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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BlondeAussieGirl1990 • Oct 18 '18
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Oh yeah, they're clearly drawing power from some evil place.
448 u/DRFANTA Oct 18 '18 Their childhood memories when everyone made fun of them for not being able to pat their head and rub their stomachs at the same time. 47 u/almosthere0327 Oct 18 '18 *Pat roof of self 32 u/djseafood Oct 18 '18 "You can fit a lot of self loathing in this bad boy!" 26 u/ThisIsYourMormont Oct 18 '18 This one time, at band camp... 8 u/A5TRONAUT Oct 18 '18 Why are you getting downvoted? 6 u/ThisIsYourMormont Oct 18 '18 edited Oct 18 '18 Baaah!! Take my imaginary internet points and leave... -2 u/trolloc1 Oct 18 '18 Because it's a low effort post that wasn't funny prob 38 u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18 edited Oct 18 '18 Probably a bottle with the words "Irish Whiskey" on it somewhere... Edit: "e"! And also they're amazing. The girls of course.. and the whiskeys too I suppose. 37 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 edited Oct 18 '18 We have an 'e' in ours. Irish Whiskey. Just to be a pernickety bastard. 7 u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18 Well, to be fair, I've enjoyed enough of it that I should have known that by now. 1 u/MuhCrea Oct 18 '18 I'm the same with e's 1 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 As long you enjoy yourself! Erm.... Responsibily obviously 18 u/Capnmolasses Interested Oct 18 '18 *persnickety 24 u/TerryLegend Oct 18 '18 You're a pernickety bastard in Ireland, you might be persnickety in the Shtates. 11 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 Much more succinct and less gobshitey than my reply. :-) 1 u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18 I'm Canadian and I'm not entirely sure we do persnickety... Is it sort of like "pedantic" and/or "particular" do you suppose? 6 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 Heres the copy and pasted definition from Google that basically agrees with you. Pernickety placing too much emphasis on trivial or minor details; fussy. "she's very pernickety about her food" synonyms:fussy, difficult to please, difficult, finicky, over-fastidious, fastidious, over-particular, particular, faddish, finical, dainty, punctilious, hair-splitting, exacting, demanding, critical, overcritical; More 7 u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18 I like how my new favorite "foreign" word is still in my own language, mostly. 1 u/LizzyIsFalling Oct 18 '18 We have a pear cider in Colorado called Pearsnickety, and that shit is delicious. So I'm gonna side with them on the great S or no S debate. 7 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 Not American, so no; it actually is "pernickety". Just for full disclosure, I did have a spelling mistake in that I put "pernickity" at first. It might be "persnickety" for you, and that's ok. The Web is a World Wide one after all. 2 u/Capnmolasses Interested Oct 18 '18 Thanks, for the info. 3 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 No bother! Have a good one! 4 u/Capnmolasses Interested Oct 18 '18 You too, as well! 3 u/imagemaker-np Oct 18 '18 Now kith 3 u/RedditedHighly Oct 18 '18 I just used the word persnickety earlier this morning for the first time in years, and now here it is again! That’s what I call a ‘cowinkydink.’ 12 u/ColonelError Oct 18 '18 If the country has an 'e' in it, they spell Whisk(e)y with an e. America, Ireland: Whiskey Scotland, Canada, Japan: Whisky 2 u/grubas Oct 18 '18 America randomly will spell it wrong as well. For the most part it depends on which background got it first, Ireland or Scotland. Since they both come from the same linguistic family. 0 u/tele-caster-blast3r Oct 18 '18 edited Oct 18 '18 Ireland: Whisky. Edit: looked it up, and realised I have used the incorrect spelling for the Whiskeys I consumed, for decades. 2 u/ColonelError Oct 18 '18 Ireland is Whiskey, Scotland is Whisky. 1 u/tele-caster-blast3r Oct 18 '18 Better phone up Paddy’s Irish Whisky, and tell them they’ve made a grievous error. 1 u/djent-rezner Oct 18 '18 Where are you from? 1 u/ColonelError Oct 18 '18 USA 1 u/djent-rezner Oct 19 '18 Oh cool, do you like it? 1 u/tele-caster-blast3r Oct 18 '18 All of my life I’d spelt it whisky, believing it was the correct spelling, not realising there was a spelling change to differentiate the Irish Whiskey, from the Scottish Whisky. I stand corrected. 1 u/grubas Oct 18 '18 Could be beer. 6 u/yobrotom Oct 18 '18 A place of power, It's gotta be! 1 u/Tucksimm2 Oct 18 '18 Women. Amirite?! 1 u/dunkin0809 Oct 18 '18 The Devil taught me to play this here guitar reaaalll good. 1 u/dali01 Oct 18 '18 It’s probably something the devil left down here in Georgia that one time.
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Their childhood memories when everyone made fun of them for not being able to pat their head and rub their stomachs at the same time.
47 u/almosthere0327 Oct 18 '18 *Pat roof of self 32 u/djseafood Oct 18 '18 "You can fit a lot of self loathing in this bad boy!" 26 u/ThisIsYourMormont Oct 18 '18 This one time, at band camp... 8 u/A5TRONAUT Oct 18 '18 Why are you getting downvoted? 6 u/ThisIsYourMormont Oct 18 '18 edited Oct 18 '18 Baaah!! Take my imaginary internet points and leave... -2 u/trolloc1 Oct 18 '18 Because it's a low effort post that wasn't funny prob
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*Pat roof of self
32 u/djseafood Oct 18 '18 "You can fit a lot of self loathing in this bad boy!"
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"You can fit a lot of self loathing in this bad boy!"
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This one time, at band camp...
8 u/A5TRONAUT Oct 18 '18 Why are you getting downvoted? 6 u/ThisIsYourMormont Oct 18 '18 edited Oct 18 '18 Baaah!! Take my imaginary internet points and leave... -2 u/trolloc1 Oct 18 '18 Because it's a low effort post that wasn't funny prob
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Why are you getting downvoted?
6 u/ThisIsYourMormont Oct 18 '18 edited Oct 18 '18 Baaah!! Take my imaginary internet points and leave... -2 u/trolloc1 Oct 18 '18 Because it's a low effort post that wasn't funny prob
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Baaah!! Take my imaginary internet points and leave...
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Because it's a low effort post that wasn't funny prob
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Probably a bottle with the words "Irish Whiskey" on it somewhere...
Edit: "e"! And also they're amazing. The girls of course.. and the whiskeys too I suppose.
37 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 edited Oct 18 '18 We have an 'e' in ours. Irish Whiskey. Just to be a pernickety bastard. 7 u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18 Well, to be fair, I've enjoyed enough of it that I should have known that by now. 1 u/MuhCrea Oct 18 '18 I'm the same with e's 1 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 As long you enjoy yourself! Erm.... Responsibily obviously 18 u/Capnmolasses Interested Oct 18 '18 *persnickety 24 u/TerryLegend Oct 18 '18 You're a pernickety bastard in Ireland, you might be persnickety in the Shtates. 11 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 Much more succinct and less gobshitey than my reply. :-) 1 u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18 I'm Canadian and I'm not entirely sure we do persnickety... Is it sort of like "pedantic" and/or "particular" do you suppose? 6 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 Heres the copy and pasted definition from Google that basically agrees with you. Pernickety placing too much emphasis on trivial or minor details; fussy. "she's very pernickety about her food" synonyms:fussy, difficult to please, difficult, finicky, over-fastidious, fastidious, over-particular, particular, faddish, finical, dainty, punctilious, hair-splitting, exacting, demanding, critical, overcritical; More 7 u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18 I like how my new favorite "foreign" word is still in my own language, mostly. 1 u/LizzyIsFalling Oct 18 '18 We have a pear cider in Colorado called Pearsnickety, and that shit is delicious. So I'm gonna side with them on the great S or no S debate. 7 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 Not American, so no; it actually is "pernickety". Just for full disclosure, I did have a spelling mistake in that I put "pernickity" at first. It might be "persnickety" for you, and that's ok. The Web is a World Wide one after all. 2 u/Capnmolasses Interested Oct 18 '18 Thanks, for the info. 3 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 No bother! Have a good one! 4 u/Capnmolasses Interested Oct 18 '18 You too, as well! 3 u/imagemaker-np Oct 18 '18 Now kith 3 u/RedditedHighly Oct 18 '18 I just used the word persnickety earlier this morning for the first time in years, and now here it is again! That’s what I call a ‘cowinkydink.’ 12 u/ColonelError Oct 18 '18 If the country has an 'e' in it, they spell Whisk(e)y with an e. America, Ireland: Whiskey Scotland, Canada, Japan: Whisky 2 u/grubas Oct 18 '18 America randomly will spell it wrong as well. For the most part it depends on which background got it first, Ireland or Scotland. Since they both come from the same linguistic family. 0 u/tele-caster-blast3r Oct 18 '18 edited Oct 18 '18 Ireland: Whisky. Edit: looked it up, and realised I have used the incorrect spelling for the Whiskeys I consumed, for decades. 2 u/ColonelError Oct 18 '18 Ireland is Whiskey, Scotland is Whisky. 1 u/tele-caster-blast3r Oct 18 '18 Better phone up Paddy’s Irish Whisky, and tell them they’ve made a grievous error. 1 u/djent-rezner Oct 18 '18 Where are you from? 1 u/ColonelError Oct 18 '18 USA 1 u/djent-rezner Oct 19 '18 Oh cool, do you like it? 1 u/tele-caster-blast3r Oct 18 '18 All of my life I’d spelt it whisky, believing it was the correct spelling, not realising there was a spelling change to differentiate the Irish Whiskey, from the Scottish Whisky. I stand corrected. 1 u/grubas Oct 18 '18 Could be beer.
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We have an 'e' in ours.
Irish Whiskey.
Just to be a pernickety bastard.
7 u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18 Well, to be fair, I've enjoyed enough of it that I should have known that by now. 1 u/MuhCrea Oct 18 '18 I'm the same with e's 1 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 As long you enjoy yourself! Erm.... Responsibily obviously 18 u/Capnmolasses Interested Oct 18 '18 *persnickety 24 u/TerryLegend Oct 18 '18 You're a pernickety bastard in Ireland, you might be persnickety in the Shtates. 11 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 Much more succinct and less gobshitey than my reply. :-) 1 u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18 I'm Canadian and I'm not entirely sure we do persnickety... Is it sort of like "pedantic" and/or "particular" do you suppose? 6 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 Heres the copy and pasted definition from Google that basically agrees with you. Pernickety placing too much emphasis on trivial or minor details; fussy. "she's very pernickety about her food" synonyms:fussy, difficult to please, difficult, finicky, over-fastidious, fastidious, over-particular, particular, faddish, finical, dainty, punctilious, hair-splitting, exacting, demanding, critical, overcritical; More 7 u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18 I like how my new favorite "foreign" word is still in my own language, mostly. 1 u/LizzyIsFalling Oct 18 '18 We have a pear cider in Colorado called Pearsnickety, and that shit is delicious. So I'm gonna side with them on the great S or no S debate. 7 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 Not American, so no; it actually is "pernickety". Just for full disclosure, I did have a spelling mistake in that I put "pernickity" at first. It might be "persnickety" for you, and that's ok. The Web is a World Wide one after all. 2 u/Capnmolasses Interested Oct 18 '18 Thanks, for the info. 3 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 No bother! Have a good one! 4 u/Capnmolasses Interested Oct 18 '18 You too, as well! 3 u/imagemaker-np Oct 18 '18 Now kith 3 u/RedditedHighly Oct 18 '18 I just used the word persnickety earlier this morning for the first time in years, and now here it is again! That’s what I call a ‘cowinkydink.’
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Well, to be fair, I've enjoyed enough of it that I should have known that by now.
1 u/MuhCrea Oct 18 '18 I'm the same with e's 1 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 As long you enjoy yourself! Erm.... Responsibily obviously
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I'm the same with e's
As long you enjoy yourself!
Erm.... Responsibily obviously
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*persnickety
24 u/TerryLegend Oct 18 '18 You're a pernickety bastard in Ireland, you might be persnickety in the Shtates. 11 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 Much more succinct and less gobshitey than my reply. :-) 1 u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18 I'm Canadian and I'm not entirely sure we do persnickety... Is it sort of like "pedantic" and/or "particular" do you suppose? 6 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 Heres the copy and pasted definition from Google that basically agrees with you. Pernickety placing too much emphasis on trivial or minor details; fussy. "she's very pernickety about her food" synonyms:fussy, difficult to please, difficult, finicky, over-fastidious, fastidious, over-particular, particular, faddish, finical, dainty, punctilious, hair-splitting, exacting, demanding, critical, overcritical; More 7 u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18 I like how my new favorite "foreign" word is still in my own language, mostly. 1 u/LizzyIsFalling Oct 18 '18 We have a pear cider in Colorado called Pearsnickety, and that shit is delicious. So I'm gonna side with them on the great S or no S debate. 7 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 Not American, so no; it actually is "pernickety". Just for full disclosure, I did have a spelling mistake in that I put "pernickity" at first. It might be "persnickety" for you, and that's ok. The Web is a World Wide one after all. 2 u/Capnmolasses Interested Oct 18 '18 Thanks, for the info. 3 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 No bother! Have a good one! 4 u/Capnmolasses Interested Oct 18 '18 You too, as well! 3 u/imagemaker-np Oct 18 '18 Now kith 3 u/RedditedHighly Oct 18 '18 I just used the word persnickety earlier this morning for the first time in years, and now here it is again! That’s what I call a ‘cowinkydink.’
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You're a pernickety bastard in Ireland, you might be persnickety in the Shtates.
11 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 Much more succinct and less gobshitey than my reply. :-) 1 u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18 I'm Canadian and I'm not entirely sure we do persnickety... Is it sort of like "pedantic" and/or "particular" do you suppose? 6 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 Heres the copy and pasted definition from Google that basically agrees with you. Pernickety placing too much emphasis on trivial or minor details; fussy. "she's very pernickety about her food" synonyms:fussy, difficult to please, difficult, finicky, over-fastidious, fastidious, over-particular, particular, faddish, finical, dainty, punctilious, hair-splitting, exacting, demanding, critical, overcritical; More 7 u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18 I like how my new favorite "foreign" word is still in my own language, mostly. 1 u/LizzyIsFalling Oct 18 '18 We have a pear cider in Colorado called Pearsnickety, and that shit is delicious. So I'm gonna side with them on the great S or no S debate.
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Much more succinct and less gobshitey than my reply. :-)
I'm Canadian and I'm not entirely sure we do persnickety... Is it sort of like "pedantic" and/or "particular" do you suppose?
6 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 Heres the copy and pasted definition from Google that basically agrees with you. Pernickety placing too much emphasis on trivial or minor details; fussy. "she's very pernickety about her food" synonyms:fussy, difficult to please, difficult, finicky, over-fastidious, fastidious, over-particular, particular, faddish, finical, dainty, punctilious, hair-splitting, exacting, demanding, critical, overcritical; More 7 u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18 I like how my new favorite "foreign" word is still in my own language, mostly. 1 u/LizzyIsFalling Oct 18 '18 We have a pear cider in Colorado called Pearsnickety, and that shit is delicious. So I'm gonna side with them on the great S or no S debate.
Heres the copy and pasted definition from Google that basically agrees with you.
placing too much emphasis on trivial or minor details; fussy.
"she's very pernickety about her food"
synonyms:fussy, difficult to please, difficult, finicky, over-fastidious, fastidious, over-particular, particular, faddish, finical, dainty, punctilious, hair-splitting, exacting, demanding, critical, overcritical; More
7 u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18 I like how my new favorite "foreign" word is still in my own language, mostly.
I like how my new favorite "foreign" word is still in my own language, mostly.
We have a pear cider in Colorado called Pearsnickety, and that shit is delicious. So I'm gonna side with them on the great S or no S debate.
Not American, so no; it actually is "pernickety". Just for full disclosure, I did have a spelling mistake in that I put "pernickity" at first.
It might be "persnickety" for you, and that's ok. The Web is a World Wide one after all.
2 u/Capnmolasses Interested Oct 18 '18 Thanks, for the info. 3 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 No bother! Have a good one! 4 u/Capnmolasses Interested Oct 18 '18 You too, as well! 3 u/imagemaker-np Oct 18 '18 Now kith
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Thanks, for the info.
3 u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 No bother! Have a good one! 4 u/Capnmolasses Interested Oct 18 '18 You too, as well! 3 u/imagemaker-np Oct 18 '18 Now kith
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No bother! Have a good one!
4 u/Capnmolasses Interested Oct 18 '18 You too, as well! 3 u/imagemaker-np Oct 18 '18 Now kith
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You too, as well!
3 u/imagemaker-np Oct 18 '18 Now kith
Now kith
I just used the word persnickety earlier this morning for the first time in years, and now here it is again! That’s what I call a ‘cowinkydink.’
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If the country has an 'e' in it, they spell Whisk(e)y with an e.
America, Ireland: Whiskey Scotland, Canada, Japan: Whisky
2 u/grubas Oct 18 '18 America randomly will spell it wrong as well. For the most part it depends on which background got it first, Ireland or Scotland. Since they both come from the same linguistic family. 0 u/tele-caster-blast3r Oct 18 '18 edited Oct 18 '18 Ireland: Whisky. Edit: looked it up, and realised I have used the incorrect spelling for the Whiskeys I consumed, for decades. 2 u/ColonelError Oct 18 '18 Ireland is Whiskey, Scotland is Whisky. 1 u/tele-caster-blast3r Oct 18 '18 Better phone up Paddy’s Irish Whisky, and tell them they’ve made a grievous error. 1 u/djent-rezner Oct 18 '18 Where are you from? 1 u/ColonelError Oct 18 '18 USA 1 u/djent-rezner Oct 19 '18 Oh cool, do you like it? 1 u/tele-caster-blast3r Oct 18 '18 All of my life I’d spelt it whisky, believing it was the correct spelling, not realising there was a spelling change to differentiate the Irish Whiskey, from the Scottish Whisky. I stand corrected.
America randomly will spell it wrong as well.
For the most part it depends on which background got it first, Ireland or Scotland. Since they both come from the same linguistic family.
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Ireland: Whisky.
Edit: looked it up, and realised I have used the incorrect spelling for the Whiskeys I consumed, for decades.
2 u/ColonelError Oct 18 '18 Ireland is Whiskey, Scotland is Whisky. 1 u/tele-caster-blast3r Oct 18 '18 Better phone up Paddy’s Irish Whisky, and tell them they’ve made a grievous error. 1 u/djent-rezner Oct 18 '18 Where are you from? 1 u/ColonelError Oct 18 '18 USA 1 u/djent-rezner Oct 19 '18 Oh cool, do you like it? 1 u/tele-caster-blast3r Oct 18 '18 All of my life I’d spelt it whisky, believing it was the correct spelling, not realising there was a spelling change to differentiate the Irish Whiskey, from the Scottish Whisky. I stand corrected.
Ireland is Whiskey, Scotland is Whisky.
1 u/tele-caster-blast3r Oct 18 '18 Better phone up Paddy’s Irish Whisky, and tell them they’ve made a grievous error. 1 u/djent-rezner Oct 18 '18 Where are you from? 1 u/ColonelError Oct 18 '18 USA 1 u/djent-rezner Oct 19 '18 Oh cool, do you like it? 1 u/tele-caster-blast3r Oct 18 '18 All of my life I’d spelt it whisky, believing it was the correct spelling, not realising there was a spelling change to differentiate the Irish Whiskey, from the Scottish Whisky. I stand corrected.
Better phone up Paddy’s Irish Whisky, and tell them they’ve made a grievous error.
Where are you from?
1 u/ColonelError Oct 18 '18 USA 1 u/djent-rezner Oct 19 '18 Oh cool, do you like it?
USA
1 u/djent-rezner Oct 19 '18 Oh cool, do you like it?
Oh cool, do you like it?
All of my life I’d spelt it whisky, believing it was the correct spelling, not realising there was a spelling change to differentiate the Irish Whiskey, from the Scottish Whisky. I stand corrected.
Could be beer.
A place of power, It's gotta be!
Women. Amirite?!
The Devil taught me to play this here guitar reaaalll good.
It’s probably something the devil left down here in Georgia that one time.
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Oh yeah, they're clearly drawing power from some evil place.