Confession time

viva · 29-01-21 05:11:12

I love buffy so much.

JAMMYMAN · 29-01-21 11:23:59

There's an expression used in the part of England where I live. If we see black, threatening clouds approaching, we say, "It's a bit black over Bill's mother's" ("over" is pronounced "ovver" in Derbyshire). As a boy, I only heard it, and didn't see it written, so I was unaware of the genitive apostrophe in mother's (implying Bill's mother's house) so i thought it was the simple plural "mothers", and for years I couldn't understand why Bill had more than one mother. It was a real moment of revelation during an English grammar lesson when I was about 12 when I suddenly realised what the old saying really meant ..........

viva · 01-02-21 00:42:37

hahaa young jammyman just thinking Bill's that cool kid with two moms...

ThatIndividual · 03-02-21 14:08:47

Ok so this'll be a little Kafkaesque in so far as I don't know the answer. I grew up and now live in an area where we've got some phrases that aren't english in origin. Some are used in place of swear words. The odd thing is...after asking several people, I have yet to get an actual origin let alone translation for them. They're also very localized so I think they might be from the local Native American tribes. I got more than a few oddball looks when I used them out of state just a state or two away.

This could maybe be looked at as cultural appropriation - but I say that because I'm not good at detecting such things. Here though I'd posit that it's a better reflection of what America ought to be about: tons of different cultures finding a way to make a new culture composed of all of them as individuals to the extent they want and overlapping to the extent they want.

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_redbird_ · 04-02-21 00:49:47

Okay this next one is pretty mortifying...

When I was between the ages of 16-18 a few of my friends and I would call out to each other by shouting - "Woop wooooooop!" loudly.

How is that mortifying you may ask? (Other than it just being pretty obnoxious and teenager-ey)

WELL.

You may be aware of the atrocious band called Insane Clown Posse. Their followers are called Juggalos, and they have their own call so they can identify each other in a crowd, or just to show appreciation for ICP. And yes, that's right, their call is "Woop wooooop!"

A couple of my friends who started it knew that it was the Juggalo call and were doing it ironically but the rest of us just did it out of habit and thought it was a cute in-joke. I saw a documentary about Juggalos when I was around 29-30 and when I heard their call I died inside. I asked my housemate who is also an old school friend if what I was doing back then was indeed the Juggalo call or if it was just a coincidence and he told me - "Yeah dude. I thought you knew and were doing it ironically too." He then proceeded to make fun of me mercilessly (and rightly so) as they truly are one of the worst bands imaginable.

ThatIndividual · 04-02-21 02:58:17

Oh that’s too good Redbird!

troyforyou · 24-02-21 04:33:17

After watching an early interview of my favorite contributor, I now realize her name is not Hyperballed.

_redbird_ · 24-02-21 07:55:36

troyforyou wrote:

After watching an early interview of my favorite contributor, I now realize her name is not Hyperballed.

Haha oh nooooo. You didn't know the Bjork song reference then? I'm still not sure how to pronounce my first favourite ISM contrib's name (Reyna).

ThatIndividual · 24-02-21 13:56:12

_redbird_ wrote:

troyforyou wrote:
After watching an early interview of my favorite contributor, I now realize her name is not Hyperballed.

Haha oh nooooo. You didn't know the Bjork song reference then? I'm still not sure how to pronounce my first favourite ISM contrib's name (Reyna).

My friend's name is Reyna - pronounced Rain-ah or Rain-uh. Not everybody's the same for how they want their names pronounced, but maybe that helps?

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_redbird_ · 25-02-21 07:59:08

ThatIndividual wrote:

_redbird_ wrote:
troyforyou wrote:
After watching an early interview of my favorite contributor, I now realize her name is not Hyperballed.

Haha oh nooooo. You didn't know the Bjork song reference then? I'm still not sure how to pronounce my first favourite ISM contrib's name (Reyna).
My friend's name is Reyna - pronounced Rain-ah or Rain-uh. Not everybody's the same for how they want their names pronounced, but maybe that helps?

Ah cool, that's how I pronounced it but was never sure. Australians in particular tend to have a very...distinct way of pronouncing things. I have an Arabic surname (it was my Mum's married name from a previous marriage before my Dad, whom she didn't marry) and the way we pronounce it is purely for Australians, and the actual way to say it is fairly different and even involves rolling an R.

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Howland · 26-02-21 02:07:11

_redbird_ wrote:

the actual way to say it is fairly different and even involves rolling an R.

Yeah, that's probably not going to happen Dann Unda. The first woman I got to 2nd base with (gotta tell that story sometime ...) literally could not roll her Rs. She spoke German, which does not require that, but Italian words were impossible for her. (I tried to teach her, but after a while we gave up and made out some more.)

viva · 26-02-21 02:22:54

Hahahaha Ive been trying to teach my boyfriend to roll his r's since the beginning. he's gotten pretty good but he overdoes it lol. sometimes we just say "dinner" back and forth to each other over and over making the r at the end longer each time.

_redbird_ · 26-02-21 06:59:45

Haha, aww that's adorable Viva. I can only just do it in the context of my name, but I find rolling R's to be very fun.

Please tell us the story sometime soon Howland!

Also, another contribution to this thread I thought of today was that in the song Millennium by Robbie Williams there's a line in it that I used to think was - "We've got stars direct in our face" and I used to roll my eyes and be all "OK Robbie. Whatever you say....". But no Red you idiot, it's - "We've got stars directing our fate".

_redbird_ · 22-04-21 06:38:19

Okay so lately I've been listening to Prefab Sprout because I'm deeply cool and have only just found out that the lyrics to The King of Rock and Roll are - "Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque" and NOT "Hot dog, jumping frog, I love cookies". It doesn't help at all that the first time I heard the song was when I first watched Spaced waaay back in the early 2000's and the character Daisy sings "Hot dog, jumping frog, almond cookies", so my confusion is valid, right? I was also not aware of the song's title and thought it was called "I Love Cookies".

Mew · 22-04-21 07:07:36

Bahahahaa Redbird! I like your version better!

When I was really young I used to think I could "wag my tail" like, wiggle my tailbone. Eventually, years later, I realised I was just clenching my butthole

viva · 22-04-21 08:12:12

That is amazing~!

_redbird_ · 22-04-21 08:52:59

Mew wrote:

Bahahahaa Redbird! I like your version better!
When I was really young I used to think I could "wag my tail" like, wiggle my tailbone. Eventually, years later, I realised I was just clenching my butthole

Holy shit Mew that is fucking adorable. When you say you found out "years later" were you an adult? Or just an older kid/teen? Either way, the image of tiny Mew thinking she's wiggling her tail is goddam gorgeous and I want to draw a cartoon of it.

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