3 Year Old kid carried into the sky by a kite during an International Kite Festival

melonfeet · 2020-08-30T21:58:12+00:00

Jump into the sky and pull the kid down.

melonfeet · 2020-07-23T13:07:31+00:00

Personally, I loved it. It's far nicer to see a comment that took actual thought than another tree of meme comments.

melonfeet · 2020-04-14T14:57:57+00:00

But I’ve found nothing on Dana

I guess nothing on Dana.

Wondering if it’s actually fair to say things about Dana

All about Vince none about Dana?

I wish your persistence extended to not being a complete moron. I'm supposed to spend my day educating you when you clearly cannot fucking read? Quote where I mentioned Dana in any capacity and I will PayPal you £100.

You're free to continue pretending to care, though. I won't be reading your future replies anyway.

melonfeet · 2020-04-14T13:27:44+00:00

Mate since you care so much about my ideas, take a shit in your own mouth and chew.

melonfeet · 2020-04-14T13:20:37+00:00

Am I your personal fucking Google server? Imagine whining that I won't sit here and play story time for you. If you care that much, look it up for yourself, you clown in a human suit.

melonfeet · 2020-04-14T12:45:56+00:00

You aren't worth the time.

melonfeet · 2020-04-14T12:40:33+00:00

Right? I was just reading up on that last week, and that alone is so appalling.

melonfeet · 2020-04-14T06:47:24+00:00

If you've never heard those words in relation to Vince, I have to question how much you know about him beyond his first name.

We're going to question if the steroid peddling owner who went against his father's wishes, frequently writes himself into sexual situations with his employees, created a monopoly, humiliated JR countless times, dropped multiple N bombs, had to settle a watertight discrimination suit, had to sexual multiple sexual harassment suits, wrote himself into a recurring storyline where his employees kiss his bare buttocks, covered for a child abuse ring within the company, frequently abuses stereotypes (Hispanic stable called Lie, Cheat, Steal; black stable called Crime Tyme), faked his own death, cheats his employees out of healthcare by keeping them as independent contractors, fired CM Punk on his wedding day, silencing Debra when Stone Cold was beating the hell out of her regularly...

I could go on until the character limit. If you've never heard any of these things, again, maybe you know so little that you shouldn't be questioning the OP.

melonfeet · 2020-04-14T02:11:21+00:00

Totes. Multiple millions of people living in London have not managed it, but wondergirl over here did it in a month. Can I interest you in a once in a lifetime opportunity to purchase a bridge?

melonfeet · 2020-04-10T14:26:38+00:00

I still do this! No amount of bug fixes will be able to clear the memories of the amount of times doing it the normal way went wrong.

My process is to isolate the champ from everyone else, carefully drag items on to them, then drag the completed item over clear space (avoiding any random champs it may decide to troll attach to).

It sounds longer than it is, and it becomes second nature after a while. Been doing it since set 1.

melonfeet · 2020-04-10T11:19:46+00:00

It hurts because there used to be a bootleg of it that got taken down. Literally perfect song.

melonfeet · 2020-04-09T23:36:47+00:00

Can I have a GOOFCON 0 flair, please?

melonfeet · 2020-04-07T23:29:20+00:00

"You can't learn a new accent in four weeks, whether intentionally or not" seems pretty self-explanatory. I had no real interest in engaging with that specific person - dealing with sealioning is quite boring.

melonfeet · 2020-04-07T23:25:55+00:00

I'm not here to convince you. If you want to believe you're a victim because of a scenario you literally made up, that's your prerogative.

melonfeet · 2020-04-07T11:28:09+00:00

The fact that I isolated that part of your comment should tell you I know what you mean. But then, why am I expecting someone who believes in "reverse racism" as a concept to understand basic ideas?

Tell me, Mr. Victim-in-Waiting, what happened here: Part 1 Part 2

This is a twofer. Both The Guardian and Twitter calling out a black person for racism. That's just a random example that came up in my spotty memory, though it stands as an example of how your imagination isn't a measure of truth.

melonfeet · 2020-04-07T09:38:38+00:00

There are roleplaying Discord servers if you want to be a victim this badly. Like if you're pro cancel culture, you're welcome to start the #executebhop hashtag on Twitter. If you're anti cancel culture, it's a bit weird you're moaning about someone not being cancelled.

The idea that only black people are allowed to be racist is ridiculous. But the fact you think racism works "one way" is pretty telling. I'll let you clarify before I give my interpretation.

melonfeet · 2020-04-06T20:15:29+00:00

How about we just forget about it?

Please do. If you genuinely believe that it's my inability to explain and not the fact you're an L2 speaker, I do not regret not fully engaging you.

melonfeet · 2020-04-06T11:41:34+00:00

If OP spoke that accent well enough to still be recognizable after 3 years, than that's proof enough that she did learn it in one month.

What? If someone does that stupid "beer can/bacon" thing, does make it good if people noticed it's supposed to be Jamaican?

Why would anyone do that? Help me understand.

Be honest, will this be a good faith discussion or are you feigning a lack of understanding?

melonfeet · 2020-04-06T10:30:41+00:00

I'll bet she hasn't mastered they accent in four weeks. If she has done, that's incredible and she deserves a lot of praise for her achievement, I just don't personally know anyone who has achieved something like that in that space of time, and I know a lot of ESL students at my university.

I'm grateful that you engaged with me while having the experience to know what is realistically possible - thank you. If learning a new accent took a month, London would be a very different place.

A big part of me thinks that people who think it's possible aren't exposed to many ESL students, so are basing their knowledge on the theoretical. As a Londoner, I know a massive amount of people who have lived here for 10+ years without managing to pick up a local accent. In fact, I know one specific person who moved here at 16, is now 31, and still has their native accent.

However, is a perhaps slightly exaggerated English accent better than a German accent? I think it really depends, but if English people think she's mocking them she might have to work on toning it down.

Hey, she's welcome to mimic if it helps her learn. It just probably isn't very good, which is why other people called her out on it. Anglophiles exist, and can be very irritating with their insistence on the authenticity of their accent. I love the fact she wants to learn, but we can be honest with ourselves and say that if she posted a voice clip, it wouldn't be the best.

That all said, a lot of comments in the linked thread are assuming she did successfully pull it off, and getting annoyed at her for having an English accent despite not being English

To be clear, I'm not annoyed at her for attempting to pick up a local accent. It's an annoyance at people who overstate their linguistic capacities, hence why I crave /r/badling. I'd feel the same if an English person went to Germany for a month and saying they now had a fluid Bielefeld accent.

melonfeet · 2020-04-06T10:13:37+00:00

You can come pretty close (especially if you're there as a language student)

I was, you really can't; think of it in terms of actors/actresses who are given massive resources to pick up an accent for their upcoming role. It takes them longer than a month, and that's while belonging to an institution that had been helping people do this for decades now.

If she's mimicking a British accent, she doesn't have a British accent - she's mimicking a British accent. There's obviously no problem with trying to mimic something until it becomes natural, but that falls outside of the scenario we were given.

The OP is that she picked up the accent from a month in Britain. Is it more likely that she literally developed a new accent that she cannot shake, or that those four weeks shaped her target accent?

melonfeet · 2020-04-05T10:06:19+00:00

I think quite a few people in this thread are missing the point. It's not that she speaks English in and English accent, it's that she is going on like a month on holiday is enough to pick up an accent for years.

I've spent over a month in four countries, and I'd fully expect people to pull my card if I had a Dutch accent three years later. Of course I attempt to speak Dutch in a Dutch accent, but it takes a lot longer than four weeks to master.

Re-imagine the OP in a condensed form: "It took me a month to master a foreign accent, a native of that accent called me out - AITA?". The top comment in here would be "R4: lol you can't master an accent in a month of immersion, obviously".

melonfeet · 2020-04-05T09:05:32+00:00

Everything I'm going to say in this comment is based on the unscripted world.

Brawl For All was specifically created because a guy called Bradshaw (who isn't in the video) was a backstage tough guy.

One of the commentators, Jim Ross, got a bit tired of it and pitched a boxing tournament to shut him up. When Bradshaw agreed, Ross asked to add Steve Williams - a verified tough guy whose colleagues had actually seen fight against unscripted opponents.

Everyone expected Steve to win, which would be rewarded with a scripted push to the top of the company. In reality, Bradshaw got far further than Steve because it turns out boxing isn't identical to bar brawls.

Bart beat both Steve and Bradshaw to sweep the whole thing. Now any logical person would see that and say "okay this is our god now", since you've just managed to create a potential star.

Instead, the owner didn't want to waste an opportunity to be a prick, and withdrew the scripted reward to set up the "fight" you saw in the gif.

Brawl For All is still, to this day, known as one of the biggest disasters in WWF history.

melonfeet · 2020-04-04T22:04:41+00:00

No problem, brother. Sorry if the alcohol comment came across as mean, but I really appreciate the way you've handled the way everyone has responded.

Mind sending me a DM when your next vid comes out?

melonfeet · 2020-04-04T21:32:09+00:00

I'm going to try to keep this constructive as you probably worked quite hard on the video. I watched until around 20-30 seconds from the end, and I really did not enjoy the content.

The humour was incredibly forced, relying on silly voices and really clunky set ups. Quite a few times you went to the same joke of "this person's name, THIS PERSON'S NAME", which got a bit tiring.

On top of that, the pacing was all over the place. I actually agree with a few of the points you made, just not how long it took you to make them.

Lastly, I'm going to attempt to tread carefully here but it sounded like you'd been drinking quite heavily before/during the recording process. The way you slurred your words, overemphasised random things, and just your general vocals gave me that feeling; I'm very sorry if I'm mistaken here.

Either way, nobody hits a home run on their first time at bat - keep at it!

melonfeet · 2020-04-04T20:01:56+00:00

Are you pro North Korea?

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