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yeah I eat rear end posted:Duolingo was cool at first but the way they do it kind of ruined the concept of learning languages for me. The constant reminders to do your lesson today so you don't lose a streak etc just wore me down. I made it to like 250 days in a row and missed one day (after using up all my freezes) and haven't touched it in like 4 months. Plus there's the fact that it feels like the equivalent of memorizing a phrasebook than learning the language. I know how to say a lot of things in Norwegian now but I wouldn't be able to make it two sentences into a casual conversation with a native speaker. I dunno, it's a free and generally well designed app that actually has helped millions of people learn new languages. It obviously has its limitations, but I spent 18 months learning Spanish on my lunch breaks at work, and while it didn't make me fluent, it did mean when I went to Mexico I could make basic small talk and have transactional conversations etc, which is pretty awesome I think.
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It’s best as a supplement/review if your goal is more than “not be a rude tourist”
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I remember trying my Duolingo Dutch in Amsterdam and a waitress looked at me like an alien
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I hate how often I see people referring to jack-o-lanterns as pumpkins. Before the vegetable is carved its a pumpkin but once the carving process is complete and it has a face/whatever other kind of fancy carving you're supposed to call it a motherfreakin jack-o-lantern!!!!
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Debunk This! posted:I hate how often I see people referring to jack-o-lanterns as pumpkins. Before the vegetable is carved its a pumpkin but once the carving process is complete and it has a face/whatever other kind of fancy carving you're supposed to call it a motherfreakin jack-o-lantern!!!! is it really a jack-o-lantern with just carvings though? I think the internal candle is the more important differentiator between a pupkin and jack o lantern.
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Sep 6, 2021 22:33
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Without the candle you got jack
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yeah I eat rear end posted:is it really a jack-o-lantern with just carvings though? I think the internal candle is the more important differentiator between a pupkin and jack o lantern. Yeah the candle counts to, I thought of that after I made my post but imo the carving comes first and is more important to jack-o-lantern status
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For some reason I'm bothered when people just paint the pumpkin instead of carving it at all.
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Dip Viscous posted:For some reason I'm bothered when people just paint the pumpkin instead of carving it at all. Because why does it even have to be a pumpkin? Get a ball or a rock
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Sep 7, 2021 14:11
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The last pumpkin that I carved turned out so bad that calling it a jack o lantern felt like false advertising 🎃
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Sep 7, 2021 18:14
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My jack-o-lantern peeve is when people have to bust out the dremels and poo poo to make a lovingly rendered bas relief R2D2 or whatever. This is a children's holiday craft, what are you trying to prove?
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HOLY gently caress posted:The last pumpkin that I carved turned out so bad that calling it a jack o lantern felt like false advertising 🎃 A jacked-up lantern?
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Ugly In The Morning posted:A jacked-up lantern? I kept trying to fix it but ended up making it worse 
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My birthday is 11 september and I have to clarify every year to new people that no, no, really, I'm not making a bad joke, it's really my birthday. Also whenever I have to show my id/passport and the person checking it must comment. I had the date before those dumb dead people did 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:My birthday is 11 september and I have to clarify every year to new people that no, no, really, I'm not making a bad joke, it's really my birthday. Happy Siege of Vienna day? I hate people in hospitals complaining about anti-infection protocols (not even covid, somebody had some ugly bacteria and needed to avoid being touched).
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Sep 9, 2021 03:21
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Can Yom Kippur be a peeve cuz I've been at work and fasting for twelve hours and I am not happy! Chosen people my rear end. Only a few more hours, gimme the kugel and quiche please. Hangry at Hashem.
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People treating any attempt to establish a common definition of a word as telling them that they're wrong and refusing to engage with their point. When in fact it's the exact opposite. Look, it just seemed like we were using the same word but meaning two completely different things. I quoted a dictionary entry because dictionary writers are much better at defining words than I am, not because I think dictionaries are unassailable authorities. I'm trying to explain what I meant by it so we can get past this misunderstanding. I'm not telling you your definition is wrong, it's just not what I meant when I said the word.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:My birthday is 11 september and I have to clarify every year to new people that no, no, really, I'm not making a bad joke, it's really my birthday. As someone who got a bunch of "Happy birthday, have you heard about the insurrection going on at at the Capitol?" texts earlier this year I feel your pain. (I had not. I was working, and extremely confused and alarmed for a good while.)
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I enter a room, I am in a room, and then I exit a room. And then it is time to start calling my name. What changed in that four seconds? Just talk to me when I am there.
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Me going to take a shower: Well, the baby is sleeping and everyone else seems to be happily doing something, mind if I take a brief shower, dear wife? Wife going to take a shower: IT'S SEVEN AM AND I JUST WOKE UP THE BABY, THE KID, AND YOU FOR NO REASON REALLY! I'M GOING INTO THE SHOWER FOR HALF AN HOUR WHILE THEY SCREAM FOR ME, BYE
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Sep 19, 2021 12:49
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Dog videos that are just narration or "dog speak" captions while the dog is staring at an off-screen treat. It works for Andrew Cotter because he actually shows the dogs enjoying their treats at the end but it does not work for all those Facebook videos where the person filming it clearly thinks you're too stupid to realize what is going on (to be fair, it's a reasonable assumption for much of the audience).
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Sep 19, 2021 20:20
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Is it so much to ask people to act like grown adults instead of spoiled children? I just went down to the basement to leave a file for someone to come in and review. My supervisor told me the person is going to make an appointment to look at it later in the week. Cool great, easy. The staff down there saw who the file was for and got pissed at me because that person had come and gone about an hour ago. Well poo poo people I was only told about it.... about an hour ago and it takes time to find a dang file sometimes. Then when I told them that person is making an appointment for later, they accused my supervisor of lying! First of all don't shoot the messenger! Second if you're pissed at the public, don't take it out on staff! I don't get paid enough for that poo poo. gently caress off!
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Sep 21, 2021 16:21
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The fad of "realistic" viking era shows where the vikings are war gods and the saxons can't do a shield wall.
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Silver Falcon posted:Is it so much to ask people to act like grown adults instead of spoiled children? This is not, I don't think, a radical idea that has occurred only to my own personal galaxy brain: I think social media has locked a lot of people into a state of low-level agitation and perpetual emotional adolescence. That may not have been the original intention, but it was by god the result and it turned out to have been great for business, so yes, it is going to be a lot to ask.
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There's a lot of times I myself will read a message and respond later. But read receipts still make me feel like a teenager waiting for their crush to text them back. Why does anything have them? It helps no one.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:There's a lot of times I myself will read a message and respond later. But read receipts still make me feel like a teenager waiting for their crush to text them back. Why does anything have them? It helps no one. I'm so glad Signal at least lets you turn them off, for yourself and anyone who converses with you. We must resist the tyranny of the read receipt
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Yeah, read receipts are awful. Turning them off on WhatsApp was one of the best things I ever did.
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I'm bi but dated guys most of my adult life Double peeve: I live with a russian woman now, and good god I never ever want to hear any mail order bride or "heheh guess you were straight all along" comments. Nope, didn't pay for her, she's just cool, and nope, I'm glad I sucked all those dicks and I'd do it again
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'm glad I sucked all those dicks and I'd do it again It's been a minute since we've had a new thread title
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I've heard that--and I hope it's true--we resuck all the dicks we've sucked when we die
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Iron Crowned posted:It's been a minute since we've had a new thread title Two years almost to the day.
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Losing a highly-promoted veteran unit on a 99% victory chance battle... ...with a CATAPULT. gently caress you
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Brawnfire posted:Losing a highly-promoted veteran unit on a 99% victory chance battle... Well you know the old saying: everybody has a plan until they get hit by a Big Rock.
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The saving throw against Squish is notoriously hard.
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Back in the early 90's I was playing the OG Civilization and somehow a caravan...a loving CARAVAN (which in those days had an actual defense rating) successfully defended one of my cities against 3 enemy Armor units. God bless that little camel. 
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Canadians who say the US healthcare system is better It's not better morons, you only say that because you have canadian healthcare
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DrBouvenstein posted:Back in the early 90's I was playing the OG Civilization and somehow a caravan...a loving CARAVAN (which in those days had an actual defense rating) successfully defended one of my cities against 3 enemy Armor units. Those were always the units I gave special names to. Which means they'd die the next turn
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I've got dog blood and poop running down my leg and I've been at work for what's increasingly approaching 24 hours peeve: whoever left wet leftover beans to rot in the sink. They were good when fresh but holy goddam gently caress they are gross now and I have neither the will or talent to clean the empty pot. This is a vet's office. There are dogs and cats here. If I can smell the reek then good lord they must be able to, and they're already terrified and in pain.
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When I share my screen and people comment on my number of unread emails. yeah I didn't click on over 21000 emails I didn't want to read, what of it
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And what do they expect you to do at this point, sit there and delete 21,000 old emails 50 at a time? Who honestly cares that much about their email inbox?
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