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If you put your cheese on top of the other pizza toppings you should be institutionalised.

People using "was" when they mean "were".

And the classic "should of/could of".

Difference in temperature cannot be expressed in °C. It’s not 5 °C warmer today than yesterday. It’s 5 K warmer. You can say “five degrees warmer”, but not “five degrees Celsius warmer” or “five Celsius warmer”. “Five Celsius degrees warmer” is also correct, but who’d do that?

The reason is that the Celsius scale has a fixed offset. If your birthday is in a week, you wouldn’t say it’s “one seventh of January from today”.

Those who always want to correct usage of the word 'ironic', much like those who use 'whom' as the subject of a sentence, are trying to signal intelligence but revealing stupidity, and can be dismissed pretty much entirely as people to take seriously.

One more: Conservatives are mostly less likely to have a higher education, less likely to be financially successful, more likely to be racist, more likely to lack critical thinking skills, less emotionally developed. And then there are the highly educated and rich hate mongers who stir up the rest for their own gains.

Unless you have a health condition that causes it, morbid obesity is gross. I don't mean being fat. I'm talking the mom in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Also, you shouldn't need a rascal scooter to shop in Wal-Mart unless you have such a health condition.

My feelings about Lois Griffin's meatloaf.

A disdain for nonfiction royalty, advertising, and movies with talking head montages.

For some reason everyone in my city says seen where they should say saw, and I look down upon all of them.

A whole lot of grammatical and/or punctuation-related things.

A particular bugbear is people using "disinterested" when the word they mean and should (IMO) use is "uninterested".

I appreciate that "disinterested" has come to mean "uninterested" but since it has another, already established meaning, I wish people would use them correctly.

For what it's worth:

• Uninterested - "that has no interest for me, I do not have interest in it."
• Disinterested - "that may or may not have interest for me, but either way, I do not have an interest in it."

I refuse to order takeout. People who eat takeout are not maximizing their enjoyment. Dine-in is the best way to appreciate fast food. Everything on location is part of a memorable eating experience - the music, the seating, waiting, the friendly workers who get to know you. You're better off experiencing everything that is exclusive to fast food.

I have a personal grudge against a Portuguese grammar mistake. The mistake is so basic and heavily predominant that I often question myself if I'm the one writing it wrong. I already know I'm correct but I still google it from time to time. Drives me insane.

The mistake is something like "Open hours: 9 to 17". The "to" translates to "às" but a lot of businesses type "ás" or even "hás". Crazy.