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[scriver]

It's an insulting term used for redheads IIRC.

Yup. Slang for "orangutang", to be precise.

[Urist Imiknorris]

My stepdad's opinion on my ladyfriend: "You should* be making new friends, and get out of the house more."

*Meaning that meeting this girl was proper course of action for his suggestion.
He says this as I am getting ready to leave the house for several hours.

Is this "should" as in "Do this thing" or as in "You're doing the right thing"?

[Akura]

The latter, I think. But I honestly can never understand his crap.

[AlleeCat]

It's an insulting term used for redheads IIRC.

Yup. Slang for "orangutan", to be precise.

Okay, this is a pet peeve of mine. There is no 'g' at the end of 'orangutan'. It's like when people say PIN number(something I've had to deal with a lot while signing up for school) or E3 expo.

The latter, I think. But I honestly can never understand his crap.

He's a dad; you're not supposed to be able to understand his crap.

[miauw62]

While yesterday was quite nice, meeting up with all my uni friends and reenrolling for next year, the cycle home most assuredly was not.

• Sailors on shore leave all over Melbourne Wharf. I think. They were respectful and polite and got out of the way of the oncoming cyclists (It's a common route taken by cyclists travelling from Footscray into the South East). That's not the bad part.
• Drunken girlfriends of said sailors walking and darting in and out of the bicycle lane, that is clearly signed BICYCLES ONLY. Cyclists usually average about 30km/h there, and there's a clear split between the bike lane and the footpath, which is itself three times the width of both bike lanes combined, yet they felt the need to walk there. They ignored my bell, and every other cyclist ahead of and behind me.
• Some bogan girl with bleached hair and orange skin, with her roided up boyfriend who changed direction, walking through a bike lane near the Exhibition Centre, again, clearly marked BICYCLES ONLY. I slammed on my brakes, and i'm glad that they're v-brakes that actually work well. Both brakes went on, but I went up on one wheel and teetered for a second before regaining my balance. Other cyclists behind me followed suit quickly. Bogan girl screeched "ya fucking ranga cunt" and her roided up boyfriend said nothing but appeared pissed off. Gee, I'm sorry, would you have preferred me to run you down?
• 50m on from that, bunch of shoppers walking in the narrow bike lane. Bell didn't do shit. One of them decided to choose that exact moment to scream as shrilly as she could when me and two other cyclists were passing, just out of bloodymindedness - she clearly knew we were there and didn't want to move. Naturally, we got startled. I shouted back "See where it says BIKE LANE? it's clearly signed."
• 25m on from that, a bunch of thick-necked 15 year olds shouted "NOICE FAKKIN BIKE RANGA CUNT". Ugh. I don't usually get that sort of crap in the city, so why yesterday?

Whenever people are assholes to me while I'm biking, I just give them the bird without boterhing to turn my head.

[scriver]

It's an insulting term used for redheads IIRC.

Yup. Slang for "orangutan", to be precise.

Okay, this is a pet peeve of mine. There is no 'g' at the end of 'orangutan'.

Both are correct. It is both.

[Akura]

The latter, I think. But I honestly can never understand his crap.

He's a dad; you're not supposed to be able to understand his crap.

Stepdad. It kinda burns me a little whenever my little sister calls him "dad", and annoying when she's talking about him, then starts talking about our real dad.

[MaximumZero]

Guise. I just don't like reading in front of other people, and I didn't want to walk to the empty seats because I don't know.

You should read out loud to them, in a preacher voice. Educate the masses on the laws of robotics!

[Flying Dice]

Guise. I just don't like reading in front of other people, and I didn't want to walk to the empty seats because I don't know.

You should read out loud to them, in a preacher voice. Educate the masses on the laws of robotics!

And then educate them on all the exploitable flaws in the laws of robotics.

[Descan]

And the Negative First Law: No robot shall be a smarmy smart alecky dick and contort the Laws to subjugate humanity.

[Frumple]

*is at a loss why anyone would be embarrassed by reading Asimov*

*somewhat belated* For what it's worth, some of Asimov's stuff is a little racy. Dude had hermaphrodites and everything.

[Descan]

On the cover? Could you tell it was racy by looking at it in someone else's hands?

[Loud Whispers]

I swear if this is another one of those things you import to the rest of the world, I will never forgive you America.

I CAN'T TELL WHETHER YOU'RE ASKING A QUESTION OR NOT. ALL THE TIME.

[Hanslanda]

I swear if this is another one of those things you import to the rest of the world, I will never forgive you America.

I CAN'T TELL WHETHER YOU'RE ASKING A QUESTION OR NOT. ALL THE TIME.

Like, you know, when like, people are like, making statements that like, are actually questions? Like, isn't that like so annoying. It's like they can't understand, like, how punctuation works?

[Elephant Parade]

I swear if this is another one of those things you import to the rest of the world, I will never forgive you America.

I CAN'T TELL WHETHER YOU'RE ASKING A QUESTION OR NOT. ALL THE TIME.

Like, you know, when like, people are like, making statements that like, are actually questions? Like, isn't that like so annoying. It's like they can't understand, like, how punctuation works?

However, the whole "like" thing is actually really, really hard to avoid picking up when everyone you know does it. I use the word "like" in speech despite trying not to.

Agreed on the question thing, though. How can people keep making that mistake.