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I want to have a moan about something, congratulations you are going to read it (or not)

In the first days of the pandemic my wife ordered about 300 n95 masks from China, these cost a fair amount of money. The idea was to give a handful to every old relative / friend we could think of, keep a few for ourselves, then donate the rest to the NHS. Well the NHS trust didn't want them, said they didn't know the brand (!), so we tried to sell them online, but sites like gumtree don't let you sell them, they just delete the listing. So on Sunday I got up at 5.15 to drive to the local car boot sale and see if I could sell them there. Not only did nobody buy a single mask, I had a stream of punters and stallholders walking past me, making fun of me, insulting me, some were anti-maskers, some thought I didn't have a "proper stall", some said they could get three masks for £2 at Wilko, it was a miserable morning and I hate everyone at the car boot sale. So I don't know, we shouldn't have ordered them, it was a stupid idea I suppose, nobody's fault but our own.

Would legit be interesting in buying some(provided you test -ve lol)

I can send you some, no need to pay me

or to any of you in uk - james at centuriesofsound dot com - as long as i test negative i suppose, yes

ooh another James solidarity brother

most popular boys name of the late 70s, we are legion

Lol if only I was born in the late 70s

I instantly thought of you as cams o’ donnell, tbh. Ok, I will email you at some point, please do not dox me as you will only upset the other ilxor I live with, tyia.

i keep reading "breaking up with a friend" to the tune of gloria estefan coming out of the dark

I also don't want to sit around and wait by the phone for someone who doesn't seem to give a shit to call me.
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― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, December 17, 2003 3:27 PM (sixteen years ago)

i still don't know what a "hard g" is or why it is harder than a "soft g" whatever that is

Posted here because the thread has been derailed enough already

hard g = gift
soft g = giant

I would call them /g/ and /dʒ/ but "g sound" and "j sound" work much better than "hard g" / "soft g" for people who don't use the phonetic alphabet, mainly because the latter sounds just as hard as the former.

I agree with that! Also when you say "hard g" out loud you're using a soft g, which doesn't help

hard g = gif, the proper way
soft g = gif, the wrong way (That the creator thinks is right)

lol now I'm wondering: is it "guy ack" or "gee why ay see." I think I can rule out "jai ack"

I actually don’t know myself, it’s an old popbitch board acronym I’ve never said out loud ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

at first I thought it was "cagy" backwards but then I realized that shoulda been "cagey" and also it's "cayg" backwards.

i lose.

I, too, have never been convinced by the 'hard G' and 'soft G' and possibly thought they were the other way round for some time.

somebody’s feeling supersonic

Get Yourself A Clue!

Gyacety yac, don't talk back.

decided to change my mental pronunciation to jai-ass in solidarity with the creator of the .gif

laughing out loud at you anglophone people and your "hard" and "soft" Gs. you'll have to come to the Netherlands to experience the real nitty "g"ritty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNOebbyUgI4

...and then there's Swiss German:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxGbZkQ2u0k

André Rieu p much the strongest case against using the soft G tbf. That video is otm about the regional differences though.

Chuchichäschtli is the only Swiss word I ever learned. It's a treat to pronounce it.

everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything an eraser of love an eraser of love an eraser of love any reason will do any reason will do any reason will do

NPR already has radio in it

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Thank u for the ghoulish offer but I think I will pass, NBC News.

bringing a fainting couch to a knife fight

We already had a Fred, we didn’t need a new one.

No one called out his name
We were fine wherever he was
He came running
Just to torture us again

the only fred b experience i got was in the movie threads and he was great to talk to there! I am at a loss as to where and how he antagonized the board, link to key examples?

p sure it was the biden thread that took him out the second time. the problem was he just would. not. listen. when people were like "dude trust me on this and just STOP today, you don't think you're crossing a line but you are," iirc.

xp lol this is like saying, I don't understand why anyone had a problem with dom passantino ... he was so insightful about the innocent smoothies aesthetic!

i think it was also the time where he proposed we should find the one true answer to the question of how to handle me-too type allegations, and just hash it out on a thread somewhere? get to the bottom of them, like, find the "truth" (could have been same thread, this was around the tara reid time)

he also suffered from gabbnebism, where he would claim superior knowledge of a culture to which he didn't belong over those who actually belonged to it / lived there.

lol i typed tara reid, i meant tara reade

oh right harbl. yes, that's it.

Sara: Fred reviews movies professionally iirc.
Could still use a link to an egregious example? I am glad I mostly avoid the partisan politics threads.

There wasn’t really one thing...as DC said above he was just relentlessly insistently provoking ppl in the politics threads from a place of ignorance and making claims to a superior knowledge of u.s. politics. It might as well have been trolling.

He did the same thing on UK politics threads

This is the obvious one

For the record I also think it's 'interesting' that I'm the one who is constantly accused of not knowing what I'm talking about with regards to US politics when not I day goes by where I don't feel like I'm smarter than everyone else on here. So how do you all account for that, eh?

― Frederik B, Sunday, August 12, 2018 2:06 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And

Joe Biden, Senator from Citibank (oops, DELAWARE), to Run for President

And

2020 Democratic presidential primary thread, pt 3: life is very long

Fred was an asshole but I mean it’s ok on this board to shit on Americans so who cares

shitting on America is an honored pasttime, not sure about shitting on each other

In Germany tho

around here is where i flagged fred, i wouldn't flag someone for saying "not a day goes by where I don't feel like I'm smarter than everyone else on here" because THAT is a new board description if i ever saw one and it's hilarious

Really, reducing rape to a politcal weapon should look obviously despicable for anyone, but there are different rules if it helps Bernie, it seems.

― Frederik B, Thursday, April 9, 2020 9:11 AM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Love too post on a forum where people apparently think this sort of thing is acceptable.

― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Thursday, April 9, 2020 9:12 AM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

fred i don't even like bernie you piece of shit. foad

― aaaaeeeeeeoooooooowwww (Left), Thursday, April 9, 2020 9:13 AM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

This type of conduct is going to hurt not help MeToo and the larger battle. Instrumentalising rape accusations, deciding on whether or not women should be believed, or sent snake emojis, depending on what man they are talking about. It's absolutely disgusting, and it's not going to help a single woman anywhere.

― Frederik B, Thursday, April 9, 2020 9:19 AM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
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Nobody feels comfortable here right now. But this attempt to create a new standard for how to treat allegations of sexual assault is absolutely unworkable, and it will tear this place apart, and it can't work even with 'moderation or censure'. We seriously need a different thread to talk it through, or it will wreck every politics thread every day for the next six months.

― Frederik B, Thursday, April 9, 2020 9:34 AM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I mean it’s ok on this board to shit on Americans so who cares