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― loretta swit happens (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 17 November 2017 15:51 (six years ago) link
you're being radicchulous
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Friday, 17 November 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
Speaking of words that annoy you, I'm sorry British people, but I just can't accept calling that stuff "rocket".
― Moodles, Friday, 17 November 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
it'll soon take off
― kinder, Friday, 17 November 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
Having a little trouble getting my head around this
Has a two-hour train journey to work this one out:
The spaceship hurtled into the star. "We're all dead," said the captain to the crew.
i) This was inarguable. There was no escape. ii) A short time later, it also became unarguable.
― mark s, Friday, 17 November 2017 19:51 (six years ago) link
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Friday, November 17, 2017 11:00 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark
i loled
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 17 November 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
lol kinder
― gimme the beet poison, free my soul (Doctor Casino), Friday, 17 November 2017 21:45 (six years ago) link
world class, guys
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Friday, 17 November 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link
normalization
― Mordy, Monday, 27 November 2017 05:30 (six years ago) link
I'll say it again: weaponize
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 November 2017 11:47 (six years ago) link
and the way reporters and columnists jump on neologisms like this with enthusiasm
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 November 2017 11:49 (six years ago) link
what word should they be using?
― mark s, Monday, 27 November 2017 12:17 (six years ago) link
D'mnuchin returns (darraghmac) wrote this on thread Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible] on board I Love Everything on 31-May-2017
Normalisation
Stop saying this
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Monday, 27 November 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
some variation on "is this the hill you want to die on?" "i'm fine dying on this hill" "i'm going to die on this hill"
this one has spread like a virus in the past couple weeks, don't know tf why
― flappy bird, Monday, 27 November 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
― mark s, Monday, 27 November 2017 12:17 (five hours ago
Nothing -- silence. When it's their turn to speak on cable TV, stare blankly into the camera.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 November 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
seriously where did the dying on hills thing come from and how did it spread so quickly
― flappy bird, Monday, 27 November 2017 21:48 (six years ago) link
it's military so i blame tombot
― mark s, Monday, 27 November 2017 21:51 (six years ago) link
it's a decades old english language idiom
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 27 November 2017 21:51 (six years ago) link
Dying on a hill died quite some deaths on hills already. Not particularly new.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 27 November 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
I know it’s not a new idiom but it’s spread like wildfire lately gonna do a google analytics thing in a sec
― flappy bird, Monday, 27 November 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link
xps
'dying on this or that hill' has been around for at least a couple of decades, but has had an upsurge recently for reasons unknown to me. it will fade into the background again in a few weeks or months, like most faddish phrases.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 27 November 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
it's upsurge is probably because taking stances on issues is such a big part of posting on social media and so many people have bad takes and strange hobbyhorses
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 27 November 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
Fuck horses are dying on the hills too??
― flappy bird, Monday, 27 November 2017 21:59 (six years ago) link
where did the dying on hills thing come from
just to clarify, you do understand that choosing to die on a particular hill is a military metaphor for holding a position at any cost, don't you?
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 27 November 2017 22:13 (six years ago) link
clarity is important
― mark s, Monday, 27 November 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
yeah yeah i know it's an old term i meant why has it spread so suddenly in pop culture/discourse in the last week or two
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%22hill%20to%20die%20on%22
― flappy bird, Monday, 27 November 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
Kamikaze attacks on hills up seventy percent state office would make no comment when approached by this reporter
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Monday, 27 November 2017 22:48 (six years ago) link
is this the hill you want me to kill you on
― ogmor, Monday, 27 November 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
Hill killton
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Monday, 27 November 2017 23:17 (six years ago) link
Abe said where you want this killin doneGod said up on hilltop 61
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
“a phenomena”
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
Criteria instead of criterion.
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Friday, 1 December 2017 06:54 (six years ago) link
Not 100% on point in this thread, but in my tiredness the phrase "have sex" just suddenly struck me as odd. The active "have" is already odd to begin with ("I'm having a slice of cake"). But "have sex" is this weird level of abstraction from the act. "Fucking" clearly describes a specific action/activity. "Engaging in intercourse" is more abstracted but it's still clear that you are doing a thing. But "having sex" sounds like some kind of strange, suspended state rather than an action.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 1 December 2017 07:15 (six years ago) link
xp yes fucking yes
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 December 2017 07:39 (six years ago) link
weird xp
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 1 December 2017 08:18 (six years ago) link
having sex is holding it in your hand
― flappy bird, Friday, 1 December 2017 08:47 (six years ago) link
i’m having a sex right now
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 December 2017 08:55 (six years ago) link
^now that's a phrase/construction i dislike
― flappy bird, Friday, 1 December 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
apparently people still don't understand how to use hashtags
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 2 December 2017 09:35 (six years ago) link
"it's #raining in #melbourne!!! #watchout for #floods and #rain #thisisscary #dontgooutside #bringyourumbrella"
no
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 2 December 2017 09:37 (six years ago) link
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/smartphone-apps/apples-date-related-bug-causes-headaches-for-device-users-20171202-gzxhua.html
A bug in Apple's software is causing headaches for many device users, with apps that use local notifications causing their devices to crash as of Saturday.Apple users took to the internet to complain of the glitch
Apple users took to the internet to complain of the glitch
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 2 December 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
http://www.theage.com.au/world/despite-condemnations-donald-trump-is-impervious-to-the-uproar-he-causes-20171130-gzvvpe
On Wednesday, local time, Trump took to Twitter before sunrise to share three unverified videos
how do you "take to" something when you're already using it
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 2 December 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
like a duck takes to waterlike a Trump takes to Twitter
― jmm, Saturday, 2 December 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
okay that works
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 2 December 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
takin' it to the tweets
― 'cause there's always been an it i can't truss (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 3 December 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link
the revolutionary moves among the people like a duck takes to twitter
― mark s, Sunday, 3 December 2017 11:29 (six years ago) link
how do you "take to" something when you're already using it?
I don't see a particular problem with this. 'Took to' to me means someone logged into their account/opened an app in order to post. And even if the app is already running, the action of bringing it to the foreground is still required in order to post.
― dubmill, Sunday, 3 December 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link
but... he's already on twitter
I don't understand the objection unless he's literally using Twitter 24/7?
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 December 2017 12:47 (six years ago) link
It's like, if a ship is harboured and then takes to sea... isn't it?
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 December 2017 12:50 (six years ago) link
If Trump has a thought, picks up his phone, opens the Twitter app, and posts, then you can perfectly legitimately say he 'took to' Twitter. But in the case of him sharing the Britain First videos, you might assume he saw them on Twitter in the first place, in which case he was clearly already using Twitter and the 'took to' idiom is not appropriate (unless, that is, he watched the videos on Twitter, left Twitter, then thought to himself, 'I'm going to share those videos I saw', and opened up the app again in order to do so).
― dubmill, Sunday, 3 December 2017 12:57 (six years ago) link