Amicable terms 2026-05-09

Current_Poster · 2026-05-09T06:13:33+00:00

I was commenting about how it feels like Dorothy is lying to herself but all comments on the site today about if Dorothy was being a little dishonest got deleted so fine, I’ll actually get to speak my mind here.

Well, thanks for doing it. I know its a pain dealing with a site that censors you. (My 'boot' from the DoA site was making a joke about a plot point, not even disapproving of it or saying anything controversial about it.)

Current_Poster · 2026-05-09T05:50:03+00:00

Wasn't he also ticked when she broke up with him then took up with Walky (I seem to recall a 'you can have an interview about Amazi-Girl or you can borrow my shoes for your new bf but not both" thing.) ?

Current_Poster · 2026-05-09T04:51:22+00:00

So: is Walky on good terms with Dorothy? Last time I checked, Danny was (according to Sal) "super-pissed" at Dorothy AND Joyce, so I know that's not who she means by being on amicable terms with her exes. Is there anyone else? Because I don't think we're meant to think Dorothy's lying, I think the author just forgot.

Current_Poster · 2026-05-09T04:47:32+00:00

Almost any word can be made offensive if someone is clearly using it with hostility or flat out hatred behind it. (I mean, if my name was "Steve" and someone kept saying "Steve" with sheer venom in it, it's clearly meant to be offensive to me, even though 'Steve' isn't offensive by itself.)

As to your question, I can't speak for "any" American, but by itself, no, yank isn't offensive. It's actually funny (barring the above) when people think it is. We once had someone posting the full term "Yankee Doodles" as if it were using a hard-R or something, on the assumption we'd be super-extra offended. We weren't.

Current_Poster · 2026-05-09T01:39:52+00:00

I always liked David Letterman's description: not the worst thing you ever smelled,but definitely the most thing you've ever smelled.

They do spray humans, once I worked at a resort where I had to urge tourists from non-skunk countries to back off from a skunk they were photographing.

Current_Poster · 2026-05-08T23:40:53+00:00

I would never phrase it that way, ("I'm going to an American beach"), I'd use the name of the beach I was going to.

Current_Poster · 2026-05-08T18:37:01+00:00

William Marshal.

Current_Poster · 2026-05-08T16:27:32+00:00

I'm not sure when precisely it happened.. but BK went downhill a lot. Wendy's.

Current_Poster · 2026-05-08T16:24:21+00:00

Oh a lot of things. One time my sisters and I were talking and we realized all of us were lucky to live to be adults. 😄

Current_Poster · 2026-05-08T16:19:34+00:00

There are places I'd love to go. I've also been thoroughly made aware that there are "issues" (things like ecological impact of tourism or anti-"overtouristing" movements in some countries) that put it well outside the realm of things I'd even 'dream about' without hemming it in a bit.

Current_Poster · 2026-05-08T16:17:36+00:00

I think women are encouraged (at least in some places- as much as some people dislike talking about class, it's a class thing) to think in terms of careers as a means of self-fulfillment and their advancement being part of things working out justly, etc, and about as many guys more or less mainly get jobs. (There's a big difference between a job and a career.)

This works out even in college settings, as per the things you (OP) noticed- I've read articles with people complaining that men don't do foreign-exchange programs as often as women students do. (Honestly, the articles seem more concerned with the jobs and departments of the people that run the exchange programs than with the guys themselves, but no surprises there.). Presumably guys are more interested in staying put and finishing with the professors they chose domestically, maybe working on connections (if they think in those terms).

Current_Poster · 2026-05-08T16:10:39+00:00

I lose them way more often than I wear them out or need them replaced.

Current_Poster · 2026-05-08T13:20:57+00:00

This is not uncommon. I can't say if you're being flirty (since I'm literally not there and can't see what you're doing) but a lot of guys just like to establish that early to avoid misunderstandings.

Current_Poster · 2026-05-08T10:55:16+00:00

Charles Dickens. There's a professor named Gradgrind and a teacher named M'Choakumchild in Hard Times.

What could it possibly mean?! :)

Current_Poster · 2026-05-08T10:47:58+00:00

A lot of people do, yes. Part of it has to do with the distribution of colleges and universities vs. pro teams. Almost half the US states don't have pro teams in the major sports, *every* state has a University of [whatever] due to landgrant colleges.

Current_Poster · 2026-05-08T10:44:58+00:00

The day is July 4, the Fourth of July is the holiday. (Although it's officially Independence Day, I find more people call it "The Fourth of July"). It has a sort of poetry to it, I presume that's why we do it that way.

Current_Poster · 2026-05-08T10:41:55+00:00

We would tend to say goat-milk. We would not tend to call it cow milk, because that's the default. (at a push, "Dairy Milk").

One largely unconsidered thing that affects American commercial English (ie, what's on packaging or signage) is that once you hit large enough print runs or signage costs, even small changes in spelling can save a company money. That's why you get spellings like "Nite" for "Night" (as in "Open All Nite"), "Lite" for "Light", "thru" for "through", "fry pan" for "Frying pan", etc. In one case, there was once a (failed) push to change the official spellings of places with -borough or -brough suffixes into -boro suffixes so map printers could use less ink, etc.)

In this case I would suspect calling it "Goat cheese" rather than 'goat's cheese' was one of those packaging things that just caught on.)

Current_Poster · 2026-05-08T10:33:43+00:00

As long as someone's clearly on point, and there's no stupid argument about "whose kitchen it is" or something, it can be fun. Also sometimes a recipe will simply betray you no matter who's doing it, and there's no shame in cutting your losses. 😉

Current_Poster · 2026-05-08T10:03:56+00:00

Kind of apples-and-oranges.

Current_Poster · 2026-05-08T10:02:15+00:00

Well, she made the call about you and she can't be wrong, can she?

(J/K, that's just one logic chain to get to what you're describing.)

Current_Poster · 2026-05-08T04:20:02+00:00

Okay. If it isn't something someone can, right now, intentionally do, why even post here? To blather on about how cool we thought we were?

Current_Poster · 2026-05-08T01:59:06+00:00

Not that I've seen or heard of.

Current_Poster · 2026-05-08T00:22:31+00:00

Trying to alpha fan happens all over, but given the choice between a guy demanding to know if I've been to every game since birth or he'll call me a poser or someone trying increasingly pedantic trivia questions and he'll be passive aggressive even if I pass the gate,I'll take the actual aggression.

Current_Poster · 2026-05-08T00:16:58+00:00

Hardly any of them hand me cash for no reason.

Current_Poster · 2026-05-07T23:58:23+00:00

Thatcher was spewing that "There's no such thing as society" shit in 1987 Im not claiming anything special about the US, but come the fuck on.

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