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What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on? (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago by notnotmike@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Good lord that less/fewer shit is nit picky and annoying.

[-] BambiDiego@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

However annoyed you are when somebody corrects that, it's how annoyed they are when someone makes the mistake in the first place.

Not saying anyone is right, but I am saying the one making the mistake, the one correcting, and the one complaining that it's annoying to correct them, are all petty bitches.

It's annoying.

[-] Eiri@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Lol I bet humanity is 50-50 on that one. Some annoyed by the mistake; others by the correction. No middle ground.

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I think so too but that gif of Weird Al is funny af.

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 0 points 3 months ago

I'd like fewer water in my glass please.

Remove around 2×10^5^ molecules.

[-] BalooWasWahoo@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 3 months ago

Oh god, the waiter just added twice that by breathing! Sentence him!

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 0 points 3 months ago

Just set the AC to "dry" and wait a minute

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