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Nuebot posted:Vaguely related but "google it". I've seen "Google it" as an answer on question/answer sites. Gee thanks, bud.
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ladron posted:I had an ex that called it a "sang-wich" "Sangwich" was a regular pronunciation where I lived growing up.
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Someone I know overenuciates "g"s, so "walking" (or as I say it, "walkin'") turns into "wah-king-k". She has no trace of an accent otherwise.
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May Contain Nuts posted:Every radio station in my area that plays pop music has some type of morning zoo programming so I can't listen to pop music when I'm driving to work. If I want to listen to rock, or classic rock, or jazz, or opera, or oldies there is no problem, but if I'm in the mood for pop music, all 5 local stations are 2-5 morons talking about celebrity gossip and last night's episode of Big Brother. Why do they assume that people who like pop music would rather not listen it between 6 and 10am on weekdays? I complained about it for years but I finally stopped being lazy and figured out Pandora and it is so glorious. The free version only has 1 min of ads every 3-4 songs, and you can dislike songs and they'll never play again, and there's no stupid DJs. The data usage isn't too bad either. My friend said Spotify allows you to store songs locally so you won't use data, but I haven't tried that yet. In any case I now never fly into a murderous rage upon turning on the radio in the morning. Content: I'm sure everyone hates this and has said it but people who walk around the store slowly and obliviously. I was going to the store to pick up a can of soup, and this 50 year old lady with the old-lady afro hair and big sunglasses (at 8pm) was just wandering around in the middle of the aisle, occasionally walking closer to the soup shelf but looking in a totally different direction. Then I finally got my soup but she quickly turned around in front of me and started pushing her cart slooowwlly down the middle so I couldn't get around. Then later I ended up behind her in line! And of course she was paying with cash. And of course there was the "wait I have the .18 cents let me look" and pulls out a bunch of coins and cotton fluff and candy wrappers out of her pocket. That, and she also was one of the people who look into your basket (or cart), then look at you, like they're judging you based on what you're buying.
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cash crab posted:Someone I know overenuciates "g"s, so "walking" (or as I say it, "walkin'") turns into "wah-king-k". She has no trace of an accent otherwise. Do they always sound as if they have a cold or something?
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Dec 11, 2015 06:28
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Nuebot posted:Do they always sound as if they have a cold or something? Yes! That's exactly it, I couldn't put my finger on it.
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Thin Privilege posted:Content: I'm sure everyone hates this and has said it but people who walk around the store slowly and obliviously. I was going to the store to pick up a can of soup, and this 50 year old lady with the old-lady afro hair and big sunglasses (at 8pm) was just wandering around in the middle of the aisle, occasionally walking closer to the soup shelf but looking in a totally different direction. Then I finally got my soup but she quickly turned around in front of me and started pushing her cart slooowwlly down the middle so I couldn't get around. Then later I ended up behind her in line! And of course she was paying with cash. And of course there was the "wait I have the .18 cents let me look" and pulls out a bunch of coins and cotton fluff and candy wrappers out of her pocket. That, and she also was one of the people who look into your basket (or cart), then look at you, like they're judging you based on what you're buying. Kind of related: people who stand in an aisle and stare at the shelf for minutes at a time without deciding what they want while blocking most of the rest of it with their cart. I'll want to get the thing of salt (or whatever) right in front of them, so I go get everything else I need and come back, but they're still loving there. You're not buying a new house, just make a decision already. Also this only applies in places with public transport, but: people who try to get on the tram before people get off. I've had to shove a guy trying to step directly into me as I was getting off because I was getting pressure from behind me. Calm down, just wait 10 seconds and you'll get your drat seat you're in such a hurry to grab. These people presumably have lived in Germany longer than I have, this rule shouldn't be news to them. The nice thing is there's usually someone else in the crowd more than willing to tell these people off (probably the same people w ho start yelling at you from across the street if you cross a street during the "don't cross" part).
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Parasol Prophet posted:"Sangwich" was a regular pronunciation where I lived growing up. You're from crazy slutville too?
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When you have a problem, a real problem that you need a solution to, and the only help you are offered is: deal with it. We foster kittens. The rescue group changed the spay/neuter policy so you can only go to 1 of 3 clinics to get your fosters fixed. The clinics are open Mon-Fri, 7am to 5pm. So when I said I work, and there is no way I can take a day off for this poo poo, and don't we have any other solutions (like the sole paid person at the loving rescue taking the fosters to the vet on certain days) I was told to go into work early (can't happen), leave early (no) or take the day off. To "deal with it because no one else has these problems." Um, no, lots of people in the group do, but no one loving SAYS a thing because the Facebook is covered with people desperate to get their animals fixed and adopted, so every other week someone is asking for help in sending the animals to the clinic. Because they work. Because maybe 4 people in the group of 50 are retired but they don't have transport, and the people that do have transport work during the day. We won't be fostering anymore.
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Cowslips Warren posted:When you have a problem, a real problem that you need a solution to, and the only help you are offered is: deal with it. "Deal with it" "It's not my problem" "Sucks to be you" People tend to be assholes and it blows. I have to get my prescription renewed once a year and get a check up to make sure the meds haven't tanked my kidneys and liver yet and oh boy, last time the doctor kept pushing back the appointment every time. So I wound up having to go a week or so without meds and no way to get more.  They refused to even give me like, a few days worth of the medication I needed to not have potentially life ending seizures, too.
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Dec 11, 2015 11:42
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Cowslips Warren posted:To "deal with it because no one else has these problems." This is something I hear all the time and it's dumb. I've posted about it before but DHL has the same attitude about refusing to leave a package unattended at my apartment, requiring taking a day off every time I want to order something from Amazon. "Nobody else has these problems" is not a legitimate response to a complaint. I guess I can understand wanting to work normal hours, but is it so much to ask to maybe have even just one day where your hours aren't 9-5? Like maybe on Thursdays be open from 11-7 or close on Mondays and be open on Saturday, I don't know. Other businesses find ways to cater to those customers all the time, but some places just refuse to budge.
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May Contain Nuts posted:Every radio station in my area that plays pop music has some type of morning zoo programming so I can't listen to pop music when I'm driving to work. If I want to listen to rock, or classic rock, or jazz, or opera, or oldies there is no problem, but if I'm in the mood for pop music, all 5 local stations are 2-5 morons talking about celebrity gossip and last night's episode of Big Brother. Why do they assume that people who like pop music would rather not listen it between 6 and 10am on weekdays? Try Bob and Tom for both local classic rock stations
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Murphy Brownback posted:Kind of related: people who stand in an aisle and stare at the shelf for minutes at a time without deciding what they want while blocking most of the rest of it with their cart. I'll want to get the thing of salt (or whatever) right in front of them, so I go get everything else I need and come back, but they're still loving there. You're not buying a new house, just make a decision already. Try not being passive-aggressive? I agree it's annoying as poo poo, but a simple "excuse me" and most people will get out of your way.
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Dec 11, 2015 18:31
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bradzilla posted:Try not being passive-aggressive? I agree it's annoying as poo poo, but a simple "excuse me" and most people will get out of your way. Related peeve: when I am stuck behind someone on the street and I say, "excuse me," and they turn around, look me in the eye and do not move. It's very common here and I usually just push them out of the way at that point, which also does not illicit a reaction. I am convinced 50% of Toronto are synths.
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Dec 11, 2015 18:41
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bradzilla posted:Try not being passive-aggressive? I agree it's annoying as poo poo, but a simple "excuse me" and most people will get out of your way. Usually these people either are too oblivious to hear you or just stare at you wide-eyed and slack-jawed as if they don't know what "excuse me" means.
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Dec 11, 2015 19:49
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ladron posted:I had an ex that called it a "sang-wich" Let me guess - born somewhere in the northeast US, like New England area? I had tons of family members that pronounced it "sangwidge", drove me up a goddamn wall
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Dec 11, 2015 22:13
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cash crab posted:Someone I know overenuciates "g"s, so "walking" (or as I say it, "walkin'") turns into "wah-king-k". She has no trace of an accent otherwise. Semi-relatedly, people who pronounce "-ing" as "-een," so "walking" turns into "walkeen." I don't even know what region this "accent" comes from.
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cash crab posted:Someone I know overenuciates "g"s, so "walking" (or as I say it, "walkin'") turns into "wah-king-k". She has no trace of an accent otherwise. Is she from long island?
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HEY GAL posted:Is she from long island? I don't think so. I should ask. I just don't want to hear her say "Longk Island".
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I like most accents  A thing that peeves me sometimes, is watching a rock concert on TV and inevitably they play some song with a violinist, and they play some stupid somber notes over and over again. But they always try to like class it up and make them look all dignified for playing it or even put them super prominent in the limelight; it's just stupid all around.
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May Contain Nuts posted:Every radio station in my area that plays pop music has some type of morning zoo programming so I can't listen to pop music when I'm driving to work. If I want to listen to rock, or classic rock, or jazz, or opera, or oldies there is no problem, but if I'm in the mood for pop music, all 5 local stations are 2-5 morons talking about celebrity gossip and last night's episode of Big Brother. Why do they assume that people who like pop music would rather not listen it between 6 and 10am on weekdays? I was all excited when I got XM radio thinking I would be free from morning radio shows since it's a nationwide broadcast over several timezones. Nope. The hits channel STILL has has a gaggle of stupid morning radio DJs and it's even more bland because they have to cater to the entire country so there's not even any local flavor to it. On the subject of accents, I've noticed everyone in the Midwest pronounces "measure" as "may-sure" and it just stabs me in the brain every time I hear it.
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Aquatic Giraffe posted:I was all excited when I got XM radio thinking I would be free from morning radio shows since it's a nationwide broadcast over several timezones. Nope. The hits channel STILL has has a gaggle of stupid morning radio DJs and it's even more bland because they have to cater to the entire country so there's not even any local flavor to it. I've lived in the Midwest for a longass time and have literally never heard anyone pronounce it anywhere close to that. "Milk" is really the only thing that gets mispronounced around here with any regularity. My pet peeve is people equating shitholes like Iowa with the Midwest as a whole.
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I just got a coffee at whataburger and the retard didn't snap the lid down all the way, so when I went to take a drink boiling coffee spoiled under the rim of the lid and scalded my thumb. It's gonna loving blister. It's not hard to fill a drink and put a lid on it, but places continually gently caress it up and overfill drinks or don't put the lid on all the way.
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Ozz81 posted:Let me guess - born somewhere in the northeast US, like New England area? I had tons of family members that pronounced it "sangwidge", drove me up a goddamn wall No, Nicaragua by way of DC, with a long stint in crazyslutville
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Ryoshi posted:I've lived in the Midwest for a longass time and have literally never heard anyone pronounce it anywhere close to that. "Milk" is really the only thing that gets mispronounced around here with any regularity. My mom was born and raised in ND and her only ridiculous accent trait she has is "May-shure" and "Play-shure". I can't stand it but she says it all the time. My uncle was also born and raised in ND and insists on saying "Warsh" and "Warshington". He's the only person in our family who says it. Makes no sense, but here we are.
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mostlygray posted:My uncle was also born and raised in ND and insists on saying "Warsh" and "Warshington". He's the only person in our family who says it. Makes no sense, but here we are. Something I've noticed about the Midwest is that somehow even people in the same household will have different accents from each other. Like there will be a family with three kids where two of them have pretty neutral American accents and then one daughter sounds like the mom from Bobby's World. What the poo poo? The only regional thing that really bugs me is when people use "yet" in place of "still".
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I like my toast to be slightly blackened on the outside. Just the very outside layer. Apparently this is enough to set off my smoke detector some mornings. People who think warm bread = toast.
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Davinci posted:I eat my toast raw Gross
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Ryoshi posted:I've lived in the Midwest for a longass time and have literally never heard anyone pronounce it anywhere close to that. "Milk" is really the only thing that gets mispronounced around here with any regularity. Iowa is the best part of the midwest. Lol if you're too blind to see that. Iowa also has the neutral accent. The accent you hear on tv, on commercials, on public service announcements: the Iowa/Omaha accent or "neutral " accent. Iowa literally sets the standard on American English, deal with it. ( note I mean like Des Moines/urban iowa, not the country folk nonsense)
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Urban Iowa, lol. That's cute.
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On the subject of TV shows and bad storytelling a good comparison is Humans (about human-like sentient robots and societies distrust of them) and Dr Norrell and Mr Strange(about two men trying to restore English Magic to it's former glory during the napoleonic wars), as they both tell a story over the course of 8-10 episodes but Strange and Norrell just does it better. Humans is a very slow burn and doesn't really seem to do much at first, it's just build up. By the time the series is half over, most of the audience probably were in danger of losing patience and quitting watching, although the last few episodes were more interesting. Strange and Norrell however, kept attention much better by having a Big Effect Spell in each episode, and by the end of it multiple insane spells were being fired off all over the place as the tension between the tense Norrell who feared the faerie folk behind most old magic and would have nothing to do with them; Strange, who drove himself to madness because he believed it would make his magic better, and it did; and the Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair who had his own dark motives as one of the fae folk previously mentioned.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:
What? Can you give an example?
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:The only regional thing that really bugs me is when people use "yet" in place of "still". It irritates me when people use "any more" to mean "now", like the example from this site: "Pantyhose are so expensive anymore that I just try to get a good suntan and forget about it."
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Haven't watched the show but Strange and Norrell was a slog of a book, twice as long as necessary. Humans' best feature was the soundtrack, total synthporn.
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lidnsya posted:What? Can you give an example? "Is there still some beer left?" becomes "Is there beer left yet?" Even after hearing it my whole life, it's confusing yet.
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Book reviews that go like this: "This book is... [ 10,000 words about the various bad aspects, plot holes, lovely character development, everything is bad and stupid ] But despite all that, I would recommend it without hesitation! A must read!"
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Something I've noticed about the Midwest is that somehow even people in the same household will have different accents from each other. Like there will be a family with three kids where two of them have pretty neutral American accents and then one daughter sounds like the mom from Bobby's World. What the poo poo? "'Ey bruddah, want to go down to da kine and get tree of does, you know da kine yah, brah?" I've been here for over half my life now and I still can't quite get used to the local dialect.
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Thin Privilege posted:Book reviews Book reviews that start with a plot summary. That's already in the description, just tell me what's good or bad about it!
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Everyone talking about how great it is finishing for work now for christmas, specifically because I'm working all through the holiday.
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