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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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[–] ForthEorlingas@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's "I could not care less" not "I could care less". If you could care less, then that means you care. If you can't care less, then that means you are all out of fucks to give.

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[–] Generic_Handel@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] DSLeMaster@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] SevenSwell@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year 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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[–] wim@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year 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).

[–] polaroid@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] gzrrt@kbin.social 6 points 1 year 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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[–] noeontheend@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year 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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[–] Kryostar@mastodon.online 6 points 1 year ago

@thrawn21 Phones are too big, too heavy and too complicated. A few years ago my now "regular" sized phone would be called a tablet.

[–] mtizim@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year 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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[–] corytheboyd@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Tabs make more sense than spaces.

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[–] TheBaldness@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Pizza is not made on a grill or with cornmeal on the bottom, it's made on a hot stone, with flour on the bottom of the dough to keep it from sticking. It also does not ever touch pineapples or ranch dipping sauce. What in the actual fuck is wrong with people?

[–] UnhealthyPersona@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I won't question the cooking on stone part, but as far as toppings on pizza go I honestly don't care. Everyone has different tastes and if someone wants to put whatever abomination on their pizza so be it.

Also I actually like pineapple on pizza, but it's not my favorite. I don't know why people get so offended by it

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[–] surrendertogravity@wayfarershaven.eu 6 points 1 year 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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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not a biscuit, it's a scone. Biscuits are cooked twice (it's in the name), you bake them then dry them.

[–] colournoun@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIL: "The Old French word bescuit is derived from the Latin words bis (twice) and coquere, coctus (to cook, cooked), and, hence, means "twice-cooked". This is because biscuits were originally cooked in a twofold process: first baked, and then dried out in a slow oven."

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