What did you learn today in your native language that you probably should have known already?
I´ll start.

Today I learned:
1) Lady Gaga is NOT a show pony. She is, in fact, a singer.
2)FTW stands for "for the win."

FTW is WTF backwards

hereticalrants Wrote:1) Lady Gaga is NOT a show pony. She is, in fact, a singer.
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Some would debate that little tidbit.

In Australia they say "unpack the dishwasher" instead of unload. Creepy.

captal Wrote:In Australia they say "unpack the dishwasher" instead of unload. Creepy.

Where abouts? Not where I'm from (Perth and Melbourne). I always unload my dishwasher.

cupidity

-eager or excessive desire, esp. to possess something; greed; avarice.

Isn't it... "He is just about THE same age as me."?

Today I learned that "deadline-harried" is an actual word.

IceCream Wrote:He is just about same age as me

apparently this sentence is correct? (well, everyone except me corrected it this way...)

Corrected what? That sentence is definitely missing a the

To be strictly correct, it would be "He is just about the same age as I." But I think you have to own a monocle to say it that way.

blackmacros Wrote:

captal Wrote:In Australia they say "unpack the dishwasher" instead of unload. Creepy.

Where abouts? Not where I'm from (Perth and Melbourne). I always unload my dishwasher.

we unstack in sydney...

chamois Wrote:

blackmacros Wrote:

captal Wrote:In Australia they say "unpack the dishwasher" instead of unload. Creepy.

Where abouts? Not where I'm from (Perth and Melbourne). I always unload my dishwasher.

we unstack in sydney...

on the internetz we ctrl + z the dishwasher

In the US the dishwasher also cooks.

captal Wrote:In Australia they say "unpack the dishwasher" instead of unload. Creepy.

Those are both wrong. The correct way (obviously duh) is "empty the dishwasher", unless you are unloading it off of a truck or unpacking it from a crate.

Unload, unpack... I just "put the dishes away"

unload the dishwasher, empty the dishwasher.. I use both if we are talking about taking the stuff out of it.

if we are on about taking it off a truck and putting it in a house the I would use either unload or unpack.

I would unload the dishwasher from a truck, and unpack it from the box it was stored in (while on the truck). Then I would put my dirty dishes in it, and empty the dishwasher when it's done. I could also unload the dishes form the dishwasher, if I chose to.

In soviet Russia the dishwasher unloads you...

sorry...

JimmySeal Wrote:

IceCream Wrote:He is just about same age as me

apparently this sentence is correct? (well, everyone except me corrected it this way...)

Corrected what? That sentence is definitely missing a the

To be strictly correct, it would be "He is just about the same age as I." But I think you have to own a monocle to say it that way.

That's one of those invented rules of 19th century grammarians; the OED cites "as tall as me" in Shakespeare, and "A fooles wrath is heauier then them bothe" from the 1560 Geneva Bible.

IceCream Wrote:thankyou!! so glad im not going insane!!!

I think you may have been misdiagnosed

blackmacros Wrote:

captal Wrote:In Australia they say "unpack the dishwasher" instead of unload. Creepy.

Where abouts? Not where I'm from (Perth and Melbourne). I always unload my dishwasher.

Queensland. Maybe it's just the people I'm with that are crazy.

You can also say "do" the dishwasher... like "can you do the dishwasher and I'll vacuum?".

I "disrobe" the dishwasher...

I unload ON the dishwasher.


This may possibly be the greatest thread I have ever seen on this board.

A quantum physicist sees the dishwasher as both loaded and unloaded at the same time, also when it's closed there may even be a dead cat in there.

mezbup Wrote:A quantum physicist sees the dishwasher as both loaded and unloaded at the same time, also when it's closed there may even be a dead cat in there.

is the whole thing with the cat a standard quantum physicist thing, or did you just pull that from flashforward

Gingerninja Wrote:

mezbup Wrote:A quantum physicist sees the dishwasher as both loaded and unloaded at the same time, also when it's closed there may even be a dead cat in there.

is the whole thing with the cat a standard quantum physicist thing, or did you just pull that from flashforward

it's a famous experiment