Naked things. Naked, noisy things, unfettered by the restraints of human anatomy!!!!
― provates: feminine plural of provato (sarahel), Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Teenager Writes In Indecipherable Street Slang
― throwbookatface (skygreenleopard), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
hippos are pretty fucking important imo.
― ian, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
indecipherable
― nice email (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
"where's my pancakes" is not that hard to understand? dude just wants some eats.
― ian, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Nu-Americana has been a big trend for a couple of years now. Hard to imagine it's not on its way out.
― smashing aspirant (milo z), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
ilx needs more hippos posting
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I enjoyed it, though, because my lumberjack beard and flannel made me look fashion-forward rather than unkempt.
The Post and the Times both covered this story, about a man accused of robbery whose alibi was a Facebook status update. Both papers though, censored the update itself, which was apparently "indecipherable". Except it wasn't.
The Times story, on The Local blog, opened with this:
Where's my pancakes, read Rodney Bradford's Facebook page, in a message typed on Saturday, Oct. 17, at 11:49 a.m., from a computer in his father's apartment in Harlem.
They admit they paraphrased because the update was written in "indecipherable street slang." The Post, meanwhile, actually ran some of the original update, in its distinctive all-caps:
Prosecutors dropped a robbery charge against Rodney Bradford, 19, after learning his Facebook account status had been updated with the inside joke "WHERE MY IHOP?
A look at the screenshot above however (it's at the bottom, you have to squint) reveals that the real status update was:
ON THE PHONE WITH THIS FAT CHICK… WHERER MY IHOP
I'm no street-slang deciphering expert, but it seems like he was saying he was on the phone to a fat chick and wanted some pancakes.
http://gawker.com/5403874/papers-find-facebook-status-too-risque-to-print
LOL indecipherable street slang
― ice cr?m, Friday, 13 November 2009 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
pancakes = crack cocaine in street slang
― harbl, Friday, 13 November 2009 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
rly?
― lots of jerks (gbx), Friday, 13 November 2009 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
want pancakes (no crack)
― ice cr?m, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
not rly, sorry
― harbl, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
3. pancakes 109 up, 75 down
A slang term for crack cocaine and flapjacks
This term started after the episode of Family Guy when Meg inadvertently tricks a social worker into thinking Stewie is addicted to crackSome guy: I gotta score some Pancakes manAnother guy: It's a little late for breakfast don't you think?
― ice cr?m, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
oh haha ˘\(o_º)/˘
― harbl, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
well its slang for crack on one episode of family guy
― ice cr?m, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/nyregion/27doormen.html
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 November 2009 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
(Full disclosure: I live in a building on East 74th Street, where I grew up playing ball with the doormen and today often find myself in long chats with them about politics and family. And while the doormen of my childhood sat and listened to the ball game in shirt sleeves, staff members today keep jackets on and stand behind a little wooden lectern.)
???really didn't need this disclosure nytimes reporter
― velko, Friday, 27 November 2009 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
(just fyi im totally down w/ doormen)
― max, Friday, 27 November 2009 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Did you grow up with them in a lectern?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 November 2009 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, great headline
hahaxp
― Danny Duberstein (hmmmm), Friday, 27 November 2009 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
there's a good article or five to be written about doormen but that ain't it
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 27 November 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
One need not look further than the lobby of Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., to see that the iPhone and applications that run on it are centerpieces of the company’s mobile strategy.
Fascinating! Tell me more!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/technology/06apps.html?em
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 6 December 2009 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/12/04/ST2009120402037.html?sid=ST2009120402037
― crazy farting throwback jersey (gbx), Sunday, 6 December 2009 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey now, we have another thread for that!
quiddities and agonies of the ruling class, DC edition - a rolling washington post thread
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 6 December 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
oh ha didn't kno
― crazy farting throwback jersey (gbx), Sunday, 6 December 2009 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
o man the post is just like *smh*
― ice cr?m, Monday, 7 December 2009 01:53 (fourteen years ago) link
the only reason i can think of for this not being on this thread yet is that nobody could bring themselves to read it. (i made it onto the second page, just barely...)
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 02:16 (fourteen years ago) link
lol i thought about posting that but was like, can i in good conscience post an article i can't even read through myself :)
― harbl, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 02:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm embarrassed i even read that much of it.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 02:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean i know i have defended the new york times on this thread but SOMETIMES THEY MAKE IT HARD.
(that is not a reference to any sexual details that may or may not be in that article, and if there are sexual details in that article, i don't want to know.)
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I couldn't even be bothered to start it. Summarize it in the most nauseating way possible.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i can summarize the first page:
hi me and my husband are smart, attractive people (did i mention he's on a fitness program to give himself the body of a Marine?) with interesting backgrounds who got married because we were madly in love and now we have two lovely children and a house we renovated ourselves with money from a book advance and we're both successful writers so what with being fabulously happy and successful and all i thought i should write a memoir about trying to make our already-really-swell marriage EVEN MORE FANTASTIC by REALLY THINKING about what kind of relationship we really want to have and being really honest and open with each other. and now i'm going to spend 4,000 words telling you the candid details. (if you like it, you can buy my book!)
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
top of page 10
The following weekend: jealousy again (or was it an attempt to fuel our eroticism with tension?). I said yes a bit too forcefully when Dan asked if I’d noticed a well-muscled young man at the pool. Dan was allowing for my sexual free agency, granting me my full humanity. We lived, raised children, worked and slept together. Now we needed to gouge out a gap to bridge, an erotic synapse to cross. It was exhausting. “That guy did the epitome of bad-values hypertrophy training” — vanity weight lifting, in Dan’s estimation, just to get buff. “You’re like a guy admitting he likes fake boobs. And he had chicken legs. Did you notice that, too?”
― omar little, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
her husband is a surfer who is the child of hippies. he cooks so much delicious food they haven't even saved for their retirement!!! can you believe that? he really loves to cook, he's like a chef
― harbl, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
and later
Still, night after night, I’d slide into bed next to Dan. He often slept in a white T-shirt and white boxer briefs, a white-cased pillow wrapped over his head to block out my reading light, his toppled stacks of cookbooks and workout manuals strewn on the floor.
But as I watched Dan sleep — his beef-heart recipe earmarked, his power lift planned — I felt more committed than ever. I also felt our project could begin in earnest: we could demand of ourselves, and each other, the courage and patience to grow.
― omar little, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
whitewhitewhite
lol
― harbl, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
"our project"??
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I scrolled very quickly through it and caught something about "top 10 orgiastic tao sex maneuvers"
― 囧 (dyao), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
wowwwwwwwwwww
― being being kiss-ass fake nice (gbx), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 02:41 (fourteen years ago) link
New York Times I love you but you're bringing me down
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 02:43 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry but i see the photo and all i can think is dude can maybe power lift a bagel if he's feeling up to it
― omar little, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I was wondering when someone would post the link this.
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 03:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm going to get a bit challopsy here, because I actually read that entire article, and in spite of wanting to punch both people in the face at multiple moments, I liked parts of it. I mean still, yeah, it definitely was made for this thread.
― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 03:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i can believe there are some actual relationship insights here and there in it. or i'd hope so. i'm just not going to read the whole thing to find them.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 03:17 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, I too started to read it and then after about a page was just like, oh barf, gimme a fuggin break with your fake ass yuppie narcissism "problemz"-which-are-really-new-modes-of-self-love
― twice boiled cabbage is death, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link
God knows I don't begrudge anyone happiness, which is why I blame the reporters, not the subjects: as usual with the NYT, the story's framed as if it was about beehives on the moon or some shit.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Um, it's a memoir.
― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link