Onomatopoetic sneezes sound fake and attention-seeking. A dear relative of mine likes to really draw out the “achoo”, as in “A-chooooooooo...” Oh please.

Patton Oswalt summed it up so well.

The “Silence Unknown Callers” option on my iPhone was somewhat helpful. What finally made a huge difference for me was to enable the call control feature with my wireless provider. My god... in the past 3+ months I’ve only gotten 2 spam calls.

And don’t be “that guy” who takes a photo of their widescreen TV with his smartphone... in portrait mode. WTF.

When I’m at the dealer getting routine maintenance, if my blades are about due to be replaced I walk over to the parts counter and just say “I need blade refills for my 2009 whatever”, and the guy comes back with them in about a minute.

So, Betteridge’s Law Of headlines then.

And in Canada on Crave and CTV Sci-Fi channel.

In your first post you said Torch’s advice “seems kind of cruel”. And in your second post you said “I’m not sure it’s healthy”. Only after others challenged you on this, then you doubled down on it as “elder abuse”, your wife is a certified expert in the field, you have been a proof reader on her research papers, etc.…

Narcissists seem to use some of the same tactics as cult leaders.

“I’m sorry, but...”

Ah, so perhaps it’s “gastrointestinal infectious disease(s)” then.

“GI Inf Dz”? I googled this and found nothing. But I guess it could stand for gastrointestinal inflammatory disease. (Crohn’s, colitis, etc).

“NYBY Station”?

To this day, a friend of mine insists that Star Wars was “based on a novel”. (He saw the movie novelisation on sale long before the movie was released. I have explained this was common practise in those days, to no avail).

Mystery solved. When logging in to Windows today, I’ve been seeing “Start Typing...” flashing by briefly on my desktop. No idea why. So now I see your post, and I remember that I updated PowerToys this morning. Anyway, there must be a bug with that launcher feature.

So Dolores decides that Caleb is a “good” guy because he chooses not to rape? That is an awfully low bar.

It’s not just the snake oil salesmen saying “boost your immune system”. Traditional media keeps using this misleading phrase too. This needs to stop.

“We use very little water” = we shower once a month

What’s with paper towels being out of stock anyway? Are people buying it as a backup because there’s no TP? If they plan to flush it down their toilets, oh they’ll have a backup all right...