oh, I mean yeah obviously. is this a new phenomenon?
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:53 (six years ago) link
I saw today a picture of a conflict between a cat and a bald eagle described as "Peak Maine."
A tattoo of a Starbucks cup is described as "Peak Seattle."
A cheesy Old Bay crab biscuit purchased at the Renaissance Faire (sic) has been described as "None More Maryland."
― I will finish what I (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:57 (six years ago) link
If it can be proven that none more _ came from a movie made in the late seventies or whatever then I'll stop fping ppl for a whole week
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 23:44 (six years ago) link
it totally did
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:24 (six years ago) link
Ok starting from when i posted that tho
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:33 (six years ago) link
When someone says something didn't "land". Like you didn't get it. This expression is fine for jokes but it's horrible in any other application
― kolakube (Ross), Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:54 (six years ago) link
ooo cosign on that one
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:57 (six years ago) link
Critics calling things “airless”
― President Keyes, Thursday, 8 February 2018 02:34 (six years ago) link
I thought there was something particularly awful about this phrase in this context, but also bad in general:
Woman found holding her own eyeballs
WYFF News 411 hours ago · FollowAn Upstate community is in shock after a 19-year-old was found holding her eyeball and then gauged the other one out outside a church. Here's what we know: http://bit.ly/2E9n0W9
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 8 February 2018 02:55 (six years ago) link
gauge awayyou can gauge away
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 8 February 2018 03:13 (six years ago) link
ffs some guy in WH press corps referring to just-resigned wife beater as "gentleman"
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
also increasingly hearing this as cop-speak in press briefing re: some murder or whatever, "the gentleman then fired a second shot"
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link
“Home invasion”
Was ‘burglary’ insufficiently bellicose?
― kim jong deal (suzy), Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
I usually think of home invasion as the burglary of a home when the residents are present. Threats of force, that sort of thing.
― how's life, Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link
"burglary by the individual," even. Not the man or the woman or even the person
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link
Still sounds stupid though. (xp)
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
Wouldn’t ‘robbery’ imply the victim’s presence?
― kim jong deal (suzy), Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
nope!
if you get home and your house has been cleaned out, you were robbed
― mh, Thursday, 8 February 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
or your wife finally got wise, I guess
no, you were burgled. robbery involves the threat or use of force, intimidation, etc.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 8 February 2018 23:21 (six years ago) link
that’s the legal definition!
no one shouts “we’ve been burgled!”
― mh, Thursday, 8 February 2018 23:25 (six years ago) link
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― mookieproof, Friday, 9 February 2018 00:35 (six years ago) link
They don't?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Friday, 9 February 2018 00:54 (six years ago) link
I’m open to accepting new views
― mh, Friday, 9 February 2018 01:01 (six years ago) link
i would say "we've been burglarized" in that case.
― how's life, Friday, 9 February 2018 01:23 (six years ago) link
In the US, you'd never say that in the UK.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Friday, 9 February 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link
So, yes, in the UK, you would shout, "I've been burgled", if you'd been burgled.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Friday, 9 February 2018 01:27 (six years ago) link
Depending on circumstances I might burble, "I've been burgled", or I might blubber it.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 9 February 2018 01:45 (six years ago) link
http://stmedia.stimg.co/ctyp_6541146hamburglar_mcdonalds.jpg?w=800
― I will finish what I (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 9 February 2018 01:48 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tit5gHtVEls
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 9 February 2018 02:01 (six years ago) link
― mh, Thursday, February 8, 2018 6:25 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this happened to me a year ago and yes we were burgled. i say we were burgled. it's completely different than being robbed, which is obviously worse because of the potential for violence and the lingering anxiety and terror. i've always feared it but weirdly felt safe enough in my home after being burgled. don't know how i'd feel being robbed tho, especially via force.
― flappy bird, Friday, 9 February 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link
burgled sounds kinda dirty though
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 9 February 2018 02:15 (six years ago) link
where do we stand on "incrediburgible" tho
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 9 February 2018 02:16 (six years ago) link
yeah it is dirty. your shit got stolen, your house was broken into. it sucks. they (usually) don't even take their shoes off
― flappy bird, Friday, 9 February 2018 02:19 (six years ago) link
indeed that sounds like a terrible drag, sorry
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 9 February 2018 02:20 (six years ago) link
yea its fine we got most of the stuff back, got a security thing... it is funny though, every time i would talk about it, i would be very conscious of the burgled/robbed difference, for whatever reason, even those most people don't know. frankly i'm surprised more people fuck up "hanged" and say "hung themselves." i actually feel that one has gotten worse in recent years
― flappy bird, Friday, 9 February 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link
it's to the point now that when someone says "hanged" it's sort of impressive
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 9 February 2018 02:28 (six years ago) link
Right. it's strange because I remember a decade ago, whenever that phrase would come up and someone would say "hung," another would correct with "hanged." now it's just a free for all
― flappy bird, Friday, 9 February 2018 02:31 (six years ago) link
IDGAF, correct at all costs, you can't cede any territory to these cretins
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 9 February 2018 02:39 (six years ago) link
Lol it's a little difficult when you're talking about a mutual friend that just committed suicide lmao
― flappy bird, Friday, 9 February 2018 02:41 (six years ago) link
one time i left my house to to pickup a friend from the train station 5 mins down the street. when i got back i realized we were robbed. the windows were open and some things were missing, doors and cabinets were opened, etc. the thing is, at the time i didn't know if anyone was still in the house or not. this is why we called the cops. not sure what they wrote down and i don't really care. they arrived and accused us of lying and being on drugs. it sucked.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 February 2018 02:42 (six years ago) link
you shoulda said burgled, they would have believed you
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 9 February 2018 02:44 (six years ago) link
"The prisoner was hung" has connotations that bring to mind horses more than executions.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 9 February 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
there is actually such a thing as "death erection" though, in which case, unfortunately, one could be both hanged and evidently hung
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 9 February 2018 02:49 (six years ago) link
it always bugs me that the term is "pleaded guilty (or innocent)" rather than "pled guilty" because the preferred use of language was variable
― mh, Friday, 9 February 2018 02:54 (six years ago) link
I also realized that the dictionary version of "robbed" I was looking at had general theft under "informal dialect" and listed "burglary" as a synonym
so there you go, I'm just from a bad dialect area
― mh, Friday, 9 February 2018 02:55 (six years ago) link
legal language is a gated system used to control those who in general do not understand it. there is a legal class that can understand the accepted contexts of all of these words and then there is everybody else, the vast people the laws are applied to, many of them legally illiterate. in a way we haven't changed much since the days of the Holy Roman Empire controlling everything through Latin.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 February 2018 03:12 (six years ago) link
To my ear, "pled" is about as correct as "syllabi."
That is, I understand the arguments in favor, but it seems just too stilted for normal use. For almost every audience, I'd prefer a more conversational choice.
― I will finish what I (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 9 February 2018 03:21 (six years ago) link
I was taught pled either in civics class or mock trial and I wonder what was up with that
― mh, Friday, 9 February 2018 03:35 (six years ago) link
pled/pleaded drives me insane -- I can never remember which one to use when and I'm a fucking lawyer
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 9 February 2018 03:47 (six years ago) link