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Mr. Sunshine posted:As someone fluent in both English and Swedish, Dutch really triggers my "Jesus Christ I'm having a stroke" sense in the brief period before I realize all the words are just random vowels strung together with "shchtj"-sounds and go "Ah, it's Dutch!" Glad it's not just me: last time I was in Amsterdam, I almost convinced myself that I could have understood Dutch fluently if I simply concentrated and listened a bit harder.
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Mr. Sunshine posted:As someone fluent in both English and Swedish, Dutch really triggers my "Jesus Christ I'm having a stroke" sense in the brief period before I realize all the words are just random vowels strung together with "shchtj"-sounds and go "Ah, it's Dutch!" That's what Swedish and Danish do for me, because I'm more used to Dutch.
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Try slavic languages, if you know one the neighboring languages are basically understandable but it gets less and less so with each border.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Try slavic languages, if you know one the neighboring languages are basically understandable but it gets less and less so with each border. I speak four Slavic languages with varying degrees of fluency, and the Slavic languages I don't know, like Bulgarian or Serbian, are always a trip. I can get full sentences one moment and then nothing at all, even though phonetically my brain registers them as languages I should understand. Sort of like this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY
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I had a similar thing once. Went to college in Wales. Had myself a lovely cheap alarm clock. Mustve been tuned to a local radio station, because when I woke up, I could hear voices speaking with roughly the same accent as all the English speakers around me. But the words were all wrong. I was convinced I'd stroked out in the night and this was my life now. It was a talk show as well, so I didn't have any English language song lyrics to reset my brain
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Jan 3, 2020 02:35
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Is Dr. Phil's username BeastmasterJ?
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Is Dr. Phil's username BeastmasterJ? I suspect he's especially good at expectorating.
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I would pay $5.75 million not to have it
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Captain Hygiene posted:Everyone always ignores the aerosolized urine cloud that forms around you as an inherent part of using a urinal. Intentionally using the urinal next to someone is effectively the same as walking up to them and spraying them down with bodily waste, it's tantamount to biological warfare and is technically illegal by international accord. What about turning the hand drying nozzle upside down and then peeing into it so the piss mist gets sprayed over the whole bathroom?
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Lobok posted:What about turning the hand drying nozzle upside down and then peeing into it so the piss mist gets sprayed over the whole bathroom? 
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Lobok posted:What about turning the hand drying nozzle upside down and then peeing into it so the piss mist gets sprayed over the whole bathroom? If you turn the bathroom lights off you can call that move The Piss Abyss.
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Solice Kirsk posted:If you turn the bathroom lights off you can call that move The Piss Abyss. I would have gone with 'Putting the old sub in dry dick'
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Jan 3, 2020 03:13
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I'm the gently caress artwork.
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Tag yourself, I'm the giant relief artwork that says "gently caress". e: 
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Fister Roboto posted:Hearing Dutch makes me think I have brain damage, because it sounds like English but I can;t understand a single word. Shut up Meg posted:Glad it's not just me: last time I was in Amsterdam, I almost convinced myself that I could have understood Dutch fluently if I simply concentrated and listened a bit harder. I speak German as well and went to Amsterdam this year. The first place I went was a pub for a drink and a snack and I was certain I knew what they were saying. I spent 10 days there and never found a good way to say, "I'm a stupid American and I don't know what I'm doing".
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it's apparently his son's house, which explains a lot, but also is extremely, viscerally disappointing let dr phil say gently caress
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winterwerefox posted:Not gonna lie, first time I had to piss in a new school, I took a piss in one of those, while everyone else was staring at me like i was nuts. Get called into the principal's office, all that. Didnt get in trouble, cause well.. honest dumb rear end ignorance. Didnt help the urinals were around a corner, and that sink was in front of toilets. How strange. In grade school, I'd have anxiety dreams of walking into a restroom, and all there was were sinks like those, no urinals. The Bloop posted:Depending on spacing, each urinal can accommodate two, possibly three streams in a crowded situation. I like the way you think. You can share a urinal with me any time. Caufman has a new favorite as of 03:49 on Jan 3, 2020 |
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Ah... Perhaps I don't want to use the male bathroom after all. It's funny, though, everyone says the female bathrooms were always worse, but in my long, storied career of cleaning restrooms, I've always found the male to be more nasty. The worst I've encountered if a pad being dropped and unrolling, or some blood getting on the seat and going unnoticed. Maybe I'm lucky? I wonder if it's the fact that women are expected to take their children into the restroom with them more often than men. Men almost never flush the urinals, and I see a suspicious lack of papertowels in the trash can when I'm taking them out, despite the fact that our restrooms get essentially the same amount of traffic.
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Apparently, Dr. Phil's son is a massive Tim Burton fan, which explains the horrendous taste. Daily Mail had a big article on the house. So you don't have to get them clicks, here's the link on Internet Archive.
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DicktheCat posted:Ah... Speaking from working 20 years in bars the female restroom is almost always in worse condition at the end of the night. This ranges from clubs and dive bars to high end cocktail bars I've worked at. Urinal flushing is always a problem but the female restroom is always littered with paper towels, toilet paper, and sanitary products even if there is ample room in the trash bin.
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What kind of idiot doesn't recognize the Ball Tickler?
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I had this playing and it hit 3:04 right as the cameraman reached the perfect position under it, followed by 3:41 for the ending. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtOvEDGVaBM
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Knormal posted:What kind of idiot doesn't recognize the Ball Tickler? You apparently, that's the rear end Blaster
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Im the lion hoof dandruff.
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i'm the candelabra without wax catchers that drips hot wax all over the pool table below
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BOOTY-ADE posted:I'm the tree-pube handrails I think the banister is supposed to be antlers, which is somehow far, far worse. edit I'm the picture of a fireplace next to the pool table in what appears to be the upstairs hallway edit 2: the picture of the fire is also apparently a vampire as it does not have a reflection Baron von Eevl has a new favorite as of 06:34 on Jan 3, 2020 |
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Apparently, Dr. Phil's son is a massive Tim Burton fan, which explains the horrendous taste. Now I don't usually condone judging someone on appearance, but just looking at this guy and his band mates makes me think his music is profoundly terrible.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Apparently, Dr. Phil's son is a massive Tim Burton fan, which explains the horrendous taste. The most expensive thing in every one of those pictures are the giant LEGO looking figures. Made by some Japanese weirdo.
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You guys would love the new Terrence Malick movie it takes place in Austria and Germany in the 30's and 40's and all characters are constantly switching between English and German with no subtitles sometimes in the same scene.
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Or the Painted Bird for Slavs, apparently. I haven't seen it but am curious.
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Inzombiac posted:I speak German as well and went to Amsterdam this year. Almost everyone in the Netherlands speaks nearly perfect English.
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Paladinus posted:Almost everyone in the Netherlands speaks nearly perfect English. I'd scratch the "perfect". "Steenkolen Engels" (=coal English) is not uncommon, mainly with older people who grew up with no/barely any English education. A TV program that follows local people had an incredible example of this kind of "Dunglish" last year. It makes perfect sense to a Dutch person, but the mishmash of words is probably hard to follow if you don't speak the language: https://www.facebook.com/TypischOnline2019/videos/558307724932630/ Non-Facebook link: https://legacy.dumpert.nl/mediabase/7779867/a8a263f5/you_also_look_on_de_pepersaus.html
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Mierenneuker posted:I'd scratch the "perfect". "Steenkolen Engels" (=coal English) is not uncommon, mainly with older people who grew up with no/barely any English education. A TV program that follows local people had an incredible example of this kind of "Dunglish" last year. It makes perfect sense to a Dutch person, but the mishmash of words is probably hard to follow if you don't speak the language: Still better than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygNb6dbtObU That's the president of the european council and former Belgian PM btw
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