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I'll try one better.
Those innumerable advertisements that state "Up to 50% Off"! Up to are a very powerful 4 letters. Rightfully, it could well be only 10% off the item(s)
And the partner here, "10% Off Everything" and the punch in the smallest font, "Reasonable Limits Apply". Everything means everything and what is reasonable to you may not be to me :/

PCR came back positive. Here we go, again

Whiskey 7 wrote:I'll try one better.
Those innumerable advertisements that state "Up to 50% Off"! Up to are a very powerful 4 letters. Rightfully, it could well be only 10% off the item(s)
And the partner here, "10% Off Everything" and the punch in the smallest font, "Reasonable Limits Apply". Everything means everything and what is reasonable to you may not be to me :/

That's like MAC for a computer. People always ask for the MAC address but that stands for machine address code.

I've been back to work this week since a RAT on the 8th day after contact came back negative.
I did 2 self-RATS during the quarantine-week that also were negative.
I still haven't heard from the health-department in any form. I could understand some days delay but almost 2 weeks?

My parents both got infected, aged 78 and 82. They got down with flue-like symptoms but were fine after a few days. Both were boostered with a 3rd jab.

Transient wrote:That's a pet peeve of mine, Whiskey.

Also, every time I go to the grocery store and see their '10 Items or Less' line, my eye twitches a little. :offended:

What's wrong with "10 items or less"?

It should be '10 Items or Fewer'. Use 'fewer' when referring to things that can be counted, and 'less' for things that are measured.

But really it's like when I asked my old History teacher, "can I go to the bathroom," and he responded by saying "I don't know, can you?"

'May I' and 'can I' have become interchangeable in the English language and both are grammatically correct these days. :shrug:

your history teacher sounds like this guy

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Yeah and it took 20 years to shake most of the pet peeves out of my system that I picked up from him and my English teachers. I still can't help but roll my eyes when someone says 'literally' incorrectly, though.

Transient wrote:It should be '10 Items or Fewer'. Use 'fewer' when referring to things that can be counted, and 'less' for things that are measured.

Oh right, I see. It wouldn't bother me because my English isn't at a level where I'd even notice in the first place. But even if it did, it's nowhere near as atrocious as the there/their/they're and then/than errors I so commonly see.

Transient wrote:But really it's like when I asked my old History teacher, "can I go to the bathroom," and he responded by saying "I don't know, can you?"

'May I' and 'can I' have become interchangeable in the English language and both are grammatically correct these days. :shrug:

Reminds me of this one time where I was at a client for my work, and one of the people there would keep saying "was is past tense" whenever he answered the phone. At first I had no idea what he meant, but then it dawned on me the people at the other end would say something like "I was looking for XYZ". Then I thought he was just being a prick.

Both classic

Transient wrote:It should be '10 Items or Fewer'. Use 'fewer' when referring to things that can be counted, and 'less' for things that are measured.

But really it's like when I asked my old History teacher, "can I go to the bathroom," and he responded by saying "I don't know, can you?"

'May I' and 'can I' have become interchangeable in the English language and both are grammatically correct these days. :shrug:

.... and ...

Yeah and it took 20 years to shake most of the pet peeves out of my system that I picked up from him and my English teachers. I still can't help but roll my eyes when someone says 'literally' incorrectly, though.

Transient wrote: I still can't help but roll my eyes when someone says 'literally' incorrectly, though.

My dick is literally as hard as a rock

Eraser wrote:Reminds me of this one time where I was at a client for my work, and one of the people there would keep saying "was is past tense" whenever he answered the phone. At first I had no idea what he meant, but then it dawned on me the people at the other end would say something like "I was looking for XYZ". Then I thought he was just being a prick.

LOL I would never correct someone on their grammar in person, it's such a total dick move. Especially for someone who speaks English as a second language. It's not exactly the easiest language to learn, particularly because of all the contradictions.

Finally, it's my turn.
We've been dodging this shit as a family for years, but now I tested positive. Mild symptoms like a sore throat.
No idea where I got it, I've hardly seen anyone in person the past week.
Oh well.. 2 vax and boost are hopefully keeping the serious symptoms at bay.

So now that my daughter tested positive (for the second time in less than 3 months) we're in quarantine again. The rules here state that if you've recovered from COVID-19 in the past 8 weeks or you've been boostered, you don't need to go in quarantine when having been near someone with COVID-19, as long as you don't have symptoms.

But here's the problem: my family had COVID about 9 to 10 weeks ago, so we're not eligible for that free pass anymore. However, we've also not been boostered because you can't get a booster if you've been infected less than 12 weeks ago.

So if you've had COVID and aren't boostered yet, there's this 4 week gap where you're fucked again if someone in your family gets COVID again. We're in that 4 week gap right now, so I'm in quarantine again. Can't go anywhere. None of us except our daughter has COVID and she barely has any symptoms (bit of a runny nose, that's it).

So raw will be happy to know that so far, I haven't really gone anywhere Oh, except that I did drop off my cat at the vet because he needed some dental surgery and had his kidneys checked (turns out they're only working at 25% now). Officially, I should've canceled that appointment but fuck that.

I hope your cat gets better.

The cat's old but okay. He just needs some special dietary food and some medicine once a day to support his kidney function.

Sounds like a not so merry merry-go-round Eraser. Crossing fingers here it slows & stops for you & yours.

Wow ok

Ditto

we need a poll to see who's had the wuflu. sounds like most people by now

My wife and I are covid free. Never had it as far as we know…

Not me - though we have been very careful given Lady Carlos was expecting for a large portion of this Covid thing

I'd say we were slightly more careful than a lot of our friends/family, but once the schools went back it was essentially a waiting game. I know in early days the data seemed to show kids being either more resilient or less likely to pass it along, but with Omicron variant (more transmissible) it's just spread around (and through) the local schools.

We were always more worried about passing it to elderly relatives than getting it ourselves