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fetishization of Nutella and Sriracha

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

French are mental for nutella

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

Dilly bars

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

"what's the dealio"

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

Foolio

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

Hammertime

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

The following names:
Skip
Chip
Tipper
Buffy

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

Inability to say the word 'mirror'.

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

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 (six years ago) link

Inability to say the word 'mirror'.

also, ‘warwick’

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

for a limited time only, great deals on Niss-arn automobiles

Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link

the way australians say ‘nissan’ is the worst imo

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

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 (six years ago) link

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

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

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 (six years ago) link

acetaminophen

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

synthetic marijuana that makes you run around naked in traffic

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

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 (six years ago) link

108. Puerto Rico :(

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

109. Poncy faux-French pronunciations of the names Gerard and Bernard.

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 February 2018 09:55 (six years ago) link

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

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

“Gram”

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

how the hell do yall say it?

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

“graham”

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

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 (six years ago) link

“graham”

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

gray-um

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

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

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

greemee

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

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 (six years ago) link

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

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

graham crackers

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

gray-ham cray-koars

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

xxp

not sure i'm understanding

i thought most uk universities used terms

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

gram crack whores

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

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

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

In the UK they have something called “michaelmas”

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

not since yewtree

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

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 (six years ago) link

an English thing we inherited

Also true of sophomore, junior, etc.

persona non gratin (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 19 February 2018 08:33 (six years ago) link

month/day/year

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

peanuts in all the candy

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

peanut butter in all the candy

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

(which I love btw)

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

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

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

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 (six years ago) link

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 (six years ago) link

is your pedantry a bug or a feature, i cant decide

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 February 2018 08:04 (six years ago) link

Sem-eye finals of world's championships of sports - the score, five hundred twenty to three hundred four.

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 February 2018 08:10 (six years ago) link

I wish actual peanut butter was in this stuff though!

Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 25 February 2018 08:10 (six years ago) link


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