Time for another peek into the Man Boobz “Trash” folder!
Regular commenters here may have come across the comments of an MRA/MGTOWer calling himself justeunperdant, who has graced the comments section here with sarcastic if often quite surreal remarks which are enhanced, I feel, by his poor command of the English language.
Here’s one of his perplexing little gems (and no, it doesn’t make any more sense in context):
Here’s one that’s slightly less perplexing, though it seems to be based on the notion that Title IX isn’t a law but is actually the name of some dude:
But what you don’t realize is that not all of Mr. justeunperdant’s comments see the light of day. For example, several days ago he tried to post the following comment:
The problem here wasn’t the comment itself, which is fairly typical of MRAs who visit the site; it was that he attached a video that evidently showed pictures of Jodi Arias, now on trial for the murder of her boyfriend, dragging around his dead body. Not particularly wanting such a graphic video up on Man Boobz, I sent justeunperdant’s comment to the trash.
This made him mad:
I didn’t let that one through either. He keeps posting comments; I keep tossing them in the trash.
When MRAs suggest I delete comments because I “can’t handle the truth,” this is the sort of “truth” they’re talking about.
I love how even though he’s wearing shorts he still has proper shoes on. Wouldn’t do to be too casual, after all.
He’s currently exploding because I’m awake still, it’s 5 am here. The assholery knows no bounds >.<
…those are incredibly short shorts!
“And he was bi.”
More fun that way, I never understood excluding ~half the population be default (ok, I get that pants-feelings are not rational, but still!)
“…those are incredibly short shorts!”
Hot pants for everyone!
… say, would they be misandric shorts?
I suppose? They would make gay and bi men want him, and unless he’s putting out for all of them…
Well, that’d be NWO “logic” which, of course, only applies to women.
Dude sounds awesome, even if I question his fashion sense (was it the 80s? Because the 80s had no fashion sense in general)
I’m curious about the socks. You’d think if it was warm enough for short-shorts there would be no need for socks. He looks like Angus Young’s less-evil twin!
@Kiwi Girl
The oddest thing about the “fush and chups” meme is that Australians and Kiwis both think the others say that. You mob have the most centralised vowels, concede defeat already.
Why a lack of socks would be crass of course!
Confession – I don’t think I can tell the difference between Aussie and Kiwi accents. The first time I saw an interview with Peter Jackson I thought he was Aussie.
Going by the code at the bottom of the pic, it might have been 1972, a couple of years into his second term as Premier, and the year before AC/DC formed! 😀
The shorts with knee socks and ordinary shoes was pretty much the standard in summer here for men in not-too-strict jobs, or those who could get away with it, like premiers! He also favoured safari suits a lot of the time.
I still think the worst 70s gear is infinitely better than most of the 80s … gods, all those big-hair variations on the mullett, NOOOOOOOO!
I’ve always found it funny that the two major cultural phenomenon that I’m aware of that were born around the same time I was are AC/DC and Hello Kitty.
The 70s were so much better than the 80s, fashion wise. I have pics of me and my parents from both periods, and the 70s ones are cute even if dated. The 80s pics? An abomination.
@CassandraSays
Australians drag out their vowels and sound vaguely Cockney, I guess, and Kiwis contract and centralise their vowels dramatically and sound more South African.
I can’t tell Kiwi from Aussie accents a lot of the time, either, until I listen closely to the vowels. We say they haven’t any, they say we’ve too many. It’s more like a flattening, to my ear, or vowels changing – the classic is “six” sounding like “sex”.
Curious thing about Australian vs American accents, which may apply to NZ ones too: apparently the Oz sound comes from a very relaxed soft palate. We don’t use it much at all in sounding our words, whereas the various US (and I would guess Canadian) accents involve far more movement there. It’s why American actors have such a hard time doing Australian accents, because it’s harder to unlearn that sort of movement than to acquire it.
I got that info from a documentary John Clarke (NZ satirist and comedian long resident in Oz) on Australian English. A speech coach who taught actors gave that info.
lowquacks – yeah, I sometimes can’t tell South African from New Zealand accents, though a marked Boer sound is pretty distinctive.
Sith Efrican vs Suth Ifrican, you might say.
::ducks under table::
Australian accents tend to be very non-rhotic and not empathise consonants at the end of words as much, too, which they share with Kiwi accents. Vowel length is probably the easiest way to distinguish the two, though vowel centralisation probably shows a more dramatic difference. My Aussie accent is tinged with my dad’s RP, so the vowels are a little more clipped and back vowels not as unrounded, and I’m often thought to be Kiwi or South African or posh English.
English-speaking South Africans seem to have accents more distinguishable from Kiwi than Afrikaans-speaking South Africans, yes.
(“speaking” here meaning “speaking predominantly/as a first language”)
One of the most fun things about learning languages is figuring out how to make the right sounds from a technical pov. I think one of the reasons I find Russian pronunciation less challenging than French is that I had a teacher who would explain how to make sounds in terms of how the mouth moves (ie. “keep your tongue curled behind your upper front teeth”*), rather than just repeating the words over and over again in the hope that people would eventually figure it out.
*As soon as she said that and I tried it I understood why Chekhov said that to him people speaking English sounded like they were spitting.
Yeah the 80s would’ve worse. No one looks good in skin tight neon leggings! (No one! Let’s stop reviving that trend!)
I think my accent’s fairly standard Australian, certainly not ocker or strine, though I sound uncomfortably close to that nasal twang to my own ears, sometimes. I notice a lot of teenagers are getting a sort of American tinge to their accents, too – at least that’s how it registers to me – the language shifting again.
No one looks good in leggings-with-arse-hanging-out, period! Doesn’t matter a) what colour the leggings are or b) how spiffy the arse in question is, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU FORGOT YOUR TROUSERS.
And your pants/underwear/whatever you want to call the things that go under trousers. (And or, put some pants under real pants!)
No, I’ve got a friend who rocks that pretty well. She’s incredibly good-looking, which helps, and aided by an impeccable sense of style, but it is possible.
She’s a rarity, then! I’ve never seen clinging-to-butt leggings (especially with a short top or shirt pretending to be a dress) that looked good. I just think, “That would look SO much better with a skirt/trousers.”
Ah well. At least it’s not mullets.
Or Ken Done knitwear with shoulder pads and belts … shudder.
It’s when I can see the underwear through the leggings (ie not see the outline, actually see the color of the underwear and any writing/pattern because the fabric is so thin) that I call shenanigans. Those are not leggings, they are tights, and they’re meant to be worn under a skirt.