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china bot posted:the best part is still the pipe sticking out of the barn window in the background Cindy Shitbird posted:all I see when I look at it is this: ChickenOfTomorrow posted:mods, please Vorkosigan posted:I would have bought it, but: QUACKTASTIC posted:Imagine building a house so stupid that even it's smilie fails inspection. Cindy Shitbird posted:I'll see if i can fix it when i get home from work in the morning.
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Everyone arguing about pronunciation forgets that British English has a lot more regional dialects than you'd think, and in one you would pronounce hovel as "Ee, t'int so grand but's raah'inuf f'rus, coo'nt do nowt wi'bigger."
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Oct 21, 2016 09:36
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The quotes are coming from inside the thread! 
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Dabir posted:Everyone arguing about pronunciation forgets that British English has a lot more regional dialects than you'd think, and in one you would pronounce hovel as "Ee, t'int so grand but's raah'inuf f'rus, coo'nt do nowt wi'bigger." Yorkshire?  People often forget that what we think of as a particular regional accent is often a gigantic group of accents and dialects along a spectrum from "says words like 'pillow' and 'there' a bit differently" to "I can't understand a word this motherfucker is saying, is he even speaking English?" Most Americans know like, two British accents: an exaggerated Cockney stereotype a la My Fair Lady, and ultra-posh RP. No doubt these ladies would be mistaken for Irish in many parts of the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCOC1YwNwZw
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Oct 21, 2016 11:10
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As promised, a version that fits the restrictions: 
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Oct 21, 2016 11:33
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Cindy Shitbird posted:As promised, a version that fits the restrictions: Yesss you added the window.
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Karate Bastard posted:Guys. I just cracked Dutch.
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Oct 21, 2016 12:28
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Seriously. This exchange is the funniest stuff I've read all month.
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HardDiskD posted:My [30F] new boyfriend [35M] is apparently the local creep. Coucho Marx posted:This was three pages ago, but I'm reading these out to my partner while she does other things, and she initially misheard this as "My [30F] new boyfriend [35M] is apparently the local Greek."
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Oct 21, 2016 14:00
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Haier posted:Me: "What are your hobbies?"
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Oct 21, 2016 14:04
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This reads like Google Translate or a dialogue from an ESL textbook for some reason. Also why would two unrelated sports be a canned response? People who like sports know which ones they like. There is no case where somebody asks you what sports you like and you have to use some bullshit answer because you literally do not know how to respond. Is it really that implausible that tennis and swimming are popular with Chinese sports fans?
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The only problem is that the idiot had to qualify it by saying "Nothing. Many Chinese people tell me they like these two sports." He instantly separates himself from the culture he's in and passes judgment on it. I'd lay into his dumb rear end too.
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Oct 21, 2016 14:25
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mind the walrus posted:The only problem is that the idiot had to qualify it by saying "Nothing. Many Chinese people tell me they like these two sports." He instantly separates himself from the culture he's in and passes judgment on it. I'd lay into his dumb rear end too. He literally could have just dropped "Chinese" from that sentence and it would have been fine and still got his dumb subtle implication across.
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Oct 21, 2016 14:41
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Separate from his maybe/maybe not racism, sometimes there really are "canned responses" in places. Might be to do with learning English in school. China is definitely a place where somebody would throw out a vague lie when asked about their interests, totally off the cuff. Especially in a strangers on a date setting. Reminds me in a similar vein, one of the funniest things about scam artists in lots of parts of the world is that they often have touchstone topics to quickly get in your confidence. They all seem to get it from the same place in some kind of scam training school. Alternatively, lots of people in China love swimming and tennis?
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Oct 21, 2016 14:53
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It's not about what he said, it's how he chose to say it.
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Typical Pubbie posted:Approximately one week after the murder of Raymond Smith, on or about May 27, Dahmer lured another young man to his apartment. On this occasion, however, Dahmer himself accidentally consumed the drink laden with sedatives intended for consumption by his guest. When he awoke the following day, he discovered his intended victim had stolen several items of his clothing, $300, and a watch. Dahmer never reported this incident to the police, although on May 29 he divulged to his probation officer that he had been robbed. Cubone posted:Dahmer: "well, if ya can't laugh at yourself!" Cubone posted:The unidentified young man escaped without injury when Dahmer slipped on a banana peel and when he hit the ground he farted so hard he shat his pants. Cubone posted:*Dahmer sits up in his bed chewing on a bloody disembodied organ next to a body*
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Jeza posted:China is definitely a place where somebody would throw out a vague lie when asked about their interests, totally off the cuff. how do you figure that's more of a Thing in China? people wanna make themselves sound interesting & active everywhere.
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AlphaKretin posted:Yesss you added the window. Quality workmanship. Unlike groverhaus itself.
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Grandmother of Five posted:how do you figure that's more of a Thing in China? people wanna make themselves sound interesting & active everywhere.
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Grandmother of Five posted:how do you figure that's more of a Thing in China? people wanna make themselves sound interesting & active everywhere. There's more of a cultural focus on being seen as good in China than many in the West would be used to, in my opinion. People pad the truth over here, no doubt, but telling outright lies about ourselves when asked is pretty uncommon, and being caught in a lie is deeply embarrassing. How people in the West might treat a CV is a pretty good way of imagining how some Chinese people view a first date. To put this another way, if you've ever done oral examinations in a foreign language and get asked questions about yourself, you'll often find lying is the easiest way, rather than striving for total messy accuracy trying to tell the truth. There's probably a big overlap between being asked questions on a date in a foreign language and that, actually. There is a lot of habitual lying in China, something that people in the West generally find shocking or disarming. But it simply doesn't have the same negative connotations it has in the Western tradition, and it's just part of what keeps the wheel turning. Everywhere is different. e: Stuntman posted:He's from the China thread, they have a bizarre hate-on for non-western cultures over there. am I?
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Oct 21, 2016 16:23
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It's like how people list rock climbing as a hobby because they went one time
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Jeza posted:
Uh, what? Do you conceptualize all of the west as an idealized version of southern USA or something? There's absolutely habitual lying in Western culture, if people find anything disarming or shocking it would just be that what people reflexively lie about is different.
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Taciturn Tactician posted:Uh, what? Do you conceptualize all of the west as an idealized version of southern USA or something? There's absolutely habitual lying in Western culture, if people find anything disarming or shocking it would just be that what people reflexively lie about is different. Sure, that expresses what I meant better. Thanks.
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Oct 21, 2016 16:46
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i like how the quotes thread briefly morphs into every thread it touches like it's a retarded t-1000
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Schlonged Again posted:i like how the quotes thread briefly morphs into every thread it touches like it's a retarded t-1000
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Schlonged Again posted:i like how the quotes thread briefly morphs into every thread it touches like it's a retarded t-1000 welcome to pyf
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in that case we need a sex tourist turned expat goon to seamlessly segue from a story about how the chinese have incredibly gross eating habits & into a story about trying to rent a 14 year old prostitute
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Nevermind that hogwash, I need to know whether this is a :groverhaus: or a  , stat!Cindy Shitbird posted:As promised, a version that fits the restrictions:
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Karate Bastard posted:Nevermind that hogwash, I need to know whether this is a :groverhaus: or a I'd say toot, because it isn't actually the house it is the shed. Truth in smilies.
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:gtoot: might work better. Brevity is easier to remember and like gently caress do you want people combing that smilies page when they forget. Incidentally when is that thing getting a makeover for the hot fresh world of 2008?
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mind the walrus posted::gtoot: might work better. Brevity is easier to remember and like gently caress do you want people combing that smilies page when they forget. Incidentally when is that thing getting a makeover for the hot fresh world of 2008? Yeah, I spend more time trying to find that one drat smilie than I making the post sometimes.
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How about just :grover: ? It's a, uh, vanity smilie, for a very specific kind of vanity.
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Jesus Christ posted:why don't they just put car gasoline tanks in motorcycles to solve this problem Jonny 290 posted:could you maybe napkin sketch what you think this solution might end up looking like? Jesus Christ posted:sure thing!
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Jesus Christ posted:sure thing! I was about to contribute to the Grovoot debate, but then this: Jesus Christ posted:sure thing! has left me literally in tears. Good going Kennel
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Choco1980 posted:I was about to contribute to the Grovoot debate, but then this:
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So it is. Thank Christ we were able to clear that up so quickly. Thank you Cindy Shitbird for your keen eye and astute artistry! 
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Karate Bastard posted:So 
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the best part of this emote is the pipe sticking out of the window
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china bot posted:
I also like the party hat, music note, and building part.
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