I heard the internet is a good place to rant.

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  1. Muro

    Muro Well-Known Member

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    No no no, that's not how it works. It's choosing two punishments when the alternative is no punishment at all.
     
  2. JustaFishInaJar

    JustaFishInaJar New Member

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    I just wanted to see if you quoted enough quotes if you could see the face of god.
     
  3. Muro

    Muro Well-Known Member

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    Wow, apparently Fish was right.
     
  4. DarkFool

    DarkFool Nemesis of the Ancients

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    Obnoxious quoting is obnoxious. Actually, Xz, et. all, Yuki and I had a conversation about masturbation one night. She actually doesn't. She also didn't realize her friends did, until that point in time.
     
  5. Muro

    Muro Well-Known Member

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    When being realistic, that didn't actually suprise or shock me. She is female after all. That's one strange species if I've ever saw one. It's just the fact that what would be fun in being realistic all the time.
     
  6. DarkFool

    DarkFool Nemesis of the Ancients

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  7. JustaFishInaJar

    JustaFishInaJar New Member

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    You know what makes my eyes bleed? Pants. Not the actual garment of clothing, but the fact that I have to make it a plural. Whats the fucking point. It makes no sense. "Oh, your stupid. They have two leg sleeves. That's why." Well fuck you random quote that came from my own mind. It is still one single piece of clothing. We don't say,"I am going to put on my jackets, shirts, or sweaters." Unless you are going to wear more than one and they have two sleeves. Well fuck it. From now on I'm wearing pant, short, and trouser. This molly coddling has gone on for to long and I am sick of it. Stupid pant think they can control the way I speak.
     
  8. Muro

    Muro Well-Known Member

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    Pants are also plural in Polish, so it must be some sort of an international conspiracy. Yet "door" is plural here as well, which is even less logical than the pants thing.

    Most propably. I have no idea how that happened though, I usually quote the whole thing and remove what I don't want to stay in it. Apparently when I chop something off you, Yuki is the result.
     
  9. Dark Elf

    Dark Elf Administrator Staff Member

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    Pants are usually plural here too, although it is grammatically correct to keep them singular as well.

    On a completely unrelated note, the scroll wheel of my mouse decided to function again today, having been FUBAR over the last few months. Cool that.
     
  10. Xz

    Xz Monkey Admin Staff Member

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    It (the pant) still is apparently.
     
  11. Philes

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    Pants are stupid and generally uncomfortable. One of the first things I like to do when I get home is remove my pants. It's especially awkward if there is company at my place, but the freedom is worth it! Maybe the Scotsman are smarter than we think...
     
  12. Xiao_Caity

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    Trousers >>>> Skirts. For the wearers, anyway, not so much for the observers.

    (I fucking hate skirts. I can't wear 'em on my bike, they don't offer any protection against the cold, and god help me if the wind starts blowing. I firmly believe that skirts were invented by some horny primitive who wanted to get at his mate's happy places without bothering to be polite about it.)
     
  13. TheDavisChanger

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    How do you all feel about "scissors?"
     
  14. JustaFishInaJar

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    I think they put too much pressure on the relationship. I just want to be friends and see where it ends up but they usually want to rush things and that can cause problems.
     
  15. Muro

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    They are made of two identical elements (here blades), therefore it's not that bad when you imagine that each of the element is a "scissor". Same goes for pliers, for example. There no way to explain the Polish plural door that way, though.
     
  16. DarkFool

    DarkFool Nemesis of the Ancients

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    Nicely put, Fish.

    There's also the fact that you don't have a single pant, you wear a pair of pants. Also, fun fact: your wife may own only one thong, but she'll always have a pair of panties. <-- that's another one of those terrible terrible grammatical errors that seems to be built into the system we call "Engrish."
     
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    It's nice to know a rationalization for the plural quality, thank you for that Muro. If it were up to me, I'd concede the fact that I have two shearing elements but only one scissor.
     
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    Pants and scissors are plural in Spanish as well, though they can be used in the singular too - in fact, searching the dictionary matches only the singular versions, though with a note saying they can also be used in plural. No idea what's up with your door, Muro. Maybe old doors were always double or something... :p
     
  19. TheDavisChanger

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    Maybe the doors are painted different colors on each side, leading the Polacks to believe there are two doors instead of one.
     
  20. JustaFishInaJar

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    There are tons of English rules I hate and they should be revised, but America would sooner convert to Metric before that ever happened.

    I also hate silent letters. Pterodactyl and Terodactyl are pronounced the same, but the first is spelled correctly with the silent P. So by that logic I could spell it pqghrfdterodactyl and just claim the pgghrfd is silent.
     
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