| 2011 vs. 1987 |
[May. 19th, 2012|02:19 pm] |
Time's change.
(...get it?) |
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| S.O.L. |
[Apr. 4th, 2012|09:19 pm] |
I was walking along the road the other night and discovered this.
Though there may be other definitions for this acronym,
I have to say that "SOL" is not something I'd relate to convenience. |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 2nd, 2012|12:45 am] |
Well damn, that only took a few decades for me to realize. The proper spelling of the insect is 'beetle'. The famous rock group's name is a pun involving beats.
The Beatles. |
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| Ziploc Soup |
[Mar. 31st, 2012|08:49 pm] |
Interesting learning experience. A ziploc container seemed a decent way to store my mother's tasty peasoup as I traveled home.
I hadn't realized the two would develop such a relationship. |
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| NESW |
[Mar. 31st, 2012|08:38 pm] |
Never Eat Soggy Wieners...
Helps with direction, but I just thought about it...
what the hell does that even mean? |
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| Nippon |
[Mar. 26th, 2012|10:14 pm] |
I'm not sure why it's taken over seven years for me to say this, but to my North American readers, other than 'sushi' and 'arigato', you are mispronouncing every Japanese word you know.
It's not surprising, because people are lazy with their speech. I mean damn, even in my lifetime there was still a period of using the word 'Indian' ignorantly. And it was only at the turn of the century that we stopped referring to Russia's capital as a farm animal.
But here's how it works. The origin of the word "Japan" is unknown exactly, because 'Jippen' and 'Jipangu' and stuff have arisen in various languages... but the fact is, the country refers to itself as "Nihon" (or "Nippon", hence the slang derogatory calling of someone a "nip").
Other than that, I'm just gonna write it all out for you.
Here's what these Japanese words SHOULD sound like:
SAKE
"sakee"? You like rice wine? Cool. But it's
"sahkay".
KARATE
"karatee"? That kid learned
"karahtay".
KARAOKE
"carie-okee"? This form of singing definitely makes for great social events, but it's
"karah-okay".
KAMIKAZE
"kamah-kahzee"? This suicidal attack translates to 'Wind of God', and is pronounced
"kahmee-kahzay".
HARAKIRI
"hairy-carie"??? The act of slitting open your belly to end your life. It's called
"harah-keeree" |
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| G.P.T. |
[Mar. 22nd, 2012|08:52 pm] |
So the four of us decide to go home. Jacqui and Jon ask each other if they're parked on campus, and they are. So the group is now parting, as those two walk towards their cars and Sarah and I have to catch buses. Ah, poor Sarah and Jason. I laugh as we turn in the other direction and Sarah jokingly says, "Oh yeah... we don't have one of those... things with wheels!"
And about 1.5 seconds later we hear this *CRUNCH* noise off in the distance. It seems the Gods of Public Transit were wanting to make us feel better by pulling a cruel joke on someone down the road, because about a block away, on Willingdon, there was now a crash. No-one was hurt, but.... |
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| Izumi |
[Mar. 10th, 2012|06:54 pm] |
If you don't know, 'tempura' is a style of Japanese food. Battered and deep-fried.
So at Metrotown food court today, I saw this menu item which didn't make me drool.
Sure, the word placement might just have been poorly decided, but....
And you know, there's already enough rumours in North America of asians eating cats. So the misspelling of 'katsu' to the lower left of that was also alittle hunger-reducing. |
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| Sparing Change |
[Mar. 7th, 2012|10:34 pm] |
Well, it sucks when some homeless dude asks you for change and you can't stop yourself from giving him some... you pull it out of your pocket and see there's a toonie along with it. You're not feeling overly generous, but you don't want to be such a lame-ass to pick that coin out from the rest to keep for yourself.
But a nice feeling is then handing him all the coins and seeing the money going into a very toughened, dirt-covered hand. That image I'll be keeping for a while. |
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| (no subject) |
[Feb. 26th, 2012|01:53 pm] |
London Drugs really does has a wide range of products to sell.
But who would want to try sleeping on this cushion?
I can't say it induces calming feelings in me...
imagining rubbing my face against this ravenous boy's.... |
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| Cell-dodge |
[Feb. 20th, 2012|12:13 am] |
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As we move into a new digital age, I think we're going to have to expand our vocabulary. We now need a word for the action of pulling out your phone/screen/whatever and looking at it for no reason, as a means of avoiding the awkward eye contact/communication while passing someone, either in the same direction and faster than them, or approaching them from afar. I'm pretty certain I'm not the only person who does this. |
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| Manager's Special |
[Feb. 18th, 2012|09:09 pm] |
Only 10 bucks for a package of Holy Crap breakfast cereal!
I dunno about you, but I suspect I'd have alittle more skill in naming a food product. Perhaps not what the makers had hoped for, the thoughts that come to my mind reading this don't exactly make me hungry. |
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| As said to a friend recently: |
[Feb. 11th, 2012|10:31 pm] |
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Jason: "I actually had an idea at the end of 2011 to make my slogan for the new year "2012 RULES!!" both to express appreciation of a great new year to come, and also to make a new habit of setting rules and following them strictly to improve productivity and self-control. Alas, that lasted about a day." |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 10th, 2012|12:00 am] |
Fret not, my children who found the previous post unbeauteous.
It was made just in jest. |
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| Giving two shits |
[Jan. 8th, 2012|07:16 pm] |
I've always been rather bewildered thinking about the North American expression "I don't give two shits about that!" or something similar in its usage of what's being 'given'. Not giving a shit makes sense, because you are expressing just what you would be willing to give, as a measurement of the thing being talked about's worth. Not giving a damn, we once said, but these days we don't give even a shit (the very thing which is probably worth the least in our society). Yet who decided to start saying they don't give two shits? One must recall, when showing how much they care by what they're willing to give, that the more they give, the more they care. Truly, whether you are giving a damn, giving a shit, or giving a fuck, you are still willing to give something. And by increasing the number of said gift, you are actually increasing the importance of this exchange. Ask yourself with logic, dear reader. Which is worth less in this world? Two shits? Or a single one? I think we'd all agree, the latter.
Now, if one truly wished to dwell on the subject, they could put more literal meaning into the word being used, and argue that giving your listener LESS fecal matter is most probably a greater sign of respect. Though if you're going that far, then the proper insulting phrase would be "I give two shits! ...no, THREE!"
Nonetheless, I'll probably always be in a love/habitual-misusage relationship with our language. For example, saying you 'could care less' about something may make it sound unimportant via the potential for you to actually care less about it... but saying you 'couldn't care less' means you've already reached your minimum level of concern.
And with that, I bid you adieu.
(...whatever 'adieu' means.) |
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| Into / Onto |
[Dec. 26th, 2011|09:59 am] |
A month or so ago, I was sitting at a stop, waiting for a bus.
The young man beside me yells, "Aghhh! Fuckkkk!!!"
I normally would have ignored it, but I noticed he wasn't talking to anyone or anything. He was alone. My only theory was that something had just popped into his head, like maybe having forgotten a gift for his girlfriend's anniversary.
Nope.
A bird shit on him. |
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