“Sabre cat attack.”

edit: I’m just now realizing people IRL probably think I did self harm to get that scar lmao

I used to volunteer at a cat shelter, I know how you feel

The beeping! My damn air fryer has to let everyone in the neighborhood know that I’m making food at 3:00 am, I hate it so much

Gonna ignore the fire alarm someday because I’ll just assume someone is air frying something

That’s an interesting epoch. Almost, but not quite, 40,000 years ago

No, I’m American.

First, so I know that you read it, I’m going to repeat what I said earlier. At some point, you have to look back at this conversation and think “I got really fucking aggressive just because this guy said a date differently from how I do, and it makes me look like a twat.”

Second, more important to my point, USian is not my demonym, and you don’t get to decide that it is. That’s really all I should have said this entire time.

Actually yeah means yeah not no

Maybe try reading more than three words

I mean, yeah, if a) it was the linguistic norm to call them Earthlings, and b) it was not a linguistic norm to call anyone else on Earth an Earthling. It’s not really analogous to the USA, given that no one else uses the demonym American, and everyone knows who you’re talking about when you say American

At some point you got to read back through this conversation and think “man, I came off really fucking aggressive because someone said a date differently from how I do, this makes me look like a complete twat”

As long as we’re being pedantic bitches, there’s actually anywhere between four and seven, depending on how you define it. Not my fault European schools teach you wrong too

Given that continents are generally ill-defined, do you reckon maybe we should simply… ask the people who live there what they want to be called?

I guess I’m back to make fun of you

North America is a continent

South America is a different continent

West British schools must really skimp on geography. American schools aren’t much better, but at least we know there are seven continents (six, if you consider Eurasia a single continent)

The United Mexican States. They still have United States in their name. Notably, they don’t have America in their name, just like every single other country besides the USA. So when we’re talking about the demonym for a particular country, “American” is the one for people in the USA, just like how “Mexican” is the one for people in the United Mexican States.

Also notably, they live on an entirely different continent from Venezuela and Brazil. Mexicans and Americans are North American, as opposed to Venezuelans and Brazilians who are South American. Lumping these continents together makes as much sense as lumping Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia together. But I know you aren’t trying to make sense, you’re just trying to get under Americans’ skin, so I’m gonna ignore you now

This is fair. I have had to put tape over a red alarm clock because it was too bright before. Those manufacturers also get the oubliette

No, I’m American, and I just gave you three good reasons to stop using “USian,” not the least of which being that “US” is not exclusive to the United States of America. Are people from the United States of Mexico United Mexican States USians as well?

I don’t have the audacity to try and force a different demonym onto you, please don’t do that to me.

No, I’m American. It looks like you started writing this comment before I made the edit to mine, so I’ll go ahead and copy/paste it here

a) “American” as a demonym for literally anyone in the western hemisphere is largely useless, b) the USA is the only country which includes “America” in its name, and c) USian is not more precise because there are two countries with United States in their name.

No, I’m American

I want to get ahead of this debate, and point out that a) “American” as a demonym for literally anyone in the western hemisphere is largely useless, b) the USA is the only country which includes “America” in its name, and c) USian is not more precise because there are two countries with United States in their name.

Anyone who puts always-on blue LEDs in electronics deserve the oubliette. People who put such LEDs in electronics meant for the bedroom deserve an oubliette that’a slowly filling with water.

Must disagree. If today ended at midnight, then my streak of watching at least one episode of a TV show every single day would have been broken years ago. No, today ends when I go to sleep, even if it’s at noon on what is your tomorrow

You don’t understand. Donald Trump literally believes that Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s knuckles literally read M-S-1-3.

A video of him saying as much.

A picture of said knuckle tattoo.

He does not realize that the letters and numbers are edited in. He thinks the letters and numbers are part of the tattoos. In Calibri font.

My biggest point of professional pride was the time my boss sent a mass group text to all his employees asking them to format dates the way I do

He didn’t say it was the format I used, so I didn’t speak up and say “it’s actually ISO-8601,” because I assume my coworkers who were used to writing things like “February 27 8:00-4:45” rather than “2013-02-27 8:00-4:45 (8:45)” may stab me

If you’re listing dates, then using a sortable format is ideal. But if you’re just referencing one in the middle of a correspondence, it’s best to use whatever format the recipient is most familiar with. No one is sorting emails by a date given in the third paragraph