Isn't seppo a pretty sh*tty term to use on a majority American board? Maybe my Australian slang is off, but I thought that was a pretty derogatory word.
Isn't seppo a pretty sh*tty term to use on a majority American board? Maybe my Australian slang is off, but I thought that was a pretty derogatory word.
One might say Sally's... antiseptic.
Isn't seppo a pretty sh*tty term to use on a majority American board? Maybe my Australian slang is off, but I thought that was a pretty derogatory word.
I had to google it, have never heard of it.
I'm torn; I could see how it could be offensive, but I also can see how it could simply be a silly nickname. I dunno, unless someone calls me a "seppo" with the intention of insulting me, I don't think I'd take offense.
I thought hitchBOT (which sounds like a mechanized atheist) was adorable, but I also think this piece is amazing:
If our guileless, simpleton neighbors to the north wish to draw faces on their buckets and treat them like friends, the sparse population density of their pine-fresh taiga wilderness makes this a sad but understandable choice, but the United States is not a receptacle for twee Canadian garbage. It is a grownup land where the humans know each other and do not ameliorate the loneliness of car trips by picking up roadside litter and befriending it.HitchBOT Was A Literal Pile Of Trash And Got What It Deserved
If it was supposed to be a funny piece, it ran into Poe's Law for me pretty hard. And virtually none of the comments seem to have taken it as humour. Kinda mean-spirited, all in all.
Isn't seppo a pretty sh*tty term to use on a majority American board? Maybe my Australian slang is off, but I thought that was a pretty derogatory word.
It's really not. It's disrespectful/irreverent but that's Australian slang in general, in as much as you call your friends "arsehole" and your enemies "mate". If anyone's super upset about me using it I'll stand corrected.
SallyNasty wrote:Isn't seppo a pretty sh*tty term to use on a majority American board? Maybe my Australian slang is off, but I thought that was a pretty derogatory word.
It's really not. If anyone's ever been discriminated against or suffered violence by someone calling them such I'll stand corrected.
I can drink more lemonade than you.
If it was supposed to be a funny piece, it ran into Poe's Law for me pretty hard. And virtually none of the comments seem to have taken it as humour. Kinda mean-spirited, all in all.
This makes me realize how much better the internet is when you don't allow most webpages enough permission to even show the comments to the point you don't even realize there are comments at all.
I'm sure there are some other countries where Hitchbot would have been vandalized, but then you hear about countries in Asia where a person could leave a wallet or something else of importance on public transportation and it wouldn't be touched. I think there is something very sick in U.S. culture (though not with every single person in it)...possibly extreme individualism at the cost of *any* common good, and a broad level of outright disrespect for others and vast amounts of pride in ignorance.
Or maybe I'm just feeling jaded right now.
I knew from the very moment I heard about this experiment exactly what would happen once it was turned loose in this country.
possibly extreme individualism at the cost of *any* common good, and a broad level of outright disrespect for others and vast amounts of pride in ignorance.
Capitalism, Female Doggoes. I got mine, good luck getting yours.
Well this reminds me of a conversation I was having a few weeks ago with a friend in Brazil and we got to talking about the drones Amazon was experimenting with for delivering packages. I offhandedly mentioned that if any Amazon drones appeared around here, someone would end up shooting them.
And then, ironically, this story comes out: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...
Now while I agree that someone shouldn't be flying a drone around over their neighbors' yards, it did kind of prove my point.
Yeah there's been several drone shoot downs. One guy was found guilty of criminal mischief in NJ or somewhere in a similar case because the drone GPS showed it wasn't really over his property or something. I think this guy in KY will be innocent or charges dropped.
Breaking HITCHbot news. The video was faked!!
love it
Had it looked like a mailbox it wouldn't have made it even one-tenth as far in the USA. Especially if it had started down south.
Now, this is a story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute
Just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the bot of a town called Bel Air
This is a crime right? Vandalism and/or public mischief? Perhaps theft if any parts were taken?
Technically, leaving the robot on the side of the road is probably littering.
The first I heard of this robot was in the news story about its destruction. It's hard to tell... did this thing have a giant sign on it explaining what it is? As much as I dislike that the thing was destroyed, I imagine the people that found it thought it was just random trash or an impromptu art piece.
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Ah, it "asked" people that approached it to take it to a new destination. So much for ignorance.
HitchBOT Was A Literal Pile Of Trash And Got What It Deserved
This was a hilarious article.
We had a HitchBOT in the UK. It travelled from Edinburgh to London without incident. They had a ticker-tape parade for it in Birmingham and it is now the mayor of Canterbury.
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