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May 26, 2020
7:13:57pm

Lifi All-American

If you can’t understand that you shouldn’t be driving

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Lifi

Previous username: CougaSamoa
Bio page: Lifi
Joined: Jan 28, 2004
Last login: May 6, 2024
Total posts: 36,402 (260 FO)

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Messages

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Time

POLL: You’re half a mile away from the stoplight and your navigator tells you “Turn left at the next light.” How do you interpret it?

scootsy Meme Team

5/26/20 6:20pm

Next week is also the next Sun-Sat that come. Not the week after that.

Cougarrr

5/26/20 6:23pm

So would "next Sunday" be in 5 days, or 12 days? I'd interpret it as 12 days,

cougaman

5/26/20 7:43pm

I smell a marital dispute

Tricky

5/26/20 6:25pm

The English language is so strange. The concept of your poll is correct for nearly all circumstances, but for some

slappy

5/26/20 6:31pm

2 days from now is THIS Thursday

fulano

5/26/20 7:09pm

So you chose option B in the OPs poll? If if he meant the immediately coming light, he should say THIS light?

slappy

5/26/20 8:52pm

Next Thursday IS 9 days from now. Two days from now is Thursday or

Lifi

5/26/20 7:18pm

I fully understand how people use this expression for days. I'm pointing out that in the English language, it is not

slappy

5/26/20 8:34pm

Apples and oranges. In one case, you’re dealing with concrete objects. In the other case, there is a time element. To be

Crowgar

5/27/20 4:52am

I don't agree with time elements. If I tell you I'll pay you next month, you would expect payment in June not July.

slappy

5/27/20 10:01am

Just apologize now, you will eventually so get it out of the way

ArcticKat

5/26/20 7:01pm

If you can’t understand that you shouldn’t be driving

Lifi

5/26/20 7:13pm

I hear “Get in the left lane NOW, the turn is only half a mile away!”

klay

5/26/20 7:40pm

Better than: When do I turn? Back there.

ArcticKat

5/26/20 7:52pm

I turn right at the next intersection. 50% of the time, it's the right move.

RobAdams

5/26/20 10:20pm

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