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Deceptichum@quokk.au to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

guess I'll just play with my nuts

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guess I'll just play with my nuts

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Deceptichum@quokk.au to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago
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    😢

    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world
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      It’s for their safety. At that age the might build a sentient robot that votes for Trump who will then take away their social security. Thank you Lego, for responsible toy stewartship.

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    +1 for the double entendre title 😄

    • Deceptichum@quokk.auOP
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      Thanks, I was proud of that.

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        As well you should be 😄🤜

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        Pardon my ignorance - what’s ‘play with my nuts’ a reference to for Carter, aside from his gonads?

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          They made him put his family peanut farm in a blind trust so that he couldn’t benefit it during his time in office.

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          He was a peanut farmer.

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    Do YOU want to tell Jimmy Carter what he can and can’t play with?

    I didn’t think so.

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      What’s he gonna do? Beat me up?

      • _stranger_@lemmy.world
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        This is how you get Isekai’s to the peanut farmer world.

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          “I Antagonized Jimmy Carter Over the Internet And Now I’m In Another World But I’m a Peanut That Farms and Also There’s A Demon King?!?!?!?!?!”

          Totally underrated series that really picks up in Season 4.

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        He’s still got the nuclear codes.

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      I would

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    I find “LEGOs” very upsetting.

    Lego is not an acronym. It does not usually get all-caps in prose, though the all-caps logotype is sometimes imitated in text.

    Lego is a proper name, and is also used as a collective noun. It does not get pluralized.

    “You can’t play with Lego anymore.”

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      fuck that. Lego is a company and I don’t need it to tell me how I can and cannot use their name. if they don’t like it they can suck my dick.

      I really don’t understand why there are so many people passionate about how to “properly” use The Trademark™ in The Way that was Sanctioned by The Corporation®

      just play with your Legos and get over it

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        I assume the people are passionate about grammar, and their corrections have nothing to do with respecting trademarks.

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          that’s even worse! especially because the vast majority of self proclaimed “grammar nazis” (really weird fucking title, guys) don’t know shit about linguistics as a science

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            obligatory Mitchell and Webb https://youtu.be/qmVnr7rsWrE

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          Legos is grammatically correct.

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            No, that’s Lego. Legos is a large metropolitan city in southwestern Nigeria.

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              no, that’s Lagos. Legos is a principle of rhetoric along with pathos and ethos.

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            Which should be your original comment instead of the trademark thing.

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              no, I don’t care if it’s grammatically correct.

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                Great, doesn’t change the fact nobody is passionate about protecting trademarks as you are saying.

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                  yes they are, because the word Legos has nothing to do with grammar

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        I really don’t understand why there are so many people passionate about how to “properly” use The Trademark™ in The Way that was Sanctioned by The Corporation®

        Actually, they are advocating against using it how the Lego company does. The Lego company uses LEGO in all caps.

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          I’m pretty sure the reason Lego isn’t supposed to be used is because they don’t want the trademark to be genericized. the all caps thing is stylization, I doubt they give a shit if you type it all caps or not.

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        Brought to you by the folks behind “Get Off That Nintendo and Go Outside” while you were PC gaming. Lol :p

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        AUGH HE SAID IT AGAIN

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      Lmao Legos adults

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      LEGO is too an acronym. it stands for Leg Godt, Danish for “play well”

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        That’s…not an acronym. That’d just be LG.

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          what is it then?

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            It’s an abbreviation.

            Not all abbreviations are acronyms, only the ones that take the first letter from each word. Lego takes two letters from each word, so it’s not an acronym.

            On a similar note, some but not all acronyms are initialisms, if they’re spoken as the letters rather than the “word” they create.

            FYI, DIY, PS are all initialisms, and also acronyms, and also abbreviations. ASAP, SCUBA, and LASER are acronyms and abbreviations, but not initialisms. Lego, appt, and st are all abbreviations but neither acronyms nor initialisms.

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              I think the “correct” usage of acronym is only when it is spoken as a word. But language evolves and all that.

              You can see the tension in the way MW defines it (including the extended description). Like: here’s the definition of the word, but some people use it when they actually mean initialism. This is in contrast to your more concise and cohesive definition of “[abbreviations] that take the first letter from each word”. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acronym

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              why is english like this… we just call it “shortening”.

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                Why does a language have different words for different concepts?

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                  in my language we tend to use base words to broadly describe concepts, and combinations of words for more accuracy.

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              I always thought acronym is a subset of initialism, not the other way around.

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              That’s a really good breakdown of the differences!

              Now if you’ll excuse me I have a few Ell-Ee-Gee-Oh sets to put together. :p

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            In English, I would consider that a portmanteau. I’m not qualified to discuss Danish, but it was interesting to learn the origin.

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      Lego deez nuts ha gottem

      Hmm. Sorry bout that. What were we talking about?

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      It’s actually an angry shout

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      Lego my eggo

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      Language is flexible. Deal with it.

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        You called down the ire of practitioners of the dark arts known as prescriptivism.

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      Jackal.

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      In my word, you put Lego Men in your Lego creations. No LEGOs, no minifigs [the Lego Men that are female are Lady Lego Men], and no sets.

      The whole ‘you make the rules’ aspect of the toy has been lost in a dozen licensing agreements.

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    Sorry Jimmy, it’s Mega only for you now

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      Probably not, cause they’ll make some decent sets and then send then send them to a random Walmart in bumfuck Idaho and nowhere else, unless you want to pay 4x the price on Amazon.

      Honestly I think Mattel don’t want to be in the brick business sometimes.

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    At least he still has 37 years to play with a Koosh ball

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      Jeez. Even my dog who loved her Koosh ball was only 98 in dog years when she died. They’re apparently making them for tortoises.

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    There is actually an official clarification from LEGO that the 99 years is definitely not a hard upper limit.

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      No one is getting hard at 99.

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        Not since Roz passed last year anyway

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      I don’t know whether that’s funny or sad.

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    Over a 100 years old, you can do whatever the fuck you want. You’re gonna throw him in jail? He doesn’t even know if he’ll live for another hour.

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    This meme made me sad.

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    I mean, his are probably hanging so low by now that they make legitimately enjoyable fidget toy.

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      Wtf.

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    I’m certain that Jimmy Carter has every reason to be satisfied with the amount he’s built.

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    Conspiracy theory time: maybe they hate old people…

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    Fuck those Vikings, Jimmy! You go ahead and build that AT-AT.

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    you can never be too old for legos

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      You need to be between 4-99 years of age

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      Do I pay attention to you or the box? Because I sure don’t want to be the one who kills Jimmy Carter by giving him Minecraft Legos.

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