Not angry at all.

[Memnon]

@watchwolf49

<nitpick> 2 billion </nitpick>

<nitpick>1.6 billion</nitpick>

[watchwolf49]

You are correct … how silly of me … of course heaping blame on 1.599 billion people is LOTS better than heaping blame on 2.199 billion people … I’m shocked I didn’t realize that fact. I guess that makes it okay, one fruitcake fancying himself an ISIS fighter indictes less than a quarter the world’s population.

@elucidator

And doubling in population every four minutes!

… and your point has already been elicited here … just saying …

[Machine_Elf]

@watchwolf49

Apparently we’ve also chosen to forget that just a few years ago, a white guy chased down a black kid and shot and killed the kid in cold blood, then successfully claimed self-defense. So, we have a culture of tolerance for this kind of behavior in the greater Orlando area.

I assume you’re talking about Trayvon Martin, who was, according to evidence at the scene, violently assaulting George Zimmerman when Zimmerman shot him and then surrendered peacefully to (and fully cooperated with) police. If you have evidence that this was something other than a justifiable homicide (on grounds of self-defense), you should have handed it over to the prosecutor before the trial.

That’s a far different thing from walking into a nightclub carrying an assault rifle and multiple loaded magazines, spraying everyone in sight with bullets, and then engaging in an armed standoff with police. It’s so different, in fact, that there’s little connection at all.

I’m not sure which one you’re talking about when you speak of tolerance for “this kind” of behavior.

[Kimstu]

@Machine_Elf

I assume you’re talking about Trayvon Martin, who was, according to evidence at the scene, violently assaulting George Zimmerman when Zimmerman shot him

After having been followed, intimidated, and confronted by Zimmerman against the stated advice of police, mind you. You’re attempting to make it sound as though Martin just “violently assaulted” Zimmerman for no reason at all, which is at least as incomplete and potentially misleading a description of the incident as watchwolf49’s.

[Memnon]

@watchwolf

You are correct … how silly of me … of course heaping blame on 1.599 billion people is LOTS better than heaping blame on 2.199 billion people … I’m shocked I didn’t realize that fact. I guess that makes it okay, one fruitcake fancying himself an ISIS fighter indictes less than a quarter the world’s population.

<nitpick>Fewer</nitpick>

[Kimstu]

@Tithonus

<nitpick>Fewer</nitpick>

Not really, no.

Should we say “less than five percent of the people” or “fewer than five percent of the people”? “Less than half of the graduates” or “fewer than half of the graduates”?

The answer isn’t black and white. I think (and Garner’s Modern American Usage agrees) that in these cases “less” is better.

The phrase “half of the graduates” is closer to a collective mass noun than to a collection of individuals counted up. So I’d suggest “less than half of the graduates.”

[Chimera]

Gosh, t’warn’t even half a them.

[Superdude]

@octopus

Oh my. Yo mama jokes!

Well, it’s a thread by Stringbean, so it’s automatically less creative and intelligent than a normal 6th grader.

[elucidator]

Fuckin’ sixth grade! Worst three years of my life!

[Superdude]

@elucidator

Fuckin’ sixth grade! Worst three years of my life!

Watch out, 'luci. In certain pockets of America, it’s illegal to fuck a sixth grader. Unless you’re in the stereotypical South, where your average sixth grader is 38.