What hills are you dying on?

[justathroughdaway@lemmy.world]

Thongs aren't uncomfortable

[mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee]

Question about the first one. Do you consider English a living language that evolves over time?

To that point, do you ever phonetically say boatswain instead of bosun? Which way do you spell it? How do you (personally) pronounce Worcestershire sauce? How do you feel about onomatopoeias in general?

I would argue that words evolve with vernacular and sometimes the spellings become antiquated. In the case of Worcestershire sauce, pronunciation can vary greatly from spelling. If ketchup bothers you, are onomatopoeias even words to you?

Eventually, insisting on the old spelling becomes more ridiculous than going with the newer. Since you spell it catsup, can you bring yourself to use a squeeze bottle for it or are you still tapping that 57 hoping to get it to ooze?

Seriously though, since this is the hill you'll die on, convince me otherwise about vernacular and spelling.

[mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee]

I didn't think your original points seemed controversial enough to even be hills, but this ONE! This right here... I don't even have a clue what it is.

[venusaur@lemmy.world]

Owning a pug is animal cruelty

EDIT: adding bulldogs and other snub-nosed pets that wouldn’t exist without selective breeding by humans.

[reverendender@sh.itjust.works]

Your opinion of Monty Python is bad, and you should feel bad.

The word Data was originally a plural word, and should be again, for all time

[can@sh.itjust.works]

AKA Polandball

[plum@lemmy.world]

Alphebetizing by the "The" should be a criminal act.

[darkdarkhouse@lemmy.sdf.org]

• ISO 8601 (e.g., 2025-05-23) are the only correct date formats.
• We should stop using time zones and daylight saving.

[kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Seconded on Monty Python - he should feel terrible about that travesty.

Also a shower per day minimum for everyone is necessary and that’s the hill I’m dying on. Clean your stinky arse up.

[cattywampas@lemm.ee]

American cheese is cheese as much as sausage is meat.

[fondots@lemmy.world]

I'm a fat, unsexy dude, I bought a goofy leopard-print thong to get a laugh out of my life wife once

It's not my favorite pair of undies by a longshot, I still prefer my usual boxer-briefs, but it's certainly not uncomfortable. Even wore it to my city's naked bike ride to bike around in.

[zak@lemmy.world]

If I do not have or cannot easily get root access to a computer, I don't really own it.

[suck_on_my_presence@lemmy.world]

You should use your blinker when turning into a parking space

[pwnicholson@lemmy.world]

Looking at you, Google Play Library.

[pwnicholson@lemmy.world]

ISO dates, 100%.

Time zones...I could see arguing to rework them, but abolish them? How would that even work?

[justathroughdaway@lemmy.world]

Yeah sure dude, you totally did it cuz it was funny.

Same here. There not my favourite but there not as bad as people make them out to be. I mostly wear them as men like them. I did a music video a few years back as a backup dancer and I woar one underneath some sweatpants. Maybe it's because I have histrionic personality disorder but I like to look sexy. Not like a hooker or a stripper but more in a seductive way like a belly dancer or a show girl.

[spacefox@lemmy.ml]

"Your opinion of Monty Python is bad, and you should feel bad."

How? I didn't even say it was bad just not as good as people say it is. It's ok but it can only be random for so long. Once you've seen one episode you've seen them all. Monty Python is no different to those old asdfmovie videos.

[ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works]

Dampening is making things wet. Damping is reducing oscillations in something.

Every time I hear or read people using them interchangeably is infuriating.

[stephen@lemmy.today]

For the “Midwest”, in my opinion:

• Ohio is in the Midwest (or at least the places you can order “pop”…maybe this isn’t a thing in Ohio…I don’t know…Ohio sucks…Go Blue)
• North/South Dakota shouldn’t be
• Kansas shouldn’t be
• Nebraska shouldn’t be

[spacefox@lemmy.ml]

You can about geopolitics in a simplified and comedic way but there's a limit. If I used sock puppets to explain the election to you wouldn't you would think that I thought you were the stupidest person ever?

It's like, I'm an adult I can understand the concept of countries not liking each other without the need of simplistic cartoons. This is how you would explain geopolitics to a five-year-old.