Mouselemming

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Originally, yes.

But in present usage Americans say "line" while Brits say "queue."

I'm not sure about other Anglophone places.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Have you done banana banana banana orange yet? Can be retold many ways by kids who didn't quite get the pun, like "grape you glad I'm not a banana." Hilarious every time, when you're the 5 year old.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Gonna jump in here so you teach your kid right:

Cue, pronounced "Q," is the spelling for "time to go on stage or say your line " or in this case, "time to look confused."

Qué is pronounced "K" and is basically Spanish for what, although "por qué?" is "Why?"

I know that because of the old joke about the lady crying at her husband's coffin "Por qué, por qué?" And the coffin opened and said "Butter." But the reference is too old.

Anyway Queue is the last one, it's English English, pronounced "Q" and means people standing in a line, just as all the silent letters are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Do your work, there's going to be a lot of back-and-forth and probably at least one legal challenge to work through before we have a final result so you won't be missing anything

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago

What's incredible to me is that the results really aren't very good. We all know what they looked like young, and the AI version is just... Not Wright. No Hanks, AI.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

Just be careful when you do, because there's a risk of screwing up your retirement savings. Losing employer contributions that could have kicked in if you held out another 6 months or whatever. (I'm not an expert on this subject by the way, and ymmv)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Steering wheel looks like a gun which fits since it'll probably kill you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Aaaand they're gone

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Or maybe it's about relative protection of cosmonaut suits vs astronaut suits, like they thought, "well maybe not quite as well as an astronaut, but better than a cosmonaut"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You are if course right and they are wrong. But it's possible they learned this by being yelled at by some curmudgeon who sits at home with their lights on, watching TV on Halloween but screaming at anyone who dares ask for candy. And at all the houses with kids, who welcome them, the parent is out chaperoning their little tribe. Ergo bowl. I say parent because of course they're all divorced by the time the kids are walking.

How to teach them right? Put a sign on your gatepost, not at the door, easily seen from the street. Remember, if they're under 3rd grade they're still learning to read, so keep it simple:

RING BELL FOR CANDY! 🎃🍫🍭🍬👻

Once they do that, you can remind them to say Trick or Treat, and/or admire their costumes.

Baby steps.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Guess it ran out of steam

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