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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 (seven years ago)

storey

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

Dilly Dilly

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

fetishization of Nutella and Sriracha

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

French are mental for nutella

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

Dilly bars

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

"what's the dealio"

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

Foolio

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

Hammertime

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

The following names:
Skip
Chip
Tipper
Buffy

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

Inability to say the word 'mirror'.

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

Inability to say the word 'mirror'.

also, ‘warwick’

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

the way australians say ‘nissan’ is the worst imo

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

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

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

acetaminophen

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

108. Puerto Rico :(

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

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

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

“Gram”

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

how the hell do yall say it?

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

“graham”

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

“graham”

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

gray-um

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

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

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

greemee

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

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

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

graham crackers

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

gray-ham cray-koars

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

xxp

not sure i'm understanding

i thought most uk universities used terms

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

gram crack whores

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

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

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

In the UK they have something called “michaelmas”

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

not since yewtree

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

month/day/year

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

peanuts in all the candy

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

peanut butter in all the candy

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

(which I love btw)

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

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

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


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