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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    a couple always means two.

    every time anyone says “a couple”, i ask them if they mean two. it’s not pleasant exchange for either of us, but it must be done

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    Bilbo says he feels like butter spread over too much bread.

    Just don’t eat all the bread! If I have too much bread, I freeze it. I don’t butter it with a tragically small amount of butter.

    The line should be like “too little butter spread over bread” or something.

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    It’s “an historical,” not “a historical.” I don’t care if that’s outdated, that’s proper.

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    The use of apostrophe’s to denote plural’s need’s to stop. I will dispatch a syphilitic spidermonkey to fuck your face in your sleep if you do that shit when talking to me.

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    • Syllabuses, not syllabi
    • Matrixes, not matrices
    • Indexes, not indices
    • Cactuses, not cacti

    Standardize plurals!

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    If you can’t scan your groceries at self check out under 3 minutes go to a register when it’s busy. You’re people are holding the rest of us up. I can scan a full cart faster than some can scan their 10 items.

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    The word “literally” has been forever ruined by people who use it to mean “figuratively.” Worse, there is now literally no way to actually convey the original meaning of the word “literally” in a concise, clear way.

    You have to say something like, “A is literally 10 times bigger than B…and I mean that ACTUALLY literally.” And then people will STILL assume that you’re speaking figuratively.