Burning questions you’d like answered

shut up cunt.

One space, unless you're using a typewriter.

OP, I vote hard 'g' since it stands for Graphics Interchange Format

One space.

Hard G

Girth

Tacos

There you go, OP.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Why don't straight men feel comfortable cuddling?

How did people trim their toenails before metallic clippers were invented?

What's it all about, Alfie?

Do you know the way to San Jose?

Should I Stay, or Should I Go?

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

Who can it be Now?

OP here. I was told if you type with 2 spaces in emails etc it's a "tell" that you're old. I learned with 2 spaces and still sometimes do this but correct myself as much as possible. Yes I'm old.

r9 All accurate

Bottom of the Ivies? (In overall prestige and quality, not masculinity and sexual preferences). Cornell?

What's Going On?

Does anybody really know what time it is?

Are you experienced?

How can you mend a broken heart?

How deep is your love?

Who let the dogs out?

Who are you?

Why don't we get drunk and screw"

Have you ever seen the rain?

How much is that doggie in the window?

Is that all there is?

Why don't we do it in the road?

Where did I put my keys?

Does this place have gloryholes?

Why do I have to walk when time gets to fly.

Why is there something, and not nothing?

Is "not nothing" a double negative?

What do you get when you fall in love?

Where is the love?

Why do birds sing so gay?

Where do broken hearts go?

Why do flies

suddenly appear

every time

you are near?

[quote]Is "not nothing" a double negative?

No.

Why was I demoted from planet status?

R7 I'm suspecting knives.

Where do you get off? No, literally.

Suddenly ELEC-toral and PAS-toral have become elec-TORAL and pas-TORAL. Was this a creation of NPR to make their "talent" sound superior to their lowly listeners?

Who's zoomin' who?

What the...???

Apparently the inventors of gif format pronounce it with a soft “g” sound even though it doesn’t make sense.

Don’t most horses have no name?

Voulez vous coucher avec moi? Ce soir?

Who was DB Cooper, and what was his fate?

How come we oldsters grew up calling it The Ukraine but today it’s simply Ukraine?

Ou sont les neiges d'antan?

R33

Why do I have such a visceral negative reaction when I see a guy wearing a baseball cap backwards?

R36 They are douchebags and more likely to punch you for being gay.

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

How much in tonnage does the Earth weigh?

How come I have never in my life had a drop of precum? I’m so jealous of you leakers.

The pronunciation of .gif is much like the use of the Oxford comma (see the can of worms I'm opening?). Both sides have valid and reasonable arguments to support them, and it fall to each of us to decide for ourselves.

Hard 'G' argument: the G stands for the word graphic, which is pronounced with a hard /g/ sound. Soft 'G' argument: the letter G takes the soft /dz/ (j) sound when followed by the letter E or the letter I.

r41 what? Yeh, except give, gimp, girl, giddy, gift, giggle, gimmick, I could go on.....

r39 - 5.9725 billion trillion metric tons

Hey, you know what paradise is?

It's a lie, a fantasy we create about People and places as we'd like them to be

Welcome to English, R42, where the rules are as solid as a 90-year-old's erections.

How does one pronounce Charli XCX?

Wow!

Thanks, r43

R45 Correct, which is why we don’t write them as if they’re absolutes.

I choose Jif -- not the peanut-butter, the pronunciation.

R15 wins this.

I choose Jif —the peanut-butter AND the pronunciation.

Why does everyone now pronounce the T in often. When I grew up nobody ever pronounced it. What happened so suddenly?

R52 = William Safire

I'll ask my AUNT.

The gif vs jif debate began during the Tumblr years. Steve Wilhite, the creator of the extension, said to pronounce it "jif," a play on "choosy engineers choose gif."

When the format became popular for responding to comments circa 2008 or 2009 is when the hard G pronunciation came about. You can usually tell how long a person has been using the internet based on how they pronounce the word. I've been online since about 1995, so I say "jif."

[quote] Why was I demoted from planet status?

You know damn well what you did.

Mine got answered this morning -and it's all over the news.

Oh my god there it goes again!

Do they know it's Christmas?

[quote]Burning questions you’d like answered

Why does it burn when I pee?

"Oh honey you've got the syph!"

r59 you got it from the toilet seat

When making a PB&J, do you put the jelly (or jam) on top of the PB or on the other slice of bread?

Why does the girl with colitis go by?

Two spaces if you carefully craft your writing. One space if you have no concept of what it means to carefully craft one's writing or are a publisher (if that's not stating the same thing twice).

Two spaces AND two scoops!!

How is Qatar pronounced? Kutter? Ka-tar? Kwa-tar? HOW damnit!

It's pronounced like catarrh.

My pussy is impressed.

[quote] When making a PB&J, do you put the jelly (or jam) on top of the PB or on the other slice of bread?

At least you didn't even suggest trying to spread the PB over the jam.

I use only all natural PB, no salt or sugar added, but I start by buttering my bread with salted butter. Then I spread the PB over that... and often skip the jam. But if I don't, I spoon, not spread, small amounts of jam, jelly (actually no, I hate jelly), preserves, whatever, on top of the peanut butter.

Which is better? Cherries Jubilee or Baked Alaska? My late Mom did a great Baked Alaska but frowned and went silent when I asked about Cherries Jubilee. I am left to assume her attempt at Cherries Jubilee was a disaster.

I even asked my older sister and brother and they both burst out laughing, saying DON'T WORRY ABOUT THINGS THAT HAPPENED BEFORE YOU WERE BORN.

Is the universe finite or infinite?

Why is it that every time I close my eyes he's there ?

The water shining on his skin, the sunlight in his hair ?

And all the while I'm thinking things that I can't wait to share...

Why are straight me so stupid?

[quote]Why is there something and not nothing?

Because space and time have existed since the Big Bang, even a complete vacuum contains space and time as it passes by.

Corn? When did I eat corn?

[quote]I was told if you type with 2 spaces in emails etc it's a "tell" that you're old. I learned with 2 spaces and still sometimes do this but correct myself as much as possible.

Correct, but to explain why: it's because of the internet. Prior to 1995 or so, two spaces after a period was still the norm, but that went away after the internet made its consumer debut: the earliest web browser quite literally couldn't reproduce spaces if you inserted more than one. HTML, the language used to create websites, simply wasn't designed that way. You could put in 2 or 20 or 200 spaces, but only one would show up onscreen, and you couldn't see any of it. I don't know exactly when double-spacing "disappeared," but it's been a while now.

The same is true for texts: the two, and only two, people I know who still use double-spaces are my parents.

[quote]Is the universe finite or infinite?

According to the most accepted theories of cosmology, the universe is finite. It is expanding both internally and externally. No one knows what happens at the end, how large it is now, or other details about the outer edges of the universe.

[quote] Is the universe finite or infinite?

Whether finite or infinite, only part of it is known.

Max, where am I ?

May I say a few words, Mr. DeMille ?

r74 Slightly inaccurate

Typewriters gave every character the same space on the screen. This is called monospaced typesetting. In contrast, word processing software uses proportionally spaced fonts, which automatically adjust the spacing between characters to accommodate the varying width of letters. This is called proportional typesetting.

Why did everyone become dumber than we were 20 years ago.

R74 - honest answer - because our phones do so much for us now we have lost brain capacity - how many phone numbers did you used to remember easily - how many can you rattle off now.?

Use it or lose it.

WHY?

Where is Ron Eldard? Did he quit acting? Did his agent dump him? How does he make money? Did he find a new career? Did he choose to walk away or did he get kicked to the curb?

Why must everything be a CONTEST?

How am I supposed to live without you?

What does the fox say?! 🦊

Few men want a sharpened pencil or the blunt end of a Foster's Lager shoved up his ass.

Length AND girth matter.

Follow your superior's use of sentence spacing.

Which came first? The chicken or Charlie Sheen?

R84, and how can 40 years - FORTY FUCKING YEARS - have passed since this was a hit?

Why do people add an "s" at the end of "Toward?"

How was the term "weird" a game changer?

For those of you who say one space:

I'll have you know, when I type something like St. or univ., Word and other programs immediately capitalize the next word. I wouldn't have this problem if everyone followed the two-space rule.

Just because the software is stupid, R92, doesn't mean you have to be as well.