You're reaching for fucking straws. Do you think they ACCIDENTALLY misspelled center as centre? It was *absolutely* a conscious decision.
I love how you're painting me as a right-wing whacko, though, merely because I'm not such an idiot to excuse away pretentiousness as a simple accident or misremembrance. No, asking for a type of mustard you like is not pretentious. Don't be a fucking idiot any more than you already have been.
Calling this place a "Centre" as opposed to "Center" is pretentious. It's a US institution masquerading as European. Ask yourself why that would be done. Seek the most simple explanation. People in the US often consider anything European to be superior to anything American, and it's horribly common to find little brats online who think they're better than their peers distinguishing themselves from the vast unwashed masses by using English rather than American spellings. The 15 year old from Nebraska who insists on spelling it "colour" because they've the opinion that using that spelling will make them appear more sophisticated than using the American spelling "color".
This is simply choosing the English-English spelling of a word in order to appear fancy. That's pretentious.
This has nothing to do with politics, so kindly fuck right the hell off with that bullshit.
What? Um, no. Hard to remember which one is correct? Give me a break -- this is American English 101. Words don't end with -re, over a century ago they were changed to "-er". The ONLY time you'll see "centre" is on foreign-sourced and non-localized media.
Any Americans who use "centre" over "center", excepting those who have immigrated from an English-speaking nation that uses English-English, is doing so purposefully to affect a European feel to whatever it is they're saying or labeling -- because in their opinion, European means fancier. That's pretentious.
It would be correct if this was in the UK, or Australia. Maybe Canada, I'm actually not sure how they spell it.. but here in the States nobody spells it that way. Here, it's tire, not tyre. It's jail, not gaol. Center, not centre. Color, not colour.
The other spellings are recognized, and not incorrect.. but not correct, either.
But hey, I'm sure the English don't mind one bit when the English-English spelling of a word is discarded for the American English spelling of a word, right?
It's a bit idiotic to spell it as "centre", yes. That's not how it's spelled in the States. Do we consider it pretentious...?... absolutely, yes. While you can get away with theatre for theater when your subject is legit theater, you'd get mocked as pretentious if your "theatre" was in reference to a street puppet show.
But.. Centre? That's nothing but elitists trying to distance themselves from the low-brow American and aping the erudite and superior European -- neither stereotype, of course, is accurate. It is what it is, though, and pretentious Americans tend to latch on to European spellings, habits, etc etc etc, in an effort to appear more fancy and sophisticated.
It's shallow, trite, and pointless -- and those who made the choice did so intentionally to affect an air of elegance and nobility. That's pretentious, yes.
Sounds like you need to RTFS. He's being psychologically evaluated. Someone saw his wall, someone who probably knew the guy, they likely had reasons aside from simply his facebook wall to believe him to be in danger or a danger. If he was actually sane and a threat, he would've been charged with something, not put in a psych ward. This happens to crazy people. You usually just don't hear about it. Sometimes it's the only way they can get the help they need, and sometimes it's help they don't want, because they're not sane. This isn't a story about some Big Brother crap, this is more likely the story about some unfortunate mentally ill guy.
To be fair, calls to all 50 US states covers the same area as calls to all of Europe.
And charging the person calling a cell is ridiculous; you may not know it's a cell. The person answering the cell phone, the owner, is always aware of what costs are involved with answering the phone, and is the one who decided to take on those extra costs for the benefit of having a cell phone.
Contract cell phones over here do suck pretty hard though, and prepaids aren't usually as nice, and I have to give the EU credit for what they did with the microUSB charger.
I disagree that there is nothing. The guy claimed that men were on their way to pick him up to lead the revolution. Maybe it was hyperbole, but maybe he *actually believed that*. Yeah, to you or I, it's obviously not meant to be taken seriously. To him? He may have been packing his bags.
No, I don't know anything about him. I do know about Illuminati and chemtrails babble, though, and you have to have a screw loose to believe any of that convoluted conspiratorial claptrap in the first place -- and another screw loose to actually decide to ACT on those beliefs. That's when you cross the line from "weird" to "this person may be a danger to themselves or others".
Wanna know what happened? Without knowing anyone involved or any of the details, I can tell you what happened and almost certainly will be correct.
This poor guy is crazy. Mentally ill. He's making all these crazy posts, and they seemed to his friends or family to be coming to a head -- people, or a person, who knows him was afraid that he was actually going to take some irrational action fueled by his delusional conspiratorial beliefs. They called the cops, not because they thought Raud was a criminal mastermind who was going to kill millions -- but because Raud was mentally unstable and they were afraid he was going to do something foolish and get himself into real trouble, because he's disconnected from reality and caught up in delusions.
Mental illness ain't funny kids.
He's undergoing psychological evaluation. He needs it.
Most people who fall in with that Illuminati / chemtrails garbage are mentally ill to some degree, but it appears this guy was a bit more delusional, and a bit more eager to act on those delusions.
Normal people have to pay bills, go grocery shopping, cook food, raise any kids they may have. 300 million, you pay people to do all that shit for you. It frees up a lot of time.
No, no, you're just strawmanning. Read about what this is actually about. Guy flirts, gets shot down, doesn't get the point, grabs girl from behind later and is subsequently constantly hovering just out of reach, waiting around for her.
Calling someone out on that kind of bullshit is not being PC. calling someone out on that is just simply informing some maladjusted shut-in that acting that way is not acceptable, that it's fucking creepy and not tolerated.
But I bet you don't know anything about members of the opposite sex showing you unwanted attention despite your protestations. Because you're not just dumb, you're ugly too.
USB sticks nothing, sometimes I still get thrown for a loop over 32GB microSD cards.. and hell, there's 64GB and 128GB ones out, I've not seen any bigger but it's coming. Size of a fingernail. I have WANG disks in my attic.
That study is decade-old bullshit, FYI -- flawed methods, the entire study was undertaken to prove a conclusion rather than reach it more naturally by analysis of the data. A study was needed that proved firearms dangerous to everyone, and so one was provided, so long as nobody looked too closely at it of course. The best studies work via their title alone, with no need to understand or examine anything.
Your post is, at best, sensationalist fearmongering.
that came across oddly so i'll assume the ä was supposed to be a character not supported by slashcode. 26 letters, that's all there is in English. no unlauts, no accent marks, none of that stuff. we just have letters. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz -- that's all the letters on an american keyboard. there's a tilde key, but it's sort of a legacy thing -- it doesn't actually put a tilde over a letter, it's really only used to open a console in video games really. i never use it otherwise.
Of course I'm mocking that term. It doesn't exist in English, and pissing over the proper term in English is foolish.
The Germans don't call themselves German, in German. It's Deutschlander. That doesn't mean that I get to call the Germans stupid for calling themselves something other than German.
Fun Fact. New Guinea is part of Australia. The continent, not the nation. Australia is also a nation, and its citizens are Australian. There's no confusion there, is there? No? There's no confusion when referring to Americans, either. It's understood that you're speaking of citizens of the United States of America, not Canadians, not Brasilians, not Mexicans, not Cubans.
his headgear does not regularly record images. no more so than, oh, i don't know. anyfuckingbody who has a cell phone.
the device has the capability, but I don't see people being tossed out for pulling their phone out. they COULD be taking a picture, you never know do you?
And if the European Union were a nation, the citizens would be referred to as European -- and while the term would still apply to those of Europe as a whole, it would also apply to those of the nation with the word in its name. Unitedian? Statesian? No, citizens of the United States of America are -- following me camera guy? -- American.
If your usage of the term is ambiguous you use North or South American. Referring to both continents at the same time is about as common as referring to Europe and Asia together.
I don't think any of the Tea Party leadership has been jailed or detained, and I doubt the Ron Paul followers leadership has been either. OWS members and leaders have been, but they were breaking the law, and should have been.
The Tea Party and Ron Paul supporters have never blocked a street or road intentionally, and they've never crapped in a public park and left it to fester. Don't compare them to OWS. Ideology aside, behavior and actions count for a lot, and OWS loses pretty fucking hard when it comes to that.
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You're reaching for fucking straws. Do you think they ACCIDENTALLY misspelled center as centre? It was *absolutely* a conscious decision.
I love how you're painting me as a right-wing whacko, though, merely because I'm not such an idiot to excuse away pretentiousness as a simple accident or misremembrance. No, asking for a type of mustard you like is not pretentious. Don't be a fucking idiot any more than you already have been.
Calling this place a "Centre" as opposed to "Center" is pretentious. It's a US institution masquerading as European. Ask yourself why that would be done. Seek the most simple explanation. People in the US often consider anything European to be superior to anything American, and it's horribly common to find little brats online who think they're better than their peers distinguishing themselves from the vast unwashed masses by using English rather than American spellings. The 15 year old from Nebraska who insists on spelling it "colour" because they've the opinion that using that spelling will make them appear more sophisticated than using the American spelling "color".
This is simply choosing the English-English spelling of a word in order to appear fancy.
That's pretentious.
This has nothing to do with politics, so kindly fuck right the hell off with that bullshit.
What? Um, no. Hard to remember which one is correct? Give me a break -- this is American English 101. Words don't end with -re, over a century ago they were changed to "-er". The ONLY time you'll see "centre" is on foreign-sourced and non-localized media.
Any Americans who use "centre" over "center", excepting those who have immigrated from an English-speaking nation that uses English-English, is doing so purposefully to affect a European feel to whatever it is they're saying or labeling -- because in their opinion, European means fancier. That's pretentious.
It would be correct if this was in the UK, or Australia. Maybe Canada, I'm actually not sure how they spell it.. but here in the States nobody spells it that way. Here, it's tire, not tyre. It's jail, not gaol. Center, not centre. Color, not colour.
The other spellings are recognized, and not incorrect.. but not correct, either.
But hey, I'm sure the English don't mind one bit when the English-English spelling of a word is discarded for the American English spelling of a word, right?
It's a bit idiotic to spell it as "centre", yes. That's not how it's spelled in the States. Do we consider it pretentious...? ... absolutely, yes. While you can get away with theatre for theater when your subject is legit theater, you'd get mocked as pretentious if your "theatre" was in reference to a street puppet show.
But.. Centre? That's nothing but elitists trying to distance themselves from the low-brow American and aping the erudite and superior European -- neither stereotype, of course, is accurate. It is what it is, though, and pretentious Americans tend to latch on to European spellings, habits, etc etc etc, in an effort to appear more fancy and sophisticated.
It's shallow, trite, and pointless -- and those who made the choice did so intentionally to affect an air of elegance and nobility. That's pretentious, yes.
DayZ is responsible for more sales of Arma2 than Arma2.
Sounds like you need to RTFS. He's being psychologically evaluated. Someone saw his wall, someone who probably knew the guy, they likely had reasons aside from simply his facebook wall to believe him to be in danger or a danger. If he was actually sane and a threat, he would've been charged with something, not put in a psych ward. This happens to crazy people. You usually just don't hear about it. Sometimes it's the only way they can get the help they need, and sometimes it's help they don't want, because they're not sane. This isn't a story about some Big Brother crap, this is more likely the story about some unfortunate mentally ill guy.
To be fair, calls to all 50 US states covers the same area as calls to all of Europe.
And charging the person calling a cell is ridiculous; you may not know it's a cell. The person answering the cell phone, the owner, is always aware of what costs are involved with answering the phone, and is the one who decided to take on those extra costs for the benefit of having a cell phone.
Contract cell phones over here do suck pretty hard though, and prepaids aren't usually as nice, and I have to give the EU credit for what they did with the microUSB charger.
Weird is one thing, crazy is another.
I disagree that there is nothing. The guy claimed that men were on their way to pick him up to lead the revolution. Maybe it was hyperbole, but maybe he *actually believed that*. Yeah, to you or I, it's obviously not meant to be taken seriously. To him? He may have been packing his bags.
No, I don't know anything about him. I do know about Illuminati and chemtrails babble, though, and you have to have a screw loose to believe any of that convoluted conspiratorial claptrap in the first place -- and another screw loose to actually decide to ACT on those beliefs. That's when you cross the line from "weird" to "this person may be a danger to themselves or others".
Illuminati and chemtrails.
Wanna know what happened? Without knowing anyone involved or any of the details, I can tell you what happened and almost certainly will be correct.
This poor guy is crazy. Mentally ill. He's making all these crazy posts, and they seemed to his friends or family to be coming to a head -- people, or a person, who knows him was afraid that he was actually going to take some irrational action fueled by his delusional conspiratorial beliefs. They called the cops, not because they thought Raud was a criminal mastermind who was going to kill millions -- but because Raud was mentally unstable and they were afraid he was going to do something foolish and get himself into real trouble, because he's disconnected from reality and caught up in delusions.
Mental illness ain't funny kids.
He's undergoing psychological evaluation. He needs it.
He's not being punished.
He's mentally ill. He's getting help.
Most people who fall in with that Illuminati / chemtrails garbage are mentally ill to some degree, but it appears this guy was a bit more delusional, and a bit more eager to act on those delusions.
The things I am not supposed to know are the most interesting to me, because they're important enough that someone thinks I shouldn't know them.
Normal people have to pay bills, go grocery shopping, cook food, raise any kids they may have.
300 million, you pay people to do all that shit for you. It frees up a lot of time.
dear god I hadn't noticed that until I just read it here, on /.
but.. they named that rock nigs. nasa is shooting nigs on mars.
what the fuck nasa?
Really?
It's been a "thing" for a least 20 years now
And that's what this is about?
No, no, you're just strawmanning. Read about what this is actually about. Guy flirts, gets shot down, doesn't get the point, grabs girl from behind later and is subsequently constantly hovering just out of reach, waiting around for her.
Calling someone out on that kind of bullshit is not being PC. calling someone out on that is just simply informing some maladjusted shut-in that acting that way is not acceptable, that it's fucking creepy and not tolerated.
But I bet you don't know anything about members of the opposite sex showing you unwanted attention despite your protestations. Because you're not just dumb, you're ugly too.
USB sticks nothing, sometimes I still get thrown for a loop over 32GB microSD cards.. and hell, there's 64GB and 128GB ones out, I've not seen any bigger but it's coming. Size of a fingernail. I have WANG disks in my attic.
That study is decade-old bullshit, FYI -- flawed methods, the entire study was undertaken to prove a conclusion rather than reach it more naturally by analysis of the data. A study was needed that proved firearms dangerous to everyone, and so one was provided, so long as nobody looked too closely at it of course. The best studies work via their title alone, with no need to understand or examine anything.
Your post is, at best, sensationalist fearmongering.
that came across oddly so i'll assume the ä was supposed to be a character not supported by slashcode. 26 letters, that's all there is in English. no unlauts, no accent marks, none of that stuff. we just have letters. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz -- that's all the letters on an american keyboard. there's a tilde key, but it's sort of a legacy thing -- it doesn't actually put a tilde over a letter, it's really only used to open a console in video games really. i never use it otherwise.
it's optional on an American keyboard, because I can't be bothered to type one out. it's not on my keyboard = not worth my time for a /. post
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Of course I'm mocking that term. It doesn't exist in English, and pissing over the proper term in English is foolish.
The Germans don't call themselves German, in German. It's Deutschlander. That doesn't mean that I get to call the Germans stupid for calling themselves something other than German.
Fun Fact. New Guinea is part of Australia. The continent, not the nation. Australia is also a nation, and its citizens are Australian. There's no confusion there, is there? No? There's no confusion when referring to Americans, either. It's understood that you're speaking of citizens of the United States of America, not Canadians, not Brasilians, not Mexicans, not Cubans.
his headgear does not regularly record images. no more so than, oh, i don't know. anyfuckingbody who has a cell phone.
the device has the capability, but I don't see people being tossed out for pulling their phone out. they COULD be taking a picture, you never know do you?
And if the European Union were a nation, the citizens would be referred to as European -- and while the term would still apply to those of Europe as a whole, it would also apply to those of the nation with the word in its name. Unitedian? Statesian? No, citizens of the United States of America are -- following me camera guy? -- American.
If your usage of the term is ambiguous you use North or South American. Referring to both continents at the same time is about as common as referring to Europe and Asia together.
I don't think any of the Tea Party leadership has been jailed or detained, and I doubt the Ron Paul followers leadership has been either. OWS members and leaders have been, but they were breaking the law, and should have been.
The Tea Party and Ron Paul supporters have never blocked a street or road intentionally, and they've never crapped in a public park and left it to fester. Don't compare them to OWS. Ideology aside, behavior and actions count for a lot, and OWS loses pretty fucking hard when it comes to that.