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A tale of somebody figuring something out that made me laugh https://twitter.com/roxiqt/status/1504465015939735552?s=20&t=02RFvBq9ZkiAULo0VgPtvQ
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phrase "now I've heard everything" continually grows more pertinent in my life
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credburn posted:I've never felt more aligned with people than when in like 2004 we all collectively turned on Homestar Runner. You mean in favor of Strong Bad, right? 
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AKA Pseudonym posted:A tale of somebody figuring something out that made me laugh Lmao https://twitter.com/selfishshelf/status/1504579422837305358 And also lol
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Mar 20, 2022 14:21
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It never occurred to me that "beaucoup" (bookoo) was spelled like that, I thought it was just a made up word that I would have tried to spell "bookoo" cause it was made up and didn't have some fancy way to spell it.
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Mar 20, 2022 17:35
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Shifty Nipples posted:It never occurred to me that "beaucoup" (bookoo) was spelled like that, I thought it was just a made up word that I would have tried to spell "bookoo" cause it was made up and didn't have some fancy way to spell it. Yeah I always thought it was "buku bucks" Well, until I learned otherwise obviously, but before that
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Mar 20, 2022 17:43
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It's more like bow koo, with the last syllable rising and bow rhyming with "oh" or "throw" instead of rhyming with "plow." As a Hollywood thing beaucoup bucks yes it's generally mispronounced bookoo because the people who made it a thing were idiots.
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Or they learned the word from watching Full Metal Jacket.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Lmao Did this come first or the Malcolm in the Middle scene?
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Less something I figured out and more something I just learned. Basically what was described as the most expensive home movie ever made, Roar. Just imagine 140 untrained animals, most of them big cats (Lions, Tigers, etc..). Tippi Hedren and her then husband trying to kill themselves, Hedron's daughter (Melanie Griffith), and other cast and crew by wild animal. And filming it. It's got OKish reviews, but not as a movie so much. it's an abject failure at the things that make movies actual movies. Apparently, it captures the attention at a primal level, much like a horrific car wreck. You can't turn away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roar_(film)#Injuries_and_set_damages quote:Noel Marshall was bitten through the hand when he interacted with male lions during a fight scene; doctors initially feared that he might lose his arm. By the time he suffered eight puncture wounds on his leg caused by a lion which was curious about his anti-reflection makeup, Marshall had already been bitten around eleven times. He was hospitalized when his face and chest were injured and was diagnosed with blood poisoning. Marshall was also diagnosed with gangrene after being attacked many times. It took Marshall several years to fully recover from his injuries. During a promo shoot in 1973, Hedren was bitten in the head by a lion, Cherries, whose teeth scraped against her skull. God. drat. I'm trying to decide whether I want to watch this or not. Proteus Jones has a new favorite as of 00:16 on Mar 21, 2022 |
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I learned you don't have to run your hot tub constantly. You can turn it off sometimes, and turn it back on later and it'll take some minutes to heat up but bam, back to normal, No wonder our cheap hot tubs kept breaking down after a year or so
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Mar 21, 2022 00:22
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Le Faye Morgaine posted:I learned you don't have to run your hot tub constantly. You can turn it off sometimes, and turn it back on later and it'll take some minutes to heat up but bam, back to normal, 
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Mar 21, 2022 00:45
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Le Faye Morgaine posted:I learned you don't have to run your hot tub constantly. You can turn it off sometimes, and turn it back on later and it'll take some minutes to heat up but bam, back to normal,  Have you noticed a change in your electricity bill?
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Kinda makes sense now why they didn't want to tell us about that important fact, so it would eventually break down sooner and have to be replaced or whatever. I didn't know anyone else with a hot tub that would've even let me in on this secret, nor was it mentioned much in media depictions. I never saw an on/off switch so.... 
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Mar 21, 2022 00:58
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Mar 21, 2022 01:11
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I mean they have thermostats right? You just keep it around 50 or 60 or 70 depending until you're ready to use them. They should be "on" during the winter obviously so they don't freeze, although I'd guess the freezing point is lowered by the chlorine or bromine.
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Mar 21, 2022 01:19
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Apparently you can turn the oven off when you're not cooking something? News to me.
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Mar 21, 2022 01:35
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Baron von Eevl posted:Apparently you can turn the oven off when you're not cooking something? News to me. But how else am I supposed to heat the apartment??
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Mar 21, 2022 01:36
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Baron von Eevl posted:Apparently you can turn the oven off when you're not cooking something? News to me. If you're British there's a chance you actually can't.
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Mar 21, 2022 01:40
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Sorry, can't hear you over the sound of my permaflushing toilet!
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Flipperwaldt posted:Sorry, can't hear you over the sound of my permaflushing toilet! My old apartment had water included in rent. After the first time they didn't fix the running toilet I said gently caress it and we just learned to deal. They want a high water bill they can have a high water bill
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At least two people I know have hot tubs and refuse to ever turn them off, it's definitely a thing that people believe
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Shifty Nipples posted:It never occurred to me that "beaucoup" (bookoo) was spelled like that, I thought it was just a made up word that I would have tried to spell "bookoo" cause it was made up and didn't have some fancy way to spell it. I actually thought "beaucoup" was just the ironic way of spelling what wasn't actually a word :O
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credburn posted:I actually thought "beaucoup" was just the ironic way of spelling what wasn't actually a word :O French threw out the perfectly good word they had for "a lot" and decided to replace it with "beautiful blow"
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beaucoup is a perfectly normal french word, spelt perfectly normally (for French) What I have not yet figured out is: where are so many of you (presumably) Americans hearing it in a context where it is not obviously a French word? Do people go around saying just that, and why?
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Phosphine posted:beaucoup is a perfectly normal french word, spelt perfectly normally (for French) US Vietnam War movies used the term a lot. In Jacob’s Ladder Tim Robbins’ character says he’s going off in the jungle to take a dump and Ving Rhames’ character says “Professor’s got boo-koo shits”
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The popcorn song was released in 1969
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Wait till you find out that "skosh," as in "a small amount" ("needs a skosh more salt") is a similarly bastardized form of the Japanese word "sukoshi," pronounced (nearly) identically.
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Cat Hassler posted:US Vietnam War movies used the term a lot. In Jacob’s Ladder Tim Robbins’ character says he’s going off in the jungle to take a dump and Ving Rhames’ character says “Professor’s got boo-koo shits” I assume it's also used in places like New Orleans
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Cat Hassler posted:US Vietnam War movies used the term a lot. In Jacob’s Ladder Tim Robbins’ character says he’s going off in the jungle to take a dump and Ving Rhames’ character says “Professor’s got boo-koo shits” Probably even more memorable in Full Metal Jacket when the Vietnamese sex worker and the black marine have a discussion about how "beaucoup" a black guy's dick is. "Boo-koo dinkydow" was a culturally illiterate interpretation of "beaucoup dien cai dau", a French -Vietnamese phrase meaning "too crazy" apparently used by street traders Failed Imagineer has a new favorite as of 12:54 on Mar 21, 2022 |
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Hirayuki posted:Wait till you find out that "skosh," as in "a small amount" ("needs a skosh more salt") is a similarly bastardized form of the Japanese word "sukoshi," pronounced (nearly) identically. Yeah as chock full as English is of loanwords from European nations it's always fun to find ones that are a. Non-european and B. not related to the donor country's culture, like words for foods or important people. Like, I can absolutely see how "tycoon", "honcho" and "typhoon" wound up getting borrowed, but why the word for "a little bit"? And why do I associate it so much with a Wisconsin accent? "Bookoo" in the Vietnam war sense is pretty obviously due to Vietnam's history of being colonized by the French prior to the war, making it a - a double loanword? It's weird to me that it didn't get picked up by GIs in WW2 or postwar France, but, well, English is weird.
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Carthag Tuek posted:I assume it's also used in places like New Orleans To say that New Orleans influenced R&B would be a massive understatement. I think it was less Nam and more black music entering the mainstream.
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Gung-ho is also borrowed from Chinese in a weird way.
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credburn posted:I actually thought "beaucoup" was just the ironic way of spelling what wasn't actually a word :O Yeah I'm pretty sure I've seen it here on the forums a few times and thought "what the hell is that word" for a moment before moving on and forgetting about it. I don't watch war movies and have not seen Full Metal Jacket so I probably picked it up through cultural osmosis or whatever.
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I dunno, my wife and I use "merci beaucoup" regularly with each other, along with things like "danke schoen" and "gracias."
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Baron von Eevl posted:I dunno, my wife and I use "merci beaucoup" regularly with each other, along with things like "danke schoen" and "gracias." Yes, it's a very common word, but Americans are apparently very bad at knowing even a single word of other languages than English or mayyyybe Spanish. "No can do" is a very direct translation of a Chinese expression
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Proteus Jones posted:Less something I figured out and more something I just learned. Just watch Mack and them react. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaSkO4TosYo
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Baron von Eevl posted:I dunno, my wife and I use "merci beaucoup" regularly with each other, along with things like "danke schoen" and "gracias." I don't know much about how French words are spelled so if the word in that phrase is the same as the word I thought was buku/bookoo then I just figured something else out. e: by which I mean that I never thought about how merci beaucoup was spelled or how many individual words it is, like the "bow koo" could have been two words for all I knew Shifty Nipples has a new favorite as of 22:27 on Mar 21, 2022 |
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coo coo ca choo
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Psycho killer, keskessay
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