My foreman would always say "Love my job" in a happy tone after anything bad happened on a job site. The happier the tone, the worse it was
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then comes the singing.
"Dear God, he's doing H.M.S. Pintafore. We have to leave. Now!"
I know that guy
I feel like the one going on about defcon does not know defcon 5 is actually pretty chill
Should've gone the Kanye route and said defcon 3
*death con 3
Fun fact: in America asking "how's it going?" is just a greeting, nobody really cares
Brits ofen say "You alright?" As a substitute for "Hi."
Pretty jarring when you're not used to it. Id think "God, I must look like shit if they're genuinely checking on my welfare!"
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Won't stop us from having a conversation or even just bitching about something that is randomly bothering us.
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My favorite to use: "not gonna lie to you."
My coworker once when I asked him a hard question: "Don't make me lie to you."
I still think of that a lot and try to work it in when someone asks me an impossible question.
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"I'm doin." -I am not doing well and I don't want to talk about it. But I'm also too exhausted and shattered to keep lying about my mental state for the sake of social niceties, so I'm hoping my vague, neutral statement will either convey what I'm feeling, or you'll fill in the blank with whatever you want to hear. Just as long as you stop asking how I'm doing.
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"Too blessed to be depressed" - they're a Christian fundamentalist who is depressed but trying to convince themselves otherwise. You should run.
I'm here ain't I = Defcon 5
So normal then?
Yeah, def on 5 is basically civilian peace times, right?
Living the dream!
Nightmares are dreams, right?
"Living the dream!"
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah, I hope to wake up any day now."
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Defcon 5
I never know if they're meaning that it's not that bad, or if they actually mean defcon 1.
Because with defcon, the lower the number, the worse the situation.
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Seems very American. If you ask a German you be prepared to not get Smalltalk.
This isnt small talk, this is a survival mechanism to figure if the person will enact violence on you or not. Optimally you want the response to be empty words, grunting, or being told to fuck off.
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A friend of mine, married to a European, said that I should have been born in Europe, not the US, due to my hatred of small talk.
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Wh... what's y'alls base suicidality level
Our national holiday consists of drinking and playing with explosives at nighttime. You do the math.
It's generally a very cheerful level of suicidality though! Would be awful to bring the mood down by making a suicide all somber or some shit.
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it's not bad
Fair to middlin'
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Where does "Good enough" fit on the scale? Asking for a friend...
"Good enough" is "My head is barely above water and I'm wondering if it's worth the effort"
Good enough= My day is shit, My week is shit, My life has been shit, but it's not as shit as other people so I don't have the right.
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DefCon Stages:
5 - "I'm here, ain't I?"
4 - "ain't dead yet."
3 - "it is what it is"
2 - "I'm not gonna lie to you"
1 - "...don't worry about it"
Don't forget "too blessed to be depressed"= I think God will be angry with me if I admit life (read: murica) isn't perfect
I'm German and for me, "can't complain" means I have nothing to complain, I'm fine, nothing special
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Her horrors persist, and so do I.
In the opposite direction, when I moved to England it took me a while to get used to compliment "inflation" over there.
For example when somebody's opinion on something is:
- "interesting", it means it's shit
- "ok", means it's bad or mediocre
- "good" and "great", means it's average
- "wonderful" and "amazing", means it's good
I once asked one of the natives how did they transmit the message that they trully believes something was a 10/10 and was explained that's done by going into details on how something is so great.
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‘Nother day, ‘nother dollar…
I prefer:
Nother day, nother dime, nother shit on company time.
Boss makes a dollar,
I make a dime,
That was a poem,
For a simpler time.
Now the boss makes a hundred,
And the workers a cent,
While he has employees,
Who can't pay their rent.
Why wait till the boss makes a million,
And the workers make jack?
It's high time we riot,
And take our world back.
The traffic light simply would not turn green
So the people stopped to wait
As the traffic rolled and the wind blew cold
And the hour grew dark and late
Zoom-varoom, trucks, trailers,
Bikes and limousines,
Clatterin’ by — me oh my!
Won’t that light turn green?
But the days turned weeks, and the weeks turned months
And there on the corner they stood,
Twiddlin’ their thumbs till the changin’ comes
The way good people should.
And if you walk by that corner now,
You may think it’s rather strange
To see them there as they hopefully gaze
With the very same smile on their very same face
As they patiently stand in the very same place
And wait for the light to change.
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What annoys me with this culture is when they expect foreigners to use the same exhuberant language and they think something is wrong with you if you don't.
British -
"Alright?"
"Alright?"
French -
"Çava?"
"Çava. Çava?"
Way simpler
My high-school friend group adopted "it goes" from our French class ("Comment ça va?" "Ça va!", roughly meaning "How goes it?" "It goes!" being the common neutral greeting taught in French classes) and I slightly resent it being described negatively here.
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