What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!
That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"
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Remember, kids, "less" is for uncountable things, like liquids, whereas "fewer" is for countable things (like apples).
It's one of many weird rules that English, as a language, has.
geringer vs weniger in German, and they have nice counting rules too for "none" and "not".
That's not a dog → Das ist nicht ein Hund (wrong, a dog is countable)
That's no dog → Das ist kein Hund (right, you can count a dog)
Both sentences are valid in English, but only one is valid in German
Fewer is only for countable things, but less can be either.