Most Bizarre Errors You Constantly See

[chikusho]

Come on, sure you see the logic errors in naming something that proclaims to be about equality for all genders after a single gender

It makes all the sense to name a movement in a way that directly presents the main issue.
I'd like to see you make the same argument for, for example, the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Because, you can't name something that proclaims to be about equality for all races after a single race, right? :/


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People who whine about being "cheap" in fighting games.
It's in the game, so it's allowed to use.
If you can't counter the strategy your opponent is employing, you just need to practice more.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Shotguns aren't just effective at close range and a full plate suit of armor wouldn't slow a knight down any more than a wintercoat (people could run, do somersaults off their horse, walk on their hands)

Depends on the armour...in any case it is going to be annoyingly heavy.

As for guns...people getting knocked backwards when they are shot. Not only is that impossible, it's also not what you want. Staying perfectly still, except for a fist sized chunk of your chest jumping 6 feet away is much worse than being knocked 6 feet.

 

[Queen Michael]

The anime-originated thing where a phenomenally sharp sword cuts through a person or a monster and they carry on walking for a moment before the two halves slide apart. It's just silly, it's like when Wile E Coyote walks off a cliff and only starts falling when he realises there's no ground under him. Well, OK, that I could concede to being a stylisation or artistic license. But when the person/monster splits apart and there's a few intact strands of viscera/mucous connecting the halves of the torso... that makes no sense. Did the blade cut through, or didn't it?

I always assume that the viscera/mucous is so sticky that it stuck together again once the blade had passed by.

On a different note, Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four is not about a society where you're watched constantly, it's where te government has the possibility to Watch you constantly but you can't be sure when they are.
In fact, now that I think about it I'm not sure they had cameras absolutely everywhere, either.

 

[Jamieson 90]

People who don't know the difference between poison and venom and then go on to use them interchangeably.

Simply put, if it bites you and you die it's venomous, if you bite it and you die it's poisonous.

Come on people it's all about the delivery methods.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Annoyingly heavy, not really. For you or me, maybe.

The reality is that non-jousting armor weighed somewhere around 45 pounds (around 20 kilograms) and since it's reasonably even distributed around the body and worn by someone who is presumably in much better shape than our current sit-behind-desk fitness, it wasn't that heavy at all.

Modern day soldiers carry more weight in their personal packs.

Was not the weight of the armour one of the reasons the French knights did so poorly in the mud of Agincourt?

 

[Thaluikhain]

Was not the weight of the armour one of the reasons the French knights did so poorly in the mud of Agincourt?

Yes, a minor reason compared to the overconfidence and complacancy of the french, where they failed to attack before the english archers set up their defensive pikes. (That and underestimation of archers (filthy commoners, but actually professional soldiers) and the superior longbow, which could pierce a plate mail at a 100 yards)

I was led to believe that the arrows couldn't penetrate the armour, however, the archers killed large numbers of mostly defenceless knights in close with other weapons.

(Really, though, when your king is made of glass...things really aren't off to a good start).

 

[Moderated]

The word "comprise". Hell, you almost NEVER see this word used correctly. A group comprises separate items. A group is NOT comprised of separate items. Separate items do NOT comprise a group.

consist of; be made up of.
A group is comprised on separate items.
A group consists of separate items.

 

[Mydnyght]

consist of; be made up of.

Okay, that you're right about, but...

A group is comprised on separate items.
A group consists of separate items.

Here's the problem with that. You're replacing "comprises" with "is comprised on". That's not the same expression.

 

[Vegosiux]

For some reason everybody in League of Legends constantly type Thresh (A champion) as Tresh. Why? I honestly have never seen anybody else spell it correctly.

Being a spelling pedant is one of my favorite things about LoL. I once saw someone spell smite with 8 letters. I can't even try to replicate it. In the meantime, I'm a Casopia main.

"Smightte"? "Smittens"? "Smightty"? Seriously, I can't imagine it myself.

 

[Rai^3]

My mother absolutely refuses to pronounce the "r" in "frustrating." I wish I was kidding about this. She really is an intelligent woman otherwise.

 

[Moderated]

consist of; be made up of.

Okay, that you're right about, but...

A group is comprised on separate items.
A group consists of separate items.

Here's the problem with that. You're replacing "comprises" with "is comprised on". That's not the same expression.

on is a typo, should say of
I still don't get what you're saying.
consist of; be made up of.
A group is comprised of separate items.
A group is made up of separate items.

 

[Mydnyght]

I still don't get what you're saying.
consist of; be made up of.
A group is comprised of separate items.
A group is made up of separate items.

"To comprise" is the same as "to consist of" or "to be made up of".
"To comprise" is NOT the same as "to be comprised of".
Thus, "to be comprised of" is NOT the same as "to consist of" or "to be made up of".

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I'm sure at this point he's doing it just to screw with us, but any time my dad refers to Saul Goodman from Breaking Bad, he always pronounces it "Sal".
At which point my sister and I say "It's 'Saul'! 'Better call Saul'!"