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This verges on actually mattering, but knives on magnetic strips should be blade down.

Pros:

• when grabbing the knife you are holding it in the safest way possible automatically with the blade pointed down rather than blade up like fucking Chucky.

• If you botch grabbing it, it falls away from your hand/arm rather than toward/on top of it.

• the handles hook over the strip and are more secure

• the handles are all on the same plane, and again if you dislodge a separate knife unexpectedly it falls away from your hand/arm

If a state isn't at least partly in Central Time, it can't be in the Midwest.

Obviously not all states in Central Time are in the Midwest, either, that's just the lowest bar.

There should be more mature games.

I don't mean like sex games, I mean like games intended for adults that can have mature content and mature stories without it being heavily watered down.

Games should have as much leeway as the film or book industry when it comes to mature content - Though I guess that's getting murky too lately.

You inspire me. I love banana-flavored things, but I don't like bananas.

There is an epidemic of people mixing up the usage of the words “is” and “are”. Use “are” as the general catchall word.

For third person singular subjects use “is”.

There is a game. There are games.

Uncountable things use “is”.

There is the forest. There are the trees.

Are there people? Is there a person.

Are we there yet. Is our destination close?

If the subject uses a definite number use “are”.

The team is going to the game.

The fourteen players are going to the game.

Decimate means 1/10th destroyed, lost, whatever. I don't care that the dictionary says that meaning is obsolete. I get that the meaning of words changes over time, but it has the prefix deci. 1/10th. You don't get to decide something that starts with 1/10th means near total even if it's a scary sounding word.

This is my anthill and I'm dying here.

Folding laundry is a complete waste of time and effort. If it's been through the wash it's clean, it's not going to be any cleaner just because you spent half an hour doing laundry origami.

Latin root words that end in -or should use the suffix -trix when applied to women. So a woman aviator is aviatrix, administrator is administratrix, etc.

Probably stereotypical, but I find well done steaks to be a total waste.

I rarely cook steak, but when I do I go to a butcher and get something quality and fresh. Normally I don't care how other people enjoy their food, but when I take the effort to get quality steak and someone at a family get together asks me to cook until the steak is grey in the center it just deflates me. Logically I know that if everyone is happy with their food it doesn't matter, but personally having to mangle a steak so it has the taste of ground beef just goes against every cooking instinct I have.

I've learned that when certain people are coming to a holiday cookout to just cook burgers or BBQ instead. Everyone is just as happy with what they get.

Dear Australia, I utterly love you, but please tell me how many vowels do you need to shove into the word No? It's almost become the longest word in Australian English.

Peeling vegetables is such a waste of food, nearly all vitamins and minerals are stored in the skin.

"Road Works" usually means it doesn't.

in line with your take: artificial orange is the best artificial fruit flavor . strawberry i can Stand but orange candy is the only non-chocolate kind of candy i actually enjoy