I just grill outside and drink more when the weather is hot. Better to be hot while grilling than hot for the rest of the day/night.
Bahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Someone come out with me! Doing things alone sucks. At first it was kinda okay, now it blows.
How the fuck does someone have a university degree and, when attempting to spell the word Chicago, gets 2 out of the first 3 letters wrong?
Just to let you know, if we're going shoe shopping and you tell me my ankles look fat in those divine Cole Haun's I am so leaving, girlfriend.
Canada. I'll grant someone a pass if English were a second language and they had very little exposure to North American media. But if you're born and raised as a native English speaker on this continent you have no excuse for not knowing how Chicago is spelled.
Who cares. If you can't spell often used words, words inundating you since first grade, then you should be ground up as mulch and burned as fuel to heat the homes of the poor and infirmed. See also: rediculous/ridiculous. Jesus tap dancing Christ. That one drives me bonkers. How the fuck has someone not seen that spelled? Even the kid in 2nd grade with poop stains on his pants and Cheetos under his nails got that one on the spelling test. Also, there's no excuse when every media device has a built-in spell checker. I want to see a vigilante carry around a big sack of Scrabble letters (and bricks), going around meting out grammatical justice one righteous swing at a time.
Good lord, for all the bad spelling I've seen flying around at the new job (on performance reviews, and even e-mails to executives) I might have to become the alphabet officer in addition to all the other ______ officer titles I hold.
Well he's insinuating that just because you have a university degree means that you should be able to spell. There's a lot of shitty universities out there. My wife went to one of them. I feel like our dinnertime conversations are now tutoring sessions. Saying that someone has a degree means they're educated is akin to saying that someone goes to church so they must be religious. Hell, I'm a legally ordained minister. I'm also a devout athiest. So there you go.
I mean if you read it literally I'm saying that by having a university degree you should be able to spell. Which is absolutely true, but. I think the finer meaning that I attempted to convey, but did so poorly, was this: Spoiler JESUS CHRIST YOU PILE OF USED UP CHEWING GUM HOW THE FUCK HAVE YOU MANAGED TO BE ALIVE ALL THIS TIME AND NEVER ONCE MANAGED TO INTERNALIZE THAT CHICAGO STARTS WITH THE GOD DAMNED LETTER C? We can discuss the merits of being "educated" vs. "having a university degree" and how an individual can be educated without necessarily having gone to university, but that's not really my point. Knowing how to spell the name of one of the largest cities in North America doesn't require access to a rarefied body of knowledge. You just need to actually read shit every once in a while. That's it.
I don't know. Most of my current population has an 8th grade education or is illiterate so I'm almost impressed that people can even write letters. Earlier this week I literally had to read a questionnaire to the person, break down the verbage to a 1st grade level, and fill in the answers for an adult.
I'm honestly surprised at the lack of grammar and spelling skills that I have noticed in the last few years in general. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised. It just comes across as laziness to me. When I see "should of" instead of "should have", I have a mini stroke. I always thought the world would be a more competitive place when it came to proper and effective communication, but really, all it takes is a tiny bit of effort to stand out. My parents were always telling me how important good writing and communication skills are, and I always just took for granted that I had a knack for putting together a decent sentence. I assumed everyone else would be good at it too because it just seemed to make sense to me. Never have I been so wrong. I feel like yelling no less than 10 times a day, "JUST TRY! JUST FUCKING TRY! Spelling isn't that hard! Just sound it the fuck out!"
Personally I need someone to be honest with how I look when trying on Steve Madden sport utilities and Kenneth Cole double-breasted peacoats. And I'm a winter, so obviously warm colours clash my aura.
And what could be better, cooking wise, than sitting on the porch and grilling some meat while drinking a beer and enjoying the breeze from an industrial shop fan? I may have to fire up the 55 gallon drum smoker tomorrow evening.
Normally I'm against the use of nuclear weapons, but I think we can agree that this place is an exception: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2013/07/15/ilha_queimada_grande_teems_with_poisonous_vipers_and_can_only_be_visited.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscur ... sited.html</a>
Have the UN grant North Korea narrow exception to use their nuclear weapons. The exception is that they can target that island and that island only. Instant hirrarity.
complete sentances r 4 losers LOL Spoiler One thing I like a lot about this messageboard is how people actually use grammar. Now that's a good idea. I've got to do ribs again sometime soon.