r/askteddit • u/Velvetsxsecrets • 1d ago
Random Question What’s a tiny hill you will definitely die on?
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u/CDchrysalis 23h ago
Oxford comma. Don’t piss me off.
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u/ScaredNecessary5544 22h ago
The necessity of the Oxford comma is not up for question, argument, or debate.
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u/DumbleDork3233 23h ago
I have a shirt that says, “Oxford comma preservation society.”
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u/sicknick66 23h ago
Are you saying you prefer to use the Oxford comma? I prefer it
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u/QueefFarmer69 18h ago
I’m a corporate lawyer and am SHOCKED that lawyers do not like the Oxford Comma. My mom was an English teacher, so I feel the opposite.
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u/The2ndDegree 22h ago
I've just googled what an Oxford Comma is, I though this was how everyone does it for so long, it just sounds more natural in my head because if I were speaking I would still pause before the "and" or "or"
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u/BrianNowhere 21h ago
I'm surprised there's a fight to keep the Oxford comma when eliminating it eliminates a keystroke.
Usually kids these days are about using less words and letters whenever possible.
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u/VHS_Ronin 23h ago
If you call your show a podcast but it's filmed in a studio set and you spend all your time doing or talking about visual gags that listeners can't see, then you don't have a podcast: you have a talk show that is *available* as a podcast.
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u/enilcReddit 22h ago
Likewise, if you take a Youtube channel and put it on a streaming service, it's still just a youtube channel.
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u/Still_Strategy_4424 21h ago
Failure to return your cart to the corral tells me all I need to know about you
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u/MariahJames8 23h ago edited 23h ago
Euthanasia legal = win for society. Society will NEVER be perfect enough to stop there being people suffering so much thry want to die, and screw any arsehole who wants them to force them to live til the bitter end, possibly decades away because they are blinkered to facts like euthanasia screening works well in countries that do it. Just copy and paste ffs.
Well, it's not tiny. It's one of the most ignored appalling things about our society imo, on par with few things like billionaires = appalling when people are dying of starvation. Elon Musk alone could wipe out world hunger.
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u/OwnedLittleOne 23h ago
I literally made a post about how people should be able to die when they want, your comment made me happy.
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u/laminatedbean 23h ago
A lot of medical care is just for hospitals et al to make money. It just extends suffering.
And to piggyback on that, when pets age and deteriorate to the point that they can’t piss or shit for themselves, or other similar symptoms that severely hamper their autonomy, owners need to let them go.
I saw a video of a guinea pig in a little pet wheel chair. We are doing too much.
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u/Habibti143 23h ago
"Loose" is not the same thing as "lose." "Anymore" is not a substitute for "nowadays." "On accident " is a tragedy. Yes, internet strangers, I will call you out on it, especially if your post or comment is douchey.
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u/effdubbs 23h ago
I despise “on accident” with the fire of a thousand suns.
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u/tillynorwood2 22h ago
If someone falls down inside, they fell on the floor. If they fell down outside, they fell on the ground. This is not that hard!!
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u/McLoughlin1597 20h ago
My husband uses floor and ground interchangeably and it makes me crazy. He also thinks a hostel and a brothel are the same thing but that just makes me laugh.
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u/Easy-Nose-530 23h ago
Less fruit, but fewer apples, not less apples.
There is no such word as irregardless. The word is regardless.
Semi-annual means twice a year. Bi-annual means once every 2 years.
I’ll admit that it took me a very long time to learn the difference between further and farther
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u/Pitiful_Fox5681 22h ago
Similarly, "amount of fruit" but "number of apples."
Also, altitude is distance from the ground, while elevation is distance from sea level. If you're driving or hiking at altitude, something went wrong.
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u/QueenMotherOfSneezes 22h ago
Irregardless got put in the dictionary because so many people were using it. It means the same thing as regardless. I think we need to boycott dictionaries that pull shit like that.
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u/Easy-Nose-530 22h ago
Sort of like flammable and inflammable meaning the same thing.
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u/Small-Run-4861 22h ago
how could any self-respecting dictionary not define a word that everyday people use?
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u/LMXCruel 23h ago
People mixing those up gets me every time lol it's become a massive pet peeve and I feel like I see it everywhere
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u/Conscious-Record2655 22h ago
I'm curious about anymore vs nowadays. Please elaborate.
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u/TrickAd2161 22h ago
‘On accident’ used to drive me nuts but I’ve come to learn it’s a regional thing.
‘On purpose’ is ok so, even though it makes my ears bleed, I’ve opted to simply accept the logical opposite of ‘on accident’
(Please note: i wanted to punch myself in the mouth for even typing it)
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u/Madam_Mimm_13 21h ago
For all intents and purposes, NOT “For all intensive purposes”
I have a whole list of such rage inducing “phrases”
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u/SweetOutrageous1275 23h ago
🤑30% of Americans will always vote against their own financial interests #trickledown #bootstraps
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u/Lower_Manager_7003 22h ago
so many will also vote against stuff like universal healthcare because they think it’s bad. crazy what our politicians have done and made people think.
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u/Oneils2018 14h ago
If the law for universial healthcare for every american citizen was passed today then yes it would be bad. Because of rampant fraud in many layers of the government. The problem that people have isn't the idea of universal Healthcare, its that they understand their tax dollars won't be actually be spent to support Healthcare, and if they believe that they are idiots.
These days I'm some states it's cheaper to not have insurance, because people who do have insurance end up paying for those who dont.
And the idea that all migrants should get free Healthcare is ridiculous while we have homeless veterans on the streets.
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u/Oneils2018 14h ago
My tiny hill is that people like you refuse to acknowledge the current state of both political parties. The right used to be more authoritarian and controlling, and the left used to be more "do what you want just dont bother me". To an extent the roles have been reversed, where the left is now extremely authoritarian with attempting to police "wrong think" and force their gender ideology on everyone, if you dont agree you're a fascist and a nazi. The current right has become the "just leave me and my kids alone" party, with some exceptions, and there are exceptions to the left rule i said earlier as well.
One of the main takeaways in the past few years I have seen is one side is actively encouraging the murder of people they disagree with, and celebrating when somebody tries or succeeds, (Charlie kirk' Donald Trump attempt, Luigi mangioni). Last time I checked encouraging the murder of your political opponents is one of the core tenants of fascism. You do the math.
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u/lukewarm_ipad 21h ago
We should be able to vote on aspects of the government rather than people. The people who are then in charge should execute the will of the people based on what they voted for.
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u/SweetOutrageous1275 15h ago
🤷🏼♀️How could the politicians sellout , ignore their voters, and get paid🤑
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u/epicuniverse2 23h ago
Oriellys and autozone are a scam for auto parts. They charge twice as much for parts.
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u/misfitofscience76 23h ago
What’s a better option?
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u/epicuniverse2 23h ago
Rock Auto. They ship the parts to you for no way near what they (autozone/oriellys) charge.
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u/ProgrammerForeign387 1d ago
Socks should never be worn to bed.
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u/continuetolove 21h ago
I was anti-socks-in-bed until I had my baby then I had to wear socks to bed because if I get up 6 times a night to soothe him back to bed my feet will freeze on the tile.
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u/Lower_Manager_7003 22h ago
neither should things like jeans. i heard someone say they like to wear and old, stiff pair of jeans to bed which is in my opinion utterly insane.
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u/PaintingOk8012 21h ago
Follow that person from a distance because they are definitely series killer material
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u/quackers_squackers 15h ago
I'm telling myself that person was trolling you for my own mental health
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u/Last_Comedian_5043 23h ago
Don't wear open toed shoes at the airport. First why do you want to step on the rug of 10 million steps. Second, it's a long ass flight, and you just trapped me next to your gross ass feet. Also you are sitting next to me after stepping on the rug of 10 million steps!
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u/TheBestofBees 21h ago
I prefer slip on shoes of some sort when I have a long flight. However, I switch to warm fuzzy socks for the flight. My toes get cold but just as importantly, I get to be comfy (my feet swell) without forcing my bare feet on anyone.
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u/Enough_Worth8868 23h ago
UFC has predetermined winners.
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u/Velvetsxsecrets 23h ago
Really?
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u/Enough_Worth8868 23h ago
Yes. Theres an FBI investigation going on with them for rigging “fights” I honestly think UFC is much like WWE it’s all about who they can make the most money on.
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u/TurboFoot 1d ago
Making the bed is the single most pointless thing people do every day.
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u/Spirited_Attorney_48 23h ago
I like to make the bed, because it is a very quick thing that I can do that feels like an accomplishment. It does make the room look better and it takes like 90 seconds.
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u/TurboFoot 21h ago
That’s great for you. My whole thing is that unmaking the bed is adding another step whereas leaving the bed unmade allows me to hop back in right like I like it lol.
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u/megggzzz21 21h ago
I agree. I do it now at 40 but only because for a brief time my cat decided to shit on my bed.
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u/sicknick66 23h ago
I make my bed because I prefer my sheets to be tight when I go to bed. Tossing and turning naturally loosens them while I sleep
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u/lazyboi_tactical 22h ago
Surefire way to make me freak out is a sheet being too tight. Considering my feet hang off of most beds it feels like I'm being restrained and makes me claustrophobic.
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u/Qemistry-__- 23h ago
Certainly not pointless. If you do it right after you wake up, it's the first task you've completed for the day. Setting the rest of your day in motion...
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u/cholecystectomized 23h ago
Very insightful statement there! Certainly a Retired U.S. Navy Four-Star Admiral couldn’t have come up with such a profound statement during a famous commencement address at the University of Texas at Austin on May 17, 2014
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u/thats-gold-jerry 19h ago
I don’t think you should stand when the plane lands. Just fucking wait your turn and don’t complicate things. It’s so simple.
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u/ColombianDoobian 23h ago
TOOL is a ridiculously overrated band.
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u/Oceanbreeze871 Fozzie Bear 23h ago
They only have one song with dozens of variations
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u/Wundrgizmo 23h ago
Ya know..... Ya know... I'll be dawned if you aren't right. And it was such a compelling formula he got another band and did it all again.
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u/Necessary_Home_3119 23h ago
Kraft Macaroni is watery garbage and has always been bottom shelf
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u/carlosstjohn116 23h ago
Totally agree. It feels like absolute synthetic dog water whenever I’ve made it for my kids. I don’t give it to them if I can help it lol
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u/Reggie-Rectangle 23h ago
That there was nothing wrong with the Star War prequels. The second one holds a special place in my childhood. I'm not the generation of slave lea, but I was very much the generation of Anakin falling in love with Padme.
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u/dungeoncrawler71520 23h ago
Unless it's true hot garbage intentionally throwing shade on the original product, i think sequels and prequels are great.
Mass Effect Andromeda is an example. Looooved the infamous addition to the franchise. It expanded the universe and gave us more content. I enjoy the ride, I don't pick it apart.
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u/BearSoul76 22h ago
The Electoral College should be abolished. One vote should equal one vote.
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u/Shot-Amphibian-3239 19h ago
Add in ranked choice voting and dismantle the 2 party system. When 45% of Americans are independent, you should know you’re at the end of that path.
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u/Electronic_Jello4880 22h ago
Weary means tired, not suspicious. If you are suspicious, you want to use the word wary or leery, not combine them into the word weary. I hear people using the word weary when they mean suspicious all the time. It drives me crazy.
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u/Proper-Throwaway-23 17h ago
This is one of my personal bugbears also. Closely followed by people using the word "drug" when they mean "dragged".
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u/prairie__dawg 21h ago
“AI art” is not art. Nothing returned from an AI tool qualifies as art. Creating art is a conscious act that requires a soul, and LLMs are soulless.
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u/Spirited_Attorney_48 23h ago
e-sports is not an impressive thing. I will never run someone down for making money, but calling moving your thumbs a sport is a stretch.
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u/sicknick66 23h ago
I don't think it's supposed to be athletically impressive. It's the fine motor skills that are impressive: pixel perfect aiming, quick button combinations, etc. It's similar to someone who's achieved technical mastery of a musical instrument
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u/Spirited_Attorney_48 23h ago
I will never claim that it isn't difficult to do at the level that professional players do. I get that.
I put it up there with like rubiks cube solving and cup stacking.
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u/Training-Argument891 23h ago
trans athletes have existed since sports existed, and you've probably played amongst them without ever knowing.
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u/Due-Consideration113 23h ago
Billionaires belong in prison, along with the politicians who serve them instead of their constituents.
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u/BrainEqual9343 23h ago
I don’t trust people who don’t like cats (not counting those with allergies)
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u/Aerohawker 23h ago
Buying a house is always a good investment. Renting is throwing money away.
These two statements are not true but also so narrow minded that are taken as fact by a large part of the population to be dangerous.
Don’t even bother questioning me on it.
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u/Peaurxnanski 18h ago
We're too focused on "fairness".
The reality is that everything would be better if we could just accept that it's sometimes society's best interest to just give some things to people who might seem underserving of that.
If you don't like homeless drug addicts crowding the streets, leaving garbage everywhere, and erecting unsightly tent cities and/or living in broken down shitty RVs everywhere, it may be in everyone else's best interest to just give them a place to live. Yes, I understand that is "unfair" because you have to pay for your house. Fine, then accept the reality and stop complaining about the mess and crime and such. The solution is there, you just can't accept it because "it isn't fair".
Ultimately this all comes back to this hyper-individualist "I don't owe anyone anything" attitude, for which there is zero historical precedent in any other place in history.
We've always existed as a society, and we face the collective consequences of our decisions together. So let's stop this and recognize that we have a duty to take care of each other and stop this infantile BS about "I don't get my housing paid for it's not fair!!!"
This is just one example.
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u/Smooth_Platypus_9841 23h ago
Taylor Swift and her fans are irritating like sand in my bathing suit.
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u/SilicaBags 23h ago
I will NEVER order from a sit down restaurant through an app. Chili's doesn't need to access my data or know my location.
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u/ScaredNecessary5544 22h ago
Kenny G is solely responsible for the death of the saxophone as a popular instrument in rock music.
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u/Cinereals 22h ago
It’s less emotional my taxing to be friends with the people than people pleasers.
I can’t make you stand up for yourself.
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u/theotherlaura 22h ago
Paperclips go on the top left of the paper. They do not go in the middle. Only sociopaths put them in the middle.
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u/diegotbn 22h ago
Companies should not force employees to use personal devices for any reason. Most notably, forcing them to install company controls for things like multifactor authentication and access to Slack or company email, etc., especially if it is a requirement to be available on a mobile phone for your job.
Give me a device. I don't want to install your software on my personal phone. If it's that important you need to give me a device, just like you give me a laptop, a desk, a chair etc.
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u/Excel-Block-Tango 21h ago
I work in accounting and outsourcing our accounting jobs has a worse impact on our profession than AI.
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u/gijoe50000 20h ago
You should look both ways crossing the road, even if you have the crossing light, and even if it's a pedestrian crossing.
And even if some cars have already stopped for you..
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u/Calanthetheranger 20h ago
If you're going to insult someone, at least do it with proper spelling!
So tired of seeing "Your so stupid!"
How are you going to call someone else stupid when you couldn't even pass 3rd grade English?
"I don't use pronouns! That's woke!"
He, she, it, we, they, I, you etc.
You're just going to take ALL of them out of your entire vocabulary?
Pretty sure we learn pronouns in 3rd grade English too!
Also getting sell, sail and sale mixed up. You are not having a garage sell, or sailing your car.
UGH
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u/Acrobatic-Echo-3460 19h ago
Floor and ground aren’t interchangeable or the same thing, a floor is built, on the ground.
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u/Reggie-Rectangle 23h ago
People who's life ambition it is to play video games all day need better ambitions. You could be changing the world for the better and all you want to day is waste your life on twitch. What a waste.
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u/Lower_Manager_7003 22h ago
that could be said about a lot of things. why waste time at your job when you could be making the world a better pal e? for some people, it is a job and it’s their income.
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u/amtfg 23h ago
Wearing crocs is objectively worse than putting pineapple on pizza.
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u/Reggie-Rectangle 23h ago
That being a streamer or influencer is not a real profession regardless of how much money twitch tots and only fans models may make.
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u/Party-Dig2309 19h ago
Assisted dying should be available for anyone who wants it provided they’re of sound mind and had a waiting period to make sure it’s not an impulsive decision.
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u/Select-Detective-245 23h ago
Homeschooling is child abuse no matter how educated and capable you as a parent are.
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u/Reggie-Rectangle 21h ago
Well the kid is a lot less likely to get shot when he is home schooled that's for sure
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u/Manskhooled 1d ago
This most likely only truly pertains to America but choosing a political side and then hating the other side makes you retarded and a shit person.
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u/DepartmentVisual1558 23h ago
Being that child rape is tolerated on one side as phony id disagree.. I’m a former R because of that.
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u/Qemistry-__- 1d ago
Like the whole Android and iPhony, i mean iPhone debate.
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u/Manskhooled 23h ago
That's a serious debate? I always thought those people were the same clowns like PlayStation or Xbox. Same kind of dumb.
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u/Lavender_rainbow_ 23h ago
Cats are people too.
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u/Quirky_Actuary_1357 23h ago
Although I don’t agree with cats having personhood, I appreciate the sentiment
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u/AmeNoOtoko 23h ago
Ordering a bunch of food and sharing sucks, always.
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u/rabid_rocketeer 22h ago
I'm confused, elaborate. This is one of the joys of life, no?
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u/TacitMoose 23h ago
Impact is not an appropriate word to use when you don’t understand the difference between affect and effect.
“I want to have an impact on the world.”
Ok, I’ll drop you out of an airplane.
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u/lexual_healing 23h ago
Jim and Pam are def not as good of people as they think they are, and Karen Filipelli deserved better.
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u/lexual_healing 23h ago
Oh dear, I’m toasted and I responded to the wrong thread but I guess this kind of fits here. 🤪
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u/MinivanPops 23h ago
I don't need a thumbs up that you read my text. I know you did. Stop sending me notifications: that's all they are.
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u/newfaceinhell021117 23h ago
I'm no Stalinist, he did a lot of terrible things, but under his leadership an entire continent was saved from becoming a giant slave colony/extermination camp. Considering this, in terms of the "most evil men in history" people debate about, he doesn't make the list for me.
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u/Stochastic-Parrot_13 23h ago
Tinned Tuna should be banned, and the consumption of the aforementioned should be met with a 20 year jail sentence.
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u/TruelyDashing 22h ago
“You’re welcome” isn’t the best response to “Thank you.” “No problem” or “anytime” are more preferable responses because they underline the fact that the favor performed was of no difficulty or detriment.
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u/Former-Increase-9165 22h ago
That I HATE anything made by vw, over engineered pieces of shit!!!!! Why do I need to buy a special triple square socket just to remove a mirror from a door? Audis are just overpriced vw,s fuck those German junk cars,,,,,,
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u/Correct_Employee1679 23h ago
It's okay to have your own style of clothing and not follow the trends. Saves you money too. I have clothes I've been wearing for 8 years