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Brits getting pissy about Americans using the word soccer. England called it soccer first, but they seem to have collectively forgotten that.

During WW2, the English still called it soccer - taught the Americans the word, then a few decades later got the dumb fucking idea in their head that the Americans invented the term all on their own. It's wild listening to an English person getting upset over the word.
 
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Fish Fudge said:
Brits getting pissy about Americans using the word soccer. England called it soccer first, but they seem to have collectively forgotten that.

During WW2, the English still called it soccer - taught the Americans the word, then a few decades later got the dumb fucking idea in their head that the Americans invented the term all on their own. It's wild listening to an English person getting upset over the word.
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Brits getting worked up about Americans accents and spelling. Back when the Brits were coming here to form the colonies they had the same accent America does now. Over the years the English accent and spelling drifted away from what they used to be to become what it is now. American accents and spellings really didn’t, beyond the development of regional accents we have here of course.

You can see this in Canada too, their accent isn't that different from ours, probably for the same reason.

Era: seems I'm incorrect. I can't find the article I read that said this, but this one says otherwise. Mea culpa.


ETA ETA: now I'm just confused.


I'm just a tard who can't read, they both say the same thing. Fucking hell.
 
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Accept Only Substitutes said:
Brits getting worked up about Americans accents and spelling. Back when the Brits were coming here to form the colonies they had the same accent America does now. Over the years the English accent and spelling drifted away from what they used to be to become what it is now. American accents and spellings really didn’t, beyond the development of regional accents we have here of course.

You can see this in Canada too, their accent isn't that different from ours, probably for the same reason.

Era: seems I'm incorrect. I can't find the article I read that said this, but this one says otherwise. Mea culpa.


ETA ETA: now I'm just confused.


I'm just a tard who can't read, they both say the same thing. Fucking hell.
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Massively interesting - always vaguely wondered why the Irish/Scots had more similarities in pronunciation and accents with the Americans than the English did. Weird English ideas about class makes sense as a reason.
 
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Just saw this. No idea if it's real or not, but either way it pissed me off.

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ProblematicUser420 said:
Just saw this. No idea if it's real or not, but either way it pissed me off.

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I've looked through several pages of NBC Washington's tags on stories about the pope, going back to early this year at least, as well as Googling "NBC Washington pope Floyd" and can't find this headline. He made some remarks two years ago about how rasicm is bad and that he's praying for Floyd's soul, but those are the remarks a man in his position is expected to make.

So unless the story broke minutes ago and my search is just too early to be able to find it (and I just checked the front page of the site) I think this is a fake
 
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Accept Only Substitutes said:
I've looked through several pages of NBC Washington's tags on stories about the pope, going back to early this year at least, as well as Googling "NBC Washington pope Floyd" and can't find this headline. He made some remarks two years ago about how rasicm is bad and that he's praying for Floyd's soul, but those are the remarks a man in his position is expected to make.

So unless the story broke minutes ago and my search is just too early to be able to find it (and I just checked the front page of the site) I think this is a fake
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I assumed it was fake, but it's one of those things where I can *believe* it could be real which is what pisses me off the most.

It's what makes me realize I truly am in a clown world and not just saying it all the time.
 
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Fish Fudge said:
Brits getting pissy about Americans using the word soccer. England called it soccer first, but they seem to have collectively forgotten that.

During WW2, the English still called it soccer - taught the Americans the word, then a few decades later got the dumb fucking idea in their head that the Americans invented the term all on their own. It's wild listening to an English person getting upset over the word.
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This is hardly surprising, seeing as how your average soccer fan has an IQ that maxes out at 85.

Source: am Bri'ish, fucking hate 'football.'
 
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How acceptable it is for people to openly express to the world that they "suffer" from depression, along with the ensuing fake compassion and celebration of said practise. It's the equivalent of bending over and showing me the inside of your arsehole, I don't need to know nor do I care. The entitlement to think it's perfectly fine to dump your neuroticism upon another person is astoundingly selfish and loathsome to me.

Everyone's got their shit to deal with, their cross to bare. It's called the human condition folks. Either get on with it or just kill yourself already.
 
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Weeb_Killer said:
How acceptable it is for people to openly express to the world that they "suffer" from depression, along with the ensuing fake compassion and celebration of said practise. It's the equivalent of bending over and showing me the inside of your arsehole, I don't need to know nor do I care. The entitlement to think it's perfectly fine to dump your neuroticism upon another person is astoundingly selfish and loathsome to me.

Everyone's got their shit to deal with, their cross to bare. It's called the human condition folks. Either get on with it or just kill yourself already.
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If they claim to suffer from depression then they can suffer a bruise too.
 
Ruin said:
It's $4 a gallon here. Get out of urban bug hives.
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Rural IL and IN approaching $5 so it's not just the hives. Lowest I've seen recently was $2.89 for E85 at KumNGos in Iowa 2 weeks ago. SD and WY were about $4-4.10/gal at that time, everywhere.

Hives are just worse. Nearly $6/gal in some parts of shitcago
 
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People who stand in the doorway at shops and supermarkets.
People who use the “pay at the pump” in petrol stations and then go in the shop.
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Nigel Farage (even if you put politics aside, he’s such a wanker I can’t cope with his face on my tv screen)
 
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