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It happened. We put YouTube up on the TV because my son likes to watch This Old House, and a full loving third of the screen is covered in ads for Lowe's and poo poo and we couldn't figure out how to get rid of it. What the gently caress is this? I'm loving watching something. What, do you think I'm going to go running out to buy some nails or something? gently caress off.
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Time_pants posted:It happened. We put YouTube up on the TV because my son likes to watch This Old House, and a full loving third of the screen is covered in ads for Lowe's and poo poo and we couldn't figure out how to get rid of it. What the gently caress is this? I'm loving watching something. What, do you think I'm going to go running out to buy some nails or something? gently caress off. drat that's crazy. Youtube is wild. Lowe's is great though. They've got 35% off select major appliances through 5/15 right now. Save an extra $50 for every $500 you spend on select LG major appliances. Did you know they have mail in rebates? You can get $100 back on any LG dishwasher or select LG built-in cooking appliance. Don't miss 12 months special financing when you purchase a $299 or greater value appliance from now until January 31st! Yup. "Lowe's knows Spring." That's what I've been saying, organically, for years.
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May 5, 2024 01:11
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The above post reminds me of an ad trend that vanished some time ago, randomly highlighted words on web sites that would pop up ads when you hovered over them. Take heart: ad trends suck, but some of them don't last, sometimes, maybe.
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They sometimes still do that. It's funny reading a review for a piece of hardware that highlights the word "motherboard" which if you hover over shows a link to a page to buy a different motherboard. Wow, that's so cool and helpful! And it's also just absolutely random poo poo that gets highlighted, half the time specific model names and stuff don't get picked up, but a random word like "video" does. And for some reason it's tech sites that still seem to be using it the most???
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May 5, 2024 01:42
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I don't suppose anyone knows how to get that poo poo off a lovely TCL from 2015.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUe0o9VRgMM listening to rick beato bag on music. He plays it up for the camera in parts, but yeah the music that is becoming popular now is getting boring. For years, I have heard people say "I like songs that tell a story." Those people won. And yeah the songs are kind of interesting ... to read. mazzi Chart Czar fucked around with this message at 03:20 on May 5, 2024 |
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moist banana bread posted:I like how dioxin guy goes into an unhinged rant about aspartame. Just amazing. Now listen. I may or may not have killed an entire town by hosing it down with venom that lurks eternal in the bosom of the Earth, striking down young and old alike, warping their flesh until they beg for death then receive it before their time, but lemme tell you 'bout... *leans closer, whispering* ...aspartame!
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I realise this is pretty personal and specific to me and my language/culture, but in the last year or so I've noticed a language shift (also on these forums) where 'cancer' is used casually to describe something lovely. "Such and such is cancer." This bothers me because in my native language, Dutch, it's one of the worst (if not the worst) profanities used in much the same way, either as an expletive or an adjective. I was raised (and I still feel this way as an adult) that it's a very lovely thing to use as a profanity. Dutch swears a lot with diseases (typhoid, pox, etc.) but 'kanker' is by far the worst because of how prevalent the disease still is today. Pretty much everyone lost a loved one to it. Nothing I can do about it, obviously, and it's not even a big deal really, but it's still off-putting to me. It's as if everyone suddenly started using the R-word casually again to describe something they don't like. When it's phrased as 'a cancer', like "Microtransactions are a cancer within the games industry." it's not off-putting at all, oddly, probably because it's a more established phrasing and a less casual, more apt descriptor.
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It is one I try very much not to use, having lost people close to me to cancer.
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on the internet, "cancer" is to "aids" what "smoothbrained"/"stupid"/"idiotic" is to "retarded". people get an ick when someone says "this is aids" but not "this is cancer". with some exception, i guess (i didn't know that cancer was basically a swear in dutch)
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:on the internet, "cancer" is to "aids" what "smoothbrained"/"stupid"/"idiotic" is to "retarded". people get an ick when someone says "this is aids" but not "this is cancer". with some exception, i guess (i didn't know that cancer was basically a swear in dutch) I've seen people on these very forums say that "this is cancer" and "this is aids" are actually very cool and good, pretty sure it was in the advice and feedback thread. I think they're both gross and very sheltered upbringing sounding tbh. It's kind of random what is collectively declared offensive and off limits, and a lot of it is roughly due to "well most of us don't find it offensive" which both makes a lot of sense and also no sense at the same time. Words are hard.
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People from different places will have different relations to word according to cultural baggage, yes
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Popoto posted:People from different places will have different relations to word according to cultural baggage, yes Yeah. Like I said, it's very specific to my upbringing and culture (and me being a softy, hell, even in the Dutch thread people use kanker more than I'd like) and I'm not arguing it should be stopped or anything even if it were possible to change a language shift like this but it was something I noticed getting shittier (for me, personally) and I thought it'd be an interesting thing to share.
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Taeke posted:Yeah. Like I said, it's very specific to my upbringing and culture (and me being a softy, hell, even in the Dutch thread people use kanker more than I'd like) and I'm not arguing it should be stopped or anything even if it were possible to change a language shift like this but it was something I noticed getting shittier (for me, personally) and I thought it'd be an interesting thing to share. I think it's a valid observation observation that, at least in the US, language has been trending more and more hyperbolic. We basically use up the most extreme language possible until we become inured to it, at which point we ratchet the rhetoric up another notch, and the cycle continues.
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Taeke posted:I realise this is pretty personal and specific to me and my language/culture, but in the last year or so I've noticed a language shift (also on these forums) where 'cancer' is used casually to describe something lovely. "Such and such is cancer." This post is Lou Gehrig
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I now understand why my tight 5 about canker sores at the Dutch comedy club bombed
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Literally A Person posted:I now understand why my tight 5 about canker sores at the Dutch comedy club bombed lol BOOOO!!!
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Time_pants posted:I don't suppose anyone knows how to get that poo poo off a lovely TCL from 2015. The only way around this stuff these days is to buy one of those $100ish HDMI stick PCs that come with Windows pre-installed. Put on a browser and load it with uBlock. There are apps that can control everything from your phone so you're not sitting there like a dweeb with a keyboard and mouse. You can access all the russian streaming sites and watch whatever you want.
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Taeke posted:Yeah. Like I said, it's very specific to my upbringing and culture (and me being a softy, hell, even in the Dutch thread people use kanker more than I'd like) and I'm not arguing it should be stopped or anything even if it were possible to change a language shift like this but it was something I noticed getting shittier (for me, personally) and I thought it'd be an interesting thing to share. Plus, I never knew about diseases as curse words in Dutch and maybe it’s something in the future to keep in mind if, for some reason, it’s relevant? Who knows! Still quite fascinating!
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Yeah, it's always been the thing I hate most about our language. Kanker is the big one that is highly offensive, on the level of the C-word in the US I guess? Casual use in public would make heads turn in disapproval and kids would get a stern reprimand or even punishment by their parents for even saying the word. (Outside of legitimate usage when discussing the actual disease, of course.) Then there's mid level stuff like 'tering' (tuberculosis) and 'tyfus' (typhoid), and more acceptable are 'pokken' (pox) and 'schurft' (scabies) which barely register on the offensiveness scale. Most are used either as an expletive (like when you hit your thumb with a hammer) or as an adjective to describe something, often compounded with something else offensive for an insult. 'Kankerhoer', for example, which means cancer whore, or 'tyfushond' (typhoid dog). They can be compounded with anything though, really, in the same way 'loving' is used in English. The loving train is late again. De teringtrein is weer te laat. Funnily enough the most common swears by far these days are 'gently caress', 'loving' and 'poo poo' because English spreads like a plague.
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Taeke posted:Funnily enough the most common swears by far these days are 'gently caress', 'loving' and 'poo poo' because English spreads like a plague. No, it spreads like something else.... what is it again....
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Taeke posted:Funnily enough the most common swears by far these days are 'gently caress', 'loving' and 'poo poo' because English spreads like a plague.  Actual masterpiece.
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Taeke posted:Yeah, it's always been the thing I hate most about our language. I never would have pegged diseases as a category of swear word (alongside religious and bodily functions), that's interesting. You can say something like "a pox upon your house!" as an old-timey insult, but I think that's the only one that works in English outside of the more modern usage of "cancer." As a native English speaker, listening to Dutch always makes me feel like I'm having a stroke because it sounds just similar enough to English (with maybe 25% German) that it seems like I should be able to understand what is being said but it is in fact incomprehensible.
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Time_pants posted:It happened. We put YouTube up on the TV because my son likes to watch This Old House, and a full loving third of the screen is covered in ads for Lowe's and poo poo and we couldn't figure out how to get rid of it. What the gently caress is this? I'm loving watching something. What, do you think I'm going to go running out to buy some nails or something? gently caress off. This Old House has a dedicated channel on Pluto TV, if that helps.
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Taeke posted:Yeah, it's always been the thing I hate most about our language. I legit think it's fascinating to see what cultures focus upon when it comes to swears, and it's always slightly difficult to not feel like making it reveal a lot about how a culture view certain topics: Dutch: Sickness terms (cancer, tyfus, etc.) US: Sexual/Scatological terms (gently caress, oval office, poo poo, etc.) French-Canadian: Church terms (tabernacle, christ, ostie, etc.) China: Sexual / scorn of ancestors terms etc.
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Popoto posted:I legit think it's fascinating to see what cultures focus upon when it comes to swears, and it's always slightly difficult to not feel like making it reveal a lot about how a culture view certain topics: In english the really offensive swears that you can't even say casually among alot of people are all related to slurs against racial or sexual minorities, is it like that in other languages?
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Time_pants posted:We basically use up the most extreme language possible until we become inured to it, at which point we ratchet the rhetoric up another notch, and the cycle continues. Double... No, tripleplus ungood!
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pencilhands posted:In english the really offensive swears that you can't even say casually among alot of people are all related to slurs against racial or sexual minorities, is it like that in other languages? In Germany, there have been a few foods with racist names just baked in. That's been going away and my dad is not happy lol
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We Got Us A Bread posted:This Old House has a dedicated channel on Pluto TV, if that helps. It does! Thank you so much. We'll give it a whirl!
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It's the everyone is either Einstein or Hitler dynamic. Gotta punch things up as much as you can. Its the opposite of the British understatement. I don't think someone literally wants to eat donkey poop or stab out their eyes, or it drowns kittens or gave them a hernia. What it means is, "thing bad". Same with most of the death threats I've received over the years. Most of those were "I disagree". So a thing that has gotten shittier are that there is always a onesupmanship that leads to an offensiveness war that ultimately becomes the baseline going forward.
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One that gets me is woke. You definitely can't call me a "fag" at work, but at my last two jobs coworkers could declare whatever triggered them "woke trash" or call any trans person they see "clown" etc. we're talking on record in writing bigotry, sent to HR and the response is nothing. So yeah I got to work for better companies. moist banana bread fucked around with this message at 04:55 on May 6, 2024 |
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You could call anyone the f slur or the r word all you wanted to even like 15 years ago, but now all you've got is "woke". What do you expect people to do, not be filled with hatred for their fellow human beings at all times??
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The most annoying thing on YouTube is: Person makes comment Second person slightly corrects comment Tittle: PERSON TWO DESTROYED BY COMMENTER!!!!
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Extra row of tits posted:The most annoying thing on YouTube is: Title*
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When the people at work weren't allowed to call me a fag anymore they skipped straight to calling me a child molester.
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Dip Viscous posted:When the people at work weren't allowed to call me a fag anymore they skipped straight to calling me a child molester. Ah yes, this one! I'm a pedophile because: - I moved your laundry at the laundromat - I told you to get your kid off my shopping cart - I led your lost and deliriously upset child to an employee
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moist banana bread posted:Ah yes, this one! I'm a pedophile because: drat what the hell people suck im sorry
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https://text.npr.org/1249047583 Possible TikTok ban could be 'an extinction-level event' for the creator economy quote:Anxiety is coursing through the creator economy, which includes tens of thousands of people who earn a living by making videos on TikTok, an app that has become a prime place for advertisers to reach younger audiences. quote:James Nord, chief executive of the New York-based company Fohr, which does marketing for creators, said the law has sent shockwaves through the world of content creators. doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 01:12 on May 7, 2024 |
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