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Words or phrases that annoy you (even if you can't explain why) . . .

It's all part of God's plan. I'm a God fearing man, but good gawd, that phrase raises my hackles especially after some personal tragedy.

[CURMUDGEON]How the hail does someone claim to know God's plan? And how does Fido's death play a part in God's plan? Does He have some elaborate Rube Goldberg contraption where Fido's death cause a marble to drop, or a domino to topple?[/CURMUDGEON]

I'd rather hear, "💩 happens." At least that shows I'm not the target of divine malice.
 
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Ooh. Devine malice. I think they would like your sentiment. The ignorant & unthinking pious goody goodiness of that makes me puke a little in my mouth each time I hear it. They obviously haven’t ever watched a family destroy itself from drug addiction or watch a newborn take their last breath in a new mother’s arms or your best friend & their wife hang themselves in double suicide. I don’t think they would be so quick to tell us it’s part of gods plan. They have no idea how objectively thoughtless that phrase is. If they did, assuredly different words would be chosen.

Anyhow, derivatives of “you got this” have been making me want to throw something at the radio lately - specifically these idiotic cold medicine (theraflu iirc) commercials everywhere.

Like nails on a chalk board. For the safety of my internet radio devices, please stop.
 
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MajorFubar said:
Pet hate for the day: "I could care less". No, you mean you couldn't care less. If you could care less, then you obviously care at least some, and potentially you care a lot. It seems to be mostly an American thing. Which surprises me about as much as snow falling in Lapland in December.
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It's lucky that we have witches around to point out that particular mistake (start at 29 seconds):

 
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dotnet said:
Apropos a recent video on MacRumors talking about the zoom factor of iPhone cameras...

I can easily forgive the slight typographic laziness of using "2x" for two times instead of "2×". After all, typewriters of past decades didn't have the symbol, so we got used to the lower-case x meaning times.

What curdles my curd is when people pronounce "2x" as "two ex", when they actually mean "two times".
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I went full grumpy old man at that, started shouting at the screen. Is that an American thing? Do you do your times tables like that? Is it 2 "ex" 2 = 4, or 2 times 2 = 4? Was also annoyed at the use of the word zoom in apple's iPhone announcement.
 
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200 degrees Fahrenheit or 93 degrees Celsius.

No, not the presentation of both scales. Nor the use of "degrees" with Celsius. Nor even had they used Centigrade instead of Celsius.

It is that "or". The one that makes it not "and", not "that is" (whether verbalised or implied by the briefest of pauses). The one that makes it appear 200 F is inherently different from 93 C. (Ignoring rounding and approximation.) The one that says it is either 200 F or 93 C but not both.
 
TumbleDryer said:
When people say they have just 'brought' something instead of 'bought'.
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I use to confuse the two years--decades👴--ago. Someone taught me a simple mnemonic to remember the correct word to use: brought = bring, bought = buy. If it happens today, it's due to the onset of senility.
The Clark said:
"I seen" instead of "I saw". Go back to English class.
Only exception is wen English is their secondary language.
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Or pirates. I'll forgive a pirate's poor grammar, even if the Capt'n won't.;)
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chown33 said:
Platinum and Tantalum look at each other and shrug.

Aurum, Argentum, Cuprum, Plumbum, Stannum, and Ferrum also shrug, but in Latin.

Tungsten and Manganese wonder what the fuss is about.
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😂 I only point it out as I believe (im no chemist by the way) that Aluminium falls under the same elemental group as Sodium and Potassium and other 'ium' elements not the 'inum' elements.

I have however just read a little about the history of the naming and to be fair its changed a fair few times even by the describer himself (even he called it Aluminum at one point). That being said Aluminium is officially the International Standard and then there's America wanting to be different or maybe just not keeping up with all the changes which quite frankly I can agree with as it matters little in the grand scheme of things. :p
 
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TumbleDryer said:
😂 I only point it out as I believe (im no chemist by the way) that Aluminium falls under the same elemental group as Sodium and Potassium and other 'ium' elements not the 'inum' elements.
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Aluminium isn't in the alkali metal group like sodium or potassium. It's in group 13, alongside gallium, indium and thallium.

That said, the suffix of an element's name doesn't imply any properties or bestow any group membership.
 
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dotnet said:
Aluminium isn't in the alkali metal group like sodium or potassium. It's in group 13, alongside gallium, indium and thallium.

That said, the suffix of an element's name doesn't imply any properties or bestow any group membership.
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But there are some cases where they seem to start to take you in that direction. Like all the -gen elements being gases. And all the -ine elements being halogens. (No idea if that works when non-English names are considered.)

A bit of a pity that their name suffixes don't imply the groups!
 
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