Now I'm getting confused, I need to listen to a British version of "Jolene".
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
sleeping compartments on semi-trucks (or lorries as I would call them) that look like this https://www.core77.com/posts/59146/What-Do-Luxury-Sleeper-Cabs-for-Long-Haul-Truck-Drivers-Look-Like
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link
sem-eye trucks?
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 00:35 (three years ago) link
yes, sem-eye truck vs semmy-trailer seems like an American thing?
― @oneposter (đź’ą) (sic), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
Stressing the second syllable seems like it could be an American thing - not only in words like 'vaccine' but in names like Bernard and Gerard. It's almost as if there's an attempt to make the words more interesting to say and hear because the British pronunciations of the same words sound so dull and flat, but I suspect it's more about a French influence on or origin of certain words which the British have been careful to expunge but which persists in American pronunciation.
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 01:28 (three years ago) link
like Bernard and Gerard.
was already thinking "this just sounds French tbh" at this point
I don't know if Americans do generally say Ber-NArd, but it definitely does sound fun when Killer Mike says "Senator Buh-NAHD Sanders"
― @oneposter (đź’ą) (sic), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 01:38 (three years ago) link
Double down the bunless chicken burger.Have seen the image over the last decade or whatever and thought it a sign of American excess.Never seen it available this side of the Atlantic. So was surprised to see it on the menu in the local KFC recently. Which I don't remember having seen before not that I am in there much.KFC itself wasn't around in a lot of places here for years. I remember one being in a prominent spot in Dublin when I was first there but disappearing after a couple of years and wondering why a well known brand elsewhere was no longer visibly around.So now wondering if it was a short term offer and if irish customers aren't as pro cholesterol and type 2 diabetes etc as US ones. Or if it is a thing that has been around since they returned.I think the one I was in is about the only branch in town and is right on the outskirts.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 06:21 (three years ago) link
ga-RARge
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 12:04 (three years ago) link
Jamie Roberts, better known by his stage name Blawan, is an English DJ and record producer from South Yorkshire.
― @oneposter (đź’ą) (sic), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 12:19 (three years ago) link
sampled from the Fugees though
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 13:03 (three years ago) link
the uk emphasis on the first syllable of words is why they are incapable of producing plausible rap music
― na (NA), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
I want you to park that big Mack truckRight in this little garridge
― na (NA), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
“Plant manager Tom Hart organized a cash-buy-in, winner-take-all, betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager how many plant employees would test positive for COVID-19.” https://t.co/Nyra56dNJ5— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) November 19, 2020
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 19 November 2020 04:03 (three years ago) link
i think they think yorkshire pudding is like chocolate pudding.. pic.twitter.com/w1pj9vIsGO— my sexuality is dan levy's spooky eyebrows (@SaimaFerdows) November 19, 2020
― huge rant (sic), Saturday, 21 November 2020 08:01 (three years ago) link
Pepperidge Farm
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 26 December 2020 21:48 (three years ago) link
fuckin milanos.... we should do a poll
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 26 December 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
lol of course it's been doneFAVORITE PEPPERIDGE FARM COOKIE
and the cookies themselves have their own dedicated thread:Pepperidge Farm® Milano® Cookies
and there's a search and destroy, created pre-poll:Pepperidge Farm: S/D
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 26 December 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
i was given milano 'slices' with fuckin...... pretzel crumbs in the dark chocolate and it broke my brain with delight
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 26 December 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
heckling "freebird" at bands
― Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 20:29 (three years ago) link
I've said this before, but it's not heckling. We really want to hear them play Freebird!
― pplains, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 00:50 (three years ago) link
The joke is that there’s no such song as “Freebird”, right? Or has someone written a song based on the joke?
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 00:57 (three years ago) link
more than one way to skynard that bird
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 02:32 (three years ago) link
Has "Freebird" reasserted itself after it was seemingly replaced with "More Cowbell"?
― Vernon Locke, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 23:23 (three years ago) link
I think there's a bit of difficulty disentangling the Pogues from all the horseshit Irish pride mook shit like Dropkick Murphys― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, April 17, 2021 9:36 AM (forty-nine minutes ago)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, April 17, 2021 9:36 AM (forty-nine minutes ago)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 17 April 2021 00:31 (three years ago) link
I'm an American thing posting from downtown Sydney, quarantine day 12 of 14 and it looks like there was a miscalculation and I'm actually released a day early, wednesday not thursday, so... which hopeful people are in Sydney? Where do I drink?
― Milton Parker, Monday, 7 June 2021 02:21 (three years ago) link
This place belongs in this thread, and is in Sydney
https://shadypinessaloon.com/
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 04:36 (three years ago) link
Just like every Outback restaurant is true-to-life with its framed stock photography of kangaroos, I think your Shady Pines hits the US on the head here with its authentic reproduction of
https://i.imgur.com/iMokqEG.jpg
albums by the band America on prominent display. Can't hardly walk into a Denny's without seeing one of those things.
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 12:33 (three years ago) link
SHADY PINES, MA!
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 12:48 (three years ago) link
Where is the lanai in that photo?
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 12:51 (three years ago) link
Grackles
― ledge, Friday, 24 September 2021 12:38 (three years ago) link
otm
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 24 September 2021 13:19 (three years ago) link
Pronouncing Leslie as Lesslie and Les as Less... at least they did so in the episode of King of Queens I saw this morning.
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
I. . . don’t know how else it would be pronounced?/American
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 18:29 (two years ago) link
Les pronounced lez, as in lesbian.
― Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
I had no idea!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
I've never thought about it, but I pronounce it lez-LEE.
But Les is Less.
― pplains, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 20:37 (two years ago) link
So then, are we to conclude that the 'Lez' said, the better?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
https://networkonair.com/3939-large_default/sez-les-volume-4.jpg
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link
I assume that Les in the US is more commonly short for Lester, in which case pronouncing it Less would make sense?
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
Actually I've just watched a YouTube of Howard Stern talking about Lez-lie West.
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
In Acadia, they pronounce Leslie, "Lay-Lay".
― pplains, Thursday, 28 October 2021 00:22 (two years ago) link
Or not.
― pplains, Thursday, 28 October 2021 00:23 (two years ago) link
Sir Lay Patterson
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 28 October 2021 01:19 (two years ago) link
i pronounce it lezlie. for les i'm kind of halfway between s and z tbh
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Thursday, 28 October 2021 01:23 (two years ago) link
lez for everythingexcept for wkrp’s les nessman ie buckeye newshawkand leslie knopethe only “less”es that i recognize
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 October 2021 01:37 (two years ago) link
Knope is a lezlie in my headcanon tbh. Like I think I have autoreplaced it on hearing, in the moment, on the fly
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 28 October 2021 01:43 (two years ago) link
lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 October 2021 02:24 (two years ago) link
High-fructose corn syrup
― Lee626, Thursday, 28 October 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link
https://www.ohio-put-in-bay.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Barbershop-Quartet.jpg
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 October 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
Wait, so you're saying that in other nations you get your hair cut without corny-ass a capella singing in four-part harmony?
Like what, you just get your hair cut in SILENCE?
Like SAVAGES?
― that of a giant Slor (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 28 October 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link