That feeling when i go to make a joek and find out KM already made it :/
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
;)
xxp how did I not know about that? My parents are fans of both Sir Alex and toilet humour so by rights this should've been a life-long-lasting joek in our house?
― kinder, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
Talking of football, US ILXors will no doubt share my surprise in finding out that John McGinn is Jack McGinn's grandson.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
xp
don't let that stop you neanderthal! you go ahead and make the pee joke too, i'm here for it!
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
the only thing i know about fergies is that they piss their pants
How come every time you come aroundMy pee-pee, pee-pee stream wanna drip down
― Telly Salivas (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
Black Eyed Pee may still be one of the funniest headlines I've ever encountered
― Totino's Fortnite Training Room (DJP), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
"White Christmas" is about missing Christmas while living in California.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link
the introductory verse is missing from a lot of renditions!
― is right unfortunately (silby), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
we sang that part in my caroling company - it was a nice bass solo. I remember wondering where the fuck it came from!
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
I just realized today that you can wear glasses and be a fighter pilot : all my life I thought it was a deal breaker !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
I mean it’s still a deal breaker for initial flight school - you have to have 20/70 or 20/40 to start with - but you can have your vision deteriorate later to needing glasses all the time and still pass the flight physical.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
at worst 20/70 or 20/40, obv
Magooin' the airways
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
Wow, the White Christmas intro (Irving Berlin):
The sun is shining, the grass is greenThe orange and palm trees swayThere's never been such a dayIn Beverly Hills, L.ABut it's December the twenty-fourthAnd I am longing to be up North
Hafta admit I'd never heard it either.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
we changed the words to Orlando, FLA in ours.
which makes no sense, cos no Floridian wants to be up north
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
Until the sea levels rise.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
Just imagine them sea levels if you had snow on the ground!
― pplains, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
I never knew there was an intro verse until right nowI was also shockingly old before I understood why anyone would need to dream of a white Christmas because in the frozen northern Midwest Christmas was always white, thanksgiving usually was and Halloween sometimes was
― joygoat, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
I only know of the into verse because they sing it on the ultra-classic Carpenters Christmas album.
― Telly Salivas (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
ah thanks, yeah now you can still fly if you need glasses/laser surgery later on in your career (but apparently it wasn't always the case). I was just surprised to watch a F15 video yesterday with the pilot wearing glasses. I had never seen/noticed that. It must be VERY uncomfortable !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 31 December 2020 12:56 (three years ago) link
it's ok, i'm sure he was using his turn signal
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Thursday, 31 December 2020 13:32 (three years ago) link
I had no idea the guy who wrote "The Queen's Gambit" was the same guy that wrote "The Hustler," "The Color of Money" and (!) "The Man Who Fell to Earth." Apparently the Beth Harmon character was partly inspired by his own time spent in a children's school, where he was given phenobarbital, and his later life as an alcoholic. Not a bad run of books adapted into movies. Looked at the description of another of his books, "Mockingbird", and it seems like it would be greenlit today, too, since we're already living it: "Mockingbird is set in a grim and decaying New York City in the 25th century. The population is declining, no one can read, and robots rule over the drugged, illiterate humans. With the birth rate dropping, the end of the species seems a possibility."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 January 2021 04:00 (three years ago) link
TIL Czechia is another name for the Czech Republic.
― nickn, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 01:10 (three years ago) link
They've only been using it since 2016 but they haven't had much success in persuading people outside, er, Czechia, to do likewise.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 01:15 (three years ago) link
Depends on the language. Cehia is more common than Republica Cehă in Romanian. See also: Tchéquie (nearly 50/50 ime), Tschechien.
Either way, it's not as bad as calling the Netherlands 'Holland' like everyone does in French and Romanian. Or using 'England' to refer to the UK in its entirety (sorry, Tom and others).
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 01:24 (three years ago) link
Czechia has the highest Covid-19 rate of any country in the world, which is how I learned it (a story about how Arizona is the highest "entity" anywhere, with Czechia being the highest country).
― nickn, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 01:33 (three years ago) link
Deaths per 100,000 are the only indicator that really matters imo and Czechia is up there but not all the way:
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 01:42 (three years ago) link
I figured it had more to do with who gets tested. It was a story from an Arizona TV station that a friend posted on fb, so I knew it wasn't definitive.
― nickn, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 01:46 (three years ago) link
should've gone with iCzech
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 03:06 (three years ago) link
Woss so bad about using holland
― nob lacks, noirish (darraghmac), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 03:08 (three years ago) link
It’s actually Holland’s monster
― is right unfortunately (silby), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 03:09 (three years ago) link
No thats just a small town outside den haag iirc
― nob lacks, noirish (darraghmac), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 03:10 (three years ago) link
denhaagiirc darraghmac
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 03:22 (three years ago) link
No such thing as an innocent synecdoche.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 03:39 (three years ago) link
basically:
Holland is a region and former province on the western coast of the Netherlands. The name Holland is also frequently used informally to refer to the whole of the country of the Netherlands. This usage is commonly accepted in other countries and is also commonly employed by the Dutch themselves. However, some in the Netherlands, particularly those from regions outside Holland, may find it undesirable, even offensive or misrepresentative to use the term for the whole country.
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 07:24 (three years ago) link
Is Dutch itself problematic. I thought it derived from deutsche and therefore a complete misnomer. Looks like it dervish from an earlier term that ghats itself derives from. But looks like at least officially it's not liked because of connotations in English which are normally negative.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 07:40 (three years ago) link
xp In addition to that: people outside of the Randstad/the region of Holland, use Holland as a derogatory term for said region.
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 08:22 (three years ago) link
I mean, Dutch is the funniest language I can think of.
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 12:05 (three years ago) link
Czechia and The Czech Republic are both very much like Holland in that they are names for the largest part of the country, excluding the rest. The problem is that that there is no common term like "The Netherlands" which also includes Moravia without including Slovakia.
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 12:13 (three years ago) link
in the NL case it’s not even the largest part but the historically dominant part
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 12:28 (three years ago) link
well largest by population anyway
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 13:51 (three years ago) link
not that it’s even the point, but no, it contains 40 to 45% of the total population, depending on your definition.
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 15:24 (three years ago) link
Dutch looks like a halfway point between English and german doesn't it?I mean from what i've seen of it.
whgat do they call themselves ad tehir language Nederlander?
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link
xp which makes it the largest single part by population, I didn't say "the majority part" but yes, it's not the point.
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 15:39 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language xp
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 15:40 (three years ago) link
This is interesting on the word Dutch:
It derived from the Old Germanic word theudisk, which literally means "popular" or "belonging to the populace". In Western Europe this term was used for the language of the local Germanic populace as opposed to Latin, the non-native language of writing and the Catholic Church.[14] In the first text in which it is found, dating from 784, theodisce refers to Anglo-Saxon, the West Germanic dialects of Britain.[15][16] Although in Britain the name Englisc replaced theodisce early on, speakers of West Germanic in other parts of Europe continued to use theodisce to refer to their local speech.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 16:21 (three years ago) link
Czechia and The Czech Republic are both very much like Holland in that they are names for the largest part of the country, excluding the rest. The problem is that that there is no common term like "The Netherlands" which also includes Moravia without including Slovakia
idgi, the Czech Republic includes Moravia?
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 16:30 (three years ago) link
It's Bohemia and Moravia basically?
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 16:34 (three years ago) link