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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

Watch Live Coverage Of Death Of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg | NBC News

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
[...]
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

yeah it’s be so wonderful

ha ha ha!

good luck USA

Everyone's Free to Shit on Americans - Baz Luhrmann

longtime ilxor veronica moser to thread

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

― scampo italiano (gyac), Saturday, 19 September 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Poster known as Left has also gone.

We don't need another Fred B
We don't need to use our FP

once again find myself reflecting on the fact that the reputedly hostile and unwelcoming ukpol thread routinely comprises valued euro contributors and is even friendly to the occasional confused yank who wanders in having just heard about something called Brexit while if someone dares chime in on uspol when living in a country that only shares a land border with the USA it’s “where the FUCK do you get off, outlander”

wins otm, the only real meaning of my comment was disbelieving laughter that a site where most posters are American is “free to bash Americans” and where non Americans commenting on USpol threads (the whole 5 million of them cluttering the boards ) are told to fuck off as though there’s no difference between being a foreigner commenting and a foreigner commenting as though they know better.

that's really not the case though...I think most ppl undertstand that if there's any country in the world noncitizens are justified (and welcome!)in chiming in on it's the U.S. It was that he was constantly claiming to have more knowlege about this place than any of the rest of us who have been suffering through it *in person* our whole lives.

Oh I’m not talking about fred

Ah ok but who?

I'm hard pressed to think of another example over the years in a poster has been asked to shut up in U.S. political threads because of his/her citizenry. I mean I think almost everyone in those threads already has some sense of not being counted as an American in the first place

Yeah neither was I, and I specifically highlighted the difference in my comment to avoid people suggesting I was.

Lol really? You can’t think of any example of, say, a Canadian getting this treatment? Hell you guys do it to Americans who moved to Canada