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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    A simple one I think, I refuse to call twitter by other names.

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      I do love, however calling it Xitter where X is pronounced “sh”

      Like Xi Jinping. (Shi )

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        Is it? The voice in my head pronounced zshi when I read it.

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          I would say it’s pronounced closer to Cedar in this context (mandarin speaker)

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          Wikipedia says. ʒI: where “ʒ” is the S in pleasure or the g in beige

          Which is to say (smoking my pipe like oxford don) I was making a scatological joke.

          Shitter

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            That’s fine, it’s just hard to know without hearing native speakers’ pronunciations and you’ve only read it. Thanks for the reply!

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        X-Twitter is almost acceptable (ex-Twitter, not wrong)

        Also liked when I read the other day “… Twitter, now called X, …”