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rass wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2019 7:48 am rhythm is a dancer
Peter Sellers wrote:The only important thing these days is rhythm and melody
Rhythm
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Confession (and I'm not pooping right now) - I didn't know that was Peter Sellers (or the original source)...
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Last night I was at the grocery store and walked into the beer aisle just as a sketchy looking guy was pulling a can of beer off the shelve, popping it open, and chugging it. Mid-chug, he looked up at me, shrugged, and continued. When he finished it he just put the empty back on the shelf and strolled off.

Have to admire the effort.
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rass wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2019 8:07 am

Confession (and I'm not pooping right now) - I didn't know that was Peter Sellers (or the original source)...
I binged on B.A.D. yesterday.

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DaveInSeattle wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2019 12:01 pm Last night I was at the grocery store and walked into the beer aisle just as a sketchy looking guy was pulling a can of beer off the shelve, popping it open, and chugging it. Mid-chug, he looked up at me, shrugged, and continued. When he finished it he just put the empty back on the shelf and strolled off.

Have to admire the effort.
Sketchy? Sounds like a got damn hero to me.
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Here's a lesson I learned this evening for the 537th time - don't tell your wife that she is being persistently negative.
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Pruitt wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2019 6:36 pm Here's a lesson I learned this evening for the 537th time - don't tell your wife that she is being persistently negative.
I’ve done that myself a few times. There’s no way that conversation ends with her admitting you’re right.
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brian wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2019 7:24 pm
Pruitt wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2019 6:36 pm Here's a lesson I learned this evening for the 537th time - don't tell your wife that she is being persistently negative.
I’ve done that myself a few times. There’s no way that conversation ends with her admitting you’re right.
Take a long walk guys.
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A_B wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2019 7:34 pm
brian wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2019 7:24 pm
Pruitt wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2019 6:36 pm Here's a lesson I learned this evening for the 537th time - don't tell your wife that she is being persistently negative.
I’ve done that myself a few times. There’s no way that conversation ends with her admitting you’re right.
Take a long walk guys.
Good advice. Wife has moved on, dog is happy and I will live to face another day.
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An expression I can't stand is - "I was just thinking out loud."

Which basically means that you were talking.
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Pruitt wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 7:46 am An expression I can't stand is - "I was just thinking out loud."

Which basically means that you were talking.
Exactly! I also hate "just sayin'". Nails on a chalkboard.
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The amount of buzz words and phrases I'm triggered by because of their use in the military is vast. Just to name a few:

"Just to piggyback off of what Sergeant So-in-so said..."

"I'm tracking..."

"If the military wanted you to have [something], it would have been issued to you."
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Pruitt wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 7:46 am An expression I can't stand is - "I was just thinking out loud."

Which basically means that you were talking.
Or, I'm just spitballing here. Which... fucking gross.

I actually use a version of this, because some people are too literal and don't understand what a brainstorming session is, especially if it pops up in the middle of a formal meeting.

Like, our webmaster has to be kept off of all emails where drafts of web content is being bandied about, because she just starts putting things up (not live, but in draft/holding) and then gets pissed when things change. Fucking annoying.

Anyways, I definitely say something like "let's just kick this idea around" or something like that so certain people don't write it down and then quote it later in the "well, you said we were doing X, Y, Z."
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Put a pin in this discussion, guys
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At the end of the day...
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...it is what it is.
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I'd love to meet a single person that doesn't use the occasional idiom.
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You and what army?
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The incorrect 'I could care less' makes me hoppin' mad
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Rams Fanny wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 2:12 pm The incorrect 'I could care less' makes me hoppin' mad
I will sometimes use that when it's something I actually care about to throw people off.
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Johnnie wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 1:11 pm ...it is what it is.
This doesn't bother me nearly as much as,"everything happens for a reason." Always tempted to respond with, "or we assign a reason to everything regardless of what happens."
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Rams Fanny wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 2:12 pm The incorrect 'I could care less' makes me hoppin' mad
My mother reacts like you do. So, I use it incorrectly just to set her off. She doesn't like it, but I could care less.
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Rams Fanny wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 2:12 pm The incorrect 'I could care less' makes me hoppin' mad
That is a specifically American expression that makes absolutely no sense.

Like "standing on line."
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I don't mind the occasional "it is what it is," which is a rough version SSDD or SNAFU.

My issue is with people that use it all the fucking time and often where it's just a lazy way out of actually trying to understand or examine something.

"These coaches keep taking extra time on the field, biting into our session."

"Yeah, it is what it is."


NO, it's fucking not. You just don't want to confront those guys.
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Pruitt wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 4:13 pm
Rams Fanny wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 2:12 pm The incorrect 'I could care less' makes me hoppin' mad
That is a specifically American expression that makes absolutely no sense.

Like "standing on line."
Oh, zip it. You guys say z as zed and you call napkins serviettes like a bunch of poseurs.

Iroc-Zed. The fuck outta here.
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Nonlinear FC wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 4:24 pm
Pruitt wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 4:13 pm
Rams Fanny wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 2:12 pm The incorrect 'I could care less' makes me hoppin' mad
That is a specifically American expression that makes absolutely no sense.

Like "standing on line."
Oh, zip it. You guys say z as zed and you call napkins serviettes like a bunch of poseurs.

Iroc-Zed. The fuck outta here.
No one under the age of 100 says "serviettes," not even in Quebec.

And the language was invented in England where they say "Zed," so therefore we are right.
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:D

fair enough, I'm old and remember them using that term... I guess napkins = feminine hygiene product (or did)

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Pruitt wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 4:13 pm
Rams Fanny wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 2:12 pm The incorrect 'I could care less' makes me hoppin' mad
That is a specifically American expression that makes absolutely no sense.

Like "standing on line."
Everybody west or south of New York says "standing in line".
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Nonlinear FC wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 4:24 pm
Pruitt wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 4:13 pm
Rams Fanny wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 2:12 pm The incorrect 'I could care less' makes me hoppin' mad
That is a specifically American expression that makes absolutely no sense.

Like "standing on line."
Oh, zip it. You guys say z as zed and you call napkins serviettes like a bunch of poseurs.

Iroc-Zed. The fuck outta here.
"Toque" is a very nice word. Much better than the currently-popular "beanie". This and some other words I used (because I grew up with Canadian parents) confuse(d) my friends. Besides Toque, there was tea-towel (instead of dish towel), and Mum instead of Mom.
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sancarlos wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 5:37 pm
Nonlinear FC wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 4:24 pm
Pruitt wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 4:13 pm
Rams Fanny wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 2:12 pm The incorrect 'I could care less' makes me hoppin' mad
That is a specifically American expression that makes absolutely no sense.

Like "standing on line."
Oh, zip it. You guys say z as zed and you call napkins serviettes like a bunch of poseurs.

Iroc-Zed. The fuck outta here.
"Toque" is a very nice word. Much better than the currently-popular "beanie". This and some other words I used (because I grew up with Canadian parents) confuse(d) my friends. Besides Toque, there was tea-towel (instead of dish towel), and Mum instead of Mom.
Washroom?
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Any positive Canadian contributions to the language are canceled out by calling it "pop."
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Standing on line is stupid.
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Johnny Carwash wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 6:59 pm Any positive Canadian contributions to the language are canceled out by calling it "pop."
But that's the sound that bubbles make.

Makes more sense than this...
"water into which carbonic acid has been forced under pressure." "It rarely contains soda in any form; but the name originally applied when sodium carbonate was contained in it has been retained" [Century Dictionary, 1902].
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Johnny Carwash wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 6:59 pm Any positive Canadian contributions to the language are canceled out by calling it "pop."
Jeez! Calling it "pop" is not just a Canadian thing.

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As a michigander with a grandmother from Savanah, I moved fluidly* between pop and Coke.

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They misdrew the line in New Mexico. I haven't heard pop from locals. Only from military members from Michigan, Wisconsin,..etc.

But "You wanna coke?" in burquena is a thing:

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I've been awake for 45 minutes and am already sick to death of all the "clever" and "hilarious" April Fool's gags I've seen.

From Facebook friends claiming that it's their birthday to Tottenham Hotspur being sold to Robert Kraft's company to McDonalds' new pickle burger... the frivolity must end.
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Oh, April Fools Day is the worst. I'm saying off the Internet as much as I can today.
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