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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Pickles should be served as a spear on the side as a palate cleanser between the sandwich and the fries/chips and have no place on the sandwich.

Of course there’s always the exception to the rule, the Cuban sub.

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Go on and get up on that hill, because you’re dead-ass wrong about this.

You’re telling me you ain’t putting pickles on a hamburger? In a tuna salad?? On fried chicken sandwich???

You should be institutionalized for your depravity.

Tho I agree the dill pickle spear makes a great palate cleanser and that more meals should contain this element if not in dill pickle spear form, in some other acidic tasty treat.

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It better not be touching any part of my food till I’m ready though. I don’t want my bun getting soggy from it.

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When I’m packing sandwiches I’ll keep the tomato and pickle separate for just this reason

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Preach it. The pickles just turn to mush from the heat of the sandwich and that ain’t right.

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Using the wrong pickles, then. Get the deli style thicker versions, and they never go mushy.

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A pallet cleanser also implies that you wait to eat your fries/chips after your done with your sandwich. Those things are getting eaten at the same time. Hell, sometimes the fries are going on the sandwich

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A proper Reuben features pickles, sauerkraut, corned beef, Swiss cheese and Russian dressing. Most restaurants will replace the pickles and Russian dressing with Thousand Island dressing. Blasphemers.

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Life arises from beautiful choas, where in the random but rhythmic dance of chance evolution gives rise to incomprehensible and beautiful complexity made possible by rafts of soul crushing failures buoying the statistical miracle of success.

I am sorry your genes are of bad stock and you’ve been deprived of enjoying the best of this world.

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Petty hill

If you keep correcting very minor grammatical mistakes when I am speaking, such as “you mean fewer, not less”, I will just stop talking to you entirely

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Technically, I wait until you’re done speaking to strike

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Turns out language is pretty damn flexible. Even if I made an obvious mistake, you meant what I knew.

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It’s simple though. If you can count it, it’s fewer. If not, it’s less.

Fewer people. Less noise.

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That isn’t a grammatic rule. Some guy in the recent past was like “I think it sounds better that way.” It was his personal preference.

That’s all.

They’ve always been used interchangeably, for as long as English has been a written language.

People who love to “correct” this are just showing ass to anyone who knows any better haha.

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This is a way in which you can discredit any attempt at proposing correct or logical language use. Yes, language changes. Your assertions are still debatable. English is ambiguous enough as is. It’s not ‘showing ads’ to propose some form of consistent or logical usage of words. I’m happy to count that as a petty hill I’m willing to die on.

And since we’re being petty, it’s either ‘grammatical rule’, or ‘Grammar rule’.

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No ticket, no support.

Even if it is for batteries for your wireless keyboard and mouse. Ticket please.

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I love telling whiny users who claim they’ve always had “this” problem that I cannot fix what I do not know is broken. If there’s no ticket, then nothing is broken, so quit your whining.

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Don’t you just love when a user submits a ticket that’s “super urgent, this is preventing me from doing my job!” and when you ask how long it’s been happening: “Oh, about a month”

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My personal favorite is the people that say it is a hair on fire emergency but then you can never get a hold of them to fix the problem.

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It wasn’t critical till now and they were hoping it’d fix itself before then. “But sir, these aren’t rechargeable batteries, nor do we have one of our interns go around and check all the batteries every day”

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“I have to track the batteries as well as the time spent, and a ticket is the way to do that.”

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Stupid KPI and accounts not knowing that consumables are not just food.

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Same for software development. Create a ticket or piss off, I will not do undocumented/uncredited work.

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Bah, undocumented is my modus operandi. Uncredited is unforgivable. Ill absolutely throw together a ticket and add it to the sprint after I’ve fixed an interesting problem that kept me from working on the boring ticket that’s been in my backlog for three sprints. _

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Absolute nonsense

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I love scraping my knuckles against the wall before rubbing the raw skin against my ass.

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Why are your knuckles on your ass

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Gotta get up in there innit

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