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”

    • clickyello@lemmy.world
      101·
      2 months ago

      agreed for humans, but I do like calling cars/boats/bikes/machines “she”. makes me feel like a pirate :)

      • (⬤ᴥ⬤)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        93·
        2 months ago

        oh im not talking about that.
        i’m talking about quasi-legalese phrases like “he/she may […]” “if he/she agrees”, you know. the places where “they” would be both more grammatical and easier to understand

        • RBWells@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          I have been learning Spanish with Babbel and the

          El/Ella Compra

          Will never not sound wrong to me. El & Ella are two people, they Compran something they don’t Compra it.

          But They as a singular in English absolutely just rolls off my tongue, makes absolute sense, it is what I use.

        • clickyello@lemmy.world
          32·
          2 months ago

          ohhh yeah I figured my take was only tangentially related but it’s even further than I thought. yeah that stuff is silly and also denies the existence of nb folx, lame. I’ve been (somewhat) successful in using “they” to refer to anyone that I don’t directly know the gender of for inclusivity’s sake. it really isn’t that hard to get used to if you’re willing to make an effort.

        • dufkm@lemmy.world
          13·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, in those cases I sometimes just put “she” instead. If they are the type of person to get upset by that (presumably because it’s a he that doesn’t want to be mistaken for a she), it’s precisely the person I want to offend. Reasonable people don’t care.