I'm bored waiting for SDK Paint to be approve by Nintendo, so I thought I'd share some things that bother me...
3. Finger pierces toilet paper while wiping This is just a gross one and a sign of someone buying cheap toilet paper. Double-ply easily solves it. Let's quickly move on before the image sticks in your head too long.
2. Polemic arguments by someone who doesn't know why he/she holds the views This one is more difficult to solve than the previous one because of its prevalence in modern society. I'm sure you know plenty of people who start arguments but can't back up the viewpoints, so that person tries to change the subject when you present facts to counter the views. Topics can be politics, religion, the best Ninja Turtle, Justin Bieber's hairdo, or anything else of utmost importance.
1. People who put the dollar sign after the price I don't understand how someone in the United States can be bombarded numerous times per day with advertisements from childhood onward and still get this wrong. I also don't see how someone could have ever gone shopping and still get this wrong. Come on: $1.99... $2.99... $3.99 There, was that hard? Whenever I read something, no matter the situation or topic, and I catch someone misusing the very simple dollar sign, I quit reading. The content I'm reading may be the most eloquent and informative, but I'll think you are an uneducated moron if the symbol for full numeric increments is placed on the side of the number where the symbol for decimal increments does. Before decimal point: dollars, after decimal point: cents.
When people put the British Pound (£ symbol in front of the number it's SO annoying...
But in some European places they put the Euro (&euro symbol after the whole price so I guess it's a matter of where you live. But when someone living in a country that officially uses a format of, eg. £109.99 or $119.99 (nb., .99s are also one of my pet peeves) uses The Format That Shall Not Be Typed™ then yeah, I look at them and go, "Did you go to primary school?" (I think that's elementary over there in the states? It's ages 5-11).
Let me see if I can put those into a single paragraph.
I'm not spending 5$ for toilet paper. I rather go for the cheap one ply brand and only use one square to make the toilet paper last. Times are tough in this economy. We should be saving, not spending. Let supply side fix the economy. The economy will fix itself. Keep the government out of the economy.
There. Do I win yet?
HullBreach
27 Aug 2014 22:42
In reply to Star Shadow
I'm not sure what you said, since I stopped reading a few words into it. Can someone translate?
Cappuccino
29 Aug 2014 00:33
In reply to HullBreach
Let me see if I can put those into a single paragraph.
I'm not spending $5 for toilet paper. I rather go for the cheap one ply brand and only use one square to make the toilet paper last. Times are tough in this economy. We should be saving, not spending. Let supply side fix the economy. The economy will fix itself. Keep the government out of the economy.
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Honestly, whenever I was just a kid (like...six), I thought it was (for example: ) •number• •cash symbol• (didn't actually do it! )
You see it and say one dollar. one dollar. Makes people think it's 1$ instead of $1
Star Shadow
29 Aug 2014 03:13
In reply to Cappuccino
-facepalm- That paragraph was meant to be a combination of all the 3 pet peeves listed above. Putting the dollar sign after the number, supporting the use of one ply toilet paper, and not supporting my reason for supply side economics.
Cappuccino
29 Aug 2014 03:48
In reply to Star Shadow
I didn't mean to reply to you! XD I know it was because right after I post my comment I sent Hully a message with his pet peeves!