funny i’m reading this thread literally the day I’m buying a new phone for a little over 100€

Blue pill, redoing school and all for years before getting any further in your life would be way too boring

Exactly my thought when i saw this post

when I was young everything “in the past” had equal weighting and distance from my existence.

As a young person I relate to this feeling. Sometimes I forget how close to my birth some historical events were. Like, 9/11 was just a couple years before my birth, and the end of the USSR was closer to my birth than I am (and by quite a margin). Which… to me, the USSR feels very much “in the past”.

The back button of my tablet.

Also, the P and M keys when I mean to hit backspace (I use an AZERTY so the M is at the end of the second row right next to L P and backspace). It’s like aah I want to delete the last character not have more Ps and Ms thrown after it !

TIL about the origin of « Tu vas te faire appeler Arthur »

What’s wrong with linking to imgflip ?

Maybe you’re aromantic ? Though that depends on what you mean by “in love with a girl who doesn’t exist” - are you in love with an actual fictional girl or just not in love with anyone ?

Same in France (cochon d’Inde)

Imperial unit system.

Me too

Also : Brilliant, NordVPN

In France, it is illegal to name your pig Napoleon.

We actually have the same issue with our « quotes » and accentuated capital letters in French, so « l’État » sometimes becomes “l’Etat”.

Doesn’t work on a phone/tablet

Yeah, there are quite a lot of exceptions but “-e is female, otherwise is male” works most of the time. Then if you want to be more precise you can remember some generic exceptions like -age, -isme are male and -tion, -té is female. You’ll still have some exceptions like une souris, une vis, une dent, un câble, un graphe, un cône, une image (exception to the exception) but it probably works in about 80-90% of cases.

(Also “icône” is actually female in French)

In French we have a similar problem. Currently the most popular form is “citoyen.ne.s” or “citoyen.nes” (besides the good old “citoyens” or “citoyennes et citoyens”), which sometimes gets rendered as a website by some text displayers (e.g. les habitant.es). It’s technically supposed to be a middle dot (citoyen·ne·s) but nobody has that on their keyboard (I literally had to copy-paste it from wikipedia) so people use the point instead. We used to use parentheses like “citoyen(ne)s” but these have vastly be replaced by the dots.

This is the same in french, the gender of words is generally determined by their ending. (Which is not pronounced.)

In 10 years the poop post will be up there remembered as one of the legendary old asklemmy posts