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Austria is called Austria because it is an Anglicization of Österreich. Eastern Reich.
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~technically~ it’s a latinization.
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Sep 22, 2018 13:32
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Baronjutter posted:My co-worker spent a week researching if he had a "legal case" for "false advertising" because his favourite KFC by his house closed early because of running out of chicken. "The sign says they're open until 9 but it was only 7, that's false advertising, after banging on the door long enough someone came to the door and gave me some BS excuse about running out of chicken but I didn't believe them, they had closed early for no reason and that's illegal" In my experience, every single person that ever threatens to report someone for "false advertising" is a colossal moron that has no idea what constitutes false advertising. No madam; being out of stock of the Nintendo Wii but still having a poster in the window about it is not false advertising. Yes, I'm aware that I've ruined Christmas, I've had sixty other parents tell me that today. I am sorry that I am not a Nintendo Wii factory. gently caress, working retail was just the worst.
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Sep 22, 2018 13:47
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Never underestimate the power of asking boldly but (important) not obnoxiously for swag The bird speaks the truth. I ordered a belt from a shop online at 50% off retail, to be shipped from a brick and mortar location. When it arrived, there was a sale sticker price $25 less than what I paid, so I called them and asked boldly, but not obnoxiously, for $25. It worked, even though they said "we usually don't do this."
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Sep 22, 2018 14:17
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Henchman of Santa posted:For more reading on this subject: I have never once had my order messed up at Popeyes... does this mean I am as good as the AITron 4800 at selecting fried chicken orders???
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Sep 22, 2018 19:00
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MariusLecter posted:Okay, this is like the 6th time I've heard something like this about Popeyes recently. Twice on SA and then a few more times in discord and what not. You know how Amazon hired a bunch of people to post nice things on twitter about them?
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Sep 23, 2018 05:27
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fruit on the bottom posted:You know how Amazon hired a bunch of people to post nice things on twitter about them? no..? wtf btw i loving love working in a robotic parcel picking sweatshop. its my dream job and i dont even feel a need for vacation time!
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Sep 23, 2018 08:29
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Krankenstyle posted:no..? wtf Amazon workers are being paid to defend the company on Twitter 
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Sep 23, 2018 09:07
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Who cares, they just do company PR on a different platform, while getting paid for it.
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Sep 23, 2018 09:09
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Krankenstyle posted:no..? wtf
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Sep 23, 2018 09:09
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Elfgames posted:y'know i would ask how you like pissing in bottles to avoid getting fired for taking bathroom breaks but you are a goon i loving love it #amazonlife
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Sep 23, 2018 10:13
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I'll defend Amazon for money as long as I don't have to work there. PM me Jeff
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Sep 23, 2018 12:36
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doverhog posted:Who cares, they just do company PR on a different platform, while getting paid for it. I don't care too much when it is "Hey, this is PR for company.". What annoys me is how they try and pretend it is "Hi, I am normal guy just like you. I love company. Company is good, believe me for I am just normal guy, like you." Which I know is the way that social media marketing works, and how you get "influencers" etc. And bleeds into the idea of me being annoyed at companies trying to "trick" me into liking them or buying their poo poo.
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Sep 23, 2018 13:13
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But they have the company logo and "Amazon Ambassador" in their name?
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Sep 24, 2018 01:46
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rodbeard posted:I go through the Popeyes drive through near my house every once in a while when I'm out running errands and it's been long enough that I've forgotten that I've never gotten anything from there that tasted like anything other than salt. Shutup and drink more water
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Sep 24, 2018 02:01
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doverhog posted:Who cares, they just do company PR on a different platform, while getting paid for it. The deal was they'd get bathroom breaks if they did PR work while making GBS threads/pissing.
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Sep 24, 2018 02:05
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Apparently, holly and mistletoe are two completely separate plants.
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Sep 25, 2018 12:30
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Only found out last week Hanging On The Telephone is a cover. The original is drat good too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emy5mA8Ixtc
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Sep 25, 2018 17:14
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Phlegmish posted:Only found out last week Hanging On The Telephone is a cover. The original is drat good too While I recently found out The Tide Is High was a cover and the original was way better.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQXqkiKXiHc
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Sep 25, 2018 17:17
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It took me way longer than I'd like to admit to find out No Doubt's "It's My Life" was a cover, but in my defense the song DOES seem like something Gwen would do anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ixRWvrkUHo
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Sep 25, 2018 20:44
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AMISH FRIED PIES posted:It took me way longer than I'd like to admit to find out No Doubt's "It's My Life" was a cover, but in my defense the song DOES seem like something Gwen would do anyway. Talk Talk is legendary. They made a bunch of money for their record label from this song from their debit album and went on to make three of the most uncompromising art rock albums in existence. Each one better and more out than the previous, the lead singer would demand that everyone working on the album stay in the studio, which was lit only by candlelight, for days on end. The music has been incredibly influential, with folks from all kinds of genres pulling from their well of sounds and moods. Definitely worth checking out.
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Sep 26, 2018 01:59
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Really? I hated the no doubt song and was not expecting the original to be even worse.
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Sep 26, 2018 02:44
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rodbeard posted:Really? I hated the no doubt song and was not expecting the original to be even worse. They essentially invented post-rock
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Sep 26, 2018 05:22
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I still can't believe that the woman who once sang 'oi to the punks and oi to the skins' (a Vandals cover I know) turned into 2000's Gwen Stefani. I'm not an angry YouTube commenter and I don't care about selling out, just amazed at that seismic shift
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Sep 26, 2018 06:42
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oi to the world teaches us to be nice to nazi skins
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Sep 26, 2018 12:28
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lol I just looked up the lyrics for the first time Thought Trevor would have some kind of redemption arc but he's a dick right up until he gets undeservedly saved
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Sep 26, 2018 12:41
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Gwen Stefani is bad and No Doubt is bad, it should surprise no one after the photo-op she did with Paul Ryan. Edit: Hell, not even all of No Doubt, because the rest of the band went off with Davey Havok from AFI and formed DREAMCAR, a pseudo-new-wave supergroup and so far that's been pretty solid. Unless Davey Havok has done some horrible poo poo too.
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Sep 26, 2018 23:59
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Xenoletum posted:Unless Davey Havok has done some horrible poo poo too. He's a staunch vegan and won't let you forget it.
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Sep 27, 2018 00:13
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Xenoletum posted:Unless Davey Havok has done some horrible poo poo too. In highschool I saw AFI when they were coheadlining Warped with Me First. Me First came out and they said some poo poo about there being a mixup in the dressing room and they were all wearing fishnet shirts and leather pants and carrying broken parasols and poo poo. They do the whole set like that. Good time. AFI comes out wearing Hawaiian shirts and Davey immediately says "we're never doing this again" all grumpy and they all take off the Hawaiian shirts. They're all wearing fishnet shirts or whatever underneath. Total buzzkill. So what has Davey Havok done? He's taken himself far too seriously. For someone playing in a gothy pop punk band in their 40s, that's a serious offense.
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Sep 27, 2018 00:15
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Xenoletum posted:the photo-op she did with Paul Ryan.  because, uh, that's not exactly a 'photo-op'
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Sep 27, 2018 00:33
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Ferrule posted:He's a staunch vegan and won't let you forget it. That's actually fine. Like if "vegan" is on your radar of Bad Person then your morals are hosed. Vegans are fine.
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Sep 27, 2018 01:23
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:That's actually fine. Oh, sorry. "World's Sexiest Vegan" I meant. And again, he won't let you forget about it. Kinda like how you think I have no morals because some knucklehead from a lovely band snubs his nose at me for eating a burger. Everyone is fine until they start shoving their lifestyle into others' faces as "the one true way to live". Thats hosed up morals, dingus.
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Sep 27, 2018 01:26
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Who hurt you?
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Sep 27, 2018 05:03
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Ferrule posted:Everyone is fine until they start shoving their lifestyle into others' faces as "the one true way to live". Thats hosed up morals, dingus. Yeah bro, like how I don't respect the existence of private property, and people keep calling the police and saying I'm 'stealing'. What the gently caress is up with that?
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Sep 27, 2018 07:33
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Praseodymi posted:Yeah bro, like how I don't respect the existence of private property, and people keep calling the police and saying I'm 'stealing'. What the gently caress is up with that? Property is theft
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Sep 27, 2018 07:55
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syscall girl posted:Property is theft You can't like own things, man. You know or they end up owning you. 
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Sep 27, 2018 08:07
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syscall girl posted:Property is theft Agreed, I just want to see how Ferrule has lived this long without encountering the concept of social norms.
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Sep 27, 2018 08:47
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Today I actually broke down “no holds barred” in my head and realized what the phrase is in reference to. I knew what it meant in general use, but my mind always just treated it as essentially one word and not a phrase that just got adopted for colloquial use. Similar to how I grew up hearing “brought to you by” and mentally just reading it as “bratuedby”.
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Sep 27, 2018 19:37
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dirksteadfast posted:Today I actually broke down “no holds barred” in my head and realized what the phrase is in reference to. I knew what it meant in general use, but my mind always just treated it as essentially one word and not a phrase that just got adopted for colloquial use. Similar to how I grew up hearing “brought to you by” and mentally just reading it as “bratuedby”. As a kid I thought the Swedish for good evening was blofton because the news man on the news said god afton so quickly.
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Sep 27, 2018 19:42
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I think I've brought this up before but I've consistently found in ESL speakers that they know what "dog eat dog world" is, but they think it's "doggy dog world" (e.g. a world fit for dogs)
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