War Room Lounge v93: I got a strep infection in my scrotum and I have no idea how

[Higus]

Let's play a game: Before you Google who Acton Bowen is, guess
1) what he did before he was arrested,
2) what he was arrested for, and
3) how many years in prison he got

 

[Zankou]

Arabic sounds gross to me personally
i'd rather learn more Dari or Pashto
or by default Persian obviously

Persian is also a fantastic set of languages! And again, actually differentiates your skills from 600 million others.

 

[Fawlty]

Let's play a game: Before you Google who Acton Bowen is, guess
1) what he did before he was arrested,
2) what he was arrested for, and
3) how many years in prison he got

Shit, no idea.

1.) Because he references youth, I'm going with white supremacist
2.) Assault on minorities and rape of underage girl
3.) Two?

ed: looked it up. LOL.

 

[HunterSdVa29]

Persian is also a fantastic set of languages! And again, actually differentiates your skills from 600 million others.

something about Arabic seems too harsh to me
although to be fair i feel the same about German and Japanese after having lived in those places

Also, to be fair, the Arabic i heard was only from a few regions (Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia) and from a few speakers so maybe it was just them

 

[Gregolian]

Let's play a game: Before you Google who Acton Bowen is, guess
1) what he did before he was arrested,
2) what he was arrested for, and
3) how many years in prison he got

1.) Real life version of Cameron from American History X
2.) Child rape
3.) Got 15-20 years and only served 7

EDIT:
Well, I mean....

 

[HunterSdVa29]

that guy could be a Boy Scout leader/molester or something too

seems right w/ the photo

 

[Trotsky]

Let's play a game: Before you Google who Acton Bowen is, guess
1) what he did before he was arrested,
2) what he was arrested for, and
3) how many years in prison he got

1. Army Captain

2. Arrested for making death threats against a young Muslim girl that rebuffed his sexual advances

3. Time served

 

[Sketch]

Let's play a game: Before you Google who Acton Bowen is, guess
1) what he did before he was arrested,
2) what he was arrested for, and
3) how many years in prison he got

1. Didn’t have a job
2. Robbed a Dunkin donuts
3. 1 month

 

[HunterSdVa29]

shoulda caught the Osteen vibe from him, shit


oddest thing about that whole Houston Hurricane and him waiting to let people refuge in that massive church, was do you know what his church actually is, the building? It's the former Houston Rockets Arena. Just think about that for a second.....

 

[Islam Imamate]

Ideally you’d learn a real-world dialect and Modern Standard Arabic simultaneously, but unless you are doing that full time in an Arabophone country it’s not feasible.

Duo recently introduced a new Modern Standard Arabic course that is pretty good. Since most of my Arabic knowledge is quranic, which is not particularly similar to any modern speech, I completed the Duo course for fun and enjoyed it.

The biggest problem with learning Arabic is that it has an appallingly complex verbal conjugation system. The duo program doesn’t even attempt teaching you any of it.

Dialects are usually a lot simpler. The duo program has full case inflection, as MSA, but it doesn’t explain it or test you on it besides masculine/feminine agreement. It’s kind of weird.

As for Spanish, I’ve lived in SoCal almost my entire life and never felt any use for it. Most people already have pidgin knowledge of Spanish here, and you don’t need more than that for everyday life. If you are constantly working directly with a random selection of people (like in healthcare or customer service), then it’s valuable I suppose.

Oh so you learned Quranic Arabic? I kinda want to learn that but that seems like it'd be the hardest and least practical.

Arabic sounds gross to me personally
i'd rather learn more Dari or Pashto
or by default Persian obviously

Dari and Pashto seem to hard and too niche to invest the time into learning. I know you're a veteran so it had its usefulness to you but its not like there's a lot of opportunity in Afghanistan as far as I know.

Persian is also a fantastic set of languages! And again, actually differentiates your skills from 600 million others.

Might be worth it just to read the Masnavi in its original language if for nothing else.

 

[Jesus H. Sherdog]

Let's play a game: Before you Google who Acton Bowen is, guess
1) what he did before he was arrested,
2) what he was arrested for, and
3) how many years in prison he got

I guessed it right! At least generally. Not gonna spoil for others.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

@luckyshot



Dat ABV.....

 

[HunterSdVa29]

Oh so you learned Quranic Arabic? I kinda want to learn that but that seems like it'd be the hardest and least practical.

Dari and Pashto seem to hard and too niche to invest the time into learning. I know you're a veteran so it had its usefulness to you but its not like there's a lot of opportunity in Afghanistan as far as I know.

Might be worth it just to read the Masnavi in its original language if for nothing else.

oh no doubt, i was thinking more for Persian/Iran usage

a friend of mine is a linguist in the Army, born in Sudan but raised in Doha. He speaks Arabic, Swahili, and some other random African language i can't recall. I wanna say he said Arabic wasn't that bad to pick up, he found it relatively easy although that was also through immersion.

 

[tonni]

Let's play a game: Before you Google who Acton Bowen is, guess
1) what he did before he was arrested,
2) what he was arrested for, and
3) how many years in prison he got

I didn't look it up. I'm guessing he was a youth pastor, got arrested for diddling them kids, he had like 15 years in prison.

 

[tonni]

he had like 15 years in prison.

I JUST GOOGLED IT HAHAHAHAHAH

 

[Islam Imamate]

Remember how Aquaman could talk to fish? Just think for a second how stupid that power is compared to being able to communicate with people regardless of what language they speak. I mean, how often do you find yourself thinking""I wish I could talk to this fish" compared to "I wish I could understand this foreign language"

oh no doubt, i was thinking more for Persian/Iran usage

a friend of mine is a linguist in the Army, born in Sudan but raised in Doha. He speaks Arabic, Swahili, and some other random African language i can't recall. I wanna say he said Arabic wasn't that bad to pick up, he found it relatively easy although that was also through immersion.

How hard a language is to learn depends on what languages you already know. If English wasn't his first language then his experience won't be like what an English speaker learning Arabic would go through and since he was born in Sudan and raised in Doha it probably came more naturally to him.

 

[Deleted member 539235]

been years since i heard aesop rock, made me think of el-p for some reason


was listening to a bunch of old classics the other day too; del tha funkee homosapien/deltron3030, black moon/smif n wessun and souls of mischief

not that i listen to new stuff, just not into music as much as i used to be/should be

 

[Jack V Savage]

Remember how Aquaman could talk to fish? Just think for a second how stupid that power is compared to being able to communicate with people regardless of what language they speak. I mean, how often do you find yourself thinking""I wish I could talk to this fish" compared to "I wish I could understand this foreign language"

Yeah, but you live on land.

 

[Trotsky]

I JUST GOOGLED IT HAHAHAHAHAH

Wait for the pardon.

Really, tho, I expect Trump's list of pardons in his last year to be really, really gross. "Oh, he raped, killed, and ate a troop of girl scouts? Well, he said I'm awesome so yolo."

 

[Higus]

Wait for the pardon.

Really, tho, I expect Trump's list of pardons in his last year to be really, really gross. "Oh, he raped, killed, and ate a troop of girl scouts? Well, he said I'm awesome so yolo."

If the recent pardon list of the Kentucky governor who lost re-election is any indication, it could get really ugly.