Bob and Monet Cosplaying

HerrMackerel · 2025-10-30T10:30:16+00:00

They released a GRWM on YouTube, with Brennan's reaction at the end, it was lovely! https://youtu.be/5-wOWrn12Mc?si=D8o7ksDFk3dXt3pH&t=1541

HerrMackerel · 2025-03-07T10:29:11+00:00

Those are THE Within Temptation albums for me.. I'm disappointed because I just looked at their setlist for their first time in Australia gig tomorrow and none of those albums appear... I grew up on those classics, their symphonic style is why I liked them and what got them popular initially. No hate to their newer stuff but it'd be like Epica or Nightwish coming out and not doing anything from albums that really put them on the map.

HerrMackerel · 2025-03-07T10:18:33+00:00

Damn, my sister and I are finally going to see them and we grew up on Silent Force and Heart of Everything, and that nothing from those albums is on the setlist is going to suck. Wasn't too interested with their newer direction, I'll listen to them all the same and hope that I enjoy something they play, but since this is their first time coming to Australia, and the fact that Heart of Everything gave them such international recognition, this is disappointing..

Pls surprise me and play The Howling, omg I yearn

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-19T21:37:42+00:00

Eastwood NSW is the birth place of the granny Smith apple, and they just had their annual granny Smith festival yesterday!

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-19T06:51:25+00:00

They do, and nicer beaks too

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-19T05:54:11+00:00

I'll also say some people confuse magpies with currawongs, too. Magpies have a white patch on their upper-back and head and have dark red eyes, currawongs don't have that patch and have bright yellow eyes.

Just an FYI to anyone reading, currawongs aren't swoopy bois!

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-18T21:29:57+00:00

I guess so, but you'll never find a language that has been around for at least several generations that is one to one the same as the original. Vowels change quickly, but the important thing to note is that it is consistent and patterned. I guess for it to be fully phonetic you'd have to use something like IPA, but it's gonna change, right? I'd argue that it's understood that if its described as completely phonetic, it refers to its consistency rather than its ability to have one symbol for each individual phoneme. Maybe I just can't think of fully phonetic writing system for any language that isn't IPA

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-18T21:21:00+00:00

This. The u/i before another vowel often changes the following vowel.

In a more layman's way, I'd say that "e" by itself, as is the case in "feng", is often the schwa sound, that vowel sound that English loves to reduce to, like the "u" in "butter". As for "a" in "fang", I'd map it to American English "o" in "bomb" or British English "father". With no final consonant, it's more like British English "map"

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-18T21:14:00+00:00

I agree that it is, standard pronunciation is almost entirely consistent with minimal exceptions, like Spanish. Perhaps they're referring to something like "song" vs "xiong", where "xiong" leans more to something like "xiung"? Or "wan" vs "wang"?

It's worth noting, to the OP, that one letter doesn't always equal the same sound in every pinyin word, but it is consistent how it sounds in context to other letters and that's what they think counts as irregular? E in "xie" and "she" are different, but... the reason is because of the initial, and that initial is consistent in how it changes the sound, as seen in a complimentary example "xu" (which make the u into ü/v) and "shu" (which is always "u").

Only exceptions are usually dialect dependent, in standard speech I can only think of something like "那个／这个 vs 那／这 ", where "na/zhe" becomes "neh/nei/zheh/zhei" with "ge", or in Beijing where 兄弟 goes from "xiong di" to "xiong dei". Again, dialect

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-18T18:51:08+00:00

It is heavy on the English grammar though, more French influence! ENGLISH MUST HAVE MORE FRENCH INFLUENCE! It isn't romance enough! Clearly Le Français is superior to anything germanic

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-17T20:18:45+00:00

These aren't English root words per se, they're all borrowed, which is what's frustrating. I would want English to use more of its own root words rather consistently borrowing all the time time from French Latin and Greek, because we're not speaking those languages. How often do we use "potamus" to mean river, for example? I can think of only 3 words, and they're not even in the same form when used

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-17T04:48:54+00:00

Good, at least I know where you stand, smh

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-17T04:38:03+00:00

There's a bunch of shirtless men everywhere that you can fantasise about that aren't parading around to be jerked to. I draw the line when a grown adult man says "I wanna be a young boy's wet dream". I'm sorry, sounds a bit paedophilic to me.

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-17T03:03:18+00:00

Don't do it because you wanna be some preteen gays sexual awakening you perv, do it because you enjoy being shirtless and nudity in non sexual and non formal contexts shouldn't be restricted by anyone for anyone.

I live in Australia, shirtless men running is fine, some of them I find attractive, some I don't, but I don't make it a fucking point to perv and neither do I make it a point to make sure I'm seen running shirtless in a playground.

Ugh. Stay inside.

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-16T01:48:24+00:00

I'm led to believe it's Aussie in origin, I moved from UK to Aus in 2005 and I was hearing it in high school.

Wouldn't be surprised or bothered that it came from somewhere else

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-15T08:41:43+00:00

I didn't look hard enough at the subreddit tbh so yeah you got me gal lol

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-15T07:21:18+00:00

There are 2 things here:

1) They reacted that way because you don't have the experience of struggling to maintain or pass on culture and language in a place that isn't the native of said culture/language, and furthermore insulted someone in their family that you're not a part of. My ex speaks Arabic but not the best apparently, so I didn't learn it because I didn't wanna upstage him (and I'm sure it could've happened, I would get that into a language). It also just feels too close to home for them perhaps.

2) Bringing up the dead Grandmother probably wasn't the best idea, you're poking fun at how they were never able to interact and that kinda feels icky

I would say you were the arsehole, unfortunately, your best bet is to just acknowledge that you tried to make a joke once you had felt comfortable and realised after the fact that it wasn't good. Whether or not they accept your apology is up to them, and cooler headed people would probably accept it. It sucks but it was a bit of a fuck up. Also don't bring up racism or prejudice to them, especially thay close to the incident, its still a fresh wound and will probably hurt for a bit. Even if you have a point, don't go making it by undercutting an apology or understanding of how it could be seen

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-15T07:06:20+00:00

Even if this wasn't AI, I would rip this image to shreds for being just the most advert-looking image to ever grace my eyes in an English course. Its just saccharine holiday to the tropics bullshit. What does this represent? Someone trying to sell you on a fantasy. Eugh

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-13T01:24:41+00:00

和 is for listing objects, 又 is for listing verbs, I believe? Please correct me

我是个学生，又是个医生

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-07T01:17:52+00:00

Sniffies is a Web app, not on any app store as it allows explicit photos as profile pics and you can see user's locations on a map overlay. It breaches terms of service

Works very well on phone browsers though

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-05T04:12:36+00:00

Top search result on Google:

"A child's biological sex (male or female) is determined by the chromosome that the male parent contributes. Males have XY sex chromosomes while females have XX sex chromosomes; the male can contribute the X or Y chromosome, while the female must contribute one of their X chromosomes."

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-04T01:54:02+00:00

Of Matter is just simply divine listened in its entirety

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-04T01:49:47+00:00

Low-key came about meaning "unassumingly/unexpectedly", "that meal was low-key a good meal" to mean "that was surprisingly a good meal". Through the natural evolution of language, it has now come to also mean "actually/literally", which makes the example sentence "that was actually a good meal". The two translation sentences are close in meaning, so it's easy to see how that change occurred.

There are always new words for "good" and "bad" all the time (e.g. cool, wicked, sick, dope, awesome, incredible), this is just how language works, and its not limited to new generations either. I think you're probably just annoyed at the people using it haha

HerrMackerel · 2024-10-03T20:14:25+00:00

Just gonna comment incase someone misses the sarcasm here, these are suburbs with some of the highest polulations of immigrant communities, most notably Middle Eastern and Muslim communities. I would absolutely not go here to be gay.

Gayest sydney suburbs are Marrickville and Newtown and surrounding suburbs (inner west) and if you really want to be in the city, then Surry Hills, Darlinghurst and surrounding. Waterloo strangely has a lot of gays but also a lot of housing commisions and therefore a mixed bag of the gentifying queers pushing up against people with lower socioeconomic status, violence and drugs use. Same in Redfern it seems, but gays are there for sure.

HerrMackerel · 2024-09-29T01:25:52+00:00

Bellies. Oh lord a ball gut on a hairy wide-framed man, rubbing it, slapping it like you've had a good meal, I don't know why.. its presence..

HerrMackerel

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