Topic. It's what's for dinner.

[QuickreleasePersonalitY]

Random thing about Hunger Games 2.

My wife read the books, and is excited for the continuation of the love story.

I read the wikipedia plot synopsis and I am looking foreword to Woody wasting some people.

Successful Movie is Successful.

Still can't get my wife to watch Battle Royale though.

i initially poo-poo'd the movie (putting it into the category of torture porn) -- then i saw it and i liked the fantasy -- it had magic potions, magic items, magic transportations...i'm looking forward to the next ones in the series :3

[Teuthic]

So I'm running for editor-in-chief at my university's newspaper; we're well-renowned for being one of the best student newspapers in the country (despite being at a pretty  crappy (and controversial!) school), and have won 15 awards this year alone. Today's the last part of selection, and the board will vote after they interview me and two others; I'm ridiculously nervous.

[clockworkjoe]

So I'm running for editor-in-chief at my university's newspaper; we're well-renowned for being one of the best student newspapers in the country (despite being at a pretty  crappy (and controversial!) school), and have won 15 awards this year alone. Today's the last part of selection, and the board will vote after they interview me and two others; I'm ridiculously nervous.

the bald guy is your spirit guide

[Setherick]

So I'm running for editor-in-chief at my university's newspaper; we're well-renowned for being one of the best student newspapers in the country (despite being at a pretty  crappy (and controversial!) school), and have won 15 awards this year alone. Today's the last part of selection, and the board will vote after they interview me and two others; I'm ridiculously nervous.

Good luck!

[Teuthic]

the bald guy is your spirit guide

That made me laugh. Unfortunately, I didn't get the job. Instead, I've been hired as copy desk chief by the new EIC. Gotta love consolation prizes.

[Flawless P]

So I'm off on one of those rants that started this thread in the first place. I'm not in a particularly bad mood though so it won't be nearly as bile filled as the first one.

Language usage I hate:

When someone calls soda, "pop" I have a visible physical reaction of fury.

I hate it when people say they are on line at the bank. YOU ARE IN IT NOT ON IT.

I also hate that people seem to think they can apply the suffix bi to something and all of a sudden it changes the meaning from twice or both to every other.

Biweekly means twice a week

Bimonthly is twice a month.

It's not hard a Bicycle has two tire.

Oh and I hate how the motherland likes to call Aluminum, Aluminium. They are just adding random letters for no reason at all.

[crash2455]

Biweekly pay periods are every two weeks.  For some reason semi-monthly means twice per month.

[SageNytell]

'Part-quarterly' is monthly. A 'fiscal year' for my agency only contains two months of the year in question (January and February) and starts the preceding year.

Also a bicycle has two 'tires'. 

[Flawless P]

You'd think there'd be an s there but my keyboard apparently disagreed.

I'm not saying that those terms arent used for "every other" just that it's wrong....

Or rather should be considered wrong. Apparently it goes either way though.

Also a cooler way to you get paid every two weeks is to say fortnightly.

[ThadExMachina]

I also hate that people seem to think they can apply the suffix bi to something and all of a sudden it changes the meaning from twice or both to every other.

I hate when people say "suffix" when they mean "prefix."
 

[ThadExMachina]

Oh and I hate how the motherland likes to call Aluminum, Aluminium. They are just adding random letters for no reason at all.

Actually, the history of the whole aluminum/aluminium split  is kind of fascinating. Both versions make sense in their own way and, in the end, neither really has primacy (though, from a strictly chronological perspective, aluminium ekes out a win by appearing first in 1811 as opposed to aluminum in 1812, so far as I've found).

Both suffixes, -um and -ium, are used to denote metallic elements. The -um being part of older known elements, dating back to Latin words like ferrum (though it has occasionally been applied to more modern element names, such as platinum). Starting around 1807, however, the naming convention shifted to -ium and has been the standard ever since (titanium, uranium, and of course... palladium). Aluminium/aluminum just happened to come along right when that nomenclature was shifting.

Aluminium is the official standard of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, though they're not especially strict about it. Whereas the American Chemical Society recognizes aluminum as the standard spelling.

So, yeah... words be crazy.

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[Flawless P]

I also hate that people seem to think they can apply the suffix bi to something and all of a sudden it changes the meaning from twice or both to every other.

I hate when people say "suffix" when they mean "prefix."
 

I'm not the English teacher here!

So yeah totally meant prefix....

Also regarding the whole naming convention of Aluminum I was under the impression that the scientist that "discovered" it called it Aluminum originally, as such that name should be given precedence. Although I don't remember where I saw this I just recall it arbitrarily since it helps support my point.

Also, I enjoy Eddie Izzard and David Mitchells takes on the subject,

Cake or death?

[Setherick]

Also, I enjoy Eddie Izzard and David Mitchells takes on the subject,

Cake or death?

"Oh, do you have a flag?"

[Flawless P]

No Flag, No Country!

Those are the rules I've just made up.

[geekyogrt]

Random thing about Hunger Games 2.

My wife read the books, and is excited for the continuation of the love story.

I read the wikipedia plot synopsis and I am looking foreword to Woody wasting some people.

Successful Movie is Successful.

Still can't get my wife to watch Battle Royale though.

i initially poo-poo'd the movie (putting it into the category of torture porn) -- then i saw it and i liked the fantasy -- it had magic potions, magic items, magic transportations...i'm looking forward to the next ones in the series :3

The movie was significantly better than the books. Katnissssssssssss really got ridiculous and the third is going to be hard to put on screen.  Not Dune hard, but hard.

Also, it isn't a love story so much as a "well we all hate each other but someone has to end up together and we drew the short straws" story.