Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

the weirdest mispronunciation I ever heard was during PMLP training certification course. One of the lead facilitators kept saying the word "characteristics" as 'char-iss-tiks', leaving half of the word out.

Andrew Jackson apparently used to pronounce development devil opp mint.

ppl mispronounce georgia alot

Joe-JUH

we had a new girl in fifth grade and her first day she pronounced arkansas 'r kansas' and the entire class including the teacher burst out in laughter for like five minutes

I was watching something recently and a bunch of characters supposedly from Oregon were all saying Ore-a-gone and I kind of had an aneurysm. Same when I hear Spo-cane which is just egregiously wrong but not an entire state. Idahoans also say "boyce-ee" instead of "boy-zee" but that's a bit more subtle.

we had a new girl in fifth grade and her first day she pronounced arkansas 'r kansas' and the entire class including the teacher burst out in laughter for like five minutes

Rightfully so, too. I mean, how in the world could somebody make that mistake?

But Georgia? What?

I mean, look. there are ways to pronounce a name, but then there are regional inflections that come to play. Someone calling New Orleans Nawlins doesn't qualify here. Someone calling it New Ore Leeeeens does.

So joejuh, that's somone's accent hitting the word. are there people out there calling it jor-GEE-uh or something?

kids in school used to pronounce Korea "KORR-ee-uh".

doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo doo doo

are there people out there calling it jor-GEE-uh or something?

― pplains, Thursday, November 14, 2013 12:48 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes. Alison Krauss. Had no idea what the fuck she was singing on "Oh, Atlanta." "On my way back to...judge a Jew?"

leo frank joke in there somewhere

In non-pronunciation IA developments, I noticed an adult man in the gym locker room the other day who went to the effort of bringing his clothing into one of the shower stalls to get dressed. He didn't turn the shower on, just hid out there while changing.

For some reason this made me angry, or maybe just sad - how can it be so hard to just suck it up and change your clothes where a bunch of other fat / hairy / otherwise imperfect and misshapen men are also occasionally briefly naked and nobody gives a shit?

Maybe he's trans.

Maybe he isn't circumcised.

Maybe he's trans.

― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Thursday, November 14, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Possible, I guess. I've seen this happen to varying degrees a couple of times with different people and would be shocked if they were all trans.

maybe they're trans fat.

I'm sort of surprised when young fit (pretty certainly cissexual) men shower in their workout shorts at the gym. I'm not big on group nudity, but for me, the awkward modesty would be more embarrassing.

I just want to say that for me, "Appalachian" has always been and will always be "apple-atch-uh" despite that being non-standard pronunciation. It's a little jarring when I "apple-aich-a."

Contrast: lady at my gym who was buck naked in the middle of the locker room blow drying her hair and showing off a vulva so thoroughly waxed I could clearly see her labia.

I mean work that labia, girl, I don't want to hate but I would have preferred she don a towel.

see you labia

lol at all the bemusement at these words being pronounced they way they're spelt

Elf on a Shelf. Fucking Elf on a Shelf makes me so irrationally angry. There are two people on my Facebook feed currently going back and forth sharing "staging" tricks for this year's Elf on a Shelf. This is fucking ridiculous and literally the worst forced marketing tradition ever.

You were gold on this thread: Bah Humbug

Elf on the Shelf is some creepy bullshit.

It gets worse.

http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/img/videothumbs/2013/10/30/da/02/0ea15858-41a1-11e3-bfcc-0019b9b9e241.jpg

wow

Is that a hand that looks like an aeriel view of a helmet?

haha.

yeah the hand... you can definitely tell he's really Jewish.

You were gold on this thread: Bah Humbug

THAT'S the thread, I couldn't remember which one it was last night.

Totally OTM about Elf on the Shelf. Every time I see it in a store, I'm like STOP TRYING SO HARD TO MAKE IT A THING, IT WILL NEVER BE A THING.

The Elf on the Shelf story was created in 2004 by Carol Aebersold and daughter Chanda Bell over a cup of tea. Bell suggested they write a book about their own family tradition of an elf sent from Santa who came to watch over them at Christmas time. Aebersold’s daughter, Christa Pitts, was recruited by the family to share her expertise in sales and marketing. Together, the trio devoted the next three years promoting their self-published book and attending book signings and trade shows.

Heartwarming.

isn't dinovember the same thing, but with dinosaurs?

Velociraptors intimidating kids through violence so they'll finish their Thanksgiving dinner?

man elf on the shelf is totally a thing sadly

maybe combine the two, have the dinosaurs eating the elf.

Elf on the Run

"nevada" pronunciation is blowing my mind. i've been living a lie all these years.

rationally angry: lock snapped in my bicycle lock %#¥$¢!
irrationally angry: no one seemed to care when I came back with huge shears and spent a minute destroying the lock. Quite a few people passed. I *ought* to be glad I didn't have to try to explain myself.

Guess it bothered me because I've had two bikes stolen from me in two years, both in the daytime in fairly public places.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge7i60GuNRg

Huh, I could've saved some energy if I was a beautiful woman.
Crap, I hope this hasn't led to some of those people going home regretting not saying or doing anything.

"Sent from my iPhone"

You know you can turn that smug little email-closer off, right people who email me?

i especially despise the variation: please excuse typos, Sent from my iPhone. wish they'd put it at the front of the email so i could just delete it before reading.

I find it useful in work contexts because it tells me the person is in transit or in a public place rather than the office and probably isn't going to be sending detailed responses.

that makes sense. i don't think i've ever seen it in a work context.

like anyone ever sends those anymore anyway, from anywhere

My landlord sends me "Sent from my iPad" emails, creates significant IA.

i had an email yesterday with an attachment. the attachment was one line of text - "Sent from my iPhone"

Attachments: I'm compiling a bunch of material for a project and I'm getting tired of seeing 3 attachments and two of them are thumbnails of the sender's corporate logos.