. The race of a voice actor doesn’t matter
. It is possible to wear yoga pants because there comfy
. You don’t need to shower everyday
. It is possible to crossdress/be gender non-conforming without being trans
. Monty Python is very overrated
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Rainy, damp, cloudy, windy weather is peak weather and beats a “nice sunny day” 80% of the time.
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Ice cream is winter food and not summer food because of how fatty it is. Popsicles are summer food and not so appealing in the winter.
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All countries should be making a 100% effort towards eliminating all meat (except that produced by subsistence farmers and the like) in their diets for the sake of the climate. Poverty is not an excuse because vegetarian diets use many many times less resources (which is why wealthy countries eat much more meat).
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Large wealthy countries should provide free vitamin supplements worldwide to reduce diseases.
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Thongs aren’t uncomfortable
I’m a fat, unsexy dude, I bought a goofy leopard-print thong to get a laugh out of my life once
It’s not my favorite pair of undies by a longshot, I still prefer my usual boxer-briefs, but it’s certainly not uncomfortable. Even wore it to my city’s naked bike ride to bike around in.
Yeah sure dude, you totally did it cuz it was funny.
Same here. There not my favourite but there not as bad as people make them out to be. I mostly wear them as men like them. I did a music video a few years back as a backup dancer and I woar one underneath some sweatpants. Maybe it’s because I have histrionic personality disorder but I like to look sexy. Not like a hooker or a stripper but more in a seductive way like a belly dancer or a show girl.
Small typo in my comment, was supposed to say get a laugh out of my wife
It served its intended purpose. It was for Valentines or our anniversary or something, so I was waiting in the bed for her to come home in my leopard thong, rose petals scattered around, and some funky 70s porno music playing, and she cracked the fuck up.
I love this! That’s kinda how it started for me and now I’ve got a whole collection of them. Fun patterns and colors. They always get the laugh.
Personally I’ve gone in on Hawaiian shirts, bit less good for a laugh, but still attention grabbing and easier to show off in public. No one wants to see my fat hairy ass sporting a whale tail.
¿Por qué no los dos?
Just the same, the confidence to wear it in public is what really matters whether you still do or not. When you don’t give a shit, nothing can touch you. Total liberation. Except if there’s kids around. That just feels creepy lol.
That’s oddly sweet.
The feet ones or the butt ones?
Butt ones as this isn’t Australia, lol. It wasn’t until I was older myself I realized that thong had a different meaning around the world. I remember as a kid taking trips to Australia people used to always call things “thongs” and thought anything of it. As a New Zealander they’ll always be Jandals to me.
As long as the pouch on the front isn’t too constricting for my male bits and there isn’t too much material and stitching in the seam underneath, I agree. Just like anything, gotta find the right fit.
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spelling “catsup” as “ketchup” is as juvenile as spelling “night light” as “nite lite”
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Ohio isn’t part of the Midwest
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all of Rory’s boyfriends in The Gilmore Girls were terrible, but Logan is the worst
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using a slur “because it’s not a bad word in my culture” still isn’t okay
For the first one… Not sure I get it. It was originally ketchup, and has been predominantly spelled that way for hundreds of years. It was spelled that way before ketchup even had tomato in it.
It’s not new vs. old. Like many loanwords (hummus, shwarma) there was never one standard English spelling, but multiple phonetic transliterations.
It’s just that one looks like an adult wrote it and one looks like a child did. It happens that Heinz, when their “57” brand became popular, used the latter spelling, and that spelling became popular along with it. Other brands used different spelling.
To each their own I suppose. “Catsup” has always just seemed like a weird affectation to me.
I didn’t even know that “catsup” was an option until now. Where I’m from, we call it “tomato sauce” and “ketchup” is the American word as far as I’ve ever known.
What I consider ketchup/catsup includes much more sugar and vinegar than what I consider tomato sauce. Is that not the case where you are from or is there a different word used?
I think that is kinda true. Like, American brands that sell here are branded as “Heinz Ketchup” for example. And it’s definitely more processed or whatever. But I feel like most people would still say “pass the tomato sauce”, or if they say ketchup it’s in a joking way. I couldn’t speak for my whole country though.
I suppose the context of condiment vs. ingredient is enough. I don’t think many recipes use ketchup/catsup and most meals don’t leave tomato sauce out to be used as a condiment.
Question about the first one. Do you consider English a living language that evolves over time?
To that point, do you ever phonetically say boatswain instead of bosun? Which way do you spell it? How do you (personally) pronounce Worcestershire sauce? How do you feel about onomatopoeias in general?
I would argue that words evolve with vernacular and sometimes the spellings become antiquated. In the case of Worcestershire sauce, pronunciation can vary greatly from spelling. If ketchup bothers you, are onomatopoeias even words to you?
Eventually, insisting on the old spelling becomes more ridiculous than going with the newer. Since you spell it catsup, can you bring yourself to use a squeeze bottle for it or are you still tapping that 57 hoping to get it to ooze?
Seriously though, since this is the hill you’ll die on, convince me otherwise about vernacular and spelling.
a living language
Yes
do you ever phonetically say boatswain instead of bosun?
I never have occasion to say either.
How do you pronounce Worcestershire sauce?
Wursht-uh-shur
How do you feel about onomatopoeias in general?
Love 'em. My current favorite is “shakshuka”.
are onomatopoeias even words to you?
yeah, by definition
insisting on the old spelling becomes more ridiculous than going with the newer
Given the choice between looking ridiculous to others and feeling ridiculous to myself, I will always choose the former.
can you bring yourself to use a squeeze bottle for it or are you still tapping that 57
They’re not mutually exclusive. I also use packets and those giant pump containers.
convince me otherwise about vernacular and spelling
I’m not interested in convincing you away from a position with which I agree almost completely. Words change, language evolves, slang becomes informal speech becomes recognized usage. Some changes are improvements, some are not, but neither you or I have much hope of shifting the tide either way. While my time lasts, though, I’ll keep spelling the vinegary condiment as “catsup” and the pastry as “doughnut” and the cultured dairy as “yoghurt”.
It’s a knight light. It keeps the monsters away.
For the “Midwest”, in my opinion:
- Ohio is in the Midwest (or at least the places you can order “pop”…maybe this isn’t a thing in Ohio…I don’t know…Ohio sucks…Go Blue)
- North/South Dakota shouldn’t be
- Kansas shouldn’t be
- Nebraska shouldn’t be
see, i’ve always felt that kansas is just about the most midwest there is
That’s not an opinion, you’re just wrong on the facts. And that’s okay! The first step of learning is discovering your own ignorance.
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I forgot to mention. If you use country balls to explain something I’m not taking you seriously.
that’s why I use my city balls to explain stuff
I didn’t think your original points seemed controversial enough to even be hills, but this ONE! This right here… I don’t even have a clue what it is.
I’m picturing testicles wearing a cowboy hat.
You can about geopolitics in a simplified and comedic way but there’s a limit. If I used sock puppets to explain the election to you wouldn’t you would think that I thought you were the stupidest person ever?
It’s like, I’m an adult I can understand the concept of countries not liking each other without the need of simplistic cartoons. This is how you would explain geopolitics to a five-year-old.
I’m American. Speaking about geopolitics at a five-year-old’s level is often far too advanced for many people. Sock puppets might help actually.
Using “themselves” for a non-binary person or unspecified gender is grammatically incorrect.
It’s “themself.” (Unless they’re plural.)
Also, “Latinx” is performative white ally cringe. It’s not pronounceable in Spanish. Use “Latine.” -e is the obvious gender neutral ending.
Don’t say “acronym” when you mean “abbreviation”!
“Acronym” specifically refers to an initialism that forms a new word. For example,
- scuba (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus)
- NASA (pronounced like a word - you don’t say “ehn eh ess eh”).
It’s acro- (height) -nym (word) - a word that exists on top of / above other words.
In contrast “NIH” is not an acronym because it isn’t pronounced or read as a word. It’s appropriate to say, “‘NIH’ is an abbreviation” or “‘NIH’ is an initialism”. But saying “‘NIH’ is an acronym” is wrong!
- LTS Linux distros are not good for desktop usage and terrible for beginners. (And for servers too but a bit less ig).
- The current distribution model of Linux apps is garbage. The concept of package maintainers, in most cases, is just redundant, duplicated work.
- Bash is horrible and relying on it for anything else than personal scripts gets messy really fast.
- Having a standard “platform” in Linux is key.
- SystemD is actually good, not perfect but very powerful.
- Apps not using Portals are a crime.
Obviously written by NixOS sectarian.
My hill: Laws that give “unnecessary” rights to people are still good overall and shouldn’t ever, EVER, be reversed. Laws that give “unnecessary” rights keep society stable and have come from past times soaked in blood. If you reverse 60-100 years of these gains, then society will collapse.
Can you give examples of unnecessary rights?
Sure. Some people think it’s not necessary to have local anti-discrimination laws against minority groups here. Some people think why should LGBTQ get married in a fucking church, can’t they just sign a paper saying legally they are as good as married without sullying the institution?
Ah ok, well those laws are there because of those people. Otherwise it would just be common sense. So yes, those should never be reversed.
Anime and weeb culture is a plague on humanity. It’s objectively bad and anyone who likes it is fucked in the head. I’ve never met a weeb who isn’t a creep.
Go to an anime con. Face your fears.
It is “Math” and not “Maths”
The one with eyes
The hill upto the finishline on my local park run this morning was way harder than usual, so (almost) that one today!
Daylight savings time needs to be gotten rid of.
The imperial measurement standard needs to be gotten rid of.
The UN security council veto should be able to be overridden by the general assembly.
Collective responsibility for a democracy’s crimes should be a thing.
The country of Israel should be moved to an open area of land with no people on it. Siberia, Alaska, Greenland, or the jungles of South America.
There should be a corporate death penalty when they commit crimes.
All kids should have food.
All humans should have access to very basic water and food. Like beans and rice for everyone, no exceptions.
Basic sanitation is a human right.
Religion should not be respected any more than any other bag of philosophical ideas. Stupid parts of religions should be called out and discussed, not hallowed and treated with respect even if its utter nonsense.
Christian missionaries are white supremacists.
It’s also colonialism.
I think I agree with this one.
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All boobs are beautiful.You are the perfect example of why I love the block feature. That’s my hill.
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I said what I said.I’m confused. Are you so vehemently opposed to the notion that all boobs are beautiful regardless of size that it merits a block?
The thread asked what hills people will die on. I’ve been yelled at about my boobs since primary school and I’m sick of hearing opinions about them. The obsession is pathetic and the need to inject it into everything irritates me.
The joke being that boobs are called hills
I love your boobs too, bro!
That is just needlessly mean. Done that once to some rando, even worse. I dumped a rant on them. They deleted the post and their account. I felt bad. Don’t be like me.
