Witness reports, for example.

I suppose no one’s thought of “abracatabra” yet?

These are written by someone who thinks it’s normal that people in games just blurt out something like “patrolling the Mojave makes you wish for a nuclear winter” as you approach.

I’ve got a black joker card in my wallet. I was walking to the tram stop with someone once, when I saw this playing card face-down on the floor, so I said “bet you I can guess this card,” I knelt down, and I said “I think it’s a joker.” I was about to turn it over when my friend said “hold on, black or red?” I said black and turned it over, and now it lives in my wallet.

https://jockstrapmusic.bandcamp.com/album/wicked-city

https://youtu.be/MUep-4v_M9k?t=270

You can in fact set any URL you want to autofill. The setting is under search > automatically fill in URLs > manage websites.

Perhaps a lesson in heeding your elders’ word then.

I’ve recently learnt how to pronounce Irish slender consonants after basically years of wondering how to do it.

I mean, you could look it up yourself if you doubt it so.

You’ll be thrilled to learn, then, that there’s only one adjective in that insult.

But the famous thing about learning to ride a bike is that you don’t forget, even after decades. I’ve just looked it up to double-check and all I got was articles about why you never forget. It’s like saying you’ll forget how to walk up stairs or something.

You don’t know the expression, “it’s like riding a bike”?

There’s a fair number of people who insist that “geek” and “nerd” mean two different, specific things. I think this is the same phenomenon, that people seek nuance where there isn’t because it makes the language seem more interesting or something.

Suspicious contempt for the rhythm section here.

You can say “fleetly” instead of “rapidly”. Actually “rapidly” sounds incorrect when describing flying.

If I took a shot every time someone said “language evolves” on Lemmy, I’d be fucking dead.

It’s just the transition I don’t like!

Reads better than “Tommy needy drinky” anyway.

If you’ve been told once and your job hangs in the balance, then perhaps that’s a sign of needlessly strict management, but if I just got a stern “please don’t swear in front of the public” I’d just stop swearing.