Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

Started by Syt, December 06, 2015, 01:55:02 PM

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages 1 ... 981 982 983 984 985 986 987 988
User actions

viper37

#14760
June 16, 2025, 12:06:34 PM
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

Valmy

#14761
June 16, 2025, 12:58:37 PM
Huh? I mean not only did it seem like the average French person's head would explode if you don't first say 'bonjour' to them before starting to talk to them, but they were incredibly terrible at speaking English. I never had any push back speaking French to French people.

Granted I haven't been there in 25 years.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

crazy canuck

#14762
June 16, 2025, 01:06:25 PM
I would put Croatia in the nice try but why bother group.

France is not a please don't. It's a lot more of its own, "that was a good effort now we can converse in English kind of vibe".

HVC

#14763
June 16, 2025, 01:10:13 PM
Quote from: Valmy on June 16, 2025, 12:58:37 PMHuh? I mean not only did it seem like the average French person's head would explode if you don't first say 'bonjour' to them before starting to talk to them, but they were incredibly terrible at speaking English. I never had any push back speaking French to French people.

Granted I haven't been there in 25 years.

They expect it but get annoyed if you do it wrong :P worst of both worlds haha.

That being said it might just be aimed at anglos. When I was last there french people where much more annoyed if they thought I was English than when  they thought I was Portuguese. That was 20 years ago too, and really it's Paris. Other parts were nicer.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Valmy

#14764
June 16, 2025, 01:25:40 PM
While I did spend plenty of time in Paris, I had a friend whose parents had a place there, most of my time in France was spent in the south (near Nice) and in the west (Angers). Still places with lots of tourists though.

Ironically the only time anybody gave me any shit was in the Paris tourism office, which was kind of funny. Like they found the person least suited to work there in the entire country.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Syt

#14765
June 16, 2025, 01:29:41 PM
We are born dying, but we are compelled to fancy our chances.
- hbomberguy

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Valmy

#14766
June 16, 2025, 01:33:44 PM
Quote from: Syt on June 16, 2025, 01:29:41 PM

That guy doesn't look like he lives in a place with anything more than a county sheriff. Probably not an expert on interacting with the police.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Jacob

#14767
June 16, 2025, 02:00:38 PM
Quote from: Valmy on June 16, 2025, 01:33:44 PMThat guy doesn't look like he lives in a place with anything more than a county sheriff. Probably not an expert on interacting with the police.

That guy is a character - Squirrely Dan - from the show Letterkenney. Dan is unlikely to say something like that. One of his recurring (though infrequent) topics on the show is what he's learned from Professor Tricia in his Women's Studies class.

The actor is Canadian comic and comes across as left of the US political centre from is interviews. I don't think he's said anything like that in his capacity as a private person either.

Valmy

#14768
June 16, 2025, 02:03:07 PM
Oh well that is very common in memes. The image often not only has nothing to do with the text, but often is a bizarre nonsensical juxtaposition that only confuses who is familiar with the image.

They suck and I hate them. At least the recent scourge of AI memes involves people sort of putting a related image up there...even if it is creepy as fuck in an uncanny valley way.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

crazy canuck

#14769
June 16, 2025, 02:08:54 PM
The line that law abiding people have nothing to fear is as old as the hills.

Razgovory

#14770
June 16, 2025, 02:11:37 PM
Quote from: Syt on June 16, 2025, 01:29:41 PM

I wonder if they would apply that logic to Trump.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Jacob

#14771
June 16, 2025, 02:54:40 PM
Quote from: Valmy on June 16, 2025, 02:03:07 PMOh well that is very common in memes. The image often not only has nothing to do with the text, but often is a bizarre nonsensical juxtaposition that only confuses who is familiar with the image.

They suck and I hate them. At least the recent scourge of AI memes involves people sort of putting a related image up there...even if it is creepy as fuck in an uncanny valley way.

For sure. I just wanted you to know that Squirrely Dan is a good guy is all :)

Oh, and that he doesn't live in place with a County Sheriff, given the show is in Ontario. They've got the Ontario Provincial Police there.

HVC

#14772
June 16, 2025, 03:03:15 PM
I've watched letterkenny  off and on, and Dan is by far my favourite character.

Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

The Minsky Moment

#14773
June 16, 2025, 03:24:35 PM
Quote from: Valmy on June 16, 2025, 02:03:07 PMOh well that is very common in memes. The image often not only has nothing to do with the text, but often is a bizarre nonsensical juxtaposition that only confuses who is familiar with the image.

Poor Sam Elliot, cursed to be attached to idiotic memes for all eternity.
We have, accordingly, always had plenty of excellent lawyers, though we often had to do without even tolerable administrators, and seen destined to endure the inconvenience of hereafter doing without any constructive statesmen at all.
--Woodrow Wilson

viper37

#14774
June 16, 2025, 05:35:12 PM

Quote from: Valmy on June 16, 2025, 01:25:40 PMIronically the only time anybody gave me any shit was in the Paris tourism office, which was kind of funny. Like they found the person least suited to work there in the entire country.
They found a Parisian.   
:P

I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.
Print
Go Up Pages 1 ... 981 982 983 984 985 986 987 988
User actions