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Lived in Vietnam, speak french, well aware of pronunciation. Not the Americanized 'foh'. Don't even get my started on Americanized 'gyros'.
I simply left a large enough break between the words, and pronounced Keene as Keene, not 'king', that I didn't 'get it' at first.
The sign is still creatively brilliant, whatever perspective one may or may not have on the degree of subtlety. As long as people realize that what we are is not what we've become. Highly recommend reading some Shakespeare to see some great wordplay that can truly have some despicably great double meanings. Or classic poetry... definitely loads to find there. If not, even just looking at the evolution of language itself. How words that are completely improper and taboo eventually just become part of everyday vocabulary, while other words take their place for their more hostile, potty-mouthed sounding connotations based on modern public perception.
That said, if people wish to judge what we've become based on lazy fuckers wearing pyjamas in public, I'm down with that.
I simply left a large enough break between the words, and pronounced Keene as Keene, not 'king', that I didn't 'get it' at first.
The sign is still creatively brilliant, whatever perspective one may or may not have on the degree of subtlety. As long as people realize that what we are is not what we've become. Highly recommend reading some Shakespeare to see some great wordplay that can truly have some despicably great double meanings. Or classic poetry... definitely loads to find there. If not, even just looking at the evolution of language itself. How words that are completely improper and taboo eventually just become part of everyday vocabulary, while other words take their place for their more hostile, potty-mouthed sounding connotations based on modern public perception.
That said, if people wish to judge what we've become based on lazy fuckers wearing pyjamas in public, I'm down with that.
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This sign is brilliant. The thing is, I've seen the image in the news over the past few weeks. I've skimmed over, read the headlines and the sign itself, skipped the articles. Only after reading this article did I put the wordplay together. Seems to be much subtler in its wordplay than others, such as the F'Coffee shop in Toronto.
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Bah, take your shoes off at the door! The hell is the matter with you? Thinking you can track outside dirt all through my house. Take one step in with any outdoor footwear on and I'll make sure to tell you to take them off. Want to wear shoes inside? Bring a completely different pair that are spotless on the bottom, or slippers. Whatever. I walk around inside my house in my sock feet, or bare feet in the summer. The floors are clean.
pfbtbtbt... shoes in the house.
On a serious note, Ontarian here, and I don't know a single household, be it friends of family, that allow shoes in the house. Parties/lots of people over, included. Maybe a persons rustic cottage, from like the entry door and in the kitchen, would be an allowable place... but definitely not in a house.
I legit think it's weird that shoes in the house is even a thing besides those times when you're in a rush, already in the car, then remember about that 'schizzle' on the counter that you were supposed to bring with you. Run in, grab it, run out.. shoes be damned... can wash the floor later.
pfbtbtbt... shoes in the house.
On a serious note, Ontarian here, and I don't know a single household, be it friends of family, that allow shoes in the house. Parties/lots of people over, included. Maybe a persons rustic cottage, from like the entry door and in the kitchen, would be an allowable place... but definitely not in a house.
I legit think it's weird that shoes in the house is even a thing besides those times when you're in a rush, already in the car, then remember about that 'schizzle' on the counter that you were supposed to bring with you. Run in, grab it, run out.. shoes be damned... can wash the floor later.
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I was living in Venezuela in 1997-1998, right in the midst of when Chavez came into power. Caracas back then was an absolutely horrible, incredibly dangerous city. I can't even imagine what it's like now. I've been lucky enough to travel quite extensively and Caracas is legitimately the only city where I felt spooked just being out and about in it.
The Guardian article makes it sound like it was a lovely haven before Chavez got it. It stopped being one many, many, many years prior. Chavez turned the entire country into a disaster, let alone having Caracas decline even further.
All pretty gross and unfortunate. Venezuela has tonnes of beautiful places to see and the people are great.
The Guardian article makes it sound like it was a lovely haven before Chavez got it. It stopped being one many, many, many years prior. Chavez turned the entire country into a disaster, let alone having Caracas decline even further.
All pretty gross and unfortunate. Venezuela has tonnes of beautiful places to see and the people are great.
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hahahaha... this sign is hilarious! thanks.
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I also couldn't recognize the N or T. After some Googling, apparently the N is Nespresso and the T is Tumblr.
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There seems to have been plans for standing airline 'seats' for quite awhile. I'm most definitely in the vast, vast minority here, but I would welcome these. After about an hour and a half into a flight, my knees get so damn sore that I can hardly stand it. I just feel so squished-in in economy seating and there's no room to stretch out your legs or even move them around a bit to find a more comfortable position. And I'm short and scrawny at 5'8", 140lbs. And I'm also fit. Once my knees get sore, all I want to do is stand up. I don't care if it's a 12+ hour flight. I'd rather be in those standing seats than a cramped sitting position.
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I've been there and went without reason and zero planning. I was in Ushuaia and, back then at least (15 years ago), the adventure travel expedition ships that weren't booked to capacity would sell spaces for basically cost. I looked into it out of curiosity and the next day was onboard a ship, heading across the Drake Passage to spend 10 days on and around the Antarctic Peninsula. Was absolutely incredible.
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It's weird that I knew what it was not by the blob that was swimming, but by the tree branches in the foreground.
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In the past I always used to just say "getting interviewed is one of my weaknesses, since I tend to get a bit nervous in them". Really, I don't get nervous in them, but for some reason this answer always seems to make the interview go really well from that point forward.
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Okay, I'm a Canuck. Have never seen yyyy-mm-dd used in real life. The only time I've ever seen it is as a timestamp in a database. MySQL (and I think most others) store dates as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. Which, actually does make the most sense when looked at as a whole.
The other two make sense. We first adopted the popular UK date format, but widely see and use the US one. As for yyyy-mm-dd... maybe we're just getting prepared for the Chinese takeover?
Granted, because of the potential for confusion over mm-dd and dd-mm here, whenever I have the chance I write the date non-numeric. Jun 09, 2015.
The other two make sense. We first adopted the popular UK date format, but widely see and use the US one. As for yyyy-mm-dd... maybe we're just getting prepared for the Chinese takeover?
Granted, because of the potential for confusion over mm-dd and dd-mm here, whenever I have the chance I write the date non-numeric. Jun 09, 2015.
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yeeeeah... I counted five things that weren't even invented in the US.
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I would think quite a lot. Cory posts quite a few stories from Neatorama (with source/link credited). They're certainly similar sites in pertaining to the concept of posts related to random, neat things from the intertubes and IRL. I would think that the same type of reader would find interest in both sites. And I think both sites also have a fairly web-savvy reader base. So through links back and forth, I'm sure a lot of readers of one site have discovered the other.
Then again, maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about.
Then again, maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about.
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This is something that was on TVO (TV Ontario) regularly between cartoons for... well, decades I think. Surprised Mike Myers didn't try and plagiarize this at some point (so, so, so much of what he's done is directly lifted from stuff that was on TVO).