• FunkyStuff [he/him]
    hexbear
    117
    7 months ago

    nerd Boots Riley's aspirations are clearly Equestrian, not Bovine.

  • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    99
    edit-2
    7 months ago

    Declaring yourself as an “Oscar nominated writer” to win an internet argument is like declaring yourself as second place finalist in the shit eating olympics

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
      hexbear
      8
      7 months ago

      Not even. It’s more like bragging about participating in a tournament that determined your eligibility for the Olympics lol

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
    hexbear
    57
    7 months ago

    Smug smarmy pretentious teeaboos stop calling people "twats" challenge. Difficulty level: u fuckin wot m8 cringe

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
        hexbear
        17
        edit-2
        7 months ago

        He's likely also fond of a very chummy and warm and friendly four letter word that starts with c and ends in t that is said all the time in enlightened wholesome parts of the world to everyone (including their mums) in a way that the emotionally delicate unwashed barbarians simply don't understand, but they themselves primarily use it when talking about how much they hate Anita Sarkeesian. reddit-logo smuglord

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
          hexbear
          9
          7 months ago

          You know how they say Florida is America's dick? In Britain's case they didn't even make a euphemism for their body part in the southeast.

      • @Bassword
        hexbear
        16
        7 months ago

        deleted by creator

  • Spike [none/use name]
    hexbear
    57
    7 months ago

    100% this guy felt he needed to show his mastery of the English language after he wanted to let everyone know he's an Oscar nominated writer. So he thought he was writing the best mic drop ever with long words from the thesaurus showing how great of a writer he is and that his opponent is not as intelligent therefore the opponent is lost. Then Boots just mocks him without trying lmao

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
      hexbear
      42
      7 months ago

      In the battle of "I would challenge you to an intellectual debate but it would be unfair, for it appears you seem to be unarmed" vs. "ur mom suck me good and hard through my jorts" the jorts is always going to win because nobody likes a pretentious asshole

      • ElHexo [comrade/them]
        hexbear
        6
        7 months ago

        It also don't help that leekern is quite clearly not a naturally verbose writer

  • SnAgCu [he/him, any]
    hexbear
    49
    edit-2
    7 months ago

    Brother, long time BLM supporter and left wing progressive here. Have to say the idea that you don’t want people seeing this film is a bit sus. We’re talking about an order of magnitude intentional barbarism way worse than tragic inadvertent loss of life.

    https://nitter.net/RigidRef/status/1722627989694042164#m

    chefs-kiss "Order of magnitude worse" literally describes Palestinian casualties. Not even, it might be two orders of magnitude in terms of innocent civilians. Wild having a worldview built from pure vibes and wonder woman's fake propaganda film.

    nerd "Israel only accidentally commits genocide and ethnic cleansing. Hamas deliberately killed soldiers and settlers!"

    • LeninWeave [none/use name]
      hexbear
      36
      7 months ago

      "Israel only accidentally commits genocide and ethnic cleansing. Hamas deliberately killed soldiers and settlers!"

      It's actually worse, I think he's telling a black man that the police killings that led to BLM were "tragic inadvertent loss of life". pit

  • mayo_cider [he/him]
    hexbear
    48
    edit-2
    7 months ago

    Anyone who uses two &'s around a single word shouldn't call themselves a writer

      • AernaLingus [any]
        hexbear
        22
        edit-2
        7 months ago

        So idk what the exact prescriptive rules are, but the way I've always used the ampersand (and have seen it used) is to make it easier to parse a sentence that's like

        I need to talk about spelunking and skydiving and scuba diving is scheduled for next week.

        While this would probably be clear in speech from prosodic cues (e.g. pauses and emphasis), in writing it's not obvious where "things to talk about" end and "activities scheduled for next week" begin. This ambiguity can be cleared up by an ampersand, which is used to group two items together but is not used as a conjunction for introducing a new cause. So if I replace the first "and" with an ampersand like this:

        I need to talk about spelunking & skydiving and scuba diving is scheduled for next week.

        it becomes clear that "spelunking & skydiving" are the things I want to talk about and "scuba diving" is the scheduled activity. Since I know that & only serves the function of grouping two bits together (nouns in this case), as soon as I hit the "and" I know that it's the beginning of a second clause. Ampersands can be useful even in a case which isn't ambiguous, like

        I need to talk about spelunking and skydiving and I would also like a taco.

        "Skydiving and I would and also like a taco" is obviously not a plausible interpretation for the second clause of the sentence, but even so, there's still a tiny bit of extra work your brain has to do to parse the first "and" as an item-grouper and the second "and" as a clause introducer. Using an ampersand in place of the first "and" makes things a little easier for the reader.

        I'd guess that in a professional writing scenario it's probably better to rewrite the sentence to avoid ambiguity rather than leaning on the ampersand, but if you're just writing a comment on the internet who's got time for that? Oh, and obviously in less formal situations people might just use & just for the hell of it, but that feels kinda boomer-coded to me. For what it's worth, the tweet in question is exactly 280 characters so it's probably just a Twitter word limit thing.

        • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]
          hexbear
          14
          7 months ago

          Wow, now I know about proper(ish) ampersand usage! I had inuited some of this, that ampersands can be used to group words togrther, but this makes it clearer. This is rad, ty.

      • Dolores [love/loves]
        hexbear
        12
        7 months ago

        there are no rules with english but it is poor form to repeat words too close to one another like that without an artistic or rhetorical purpose

    • LeZero [he/him]
      hexbear
      36
      7 months ago

      "As a recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize, I, Henry Kissinger..."

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
    hexbear
    36
    7 months ago

    "I have a fact-based understanding, not like you children who have ideologies"