My foreman would always say "Love my job" in a happy tone after anything bad happened on a job site. The happier the tone, the worse it was
then comes the singing.
"Dear God, he's doing H.M.S. Pintafore. We have to leave. Now!"
I feel like the one going on about defcon does not know defcon 5 is actually pretty chill
Should've gone the Kanye route and said defcon 3
*death con 3
Fun fact: in America asking "how's it going?" is just a greeting, nobody really cares
Brits ofen say "You alright?" As a substitute for "Hi."
Pretty jarring when you're not used to it. Id think "God, I must look like shit if they're genuinely checking on my welfare!"
Yeah Tom Scott did one of his linguistics videos about that, he had a word for it but some questions aren't really questions they're basically just rituals, though rephrased a different way makes them genuine questions, and when you have major dialects of the "same" language like British and American English, we use different ones. "Are you alright?" is basically a noise of greeting in Britain and an expression of genuine concern in America, while "How are you?" is the reverse.
Won't stop us from having a conversation or even just bitching about something that is randomly bothering us.
My favorite to use: "not gonna lie to you."
My coworker once when I asked him a hard question: "Don't make me lie to you."
I still think of that a lot and try to work it in when someone asks me an impossible question.
Implying that you... sometimes do!? :-P
When it comes to how I'm feeling? Sure, often even
Implying that if you said "i'm (fine/ok/alright/good/etc)" would be a lie.
Since it is super easy, barely an inconvenience, I am going to share this link from where my statement came from:-)
(I wish Lemmy would show preview pics of YouTube videos to let people have a glimpse of what they are in for, but hopefully my hints were enough here:-)
"Too blessed to be depressed" - they're a Christian fundamentalist who is depressed but trying to convince themselves otherwise. You should run.
I'm here ain't I = Defcon 5
So normal then?
Yeah, def on 5 is basically civilian peace times, right?
Living the dream!
Nightmares are dreams, right?
"Living the dream!"
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah, I hope to wake up any day now."
Defcon 5
I never know if they're meaning that it's not that bad, or if they actually mean defcon 1.
Because with defcon, the lower the number, the worse the situation.
Seems very American. If you ask a German you be prepared to not get Smalltalk.
This isnt small talk, this is a survival mechanism to figure if the person will enact violence on you or not. Optimally you want the response to be empty words, grunting, or being told to fuck off.
Optimally you want the response to be empty words, grunting, or being told to fuck off.
US/DE/both, did you mean?
A friend of mine, married to a European, said that I should have been born in Europe, not the US, due to my hatred of small talk.
Wh... what's y'alls base suicidality level
Our national holiday consists of drinking and playing with explosives at nighttime. You do the math.
It's generally a very cheerful level of suicidality though! Would be awful to bring the mood down by making a suicide all somber or some shit.
Fair to middlin'
it's not bad
Where does "Good enough" fit on the scale? Asking for a friend...
"Good enough" is "My head is barely above water and I'm wondering if it's worth the effort"
Good enough= My day is shit, My week is shit, My life has been shit, but it's not as shit as other people so I don't have the right.
What annoys me with this culture is when they expect foreigners to use the same exhuberant language and they think something is wrong with you if you don't.
British -
"Alright?"
"Alright?"
French -
"Çava?"
"Çava. Çava?"
Way simpler
DefCon Stages:
5 - "I'm here, ain't I?"
4 - "ain't dead yet."
3 - "it is what it is"
2 - "I'm not gonna lie to you"
1 - "...don't worry about it"
‘Nother day, ‘nother dollar…
I prefer:
Nother day, nother dime, nother shit on company time.
Boss makes a dollar,
I make a dime,
That was a poem,
For a simpler time.
Now the boss makes a hundred,
And the workers a cent,
While he has employees,
Who can't pay their rent.
Why wait till the boss makes a million,
And the workers make jack?
It's high time we riot,
And take our world back.
I'm German and for me, "can't complain" means I have nothing to complain, I'm fine, nothing special
I find Germans have an easier time replying to things very frankly and without garnishment or humor. I can ask a German, "How are you?", and he may reply with "I'm fine" and it can be taken at face value.
Americans tend to be more, I don't know, conflict avoidant in their replies? There's more expectation of subtext, of irony, and it's not as typical to take "I'm fine" at face value.
"Can't complain" is another good one. It's often heard as, "I can't complain [because nobody would listen anyway]". Tone is important, as is environmental context. Blue collar workers at the site say this, yeah their day is going to shit. Your buddy says it over drinks, maybe he's having a neutral, normal time of life, or maybe his life is going to shit and he's giving the ironic answer to avoid diving into his real issues, while still communicating that things are not perfect.
Last week I was asked how my day was. It had been a perfectly normal, decent day, good time at work, beautiful weather, and my reply was "Life's a peach". I got back, "That bad, huh?" Yeah, the American habit of taking genuine expression and searching for a darkness under it can be tiring sometimes.
In the opposite direction, when I moved to England it took me a while to get used to compliment "inflation" over there.
For example when somebody's opinion on something is:
I once asked one of the natives how did they transmit the message that they trully believes something was a 10/10 and was explained that's done by going into details on how something is so great.
Her horrors persist, and so do I.
Don't forget "too blessed to be depressed"= I think God will be angry with me if I admit life (read: murica) isn't perfect
My high-school friend group adopted "it goes" from our French class ("Comment ça va?" "Ça va!", roughly meaning "How goes it?" "It goes!" being the common neutral greeting taught in French classes) and I slightly resent it being described negatively here.
I often respond with: “Well, I’m still kicking and screaming.” I don’t know why. I think it got used a lot when I was growing up - someone getting dragged kicking and screaming.
Folks get tripped up by that.
For me, it means that despite the fight being hopeless, I’m still trying.
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