Antiwhippy
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At least you can understand that scones are not biscuits.
Giant Bomb Thread #4: A thread of perceived slights
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At least you can understand that scones are not biscuits.
EmCeeGramr
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yeah biscuits taste good
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
If you were so British you'd understand the controversy over the pronunciation of 'scone'.
We have gotten to the point in the cycle where the complainers about complainers are more obnoxious than the original.
...Why isn't Cook Serve Delicious greenlit yet? Is it because of the lack of a quirky art style reminiscent of the super Nintendo days of yore?
...Why isn't Cook Serve Delicious greenlit yet? Is it because of the lack of a quirky art style reminiscent of the super Nintendo days of yore?
EmCeeGramr
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chubigans needs to add vaguely pixelated graphics to call it "retro," add a plotline where the food represents lukemia, physics puzzles and wacky humor that is in no way influenced by portal or braid, and then a bunch of shit about "it's like dark souls, minecraft, and slender"
Empty Space
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Scones aren't just really dense biscuits?
There's controversy on how to pronounce scone?
Skon.
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
What the shit is biscuits and gravy? Sounds like dog food.
Biscuits don't quite equal cookies. There's a subtle difference. These or these are biscuits.
A cookies tends to be a sub-genre of biscuit. Not sure what you'd do with gravy on them.
A) Scones are less crunchy than biscuits. Closer to a bread product.
B) Skon (rhyming with Ron) vs. Scone (rhyming with stone). It is a big debate.
EmCeeGramr
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scone is pronounced scone but apparently it's supposed to be "scon" because vowels don't mean a thing apparently. just throw in all the "u"s you want and ignore the "e"s unless they're before an "r" in which case make them wrong and backwards for some reason
How do you pronounce the word "gone?" How would you pronounce it if there was an 's' before it?
pieatorium
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Just like how Lara isn't pronounced Laura
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
Like Gonzo.
EmCeeGramr
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Gone is different, it's like one of those old language things that you can't bother with.
Scones are dense bread things that are bad, nobody should care if we fix what British people broke when spelling it. If something was called a "sgone" I would pronounce it like it's spelled.
How do you pronounce the word "cone?" How would you pronounce it if there was an 's' before it?
Thatoneguy64
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If QotW isn't your thing, here is an addendum to the original counter-argument:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erqRfN8ofQM&t=1m40s
WHAT. THE. FUCK. ARE YOU SAYINGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Typographenia
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I intentionally didn't make the distinction. ; )
Everyone's least favorite content over the years has been TNT. I AM THE WEAKEST LINK.
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What? Really? I have never known of this. I don't know what to believe anymore!
Empty Space
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So its Aluminum-> Aluminium again. Yay for nonsense!
Gary Whitta
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I was 15 when that photo was taken. 1988, same year Nintendo Power launched. #old
Typographenia
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A wee sprog. That is the oddest thing I have read in a long time.
Biscuits and gravy is a traditional Southern breakfast that's widely beloved in America. Fresh baked buttermilk biscuits (the soft, buttery, American variant not cookies) and a white sawmill gravy made from drippings of breakfast sausage or bacon. The biscuits are halved and the gravy, often containing chunks of sausage or bacon, is poured over the top. Eaten with a fork.
It's pure comfort food, or a stick to your ribs breakfast on a cold day. Doesn't look particularly appetizing but the smell is amazing and dish itself is delicious.
I make some for my family every Sunday. Here's how it looks before combined.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
Well while you were doing that I was busy being -4 years old.
A punch in the gob.
hey we were born in the same year. bffs~
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
da fuck is a gob. speak english
Gary Whitta
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English people sure do speak English funny.
your beak init, you gobshite.
nckillthegrimace
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I think you need to check your maths. Giant Bomb have never pronounced things correctly.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
Do British people find "spotted dick" as funny as Americans do?
What's a gob? Is that above or below the flippy-troller-blim-blam-rodgey-doo?
a spotted dick is no laughing matter
I should be doing hw
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Fixed for more British.
EmCeeGramr
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yeah, you passed it on to us and then you messed it up during the next 200 years
Gary Whitta
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Fair comment.
Empty Space
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This has baffled me since the first time I listened to 1up Your! I've never heard anybody except games press and developers make SNES into a word instead of pronouncing out the letters.
EmCeeGramr
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at least they don't say "snezz" like the tories
not gonna lie, i think Americanized British accents are the best.
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