hers― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, June 20, 2019 3:09 PM (forty-three minutes ago)how do you say masseur? mass oo-er?― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, June 20, 2019 3:11 PM (forty-one minutes ago)
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, June 20, 2019 3:09 PM (forty-three minutes ago)
how do you say masseur? mass oo-er?
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, June 20, 2019 3:11 PM (forty-one minutes ago)
classic Britishism -- "if we bungle the pronunciation badly enough, maybe people will forget that it's a loanword"
― tandoor vittles (unregistered), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
(TIL about hyperforeignism)
― tandoor vittles (unregistered), Thursday, 20 June 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
I mean, there's no "r" there. Plus, it looks like Dr. Seuss.I may have some exciting news for you about the pronunciation of American author Theodor Geisel’s middle name
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 20 June 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
yeah, it still doesn't rhyme with moose.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 21 June 2019 07:40 (four years ago) link
68. 'erbs
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:57 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
Although herb has always been spelled with an h, pronunciation without it was usual until the 19th century and is still standard in the US.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 August 2019 00:36 (four years ago) link
I do love how Americans pronounce bay-zil - especially being a neuroscience guy so it's a homophone for "basal ganglia" which always gives me a smile.
Anyway I came here for "padiddle" - who even HAS a word for a car with one headlight working, let alone something as loony as that?
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
not to be confused with the paradiddle
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 01:10 (four years ago) link
"padiddle" - who even HAS a word for a car with one headlight working, let alone something as loony as that?
not me. I've never run across "padiddle" ever anywhere, in conversation or in print, and I know a lot of words.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 02:56 (four years ago) link
nope me neither
and I drive one
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 02:58 (four years ago) link
I have heard of “padiddle” but not as a word for a car with a headlight out but as something you say when you see one.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:23 (four years ago) link
It’s a road trip game basically, I forget what the forfeit is if your seatmate says it before you.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:24 (four years ago) link
here on Australia we have "spotto" which is what one says when one sees a yellow car; "hippo" is a variant for weird colours like purple
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:37 (four years ago) link
*in
no, spotto is a game where you are hunting for other humans in the bush at night with a handheld torch
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 05:16 (four years ago) link
true, I take it you were in the Scouts as well sic
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 05:18 (four years ago) link
scouts, DofE, a my-school-specific program called Adventure Country, etcspent a weekend in the bush every two months or so from sixth grade. at 16 we were just getting dropped in the desert near the NSW/Qld border, with girls from another school and a map, with a rendezvous point to meet adults/vans at five days later. have to wonder if that still goes on in a cell phone era
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 05:52 (four years ago) link
that is frickin awesome
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 06:02 (four years ago) link
Australian things thread needed.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 06:43 (four years ago) link
here on Australia we have "spotto" which is what one says when one sees a yellow car‽
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 07:39 (four years ago) link
The regional variant I'm familiar with was 'perdiddle' and the first to spot and call one out gave the other a sock in the arm. Thanks for dredging up high school memories I'd thought were well and truly suppressed.
― Furter-Bursting Tater Squirter (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 09:59 (four years ago) link
the fires of perdiddle
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 10:08 (four years ago) link
Had a feeling that my padiddle reference would not be universally recognized, even among Americans tbh.
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 10:41 (four years ago) link
When we see a Wallflowers car, we hit each other in the upper arm and yell "COCK-EYE".
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 12:16 (four years ago) link
Padiddle may be regional? In any case it is decently widespread but there are some families & communities that simply don't have that tradition and it just missed them in its distribution. I am not familiar with the variant where you get to punch someone, but I have heard of "punch buggy" where you punch someone's arm if you spot a VW Beetle. I think you have to say the color: "punch buggy blue!" To indicate that you actually did see a specific car.
I think I was a teenager before I heard of either of these. They all sound pretty stupid to me - even pointlessly cruel. But apparently in some circles it's a beloved type of juvenile fun, like yelling "shotgun" or "dibs" or "bags I..."
― Instant Carmax (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
if you saw a lada you could stab someone
― all over bar the shouting (im here for the shouting) (darraghmac), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
Fog lights do not count as a padiddle even if used as primary lights. There is no such thing as a double padiddle.See also: Punch buggy
See also: Punch buggy
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
i remember learning about padiddles in high school -- i had never heard of it before, presumably because i was an only child? idk
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
i thought it was suuuuuuper weird that hitting/punching/socking someone in the car with you was a thing people did for laughs
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
name of your college with the year you graduated/will graduate in your twitter bio
― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
just generally having a hard on for your alma mater - referring to the college you attended as your alma mater
― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
still conflating nationality-american for nationality
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
i call my high school my alma mater, but i do it in a bullwinkle voice
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 1 November 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
- having a Bullwinkle voice
― S-, Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
calling a toilet a “half-bath”
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link
claiming to be middle class, no matter what you do for a living, or what your net worth is
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
ritualistic vehicular human sacrifice in the name of economic growth
― i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Saturday, 2 November 2019 03:06 (four years ago) link
This year 2,295 breweries submitted 9,497 beers to be judged in the competition. Only 283 of those breweries walked away with medals, 37 of those for the first time.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 2 November 2019 03:42 (four years ago) link
macaroni & cheese on bar menus
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 2 November 2019 03:51 (four years ago) link
It was a thing for a while elsewhere, especially lobster mac and cheese now we’re all about the katsu sando. Maybe the next global hipster food trend can be non-shit buffalo wings. How hard is it not to bread the wings, bake or fry them very hot and drown in Franks red hot.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 2 November 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
When watching sports on television I am exposed to advertisements featuring "buffalo wings", as conceived by several different corporate franchises. Such ads try desperately to make them look appetizing, using every trick of lighting, slow motion, action shots of wings spilling in profusion or floating through the air to majestic music. You name it.
Gawd, those breaded, glossy, candy-colored monstrosities look disgusting.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 2 November 2019 05:40 (four years ago) link
they are hella tasty tho
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 November 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
― nathom, Saturday, 2 November 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
American things
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Saturday, 2 November 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
Omg the most am thing in my eurotrash opinion: cheese cans. The fuck
― nathom, Sunday, 3 November 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
If it makes you feel any better, the section of my supermarket that sells genuine cheese is approximately 100 times larger than the square footage where canned 'cheese' is displayed for sale.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFGH55fjBvI
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 3 November 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
different cheese sections for proles and bourgies, with the latter over by the salami: an american thing?
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 3 November 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
(i'm a tillamook man and they have the right idea working both sides of the street: motorcycle battery of cheddar over here, "we stuck some peppercorns into an ounce of also-cheddar and left out the food coloring, give us $9.50" over there)
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 3 November 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
sometimes mac and cheese is the only good thing on a bar menu.
― Yerac, Sunday, 3 November 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
Hives and hickeys.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 08:15 (four years ago) link