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MrChips posted:Just a friendly reminder that my offer here: I missed your generous offer, MrChips. I don't know if my blankets fit into your offer, so I did this to make sure I'm in your window. 
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Darchangel posted:Yeah, I had to train myself to avoid that. And to stop calling people I don't like "fags" (THANKS, game chat/internet,) since, in my POV, being gay isn't, you know, insulting or a bad thing in and of itself. It just gets stuck after years of gaming with misogynist homophobic 14-year-old assholes screaming in your ear. "That's gay" needs to go, too. All good personal development. I've replaced pretty much all of these with variations of douche.
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Rhyno posted:All good personal development. I've replaced pretty much all of these with variations of douche. Isn't "douche" insulting to women, since it's used as a pejorative for dirty vag cleaning instruments, implying that the vagina is a dirty thing? rear end in a top hat never goes out of style, and it's equal-opportunity.
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I just use dingus if I'm in polite company. Its oddly satisfying.
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meatpimp posted:Isn't "douche" insulting to women, since it's used as a pejorative for dirty vag cleaning instruments, implying that the vagina is a dirty thing? I had this conversation recently quote:doucheDictionary result for douche Anything can be douched.
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Lol I went downstairs to the finance and sales managers because I hate my Corolla and wanted to get out of my lease a whopping two months early. They valued my 30K mile 2016 S-Plus Corolla at $12,000 and said yeaahh, probably best you just stick out the last two months. Weak.
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meatpimp posted:Isn't "douche" insulting to women, since it's used as a pejorative for dirty vag cleaning instruments, implying that the vagina is a dirty thing? It doesn't imply the vagina is _inherently_ dirty. If someone cares more about getting laid than hygiene things can get smelly tho and the type of dude who's consistently hooking up with (and obvs also is one of) those types generally also has some undesirable personality traits.
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Rhyno posted:I had this conversation recently "Douche" is short for "douchebag" though, which *is* vagina-specific. I'm generally of the opinion that searching for things to be offended by is loving stupid (uh oh, another word etymologically rooted in mental deficiency!), though. e: which is not to say I think calling people ugly words is okay
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Douche is extra weird, since in most other languages, it just means "to wash" I do need new terminology for some things though, like, what's a different way to say that someone's job is to be stuck doing the stuff that no one else wants to do? The only ways I've learned to say it quickly is "pinche", which is often heard as "gently caress" by people who don't know Spanish very well, or "scullion", which anglophones don't know, or "bitch", which just feels bad to say
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Well ten goddamned seconds on Google tells me guys douche their buttholes. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW
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Grakkus posted:"Douche" is short for "douchebag" though, which *is* vagina-specific. Trust me when I say that a literal douchebag can be used for non-vaginal applications. ^^^evidently Rhyno knows this too^^^ 
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Rhyno posted:Well ten goddamned seconds on Google tells me guys douche their buttholes. Sure, "ten seconds on Google" ^^^^^^^ 
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Feb 21, 2019 19:09
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Some of y'all in here clearly don't get F'd in the A and it shows. 
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Trust me, knowing what I eat there ain't nobody who wants any of that.
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Rhyno posted:Well ten goddamned seconds on Google tells me guys douche their buttholes. You should always keep your butthole clean. Imagine if you died, think of the poor coroner. This is why other countries have bidets.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:You should always keep your butthole clean. Imagine if you died, think of the poor coroner. Do they make one of those for my internet browsing history?
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I've been on a similar kick with the word(s) 'cocksucker'. It tends to be used as an insult, and my immediate thought is always "but thats a good thing to do for someone?". Someday, in the future, people will praise one another by saying "you're a real cocksucker!" and the response will be "thank you!".
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El Jebus posted:I've been on a similar kick with the word(s) 'cocksucker'. It tends to be used as an insult, and my immediate thought is always "but thats a good thing to do for someone?". Someday, in the future, people will praise one another by saying "you're a real cocksucker!" and the response will be "thank you!". 
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I douche my b hole every day e: sorry I was wrong I didn’t realize the definition specifically says water and I use vodka bird with big dick fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Feb 21, 2019 |
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I like to call people on the road "silly pricks" even though "prick" is presumably derogatory toward men.
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El Jebus posted:I've been on a similar kick with the word(s) 'cocksucker'. It tends to be used as an insult, and my immediate thought is always "but thats a good thing to do for someone?". Someday, in the future, people will praise one another by saying "you're a real cocksucker!" and the response will be "thank you!". If someone calls you a cocksucker just explain to them that this is a silly and homophobic insult as it is almost certain that their mother/wife/daughter has or does suck cocks and they presumably don’t think less of them for it.
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Rhyno posted:My mother has worked with the developmentally disabled for 25 years so it tends to hit close to home. It is also my birthday, happy birthday to us, and I also want this as a present, thanks. My mom is retired now but she was a speech pathologist and spent her entire career working with developmentally delayed people, mostly autistic children. I spent a few summers as a kid volunteering at public summer school special education classes (they liked having "normal" kids spend time in the classrooms to model behavior, and I didn't mind hanging out with those kids either, some of them were really fun people) and one of my part time jobs in college was doing medical billing for her joint private practice. It's cool that us Feb 21st boys have such good moms, eh. I think even "developmentally delayed" is now sorta deprecated. http://nda.ie/Publications/Attitudes/Appropriate-Terms-to-Use-about-Disability/ Apparently it's "intellectually disabled" which I don't personally see as an improvement at all. In some ways it's worse, as it implies that "intellect" is a singularly-defined "thing" on a scale. All of these attempts at finding acceptable terms are dancing around the core issue, though, which is the stigmatization and de-normalization of human beings whose capabilities or perceptions or functions are outside the range of what socially-established cultural standards deem the norm. That is precisely why "retarded" and "retard" are now no-no words: they're too heavily burdened by decades of negative connotation to be salvaged. The Door Frame posted:I do need new terminology for some things though, like, what's a different way to say that someone's job is to be stuck doing the stuff that no one else wants to do? The only ways I've learned to say it quickly is "pinche", which is often heard as "gently caress" by people who don't know Spanish very well, or "scullion", which anglophones don't know, or "bitch", which just feels bad to say Scullion is a perfectly good English word, albeit not well known. I immediately also think of "dogsbody" and "lackey," although probably "dogsbody" is more English than American and I only know it from Blackadder. Another good one is "drudge," although to me that connotes poor ability by the worker too. If the person achieved this status through deliberate submissively sucking-up behavior, "toady" is good. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Feb 21, 2019 |
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Rhyno posted:My mother has worked with the developmentally disabled for 25 years... There's a joke here LOVE YOU RHYNO.
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Rhyno posted:You guys should stop calling people who do dumb things retarded. I mean, I totally get where you're coming from, but: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retarded And, it does say "informal, usually offensive", but the question remains, to whom? The person that's acting retarded? I'm in a very close situation as you, my wife deals with elderly and mentally handicapped people on the regular, but nobody calls actual mentally deficient people retarded unless they're completely a piece of poo poo. And by that, I mean no harm to actual pieces of poo poo, thank you actual pieces of poo poo for fulfilling a bodily function.
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Anyone can suck a cock and if you're good at it you can have lots of friends so it's pretty much a compliment I would think.
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keykey posted:I mean, I totally get where you're coming from, but: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retarded Hey dog you're using a word for developmentally disabled people as an insult. It only ever came to be an insult through that association. It reinforces the idea of having mental issues being a bad thing that you should be insulted when someone implies you have them. IDGAF what the loving dictionary definition says, there's broader context that you can't find there.
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bird with big dick posted:If someone calls you a cocksucker just explain to them that this is a silly and homophobic insult as it is almost certain that their mother/wife/daughter has or does suck cocks and they presumably don’t think less of them for it. Like I said, the response is "thank you". If you want to bring up their family members participating, that's on you, Duck.
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Literally every personalized insult ever created and used by man was mocking someone's disability or minority status, so at some point we should all just quit calling each other names in general and give more "thumbs up" signs instead. Lame? Injurious to those with less than perfectly regular gaits. Weak? Cuts deep if you can only bench the bar 3 times before having to rack it. Dumb? The deafmute is signing offended words at you in ASL, and the other SL's too if they're multilingual (do not assume). Moron? A clinical assessment of someone's low intelligence, hurtful to actual morons. Give someone a hearty "thumbs up"? they feel like an rear end, you feel like an rear end, everyone wins.
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Going back to two pages ago and A/V chat. I got a new Sony A8F last weekend, with this fancy Acoustic Surface technology. Basically there are drivers on the screen, so the screen itself produces mid/high-end frequencies. It's got two subs on the back of the TV. Music and environmental noise sound beautiful and clear, but dialogue is massively unbalanced. In order to hear character dialogue, I've gotta crank it up so high that things like horns honking or door slamming are startlingly loud. Aside from loving around with the TV's audio settings (of which there are a ton of optimizers/spatializers/DOLBY fuckerizers), what's a good method of evening things out? Would moving to a simple soundbar setup or 2.1 speaker system eliminate the TV's tomfoolery with the audio signal, or should I be looking at an actual receiver/eq unit?
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My girlfriend has strep, my wife has a flu not covered by this year's shot. Pray for me, I will probably hit the hospital because diabetes.
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The Prong Song posted:Going back to two pages ago and A/V chat. I got a new Sony A8F last weekend, with this fancy Acoustic Surface technology. Basically there are drivers on the screen, so the screen itself produces mid/high-end frequencies. It's got two subs on the back of the TV. I just got a Yamaha RX-V683BL receiver and it has YPAO tuning with RSC (reflective sound control, I think). There are similar tuning methods from other brands, but it takes a microphone at a central position and runs a series of tones through each individual speaker, then adjusts the EQ on each speaker for a flat response, then adjusts for whatever sound field modification you are running. It made a huge difference in my system. I've got 5 in-wall speakers in a sonically difficult room (30' x 20' - ish, but sprawling to other open areas of the house, all with vaulted ceilings. You can see the individual EQ parameters for each speaker and man, some of them are wildly different, especially the two rear surrounds that are only about 10' apart. My thoughts are that you'd see a huge difference in switching to a traditional amp/speaker setup, but the killer app would be to tune and run the TV panel speaker from the external amp... is that possible?
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meatpimp posted:I just got a Yamaha RX-V683BL receiver and it has YPAO tuning with RSC (reflective sound control, I think). There are similar tuning methods from other brands, but it takes a microphone at a central position and runs a series of tones through each individual speaker, then adjusts the EQ on each speaker for a flat response, then adjusts for whatever sound field modification you are running. You can change the TV to function as a center speaker in a 5.x environment, but I'm not sure you can change eq parameters on it using YPAO. Only if the receiver is smart enough to tune the other channels based on the static parameters of the center channel.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/photo-radar-review-alberta-mason-1.5028016quote:The Alberta government plans to eliminate photo radar as a tool for revenue generation, Transportation Minister Brian Mason vowed Thursday. This might just be a to-be-ousted government trying to buy votes before the election, and will no doubt be reversed by the already impossibly corrupt government-to-be but holy hell, how did common sense sneak into government policy?
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El Jebus posted:I've been on a similar kick with the word(s) 'cocksucker'. It tends to be used as an insult, and my immediate thought is always "but thats a good thing to do for someone?". Someday, in the future, people will praise one another by saying "you're a real cocksucker!" and the response will be "thank you!". See, I' had that same thought. Ditto for variations thereof. I'm like, "what's bad about that?" Ties into the homophobic stuff I guess, since it's generally directed at males. I've been having to find gender-neutral non-degrading-to-anyone-but-the-recipient terms. As noted, "rear end in a top hat" seems to work well. "Jerk" if near polite company. Variations of jerk - jerk-rear end, jerklord, etc. for variety. My personal favorite thus far is "butt-nugget." It seems to get across my estimate of that person's' value well. Nice. Hell, if I could reach I'd never leave the house. Pham Nuwen posted:I like to call people on the road "silly pricks" even though "prick" is presumably derogatory toward men. I've been know to use "dick" a bit. Probably too much. Also, your buttcoin avatar amuses me.
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The Prong Song posted:Going back to two pages ago and A/V chat. I got a new Sony A8F last weekend, with this fancy Acoustic Surface technology. Basically there are drivers on the screen, so the screen itself produces mid/high-end frequencies. It's got two subs on the back of the TV. I never trust a TVs built in anything. To be fair, I also don't buy high-end stuff, which surely affects that perception. I've used a separate receiver and speakers for probably decades, whether just straight stereo, 3.1, or 5.1. Reminds me that I need to drag one of my old receivers out into the garage to use. I have several that predate HDMI...
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Powershift posted:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/photo-radar-review-alberta-mason-1.5028016 Over here in Manitoba they were theoretically supposed to run reports on road safety to justify the revenue generating cameras but afaik they never have.
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meatpimp posted:I missed your generous offer, MrChips. I don't know if my blankets fit into your offer, so I did this to make sure I'm in your window. I totally forgot to get back to you on this earlier, and I apologise, but yes, I will count both your donations separately. Thank you for your generosity! 
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