To think random man got his just deserts to his unsolicited comments today?

[Weartherose]

I'm wearing a sports top today to indicate support for a match later today.

Was at the supermarket today and this man, clocked my shirt rolled his eyes and riffed off the Name Three Songs comment and said "I bet you can't name 3 players". So I asked him if he was at the stadium (200 miles away) for momentous match a fortnight ago when X Y and Z scored?

He had the grace to look a bit abashed.

Why do some folk assume you are not fans when you wear band/location/ten shirts? Is it just to show off their superior knowledge?

No, it is not. It's 'just deserts'.

It doesn't matter if you are a die hard fan or not, it's just clothes and no one should be gatekeeping.
If someone doesn't know the players or songs or whatever, who cares.

Oh I so hope that you did use your friendly internet provider 😂

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/just-deserts-or-just-desserts#:~:text=Despite%20its%20pronunciation%2C%20just%20deserts,but%20pronounced%20like%20the%20sweet

I did indeed 😂 and despite the miriam-Webster official definition I think it appears to be one of those phrases that has morphed over time so I think we're both right 😂

It's not a terribly long thread but already the Curse of MN has struck and poster after poster is repeating the same point (which in this case happens to be wrong anyway) as if nobody else has already said it. Why do people do this?

I believe that's called being confidently wrong.

But if I take your tip and google it, then I can quickly find what you seem to be ignorant of: "just deserts" is a phrase "... using an older noun version of desert meaning "deserved reward or punishment," which is spelled like the arid land, but pronounced like the sweet treat." www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/just-deserts-or-just-desserts

Oh dear.

Take your own advice and Google "just deserts". We'll wait ...

I love it when people are this confidently incorrect. Maybe you should've used your own friendly internet search provider.

Not really - but if it makes you feel better.

Neither of those definitions is relevant so what do they prove? I did the friendly Google search as suggested and it confirmed, as I suspected, that it is "just deserts". Did you Google it?

When I was talking about football at work a male colleague asked if I even knew the offside rule.
I did and told him exactly what it was.
Tbf he was a little bit contrite.

It actually is 'just deserts'

I only found this out recently and always thought it was desserts!

"so I think we're both right" @Wavescrashingonthebeach - since the phrase "just desserts" has nothing to do with puddings, I can't really see how you are right at all.

Because people type out their response and hit post at different times, without refreshing the thread to check no one else has done the same thing in the meantime. Maybe? Wild idea that lots of people would notice the same thing at roughly the same time, I know, but it happens a lot.

I was wearing a pink floyd t-shirt and I got the 3 questions so I answered
See emily play
Take up thy stethoscope and walk
Lucifer sam
Apparently they are not pink floyd songs according to this 60 year old something man
I told him they are off their debut album and yup Google it and walked off, as I was on my way to the bar another bloke shouted out " piper at the gates of dawn"

Could’ve been Blackburn rovers, Leeds United, England netball team…

Taken from my friendly internet search provider:

Despite its pronunciation, just deserts, with one s, is the proper spelling for the phrase meaning "the punishment that one deserves."

She's a genius, that Miriam Webster, isn't she?!

True true!

Apologies

Some people on this thread are getting all stressed with twisting the spelling of one wrong word!

No doubt you also think it's "another thing coming"...

Or rather, with twisting a right word and claiming it is wrongly spelt.

I expect they would also die on the barricades for "miniscule".

Name three ingredients and watch their head spin...

I would never normally correct someone’s SPAG but when it’s somebody mistakenly correcting someone else, then that’s allowed.