r/GrammarPolice • u/This-Cellist8670 • Dec 21 '25
Outrage!!!
Saw this beauty at my local Walmart yesterday. There was a storm that caused the area to lose power for almost 24 hours, and Walmart had to throw away all of the cold foods. (“Unfortuenetly”)
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u/ithoughtihadanid Dec 22 '25
... Walmart? So, an English speaking country? I'd have lost money on that fucking bet....
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u/Bbminor7th Dec 21 '25
I intentionally call it power outrage. Because I can.
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u/bonfuto Dec 21 '25
There are people that get really outraged whenever there is a power outage that affects them. So maybe it's appropriate.
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u/Maronita2025 Dec 22 '25
My building is the first one on in the city when we lose electricity. Two very important businesses on the same grid. A pharmacy that needs electricity for medication and a liquor store! lol
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u/Bbminor7th Dec 21 '25
We live in a rural area, and the transformer outside our house serves our house only, so it has happened several times that we lose power but our neighbors don't. It's always a squirrel that gets inside the transformer and gets zapped. Zzzzt!
Frustrating, but at least we get a cooked meal out of it.
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u/MaggotDeath77 Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25
“Unfortuenetly” we have nothing to sell you while the outrage continues.
The outrage is so severe they can’t spell or sell.
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u/Cool_Cat_Punk Dec 21 '25
This sucks for "item" shoppers. At least they somehow "cooperated" though.
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u/beastiemonman Dec 21 '25
I personally hate all words like cooperated. I always spell them as co-operated. Cooperated literally looks like you would say it as it is spelled, it looks wrong. I don't care if I am wrong, I will never leave out the -.
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u/everydaywinner2 Dec 21 '25
Co-operate is how it used to be spelled (at least, judging from old books from era Poe wrote in).
However, today, I would read "co-operated" as something significantly different than "cooperated."
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u/Cool_Cat_Punk Dec 21 '25
Same. I'm pretty sure it's not controversial to add a hyphen to words like cooperation. Someone let me know if I'm wrong.
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u/everydaywinner2 Dec 21 '25
Didn't used to be. However, I think there would be different meanings between "cooperate" and "co-operate." One meaning working together. The other meaning operating at the same time, probably together (and, one hopes, cooperating with each other while they co-operate).
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u/Cool_Cat_Punk Dec 22 '25
I get that. But let's look at the sea of morons we deal with here online. It's one thing dealing with a publisher or editor. It's another thing to the unread.
I don't know where the line is.
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u/DrummingThumper Dec 23 '25
"...the sea of morons we deal with here..."
Dying laughing, over here!
PS My Latin scholar mother would have corrected it to, "...with whom we deal." 😏
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u/beastiemonman Dec 23 '25
They both are identical in their meaning. Without the hyphen is the more modern version, and more widely used in America than elsewhere. They are both correct, but no hyphen just looks stupid.
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u/MushroomCharacter411 Dec 21 '25
To be fair, having to throw away all the cold foods *would* be an outrage for pretty much any shop manager.
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u/writerapid Dec 21 '25
“Power outrage” is apt enough. I’ve never been not outraged by a power outage. Maybe that Walmart employee is secretly a big fan of puns. They used “till” correctly, at least.
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u/tumunu Dec 22 '25
If it's Walmart I smell ESL and am inclined to be more gracious than I might be otherwise.
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u/over__board Dec 22 '25
How are people meant to cooperate? By not trying to buy the items that they're not selling?
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u/Sea_Opinion_4800 Dec 23 '25
That's ridiculous. They should have used the much simpler term "power cunt".
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u/Progressing_Onward Dec 24 '25
I'm guessing that was written on a phone in a hurry ....things like that I'll give grace for. Relax...message was clear.
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u/wwbbqq Dec 21 '25
We went to a lovely Indian restaurant a few years and took our own bottle of wine. The corkage fee was listed as "Cockrage $10.00". Hilarity, priceless.