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15 November 2018
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QuarryMan said
Another literary pet peeve: when writers who (probably) don’t have siblings try and depict sibling interactions and get them hilariously wrong. Maybe it’s a regional thing, but nobody I know says stuff like “hey big brother” or “hey sis” or anything like that.
Omg yes, I didn’t even realize this was a pet peeve until you pointed it out. Obviously all siblings have different relationships and certain circumstances can change these relationships, but I’ve never heard anyone call their sibling ‘brother’ or ‘sis’ unless it was ironically. I’m picturing my brother’s face if I called him ‘little bro’ and I’m trying so very hard not to laugh.
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I call my brother “the middle child” to annoy him.
He accepts it pretty well tbh, better than some of the other names I call him.
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When people say that class is a choice, like as if people just choose to be poor. You can’t help what environment you’re raised into and only those who are fortunate enough to have never been poor would disagree.
As a billionaire Tory, the only reason why people are poor is because they’re lazy DO. My daddy has kicked 40 families out of their London council flats so those filthy poor can make room for luxury accommodation for me and my Eton chums- huzzah!
One rule for plebs, another for me, honhonhon.
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QuarryMan said
Another literary pet peeve: when writers who (probably) don’t have siblings try and depict sibling interactions and get them hilariously wrong. Maybe it’s a regional thing, but nobody I know says stuff like “hey big brother” or “hey sis” or anything like that.
I don’t think people in the West do that much — addressing your siblings by some such term is very common in some cultures, e.g. Vietnamese. For some reason my kid sister does refer to me as ‘sis’ regularly. There’s a huge age gap between us, though, so maybe that has something to do with it…? I dunno. 
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QuarryMan said
Another literary pet peeve: when writers who (probably) don’t have siblings try and depict sibling interactions and get them hilariously wrong. Maybe it’s a regional thing, but nobody I know says stuff like “hey big brother” or “hey sis” or anything like that.
I don’t think people in the West do that much — addressing your siblings by some such term is very common in some cultures, e.g. Vietnamese. For some reason my kid sister does refer to me as ‘sis’ regularly. There’s a huge age gap between us, though, so maybe that has something to do with it…? I dunno.
I think it is a cultural thing a lot of the time. In Nepal they have a different word for every iteration of the family, like “big sister” or “uncle on my mother’s side”.
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15 November 2018
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When you’re taking a quiz and the first question is ‘what is your favorite color?’ Not only is that COMPLETELY irrelevant to anything and everything but most often there’s only four options.
Please don’t tell me this was a “which Beatle are you?” quiz. Whenever I want to get mad, I go find one of those and take it. The questions are always so stupid and one-dimensional and stereotype-based and sometimes they actually ask what season you were born, as if you can control that. If anyone finds one that has reasonably accurate and well-thought-through questions, please tell the entire world. Maybe I should just make one.
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Maybe I should just make one.
Please do. 
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50yearslate said
When you’re taking a quiz and the first question is ‘what is your favorite color?’ Not only is that COMPLETELY irrelevant to anything and everything but most often there’s only four options.
Please don’t tell me this was a “which Beatle are you?” quiz. Whenever I want to get mad, I go find one of those and take it. The questions are always so stupid and one-dimensional and stereotype-based and sometimes they actually ask what season you were born, as if you can control that. If anyone finds one that has reasonably accurate and well-thought-through questions, please tell the entire world. Maybe I should just make one.
It sure was.
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Offline When it comes to sisters here in Thailand two things come to mind…….”This my sister’ doesn’t mean that the two are related. I always ask, ‘Same father same mother?’ only to find that’s rarely the case ……Friends readily call each other sisters and their friendships tend to be intense…and short-lived.
The other factor is that ‘Pee’ stands for older/senior……So ‘pee sow’ means older sister…But they will address strangers who appear to be of a similar age, but the actual age is not known, as ‘Pee’ out of respect. Age carries weight and wisdom here. Calling another woman ‘pee’ isn’t as I cynically believed a slight or bitchy put-down…..It’s an offer of authority.
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When you’re continuously blocked out of the college online system and always fail to choose your course. Believe me, I’m going mad.
I’m sorry 
hope things will work out for you soon 
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When you’re continuously blocked out of the college online system and always fail to choose your course. Believe me, I’m going mad.
I, too, have struggled with collegey registration wah-wahs in not-too-distant memory and feel your pain. 
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Okay I’ve got a new one. As of late I’ve been CD collecting, and something that ticks me off is cruddy price stickers that the store puts on the CD case that are a bugger and a half to get off(these are second hand CDs).
For the jewel cases I’ve been able to use some goo gone and elbow greese, but I’ve bought 2 used paper cases. The first was a bit difficult to get the price tag off, but I got it off and used a, kleenex to rub the residue off. The second one I bought tonight and the price sticker came off, but there was one of those thick security stickers on the back. Despite my carefulness in taking it off, the damage can bee seen in the picture below.
My question is what is the point of putting that on the CD in the first place? The CD was $4.99!! My goodness it needs the highest of security in case someone wants to make a mega hiest get away with a whopping 5 dollars of merchandise. I bought another CD tonight at the same store as well, and it was $5.99(more expensive than $4.99)and didn’t have the stupid security sticker.
Not sure if these are put on by the store, of if they just are already on certian CDs that get brought in. They all seem pretty uniform in style despite their sporattic placement.
I could go on for a while, but I think you all get the point. Buy easy peel off price stickers if you’re gonna cell CDs and records. Nothing I hate more when buying the two than buggery price stickers!!
The damage
The flippin security sticker
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Offline William Shears Campbell said
A bit of a longer one, but it has passion and I worked hard to write it, so you should read it.
I like your logic 
Bonus pet peeve: The mobile version of the forum doesn’t have the spoiler button on the dock when writing a post, so you have to type it out, or do it in desktop mode.
*laughs in HTML* 
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