Assuming that you’re being serious, my OP was not aimed at you; the person who inspired it has actually responded privately.
Assuming you’re not being serious: I try to piss ON, not off. It’s more evil.
I thought that in an actual consensus, everyone had accepted the eventual conclusion. Not so in a “general concensus” - those allow for the occasional disagreer.
It’s an idiom. Call it a colloquialism if you will. It is popular and not incorrect in a language based on - ahem - general consensus :).
Edit: Ah, begbert2 is right anyway. And Merriam Webster explicitly states that consensus of opinion is correct.
I’ve always felt that it was better to be pissed off than to be pissed on.
:: sighing ::
:: teleporting Cisco a loaded revolver, a broadsword & a light saber ::
I’ll let you pick the weapon, the place, AND the time.
I’ll see your cite and raise you the Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary (which actually spikes you on a front I did not).
Main Entry: con·sen·sus
Pronunciation: \kən-ˈsen(t)-səs\
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Latin, from consentire
Date: 1843
1 a: general agreement : unanimity <the consensus of their opinion, based on reports…from the border — John Hersey> b: the judgment arrived at by most of those concerned <the consensus was to go ahead>
2: group solidarity in sentiment and belief
usage The phrase consensus of opinion, which is not actually redundant (see sense 1a; the sense that takes the phrase is slightly older), has been so often claimed to be a redundancy that many writers avoid it. You are safe in using consensus alone when it is clear you mean consensus of opinion, and most writers in fact do so.
Both are correct. 
Lightsabers, underneath Cloud City, at dusk. I AM your father.
I was going to say that you’ve gone mad again, but glancing the entry I see that it could be read your way. We’ll have to call off the duel; I have some lexicographers to murder.
I was going to cheat in the duel anyway.
Amen, I say. Making the effort to use correct spelling, capitalization, and grammar is a courtesy. It shows respect for the reader.
Did you look at the link I offered? –
:: growling::
Hmm. I was right and wrong at the same time. If this were Star Trek and I, an android, there’d be positronic matrix bits all over the damn floor.
Ellipses are also legitimately used as a mark to indicate a pause in speech… or an unfinished thought… or a sentence trailing away into silence (an em-dash can also be used to mark aposiopesis).
Otherwise a good rant, I haven’t read a better since…
Plus, it leaves the idiots with fewer excuses for misunderstanding you.
fuck you
hi miller
Five years ago? Jeezus, let it go already.
My guess is pinkyvee thinks she’s being cute, while trying to troll as much as possible. But at least it isn’t working, huh Skald?
hey, he started it
i don’t get it whats the problem
God you must really hate my user name. I’m not sure why I avoided spaces or capitalization, I had been lurking long enough to know the (rather lax) limits of user names on this site. I make up for it by using impeccable* English everywhere, including text messages. Please spare me from your purges of those who oppose you, almight Skald!
*I fully expect Gaudere to strike my post at any time