srmoore
spafHas anyone else noticed that when time travelers grab you by your shoulders and ask what year it is, and you tell them, they don't reply, "Then I'm not too late," anymore?
That's rather concerning.
Wendy Nather@spaf They don’t mutter “Oh, crap” and run back to a building somewhere?
GayDeceiver@spaf It's when their tears come unbidden that really gets to me.
bstow@spaf I mean, we're just so tired... we fixed that whole thing with President Teddy Kennedy, then we had to come back for the Sino-Egyptian war, and now you pull this Trump bullshit? Fix it yourself, I'm taking a vacation cruise on the Titanic.
Ian McLeod@spaf
I think they finally got their targeting scanners calibrated correctly, so miss-jumps are now rare...
I think they finally got their targeting scanners calibrated correctly, so miss-jumps are now rare...
Vixens (Back to Smut reading)@spaf yeah I dont know the last one that did that looked at me and said "shit I'm too late, stupid inaccurate time machine, someone needs to invent a better one, we should have asked the trans people to do that before they left the planet"
Sable Shade🇦🇺🍉🗝🇵🇸🇺🇦@spaf
I know a guy who's got a time machine out back of his shop. He sells the best souvlaki
Sends people off, for a fee, all the time.
Asked him once where you get time machines and he laughed and clapped me on the back and said it was actually a big microwave. Funny bugger.
I checked his website and not one bad review and his souvlaki is 5/5 gold stars every time.
They really are good
I know a guy who's got a time machine out back of his shop. He sells the best souvlaki
Sends people off, for a fee, all the time.
Asked him once where you get time machines and he laughed and clapped me on the back and said it was actually a big microwave. Funny bugger.
I checked his website and not one bad review and his souvlaki is 5/5 gold stars every time.
They really are good
Common Ramen@spaf
That's concerning what? Please finish the sentence, thanks.
...unless you actually mean "disconcerting", in which case it's simply gawdawful English.
That's concerning what? Please finish the sentence, thanks.
...unless you actually mean "disconcerting", in which case it's simply gawdawful English.
DB Schwein
Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺@DianeLevesque Out of curiosity... what variety of English do you speak?
I'm wondering if that objection is a British English thing or something?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concerning
causing concern or worry : creating reason for concern : troubling
@skyglowberlin
I speak the version of English where "concerning" is a verb. I'm not aware of any version of correct English where it isn't.
I speak the version of English where "concerning" is a verb. I'm not aware of any version of correct English where it isn't.
@DianeLevesque There's a link to Merriam-Webster in the post above 👆
Colin BeveridgeIt's not a verb. It's a preposition (as you used it) or an adjective (as OP did). https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/concerning
Andrew Benedict-Nelson
Arthur van der Harg@DianeLevesque @skyglowberlin It seems like you need to expand your knowledge of correct Englishes.
cognitively accessible math@DianeLevesque @skyglowberlin gerund? gender?
Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦@skyglowberlin @DianeLevesque Native speaker of British English here. The use of "concerning" in the OP is entirely correct.
@statsguy
I OBJECT!!¡
Surely you mean OT, unless you mean Original Poot!
If so, then apologies and please explain %/
HowToPhil (Phillip R)@spaf They just shout "Frell!" and blip away again
Billy SmithIt's the replies of "Bollocks I didn't jump far enough..." that are starting to worry me... 🤣
Thomas P. Moonis@spaf "Damnit, I went too far ahead."
So say we all.
MacCruiskeen@spaf They don't ask for autographs anymore either. That has me a little worried.
Schroedingers_Cat@spaf I find they look around suspiciously, say "Oh, that must be interesting for you", hold on tighter to their time travel device, as they sneak away.
Arjen Haayman@spaf @lisamelton the other day they just hugged me
Not with Stupid; I AM Stupid.@spaf Time travel is going to have been confusing …
ferricoxide@peemee @spaf
This thread reminds me of an animated movie I saw sometime during college (so, 1988-1992) that came out 5-15 years prior. It was a club that specialized in "weird" animation titles. So, in addition to the movie in question, they also showed Fantastic Planet and other similar "you probably weren't going to have seen it at a first-run theatre or on TV" (especially the limited channel options of the late 80s) types of titles.
I'm botching my search terms, because I remember that, because time travel was an everyday thing in the movie's universe, the speakers in that universe had adapted their grammar to deal with it.
This thread reminds me of an animated movie I saw sometime during college (so, 1988-1992) that came out 5-15 years prior. It was a club that specialized in "weird" animation titles. So, in addition to the movie in question, they also showed Fantastic Planet and other similar "you probably weren't going to have seen it at a first-run theatre or on TV" (especially the limited channel options of the late 80s) types of titles.
I'm botching my search terms, because I remember that, because time travel was an everyday thing in the movie's universe, the speakers in that universe had adapted their grammar to deal with it.
Mina@spaf Well, last time I followed the White Rabbit, he didn't even have his watch.
I find that way more concerning.
I find that way more concerning.
The Doctor
Quite a few of us know that we failed.
AmgineEyes widen slightly, sage nod, then they fade away.
I think they've embedded the time travel device, because I have tried to mug them or at least catch a lift.
Juggling With EggsI assume as soon as Back to the Future II was released there was a time temporal paradox…it was clear then it was too late, because we had been informed of what our future held. Biff Tanner was clearly Donald Trump. We were suppose to act then. But we did not. However, it’s creators again alerted us to our fate by plainly stating in 2015 that Biff was actually Trump. And still no preventative action. What else could they have done?
SpaceLifeFormFor extra confusion, answer 45 squared.
Nikkileah 🎮🚄🏳️⚧️🇬🇧@spaf last one I met, I advised the year. They took a step back, shoulders slumped and screamed "fuuuuuuuuuuck!".
I found it quite reassuring.
Beast of Exmoor@spaf or even 'Bugger it! The bloody thing still doesn't work'
Jeffrey D. Stark
Jonathan@spaf mine just said "great I want to watch it happen" but then they wouldn't tell me anything more!! So rude.
Chris Bohn@spaf This time (ahem), I don't think the grant was renewed.
https://techhub.social/@DocBohn/111871335680772084
https://techhub.social/@DocBohn/111871335680772084
Chris Bohn (@[email protected])
Application for Grant Renewal: Operation and Maintenance of Time Displacement Chamber for the Purposes of Improving History In the last grant period we successfully prevented the establishment of the PanEuropean Empire in the early 19th Century, we curtailed the Great War to only four years in the early 20th Century, and we prevented the tit-for-tat political violence following President Albert's assassination in 1974. A grant renewal will permit us to continue to prevent or mitigate other, similar historical catastrophes. Comment from Reviewer 2: This is a waste of time, no pun intended. None of those catastrophes happened! Program Manager Determination: [x] Grant Approved [ ] Grant Rejected #MicroFiction
RootWyrm 🇺🇦
@spaf I'm way more concerned about the ones that just look at me with absolute horror and despair, saying nothing at all.
Pomegranate County Irregulars@spaf Time travelers never contact me.
There must be no posthumous discovery of my songs. Good news, as it would irritate me if there was.