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posted by cmn32480 on Monday November 09 2015, @07:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-is-this-world-coming-to dept.

"Bro, your face is pissing me off, want to throw down?"

That's an example of the sort of dialog that goes on in a new app called Rumblr, which can be used to set up fistfights with total strangers — you know, Fight Club style.

Rumblr is set up like a dating app, except the dates happen in parking lots and back alleys, not restaurants, and they culminate in throw-downs instead of get-downs.

Sigh.


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Monday November 09 2015, @09:57PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 09 2015, @09:57PM (#260942) Journal

    or as they spell it, moslems

    Welcome to the English language. Not everything gets spelled one way [historynewsnetwork.org].

    According to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies,"Moslem and Muslim are basically two different spellings for the same word." But the seemingly arbitrary choice of spellings is a sensitive subject for many followers of Islam. Whereas for most English speakers, the two words are synonymous in meaning, the Arabic roots of the two words are very different. A Muslim in Arabic means"one who gives himself to God," and is by definition, someone who adheres to Islam. By contrast, a Moslem in Arabic means"one who is evil and unjust" when the word is pronounced, as it is in English, Mozlem with a z.

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