The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXVIII

[cybrxkhan]

Hmm. Guess I'll just call it a reverse Electra complex?

I've known a number of men who've claimed to have a "special" relationship with their daughter.

"That's my girl" can be something said with pride, after all.

Aye, there's nothing really spectacular about a man being close with or fond of his daughter(s) (but I'm sure there're some who take it to questionable levels without going into full-blown incest).

Pedophile?
Perverted?
Possibly prosecutable?

Well, theoretically, it wouldn't be limited to fathers whose daughters are underage per se.... But possibly prosecutable, yeah.

Well, yes, but I think that's what it would tend to get called. Son to mother, daughter to father, mother to son, I think they are viewed fundamentally differently than father to daughter.

That is an interesting thing to think about what forms of incest are considered "worse" than the others and why.

I guess we could go with - Pulling a Woody?

Heh heh, that works too!

 

[jackelgull]

In New Jersey, it is legal for father's to marry their daughters

 

[cardgame]

So, minor tech question.

I'm using Internet Explorer as my primary browser, and occasionally when I try and view youtube videos they come up as a blank screen with a grey dot and exclamation mark in the center of where the video would play. Sometimes I can make it go away by simply re-opening IE while other times I have to restart my computer. As far as I am aware, IE and Adobe are kept updated and there is no black screen coming up saying I have an outdated version of flash.
I don't think it is due to Adobe because youtube works just fine on firefox which I know I don't keep updated as I rarely use it.
Any ideas on what might be causing this or additional info I should include?

IE is causing this. The solution is to use firefox (or well anything)

 

[GoodSarmatian]

IE is causing this. The solution is to use firefox (or well anything)

Does Firefox support flash by now ?
I used Firefox for nearly a decade and then it started to crash constantly whenever flash player was required for something. I defected to Chrome, but I'm ready to come back if that issue is fixed.

 

[Arakhor]

It's supported Flash for ages. I occasionally have a few hiccoughs after a new update comes out, but other than that, I don't have any problems.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

It's supported Flash for ages. I occasionally have a few hiccoughs after a new update comes out, but other than that, I don't have any problems.

It officially supported flash fo ages, but for the past two years it really didn't.

 

[Arakhor]

Well, I guess that our experiences are different then.

 

[cardgame]

Oh yeah, another solution would be to switch to HTML5 youtube and forget about flash, like anyone else in 2015

 

[Mise]

Funny, I switched from Chrome to Firefox about 2 years ago, didn't notice any problems with Flash at all.

But yeah HTML5 video is the way forward. I disable flash by default, and set it to click-to-activate now, because most flash things are annoying and most good video sites have html5 anyway.

 

[Lohrenswald]

How do you pronounce "brutal" in english?
Nothing I can come up with sounds right.

 

[Arakhor]

Broo-t'll.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I found that easily becomes "broodle", and it sounds kind of wrong to overemphasise the t.

Sorry for making a fuzz of this, but I tried to say it earlier today, and it became either "broodle" or "brew-taahl"

 

[Joecoolyo]

Broodle is about right. At least when I say broodle it sounds like I'm saying brutal.

Don't emphasize the "t", but still leave it in. It's the "a" that gets dropped. At least in my accent.

 

[cardgame]

Broodle is about right.

 

[Arakhor]

Well, to use what people are saying here, "brootle" is is how you should say it, with a definite (but not over-stressed) T. Saying it with a D sound makes it sound really lazy.

 

[cardgame]

There's hardly any difference between d/t in these word patterns in my accent

Unless you're specifically trying to emphasize one or the other it can go either way.

 

[Arakhor]

I think I'd agree with you, because if I say "broodle" whilst thinking "brutal", it sounds American to my mind.

 

[sophie]

I'd say it's closer to a flap or (for some) a glottal stop than a full d. For some accents it is a proper t.

"bɹu.tl", "bɹu.dl", "bruʔ.l" or "bɹu.ɾl

For me it's the last one

 

[Zelig]

I don't recommend people install Flash anymore. Use flash-free Firefox for normal browsing, open Chrome or IE if you need really need flash, they both have it built-in.

 

[madviking]

I'd say it's closer to a flap or (for some) a glottal stop than a full d. For some accents it is a proper t.

"bɹu.tl", "bɹu.dl", "bruʔ.l" or "bɹu.ɾl

For me it's the last one

so cotton = caw'in?