Well my wording was bad but,
There are about 1.2 million motor vehicle deaths in the world each year compared to wars and murders which add up to 0.44 million.
So yes unless you want to pedantic about a poorly worded sentence from a poster with dysgraphia my intended statement holds true.
So where is the link that billfish shot at somebody?
Over in the “Mr. Bundy Goes to Oregon” thread:
I’d pit him for not knowing that the name of the show is “Doctor Who,” and not “Dr. Who,” and the main character’s “name” is the Doctor.
Actually, if you’ll accept it, I’d like to apologize. You aren’t an ass. Your posts in the Bundys thread and the sovereign citizens thread are excellent, and you’re definitely one of the better people here.
I think you’re wrong about loud motorcycles, but, hey.
Anyway, the Pit is where people are awful to each other…but I’d rather not be awful to you, because of my respect for your posts on other topics entirely.
I’m more inclined to interpret that as “I once shot a gun and wished it hit somebody I didn’t like.” I’m also inclined to believe it was a video game gun.
But then again, with the spate of mass shootings we’ve been having lately, maybe billfish is one or two steps away from being the next headline.
Mass Shooting in Fishland Kills 13 “Dr Who said it was OK”
That’s very generous of you.
Since the slap-fight in this thread is weak and boring, but it is the pit, I thought I’d chime in on this:
Will you fucking learn the goddamn difference between who and whom and start fucking using them properly? This must be the 3[sup]rd[/sup] goddamn thread I’ve read, just today, where you alone have grossly misused “whom” where “who” is the goddamn proper fucking word! You’re always fucking doing that. Jesus fucking Christ, man. Get a tiny bit of education, moron.
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Now we’re talking.
www.distraction.gov, huh?
What about uglification.gov and derision.gov? 
Umm…I don’t want to start an argument with you, but “who” and “whom” are actually just two variations of the same word and they mean the exact same thing. In fact, either one is perfectly grammatical in any circumstance and they can be interchanged freely.
The only slight difference is that “who” is generally more common in everyday speech and informal writing. But when you want to sound educated or more formal, you just tack that “m” to the end and you’re good to go. It’s really just a matter of style and preference.
Anyhow, this shouldn’t effect your enjoyment of the thread and I am calling for the secession of any more grammar nazi-ing.
Now whom is talking?
I know I’ve branded myself as the resident radical descriptivist, but…
:twitch;
To am fair, him have a point? Notbody care about parts of speech this days. Whom pay attention to case. Whatever case thou uses will has be perfect comprehensible!
Or, perhaps, grammatical tags like subject and object cases are useful and facilitate comprehension.
As long we all agree that your and you’re have the same base word and are perfectly interchangeable in all instances then we’ll get along just fine.
Not quite, my good man. Each has a specific grammatical usage,to wit:
Boy, are YOU gonna be disappointed. Grammar Nazi is a cherished title here.
Subjective case calls for the word “who”. To whom is this not clear?
Oh, and because this is the pit, DAMMIT!!!
I’m sure you are joking around, but just in case someone comes along who doesn’t pick up on that, I’d like to point out for the record that “your” and “you’re” are two completely different words.
“Your” is what they call an accusative participle, and is used to denote actions in the future that are completed in the on-going past. (This is contrasted, of course, with verbs/adverbs that modify or are modified by tone or inflection.)
“You’re” is a little something called a fricative anagram. Don’t let the name scare you - it’s just a fancy term for words that can be the subject of a prepositional gerund. (In the special case where it happens to spell the same thing forward and backward, it is known as a phrasal conjunction.)
BULLSHIT! They’re akin to “he” and “him.” If you don’t know the difference, you have a poor grasp of the English language.
(“Him went down in flames.”)
I’m glad this thread moved onto more entertaining and important stuff. Maybe I’ll come back and kick this cow patty anthill Friday so everyone can have an entertaining weekend.
Except in the ablative case, or when used as a participle.
Jesus, don’t they teach you kids anything in school? It’s a simple goddamn rule.
Umm…I do know the difference.
The word “he” is used if it’s the first word in a sentence. If it comes after that you are supposed to use the word “him”.
I don’t have time right now to go into the technical details of why that is, but it’s an easy way to remember how to get it right every time.
Nitpick: It’s ablative tense - not case. I’m sure you know that and just slipped up, but since we’re getting nitty gritty here I wanted to point that out.