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― Lee626, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
there's a moving van I drive past at least once a week in Cambridge called "EEZEE Movers" and it just makes me sad, did they use to be called "EZ Movers" but then had too many people saying "why are you called EE ZED? hur hur"?
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
dj EZ to thread ("dj ee-zed")
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
QRS!TUV!W, X, Y AND......zed
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
will note that I have seen verified English people referring to their birthday as a "b-day" recently, which spins my brain around something rotten, maybe they just haven't heard of bidets? no other explanation comes to mind.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
in China the alphabet song goesA B C D E F GH I J K L M NO P Q R S T U VW X Y and Zwhich is wrong
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
b-day rhymes with DJ, not g'day.
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link
UK vs US pronounciation of bidet
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
So does bidet? Unless that's another American thing?
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
(xp) LOL
I'm usually up on US/UK English usage and pronunciation differences, but didn't know about BEEday. Note to self: don't contract "birthday" when i'm in the UK.
― Lee626, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link
Conversely, if you travel to the US don't say to your hosts "I gotta use the toilet" - sounds a bit crude to Americans where a toilet is only the commode itself, not the room its in.
― Lee626, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
"Where's the bog?"
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
That'll work in America; not sure about Australia...
― Lee626, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
“Where’s Rob?”“He’s in the toilet”
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
American thing: flying to Dallas because you heard on Facebook that JFK Jr will miraculously come to life make an important announcement at the AT&T Discovery Plaza.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/joe-biden-mispronounces-glasgow-glass-25355010
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 10:28 (two years ago) link
That's J.B. for ya... Dunkin' on your big Glasgow and then getting out of there.
― pplains, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link
First the farting and now this, is there going to be a war?
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
Thinking that Tom Holland can't pronounce croissant.
― for 200 anyone can receive a dud nvidia (ledge), Monday, 24 January 2022 19:43 (two years ago) link
"In back of".
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Monday, 24 January 2022 19:48 (two years ago) link
Hanging out in back of.
― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Monday, 24 January 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link
“Where’s Rob?”
“He’s in the toilet”
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, November 2, 2021 2:57 PM (two months ago)
creepy
― rob, Monday, 24 January 2022 20:42 (two years ago) link
83. “thank you for your service”― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 09:28 (four years ago) linkI don’t think I’ll ever get over realising that this frankly demented practice is widespread over there and not just something Fox News weirdos do
― ok what the fuck is happening in the uk (rain) (wins), Sunday, 27 February 2022 05:27 (two years ago) link
I need to start saying this to customer-facing retail people. They get shit on worse than anybody.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 27 February 2022 07:48 (two years ago) link
"thank you for your service"
"and also with you"
"let us pray"
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 27 February 2022 11:06 (two years ago) link
Well, they have a type
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 27 February 2022 16:42 (two years ago) link
xp to Chris yeah, or like when you meet a librarian or something. Someone who makes a positive contribution to the worldI mean it would still be slightly weird
― ok what the fuck is happening in the uk (rain) (wins), Sunday, 27 February 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link
letting active service military first on planes! Fuck that Prussian shit.
to me, this is a cheap gesture of gratitude. after all, the modern US military is a bunch of poor kids who volunteered to be cannon fodder, just so that middle class kids don't have to be conscripted and shot at. this frees up the US war machine to pursue global domination with much less political blowback. a win-win-win, all around!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 27 February 2022 19:19 (two years ago) link
does anyone outside of America say "have a blessed day" because that is super common.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 February 2022 04:17 (two years ago) link
OMG no!
― Meet the Irish Queer Archive Poet In Residence (Tom D.), Monday, 28 February 2022 07:37 (two years ago) link
I've only ever heard that from older Black ladies, although I could imagine evangelicals using it.
― peace, man, Monday, 28 February 2022 12:39 (two years ago) link
people say it all the time. like at the checkout counter. it’s creepy as fuck.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 28 February 2022 12:56 (two years ago) link
I've gotten the blessing when getting off an elevator, no other conversation involved, just a shot in the back from a stranger causing me to turn and say "uh, thanks?"
― BrianB, Monday, 28 February 2022 13:22 (two years ago) link
P sure the correct response is “hallelujah!!!!”
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 28 February 2022 13:28 (two years ago) link
p sure it’s “achoo!”
― ok what the fuck is happening in the uk (rain) (wins), Monday, 28 February 2022 13:39 (two years ago) link
"free refills"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 28 February 2022 13:50 (two years ago) link
The correct response is "Inshallah".
― Meet the Irish Queer Archive Poet In Residence (Tom D.), Monday, 28 February 2022 14:21 (two years ago) link
Add shrimp to any entrée - $4.95
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 28 February 2022 14:50 (two years ago) link
Half Sandwich and [other lunch item]
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Friday, 4 March 2022 07:45 (two years ago) link
Shoehorning every military acronym into a ridiculous word. Brought on by
https://www.navy.mil/DesktopModules/ArticleCS/Print.aspx?PortalId=1&ModuleId=523&Article=2250056
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Monday, 7 March 2022 12:29 (two years ago) link
hang on snoopie, snoopie hang on
― jenny from the blockchain (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 7 March 2022 14:11 (two years ago) link
white clawla croix
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 7 April 2022 20:55 (two years ago) link
Mormons
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 7 April 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
"We proudly serve Pepsi products."
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Friday, 8 April 2022 11:36 (two years ago) link
In "The Looming Tower," there's a section on Sayid Qutb that also quotes Qutb's own descriptions of his time in the United States. One of the observations he made was that Americans would eat pretty much any combination of flavors without regard for taste. I don't remember what it was specifically, but e describes actually inventing a fake Egyptian food combination and convincing an American student to try it, which she does and claims to like it.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 8 April 2022 12:11 (two years ago) link
the most american photo doesn’t exi- pic.twitter.com/LO5fHpKHKQ— Adam (@adamgreattweet) April 7, 2022
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 April 2022 18:37 (two years ago) link
actually inventing a fake Egyptian food combination and convincing an American student to try it, which she does and claims to like it.
It was probably good
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 8 April 2022 18:38 (two years ago) link
In about 1979, a family in our town had a foreign exchange student from rural Argentina. His name was Paco.
Someone decided that it would be an amusing prank to tell Paco that Americans like ketchup on their pancakes, and that this was the normal American thing to do. So, for like seven months, everybody pretended to love ketchup on pancakes. (This was the suburbs before cable TV; we were bored and needed to make our own fun.)
It was a simpler time, and a less connected time. Nowadays a prank like that couldn't work, because internet. But I am curious whether there was ever a group of people in Argentina who believed that ketchup on pancakes was the style in America.
― So's your imam (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 8 April 2022 18:57 (two years ago) link
Slightly apropos: in about 1965, my American stepmother was studying in what was then West Germany. There was a German woman in her dorm who had previously regarded herself as an expert on American culture... before the arrival of an actual American (my stepmother). So this German woman felt offended and displaced, but she was sometimes confidently wrong.
Anyway, the story goes that my stepmother once made popcorn. The jealous German woman reportedly said, "Ach, I know what that is. You put milk on it and eat it for breakfast."
So. Not sure what it all means but people and habits remain a fascinating mystery
― So's your imam (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 8 April 2022 19:07 (two years ago) link