This Friday, 4/17/20 @ 7PM EST catch the LIVE premiere of Tub Trivia, the new quiz show from Mental Floss. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wqeK4fQcTtQ.html
There is a strange sound in the american language. It sounds like "beeeeep", and you can find it in the word "f**ked" for example. More seriously why? Is there a law that says you can't say "fuck" on the internet in their country?
On Television, to maintain a certain rating (G, PG, etc) you need to not swear. The difference between pg-13 (parental guidance needed under the age of 13) or pg14, one is for movies and one is for television, I forget which is which, and M (mature audience only) is usually the presence of certain swear words. A way around this is to bleep out certain ones. It is not necessary on the internet, but some channels, like this one, probably do it to keep it a bit more child/family friendly. It is seen in the culture, thus to maintain a certain amount of "family friendly"-ness, they just bleep out the word.
no, you can, plenty of youtubers do, but people in just america make a bigger deal out of swearing then the rest of the world, so they bleep it out according to what audience they think they have... yeah it annoys me too
There are laws for tv and radio, but not the internet. The reasons people self-censor are various, some actually think swear words are morally objectionable. Others do it because they're afraid of scaring away that those people, particularly children and schools.
They want these videos to be family-friendly, and many parents don't want their young kids to hear a bunch of swearing, 'cause the kids will pick it up. Apart from that, in the right circumstances, censoring curse words can be much funnier than just saying them outright. But I don't think that was the goal here.
Language lovers may enjoy our video about the often-unlikely origins of some common idioms (including why we "give someone the cold shoulder"): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WW5FDhsHkUg.html
From the East Coast Navy town... cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey! Cannon balls used to be stacked on the deck in a brass tray called a monkey, which when cold enough the brass will shrink and the cast iron cannon balls will then roll loose across the deck!
Allan Richardson she was probably a lousy waitress, lol, my husband (Canadian) is a very generous tipper, UNLESS the waitress ignores him, basically puts minimum effort into serving and doing her job.
Susana Zeddy This was back in the early 1970s, and Miami got lots of Canadian tourists, some of them not realizing the difference between the restaurants back home and the ones in the States. And others pretending not to understand. We went to that restaurant regularly back then, and she seemed good to us, so maybe the Canadians she had met were just stingy. And IHOP didn’t attract big spenders.
The Bags o' mystery I was eating was not up to dick. Don't sell me a dog, you flubbed the dubb, and didn't tell me it was terrible, you butter and egg man. Don't make me pop a mouse on you. And turn on the air conditioning, it's hotter than a half-f**cked fox in a forest fire. Damn zib.
I think this was the most entertaining Mental Floss episode to date. I'm all for bringing some of these back; my French Horn playing students will now be known as Pretzel-Benders.
To be in one's cups, blitzed, blotto, lit, snot-slinging drunk. And you're right, it can be very embarrassing to be caught choking the chicken, spanking the monkey, pealing the carrot, or self-service.
The nail matrix holds the nail under the skin facing you. It is hypothesised that the nail is an evolutionary characteristic to help protect our sensitive fingertips. Notice the detail you can sense with the tips of your fingers, you can feel even the smallest textures. Under the nail is the hundreds of nerve endings which are the same nerves that are on your fingertips. When something gets underneath the nail it triggers these sensitive nerve endings, which dramatically amplifies pain.
"If a dog rabbit" saying, stemmed from an old saying from the late 1800's, speaking of the power and diversity of the word, "IF"...IF the dog hadn't stopped to take a S**t, he'd caught the rabbit !"
what's with all the stuff about tipping in America? just because you pay the normal price for something means you're a bad person? get better minimum wage so people aren't so desperate to get extra money.. yes I am dutch (dutch are known for not tipping often) so that might explain but it just seems so stupid that you expect customers to pay extra for food just so their boss doesn't have to pay reasonable money to his employees
Once upon a time, a tip was something you gave for extraordinary service. And then people started underpaying serving staff with the assumption that they'd make it up in tips, which meant that now it was *expected*. And the kicker? Tipping doesn't actually encourage good service any more. The whole idea of tipping in the US sense is utter bull. People should be paid a proper wage.
I'm not american but I think I can answer your question. In my country people just tip in restaurants and only if the employee did his job very well and was nice to his customers, but in the United States it doesn't work that way. It's in their culture and it's something that is established. It used to be only optional and a way to show respect, but now, in some places, the tip comes in the pay check. It's usually 10%, And you don't really pay that much more for your food. If you spend 20 dollars having dinner for example, it's just more 2 dollars.
Pedro Chaves a 10% tip is pretty bad... 15% is considered "minimum" and you're still considered cheap...18%-20% is a regular tip and 25% is a great tip.
There are tons more old-fashioned slang words they could have used, but these were hilarious. I'm definitely going to be using some of these ("Can you PLEASE shut your sauce box while I do my homework?").
Question:If someone in China was killed,and someone who was there went back across the international date line,could they say "They were killed tomorrow"?
It still already happened. Dates are not part if time. Dates are a way of measuring time therefore the date is just a number and has nothing to do with the a curiosa TIME or DAY of death or any other event.
Inferno8694 plus if someone died in china, then when over the international date line they would have died the day before. meaning when its sunday in china its saturday over the date line so its still at the same time where ever just the dates are different.
Lachlan Sheppard what if you were to like, go the other way man. like seven times. then they would have been killed next week. woah, you would totally have enough time to stop the murder with a whole week.
An English girl I was dating used to say “Going to spend a penny” when heading to the bathroom. This was a reference to the cost of using a public restroom in Britain. Taking a powder or powdering you’re nose were also terms for the same thing.
Did you EVER think about being an auctioneer...!? You talk fast enough! and you talk FASTER than I can think & comprehend !!! just like an auctioneer ! THANKS FOR POSTING !
A long time ago a friend of mine used to say, "Hotter than a four peckered goat in a field of sheep." I don't know where it came from but it was funny to me.
OMG!!!! It's you I was reading this book you might know, "The Fault in our Stars" and I realized... John Green.... John Green... I know that name... I looked at the back and there was your picture I remembered you mentioning some of your books in your videos. They are absolutely Fantastic!!!! I can appreciate them even more! :3
I've been using the term "drugstore cowboy" for the last 17 years or so in everyday speech: it meant a "guy who wandered around town aimlessly and randomly trying to pick up women". Originally from the 1920's, the reference to "drugstore" here was because the concession and soft drink stands at the pharmacy were actually "hangouts" for anyone who didn't feel like going to the bar.
Rowynne, Not at all. If a oerson undertakes to explain something and fails for whatever reason (if this case speaking so fast as many others poibt out). then he has failed. if he were here in person I would walk away. Fortunately, I have a speed control button so I can slow him down. I don't expect at all that you will agree with me, after all your a woman.
2' of the main reasons that people enjoy my moments are 1' my vocabulary is not only dated , but I do use it and have the authentic back ground from the time era and spiced up with wit , and odd bouts of insight
My favourites ✨ Cop a mouse-to get a black eye Don't sell me a dog-dont lie Take the egg-to win Rain Napper-an umbrella Sauce box-your mouth Pretzel Bender-wrestler Have ones shirt out-to be angry Happy returns-to throw up Bright disease-to be a snitch May pole-*men's bits* Carrying tackle-to cheat Click and grunt-ham and eggs Frog sticks-french fries Pair of drawers-two cups of coffee Dog soup-water George Eddie-a person who doesn't tip at restaurants
John Green... I just got back from the premier of TFIOS... John I don't think I'll ever recover... The whole theatre collectively drew Kleenexes from the boxes they brought and cried as a group... My God it was amazing and I pride myself on only crying once... I promised my friend I went and saw it with that I'd go and yell at you on RU-vid... This is all I am able to muster at the moment XD Thanks for being such an amazing author!
You are very good at getting a lot of content into your video's and not making it 40 frustrating minutes long, please never change that. Also, just saw the video on SourceFed, never knew you had a few books, I will take a look at them.
Pine Overcoat, Next time I have a discussion with a Bad Neighbor I will use this. "Mr. Rodgers, you will need a Pine Overcoat if you Persist in Annoying Me" 😉
WASD Games Hence "said the semantics Nazi" at the end of that comment. naota3k was calling themselves a semantics Nazi and pointing out the silliness of correcting someone else's comment that was complaining about someone else correcting yet another person's comment. I probably couldn't have written that in a more confusing way.... XD
Many swear words are actually short forms of extreme oaths, such as "or kill me in this painful way". Also, one of the 10 commandments is to not use God's name etc. in oaths that you don't really mean that seriously. Thus it becomes a double sin to lie in court after swearing to God with your hand on the Bible. From this, the ban on swearing has been gradually extended to cover bad words that are not oaths at all.
"may Master John Goodfellow enter Mrs. Fubbs' Parlor for some Convivial Society" I love this and how refined and genteel it sounds, I might even use it in real life.
I have definitely heard some of these in the modern day. "On the hoof," "left-handed honeymoon," "flag out," "seeing snakes," and not "George Eddy," but "George" is definitely still used in that way. Also, I'm not sure if it was intended or not (...I'm pretty sure it wasn't), but this puts a new spin on the DKM lyric "I've had my share of Mt. Pleasant messiahs wearing slippers and robes trying to bum my smokes."
There was a great movie with Gary Cooper as a linguistics professor who hooks up with a jazz/bop singer played by Barbara Streisand. He tries to decipher the slang used by the hipsters of the day. Very funny. 1930's . She was a firecracker and a dish, warmed my heart and curled my toes.
I’m from New Jersey and we call day-trippers who go to the beach with all their own stuff “shoobies” because it used to be common for them to pack their stuff in shoe boxes
Every time John says staff porkchop fund, he says porkchop so he should put another quarter in the fund. He could then repeat that process for infinite porkchops.
@Antony Ruiz . Yep. That sounds like me. Being an english speaker, in england, i just want everyone to speak like me. Just the same as everyone else in the world does. Hey! Have a nice day. Xx
I remember the monkey's uncle slang was used in the 1930s and 40s. For instance in one of The Marx Brothers movies someone would say, "I'm a monkey's uncle!" then Groucho would reply, "Keep your family out of this!"
On the subject of hating my voice I’ve been told by various people that I sound: Perpetually drunk, stoned, too fast, too slow, like a young boy, straight up called a woman over the phone on many occasions, and told that I have anything between a wonderful singing voice and that like an elephant farting into a trombone while being fed through a wood chipper.
I watched this strictly to see if zozzled would be here. I was not let down. (But seriously, can you imagine playing that in Super Scrabble? Like, on the quadruple word score space? Damn. You'd even get a 'z' on the double letter space... Yeah, let's bring that word back.)
I know just how you feel. I think it's the recording device, but it differs from person to person. Some people sound barely different but others are barely recognisable
He answers this question in the video. Your voice doesn't really sound like how it does in real life. You are hearing your real voice when you listen to a recording of any kind. If you want to know why your voice sounds different in your head then re watch the video but the jist of it is: that anything not in your head will not sound like how you think you sound like.
You sound different BECAUSE of the physical aspect. If you were to talk to me right now you will sound the same as on film or recording unless you have recorded in a way that changes your voice. If you listen to your voice on recording and it sounds different than in your head then you are normal. Talk right now. As you talk feel your through and behind your ears. Do you feel the vibrations? Those vibrations are also picked up by your ear in edition to the sound waves that you put out. When you listen to a recording of yourself you hear your voice without the extra vibrations. That voice on the recording is how you sound everyday. The recording doesn't change your voice for other people... your body changes it for you.
