The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread ΛΕ

[rah]

For me it has been a more recent requirement. But they just asked for the flight number. (maybe they have a way to confirm just with that)
My trip last month and one 3 months ago. (the first time I remember them asking for it) I usually use THRIFTY

 

[Birdjaguar]

Politicians are already corrupted, so I have to opt for the other. Can you find me one over 40?

 

[Takhisis]

This is an open-ended question that everyone is welcome to respond:

Which would you rather corrupt? An innocent virgin, or a politician?

Seriously, neither.

And beware, because that question can lead to infractions.

 

[Cutlass]

But if I am flying in and out, do I not need insurance just as if I was not?

If you are flying out, they know where you are leaving the car.

 

[Cutlass]

I have no idea at all what you're talking about, I've rented cars several times for my work trips and I've never needed anything like that, just my driver's license and my credit card. I've tried googling and I can't find anything, and I visited that easyrentcars.com and I've looked at their website, and I'm still totally confused, it says all you need is your driver's license, your credit card, and your passport or something if you're visiting from another country. Have you ever really encountered this before when you're renting car? Are you sure it wasn't from like a weird company or something? I'm so sorry, I'm just really confused and I'm trying my best to figure things out.

Oh and if you use your VISA Signature card, you get free insurance for your car rentals, as long as you use your card for both your reservation and your charge, and you decline car insurance you're offered from them

You are a US resident.

 

[HoloDoc]

This is an open-ended question that everyone is welcome to respond:

Which would you rather corrupt? An innocent virgin, or a politician?

Easy, for the reasons Birdjag mentioned. But putting that aside, I'm also a massive pervert, with serious psycho-sexual issues, so definitely the virgin.

Besides, politicians have been screwing me for decades, but a virgin never has. Variety, if nothing else.

 

[Arakhor]

I suggest that people take Takhisis's advice.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I'll second that suggestion.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Definitely not the case in my old flat. The landlords were terrible about repairs, but the fuses were so old the electrician had to spend half a day tracking down someone who had replacements. And I don't think the tenant "prepared" to move out. It's my understanding they had to be forcibly removed by the popo.

Huh. So maybe they Googled them as they surveyed the apartment for stuff to sell on eBay (or Aussie equivalent), realized they were rare and sold them. Hell, maybe the repairman unknowingly bought them back?

 

[HoloDoc]

Huh. So maybe they Googled them as they surveyed the apartment for stuff to sell on eBay (or Aussie equivalent), realized they were rare and sold them. Hell, maybe the repairman unknowingly bought them back?

Nah, the ones the electrician brought were a different brand and appearance. They are also not so much "rare" as 'decades out of date,' so they weren't worth much either. I really think it was a spite thing, given what I know about them. I mean, stash of knives in the bathroom, staples in the ceiling. WTH?

 

[Manfred Belheim]

This is an open-ended question that everyone is welcome to respond:

Which would you rather corrupt? An innocent virgin, or a politician?

Surely it would depend on who each of them are, the form of the corruption, and what the goals are.

 

[HoloDoc]

What exactly is a "cotton-pickin' minute?" The use of the phrase "dang-nab it" in no the rthread got me thinking. Also, for that matter, what the hell does "dang-nab it" mean?​

 

[Valka D'Ur]

what the hell does "dang-nab it" mean?

"Dadgummit", or "goldarnit", of course.

 

[Traitorfish]

What exactly is a "cotton-pickin' minute?" The use of the phrase "dang-nab it" in no the rthread got me thinking. Also, for that matter, what the hell does "dang-nab it" mean?​

Minced oaths plus authentic frontier gibberish. You can't say "God damn it" because you're making a movie in the fifties, but you can't see "gosh darn it" because it's a Western and that makes you sound like a suburban dad who left his barbecue tongs inside. So you say "dagnab it" and hope that there are no curious etymologists in the audience.

 

[Cutlass]

What exactly is a "cotton-pickin' minute?" The use of the phrase "dang-nab it" in no the rthread got me thinking. Also, for that matter, what the hell does "dang-nab it" mean?​

There was a long lasting trend in the US among a lot of the population to not use any profanity. But, of course, people being people, did. So in order to not use authentic profanity, they invented substitutes. The substitutes are silly, looked at individually. But you get used to them and they work in context.

 

[Traitorfish]

The United States is pretty unusual in it's enthusiasm for minced oaths, to the point that a somewhat obscure but quite genuinely obscene word like "frig" has become misinterpreted a minced version of "f-", and which has itself given rise to a further mincing, "frik".

It's probably for the best, because, as a nation, they're not very good at swearing. They rhyme "tw-" with "what", for Christ's sake.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Minced oaths plus authentic frontier gibberish. You can't say "God damn it" because you're making a movie in the fifties, but you can't see "gosh darn it" because it's a Western and that makes you sound like a suburban dad who left his barbecue tongs inside. So you say "dagnab it" and hope that there are no curious etymologists in the audience.

"Dadgummit" is an expression often used by Hoss Cartwright in the TV series Bonanza - which ran from the late 1950s until the early 1970s. Somebody posted several seasons' worth of episodes on YouTube and there's a ton of Bonanza fanfiction on fanfiction.net, so I've become pretty familiar with some of Hoss's more "colorful metaphors."

I once read a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine parody in which the Cardassian Guls were referred to as "Gols." Of course Gul Dukat's parody name was Gol Darnit.

 

[Hrothbern]

In my country profanities were in medieval time very common, certainly among the regular people.
And even the protestant wave did not really get that rooted out, although in the more strict versions there was more pressure.
It is in the late 19th-early 20th century, the puritan wave that more strict villages/counties start forbidding it, including penalties. This was tolerated during that wave by the central more liberal government, but in the 1930ies forbidden on the already existing constitution, the freedom of speech.
Whereby noted BTW that pressure on not saying them is not the same as the internalising to get rid of them. My father (born 1917) was elder of the local church, and that ment also a lot of visits to people sick or on their dying bed. He said that it was surprising how many godfearing people used profane language at the point of dying (perhaps also triggered by fear of death).

 

[HoloDoc]

The United States is pretty unusual in it's enthusiasm for minced oaths, to the point that a somewhat obscure but quite genuinely obscene word like "frig" has become misinterpreted a minced version of "f-", and which has itself given rise to a further mincing, "frik".

It's probably for the best, because, as a nation, they're not very good at swearing. They rhyme "tw-" with "what", for Christ's sake.

My mother always said "frig." No idea she was such a potty-mouth.

 

[Cutlass]

The United States is pretty unusual in it's enthusiasm for minced oaths, to the point that a somewhat obscure but quite genuinely obscene word like "frig" has become misinterpreted a minced version of "f-", and which has itself given rise to a further mincing, "frik".

It's probably for the best, because, as a nation, they're not very good at swearing. They rhyme "tw-" with "what", for Christ's sake.

Twut?