What's on your mind?

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Players faking injuries is the bane of football and the reason I find it pathetic. Used to enjoy playing it, but all those sissies is a plague.

It's what gets the referee's attention, and diving when an attack is bound to fail anyway has just become standard. In some of the earlier matches the refs were barely blowing the whistle for anything, and the diving actually decreased, but now that it's in the knockout stages theyve gone back to the old ways for some reason.

Diving should either be completely ignored or punishable with reds. The current situation where a referee has to try and infer in real time whether someone tripped or was pushed is just ludicrous, especially when there is slow motion footage of every angle.

 

[Mad Vader]

VAR is supposed to be the answer to many of the diving problems, but the referee associations also need to issue stronger guidelines to punish diving more consistently. These guidelines change every year and are different per association, so every few years there are subtle changes in refereeing.

 

[Arvenski]

Yay, wifi's back! ...for the moment.

LMB switch on my mouse is crapping out, again. How annoying. I feel like I just fixed that, but it was probably a while ago.

Today was the 2nd day of harvesting wheat on our farm. There's some time pressure because it keeps raining, and too much rain will ruin the wheat before we can harvest it. So any time that it's dry enough that we can harvest is valuable, and yet... and the combine harvester is broken. Again. And it'll probably take a couple of days to fix. How ****ing marvelous. This is yet another time when I'm glad I'm not the guy running the business, because if I was I'd be ****ing tying myself in knots whenever this kind of **** happened.

 

[Mad Vader]

Don't worry about it, when you can't harvest yet, it's "almost harvesting" season.

 

[Nodice83]

Don't worry about it, when you can't harvest yet, it's "almost harvesting" season.

"OI, YOU THERE, STOP!"

 

[U.S.A.]

Thinkin' about those petrodollars

 

[Mad Vader]

Did you know that:
"Drat!" is a minced oath for "damn" (so like "darn!")?
I always found the exclamation funny and out of place in English. Now I know it was created out of fear of divine retribution, so mystery solved.

 

[eddiemccandless]

I always find it amusing when people say things like "oh shoot". Like, we all know what that stands for. Trying to mask it through a different word doesn't really change the substance of what you are saying.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

It does, though. People associate the sound itself with the word and vice versa. The C word doesn't just mean "female genitalia" and the N word doesn't just mean "black people". The later is almost a linguistic joke because of how much of a difference in offensiveness there is (in american anyway) based on the accent you say it in.

It's the same reason why F*ck is allowed in all but the most formal settings, why so many people use b!tch online, and why on TV or in newspapers you can show the entire breast except the nipple. Offensiveness seems to stem from the form itself, and if you break up the form then the offensiveness is dulled considerably. Think about how little of the body a bikini covers up, but how different a reaction there would be if you were naked instead.

 

[eddiemccandless]

It does, though. People associate the sound itself with the word and vice versa. The C word doesn't just mean "female genitalia" and the N word doesn't just mean "black people". The later is almost a linguistic joke because of how much of a difference in offensiveness there is (in american anyway) based on the accent you say it in.

It's the same reason why F*ck is allowed in all but the most formal settings, why so many people use b!tch online, and why on TV or in newspapers you can show the entire breast except the nipple. Offensiveness seems to stem from the form itself, and if you break up the form then the offensiveness is dulled considerably. Think about how little of the body a bikini covers up, but how different a reaction there would be if you were naked instead.

Maybe it's because I am not a native speaker but to me the intention and circumstances is what changes the offensive nature of something or other. With the N word for example I don't think anyone would take offense on it if it's two black people using it while joking with each other, while I can't imagine a single case where it would be ok for a white person to use it. In the case of "shoot" I guess that it is less offensive that just saying ****, but what I find it ironic is that people end up using it a lot while basically saying the same thing in a different way.

As far as bikinis go, I think that has more to do with desensitization than anything else. There's cultures where showing nipples is perfectly acceptable and my grandma would (and used to) have a fit over how much skin is shown on tv these days.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

With the N word for example I don't think anyone would take offense on it if it's two black people using it while joking with each other, while I can't imagine a single case where it would be ok for a white person to use it.

White people saying the N word in public or group settings is way, way more common than it would seem. In America pop culture it almost seems like you would be flayed alive for saying it, but in everyday life it is relatively common, especially in the midwest or the south or anywhere else where people aren't oversocialised. Similarly in England I hear it from white people more than black people, despite it never having been a part of British English until very recently.

There was a trend a few years back where white prank youtubers would go around saying the N word in black areas and film the reaction. Without exception, nobody even blinked. These youtubers all had to hire actors to beat them up to spice up the video, while the "real" sections are just people not caring. In American media and in cosmopolitan cities it is probably the biggest taboo imaginable, but outside that, the offensiveness is dulled significantly.

In the case of "shoot" I guess that it is less offensive that just saying ****, but what I find it ironic is that people end up using it a lot while basically saying the same thing in a different way.

As far as bikinis go, I think that has more to do with desensitization than anything else. There's cultures where showing nipples is perfectly acceptable and my grandma would (and used to) have a fit over how much skin is shown on tv these days.

I feel like you've answered your own question here. A word, outfit or any other monad of culture is not just the material content, it's a whole historical background that usually develops chaotically. People in the anglosphere are desensitised to bikinis but not nipples just because...they are. The reason is historical and has little to do with the cloth or the milk muzzle. "Shoot" isn't as offensive as its parent because English speakers have collectively decided that it isn't. You can't use the objective similarity of the words to determine how they are used or the place they have in the language.

 

[Krik]

White people saying the N word in public or group settings is way, way more common than it would seem. In America pop culture it almost seems like you would be flayed alive for saying it, but in everyday life it is relatively common, especially in the midwest or the south or anywhere else where people aren't oversocialised.

This is only kind of true, in my experience. A surprising amount of people will be comfortable using the word with you in private or in a small group, but in public it's about as taboo as you'd think.

 

[Baguette Eater]

Is it me or did activity on the forum dropped by a lot. All those fairly busy threads now sit there with the last message being months + old. Huh

 

[Antonis]

No, it's not you.

 

[kurczak]

White people saying the N word in public or group settings is way, way more common than it would seem. In America pop culture it almost seems like you would be flayed alive for saying it, but in everyday life it is relatively common, especially in the midwest or the south or anywhere else where people aren't oversocialised. Similarly in England I hear it from white people more than black people, despite it never having been a part of British English until very recently.

There was a trend a few years back where white prank youtubers would go around saying the N word in black areas and film the reaction. Without exception, nobody even blinked. These youtubers all had to hire actors to beat them up to spice up the video, while the "real" sections are just people not caring. In American media and in cosmopolitan cities it is probably the biggest taboo imaginable, but outside that, the offensiveness is dulled significantly.

I absolutely can't imagine saying the actual word starting with the letter N in any kind of setting other than being alone with my husband and that's with my "you're not white, you're foreign" privilege. White people in the greater NY area go out of their way and then some to pretend they can't see color. I think there is one white friend who would be ok with me hypothetically saying it, but there's nothing to gain by testing it, so I guess I'll never really know.

Even saying the phrase "n-word" would probably earn me a couple gasps and raised eyebrows among most mine American acquaintances . It's only now after a couple years in the US that I hear how uninhibited colloquial Czech is. Last time I was in Prague, the cab driver casually said something to the effect of "that gypsy f****t tried to j*w me like I was a dumb n****r, you know what I mean"

Uh, yes, sir, I see your dilemma, but I am afraid I'm too tired after the flight to offer any meaningful guidance.

 

[Nega-Brutus]

Spoiler

You can take solace in that at least Slovaks are more racist than you.

 

[Nodice83]

Spoiler

You can take solace in that at least Slovaks are more racist than you.

I'd love to see this map with a better regional precision.

 

[Adorno]

Black: I suppose
Asian: maybe
Jew: nah
Muslim: Hell no!

 

[Nodice83]

Black: I suppose
Asian: maybe
Jew: nah
Muslim: Hell no!

Nobody asked about jews in Denmark

I find it hard believing that those results are accurate. Some native poles of african origin i know told me that growing up in Poland was harder only because of the skin color. People who bullied them are grown ups nowadays. It has changed since I was a kid but still... Admiting you'd do something in the street poll is far from actually doing it.

 

[kurczak]

There's now way on God's green Earth that Poles are less anti-Semitic than Czechs. Either a terrible polling protocol or the Poles are lying.

I'm also a bit skeptical about the scale of the anti-Asian prejudice. What Czechs usually mean in everyday language by "Asian" is Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, and Indochina and I don't believe the prejudice against this kind of Asians is that high, but if the polls really clearly defined it as all of geographical Asia, then yeah, people started thinking beards and turbans and the score checks out.