Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

[Velocity]

Went with my son to Bass Pro Shop today. He went for the fishing supply sales. I bought a purse that had lots of zippered pockets. It had a big one that had a teensy little lock with keys. I figured it was for traveling or something. When I was cutting off the tags at home, I saw that it was a concealed carry purse. That big pocket that I was planning to put my Kindle in, was for a gun! It even had a holster velcroed inside. Surprised me all to heck! I only looked at the tags to see the price and missed the concealed carry part.

 

[Avro Arrow]

So it seems that William Shatner is set to become the first AI with the ability to talk *himself* into self-destructing...

https://ew.com/tv/william-shatner-90th-birthday-ai-storyfile-video/

 

[oberth]

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[oberth]

Went with my son to Bass Pro Shop today. He went for the fishing supply sales. I bought a purse that had lots of zippered pockets. It had a big one that had a teensy little lock with keys. I figured it was for traveling or something. When I was cutting off the tags at home, I saw that it was a concealed carry purse. That big pocket that I was planning to put my Kindle in, was for a gun! It even had a holster velcroed inside. Surprised me all to heck! I only looked at the tags to see the price and missed the concealed carry part.

you buy a fitting gun next?

 

[cooleddie74]

The Snyder Cut was actually good. Wow. Someone repaired one of those train wrecks of cinema. See it if you haven't already.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I have a bunch of friends who are both Jewish and build lasers for a living.

They have been having so much fun with Jewish space laser jokes.

 

[Velocity]

you buy a fitting gun next?

Well, my husband is already calling me a "pistol packin' mama", but I have no such plans so far.

 

[Worf factor9]

"pistol packin' mama"

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I am certain that he is thankful.

 

[Velocity]

Oh yeah, that sounds like me. Thanks for that.

 

[Aragorn]

Radio station was just doing pop culture speed trivia and asked who played Hawkeye Pierce on MASH. The answer they were looking for and got was Alan Alda, but I wonder if the caller would've broke the game had he replied Donald Sutherland.

 

[Oddish]

Every culture has words they won't utter in polite company. Or even rude company. The words change, but the concept doesn't. We might think we're an exception, but we're not... we've just adopted new swearwords.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Every culture has words they won't utter in polite company. Or even rude company. The words change, but the concept doesn't. We might think we're an exception, but we're not... we've just adopted new swearwords.

Japan practically has whole different languages depending on who you are talking to, how well you know them and whether they are socially above or beneath you. Or in a few cases, different words based on your gender.

Most of them are just adding more and more syllables to the same word, but some are totally different words.

 

[JD]

Oh yeah, when I first started watching anime I got reading about all of the different stuff you to a person's name depending on their relationship to you, and there's a different one for practically every different relationship you can have with a person, and I think they also change depending on the person's gender.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Oh yeah, when I first started watching anime I got reading about all of the different stuff you to a person's name depending on their relationship to you, and there's a different one for practically every different relationship you can have with a person, and I think they also change depending on the person's gender.

Here's how you say eat.
Close friend or family: Taberu
Stranger: Tabemas
Guest you are telling to eat: Meshiagarimas
Host you are accepting food from: Itadakimas

He's how you say I.
Close friend or family, as a female: Atashi
Close friend or family, as a male: Boku or Ore
Stranger: Watashi
Person of higher station: Watakushi

There are three levels of politeness, the lowest level has different words for men and women, and the highest level has different words for whether you're talking up or down in station.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Why are so many Westerners fascinated with anime characters, and the whole rabbit hole of waifus and husbandos.... eek

 

[Admiral2]

Why are so many Westerners fascinated with anime characters, and the whole rabbit hole of waifus and husbandos.... eek

Japanese animators still know how to make entertaining series.
Western animators give us shit like Teen Titans Go.

 

[Worf factor9]

Every culture has words they won't utter in polite company. Or even rude company. The words change, but the concept doesn't. We might think we're an exception, but we're not... we've just adopted new swearwords.

You are so frackin' right. WTFrack!

 

[auntiehill]

Me, in my head, every day:

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Why are so many Westerners fascinated with anime characters, and the whole rabbit hole of waifus and husbandos.... eek

The whole waifu thing is something more often used as semi-self deprecating humor than seriously.

The way love interests work in animes aren’t really any different than the way they work in American entertainment. But they’re low hanging fruit for people who are looking for ways to mock it and belittle people for liking Japanese entertainment that’s really no less mature or more pervy than things like Marvel and Star Wars or any other entertainment originally aimed at teenagers.

It’s a big double standard. When James Bond has multiple love interests it’s just male wish fulfillment, but when an anime character does it’s a ‘Harem’ of ‘Waifus’.

 

[Aragorn]

One of the grocery store chains in my area has a sale on a half gallon container of Lucerne milk for 99 cents. There are two rows per type (nonfat, 1%, 2% and so forth), but the sale sign is only under one row per type. That row is picked clean, the other row is full. For every type! Do people not know how to read?