Each Sunday W2Fy teams up with SmartestYear.com to bring you some overly pedantic facts to spice up conversations. This week we’ve got a group that wants humas to stop having sex, and a lecture on German spelling. As always, check out SmartestYear.com everyday for a brand new fact and all sorts of new knowledge.
sExtinct (1/31/10)
This is true. There is an organization called VHEMT (the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement) that wants, well, the voluntary extinction of humans. VHEMT’s motto is “May we live long and die out.” To paraphrase their objective, their website states that
they will have succeeded when every human chooses to stop breeding, and Earth’s biosphere returns to its former glory. Basically, it’s a radical environmental group composed of people who think humans are ruining the world, thus should stop having babies. On their website, they admit that their goals are pretty lofty, but feel that it can be realistic down the road. This is the biggest waste of time ever. Dude, it didn’t work when you tried to cancel prom after not getting a date. Or when you tried to ban college after not getting accepted. Or when you tried to prohibit people from owning dogs after you found out you were allergic. Or when you tried to ban exercising once you got fat. Or when you tried to outlaw lottery tickets when you didn’t win. Or when you tried to outlaw sex because you couldn’t get laid. Oh wait…
Pee Wee German (1/27/10)
Today I learned that every noun is capitalized in the German language. German spelling reforms even occurred in 1996 that made the capitalization system more consistent; it ensured that every noun was capitalized, even nouns in expressions (to ride a Bike). Unlike English, the first-person-singular pronoun (‘I’ in English) is lower case (ich), unless it starts a sentence. Thanks to this, I can really get a good grasp of the German language. Oh wait. No I can’t. But at least I can tell you which words are nouns in the sentence. That way I can piece together the sentence and figure out its meaning. Oh wait. No I can’t. Every sentence has a noun. Crap. Well I can tell you that the German word for capitalization is Großschreibung. What!? I just grasped the capitalization thing, now they are throwing that weird giant letter B thing in on me. Apparently, that stupid letter is called an Eszett and is used in place of a double s. Whoever invented that letter is an aßhole.
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