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What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on? (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago by notnotmike@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"

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[-] medgremlin@midwest.social 110 points 3 months ago

The medical symbol of the staff with the snake is only supposed to have 1 (one) snake on it. A staff with 1 snake is the Rod of Asclepius (the son of Apollo and Greek demigod of medicine), a staff with 2 snakes is a Caduceus which is carried by Hermes as a messenger or herald.

Physicians get 1 snake. Couriers and heralds get 2 snakes. Any medical professional or organization that uses 2 snakes is wrong and needs to go study the humanities and classics for a bit.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 3 months ago

Similarly, the Shamrock, (☘️) an important symbol for Saint Patrick's Day has three leaves where most SPD kitch sold in the US features four-leaf clovers (🍀) an unrelated good luck symbol. I dont object because I feel Ireland needs a better iconic saint (and a better holiday) than the guy who brought the imperialist religion under which the native Irish would be subjugated.

They need someone like Joan of Arc who ran the English out (of settlements in France).

[-] tehbilly@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

Wait, he didn't chase out literal snakes?!

[-] quantumantics@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

While I know you're being funny, for those unaware, the snakes being referred to with St Patrick were a euphemism for the non-Christian beliefs in Ireland.

[-] ILikeMultis@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

TIL

[-] tehbilly@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Yep yep, nothing quite as fun as associations with colonial bullshit. I definitely should have added /s

[-] Teddy@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

Applicable Make Some Noise short: https://youtube.com/shorts/DZ__i7YFhkA?si=saiVUtW2tK4Ay4hK

[-] verity_kindle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

So, let's get rid of the Catholic St. Patrick and bring in the Catholic St. Joan of Arc? That seems illogical, since St. Joan of Arc also represented what you refer to as an imperialist religion. St. Joan also overtly represented the imperial power of France, which was very much expanding its territory at the time that she lived. I agree with you about the shamrock.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

I meant similar to Joan of Arc, in that she chased the English out, but I'd be much happier for someone who wasn't a religious saint.

For now, it's Mad Sweeneys' day, more or less.

[-] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 months ago

Would two snakes on an ambulance be acceptable? They're kind of like couriers of the sick and injured.

[-] medgremlin@midwest.social 10 points 3 months ago

That's the only time I think it's acceptable. Ambulances are kind of a venn diagram of healthcare and couriers, so the 2 snakes on the star of life makes sense.

[-] Teddy@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago

They may need to mix it up by switching to 2 crossed staffs with a total of 3 snakes to get it juuusst right.

[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 7 points 3 months ago

I thought one snake was use for medecine and two snakes for pharmacy. I guess I was wrong. Anyway in France, the one snake is use for medecine and pharmacies used a green cross shaped like the one the suisse flag.

[-] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus_as_a_symbol_of_medicine

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

... But 2 snakes looks cooler...

Also Hermes -> Alchemy -> Medicine. I can grok that.

[-] eatthecake@lemmy.world -4 points 3 months ago

Given the thread we're in: grok is not a word.

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

A word is a word when people use it and it is understood. Grok was in a book, and used extensively in everyday conversation by the 70s counterculture.

Grok is a word.

Seethe.

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