I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this
-
@Zerosquare said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
(If you've never played this game: it's real. There is indeed a setting to choose toilet paper orientation, and it actually changes how the toilet paper roll is displayed.)
That's stupid. If they'd just made it correct to begin with then they wouldn't have had any problems.
-
See also:
-
@anotherusername I think people who make holders know this, because they sometimes make them indented, which means that if you try under, the TP will rub against the holder edge and the wall in the one room where things touching other things is worst.
-
@boomzilla said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@blakeyrat said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
I bet he loads the toilet paper so the loose end's closest to the wall instead of closest to the toilet too.
Them's fightin' words!
If you have cats, under is the only way to keep your house from being completely redecorated with TP.
If you have dogs, it doesn’t matter, they’ll just eat it anyway it hangs.
-
@M_Adams Our cats didn't much like the bathroom. It's where they got baths.
-
@anotherusername said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@M_Adams Our cats didn't much like the bathroom. It's where they got baths.
Ours don’t mind. Just don’t get their heads wet!
They splash around in 1-2 in. of water like little kids.
-
@M_Adams Our bath is a shower.
-
@anotherusername
Ours is a combo... While showering you get to watch them splash around while keeping just their heads under the curtain.
-
@Magus said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@pie_flavor No, it's the same word as the one for 'not-overly-young-girl': 'Kanojo'
How do you call a girlfriend you consider overly young?
-
@LaoC They all have cell phones now, but I'm old enough to remember when you had to call their family's land line.
-
@LaoC said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@Magus said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@pie_flavor No, it's the same word as the one for 'not-overly-young-girl': 'Kanojo'
HowWhat do you call a girlfriend you consider overly young?Jailbait
-
@LaoC said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@Magus said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@pie_flavor No, it's the same word as the one for 'not-overly-young-girl': 'Kanojo'
How do you call a girlfriend you consider overly young?
With a burner phone?
-
@boomzilla at my age, a girlfriend who was "overly young" would still be half a decade above the age of consent
-
@blakeyrat said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
The fact that bullying didn't literally kill me isn't relevant to my current beliefs whatsoever.
Well, it means you're around to have those beliefs. That's somewhat relevant
-
@Benjamin-Hall said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@boomzilla at my age, a girlfriend who was "overly young"
wouldcould still be as much ashalf athree decades above the age of consentFTFM
A (hypothetical) girlfriend a decade younger than me would be three-ish decades over the age of consent. But an even more "overly young" (and even more hypothetical) girlfriend might be much, much less than three decades over the age of consent.
-
@LaoC They don't have a word for that.
They have:
- Super-young girl
- Little girl, which can also be used for a grown woman, with no real negative connotations
- Virgin girl, which is also used for media that they are the target audience for: romance comics
- Older sister, which has several variants with different levels of respect (to the extent that there's even a variant for 'higher up than you in a gang or the mafia')
- Woman, which is super neutral
- Girl/girlfriend, also super neutral
-
@Magus Japanese is strange (to Westerners at least) in how many status-markers there are in the language. To the point that there's a whole set of forms that are only used by/to the Emperor (or the royal family).
I mean Russian uses different 2nd-person pronouns/noun forms/verb forms depending on status relationships (one for contemporaries/close friends and one for more formal/distant situations) but it's not that much.
-
@Benjamin-Hall Yeah, and that was with me leaving out the increasingly formal words, or any of the derogatory ones. I'm far less familiar with them. Japan has a long history of placing incredible value on someone's place in society, so they have an incredible number of pronouns and grammatical modifiers for all sorts of things to do with that, and I only know the slightest part of that stuff.
I find it to be a fascinating language.
-
@Magus I only know it from watching anime. I think that if I really had to learn it I'd get horribly horribly confused by the intricacies. Good thing they don't expect gaijin to be polite :)
-
@Benjamin-Hall said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
I mean Russian uses different 2nd-person pronouns/noun forms/verb forms depending on status relationships (one for contemporaries/close friends and one for more formal/distant situations)
Isn't it just using plural out of courtesy, not an actual separate form? Because that's how we mock Russians in our jokes here in Poland.
Fun fact: the normal, nice way to talk to strangers is to talk about them in third person, but refer to them as pan/pani. The last part is very important, because talking to people using third person in any other way is extremely rude.
-
@Benjamin-Hall said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@Magus Japanese is strange (to Westerners at least) in how many status-markers there are in the language. To the point that there's a whole set of forms that are only used by/to the Emperor (or the royal family).
Japanese is probably extreme but I'd go out on a limb to say at least most Asian languages are richer in this respect than the European ones. Arabic has more than half a dozen words for "cousin" depending on the particular relationship; in Thai and Lao you use a multitude of pronouns like older/younger brother/sister, aunt/uncle etc. even to address strangers and to immediately set up your social hierarchy; Indonesian has flattened the hierarchies a bit but used to have a whole lot of these as well.
-
@boomzilla said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@Groaner said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
Marie’s post shared details of a deeply hostile environment where colleagues threw around slurs and gendered language in everyday conversation, went to strip clubs after work
One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong. Can you guess which one is not like the others by the time I finish my post?
The after work part, obviously.
But that's person A claiming "they did 3 shitty things" and person B pointing out "but one is not shitty". Well, still leaves a lot of shit.
-
@topspin said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@boomzilla said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@Groaner said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
Marie’s post shared details of a deeply hostile environment where colleagues threw around slurs and gendered language in everyday conversation, went to strip clubs after work
One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong. Can you guess which one is not like the others by the time I finish my post?
The after work part, obviously.
But that's person A claiming "they did 3 shitty things" and person B pointing out "but one is not shitty". Well, still leaves a lot of shit.I was thinking the slurs, actually.
-
@Benjamin-Hall said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
I mean Russian uses different 2nd-person pronouns/noun forms/verb forms depending on status relationships (one for contemporaries/close friends and one for more formal/distant situations) but it's not that much.
I was under the impression having two second person forms is quite common. Ones I was taught in school, assuming I remember them right:
- German uses
du
informally andSie
formally, withSie
using third person singular verbs. - French uses
tu
informally andVous
formally, withVous
using second person plural verbs. - Dutch uses
jij
informally andu
formally, withu
using third person singular verbs (though in most cases those are the same as second person).
Also notably in writing the formal/polite forms are capitalized both in German and in French. Back in primary schools I was taught to do that in Dutch as well, but by middle school those guidelines had changed and it was no longer done (except when referring to God).
I also recall hearing that Dutch originally had an additional form more informal than
jij
, but I don't recall what it was and what role (if any)u
played at the time.
- German uses
-
@LaoC said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@Magus said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@pie_flavor No, it's the same word as the one for 'not-overly-young-girl': 'Kanojo'
How do you call a girlfriend you consider overly young?
In light of recent events, apparently you message them on sugardaddymeet.com.
-
@LaoC said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
Arabic has more than half a dozen words for "cousin" depending on the particular relationship
Well yeah, I mean you can't call the cousin you married the same thing you'd call a cousin you didn't.
-
@PleegWat said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@Benjamin-Hall said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
I mean Russian uses different 2nd-person pronouns/noun forms/verb forms depending on status relationships (one for contemporaries/close friends and one for more formal/distant situations) but it's not that much.
I was under the impression having two second person forms is quite common. Ones I was taught in school, assuming I remember them right:
- German uses
du
informally andSie
formally, withSie
using third person singular verbs. - French uses
tu
informally andVous
formally, withVous
using second person plural verbs. - Dutch uses
jij
informally andu
formally, withu
using third person singular verbs (though in most cases those are the same as second person).
- English uses
you
informally andfuck that noisethou
formally, withthou
using third person plural(?) verbs
- German uses
-
@anotherusername said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@PleegWat said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@Benjamin-Hall said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
I mean Russian uses different 2nd-person pronouns/noun forms/verb forms depending on status relationships (one for contemporaries/close friends and one for more formal/distant situations) but it's not that much.
I was under the impression having two second person forms is quite common. Ones I was taught in school, assuming I remember them right:
- German uses
du
informally andSie
formally, withSie
using third person singular verbs. - French uses
tu
informally andVous
formally, withVous
using second person plural verbs. - Dutch uses
jij
informally andu
formally, withu
using third person singular verbs (though in most cases those are the same as second person).
- English uses
you
informally andthou
formally, within prayer, if you belong to a more formal denomination.thou
using third person plural(?) verbs~~ fuck that noise
FTFMA
- German uses
-
@anotherusername
You
was actually the formal one andthou
the informal.
-
þou?
-
@TwelveBaud said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
þou?
The bathroom is
-
@anotherusername said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@LaoC They all have cell phones now, but I'm old enough to remember when you had to call their family's land line.
Growing up, we had a place in Maine. The phone was on a party line. (actually I think the party line was replaced by the time we got a phone there - but I distinctly remember borrowing the neighbor's phone - and needing the check if the line was free first.)
-
@topspin said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@boomzilla said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@Groaner said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
Marie’s post shared details of a deeply hostile environment where colleagues threw around slurs and gendered language in everyday conversation, went to strip clubs after work
One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong. Can you guess which one is not like the others by the time I finish my post?
The after work part, obviously.
But that's person A claiming "they did 3 shitty things" and person B pointing out "but one is not shitty". Well, still leaves a lot of shit.Actually, only one of them is shitty.
-
@Polygeekery Entirely enough.
-
@PleegWat said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
- German uses
du
informally andSie
formally, withSie
using third person singular verbs. - French uses
tu
informally andVous
formally, withVous
using second person plural verbs.
Actually German does second person plural, too.
@Rhywden said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@anotherusername
You
was actually the formal one andthou
the informal.It feels like English also did the same. "thou" is second person singular, "you" is second person plural or formal singular. Then over time they scrapped the distinct informal singular in favor of the always formal one, resulting in identical forms.
- German uses
-
@topspin said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@PleegWat said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
- German uses
du
informally andSie
formally, withSie
using third person singular verbs. - French uses
tu
informally andVous
formally, withVous
using second person plural verbs.
Actually German does second person plural, too.
For some reason I was convinced they use different ones. My only excuse is that it's been 2 decades and I was too lazy to find somewhere to look it up.
- German uses
-
@TwelveBaud Both the reason you see "Ye Olde <something>" and why we use the word "you" - the thorn corrupted into a Y.
-
@PleegWat said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
I was under the impression having two second person forms is quite common. Ones I was taught in school, assuming I remember them right:
- German uses
du
informally andSie
formally, withSie
using third person singular verbs.
3rd person plural. Actually old German had another form using
er
/sie
with 3rd person singular that was used to address people of lower social rank (ISTR. At least it's sometimes humorously [yeah, Germans and humor…] used like that today). And I don't know if that was what @topspin was referring to but the reverse of that (addressing someone of higher standing) usedihr
, 2nd person plural. Rarely used nowadays by people who aren't sure whether addressing someone asdu
is appropriate in the situation.- French uses
tu
informally andVous
formally, withVous
using second person plural verbs. - Dutch uses
jij
informally andu
formally, withu
using third person singular verbs (though in most cases those are the same as second person).
Add to that
vos
in Spanish that seems to be used quite differently in various dialects but is somehow related to formality, too.Also notably in writing the formal/polite forms are capitalized both in German and in French. Back in primary schools I was taught to do that in Dutch as well, but by middle school those guidelines had changed and it was no longer done (except when referring to God).
Ah, God is addressed as
u
in Dutch? Funny, Germans and Spaniards seem to be on a first name basis with Him.
- German uses
-
@anotherusername said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@LaoC said in [I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post > > How do you call a girlfriend you consider overly young?
In light of recent events, apparently you message them on sugardaddymeet.com.
$500 girlfriend, eh?
-
@LaoC said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@PleegWat said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
I was under the impression having two second person forms is quite common. Ones I was taught in school, assuming I remember them right:
- German uses
du
informally andSie
formally, withSie
using third person singular verbs.
3rd person plural.
I'm an idiot.
But I got plural right.
- German uses
-
@blakeyrat said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@topspin And no nerd has ever been named "Antonio!" If you're named Antonio, you are required by law to open a pizzeria.
False, I am connected by social network to a nerd named Antonio. Although they may be a faux-nerd since iirc they believe something to be true which I do not believe to be true, can't remember what.
They may also run a pizzeria, I assume they do.
-
@Gribnit I have a friend named Antonio. He makes music.
-
@pie_flavor That's ironic.
-
@Gribnit Why?
-
@pie_flavor said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@Gribnit
WhyWhat?Sheesh.