Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
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@deathbird Eh. It's an acceptable alteration. Arguably more correct.
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@tinuviel A~and I said what about, Breakfast at Tiffany's...
okay actual peeve: District Manager, maybe instead of chewing out your employees for breaking and clogging the vacuum cleaners all the time by being careless, maybe you should spring for a vacuum cleaner that can handle the shit that's always on our floors in a case that doesn't fly apart if we lightly brush it on the furniture while we're getting the corners. Just a thought.
ETA: whose fucking brilliant idea was it to change out tile for carpet in a retail store, anyway?
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@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
It's an acceptable alteration.
This was not acceptable alliteration, asshole.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@ganymede Acceptable alliteration almost always arrives adroitly administered, and appealingly appraised, as an artistic attempt. Alternatively, anti-alliteration addicts are abhorred at any alliterative achievement, and assay assertively argue against any alliterative architect achieving awesome ascendence.
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I don't know what is more tortured: that piece or Kim Kardashian's desperate attempts to remain relevant.
Bravo, sir.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@ganymede It took far too long, I can tell you.
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@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@ganymede It took far too long, I can tell you.
Get back to drinking. At least you're good at that.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@auspice I'm good at lots of things.
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@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@auspice I'm good at lots of things.
Ohoho~
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@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I'm good at lots of things.
That's the alcohol talking.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I'm good at lots of things.
That's the alcohol talking.
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there is, tangential to the drinking, his gif making:
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When did I become the MSB Town Drunk?
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Oh! I actually have an RL peeve today.
"Orient" when used to describe a people is understood to be racist. That's fine. When used to describe gathering one's bearings, it is not a racist word. Just stop.
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@tinuviel Reminds me of 'niggardly'. No, it is not racist. No, it is in fact completely unrelated. No, it is not just a matter of linguistic redefinition. They are completely separate words, completely separate meanings, with completely separate etymology. They just happen to sound similar when pronounced a certain way.
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@tnp At least with orient it comes from the same etymology. (For those playing the home game, orient means east, occident means west. So to gather your bearings in the morning, the sun is rising in the orient.)
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@tnp As far as "niggardly" goes, though, I'll be honest and say I give people a bit of side-eye when I hear it being used.
Just because the number of times it comes up in conversation vs the number of times people point out how not-racist they are by saying it skews slightly overwhelmingly toward the latter.
But I do accept that might be a regional thing.
(Talking about orienting yourself as being racist is pretty dumb tho)
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@tinuviel I am terrified to contemplate what they must think 'orienteering' means, then.
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@insomniac7809 Niggardly was "high profile" two decades ago.
I have a waggish sense of humor.
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@misadventure said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@insomniac7809 Niggardly was "high profile" two decades ago.
I seem to recall 'denigrate' at some point, too, but I may have misremembered!
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@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Oh! I actually have an RL peeve today.
"Orient" when used to describe a people is understood to be racist. That's fine. When used to describe gathering one's bearings, it is not a racist word. Just stop.
Words aren't racist, people are.
Merriam Webster says...
oriental noun
1 dated, now usually offensive : asian especially : one who is a native of east Asia or is of east Asian descentoccidental noun
1: a member of one of the occidental peoples especially : a person of European ancestryFunny how only one is "usually offensive".
Some orientals don't think so...
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-tsuchiyama-oriental-insult-20160601-snap-story.html
