For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

  • @wjrii
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    If it were meant to be pronounced ‘giff’ as in ‘goober’, it would have been spelled that way. You decide to turn an initialism into an acronym, you get what you get.

    • @normanwall
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      I would like to buy you a nice jift

      • @wjrii
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        Fair enough, LOL, though the second half of my comment still holds. I also need to buy some gin for my giraffe.

        • @kescusay
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          I’d like to see that. Post it in jraphics interchange format.

          • @wjrii
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            520 days ago

            I was thinking a Joint Fotographic Experts Group format.

      • Lightor
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        Maybe a nice stuffed jiraffe?

    • Adderbox76
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      It always WAS an acronym. That’s the entire point of the argument. "G"raphics "I"nterchange "F"ormat.

      Nobody turned it into an acryonym, it just IS an acronym. That’s not an opinion, it’s a fact. The reason it’s pronounced with a hard G is because Graphics is a hard G.

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        And Photographic is pronounced as /f/, yet we don’t insist on JPhEG or JFEG. Language is weird, and people often decline to create an acronym from a set of initials that could theoretically be one (“CIA”), or make an acronym where it may not initially seem natural (“HMMWV”).

        Choosy nerds choose gif, soft G. :-)

        • Adderbox76
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          520 days ago

          It’s my favourite battle. And when the war against AI comes, it’ll be because the AI will make a final decision and then decide the other side needs to be ultimately defeated.