The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Cadence]

It just occurred to me that I've never seen any actual pie recipe that involves pineapple, either savoury or sweet.

Even the cakes using it are upside down...

 

[trappedslider]

 

[Scribe]

I was on a back road after a night (Friday) playing 40K the next town over. Oddly enough, a cop was there and pulled me over. Asked the usual "been drinking? been smoking weed?" I respond with "no no, nothing like that" he asks what we are up to with my friends in the passenger and back seat.

"We where just up at a friends playing a game with these little models." and my friend showed him some out of his case.

"Uhh ok....drive safe."

A car with a bunch of 30+ year old guys driving on the back roads at 2am, after a night of playing with toys, nothing to see here officer.

 

[MarkB]

The one time I got pulled over was on the way back from a game in a nearby town, with some friends I'd given a lift. We were laughing very animatedly about the evening's events, and some lack of clarity as to which turning off the motorway I should use to get back to one friend's neighbourhood led to some somewhat erratic driving.

I hadn't been drinking that night (I don't drink) but my friends had, so it was a rather merry group that the officers found. I got out, answered some questions, failed to get a reading on the breathalyser the first time as I'd never used one before, and after finally providing a negative reading was allowed to move on, with a warning to be more careful.

"How did it go?" my friends asked as I drove off.

"It was a bit tricky. I had to blow twice."

I've never quite lived down that line.

 

[Cadence]

Maybe they just needed room for a hyperspatial express route?

 

[CleverNickName]

Well there it is, folks: my last "5E Survivor" thread (and it's a doozy!)

It's been a good run, and I've had a blast, but it's time to pass it along to the next moogle. I'm curious to see how it will change in the next iteration. (If there is a 'next iteration.')

 

[darjr]

Haha I’m no rick roll virgin.

 

[trappedslider]

The one time I got pulled over was on the way back from a game in a nearby town, with some friends I'd given a lift. We were laughing very animatedly about the evening's events, and some lack of clarity as to which turning off the motorway I should use to get back to one friend's neighbourhood led to some somewhat erratic driving.

I hadn't been drinking that night (I don't drink) but my friends had, so it was a rather merry group that the officers found. I got out, answered some questions, failed to get a reading on the breathalyser the first time as I'd never used one before, and after finally providing a negative reading was allowed to move on, with a warning to be more careful.

"How did it go?" my friends asked as I drove off.

"It was a bit tricky. I had to blow twice."

I've never quite lived down that line.

Now i want it to say "had to blow twice" instead of "Legend" under your name

 

[Hussar]

I just realized that I say it "PIE-napple" rather than "PINE-apple."
It's all just so complicated!

Sorry, the English Teacher in me just has to comment here.

Of course this is how you pronounce it. Vowels for volume, consonants for clarity. But, in English words, you always begin a syllable with a consonant sound. It's never Pot -ayt - o after all. It's Poh -Tay - To . Or Poh -Tah -To if you like. In words where you have two vowel sounds together, we add either a y (as in piano) or a w (as in going) between the two vowels.

/end pedantry.

 

[J.Quondam]

Sorry, the English Teacher in me just has to comment here.

Of course this is how you pronounce it. Vowels for volume, consonants for clarity. But, in English words, you always begin a syllable with a consonant sound. It's never Pot -ayt - o after all. It's Poh -Tay - To . Or Poh -Tah -To if you like. In words where you have two vowel sounds together, we add either a y (as in piano) or a w (as in going) between the two vowels.

/end pedantry.

And a lot of (most?) native English speakers* put glottal stops at the front of words starting with vowels (eg, 'apple). Sometimes this also happens between vowels (eg, the 'apple versus the yapple), though that's pretty dependent on dialect, iirc.

* Americans, at least. I'm much less familiar with how other English speakers do their thing.