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User:Ashley Pomeroy just modified the sentence: "Nonetheless, when the villain "The Hooded Claw" grabbed her and held her back- down over his head, she would somehow be incapable of doing anything other than yelling "Hayulp!" and flailing her limbs uselessly above her, like an upended turtle." The phrase "like an upended turtle" was removed with the comment "NPOV edit; we cannot see into the minds of turtles". I don't understand how the phrase was a POV problem nor how it implied turtle mindreading. Puzzled, -- Infrogmation 15:55, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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As I never got an explanation as to why it was "POV", I put the turtle comparison back in. -- Infrogmation 00:51, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The correct thing to do. If he starts a fight over it, try going over his head. Wikipedia lets anyone "moderate" it, and the moderators end up forming nerdish, territorial cliques. There was that one American kid who was something like 16 years old, and created the entire Scottish Wikipedia by transcribing English articles into a bad Scottish accent! Literally search-and-replaced the English words with Scottish slang. He wasn't found out for years! This place is a shithole, ruled by type A personalities and the severely autistic. They're stubborn and they don't care about getting on with people. I imagine the criticism on your post was some sperg's idea of a joke. Honestly. For those people, editing and messing with articles is their social life. Some of them have done thousands. Nobody can be an expert in a thousand subjects.

All that saves this place is the few experts who dedicated their time to writing the really good articles. On the other side you have the "moderators" like some sort of paper-eating worm, gradually gnawing away at that knowledge and replacing it with bland assumptions. If you ever have 5 days to spare, go look at the rules moderators are supposed to obey. Every one of those rules came about from a real event. "Close your mouth when you eat and put clean underpants on" needs putting into a table for them.

This place is a joke, and it's cos the owner was lazy and cheap, and decided to give volunteers petty amounts of power. That only attracts people who will put hours of their life in for no other reward than petty power. The sort of people who are petty and shouldn't ever have any power.

84.65.94.92 (talk) 06:09, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Penny's Japanese name; it's not listed

What Penelope's Japanese name? --User:Angie Y.

A fair guess would be "Penerope Pittusutoppu", although the article doesn't say... 惑乱分からん 11:14, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, that's just her English name in stupid pseudo-Japanese. Anybody can do that, it's not actually speaking Japanese.

84.65.94.92 (talk) 06:09, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I am a native English speaker learning Japanese, and I'm dating a native Japanese person. That's not "pseudo-Japanese". That's an almost-correct romaji (Roman alphabet) transliteration of one katakanaization of her name in Japanese.

The process of converting English words to Japanese follows established conventions. All consonant sounds in Japanese, with the exception of N, are followed by a vowel sound, and so consonants like the trailing P in Pitstop require additional vowel sounds that are not present in English.

Adding those additional vowels can sound "stereotypical", but in this case the stereotype exists for a reason: Japanese phonology doesn't have the same sounds as English!

Her name in Japanese, taken from Japanese Wikipedia is ペネロッピー･ピットストップ which would transliterate in romaji as peneroppī pittosutoppu. You'll note that's pretty close to what they said, the major difference being the long "ee" sound at the end of her first name, compared to an "eh" sound in their version.

That said, Penelope seems to be katakanaized differently for different people. Penelope Cruz is katakanaized to ペネロペ on Japanese Wikipedia, which transliterates to penerope (with a final "eh" sound).

Tofugu have an article on katakana-ization that may interest you. 2A02:6B68:C62:0:BDCA:1289:7A8B:D44 (talk) 23:11, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I had sex in a cosplay club in Kanai in Yokohama about a year ago with a "penerope" inspired girl. Great costume, right down to the boots. Tall girl for a Japanese, very slim and beautiful. Too bad I didn't have a Dick Dastardly costume! Then again, as nice as this girl was, I'd have done her even if she was dressed as Mutley! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.101.196.2 (talk) 06:17, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nice!

Vibrator

In a recent television programme in the UK (100 Greatest Cartoons) it is averred that amongst the "personal grooming devices" in Penelope's Pitstop's car, the second or third item was quite visibly "VIBRATOR" and they backed this up with a screenshot. I can't honestly say that I recall this from my youth, but if it is true and verifiable, it is probably the most interesting thing about this character, and probably deserves a mention in the Wikipedia article. Legis 12:49, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This myth has strong grounding - a clip does indeed exist showing PP operating the Compact Pussycat VIBRATOR lever, which causes her driver seat to vibrate like a relaxation chair. Whether this was later edited out is unknown, but scene did indeed exist with all the innocence of its year of production. Dave Shepherd. 86.154.223.94 (talk) 02:44, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I can attest to the "in-joke" with the vibrator reference. Although, I was in the US Air Force in England and actually saw the word "dildo" instead of vibrator on the dashboard. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.76.186.104 (talk) 16:22, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why "despite" ?

"despite having white sclerae, she wears red lipstick."

Why "despite"? What's the one got to do with the other?

84.70.129.162 (talk) 18:15, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I came here to ask exactly that, and seeing that no one's posted any kind of justification in almost two years, I'm going to "be bold" and go ahead and remove that phrasing. 2601:4C0:4002:52E0:F5AA:C515:2C47:22B8 (talk) 19:54, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No More Jockeys / Job Gloves

Penelope Pitstop became a running joke on the YouTube series No More Jockeys. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeZucoN2CCA&t=885s

Her gloves are jokingly referred to as "job gloves", which has been used in some vandalism on this article, e.g. http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Penelope_Pitstop&oldid=1078679168 2A02:6B68:C62:0:ADA3:77C4:1F31:E155 (talk) 23:27, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]