The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@Benjamin-Hall That's spelt "borcestershire", without one of the 'h's. Get it right!
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@dkf you're mixing it up with Worcestershire. Different word, different rules, is the basic principle of English language.
Speaking of - I just realized "language" has an "a" that sounds like /ɪ/. I don't think there's any other word like that.
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A Polack impugns an Englishman basic principles of the English language. That absolutely is funny stuff
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@Gąska Worcestershire is pronounced Woostershire, just as Worcester itself is pronounced Wooster, and depending on where you are in the country the double-o could easily alter the pronunciation to align it perfectly. Certainly the local inflection (Midlander) would probably align it pretty well, and I’m certain anyone with a Yorkshire accent would align it.
Me with my southern inflected RP accent, tends to misalign between “wuss-ta” vs “boose-ta” (would rhyme with goose)
I should note that, for example, there is a Dorchester which is not shortened to Dooster.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Speaking of - I just realized "language" has an "a" that sounds like /ɪ/. I don't think there's any other word like that.
Dagger versus dayger I guess. I usually pronounce it "leng-wage" but I suppose "layng-widge" is similar enough.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska Worcestershire is pronounced Woostershire
Sauce?
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Pedants, pedants everywhere.
Back to funny stuff:
I don’t speak Polish but somehow I understood him
(From Imgur )
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@Gąska the county after which the sauce is (sort of) named. I spent a number of years travelling regularly to the area since my then-partner came from there and we visited the family on a regular basis. I spent many hours waiting at both Worcester Foregate Street and Worcester Shrub Hill train stations in so doing.
It's also interesting how even the local accent inflections vary across even the 30 miles between Worcester and Birmingham.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska Worcestershire is pronounced Woostershire
Sauce?
Here you go:
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New York City has Houston St.
No, not like the Texas city 'how-stun.'
I'm sure there are more, but that is one of the common ones.
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@Karla To be fair, that (maybe) makes more sense phonetically than how the city in TX is pronounced, which is (I assume) how the person it's named for pronounced his name.
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@HardwareGeek And back in 1980, despite hearing the name of the
Texas city pronounced hyew-st'n over the NASA broadcast, General Zod went right ahead and said hoo-st'n.
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@da-Doctah well, there's precedent for all the Kryptonians getting Earthling-like names wrong. Jor-El can't even say the name of his home planet correctly... "Crip-tihn" half the time.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah well, there's precedent for all the Kryptonians getting Earthling-like names wrong. Jor-El can't even say the name of his home planet correctly... "Crip-tihn" half the time.
They can't blame it on being Kryptonian. Cat Grant (played by Calista
Flockheart) consistently pronounced Supergirl's name as "kee-rah" instead of "kah-rah", even to the point that the closed captioning for the show rendered it phonetically every time she said it.(BTW, if you're talking about Brando as Jor-El, it's telling that he reportedly wanted to play the character as a giant bagel.)
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
if you're talking about Brando as Jor-El, it's telling that he reportedly wanted to play the character as a giant bagel
Brando was an ass. See also Frank Sinatra on the set of Guys and Dolls, to the point where he set possibly-mobsters on Brando.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Even if it is in swedish, I think the rendition of this christmas classic is universal.
Toad sings "I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus"!I have heard better steam whistles or even fog horns.
How the singer didn't lose their voice is hopefully a well-kept secret.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
if you're talking about Brando as Jor-El, it's telling that he reportedly wanted to play the character as a giant bagel
Brando was an ass. See also Frank Sinatra on the set of Guys and Dolls, to the point where he set possibly-mobsters on Brando.
I don't blame Frank. That was probably after he heard him trying to sing.
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@da-Doctah Apparently Frank wanted the lead role, didn't get it and lost out to Brando on it - and Brando asked for help on the subject, but that didn't go so well. Then again, something something ex-wife something something Brando's room...
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@DoctorJones Eh, here's a picture that says otherwise.
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@dangeRuss Eating out? I can dig it.
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@DoctorJones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
COVID ruined everything. I thought it's masks cut out in the shape of beards.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska the county after which the sauce is (sort of) named.
Why sort of?
@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It's also interesting how even the local accent inflections vary across even the 30 miles between Worcester and Birmingham.
I grew up there. It's much worse than that. We could tell whether someone came from the top of the hill (Warndon), the middle of the hill (Tolladine), or the bottom of the hill (Brickfields) by their accent.
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@coldandtired said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska the county after which the sauce is (sort of) named.
Why sort of?
Because the sauce is missing an entire syllable but only in speech. If other parts of English language are any clue, it's entirely possible the etymology is completely different and it's just a coincidence they're spelled the same.
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@Gąska They're both pronounced /ˈwʊstərʃər/ locally.
The factory doesn't make it in Worcester anymore I've heard but it used to.
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@coldandtired said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The factory doesn't make it in Worcester anymore I've heard but it used to.
It's still made in Worcester
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@loopback0 Nice. I thought it had moved to Brum.
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@coldandtired apparently it did and then moved back
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@Gąska oh if only it were that simple.
Bicester => 'bih-sta'
Leicester => 'less-ta'
Worcester => 'wuss-ta'
Gloucester => 'gloss-ta'but...
Circencester => 'si-ren-ses-ta'And while we're on the subject...
Manchester => 'man-ches-ta'
Chichester => 'chi-ches-ta'And for comedy...
Cholmondeley => 'chum-lee'
Beaulieu => 'bew-lee'
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@coldandtired As for the 'sort of', at the time I was writing I couldn't remember the exact etymology and was fairly sure it was made in an adjacent county or something like that, and didn't have time to look it up properly.
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@Arantor stop it, there’s only so much headache I can take.
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@loopback0 I'd forgotten the joys of that part of the country.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska oh if only it were that simple.
Bicester => 'bih-sta'
Leicester => 'less-ta'
Worcester => 'wuss-ta'
Gloucester => 'gloss-ta'but...
Circencester => 'si-ren-ses-ta'And while we're on the subject...
Manchester => 'man-ches-ta'
Chichester => 'chi-ches-ta'And for comedy...
Cholmondeley => 'chum-lee'
Beaulieu => 'bew-lee'And then you go to Mornington Crescent?
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@izzion I have won at least one game of MC with a photo from said station in the past.
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@coldandtired Holy Shit, welcome back! Also, what the fuck happened to your avatar??
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DoctorJones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
COVID ruined everything. I thought it's masks cut out in the shape of beards.
I don't do anything to my eyebrows most of the time. There are a couple spare hairs in the middle that I get rid of when I notice. If I happen to be putting on makeup, I might add to eyebrows.
If that is all eye pencil, that would take forever and there is no way I could make a straight line.
In order to accomplish there result you need:
-- Freshly shaved man.
-- Stencil in the the various shapes, cheek, above lip, and chin.
-- Coloring
-- Maybe eye pencil can do that much. Liquid eye liner is difficult to use and will dry quickly so difficult to get a smooth appearance.
-- I think the answer is black powder eyeliner mixed with clear foundation. (That's how we did our gray skin for Halloween where we were dead bride and groom.)Halloween 2020 (our 20th anniversary) we both bleach and dyed our head a bright red. Which match our black and red/ día de muertos theme.
We had a package of sugar skulls for our faces but they just weren't doing it.
So, I figure someone else has done this and end up watching several YouTube tutorials. I feel confident I can do something good enough.
So I call my husband in so I can do his makeup. After a couple minutes..
You're not making me pretty are you?
NOT at all.He was pleased with the result and it recovered his disappointment in his plan.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Woughton - wuff-ton
Loughton - lou-ton
Broughton - braw-tonAll in Milton Keynes.
Isn't that where they make the board games?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Milton Keynes
Economics thread is
And why they're all called Milton anyway?