Whisky is Scottish, whiskey is Irish.
Wait, you all knew that, didn’t you?
This damnable thread. I had no issue with the other 30 topics!
(there’s an /s here somewhere, may have dropped it)
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I’ve recently come to the conclusion that a hot dog is a taco.
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Makes sense in an existential way.
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anon33932455:
Technically
…it hasn’t been retired, it just fell into the bottom of the Well Actually.
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SamSam
December 2, 2022, 1:44am
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It’s like they’re/their, people always mix up there homophones. English is so weird to have words spelled differently and pronounced the same.
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Muphry’s Law strikes again!
Muphry's law is an adage that states: "If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written." The name is a deliberate misspelling of "Murphy's law".
Names for variations on the principle have also been coined, usually in the context of online communication, including:
Further variations state that flaws in a printed ("Clark's document law") or published work ("Barker's proof") will only be discovered after it is printed and no...
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SamSam
December 2, 2022, 2:53am
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(Should I mention I first wrote it without the third “the[y’re/ir/re]” at all, and then went back and edited it in to be funnier? Or does that ruin the joke?)
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At this point, it would come off as kinda Pee Wee.
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Whether what someone said was really racist or not and/or unintentional racism isn’t really racism
Though that’s usually one person arguing with everyone else.
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Stereotyping all inhabitants of a state based on the electoral color of that state
Always with:
Suggesting red states should secede
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smulder
December 2, 2022, 5:27am
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… whiskiy is Ukrainian then?
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Ooh, you just reminded of another good one; the Humpty Dumpty Effect , where some insufferable user insists that already previously defined words only mean whatever they want them to mean in that moment…
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Ah, this doesn’t take into account the great and sandwich divide. With a sandwich are you
( ) eating bread, with something yummy in it, or are you
( ) eating something, the eating of which is facilitated by bread?
There should be another dimension there…
(Sorry, used that one before… )
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Ah, that gives me flashbacks to 1999 and introducing wiki’s at work…
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Why is bread required?
That’s what I call a sandwich!
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L0ki
December 2, 2022, 6:25pm
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anon58741709:
Why is bread required?
Because the Earl of Sandwich is very particular about that kind of thing.
As a tangent, I will be very disappointed if there isn’t at least an attempt at a fastfood franchise called Sandwich Earl.
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