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3D Megadoodoo posted:Uncout -> uncouth These loss edits are getting really abstract
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Interpretations are getting a bit looth that’s for sure.
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:Exactly right. Much like warm -> warmth and cool -> coolth. is coolth the opposite of being uncouth??? I've never heard or read "coolth" or "couth" but uncouth means you are like, socially inept? Maybe "out of the loop" in a tight social circle? I can't remember where I have actually read or heard it, but I recall the phrases "uncouth sleuth" from some kind of scooby doo cartoon, and "uncouth youth" from a song with vocals by Aesop Rock??? Am I just pulling memories out of my rear end about a word that doesn't exist? Oxford says uncouth is a word that exists, but I'm not quite sure I believe them.
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Mar 10, 2021 08:37
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WITCHCRAFT posted:I've never heard or read "coolth" or "couth" Fun fact, 'couth' dropped out of use in the 16th century but 'uncouth' was retained, and then a couple hundred years later 'couth' came back into use (with a slightly different meaning) as a back-formation off 'uncouth'. https://www.etymonline.com/word/couth
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Mar 10, 2021 09:14
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Captain Monkey posted:Breadth is how much breadiness a thing has. Or how many slices you can cut it into 
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Mar 10, 2021 14:58
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'Curry Favor' doesn't mean getting into someone's good graces with curry. It comes from the practice of using couriers, fast scouts and messengers, if someone wanted good news they'd want the Courier's Favor for good and kind words.
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Mar 11, 2021 06:56
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MariusLecter posted:'Curry Favor' doesn't mean getting into someone's good graces with curry. Nope. You use a curry brush to clean a horse, it’s just a drifted form of an even older idiom that’s actually a pun about cleaning a horse. It’s in a play where the horse’s (who had become a king) name ( Fauvel )was similar to the word for false or misleading (the word that became faux). So you’re brushing/tending the fake horse king to gain an advantage.
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Mar 11, 2021 07:07
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Captain Monkey posted:Nope. "Currying fauvel"????? This is the worst fake etymology yet, shame on you.
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Mar 11, 2021 07:13
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 It's horses all the way down.
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Mar 11, 2021 07:13
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In The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, one of the bounty hunters that Tuco escapes from in the opening scene is the same guy that later attempts to kill Tuco while he's in the bathtub. It's dead obvious that it's the same guy, with clear shots of his face both times, but I somehow always assumed it was some random guy that had a run in with Tuco before the events of the film.
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Mar 11, 2021 07:14
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:"Currying fauvel"????? I may be missing the joke. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_de_Fauvel quote:The romance also gave birth to the English expression "curry fauvel", the obsolete original form of "curry favor".
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Mar 11, 2021 07:19
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Dip Viscous posted:I somehow always assumed it was some random guy that had a run in with Tuco before the events of the film. That's a reasonable assumption, Tuco's a grade A jerk
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Mar 11, 2021 07:41
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Captain Monkey posted:I may be missing the joke. Aw, I even included a secret hidden message in my post in case anyone was  enough to quote it
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Flo Rida Florida
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Captain Monkey posted:Nope. what the gently caress is going on with this post
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Mar 11, 2021 11:19
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Yeah that whole wikipedia page that was linked reads like those memes about a television show that never existed to me. The original Space Invaders game didn't use sprites, it just had individual pixels moving around grouped together. The processor of the game cabinet was pretty rudimentary, so they moved slowly to start with. After a few of them were dead, they started to move faster. Kill some more, they moved faster, etc etc. The difficulty curve in Space Invaders was not intentional, it was just a function of the processing power the original game had.
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I don't know where intent comes into it. Especially on limited hardware, programming is jazz: it's about the code you don't write. In this case throttling movement with less sprites on screen. Unless like they're quoted as "motherfuckers I always dreamed of the space invaders going the same speed but alas it was not to be."
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Mar 11, 2021 15:34
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Humphreys posted:Flo Rida Did this a few years ago and got relentlessly mocked for it by the other people in the car
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Mar 11, 2021 16:07
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TK-42-1 posted:Did this a few years ago and got relentlessly mocked for it by the other people in the car That's okay, his name actually comes from a 19th century ballet about a guy who got around on a singing horse called Flo.
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Umbrella - "tiny shadow" - umbra plus a diminutive also the french for "Umbrella" is "parapluie", where "pluie" is "rain" - compare to "parasol", where "sol" is of course "sun" zedprime posted:I don't know where intent comes into it. Especially on limited hardware, programming is jazz: it's about the code you don't write. In this case throttling movement with less sprites on screen. Unless like they're quoted as "motherfuckers I always dreamed of the space invaders going the same speed but alas it was not to be." The wikipedia article for Space Invaders posted:Despite the specially developed hardware, Nishikado was unable to program the game as he wanted—the Control Program board was not powerful enough to display the graphics in color or move the enemies faster—and he ended up considering the development of the game's hardware the most difficult part of the whole process.[14][18] While programming the game, Nishikado discovered that the processor was able to render each frame of the alien's animation graphics faster when there were fewer aliens on the screen. Since the alien's positions updated after each frame, this caused the aliens to move across the screen at an increasing speed as more and more were destroyed. Rather than design in compensation for the speed increase, he decided to keep it as a challenging gameplay mechanism.[16][26] Phy has a new favorite as of 18:45 on Mar 11, 2021 |
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Today I discovered that the scale on a supermarket self-checkout machine is just the rectangle below the screen, not the entire silver surface. So I've just figured out that over the last few years, I've stolen a lot of fruit and veg from supermarkets because only part of the product was actually being weighed 
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Mar 12, 2021 10:25
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Lady Disdain posted:Today I discovered that the scale on a supermarket self-checkout machine is just the rectangle below the screen, not the entire silver surface. Sorry the correct emoji response here is 
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Mar 12, 2021 10:36
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Welcome to the resistance comrade
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Mar 12, 2021 10:42
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The self-service scales, where everything is "carrots"
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Mar 12, 2021 10:46
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You mean the scale isn't in the bagging area?
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Mar 12, 2021 10:46
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Dip Viscous posted:You mean the scale isn't in the bagging area? That's a secondary snitch scale, to rat you out when the weight doesn't match what you put in. Or to just constantly spazz out so you have to get a human to help you. Maybe there's some scales where the bagging area does all the weighing , that would work fine too
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Here whenever you scan produce you have to type in the bullshit weight manually because it's assumed you weighed it on the bullshit rigged scales back in the produce area. But then when you try to scan a box a saltine crackers and bag it HOLY poo poo UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA!! Guess it all varies wildly by region.
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Mar 12, 2021 11:03
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I have heard, no actual data to back this up, but from what I hear, you can use a sharpie to draw a line down the middle of a barcode of something you got from the deli, and assuming none of the wage slaves working that day notice, which is actually in their best interests no to, you can put the salami or ham or whatever through the register as potatoes and no one will be the wiser. The way they get you these days is that potatoes are in pre-measured bags, so you need to put things through as something else. I've heard that grapes at $3.50/kg are a good option.
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Mar 12, 2021 11:10
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Memento posted:potatoes are in pre-measured bags Truly a cursed land.
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Memento posted:I have heard, no actual data to back this up, but from what I hear, you can use a sharpie to draw a line down the middle of a barcode of something you got from the deli, and assuming none of the wage slaves working that day notice, which is actually in their best interests no to, you can put the salami or ham or whatever through the register as potatoes and no one will be the wiser. One enterprizing shopper in Queensland was making her own barcodes on her home printer and sticking them on everything so they all scanned as packets of 65c instant noodles. She got away with it for months and months and scammed several local supermarkets out of thousands of dollars worth of groceries and the only reason they ever suspected anything was happening was that a manager noticed that sales of 65c noodles had skyrocketed, and the floor staff then started paying more attention around the self checkout area and noticed that she seemed particularly nervous
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Now that I work in inventory at a grocery store I've discovered that literally everyone steals from the self-checkout. We even have our scales set up right so everyone technically gets caught. The cashiers that work SC give approximately -40000 fucks about it and just key in the override. We apparently move carrots by the freighter load every week. It makes my job a living hell but I hope no one stops because it's fun to watch the trends of how people scam the machines. It's like a memo goes out about the new theft system every once in a while and everyone starts keying in roasted peanuts for the tomahawk steaks.
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The self service checkouts at Woolworths in Australia have a camera in them that identifies fruit and veg by colour and shape. So if you put red coloured apples on the scales the screen auto suggests varieties of red apples as well as other red round fruit and veg it could be and you choose the right one from the selection.
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Mar 12, 2021 13:16
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If walmart thinks I'm going to pay for 5 gallons of water when I refill the cooler jugs and not 1 they're clearly insane
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fizzymercury posted:It's like a memo goes out about the new theft system every once in a while and everyone starts keying in roasted peanuts for the tomahawk steaks. lol, rad. Attn All Employees: please take advantage of this new method our customers have discovered to save money on groceries. the big rubbermaid bin method is an extremely bold one I have heard of. fill bin, scan bin, pay for bin, lol. this is more of a home depot/walmart kind of problem
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Recently passed the 2 year anniversary of the kid who scanned a PS5 as produce and only got caught when he came back to get a second.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:One enterprizing shopper in Queensland was making her own barcodes on her home printer and sticking them on everything so they all scanned as packets of 65c instant noodles. She got away with it for months and months and scammed several local supermarkets out of thousands of dollars worth of groceries and the only reason they ever suspected anything was happening was that a manager noticed that sales of 65c noodles had skyrocketed, and the floor staff then started paying more attention around the self checkout area and noticed that she seemed particularly nervous I did something similar in college when I was nearly broke and lower on the ethical scale I am at currently (and also was younger and had that whole "brain can't really comprehend possible consequences of your actions" thing.) This was the early 2000's, so the "TV Shows on DVD" craze was just taking off, and The Wal-Mart near me didn't put a lot of them in the locked case, they were out in the open. They also had one of those "bargain $5 DVD" bins. The first thing I did was take one of those DVDs and a season of Star Trek or X-Files, whatever was priciest (they tended to go for $90-$100 back then,) then casually walked around the store and carefully peeled off the "Generic $5 DVD" sticker that was placed over the original UPC on the bargain DVD, and put it on the Star Trek DVD. I put the bargain DVD back in the bin, and bought a couple more regular items and checked out. Bam. $90 season of Star Trek for only $5. Then I scanned in the UPC and printed them out on sticker sheets. Then I would go back, only ever buying 1 at a time, for plausibility if the cashier knew what the price should be and questioned it* (claim ignorance, though looking back now there's no way that would fly, but I could just run and never go back I guess.) Then sell on eBay for like $70-80 and reap the profits. I only did it a handful of times because I was afraid of getting caught and it was too much work for the money, since I could only do one at a time, and even leaving and immediately going back in was too risky, so really only like 1/day. *The trick was always choosing the register with the oldest person you can find, since ESPECIALLY in 2002/2003, they likely wouldn't have a clue what a DVD should cost.
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Just wanna say there's nothing unethical about stealing from the Walton family, in fact it makes you the greatest hero in American history and Picard would approve of your choices
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Years ago, I noticed that when a local supermarket chain marked things down, the replacement barcode had the changed price visible within the new barcode. If you keyed in the barcode manually, you could change the price to anything at all. I only tried out of curiousity - it seemed like bad design on their part. But then, the chances of a customer being weird enough to notice, and also weird enough to bother making the change was probably very low.
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Self checkouts are very elaborate unmanned road side produce stands. Barcodes aren't encoded any more than there being a check digit so the only thing stopping you from ringing everything as produce or putting your own bargain bin barcodes on everything is the social contract.
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