I heard he shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
Or I might be confusing him with someone else.
Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter may soon go through
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Or I might be confusing him with someone else.
I *do* wear a lot of black so it's an easy mistake to make.
I'll take that bet. A matter of days before a large ban wave hits targetting "bots" whose common denominator is that they said unflattering things about Muskrat.
Substitutes well with 'old mate'.
Old mate: A term used to describe someone (male or female) who's name you don't know, have forgotten or just can't be bothered saying.
Hearing this talk over a certain word's relaxed use in Australia makes me think of a story I heard. An English cricket team was matched against an Australian team, but before the game, the English team's captain stormed up to the Australian team's captain, angry because "one of your team called me a bastard!" The Australian team captain's response? "Which one of you bastards called this here bastard a bastard?"
His money will circumvent that, but if there’s one thing it may not it would be the will of the collective user base. But that’s providing they’re not mindless idiots.
'Mate' by itself works interchangably with the 'c-bomb', it's all tonality and situation.
I’ve heard that story, but it wasn’t the English cricket team it was either the Indian or Pakistani cricket team. Because no English captain worth his salt would bother complaining about that; but in those countries the insult still carries weight.
Not only that, but - unless perhaps that story is a lot of decades old - the English team would likely be handing out worse insults than "bastard" themselves on the field. Sledging goes back a l-o-n-g way.
Amusingly, as a former US Navy guy, one of the common terms you'd here was "Shipmate", which in context means much the same thing. Someone will refer to your by your name if they're being respectful. Someone will call you shipmate as a diss. It's one of those unwritten things you figure out real quick.
Which feels weird since most of the actual job titles have "mate" in there somewhere.
Old mate is used personally at mine and my partners work as a term for incompetent idiot that we have to work with
Im glad we instilled this practice
As I saw it put elsewhere: "Australia: where you call your mates "c***", and some c*** "mate"."
I always thought it sounded like a threat someone in a bad cop show would make. "Better stop talking, mate."
As much as it would be lovely for this noise to be over and for Musk to crawl away to his family's emerald mine out of all our sights, the twitter deal may have been an impulsively-signed contract for Elon that Twitter are now gonna fight in a weird flex to force him to buy it. From Twitter Board Chair;
Elon Musk says he's backing out of a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter
Musk had been hinting at his discomfort with the agreement for some time.
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I really do feel like he decided to buy twitter while he was drunk or high and since then has been looking for ways to back out.