It's been my experience that the best way to have your advice ignored is to use an opening remark similar to what Wil uses here. It goes along with the old joke "In my days...". But as for the effort, well, I guess Wil gets an A+ for attempting to encourage people, and if nothing else, perhaps it will be worth something as a curio one of the days.
I've stored leftover pizza in the oven before. After ordering a whole pizza, where does one store it? Re-heating pizza that has been refrigerated is not good, almost as bad a microwaving leftover pizza. I'm a guy doomed to perpetual singleness, so I can relate to this. Rather than firing up the big nasty oven, it's much easier to use the toaster/counter top convection oven. Oh dang, I forgot about that pizza a few weeks ago!
I didn't look at the original thread, but I hope one of the comments was to use the self-cleaning cycle a few dozen times after rediscovering last month's dinner.
This was a great article to read, sounds like lots of fun. Made me sad, because the postal clerk in my local post office is a raging d-bag, the epitome of someone who loves to enforce the rules for the simple feeling of power it gives him. None of these would have made it into, or out of, his post office, and no notice would have been given either (I've had "lost items" that required opening a formal case via the USPS complaint web site)
Quoting from dictionary.com: "Shakespeare, Swift, Shelley, Scott, and Dickens, as well as many other English and American writers, have used they and its forms to refer to singular antecedents."
I won't discuss the authenticity or trustworthiness of dictionary.com (I do trust them), but this should be easy to verify, and 500 years of usage should be sufficient evidence that outweighs any possible modern "political correctness". There's also enough historical evidence that invented/coined words for a gender-neutral pronoun are not accepted in the long term (http://illinois.edu/blog/view/25/31097)
After "finishing" "The Hobbit", Peter Jackson will then take on the 12-volume History of Middle-earth, and in the process, expand it to encompass 30 movies, one to be released each year starting in 2013. Each 3-hour film will be simultaneously released in 3D, 2D, and Hobbit-vision.
(not a big Wil Wheaton fan, if it's not clear)
I didn't look at the original thread, but I hope one of the comments was to use the self-cleaning cycle a few dozen times after rediscovering last month's dinner.
I won't discuss the authenticity or trustworthiness of dictionary.com (I do trust them), but this should be easy to verify, and 500 years of usage should be sufficient evidence that outweighs any possible modern "political correctness". There's also enough historical evidence that invented/coined words for a gender-neutral pronoun are not accepted in the long term (http://illinois.edu/blog/view/25/31097)
As already mentioned, language evolves. Not "evolved", but "evolves", as in it is an ongoing change. You can't fight it. Unless you're the L'Académie française...
And thanks for the encouragement :)
edited for prize: http://www.neatoshop.com/product/Hello-Kitty-12-oz-Mug