I can't spell electrocuted.

something similar also happened to a friend of my dad who played bass, although minus the powerdrills.

I love this phrase and can't wait to use it, although I'm not sure how I'll work it into conversation.

Are you sure they wouldn't say, "A ZOMBIE! IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!"?

They needed further verification?

Despite pathetic cries from the respondents, warnings that they had a heart condition, or ominous silences, the subjects were told that, although the electricity was painful, it wasn't causing permanent damage. 'Please continue with the experiment.' Two thirds of all subjects obeyed and took the voltage to the maximum punishing dose of 450 volts.

Only when they had 'killed' the respondents and shown themselves to be obedient but murderous were the subjects told that there had actually been no electricity, and that the voices of the people they were torturing were pre-recorded.

Actually I don't think they were. I think the markings on the dial clearly indicated that they were administering dangerous and potentially leathal levels of volts. Many subjects kept questioning the scientist but he never contradicted this info. He just made solemn reassuring noises to please continue as directed and told them, if pushed, that it was all his responsibility. I think the subjects were in a state of some confusion and mental distress but just thought that despite what their ears and eyes were telling them, it couldn't really be as bad as it seemed cause it was in a respectable university with a nice man in a white coat.

Although I seem to recall one of the attempts to replicate it involved ACTUAL shocks on animals, just to rule out any possiblity that the subjects knew on some level that no serious damage was being inflicted. They went along with it too, I believe, though hey - they're only animals.

Hardly anyone enjoyed it, though. Man, one of them got so stressed he went into convulsions and the experiment had to be stopped. He would have kept on going if his body hadn't physically forced him to stop.

Mr Perry makes me fall off my bed giggling

There are some people out there in the world who genuinely seem absolutely incapable of spelling ANY words longer than three or four letters and I think they should be electrocuted often. Thoughts?

I'm not really much of a language nazi at all but it just struck me that the generation y has a gestalt and that gestalt is a SAOP BUBLE

plz dont electrocuted me :(

I think it's kind of 18th century-esque and cool.

Are these basically the rules of a new language where letter order within a term doesn't matter? we're going back to middle english where writing was a lot of stabbing in the dark at phonics, aren't we?

oshea I give you the benefit of the doubt that you do it on purpose most of the time

sometimes it is on purpose. but in real life also i cannot spell at all. i use the spell-check!

the straw that broke the camel's back today was a post on some other site containing "prequill"

pharmaceutical companies are going to have a hard time in the coming era

Thoughts?

Yes, quite frequently.

$1

Shove it up your arse, it ain't worth that much.

Srsly though, I don't really mind that much when people can't spell. I mean, who am I to judge? Look at my posts. Most are riddled with bad spelling which is mostly due to laziness and failing to check if there are any errors. :-(

my co-worker is the worst speller i've ever met. it's a mix of dyslexia and new orleans public schools.

some his most choice:

suposto (supposed to)
"is behave one word or two?"
offley (awfully)

nath I'm not really talking about typos and a few words you just don't know how to spell though, I'm talking about people who generally try to avoid anything over five letters and when pressed will just attempt to bang things out resulting in some horrible mutilation of the term. laziness with regards to typing is different from laziness with regard to even bothering to learn words!

jergins that is amazing! what does he do?

he works a couple desks down from me!

(he also makes up words: "these seats are great, no impesions.")

wtf does that even mean

but it just struck me that the generation y has a gestalt

Yes, it's all the fault of Hanle y.

Sometimes I worry that "sike" has jumped the line from misspelling to legitimate term. I've been corrected when I've used "psych", in fact.

To be completely honest it frightens me. I was rather contrary about it when I read a few articles about it, but after finding out that people I know, a decade younger than I am, have such lazy writing skills, even though they have a university diploma, I changed my mind about it all. Maybe I'm being a bit oldfashioned about it all, but damn I rrrrreally don't want my daughter(s) growing up writing "text message styleee" to me.

We received a contract (in relation to the World Expo) which was riddled with typos!!! WTF! This is a legal document! We had to correct it multiple times and send it back.

yeah it's one thing if some engineer I work with puts "publically" in his reports and writes paragraphs containing three different verb tenses, it's another when you start to look around and see nothing but one completely made-up sequence of letters after another being used as genuine attempts to communicate by people who aren't even being the least bit ironic

I'm typically a very good speller, but "balsamic vinaigrette" is just a fucking minefield.

Dude, my gf and I both realized the other night that we had no idea of how to spell 'vinaigrette' correctly (I posited that it was just 'vinegar' + 'ette', which I think might actually be correct tbrr). You are not alone.

yeah and also my impulse is always "basalmic"

'vinaigrette' gets me all the time

'management' and 'equipment' occasionally give me pause

as does "occasionally'

i realized recently that my brain refuses to spell OR pronounce the word "loquacious" correctly, what's maddening is that it's the first U i try to drop even though I KNOW HOW Q'S WORK