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it was cruel because I was deliberately making fun of her cluelessness. The Charlie reference is presumably a reference to Apocalypse Now and the issues that the Martin Sheen character has. Either that or The Deer Hunter or one of several late-seventies or early eighties Vietnam films.

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07-08-2017 , 10:35 PM

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Nope, fragrance commercial .

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07-10-2017 , 09:44 AM

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I dated a guy who had never heard of a sock full of quarters.

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07-10-2017 , 10:43 AM

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Random use of capitalization and the "word" conversate annoy me.

I was just going to post I love the word "conversate".

Fwiw. I just did a quick search to see if it's actually a word. Turns out, you are not alone. According to Merriiam-Webster the word annoys many people.

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07-10-2017 , 10:49 AM

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What gets me is when people think Peter Wolf the singer was actually J Geils, I mean c'mon!

The Jethro Tull/Ian Anderson thing must put you on life tilt.

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07-10-2017 , 10:50 AM

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Didn't see this.

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07-10-2017 , 12:24 PM

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I was in a gym and Lola was playing. A younger guy said to his friend - "That sounds like that Yoda song".

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07-10-2017 , 01:12 PM

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did he walk like a woman but talk like a man?

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07-10-2017 , 07:12 PM

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Question on OKCupid asks which is bigger the earth or the sun, seems about half think its the earth

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07-11-2017 , 05:49 AM

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Yeah, but when you look at it, the sun seems tiny.

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07-11-2017 , 07:54 AM

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Conversate is horrible. The first few times I heard it I was l thought it was being used jokingly because it never occurred to me that anyone could actually think it were a real word.

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07-11-2017 , 08:16 AM

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I was once teaching a film class and half of them had never heard of The Godfather.

In a computer applications 101 type class I was once in, the professor once described a CRT monitor and subsequently CRT television. A girl in her early 20s had no idea what was being discussed.

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07-11-2017 , 11:28 AM

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How about just "talk" or "converse"?

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07-11-2017 , 11:33 AM

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Conversate is horrible. The first few times I heard it I was l thought it was being used jokingly because it never occurred to me that anyone could actually think it were a real word.

Here I used "word" loosely. For some reason, I like it. Now "disrespect" as a verb annoys me. ("Prolly" because I associate it with the OJ Trial, when it first became en vouge.)

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07-11-2017 , 11:45 AM

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My father used to despair at the unnecessary creation of verbs from nouns.

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07-11-2017 , 12:08 PM

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My father used to despair at the unnecessary creation of verbs from nouns.

i too hate when people verb a noun

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07-11-2017 , 12:38 PM

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Much of this thread is ironic. I assume the OP was being somewhat facetious (if not totally ironic) from the "git-go". Some are obviously intentionally ironic and quite clever:

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My father used to despair at the unnecessary creation of verbs from nouns.

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i too hate when people verb a noun

This is the most clever if intentional, perhaps the most ironic if not:

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07-11-2017 , 02:45 PM

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i too hate when people verb a noun

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07-11-2017 , 02:49 PM

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Verbing weirds language

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07-12-2017 , 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by AllCowsEatGrass

In a computer applications 101 type class I was once in, the professor once described a CRT monitor and subsequently CRT television. A girl in her early 20s had no idea what was being discussed.

Lol had to google this. Are you really surprised she didn't know what a "Cathode Ray Tube" is or was there a point in the past where 'CRT' was a commonly used expression?

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07-12-2017 , 08:34 AM

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I think that's the point.

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07-12-2017 , 03:14 PM

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My father used to despair at the unnecessary creation of verbs from nouns.

Should have told him adulting is hard

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07-12-2017 , 04:13 PM

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I think that's the point.

oh god this thread has gotten so random that I totally missed the joke lol. my bad

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07-12-2017 , 05:15 PM

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people who have never heard conversate must not listen to biggie. showing your own IGNORANCE

http://imgur.com/a/7bZHg

anyway, it's definitely lower class, but also a "real" word

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertai...s-a-word/6549/