The Ultimate pedantic pedantary
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TL;DR Two self-confessed Pedants complain about the spelling of awsome and the lack of an apostrophe.
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I'd say it's the ultimate in slow news days
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Makes a change from their usual (perceived) type of faux-pas:
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More concerning that they're selling that kid for only a pound fifty.
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Well, he is ginger, so that's probably a decent price.
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I remember when Portal 2 came out, some people freaked out that GLaDOS made fun of adopted kids.
GLaDOS: What exactly is wrong with being adopted?
Wheatley: What’s wrong with being adopted? Um, well, uh… lack of parents?It's hard to make jokes that don't offend someone.
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some people freaked out that GLaDOS made fun of adopted kids.
GLaDOS: What exactly is wrong with being adopted? Wheatley: What’s wrong with being adopted? Um, well, uh… lack of parents?
That's either a poor example of the phenomenon, or it's been misattributed.
http://theportalwiki.com/wiki/GLaDOS_voice_lines#Wheatley_Test_Chamber_4 indicates the former.
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It's hard to make jokes that don't offend someone.
[Whispered] For the record: You ARE adopted, and that's TERRIBLE
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I saw the title and thought I must read this.
@loose said:Two self-confessed Pedants complain about the spelling of awsome and the lack of an apostrophe.
I am disappoint. :(
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If they are so pedantic, why are the even allowed around children?
Filed under: based on a true story
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It's hard to make jokes that don't offend someone.
Isn't every joke offensive to at least one (possibly fictional) group? For example, "why did the chicken cross the road" is offensive to the family of that chicken.
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For especially cute babies, perhaps the spelling "awwsome" would have been acceptable.
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"why did the chicken cross the road" is offensive to the family of that chicken.
Ignoring the absurd "chickens have feelings too!", offense depends on the punchline. If the joke is "durr hurr, chickens is dum!" then yes it's offensive. To chickens. Which, as I already said, is absurd. (Aside: I keep chickens. They're fucking dumb.)
Telling someone they're a lesser human because they were adopted into a new family is pretty fucking offensive and if you do it you should expect people to call you an offensive dick. Yelling about political correctness gone mad and "free speech" and other poorly understood slogans doesn't make you any less of an offensive dick. If you're going to be offensive and inconsiderate then you need to be prepared to deal with the consequences.
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offense depends on the punchline.
I guess "The Aristocrats" joke wasn't that offensive after all!
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By that point in the game, GLaDOS had already told the player that their birth-parents were still alive, that their birth-parents were dead, that their birth-parents had never existed, and that their birth-parents owned the phone company.
By the way, the most popular theory is that GLaDOS is Chell's mom, so the reason she was adopted was that her mother got borged and her father died of moon dust poisoning.
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Yelling about political correctness gone mad
That video it's retarded and so are the people who think it's insightful.
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That video it's retarded
Oh noes, you used the 'R' word!
and so are the people who think it's insightful.
I wouldn't call it insightful but I do think it's funny.
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I wouldn't call it insightful but I do think it's funny.
Must be an Australian thing.
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Must be an Australian thing.
You can't just recycle @polygeekery's thing because he hasn't tried it on for a while.
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If that's what I was trying to do, I wouldn't have gotten the country correct. I just remember @flabdablet posting that video before.
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If that's what I was trying to do, I wouldn't have gotten the country correct. I just remember @flabdablet posting that video before.
He did post it. I thought you were doing the Australian/British confusion thing. Stewart Lee is English.
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Oh, well, I assumed he was Australian, too.
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The punchline isn't "Adopted kids are terrible". The comedy comes from the various robots insulting you in ever-more absurd ways. The co-op campaign is particularly fond of that; there are a /lot/ of ways that GlaDOS tries to very obviously spark arguments between the two players about who is better.
You are not supposed to take GlaDOS seriously.
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You can't just recycle @polygeekery's thing because he hasn't tried it on for a while.
That's not my thing. Australian is not a punchline. Calling you British is the setup to a punchline because if your great-grea-great-great-grandfather had not been a fucking thief you would still be British.
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You are not supposed to take GlaDOS seriously.
The same tact works on SJWs. They are basically just biological robots that regurgitate whatever they read on tumblr.
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The punchline isn't "Adopted kids are terrible". The comedy comes from the various robots insulting you in ever-more absurd ways. The co-op campaign is particularly fond of that; there are a /lot/ of ways that GlaDOS tries to very obviously spark arguments between the two players about who is better.
You are not supposed to take GlaDOS seriously.
Is this the point where I admit I completed the first Portal but have not yet played Portal 2?
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Is this the point where I admit I completed the first Portal but have not yet played Portal 2?
Fair enough. Portal is a much better game anyway.
EDIT: Okay, so you remember the end of the game when GlaDOS 'plays' an audio file of 'you' talking and then goes "That's you. That's how dumb you sound"? The joke there isn't "People who sound funny are dumb", the joke is that GlaDOS is obviously trying to insult you but isn't very good at it.
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@boomzilla said:
Oh, well, I assumed he was Australian, too.
Lame.
Yeah, that was pretty my reasoning, too.
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I actually liked Stephen Merchant's comedy before playing Portal 2. But goddamned. He wears out his welcome QUICKLY. Now I can't stand the guy.
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The same tact works on SJWs. They are basically just biological robots that regurgitate whatever they read on tumblr and accuse whoever disagrees with them of regurgitating whatever they watched on Fox News.
FTFY
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@another_sam said:
Yelling about political correctness gone mad
That video it's retarded and so are the people who think it's insightful.
They've been delayed?
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They've been delayed?
I tried to make a joke about "the R-word" but I failed so didn't post it. This is much better.
EDIT: Reading back, it becomes apparent that I did post it. It's not any better this morning than it was yesterday afternoon.
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Two errors in one word?! Not only is it supposed to say "wildfire", but they misspelled "wildlife".
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There is a quiz show in the UK called Pointless where pedantry often can win you the day. This week the main host introduced the pendant sidekick with the tagline that pedantry is a superpower.
It's been on TV therefore it is official, we are all superheroes. (Except those of us that are supervillains)
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That show is pretty amazing.
We only get old episodes on BBC Brit, but it really is something.Basic premise: You win if you have more obscure and pointless knowledge than 100 random people
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Been catching some old episodes from a couple of years ago, one of the final rounds was "Female Child Stars that became Actresses", where the criteria was "name any film where these actresses received a credit as according to IMDb (except TV-films, while voice credits do count)" for Christina Ricci, Drew Barrymore or Scarlett Johanssen (however you spell that!)
I would have won that by remembering tha Drew Barrymore had a small role in Batman Forever... But I'm full of obscure pointless pedantic knowledge.
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Drew Barrymore's the same age I am. She wasn't a child during Batman Forever.
She was in a lot of movies as a child, though. Including roles in Altered States, E.T. and Firestarter (which IIRC was a co-starring role). That's a pretty impressive 80s resume.
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No, but she was a child star who went into films, which is the category heading. And the rules were "any film those actresses had an acting (or voice) credit excluding made for TV movies" for which Batman Forever was legit.
E.T. wasn't, more than a few people remembered that one.
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I guess I don't understand how the game works, then.
Is it like Family Feud, but you try to guess the answer with the smallest percentage of votes rather than the largest?
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I'm not sure how Family Feud works, but that sounds like the basic premise.
Basically, there's a monetary prize (not very big).
Each round the contestants are given a question. "Name a country beginning with U", is an example.
They then have to give basically the most obscure answer.
This is judged by having given 100 people, 100 seconds to name as many answers as they can to the questions. You then get 1 point for each person that already gave your answer for a maximum of 100 points.
Wrong answers also give 100 points.The winner is the one with the least number of points after each round.
And with the added twist that a "Pointless" answer, adds 250£ to the prize.
The pair that gets to the final win "The Pointless Trophy", which seems to be ridiculously big, and a chance to win the money. If they lose, the money is in play for the next episode.Oh, and all contestants get 2 chances, so they are invited back the week after if they loose.
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Ok, yeah, so that's basically reverse-Family Feud with the difference that in Family Feud it's teams of 5 (generally a family, natch), and the surveys are done like in some random shopping mall in advance of the episode.
Family Feud questions are usually more opinion-based, "name something you'd use to clean a car", but the "name a country beginning with U" would also be a perfectly valid one.
BTW, is there a prize if you get a correct answer that none of the surveyed people came up with? Or do they not want to pause the show to look up correct-ness, I suppose. EDIT: nevermind, Arantor's answer says they do keep a list of correct answers handy.
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Yeah, something like that. They put each question to 100 people and give them 100 seconds to name as many right answers as possible.
The contestants try to pick the one fewest people got, ideally an answer none of the 100 people said while still being correct. Not every round has pointless scoring answers.
For example a regular round is "name as many chemical elements as you can". Things like hydrogen, oxygen etc will be high scorers with 60-70 out of the 100 saying them, while something like actinium will probably not have been said by anyone whilst being a correct answer.
Wrong answers are worth 100 points, highest score each round is eliminated.
Contestants play as duos, first round is four pairs and eliminate one pair in the first and second rounds each (with no conferring!), then the head to head (with conferring in the pairs) is best of three with the winner going onto the final.
Every couple who don't make it to the final get the chance to come back for a second time because of the range of insane categories that could just completely shaft people. A typical show might include things like Russian literature, capital cities in Africa, countries in the 2014-2015 Champions League of soccer, American presidents... It's all over the map.
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Ok, yeah, so that's basically reverse-Family Feud with the difference that in Family Feud it's teams of 5 (generally a family, natch), and the surveys are done like in some random shopping mall in advance of the episode.
We have that show too (under a different title, “Family Fortunes”, for raisins). It attracts a very different set of players.