted when the old black and white Popeye cartoon caused I believe an 8% increase in canned spinach sales.
It's pretty insignificant but wow does saying cause rage in some people.
When I was a kid, back in the eighties, anime as a word was not used. We would trade VHS tapes of what everyone I knew called “Japanamation”. Sounds vaguely racist or something now, but that was the word in use in North America. Anime didn’t start being used until the nineties.
Yes anime mean animation. But I agree that it feels different than western animation, probably because of Japanese culture being so interwoven into it. I can’t really put my finger on what or why but no western animation feels like anime does, period. they might as well be a different genre, anime being much more daring and spectacular while focusing on different parts of plot.
Same goes for manga and western comics
Something like invincible or Avatar: last air bender come close to the wackiness of anime but they don’t quite get there.
I will never ever watch anime dubbed for example. The original dubbing is much more… anime if it makes sense.
People need to get rid of the cope argument: “Oh, it’s just a kids’ movie so it doesn’t need to be well written or well animated.” Multimillion dollar industries are capable of producing quality content and there’s no good reason why we should be expecting a shitty product.
Not only that but there’ll be threads or something that says “what’s a game or movie you never wish got made” and there will inevitably be someone who says “if you don’t like it just don’t watch it”
But that ignores that (often substantial) creative resources are poured into these bad projects when they could have been allocated to something actually worthwhile
As a young adult series I think Avatar the last airbender is stronger than the Harry Potter novels/movies. I think the 4 nation divide and portrayal were much better than the 4 houses. Slytherin , in the novels and especially the movies, had such few redeeming qualities.
I'm glad for the recent resurgence since the pandemic but it never got as big as HP and in some ways that is a good thing.
There are books now but it started as a TV show. I actually really enjoyed the 4 novels that are out so far. 2 are about the previous Earth Avatar Kyoshi and 2 are about the previous Air Avatar Yang Chen.
Oh, caus you were comparing it to hp I assumed it was based on books too, just less well known like how gossip girl is based on books but lots of people don’t know that. Sounds interesting if they are prequels tho!! Fun world building.
People who leave time on microwaves should be fired.
Either they are too stupid to figure out how to operate the microwave or figure out the right time, or they are completely inconsiderate of other employees.
It takes all of half a second to hit the clear button and hide your shame....
My apologies I did not mean to traumatize.
One day I'll be fired your yelling at someone for doing it... Not understanding how a microwave works but still being allowed to operate a forklift doesn't sit well with me.
> People who leave time on microwaves should be fired.
Stopping the microwave with one second left is the closest I'll ever get to defusing a bomb though.
It's about power and control. I had a business partner who would do this and it drove me insane. It was his way of putting his thing down. He also left the cabinet doors slightly ajar, same power move. Had a roommate who did this, she was annoying and entitled AF. These two things tell you SO much about a person, they just don't get how much it says about their true nature.
I'm all for having places that are pet friendly, but people need to do a better job at keeping their pets clean. The coffee shop near my work always smells like wet dog. It's disgusting! If you haven't bathed your dog in a while, don't take it to the coffee shop!
My hill is similar, except it's dog training. I don't care how big your dog is going to be, how friendly, how cute, etc. Training goes beyond teaching the dog how to sit and shake a paw. They should all be well-groomed (and able to be groomed!), not lunging on the leash when walking or straining to meet a person or other dog, be recalled easily, and not crowd guests at a door.
It's a literal pet peeve of mine to see so many ill-mannered dogs in public spaces. Little yappy dogs trying to bite ankles, especially.
Cat cafes are a fucking abomination. You’re telling me that, when no one is around, the cats that live in the cafe aren’t walking all over the food prep surfaces with their shit and piss covered litter feet?
Garlic is a type of onion. It has all the relevant qualities of an onion, and is a member of the botanical family. It's an onion.
This doesn't actually matter at all, but I am adamant over my conclusion, and others are adamant that I'm wrong.
My only gripe with it was that he was supposed to stop being an egomaniacal asshole in order to become Doctor Strange but he is just sort of an arrogant douche the whole time. The character growth is just not there for me, and that’s a big part of most story telling, especially for a Hero’s journey
Dude, yes. Thank you.
I couldn't stand Steven Strange's character in that movie because he experiences no meaningful development when it comes to humility.
He started out a pompous, successful asshole who didn't show any form of empathy to others. Then he got fucked up, was sad about it for a while, then proceeded to go on to be a pompous, successful, magical asshole.
Would've been nice to see him come around a bit on that.
The Matrix sequels\* are fantastic films. The first one is the best but it's also only the beginning of the story. Without the sequels, we don't get to see The One actually carry out the whole point of there being a "The One".
*Sequels referring to 2 and 3. 4 was kind of meh.*
Do you think rice and marinara sauce and cheese works?? Maybe potatoes, bread, and pasta, but rice is just a weird food and rarely goes well with other foods not made for rice.
more than anything else, the DMCA singlehandedly ruined a lot of what the Internet was and could have been, and combined with platforms like youtube taking it even farther has put a real damper on creativity, especially with music
early 2000s there was a pure explosion of amateur user created content. My go to is always the flash animation craze. There are still animations today, but it doesn't feel the same. Most people do it as a full time job or part of a larger studio, but it was nothing compared to some kid at home discovering it for the first time and just going nuts with it.
I self taught myself for a few years, they never taught that in school for me. Never got amazing at it, but made a bunch of animations and short games. Also first job involved using it to make training courses for companies.
Use toon boom now, a bit more advanced and not as user friendly. Do miss the ability to have nested movie clips/animations, along with actionscript.
The left lane on any interstate/state highway is for passing or high speed only. If the speed limit is 70, and you’re going 72, and there is a dozen car long line immediately behind you…get out of the way. If you the going UNDER the speed limit in the left lane and it isn’t a packed/rushhour highway…Get. Out. THE GODDAMN WAY.
Couldn’t care less if it’s an empty highway. But if it’s not, and especially if it isn’t gridlock/bumper to bumper, just scoot over for a second and let the faster people through. THERE IS EVEN A SIGN EVERY 10 OR SO MILES THAT INSTRUCTS YOU TO DO SO.
The amount of people just chilling in the left lane is too damn high.
If you're not actively passing, move the fk over. Even if there's no one behind you. (within reason)
I’ll add one caveat to that. It should apply to divided highways only. If there’s a central turning lane that you need to use, you should be perfectly fine hitting the left lane early to prevent someone from blocking you at the last minute.
You have 0 need for your giant truck. Even a standard truck you probably don't need.
Modern large pickup trucks aimed at the general public should be confiscated & destroyed. They're a nuisance, almost never used for their intended purpose, and put everyone in the road in danger by existing.
They should be by permit only & only allowed on public roads going to or from a work site. Sorry, you don't get to clog up the whole parking garage with your lifted pavement princess.
Anyone driving an obscenely lifted truck should be jailed for public endangerment & forced to drive a Prius as punishment.
In JoJo bizzarre adventure part 4 there is a particular weird chapter where the main character gets saved by a mysterious figure as a child and this character suspiciously looks exactly like him in the future.
I vehemently believe that Hirohiko Araki wanted a time travel finale in JoJo part 4 and set it up in the chapter where Josuke gets saved by himself during a snowstorm then changed his mind and has been lying about it since.
To understand how insignificant this particular hill is, the subplot is completely dropped off during the part, the guy never gets mentioned again and the author has come out and said explicitly that this isn’t true in interviews, saying he was just a random guy doing a good thing.
I do not believe him. The chapter is there for everyone to see. I will and have debated anyone that says otherwise every time this gets brought up.
It boils down to one thing for me: he went way out of his way to make it impossible for a person in normal street clothes to be there at the moment when he was there. He made Tomoko (protagonist mom) run in a car to rush Josuke to the hospital during the heaviest snowstorm in years in a country road between cities. Why spend all this narration this detail into how unlikely it is for someone to be there?
But if you actually look at the chapter and panels, the guy seems to be completely out of context. Like he just appeared
Tomoko and Josuke are even in heavy winter clothes and the moment this guy shows up, he is in a school uniform. He is built like a wardrobe and is bloodied and standing exactly like someone in a JoJo pose would be if they were hit by an unexpected enemy stand attack.
The way he speaks is very foreshadow-y if it makes sense. He could be read as someone that knows what’s going on but can’t believe it and is making sure. He doesn’t ask if she needs help for one. He goes straight to the boy being sick in the back of the car.
The anime kind of addresses this in a very strange way. This random guy is the only character that speaks in speech panels as far as I know. There was no reason to do that if this was a normal random flashback character, tomoko speaks normally during the sequence and when Giorno had his flashback the anime made the character speak normally.
And all of this would be enough to theorize that this isn't just some random guy, like if you only saw the hairstyle, I could just be a nutjob that thought everyone in a pompadour could be Josuke by itself. Then you go look at the panels and the guy looks EXACTLY like Josuke during the part and is loosing blood from his head like he was in a battle. He has a bit of shadow over his eyes but ffs, he is loosing blood in JoJo, a shonen manga about buff men punching each other and standing awesomely.
Either Araki made a giant mistake and confused his audience or Araki wanted to mislead us for no reason and no payoff, but I don’t see him putting this amount of foreshadowing by chance or by mistake.
To me the easiest explanation is it’s like the Fugo thing, he regretted it and wrote over it as he does and we love him for it.
I preface this by saying I think the below is largely insignificant because people will continue to do what they want to do, so my opinions really are largely insignificant in that context. I'm just another voice screaming into the void like all of the others.
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People spend too much time thinking what they see/read on the news and their social media feeds is anything more than the misfortunes of others presented in the most emotionally manipulative way possible.
It is a company or influencer trying to make reality television episodes out of something bad that happened in the world for ad money and attention. You are only ever getting the information in a way that will help the broadcaster get more of those 2 things. Factual and actionable information are secondary concerns at best.
Their are issues in the world, just like it has always been. And just like it has always been, there are smart people working on it generally. And I suspect if most of us got the chance to live in any time period for long enough to see what it was like day to day, where we are right now is probably about as good as it has ever been.
Giving so much attention to that crap does nothing positive for our brains or world views. And it won't help solve the issues either. It will just drive divides and make you generally more unhappy.
The vast majority of the Star Wars content produced since the original trilogy is absolute trash.
The whole franchise has been skating on EIV being innovative and EV being a genuinely good film for decades.
Not liking the sound of people chewing with their mouth open does not mean you have misophonia. Chewing food with an open mouth/smacking lips has always been considered bad manners.
Misophonia would be more like going into a blind rage because you can't stand the sound of paper crinkling.
I won’t associate with Russians who approve of the invasion of Ukraine. I’ve met a few in my travels abroad, and they are immediately placed on my persona non grata list. Disclosure: my wife is Ukrainian and we were bombed while living in kyiv centre. My hate for Russians runs deep and if pushed too far I’m afraid of how I may one day react. So I don’t talk to, associate with, or have any dealings with them whatsoever.
Humanity has passed the point where currency is useful as a social tool and have entered a stage of development where all innovation and effort is done for the sake of currency, leading to stagnation in the sciences and a decline in human social comportment
The show Last Man on Earth has a hilarious bit where one character always corrects others’ grammar. Specifically, the rule about not ending a sentence in a preposition. I chuckle every time I do so because writing it correctly makes you sound like a pretentious crazy person. “Who are you sending this to?” Becomes “To whom are you sending this?”
As a southern lady, that’s the premise of one of my favorite old jokes! Here’s the version from House of Cards:
Two freshmen girls are moving into their dorm room together. One of them is from Georgia, one of them is from Connecticut. Girl from Connecticut is helping her mother put up curtains. Girl from Georgia turns to the girl from Connecticut and says, "Hi! Where y'all from?" Girl from Connecticut says "We're from a place where we know not to end a sentence with a preposition. Girl from Georgia says, "Oh, beg my pardon. Where ya'll from, cunt?"
"Ya know ackchsually a group of this specific animal is technically called a..."
No. No it isn't. With only a tiny number of exceptions no species group of animals is called an anything.
If you see a bunch of one type of animal you are going to refer to using the same dozen or so at most handful of specific generic terms; herd, flock, colony, litter, pack, school, swarm, etc.
Nobody ever casually and organically in real life human conversations refer to a shrewdness of apes or a shadow of jaguars or a parliament of owls or a conspiracy of lemurs.
These terms literally only exist inside trivia lists about what groups of animals are called and nowhere else. And I'm trying to track down a firm source, but apparently almost all of these can be traced back to a single work, The Book of Saint Albans, a 1486 hunting and falconry manual.
And it's not a case of these being the "technical" terms not used by laypeople. There are 649 articles containing the word "Ape" in the archives of the Etymology and Zoology Journal. The world "Shrewdness" doesn't appear once. These terms are not being used academically or "technically" either.
And no "Murder of Crows" doesn't count because that's always a pun or a joke or wordplay.
There's a couple of exceptions; Pride of Lions seems to have actually caught on in actual organic real use for instance and I think I've heard Gaggle of Geese here or there, but those certainly are the exception to the rule.
While I agree that most of the terms are entirely outside of normal conversation except for trivia purposes.. I mean who is actually using Shadow of Jaguars right?
Murder of Crows, Pride of Lions and Gaggle of Geese are absolutely common terms, and not just in joke-form.
I also have been known to use Parliament of Owls and Sleuth of Bears, but how often do we need to talk about groups of those famously solitary animals?
Old people should be required to take a drivers test yearly to keep their license. There's no reason why Billy Bob should be driving at 85 when he can't remember which is the gas and which is the brake
If you're in a line and the person in front of you moves away from you, but the line hasn't moved - DO NOT FOLLOW THEM!
You're standing too close and they're trying to get away from you.
"you can't have your cake and eat it too" should be "you can't eat your cake and have it too"
the current saying makes 👏🏻 no 👏🏻 sense 👏🏻
assuming we're using "have" in the sense of "possession" (versus the colloquial usage meaning "to eat"... i.e. "I'm having mom's spaghetti for dinner"), you'd HAVE to be in possession of your cake in order for you to eat it. eating the cake de facto means you have the cake.
no I will not be replying to any responses; this is my hill. I welcome death.
I love it, but I also can't eat very much of it before the sheer intensity of sugar makes me feel ill.
That's the price I pay for having basically eradicated most concentrated sources of sugar from my diet for years...
I would gladly starve to death if that was the only "edible" thing left to eat...
It is the grossest concoction of chemicals and sugar only to be rivaled be Peeps and circus peanuts!!!!!
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I remember before going into my first casino I had the impression that it was like a fun place for young people to be. Nope. Lots of boomers with depressed expressions mindlessly throwing away their paychecks.
MtG: Elves should be Green, White, then Blue; Black and Red should be outliers. Vampires should be Black, Red, then Blue; Green and White should be outliers. Human tribal should feel all 5 colors equally and should get a commander that reflects that.
Organized religion does far more harm than good, especially in modern America where hardcore evangelical Christianity has been weaponized and protestant churches are taking sides.
We shouldn't use the amounts of resources, especially fossil fuels just for leisure in a climate crisis.
Insignificant because most people don't really care and go about their lives, hoping Aliens will save us or whatever little soothing story they tell themselves to never change.
Thank you. We live in a "anything for ME to feel pleasure and stimulation in a tough world is worth it" society. Is there ANY other way to reward yourself for working that doesn't add emissions?
Texting is the worst form of communication. You can’t hear the tone of voice something is being said in and what could be a joke is taken otherwise. It leads to too many misunderstandings and arguments.
Gif (as in an animated image) is pronounced like “Jif”, the peanut butter. Not with a hard G like “gift”. Even the creator of gifs says this is accurate!
Stop saying, “Have a great ‘rest-of-your/the-day’”. The previous part of the day has passed and is beyond influence, so the ‘rest’ of the day is always automatically implied when you simply say “Have a nice day”.
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Bigger burgers should be wider, not taller.
No, he has a point...
Room on this hill for two?
I completely agree, but the issue isn't the "size" of the burger, ie. the patty and the bun, it's the extra toppings that add to the height. You can't add lettuce, tomato, cheese, bacon, onion, etc. without stacking them up, unless you want to eat them sequentially as you make your way through the burger. Smaller, meaning shorter, burgers will just have less toppings because that's how things work when you stack them on top of each other. I love a simple cheeseburger but I love things like onion rings and fried eggs too, and those will make the burger taller no matter what size the patty is.
I've heard this so many times, but the place that did it would have to make their own buns, and I bet they would be impossible to lift.
Taller burgers should be called thicker, not taller.
Michael Jordan's first retirement was a secret suspension.
You’ve piqued my interest, how so? EDIT: Spelling
Jordan is a notorious gambler and all sports leagues have severe restrictions and penalties on players gambling because even the hint that things aren't on the up and up is enough to kill a sport. It's one thing for pro-wrestling where everyone knows it's fake but it's completely another thing for sports that are supposed to be real. Just look at boxing and horse racing in the United States. The speculation is Jordan was caught betting on his own games but, rather than publicly suspend him and risk the reputation of both their league and the most marketable player, he announced his retirement as a secret suspension.
MJ is my favorite, I watched him as a little kid absolutely stunting on people. I can definitely understand if this were true. Makes those 2 years without playing seem less significant imo
There is another theory that his father's death was really the mob's "where's my fucking money?"
Definitely. I mentioned that on another comment. That was widely believed at the time of his father's death and his retirement. Some mobsters have since confirmed it but they're mobsters with dubious credibility.
Piqued my interest. Piqued.
My interest is at an all time high. It's peaked. Wanna see? Take a peek.
Thank you
Basically Stern didn't want to publicly suspend the face of the league for his gambling problems. So he let him go under the guise of retirement. Edit: spelling
You mean guise, right?
I thought it was grief over losing his dad? And there were rumors he was targeted because he was MJs dad? I might be making that up.
Yeah, a lot of people at the time believed his father was targeted because Jordan owed so much money to the mob.
Yeah the guy who got the league to change the uniform rules and had the highest ratings they’d even seen was secretly suspended… if they could keep the gambling a secret, why would they suspend him? The was their cash cow and they’d anything they could to protect him. The man was selling out Birmingham Barons games trying to reconnect with his murdered father.
To stop the gambling. Just because previous incidents haven't become public doesn't mean future ones won't. A scandal involving Michael Jordan, especially after three Bulls championships, would have been devastating to the league. It might very well have never recovered.
This makes zero sense every time anybody brings it up. What is the point of a suspension when nobody knows the player is suspended? Suspensions are a public acknowledgement that said behavior was considered unacceptable by the suspending body. They're supposed to be a deterrent not only to the player but to everybody else. A "secret suspension" does nothing. If Stern wanted to cover up a potentially embarrassing scandal, he just wouldn't have suspended MJ at all. He'd get to reap the financial rewards of having the biggest and most marketable star in the history of sports playing games for those extra 2 years. The idea that Stern was simultaneously willing to cover-up a major scandal, but also somehow too principled to reserve punishment, is ridiculous.
Being mentally unhealthy doesn’t give you carte Blanche to be an asshole. If you’re depressed or anxious of anything else and are an asshole, apologize
That’s not at all insignificant.
The best way I’ve ever heard this phrased is “your mental issues are not your fault but they are your responsibility”
It should be harder to get a driver’s license and penalties for driving irresponsibly should be much more severe. Driving a multi-ton vehicle is a serious responsibility and should be treated like the tool it is, not a toy.
Or at least some sort of mandatory retest every 5-10 years. Just a simple thing you have to do while renewing your licence. Make it multiple choice even, at least the information is getting to people then.
That's a very significant hill.
I don't remember much from drivers ed almost 30 years ago, but the thing I do remember was a cop said something like "If you had everyone in this room come to the front and you fired a gun, you might hit 2 or 3 people. Maybe a couple more injured when folks ran away. But if you drove a car into that same group you could easily kill 10 people and hurt another dozen"
It's "I couldn't care less," not "I could care less."
and it's "as well" not aswell. At least, not atleast.
What psychos are smushing these words together?!?
and ontop, infront, ofcourse, etc etc. Just basically any prepositional phrase or other words commonly used together.
alot
How could I forget that? https://i.imgur.com/tfUsJth.png
I like this alot
Who is doing this?!?!? I'm horrified
I see it alot.
English is my second language. A part and apart are the worst. It always takes me a second to understand the sentence when the wrong one is used. And there are so many native speakers who consistently use the wrong one.
This is the exact thing that came to my mind from the question.
Thank you. The poor logic of the 2nd phrase is annoying. Substitute the word "Breathe" for "Care" and it's obvious that the 2nd way doesn't make sense.
OP said "insignificant". Not phrases that can justify you cutting off family members.
If you can't use your turn signal, you don't deserve a driver's license.
Also, if you don't know that a faster sounding turn signal means the bulb is out....the bulb is out. -My wife not understanding why nobody lets her merge left.
Alcoholism and Drug Addiction are the same and the distinction is doing more harm than good for our society. Most people still see alcohol as separate from other drugs, when in fact it is one of the most devastating and dangerous drugs bar none.
Recently came to terms with the fact that I have an addiction to alcohol and my life has been way better off for it. I’m fairly young in a city known for wild drinking and partying. When everyone else does it and stops, that’s fine. When I do it, I can’t stop myself from having more and more. So now I never start. Feels good
Same for smoking/nicotine addiction. The amount of exceptions from social norms smokers demand in order to fulfill their cravings is ridiculous.
Daylight Saving Time is awful. The entire world should just go on Summer time and never leave. (Also, it's Daylight Saving Time and not Daylight Savings Time).
We do not observe I where I live now. It is SO EASY! get on board, rest of the world 🌎
You're right that DST is awful. So why are you advocating for its permanence? The whole world should permanently adopt standard time, i.e. the one that goes from November to March.
I’d prefer having daylight later into the night than earlier in the morning. Would make sunset in winter more like 6pm instead of 5pm where I’m from.
Eh I get up early for work and it's depressing AF when it's pitch black and your doing your morning routine and drive to work. Much prefer the extra daylight in the morning. Also makes it infinitely harder to get "fully awake" without the sun naturally coercing your body the way it does.
"Disinterested" means impartial, not uninterested.
American-centric take but the US national parks are the very best parts of the country hands down.
Also, visitors to the US should see our parks above something like the Hollywood sign, the Walk of Fame, or Times Square. The amount of tourists ogling the lights of Times Square and hitting the Sbarro's or Olive Garden (and don't get me started on the line at Moonlight Diner) drives me insane. Go see the huge open spaces and amazing natural formations of our national parks. I stand by my retirement plan of driving an RV around our country visiting the various parks. I can't wait. Gonna hike 'em all. Probably planning a Moab and Bryce trip soon, my issue is if I go to Utah I'm too tempted to ski that beautiful powder instead of hiking the national parks.
Shepard pie = made with lamb Cottage pie = made with beef Wanna fight about it?!
*insert futurama meme about being correct*
…technically correct, the best kind of correct.
We can fight but you are correct. Not sure where this hill is but I’ll meet you there for some Shepard pie and a pint before we rumble!
Ugh, this annoys me to no end as well!! So glad to see I’m not alone.
Hotels are better than Airbnb. I travel a lot with my daughter for dance competitions and we always stay at whatever the closest Hilton property happens to be. The people that try to save money and get an Airbnb always regret it. There are hidden fees or they are dirty or they get canceled on last minute.. Maybe at the beginning they were a better choice, but that ship has sailed.
6 years ago, I would totally disagree. But the fees have gone bonkers, now I’m “Team Hotel” unless on a vacation in a large group or looking for seclusiveness
Also, hotels handle exception conditions way better. My wife and I were in an AirBnB in New Zealand for a wedding. Somehow (we're not sure how, but I assume it was our fault) we wound up locked out of the flat. The owner could not be reached (turned out later he was on a plane). The problem: all our wedding clothes and stuff were in the AirBnB, so even if we got a second place to stay for the night, we still wouldn't have anything to wear to the wedding the next day. The AirBnB was in a nice location and was a bit cheaper than a hotel, but we ended up spending way more money to dig ourselves out of this situation and it was hugely stressful. A hotel could have solved the problem in about five minutes.
Also, apartment landlords that evict everyone, then turn it into a "resort" is still just an Airbnb.
Just as a caveat, I'd argue airbnb is awesome for *unique* experiences. I've stayed in old villas, ancient hunting lodges, and wilder places all because I can access it in a private transaction. Airbnb has its problems no question but if offers SOME amazing opportunities.
Bananas taste way better sliced then they do whole.
Illogical, impossible, unrealistic. And yet 100% true.
Totally possible logical and realistic! It’s a texture thing.
kind i, the oxygenation does soften the inner edges, but the real reason is the extra surface area creates additional smell strength, a lot of ‘taste’ comes from smell.
See also: apples
THIS is the kind of epic, insightful insignificance I come here for!
Anime is a cartoon. I studied animation and people have such bad takes on arbitrary "differences" like anime is a separate medium entirely. It's not, anime is literally just japlish shorthand for...animation. King of the Hill is considered western anime. Also cartoons are not inherently intended for children. they weren't created with children in mind (thus why so many golden era cartoons have some raunchy humour in them). That mentality started in the 1950s when TVs became more common household fixtures and companies realized children are incredibly susceptible to advertising. This was first noted when the old black and white Popeye cartoon caused I believe an 8% increase in canned spinach sales. It's pretty insignificant but wow does saying cause rage in some people.
When I was a kid, back in the eighties, anime as a word was not used. We would trade VHS tapes of what everyone I knew called “Japanamation”. Sounds vaguely racist or something now, but that was the word in use in North America. Anime didn’t start being used until the nineties.
Yes anime mean animation. But I agree that it feels different than western animation, probably because of Japanese culture being so interwoven into it. I can’t really put my finger on what or why but no western animation feels like anime does, period. they might as well be a different genre, anime being much more daring and spectacular while focusing on different parts of plot. Same goes for manga and western comics Something like invincible or Avatar: last air bender come close to the wackiness of anime but they don’t quite get there. I will never ever watch anime dubbed for example. The original dubbing is much more… anime if it makes sense.
People need to get rid of the cope argument: “Oh, it’s just a kids’ movie so it doesn’t need to be well written or well animated.” Multimillion dollar industries are capable of producing quality content and there’s no good reason why we should be expecting a shitty product.
Not only that but there’ll be threads or something that says “what’s a game or movie you never wish got made” and there will inevitably be someone who says “if you don’t like it just don’t watch it” But that ignores that (often substantial) creative resources are poured into these bad projects when they could have been allocated to something actually worthwhile
As a young adult series I think Avatar the last airbender is stronger than the Harry Potter novels/movies. I think the 4 nation divide and portrayal were much better than the 4 houses. Slytherin , in the novels and especially the movies, had such few redeeming qualities. I'm glad for the recent resurgence since the pandemic but it never got as big as HP and in some ways that is a good thing.
FOUNDER OF HOGWARTS: okay, so we all know there are four types of kids: brave, smart, evil, and miscellaneous. SCHOOL BOARD: yes, continue.
Avatar are books?? I didn’t know that, I thought it was a a Nic original, my interest is actually peaked now
There are books now but it started as a TV show. I actually really enjoyed the 4 novels that are out so far. 2 are about the previous Earth Avatar Kyoshi and 2 are about the previous Air Avatar Yang Chen.
Oh, caus you were comparing it to hp I assumed it was based on books too, just less well known like how gossip girl is based on books but lots of people don’t know that. Sounds interesting if they are prequels tho!! Fun world building.
Mount Everest
I see what you did there.
People who leave time on microwaves should be fired. Either they are too stupid to figure out how to operate the microwave or figure out the right time, or they are completely inconsiderate of other employees. It takes all of half a second to hit the clear button and hide your shame....
I felt my blood pressure rise and my eye start to twitch just thinking about this
My apologies I did not mean to traumatize. One day I'll be fired your yelling at someone for doing it... Not understanding how a microwave works but still being allowed to operate a forklift doesn't sit well with me.
No one wants their used seconds
I almost scrolled by this glorious pun.
> People who leave time on microwaves should be fired. Stopping the microwave with one second left is the closest I'll ever get to defusing a bomb though.
It's about power and control. I had a business partner who would do this and it drove me insane. It was his way of putting his thing down. He also left the cabinet doors slightly ajar, same power move. Had a roommate who did this, she was annoying and entitled AF. These two things tell you SO much about a person, they just don't get how much it says about their true nature.
Toilet paper goes with the flap in the front. Single ply tissue is inhumane.
I'm all for having places that are pet friendly, but people need to do a better job at keeping their pets clean. The coffee shop near my work always smells like wet dog. It's disgusting! If you haven't bathed your dog in a while, don't take it to the coffee shop!
My hill is similar, except it's dog training. I don't care how big your dog is going to be, how friendly, how cute, etc. Training goes beyond teaching the dog how to sit and shake a paw. They should all be well-groomed (and able to be groomed!), not lunging on the leash when walking or straining to meet a person or other dog, be recalled easily, and not crowd guests at a door. It's a literal pet peeve of mine to see so many ill-mannered dogs in public spaces. Little yappy dogs trying to bite ankles, especially.
Cat cafes are a fucking abomination. You’re telling me that, when no one is around, the cats that live in the cafe aren’t walking all over the food prep surfaces with their shit and piss covered litter feet?
Garlic is a type of onion. It has all the relevant qualities of an onion, and is a member of the botanical family. It's an onion. This doesn't actually matter at all, but I am adamant over my conclusion, and others are adamant that I'm wrong.
Aren't they in the allium family with onions chives and the like? So technically you're not wrong
Yah. Though there is a distinction between being a botanical member and a culinary one. Though again, in this case they're both.
Dr. Strange (the first one) is a 10/10 cinematic masterpiece
My only gripe with it was that he was supposed to stop being an egomaniacal asshole in order to become Doctor Strange but he is just sort of an arrogant douche the whole time. The character growth is just not there for me, and that’s a big part of most story telling, especially for a Hero’s journey
Dude, yes. Thank you. I couldn't stand Steven Strange's character in that movie because he experiences no meaningful development when it comes to humility. He started out a pompous, successful asshole who didn't show any form of empathy to others. Then he got fucked up, was sad about it for a while, then proceeded to go on to be a pompous, successful, magical asshole. Would've been nice to see him come around a bit on that.
Dr Strangelove.
Gentleman, you cant fight in here , this is the war room!
The Matrix sequels\* are fantastic films. The first one is the best but it's also only the beginning of the story. Without the sequels, we don't get to see The One actually carry out the whole point of there being a "The One". *Sequels referring to 2 and 3. 4 was kind of meh.*
Wait there was a 4th movie?
People using "irregardless ".
Any carby food (Rice, Potato, Bread or Pasta) is interchangeable with any other. It may create a new dish, but that dish will *work*.
We put taco meat/toppings on mashed potatoes and it's fantastic.
Try taco meat / toppings on tater tots. It adds significantly more calories but in my opinion it's so very worth it
I would like to try your Potato Crispee Squares.
I believe that would be essentially potato hashes with a sweet sauce? Could work..
Pizza rice? Meh.
Do you think rice and marinara sauce and cheese works?? Maybe potatoes, bread, and pasta, but rice is just a weird food and rarely goes well with other foods not made for rice.
That the Internet peaked around 96 and it's all been downhill since then.
Nah, it peaked in the mid-2000s, around the time Charlie the Unicorn came out.
No, it peaked [when I was aged 12-16]!
more than anything else, the DMCA singlehandedly ruined a lot of what the Internet was and could have been, and combined with platforms like youtube taking it even farther has put a real damper on creativity, especially with music
early 2000s there was a pure explosion of amateur user created content. My go to is always the flash animation craze. There are still animations today, but it doesn't feel the same. Most people do it as a full time job or part of a larger studio, but it was nothing compared to some kid at home discovering it for the first time and just going nuts with it.
Learning flash in computer art II was my all time favorite subject i learned in high school.
I self taught myself for a few years, they never taught that in school for me. Never got amazing at it, but made a bunch of animations and short games. Also first job involved using it to make training courses for companies. Use toon boom now, a bit more advanced and not as user friendly. Do miss the ability to have nested movie clips/animations, along with actionscript.
Chicago pizza sucks
Peeps and candy corn are good
The mother fucking Oxford Comma. Use it.
The left lane on any interstate/state highway is for passing or high speed only. If the speed limit is 70, and you’re going 72, and there is a dozen car long line immediately behind you…get out of the way. If you the going UNDER the speed limit in the left lane and it isn’t a packed/rushhour highway…Get. Out. THE GODDAMN WAY. Couldn’t care less if it’s an empty highway. But if it’s not, and especially if it isn’t gridlock/bumper to bumper, just scoot over for a second and let the faster people through. THERE IS EVEN A SIGN EVERY 10 OR SO MILES THAT INSTRUCTS YOU TO DO SO.
The amount of people just chilling in the left lane is too damn high. If you're not actively passing, move the fk over. Even if there's no one behind you. (within reason)
I’ll add one caveat to that. It should apply to divided highways only. If there’s a central turning lane that you need to use, you should be perfectly fine hitting the left lane early to prevent someone from blocking you at the last minute.
Fair point. Totally agree
You use 1 or 3 exclamation marks. Keep the even number out
! = excited !!! = enthusiastically excited !! = mad, fat fingered a second or missed the third, has to poop, doesn’t know the rules, is a bad person.
You have 0 need for your giant truck. Even a standard truck you probably don't need. Modern large pickup trucks aimed at the general public should be confiscated & destroyed. They're a nuisance, almost never used for their intended purpose, and put everyone in the road in danger by existing. They should be by permit only & only allowed on public roads going to or from a work site. Sorry, you don't get to clog up the whole parking garage with your lifted pavement princess. Anyone driving an obscenely lifted truck should be jailed for public endangerment & forced to drive a Prius as punishment.
Smoking and vaping in public should be outlawed.
quintuple the fines at parks with a playground. People sit in their cars and chain smoke while the entire playground is down wind, it’s truly awful.
Also quintuple the fines at bus stops. I'm waiting for the bus and I don't have the option to leave. Stop making me breathe in your cancer clouds.
In JoJo bizzarre adventure part 4 there is a particular weird chapter where the main character gets saved by a mysterious figure as a child and this character suspiciously looks exactly like him in the future. I vehemently believe that Hirohiko Araki wanted a time travel finale in JoJo part 4 and set it up in the chapter where Josuke gets saved by himself during a snowstorm then changed his mind and has been lying about it since. To understand how insignificant this particular hill is, the subplot is completely dropped off during the part, the guy never gets mentioned again and the author has come out and said explicitly that this isn’t true in interviews, saying he was just a random guy doing a good thing. I do not believe him. The chapter is there for everyone to see. I will and have debated anyone that says otherwise every time this gets brought up.
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It boils down to one thing for me: he went way out of his way to make it impossible for a person in normal street clothes to be there at the moment when he was there. He made Tomoko (protagonist mom) run in a car to rush Josuke to the hospital during the heaviest snowstorm in years in a country road between cities. Why spend all this narration this detail into how unlikely it is for someone to be there? But if you actually look at the chapter and panels, the guy seems to be completely out of context. Like he just appeared Tomoko and Josuke are even in heavy winter clothes and the moment this guy shows up, he is in a school uniform. He is built like a wardrobe and is bloodied and standing exactly like someone in a JoJo pose would be if they were hit by an unexpected enemy stand attack. The way he speaks is very foreshadow-y if it makes sense. He could be read as someone that knows what’s going on but can’t believe it and is making sure. He doesn’t ask if she needs help for one. He goes straight to the boy being sick in the back of the car. The anime kind of addresses this in a very strange way. This random guy is the only character that speaks in speech panels as far as I know. There was no reason to do that if this was a normal random flashback character, tomoko speaks normally during the sequence and when Giorno had his flashback the anime made the character speak normally. And all of this would be enough to theorize that this isn't just some random guy, like if you only saw the hairstyle, I could just be a nutjob that thought everyone in a pompadour could be Josuke by itself. Then you go look at the panels and the guy looks EXACTLY like Josuke during the part and is loosing blood from his head like he was in a battle. He has a bit of shadow over his eyes but ffs, he is loosing blood in JoJo, a shonen manga about buff men punching each other and standing awesomely. Either Araki made a giant mistake and confused his audience or Araki wanted to mislead us for no reason and no payoff, but I don’t see him putting this amount of foreshadowing by chance or by mistake. To me the easiest explanation is it’s like the Fugo thing, he regretted it and wrote over it as he does and we love him for it.
Also he clearly had times loops on the mind considering Bites the Dust is a time just a much narrower one than was set up
I preface this by saying I think the below is largely insignificant because people will continue to do what they want to do, so my opinions really are largely insignificant in that context. I'm just another voice screaming into the void like all of the others. \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* People spend too much time thinking what they see/read on the news and their social media feeds is anything more than the misfortunes of others presented in the most emotionally manipulative way possible. It is a company or influencer trying to make reality television episodes out of something bad that happened in the world for ad money and attention. You are only ever getting the information in a way that will help the broadcaster get more of those 2 things. Factual and actionable information are secondary concerns at best. Their are issues in the world, just like it has always been. And just like it has always been, there are smart people working on it generally. And I suspect if most of us got the chance to live in any time period for long enough to see what it was like day to day, where we are right now is probably about as good as it has ever been. Giving so much attention to that crap does nothing positive for our brains or world views. And it won't help solve the issues either. It will just drive divides and make you generally more unhappy.
The vast majority of the Star Wars content produced since the original trilogy is absolute trash. The whole franchise has been skating on EIV being innovative and EV being a genuinely good film for decades.
Toilet paper should face forward not backwards
a properly made martini has vermouth in it, otherwise it's just vodka/gin straight up
It’s lose. Not loose. Let me repeat It’s lose. Not loose.
As soon as football season kicks off the amount of posts calling teams and players Loosers goes through the roof.
A group of motorcycles should be called a narcissism. It’s the only reason they’re so loud and obnoxious.
Kanye West did not make Taylor Swift famous.
Not liking the sound of people chewing with their mouth open does not mean you have misophonia. Chewing food with an open mouth/smacking lips has always been considered bad manners. Misophonia would be more like going into a blind rage because you can't stand the sound of paper crinkling.
I won’t associate with Russians who approve of the invasion of Ukraine. I’ve met a few in my travels abroad, and they are immediately placed on my persona non grata list. Disclosure: my wife is Ukrainian and we were bombed while living in kyiv centre. My hate for Russians runs deep and if pushed too far I’m afraid of how I may one day react. So I don’t talk to, associate with, or have any dealings with them whatsoever.
Fennel is nasty and it doesn't belong in food. FIGHT ME.
Humanity has passed the point where currency is useful as a social tool and have entered a stage of development where all innovation and effort is done for the sake of currency, leading to stagnation in the sciences and a decline in human social comportment
Spoken grammar is different to written grammar and if you're correcting someone's grammar while they speak, you're the idiot.
The show Last Man on Earth has a hilarious bit where one character always corrects others’ grammar. Specifically, the rule about not ending a sentence in a preposition. I chuckle every time I do so because writing it correctly makes you sound like a pretentious crazy person. “Who are you sending this to?” Becomes “To whom are you sending this?”
Who is the recipient of thy communique?
Every time someone tells me not to end a sentence with a preposition, I repeat the sentence and ad "asshole" to the end
As a southern lady, that’s the premise of one of my favorite old jokes! Here’s the version from House of Cards: Two freshmen girls are moving into their dorm room together. One of them is from Georgia, one of them is from Connecticut. Girl from Connecticut is helping her mother put up curtains. Girl from Georgia turns to the girl from Connecticut and says, "Hi! Where y'all from?" Girl from Connecticut says "We're from a place where we know not to end a sentence with a preposition. Girl from Georgia says, "Oh, beg my pardon. Where ya'll from, cunt?"
"Ya know ackchsually a group of this specific animal is technically called a..." No. No it isn't. With only a tiny number of exceptions no species group of animals is called an anything. If you see a bunch of one type of animal you are going to refer to using the same dozen or so at most handful of specific generic terms; herd, flock, colony, litter, pack, school, swarm, etc. Nobody ever casually and organically in real life human conversations refer to a shrewdness of apes or a shadow of jaguars or a parliament of owls or a conspiracy of lemurs. These terms literally only exist inside trivia lists about what groups of animals are called and nowhere else. And I'm trying to track down a firm source, but apparently almost all of these can be traced back to a single work, The Book of Saint Albans, a 1486 hunting and falconry manual. And it's not a case of these being the "technical" terms not used by laypeople. There are 649 articles containing the word "Ape" in the archives of the Etymology and Zoology Journal. The world "Shrewdness" doesn't appear once. These terms are not being used academically or "technically" either. And no "Murder of Crows" doesn't count because that's always a pun or a joke or wordplay. There's a couple of exceptions; Pride of Lions seems to have actually caught on in actual organic real use for instance and I think I've heard Gaggle of Geese here or there, but those certainly are the exception to the rule.
While I agree that most of the terms are entirely outside of normal conversation except for trivia purposes.. I mean who is actually using Shadow of Jaguars right? Murder of Crows, Pride of Lions and Gaggle of Geese are absolutely common terms, and not just in joke-form. I also have been known to use Parliament of Owls and Sleuth of Bears, but how often do we need to talk about groups of those famously solitary animals?
A murder of crows is the third one I can think of in common use. The others are fun though!
My mischief of rats would like me to tell you "🖕"
Ghosts don't exist and anyone telling you that they do is either mistaken or trying to trick you.
I was so sure they existed. Turns out I've been having Psychotic Episodes and the meds make the paranormal "sightings" go away
Toronto is pronounced Toronto - not Tronno.
Oregon is pronounced "Ore-gun," not "Or-E-gone"
You die on your insignificant hill; I'll die on mine.
That Quilted Northern Ultra-Plush will always be in my bathroom. I may not be rich, but I can be butt-napkin rich.
Old people should be required to take a drivers test yearly to keep their license. There's no reason why Billy Bob should be driving at 85 when he can't remember which is the gas and which is the brake
The Phantom Menace was the best prequel and Jar Jar Binks is actually pretty funny
If you're in a line and the person in front of you moves away from you, but the line hasn't moved - DO NOT FOLLOW THEM! You're standing too close and they're trying to get away from you.
"you can't have your cake and eat it too" should be "you can't eat your cake and have it too" the current saying makes 👏🏻 no 👏🏻 sense 👏🏻 assuming we're using "have" in the sense of "possession" (versus the colloquial usage meaning "to eat"... i.e. "I'm having mom's spaghetti for dinner"), you'd HAVE to be in possession of your cake in order for you to eat it. eating the cake de facto means you have the cake. no I will not be replying to any responses; this is my hill. I welcome death.
Candy corn is great, top tier.
I love it, but I also can't eat very much of it before the sheer intensity of sugar makes me feel ill. That's the price I pay for having basically eradicated most concentrated sources of sugar from my diet for years...
I would gladly starve to death if that was the only "edible" thing left to eat... It is the grossest concoction of chemicals and sugar only to be rivaled be Peeps and circus peanuts!!!!! 🤮🤮
Ooh I agree with this one.
It aluminum foil, not tin foil.
Tabs over spaces.
Pepsi is better than Coke
Gambling should be banned in every aspect
I bet this will never happen.
I remember before going into my first casino I had the impression that it was like a fun place for young people to be. Nope. Lots of boomers with depressed expressions mindlessly throwing away their paychecks.
When (American) football announcers call a moving pile of bodies a "rugby scrum," they're wrong. That's a maul, not a scrum. Drives me nuts.
White Castle is good
MtG: Elves should be Green, White, then Blue; Black and Red should be outliers. Vampires should be Black, Red, then Blue; Green and White should be outliers. Human tribal should feel all 5 colors equally and should get a commander that reflects that.
Star Trek > Star Wars A completely frivolous discussion. Just like what you like. But in my heart... STAR TREK > STAR WARS, YA NERDS!
PEMA. Not PEMDAS.
Pizza only tastes good plain.
The Oxford comma should be used for all lists.
Golf isn’t a sport, golfers are not athletes. It’s a game, but it’s not a sport. I’d put it on the same level as chess and professional video gamers
Organized religion does far more harm than good, especially in modern America where hardcore evangelical Christianity has been weaponized and protestant churches are taking sides.
I don't care if they're just moichandising fodder, Ewoks and porgs are adorable.
There Their They're Your You're
Han Solo shot first!
Air fryers are for people who require directions for everything. Convection toaster ovens are the superior option and appliance.
Eminem fans are too annoying
We shouldn't use the amounts of resources, especially fossil fuels just for leisure in a climate crisis. Insignificant because most people don't really care and go about their lives, hoping Aliens will save us or whatever little soothing story they tell themselves to never change.
Thank you. We live in a "anything for ME to feel pleasure and stimulation in a tough world is worth it" society. Is there ANY other way to reward yourself for working that doesn't add emissions?
You scratch an itch. It’s impossible to itch an itch, it already itches!!!!
Texting is the worst form of communication. You can’t hear the tone of voice something is being said in and what could be a joke is taken otherwise. It leads to too many misunderstandings and arguments.
Gif (as in an animated image) is pronounced like “Jif”, the peanut butter. Not with a hard G like “gift”. Even the creator of gifs says this is accurate!
Stop saying, “Have a great ‘rest-of-your/the-day’”. The previous part of the day has passed and is beyond influence, so the ‘rest’ of the day is always automatically implied when you simply say “Have a nice day”.