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WCDT: 1-5 November 2010 (1786-1790)
TheHappyBerry:
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--- Quote from: Heliphyneau on 01 Nov 2010, 09:50 ---Here's a litmus test to see if you've read fanfic: "Still the prettiest!" If you recognized that quote, you have.
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[grumble] Not King yet. [/grumble]
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Very Secret Diaries! I read those when I was 17 and a huge, huge LOTR fan.
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I'm not sure I want to admit those were my gateway, and I read all her other fanfic, and thought it was actually good. Glad I got over that phase
westrim:
It seems to be a near unanimous NO WAI to anything involving Pintsize so far, and well it should be.
I dislike Dora and I want to dislike her conduct here (miss defensive-on-everyone's-behalf is now a-ok just because the scenario appeals to her? Dick move. ), but goddamn that face in panel 4 is cute.
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 01 Nov 2010, 16:18 ---I am now officially shipping Jeph and Fanfiction.net: http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/1456308074/fffffffff
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Shipping a human with a website? maybe the singularity has hit after all.
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--- Quote from: jwhouk on 01 Nov 2010, 02:02 ---And yes, it was Chinese food (or at least what we Americans call Chinese Food).
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What, fortune cookies and chow mein aren't native Chinese cuisine?
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You can blame the Japanese for fortune-cookies. "Chow-mein" (炒面 chǎo-miàn, pronounced roughly chow-me-en*) is an authentic traditional dish, or rather family of dishes, since all it really describes is fried noodles with shredded meat and/or vegetables, and there are many, many variations prepared in China, and wherever Chinese people have settled.
Chop-suey, by contrast, is often represented as being some sort of invented, leftover glurge foisted on unsuspecting Americans by sneaky Chinese immigrants, but I am dubious. Chop-suey (杂碎 zá suì pronounced roughly dza-sway*) means "assorted stuff" or "odds and ends", and does anyone actually imagine that nobody in the whole history of China ever threw a meal together out of whatever leftovers they had available before they got to the United States?
*My pronunciations are those of Mandarin Chinese. Many English loan-word names for Chinese food, and many other things, are derived from Southern Chinese pronunciations.
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:psyduck: I bow before your superior knowledge and curse my fumbling brain.
--- Quote from: AnAverageWriter on 01 Nov 2010, 20:26 ---
--- Quote from: ysth on 01 Nov 2010, 19:11 ---Try uninstalling all the crap that acer puts on there.
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Totally. New Windows machines from the get-go start out full of bloated garbage, and it just goes downhill from there. It would be like if every time you wanted to buy a car, there was a comatose hippopotamus stuffed in the back...
"What, you don't want the free hippo we've included? Well, you can always drop it off somewhere... just be careful, cause those things get MAD when you move em."
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Why does this bug people so much? It doesn't take very long to install Ccleaner, uninstall the excess baggage, then scrub the registry. I mean, the stuff that's a bitch about actually coming out like Norton I can understand, but I can take 10 minutes for a 50$ knock off of the price (which is what it often amounts to for the end user- they don't get to preload those programs for free.)
Carl-E:
What bugs people is that they have to do it - why can't you just buy a machine with a clean install in the first place?
Also, this is not Marigold's first encounter with Tai. I think (OK, hope) she may be a bit cautious after that... incident.
celticgeek:
GNU/Linux
Sorry, just had to do that. I will remove myself to the Old Geeks' Bragging Thread immediately.
akronnick:
Is that what last week's WCDT has become?
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