Methinks the JD doth protest too much.

Or trusted.

Love it! And always appreciate an opportunity to share this detailed guide:

That is interesting!

My problem with using defunct letters is that it requires a lengthy explanation, and even then is still hard to read. It would be easier just being in a different language entirely, at least I could copy and paste into a translator.

Which still doesn’t really answer why use them. Why make it intentionally harder to understand your comments? What’s the upside to it?

Edit: I’ve looked at your previous comments and saw you explain it to someone else where they’ve come from and your preference, but I feel like if you have to explain it to everyone it can’t possibly be a useful way of communicating.

I’m probably going to regret asking, but why the odd letters? And why, as near as I can tell, are there two different ones for ‘th’?

I’m guessing that’s in reference to your reply to someone else about messages going out asking for donations after the supreme court decision? That may be in poor taste, I’ll grant you, bug doesn’t change the fact that it still wasn’t the democrats that made the decision in the first place.

If Person A punches Person B, and Person C could have stopped it, I would still blame Person A for throwing the punch.

I mean, I am utterly befuddled at how you could reach that conclusion.

It’s a bold take to blame the side that failed to prevent something, rather than the side that actually did the thing.

They’ll release it in two weeks.

A very good point, I’m just bitter about the cost of a 99!

Did not know that, very interesting! Wonder if there’s something similar for the UK.

The Code is more what you’d call “guidelines” than actual rules.

I do hope this isn’t a road to the term ‘pint’ just becoming a generic name rather than actually holding meaning. I remember when a 99 referred to the price!

OK… It is in the very first sentence of the article.

No it isn’t. The first sentence is “New York police have defended their actions after a bystander was shot in the head as two officers tackled a fare-evader armed with a knife in a busy subway station”. Nowhere there does it specify that the police were the ones that did the shooting.

Edit: The article seems to have been updated since my initial comment, the opening sentence now reads “Protesters in New York have demanded accountability after police fired at a suspected fare-evader in a busy subway station, hitting a bystander in the head”. However, the headline is also different, and is about protests, so I wonder if the whole article has been replaced.

You can get shot by the NYPD any day, but how many opportunities are you going to get for a free knife.

What an oddly flattering photo of Trump.

The real Reddit 2014 memes were the friends we made along the way.

To be a bit of a pendant

To be a bit of a pedant, it’s pedant.