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"If even one person dies that's one too many"
I am so sick of this one :grrr: With the swine flu hype it is being so over used it's sickening. Fuck over 300 million people live in this country somebodies dieing all the time from just about everything. Maybe I am callus about this What do you think?
Another
"We must do it to protect the children"
Usually used to justifying making everything suitable for a ten year old. WTF Adults need entertainment too
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"System of systems"
WTF? A system by definition is made up of other smaller subsystems, components, etc. I hate it when they say this!
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"We hope to have achieved major improvement in three months."
Hearing that more than a few times from the same bureau.....
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"In order to better serve our customers, we have (insert action here)."
Said action almost always makes service poorer, not to mention more expensive than before. And also:
"New and improved!"
Self-explanatory, that. :grrr:
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"We do it for your own safety." Standard excuse from Swedish authorities for all bans and restrictions.
"We can't let ordinary people use..." Another excuse. But they can let the pigs, the military, the health care system and other authorities use it, like they were God or something.
"38 years young". Yeah, sure. ::)
"We do it to save lives" Another typical excuse. Interesting enough it's estimated that 2/3 of all people in the Western world die a painful and humiliating death in a hospital, so what's so fucking bad with dying young through carelessness?
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"Save lives," indeed. "Postpone deaths" is a more accurate way of stating it. :green:
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"Save lives," indeed. "Postpone deaths" is a more accurate way of stating it. :green:
:agreed:
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"Free gift"... if it is a gift then of course it is free?
"At the end of the day...." Grrrr. It just seems like empty words to me.
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"Just relax!"
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"Just relax!"
Frankie says!
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I'm a go w/ words I hate:
Proactive. Committment. Interface. Irrelevant. Moist.
All very "tinny" words, IMO.
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In Sweden we say "Thank you for the food" after dinner etc. Incredibly lame. Did they invite us for charity or something? ::)
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"I could care less" when someone means "I couldn't care less".
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Irrelevant.
It is a Borg word. :borg:
"Too easy" It amazes me how many people say this.
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"Hello"
"No"
"Goodbye"
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"I could care less" when someone means "I couldn't care less".
:agreed: I almost posted that, too.
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"I'm sorry, BUT ..." When people say that, they're shitting on their own apology.
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"That's your opinion." Yes, shithead, who else's would it be? :boxers:
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"It's a safety issue."
"You can NEVER be too safe."
"Fifty-five saves lives."
The logical response to that idiotic statement about speed limits would be "Forty-four saves more," or "Zero saves the most."
::)
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Not a saying but close. "This product may contain nuts" on a tin/packet of nuts. DUH.
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"I'm sorry, BUT ..." When people say that, they're shitting on their own apology.
No shit! I like the "I'm sorry you feel that way..." or "I'm sorry what I did was taken that way..." and so on! Just makes you ::)!!!!
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No offence
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"Cheer up."
I'll fucking cheer up when I feel like it!!!
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"Cheer up" is like saying "lift yourself in the hair".
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Yes, precisely. It's utterly pointless.
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Yeah, if someone's upset, there ain't no damn point in telling them they shouldn't be. It's one of those "I would if I fuckin' could" type things.
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No offence
Do you mean with or with out the spelling anomaly?
I agree on either count, by the way!
(FUCK YOU, RAGE!! GET A LIFE, QUEER! I LIVE HERE! I AM NOT "ELITE," PUNK!!)
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No offence
Do you mean with or with out the spelling anomaly?
What spelling anomaly? You can spell it both ways. Or is it a British/American thing?
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"I don't mean to be nasty, it's just that..."
Yes I know. You are going to be nasty and offend me in some way and I am supposed to be ok with it because you didn't mean to.
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"I don't mean to be nasty, it's just that..."
Yes I know. You are going to be nasty and offend me in some way and I am supposed to be ok with it because you didn't mean to.
Ideal response: "I don't mean to be retaliatory, but you're mean, and you suck."
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"Because I said so!" :finger: This is never an acceptable response.
"I love you soooo much, but love is not enough." :finger: I wish you had just said you hated me and told me to fuck off!
"Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth...so help you <insert deity’s name>?" :finger: Refused to do this in court and got thrown out.
“Hey baby, you wanna party?” :finger: Hell yeah I want to party. That is why I threw all that money on the dance floor while you were up there! If I didn’t, then hell no I don’t want to party you skank.
“Love at first sight!” :finger: How can you love someone without knowing them? More like, “Lust at first sight!”
“One nation, under <insert deity’s name>!” :finger: So much for the separation of church and state and freedom of religion.
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:agreed:
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No offence
Do you mean with or with out the spelling anomaly?
What spelling anomaly? You can spell it both ways. Or is it a British/American thing?
It is.
My apologies and thanks.
OFFENSE/OFFENCE (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/offense.html)
DEFENCE/DEFENSE (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/defence.html)
A possible homepage for this nonsensical argument. (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors)
Going back to the point of your post, YES!!!
"No offense, my friend, but you are full of shit."
I just want to use my fists to send them directly into tomorrow, via their own dreamworld.
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We don't have those spelling problems in Sweden. All Swedes use the same cowardly spelling standards. :zoinks:
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We don't have those spelling problems in Sweden. All Swedes use the same cowardly spelling standards. :zoinks:
... and Swedish will never be the most common and universally spoken language on the globe.
The one language which most successfully has assimilated all other languages (take a look at an advanced English dictionary, some day, not that hack job you've been quoting) will be the one most universal, as TeH future approaches.
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But it's funny when foreigners try to speak Swedish. 99% or so fail to ever learn it correctly. :P
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But it's funny when foreigners try to speak Swedish. 99% or so fail to ever learn it correctly. :P
Why should any of us bother, seriously?
You have already made the effort to learn MY language, sufficiently to know when I put you down.
It seems like we both win.
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" Just don't get anxious there's no reason" I walked out of a therapist who told me this
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I say this all the time and it pisses me off:
"Are you serious?"
I always hated:
"Nineteen-eighteen!"
Nobody says it anymore though.
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Are you serious? people say that all the time to you :laugh:
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I used to snicker every time I heard someone say, "Yeah, nah, ...." until one day I heard it coming out of my own mouth. :o
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"Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth...so help you <insert deity’s name>?" :finger: Refused to do this in court and got thrown out.
In Australian Courts we get the choice to swear on a bible or just to swear without any religious reference.
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No offence
Do you mean with or with out the spelling anomaly?
What spelling anomaly? You can spell it both ways. Or is it a British/American thing?
It is.
My apologies and thanks.
OFFENSE/OFFENCE (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/offense.html)
DEFENCE/DEFENSE (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/defence.html)
A possible homepage for this nonsensical argument. (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors)
Going back to the point of your post, YES!!!
"No offense, my friend, but you are full of shit."
I just want to use my fists to send them directly into tomorrow, via their own dreamworld.
No problem. You have me checking though. :green:
Very interesting Web page that, I'll have to bookmark it.
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I used to snicker every time I heard someone say, "Yeah, nah, ...." until one day I heard it coming out of my own mouth. :o
I still laugh and disregard most of what they say afterward.
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No offence
Do you mean with or with out the spelling anomaly?
What spelling anomaly? You can spell it both ways. Or is it a British/American thing?
It is.
My apologies and thanks.
OFFENSE/OFFENCE (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/offense.html)
DEFENCE/DEFENSE (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/defence.html)
A possible homepage for this nonsensical argument. (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors)
Going back to the point of your post, YES!!!
"No offense, my friend, but you are full of shit."
I just want to use my fists to send them directly into tomorrow, via their own dreamworld.
No problem. You have me checking though. :green:
Very interesting Web page that, I'll have to bookmark it.
NO!!
I fucked up!! I linked directly into his site, without a proper warning and set of disclaimers.
This dude has a more appropriate introductory page. Click back to the beginning and save THAT page.
Then over the coming week, read every word. It is very entertaining.
Better page to save ... (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html)
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But it's funny when foreigners try to speak Swedish. 99% or so fail to ever learn it correctly. :P
Why should any of us bother, seriously?
You have already made the effort to learn MY language, sufficiently to know when I put you down.
It seems like we both win.
I just plussed you so I'll have to owe you karma points.
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" Just don't get anxious there's no reason" I walked out of a therapist who told me this
:plus:
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NO!!
I fucked up!! I linked directly into his site, without a proper warning and set of disclaimers.
This dude has a more appropriate introductory page. Click back to the beginning and save THAT page.
Then over the coming week, read every word. It is very entertaining.
Better page to save ... (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html)
No problem, will do ;D
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"Everything will be all right."
Er, have you had a look outside?
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:agreed:
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"No worries!"
WHY, out of all the great Australian sayings, did that one have to take over the world?
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"No worries!"
WHY, out of all the great Australian sayings, did that one have to take over the world?
Sure, it sounds all breezy and carefree, but it is actually code for "If you have any sense, keep a tight hold on your wallet at this time."
<.< >.> <.<
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Haha!!
I first heard it about 10 years ago coming from a very preppy / yuppie couple from Sydney (I worked with them). They both sounded so mindlessly cheerful when they said it, it drove me mad.
The, in recent years, I've been hearing people from all over the world saying it.
Why not, "Love your work!" or "Good on ya!" . . . Oh yeah, we gotta keep them priceless gems to ourselves.
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"Everything will be all right."
Er, have you had a look outside?
:indeed:
Though I have earned no end of trouble for being unwilling to say that.
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Does anyone know what "5 X 5" means? The villains on "Buffy" used to say it a lot.
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"Five by five" is radio-operator-speak for "signal received loud and clear."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_by_five (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_by_five)
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"They are raping your childhood memories."
overreaction anyone?
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"They are raping your childhood memories."
overreaction anyone?
Never heard that in Sweden. Oprah?
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"They are raping your childhood memories."
overreaction anyone?
Never heard that in Sweden. Oprah?
No. its like when those fuckers say things like "George Lucas Raped my childhood with the new Star Wars movies" and shit like that.
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My childhood was traumatized with semi-communist "child programs" on TV, anyway. :-\
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"Beppes gonattstund"? :zoinks:
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"They are raping your childhood memories."
overreaction anyone?
WTF?
:laugh:
:hahaha:
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"Beppes gonattstund"? :zoinks:
Yup, and "Vilse i pannkakan" and many more. :zombiefuck: :yikes: :GA: :tantrum: :arrr:
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Does anyone know what "5 X 5" means? The villains on "Buffy" used to say it a lot.
I heart buffyisms. I hadn't thought of that one in forever.
"Everything will be all right."
Er, have you had a look outside?
:plus:
Along a similar vein,
"I'm sure it will all work out."
If you can't give a reason for this certainty, you haven't reassured me, but rather, have made me want to bitch-slap you.
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"They are raping your childhood memories."
overreaction anyone?
WTF?
:laugh:
:hahaha:
What do you mean, wtf?
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"That's life."
That is very cold hearted to say that. Would you tell someone that if they told you their loved one died? :grrr:
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"Beppes gonattstund"? :zoinks:
Yup, and "Vilse i pannkakan" and many more. :zombiefuck: :yikes: :GA: :tantrum: :arrr:
LOL, yes. I was lucky enough to grow up in Finland, the first ten years or so, so I missed the worst of them. :laugh:
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What do you mean, wtf?
I mean I've never heard something referred to as "raping my childhood memories" before, and I think the concept is so ridiculous as to deserve a giant WTF.
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My ex used "That's retarded" "This is retarded."
Over used it and anything he didn't like was "retarded" so I got sick of hearing it our of his mouth. paying the rent was "retarded" paying for gas was "retarded" paying for food was "retarded" having to work was "retarded" he wanted to spend the money on himself, not on bills or gas, plus he didn't want to buy food or work. He was like a big kid. Heck my brothers bought their own food and drinks in high school and middle school because they didn't like our mother yelling at them for eating up the food too fast because they let their friends have them too and they eat it very fast. She didn't want them to feed our food to their friends.
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"That's life."
That is very cold hearted to say that. Would you tell someone that if they told you their loved one died? :grrr:
Besides which, that's not life, it's death.
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Life - Death?
Obverse and reverse of the same coin, no?
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"That's life."
That is very cold hearted to say that. Would you tell someone that if they told you their loved one died? :grrr:
Besides which, that's not life, it's death.
But it happens in life. Everything happens in the real world which is life. Which I why I hate hearing that word. When someone is going through a crappy time and to say "Oh that's life" just sounds like you don't give a darn about that person. My parents never said that to me when kids be picking on me and staff in my school, etc and I be home complaining about it. I had a friend saying that to me though and it hurt a lot because it felt he didn't care about me and I sure don't want any friends who don't care. So when I told him I didn't want him anymore and told him why, he apologized and stopped saying it to me. His own parents said that to him while he was growing up so I asked him and how did that make him feel and he said "awful." I asked him "So why do you turn around and say it yourself?"
I'm just glad I had supportive parents.
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"That's so gay" "You're gay"
when they mean stupid.
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What do you mean, wtf?
I mean I've never heard something referred to as "raping my childhood memories" before, and I think the concept is so ridiculous as to deserve a giant WTF.
Oh okay, surprised you hadn't heard it before. But you are right, it's really stupid. childish and a big over reaction.
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My ex used "That's retarded" "This is retarded."
Over used it and anything he didn't like was "retarded" so I got sick of hearing it our of his mouth. paying the rent was "retarded" paying for gas was "retarded" paying for food was "retarded" having to work was "retarded" he wanted to spend the money on himself, not on bills or gas, plus he didn't want to buy food or work. He was like a big kid. Heck my brothers bought their own food and drinks in high school and middle school because they didn't like our mother yelling at them for eating up the food too fast because they let their friends have them too and they eat it very fast. She didn't want them to feed our food to their friends.
Ironically, what he wanted to do was retarded.
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"Support our troops!" Fine if someone wants to support their troops, but as stated, this is a command. I can only interpret it as such and do not take kindly to people telling me who I am or am not supposed to support. If I am opposed to a particular conflict, then I do not support any persons involved on what I consider the wrong side of it. Does this mean I wish ill-will on them? No! But it does mean that if it comes down to some innocent bystander eating it or a member of the invading or occupying force eating it....sorry, but I will be on the side of the person whose home has been invaded. These bumper stickers and placards should read: "We support our troops!" or "I support our troops!" Don't ever fucking tell me what to think or believe!
On the same note:
“They’re fighting (dying) for your freedom!” Nobody has the right to claim they are defending my freedom or my life, especially sacrificing their own. I, and I alone, am responsible for my life and my freedom. Don’t you fucking try to put the guilt on me for something a person has either volunteered to do or was ‘forced’ to do, but still could have conscientiously objected and refused to do if they had any real balls! I don't believe in eternal life and all that razzamatazz, so death is a very serious thing to me. It takes courage to lead your own path and not be shackled by the masses and governments. To follow the path of those others is cowardly. “None but ourselves can free our minds” -Bob Marley
"His pain your gain!" FUCK YOU!
"I'm not perfect, just forgiven!" NO! YOU'RE AN ARROGANT PIECE OF SHIT!
"He died for your sins!" FUCK YOU AGAIN!
"Jesus loves you!" NO HE DOESN’T! HE DIED ALMOST 2,000 FUCKING YEARS AGO! HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW ME! STOP PROJECTING YOUR RELIGION ON ME YOU FUCKING DISRESPECTFUL NUTJOB!!!!!!
"Real men love Jesus!" FUCKIN' WHAT THE FUCKITY FUCK? FUCK OFF YOU FUCKTARD! IF THIS IS THE CASE, THEN I MUST HAVE AN INVERTED VAGINA, BECAUSE I DEFINITELY AIN’T NO MAN!
"Pro-Abortion" What the fuck does that mean? I do not know anyone who is Pro-Choice who thinks that abortion is a super idea. :thumbup: They just believe it is not the government's right to decide what they do with their bodies. Stupid Pro-Life wankers, the majority of which are for the death penalty and believe it is okay to kill in the name of their savior. Hypocrites!
"Lead, follow, or get out of the way!" Some old Marine bullshit. George Carlin did a great bit on this in reference to someonee wearing such a shirt and he says when he encounters one of them assholes, "I obstruct!" George Carlin was the man!!!!!!!
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Real men love Thor and Odin! :arrr:
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"His pain your gain!" FUCK YOU!
"I'm not perfect, just forgiven!" NO! YOU'RE AN ARROGANT PIECE OF SHIT!
"He died for your sins!" FUCK YOU AGAIN!
"Jesus loves you!" NO HE DOESN’T! HE DIED ALMOST 2,000 FUCKING YEARS AGO! HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW ME! STOP PROJECTING YOUR RELIGION ON ME YOU FUCKING DISRESPECTFUL NUTJOB!!!!!!
"Real men love Jesus!" FUCKIN' WHAT THE FUCKITY FUCK? FUCK OFF YOU FUCKTARD! IF THIS IS THE CASE, THEN I MUST HAVE AN INVERTED VAGINA, BECAUSE I DEFINITELY AIN’T NO MAN!
:laugh: :plus:
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Does anyone know what "5 X 5" means? The villains on "Buffy" used to say it a lot.
All I could think of was 25. :P But have been watching Buffy lately and heard that as well.
"Pretty much." I don't know why but this is really annoying to me lately.
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I'm going to keep my mouth shut, trigger. >:(
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I don't get it. You don't like some of Trigger's sayings?
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I don't get it. You don't like some of Trigger's sayings?
"Support our troops!" Fine if someone wants to support their troops, but as stated, this is a command. I can only interpret it as such and do not take kindly to people telling me who I am or am not supposed to support. If I am opposed to a particular conflict, then I do not support any persons involved on what I consider the wrong side of it. Does this mean I wish ill-will on them? No! But it does mean that if it comes down to some innocent bystander eating it or a member of the invading or occupying force eating it....sorry, but I will be on the side of the person whose home has been invaded. These bumper stickers and placards should read: "We support our troops!" or "I support our troops!" Don't ever fucking tell me what to think or believe!
Its not the troops fault man. Don't hold it against them. I don't know if thats what you meant, but once a soldier, always a soldier. And thats how I feel about it.
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I don't get it. You don't like some of Trigger's sayings?
Trigger likes to evacuate the building in order to find his own order.
I do that too, but rarely am the one they look at.
It's a skill.
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'Lets be honest'
What? Were we lying all the time during conversatio?
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'Lets be honest'
What? Were we lying all the time during conversatio?
Lets be honest- yes, we were lying, up 'till this point.
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'Lets be honest'
What? Were we lying all the time during conversatio?
Lets be honest- yes, we were lying, up 'till this point.
That's the NT way to communicate, actually. I sometimes lie, but then I do it blatantly to point out or over-exaggerate something, so that people will get that it is a lie.. A real, shameless lie from me is actually quite rare.
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"(nouns) you hate", but I love sayings like "(nouns) you love".
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New thing they are prompting at work ...
Some of our services are designed to "protect your experience."
WHAT in the purple puckered puking phuck does THAT shit mean!!!
I will never use that combination of phrases in any part of my speech without losing consciousness.
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"drugs are bad" or anything to that effect.
"drug abusers are bad" is much better.
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"drugs are bad" or anything to that effect.
"drug abusers are bad" is much better.
:indeed:
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"drugs are bad" or anything to that effect.
"drug abusers are bad" is much better.
Especially fuckers that use DMT! :hahaha:
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"They’re fighting (dying) for your freedom!” Nobody has the right to claim they are defending my freedom or my life, especially sacrificing their own. I, and I alone, am responsible for my life and my freedom.
Wrong. Pick up a history book.
Don’t you fucking try to put the guilt on me for something a person has either volunteered to do or was ‘forced’ to do...
No one is trying to put any guilt on anyone. It's about acknowledgment and appreciation. Instead, you elect to walk around with a sense of entitlement... not realizing that yes, people did die to afford us the opportunity to live life the way we do.
...but still could have conscientiously objected and refused to do if they had any real balls!
Yes, because it takes real balls to refuse to take action.
It takes courage to lead your own path and not be shackled by the masses and governments. To follow the path of those others is cowardly.
Sooo... what exactly have you done that is so courageous that you can thumb your nose at the people that put themselves in harm's way because they believe in something?
"None but ourselves can free our minds” -Bob Marley
Are you seriously quoting Bob Marley? I love his music and all, but come on.
I feel you are misinterpreting this saying. However, I do agree with you on all those damn jesus sayings.
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I detest the saying: "Harden the fuck up" or just simply "harden up".
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"They’re fighting (dying) for your freedom!” Nobody has the right to claim they are defending my freedom or my life, especially sacrificing their own. I, and I alone, am responsible for my life and my freedom.
Wrong. Pick up a history book.
Don’t you fucking try to put the guilt on me for something a person has either volunteered to do or was ‘forced’ to do...
No one is trying to put any guilt on anyone. It's about acknowledgment and appreciation. Instead, you elect to walk around with a sense of entitlement... not realizing that yes, people did die to afford us the opportunity to live life the way we do.
...but still could have conscientiously objected and refused to do if they had any real balls!
Yes, because it takes real balls to refuse to take action.
It takes courage to lead your own path and not be shackled by the masses and governments. To follow the path of those others is cowardly.
Sooo... what exactly have you done that is so courageous that you can thumb your nose at the people that put themselves in harm's way because they believe in something?
"None but ourselves can free our minds” -Bob Marley
Are you seriously quoting Bob Marley? I love his music and all, but come on.
I feel you are misinterpreting this saying. However, I do agree with you on all those damn jesus sayings.
Hell yeah man. *high five* :plus:
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Hell yeah man. *high five* :plus:
(http://www.innocentenglish.com/funny-pics/lolcats/high-five-kitty.jpg)
edit: that's a fat ass cat. it's probably having a heart attack.
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Hell yeah man. *high five* :plus:
(http://www.innocentenglish.com/funny-pics/lolcats/high-five-kitty.jpg)
:indeed:
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"harden up".
that's what she said
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Some of our services are designed to "protect your experience."
WTF? :o
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"I'm just sayin'..." - which actually means, "I want to say this and I want you to listen to what I am saying as a legitimate point, but I don't want to take any personal responsibility for saying it." ::)
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"I'm just sayin'..." - which actually means, "I want to say this and I want you to listen to what I am saying as a legitimate point, but I don't want to take any personal responsibility for saying it." ::)
Indeed. Also I believe I have your stapler. :lol:
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I detest the saying: "Harden the fuck up" or just simply "harden up".
I agree it's not nice to say it, but one finds oneself shouting it in exasperation when yet another ITG (http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Internet_tough_guy) turns Crybaby (http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/warriorshtm/crybaby.htm).
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Yes because emotions are bad...Mmmkay ::)
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Dammit, you're right. :(
At my age, unbridled fury can lead to strokes and heart attacks.
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Dammit, you're right. :(
At my age, unbridled fury can lead to strokes and heart attacks.
:lol: And we do not want that SD.
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"Just try to breathe."
(It's a reflex, you know. It's not possible not to, unless you die.)
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'veel succes ermee' (lots of success with it) , standard saying here after buying clothes, instead of 'goodbye'.
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" Can't you do better on the Prices "
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" Can't you do better on the Prices "
"I could probably do it cheaper if I did an half arsed job" would be a good reply.
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"You can't fight City Hall" That is too fucking fatalistic and do nothing. Marvin Hemeyer didn't believe that shit either.
Granted, it was a Pyrrhic victory, but he did fight City Hall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlZh9-NQEyI=&feature=fvw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlZh9-NQEyI=&feature=fvw)
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"You can't fight City Hall" That is too fucking fatalistic and do nothing. Marvin Hemeyer didn't believe that shit either.
Granted, it was a Pyrrhic victory, but he did fight City Hall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlZh9-NQEyI=&feature=fvw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlZh9-NQEyI=&feature=fvw)
I remember watching that on TV and of course I admired the guy. :thumbup:
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Yeah, I admired him too. Too often Governments trample over people and the legal fees and hassle deter people from proper Redress of Grievances supposedly guaranteed by the 1st Amendment. Sometimes if you can't win the best response is to make the other MF lose or at least pay a heavy price.
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Yeah, I admired him too. Too often Governments trample over people and the legal fees and hassle deter people from proper Redress of Grievances supposedly guaranteed by the 1st Amendment. Sometimes if you can't win the best response is to make the other MF lose or at least pay a heavy price.
Totally agree. Though in this country you're considered a total nutjob if you say to people that the authorities are criminal. The average Swede has a trust in state and goverment that makes me wanna puke.
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I'm not totally anti government but I don't like Federal Judges ruling by Judicial Fiat either. They would probably behave better if more people behaved like W. Leroy Moody.
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"You can't fight City Hall" That is too fucking fatalistic and do nothing. Marvin Hemeyer didn't believe that shit either.
Granted, it was a Pyrrhic victory, but he did fight City Hall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlZh9-NQEyI=&feature=fvw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlZh9-NQEyI=&feature=fvw)
Here's a link with more information:
http://www.reference.com/browse/Marvin%20Hemeyer
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" Can't you do better on the Prices "
I'm sure you can relate to this, parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2a8TRSgzZY
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Here's a link with more information:
http://www.reference.com/browse/Marvin%20Hemeyer
Reading that just makes it seem more apparent that small town winking and back scratching were working against him.
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Props to Earthboundmisfit and PPK for videos. Ironically, the only beneficiaries of Heemeyer's demolition derby would have been the ones who scored the rebuilding contracts. I wouldn't like to be paying insurance premiums in that town, though...
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I used to snicker every time I heard someone say, "Yeah, nah, ...." until one day I heard it coming out of my own mouth. :o
I have been hearing this a lot lately.
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I haven't heard it spoken out loud and I still don't understand how the inflection works. It seems nonsensical.
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It sounds weird, like the person is making up their mind to agree or disagree with what they are saying. It is nonsensical and makes me wonder why it has caught on. An Australian thing? :P
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I think it's used in agreeance to a negative statement. Such as:
"I don't think Bob is coming to Mary's party."
"Yeah, nah; He's a piker that one."
I could be wrong...the colloquialisms of society puzzle me somewhat.
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" It won't kill you to throw some stuff away"
How do they know?
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Indeed! How do they know? HOW!?
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"Yeah blud"
Fuck you, pseudo-gangsta dickhead.
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" It won't kill you to throw some stuff away"
How do they know?
:GA:
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Yeah, nah, it seems only Australians come out with that one. Australian sport commentators, who have a dialect all their own, are fond of constructions such as: "Yeah nah, at the end of the day it's all about going forward," "There are no heroes. The whole team are heroes," "The goys came out to ploy footy tonight [o rly? not cricket, then? :laugh: ], they all troyed their hardest, they all put in, but [the other team] were too good for them on the noyt," etc., etc.
Also this: You know you're a Tasmanian when you begin your answer to any question with "Yeah, nah," no matter whether you're answering in the affirmative, negative or otherwise: "You going to the pub tonight?", "Yeah, nah, I thought I'd check it out later on..."
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Yeah, nah, it seems only Australians come out with that one. Australian sport commentators, who have a dialect all their own, are fond of constructions such as: "Yeah nah, at the end of the day it's all about going forward," "There are no heroes. The whole team are heroes," "The goys came out to ploy footy tonight [o rly? not cricket, then? :laugh: ], they all troyed their hardest, they all put in, but [the other team] were too good for them on the noyt," etc., etc.
Also this: You know you're a Tasmanian when you begin your answer to any question with "Yeah, nah," no matter whether you're answering in the affirmative, negative or otherwise: "You going to the pub tonight?", "Yeah, nah, I thought I'd check it out later on..."
:plus: Our sports announcers also come up with some idiotic shit to fill the time. :lol:
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"There's an app for that!"
shaddap. Take your overpriced crap douchebag phone and cram it in your ass.
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"We are all the state (typical saying in Sweden)." Oh yes? Do I get 100000 kronor a month or am allowed to have guns without a permit or have a right to tax people? :duh:
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"Double down". Yesterday I heard it from three different sources. What is with this? It seems to have no meaning.
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Double Down means to refuse to acknowledge a mistake and instead either affirm the mistake or do it again, to a greater degree.
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I disagree. Nothing about mistakes.
It means upping the stakes and pushing on with a risky policy.
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Potato, Potatoe... ::)
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Whoever says "potahtoe"?
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English people.
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Yeah nah, Pappy and Cal are both right:
Originally a term used in the card game blackjack, where a player doubles their original bet in exchange for exactly one additional card; most useful when the remaining deck is offering extremely favorable odds of making a total of twenty-one.
The term is increasingly used as a media euphemism when political figures tell bald-faced lies and when confronted with contradictory statements, the politician not only fails to retract their claims but instead expresses an increased certainty in their truth.
The political candidate claimed that 99% of the violent crimes committed in the United States were perpetrated by Canadians. When challenged with data indicating that in fact less that 0.1 percent of crimes are committed by Canadians, the candidate opted to double down, claiming that the data was incorrect. Further, the candidate pledged to, if elected, expel all US citizens with Canadian ancestry from the country.
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I'm not into modern aphorisms. Let's stick to the traditional meaning,
and wonder at the idiocy that causes things to change in unreasonable ways.
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@ Calandale Like "nice" meaning retarted? Gay meaning happy? Monochrome meaning one coloured (new fashion term meaning only the person is wearing only two solid colours in a block.)
The PR hates it when I call her ma'am.
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"Love ya guts." My sister says it on Facebook all the time. Ew.
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@ Calandale Like "nice" meaning retarted? Gay meaning happy? Monochrome meaning one coloured (new fashion term meaning only the person is wearing only two solid colours in a block.)
Not quite what I had in mind. 'Nice' generally IS retarded. Happy is the earlier meaning of gay. Like faggot is a bundle of wood.
Not sure what, in particular, was chewing me at the time of the post. Probably something from the 19th century or later.
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"Use your words".
I'm sure I've mentioned this before.
I want to smack anyone who tries that around me, even if not aimed at me.
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"Use your words".
I'm sure I've mentioned this before.
I want to smack anyone who tries that around me, even if not aimed at me.
I'll hold them if you hit them.
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Anything religious. No, jesus didn't fucking die for a damned thing, and he sure as shit had no idea I was going to be bloody born. Guy is a rotting corpse, same goes for all the other major religious prophet types. Fuck em with a flamethrower sideways if you ask me.
'retarded' as an insullt, anything similar, E.g retard, spastic, although for some reason 'monged' has been current and has no association with Downs, it means to be so fucking baked after smoking weed that you are half asleep and draped over the nearest solid object. The likes of retard, retarded, its just insulting to those who actually have some form of MR. I'm likely to twat anyone who uses such terms again after being warned.
On a jar of salted cashews 'warning, may contain nuts'. You haploid tosser, if it doesn't contain nuts, then I'd be shoving the jar up your backside for ripping me off when I wanted the food I paid for, and besides, anyone moronic enough to have a nut allergy and buy and eat a jar of nuts, deserves to die, they are just to stupid to live.
Most religious crap. Although I'm prone to using some rather archaic terms in my speech, '''steeth,'' and 'sblood' meaning 'gods teeth' 'gods blood', very old oaths last current a few centuries ago. And references to ancient civilizations, such as 'go to Hades/tartarus' and one thats probably unique to me 'it's just piss in the Styx', meaning 'fuck all'.
I keep getting told that I've got cursing and slagging people off made into a fine art, that I'm creative in the way I talk generally. I tend to throw phrases in quite a few languages in my speech, usually something profane, I swear in french, german, polish, russian, latin (like my tag line. 'homo stercore veteris, heterodiem'
means 'same old shit, different day' in latin. As well as speaking ASL, so I can swear pretty well in ASL sign as well. A few bits of ancient greek, nahuatl, I just pick stuff up like that.
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"Use your words".
I'm sure I've mentioned this before.
I want to smack anyone who tries that around me, even if not aimed at me.
I've only ever heard "use your words" said to children who are hitting each other. :lol1:
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Damn, Dude!!
I guess it took you a while to get my grass all put back where it is supposed to be, eh?
(Good to see you around again!)
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Aw, shucks. :zoinks:
*humps DirtDawg's leg*
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EVERY song or movie that comes on, "That's your favourite, right Mommy?"
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Aw, shucks. :zoinks:
*humps DirtDawg's leg*
*kicks him over the fence just short of getting wet*
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Not so much a saying, but rather an ill used article.
For instance, THE Beatles is fine, THE elevator is fine, THE Led Zeppelin is not OK! THE Google is just stupid. THE cd is fine, THE Guess Who is fine (I would not have but they are Canadian, so whatever), taking THE I865 toward Chicago - just NO, but THE Twitter is ridiculous.
Stop throwing out random THEs people!!
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Dropping one's guts:
"Someone dropped their guts in the lift this morning. I almost chundered".
"I nearly dropped me guts in the boss's office today. That woulda scored me a DCM".
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Dropping one's guts:
"Someone dropped their guts in the lift this morning. I almost chundered".
"I nearly dropped me guts in the boss's office today. That woulda scored me a DCM".
I do not know what that means.
Here we sometimes say, "Bastard just dropped ass right there," meaning farted in public.
Dropped guts?
:dunno:
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It's the same thing - dropped guts is a fart, usually a very smelly one.
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It's the same thing - dropped guts is a fart, usually a very smelly one.
OK, but I like "dropped ass" a lot more than "dropped guts."
Polite company would make either one troublesome, but so would farting out loud.
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Dunny budgie = blowfly. Actually I like that one.
Budgie smugglers = speedos. Never liked that one.
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About 'potato', no we don't, 'rax, I've never once heard anyone in the UK pronounce it as anything other than 'po-tay-toh', the first 'o' being pronounced as a short vowel, as in 'possible' or if describing theresa may, as in 'po-faced fucking bitch'
Nobody pronounces it 'po-tah-toe', maybe someone with a speech impediment, but no regular, native englishman would pronounce it that way.
Lets see...other sayings I can't stand..
'innit' -fucking chavscum speak.
'blud'
'nigga'...no....its spelled and pronounced 'nigger', no 'a' in the word, you dumb fucking ghetto cunt.
'brap' ('nigga' and wigger talk imitating the sound of a gunshot.) Makes the speaker sound like the moron they invariably are. This one invariably makes me want to introduce the speaker to an uppercut to the throat, to make sure they stop speaking like a twat. Ideally stop breathing too.
Management-type corporate bollocks. Too many examples to list. All that meaningless shitspeak they come out with. Always they have a greasy. diseased, slimy feel of dishonesty all over it, whatever the particular schpiel of arse leavings being vomited forth by some management type.
And PR fuckers. (no, not OUR PR, daughter of QV, she's a gorgeous, delightful, very attractive 'lil sweetie.), 'public relations' type PR fuckers, I mean. A slimy, lying bunch of subhuman bastards hired to put a 'positive' image out about whoever or whatever hired them, regardless of the fact that whoever did hire them are vile, poisonous, toadying little shiteating liars who are trying to put out the message that fr.ex dumping ultratoxic organomercurial or organocadmium waste into water supplies which are used to irrigate the crops of subsistence-income farmers is just fine. Not a problem, totally acceptable and the agonizing and fatal diseases afflicting the impoverished peasant farmers who eat the crops the water was used to irrigate are their problem, just some local pathogen and nothing to do with the heavy metal toxic slops they release into the rivers upstream.
(this has happened, several times, including some of the worst of the very worst industrial disasters in history. Its dreadful enough that a company is negligent enough to let such things happen in the first place; but after an industrial disaster affecting vast numbers of people, killing many, and condemning the survivors to a lifetime of incurable neurological damage and in the case of the japanese disaster involving organocadmium wastes getting loose and being discharged into the water supplies, the victims suffered severe damage to their bones, which became soft, porous and deformed, breaking as if they were made of egg shells. Their legs, their arms, their vertebrae all became so severely demineralized and damaged that those who did not die ended up bow-legged, forced to walk with a waddling gait, severely osteoporotic, their bones with the consistency of a sponge, and in constant, agonizing pain.
The japanese called the disease itai-itai, which translated from japenese into english, has the meaning 'it hurts, it hurts'. Due to the pain caused by the victims' bones turning to sponge, as well as their kidneys failing, skin irritation, neuralgia (neuropathic pain, which can be very unpleasant indeed, and its difficult to treat as well, being highly resistant to remediation with opioids. I have neuropathic pain myself, although not due to cadmium poisoning, in my case, its due a surgical fuckup when I had an operation to remove some bone spikes that had shattered off inside my knee, and were both hanging around in the joint, whilst some had embedded themselves within my patellar tendon, stabbing away with every movement. Either they had been broken off when I originally fell on the glass spike i fell onto, kneecap-first, with all my body weight behind it; or they were broken loose when I was recovering from the injury and was assaulted, my knee stamped on repeatedly, as well as my face, ribcage, pretty much everywhere that could be stamped on, punched or kicked was stamped on, punched and kicked in. Managed to get my pocket knife out and use it, which put to flight, the pack of cowardly fucking dirty chavscum bastard god-damned FILTH who had jumped me, with a gang of at least 20 or so, from ages of maybe 11-12 to at least 20yo, against one pre-teen to very young teen. Just because they think that kind of crap is 'fun' and sport, and partly because they HATED me, personally I mean, they had it in for me, specifically, because I was 'different', spoke differently, was VASTLY more intelligent than other children, and indeed many adults I met, they just couldn't even come close to conversing with me on my own level, and I always have found it difficult to 'dumb down' to the level of those who are not on my level. Oddly, I can easily adapt my speech and communication to suit those who have mental retardation, special ed folk (I mean, those who are spesh but not autistic, or not necessarily autistic at least, I've known people who were both.
Perhaps the ability to communicate in a way other than my typical almost-manic, hyper and high-tech, generally peppered with scientific principles, even if not discussing science, I'll tend to use a lot of technical terms, and explain things in a factual and highly specific manner; and I'm also a highly logical, unemotional thinker, for the the most part, which unsurprisingly enough, comes through in my speech. LOL I was even born with pointed ears :LOL1:, perhaps it comes from my having fallen in love with girls in the past, who were mentally retarded, which on three or four occasions or so, I have, and being the kind of guy who when I'm in a relationship, goes to a hell of a lot of effort to become what the girl I'm with needs, what they want, to communicate effectively, to be kind and compassionate, loving, to make damn well sure I turn them on big time when we are snuggled up in bed (or wherever else we might be making like a pair of rabbiits and,,-=,About 'potato', no we don't, 'rax, I've never once heard anyone in the UK pronounce it as anything other than 'po-tay-toh', the first 'o' being pronounced as a short vowel, as in 'possible' or if describing theresa may, as in 'po-faced fucking bitch'
Nobody pronounces it 'po-tah-toe', maybe someone with a speech impediment, but no regular, native englishman would pronounce it that way.
Lets see...other sayings I can't stand..
'innit' -fucking chavscum speak.
'blud'
'nigga'...no....its spelled and pronounced 'nigger', no 'a' in the word, you dumb fucking ghetto cunt.
'brap' ('nigga' and wigger talk imitating the sound of a gunshot.) Makes the speaker sound like the moron they invariably are. This one invariably makes me want to introduce the speaker to an uppercut to the throat, to make sure they stop speaking like a twat. Ideally stop breathing too.
Management-type corporate bollocks. Too many examples to list. All that meaningless shitspeak they come out with. Always they have a greasy. diseased, slimy feel of dishonesty all over it, whatever the particular schpiel of arse leavings being vomited forth by some management type.
And PR fuckers. (no, not OUR PR, daughter of QV, she's a gorgeous, delightful, very attractive 'lil sweetie.), 'public relations' type PR fuckers, I mean. A slimy, lying bunch of subhuman bastards hired to put a 'positive' image out about whoever or whatever hired them, regardless of the fact that whoever did hire them are vile, poisonous, toadying little shiteating liars who are trying to put out the message that fr.ex dumping ultratoxic organomercurial or organocadmium waste into water supplies which are used to irrigate the crops of subsistence-income farmers is just fine. Not a problem, totally acceptable and the agonizing and fatal diseases afflicting the impoverished peasant farmers who eat the crops the water was used to irrigate are their problem, just some local pathogen and nothing to do with the heavy metal toxic slops they release into the rivers upstream.
(this has happened, several times, including some of the worst of the very worst industrial disasters in history. Its dreadful enough that a company is negligent enough to let such things happen in the first place; but after an industrial disaster affecting vast numbers of people, killing many, and condemning the survivors to a lifetime of incurable neurological damage and in the case of the japanese disaster involving organocadmium wastes getting loose and being discharged into the water supplies, the victims suffered severe damage to their bones, which became soft, porous and deformed, breaking as if they were made of egg shells. Their legs, their arms, their vertebrae all became so severely demineralized and damaged that those who did not die ended up bow-legged, forced to walk with a waddling gait, as well as suffering severe kidney problems, ranging from damage to outright kidney failure, and peripheral neuropathy.
(neuropathic pain as well as nerve damage; I have it in one leg, the bad one, or rather, the worse of the two, the one that got a bit spike of glass driven into the knee joint after I slipped and fell, knee first onto said upward-pointing long, wide shard of broken glass with all my body weight behind it to force it deep into my joint. I had surgery to remove the glass, then later on, another surgery to remove some sharp spikes of fragmented bone which were part floating around the joint itself, stabbing merrily away, and part of them embedded in my patellar tendon, again stabbing away with every movement, irritating the tissue and causing the tendon to calcify where the bone spikes had been irritating the tendon chronically; either they had broken off when the initial injury was sustained
Or when I got jumped by a pack of pikey chav trash, gang of about 20 odd of the fucking dirty rancid little foetusfuckers, ranging in age from maybe 12-13 or so to 20 to early 20s. against one preteen to early teen kid. Stamped on my knee while I was in recovery from the glass injury and surgery to remove it from my patellar tendon and knee joint, was well as my head, face, ribcage, pretty much anywhere you can stamp on, punch or kick in, they stamped on, punched and kicked in. Filthy fucking pikey trash; may their families suffer and die in agony.
They fucked off after I managed to open my pocket knife and use it, bunch of fucking pussy ass gutless cowards, and just buggered off, with me in the road, left me for dead.
The second surgery I had, left me with peripheral neuropathy, caused me some nerve damage affecting that leg, causes me paraesthesia of a painful sort.
I have very little sensation there, its as if I'd been injected with a local anaesthetic. I CAN just about feel touch, but it feels horrible, awful sensation. I can feel pain, the anaesthesia provides me no protection from pain at all. Tingling, numbness, pain, and the pain doesn't respond much to opiate painkillers; with the exception, among those opioids I have tried, of methadone. Methadone has some activity as an NMDA type glutamate receptor antagonist, and such
drugs are well known for efficacy against pain due to nerve damage. Methadone isn't a strong NMDA antagonist, but the effect is indeed there, and it does help with the pain from my peripheral neuropathy, whilst other opiates, such as oxycodone, morphine, heroin, dipropionylmorphine, 6-monoacetoxydihydromorphine, don't, unless the dose is so high that it knocks me out completely.
Another phrase that really irks me, is when...'people' of colour use the word 'axe' to mean 'ask', it just makes them sound like complete fucking cretins
who really need to be burnt alive, because they are too stupid to live. I mean bloody fucking jesus christ with his lungs torn out and rammed up his chocolate starfish! its a three letter word. How the bloody mother of fuck can anyone be such a thick piece of shit as to be unable to pronounce a three letter word.
Its about as simple and basic as you can get. Kinda like the stupid pricks responsible for this rape and brutal sodomy of basic fundamental grammar.
Its the kind of thing that actually manages to justify the phrase 'stupid fucking nigger'!
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I'm still not a fan of "clean your room"
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Not so much a saying, but rather an ill used article.
For instance, THE Beatles is fine, THE elevator is fine, THE Led Zeppelin is not OK! THE Google is just stupid. THE cd is fine, THE Guess Who is fine (I would not have but they are Canadian, so whatever), taking THE I865 toward Chicago - just NO, but THE Twitter is ridiculous.
Stop throwing out random THEs people!!
Agreeing with the DD here. :zoinks:
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'fo shizzle my nizzle' and variants of it. Fucking hell. Moronic wigger alarm!
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Not so much a saying, but rather an ill used article.
For instance, THE Beatles is fine, THE elevator is fine, THE Led Zeppelin is not OK! THE Google is just stupid. THE cd is fine, THE Guess Who is fine (I would not have but they are Canadian, so whatever), taking THE I865 toward Chicago - just NO, but THE Twitter is ridiculous.
Stop throwing out random THEs people!!
Agreeing with the DD here. :zoinks:
:CanofWorms:
The Odeon should watch himself.
:headhurts:
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I'm still not a fan of "clean your room"
How are "we" coming on the garage is another in line with that one. That would be my wife making sure that I keep my interest in my hobbies and not get too bogged down in the depression that happens every SAD fall.
For one thing, "coming on a garage" is not exactly in my purview.
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'fo shizzle my nizzle' and variants of it. Fucking hell. Moronic wigger alarm!
I have concerns about the entire wigger thing, generally.
There was a young lady who was ripped to shreds recently because she wore a dress to her prom which resembled an Asian design and poor gal was all over the news, even on early morning national news media, trying to "apologize for offending" people. She loved super bright colors and large graphic pattern and the flow was so flattering to her ...
Anyway she was accused of cultural appropriation and berated, castigated (choose your own description of the grisly, pummeling chastisement this beautiful young teen had to endure) It stirred up such a shit storm with the left because she was not Asian.
The mere existence of wiggers stirs a similar shit storm inside me as far as cultural mis-appropriation goes.
Sure, let's listen to and enjoy "their" music, but trying to imitate "their accents" and urban colloquialisms is just insulting.
Some of the story about the young teen babe: https://www.today.com/style/teen-who-wore-traditional-chinese-dress-prom-faces-backlash-t128426
One of her gutsy comments:
"To everyone causing so much negativity: I mean no disrespect to the Chinese culture. I’m simply showing my appreciation to their culture. I’m not deleting my post because I’ve done nothing but show my love for the culture. It’s a fucking dress. And it’s beautiful."
Here is a pic of this lovely young woman in her prom dress:
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Sorry, but you seemed to have nicked at a raw nub for me there.
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Why does fashion cultural appropriation go "one way"?
I don't know much about this. And I'm not really interested in getting educated. There's too much on my plate right now to take on anything more.
Back to "one way" with this rhetorical question. Why aren't the Japanese, the African continent, Native Americans, etc. criticized for adopting Western wear? Should we stop eating the cuisine of other nationalities? Etc.
I'm not going to read any answers to this post. Don't have time to learn anything new. Just wanted to stir the pot I guess.
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'fo shizzle my nizzle' and variants of it. Fucking hell. Moronic wigger alarm!
Tizalking the shizit was our secret language for years around the children when they were young, and around anyone else for that matter. At the time it was mainly prevalent in prisons, though husband picked it up in youth when he once ran off with a carnival, so he viewed it as carney speak. Really liked having our own language, and then Snoop Dogg ruined it for us. :laugh:
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Why does fashion cultural appropriation go "one way"?
I don't know much about this. And I'm not really interested in getting educated. There's too much on my plate right now to take on anything more.
Back to "one way" with this rhetorical question. Why aren't the Japanese, the African continent, Native Americans, etc. criticized for adopting Western wear? Should we stop eating the cuisine of other nationalities? Etc.
I'm not going to read any answers to this post. Don't have time to learn anything new. Just wanted to stir the pot I guess.
Thinking it's not one way for blacks and native americans, as they can be highly criticized within their own race for 'trying to be white'.
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'fo shizzle my nizzle' and variants of it. Fucking hell. Moronic wigger alarm!
I have concerns about the entire wigger thing, generally.
There was a young lady who was ripped to shreds recently because she wore a dress to her prom which resembled an Asian design and poor gal was all over the news, even on early morning national news media, trying to "apologize for offending" people. She loved super bright colors and large graphic pattern and the flow was so flattering to her ...
Anyway she was accused of cultural appropriation and berated, castigated (choose your own description of the grisly, pummeling chastisement this beautiful young teen had to endure) It stirred up such a shit storm with the left because she was not Asian.
The mere existence of wiggers stirs a similar shit storm inside me as far as cultural mis-appropriation goes.
Sure, let's listen to and enjoy "their" music, but trying to imitate "their accents" and urban colloquialisms is just insulting.
Some of the story about the young teen babe: https://www.today.com/style/teen-who-wore-traditional-chinese-dress-prom-faces-backlash-t128426
One of her gutsy comments:
"To everyone causing so much negativity: I mean no disrespect to the Chinese culture. I’m simply showing my appreciation to their culture. I’m not deleting my post because I’ve done nothing but show my love for the culture. It’s a fucking dress. And it’s beautiful."
Here is a pic of this lovely young woman in her prom dress:
It's personally difficult to consider a fashion statement to be cultural appropriation, but do see it with more meaningful things. One example that comes to mind is Holi, which is an ancient hindu religious festival which has been adapted to western culture in recent years, stripped of its meaning in places which ma not necessarily celebrate the culture or people, simply because their ceremony is beautiful and fun.
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Why does fashion cultural appropriation go "one way"?
I don't know much about this. And I'm not really interested in getting educated. There's too much on my plate right now to take on anything more.
Back to "one way" with this rhetorical question. Why aren't the Japanese, the African continent, Native Americans, etc. criticized for adopting Western wear? Should we stop eating the cuisine of other nationalities? Etc.
I'm not going to read any answers to this post. Don't have time to learn anything new. Just wanted to stir the pot I guess.
Thinking it's not one way for blacks and native americans, as they can be highly criticized within their own race for 'trying to be white'.
So true.
I was eighteen years old when I first met a black person. I was filled with many emotions, but had a half baked education about the times and I was also anxious to get to know this person. We both played on the baseball team, so I already had an "in," so to speak.
But I was a junior and he was a senior so he could not have given any less shit for me, even after I knocked a couple of his pitches out of our practice field.
In a school of 4400 kids, he and his sister were the only blacks. They were very guarded.
As time progressed, I met many of his race who were too far into the rock and roll culture to turn it around and some were shunned by they own families.
My Indian "friends" often got into terrible fights over one wearing the wrong feather. Let alone putting on a fucking cowboy hat, a hat that makes a hell of a lot of sense in south Texas no matter who you are.
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The gangbanger type antique farm equipment aren't bright enough to realize anything about 'cultural appropriation', and besides the only culture they'll ever know is the kind that grows nasty pathogenic organisms on an agar slant.
Also, this bollocks about 'cultural appropriation', a lot of the hysterical shrieking comes from people, and I use the term loosely, for want of anything else, that make a living, or make fame, or both, from shrieking and howling 'WWWWwwwwayyyyysiiizzzm! BAAAWWWWWWW!!' on behalf of ethnic groups, who in plenty cases, if they are made aware of the shrieking, they end up telling the prophets of doom and EEEEeeevVVViiLLl! to go fuck off, they didn't give a damn and it's a nonentity, So Fuck. Off.
Those who get off and make something out of screaming waayyyccciizzm, BAAWWW! on behalf of ethnic minorities they aren't a part of, taking offense on others behalf just so there is a big issue, often at the great and traumatic expense of some completely innocent individual, like that girl with the dress (who, IMO really, REALLY needs to openly refuse to apologize to the screaming harpies and tell them to go fuck a dog. Just get out there and say 'I've nothing to be sorry for, go fuck yourselves you filthy little vultures, now come here first, before you go fuck off, so I can stab you in the eyes with a corkscrew'
They really are disgusting. The race-card chasing vultures who want nothing more than a reason to screech and scream and raise hell for some innocent individual just so they can show how good and virtuous they are. I scarcely have words to express my sheer contempt for the bastards. I'd love to slit their faces, leave them looking like the fucking joker. Damn dirty wog-worshipping, paki-praising, koran-kissing sikh-sucking O2-scrounging vultures. They can all go drink bleach and go to the fucking devil.
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Not so much a saying, but rather an ill used article.
For instance, THE Beatles is fine, THE elevator is fine, THE Led Zeppelin is not OK! THE Google is just stupid. THE cd is fine, THE Guess Who is fine (I would not have but they are Canadian, so whatever), taking THE I865 toward Chicago - just NO, but THE Twitter is ridiculous.
Stop throwing out random THEs people!!
This likely comes from L.A. where talking like that is a bit of a necessity.
They have a labyrinth of freeways from various tax programs so you have Interstates, U.S. highways, State highways and even minor freeways that are part of the county road systems.
The 22, The 405, The 5, The 10, The 101, The 57 and The 91 are how you have to refer to all these roads without the descriptions coming out like word salad.
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The gangbanger type antique farm equipment aren't bright enough to realize anything about 'cultural appropriation', and besides the only culture they'll ever know is the kind that grows nasty pathogenic organisms on an agar slant.
Also, this bollocks about 'cultural appropriation', a lot of the hysterical shrieking comes from people, and I use the term loosely, for want of anything else, that make a living, or make fame, or both, from shrieking and howling 'WWWWwwwwayyyyysiiizzzm! BAAAWWWWWWW!!' on behalf of ethnic groups, who in plenty cases, if they are made aware of the shrieking, they end up telling the prophets of doom and EEEEeeevVVViiLLl! to go fuck off, they didn't give a damn and it's a nonentity, So Fuck. Off.
Those who get off and make something out of screaming waayyyccciizzm, BAAWWW! on behalf of ethnic minorities they aren't a part of, taking offense on others behalf just so there is a big issue, often at the great and traumatic expense of some completely innocent individual, like that girl with the dress (who, IMO really, REALLY needs to openly refuse to apologize to the screaming harpies and tell them to go fuck a dog. Just get out there and say 'I've nothing to be sorry for, go fuck yourselves you filthy little vultures, now come here first, before you go fuck off, so I can stab you in the eyes with a corkscrew'
They really are disgusting. The race-card chasing vultures who want nothing more than a reason to screech and scream and raise hell for some innocent individual just so they can show how good and virtuous they are. I scarcely have words to express my sheer contempt for the bastards. I'd love to slit their faces, leave them looking like the fucking joker. Damn dirty wog-worshipping, paki-praising, koran-kissing sikh-sucking O2-scrounging vultures. They can all go drink bleach and go to the fucking devil.
I was trying to sort of corral, maybe even sum an issue that irritates most of us and here you go expanding it.
From what I was able to glean from your post we are not in disagreement, but I was seeking more of an exposure of the pith rather than an analysis.
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Not so much a saying, but rather an ill used article.
For instance, THE Beatles is fine, THE elevator is fine, THE Led Zeppelin is not OK! THE Google is just stupid. THE cd is fine, THE Guess Who is fine (I would not have but they are Canadian, so whatever), taking THE I865 toward Chicago - just NO, but THE Twitter is ridiculous.
Stop throwing out random THEs people!!
This likely comes from L.A. where talking like that is a bit of a necessity.
They have a labyrinth of freeways from various tax programs so you have Interstates, U.S. highways, State highways and even minor freeways that are part of the county road systems.
The 22, The 405, The 5, The 10, The 101, The 57 and The 91 are how you have to refer to all these roads without the descriptions coming out like word salad.
Maybe that one instance of an interstate has been justified, assuming that we all want to turn into California (I have lived in Texas, Tennessee, Colorado, Montana, Calgary Alberta and now Indiana and I can say that no one I ever met wants to be California) but what about some of the rest?
THE computer sounds right, but open THE Windows means something different? Then go ahead and look in THE Google and find ... --- ... See?
I am not THE alone here.
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To "smash" something. Smashed avocado for instance. I'm sure they didn't smash it but rather, peeled it and mashed it.
In my IT classes, "I'll just smash that in." Meaning I'll write some code.
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^that's just horrible.
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I smash garlic
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It's weird because restaurants/cafés will even write "smashed" whatever the food is - on their menus. What are people supposed to think?
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Didn't know that was 'a thing' Ren. I wish I still didn't.
I immediately hated that the moment I read it. Come to think of it I don't even like 'smashed' in the context of 'having gotten really fucked up'
Its just...ew.
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It's an Australian thing (smashed). I hear it all the time.
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I don't see how it could be applied to food. Here, it just means to get completely fucking munted with some form of chemical assistance.
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I smash garlic
That is the best way to release many of the oils that would take a while to render with just using heat. Garlic is loaded with sugars and cooking them down usually burns them unless you go really slowly. Smashing takes half that time away with one whack. Smashing garlic also quickly releases the dried outer skins making them easier to discard.
Many chefs do not waste that skin, though, thinking that it will re-hydrate to a palatable consistency in the cooking process. I do not agree. I throw them into the compost pile.
In the salsa I just made I use a food processor (kind of the same as a modern day molca jete - think of a crude lava rock mortar and pestle for food preparation) and I smash about half the garlic and onions using that machine and chop the other half to keep the chunky style going.
I only smash about one fourth of the peppers leaving the rest to be chunky and about ninety percent of the tomatoes.
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I don't see how it could be applied to food. Here, it just means to get completely fucking munted with some form of chemical assistance.
Yep. That has been around quite a while.
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It's weird because restaurants/cafés will even write "smashed" whatever the food is - on their menus. What are people supposed to think?
Over here, "hipster type" places offering smashed entres are talking about tenderizing meats with a hammer, usually.
I often smash chicken breasts and pork loin cuts to ensure quick even cooking. To me it is the quick, consistent coooking that justifies any of that kind of meat smashing.
Unless of course we are trying to use a really low quality piece of tough meat to do something other than stew it up for hours. Breaking down the connective muscle tissue with a pointy hammer helps a lot.
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IN the late seventies and early eighties when a band would hear a song and want to cover it on stage, but did not want to take the time to try to reproduce the original effort or simply wanted to make their own interpretation, they would just learn some of the riffs, the hooks and the chorus and then jam over the rest.
They called it smashing the song. Usually done in about twenty minutes of rehearsal time or less.
I felt the same kind of horror as Odeon mentioned at the idea of code smashing.
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Many chefs do not waste that skin, though, thinking that it will re-hydrate to a palatable consistency in the cooking process. I do not agree. I throw them into the compost pile.
Never known anyone to retain the skins. At best, it would be worthless filler.
Into the trenches with it!
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Many chefs do not waste that skin, though, thinking that it will re-hydrate to a palatable consistency in the cooking process. I do not agree. I throw them into the compost pile.
Never known anyone to retain the skins. At best, it would be worthless filler.
Into the trenches with it!
I took a course while still in my teens and the French chef simply cut off the root end and "smashed" rest (he used a large cleaver and pounded the garlic about ten times), dumping the entirety into a stock pot of beef. The end result was tasty, but I was tentative about finding a part of the skins against my palate.
I never had done this and even after seeing a famous well paid chef do it, I never have. The skins are compost for next years gardening efforts.
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Wouldn't put fish heads in my soup either though. :/
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A friend on Facebook wrote, "Treating myself to a burger since I smashed my presentation."
Sounds bloody horrible!
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Hey look on the bright side. At least you don't have to suffer an infestation of scousers over there :autism:
God, that horrible nasal whine of a scouse accent (scouser=native to the slum/city/ of liverpool, depending how charitable one can manage to be), especially when its a woman's voice with a souse accent, sounds fucking awful, as if ozzy ozzbourne were tryiny to play a kazoo with his nose whilst suffering from the flu.
(don't get me wrong, I love his vocals when he was with Sabbath, but if you've ever heard it..got to admit, it sounds like a brummie with a dead rat stuffed up their nose.)
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Realize that we have our own brand of nasal whiners over here. Most of them are not even well educated.
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Sounds like your average scouser then :P
About as smart as inserting a broomhandle into one's anus and going bungee-jumping without a rope.
And with a voice you could use to strip the steel from a chemical toilet bowl. Especially female scousers, that voice is just bloody horrid.
Worst of all though, female scouse pikeys. Nothing worse, than the sound of a pikey scouse chav tosser talking. Or trying to speak, that is. I could use the voice of the female variety of scouse charver for cleaning the worst, most recalcitrant polymerized shite from the insides of my lab flasks
as a harsher alternative to base bath piranha etch.
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"newcueler" instead of actually moving ones tongue while attempting to say, "nuclear."
"Assurely" instead of assuredly.
"Purposely" instead of purposefully. I know it has become common thanks to Trumpspeak, but I just do not like it.
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Irregardless. Instead of regardless?
Preventative. Instead of preventive?
Editing because I just heard this on CNN. I tried to sit down and relax and I get another one!!
Interpretated. Instead of interpreted. Just NO!
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Irregardless. Instead of regardless?
Fucking bogus word. We should roll back inflamable too.
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On point is becoming more and more common. I always thought it was en pointe but that's a ballet term. It's the first way I saw that spelt.
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Irregardless. Instead of regardless?
Preventative. Instead of preventive?
Editing because I just heard this on CNN. I tried to sit down and relax and I get another one!!
Interpretated. Instead of interpreted. Just NO!
Irregardless is a funny one. Kind of a mash-up of irrespective and regardless. It's an official word too.
I hardly ever hear people say preventive, it's usually preventative. I just read that in news stories in the UK the ratio is about 1:1 (preventive:preventative) while in the US it is about 10:1.
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I find "at the end of the day", used to add emphasis to a statement, a bit annoying. I noticed it a lot in the UK.
I find when people say "I could care less" when they mean "I couldn't care less" more amusing than annoying.
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I find "at the end of the day", used to add emphasis to a statement, a bit annoying. I noticed it a lot in the UK.
I find when people say "I could care less" when they mean "I couldn't care less" more amusing than annoying.
There was a member here not long ago who would say, in the end. That made for great innuendo jokes. :lol1:
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I find "at the end of the day", used to add emphasis to a statement, a bit annoying. I noticed it a lot in the UK.
I find when people say "I could care less" when they mean "I couldn't care less" more amusing than annoying.
There was a member here not long ago who would say, in the end. That made for great innuendo jokes. :lol1:
Yes, and I caught you perving on his profile. :police:
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I find "at the end of the day", used to add emphasis to a statement, a bit annoying. I noticed it a lot in the UK.
I find when people say "I could care less" when they mean "I couldn't care less" more amusing than annoying.
There was a member here not long ago who would say, in the end. That made for great innuendo jokes. :lol1:
Yes, and I caught you perving on his profile. :police:
I had to look it up. At first I was thinking it was MOSW who said it, and I had stumbled onto some great irony. :lol1:
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Kevv was I2's 1st President.
He had a heavy drinking problem back then but it sounds like he's better now.
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He's all better now in the end. :zoinks:
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This is a "game changer."
So tired that being over used.
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'App'/'Apps'
Referring to the PROGRAMS on smartphones and the latest, most disgusting abortions in the long line of festering turds going under the name of 'micro$oft windoze'
I just find it 'ick!' its nasty. They aren't bloody 'apps' they are 'programs' or 'software' if you must, but programs fits just as well now, as it did when computers were using 386 CPUs
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They probably have an app for that.
:autism:
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Over here, I heard "application" used more often than a program. You had to open your program (operating system) and "launch" your application within "Workgroups." At least that was the language most commonly use.
And if you ever made the mistake of using the expression "taskbar" or "icon" or "document" or "menu" everyone would just step back, assuming you knew everything about computers and just let you do everything. Even worse would have been suggesting the use of the "right click" button. Can not tell you how many times I have been accused of being one of those funny right click guys.
:lol1:
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They need to make an 'app' that launches a spring-loaded steaming hot pot full of HClO4 out of the screen when it detects the nose of some obnoxious cunt who comes up with a term such as 'app'. :tard:
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At least you remembered to get it really hot first.
I am not arguing with you. I HATE shortenings of normal words in general, but ya kno, whatev ...
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Over here, I heard "application" used more often than a program. You had to open your program (operating system) and "launch" your application within "Workgroups." At least that was the language most commonly use.
Thought there are system programs and application programs, so essentially they're all programs and applications simply aren't system specific. Maybe Odeon can clarify.
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U fkn cnt m8, u tkn da piss?
w0teva bruv, innit.
(and of course I remembered. Perchloric acid is nasty enough as it is (and a lot worse when its over 60% solution, then it gets a tendency to start fires, build up some rather unstable organoperchlorate derivatives in the ductwork of fume hoods that like to go 'BOOM!' when unexpected (one needs a separate, dedicated fume hood to work with HClO4 for that reason, although outside in the back garden will do, although I'd dispose of the gas mask cartridges afterwards, just to make sure it didn't do the same thing with whatever has already been scrubbed by the filter canisters. Wearing a potential (and unpredictable as hell) bomb strapped to each side of my head isn't really my idea of a very good idea), and if spilled on organics, like labcoats, assuming it doesn't just ignite or else burn through them, as perchloric is one of the strongest mineral acids around, at least relatively common ones, along with chlorosulfonic acid, or really nastily and sneakily, if it drips onto wooden bench tops, it can do the same thing, and render the very workspace itself friction, shock and heat sensitive. Would that EVER be a nasty shock! an exploding workbench! :autism:
Ah, I remember another one that just makes me want to rip someone's spine out through the eye of their dick. 'blud'
Ebonics in general, makes the speaker sound like a gutterspawned, dumb as shit piece of dirt who really needs to be slapped in the mouth. With a chair, One of those heavy antique mahogany ones too, so it leaves the ebonics-slobbering gutterfuck with a permanent chair shaped imprint in their torso, where their head was driven after being throughly whacked through their shoulders until they are able to contemplate their navel. From the inside. Lick their own liver clean like a dog licking it's arse ring.
Although why anybody would want to lick their own liver I really do not know. But, if it can't tell the difference between the verb 'to ask' and the noun 'axe', then they really need a close encounter with the latter. It's humongously cuntish. Just begging to be beaten to death with a sock full of frozen dog muck :autism:
And another. Not so much a saying, as an un-saying.
When people have a passive-aggressive bitch-fest aimed at you,because you didn't do something or say something they wanted you to do, or did do or say something they wanted you not to; because 'I shouldn't have HAD to ask, you should have guessed what I wanted'. Writing between the lines, and worse, writing between the lines of that which is left unwritten, metaphorically speaking. And bitching you out because you aren't a telepath.
NT-ese, basically. I mean, really....how the FUCK am I meant to guess what is going through the head of somebody, who refuses to say what they are thinking and what they want just because they think you automatically ought to be able to read their minds, and then when you don't, because they refused to say what they wanted 'just because', and you aren't a fucking telepath? And expect you to read and speak body language with as much detail, right down to grammar and punctuation as one would use if speaking sign (I do, actually, in ASL and one thing that is SUPER irritating, is people speaking in ASL in text-speak, Such as for example, signing the letter fingerspelling sign 'U' in lieu of the sign for 'you', or fingerspelling 'Y.O.U')
It'd doubtless be the same if I spoke BSL as well, but I only know one or two words in BSL; the two dialects aren't mutually intelliible. To the quite hilarious extent of 'goodbye' in BSL being one of the signs meaning 'bitch' in ASL sign.
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Over here, I heard "application" used more often than a program. You had to open your program (operating system) and "launch" your application within "Workgroups." At least that was the language most commonly use.
Thought there are system programs and application programs, so essentially they're all programs and applications simply aren't system specific. Maybe Odeon can clarify.
An application is a program with a UI component.
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That's a good distinction.
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I agree, Cal's explanation of the modern meaning of "application" sounds right.
Back in the olden days "application" usually meant the business environment and purpose of software. So we spoke about "hardware" and "operating systems" and "applications".
NCR or IBM might be the hardware, VRX or MVS/XA might be the operating system, and Banking, for example, was an application. Back in those days it was rare for programmers to get clear instructions about new products or features that they needed to develop, so knowledge of the application was often considered at least as important as knowledge of the programming language or operating system. Because there were invariably a lot of gaps that the programmer needed to fill or clarify.
Other applications in those days might have been insurance or ticketing or warehousing.
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"I shouldn't of had ... "
Need I describe my annoyance further.
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It's really
"I shouldn't've had"
the contraction principle.
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Over here, I heard "application" used more often than a program. You had to open your program (operating system) and "launch" your application within "Workgroups." At least that was the language most commonly use.
Thought there are system programs and application programs, so essentially they're all programs and applications simply aren't system specific. Maybe Odeon can clarify.
An application is a program with a UI component.
Excellent. So what about some of the older Adobe "applications," very user friendly, which did not care about the "program" (or computer operating system) under which they were utilized?
Those were applications, right? While a mouse was helpful at times, knowledge of the gazillion keyboard "interface" short cuts was essential at being "efficient," right?
Does this mean that once the mouse became popular in use with an operating system "program" That program is dangerously close to becoming an application?
:apondering:
Maybe differences have become so insignificant that the terms are interchangeable? Kind of like a Newspeak thing?
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"I shouldn't of had ... "
Need I describe my annoyance further.
Well you could of at least described what annoys you about that. I wouldn't of worked it out by myself.
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"I shouldn't of had ... "
Need I describe my annoyance further.
Well you could of at least described what annoys you about that. I wouldn't of worked it out by myself.
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Over here, I heard "application" used more often than a program. You had to open your program (operating system) and "launch" your application within "Workgroups." At least that was the language most commonly use.
Thought there are system programs and application programs, so essentially they're all programs and applications simply aren't system specific. Maybe Odeon can clarify.
An application is a program with a UI component.
Excellent. So what about some of the older Adobe "applications," very user friendly, which did not care about the "program" (or computer operating system) under which they were utilized?
Those were applications, right? While a mouse was helpful at times, knowledge of the gazillion keyboard "interface" short cuts was essential at being "efficient," right?
Does this mean that once the mouse became popular in use with an operating system "program" That program is dangerously close to becoming an application?
:apondering:
Maybe differences have become so insignificant that the terms are interchangeable? Kind of like a Newspeak thing?
My initial response was also to note peripheral devices are UI components for system programs, and then realized he likely meant the UI is part of the programming within applications. That's why it's a good distinction. Also to your point on system dependence, even if they're not picky, applications are dependent on system programs to functions. That's another good distinction.
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I agree, Cal's explanation of the modern meaning of "application" sounds right.
Back in the olden days "application" usually meant the business environment and purpose of software. So we spoke about "hardware" and "operating systems" and "applications".
NCR or IBM might be the hardware, VRX or MVS/XA might be the operating system, and Banking, for example, was an application. Back in those days it was rare for programmers to get clear instructions about new products or features that they needed to develop, so knowledge of the application was often considered at least as important as knowledge of the programming language or operating system. Because there were invariably a lot of gaps that the programmer needed to fill or clarify.
Other applications in those days might have been insurance or ticketing or warehousing.
OK. but do not forget those of us who claim to be artists who have also claimed our use as a legitimate reason to own an expensive computer, even when not many had ever even seen one.
Think where we might be without Industrial Light And Magic, for instance.
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I hate rhyming slang that uses made-up words.
Like "lovely jubbly". Exactly what is clever or useful about making up words that kinda sound like another word just so you've got an unnecessary rhyme?
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Over here, I heard "application" used more often than a program. You had to open your program (operating system) and "launch" your application within "Workgroups." At least that was the language most commonly use.
Thought there are system programs and application programs, so essentially they're all programs and applications simply aren't system specific. Maybe Odeon can clarify.
An application is a program with a UI component.
Excellent. So what about some of the older Adobe "applications," very user friendly, which did not care about the "program" (or computer operating system) under which they were utilized?
Those were applications, right? While a mouse was helpful at times, knowledge of the gazillion keyboard "interface" short cuts was essential at being "efficient," right?
Does this mean that once the mouse became popular in use with an operating system "program" That program is dangerously close to becoming an application?
:apondering:
Maybe differences have become so insignificant that the terms are interchangeable? Kind of like a Newspeak thing?
I don't understand. Keyboard is a user interface too. I didn't say 'graphical user interface'.
An OS contains many programs generally. That's why the word 'system'. Some of those are applications (i.e. bash) some are not (daemons).
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My initial response was also to note peripheral devices are UI components for system programs, and then realized he likely meant the UI is part of the programming within applications. That's why it's a good distinction. Also to your point on system dependence, even if they're not picky, applications are dependent on system programs to functions. That's another good distinction.
You're cutting the lines at the wrong points. A program which includes a UI is an application. It's really that simple.
The UI includes pure output calls as well (like to the screen).
There are plenty of non-application programs which are dependent upon system functions, as well.
NOW, if you start getting into the etymology of API (application programming interface) it is quite clear that this was not
the only definition. Back end functionality can expose APIs, either to applications proper or to other non-user based programs.
As far as I can tell, that definition is essentially synonymous with program.
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My initial response was also to note peripheral devices are UI components for system programs, and then realized he likely meant the UI is part of the programming within applications. That's why it's a good distinction. Also to your point on system dependence, even if they're not picky, applications are dependent on system programs to functions. That's another good distinction.
You're cutting the lines at the wrong points. A program which includes a UI is an application. It's really that simple.
The UI includes pure output calls as well (like to the screen).
There are plenty of non-application programs which are dependent upon system functions, as well.
NOW, if you start getting into the etymology of API (application programming interface) it is quite clear that this was not
the only definition. Back end functionality can expose APIs, either to applications proper or to other non-user based programs.
As far as I can tell, that definition is essentially synonymous with program.
I think I understand your distinction, after your continued patience at trying to help those of us who live on "the outside" of developmental efforts.
Obviously many of the original definitions have been contaminated or co-opted by marketing groups.
Why I mentioned the keyboard, something you want to do, simply. How the computer knows what the key strokes mean is nothing the user has to think about.
An application is something you WANT to manipulate and never have to think of kernel stacks. Kind of like we do not want to know what happens when we hit the flush handle, we just want a clean bowl when we return. Right?
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An application is something you WANT to manipulate and never have to think of kernel stacks. Kind of like we do not want to know what happens when we hit the flush handle, we just want a clean bowl when we return. Right?
That may be a better concept. Because we don't want to call a heart-rate monitor to be considered an application. :D
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U fkn cnt m8, u tkn da piss?
w0teva bruv, innit.
QFT
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My initial response was also to note peripheral devices are UI components for system programs, and then realized he likely meant the UI is part of the programming within applications. That's why it's a good distinction. Also to your point on system dependence, even if they're not picky, applications are dependent on system programs to functions. That's another good distinction.
You're cutting the lines at the wrong points. A program which includes a UI is an application. It's really that simple.
The UI includes pure output calls as well (like to the screen).
There are plenty of non-application programs which are dependent upon system functions, as well.
NOW, if you start getting into the etymology of API (application programming interface) it is quite clear that this was not
the only definition. Back end functionality can expose APIs, either to applications proper or to other non-user based programs.
As far as I can tell, that definition is essentially synonymous with program.
You brought up a good point about heart monitors, and they also don't need an OS, so still thinking system dependent is a good distinction, though a distinction to be combined with UI.
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You brought up a good point about heart monitors, and they also don't need an OS, so still thinking system dependent is a good distinction, though a distinction to be combined with UI.
Yeah, you would need some sort of basis like an OS to call something an application.
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I like Cal's definition of app in the modern sense, it is simple and to the point, but it is open to pedantry. So if it is going to get picked apart maybe it needs to be more specific?
Would it be fair to say that an app is a program (or software) that a user consciously interacts with in real time, via a user interface?
For example the software that I work on has a batch process that automatically kicks off around midnight. People set parameters and create inputs for the batch process and then they go home at the end of the working day. And then in the morning people come into work and look at reports and queues and stuff. Those reports and queues are interfaces of a sort, but they are not real time. That batch process isn't an app.
A heart monitor isn't an app because the user doesn't consciously interact with it in real time.
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Why does it have to be in real time? Also work with applications which have scheduled file runs based on daily end user request; there's no doubt they're applications. The lack of instant gratification for the output is just part of the programming.
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Hmm...are they? Or is the program to write the script which kicks them off the application?
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"Here's that"
Every dumbass millennial and Gen Z'er who works fast food drive thru's don't know how to fucking talk to customers.
They hand me my change.
"Here's that"
They hand me my drink
"here's that"
They hand me my food
"here's that"
:grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr:
How about:
Here's your change, $1.27
Here's your small Coke with no ice
And here's your #5 combo with curly fries.
What the fuck is so difficult about that??
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Hmm...are they? Or is the program to write the script which kicks them off the application?
:wolfie:
Don't think automated functions discount anything as an application. Even outlook gives me a pop-up reminder for my meetings. That's an automated job based on my input, even though it may have been input from months ago.
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"Here's that"
Have never experienced that. Maybe it's regional.
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"Here's that"
Every dumbass millennial and Gen Z'er who works fast food drive thru's don't know how to fucking talk to customers.
They hand me my change.
"Here's that"
They hand me my drink
"here's that"
They hand me my food
"here's that"
:grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr:
How about:
Here's your change, $1.27
Here's your small Coke with no ice
And here's your #5 combo with curly fries.
What the fuck is so difficult about that??
How about: 'What the fuck is so difficult about not using pronouns when referring to things?"
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Hmm...are they? Or is the program to write the script which kicks them off the application?
:wolfie:
Don't think automated functions discount anything as an application. Even outlook gives me a pop-up reminder for my meetings. That's an automated job based on my input, even though it may have been input from months ago.
That's functionality WITHIN an application though. No one is saying that applications cannot contain components which wouldn't
qualify as applications themselves. Like, if a C application requires a garbage collector.
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Hmm...are they? Or is the program to write the script which kicks them off the application?
:wolfie:
Don't think automated functions discount anything as an application. Even outlook gives me a pop-up reminder for my meetings. That's an automated job based on my input, even though it may have been input from months ago.
That's functionality WITHIN an application though. No one is saying that applications cannot contain components which wouldn't
qualify as applications themselves. Like, if a C application requires a garbage collector.
May have misunderstood, but thought MOSW was saying that. Of course the programming within applications are programs. The issue isn't really identifying what is an application, but rather that system programs don't have their own term. It's like we're talking about two pieces of fruit; one is called an apple and the other is called a fruit.
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That's functionality WITHIN an application though. No one is saying that applications cannot contain components which wouldn't
qualify as applications themselves. Like, if a C application requires a garbage collector.
May have misunderstood, but thought MOSW was saying that. Of course the programming within applications are programs. The issue isn't really identifying what is an application, but rather that system programs don't have their own term. It's like we're talking about two pieces of fruit; one is called an apple and the other is called a fruit.
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Yes - but read that 'fruit' as non-apple fruit. Because there are a number of different programs (system and not) which comprise the set of non-application programs. Drivers, services, daemons....
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They probably have an app for that.
:autism:
*groan*
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Over here, I heard "application" used more often than a program. You had to open your program (operating system) and "launch" your application within "Workgroups." At least that was the language most commonly use.
Thought there are system programs and application programs, so essentially they're all programs and applications simply aren't system specific. Maybe Odeon can clarify.
Most system apps are just apps used by the system. There's not much of a distinction, usually, except that system apps may not have a user interface and so no means for a user to access them directly.
The OS is really also an app - actually a series of apps - acting on top of a BIOS and various firmware. And you could regard drivers as system apps, but again, the distinction is blurred.
Oh, and "workgroups" brings back memories. :P
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Over here, I heard "application" used more often than a program. You had to open your program (operating system) and "launch" your application within "Workgroups." At least that was the language most commonly use.
Thought there are system programs and application programs, so essentially they're all programs and applications simply aren't system specific. Maybe Odeon can clarify.
Most system apps are just apps used by the system. There's not much of a distinction, usually, except that system apps may not have a user interface and so no means for a user to access them directly.
The OS is really also an app - actually a series of apps - acting on top of a BIOS and various firmware. And you could regard drivers as system apps, but again, the distinction is blurred.
Oh, and "workgroups" brings back memories. :P
That seems to negate Calandale's definition of an application, that an app is a program with a UI. So then what's the distinction between an application and a program, or is there any real difference?
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"A change is as good as a rest"
No it isn't.
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I've heard "a change is as good as a holiday"
And no, that isn't either.
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Some info about "a change is as good as a rest" here:
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/196489/did-sir-arthur-conan-doyle-coin-the-proverb-a-change-is-as-good-as-a-rest
Like Ren, I have only ever heard "a change is as good as a holiday" prior to reading "a change is as good as a rest" in this thread. Must be a Strayan thing.
A change can be refreshing, depending on the nature of the change. Some changes can be exhausting.
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Meteoric rise
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People using "penultimate" as a hyperbolic form of "ultimate".
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Over here, I heard "application" used more often than a program. You had to open your program (operating system) and "launch" your application within "Workgroups." At least that was the language most commonly use.
Thought there are system programs and application programs, so essentially they're all programs and applications simply aren't system specific. Maybe Odeon can clarify.
Most system apps are just apps used by the system. There's not much of a distinction, usually, except that system apps may not have a user interface and so no means for a user to access them directly.
The OS is really also an app - actually a series of apps - acting on top of a BIOS and various firmware. And you could regard drivers as system apps, but again, the distinction is blurred.
Oh, and "workgroups" brings back memories. :P
That seems to negate Calandale's definition of an application, that an app is a program with a UI. So then what's the distinction between an application and a program, or is there any real difference?
IMHO, there is no real difference. Calling things "apps" is just the hip thing to do these days. I'm not aware of any formal attempt at distinguishing between the two.
We used to call software "programs", both those with an UI and those without, long before the term "app" was in widespread use.
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People using "penultimate" as a hyperbolic form of "ultimate".
Hadn't heard thins one. :zombiefuck:
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Over here, I heard "application" used more often than a program. You had to open your program (operating system) and "launch" your application within "Workgroups." At least that was the language most commonly use.
Thought there are system programs and application programs, so essentially they're all programs and applications simply aren't system specific. Maybe Odeon can clarify.
Most system apps are just apps used by the system. There's not much of a distinction, usually, except that system apps may not have a user interface and so no means for a user to access them directly.
The OS is really also an app - actually a series of apps - acting on top of a BIOS and various firmware. And you could regard drivers as system apps, but again, the distinction is blurred.
Oh, and "workgroups" brings back memories. :P
That seems to negate Calandale's definition of an application, that an app is a program with a UI. So then what's the distinction between an application and a program, or is there any real difference?
IMHO, there is no real difference. Calling things "apps" is just the hip thing to do these days. I'm not aware of any formal attempt at distinguishing between the two.
We used to call software "programs", both those with an UI and those without, long before the term "app" was in widespread use.
Thanks.
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Quite. No need to nitpick and assign values on microscale range to it. Its a fucking program, software, no need for this nauseating 'app' shyte.
And agree on 'meteoric rise'....since when did meteors take off from the soil and fly upwards. They fall, not bloody rise. Whoever came up with that...bet it's a politician? sounds like politician bollockspeak to me, just has that odious slimy feel to it, if that makes sense.
And on that note, politician shitspeak. EWW. I just despise it, it turns my stomach and makes me want to grab a brick and throw it in a wide-open hot air ven...ahem...mouth, belonging to one of that repugnant breed
Also, to quote, 'most system apps are just apps used by the system'
Add that to the flying brick list :P System apps, being used by the OS? really? I am absolutely gobsmacked.
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Calling things "apps" is just the hip thing to do these days.
Thinking more about this. Is it just hip, though? Would you say the current use of app refers to applications which are tailored to hand held devices?
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Thinking more about this. Is it just hip, though? Would you say the current use of app refers to applications which are tailored to hand held devices?
Not when Microsoft decides that every program you might run on W10 is an 'app' - regardless of whether it's
unusable on a phone.
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Thinking more about this. Is it just hip, though? Would you say the current use of app refers to applications which are tailored to hand held devices?
Not when Microsoft decides that every program you might run on W10 is an 'app' - regardless of whether it's
unusable on a phone.
:laugh:
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"App" is a very loose definition that is obviously evolving over time. Like I pointed out before, "application" had a very different meaning when I started out in IT. But then again (dad joke alert) I used to ride a dinosaur to work.
It's a word that people find useful even if the exact meaning is difficult to nail down. It's generally only when you're neurologically predisposed to be annoyed by loose definitions that it becomes a problem.
At my previous job we used to work on apps, release apps to the app store, stuff like that all the time. Nobody every had any problem with knowing what an app was vs what a batch program or a fix job was. The subject of the meaning of those words never even came up.
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Calling things "apps" is just the hip thing to do these days.
Thinking more about this. Is it just hip, though? Would you say the current use of app refers to applications which are tailored to hand held devices?
No, I think it's about taking advantage of the fact that programs on mobile devices are called apps - the big change is that you now have an "app store" on the desktop, too. It's about marketing, about the desktop fighting for relevance in an age when the younger generations do everything on their mobiles.
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Thinking more about this. Is it just hip, though? Would you say the current use of app refers to applications which are tailored to hand held devices?
Not when Microsoft decides that every program you might run on W10 is an 'app' - regardless of whether it's
unusable on a phone.
Read this after posting my reply. Yup, this is absolutely correct.
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Oh, and one more thing: various Linux distros now also use the term for their software but they've had the equivalent of an app store pretty much since they were first conceived.
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To me, they always meant the bullshit fluff that was on phones. Pretty much what amounted to a thick client.
I really don't like seeing something that largely runs on my machine being called an app.
It feels like extending 'fast food' to include all possible dining experiences, just because
most people eat too many of their meals that way.
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My case worker (mental health) says "anywho" a lot instead of anyhow. Also "anythink" instead of anything.
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My case worker (mental health) says "anywho" a lot instead of anyhow. Also "anythink" instead of anything.
I was going to drop "anywho" in this thread, yesterday, but I got busy with gardening.
:asthing:
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Bogan Strayan word: youse.
Plural of you.
Examples: Do any of youse wanna go to Maccas?
Youse can all go and get fucked.
When youse come over tonight can you bring some goon?
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To me, they always meant the bullshit fluff that was on phones. Pretty much what amounted to a thick client.
I really don't like seeing something that largely runs on my machine being called an app.
It feels like extending 'fast food' to include all possible dining experiences, just because
most people eat too many of their meals that way.
Agreed. I didn't get to vote, though.
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My case worker (mental health) says "anywho" a lot instead of anyhow. Also "anythink" instead of anything.
I say that too. (emo)
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My case worker (mental health) says "anywho" a lot instead of anyhow. Also "anythink" instead of anything.
I say that too. (emo)
Both of them?
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My case worker (mental health) says "anywho" a lot instead of anyhow. Also "anythink" instead of anything.
I say that too. (emo)
Both of them?
anywho
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Bogan Strayan word: youse.
Plural of you.
Examples: Do any of youse wanna go to Maccas?
Youse can all go and get fucked.
When youse come over tonight can you bring some goon?
Pretty common here in the urban lingo and more widely used down in Kentucky and Tennessee. It is almost as bad as "Don' axe me, I don' know nuthin' "
It makes my teeth itch, which is not possible, but it does.
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"Here's that"
Every dumbass millennial and Gen Z'er who works fast food drive thru's don't know how to fucking talk to customers.
They hand me my change.
"Here's that"
They hand me my drink
"here's that"
They hand me my food
"here's that"
:grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr:
How about:
Here's your change, $1.27
Here's your small Coke with no ice
And here's your #5 combo with curly fries.
What the fuck is so difficult about that??
How about: 'What the fuck is so difficult about not using pronouns when referring to things?"
Well, this issue is communication. By saying specifically what they are giving me, they are confirming that the order is correct.
When they just say "that", how do I know that they got my change right? How do I know I got the right drink? How do I know that I got the right order? Now I have to double check all these things myself.
If the dumb kid would just fucking communicate, then I would know that they are paying attention and everything is correct.
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In New Orleans a lot of the times the server will call you "Baby" "Dear" or "Darling"
I think it may be a bit of a hang on from the time they were baby carers. Most of the employees in fast food places are black.
At the diner I'm "Mom" (because of The PR) or "Sis" (because The PR calls well known adults Aunt or Uncle.)
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After having a problem once or twice years ago, I will tell the cashier the amount I'm handing them. This makes them aware that I'm aware and makes them check that I have given them that amount.
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In New Orleans a lot of the times the server will call you "Baby" "Dear" or "Darling"
I think it may be a bit of a hang on from the time they were baby carers. Most of the employees in fast food places are black.
At the diner I'm "Mom" (because of The PR) or "Sis" (because The PR calls well known adults Aunt or Uncle.)
Have noticed it common for white southern women to use terms of endearment like that toward other women even if they don't know them well, shug, momma, dear. It strikes as condescending; though do realize it's not intended. It used to bother me that some Hispanic men say mommy or baby, then someone once explained it's cultural, not intended to be offensive, and simply means they don't know my name. It still bothers me anyway but not too much; it's just annoying syrup like white southern women. I realize they're just being nice, and it's me that doesn't like syrup.
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In Indonesia it gets tricky, they will refer to young woman as mba (sister) and an older woman as ibu (mother, usually shortened to "boo").
Indonesian women get it, they rarely get offended by being referred to as "boo" because it's a sign of respect. Although I did hear about 4 women getting irate in a pub when they got the tab and the server had written "empat gendut ibu" on it (4 fat mamas). That pub hired waitresses for their looks and personalities and was pretty successful as a result but... they weren't that great on keeping track of table numbers and groups and who was buying what, so they'd write down a description of a group on their tab.
I've seen some expat ladies get really upset about being referred to as "ibu" or "boo" though. Problem is that the Indonesians, even when they speak English, tend to tack it on at the end of every sentence when they are speaking to someone they see as having higher status than themselves. Like "yes boo, we add the transaction amount to the balance boo, transaction code is 1010 boo".
In Australian cities men will still call each other "mate" especially because we are drunk most of the time and therefore we tend to forget each other's names. But it is rare these days for women to refer people they don't know as "darling" or "sweetheart", which used to be quite common. Last time I was in Melbourne a Tesla saleswoman called me "sweetheart", which was a bit of a flashback. And in country towns and smaller regional cities people will still refer to you as "sweetheart" quite often. Like if you order a coffee they'll say "that'll be $3.50 sweetheart".
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In New Orleans a lot of the times the server will call you "Baby" "Dear" or "Darling"
I think it may be a bit of a hang on from the time they were baby carers. Most of the employees in fast food places are black.
At the diner I'm "Mom" (because of The PR) or "Sis" (because The PR calls well known adults Aunt or Uncle.)
There's several saying in the South that everyone else finds annoying.
https://www.southernliving.com/travel/southern-sayings#southern-saying-madder-than-wet-hen
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In Indonesia it gets tricky, they will refer to young woman as mba (sister) and an older woman as ibu (mother, usually shortened to "boo").
Indonesian women get it, they rarely get offended by being referred to as "boo" because it's a sign of respect. Although I did hear about 4 women getting irate in a pub when they got the tab and the server had written "empat gendut ibu" on it (4 fat mamas). That pub hired waitresses for their looks and personalities and was pretty successful as a result but... they weren't that great on keeping track of table numbers and groups and who was buying what, so they'd write down a description of a group on their tab.
I've seen some expat ladies get really upset about being referred to as "ibu" or "boo" though. Problem is that the Indonesians, even when they speak English, tend to tack it on at the end of every sentence when they are speaking to someone they see as having higher status than themselves. Like "yes boo, we add the transaction amount to the balance boo, transaction code is 1010 boo".
In Australian cities men will still call each other "mate" especially because we are drunk most of the time and therefore we tend to forget each other's names. But it is rare these days for women to refer people they don't know as "darling" or "sweetheart", which used to be quite common. Last time I was in Melbourne a Tesla saleswoman called me "sweetheart", which was a bit of a flashback. And in country towns and smaller regional cities people will still refer to you as "sweetheart" quite often. Like if you order a coffee they'll say "that'll be $3.50 sweetheart".
When people do that, it's hard to resist being sarcastic. Thanks, hun. You're welcome, sugarcakes.
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When people do that, it's hard to resist being sarcastic. Thanks, hun. You're welcome, sugarcakes.
It's a dying tradition here though, so it makes me smile when I hear it.
A bit like when I was a kid and we went for a road trip, my mother got really excited every time she saw a swaggy (swagman) walking beside the road:
(https://www.theswag.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/img_swagman.jpg)
They were like a relic of an earlier time, even then.
These days the swaggies are long gone. But there are reminders of earlier times in the way some people still speak. Australian rhyming slang is almost completely gone, but every now and then you meet someone who still refers to strangers as "sweetheart", always in a very broad and nasal accent, and it takes you back a few decades.
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It's still common here, and probably doesn't strike quite as condescending for men to be called pet names, and men don't seem to do that to each other. Swagmen were called hobos here.
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In New Orleans a lot of the times the server will call you "Baby" "Dear" or "Darling"
I think it may be a bit of a hang on from the time they were baby carers. Most of the employees in fast food places are black.
At the diner I'm "Mom" (because of The PR) or "Sis" (because The PR calls well known adults Aunt or Uncle.)
There's several saying in the South that everyone else finds annoying.
https://www.southernliving.com/travel/southern-sayings#southern-saying-madder-than-wet-hen
I've used some of those in the not so distant past. :facepalm2:
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It's still common here, and probably doesn't strike quite as condescending for men to be called pet names, and men don't seem to do that to each other. Swagmen were called hobos here.
Men here just call each other mate, sometimes buddy. When I was a kid men sometimes called each other "China" (rhyming slang for "mate"), but I never hear that any more. Another one people occasionally use here is "bugalugs", usually for a 3rd person whose name you have forgotten, but sometimes directly as in "hey bugalugs!".
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bugalugs
I guess people do use pet names in a condescending way in Australia, "mate" said with emphasis on the first (only) vowel sound and with an abrupt "T" sound and a slightly long "M" sound can be used to imply anger or dislike. But generally I don't notice stuff like that with pet names like "sweetheart" or "daaaarl" and assume it's just a bit of olde-style Australiana.
A swagman is similar to a hobo, but in Australia the swagman is more romanticised. A song about a swagman who steals a lamb was played as our anthem at the 1976 Olympics and was runner up (with 28% of the vote) when a vote was held regarding our choice of national anthem in the 70s. People have a much stronger emotional connection to that song than to the official national anthem, which is obvious at any big sporting event where both are played. A few people might mumble along to the national anthem but when Waltzing Matilda (about the thieving swagman) is played just about everyone is up on their feet and singing along.
When the swagmen were disappearing, dying or too old to walk any more, the newspapers would run articles on a regular basis, often on the front page, sadly chronicling the shrinking number of swagmen.
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Have you ever heard variations on this piece of advice:
"At the end of their life nobody looks back and regrets not spending more time at the office instead of with their kids".
Like people could just make the choice to go home at 5 and miss deadlines and targets. And lose their jobs. Hey, if you got no job and you're living in a tent you definitely get to spend plenty of time with your kids.
I wonder if the people who worked extra hard regret the things that they were able to do for their kids, the school fees and university/college fees they were able to pay. I wonder if their families regret the holidays they were able to go on.
I regret that I have to go to work at all. I regret not winning the lottery.
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I've heard that. Crappy advice, but when I tell them that, they always tell me not to take it so literally.
I like my work. It's not the only thing in life that I like, but it's one of them. If you don't like your job, don't make the rest of us feel guilty.
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And that's not directed at you, MOSW.
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It's still common here, and probably doesn't strike quite as condescending for men to be called pet names, and men don't seem to do that to each other. Swagmen were called hobos here.
Men here just call each other mate, sometimes buddy. When I was a kid men sometimes called each other "China" (rhyming slang for "mate"), but I never hear that any more. Another one people occasionally use here is "bugalugs", usually for a 3rd person whose name you have forgotten, but sometimes directly as in "hey bugalugs!".
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bugalugs
I guess people do use pet names in a condescending way in Australia, "mate" said with emphasis on the first (only) vowel sound and with an abrupt "T" sound and a slightly long "M" sound can be used to imply anger or dislike. But generally I don't notice stuff like that with pet names like "sweetheart" or "daaaarl" and assume it's just a bit of olde-style Australiana.
A swagman is similar to a hobo, but in Australia the swagman is more romanticised. A song about a swagman who steals a lamb was played as our anthem at the 1976 Olympics and was runner up (with 28% of the vote) when a vote was held regarding our choice of national anthem in the 70s. People have a much stronger emotional connection to that song than to the official national anthem, which is obvious at any big sporting event where both are played. A few people might mumble along to the national anthem but when Waltzing Matilda (about the thieving swagman) is played just about everyone is up on their feet and singing along.
When the swagmen were disappearing, dying or too old to walk any more, the newspapers would run articles on a regular basis, often on the front page, sadly chronicling the shrinking number of swagmen.
It may be more so in Australia, but hobos are also romanticized in music, films, and books. They're lifestyle is a symbol of freedom and adventure. It's not surprising; some people also romanticize native americans, pioneer living, and for some reason equate a more simple life with happiness. Modern day poverty is sometimes romanticized in ways too; it makes me think of your recent post about the office vs kids. There's a tension between people who work and who don't; it's especially thick between working and non-working mothers.
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"If even one person dies that's one too many"
Kill them all, if you will....
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I regret that I have to go to work at all. I regret not winning the lottery.
My only regrets involve tequila shots. :zoinks:
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I've heard that. Crappy advice, but when I tell them that, they always tell me not to take it so literally.
I like my work. It's not the only thing in life that I like, but it's one of them. If you don't like your job, don't make the rest of us feel guilty.
I don't particularly like my job, but I still often have to choose it over spendng more time with my family.
It's called being a grown-up.
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Wow...I totally prefer work to being around other people, in general, and especially my family.
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I've heard that. Crappy advice, but when I tell them that, they always tell me not to take it so literally.
I like my work. It's not the only thing in life that I like, but it's one of them. If you don't like your job, don't make the rest of us feel guilty.
I don't particularly like my job, but I still often have to choose it over spendng more time with my family.
It's called being a grown-up.
Yup. Surprisingly, very few companies are willing to pay you if you don't do work for them.
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I regret that I have to go to work at all. I regret not winning the lottery.
My only regrets involve tequila shots. :zoinks:
As I pointed out to another poster; if this is the case then you have a great deal more living to do, as yet.
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Another one I am totally over and done with hearing:
(insert your own personal idiotic nonsense) is the new black!
Thar ain't no new blakk dammmit!
:autism:
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A guy at work, Lebanese background but more Aussie than most of us anglo-saxon/Irish Aussies (including myself), spent months using the expression "hey, that's mickey mouse!". Because it's Australian rhyming slang for "grouse", which means "fantastic".
What he didn't realize is that his multi-cultural colleagues all thought he was saying that what they were doing was trivial, fake, etc. when in fact he was praisng their work.
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How did we get to twenty pages?
:tard:
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Here's your bill.
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How did we get to twenty pages?
:tard:
There's a few pages of pedantic discussion over the word program
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Some wanker on a Facebook video was pontificating about how much of our lives we spend working and how few people enjoy their jobs. And his fucking stupid advice was:
"if you don't love your job you should quit and do something else!".
On the basis that we are setting a bad example for our kids. Sure, don't teach your kids to be responsible adults. They should follow your example and quit stuff they don't love as well. Don't love school? Quit and play video games all fucking day.
I have heard variations on this a few times over the years. The reality for most of us is that there are a limited number of things we are good enough at that someone will pay us a decent amount of money to do.
It's fucking stupid wankarama.
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"There's no oyster dressing." (At Thanksgiving.)
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Some wanker on a Facebook video was pontificating about how much of our lives we spend working and how few people enjoy their jobs. And his fucking stupid advice was:
"if you don't love your job you should quit and do something else!".
On the basis that we are setting a bad example for our kids. Sure, don't teach your kids to be responsible adults. They should follow your example and quit stuff they don't love as well. Don't love school? Quit and play video games all fucking day.
I have heard variations on this a few times over the years. The reality for most of us is that there are a limited number of things we are good enough at that someone will pay us a decent amount of money to do.
It's fucking stupid wankarama.
Lots of variations on that one. The problem is, kids are buying into it. There's a special Swedish phrase for it, "skoltrött", which translates to something like "school-tired" and is mostly an excuse for not pursuing your studies right after after that oh-so-trying high school.
Do you remember "Back to the Future" and Mr Strickland, the teacher that called Marty a slacker? That's me now.
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It's not like there are enough meaningful jobs anyhow. And way too many people.
This might be the generation that actually acts on that - one way or another.
Slacking is one solution. Mass reduction of the population would be better though, I think.
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It's not like there are enough meaningful jobs anyhow.
Thank goodness I don't want to do anything meaningful. :zoinks:
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Plenty of (e-)paper pushing. And things that could easily be replaced by a machine,
even if they are useful.
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Lots of variations on that one. The problem is, kids are buying into it. There's a special Swedish phrase for it, "skoltrött", which translates to something like "school-tired" and is mostly an excuse for not pursuing your studies right after after that oh-so-trying high school.
Do you remember "Back to the Future" and Mr Strickland, the teacher that called Marty a slacker? That's me now.
A gap year after high school is one of the best things kids can do. I would strongly encourage my kids to do that, as long as they don't just spend a year playing video games. Go backpacking, go work on a farm, work in a bar, something like that. Something they want to do while they are young and may never get around to doing later.
What I find amusing on my travels is the faux backpackers. Kids in hiking boots and carrying big backpacks who are actually staying in nice hotels because their parents are paying for it. But even that is a good thing, those kids are getting out and seeing the world and expanding their minds. Still I think it would be better and more fun for kids trying to do it on a shoestring budget, travelling around Asia and eating street food and staying in hostels.
The problem isn't just that kids are buying into it. This wanker was making his pitch at adults and judging by the number of times it was getting shared.... a lot of stupid adults are buying into it as well. A change of career is something to be planned and considered at great length. Risks need to be weighed. Skills and experience need to be assessed. Even then it is a massive risk, especially if you are in the sort of career where you can't simply walk back in a couple of years later, up to your eyeballs in debt and with a second mortgage on your house, and pick up where you left off.
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Janky. It's not a real word, my Kindle doesn't recognise it. But I've heard it and seen it written a few times now.
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Janky. It's not a real word, my Kindle doesn't recognise it. But I've heard it and seen it written a few times now.
I sort of like that one. It seems to be replacing the use of ghetto. :orly:
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I don't like it when someone says, who ate all... When we were first together, Sugarbutt once said who ate all.. I told him not to say that because my dad used to do it, and it drove me nuts. I never wanted to eat the last of anything whenever he was around. He'd open the fridge and belch out, who ate all the cheese? It didn't matter if he's the one who ate the other 90% of the cheese, nope I had eaten all the cheese because I ate the last of the cheese. NO ONE ATE ALL THE CHEESE! Sugarbutt thinks it's hilarious this bothers me so much, and has been delighted for many years asking me who ate all of something. :lol1:
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Janky. It's not a real word, my Kindle doesn't recognise it. But I've heard it and seen it written a few times now.
I sort of like that one. It seems to be replacing the use of ghetto. :orly:
I thought I remembered this. Used to mean the jerkiness in a UI.
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Janky. It's not a real word, my Kindle doesn't recognise it. But I've heard it and seen it written a few times now.
I sort of like that one. It seems to be replacing the use of ghetto. :orly:
I thought I remembered this. Used to mean the jerkiness in a UI.
I think it's supposed to be a cross between junky and skanky. :orly:
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I don't like it when someone says, who ate all... When we were first together, Sugarbutt once said who ate all.. I told him not to say that because my dad used to do it, and it drove me nuts. I never wanted to eat the last of anything whenever he was around. He'd open the fridge and belch out, who ate all the cheese? It didn't matter if he's the one who ate the other 90% of the cheese, nope I had eaten all the cheese because I ate the last of the cheese. NO ONE ATE ALL THE CHEESE! Sugarbutt thinks it's hilarious this bothers me so much, and has been delighted for many years asking me who ate all of something. :lol1:
You're just trying to cover up the fact that you ate all the cheese. :P
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Janky. It's not a real word, my Kindle doesn't recognise it. But I've heard it and seen it written a few times now.
I sort of like that one. It seems to be replacing the use of ghetto. :orly:
I thought I remembered this. Used to mean the jerkiness in a UI.
I think it's supposed to be a cross between junky and skanky. :orly:
Like wiur is a combination between TP and rodent?
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Janky. It's not a real word, my Kindle doesn't recognise it. But I've heard it and seen it written a few times now.
I sort of like that one. It seems to be replacing the use of ghetto. :orly:
I thought I remembered this. Used to mean the jerkiness in a UI.
I think it's supposed to be a cross between junky and skanky. :orly:
Like wiur is a combination between TP and rodent?
:zoinks:
(http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/37000/Groundhog-on-the-Toilet-37045.jpg)
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I don't like it when someone says, who ate all... When we were first together, Sugarbutt once said who ate all.. I told him not to say that because my dad used to do it, and it drove me nuts. I never wanted to eat the last of anything whenever he was around. He'd open the fridge and belch out, who ate all the cheese? It didn't matter if he's the one who ate the other 90% of the cheese, nope I had eaten all the cheese because I ate the last of the cheese. NO ONE ATE ALL THE CHEESE! Sugarbutt thinks it's hilarious this bothers me so much, and has been delighted for many years asking me who ate all of something. :lol1:
You're just trying to cover up the fact that you ate all the cheese. :P
Do you know how constipated I'd be if I ate ALL the cheese? :zoinks:
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I don't like it when someone says, who ate all... When we were first together, Sugarbutt once said who ate all.. I told him not to say that because my dad used to do it, and it drove me nuts. I never wanted to eat the last of anything whenever he was around. He'd open the fridge and belch out, who ate all the cheese? It didn't matter if he's the one who ate the other 90% of the cheese, nope I had eaten all the cheese because I ate the last of the cheese. NO ONE ATE ALL THE CHEESE! Sugarbutt thinks it's hilarious this bothers me so much, and has been delighted for many years asking me who ate all of something. :lol1:
You're just trying to cover up the fact that you ate all the cheese. :P
Do you know how constipated I'd be if I ate ALL the cheese? :zoinks:
How constipated are you?
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I don't like it when someone says, who ate all... When we were first together, Sugarbutt once said who ate all.. I told him not to say that because my dad used to do it, and it drove me nuts. I never wanted to eat the last of anything whenever he was around. He'd open the fridge and belch out, who ate all the cheese? It didn't matter if he's the one who ate the other 90% of the cheese, nope I had eaten all the cheese because I ate the last of the cheese. NO ONE ATE ALL THE CHEESE! Sugarbutt thinks it's hilarious this bothers me so much, and has been delighted for many years asking me who ate all of something. :lol1:
You're just trying to cover up the fact that you ate all the cheese. :P
Do you know how constipated I'd be if I ate ALL the cheese? :zoinks:
How constipated are you?
Classic Johnny Carson set up!
I hate the saying, too. At work it was always the coffee. I always brought my own "coffee snob, elitist asshole" variety of coffee from home in a huge thermal, resealable mug. Every time I heard someone ask, "Who drank all the coffee?" I would shake my giant mug at them and tell them it was their turn to make more.
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Do you know how constipated I'd be if I ate ALL the cheese? :zoinks:
Since you won't need it, can I have your TP?
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I don't like it when someone says, who ate all... When we were first together, Sugarbutt once said who ate all.. I told him not to say that because my dad used to do it, and it drove me nuts. I never wanted to eat the last of anything whenever he was around. He'd open the fridge and belch out, who ate all the cheese? It didn't matter if he's the one who ate the other 90% of the cheese, nope I had eaten all the cheese because I ate the last of the cheese. NO ONE ATE ALL THE CHEESE! Sugarbutt thinks it's hilarious this bothers me so much, and has been delighted for many years asking me who ate all of something. :lol1:
You're just trying to cover up the fact that you ate all the cheese. :P
Do you know how constipated I'd be if I ate ALL the cheese? :zoinks:
How constipated are you?
Not at all, because I also drank all the coffee. :zoinks:
Do you know how constipated I'd be if I ate ALL the cheese? :zoinks:
Since you won't need it, can I have your TP?
Quit coveting my toilet paper hoard. >:(
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"Who drank all the coffee?"
:zoinks:
(http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/37000/Fat-Groundhog-Drinking-Coffee--37057.jpg)
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My coffee cup is actually a soup bowl with a handle. I fill it up with crappy instant coffee and it's like a "Venti" size coffee from Starbucks.
I'm twice the size of most people so a regular coffee cup is like a shot glass for me. I also need several of them before I start to wake up.
So I have a coffee out of a big coffee mug at home in the morning. Then I have a coffee out of a soup bowl with a handle at work, get the odd comment about how appropriately sized my coffee cup is, then I'm good for a while.
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I don't like big cups, because they get cold quicker.
When I was in an office though, I'd make a pot and fill three large disposable cups (I was too cheap to buy a thermos
or something) every day. The driving force was because I wanted to have my coffee 'strong enough' (I'd use
three rip open packets instead of the suggested one) and there was only one other person who liked it
that way. The bonus was I'd get to take three paper cups home every day, instead of just one.
Since I knew I wouldn't have that easy cup supply, I stored them up. Even moved my used paper
cups (which didn't end up a deal).
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Not at all, because I also drank all the coffee. :zoinks:
Your next few hours in the loo will be... unique.
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Seventy Years (or what ever old age makes it ridiculous) Young.
I am sixty three, now and I am NOT young. It does seem that I am better off than quite a few of similar age as I look around, but the arthritis still hurts.
I am NOT sixty three years young!
My wife is fifty five, now and the other day a security guard where she picks up early air shipments for UPS said to her, "Good evening young lady!" She was home later and told how old it made her feel for a thirty something guy to call HER a "young lady."
Last week at the grocery she had a huge basket/cart of goods and allowed a younger couple with a much lighter load to go ahead of her. The man turned back to thank her and gave her a hug. How OLD does a woman have to be for a young man to hug her in front of his wife? Pretty damn old.
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Seventy Years (or what ever old age makes it ridiculous) Young.
I am sixty three, now and I am NOT young. It does seem that I am better off than quite a few of similar age as I look around, but the arthritis still hurts.
I am NOT sixty three years young!
My wife is fifty five, now and the other day a security guard where she picks up early air shipments for UPS said to her, "Good evening young lady!" She was home later and told how old it made her feel for a thirty something guy to call HER a "young lady."
Last week at the grocery she had a huge basket/cart of goods and allowed a younger couple with a much lighter load to go ahead of her. The man turned back to thank her and gave her a hug. How OLD does a woman have to be for a young man to hug her in front of his wife? Pretty damn old.
*Hugs DirtDawg in front of everybody* :zoinks:
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Seventy Years (or what ever old age makes it ridiculous) Young.
I am sixty three, now and I am NOT young. It does seem that I am better off than quite a few of similar age as I look around, but the arthritis still hurts.
I am NOT sixty three years young!
My wife is fifty five, now and the other day a security guard where she picks up early air shipments for UPS said to her, "Good evening young lady!" She was home later and told how old it made her feel for a thirty something guy to call HER a "young lady."
Last week at the grocery she had a huge basket/cart of goods and allowed a younger couple with a much lighter load to go ahead of her. The man turned back to thank her and gave her a hug. How OLD does a woman have to be for a young man to hug her in front of his wife? Pretty damn old.
*Hugs DirtDawg in front of everybody* :zoinks:
*Grabs a big piece of Gopher ass, resists the urge to sniff things*
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Seventy Years (or what ever old age makes it ridiculous) Young.
I am sixty three, now and I am NOT young. It does seem that I am better off than quite a few of similar age as I look around, but the arthritis still hurts.
I am NOT sixty three years young!
My wife is fifty five, now and the other day a security guard where she picks up early air shipments for UPS said to her, "Good evening young lady!" She was home later and told how old it made her feel for a thirty something guy to call HER a "young lady."
Last week at the grocery she had a huge basket/cart of goods and allowed a younger couple with a much lighter load to go ahead of her. The man turned back to thank her and gave her a hug. How OLD does a woman have to be for a young man to hug her in front of his wife? Pretty damn old.
*Hugs DirtDawg in front of everybody* :zoinks:
*Grabs a big piece of Gopher ass, resists the urge to sniff things*
:GA:
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My friend has picked up an awful word from somewhere. Chrimbo. Instead of Christmas. Anyone heard this? I dislike it very much.
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My friend has picked up an awful word from somewhere. Chrimbo. Instead of Christmas. Anyone heard this? I dislike it very much.
Never heard it, but yes, that's awful. :laugh:
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I haven't heard Chrismo yet.
I find "Chrissy" annoying enough. Chrismo takes it to another level.
"What are you doing for Chrissy?". "What prezzies did you get for Chrissy?". "We're having a Chrissy party next Saturday". "We're going to Brizzie for Chrissy and hopefully get some prezzies and throw some snags on the barbie and try not to get bitten by mozzies". And people wonder why some of us hate Chrissy Christmas.
And it's spreading. The rest of the world has already adopted "selfie" as a word.
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I've never heard of Crissy or Crimbo, or prezzies anything like that. :dunno: Maybe those folks have been smoking too much christmas tree. :zoinks:
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Maybe it's an Aussie thing? :dunno:
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Maybe it's an Aussie thing? :dunno:
Not so much slang, just st an annoying way a lot of Australians speak. Chrissy instead of Christmas, prezzies instead of presents, barby instead of barbeque, mozzies instead of mosquitoes, brizzie instead of Brisbane.
Selfie started as Australian slang in the same vein.
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So we should blame you for "selfie"?
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Maybe it's an Aussie thing? :dunno:
Not so much slang, just st an annoying way a lot of Australians speak. Chrissy instead of Christmas, prezzies instead of presents, barby instead of barbeque, mozzies instead of mosquitoes, brizzie instead of Brisbane.
Selfie started as Australian slang in the same vein.
I'm wondering if the peculiarities of Aussie speech (i.e. where in the mouth words are formed) makes this
a more attractive route. Yet, it would seem even more likely to have happened in England itself. I would think
that the American tendency towards lazy speech would make such endings less likely.
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Maybe it's an Aussie thing? :dunno:
Not so much slang, just st an annoying way a lot of Australians speak. Chrissy instead of Christmas, prezzies instead of presents, barby instead of barbeque, mozzies instead of mosquitoes, brizzie instead of Brisbane.
Selfie started as Australian slang in the same vein.
I'm wondering if the peculiarities of Aussie speech (i.e. where in the mouth words are formed) makes this
a more attractive route. Yet, it would seem even more likely to have happened in England itself. I would think
that the American tendency towards lazy speech would make such endings less likely.
Thinking you have a point.
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So we should blame you for "selfie"?
By 2013, the word "selfie" had become commonplace enough to be monitored for inclusion in the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary. In November 2013, the word "selfie" was announced as being the "word of the year" by the Oxford English Dictionary, which gave the word itself an Australian origin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfie
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Maybe it's an Aussie thing? :dunno:
Not so much slang, just st an annoying way a lot of Australians speak. Chrissy instead of Christmas, prezzies instead of presents, barby instead of barbeque, mozzies instead of mosquitoes, brizzie instead of Brisbane.
Selfie started as Australian slang in the same vein.
I'm wondering if the peculiarities of Aussie speech (i.e. where in the mouth words are formed) makes this
a more attractive route. Yet, it would seem even more likely to have happened in England itself. I would think
that the American tendency towards lazy speech would make such endings less likely.
In the UK they do it sometimes. An "off licence" (liquor store) is often referred to as an "offy".
Australians tend to abbreviate words and add an "oh" sound at the end. Afternoon becomes "arvo". Bottle shop (liquor store again) becomes "bottle-o". Service Station (where we buy fuel for our cars) becomes "servo".
Sometimes we also use an "ah" sound to abbreviate words. Cup of tea becomes "cuppa". This tends to be more common with names. Gary becomes "Gazza". Sharon becomes "Shazza".
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I heard a DJ use the word "Chrismo" (for Xmas) on the radio this morning. In Sydney. At the opposite side of the country to Ren.
It's a thing now, apparently.
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I heard a DJ use the word "Chrismo" (for Xmas) on the radio this morning. In Sydney. At the opposite side of the country to Ren.
It's a thing now, apparently.
It's a tad different. Chrimbo, not Chrismo. But where are these horrible words coming from?
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Maybe from people like me who hate "Chrissie" as an abbreviation for Christmas?
Though I'm gonna stick with saying the full word for now. But I won't rule out adopting an abbreviation at some point if I hear a good one (not Chrissie, Chrismo or Chrimbo).
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"Everything happens for a reason!" :angel:
Usually the reason is that somebody was an asshole. :tantrum:
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"Everything happens for a reason!" :angel:
Usually the reason is that somebody was an asshole. :tantrum:
Hey, watch it! I resemble that remark.
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Chrismo???? Never heard of it. Prezzies I've heard in Canada before but never from me. That's annoying.
I hate the saying "thanks for sharing." I immediately roll my eyes and won't respond.
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Chrismo???? Never heard of it. Prezzies I've heard in Canada before but never from me. That's annoying.
I hate the saying "thanks for sharing." I immediately roll my eyes and won't respond.
Thanks for sharing. :autism: :trollface:
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Chrismo???? Never heard of it. Prezzies I've heard in Canada before but never from me. That's annoying.
I hate the saying "thanks for sharing." I immediately roll my eyes and won't respond.
Thanks for sharing. :autism: :trollface:
:roar:
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Chrismo???? Never heard of it. Prezzies I've heard in Canada before but never from me. That's annoying.
I hate the saying "thanks for sharing." I immediately roll my eyes and won't respond.
Thanks for sharing. :autism: :trollface:
:roar:
I kid, I kid. :P
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Chrismo???? Never heard of it. Prezzies I've heard in Canada before but never from me. That's annoying.
I hate the saying "thanks for sharing." I immediately roll my eyes and won't respond.
Thanks for sharing. :autism: :trollface:
:roar:
I kid, I kid. :P
I know :-*
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I hate the saying "thanks for sharing." I immediately roll my eyes and won't respond.
Have said that many times here, in response to people sharing art, music, and poetry, because sharing is what they're doing. It's a brave thing to do. Why does it make your eyes roll?
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"Your hair is really awful today."
"Thank you for sharing that. I'll think about it."
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Is it generally used as sarcasm?
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It's more of self-preservation on my part. I don't kill my relatives that way. I spend 1/2 second thinking about it and then tell myself "Nah"
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Am just wondering if it's a bad choice of thing to say.
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Is it generally used as sarcasm?
Yes, it's generally used as sarcasm.
A: "Would you like a donut?". B: "No thanks, they make me fart". A:"Errrr, thanks for sharing".
A: "How was your honeymoon in Hawaii?". B: "Awesome, although it's not like we ever left the room, heh heh". A: "Thanks for sharing".
It's generally in response to "oversharing", TMI type of thing.
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I heard a DJ use the word "Chrismo" (for Xmas) on the radio this morning. In Sydney. At the opposite side of the country to Ren.
It's a thing now, apparently.
DJs are like sports journalists. No respect for the language. :odeon:
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I hate the saying "thanks for sharing." I immediately roll my eyes and won't respond.
Have said that many times here, in response to people sharing art, music, and poetry, because sharing is what they're doing. It's a brave thing to do. Why does it make your eyes roll?
I'm not sure. It's about the phrasing. I feel like "thanks for sharing" sounds flippant. But if someone were to say "I'm glad you shared that" it doesn't bother me at all. :dunno: I don't know. It doesn't make much sense really.
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I hate the saying "thanks for sharing." I immediately roll my eyes and won't respond.
Have said that many times here, in response to people sharing art, music, and poetry, because sharing is what they're doing. It's a brave thing to do. Why does it make your eyes roll?
I'm not sure. It's about the phrasing. I feel like "thanks for sharing" sounds flippant. But if someone were to say "I'm glad you shared that" it doesn't bother me at all. :dunno: I don't know. It doesn't make much sense really.
Can only think of ever using the phrase to thank people who are presenting some sort of creativity. The sharing seems much more important than how it fits personal taste, so try to avoid opinions. It's the reason why it's possible enjoy any performance, and can stare for an hour at a piece of art without any desire to own it. Thanks for offering an alternative phrasing, even though it requires a pronoun. I'm glad you shared that. :laugh:
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I hate the saying "thanks for sharing." I immediately roll my eyes and won't respond.
Have said that many times here, in response to people sharing art, music, and poetry, because sharing is what they're doing. It's a brave thing to do. Why does it make your eyes roll?
I'm not sure. It's about the phrasing. I feel like "thanks for sharing" sounds flippant. But if someone were to say "I'm glad you shared that" it doesn't bother me at all. :dunno: I don't know. It doesn't make much sense really.
Can only think of ever using the phrase to thank people who are presenting some sort of creativity. The sharing seems much more important than how it fits personal taste, so try to avoid opinions. It's the reason why it's possible enjoy any performance, and can stare for an hour at a piece of art without any desire to own it. Thanks for offering an alternative phrasing, even though it requires a pronoun. I'm glad you shared that. :laugh:
Well obviously you can say it however it suits you best and I promise I won't roll my eyes when it comes from you because now this whole exchange has made me laugh :laugh:
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I hate the saying "thanks for sharing." I immediately roll my eyes and won't respond.
Have said that many times here, in response to people sharing art, music, and poetry, because sharing is what they're doing. It's a brave thing to do. Why does it make your eyes roll?
I'm not sure. It's about the phrasing. I feel like "thanks for sharing" sounds flippant. But if someone were to say "I'm glad you shared that" it doesn't bother me at all. :dunno: I don't know. It doesn't make much sense really.
Can only think of ever using the phrase to thank people who are presenting some sort of creativity. The sharing seems much more important than how it fits personal taste, so try to avoid opinions. It's the reason why it's possible enjoy any performance, and can stare for an hour at a piece of art without any desire to own it. Thanks for offering an alternative phrasing, even though it requires a pronoun. I'm glad you shared that. :laugh:
Well obviously you can say it however it suits you best and I promise I won't roll my eyes when it comes from you because now this whole exchange has made me laugh :laugh:
No, it's good to know it might be misinterpreted, especially online with the absence of tone of voice.
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When in doubt, Urban Dictionary often points you in the right direction. Here is the top definition of "thanks for sharing" at Urban Dictionay:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=thanks%20for%20sharing
But it is about tone of voice and context as much as anything else. I've never had the impression that Jack meant the expression in the "Urban Dictionary" sense. But, even so, whenever I see someone like Jack say it online, I do a quick retake on whatever they are referring to just in case I missed something gross or inappropriate.
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I'm glad you shared that too. :laugh:
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I'm glad you shared that too. :laugh:
:asthing:
:spitscreen:
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I'm glad you shared that too. :laugh:
:asthing:
:spitscreen:
Just read the Urban Dictionary version and it's quite true. It made me laugh thought because therapists DO say it all the time in group therapy and yet I absolutely refuse to with my groups.
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BWAHAHAHAHA,
That sentence does not trigger me, but then English is not my first language.
Equivalents; "Wil je er over praten" (Want to talk about it?) have become bastardised in Dutch, for a similar reason. Becomes something like :"Wil je er over praten? Zingen? kleien mag ook." (Want to talk about it? Sing? Working with clay is also OK.)
Lately there is this sentence: "Ik zie kansen!!!" (I see opportunities!!!) And then I tend to answer "Jij hebt veel teveel therapie gehad." (You've had way too much therapy)
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"Diversity is our strength".
It's Orwellian double-speak.
Just how is it that a Balkanized, divided society is stronger than one that is culturally united?? :dunno:
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Or how the composite bow managed its extreme projectile power....
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Or how the composite bow managed its extreme projectile power....
Great analogy!
I went bow hunting, successfully, for the very first time just a few years ago, with my bro-in-law who has been doing so for over forty years.
I had only used a bow three times in my life before that time and even though I had a few chances, I had never even taken a shot at game. We had been practicing. I was still not comfortable on day one.
Then he had me go from our tree stand at nothing alive a few times and I was hitting consistently. He helped me gain confidence. It took some doing, but between my one and his two, but we put over four hundred pounds of venison in the freezers that winter.
The compound bow is definitely the way to go, if you want to do things with a bow.
The reason I mention this is that another style is going on right now. We only have six days left of muzzle loader deer season and we have not yet been able to hook up and go get this done.
I have a .54 caliber thirty two inch barrel Hawkin style, cap fired muzzle loading rifle, made by Thompson, that I have had for many years. I have never taken game with it. I have only shot some half decent groups at a hundred yards and I know I can hit what I shoot at as long as it is fairly close.
It seems like Thursday might be the day, if at all this year.
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Saying I am so tired of hearing ...
24/7 or worse 24/7/365
They still use this in commercials and advertising.
:puke:
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Found a couple of holes in our back fence. Since our back fence is made from colourbonded metal sheeting, it wasn't like a kid poked his finger through it.
They looked almost like bullet holes, but a little too tidy. And I never considered that a neighbour in our area would be silly enough to go shooting holes in the fence with a silenced firearm.
Then we found the arrows. Real serious looking arrows too, with metal heads on them. Most of the "feathers" on the tails had been stripped off as they punched through the fence. One was embedded in a palm tree.
Had to be a compound bow.
I hope he isn't one of the pricks who has been shooting deer in the area with compound bows. People in our area have had deer wander out of the bush and die on their front lawns. Deer are not native and the government culls them anyway, but still not an activity I support in our neighbourhood.
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Found a couple of holes in our back fence. Since our back fence is made from colourbonded metal sheeting, it wasn't like a kid poked his finger through it.
They looked almost like bullet holes, but a little too tidy. And I never considered that a neighbour in our area would be silly enough to go shooting holes in the fence with a silenced firearm.
Then we found the arrows. Real serious looking arrows too, with metal heads on them. Most of the "feathers" on the tails had been stripped off as they punched through the fence. One was embedded in a palm tree.
Had to be a compound bow.
I hope he isn't one of the pricks who has been shooting deer in the area with compound bows. People in our area have had deer wander out of the bush and die on their front lawns. Deer are not native and the government culls them anyway, but still not an activity I support in our neighbourhood.
Several questions, but YOU HAVE PALM TREES? ... comes to mind first.
Any amount of hunting in a residential area is not cool. Too many damn people to put in danger. Pest control should be done with subsonic, accurate weaponry and only by those qualified to do so and never miss.
Bow and arrow is all sub sonic, but the weight of an arrow, even at two hundred feet per second, can carry it through a wall or as you know a steel fence.
Over here we have the game wardens who police hunters and hunting activity and they are armed state agents and some are armed federal agents, Any of whom can investigate an incident and arrest an offender.
Do you have such officers who could follow up on your concerns?
While I love to hunt deer, I would never take one of those wandering down our alley (not at all an unusual occurrence) looking for food. If someone is doing so in your back yard I think you should get the authorities that be involved.
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Found a couple of holes in our back fence. Since our back fence is made from colourbonded metal sheeting, it wasn't like a kid poked his finger through it.
They looked almost like bullet holes, but a little too tidy. And I never considered that a neighbour in our area would be silly enough to go shooting holes in the fence with a silenced firearm.
Then we found the arrows. Real serious looking arrows too, with metal heads on them. Most of the "feathers" on the tails had been stripped off as they punched through the fence. One was embedded in a palm tree.
Had to be a compound bow.
I hope he isn't one of the pricks who has been shooting deer in the area with compound bows. People in our area have had deer wander out of the bush and die on their front lawns. Deer are not native and the government culls them anyway, but still not an activity I support in our neighbourhood.
Several questions, but YOU HAVE PALM TREES? ... comes to mind first.
Any amount of hunting in a residential area is not cool. Too many damn people to put in danger. Pest control should be done with subsonic, accurate weaponry and only by those qualified to do so and never miss.
Bow and arrow is all sub sonic, but the weight of an arrow, even at two hundred feet per second, can carry it through a wall or as you know a steel fence.
Over here we have the game wardens who police hunters and hunting activity and they are armed state agents and some are armed federal agents, Any of whom can investigate an incident and arrest an offender.
Do you have such officers who could follow up on your concerns?
While I love to hunt deer, I would never take one of those wandering down our alley (not at all an unusual occurrence) looking for food. If someone is doing so in your back yard I think you should get the authorities that be involved.
Problem is that we discovered the arrows some time after we discovered the holes. I suspect that it was the previous tenants, a bunch of outdoorsy young blokes who were a bit rough around the edges, rather than the young family who moved in more recently. It was down the bottom corner of our backyard and there are vines growing along the fence so we may not have noticed for a while. It seems like the sort of (dumb) thing I would have done when I was their age. I suspect that one of them had a new compound bow he wanted to try out before he took it pig hunting.
Yes, we have palm trees. Our climate is warm temperate. When our area was first developed, in the 80s, palm trees were quite popular and people were planting them in their front yards and along the fences. When we moved back into our house there were 11 big cocos palm trees (around 30 to 40 feet tall) that were already there years earlier when I bought the place, and they all produced huge stalks of inedible fruit. We had those chopped down 5 years ago. We still have a few different smaller and more decorative palm trees.
This is the fruit that those palm trees produced every year:
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0200/5036/products/01008-04_2048x2048.jpeg?v=1421152433)
Most people in our area have chopped down their cocos palms and other large palm trees already. They look great when they are small but...
One of the benefits is that we don't have as many huge flying foxes (fruit bats) eating the fruit. Those things are enormous. The worst part is when they are hanging from a tree and you walk under the tree, how they take off is they let go of the tree and drop a few feet then open their wings (they have about a 5 foot wingspan on average) so you know that you've disturbed one when you hear and feel a huge "whoomp" sound just above your head. And those buggers carry the deadly Hendra Virus, so you don't want one biting you or scratching you.
** cocos palms are called queen palms in most of the world.
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I used to have two huge date palms in my yard when I was a kid.
I had to learn to climb a bit to beat the opossums to the dates. They did not like them green either, but once the fruit browned up, the race was on!
Nice showing there. Kind of jealous for my youth.
Honestly, that fucking rockkkS!!
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The compound bow is definitely the way to go, if you want to do things with a bow.
Yes. So long as it's set for your draw. Trying to pull one of those configured for someone with
a few inches on you is worse than pulling a full 'real' bow.
But, I was talking about the composite bow, rather than compound, which is no easy thing to pull.
All the same, a little 3 1/2' bow had more power than the famed English longbow, due to the interleaving
of bone, hide, resin, and wood.
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I remember about 2 years ago I went camping with the family. There was a common kitchen area and one night my wife came and asked me to come and look at a "very big mouse" in the kitchen. It was a brush-tailed possum, and about the size of a very large domestic cat.
(http://users.monash.edu/~ckopp/SB/Common-Brushtail-Possum-Noble-Park-2012-CKopp-1.jpg)
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I love possums! I used to have one who would sleep on my front porch during the day, curled up in a nest of leaves behind my recycling bin. He was quite safe there as we would walk within half a foot of him to get in/out our front door and he didn't mind us at all, nor us him. Even the dogs didn't bug him. We have a lot where we live and I'm happy to have them because they eat the ticks.
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The compound bow is definitely the way to go, if you want to do things with a bow.
Yes. So long as it's set for your draw. Trying to pull one of those configured for someone with
a few inches on you is worse than pulling a full 'real' bow.
But, I was talking about the composite bow, rather than compound, which is no easy thing to pull.
All the same, a little 3 1/2' bow had more power than the famed English longbow, due to the interleaving
of bone, hide, resin, and wood.
Sorry. I thought you mistyped.
That further compounds your statement which was already brilliant. I have never seen one.
All the compound bows I have ever used were very adjustable for the user.
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I love possums! I used to have one who would sleep on my front porch during the day, curled up in a nest of leaves behind my recycling bin. He was quite safe there as we would walk within half a foot of him to get in/out our front door and he didn't mind us at all, nor us him. Even the dogs didn't bug him. We have a lot where we live and I'm happy to have them because they eat the ticks.
I love them, my wife hates them. My mom hated them.
My wife just wants them gone from the earth. Big rats! I know that they are not rodents, but marsupials. To her there is no difference.
Ours are more fluffy in the winter and are considered to be prime fur trappers' prizes.
We had a very large one take up winter residence in our garage one year (many years ago). My wife was panicked and it HAD to go. RIGHT NOW!
We live inside city limits of a small town, so I could not just take one of my guns and shoot it and she was NOT willing to wait for the animal control squad to come the next day. It HAD to go, now.
I had to use my pellet gun, which means a head shot or severely torturing the animal shooting it multiple times. It was ugly. I had to get it outside and scare it to the point it went into "playing 'possum" mode so I could get a clean shot. It weighed thirty seven pounds according to my fishing gear hand scale.
And it was beautiful, full winter coat, but it had pissed off (scared) a hard minded woman.
I have wild rabbits that eat my crops in the spring, but I am not a kill everything guy. Yes. I hunt and I take game, but to just kill something (other than an insect) because it annoys you is just wrong.
I still regret that killing.
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Sorry. I thought you mistyped.
That further compounds your statement which was already brilliant. I have never seen one.
All the compound bows I have ever used were very adjustable for the user.
I've only seen one in a museum - and probably a reproduction.
And yes, compounds are adjustable. Problem was, I was borrowing (swapping back and forth on a range)
one with a friend, who had 6" on me. Pulling 115 lbs straight was more than I could handle. Before that, the best I had done
was a 65 lb modern recurve .
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I love possums! I used to have one who would sleep on my front porch during the day, curled up in a nest of leaves behind my recycling bin. He was quite safe there as we would walk within half a foot of him to get in/out our front door and he didn't mind us at all, nor us him. Even the dogs didn't bug him. We have a lot where we live and I'm happy to have them because they eat the ticks.
I love them, my wife hates them. My mom hated them.
My wife just wants them gone from the earth. Big rats! I know that they are not rodents, but marsupials. To her there is no difference.
Ours are more fluffy in the winter and are considered to be prime fur trappers' prizes.
We had a very large one take up winter residence in our garage one year (many years ago). My wife was panicked and it HAD to go. RIGHT NOW!
We live inside city limits of a small town, so I could not just take one of my guns and shoot it and she was NOT willing to wait for the animal control squad to come the next day. It HAD to go, now.
I had to use my pellet gun, which means a head shot or severely torturing the animal shooting it multiple times. It was ugly. I had to get it outside and scare it to the point it went into "playing 'possum" mode so I could get a clean shot. It weighed thirty seven pounds according to my fishing gear hand scale.
And it was beautiful, full winter coat, but it had pissed off (scared) a hard minded woman.
I have wild rabbits that eat my crops in the spring, but I am not a kill everything guy. Yes. I hunt and I take game, but to just kill something (other than an insect) because it annoys you is just wrong.
I still regret that killing.
I am the complete opposite to your wife in that regard. My friends nicknamed me Snow White years ago because all of the little woodland creatures constantly seek me out and seem to know that my property is a safe one.
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Your new nickname?
I try to be that "bad" guy, unlike many here who clear out the "pests" before they even start digging.
I do not think living near a colony of rabbits is reason enough to go full on reaper against their cute little fluffy tails. Yes, they eat my Brussells sprouts, so I try to grow enough for both of us.
Biggest thing wrong with that attack is that they come back with their brothers, cousins aunts uncles etc.
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Problem in Australia is that rabbits have no natural predators. There are introduced foxes and there are eagles, but once the rabbit population takes off they have almost no impact. I remember a few years back there was one farm that had a rabbit plague, 200 million rabbits on the one farm. They ate every blade of grass, down to bare earth, and they drank every dam on the property dry. And then it got so hot that when news crews went to film the rabbits, there would be literally hundreds of starving and thirsty rabbits trying to huddle in the shade of their 4 wheel drives as soon as they pulled up.
I had no idea that possums got so big in the US: 67 pounds! The possums we have here are best given a wide berth, they aren't that big but they don't "play possum". When I was about 5 or 6 years old there was a possum in the playground at school, in a tree. They kept us inside the classrooms all day until a professional came out with double thickness leather "gloves" that went up to his armpits. I'd rather go three rounds with a Tasmanian Devil than get on the wrong side of a possum.
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Your new nickname?
I try to be that "bad" guy, unlike many here who clear out the "pests" before they even start digging.
I do not think living near a colony of rabbits is reason enough to go full on reaper against their cute little fluffy tails. Yes, they eat my Brussells sprouts, so I try to grow enough for both of us.
Biggest thing wrong with that attack is that they come back with their brothers, cousins aunts uncles etc.
I don't judge your choices at all. I would have just had the opposite reaction to your wife: "OMG DON'T KILL IT!!! IT'S CUTE!!!" :GA: :laugh:
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Problem in Australia is that rabbits have no natural predators. There are introduced foxes and there are eagles, but once the rabbit population takes off they have almost no impact. I remember a few years back there was one farm that had a rabbit plague, 200 million rabbits on the one farm. They ate every blade of grass, down to bare earth, and they drank every dam on the property dry. And then it got so hot that when news crews went to film the rabbits, there would be literally hundreds of starving and thirsty rabbits trying to huddle in the shade of their 4 wheel drives as soon as they pulled up.
I had no idea that possums got so big in the US: 67 pounds! The possums we have here are best given a wide berth, they aren't that big but they don't "play possum". When I was about 5 or 6 years old there was a possum in the playground at school, in a tree. They kept us inside the classrooms all day until a professional came out with double thickness leather "gloves" that went up to his armpits. I'd rather go three rounds with a Tasmanian Devil than get on the wrong side of a possum.
You miss read that. It was the size of a small dog, thirty seven pounds/sixteen+ kg
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This term is very new (I just heard it for the first time today) and I already hate it for obvious reasons.
"Pedophobia" - an irrational fear or hatred of pedophiles.
Are you fucking kidding me?? We're now supposed to accept pedophiles as part of the LGBTQ(alphabet soup)+++ movement?? :zombiefuck:
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Uuurgh, pedophobia, that's so silly.
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It's actually a thing, and I've seen it in operation.
I will expand later.
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This term is very new (I just heard it for the first time today) and I already hate it for obvious reasons.
"Pedophobia" - an irrational fear or hatred of pedophiles.
Are you fucking kidding me?? We're now supposed to accept pedophiles as part of the LGBTQ(alphabet soup)+++ movement?? :zombiefuck:
That doesn't even make sense. That should be fear of children (or feet?).
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It's actually a thing, and I've seen it in operation.
I will expand later.
Prison time?
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It's actually a thing, and I've seen it in operation.
I will expand later.
Prison time?
:spitscreen:
Cheeky bugger.
No!
I actually had a colleague in IT about 20 years ago who was **very** obviously on the spectrum. He was obsessed with pregnancy, babies, early childhood, anything related to that. And he had no filter on what he said, so he had a tendency to come across as a little "creepy".
One (male) manager in particular engaged in a witch hunt to try to get rid of him, and made a bunch of nasty allegations including completely unfounded allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards young children. It backfired on the manager when the employee went to HR regarding the allegations and said "none of this is true", which of course it wasn't. Really the sort of things he would do was to press his ear against a pregnant woman's belly without asking, and tracking women's pregnancies. Like he would walk around to their workstartion and say "you are in the 17th week (or whatever), are your nipples puffy and sore?".
The reality is that if you are a single male you need to be **extremely** careful around children, especially if you are a bit different. Because it doesn't take much for the rumour mill to get going.
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The reality is that if you are a single male you need to be **extremely** careful around children, especially if you are a bit different. Because it doesn't take much for the rumour mill to get going.
True dat. Even just playing doctor with them can cause issues.
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Are you fucking kidding me?? We're now supposed to accept pedophiles as part of the LGBTQ(alphabet soup)+++ movement?? :zombiefuck:
That's a hard no. They're not part of the LGBTQ2 community.
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Are you fucking kidding me?? We're now supposed to accept pedophiles as part of the LGBTQ(alphabet soup)+++ movement?? :zombiefuck:
That's a hard no. They're not part of the LGBTQ2 community.
You're only saying that because you're a sane, normal person and you don't seem to have been completely swept up by the far Left's descent into madness. However, many journalists and bloggers on the far left have been swept up in this moral panic and they are going all the way down the rabbit hole. This is because the far Left have embraced a post-modernist epistemological relativism that has skewed their moral lens. They view anything which is in the minority to be oppressed and therefore good; anything that is in the majority is an oppressor and therefore bad. Bestiality and pedophiles are a tiny minority and thus are viewed as an oppressed minority who deserve special protections against cis-gendered heterosexual oppressors. :tard: :insane:
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Are you fucking kidding me?? We're now supposed to accept pedophiles as part of the LGBTQ(alphabet soup)+++ movement?? :zombiefuck:
That's a hard no. They're not part of the LGBTQ2 community.
You're only saying that because you're a sane, normal person and you don't seem to have been completely swept up by the far Left's descent into madness. However, many journalists and bloggers on the far left have been swept up in this moral panic and they are going all the way down the rabbit hole. This is because the far Left have embraced a post-modernist epistemological relativism that has skewed their moral lens. They view anything which is in the minority to be oppressed and therefore good; anything that is in the majority is an oppressor and therefore bad. Bestiality and pedophiles are a tiny minority and thus are viewed as an oppressed minority who deserve special protections against cis-gendered heterosexual oppressors. :tard: :insane:
That's some crazy by crazies who are NOT part of the LGBTQ2 community. The actual LGBTQ2 community wouldn't embrace it and don't consider them part of them at all. In fact, they've been trying for so long to NOT have people jump to the conclusion that gay men in particular = pedos. Kevin Spacey didn't help that cause at all ::)
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That's some crazy by crazies who are NOT part of the LGBTQ2 community. The actual LGBTQ2 community wouldn't embrace it and don't consider them part of them at all.
And that's the problem that the Left is facing now, there's a "professional activist" class who claim to speak on behalf of people they don't actually speak for. These people simply take up liberal activist causes to use them as a cudgel against moderates, conservatives and anyone else who dares to oppose them. They only have one true agenda and that's raw political and social power.
In fact, they've been trying for so long to NOT have people jump to the conclusion that gay men in particular = pedos. Kevin Spacey didn't help that cause at all ::)
I didn't follow that case close enough to know what was proven vs what was alleged. The #metoo movement has cut in both directions, it exposed some vile predators who needed to be exposed and it also ruined the lives of men who merely did something a little creepy 20 years ago.
EDIT: here's a case in point.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/tennis/martina-navratilova-deletes-tweet-about-trans-athletes-after-being-called-transphobic/ar-BBRhhRk?ocid=spartanntp
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The PR said "Mother!" when I called someone an asshole while driving. (She's heard that before, don't know why she took offense.)
So the next time I needed it I said "Nether regions opening."
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"Just sayin'.." after someone makes a snarky sarcastic comment on my FB page.
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"Just sayin'.." after someone makes a snarky sarcastic comment on my FB page.
i would never do that to you. just saying.
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"He made a quantum leap."
You do know that anything quantum is really, really tiny?
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"You know it's not going to happen right?"
daH quvHa'choHmoH jIHvaD ghu'mey rur.
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"Don't worry, I have people for that." "You are the boss, why don't you have people for that?" "Where are the people for this mess?"
I hate this modern usage ...
If you have people, you should free them.
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"Then what the fuck do they pay you for?"
My response:
To clean the damn building, and its surroundings you old bat! :headhurts:
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"You know it's not going to happen right?"
daH quvHa'choHmoH jIHvaD ghu'mey rur.
Klingon, yes?
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"You know it's not going to happen right?"
daH quvHa'choHmoH jIHvaD ghu'mey rur.
Klingon, yes?
Yeah... I was using Klingon back then to insult the troll who was obsessive with me.
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"I'm just saying"
You can't just fucking "say" something without meaning something, idiots.
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"I'm just saying"
You can't just fucking "say" something without meaning something, idiots.
I like saying that one, but I don't think I use it the way most people do because I mean it as a joke. Here's examples where I've done it here.
The fact that I'm even thinking of this particular guy this way tells me that I've officially lowered my dating standards down to "Mammal" :P
Gophers are mammals. Just saying. :eyebrows:
The things you learn here.
I don't trust anyone who says they learn stuff from Oprah or Dr. Phil. Just saying. :zoinks:
I was talking about not trusting Jack, so that was especially funny to me.
im not going to sleep with anyone on this forum you all took the shots
I'm already taken, but I'll still look at anyone's n00dz. Just saying. :zoinks:
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You can get by with that. I generally give gophers a wide berth.
Just sayin' ...
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"facial hair"
God DAMMIT!
I am so tired of people, most especially younger women, complimenting me on my "facial hair" that I am ready to spew all over the next one.
Can we just keep word meanings meaning the same things?!?
Men do not have facial hair! Women have facial hair. Sorry sisters, we noticed, but plucking makes it more obvious.
Men have beards!
We do not have facial hair. Don't even think of my eyebrows as a kind of facial hair either. They are too long and bristly to be facial hair. They are the same as my beard.
Even a man who can not grow a substantial proper manly beard still has a beard with where ever his best attempts leave him.
It is a beard!
Facial hair, my ass! I have a beard.
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Maybe it will grow on you. :zoinks:
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Uhm, it does.
When I was twelve, I had some facial hair growing down my cheeks and when it was long enough to grab, my mom pulled it out. I think that made it stronger.
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This has probably been griped about already:
It is what it is.
Why even say this? It's like filling the air with empty words.
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This has probably been griped about already:
It is what it is.
Why even say this? It's like filling the air with empty words.
That's a tough one because it means something can't be changed, so the context is possibly in response to someone complaining. For example, if someone is complaining about things like traffic or the weather, I might totally be in the mood to join them in an empathetic gripe fest. If not, I might instead say, well it is what it is, which is a nice way of saying I don't feel like being pointlessly negative with them right now. I also might say it in a context when someone is trying to give me sympathy for an unfortunate situation which I'm not overly upset about or have already grown to accept. Though I do agree it's frustrating to be venting and basically be told to accept things and move along. I'm also sure there's some situations that can't be changed, when it would be thoughtless or even hurtful to say that in response. :dunno:
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Cool, thanks for giving it meaning, Gary. :)
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Did we already cover "thoughts and prayers?" It's a really old thread and I'm not gonna read all of it.
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Did we already cover "thoughts and prayers?" It's a really old thread and I'm not gonna read all of it.
It's been mentioned fifty six times. :zoinks:
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Can't say for sure, but that's another good one. Very empty saying!
Fifty Six, though?
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Men have beards!
We do not have facial hair. Don't even think of my eyebrows as a kind of facial hair either. They are too long and bristly to be facial hair. They are the same as my beard.
Eye beards..?
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"... amn't I?" "I'm so good looking, amn't I?"
I keep hearing this. I think they are trying to not say "ain't I," but "amn't I" won't work for me.
I hate it!
There are many ways to get by without saying "ain't." Ain't that right?
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"... amn't I?" "I'm so good looking, amn't I?"
I keep hearing this. I think they are trying to not say "ain't I," but "amn't I" won't work for me.
I hate it!
There are many ways to get by without saying "ain't." Ain't that right?
I don’t even like the word, “ain’t”.
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A member who used to post here used amn't a few times. It was the only time ever seeing it, and have never heard it. They were young, so just assumed it was one of those crazy kid things, with their funny words and so called music.
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"... amn't I?" "I'm so good looking, amn't I?"
I keep hearing this. I think they are trying to not say "ain't I," but "amn't I" won't work for me.
I hate it!
There are many ways to get by without saying "ain't." Ain't that right?
I don’t even like the word, “ain’t”.
Agreed and I generally only use it for "color" when making reference to something simple.
NO one has to keep using "ain't."
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A member who used to post here used amn't a few times. It was the only time ever seeing it, and have never heard it. They were young, so just assumed it was one of those crazy kid things, with their funny words and so called music.
Let's hope it is just a fast passing thing that never sticks to the walls. I can't stand to hear it!
:LOL:
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A member who used to post here used amn't a few times. It was the only time ever seeing it, and have never heard it. They were young, so just assumed it was one of those crazy kid things, with their funny words and so called music.
Let's hope it is just a fast passing thing that never sticks to the walls. I can't stand to hear it!
:LOL:
Was acquired a few years back and thrust into an environment of swearing in the workplace. At first assumed it was simply a different culture, though later wondered why it was the culture due to never seeing those in high levels of leadership do it. Then more recently leaders are now doing it too. Looked it up, and apparently cursing is no longer considered inappropriate, and likely even taught in public speaking that the right word dropped in the right place at the right time, can make a speaker come across as more honest, genuine, and less scripted. Generations younger than mine now make up the bulk of the workforce, and while it seems odd to see leadership my age cursing to the crowd, it now makes sense they're changing their speaking manner to appeal to the majority. Can't help but wonder what's going through their head while doing it, as surely they were taught it's crass, unprofessional, and even hostile. Told husband it just bothers me because I'm old and have old fashioned ideas. :laugh:
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A member who used to post here used amn't a few times. It was the only time ever seeing it, and have never heard it. They were young, so just assumed it was one of those crazy kid things, with their funny words and so called music.
Let's hope it is just a fast passing thing that never sticks to the walls. I can't stand to hear it!
:LOL:
Was acquired a few years back and thrust into an environment of swearing in the workplace. At first assumed it was simply a different culture, though later wondered why it was the culture due to never seeing those in high levels of leadership do it. Then more recently leaders are now doing it too. Looked it up, and apparently cursing is no longer considered inappropriate, and likely even taught in public speaking that the right word dropped in the right place at the right time, can make a speaker come across as more honest, genuine, and less scripted. Generations younger than mine now make up the bulk of the workforce, and while it seems odd to see leadership my age cursing to the crowd, it now makes sense they're changing their speaking manner to appeal to the majority. Can't help but wonder what's going through their head while doing it, as surely they were taught it's crass, unprofessional, and even hostile. Told husband it just bothers me because I'm old and have old fashioned ideas. :laugh:
Same or similar old fashioned ideas and ideals.
Hard to imagine how "leadership" has fallen to this level of inappropriate behavior just to partially identify with even more inappropriate behaviors from underling staff.
My wife works at a UPS hub and has to deal with MF every other word out of some, but the most annoying thing to her is those who won't pull up their pants and wear a belt. They literally walk around all night loading and unloading trucks, stopping every two seconds to heave up their falling pants, because they have them down below their ass cheeks and want to show off their fancy underwear.
Ya know whut? We have some hard work to do before any of us can get out of here. All of us are immune to how beautiful your ass is, because we've seen it too many times.
AND, it's not just low life guys doing this. Many women do the same thing. She has lost respect for the average numbnuts guy ages ago, but she feels bad for the women doing this in public. I mean there are fifteen hundred people who work at this place during various times, twenty four hours per day.
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"Accept me for who I am."
My ex who was an asshole always had this mindset and he was a real jerk which is why I don't take kindly to this phrase. Anyone who says it, I automatically assume they are an asshole and a narcissist. Too self absorbed they are to understand how they make others feel.
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"Accept me for who I am."
My ex who was an asshole always had this mindset and he was a real jerk which is why I don't take kindly to this phrase. Anyone who says it, I automatically assume they are an asshole and a narcissist. Too self absorbed they are to understand how they make others feel.
Having an Ex or two is OK. They help you to define your own character and hopefully prevent similar mistakes that brought you into that Ex's fold or spell in the first place.
I don't mind the saying so much as long as those using it are living a Golden Rule life or at least within a mile of one.
Accept you for who you are, fine. BUT, how about you treat others as you would have them treat you. Then we'll talk.
Good one, Nat!
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^true
What you give is what you get.
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"One reaps only as they sow."
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What you give is what you get.
"One reaps only as they sow."
Don't those two basically mean the same thing? :lol1:
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What you give is what you get.
"One reaps only as they sow."
Don't those two basically mean the same thing? :lol1:
That was my point.
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This has probably been griped about already:
It is what it is.
Why even say this? It's like filling the air with empty words.
That's a tough one because it means something can't be changed, so the context is possibly in response to someone complaining. For example, if someone is complaining about things like traffic or the weather, I might totally be in the mood to join them in an empathetic gripe fest. If not, I might instead say, well it is what it is, which is a nice way of saying I don't feel like being pointlessly negative with them right now. I also might say it in a context when someone is trying to give me sympathy for an unfortunate situation which I'm not overly upset about or have already grown to accept. Though I do agree it's frustrating to be venting and basically be told to accept things and move along. I'm also sure there's some situations that can't be changed, when it would be thoughtless or even hurtful to say that in response. :dunno:
Well I was in a doctor's waiting room when I overheard a two minute phone call. The woman who was talking said "it is what it is" four times in those two minutes. The fourth time, I kind of looked at her incredulously. Wtf?
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"It is what it is" was uttered by the great philosopher D. J. Trump.
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^ :sick:
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Also iterated (or stolen from someone wise) by Trump.
Not a hate saying, but a formidable truth that cannot be unheard ...
"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always have what you've always had."
I really wish I knew who that came from. It sounds almost Nietzschean.
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This has probably been griped about already:
It is what it is.
Why even say this? It's like filling the air with empty words.
That's a tough one because it means something can't be changed, so the context is possibly in response to someone complaining. For example, if someone is complaining about things like traffic or the weather, I might totally be in the mood to join them in an empathetic gripe fest. If not, I might instead say, well it is what it is, which is a nice way of saying I don't feel like being pointlessly negative with them right now. I also might say it in a context when someone is trying to give me sympathy for an unfortunate situation which I'm not overly upset about or have already grown to accept. Though I do agree it's frustrating to be venting and basically be told to accept things and move along. I'm also sure there's some situations that can't be changed, when it would be thoughtless or even hurtful to say that in response. :dunno:
Well I was in a doctor's waiting room when I overheard a two minute phone call. The woman who was talking said "it is what it is" four times in those two minutes. The fourth time, I kind of looked at her incredulously. Wtf?
Probably someone stuck in traffic and she didn't want to hear about it. :lol1:
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"It is what it is" was uttered by the great philosopher D. J. Trump.
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Same guy who told people to drink bleach.
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Double Standards:
Scenario #1
Girl I liked in the past: I only like you as a friend
My response: Okay...
Scenario #2
My response: I only like you as a friend
Troll (whom I rejected politely) response: *insert random insult along the lines of assuming the guy is "gay"*
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I don't hate it but I'm seeing "reach out" everywhere.
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Five times smaller or twice as small.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING!! It is half the size or one fifth the size!
Size can be defined; "small" cannot without first defining a scale of reference. "Smaller" (is even more troubling) which must be described with three quantities with a related function clearly defined, makes understanding even more demanding.
This common misuse grinds on my brain.
Small is not a quantity. To define small, you must have some relation to some quantity of established measurement, as opposed to another quantity, a function describing how they relate and a resulting understanding is created by a reference to a third quantity, similar to the simplest math equation.
To say something is smaller, you need to start with a quanitity, this can not be assumed, but must be defined. Then a function of some sort to perform (plus, minus, times, squared, logarithmically projected), then a second quantity for the performance of the function to follow, resulting in a third quantity with which to compare and help to define what "small or smaller" might imply.
EVEN THEN ...
You can not say twice as small! It does not exist!!
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I am not wrong!!
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Men don't cry -__-
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Men don't cry -__-
This phrase has always been total bullshit.
Even the "manliest" of men weep at the ending to Terminator 2, for Christ's sake.
But in seriousness yeah, it's incredibly harmful.
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I did, at the end of the Titanic. I wish they could have spared the boat. So unnecessary.
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I've learned to absolutely loathe a word that's been used to start sentences with at work:
"Ultimately, ..."
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Men don't cry -__-
This phrase has always been total bullshit.
Even the "manliest" of men weep at the ending to Terminator 2, for Christ's sake.
But in seriousness yeah, it's incredibly harmful.
Yep
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Finishing a sentence with, "so," "then," "because" or "and" FFS!
There are a few more to list, but I think you get it, so ...
If you have more to add, then ... FUCKING SPILL IT!
"I have really enjoyed my fall this year, so ..." SO, WHAT!?!
Stop it! This bad habit seems to making a powerful comeback these days, (fake thoughtful pause) and ...
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Thanks, I really enjoyed that one, so... :zoinks:
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Thanks, I really enjoyed that one, so... :zoinks:
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...and? :P
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"I only like you as a friend *insert hidden subtext with insult here*"
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I hate calling a traffic circle a roundabout. Idk why lol it just annoys the shit out of me. The crazy part is I still use roundabout as an adjective, i.e., "in a roundabout way" but I guess my deal is when i say that I don't mean anything similar to "in a way reminiscent of a traffic circle"
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I hate calling a traffic circle a roundabout. Idk why lol it just annoys the shit out of me. The crazy part is I still use roundabout as an adjective, i.e., "in a roundabout way" but I guess my deal is when i say that I don't mean anything similar to "in a way reminiscent of a traffic circle"
I have entered this thread many times and I have never had to bend over backward to support any reason I might have for being tired of or tasked by common sayings. Usually what I complain about makes sense ... to me.
In a world where one must drive with other cars sharing a drive path, some here call those "roundabouts" something rather annoying. I hear "right turn left" as another way to refer to these helpful (I believe) traffic movement devices.
To me, the most annoying thing about these "traffic circles" is having someone driving in front of you who does not understand how they are supposed to work. In theory, no one ever has to stop anymore to navigate these intersections.
But having a person stop and wait to see what the next car is going to do, from half a mile out is extremely disturbing and an easy, direct path to road rage from other drivers.
The other problem I have with these things is that often the city/county developers try to force one of them into a land area which is too small to design it correctly. All traffic from all directions should be forced to slow down due to the sharp curve you must negotiate to get through - you must all slow down some, but only rarely ever have to stop completely.
Oh, BTW, there's a great song from a '70s band called, Yes, which has a song called "Roundabout."
Amazing band, great song. It is not an idle song; there is constant movement ...
If you have a way to blast this song at concert levels and "shake the floor" with your system (I call it, "shaking the floor"), do so. You will not look away, unless you just hate prog-rock style music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11WUJVmq0IQ
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"I only like you as a friend *insert hidden subtext with insult here*"
"You hurt her"
oh, really sweetie? I politely rejected her, so how exactly is it hurting her? Fuck off! :finger:
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"The direction I have from the business..."
FFS, mate, you've got two or three people above you. You can name them.
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"The direction I have from the business..."
FFS, mate, you've got two or three people above you. You can name them.
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