OH GOD I FUCKING HATE "TROOP"
Even goddamn NPR!!!
Perhaps we should all write to NPR. It would be a revolution.
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Steph L. - Dec 15, 2009 4:08:40 pm PST #3829 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Sophia Brooks - Dec 15, 2009 4:12:23 pm PST #3830 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I HATE TROOP TOO! Every time they says 'three troops were deployed' I picture 3 groups of soldiers, not three soldiers. I was beginning to think I was crazy and that troop always = soldier.
-t - Dec 15, 2009 4:14:33 pm PST #3831 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, I thought I was just wrong about what I thought troops meant because that's used so universally. Now I can be righteously indignant! So much better.
Polter-Cow - Dec 15, 2009 4:22:53 pm PST #3832 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I didn't even realize about troops. Because we always talk about supporting the troops, and what we really mean is supporting the individual soldiers, so I assumed troop = soldier.
Laga - Dec 15, 2009 4:23:39 pm PST #3833 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I thought troop had meant a single person for a long time but I just looked it up and found that it comes from an Old French word meaning herd or flock so I'm going to stop using it in the singular sense on principle. A troop is made up of soldiers.
tommyrot - Dec 15, 2009 4:26:22 pm PST #3834 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A troop is made up of soldiers.
Or Boy Scouts.
Ginger - Dec 15, 2009 4:26:27 pm PST #3835 of 30000
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"Completely destroyed" irritates me. Destroyed means completely gone. Then there's the misuse of literally. When someone says "it literally killed me," I can only wish that were true.
I got in my truck to go to trivia, but it wouldn't start. I have a battery charger, so I started it, but it ran rough and the lights were very dim, so after about a block, I turned around and went home. I'm afraid the truck is going to give me another expensive Christmas surprise.
Nora Deirdre - Dec 15, 2009 4:30:15 pm PST #3836 of 30000
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yeah, overuse of "literally" bugs me to no end.
I could LITERALLY CHOKE THE LIFE out of the next person I hear who uses it uncorrectly.
Laura - Dec 15, 2009 4:30:57 pm PST #3837 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Eeep, hope it is a cheap fix, Ginger. Do you have the kind of charger that you leave on all night to give it a good charge?
I think batteries have a shorter life down here. It seems like I have replaced too many of them.
Aims - Dec 15, 2009 4:34:14 pm PST #3838 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
A troop is made up of soldiers.
Or Boy Scouts.
Or Girl Scouts!!