wonderingwanderer
@wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…
- Comment on Pressing question 47 minutes ago:
Wow that pet store salesman was an asshole. I’m sorry that happened to poor Clyde :( he didn’t deserve it.
- Comment on Looking back on life 21 hours ago:
For this man it was more of an L curve
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 23 hours ago:
Oh, I thought we were talking about anglophones pronouncing non-english words, not the other way around.
Japanese gets a pass on its loanwords because the language doesn’t have the letters to pronounce a lot of words from other languages. It does the best it can. I don’t know many English speakers who pronounce Llewellyn the Welsh way…
But if you’re ordering a hamburger in Japan, there’s probably already something wrong with you anyway. Unless it’s at Gasto. In that case, enjoy your ハンバーグ.
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 23 hours ago:
Kernig and Myooler. Isn’t that how everyone pronounces those?
- Comment on We ain't happy anymore... 1 day ago:
I can’t reach the shift key with one hand
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Jeez, that’s bad. What a ghoul. Apparently the producers of the movie adaptation put a lot of work into removing the worst of it.
I had no clue from never reading the books. Also, that excerpt you included is just really shitty writing. Like what a 10th grade creative writing teacher would have to suffer through.
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 1 day ago:
I’m trying to figure out what that’s even supposed to say. “Mmmburrrgurrrr” doesn’t sound like any japanese words I know.
“Hay” I’m guessing is supposed to be “Hai,” although if you pronounce it like “hay” then you’re going to stand out as an ignorant foreigner.
As for 「おいただきたいです」、well that’s just phrased awkwardly. It sounds too formal and almost mocking. The issue isn’t pronouncing it correctly. It’s like saying 「申しわけありません」 when 「ごめんなさい」 would do.
My point wasn’t about phrasing things weird or being too formal, it was about pronunciation. Like saying 「ありがとうございます」 instead of “uhragado guhzaimasoo”
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Ah, I didn’t know about all that. I’ve only seen the movies
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 1 day ago:
As a linguaphile, I’ve always tried to pronounce words from other languages as correctly as possible. People tend to think that makes me weird.
Xenophobes think I’m being a snob, and “inclusive” people think I’m mocking the language or making some offensive joke or something. Literally the only people who don’t get upset about it are the ones who speak whatever language it is.
- Comment on We ain't happy anymore... 1 day ago:
It was the all-caps. She had to take both hands off the wheel to capitalize the whole word. tsk tsk
- Comment on 1 day ago:
And according to Joanne KKK Rowling, that’s the only way you can be a woman; if you can produce children.
Harry Potter books don’t have that assertion to me. There are different positive female figures in the books.
Book: has one character whose main sense of identity is being a mother
Critic: “THIS BOOK IS SAYING THE ONLY VALID WAY TO BE A WOMAN IS TO BE A MOTHER!!1!!1!1!1!”
It’s obnoxiously close to this broader view in society:
Woman: is a mother
Society: "SO YOU THINK A WOMAN’S SOLE PURPOSE IS TO BE A MOTHER?!?!?!?!!?!
Also, are we just going to ignore Professor McGonnagal (no clue how to spell her name) being childless and devoted to her career in academia in which she thrives and holds the respect of her peers and pupils?
- Comment on 1 day ago:
to the eugenics related hereditarianism views, etc. etc.
Wasn’t it the evil people who held those views, and the good people found them abhorrent?
That’s like criticizing Tolkien because Sauron wanted to dominate the world…
(I’m not comparing Rowling to Tolkien. I think she’s an awful person and her writing is mid at best; the entire franchise surviving entirely on nostalgia and a huge marketing budget. But let’s not focus our criticism on stupid thing like “the bad guys had evil worldviews!”)
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I don’t see how. Wasn’t it the evil people who had house elves anyway, and the good people freed and befriended them?
I’m not here to defend Rowling, but depicting an injustice in fiction isn’t the same thing as committing an injustice.
She’s a terrible person in other ways, but I don’t think writing about house elves is what makes her terrible. Unless there’s more in the books that I don’t know about…
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Goblets weren’t in the budget. Just eggs and white bread.
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 1 day ago:
all the guys afraid of making women uncomfortable and being creepy are not approaching them because they complained and we listened, now the only guys approaching women in public are the ones who don’t care about creeping them out, because they didn’t listen.
Absolutely correct. I’ve been pointing this out for years and people gaslight me about it and act like I’m the problem for calling attention to it, but it absolutely is a real phenomenon.
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 1 day ago:
That’s an effective summary of the situation. Society has effectively made it taboo to pursue dating/romance in just about any irl space where you might meet someone. Makes me wonder how much was social engineering on the part of dating apps (like Match group astroturfing on reddit/social media).
As for your last paragraph, sorry to tell you this, but that won’t work either. People will start noticing and telling their friends about you, calling you names, saying you ask out literally every woman you meet, calling you fuckboy, creep, or whatever. It doesn’t matter how polite you are or how respectful. In fact if you bring attention to how polite and respectful you’re being, they’ll view that as even worse. Eventually someone will sneak a picture of you and it’ll make the rounds on social media. There are entire sites and apps dedicated to women gossiping about men. It doesn’t take much to kill your whole reputation. And women talk to each other about the men they see, so if you become known as “that guy,” then even if you meet a woman who hasn’t heard of you and things start going well, eventually one of her friends will tell her you’re a walking red flag and she’ll ghost you without an explanation.
So no, casting a wide net is not a solution. And if you’re waiting for the perfect woman to fall into your lap and make all the moves and seem to genuinely like you, you’re more likely to get catphished than you are to find love.
This is just the world we’re living in now. Hate to break it to you…
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 1 day ago:
You’re being very reductive. I don’t know who called you a catty bitch but chances are it wasn’t every man who’s ever complained about being lonely.
So when you throw it in men’s faces and say pick a lane, you’re kinda doing the same thing that some men do when after encountering one or two golddiggers they make sweeping generalizations like “women only want men for their money.”
Men can be lonely. Men can also be assholes. But when you try to invalidate some men’s loneliness because some men are assholes, that’s a problem. And that tendency to generalize is one of the big contributing factors to male loneliness today.
Also, I’ve heard women call each other catty bitches, so don’t pretend that’s something only men do. The men you’ve heard say it might even have been repeating what they heard from other women.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Probably cause there’s a US military base nearby. Sex industry pops up around those like mushrooms around… mushrooms?
- Comment on 2 days ago:
They have a really good regional dish called motsunabe 🤤 don’t ask what’s in it, just eat it!
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I’ve always thought it would make so much more sense to board the back seats first, but the monetary incentive means reason and sense get thrown out the window
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 3 days ago:
Okay dude. But what’s your point?
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 3 days ago:
Okay that’s really cool actually, thanks for the explanation
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 3 days ago:
I didn’t say it wasn’t both. If Keith didn’t dream it, Mick’s skill couldn’t have made it a hit because it wouldn’t have existed.
I’m trying to figure out what point you’re trying to make and there doesn’t seem to be one
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 3 days ago:
I’m struggling to determine what conclusion I’m supposed to draw
- Comment on SBA #228 Sins and Virtues 3 days ago:
That’s poetic. Did you write that?
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 3 days ago:
I see. It makes so much sense now.
Thank you
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 3 days ago:
Can someone explain the formula? Is it real? What does it do?
I miss PugJesus :( he would usually explain these things
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 3 days ago:
I read somewhere that Mick Jagger (or maybe it was Keith Richard) wrote the riff of Satisfaction in his sleep.
He woke up, grabbed a tape recorder and went “Bum bum. Bumbumbuummm bumbumbum.” And sang the one line “I, can’t, get noo, sat-tis-fac-tion.” And then went back to sleep.
Forgot about it the next morning till they were at band practice and someone found the tape and played it.
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 3 days ago:
I dreamed my root was integral in her summation.
- Comment on Oh Shit 3 days ago:
If you finish in three seconds, does that mean you can’t catch anything?