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drunkenshoe

#18135
December 10, 2025, 04:35:35 AM
"his philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -the cynics, the stoics and the epicureans-and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'you can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.'" terry pratchett

drunkenshoe

#18136
December 10, 2025, 04:36:50 AM
I don't know. It's kinda off putting.

"his philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -the cynics, the stoics and the epicureans-and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'you can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.'" terry pratchett

drunkenshoe

#18137
December 10, 2025, 04:39:14 AM
"his philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -the cynics, the stoics and the epicureans-and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'you can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.'" terry pratchett

drunkenshoe

#18138
December 10, 2025, 04:40:00 AM
Americans...

"his philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -the cynics, the stoics and the epicureans-and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'you can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.'" terry pratchett

drunkenshoe

#18139
December 10, 2025, 04:52:32 AM


And me, swinging both ways with whatever my adhd adorable brain feels like...
"his philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -the cynics, the stoics and the epicureans-and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'you can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.'" terry pratchett

drunkenshoe

#18140
December 10, 2025, 05:01:32 AM


"his philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -the cynics, the stoics and the epicureans-and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'you can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.'" terry pratchett

drunkenshoe

#18141
December 10, 2025, 05:03:24 AM
Dogs are evolving into cats. Proof:

https://pin.it/3UI2y9wSF
"his philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -the cynics, the stoics and the epicureans-and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'you can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.'" terry pratchett

Gawdzilla Sama

#18142
December 10, 2025, 06:14:55 AM
Quote from: drunkenshoe on December 10, 2025, 04:40:00 AMAmericans...


That's the address the load is to be delivered to. ~"242 Dickson St."/exlumberyardgoon
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

the_antithesis

#18143
December 10, 2025, 01:35:13 PM
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on December 10, 2025, 06:14:55 AMThat's the address the load is to be delivered to. ~"242 Dickson St."/exlumberyardgoon

You wood say that.

PopeyesPappy

#18144
December 10, 2025, 03:09:50 PM
Quote from: drunkenshoe on December 10, 2025, 04:52:32 AM

And me, swinging both ways with whatever my adhd adorable brain feels like...

I'm the archictect. The wife is the racoon. No meth, but she's definately been rummaging around in there for something.
Save a life. Adopt a Greyhound.

drunkenshoe

#18146
December 12, 2025, 01:16:06 AM
"his philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -the cynics, the stoics and the epicureans-and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'you can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.'" terry pratchett

Hydra009

#18147
December 12, 2025, 03:04:14 PM
Quote from: drunkenshoe on December 12, 2025, 01:16:06 AM
That's not exactly a real place, though there is Blennerhasset and Torpenhow (really rolls off the tongue, way more distinguished than simplistic names like York or Leeds, lol)

There are lots of places with the same name in multiple languages, like the Avon river.  My personal favorite is Lochmere Lake not far from me.  (Loch = scottish, Mere = old english, lake = modern english)

Gawdzilla Sama

#18148
December 12, 2025, 04:00:35 PM
I was sitting in a café in Paris "A FEW YEARS AGO" and hear two young ladies struggling with English (they were students at Sorbonne I found out later) and one of them was almost in tears. I went over and asked them if I could help. We spent two  hours going over their problem areas. The café staff kept the coffee going for me, we were actually drawing a crowd of people trying to look like they weren't eavesdropping.

When they had to go one of them asked me a question I couldn't answer.

"Do they really teach this to children in America?"

Yeah, English is like that. American-English is worse.
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

Hydra009

#18149
December 12, 2025, 08:36:20 PM Last Edit: December 12, 2025, 09:17:29 PM by Hydra009
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on December 12, 2025, 04:00:35 PM"Do they really teach this to children in America?"

Yeah, English is like that. American-English is worse.
I've lived too long.  I know previous generations' slang, my generation's slang, and the current slang.  Example: "you're being too hysterical!" to "take a chill pill" to "calm your tits" to "bruh, slow your goofy ass down fr"  Or "posing for the camera" to "aura farming".  I know how to express excitement as "by Jove!" to "awesome!" to "let's go!" and it hurts my brain.  English is the turducken of languages.

It's not all bad, I've lived to see "hey" as a greeting be normalized.  My grandparents' generation had a bizarre aversion to shortening greetings, apparently unaware that "goodbye" is itself a heavily shortened expression.  Also, I'm glad cursive is dying out.  It was a pain to write and a pain to read and most communication is digital anyways, so it's good to standardize and simplify when possible.  I'm also glad that "whom" is more or less dead.  I find that word tedious and annoying and I will die on the hill fighting whoever.  :P

Still, I'm not keen on the tenuous grasp most people nowadays have on apostrophe/possession/plural rules, the redundant and clunky "have got" as a common expression, and their/they're/there confusion.  In a browser game I used to play, the tutorial included a basic literacy quiz before you can access the chat function.  Imho, social media should include a similar literacy quiz.
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