Decimate.

To decimate something is to kill off a tenth of it. So a decimated army is 90% survivors.
The word you actually want is "annihilate", as in utterly destroy. An annihilated army is totally destroyed.

USE THE CORRECT WORD!!! STOP USING DECIMATE FOR ANNIHILATE!!!!!!!

*tears hair out*

That's one way to annihilate the use of decimate if ever I saw one.

What? The tearing out of hair, or using said hair in an invocation to the Elder Gods to smite and annihilate anyone who misuses the word "decimate"?

yog tinyP ?

To put it another way, that's the way to stop people using the word decimate, we don't want a follicle replacement therapy bill from you :o) Cthulhu is hardly going to pick it up is he!

I feel your pain.
It's the same when I hear people use word "Olympiad" instead of Olympics.
An Olympiad is the time between two Olympics, FFS!

Well...
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/09/does-decimate-mean-destroy-one-tenth/

So, your hairs died in vain. It IS a correct word. Sorry.

My rant: Did they stopped teaching math in school or something? Back in my days calculating - in my head - things like "If an orange juice of brand A costs 6.95 per 0.7l does it mean that it is cheaper or more expensive than an orange juice of brand B which costs 10.99 per 0.9l?" was fucking normal thing for an teenager. Today, if you ask this type of question to them, they just stare at you with utter disbelief, as if you just asked them to grow a pair of extra legs, a tail and start barking. And then walk away. Smarter (ha ha!) kids can eventually take out the mobile or ipad from their pocket and launch calculator app, but creating the correct formula to actually solve such a complicated problem is something that maybe 1 out of 20 is capable of.
We shouldn't be worry that in future some maniacs will hack nuclear launch codes and unleash atomic hell on us. They will be unable to do it, because they fucking forget what the numbers are for!

Are you saying that "to tithe" and "to annihilate" is the same thing?

Back in the day we had REAL cars, beautiful pieces of art, most of them were RWD, many of them have been somewhat tricky to drive fast, if they broke you could fix it with little mechanical knowledge and common tools... Nowadays, aaaaaah.. ugly boxes of metal, too many electronics and most of the cars that average people can buy is uninspiring at best.

You messing your link also fits in the thread ;D

In a broader perspective, I think 'patience' is becoming a really rare virtue.

Thruway is a word. Thru is not. :)

thru
thruway

Lampposts aren't as shiny as they were back in my day.

I've got no idea how the referendum is going to go. The polls have gone from depicting the Out campaign to being a lost cause to saying that it has a noteworthy majority. If Cameron seals his deal as it stands it's hard to say how that will change things. On one hand it would set in stone some important changes that are needed. On the other hand it leaves out some proposed reforms somewhat inexcusably. As far as I'm concerned if other countries want us to pay benefits to their people living in their country then they should pay those benefits themselves. Anything else is unjustifiable. Especially as there are tens of thousands of instances of this happening at the moment.

But of course you're right. Polls proved to be completely worthless in the elections last year and the Scottish independence referendum. So there's no reason to think that they'd be any more accurate about something that is arguably even more significant.

The EU seems like a real shame to me. It could have been something great. I like the idea of close European cooperation. But it needs to be on the basis of respect for each country's differences - cultural, political and economic. But the EU overstepped and not only that they're continuing down that road with no sign whatsoever that they have any intention of fixing the fundamental problems with the EU, such as it's lack of democratic principals. Its current direction leads towards totalitarian dictatorship. I'm not saying it would ever get there. But you have to question why would you even set off down that road.

In the UK we have the UK Independence Party or UKIP as they're known. I'm not hugely fond of the way they skew the facts to their point of view. But even so it's hard to ignore how they were completely screwed over by our 'first past the post' voting system which left them with 1 seat in parliament despite gaining 3.9 million votes. Something which would have got them 83 seats under a more proportional system.

Pretty much every party, once in power, winds up doing more or less the same centralist things irrespective of their claimed political leanings. UKIP would be little different.