I'm gonna have to come clean and cop to some Chicago South Side Irish background here.

My mother did most of the work for me since spoke just fine.

My father grew up in Cicero, another Chicago neighborhood (like boroughs for you New Yorkers) and he only sounded like Elwood Blues when he'd been hanging around his friends from his yout'.

(Oddly, he's the one who is most responsible for my adherence to proper language usage. He likes foreign languages and any time he used a word we didn't know at dinner he'd make us look it up in the dictionary next to the table. I guess that when you grow up poor and ignorant, it's really important to make sure that your children don't.)

Anyway, my Grandparents baffled me. (Mom's parents)

"Soez I sez to 'im, 'Get yiz feet off my Davenport before I brain yiz!"

I spent a lot of time around them and I'm damn glad it had NO influence on my language.

I'm constantly embarrassed about where I come from...people just leave out certain words and things like that, and it really gets to me. I'm just glad I got away, and occasionally when I go back, I tell myself, "Oh, I wonder if anyone's changed," nope. Nobody has.

With as much as I get the "Grammar Nazi" label leveled at me, people think that I think I can't ever be wrong.

It was interesting for me the first time someone from another region corrected one of my regional mistakes.

People in the "Midwest" especially around Chicago, tend to end sentences with prepositions in a way that bothers others from around the country.

"I'm going to get hot dogs. Do you want to come with?"

And it's true. There should be some kind of definite article there or something. I still catch myself doing it all the time, however.

Actually, 'with' is the word that nobody around my home area ever uses. My teacher always used to tell us, "When you're done the test, place it up here [on the desk]." I always shuddered, but no one else was bothered by it, and always wondered why I was. It's not that I think they're retarded, but I kinda think that area's a bit slow...

I've never heard someone leave out with like that. It would annoy the hell out of me.

Some related ones that fry me:

Put/Turn out the lights when you leave. (What? Is this like putting out the cat?)

Put up your toys when you're done with them. (The toybox is on the ground. How am I going to pull this trick off?)

Will you hurry up? We're waiting on you! (Perhaps the reason I'm not moving fast enough for you is that you're ON me! Get off of me and maybe you won't need to wait so long FOR me to get there.)

Oh yes, it is ridiculous to hear stuff like that. Obviously no one's perfect, but it feels like a lot of people refuse to even try...

how 'bout the logic of equating being a prize-sharking neckbeard with "capitalism"?

I'm starting to ####ing hate Heroclix.

I think I've been in the "I ####ing hate Heroclix" camp since like IG2. Which is to say, I hate the Heroclix that Galactic Guardians, Chaos War, and Infinity Gauntlet is. I absolutely love the Heroclix that the Avengers movie set and probably the anniversary sets are. Guess which Heroclix most people are playing.

I need Skrull Ms. Marvel to come sit in my lap and tell me everything's going to be A-OK.

I hated the Secret Invasion Heroclix above most. That was a bad set. There's only one guy who can save us now: Starter Bane. Send your Sharon Carters, your undercosted tentpoles, and your Infinity Gauntlets. Watch what happens when they stand next to Bane!

Bah!
All that DKR stuff is undercosted, and patently rediculous.

Teams of Gotham lawyers and cops KO'ing actual SUPERHEROES?

Now that's ill-logical!

Stupid Heroclix! making me hate on Batman!

Yup. Bane one-shot-ed Thor and took on colossal Thanos by himself. And won.

So anyway, Bane should be your new best buddy on account of how he doesn't get along with Batman. I know he is mine.

Edit: Can't agree with you that much of it is undercosted though. There are four or five figures in the set (Bruce Wayne, main set Rachel Dawes, and starter Catwoman that I can think of) that are undercosted, but the rest of it plays very balanced from everything I've seen so far.

TANGENT!

that's the one that pains me the most.

ARRGHHH!

It's funny because it's true.

I see what you did there.