The Whining and Bitching Thread

[Bloopy]

@Blurry_Dreams I'm sure you could do better with hyphens. They normally connect compound adjectives/adverbs (not ones ending in -ly), not the nouns (unless leaving the hyphen out of a compound noun would change its meaning). I mean, you're a well-read man (not a well-read-man).

Some fixes for your shit:

completely clean-shaven faces (not completely-clean-shaven-faces)
weirdly huge-ass number (not weirdly-huge-ass number)
penis-in-vagina sex (not penis-in-vagina-sex)
thick-as-hell Georgia accent (not thick-as-hell Georgia-accent)
the perfect Popsicle shape (not the perfect Popsicle-shape)
black plastic Frisbee (not black-plastic-Frisbee, and no hyphens as it's not a compound: same meaning as saying "it's a black Frisbee and it's a plastic Frisbee")
bright pink nipples (not bright-pink-nipples, and no compound here either)

There can be exceptions though. If a book has a "frequently-missing-sentences thing", the -ly word can keep the hyphen because the meaning seems a little different to a book that has a "frequently missing-sentences thing". Not a great example to be precise about, but the 1st book sounds like it's consistently missing a significant proportion of sentences throughout the text, whereas the 2nd may only be missing one or two sentences every couple of pages.

 

[no country for old wainds]

pull up a chair everyone, class is in session. the esteemed professor bloopy has arrived at the rehab clinic to explain the english language.

 

[Bloopy]

Blurry's aspirations of being an author writing a novel could turn to gold, you see

 

[Slammed]

Like writin and spelln gud is needud fer riting novals.

 

[Bloopy]

It's not needed but he could at least try not to drive his editor to madness.

 

[Slammed]

Driving people mad is half the fun of writing.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Blurry's aspirations of being an author writing a novel could turn to gold, you see

instead of writing a novel, i'm gonna write a short-story collection where all the short-stories together add-up to a standard-novel word-count

 

[WorldObliteration33]

This thread is brilliance.

 

[Cronopio]

I like me some story writing now and then, yes I do.

 

[Slammed]

Writing is a good way of getting payback on people you don't like.

 

[Bloopy]

I had the idea of trying to figure out my philosophy of life, which I could maybe turn into a book if I spent decades on it. But now I wonder if it'd work better as a feature film that's mostly just me rambling at a manifestation of Bloopy. The descent into madness.

Meanwhile, there are now 3 things that may be infinite. The universe, human stupidity, and the amount of drilling required to attach new cladding to an apartment building. 1 year on and they're still going at it here. Bloody hell!

 

[CiG]

Not being able to laugh react on mobile is annoying.

 

[Slammed]

All reactions are a PITA when they take you to another screen to approve it.

 

[CiG]

 

[Slammed]

 

[Bloopy]

All reactions are a PITA when they take you to another screen to approve it.

Do you mean on mobile too? All went back to normal for the desktop master race here.

 

[Slammed]

I never use my mobile. It still scrolled up to the top of the page and prompted a response last time I tried it a day or so ago

 

[Bloopy]

Maybe ctrl-F5 would help refresh the page's scripts, or maybe sometimes it only works right in Firefox.

 

[no country for old wainds]

hard refreshing fixed it for me when you suggested it.

 

[Cronopio]

I had the idea of trying to figure out my philosophy of life, which I could maybe turn into a book if I spent decades on it. But now I wonder if it'd work better as a feature film that's mostly just me rambling at a manifestation of Bloopy. The descent into madness.

Meanwhile, there are now 3 things that may be infinite. The universe, human stupidity, and the amount of drilling required to attach new cladding to an apartment building. 1 year on and they're still going at it here. Bloody hell!

I'd like to see that. Maybe I'd even shell out for it.