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Originally Posted by Mr Spyutastic
idk I haven't had youtube regular in maybe 3 or 4yrs. For me the main thing is
that everything I watch is ad free. I was over a friend's house once and pulled up something on their computer and I thought it was unwatchable with the amount of ads they put in each video now.
I think they also have some other content like movies and tv shows.
I mainly use it to watch stand up comedy, battle rap, Funk Flex freestyles, Joe Rogan's podcast, and look up different tutorials on things.
They're definitely ad-creeping, I usually close the window to give them a data point.
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Originally Posted by Garick
Ad blocking software works on YouTube and Pandora, and is free to download. Just saying.
Edit: Slow ponied. At least I knew that ********* is censored, though
hard to see how a crab docker can get inside the utube.
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Originally Posted by rickroll
yeah when i was in Beijing I met another expat who spent two years in Shandong Province, not in the middle of nowhere but somewhere central, in a big city, a place that supposedly speaks Mandarin natively etc etc and it was only when he came to Beijing did he finally understand he wasn't learning mandarin at all but some local dialect where not even the numbers were the same so he basically had to start over from scratch - that's another thing to consider, hokkien in one region could fundamentally be a totally different hokkien from another
big thing though is if you do it, commit to communicating with another male who is educated to avoid sounding super effeminate and subservient, the translation of the language is very imprecise and for all intents and purposes the intonation of "yes master" and "ok" can both be translated as "ok" and there is a large segment of the population who still actively use the "yes master" variant so you want to be sure you're learning from someone who wouldn't speak like that
There's a famous confession story that goes something like:
And you went into the victim's house?
yes sir
And you struck him with a hatchet?
yes sir
And you left him dead on the floor?
yes sir
Problem is the interviewee is a Navajo who knows 'yessir' as a way of saying "I acknowledge your authority" and probably auto-says it to any pale face in a uniform.
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Originally Posted by gobbledygeek
Fairly certain I have heard 0 songs off that one.
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Beat me, I recognize 0 names today.
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Originally Posted by prairiebreeze
I have buddies that have been through divorces, and they lost their asses even though the splits were amicable.
Bomb pot story: table next to me does a bomb pot. 72ss cracks AA when AA turns a set completing the wheel for 72. Money goes in, river bricks and AA spends the next 5 minutes losing his mind over it. Cursing, yelling, bearing the guy for playing 72, ultimately gets security called on him.
Eventually, guy not in the hand looks at him and says “bro, it was a bomb pot. If he turned his cards over you still would have called afterwards.”
Fun times.
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Should have demanded extra bomb. 'Aren't we playing the seven deuce game?"
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Originally Posted by Lapidator
Welp...
The idea that Zuckerberg has essentially unlimited resources at his disposal to pour on his desire to be fluent in any language, and yet he only embarrasses himself should tell you something about Zuckerberg, not learning languages.
In a professional setting, no one wants to try to talk to a non proficient speaker when there is the option of just using a common language. The Chinese are not that unusual in this.
I doubt he has unlimited time. btw Walking niece&nephew went to Chinese immersion grammar school. They were able to translate on the family trip to China.
I don't see it's a huge faux pas if an American speaks another language crudely. They know who's talking.