The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

TommiR · May 24, 2016

jwhouk said:
Well, yeah, they have to win something since the prize they REALLY want won't be visiting a Canadian city for an extended victory parade this summer.

That's okay, it is perfectly fine to have your own sandbox. Different strokes and all that.

jwhouk · May 24, 2016

Found out today that my dad's home phone number - which he's had for forty years - was changed, because he switched to TimeWarnerCharterMegaCableGlomerate.

I am... somewhat saddened by this.

Dei · May 24, 2016

jwhouk said:
Found out today that my dad's home phone number - which he's had for forty years - was changed, because he switched to TimeWarnerCharterMegaCableGlomerate.

I am... somewhat saddened by this.

That's just weird. Most places keep your number for your land line. Maybe he was hiding from robo callers.

strawman · May 24, 2016

jwhouk said:
Found out today that my dad's home phone number - which he's had for forty years - was changed, because he switched to TimeWarnerCharterMegaCableGlomerate.

I am... somewhat saddened by this.

When we were told we couldn't keep our number we moved it to a tracphone ($25 to get the phone and the smallest time card to activate it), then several days later moved it to google voice and pointed it at our new phone number.

HCGLNS · May 24, 2016

jwhouk · May 24, 2016

AT&T and TWC-MegaCorp aren't on speaking terms. I'd actually considered seeing if I could port my old phone # from Waukesha to my cell - nope.

GasBandit · May 24, 2016

I'm pretty sure FCC requirements require providers to port if requested.

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/keeping-your-telephone-number-when-changing-service-providers

Bubble181 · May 24, 2016

CynicismKills said:
Comparing anything to the abomination that is Miracle Whip should be reason enough for a public flogging.

Comparing something to Dutch mayo is like comparing a beer to Heineken

sixpackshaker · May 24, 2016

Do you know where your towel is?

HCGLNS · May 24, 2016

sixpackshaker said:
Do you know where your towel is?

Naturally.

Zappit · May 24, 2016

Apparently, IKEA is pronounced Ee-Kay-Uh, not Aye-Kee-Uh.

We've all been saying it wrong.

Let's agree to keep saying it wrong it.

fade · May 24, 2016

It's their fault for just giving us 4 letters in a box and making us put it together ourselves.

Dei · May 24, 2016

Well I have to find the science notebook my son somehow managed to misplace between yesterday and today, but after that I am freeeeee from homework until August.

Too bad I am now trapped with my daughter for three months, while she cries about being bored while refusing to entertain herself. Giving her chores everytime she whines will only keep me amused for so long.

Zappit · May 24, 2016

fade said:
It's their fault for just giving us 4 letters in a box and making us put it together ourselves.

I'm just surprised we weren't missing a letter.

Siska · May 24, 2016

Zappit said:
Apparently, IKEA is pronounced Ee-Kay-Uh, not Aye-Kee-Uh.

We've all been saying it wrong.

Let's agree to keep saying it wrong it.

Keep pronouncing it the English way. We are pretty familiar with it. It's when people try to speak Swedish, but with a thick accent, that we get confused and draw a blank.

Dei · May 24, 2016

It's like when I learned it's pronounced "Mo-yang"

fade · May 24, 2016

That guy who writes all the rhyming children's books pronounced his own name so that it rhymed with "voice", not with "moose".

GasBandit · May 24, 2016

fade said:
That guy who writes all the rhyming children's books pronounced his own name so that it rhymed with "voice", not with "moose".

Don't make me post all those heresy memes again.

DarkAudit · May 24, 2016

No no no. It's spelled "Luxury Yacht," but it's pronounced "throat-warbler mangrove."

PatrThom · May 25, 2016

"Your name could be 'Smith' but you can pronounce it 'yan-NOV-ski'"
"But it's spelled S-M-I-T-H"
"They're all silent, nevermind."

--Patrick

bhamv3 · May 25, 2016

Any excuse to post this again.

Denbrought · May 25, 2016

Touch-typing QWERTY on a split keyboard makes me feel like someone beat me over the head with a shovel.

Touch-typing Workman on that same keyboard makes me feel like I had a stroke.

These next few weeks are going to be interesting

Bubble181 · May 25, 2016

I've been pronouncing Ikea right all along. It's just you silly Anglophones who insists the "i" is "aye" instead of "eeh", and the "e" is "eeh" instead of "aye".

Gruebeard · May 25, 2016

I wonder if @HCGLNS has renamed the deer in his yard Zeus and Apollo.

CynicismKills · May 25, 2016

I've always pronounced Ikea as "the fuck is this wooden rod for, there's no holes left in this goddamn thing."

Dave · May 25, 2016

I buy my animated JIFs at ee-KAY-uh.

figmentPez · May 25, 2016

The other day I was remarking that no one seems to get in a huff over the pronunciation of mob in video games, especially Minecraft, because it's short for mobile, and I've heard people pronounce it both as mahb and mowb, but no one ever seems to give a shit which is used.

CynicismKills · May 25, 2016

I've always said mob as mahb.

Or as in "WHERE THE FUCK DID THAT MOB COME FROM THIS ROOM WAS EMPTY COME ON NOW"

Dave · May 25, 2016

I always say monster unless it's plural. Then I say mob as in mahb.

Celt Z · May 25, 2016

Since we're on this topic, does anyone know if Drow (as in Forgotten Realms) is pronounced like "wow" or "row, row, row your boat"? This had been a bone of contention with our D&D circle.

sixpackshaker · May 25, 2016

I prefer wow, but I think is supposed to be row.

Dei · May 25, 2016

I think Chris Perkins says it like wow. If so, that's the answer.

Tinwhistler · May 25, 2016

Celt Z said:
Since we're on this topic, does anyone know if Drow (as in Forgotten Realms) is pronounced like "wow" or "row, row, row your boat"? This had been a bone of contention with our D&D circle.

like "bow"

:troll:

[DOUBLEPOST=1464210155,1464209818][/DOUBLEPOST]In all seriousness, Drow rhymes with cow. There's an official statement on the matter.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?151-D-D-Pronunciation-Guide#.V0YR8VkiA2w

Page 9 of A Grand Tour of the Realms (2nd Edition Forgotten Realms boxed set) states, "Dark elves, also called Drow (pronounced to rhyme with now or how)..."

GasBandit · May 25, 2016

Scuttlebutt says Gygax pronounced it to rhyme with "crow" but everybody around him kept rhyming it with "cow" and it just kinda stuck. I have to admit that, while I wasn't the most involved D&D player, I've only ever heard it pronounced "cow" in person.

Denbrought · May 25, 2016

I've only heard it pronounced "cow"-like in English, and only "crow"-like in Spanish.