Misread thread titles

What is your favorite funny noise?

Boi-oi-oing!

The “insect” option on a web page–Why?

How precise are these condiments?

Odd, precision is never a characteristic I thought to apply to them.

You must use exactly 1 tbsp of mayonnaise and not one smidgen more or the dish will be ruined!

I can think of an exact amount of mayonnaise that would be acceptable in a meal. :running_man:

This one has been pissing me off since it appeared in New threads three days ago and for … reasons … I’ve not cleared my New backlog so I keep tripping over it every few hours. Gaaah

‘Unfrosted’ trailer drops. Anybody gonna watch the movie?.

I guess I don’t misread it so much as misunderstand it.

I read “unfrosted” as the opposite of frosted. As in cakes, buns, flakes, and other food items lacking a glaze. I read “trailer” as “device pulled behind a truck or car”, and “drops” as the noun for a viscous liquid poured sparingly onto a whatever. Eyedrops, food coloring drops, drip-on surface lubricant, etc.

So I’m left trying to figure out what sort of unglazed food drizzle is best applied to a hauling trailer. And/or what the difference is between a frosted and an unfrosted hauling trailer. And how such a drizzle can be a not-glaze at the same time! Holy Brain-twister, Batman!! Gaah!

So now I’m three words into the title and I’m mainly wondering why the OP was insane enough to suggest such a surreal idea. Then he suddenly alludes to a movie and I have mental whiplash all over again.

I have to read it 2 or 3 times to switch to “trailer” as “short advertising clip for a movie”, “drops” as “Is released to distribution”, and eventually “Unfrosted” must be the title of some entertainment I’ve never heard of. Which should be italicized in most style guides, but Discourse won’t let us do that in titles.

It’s exhausting to see this damned thread. Now that I’ve vented, I’ve marked it read so it won’t bug me again.

Gee thanks there @solost! :grin:

Hey, if it’s good enough for The New Yorker…

Questions about iPhone 13 charging options

Fancy! My iPhone only has two charging options: plug-in and cradle.

(Nit) picking a lock

Well, technically that’s a wafer tumbler lock, not a pin tumbler.

(I totally had to look up locks on Wikipedia to write that joke; I really don’t know enough about locks to nitpick them)

Sometimes as I’m quickly scrolling titles I misread one that I have seen correctly dozens of times before. Today it was “The insect option on web pages”.

Ways in which you are annoyingly pediatric

Waaaah! I want that! Want it!

Since I’m the third person who came here to post about the “insect” option on web pages, that must be a fairly commonly misread title. Interestingly, the answer to the “why” question is the same in both the real version and the misread one: to find bugs.

NY AG Letitia James drops the (civil) hammer {On Trump FINALLY} [9/21/2022]

I know what it reads, but every time I see it, that’s what I see…

Do they make shock collars for parents?

Shotgun on FX

Phileas Fogg preferred twenty three grains of pepper on his steak, not twenty two, nor yet twenty four…

Is my son too young to view the Apocalypse?

I sincerely hope that we all are.

Abandoned cat, how can I take possession?

Just leave out some tuna or sardines, and soon it will be yours!

I keep reading, “Toxic Playlists.”

I know what the thread’s about, since I even posted in it, but I keep seeing…

Ways in which you are annoyingly pandemic

I am incredibly infectious.