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”
The seventh planet from the sun should be called Caelus not Uranus. All the other planets get named after the Roman equivalent of their respective god, why should that one get special treatment just so people can make puerile jokes.
EDIT: spelling
While it broke the previous pattern, the reasoning is solid, and he’s the guy who confirmed it’s actually a planet (when it was first discovered, meant thought it might just be a comet or something like that), so I’m cool with letting him name it how he pleases.
But regardless of what the creator says, hard G on “gif”. Sorry man, closest analogue is “gift”, and my brain is going to want to pronounce a ‘word’ that starts with the same 3 letters, the same way.
The reasoning is solid, sure, but why is it derived from Greek instead of the Roman name Caelus?
‘He preferred that’ is all the reason there needs to be, I guess, lol.
I used to say G.I.F. before I heard people calling it gif.
Also, I don’t have enough people I need to talk to about it, using sound, so it’s mostly just in writing.
You know before this post I didn’t have a dog in this fight but now I am right beside you on this hill and it will be Caelus in my mind from now on.
So easier to talk seriously about, as you point out.
There are dozens of us!
Don’t worry, it finally gets renamed in 2630
What good is life without purerile jokes?
TIL
All this time I assumed Uranus was just the Roman equivalent of Ouranos.
*puerile