Slatlun

Ah, I see you're over 45. Go in.

Like replacing the screen door with one with windows, or hanging a new main door?

Try 220 some years: https://www.npr.org/2020/07/07/887649010/regardless-of-what-you-think-irregardless-is-a-word

Irregardless is also a word. It is in dictionaries and was first documented to be used in the 1700s. You're free to not like it, but people will continue to use languages in the way that's useful to them regardless of your opinions. https://www.npr.org/2020/07/07/887649010/regardless-of-what-you-think-irregardless-is-a-word

My issue is that you can say orient as in "I use a map to orient myself in a new city." Orientate is just a longer way to say the same thing. My point was I don't like it, but I don't pretend it should be policed either.

I perceive thou dost not honour English, wherefore this discourse doth lead to naught.

Did you understand irregardless?

If people say it, it is a word. Irregarless grinds against my sensibilities like orientate does, but you can't fight the tide (and shouldn't because language changes).

And if you're using an emergency vehicle in a potential emergency situation, leave the keys in the vehicle. No chains, no magnets. Just a truck ready to move. It is the standard operating procedure for good reason.

I was working on prescribed fire as in controlled wildfire to support ecosystem function. The wind changed in expectedly. The fire jumped containment. We switch into actual firefighting mode for a solid 1/2 hour. Then the wind switches back to predictions. Problem solved. Mop up of the slopover still takes hours and it gets dark.

As we get back to the truck, keys are dropped and kicked in an attempt to catch them. There is tall grass everywhere. We search for an hour in the dark after an exhausting day for our only way to go home. Keys are found. We work at dawn the next day. Not my worst day in the office, just the least predictable.

Absolutely, I once forgot my money and didn't realize until I went to pay. The cashier offered to set aside my bag for me while I went home for it (20 min walk}. When I got back they had forgotten who I was until I reminded them. The moral is that the cashier couldn't have cared less about the situation.

Ah, the Mighty Boosh https://youtu.be/C8lrpSk0XYI