RL Peeves

GF

@SpaceKhomeini Yeah, any time discussions of entrepreneurs come up, my brain immediately goes to Nathan Masri.

Snackness

If any of y’all are in college and your professors get after you for not reading?

Those fuckers don’t read either.

ETA: Okay I talked to the particular person I was mad at on the phone and she’s actually a really sweet old lady so I feel bad that I called her a fucker on here, but she still didn’t read.

Herja

@Snackness said in RL Peeves:

If any of y’all are in college and your professors get after you for not reading?

Those fuckers don’t read either.

Can confirm

Kestrel

Fuck Charles.

KarmaBum

Climate change.

I was all excited to RP last weekend, going to have a great time!!!

And now it’s been 20 degrees hotter than normal for a week straight, and I have lost my mojo entirely.

Evilgrayson

@Kestrel Thanks, but I’d really rather not.

TNP

Harry is the hottie.

GF

Not really a peeve, just something I’m thinking about.

Any of you Americans ever notice how often we’ll say “no” to mean “yes” and vice-versa? I’ve never had a problem telling which way someone means the word, but I’m sitting here trying to figure out the rules as if I needed to explain it to someone who’s ESL, and I can’t isolate the rules at all.

Testament

@GF There’s a variant among Midwesterners.

“Yeah, no.”

and

“No, yeah.”

It’s exactly as maddening as you imagine it to be.

junipersky

My principal asked me to do a walk and talk with her. I know consciously that it is legit just a check in. But there is always that “what did I do wrong and what punishment is coming” when there isn’t a set agenda.

Pavel

@Testament said in RL Peeves:

@GF There’s a variant among Midwesterners.

“Yeah, no.”

and

“No, yeah.”

It’s exactly as maddening as you imagine it to be.

Australians do that too, weirdly.

Weird that midwesterners and Australians both do it, that is.

Snackness

@GF I notice it and I do it and I don’t know why and I hate it.

TNP

I use ‘yeah, no’ every so often here in NY. It’s a way to add emphasis to the ‘no’.

DrQuinn

We say “so don’t I” as agreement.

“You like Kelly’s roast beef? So don’t I!” = “I too enjoy Kelly’s roast beef sandwiches.”

Pavel

@DrQuinn said in RL Peeves:

We say “so don’t I” as agreement.

“You like Kelly’s roast beef? So don’t I!” = “I too enjoy Kelly’s roast beef sandwiches.”

Okay, that’s just wrong.

Faraday

@GF said in RL Peeves:

I’m sitting here trying to figure out the rules as if I needed to explain it to someone who’s ESL, and I can’t isolate the rules at all.

English doesn’t have rules so much as it has a Pirates Code… “Hang the Code, and hang the rules! They’re more like guidelines anyway.”

eye8urcake

@Kestrel said in RL Peeves:

Fuck Charles.

Just posting to second and bold this.

Pavel

@eye8urcake said in RL Peeves:

@Kestrel said in RL Peeves:

Fuck Charles.

Just posting to second and bold this.

Somehow I missed this the first go around, so I’ll say it now: This isn’t the place for that. “This place” being the entire board/forum.

This has been an Admin post.

eye8urcake

@Pavel It was oblique enough for me to feel perfectly comfortable in saying IDGAF about your admin post.

Have a good day.

Aria

@Pavel said in RL Peeves:

@Testament said in RL Peeves:

@GF There’s a variant among Midwesterners.

“Yeah, no.”

and

“No, yeah.”

It’s exactly as maddening as you imagine it to be.

Australians do that too, weirdly.

Weird that midwesterners and Australians both do it, that is.

We also do this in Philly, but the trick is the emphasis and length of the response.

“No, yeah” = “No-yeah” = Yes.

“Yeah, no” = “Yeeeeah, no” = No, and also you should maybe fuck off with that dumb suggestion.

“Yeah, no” = “Yeah (^upward inflection), no (hardstop).” = Absolutely not and do not ask me again.