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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 67 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My favorite is a complaint of Karens.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

They are called "Americans" in Europe

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

An Americans of Karens?

[–] beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 6 months ago

We have fun collective names. A group of white men is called a podcast, for example.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm partial to "fuckton."

A fuckton of geese. A fuckton of sheep. A fuckton of ice cream.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 18 points 6 months ago (6 children)

The only time Americans will use metric /s

[–] dankm@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 months ago

A fuckton is 2000 fucking pounds. A fucktonne (note the spelling.. metric) is 1000 fucking kilograms.

[–] JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago

Nah, that’s a « fuck-tonne »

[–] ilost7489@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

English fuckton, not metric

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Metric fuckton has more punch though.

What is that, 2016 pounds or 144 stone? British units make no sense...

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Nah, Americans use metric for selling drugs at the very least.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Also for gun calibers (is that the right word?)

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Too true! ( Yep, that's the right word)

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 6 months ago

Drugs, not even ounce

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can't buy a cup of crack in the US?

[–] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Volumetric measurements aren't really good for drugs, the density of the drug may vary depending on quality, origin or manufacturer, in the case of crack and meth. Weight is always better, but then you measure with half, quarter, eighth and sixteenths of ounces. See, we do have to use fractions after all.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I guess I have a lot to learn before launching my drug cartel.

[–] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact, in America, a ton is 2000 pounds, which is slightly less than a metric ton. In America if you order a ton of bricks, you'd get less bricks than you would if you ordered it in France.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

Damn shrinkflation

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 17 points 6 months ago (5 children)

It's even easier than that with most people I know

They just describe multiples of individual animals, objects, places or things collectively as just ..... stuff

Flock of geese? .... stuff

A stack of books? ... stuff

group of cars? .... stuff

A planet? .... stuff

A solar system? ... stuff

A galaxy? ... stuff

A galactic neighbourhood? ... stuff

The universe? .... stuff

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The universe? … stuff

I think George Carlin would say that the universe is a place for your stuff.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No, it's my stuff, your shit. Whenever it's mine, it's stuff. Whenever it's yours, it's shit. ie. "Get your shit off the counter so I can put my stuff down."

Source: ol Gorgie Boy

[–] henfredemars 2 points 6 months ago

Where else would I put my stuff?

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

I never disagree with ol' Georgie

[–] weker01@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Sounds like German

plane - flying stuff

Lighter - fire stuff

Vehicle - driving stuff

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago

lol ... I'm Indigenous Canadian and I speak my language Ojibway/Cree

This made me realize that the modern things we named with our old language sounds like what you describe

Aircraft -> kah-mee-nah-mee-kook .... 'the thing that flies'

Helicopter -> kah-kee-noo-kah-wah-nas-kee-pee-nik ... 'the thing that turns fast'

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

When the stuff hits your stuff like a very stuff stuff, that's stuff.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah I know ... like stuff ... I dunno ... shrugs shoulders and walks away

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I once knew a person that ended almost every sentence they could with, “and stuff”. I don’t think I’ve ever used the phrase since.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 4 points 6 months ago

Thus "phenomenology" means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα – to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself. And stuff”

― Martin Heidegger

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Do those people count "one, two, many, lots"?

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[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

A "fuck that" of humans

[–] superkret@feddit.org 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Fun fact: The English collective noun for multiple Americans is a "volume".

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago

Buncha time.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Bunch of coconuts. A lovely one at that.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Wicked cools