Maybe more in line with the Fact Sphere: confidently claiming things that are frequently clearly false and/or off the wall

No Anchovies, Please

Thanks For The Pepperoni

Viewing on a phone screen so finer details don’t show up as clearly, I thought the “counter” punchline was about the spell object looking like the number 7 (or maybe a 1)

Can I choose who gets it?

Morality is a scam by Big Philosophy to sell more mores

Borrow my account and say things that most people should be in agreement about? Sometimes I really just don’t understand

And even if you could, you’d get RFKitis

You can view their removed comments in the modlog. I’m not licensed in psychology but I would think that to be an accurate diagnosis. I wouldn’t want to see this instability, hostility, and lack of candor in my forums.

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Is the modern use of “cooking” as slang even new? In 1978, Van Halen used the term in what seems to me to be the modern way: “You think you’re really cookin’, baby”

Edit: Curious if there was similar precedent for the slang usage of “cooked”, I searched for the phrases “he’s/she’s/they’re/I’m/we’re/is/was cooked” on songsear.ch, which is my preferred albeit imperfect lyric search engine, and filtered for each 20th century decade. In order of oldest to newest, the best matches for the slang usage I found were:

A Frank Sinatra song from 1955: “You’re hooked, you’re cooked / You’re caught in the tender trap”

A song by The Cure from 1987: “I’m smitten, I’m bitten, I’m hooked, I’m cooked, I’m stuck like glue”

A song by Roughhouse from 1988: “Don’t look or you’ll get hooked, your ass is cooked”

The same only thing we’ve had to look forward to every night, Pinky: the next installment in an entertainment media franchise

Yep, both that one and another adblocker I use for a few days now. I tried yet another plug-in called something like Ad Block for YouTube that works with blocking the non-video ads but I’ve still been getting video ads with it that only play the ad’s audio with a plain black video screen for the length of the ad; spamming refresh on the page tends to bypass the video ad. Hopefully the plug-ins will adapt soon.

This reads like the author thinks The Avengers (or some other hero team) are actually called Marvel. I don’t think they mean to say they want Marvel to release media based on these villain characters. Possibly engagement bait or maybe they’re just too lazy to pay attention.

It’s from Andor

I’m omitting the phrase “It’s actually incorrect because” from this discussion since it’s not relevant.

“[T]hey would probably be fired at from their behind”

“be fired at” is a transitive verb phrase, so there are necessarily two related entities in this scenario: the firer and the target, the latter of which we know is “they”. Simply saying “be fired at from behind” could indicate that the firer is aiming backwards as a trick shot since it is ambiguous if “behind” refers to that of the target or if it instead refers to the act of firing; most people could figure out the meaning in context, but I prefer to avoid asking that from my audience. Since “be fired at from their behind” uses “their” as an appositive to refer to the entity or entities yet mentioned in the sentence, and the only one yet mentioned was the target (“they”), this clarifies that “behind” must refer to that of the target.

It’s also commonly, but not absolutely, considered grammatically incorrect to end a sentence with a preposition. “from behind” ends with a preposition, whereas “from their behind” ends with a noun (“behind” not meaning their buttocks but rather that which is located to their rear).

I was trying to get the comment posted before a particular time constraint, so I didn’t have time to locate a word that singularly refers to the area located to one’s rear.

You’re welcome to consult !english@lemmy.ca about this.

Yes? That’s why I called it a bot and said I participated simply because I had to for the application

I added the “their” to avoid suggesting that the shooter would be shooting backwards at them