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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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[-] normanwall@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

I would like to buy you a nice jift

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

Fair enough, LOL, though the second half of my comment still holds. I also need to buy some gin for my giraffe.

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

I'd like to see that. Post it in jraphics interchange format.

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

I was thinking a Joint Fotographic Experts Group format.

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

If you take video, post it as an MPEJ.

[-] StopJoiningWars@discuss.online 1 points 3 months ago

Just make sure you don't accidentally turn it into an MPREJ.

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago

I hope it's a giraffe

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

Giraffics Interchange Format or Graphics Interchange Format? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 11 points 3 months ago

Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus or Self Contained Oonderwater Breathing Apparatus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuba_diving)

That's the problem with this debate, for every argument, the counter argument is just the same thing but a different example! The only argument that remains is "the creator said so" vs "so what he's lame"

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

Maybe a nice stuffed jiraffe?

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