Common Misconceptions That Piss You Off - a safe place for snobs

  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
nucular.

we had a huge society-wide slapfight over this during the Bush era because that fucking retard couldn't say it right.

I still hear people pronouncing it that way.

nucular.
 
"I could care less"
It's "I couldn't care less", you absolute sped, It means that your ability to care about something has diminished (or never existed in the first place) to the point where you cannot possibly care about something any less than you do right now. "I could care less" implies you still care to some extent, because you could potentially care about it less than you already do.
Thankfully, I've noticed people have been saying it correctly more often these days, but this was a constant irritation to me through the entire 2010s.
 
Generally the historic british bants that people think are true or truisms. I don't even really like the french, but thinking their military history sucked is dumb. Why didn't brits win the 100 years war conclusively. Thinking Napoleon was short. Thinking the US had any chance of achieving independance without French support.

But then I meet a Parisien and think they didn't get bantzed hard enough.
 
Last edited:
Another misconception that does not tick me off -- but is still a misconception -- is the claim one can always see stars out in space. Nope. Bright light can drown them out.

ToroidalBoat said:
This is an argument often used in favor of that "the moon landing is fake" conspiracy, but it can be easily disproven. Ever go under an outdoor light at night? The stars are blotted out. Now if you imagine that the entire ground is reflecting sunlight, and the sun is in the airless sky, you can see that light from the stars would be drowned out.
Click to expand...
 
Please don't make this thread about misspellings/mispronunciations, we already have one, and one for woke terms, and one on trends.

thread tax: "the gulags". There was only one GULag, it was the equivalent of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. You wouldn't say "Phelonious was sent to the Federal Bureau of Prisons".
 
Last edited:
ToroidalBoat said:
Also, Columbus did not go to prove the world was round -- that was known since the time of ancient Greece.
Click to expand...
No one thinks that.
Snusmumriken said:
French fags say it with me: COFFEE and MILK. It’s coffee and milk. That’s all it is. It’s not coffee, milk, and sugar.
Click to expand...
Have you ever been served a coffee in France that didn't have sugar on the side? Same question, but with sugar in the coffee that you didn't put there?

I would say everyone would say always to the first question and never to the second.

It's hard to believe your story. Is this happening in non-French areas? I don't think you should blame the French for this.
 
Something I always thought: Social skills don't matter or are less important than knowledge and experience.

In reality, I was way off. Social skills are the main skill you need. Maybe if you are some COBOL programmer or other irreplaceable dork you can get away with being like me, but with just Python/SPSS, nope.
 
some of my pet peeves:
  • "box magazine" vs "clip" - most modern firearms use box mags (there are a few exceptions, but not many. The new KelTec PR-5.7 uses clips, bizarrely). STOP CALLING MAGAZINES "CLIPS"
  • "amount of" vs "rate of" speed - SPEED IS *NOT* AN AMOUNT. IT'S A FUCKING *RATE.* I like Frank Sloup and "Fridays with Frank," but stop calling it a "criminal 'amount' of speed" you dumbass
  • The primary reason we haven't sent a mission to Mars has nothing to do with distance. The issue is radiation. Open space is full of lethal radiation, especially if you're in direct line with the sun. Until NASA figures out a practical solution to long-term, heavy radiation shielding, a Mars mission team will never survive the journey; they'd be dead from irradiation less than a month in.
  • Books are still the superior data storage technology to computers. Until you've had three dozen books open on the floor in front of you while cross-referencing a single quote from multiple sources for a research paper, you don't realize how browsers are still hopelessly inferior to print books. Oh sure, computers are faster and more space-efficient, but books are vastly cheaper, can't crash, and it's much easier to browse 50 print books simultaneously than 50 browser windows.
 
A rocket does not need to constantly be on to maintain constant velocity in space. In space, it's only needed to change velocity, and total change (delta-V, ∆v) is limited.

🚀 🤔​
 
Chongqing said:
No one thinks that.

Have you ever been served a coffee in France that didn't have sugar on the side? Same question, but with sugar in the coffee that you didn't put there?

I would say everyone would say always to the first question and never to the second.

It's hard to believe your story. Is this happening in non-French areas? I don't think you should blame the French for this.
Click to expand...
Columbus sailing to America to prove the earth was round, and also being the one to discover America, both of which are untrue, was literally taught in my school growing up. I didn’t unlearn it until a particularly passionate social studies teacher in high school told us otherwise.

And I didn’t blame the French, you’re completely backwards. I said the exact opposite. The term cafe au lait IS French. Cafe means milk, au means with, lait means milk. So a tradition French cafe au lait doesn’t have sugar IN it, the sugar and creamer are served on the SIDE. I’m complaining about when I order a cafe au lait and it’s served to me with sugar already in it because I don’t want sugar in it. And idk what you mean by “it’s hard to believe your story” when I grew up in the US and have been residing in Japan for the last several years now, both of which are non-French areas and still manage to fuck up the cafe au lait at every turn, particularly in Japan where everything but straight black coffee typically comes with sweetener already in it.
It’s wild that in a thread dedicated to complaining about misconceptions, you managed to misconceive every single post you replied to. Learn how to read.
 
boolet shell.gif
 
Snusmumriken said:
Columbus sailing to America to prove the earth was round, and also being the one to discover America, both of which are untrue, was literally taught in my school growing up. I didn’t unlearn it until a particularly passionate social studies teacher in high school told us otherwise.
Click to expand...
Oh, ok. I don't know how common that is, but that is wild. I stand corrected. This is the first time in my life I have heard this misconception. I wonder how far it spread.

Are you a younger person and was this during the time "flat eathers" were trolling the hell out of the academic community? Just wondering because I'm curious.

With the coffee thing, you made it sound like you were taking issue with French fags who didn't understand it's just supposed to be coffee and milk when they served you in person.
Snusmumriken said:
And idk what you mean by “it’s hard to believe your story” when I grew up in the US and have been residing in Japan for the last several years now, both of which are non-French areas and still manage to fuck up the cafe au lait at every turn,
Click to expand...
I'm sorry for not watching the VICE documentary about your life.

I asked if this happened in France (since your complaint is directed at "French fags," and then I said I found it hard to believe, implying that if this story happened in France, I don't believe it. That's what I meant.
Snusmumriken said:
It’s wild that in a thread dedicated to complaining about misconceptions, you managed to misconceive every single post you replied to. Learn how to read.
Click to expand...
Ok, maybe you can help me with my first lesson. Who is this author referring to? Is it the French?
French fags say it with me:
Click to expand...
There's no reason for me think you meant to write: "It's French! Fags, say it with me."

Anyway, thread tax:
I heard that the majority of college student in America think America invented slavery, as of 2016.
 
Chongqing said:
Ok, maybe you can help me with my first lesson. Who is this author referring to? Is it the French?
Click to expand...
The author was referring to non-French that learned a little French, thus making them into fags. "French fags" would be redundant if it referred to the French.
 
Snusmumriken said:
And I didn’t blame the French, you’re completely backwards. I said the exact opposite. The term cafe au lait IS French. Cafe means milk, au means with, lait means milk. So a tradition French cafe au lait doesn’t have sugar IN it, the sugar and creamer are served on the SIDE. I’m complaining about when I order a cafe au lait and it’s served to me with sugar already in it because I don’t want sugar in it. And idk what you mean by “it’s hard to believe your story” when I grew up in the US and have been residing in Japan for the last several years now, both of which are non-French areas and still manage to fuck up the cafe au lait at every turn, particularly in Japan where everything but straight black coffee typically comes with sweetener already in it.
Click to expand...
That people believe coffee creamer is acceptable. It is not. If you serve it to me you will be dealt with accordingly.
 
filthypenguin said:
The author was referring to non-French that learned a little French, thus making them into fags. "French fags" would be redundant if it referred to the French.
Click to expand...
Thank you. For some reason I can’t reply to their thread tax but I wanted to say I totally agree. People not only think America, a relatively young country, was the first to enslave anyone, but that Africans weren’t ALSO involved in the slave trade. It wouldn’t be called a trade if there wasn’t a dealer.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom