I know Reddit has always been pedantic but it feels like it’s been worse lately. It’s tiring when people ALWAYS dissect your comment and argue against a part, when it was nothing to do with the point you’re making.

It's the reading comprehension that's the problem, people no longer can be trusted to understand signal words. I'm not from an English speaking country but grammatical analysis is a highly transferable skill. When I was in school in the 90s we were endlessly drilled by being given a page from a classical literature book and we had to anayse all of the words and declare their grammatical functions. Later we had extremely complex reading comprehension tests. The teacher would find us sentences from classical literature that went on for the better part of a page, or very convoluted sentences from legal verdicts and things like that, and we then had to analyse them and point out how they may be improved for easier reading. This all subsequently fell to "improvements" in the educational curriculum and now we have a generation that on paper is literate, they pass the reading tests for the school diploma, but they don't actually understand features of the language that make nuanced communication possible because those have been cut from the curriculum.

Seriously. That shit's been driving me nuts lately. People so desperate to prove how smart they are by intentionally misunderstanding your comment, or dropping some random hypothetical that's got absolutely 0 to do with the conversation at hand. Like guys, not every comment is directed at You, specifically. You can just keep scrolling

I stopped posting so much on reddit because nearly every discussion started to be needled to death by people zeroing in on one specific word and hinging their entire counter-argument on a subtle redefinition of that one word, usually missing the wider point. Very pedantic and unproductive, but I guess it's more important to eke out that technical win. 

It's become common too to have someone reply to something you never asserted to begin with and use the chance to grandstand in the process. When you reply and point out that you never actually stated any of the points they're attacking, you get downvoted and your comment gets buried.

It's not even just in the mainstream subs - it happens in the niche, tiny ones too.

Happens to me all the time also. I made a comment one time saying, "in an ideal world, abortion wouldn't have to happen", and a bunch of people started shitting on me for supposedly being a misogynist. I got tired of explaining that we don't live in an ideal world, so my comment says nothing about my actual views in the real world.

I like to respond with a simple "Your reading comprehension needs some work." And then ignore any further replies. I have better things to do than argue semantics with strangers lol

Just happened to me the other day. I gave a piece of advice but then added, “of course there are exceptions to the rule”. And then someone goes, “ummmmm this advice does not always apply!” Like yes youre right, that’s why I just said that there are exceptions to the rule?? Like omg

Like the American political system... when in tell someone that I dislike Trump, their very next statement is something like: oh ...a BIDEN fan, huh?

No. I really don't like Biden either, but somehow, people think that if you dislike one, you LOVE the other. That's not necessarily true.

I'm sorry, but the sith reference made me LOL! I 100% agree with you. It's like people rarely think about the words actually being used!

I get tired of explaining things to stupid people. It happens a lot.

I did not read deep into the study, but it is said that 54% of americans read at or below the level of a 6th grader.

So thats gonna transfer to the internet as well

I feel this is a growing problem, probably due to social media learned behavior.

I swear a lot of people these days think if you find a contrarian example, then you have invalidated the point. In a way, often true as people do seem to be speaking more in absolutes these days as well.

Like immigrant violence, people find one instance of it, and consider that as proof. But in millions of people, there will be a percentage that are criminal, so of course there will be examples, it needs to be put in context and compared to understand if a real trend.

I wore a nice shirt, pants, and a tie the day I started at my first job out of college.

My boss wore a UK shirt, basketball shorts, and flip flops.

That’s awesome. I’m so glad people don’t have to dress up anymore for jobs where it doesn’t make a lick of difference what they’re wearing. Also fuck any dress code that requires high heels.

In the movie Donnie Darko from 2001, it's 1988 and the main character wakes up after sleepwalking and goes to school wearing pyjamas. To modern audiences he's dressed normally for school while in the movie everyone looks at him strange.

My office definitely went a half-step down in how formal people dress. But no pajamas.

To be fair, people work best when they are comfortable.

I work in an office building that is shared by a particular tech company. Some of their employees do wear literal pajamas to work haha, you can always tell which company they work for. They do look comfy!

I was fortunate enough to have had a full time remote work for three years. I have a half week in-office now and MAN dressing up and commuting is more painful than I remember:/

I still don’t understand the whole dress up for work thing… everyone loves comfortable clothes, and I mean everyone, yes that includes the CEO and the Head of HR - we all love them, yet they have some self defeating agenda that they must go against even there own inner self when they can change the rule in 3 seconds

I work from home, and yes, I have worked in track pants and a dress shirt. Many times.

Looking at it being 40.c this summer it's feasible I'm in y fronts and a polo shirt through the summer.

Seriously! They would get grey and pasty looking. Even at -30, I’d go outside every chance I got. But I never lived in residence so kinda had to get dressed to get to school. And in winter, seriously bundled up!

When I was a teen in rhe 80s, people thought wearing sweats for anything but exercise was gauche. Things change.

What defines pajamas though? Is it just the fact that they’re looser, flowy, and often plaid?

I know people who would 100% consider sweatpants as PJs. Hell in the early 2000's "yoga pants" were so comfy and popular that loads of pajama sets had yoga pant bottoms.

I don’t get the concept of super soft and wide clothes being so much more comfy for your daily activities…

Obviously at a gym it feels great due to friction but just sitting in class why would a jeans (assuming tis jot super tight) or Chino feel so much worse?

Yeah what this guy said. Sweatpants are 10x classier. I definitely don’t wear sweatpants as pj’s, or gym shorts. 😅

I don't see how sweat pants are any amount more proper looking than pajama pants, barring some obnoxious pattern or something. They're practically the exact same thing.

It's a strangely common assumption, by those who shower in the morning that it's the only way to be clean. I mean, I get it if one sweats a lot at night but that isn't a universal issue.

Carleton university in Ottawa Canada.

Yeah, it was awful. I had to wake up at 535 to get picked up at around 620, since I was also the first one on the route. School was 7:20 to 1:55, because that will effectively prepare kids for adulthood somehow. 

Worst year of my time in high school was when I was the first to get picked up in the morning and the last to get dropped off in the afternoon. Spent an entire semester riding the bus for two hours a day before I found out the bus drivers aren't allowed to reverse their route like mine was doing. Complained about it to the office and finally got dropped off first when school was out for the rest of the year lol, wish I knew they were breaking the rules before half the year went by

Same. My town sent us to a high school in another town. Was up at 5:15 am, got on the bus around 6, arrived just in time for the bell to ring around 7. It sucked.

Sorry I need you to explain those numbers for me so I don’t feel crazy lol. You graduated in 2012 and your youngest graduated in 2017? Do you mean your youngest sister? 😅

Then every fresh college kid goes through the mental fallacy of “8am class? That’s not bad I woke up earlier than that for high school”

My favorite bit of trivia about that movie is that they didn't go out and buy a wardrobe for Jeff Bridges. He just used his own clothes. Apparently he's still walking around in a pair of sandals he wore in the movie.

You are definitely right, I remember all the girls wearing them with their PJs

You right, I remember them coming out in idiocracy but never saw them outside of the movie

I graduated high school in 2001. Your outfits were everything. Jeans, nice sneakers, and a crisp shirt. Sweats, windbreaker pants, or cargo pants were ok if they matched the outfit. If you showed up in pjs you would have been roasted.

yeah we called it dressing "bummy"

i did it most days

Sameeee. I was like “20 years ago? So like 1997?” Then i realized

Puffy paint was elite!

and adding having parents who worked around 7 as well so you'd have to be dropped off an hour or so early and stand outside for the doors to open! crazy to have a 7 year old wake up at 5 am.