In elementary school we were always trying to compete with each other to see who could come up with the best variation of it...for some reason I remember a version where we substituted a piece of lettuce for paper, a fork for scissors, and a cherry tomato for the rock
Ok, this is a serious pet peeve of mine. It's scissors, paper, rock! Not paper, scissors rock! This is because when your playing it you shake your hands up and down chanting sciss-ors, pay-per, rock! And on rock you reveal your move. I'm from Australia and it irritates me to no end when people do it (in my opinion) wrong. I do remember being taught it.
Well we say it rock, paper. scissors... That's all I've ever heard anyway. It's the only way it sounds right to me. Is it that bad to say it Rock Paper Scissors though?
It's not that bad I guess, but the way we do it has a ring to it and Rock Paper Scissors just sounds really wrong to me. I guess it's about what you grew up with.
Okay but why is it bad for me to be annoyed but not for midnight to get annoyed that the post said Rock Paper Scissors instead of scissors paper rock? I'm not saying that it should be bad I'm just asking why my comment is worse than hers. Personally I don't think either comments are that bad. She was just trying to correct the post although I do think that there are different ways to say it and that it doesn't matter.
It's one of those things that aren't right or wrong, I was more interested if everyone called it Rock Paper Scissors... And expressing that some people do it differently. I think just about everyone has something meaningless that they have a strong opinion about. Scissors, paper rock is just my meaningless thing to have a strong opinion about. You can't prove that one way is better than the other, it's a cultural difference. If you want to talk about something that has a factual and provable correct way of saying something we can talk about "I couldn't care less" vs "I could care less." So can we be friends and agree to disagree? :D
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