Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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@taniwharugby So they basically have remote control camels and yet they start the race with a whole bunch of blokes standing in front of the caravan about to race...crazy Arabs.
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@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@taniwharugby So they basically have remote control camels and yet they start the race with a whole bunch of blokes standing in front of the caravan about to race...crazy Arabs.
Before that they used to buy Pakistani or Sudanese kids off their parents.
It’s probably one of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen, one of the kids got injured and they just put him in the corner of the stable to die. -
@jegga said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@taniwharugby So they basically have remote control camels and yet they start the race with a whole bunch of blokes standing in front of the caravan about to race...crazy Arabs.
Before that they used to buy Pakistani or Sudanese kids off their parents.
It’s probably one of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen, one of the kids got injured and they just put him in the corner of the stable to die.I knew they had child jockeys but didn't realise it was that horrific. My faith in "human" nature has hit a new low, and it wasn't high to start with.
I was however implying that they might invest in one of these:
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@taniwharugby - that clip is oddly familiar
@Chris-B said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Rhino goes to work!
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@taniwharugby Known as a @booboo.
Highest form of flattery and all that.
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@taniwharugby and in a tradition almost as old as the one you followed - I pointed it out to you.
TBF it was eight weeks ago which considering the average attention span around here could pass for a geological time period.
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@taniwharugby I was just pre-empting that other grand Fern tradition the pedant
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@dogmeat said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Snowy I thought a @booboo was asking a question that had been answered three posts earlier?
Hmmm, just not reading the thread was my interpretation but we can clarify. It could also be answering a question that was answered three posts earlier...
This is the problem with a protologism (which I think we are past already) before it gets to neologism which we haven't reached yet - they aren't clearly defined.
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@booboo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
f I can give my opinion on what constitutes a booboo ...
... it's responding to the post I'm reading now without checking if the same response had been posted between times.To be fair you should be the arbiter, and just like that, you have turned a protologism into a neologism.
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@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@booboo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
f I can give my opinion on what constitutes a booboo ...
... it's responding to the post I'm reading now without checking if the same response had been posted between times.To be fair you should be the arbiter, and just like that, you have turned a protologism into a neologism.
I'm talented like that
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@booboo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@booboo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
f I can give my opinion on what constitutes a booboo ...
... it's responding to the post I'm reading now without checking if the same response had been posted between times.To be fair you should be the arbiter, and just like that, you have turned a protologism into a neologism.
I'm talented like that
Go on, tell me that you looked it up...
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@Bones said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
You can also tell me that I am a fluffybunny.
This could get very popular.
It already is.