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Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1050 on:** Aug 19, 2012, 09:29:15 PM »

Quote from: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 19, 2012, 08:24:50 PM

So the gender of Big Mac is feminine?

It confuses me, as "le" is masculine in French, which I took in school instead of Spanish.

>mfw

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #1051 on:** Aug 20, 2012, 07:14:23 AM »

The masculine gender would apply, at least in French. "Le Big Mac" makes little sense as it's being called "The Big Mac". It's not a person. "Un Big Mac" works. It depends on the context though. You can say something like "I'll have the Big Mac". I would never talk like that because I'm not retarded but it's a thing people do...

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #1052 on:** Aug 20, 2012, 12:58:37 PM »

"A Big Mac" or "one Big Mac"...

It dawns on me that I haven't studied any of that stuff since '95.

Fiero · « **Reply #1053 on:** Aug 20, 2012, 02:10:26 PM »

Quote from: Chopper Face 69 on Aug 20, 2012, 07:14:23 AM

The masculine gender would apply, at least in French. "Le Big Mac" makes little sense as it's being called "The Big Mac". It's not a person. "Un Big Mac" works. It depends on the context though. You can say something like "I'll have the Big Mac". I would never talk like that because I'm not retarded but it's a thing people do...

I've heard people talk like that in Texas.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #1054 on:** Aug 20, 2012, 06:03:52 PM »

I do it from time to time. When I say something like, "yeah, I'm fixin' to head down to the Walmarts" (note the plural noun), it's funny, as I'm a person who tends to be fairly precise with diction (chalk it up to the years of live radio).

Fiero · « **Reply #1055 on:** Aug 20, 2012, 06:30:55 PM »

Quote from: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 20, 2012, 06:03:52 PM

I do it from time to time. When I say something like, "yeah, I'm fixin' to head down to the Walmarts" (note the plural noun), it's funny, as I'm a person who tends to be fairly precise with diction (chalk it up to the years of live radio).

I can not say that I have never stated going to "the location" before, as I would be lying.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1056 on:** Aug 20, 2012, 06:50:20 PM »

Quote from: Chopper Face 69 on Aug 20, 2012, 07:14:23 AM

The masculine gender would apply, at least in French. "Le Big Mac" makes little sense as it's being called "The Big Mac". It's not a person. "Un Big Mac" works. It depends on the context though. You can say something like "I'll have the Big Mac". I would never talk like that because I'm not retarded but it's a thing people do...

Quote from: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 20, 2012, 12:58:37 PM

"A Big Mac" or "one Big Mac"...

It dawns on me that I haven't studied any of that stuff since '95.

You both know I'm just using that way of saying it from the movie Pulp Fiction, right?

Fiero · « **Reply #1057 on:** Aug 20, 2012, 06:57:03 PM »

Quote from: Faye Valentine on Aug 20, 2012, 06:50:20 PM

Quote from: Chopper Face 69 on Aug 20, 2012, 07:14:23 AM
The masculine gender would apply, at least in French. "Le Big Mac" makes little sense as it's being called "The Big Mac". It's not a person. "Un Big Mac" works. It depends on the context though. You can say something like "I'll have the Big Mac". I would never talk like that because I'm not retarded but it's a thing people do...
Quote from: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 20, 2012, 12:58:37 PM
"A Big Mac" or "one Big Mac"...

It dawns on me that I haven't studied any of that stuff since '95.

You both know I'm just using that way of saying it from the movie Pulp Fiction, right?

What's the Pulp Fiction?

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #1058 on:** Aug 20, 2012, 09:42:27 PM »

AKA The Fiction That Is The Pulp.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1059 on:** Aug 20, 2012, 10:17:41 PM »

Le Pulp Fiction

B E C K · « **Reply #1060 on:** Aug 20, 2012, 11:59:47 PM »

Quote from: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 20, 2012, 09:42:27 PM

AKA The Fiction That Is The Pulp.

AKA The Pulp Fictions.

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #1061 on:** Aug 21, 2012, 07:40:31 AM »

"The Walmart" makes some sense. If there' s a specific one you go to, you would say that. People say "The movie theatre". You could similarly say "The Big Mac" if you had a Big Mac that was yours and that you'd been quite attached for for a while. "I'm taking the Big Mac out for a drive" you'd say.

There's no excuse for "Walmarts".

Fiero · « **Reply #1062 on:** Aug 21, 2012, 10:43:30 AM »

Quote from: Chopper Face 69 on Aug 21, 2012, 07:40:31 AM

"The Walmart" makes some sense. If there' s a specific one you go to, you would say that. People say "The movie theatre". You could similarly say "The Big Mac" if you had a Big Mac that was yours and that you'd been quite attached for for a while. "I'm taking the Big Mac out for a drive" you'd say.

There's no excuse for "Walmarts".

Actually there is.

When I used to be more of a toy-whore, I would go to multiple Walmarts in one trip.

B E C K · « **Reply #1063 on:** Aug 22, 2012, 03:07:25 AM »

Quote from: Chopper Face 69 on Aug 21, 2012, 07:40:31 AM

People say "The movie theatre".

We say "theater" in the U.S. Hyuck.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1064 on:** Aug 22, 2012, 04:41:20 AM »

Rama · « **Reply #1065 on:** Aug 22, 2012, 01:46:52 PM »

Love it or leave it!!

Oh...wait.

Fiero · « **Reply #1066 on:** Aug 22, 2012, 02:36:02 PM »

Gardettos.

I only want the rye chips, though.

B E C K · « **Reply #1067 on:** Aug 22, 2012, 04:16:49 PM »

I was gonna originally post "'merica" instead of "the U.S." lol

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1068 on:** Aug 28, 2012, 09:33:34 PM »

ZOMG GUISE they have fruit roll-ups at the int'l supermarket here! (they're 7 bucks tho, and not only strawberry flavored but mixed... o well)

B E C K · « **Reply #1069 on:** Apr 21, 2013, 08:24:04 PM »

Just polished off a Subway veggie sub with some Sunchips. Now them's good eatin'!

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1070 on:** Apr 22, 2013, 06:27:39 AM »

duck a la vietnamese

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #1071 on:** Apr 23, 2013, 10:16:13 PM »

I prefer "Mer'ca", myself.

My grandmother calls it "Walmark". Apparently my Granny channels Shirley Q. Liquor.

Fiero · « **Reply #1072 on:** May 02, 2013, 01:11:32 PM »

Leftovers from a sales meeting, sweet!

B E C K · « **Reply #1073 on:** May 03, 2013, 09:55:19 PM »

Tatertots with lettuce, tomatoes, and toast.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1074 on:** May 04, 2013, 04:37:14 AM »

ah yes, the good ol' freshman breakfast

Fiero · « **Reply #1075 on:** May 05, 2013, 09:12:12 AM »

"Eggs" and a "pancake" and half a banana.

B E C K · « **Reply #1076 on:** May 05, 2013, 11:18:37 PM »

Why is "pancake" in quotes? I can see how the eggs would be frauds so it'd be "eggs" but a pancake's a flat cake cooked on a griddle or in a pan. Did you flatten a piece of bread with a book and cut it into a circle? Or is it a foreign kind of pancake like a crepe? Having animal in it or not wouldn't lessen its legitimacy as a pancake.

Rama · « **Reply #1077 on:** May 06, 2013, 01:19:18 AM »

The pancake lifted it's skirt and revealed it was really a waffle.

B E C K · « **Reply #1078 on:** May 06, 2013, 09:41:40 PM »

Which they spoiled anyway when the waffle got nominated for an Academy Award.

I ate some delish mushroom-stuffed pasta. Tré yum.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1079 on:** May 07, 2013, 03:12:32 AM »

Nuri, hes vegetarian. Pancake for him probably means a piece of carton dipped in honey