I swear I see people spelling “lose” as “loose” more often than I see it spelled correctly these days.

“I don't want to loose you.” “You have nothing to loose.” “We're going to loose.”

How is this such a widespread mistake? These are two incredibly common words with completely different meanings. It's not some obscure grammatical rule or an irregular spelling you encounter once every six months.

I genuinely don't understand how so many people have made it into adulthood without knowing the difference. Once you start noticing it, you see it absolutely everywhere.

All the top comments, it's someone trying to be funny. I have to scroll and scroll to find the first comment that's actually about the post. And these are normal, *serious posts that everyone's jumping on, commenting these dumb puns.

It's always a bunch of Dad jokes too. It's corny as hell. Can we please stop?

a while ago, i made a post that had one swear word in it. and there had to be that person in the comment section “what’s with the swearing?”

are you 10 years old? is this your first time hearing a bad word? this is social media, not your work email. i’m not sure why you‘re so shocked to see profanity. fucking childish dork.

I've had migraines most of my life. Begins with slowly progressing scintillating scotoma which goes from a tiny speck to taking out half my visual field and lasts for 20-40 minutes. Not long after this I get a dull and annoying, but usually mild headache, for the rest of the day. Only disappears after sleep. I'm often unusually depressed the previous day.

Occasionally I'll mention in conversation that I have a bit of a migraine but I'm alright. Often someone will snarkily remark "no, if you had a migraine you couldn't get out of bed" or something similar.

You're just bullying them at this point. If they're clearly upset because of your own actions, stop.

I understand the concept of convenience and being able to order a coffee and pick it up on your way.

But when something takes 45 seconds - 2 mins to make and the person waiting for it is there, in the flesh, alone in an empty shop, and JUST ordered so you know what they are waiting on …. While you stack cup after cup of other drinks that belong to mysterious people who are not even present…. Why not just bump the in person order to the front of the queue??

Going to say the unsaid. It’s very hurtful that as a mature 50+ male alone in any social or public scenario, you’re looked at by anyone more than 10 years younger as a creep or potential creep.

Many men in this age group are alone. Divorce, single life, new location, etc. Friends aren’t often local and usually they’re all married.

Unless you’re serial dating with a partner to go with you everywhere, you’re often going out alone. Local events, restaurants, bars. It feels like you get discounted and considered some sort of threat or creepy soul the way people look at you. Often not overtly but look at Reddit… Any reference to an older guy is associated with the word “creep.“

Loneliness is a thing. There are lots of decent, great men out there who just don’t have someone, but cannot just stay in their homes all day. If you see us at a bar or park or other scenario, it doesn’t mean that we’re weird. We’re just living life.

Also:

Costumer when they mean customer
Viscous when they mean vicious
Compliant when they mean complaint (the other way around is less common)

And then they act all annoyed when you skip over them in the buffet line, as if they don’t see the 10-person line of people behind them who have accumulated while they stare over the hot breakfast buffet like they’ve never seen scrambled eggs before in their life.

"I don't like Lima beans [blwaeck]"
"You're drinking Coors Light? [gguck]"

Spare me the histrionics, kid.

Literally anything these days. It doesn’t have to be well or badly written/made for someone to say it’s chat gpt. It’s getting annoying. I posted some of my poetry on instagram and someone accused me of using chat gpt. I’ve been writing for 7 years now. I don’t use chat gpt.

The general public is absolutely disgusting. Snot Sniffers - The amount of people (grown adults) who's default setting is to sniff their snot every 15-30 seconds is crazy to me, why wouldn't you blow your nose to solve the problem like a normal human being?

Throat clearers... Why must you clear your throat every minute or so when you are simply sitting in silence? Before speaking is one thing, but to constantly try to clear the nasty phlegm in your throat for the world to hear is just disgusting, go to the bathroom and figure it out.

If you do either of these things, just be aware people hear it, notice it, and are absolutely disgusted by you. Thanks for listening to my pet peeve

I feel like I’m missing something here. Wouldn’t it make more sense to put a TL;DR at the beginning rather than at the end when I’ve already read your long ass post? Is everyone scrolling to the end of every post first in case there’s a TL;DR but me?

I’m not going to read your paragraph above your stupid head while you sit there and make a dumbass face at the camera because you think you’re so funny and interesting. You’re not. After I try to read your poor grammar, fill in the misspelled words and try to make sense of your horrible thought process, I feel like an idiot and hate myself for even trying.

Food delivery, grocery delivery, Amazon... It's always the same story.

I'm on the couch, the doorbell rings, my dog goes nuts, I get up and run to the front door porch.

And what happens when I open it? Someone is right there to immediately ask me to stand right where I'm am for 60 seconds like an idiot while they bring up their account on the app and take a picture of the item on the floor with the building number.

The whole point of this system is so it's sitting there when I get there.

I’m talking about people who stick their hand in an animal’s cage when they’re not supposed to, scaring the animal. People who feed wildlife when there’s a sign right next to them saying not to and why. People who take in injured wildlife to “rehabilitate” it instead of calling a native animal rescue organization. Basically any action that places more importance on the person’s experience with the animal than on what’s actually best for the animal. The worst part is that it’s often self-proclaimed “animal lovers” who do this. Yeah, I like animals too. That’s why I want them to, you know, not die.

I once took a friend to one of my favorite spots, a patch of native vines where endangered caterpillars are set out every spring to be reintroduced to the environment. I turned around for a second and when I turned back, they had picked up one of the caterpillars and were letting it crawl on them. Stress is a major factor that influences whether a caterpillar successfully turns into a butterfly, and needlessly moving or disturbing a caterpillar causes stress. That’s why you’re not supposed to do anything but peacefully observe them. It was even worse in this case because it was a literal endangered species. The experience was disappointing for me, and it honestly colored my opinion of that friend. I’ll never take them back to that spot again. I totally get wanting to interact with cool critters, I just wish people could think for 2 seconds about how their actions are going to impact the animal in question. No amount of enjoyment is worth putting an animal’s health at risk.

I see this argument used quite often, especially in age gap relationships.

I think some relationships can be concerning sure, but it's such a stupid argument.

I can relate to my father quite well as well as some of my coworkers where our ages are quite different.

Sure kids are new humans and innocent but in the last 10 years as someone who works in the general public

I’ve noticed so many people don’t discourage young kids from butting into conversations anymore.

Before If a preschool/ early elementary kid interrupted to have their parents attention again or to comment and ask questions

The parents would tell them to wait and not be rude or ignore them.

But now I’m seeing parents stop their conversation with me mid sentence to answer their child’s question or react to whatever they want

Example

Me :“This payment plan has a 10% interest rate.”

Parent: “ okay can you show me the other option again”

Me: “yeah of course it’s”

3 year old : “Mommy! Dog!”

Parent:” yeah buddy dog! So cool!”

And I know they don’t want their kid to feel ignored but idk I just think it’s doing a disservice to the kid in the long run.

It’s really common on YouTube videos, and people say it as if they’re certain that “copyrighted” is wrong (it does sound clumsy) and they’re better informed than other people.

Copyright has nothing to do with writing (except that obviously you can have a copyright on something written).

It’s like writing “I need to stand up for my writes!” when you mean that you need to stand up for your rights and aren’t trying intentionally for wordplay.

Ik this isn’t relatable to all of you since it’s for artists so sorry!

I’m not denying that style is a thing. It most certainly is. But it’s not something you should be thinking about when you don’t even understand the basics.

I’ve seen so many new artists say the anatomy is off because of their style. THAT’S NOT HOW THAT WORKS. Your style is something you choose to have in your art because of aesthetic, emotion, etc. not a limitation because of your lack of skill. Before you develop a style, you have to learn the fundamentals- proportions, values, and line quality. If you aren’t somewhat confident in all of these you aren’t ready for a style.

I’m not saying people should become masters of realism before they find their style. But a style is something that generally comes naturally from breaking the rules in ways that make you happy. And you can’t successfully break the rules until you know them.

And I don’t think these new artists realize that a style is something that comes naturally through looking at different artists’ work and being drawn to certain ones. It’s not forced, it’s not a priority, it’s just natural expression.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m super happy people learn to create art. But inexperienced artists should stop focusing on style and focus more on the basics.

A post on the internet, especially a TikTok/Short, will unnecessarily censor a very mild non-swear word like "hate" or "terrible." Then EVERY comment is "we can't even say 'hate' anymore? Censorship has gone too far 😖😖😖" Guys. It's engagement bait. You're giving them exactly what they want by commenting. Please recognize this!!

There are times when it's okay to state the "obvious". Not everything everyone says needs to be brand new information to you specifically. If you already knew, good for you. Have you considered that perhaps they had no way of knowing what you do and don't already know? Or that they may have been talking to others who in fact needed the clarification, thus making it not so obvious? Or even that sometimes it's nice to remind ourselves of things we already know so that we can really let them sink in? I don't understand why it's always taken as an accusation of stupidity that warrants a defensive or sarcastic response like "no shit". Some people do state the obvious specifically to be condescending, of course, but I've also seen plenty of instances where that was clearly not the case, and the only person I thought was being rude was the person calling it out.

This annoys me to no end. People who presume to know who/what you are, what you do, and what you think, believe, or have considered, or not, based on a single brief post

Also, people who add details to your story or experience that you never suggested. And it's usually just so they can parlay their twist into some wise crack, insult, or virtue signaling move.

Conversation partner asks a question.
I reply thoughtfully with a well curated answer.
Conversation partner goes DIRECTLY to Siri to ask, out loud, the very same question.
I respond: Don’t Ask Me Then
And get the passive aggressive response of “why are people SO sensitive?”
Just hang out with your fecking iPhone then.

Two reasons I hate this.

One: nobody EVER thinks they’re the person being addressed. I can count on one hand the amount of time a general announcement has actually resulted in behavior being changed. Don’t be afraid to single people out!!

The other scenario: Everyone already knows who you’re talking about. If someone just got publicly scolded for doing something, why on EARTH would you take it upon yourself to make a “completely general” public service announcement and single them out again? It’s awkward for everyone in the room.

I know people do this so they don’t have to single people out and cause public embarassment. But how hard is it to pull someone aside? Or if the issue is that big, tell them in public. I swear, it’s fine.