Looks innocuous enough at first glance right? Let’s zoom in on the problem:
These don’t go together. If the semicircle on the left is correct, then this is showing moon phases, and the symbol on the right should be of a gibbous moon:
If the cookie-with-a-bite-taken-out in the right is correct, then this is showing an eclipse, and the symbol on the left should be of a 50% partial eclipse:
It drives me crazy every time I look at it.
If the wife likes it, mission accomplished!
Just take a chill pill man.
How right, I should limit my neurotic nitpicking to appropriate spaces.
No complaints here; I just want the wife’s to be happy.
My wife had a very stressful and demanding job that paid well. I sacrificed my career advancement so she could pursue this dream. After a few years she burned out, was miserable, and wanted to quit to find a new job. However this came with a huge pay cut too which made the decision more difficult and I was (hopefully understandably) frustrated because I had made all of these sacrifices so she could follow her dream.
But I wanted her to be happy so we figured it out.
Moral of this story? Since then I’ve learned how much truth there is to the “happy wife, happy life” idiom.
Sorry to hear it didn’t work out as planned for the two of you.
IMHO, relationships should not be about one persons happiness/goals/etc over the other (i.e. wives are not more important than husbands or vice versa). The item mentioned in the original post isn’t going to change anything in their lives (other than bringing one of them a bit of joy).
As I’m reading this I’m sitting in my bathroom staring at the shower curtain my wife picked out which has an equally infuriating moon illustration…
Why on earth would they add a drop shadow while also having a semi white background? I want to find the original designer and squeeze a tube of super glue up their nostrils
Clearly this is from the point of view of a planet with 13 separate individual moons, 11 of which are experiencing an eclipse just at the moment.
My wife bought a candle with a label stating “I’m glad you’re as weird as me.”
I try to avoid being the grammar police in general, but it’s right in front of where my eyes usually go when I pee, so it’s hard to ignore.
The worst kind of grammar pedant: the one who is passionate about a “rule” that is actually only a style recommendation.
Well, I don’t disagree with you.
I’ve never said anything to my wife about it because I don’t want to ruin whatever enjoyment she gets out of it.
In fact, I’ve never said anything about it outside of my own head (before the above comment) because correcting grammar (or commenting on grammatical style) when the meaning of the statement is clear rarely improves anything or anyone; in this case, I thought it relevant to the conversation, though the court of public opinion appears to disagree.
Ah well.
I don’t know if you realize how condescending it sounds to hear you say you “don’t want to ruin whatever enjoyment she gets out of it” by telling her… what? That you arbitrarily look down on the use of this absolutely grammatical construction?
The thing that bothers me most about stuff like this is that it is effectively some kind of “gotcha” that makes people feel foolish, like their natural, completely grammatical speech has errors, or something they should feel bad about.
OP must be either autistic or an astrophysicist. Just chill out dude. Take your meds or smoke some weed, whatever it takes.
Right, I forgot that autistic people are not allowed to post about things that annoy them in a community about annoying things. Noted.
Eh, there’s a reason that Mildly infuriating exists as a community — sometimes the best way to exorcise one’s aggravation is to give space to the annoyance by sharing it with other persnickety people.
