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

― pplains, Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:21 (eight years ago)

storey

― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:21 (eight years ago)

Dilly Dilly

― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:31 (eight years ago)

fetishization of Nutella and Sriracha

― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:32 (eight years ago)

French are mental for nutella

― rum dmc (darraghmac), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:33 (eight years ago)

Dilly bars

― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:36 (eight years ago)

"what's the dealio"

― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:37 (eight years ago)

Foolio

― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:47 (eight years ago)

Hammertime

― calstars, Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:53 (eight years ago)

The following names:
Skip
Chip
Tipper
Buffy

― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Sunday, 18 February 2018 00:40 (eight years ago)

Inability to say the word 'mirror'.

― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 February 2018 00:55 (eight years ago)

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

― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 February 2018 00:58 (eight years ago)

Inability to say the word 'mirror'.

also, ‘warwick’

― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:02 (eight years ago)

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

― Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:04 (eight years ago)

the way australians say ‘nissan’ is the worst imo

― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:18 (eight years ago)

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

Same with Subaru

― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:23 (eight years ago)

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

― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:29 (eight years ago)

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’

― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:41 (eight years ago)

acetaminophen

― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, 18 February 2018 03:01 (eight years ago)

synthetic marijuana that makes you run around naked in traffic

― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, 18 February 2018 03:01 (eight years ago)

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.

― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 18 February 2018 04:05 (eight years ago)

108. Puerto Rico :(

― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 18 February 2018 04:27 (eight years ago)

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

― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 February 2018 09:55 (eight years ago)

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

― kinder, Sunday, 18 February 2018 10:44 (eight years ago)

“Gram”

― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Monday, 19 February 2018 03:11 (eight years ago)

how the hell do yall say it?

― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Monday, 19 February 2018 03:24 (eight years ago)

“graham”

― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 19 February 2018 03:52 (eight years ago)

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

― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Monday, 19 February 2018 03:55 (eight years ago)

“graham”

― startled macropod (MatthewK), Monday, 19 February 2018 04:12 (eight years ago)

gray-um

― new noise, Monday, 19 February 2018 04:52 (eight years ago)

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

― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 19 February 2018 04:53 (eight years ago)

greemee

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 February 2018 04:55 (eight years ago)

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

― F# A# (∞), Monday, 19 February 2018 04:55 (eight years ago)

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

― El Tomboto, Monday, 19 February 2018 05:43 (eight years ago)

graham crackers

― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 19 February 2018 05:45 (eight years ago)

gray-ham cray-koars

― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 19 February 2018 05:49 (eight years ago)

xxp

not sure i'm understanding

i thought most uk universities used terms

― F# A# (∞), Monday, 19 February 2018 05:50 (eight years ago)

gram crack whores

― F# A# (∞), Monday, 19 February 2018 05:51 (eight years ago)

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

― El Tomboto, Monday, 19 February 2018 06:01 (eight years ago)

In the UK they have something called “michaelmas”

― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Monday, 19 February 2018 06:05 (eight years ago)

not since yewtree

― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 19 February 2018 06:10 (eight years ago)

In addition to the ‘Michaelmas term’ we have the ‘Hilary term’ which iirc the US also missed out on.

― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 19 February 2018 07:07 (eight years ago)

an English thing we inherited

Also true of sophomore, junior, etc.

― persona non gratin (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 19 February 2018 08:33 (eight years ago)

month/day/year

― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 25 February 2018 05:19 (eight years ago)

peanuts in all the candy

― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Sunday, 25 February 2018 06:55 (eight years ago)

peanut butter in all the candy

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 February 2018 07:33 (eight years ago)

(which I love btw)

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 February 2018 07:34 (eight years ago)

the one area in which usa doesn’t have enough cultural influence

― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 25 February 2018 07:45 (eight years ago)

can't believe it took this long for month / day / year to come up, it's so dumb

on zing so can't ctrl +f for fahrenheit

― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 25 February 2018 07:50 (eight years ago)

a) peanuts are in barely any of America's mostly-terrible candy

b) peanut butter NEVER is, only a weird gritty peanut-flavoured sugar sludge, occasionally

― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 25 February 2018 07:52 (eight years ago)


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