"This isn't a urinal, is it?"

[SphinxnihpS]

i remember when posting "in before the lock" was bannable.



has to be something wrong with the guy in the video. i mean, did he think that was soapy yellow water? who washes their hands in standing "water" like that?

Someone who just got shit all over them?

 

[PingSpike]

Ohh don't do that, there's a reason your body is getting rid of those chemicals.

And that reason is inefficiency!

 

[Scali]

It doesn't make sense to me either, I'm just going with the linguists...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhotic_and_non-rhotic_accents

Will that do for you, guv'na?

Nope.
It describes some changes that English underwent, which were not adopted by Americans... however, it does not specifically make a case for the argument that the American dialect sounds more like old English than modern English does.
Also, again I point out that there are more dialects in English than just 'Queen's English' (which not that many people actually speak).
I'm not sure how aware Americans are of these dialects and their sounds. I often get the idea that they think everyone speaks Queen's English. Well, Becks certainly doesn't

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Nope.
It describes some changes that English underwent, which were not adopted by Americans... however, it does not specifically make a case for the argument that the American dialect sounds more like old English than modern English does.
Also, again I point out that there are more dialects in English than just 'Queen's English' (which not that many people actually speak).
I'm not sure how aware Americans are of these dialects and their sounds. I often get the idea that they think everyone speaks Queen's English. Well, Becks certainly doesn't

Well, buy some books then.

P.S. "Old English" is a language. We are only talking about modern English.

English in Britain underwent two major changes; old to middle, middle to modern. It is modern we kept sounding the same, probably due to and not in spite of, our homogeneous culture.

A coarse thare's diffrent dahlects, bwah! I simply maintain that people in England used to sound more like people in Ohio than they sound today. Too bad we don't have recordings, but we do have writings, criticism, comment, etc.

 

[Scali]

Well, buy some books then.

That's a weak statement when the burden of proof is still on you.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

That's a weak statement when the burden of proof is still on you.

I'm not here to provide you an education, just point you at the info. It's up to you now.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

This thread is about washing one's hands in piss, not the origins of English dialects. Stop trying to make my thread all high-brow and shit.

 

[DivideBYZero]

This thread is about washing one's hands in piss, not the origins of English dialects. Stop trying to make my thread all high-brow and shit.

This. What does one have to do to keep a thread low-brow around here, talk about spicy rectums?

 

[PingSpike]

We're losing focus people.

Returning to topic: What kind of person would take a dump in a urinal? I've never witness the aftermath of this event, but legend has it this has happened during our time.

 

[gaidensensei]

Haven't you guys been to a local college or university? Someone always does that urinal dump crap unless you're in Ivy league or something.

 

[Scali]

I'm not here to provide you an education, just point you at the info. It's up to you now.

Well, you're wrong, just buy some books...?

Let me prove my point...
There are still various dialects in England that are said to sound much like English from a few hundred years ago. The Black Country is a fine example...
Or what about Devon?
Here's a nice example of what that sounds like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnEXtGpsKf8
Firstly, you will notice that this classifies as a rhotic accent. Does that mean it sounds anything like an American accent? Not at all. Apparently being rhotic doesn't say all that much about the actual sound.
It does bear resemblance to the archetypal pirate accent though (which is also rhotic). And that would be pirates in the New World, at the time of the colonization of America. It's probably not a coincidence that they are so similar.
So rhotic English probably sounded more or less like this, back then. It is still spoken in parts of England, but American doesn't sound anything like it.

I rest my case.

 

[Sea Moose]

NZ history fail.

Yeah, with all the New Zealanders that seem to be here, Australia feels like a New Zealand colony. :twisted:

 

[gaidensensei]

What would happen if ATOT had commoner-Australians here? Would you guys fight each other for the power?

 

[rockyct]

Yeah, with all the New Zealanders that seem to be here, Australia feels like a New Zealand colony. :twisted:

Sounds about right to me too.

 

[rockyct]

This thread is about washing one's hands in piss, not the origins of English dialects. Stop trying to make my thread all high-brow and shit.

My closing argument is that the guy has never seen a trough urinal completely exposed before, but that's he's still a idiot.

 

[zinfamous]

This thread is about washing one's hands in piss, not the origins of English dialects. Stop trying to make my thread all high-brow and shit.

:thumbsup:

 

[Sea Moose]

What would happen if ATOT had commoner-Australians here? Would you guys fight each other for the power?

<--- Only Australian on Atot (I think)

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

<--- Only Australian on Atot (I think)

Dug is the original ATOT Aussie. We miss ya Dug.

 

[rockyct]

Dug is the original ATOT Aussie. We miss ya Dug.

Where did he go?

 

[Sea Moose]

Where did he go?

Over there ------------------> .

 

[Mike Gayner]

What would happen if ATOT had commoner-Australians here? Would you guys fight each other for the power?

Yes.

 

[CZroe]

Incredible. I've only seen one like that once or twice and it was never exposed. He was avoiding staring at the camera, thus, wasn't looking at the side with all the urine. He clearly thought the urinal cakes were soap. I can sympathize with his assumptions but... DAMN!

 

[Herr Kutz]

Something I can recognize as a U.S. citizen is that, sadly, the U.S. is behind the world in almost every way in regards to social concepts. Especially after the Political Correctness movement.
But basically anything related to the body... we have consistently been behind the rest of the world.

I don't think it's so much behind other nations, rather just unaccustomed to the incivility in other countries like New Zealand that try to pass of such behavior as "progressive" or "forward thinking".

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I don't think it's so much behind other nations, rather just unaccustomed to the incivility in other countries like New Zealand that try to pass of such behavior as "progressive" or "forward thinking".

Fuck forward thinking. The thinking behind it is, "there are 4,000 people at this outdoor beer festival, how can we make the most efficient possible toilet that drunk guys won't mind using?" And fuck your "civility", I'm expelling waste to make room for beer, not ordering fillet mignon at a fancy steak house.

 

[bigi]

At least he didn't splash on his face.

LOL. I'd pay to see that.