billy "stopped clock" o'reilly
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 24 June 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
the best thing about that is that it positions radicals as the ones who actually know US history
― hollow your fart (m bison), Monday, 24 June 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
Way cool, rad even, for him to admit this.
― nashwan, Monday, 24 June 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
Championing traffic lights is a far-left favorite because it does a number of things.
It reinforces the radical belief that automobiles can wreak grievous harm upon people and property if measures aren't taken to control the flow of vehicular traffic.
― Top Number One Most Of Smart (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 June 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
I mean we're literally at the point where the right is describing observable, measurable constituent reality as 'radical belief'.
― Top Number One Most Of Smart (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 June 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
slavery reparations is a far-left falafel loofah favorite
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 24 June 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
re "folks", I have a theory that this is a word black people in America use more often than white people but it is near-impossible to find info on this using the Google searches I've come up with so far
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 24 June 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
it's a word that was mostly used in Greenwich Village in the '60s iirc
― old cloud yells at man (voodoo chili), Monday, 24 June 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
Both of my parents referred to visits with my grandparents as "going to see the folks". It was applied equally to either set of grandparents.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 24 June 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
I did find this in my googling adventure which made me go o_O: https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2019/feb/21/robert-mckinzie/fact-checking-myth-word-picnic-racist/
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 24 June 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
re "folks", I have a theory that this is a word black people in America use more often than white people but it is near-impossible to find info on this using the Google searches I've come up with so far― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, June 24, 2019 4:22 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, June 24, 2019 4:22 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it became the new "guys" in tech in literally the last 6-18 months. went from never hearing it to hearing it exclusively, and "guys" sounding like a mild curse word some time then. e.g. at my boring enterprise it is the standard term in (relatively woke) engineering, but has not made it over to sales yet (golf nazis)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 24 June 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
at the risk of stating the obvious it's an attempt at "folksiness" which shouldn't be made except in the vernacular around a region or discrete community—neighborhood, church, bingo parlor etc., else (to my ears) it just sounds cloying, pandering/patronizing
we already have a word for people
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 24 June 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
Folks just makes me think of Ben Vereen in All That Jazz.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 24 June 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
I'd happily adopt 'mofos' as a substitution if y'all wanna help me get that off the ground.
― Top Number One Most Of Smart (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 June 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
I use folks, gang, people, and family to address my staff, for better or worse. fwiw I enjoy this digression considerably more than the news of the day
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 24 June 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
Some folk'll never eat a skunkBut then again some folk'll
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 24 June 2019 21:52 (four years ago) link
Like Cletus, the slack-jawed mofo.
― Shoegazi (Leee), Monday, 24 June 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
'comrades' > 'folks' > 'guys' > 'ladies and gentlemen' > 'my fellow americans'
― Dan I., Monday, 24 June 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
i did the quotes wrong
― Dan I., Monday, 24 June 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
'youse'
― Top Number One Most Of Smart (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
(var. 'youse mugs')
― Top Number One Most Of Smart (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
Yinz
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
I often use "folks" in favor of "people" because in certain contexts the word "people" has undergone a degree of pejoration (going from a positive or neutral sense to a negative one)... it feels impersonal and a little too distancing/othering when prefaced by an adjective. This may be no more than the effect of being a default term coming up frequently in speech that calls out a specific subset of the population (usually problematic), and thus a sort of a fall guy word. So I look to substitute it with a softer term. Like "folks". Note that I'm not making any claims about how effective doing so is as an attempt at amelioration; I'm just saying that's one explanation for why we might do it. Also, as a replacement for "guys" it is less gender-specific.
It might be that pejoration is a linguistic phenomenon driven by culture, a different category of language change than something like ignoring the who/whom distinction or pronouncing "nuclear" the way George Bush does (which we assign a cultural value to *after* it arises in the language). We tend to shoot the messenger when it comes to pejoration... this lexical instability is the verbal shadow of some instability in the culture. There's some problem we can't come to grips with, so we're constantly talking around it.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:59 (four years ago) link
that’s all, y’all!
― Hunt3r, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 03:00 (four years ago) link
also “all y’all” is the plural of “y’all,” afaict?
― Hunt3r, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
pronouncing "nuclear" the way George Bush does
Historical trivia alert: the first president to consistently mispronounce nuclear as "new-kew-lur" was Dwight Eisenhower.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 03:27 (four years ago) link
sometimes “people” works better than “folks”. like: “We tortured some _____.”
― beard papa, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 04:44 (four years ago) link
"y'all" is plural, "all y'all" just means ALL y'all
― Vape Store (crüt), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 04:54 (four years ago) link
a short way of describing the current problem with saying “people” is that it often seems to travel with a preceding silent “you”My confession to add to all this is that I actually prefer “dudes”
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 13:37 (four years ago) link
good morning!
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
Well, to be clear- y’all for second person plural over there; dudes for second person plural over here
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
It's not a mispronunciation. American and British speakers, for example, pronounce "clientele" in distinct ways. Neither pronunciation is wrong.
People think "y'all" can be used in the singular because it sometimes gets used to refer to an entity or a group when conversing with one member of that group. For example, when I worked at a bookstore, people talking to me would ask me "can y'all take this back if I don't like it?" They're talking to me, but referring to the bookstore which I am a part of. A third party less familiar with "y'all" overhearing that might assume they were using it as the second person singular.
Far more entertaining if you come from a y'all-free zone is the possessive form, which sometimes is realized as "y'all'ses" (yall-ziz) and always makes me happy when I hear it in the wild.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
I've ben using "y'all" instead of "guys" the last couple years. When I speak to Republicans, I call them "asswipes."
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link
"It's not a mispronunciation. American and British speakers, for example, pronounce "clientele" in distinct ways. Neither pronunciation is wrong."
maybe but pronouncing "nuclear" as "nucular" is wrong, sorry.
― akm, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 14:00 (four years ago) link
Ruling on 'NOO-kah-luhr' plz
― Top Number One Most Of Smart (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
Iran leadership doesn’t understand the words “nice” or “compassion,” they never have. Sadly, the thing they do understand is Strength and Power, and the USA is by far the most powerful Military Force in the world, with 1.5 Trillion Dollars invested over the last two years alone..— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2019
his feelings are hurt bring on the war
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
he's mad because Hassan Rouhani said the White House was “afflicted by mental retardation.”
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
Hey Donnie, why don't you take a stab at defining 'nice' and 'compassion' for us, you walking flesh void.
― Sly Bradbury's The Marion Cobretti-cles (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
Hassan otm
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
broke: spending $1.6tn to cancel student debtwoke: spending $1.5tn to murder iranian children
― big beautiful wario (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
So this latest DoJ file reveals that Duncan Hunter had an affair with at least three different lobbyists, one of his own staff members, and an aide to a member of the GOP leadership team.— Sam Stein (@samstein) June 25, 2019
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
the best and the brightest horniest
― L'assie (Euler), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
wow where did he find the time out from his busy schedule of vaping on the floor of congress and enthusiastically committing campaign finance crimes
― big beautiful wario (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
I look forward to our trillion dollar navy getting sunk by thousands of cheap cruise missiles
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
A society of the macabre. "Among supporters of the death penalty, support for a nuclear strike [on North Korea] actually rose from 38 percent to 49 percent when the number of expected North Korean fatalities increased from 15,000 to 1.1 million." https://t.co/e8mGvid17h— Tim Shorrock (@TimothyS) June 25, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
we already made a grand gesture of our total indifference to human life by electing Trump tho
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
We did that by electing Reagan
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
We did that by electing Reagan Nixon
fixed
― nickn, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
nixon andrew jackson
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
NC lawmaker says Lincoln ‘unjustly invaded’ the South, a ‘sovereign nation’
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link