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...but our ancestors clearly didn’t like it, because they invented all sorts of wonderful things to help us not do all of that physical activity.

You can’t use the word “inherently,” but then mostly discredit them using culturally exogenous factors (“it’s more important to look at the glycemic load of your whole meal, not just one component”).

Top middle. Obviously a callback. I realize these people are too ignorant to ever pay attention to what they complain about, but come on.

Top middle, now fuck off.

Can you guys stop fucking SJWarring for a minute and appreciate that it's a callback to Han doing the same pose in Empire? I mean, it was fucking obvious to me as soon as I saw it, and since the character is being built as an evil female Han, I got it, even if you didn't.

Why are you still pushing this garbage Dick?

Modern reason and logic wouldn't even exist without philosophy. You ask when the last time a philosopher added to anything, but when was the last time you read philosophy? I know the current trend is for science to hate on philosophy, but they go hand in hand, especially when you look at them historically.

I don't think I've ever carried rubber bands around with me in my life. I do however keep my capo in my guitar case.

ThinkGeek's Bag of Holding takes it for me. it's solidly built and can easily hold my Macbook Pro 15", assorted cables and accessories, tablet, notepad, tools, etc. without a problem. I just wish it had more pockets and it'd be perfect.

Really?

Wow, I've read some uninformed pieces before but this one takes the cake. As others have already pointed out this is incredibly bad advice for many reasons, but the one I haven't seen is that it will wreck your septic tank (if you're on one).

Honest to Pete, I gave it a shot; and, because I trust your opinion after many years, just gave it another over past hour-plus. Still is not doing what I need it to—primarily open gmail attachments and send/save the doc to Evernote, which QuickOffice did without drama. Please don't tell me I haven't done something I

I believe the of-ten pronunciation is a case of hypercorrection

Correct. 'Soften the t in often.'

I was just reading about this one yesterday. Here's another take, this from my favorite language authority, Garner's Modern American Usage:

I have debated this more times than I'm proud to admit and was ready to copy/paste excerpts from debates I've had online and scanned pages from library books that I checked out solely to make my point. Fortunately, I stumbled across a yahoo answers post that covers most of these points in a very succinct manner.

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I know this is a little off topic since the article is about word pronunciation but I came across this today and feel like venting it:

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