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That british way of talking is right on. What does wanker mean exactly? Is it similar to "idiot" or "dickhead" in American usage?Pixel--Dude wrote: ↑January 5th, 2023, 8:15 amIs this so that baldy wanker Bezos can save and scrimp even more money? He is such a deplorable piece of shit.
Jerkoff.
Please....more in the UK / British way of vernacular. This is interesting....I've only met a few people from England in my life. In my mind, I've always thought British people have this sort of way of speaking how Sean Connery is in this interview:Pixel--Dude wrote: ↑January 5th, 2023, 8:15 amIs this so that baldy wanker Bezos can save and scrimp even more money? He is such a deplorable piece of shit.
Dude, most of us don't really speak like Sean Connery or how Americans perceive British people to speak based on what they've heard on TV. Most speak one of the many substandard regional varieties of English with a thick accent. Most people from where Pixel--Dude and I live speak like complete peasants!kangarunner wrote: ↑January 5th, 2023, 10:08 amPlease....more in the UK / British way of vernacular. This is interesting....I've only met a few people from England in my life. In my mind, I've always thought British people have this sort of way of speaking how Sean Connery is in this interview:Pixel--Dude wrote: ↑January 5th, 2023, 8:15 amIs this so that baldy wanker Bezos can save and scrimp even more money? He is such a deplorable piece of shit.
You better hurry up because there won't be any left soon, our master's have decided to get rid of Europeans once and for all.kangarunner wrote: ↑January 5th, 2023, 8:49 amThat british way of talking is right on. What does wanker mean exactly? Is it similar to "idiot" or "dickhead" in American usage?Pixel--Dude wrote: ↑January 5th, 2023, 8:15 amIs this so that baldy wanker Bezos can save and scrimp even more money? He is such a deplorable piece of shit.
One day I want to go to the UK to hear the locals talk there.
Alright mate.Pixel--Dude wrote: ↑January 6th, 2023, 8:31 amIf you're ever in the UK gimme a shout and we could meet. I'd be up for that.
A lot of Americans have kind of that generic midwestern accent that stretches from upstate New York out through California. There are some unique accents in the upper midwest. Some people from Chicago have some unique pronunciation of vowels. The south from northern Florida up through Virginia and out towards Texas have a variety of southern accents. Then there are 'Ebonics' type accents in the big cities. But a lot of American do speak with a kind of generic midwestern accent. Even some of the large cities and suburban areas in the south have a lot of people speaking with the generic accent you hear on TV. There are a lot of people from up north and other parts of the US moving south where the winters are milder. And some southerners have a fairly standard accent with a hint of southern on certain words. There still is plenty of regional variation.Lucas88 wrote: ↑January 5th, 2023, 10:22 amDude, most of us don't really speak like Sean Connery or how Americans perceive British people to speak based on what they've heard on TV. Most speak one of the many substandard regional varieties of English with a thick accent. Most people from where Pixel--Dude and I live speak like complete peasants!kangarunner wrote: ↑January 5th, 2023, 10:08 amPlease....more in the UK / British way of vernacular. This is interesting....I've only met a few people from England in my life. In my mind, I've always thought British people have this sort of way of speaking how Sean Connery is in this interview:Pixel--Dude wrote: ↑January 5th, 2023, 8:15 amIs this so that baldy wanker Bezos can save and scrimp even more money? He is such a deplorable piece of shit.
"Wanker" literaly means "someone who jerks off a lot" but, by extension, it's used to mean "jerk" or "a**hole". Having lived in the UK for more than 15 years, I don't think there's anything fascinating about the "British way of talking", unless you mean the strict vernacular spoken up north and that became famous in books like Trainspotting.kangarunner wrote: ↑January 5th, 2023, 8:49 amThat british way of talking is right on. What does wanker mean exactly? Is it similar to "idiot" or "dickhead" in American usage?Pixel--Dude wrote: ↑January 5th, 2023, 8:15 amIs this so that baldy wanker Bezos can save and scrimp even more money? He is such a deplorable piece of shit.
One day I want to go to the UK to hear the locals talk there.
That's not good news at all. At least half of those people would be top-notch software developers and IT engineeers who would easily colonise the upper echelon of lucrative jobs for other multinationals or large startups.Cornfed wrote: ↑January 20th, 2023, 4:59 pmFinally some good news. Now there are thousands of layoffs at Google.
https://news.yahoo.com/google-layoff-12 ... 52697.html
I'd guess most of the layoffs are of worthless sluts, just like at Twitter.publicduende wrote: ↑January 20th, 2023, 6:12 pmThat's not good news at all. At least half of those people would be top-notch software developers and IT engineeers who would easily colonise the upper echelon of lucrative jobs for other multinationals or large startups.
It's always a zero-sum game, mate.
Nah, it's a myth. Head of Inclusivity and other BS titles do exist, but how many of them? 2, 3 per company? Most of the layoffs will be technical operations: development, support, perhaps the odd R&D lab that didn't produce anything sellable, etc.
What's the deal with all those "Day in the life" TikTok videos then, or the fact that thousands of people can be fired with no apparent impact on production?publicduende wrote: ↑January 20th, 2023, 10:53 pmNah, it's a myth. Head of Inclusivity and other BS titles do exist, but how many of them? 2, 3 per company? Most of the layoffs will be technical operations: development, support, perhaps the odd R&D lab that didn't produce anything sellable, etc.
Most jobs, even at Amazon and Google, are worthless. People shuffling emails and "brainstorming" while doing very little that actually results in production of a useful product. Most white collar work is busy work and could be done much more effectively by a smaller number of focused people and elimination of unnecessary tasks and metrics. That's why 100 people at a startup seem to have more innovation and ability to produce something useful than the same company when it grows to 100,000 people. The ones that are worth anything can make something of themselves without Google or Amazon, while the others were probably redundant to begin withpublicduende wrote: ↑January 20th, 2023, 10:53 pmNah, it's a myth. Head of Inclusivity and other BS titles do exist, but how many of them? 2, 3 per company? Most of the layoffs will be technical operations: development, support, perhaps the odd R&D lab that didn't produce anything sellable, etc.