For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.

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I loathe tomatoes on burgers and will throw it in your face if you serve it to me.

Absolutely pointless taste wise and all that water is what makes the bread and patty move around with no respect for each other.

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Ooooh them’s fighting words. Have you tried a burger with a homegrown tomato? Pretty night and day, might just change your mind.

[Image description: a plate with a burger and sides. The burger is open and ready to be assembled, one bun has sauce and a slice of an heirloom tomato, the other has the patty, cheese, pickles and bacon.]

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There is no space between the last letter of a sentence and punctuation.

Please , please , make it stop !

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There is also a space after an ellipsis… like this.

Not…like this.

I don’t care if everyone does it wrong, it’s both harder to read (less functional) and it flies against normal punctuation conventions.

Also, don’t get your punctuation inspiration from Japanese games. An ellipsis is three periods, no more. Exclamation mark always goes after question mark. (“?!” = correct) Japan adopted our punctuation marks and did it their way. If you’re writing in English, do it the English-language way.

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I will return anything sent to me in an Amazon package.

I went directly to your site for a reason, which is to avoid Amazon. If you secretly fulfill from Amazon or Amazon Warehouses, I will return the item and shop elsewhere.

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But… a lot of people and businesses reuse boxes.

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A Chihuahua is not a legitimate dog, it’s a rat with delusions of grandeur.

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That’s a disservice to rats, their domestic variety are smarter and better behaved. Least that I’ve seen

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The Oxford comma is bad. The “and” conveys the end of the list just fine.

Gaming laptops are good and have been for decades.

Soup is not food. If you spill your drink over my plate of pasta I call that a ruined plate of pasta.

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Speaking of commas & “and”, I hate that people refuse to use the word “and” in news headlines, they replace it with commas instead and it’s just a worse reading experience, I really don’t understand why this is a thing.

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Because every character used to cost, both in page real estate and ink on page. Today, it still does in page real estate even if the bits that make up the page are basically free.

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Makes some kind of sense, I just feel like it hurts readability way too much to be acceptable.

Like “Norway, Sweden makes energy deal with Denmark, Germany” is very hard to parse, reads like Norway is a place in Sweden and Denmark a place in Germany.

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