Fesshole 🧻
Until last week I've always assumed the 'tee' in 'teetotaller' meant the person only ever drinks tea and the 'tee' is just spelt wrong. I'll be 68 years old in June.
May 6 at 11:20amWeb
Show threadBob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱May 6

@fesshole

Don't worry. I thought the word was pronounced TEE-toh-TAY-ler. I have a PhD in English.

Show threadDreyMay 6
@rjblaskiewicz @fesshole 👍
Show threadDr. Unabart  May 6
@fesshole The guy who came up with the word was a stutterer. When addressing an audience about his t-total abstinence from alcohol, that stutter became the new word!
Show threadDreyMay 6
@[email protected]@fesshole 😂
Show threadDr. Unabart  May 6
@atlovato 🤷‍♂️ ⬇️
Show threadOrb 2069May 6

@Unabart

I like how you skipped the [ ocr text from image ] to just put "teetotaler explaination" in the alt text - and somehow managed to completely skip, you know, a LINK to the text you obviously screenshoted from somewhere ( ?wikipedia? )

Peak malicious compliance, no notes. 🫶

@atlovato

Show threadDr. Unabart  May 6
@Orb2069 @atlovato Just shut the fuck up, will you? If i felt anyone should given a shit, then I would have done it. My client doesn’t do the ocr and you’re on fkn crack if you think I’m typing all that out. Mastodon HOA at it again. Peak fucking bullshit. 🖕🏼
Show threadOrb 2069May 6

@Unabart

I actually sent my cash in to Stang to get a new card and register with dobbs.town, and almost every interaction I have with it's users makes me wonder why.

Read my history, clown. I actually meant what I said.

@atlovato

Show threadDr. Unabart  May 6
@Orb2069 @atlovato Super proud of you. Quit nagging people about their posts and you might have a better time. Everyone hates it. See you on the saucers.
Show threadjackdaw delilaMay 6
@Unabart @Orb2069 @atlovato come on a link would've taken maybe 2 seconds longer. At this point its just clear you don't give a shit about anyone who can't read text off a picture and fly off the rails at being prodded about it...
Show threadDr. Unabart  May 6
@delila @Orb2069 @atlovato You’re right! All of it!
Show threadOrb 2069May 6

@Unabart

I think he just flies off the fucking rails for no reason. I went to check his profile to see if i was being too harsh - turns out I wasn't being harsh enough.

@delila @atlovato

Show threadHadley  May 7

@Orb2069 @delila @atlovato You know, I'm REALLY starting to understand now why my instance has dobbs.town suspended entirely.

Seems like remotely pleasant encounters with anyone from that instance are the exception, not the norm.

Show threadDreyMay 9
@hadley @Orb2069 @delila 👍
Show threadDreyMay 9
@Orb2069 @Unabart @delila 😅
Show threadSarcastiCanadianMay 6

@Unabart Wikipedia, quoting the Charleston Observer, gives a bit more colour to this:

@fesshole

Show threadDr. Unabart  May 6
@Plumbert @fesshole See? You’re a real one, mang. 🙏🏼
Show threadShrimpneyMay 6
@Unabart @fesshole thankfully it was a stutter and not Tourette's or else we'd be talking about the etymology of twattotallers
Show threadDreyMay 6
@fesshole 👍
Show threadChris BrennanMay 6
@fesshole Learn something new every day…
Show threadClayfootMay 6
@fesshole well now we need a word for people who only drink tea. Can't be TEAtotaler. Totaltea-er? Totalitea-er? Teaholic?
Show threadRotary ClicksMay 6
@clayfoot @fesshole Totealitarian.
Show threadinternetsdairyMay 6
@fesshole tbf I don't know the etymology of it at all
Show threadMichael CookMay 6
@fesshole TIL
Show threadThe FrogMay 6

@fesshole

It's not?!?

Show threadHadley  May 7

@fesshole I'm a "digital native" millennial whose earliest memories of learning DOS involves things like writing config files without a text editor, or learning how to use a hex editor. I first got online at the age of 9.

And yet sometimes (even in my late 30s) I'll STILL think or say something, and then be like "wait hangon, this is something I learned in the 90s, I can actually look this up now to see if it's actually true or not."

Show threadMark MasonMay 7
@fesshole I heard somewhere it was because this guy had a stammer and supported ‘total abstinence’ from alcohol. As opposed to the Temperance people who just wanted it toned down a bit. I don’t know if it’s true but it’s possible.