Compromise: Minimen
this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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Also they've sucked ever since they stopped having basic smiley faces
Well now you're just trolling, sir. The faces used for the Legoredo (western) sets are amazing. I particularly like the grinning Mexican with gold teeth. I call him Sanchez.
I don't know why I have to keep explaining this.
There are girl Lego Men and boy Lego Men.
I was so enraged by the face thing, I didn't even read that part lol
Why not Lego person instead of Lego man?
I don't understand the question. There are girl Lego Men and boy Lego Men.
Sure, that's true, but using Lego boys and Lego girls and just Lego people in general works too and is simpler, right?
I'm sure explaining that "Man is more like human in this case and not a gender or sex" is fun sometimes but ideas are evolving with more people and eventually it will just look too much like "Man is dogwhistle for subjugating women under men by calling them men".
Is this bad connotation that more people will see over time worth holding onto the word Man as meaning everybody when we could just evolve our usage of language?
I agree with you, and thus have to downvote?
As someone who will go to any length for a pun, certainly if it's a physical one, my fig jam will be more tasty due to this change
I believe you mean men jam.
I didn't, but now I do
Flying Squid, I usually like your posts and comments but today. Today you've made me angry.
Whatever. You're a "BigFig." You won't even fit with regular Lego blocks.
Leave my Dollar Store Chinese knock offs alone!
You only like the plain faces? Man. I used to take a soldering iron to the beat up ones so I could create mutants to attack the 'good guys'...
What- I ask you- what is the point of throwing a Lego space ship at the wall if your space man isn't going to smile when he's dead?
Who calls them minifigs?
The Lego group themselves, for one
The Lego company, since around 1980. It's been the official name since their creation.
Lots of people devoted to Legos. Especially the ones who hate that I just wrote 'Legos.'
They are referred to as Minifigures by Lego themselves. https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/minifigures
Lego is entitled to be incorrect.
Nvidia (who makes the RTX 4080Ti graphics card) can tell me the Ti is pronounced "tie" all they want. They are wrong. It's "tee eye". I will die on this hill.
Ngl I assumed this (pronouncing the letters as letters) was the correct way, because I thought that the Ti had something to do with a little element called Titanium, and last I checked that is how one read symbols on the periodic table.
That's the best part. It is a reference to titanium.
I read the Ti in the periodic table as “titanium”, not as “tie”... I mean, if you don't read them as the names of the elements, what would you even read, say, Pb or Hg as..?
"Pee Bee", "Haitch Gee"?
Yes, of course, but I was trying to point out how claiming it means titanium doesn't really work as an excuse to pronounce it “tie”; it's either “tee eye” or “titanium”, but “tie” makes no sense.
Right but you wouldn't say "the symbol for lead is 'peeb'" you'd say "...P b."
Yes, exactly. It's either tee eye or titanium, but I can't see how it can possibly be tie.
Yeah same, the company is wrong and I don't care lol, I'm gonna say it right!
Pretty sure the inventor of the "gif" stated that it's supposed to be pronounced "jif" but he too is completely wrong.
Jraphics Interchange Format. 🤷♂️
Competing with J-Pheg
Their old CEO pronounced it correctly, it's the new guy who's dumb
Your stance is entirely reasonable and I support it.
Lego mans*
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