“What’s The Smallest Hill You’ll Die On?” – 25 Responses

Tall burgers completely nullify all the benefits of burgers and are an abomination unto cuisine.

A good burger is the perfect portable food. It should be edible using only your hands and mouth, without cutlery, and without making too much mess.

You should also be able to sample every layer of ingredient in one bite, without dislocating your jaw

It’s not a hot water heater. It’s a water heater.

3Me20 Added: I once went to Home Depot to buy a hot water heater. I talked to the dude in the plumbing section for quite a while. Really nice guy. He had his own plumbing business for 20 years until the ’08 crash. Had to sell the biz just to keep his house. He’s been working at HD ever since. Anyway, long story short: I decided to buy a cold water cooler instead.

The parents from Parent Trap are WAAAY worse than the parents from Home Alone.

Actual physical push buttons are way better than sensor buttons. (Like the Xbox 360 sensor buttons)

Tax should be included in the price with no exceptions.

Macaroons are not macarons. One has coconut, and one is a sandwich cookie.

wonderinglady20 Added:

I remember in high school my entire class argued with me about this. Macaroons are little coconut things, while macarons are pastry cookies. I argued with my entire social studies class about this including my teacher, before finally, he said LET’S LOOK IT UP. It’s not like I got anything out of being the only person right, but damn does it feel good to prove 30 other people wrong! At least they all know the difference now.

“Everyday” and “every day” are different. And not interchangeable.

“An everyday walk in the park” vs “I walk in the park every day.”

Learn how to spell a name before you saddle a kid with it, for fuck’s sake.

JAWS must not EVER be re-made, or retconned, or re-imagined, or re-anything. Ever.

Squeeze the air out of a Ziploc bag before you put the bag in the fridge or freezer. I don’t understand why my wife doesn’t and one of these days I’ll have a decision to make.

Returning a shopping cart is not that hard. It’s the least you can do when utilizing a service.

Touch screens in cars make them worse in many ways.

Mayonnaise and Miracle Whip are not interchangeable, they are drastically different.

Polycarbonate water bottles don’t contain any dangerous amount of BPA. It’s a marketing ploy by 3m Eastman to force people to use lower life cycle plastics. Tritan cracks at 2 years old, and polycarbonate lasts at least 20 years. They know polycarbonate is safe because we haven’t stopped using it in high-impact kitchen appliances like food processors and blenders. They created a shittier plastic that hurts the environment to make more money.

Cheap canned goods are literally lined with BPA. Polycarbonate bottles have fuck all to do with humans’ BPA exposure. If you own a polycarbonate water bottle keep using it, it has no BPA on it after the first time you wash it.

Source: MS mechanical engineering focused in polymers. One of my profs posted a few papers on this.

Edit: This (PDF LINK!!!!) is the paper if anyone is wondering. It found negligible amounts of BPA compared to canned goods after holding polycarbonate waterbottles full of water at 120C for 2 hours. Which would never happen in a real world situation.

Turn signals should NEVER be red.

Frozen isn’t a Christmas or even a winter movie.

It is literally set in the summer, a big part of the plot is that everyone was unprepared for the summer freeze.

I will die on this hill.

There is no need for people to say 7 am in the morning. The use of am lets us know its morning

Those new LED headlights should be banned. They might make the owner safer but not other drivers as they drive into fucking ditches because they were blinded by Klieg lights masquerading as car lights.

If you (person A) pull open a door and someone (person B) is wanting to come through from the other side, HOLD THE DOOR AND LET THEM THROUGH. Similarly, if you are the other person, don’t dilly-dally, WALK THROUGH. Because the alternative is person A awkwardly trying to pass through whilst struggling to maintain holding the door open, leaving person B waiting awkwardly for them to finish.

Happens a lot at my office in the corridors and it does my head in.

You can’t dethaw something. It’s thaw. That’s it.

You can’t just go around calling every bean paste hummus.

Hummus contains (among other things) significant amounts of tahini, chickpeas, and olive oil. If it doesn’t contain these things, it is not hummus. I repeat, not hummus.

No, Ashley and Brayden from the juice bar, you don’t get to tell me that the white-bean-and-kale mush on that $13 veggie wrap is goddamn hummus.

Speaker phone is not meant for use in public.

If you don’t like being around others you’re not “anti-social”, you’re asocial. Anti-social is the Joker.

Incredibly petty and meaningless but this always bothers me for some reason

There are zero reasons for two Dakotas. Just fucking merge into one big Dakota.

The toilet paper flap falls to the front.