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rear end-penny posted:YOU SAY HE'S JUST A FRIEND GOT WHAT I NEEEEEEEED https://i.imgur.com/9jTkSUL.mp4 |
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right up there with "Barbara Anne" by the Beach Boys for songs you can sing 100% sincerely and still just sound like a drunk schmuck and bother everyone, lmao |
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Jun 30, 2023 20:47
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Viginti Septem posted:That's interesting. It appears from my outsider perspective that in many countries in Europe, people speak English. It varies a lot. Spain, France, Italy? Not at all. All their American media needs to be dubbed. Nordic countries, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal? Top shape. Portugal, as an example, has mediocre levels of education in comparison to its neighbors, but it doesn’t dub any movie or series unless it’s for toddlers, so by exposure the population’s handling of English is pretty decent.
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Saoshyant posted:It varies a lot. Spain, France, Italy? Not at all. All their American media needs to be dubbed. Nordic countries, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal? Top shape. what did Portugal do to their hearing impaired 
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rear end-penny posted:what did Portugal do to their hearing impaired What? |
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Jun 30, 2023 21:28
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rear end-penny posted:what did Portugal do to their hearing impaired Foreign material is subbed. National material used a TV text obscure functionality called "teletext" for subtitles. Important stuff has a sign language person on the corner of the screen to translate in real time.
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Jun 30, 2023 22:28
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Billa posted:English "ain't cool". France would probably like to know how Spain accomplished this. |
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Jun 30, 2023 22:38
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Okay guys. Here is the word for today: What is hoochie cooochie? |
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Jul 1, 2023 10:41
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im the hoochie coochie man
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Jul 2, 2023 07:05
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cruft posted:Some of the slang and vocabulary we use here is specific to somethingawful forums, and some is even specific to BYOB. Like, "orb" is a BYOB word that means... amigo, basically. I assume orb is the gender neutral version of bro. It's an anagram could be wrong on this one 
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Jul 2, 2023 07:09
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Billa posted:Okay guys. Here is the word for today: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JW5UEW2kYvc&feature=share8
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Billa posted:Okay guys. Here is the word for today: here it is esplain'd in full detail. legendary thread  https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3964270 |
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Jul 2, 2023 07:14
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Areola Grande posted:here it is esplain'd in full detail. legendary thread Thank you areola! |
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Jul 2, 2023 11:36
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Okay. The word for today is: Jeysoc guys and NGP. I heard those in generation kill so they might me military. Any help? |
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Jul 3, 2023 12:20
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Viginti Septem posted:That's interesting. It appears from my outsider perspective that in many countries in Europe, people speak English. That's northern European propaganda. Although could you say that the Netherlands is part of the northern bit? Hweh, it's difficult but I'm doing it.  Billa posted:Here they try to teach it, but people are stupid and don't pay attention to classes in school because English "ain't cool". Everyone in the Netherlands think they have amazing proficiency in english and they are often very wrong. Doesn't stop 'em from mix-and-matching both languages as if they are masters at it. Now comes the monkey out of the sleeve! 
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Jul 3, 2023 13:53
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Billa posted:Okay. The word for today is: This is US-specific military jargon, JSOC and NJP: Non-Judicial Punishment (ie discipline) (click on this for a cool picture). Hth (hope this helps) 
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Jul 3, 2023 13:56
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not dead yet posted:This is US-specific military jargon, JSOC and NJP: Non-Judicial Punishment (ie discipline) (click on this for a cool picture). Hth (hope this helps) Screwby!!! Thanks a bunch!! |
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Jul 3, 2023 14:13
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I'm afraid the only thing I watch and read are American or British movies. So idk
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Jul 3, 2023 14:16
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Guys, What is Anchorman and Captain kangaroo? |
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Billa posted:Guys, anchorman is a movie by adam mckay starring will ferrell and a bunch of other people. it’s a classic but also one that’s been quoted a referenced to death so the impact has been diminished since. some would derisively call it a very “reddit” movie these days. no idea what captain kangaroo is
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Jul 4, 2023 13:48
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watho posted:anchorman is a movie by adam mckay starring will ferrell and a bunch of other people. it’s a classic but also one that’s been quoted a referenced to death so the impact has been diminished since. some would derisively call it a very “reddit” movie these days. no idea what captain kangaroo is In Die Hard 3 McLane says that he was on suspension smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo, that's why im curious. |
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Jul 4, 2023 14:04
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O Captain, my Captain 
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Jul 4, 2023 14:12
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Captain Kangaroo was a children's show in the 1970s. All I remember from it was that Captain Kangaroo wore an orange smoking jacket, and had a friend named Mister Green Jeans. I was very young, and it was on very early in Albuquerque. Like 06:00: well before I usually woke up. |
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cruft posted:Captain Kangaroo was a children's show in the 1970s. pretty sure I had some kind of Captain Kangaroo card game as well, which is funny because that show was kind of dated already when I had it. |
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Jul 4, 2023 15:40
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So for today guys: What's the difference between University and College? |
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Billa posted:In Die Hard 3 McLane says that he was on suspension smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo, that's why im curious. Oooh, that's a sneaky reference to this scene from Pulp Fiction! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQrndDnW1UE Or a reference to the song, and Tarantino decided to reference diehard3. Dunno which came first. Just the line jumped out at me from the lyric, having heard the PF soundtrack a gorillion times. B33rChiller fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Jul 6, 2023
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Billa posted:So for today guys: Often a low cost way to begin post secondary before transfer to a university. That's a rough idea of the American system, I think? UK usage is different. I think their colleges are specific sub sections of a university?
Dr. Honked posted:the junk, rather than the trunk |
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Jul 6, 2023 16:52
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Billa posted:So for today guys: A University is a grouping of more than one College. e: while this thing I wrote isn't wrong, it's apparently more complicated (and confusing). What B33rChiller wrote is also true. We need more than two words to describe this. |
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Jul 6, 2023 16:58
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Billa posted:So for today guys: Depends, but it's generally a regional thing. In some places, college denotes diploma level, generally vocational post secondary education, and university is bachelor's degree+ level. In the US, college is the catch-all term for all post secondary education, but many of the institutions themselves are universities. Universities can also have sub-campuses or specific areas of study that they call colleges. In short, it is very confusing and without several additional points of data, impossible to tell the difference. |
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To add a bit of confusion, I went to what most would call a college. The BC Institute of Technology. It didn't grant degrees at the time. They mostly do vocational, and trades, but also a lot of niche tech stuff. My program was a 4 year co-op marine engineering program, and at the end of 4 years, not a single student in my class had completed the requirements to receive their diploma of technical studies. (It required 18 months of sea time) But we all walked out the door with employment. It was a strange inversion of credential inflation. I didn't apply to graduate until 10 years after I finished my last class. gently caress that school's graduation rate stats.
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B33rChiller posted:To add a bit of confusion, I went to what most would call a college. The BC Institute of Technology. It didn't grant degrees at the time. They mostly do vocational, and trades, but also a lot of niche tech stuff. My program was a 4 year co-op marine engineering program, and at the end of 4 years, not a single student in my class had completed the requirements to receive their diploma of technical studies. (It required 18 months of sea time) I would argue that "everyone walked out the door with employment" indicates a successful program. |
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cruft posted:I would argue that "everyone walked out the door with employment" indicates a successful program. yeah who gives a poo poo about some 80,000 piece of paper when you have a job? I'm my life I've literally been asked to produce my high school diploma more times than people have asked to see my college degree. |
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Jul 6, 2023 19:09
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rear end-penny posted:yeah who gives a poo poo about some 80,000 piece of paper when you have a job? I actually had to dig up my college diploma for this most recent job. It was the first time anybody has ever asked for it in my 25+-year career. And it's a 25 year old degree at this point, most of what I learned is super out of date. It felt very silly. |
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cruft posted:I actually had to dig up my college diploma for this most recent job. It was the first time anybody has ever asked for it in my 25+-year career. And it's a 25 year old degree at this point, most of what I learned is super out of date. It felt very silly. lol I felt the same way when I was required to produce my HS diploma in like 2019 applying for a job. like, I went to college yo, so obviously I have a diploma or GED. plus high school was useless, I can't think of anything I learned worthwhile there. what a waste of four years. |
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Jul 6, 2023 22:39
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high school math rulez
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Jul 7, 2023 02:48
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hey OP have you heard of poutine?! i think this about sums it idk for some reason i was thinking about a poutine alignment chart and whether one existed and then i googled it and found this one on cursed website Reddit dot cum
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Jul 7, 2023 03:48
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cruft posted:I would argue that "everyone walked out the door with employment" indicates a successful program. We were all sold a story that was untrue (we will place you with a shipping company for co-op sea phases.), but we're lucky enough to choose a program that gave us in demand credentials. Good program with some good instructors, terrible administrators, and an industry desperate for qualified people.
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Papa Was A Video Toaster posted:hey OP have you heard of poutine?! Hahahhaa, that's real funny Cheesy baked potato is poutine
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