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Ugly In The Morning posted:That’s loving amazing, I don’t know why he thought that would save him. Though that may just be general sparky weirdness. You guys are odd. I have absolutely and certainly worked with some extremely weird motherfuckers. Barudak posted:This is amazing in such an adorable yet helpless way. Like a dog with a cardboard tube stuck on its nose He was a good guy but I definitely facepalmed when I heard him say that Still better than the kid who ate snow off the ground at the poo poo plant
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 05:54 |
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quote:Still better than the kid who ate snow off the ground at the poo poo plant i've gotta hear the story behind this. it sounds like a cautionary adage, "don't eat snow off the ground at the poo poo plant"
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 06:07 |
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....poo poo plant? sewage facility, i'm assuming?
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 06:12 |
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Skypie posted:
There are some weird, weird motherfuckers who work trades. He was probably doing less weird poo poo than the pipefitters at least.
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goethe.cx posted:i've gotta hear the story behind this. it sounds like a cautionary adage, "don't eat snow off the ground at the poo poo plant" StrangersInTheNight posted:....poo poo plant? sewage facility, i'm assuming? Yeah, we were at a water treatment plant in February. They were adding/upgrading stuff, and we were pulling in new 15,000 volt cables for power distribution. We're getting all set up one morning, and the apprentices had the illustrious task of being the workhorses dragging the cables off the giant spools. One of them was a dude who liked like he was about 16 and at one point he says, "I'm thirsty." I tell him it's probably gonna be 10 or 15 more minutes before we start the pull so it's a good chance for him to grab water from the trailer or whatever. He replies "nah, that's ok" then reaches down and grabs a handful of snow off the ground and stuffs it in his mouth. We were maybe 200 yards from where raw sewage enters the facility to begin the treatment process and all I could think was and told him I hoped he'd gotten his hepatitis vaccine
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 06:25 |
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so how long was he out for a monster stomach infection
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 07:44 |
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DragQueenofAngmar posted:it isn’t though. the restaurant is called McDonald’s. Ah. It's pronounced more like "Mack" here, guessing it's closer to "mick" there.
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 08:06 |
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Miserable Maid posted:God, I hate "Maccas". It doesn't even make sense! At least "Micky D's" sounds like the real name. lmao imagine being mad about slang, like how can the way people naturally talk be "forced"
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 08:15 |
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Slang only exists to define an in-group and exclude everyone else.
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 08:22 |
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Whorelord posted:lmao imagine being mad about slang, like how can the way people naturally talk be "forced"
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 08:23 |
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my favorite thing to do is teach my EFL students outdated slang. that's the cat's pajamas, so's your uncle, its like an abbot and costello routine in polish accents. i am a monster and deserve to be rendered into whale oil.
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 08:28 |
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The fun part about Aussie slang is that so much of it changes basically every five minutes. Also sometimes old and obscure stuff comes back into popularity.
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 08:41 |
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:my favorite thing to do is teach my EFL students outdated slang. that's the cat's pajamas, so's your uncle, its like an abbot and costello routine in polish accents. i am a monster and deserve to be rendered into whale oil. It's just not cricket.
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 08:41 |
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UPDTATE - My (24 M) girlfriend (22 F) had a guy friend sleep over at her place and I walked in on it.quote:THIS IS AN UPDATE TO MY PREVIOUS POST .
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Lucrece posted:UPDTATE - My (24 M) girlfriend (22 F) had a guy friend sleep over at her place and I walked in on it. I’m shocked!
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 10:04 |
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Truly, an unforeseen turn of events
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 10:06 |
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yeah waht a surprise man people live in the weirdest relationships
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 10:14 |
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Knobb Manwich posted:It's just not cricket. I actually do use this expression every day (and am English. Well, Yorkshire, the best bit of England).
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 10:18 |
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The end of that post is great because all of the sudden the dude reveals the house is built on a red flag burial ground
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 10:21 |
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monkeytennis posted:I actually do use this expression every day (and am English. Well, Yorkshire, the best bit of England). You're saying that every single day, you see something that's just not cricket?
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 10:23 |
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I remember that expression coming from arguments over variant rulesets for cricket where matches don't take an entire week to resolve.
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 10:25 |
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:my favorite thing to do is teach my EFL students outdated slang. that's the cat's pajamas, so's your uncle, its like an abbot and costello routine in polish accents. i am a monster and deserve to be rendered into whale oil. That's loving awesome.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:my favorite thing to do is teach my EFL students outdated slang. that's the cat's pajamas, so's your uncle, its like an abbot and costello routine in polish accents. i am a monster and deserve to be rendered into whale oil. The other day I had to explain to an Indian guy why you can be called a twat affectionately, but not a nonce.
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 11:07 |
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monkeytennis posted:Yorkshire, t'best bit of England.
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 11:19 |
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Leon Einstein posted:So did you. Nice catch
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 11:26 |
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Cowslips Warren posted:My drug addict brother joined the Army after 9/11. Not because he wanted to or felt it was a good thing to do, because it was either that or he'd be stuck with his addict friends across the country. So he came home, hosed around for a while, and finally went into the Army. He was stationed in Germany for a few years, never left the drat base. Never learned a word of German. Decided he wanted out, so he stood on a chair in his room, with a noose around his neck, waiting for his roommate to come back. This happened twice. He was offered treatment and all kinds of therapy, and he refused. Ended up leaving with a dishonorable discharge for something, and came back to the USA. Doesn't stop him from telling people he's a veteran and joined after 9/11 because it was the American Thing To Do. That fuckin sucks. Guys like that probably have such lovely lives I just figure the effort of calling them out wouldn't really be worth it. goethe.cx posted:don't respond to known trumpist chud spacetoaster Like this shithead.
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My [32F] husband [32M] is bothered by my ongoing non-reaction to death (my brother, 2 years ago, and most recently a cousin)quote:My brother died nearly two years ago in a car accident. He was a good brother and we had a good relationship – went on camping trips once every couple of years, caught up at least monthly, etc. I do wish he was still around, but I wasn’t very negatively affected by his death. I don’t know why. At first I thought it was shock, so tried my best to emulate the grief everyone else was experiencing, but didn’t do a very good job. My family put it down to me just being “stoic” and the rock of the family. Almost two years have passed and I still don’t feel terribly much about it – maybe the same sadness with which you’d miss a favourite co-worker at an old job. My feelings can be summarised as, “That sucks.” As horrible as it sounds, the first Christmas he was gone, when I was out shopping I even felt a little relief that there was one present less that I needed to think about.
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 16:06 |
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man I wish I was that at ease with death, husband is a real chump for not appreciating his unflappable wife
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 16:11 |
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Cold-bloooded. But eh, if she's really that unbothered yeah he is right to be upset because hey, she could at least make an effort to act like she'll be sad when he passes. It's just polite ffs, he's not going to know she's lying when the time comes because he'll be dead. But at the same time maybe she should go to that therapist and make sure she's not headed for a cat 5 freakout one day. While I was very devastated by my best friend's death at the time, I still had lots of later moments where I broke down. Even if this lady doesn't seem to be sad now, there's no telling if or when she might break down and completely lose it because she's bottled it up this long.
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 16:28 |
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chemtrail huffer posted:My [32F] husband [32M] is bothered by my ongoing non-reaction to death (my brother, 2 years ago, and most recently a cousin) Don't marry lizardfolk if you're put off by their survival-oriented practicality.
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 16:36 |
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Thats the kind of woman who when negotiating with the people who have taken her children hostage calls them idiots because she has the instrument to make more.
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 16:41 |
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chemtrail huffer posted:My [32F] husband [32M] is bothered by my ongoing non-reaction to death (my brother, 2 years ago, and most recently a cousin) My advice is that she kills one of her closest relatives, then pretends to grieve to put her husband at ease
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 16:44 |
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chemtrail huffer posted:My [32F] husband [32M] is bothered by my ongoing non-reaction to death (my brother, 2 years ago, and most recently a cousin) I think a lot of pessimists or pragmatists are more relatable to her than they're willing to admit, I know at funerals I just fake it when in reality I just dgaf
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 16:45 |
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empty sea posted:Cold-bloooded.
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Beachcomber posted:Slang only exists to define an in-group and exclude everyone else. nerd alert
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 16:53 |
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Or it could just be that her natural reaction is...not to experience much grief? There's a large performative element to grief that people expect, but not everyone experiences, and people talk a big game that others should have the room to grieve as needed - but what if that looks like....not grieving? There may not be any deep dark secret, she just may be able to move on from things quickly and that's just how she is.
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 16:54 |
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empty sea posted:Cold-bloooded. I mean, she did make an effort, she's just apparently bad at lying.
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 16:59 |
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Maybe she has antisocial personality disorder and gives absolutely no fucks? She’d make a good CEO.
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# ? Dec 1, 2019 17:01 |
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as long as she's not an actual sociopath and actually likes and cares about the people in her life, I don't see what the problem is with her being unfazed by death. it's probably the more adaptive reaction anyways
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Or it could just be that her natural reaction is...not to experience much grief? There's a large performative element to grief that people expect, but not everyone experiences, and people talk a big game that others should have the room to grieve as needed - but what if that looks like....not grieving?
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