American things

it's like when someone is born on Feb 29 and they can celebrate their 2nd birthday when they're 6 years old.

make that 8 years old. this math stuff is hard.

They'd be a real asshole of an 8 year old but that in itself is not uncommon I spose

Also there's none of this "getting the hours in", the uni chucks all the students out by May so they can rent out the facilities to businesses until October

What if it takes you a year and a half to get your first year hours in? You can't be a "first-year" student if you've been at college for two years.

― pplains, Sunday, 18 February 2018 09:55 (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also, iirc there's no single word in american that covers this scenario anyway. i've never heard of anyone who's still doing first-year subjects in their second year of enrolment saying e.g. "i'm a trinitron"

Third trimester eh

the american terms refer to years spent there, not level of courses taken

Ya it's a bad term

seems odd to measure progress by how many years you've been on the campus, not how much of the course you've completed

I mean, you all are the ones who would break an ankle by jumping out of a "first" story window, not me.

storey

Dilly Dilly

fetishization of Nutella and Sriracha

French are mental for nutella

Dilly bars

"what's the dealio"

Foolio

Hammertime

The following names:
Skip
Chip
Tipper
Buffy

Inability to say the word 'mirror'.

Pronouncing the name Cecil as Cee-cil, thus rendering a silly name even sillier.

Inability to say the word 'mirror'.

also, ‘warwick’

for a limited time only, great deals on Niss-arn automobiles

the way australians say ‘nissan’ is the worst imo

I don’t know how you personally say nissan but north americans say it very similar to its original Japanese

Same with Subaru

Do Australians say s’-BAY-roo or something?

I don’t know how you personally say nissan but north americans say it very similar to its original Japanese

Same with Subaru

yeah that’s how i understood it. we say ‘NISS-uhn’ and ‘SOO-buh-ROO’

acetaminophen

synthetic marijuana that makes you run around naked in traffic

105. Pronouncing the name Cecil as Cee-cil, thus rendering a silly name even sillier.

― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, February 18, 2018 11:58 AM (three hours ago)

106. also, ‘warwick’

― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, February 18, 2018 12:02 PM

107. calling people named Craig by the non-existent name Kregg.

108. Puerto Rico :(

109. Poncy faux-French pronunciations of the names Gerard and Bernard.

co-ed, presumably meaning 'female'?
also in weird name pronunciation: Graham

“Gram”

how the hell do yall say it?

“graham”

is that GRAY-HAM
or
GRUH-HUM
or
guh *trill* ah *glottal catch* um
or
GRIMMINY GROO
or what come on

“graham”

gray-um

just think of how “graeme” is pronounced, it’s the same

greemee

accents shouldn't really count though

there are regional differences even within england and not to mention the uk

i always thought it was funny how non-rhotic dialects insert an /r/ sound between vowels (when there is no letter r of course)

some good ones i just remembered:

nonsensical use of semester
junior college

darn i forgot the other one

Nonsensical use of “semester” is an English thing we inherited iirc

graham crackers

gray-ham cray-koars

xxp

not sure i'm understanding

i thought most uk universities used terms

gram crack whores

Nevermind, I got it confused with the three halves of the Eton school year

In the UK they have something called “michaelmas”

not since yewtree