Things you just don't get

There are people I know who think they are "purists" to where if someone in a restaurant besays bruschetta ("broo-SHET-ta") they are all on the scene with "Oh please, please, broo-SKAY-ta per favore let's have some class here come on!" And yet these same buns-heads, when they beorder more than one pizza, would never dream of saying "pizze." I wonder why purism doesn't ever get as far as "pizze?"

(Also, my "purist" friends sound like Mario in Mario-Kart or whatever the hell it is "Ahh ma gonna winna!")

L'inscerroneous, never change.

Piobaire said:

Fang66 said:

That's his schtick, but the fact that you've never heard of one of the most well known comedians in the U.K. just shows how provincial you are.

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That's an interesting test for provincialism. Is it just the UK one must know popular comedians for or are other countries part of the metric? Does this apply only to Americans? For instance, is someone in the UK displaying provincialism if they do not know Canada's most popular comedians?

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Don't mention metric or I'll blow my stack!

And Canada? Really? We are discussing countries here, not frozen U.S. territories.

Piobaire said:

HRoi said:

how can Americans be provincial when we don't even have provinces, you cocksuckers...?

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Made that funny for you.

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Got a laugh out of that, now I do know Canada's most famous comedian.



L'Incandescent said:

I don't get bears.

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Use honey, they love that stuff.



Connemara said:

British culture has gone downhill since the days of Terry-Thomas.

"I say! My ball's right here! What a bit of jam."

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What the **** is this cocksucking world coming to? Conne makes a worthwhile post? ****

p.s. Anyone who doesn't appreciate a good David Mitchell rant is a cooltrucker.



harvey_birdman said:

Eddie Izard is very funny. The UK doesn't really have a well developed stand up scene.

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That's all they have, 99.9% of people on British TV are stand up comics. Every show, including news programs is a panel shows with wall to wall stand up comics.



Kid Nickels said:

^ hmmmm. Well I have limited experience with just the one that was in this place in Venice (CA). I didn't realize they are gentler on the clothes. I'm sure it wasn't top of the line anyway, but once it started I found an extra sock and wanted to throw it in but I couldn't open the door. Wouldn't all the water and **** come out if you opened it? I dunno… maybe I'll find a nicer one and be convinced. I guess I have a weird fondness for being able to open the top and see all my clothes sloshing around in there.

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Nah, water doesn't come out when you open it because there's not that much water in there in the first place. Part of the efficiency is the fact that it doesn't fill the drum with water like a top loader does. When you pause the load, it takes a moment for the door to unlock, and, by the time that happens, what little water is in there has settled to the bottom.

They're gentler on clothes because they tumble, rather than oscillate and twist your clothes up like a top loader does. Also, they spin much faster than top loaders, so the clothes come out of the wash drier and spend less time getting beat up by the dryer.



MrG said:

Nah, water doesn't come out when you open it because there's not that much water in there in the first place. Part of the efficiency is the fact that it doesn't fill the drum with water like a top loader does. When you pause the load, it takes a moment for the door to unlock, and, by the time that happens, what little water is in there has settled to the bottom.

They're gentler on clothes because they tumble, rather than oscillate and twist your clothes up like a top loader does. Also, they spin much faster than top loaders, so the clothes come out of the wash drier and spend less time getting beat up by the dryer.

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The ones I have owned pump the water out when you hit the pause button--takes it about 10 seconds after hitting the button before you can open it.

I also prefer the front-loaders at this point, precisely for the reasons you listed. We moved into an apartment recently with a top-loader, and it sucks going back to it. I shouldn't complain too much because I have the ultimate New York luxury, an in-unit washer/dryer, but it's definitely a step down from the front loader we had previously.

Some of us have to keep the washer we have because it still works and we can't afford a new high efficiency front loader. Check your #frontloaderprivilege.

My company gave me shares of its stock as part of my bonus. Thing is I don't know where they are. I have no record of this aside from what is written on the back of an envelope. Where are they?

I am holding onto them for safekeeping. (Company was worried that you'd buy shoes with them straightaway.)



patrickBOOTH said:

My company gave me shares of its stock as part of my bonus. Thing is I don't know where they are. I have no record of this aside from what is written on the back of an envelope. Where are they?

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They gave them to a Ukranian firm to manage.

Oh, ok