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  • AcidBurn@retrofed.com
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    2 hours ago

    I thought the only reason to go to DIY stores was to see all the cute lesbians … learn something new every day!

  • cøre@leminal.space
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    4 hours ago

    I’d definitely go say hi. I also know it’d be silently judging my lumber choices.

      • zip@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        9 hours ago

        Not quite! There’s just been a misunderstanding (a SUPER common one!) They are two different words that are pronounced similarly, but mean different things. A queue is like a lineup of things, like a YouTube playlist, or people lining up to buy tickets. When you want to give a signal to begin something, like epic Home Depot music, that’s a cue.

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          It’s worse than that, because “to queue something” can mean “to add it to a queue” such as to the queue of music. In some music players, queueing a track while nothing is playing will also start playing it. So in that specific circumstance, the meaning is pretty much the same.

          But the idiom is broader than that; you could say “cue man falling out of window” to mean that a man should fall out of a window right now. There’s no queue of people falling out of windows, I hope.

          • timochka@lemmy.zip
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            2 hours ago

            Tell me you’ve never visited Russia without telling me you’ve never visited Russia… ;)

        • egrets@lemmy.world
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          7 hours ago

          It’s easy to remember because “queue” was spelled “cue” in Old French whereas “cue” was spelled “qu” (i.e. quando) when scribbled on scripts to indicate an actor’s lines.

          Actually, that might not help at all.