Stuff I Think About When I'm Bored At work

[Emilymcplugger]

if everyone is different, but people are all the same, at what point do a bunch of everyone’s become a people?

Why does food taste better after exercise (especially hardcore anaerobic exercise)?

If people from Liverpool are Liverpudlians, from Manchester, Mancunian then why are people from Newcastle Geordies?

Do people under 30 understand “Back in the USSR” as it’s been 30 years plus since it collapsed?

 

[onehitwanda]

if everyone is different, but people are all the same, at what point do a bunch of everyone’s become a people?

at about the point they slap some colours on a bedsheet and start waving it around.

Why does food taste better after exercise (especially hardcore anaerobic exercise)?

because your inner iguana reckons that since you had to work for it it must be nice, right?

If people from Liverpool are Liverpudlians, from Manchester, Mancunian then why are people from Newcastle Geordies?

because we never taught them how to read.

Do people under 30 understand “Back in the USSR” as it’s been 30 years plus since it collapsed?

doubt it. Think you'd have to live through those years to have a grip on how mad the latter part of the 20th century was.

 

[alohadave]

I do think of weird stuff.

Like if you’re face to face with your partner and you each breathe in as the other person breathes out, might you risk not getting enough oxygen in your system.

Dark stuff, not funny stuff.

Exhaled air contains about 17% oxygen, plenty to breathe. The real issue is CO2 which jumps to around 4%. But really unless your lips are sealed and neither breathes through their nose, it's a non-issue.

 

[TxRad]

Exhaled air contains about 17% oxygen, plenty to breathe. The real issue is CO2 which jumps to around 4%. But really unless your lips are sealed and neither breathes through their nose, it's a non-issue.

And then someone farts.

 

[XerXesXu]

As someone once said, "Everybody is weird once you get to know them well." That would include me.

'All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer'. Seen on a Pride Month T-shirt.

 

[Pureotica]

Now I feel accomplished, I've successfully hijacked my own thread. Normally I have to redirect someone else's. This is so much more efficient.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

If people from Liverpool are Liverpudlians, from Manchester, Mancunian then why are people from Newcastle Geordies?

The official fact sheet from Newcastle City Council says:
"There are a variety of explanations for the name Geordie. It would appear that
no-one knows which, if any, is correct.
OPTIONS
 The name was born in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, when the Jacobites by-
passed Newcastle which, as well as favouring the Hanovarian King George,
was also a well-guarded garrison. The Jacobites then said that Newcastle and
the surrounding areas were all “for George”. Hence the name Geordie used
as a derivation of George.
 The name originated from the coal mines of Durham and Northumberland, for
many poems and songs written about, and in the dialect of, these two counties
speak of the “Geordie”. The Oxford English Dictionary states that the word was
first used to describe a local pitman or miner in 1876.
 The third possible origin is from George Stephenson, who in 1815 invented the
miners’ lamp. Local miners used this lamp in preference to that invented by Sir
Humphrey Davy. The lamp, and eventually the miners themselves became
known as “Geordies”. The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first use of the
word in this context in a mining glossary of 1881.
 In 1826 George Stephenson gave evidence to a Parliamentary Commission on
Railways at which his blunt speech and dialect drew contemptuous sneers.
From that date, it is said that Londoners began to call the colliers which carried
coal from the Tyne to the Thames, and the men who worked on them,
“Geordies”
 Frank Graham, a local writer and publisher, maintains that the name originally
was a term of abuse meaning “fool”. It was first used in this way in 1823, when
a local showman Billy Purvis, used it to put down a rival. He is quoted as say-
ing “Noo yor a fair doon feul, not an artificial feul like Billy Purvis! Thous a real
Geordie!” (From: Robson, J.P. The life & adventures of the far-famed Billy
Purvis 1849 p.128). The word in this context appears to date from the reign of
the unpopular King George III who became insane. His son George IV was
also unpopular because of his extravagance and his promiscuity. (Graham, F.
Geordie Dictionary 1979)

Who is permitted to call themselves a Geordie?
Again there are various viewpoints. Originally, it would appear that the name applied
only to miners, colliers, or inhabitants of Newcastle. Later it became applied to resi-
dents of Tyneside in general. Local Folklore has it that a Geordie is someone born
on the north side of the Tyne, within a 1 mile radius of Newcastle."

As long as as you don't call someone from the south side of the Tyne a Geordie, you're fine - they're Mackems...

For reference, Newcastle-upon-Tyne is pronounced New-KASS-el with a short A, even if you're a southerner who uses a long A in 'castle' and 'bath'. This knowledge has got me jobs in the past.

 

[SimonDoom]

if everyone is different, but people are all the same, at what point do a bunch of everyone’s become a people?

Why does food taste better after exercise (especially hardcore anaerobic exercise)?

If people from Liverpool are Liverpudlians, from Manchester, Mancunian then why are people from Newcastle Geordies?

Do people under 30 understand “Back in the USSR” as it’s been 30 years plus since it collapsed?

People from Georgia are Georgians, and people from New York are New Yorkers, so why are people from Indiana called Hoosiers?

 

[Bramblethorn]

"You always were an asshole, Gorman." Boom!

The weird thing is that she was played by a Jewish lady from Los Angeles, and that was her first movie role. This is even more notable: "Goldstein is now the proprietor of the store "Jenette Bras", a large-cup bra specialist known for its slogan 'The alphabet starts at D.' "

Trivia on that character: Goldstein saw the title "Aliens", thought she was auditioning for a movie on illegal aliens, and dressed accordingly. Which then made it into the film as an in-character joke.

If people from Liverpool are Liverpudlians, from Manchester, Mancunian then why are people from Newcastle Geordies?

I'll leave that question to the Britons, but there's also a Newcastle in Australia and people from that one are Novocastrians.

 

[onehitwanda]

Trivia on that character: Goldstein saw the title "Aliens", thought she was auditioning for a movie on illegal aliens, and dressed accordingly. Which then made it into the film as an in-character joke.


I'll leave that question to the Britons, but there's also a Newcastle in Australia and people from that one are Novocastrians.

There's also Adelaide, which I have it on good authority from a girl who escaped is also unironically called Radelaide.

 

[Bramblethorn]

There's also Adelaide, which I have it on good authority from a girl who escaped is also unironically called Radelaide.

Ah, Adelaide! Famous for its churches and serial killers.

 

[lustychimera]

Ellen Emily Ripley torches has lesbian sex with the Queen Xenomorph.

Waits at the space dome.

Wearing that face that she mauled in a hall by the door.

Who is it for?

All the lonely Xenomorphs, where do they all come from?

 

[Pureotica]

People from Georgia are Georgians, and people from New York are New Yorkers, so why are people from Indiana called Hoosiers?

Tbh, I think in that case the local team name might taken on universal adoption by the populace. It's a chicken/egg scenario and I'm not sure which came first. I'm not interested enough to actually research it. On the inconsequential matters, sometimes it's just better to go through life assuming I'm right. It hurts no one, and it's more efficient.

 

[Trionyx]

Trivia on that character: Goldstein saw the title "Aliens", thought she was auditioning for a movie on illegal aliens, and dressed accordingly. Which then made it into the film as an in-character joke.


I'll leave that question to the Britons, but there's also a Newcastle in Australia and people from that one are Novocastrians.

AKA the newly castrated.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Trivia on that character: Goldstein saw the title "Aliens", thought she was auditioning for a movie on illegal aliens, and dressed accordingly. Which then made it into the film as an in-character joke.

I see this is turning this is turning into the Alien tread (it had no other purpose, I think). Since Aliens is supposed to take place in 2179 (according to the link below), it's notable that illegal immigration is still an issue, To pick a nit, since the United States will have a non-white majority by then (unless The Turner Diaries comes true, and the less said about that book, the better), that is not reflected in the crew members. For one thing, Vasquez would likely not be the only Latinx there.

https://alienanthology.fandom.com/wiki/Alien_Universe_Timeline

 

[gunhilltrain]

More Aliens. An interview with Michael Biehn and Jenette Goldstein on the 30th Anniversity. The guy who was fired - apparently for a drug arrest - was James Remar, and Biehn replaced him.

 

[yowser]

The official fact sheet from Newcastle City Council says:
"There are a variety of explanations for the name Geordie. It would appear that
no-one knows which, if any, is correct.


As long as as you don't call someone from the south side of the Tyne a Geordie, you're fine - they're Mackems...

For reference, Newcastle-upon-Tyne is pronounced New-KASS-el with a short A, even if you're a southerner who uses a long A in 'castle' and 'bath'. This knowledge has got me jobs in the past.

Thanks for this.

Next question, why is it 'Glaswegians?'

One of my high school English teachers from Glasgow (who we all struggled mightily to understand) was never able to give us a convincing explanation.

 

[HordHolm]

Thanks for this.

Next question, why is it 'Glaswegians?'

One of my high school English teachers from Glasgow (who we all struggled mightily to understand) was never able to give us a convincing explanation.

Can't answer that one, sorry, but one I recently came across concerns Wales. In Early Medieval Wales there was a north Welsh kingdom called Gwynedd (still a named region), for which the correct adjective of an inhabitant is a Venedotian. Make sense of that!

 

[onehitwanda]

Venedotian

easy. The Medieval Latin name for Gwynedd was Venedotia; hence Venedotian.

 

[HordHolm]

easy. The Medieval Latin name for Gwynedd was Venedotia; hence Venedotian.

Thank you. Didn't know that one. And honestly didn't think the Romans had bothered with that bit of Wales (full of angry tribesmen hiding in mountains - never really their thing).

 

[onehitwanda]

Thank you. Didn't know that one. And honestly didn't think the Romans had bothered with that bit of Wales (full of angry tribesmen hiding in mountains - never really their thing).

I suspect they probably didn't, but Christianity and its traditions in the form of the Celtic church certainly did. Christianity dates to the 3rd century over here, in various forms. The traditions of the Celtic church were alive and well in Wales when the Franciscans arrived in the 11th Century. Apparently the Franciscans thought that Anglia was a barren, pagan wasteland and were quite put out to discover an established Church dating back nearly 800 years!

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Thanks for this.

Next question, why is it 'Glaswegians?'

One of my high school English teachers from Glasgow (who we all struggled mightily to understand) was never able to give us a convincing explanation.

You've got Norway and Norwegians, right, so Galloway goes to Galwegian, Glaschu/Glesca then changes the first syllable only, to make Glaswegian. Glaschu is Gaelic; Glesca/Glesga is Scots, basically how the name is said in English by locals. (I'm not getting into whether Scots is a dialect or a language - the Scottish Government say aye, I'm just glad I can understand it!)

 

[Bramblethorn]

easy. The Medieval Latin name for Gwynedd was Venedotia; hence Venedotian.

I could see that happening via "Gwynedd" -> "Gvenedd" -> "Vened" or something similar; one language's "w" is often another language's "v", and once you're sounding it as a "v" that initial "g" is going to fall off when people are in a hurry.

 

[HordHolm]

I could see that happening via "Gwynedd" -> "Gvenedd" -> "Vened" or something similar; one language's "w" is often another language's "v", and once you're sounding it as a "v" that initial "g" is going to fall off when people are in a hurry.

It probably went the other way - Vened to Gwyned to Gwynedd (dd being th).

 

[SimonDoom]

Tbh, I think in that case the local team name might taken on universal adoption by the populace. It's a chicken/egg scenario and I'm not sure which came first. I'm not interested enough to actually research it. On the inconsequential matters, sometimes it's just better to go through life assuming I'm right. It hurts no one, and it's more efficient.

From what I read, the term "Hoosiers" has been applied to residents of Indiana since the 1840s. The University of Indiana did not adopt the nickname until the 1920s, 80 years later. So the state name came before the university nickname. The origin of the name seems to be something of a mystery.

My first acquaintance with it was from my childhood reading of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle, in which a group of Hoosiers feature prominently.

Indiana is the only state in the US in which the primary, best-known nickname for residents is not a version of the name of the state itself. Some people might refer to Nebraskans as Cornhuskers or Massachusetts residents as Bay Staters, but these are secondary nicknames.