🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Phonetically spelled Croatian. Which was relatively easy, the language is phonetic anyway, but Japanese is syllable-based as far as I understand it, so it required some mangling.
There was no need for anything more clever, really, all anyone else saw was gibberish to them anyway :D
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Well, it's not entirely without precedent. There's http://grammarist.com/usage/fiance-fiancee/
That one I knew, and actually demonstrates the point intended.
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Japanese is syllable-based
Not quite, but that's a good enough approximation.
It's a pretty cool system.
Filed under: INB4 more linguistics lessons with @Hardwaregeek
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we learned the morse alphabet so we could continue talking
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Wait. "Spider Farm" on its own is a Bad Idea...
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Meet the Gay Sweater, an apparel item knitted from the hairs of more than 100 LGBT kids.
:puke:
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>Meet the Gay Sweater, an apparel item knitted from the hairs of more than 100 LGBT kids.
Also, it'd be really itchy…
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#wut
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What... why... who...
Jeremy Dias came up with the idea.
Dias was discriminated against as a gay teen in northern Ontario
I don't care that he's gay. But I will now discriminate against him on the grounds of being either an idiot, or a sick fuck.
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What's next? Skin jeans?
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I knew I was going to regret my comment.
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But are they Gay Jeans? Inquiring minds need to know!
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Depends who you made them from, I guess
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I thought they might go nicely with the gay hairshirt, so you could dress up like some kind of gay serial killer...
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you could dress up like some kind of gay serial killer
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I refer you to the topic title...
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Don't want to know but... Brian Blessed... in the thumbnail... must... resist...
I apparently already posted this and body is too similar... yeah...
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You should watch it; it's quite interesting ;)
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What you did there...
Filed under: I need a Rimmer "I see what you did there" macro, Now searching Red Dwarf Rimmer facial expression database. WARNING: Successful execution of this query will increase your nerdiness score by 3
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Will do. If I do find a more appropriate facial expression I will replace it though. I am of the opinion that such a massive smeghead deserves to be presented as well as possible.
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Bad Idea: Not reading this topic for a few days. I hope nothing interesting happened in the past 170 posts because I ain't reading them.
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You missed the Gay Hairshirt, but, eh, whatever...
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And the necropants
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You missed @ben_lubar talking a lot about lojban. It was awesome.
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Wait. "Spider Farm" on its own is a Bad Idea...
Says who?
About two years ago, we got a bunch of news stories about people who had been stung by scorpions, and how each dose of antivenin costs $15,000, and the average scorpion victim requires four such doses for treatment.
They make the antivenin by going out in the desert at night with UV flashlights, catching scorpions (if lucky), and milking them for venom.
I decided I could get rich if I set up my own scorpion ranch. Get the little bastards in a controlled space where I could be sure they'd be well-fed, protected from predators (some birds are immune to the sting and love to eat scorpion meat), and I'd know exactly where to find them whenever I needed to harvest some juice.
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Spider farms probably produce spider silk, which is stronger than kevlar.
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Spider farms probably produce spiders, which are creepier than chickens.
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antivenin
I was going to get all pedantic and dickweedy about this, but it turns out it is an acceptable spelling for antivenom, so carry on
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So how many of the
@da_Doctah said:news stories about people who had been stung by scorpions
are due to peoplegoing out in the desert at night with UV flashlights, catching scorpions
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necropants
Still thinking of those as a form of Discourse toaster nagging about posting in an old topic
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You know it'slike that old proverb:
You can't catch scorpions without getting stung by scorpions, in the desert, at night, with UV flashlights.
—trad. (totes not made up just now...)
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I think I've seen that one come up on Catchphrase
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antivenin
I was going to get all pedantic and dickweedy about this, but it turns out it is an acceptable spelling for antivenom, so carry on
I'm always happy to enrich other people's vocabulary.
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American license plates in general
How did it come to this? How did an object so utterly dull as a vehicle registration plate become a battleground for the rights of Americans?
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>How did it come to this? How did an object so utterly dull as a vehicle registration plate become a battleground for the rights of Americans?
Confederate Air Force? That's fine.
Confederate flag bumper stickers? Also fine.
Confederate flag on a license plate? O noes we muzt bann it al! - U banz, we sooz!
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If anyone feels the need to have a number plate that's likely going to distract and enrage the driver of the car behind them, maybe we should let Darwin sort it out.
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A bumper sticker would have the same effect, but you don't hear about brutality because of them; I don't see how a license plate is any different.
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Everyone should just have black text on a white background and quit their BITCHing.
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That's what we have in the UK, except it's only white on the front, yellow on the back. The only thing allowed besides the number is an optional blue strip on the left with either the EU emblem and country code, or a national emblem + abbreviation (either UK/GB and the Union Flag or England/Scotland/Wales/NI).
I feel vaguely like it's kind of sensible to not have distracting or obscuring/contrast-lessening stuff on the actual number plate, but I don't suppose it's that big a deal.
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The only thing allowed besides the number is an optional blue strip on the left with either the EU emblem and country code, or a national emblem + abbreviation (either UK/GB and the Union Flag or England/Scotland/Wales/NI).
IIRC, there's also a requirement to have the name of the place the actual plate was bought from underneath. Plates with personalised slogans there are technically illegalI feel vaguely like it's kind of sensible to not have distracting or obscuring/contrast-lessening stuff on the actual number plate, but I don't suppose it's that big a deal.
From what I've seen of American plates on TV, it seems like it would be a lot harder to get someone's details in a hit and run or similar.
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That's what we have in the UK, except it's only white on the front, yellow on the back.
Yes - but even the yellow plate is unnecessary. White front and back like a lot of mainland Europe would be fine. I've never understood why we need yellow rear plates.
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Plates with personalised slogans there are technically illegal
If the BS number and the name / postcode of the place making the plate are on there too, the slogan is fine.
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If the BS number and the name / postcode of the place making the plate are on there too, the slogan is fine.
That doesn't necessarily follow. :)
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Well if your slogan is offensive then it's probably not fine. Common sense applies, natch.