Over on Best Week Ever (a blog of the VH1 show of the same name that I discovered while clicking around on Steve Colbert's site) I found this highly fascinating account of Eric Nies stripping himself bare to save his dog from an icy lake. Nies is, apparently, the "hot guy from the Grind" if you were wondering.

WELL! There are very few comments but it seems like every one of them is a misspelled slap at people who are misspelling their comments.

Smashley sez: @ @ EL G: Technically it would be: “THESE ARE the type of people who also read this blog and comment.” You are referring to two seperate people who made mistakes in their comments. And you know the old saying, “people who live in glass houses…” I wouldn’t criticize others without at least proofreading my own comment. (I really hope I didn’t make a grammatical mistake in this comment…)

There's also some conjecture as to WHY IS HE NAKED as well as a fan who is a little too defensive of the guy's career. Ah, chilly willy, I was amused all around.

A rocket scientist over in techsupport seems to think that Americans invented the English language and that people in the UK and Australia don't speak English.

Good times.

...I find that I do not care! Anyway, this doesn't have much to do with the animal posted. It's all about one Librarian Library Technician/English major and her inability to grasp the existence of lolcatese. Someone posts an odd-looking animal. In response, someone else posts the "my pokemans, let me show you them" classic cat macro. And then, the shit hits the fan.

BOGGLE! as LJ user=Ragdoll-Suicide answers the lolcat comment with the following bit of genius:

WARNING: GRAMMAR NAZI ATTACK!

"let me show you them" is a tragedy and a failure.

anyone who passed gr 9 english would know that the correct syntax for that sentance would be "let me show them to you."

/grammar nazi out

SPORFLE! as she digs herself deeper with the following fascinating information:
I just like correcting people's grammar. Just because something is spelled wrong doesn't make it more 1337 or more lol or cooler or whatever. I grew up with a double major (english lit and botany) for a dad, and a mom with a history major and a B Ed. I am currently studying to be a library technician, so its in my nature to desire correct syntax and proper punctuation.

GASP! as lj user=parsnip uses the following utterly fantastic simile:
It's like you're watching clowns at the circus, and sitting there with your arms crossed saying, "Well, for starters that's certainly not the most efficient method of erecting a ladder..."

Here's the entire thread, for those who have some time to kill. Best. Dogpile. Ever.

There are many amazing gems hidden in the gigantic thread, not the least of which is Ragdoll-Suicide's own rather sketchy grasp of the particulars of the English language. I was laughing out loud at work, which is always a good time, and only occasionally leads to my coworkers thinking I'm nuts.

ETA: Someone redlined her comment. AWESOME.

Over at customers_suck, there's a post about a bad customer at a buffet. But forget the usual fat wank, because this time we have lettuce wank when tytal calls out the OP for writing "lettuce" instead of "lettuces."

Of course, tytal's drunk, which may explain things.

stephanie_clear makes a post in BRPS about whether or not her character should make fun of a character whose mun claims to have bad spelling and grammar due to dyslexia.

There's lots of mostly wank-free replies, but of course there's always one. salem_wikkat, in this case, with a truly abominable grasp on spelling and grammar himself.

Highlight:
Its very rare that I feel this, but damn your pove my belief that some people really need to have been drug out in the street when they where children, only to have their face blown off before they corrupt the rest of society.

May or may not continue, but the ridiculously over the top reaction should keep you warm for the night.