The Ranting Corner 2.0

[Smercury44]

So the furnace guy came Saturday. Turned on the furnace, started blowing hot air immediately. he replaced our filter and claimed it was our dirty filter, which yeah needed changing, but wasn’t THAT bad.

Sunday, furnace is off again. Still waiting for them to come back. It’s 58 in my house. When the guy was here he did say that out new Nest (installed January and has worked fine until now) needs an extra wire. It’s not SUPPOSED to need the extra wire so they don’t install it..... unless it glitches like this. Of course I can pay them to run this extra wire.

My dad is in on his way to confirm whether I can run the wire myself. I know where to install the wire on both my thermostat and the furnace, it’s getting the wire from point A to point B I’m not so confident about. Ugh!!!!

[Aliza]

So the furnace guy came Saturday. Turned on the furnace, started blowing hot air immediately. he replaced our filter and claimed it was our dirty filter, which yeah needed changing, but wasn’t THAT bad.

Sunday, furnace is off again. Still waiting for them to come back. It’s 58 in my house. When the guy was here he did say that out new Nest (installed January and has worked fine until now) needs an extra wire. It’s not SUPPOSED to need the extra wire so they don’t install it..... unless it glitches like this. Of course I can pay them to run this extra wire.

My dad is in on his way to confirm whether I can run the wire myself. I know where to install the wire on both my thermostat and the furnace, it’s getting the wire from point A to point B I’m not so confident about. Ugh!!!!

It's furnace season already??

What exactly is a furnace, anyway? I know it warms your house. ... I'll just Google it.

[Full Circle]

It's furnace season already??

What exactly is a furnace, anyway? I know it warms your house. ... I'll just Google it.

[Aliza]

It's furnace season already??

What exactly is a furnace, anyway? I know it warms your house. ... I'll just Google it.

I'm still confused. Is the furnace connected to the radiator?

[Full Circle]

It's furnace season already??

What exactly is a furnace, anyway? I know it warms your house. ... I'll just Google it.

I'm still confused. Is the furnace connected to the radiator?

First we had Florida-man and now Florida-woman.  

[Aliza]

I'm still confused. Is the furnace connected to the radiator?

First we had Florida-man and now Florida-woman.  

That's a northern thing. You want me to identify a black racer or a moccasin, I can do that. You want me to identify proper attire for snow, you will be disappointed (and probably freezing).

[Full Circle]

Let’s all please bow our heads for a moment of silence to pay our last respects to the suffix -ly. 


-ly

1. Used to form adjectives from nouns, the adjectives having the sense of "like or characteristic of what is denoted by the noun”.
   

Absolutely grates on my nerves when a speaker or writer (as in the case below) can’t seem to take the time to add the fucking suffix to the end of a noun. I think it makes them sound stupid and uneducated. 


"As I write this -- about 4 a.m. -- Donald Trump is soon to wake and begin tweeting inanities designed to obscure an inelegant truth: He lost the midterm election, bad.”


No asshole, if he lost it at all he lost it badly. 
People do not drive ‘bad’, they drive badly. They do not want something ‘bad’, they want it badly. 

If you would have paid attention in school you wouldn’t be torturing the English language so fucking badly. 

End rant, 

Can you tell I didn’t like the results of the election?

[Full Circle]

That's a northern thing. You want me to identify a black racer or a moccasin, I can do that. You want me to identify proper attire for snow, you will be disappointed (and probably freezing).

Speaking of proper northern attire, what the hell is a muffler? I’m told it’s something you wear around your neck. I thought that was an albatross.   

[Aliza]

That's a northern thing. You want me to identify a black racer or a moccasin, I can do that. You want me to identify proper attire for snow, you will be disappointed (and probably freezing).

Speaking of proper northern attire, what the hell is a muffler? I’m told it’s something you wear around your neck. I thought that was an albatross.   

A muffler is something you wear on your hands. Even I know that.

[Chas]

That's a northern thing. You want me to identify a black racer or a moccasin, I can do that. You want me to identify proper attire for snow, you will be disappointed (and probably freezing).

Speaking of proper northern attire, what the hell is a muffler? I’m told it’s something you wear around your neck. I thought that was an albatross.   

It's a warm scarf.

I suppose you don't know what a toque is either. 

[SYZ]

Speaking of proper northern attire, what the hell is a muffler? I’m told it’s something you wear around your neck. I thought that was an albatross. 

This...

[Aliza]

That's a northern thing. You want me to identify a black racer or a moccasin, I can do that. You want me to identify proper attire for snow, you will be disappointed (and probably freezing).

Speaking of proper northern attire, what the hell is a muffler? I’m told it’s something you wear around your neck. I thought that was an albatross.   

It's a warm scarf.

I suppose you don't know what a toque is either. 

I know now. I just Googled it.

[Vera]

A muffler is something you wear on your hands. Even I know that.

That’s a muff actually

[Vera]

I thought that was an albatross.   

And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I...

[SYZ]

Absolutely grates on my nerves when a speaker or writer (as in the case below) can’t seem to take the time to add the fucking suffix to the end of a noun. I think it makes them sound stupid and uneducated...

Ahhh... someone after my own grammatical heart...

I loathe the current Aussie(?) habit of so-called "verbing", that is turning or using nouns and/or adjectives into, or as  verbs.

Such as:   he was stretchered off the field; we dialogued passionately; a student who regularly truanted  lessons;
a golf club personally signatured by their favorite sportsman; she's medalled 29 times in tournaments; the commander
advantaged  his field troops; the engineering was offshored to China; I genocided over 6 kinds of monsters; he said
he could loan her the book... ad rediculoso.

And yes:  I've seen all of those examples in print.    

[SYZ]

I suppose you don't know what a toque is either. 

I for one do Chas... I was growing the stuff for a while.   

[Full Circle]

Absolutely grates on my nerves when a speaker or writer (as in the case below) can’t seem to take the time to add the fucking suffix to the end of a noun. I think it makes them sound stupid and uneducated...

Ahhh... someone after my own grammatical heart...

I loathe the current Aussie(?) habit of so-called "verbing", that is turning or using nouns and/or adjectives into, or as  verbs.

Such as:   he was stretchered off the field; we dialogued passionately; a student who regularly truanted  lessons;
a golf club personally signatured by their favorite sportsman; she's medalled 29 times in tournaments; the commander
advantaged  his field troops; the engineering was offshored to China; I genocided over 6 kinds of monsters; he said
he could loan her the book... ad rediculoso.

And yes:  I've seen all of those examples in print.    

Luckily that hasn’t caughtered on here yet, already people in the US speak very bad.

[Full Circle]

A muffler is something you wear on your hands. Even I know that.

That’s a muff actually

Don’t do it Vera...

Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse

[Full Circle]

Speaking of proper northern attire, what the hell is a muffler? I’m told it’s something you wear around your neck. I thought that was an albatross. 

This...

Funny looking binoculars if you ask me.

And why call something an overcoat? Isn’t that simply a coat? Why not say I put on two coats? What if it was so cold you put on three coats? Would you then be wearing a coat, an overcoat and an overovercoat?

[Vera]

@Full Circle Conversely, a sweater can be an undercoat

[Chas]

And why call something an overcoat? Isn’t that simply a coat? Why not say I put on two coats? What if it was so cold you put on three coats? Would you then be wearing a coat, an overcoat and an overovercoat?

It is called an overcoat since men already wore coats, even indoors.

[Unsapien]

Fucking pitch black at 5pm now.

Stupid earth and your stupid tilted axis.

[Vera]

And why call something an overcoat? Isn’t that simply a coat? Why not say I put on two coats? What if it was so cold you put on three coats? Would you then be wearing a coat, an overcoat and an overovercoat?

It is called an overcoat since men already wore coats, even indoors.

So why not outcoat?

[Aliza]

And why call something an overcoat? Isn’t that simply a coat? Why not say I put on two coats? What if it was so cold you put on three coats? Would you then be wearing a coat, an overcoat and an overovercoat?

It is called an overcoat since men already wore coats, even indoors.

I wear a sweater everywhere I go, and in the winter, I wear a sweater on top of my sweater.

... I wear an oversweater!

[Old Man Marsh]

Fucking pitch black at 5pm now.

Stupid earth and your stupid tilted axis.

Gotta make it home early, before the monsters come out....