The thing about pedantic snark (less/fewer), is that it loses its teeth when you're wrong.
Even if you go in for prescriptive grammar, less and fewer were never strictly divided. The distinction actually came to us through one Mr. Baker's expressed preference:
Even if you go in for prescriptive grammar, less and fewer were never strictly divided. The distinction actually came to us through one Mr. Baker's expressed preference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_vs._less#Historical_usage