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Leavemywife posted:The phrase "call a spade a spade" is not inherently racist. It's not. The word "niggardly" is also not. But good luck with that.
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What are you gonna call a spade a rake or something
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Shifty Nipples posted:What are you gonna call a spade a rake or something You should see the looks when I call them hearts.
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Leavemywife posted:The phrase "call a spade a spade" is not inherently racist. Why would that be racist? Literally never heard anything called a spade other than the digging tool / card suit.
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You loving goons
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Bogan King posted:Why would that be racist? Literally never heard anything called a spade other than the digging tool / card suit. Jerry Cotton posted:Subumbra literally translates to "under shadow."
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Thankfully here in  we're quite comfortable being open with our racism so don't need dog whistles like that.
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Strudel Man posted:Yes, that's so. I'm not sure if you're saying it to argue with me or to agree, though. It was for the benefit of goons who did not get a proper municipal education. e: Oh I didn't even look at my post of course the bit you quoted didn't show up when I quoted your post.
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Bogan King posted:Thankfully here in And the guy with Bogan as a user name was the first to mention the phrase "dog whistle"
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Jerry Cotton posted:It was for the benefit of goons who did not get a proper municipal education.
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Strudel Man posted:Ah, fair enough. Though in this case, a classical education might be more appropriate. I did say proper municipal education.
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I just wanted to contrast 'municipal' with some other '-al.' A feeble attempt at reparteé. 
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:You loving goons Yes this is a good example of calling a spade a spade, thank you.
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Strudel Man posted:I just wanted to contrast 'municipal' with some other '-al.' A feeble attempt at reparteé. The old idontthinkso-al.
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Bogan King posted:Thankfully here in You're kidding, right? The refugee issue is nothing but dog-whisle politics. Has been since Howard. Though, to be fair, it seems like the bigots are becoming more open about it in recent times.
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Bogan King posted:Thankfully here in Post/avatar text combo.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:You loving goons To be fair, I was trying to be funny, knowing perfectly well why the phrase is offensive to some.
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Hyperlynx posted:You're kidding, right? The refugee issue is nothing but dog-whisle politics. Has been since Howard. maybe you have both dogwhistle racism and socially acceptable casual racism 
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For the northern hemisphere, the school year starts in the middle of the year. The mortar is the bowl bit. The pestle is the stick bit.
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AtomD posted:For the northern hemisphere, the school year starts in the middle of the year. This was always super weird coming from a country where the school year just follows the actual year. Very strange. Especially when I visited my cousins in Canada and they only got like a week of holidays over Christmas while I was on my six week break.
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AtomD posted:For the northern hemisphere, the school year starts in the middle of the year.
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Hirayuki posted:What do you consider "middle"? It starts in September in the States, April in Japan. That's quite a spread. "Not January or February"
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Although the worst part of the Australian school year is it nearly always had my birthday as the first day of the year. loving worst birthday present being woken up at 6:30AM for the first time in 6 weeks and having to go to school 
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De'ath is not a fake name.
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Jerry Cotton posted:De'ath is not a fake name. I've only ever seen it spelt D'eath, wonder if the etymology is the same.
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iajanus posted:I've only ever seen it spelt D'eath, wonder if the etymology is the same. Dunno but a De'ath was involved (but not charged) in Operation Yewtree.
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Jerry Cotton posted:De'ath is not a fake name. I know a man named Viktor Deathrage. He does not like up to his namesake. Edit: I just googled him and it was all anime prettyboys. What the junk
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De'ath comes for us all.
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Ath is a town in the north of France. "de" means "from".
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Hirayuki posted:What do you consider "middle"? It starts in September in the States, April in Japan. That's quite a spread. The school year in the USA is basically based upon farm work
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I just assumed it started in September everywhere
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Surely it starts at the same time everywhere but rather than a certain date it starts when summer ends and ends when summer starts. In Oz it's summer during December etc. right?
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EmmyOk posted:Surely it starts at the same time everywhere but rather than a certain date it starts when summer ends and ends when summer starts. In Oz it's summer during December etc. right? it seems so. i learned something new here too now 
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The video game vvvvvv is called that because it's what the spikes everywhere look like
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In '6 Foot 7 Foot' by Lil Wayne, the line: "bitch, real Gs move in silence like lasagna" Because the G in lasagna is silent. Christ it's taken me like 6 years to realise this isn't just random gibberish YYZ has a new favorite as of 22:39 on Jun 29, 2017 |
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Being on a podcast that discussed Freddy Vs Jason, I realized that I know more about both franchises than I thought. Like, I planned on going through the entire episode being schooled by the host, but I kept answering his questions about the movies.
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EmmyOk posted:Surely it starts at the same time everywhere but rather than a certain date it starts when summer ends and ends when summer starts. In Oz it's summer during December etc. right? It is summer in December, and (although I've picked it up reasonably recently) it's still bizarre to me that other places don't have the same understanding of what constitutes seasons (eg. in Australia summer is strictly defined as 1/12-28/2, autumn is 1/3-31/5, etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season#Australasian_seasons). It seems such a fundamental thing that's drilled into you as a kid that it's mindboggling that there's any other way of thinking about it. As such school summer holidays normally go from mid-December till the end of January (my birthday, which sadly is often the first school day  )
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Seasons in huge swathes of the US are largely arbitrary (see the Gulf Coast, which has "seasons" closer to rainy/less rainy than hot/cold) so it can't really be nailed down. Summer in Houston, for example, lasts from mid-February to November, with maybe a couple cold fronts in the fall and spring.
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TheKennedys posted:Seasons in huge swathes of the US are largely arbitrary (see the Gulf Coast, which has "seasons" closer to rainy/less rainy than hot/cold) so it can't really be nailed down. Summer in Houston, for example, lasts from mid-February to November, with maybe a couple cold fronts in the fall and spring. They're fairly arbitrary here (especially in the north), but that doesn't stop us just nailing down the three month periods and calling them specific seasons. It seems weird since in no way do we directly connect the season to the weather (hell, it's been >20 degrees all week here in Brisbane in the middle of "winter" and seldom gets cold enough to put a jacket on). I guess for us the idea of seasons primarily is just a neat way of naming each quarter of the year.
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