Jack
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Hell Awaits is unique in Slayer’s discography in that it really kind of establishes their sound but also has some progressive elements that would disappear with the next record.
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#Anniversary #OnThisDay Slayer – Hell Awaits 41 years ago today, Slayer dropped Hell Awaits (1985) and unleashed pure thrash hell on the world! Fast, furious, and still terrifying. Bang your head! 🤘🏼 #Slayer #HellAwaits #ThrashMetal
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@closetothebirds @zlderkamer @iwrite4jacobin Guy who thinks occupation of Palestinian land is bad because of the land itself and not the fact that it had Palestinians living on it before the occupation
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@zlderkamer @iwrite4jacobin Tenes la bandera de Palestina en tu nombre. Tierra ocupada. Y defendes la ocupación colonial de tierra que se encuentra en plataforma marítima argentina. Sería gracioso si no fuera simplemente vomitivo.
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“Margaret Thatcher, who I am sure the British left opposes”
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I’m a lefty anti-imperialist, but Argentina is wrong on the Falklands The islands have never had an Argentinian population. Falklanders predate Argentina, and 99% voted to stay British This isn’t a colonial issue. It’s used by ARG's far right to distract from domestic problems.
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@zaryaismywife I love in AGOT when Arya overhears the conversation between Varys and Illyrio but hasn’t got any fucking idea who they are or what they’re talking about
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one of my fav bits of storytelling in asoiaf is all of the dramatic irony. when we learn something in one POV it always pays off in another. like the hound telling sansa about his coat of arms and then arya sees a banner with the three dogs, so we recognize it but she doesn’t
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Lmao being blocked by a moron who thinks it’s alright to offend people going through a genocidal war by pretending they are “le epic bad guys” what a funny joke guys everyone please clap.
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@KS240222 @BreadandRosette @emopunkgrrrl if they deem it to be at their expense (when it very obviously isn't) because they have no working concept of what a joke is, then i can and will!
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@KS240222 @BreadandRosette @emopunkgrrrl if they deem it to be at their expense (when it very obviously isn't) because they have no working concept of what a joke is, then i can and will!
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@halfajack11 @BreadandRosette @emopunkgrrrl It is incredibly poor taste, regardless of the intention.
The outcry would be the same were say Palestinians mentioned.
You don’t get to tell the victims of war how to feel about jokes they deem to be at their expense.
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we might be at the end point of humour, you’re watching a clip of weekend update and taking it to heart my dear
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“the bad guys might win and we end up speaking ukrainian”. no, the bad guys might win and their oligarchs will buy up the rest of your capital but enjoy sucking up to tankies i guess
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@halfajack11 @BreadandRosette @emopunkgrrrl If thousands of people are offended because of it, then it is not a good joke - intention, or not - you don’t get to tell people how to feel.
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@joyfulrivers @BreadandRosette @emopunkgrrrl it’s not about whether the joke is good, it’s that anyone upset by it has entirely misunderstood it in a completely baffling way. If you think they mean it then it’s not even a joke at all!
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@halfajack11 @BreadandRosette @emopunkgrrrl i've seen far too many western leftists glibly quipping about "nazi country" to think that joke is good
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@its_hipolita “I’m a lefty anti-imperialist but I love Leopoldo Galtieri, implanted colonial populations and the Spanish Empire”
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"i'm a lefty anti-imperialist but I love Margaret Thatcher, implanted colonial populations and the British Empire"
Jack D 🏳️🌈@JackDunc1
I’m a lefty anti-imperialist, but Argentina is wrong on the Falklands The islands have never had an Argentinian population. Falklanders predate Argentina, and 99% voted to stay British This isn’t a colonial issue. It’s used by ARG's far right to distract from domestic problems.
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@BreadandRosette @emopunkgrrrl It’s insane that this needs to be explained to anyone, but the joke is “wouldn’t it be utterly ridiculous to suggest that Ukraine are the bad guys?”, they are not the butt of the joke
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@emopunkgrrrl The weaponization of language in this particular war is a pretty massive sore spot for Ukrainians. I don't think we should be telling the victims of invasion how to feel about being the butt of a joke.
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Same as a car, you have a duty to look out for and give way to the more vulnerable road user. That’s my principled position.
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As London warms up, keep an eye out for tourists, as they don't always look the right way. I did flag down passing police, as wherever there's a head knock, it's a 999.
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@Andre_de_Hoogh @AkbashEfendi “Wife” and “woman” are closely related anyway. In Old English, “wīf” meant female, and “wīfmann” meant woman. “Wife” descends from “wīf” and “woman” descends from “wīfmann”.
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@AkbashEfendi In Dutch we have the word ‘wijf’, which is indeed used (somewhat) in a derogatory manner. But shouldn’t that be seen rather, in meaning, as the English ‘wife’, and thus spouse and not as ‘woman’?
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Interesting that in both Turkish and German, the early modern words for "woman" (avrat, Weib) underwent a similar semantic shift: they gradually became derogatory and were replaced by words that meant "noble lady" (kadın, Frau). Any similar examples from other languages?
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@warionig @minvcivs @grahamscheper While you’re right about “ye” in written forms like “ye olde shoppe” or whatever, there was also a word “ye” (as in “hear ye, hear ye!” for example) which was the nominative (subject of a sentence) plural pronoun
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Why does English not have a plural “you”?
Well, it’s because “you” is already plural. The singular is “thou”. This was observed grammatically in Old English, when one person was þū and multiple people were ġē, but after the Norman invasion the plural became the polite form of address, and by the 1800s that became the nigh-universal standard.
Nowadays, as a result, we have to reinvent the plural with contractions like “y’all”.
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@langofmind Plural in English is often taught as being used when there is more than one of something, but is actually used for all quantities other than exactly 1. Zero cakes, -50 dollars, one and a half pizzas etc.
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If anything, the fact that "none" has shifted to plural should tell us something interesting about human cognition!
Zero is an even number, meaning it has more in common with two than one. Maybe on some level English speakers have picked up on this!
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Despite protest from grammarians, "none are" has been grammatical for at least 200 years.
maybe: leif weatherby@leifweatherby
wild thing to say while violating subject-verb agreement
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@grahamscheper Tolkien used this in the name of the Ent Quickbeam: in an Old English sense it means “living/animate tree”, and refers to the Rowan tree, but the modern sense of “quick” also reflects his more “hasty” nature compared to the other Ents
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Jack@halfajack11
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@Waltertheplants @BasedRPG It's a joke which originated from the Lothlorien chapters from Book 2 where he went into great detail explaining the flora. He often wrote multiple pages describing a forest scene, from the type of tree to the color of the leaves, the atmosphere and the filtering light, etc.
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@amolitor99 @ManishEarth Even when it is a sound that’s in English half the time it’s in a position that massively violates English phonotactics anyway
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@ManishEarth I'm always generally taken aback when people explain that it's the same as the whatever sound in such and such an English word. there are somewhere between few and zero word-parts that are invariably produced the same way across all English speakers.
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this one comes up often and it's kind of funny to me, pretty often Indians will be like "Why can't Americans pronounce /d̪ʱ/ it's in the word <the>" and like, it's not, you've been hearing/pronouncing <the> wrong the whole time and you just didn't realize
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@fionaswhvre That's not the same sound. The sound in <the> is the voiced dental fricative, which is actually a pretty rare sound that most non-native English speakers get wrong. the sound in Anirudh is a voiced dental aspirate.
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@juan_killd666 @Erik_Quill Yeah their last two albums had the original logo as well. Hyped for Descent though either way
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