And just general mouth sounds. Keep that shit quiet. Also, no speaking with your mouth, if at all possible. If you must talk with your mouth, please try being polite and covering your mouth so I do not have to see.
Oh my god chewing noises. And just general mouth sounds. Keep that shit quiet
Cupboard doors should be closed once you're done with them upon penalty of death.
There ought to be a law
TOBAL
They're smarter than they seem
Government ministers ought to be required to sit a high school level exam in the subject area relating to their policy area, and if they don't get an A they will be replaced with a high school student who did.I've suggested in a newspaper editorial that elected local officials should be required to play Sim City. It might have more punch if I'd actually played it myself.
There ought to be a lawTOBALThat was quick!
Government ministers ought to be required to sit a high school level exam in the subject area relating to their policy area, and if they don't get an A they will be replaced with a high school student who did.
Also, no speaking with your mouth full of food, if at all possible. If you must talk with anything in your mouth, please try being polite and covering your mouth so I do not have to see whatever is in there.
Or get a cafetiera or french press and some half decent espresso and anyone who complains beyond that get´s hot coffee to the crotch :-)
I once accused my mum of being addicted to caffeine and she determined to go three days without drinking tea to prove me wrong. After three hours she felt so ill she had to have a cup.Shame she didn't stick to it, because the withdrawal symptoms only last for 48 hours, max.
Are you decaffeinated? No coffee, no tea... in the US, younger people make up for that with Monster and Mountain Dew (more caffeine than espresso...)
I only rarely drink soda though because my parents were strict like that and wouldn't let us have any except as a threat.What I read. You must have had some really strict parents!
I once accused my mum of being addicted to caffeine and she determined to go three days without drinking tea to prove me wrong. After three hours she felt so ill she had to have a cup.Shame she didn't stick to it, because the withdrawal symptoms only last for 48 hours, max.
What I read. You must have had some really strict parents!
TOBAL against sitting on the floor of a narrow hallway with your legs spread out across. Especially a group of multiple ones taking up both sides of the hallway. If you are going to do it, at least pull your legs in when multiple people are trying to walk through the hall. If you give death glares because I have the audacity to need to get to the other side of the hallway, I will step on your legs.
We didn't have fizzy drinks, sweets or television when I was a child. Once I was about eight and allowed to cross the road to the post office on my own to spend my tiny amount of pocket money I did sometimes buy myself chocolate (which would be given to us as treats or presents anyway) but as a vegetarian I didn't want chewy sweets anyway. Fizzy drinks were a novelty for a short while but I dislike them now and I only watch a couple of hours of television a week these days, if that.Wait, what do chewy sweets have to do with being a vegetarian? And when exactly did you choose to become a vegetarian?
TOBAL against sitting on the floor of a narrow hallway with your legs spread out across. Especially a group of multiple ones taking up both sides of the hallway. If you are going to do it, at least pull your legs in when multiple people are trying to walk through the hall. If you give death glares because I have the audacity to need to get to the other side of the hallway, I will step on your legs.
TOBAL that actually makes people legally responsible for investigating claims and talking directly to people suspected of infringing copyright laws, so shit like this (http://wpmu.org/serverbeach-takes-1-45-million-edublogs-offline-just-12-hours-after-sending-through-a-lame-dmca-notice/) doesn't happen :xTechnically, Serverbeach was an infringing party by hosting the content. Serverbeach may have handled it poorly, but the lawyers for Pearsons were directly contacting an infringing party. The problem with asking lawyers to directly contact the uploader of infringing copyright is that they frequently have no means to do so. In this case the actual violator, in the traditional sense would be the teacher who made the site in question. There is likely no contact information for said teacher on the website in question. The compromise from the DMCA between allowing violations to remain online unchecked and sueing every host of user content on the web was the DMCA violation notice system we have.
The protein in the gelatine comes from animals!Delicious, delicious pony hooves...
Ponies might be about the only animal whose hooves aren't used for gelatine... I could be wrong though!
There oughta be a law that treats all psychoactive drugs equally. Seriously guys, caffeine might be the least harmful psychoactive drug in existence, but being addicted to anything is not good. If you think you need caffeine to wake up, or to stay focused, it's just the habituation that keeps you sluggish, and the caffeine only serves to bring you back to normal levels of alertness. Avoid caffeine for a few days, and you'll be rid of it completely.
My father's best friend (a country rector) used to make stew with pig's trotters. You could find some nice meat in them if you looked.
I'm cool with that, I love fuckin shrooms
OK, I'm confused. If Method of Madness' reference to math has an extra letter in it, is it realer?I'm guessing you're talking about the s? Maths makes more sense than math, since you never see the singular form of "mathematics" used, why would it be singular in the shortened word?
If the extra letter is "i", then no.
I pronounce it maffs, which might be easier to say?
maths.ox.ac.uk!
I pronounce it maffs, which might be easier to say?
TOBAL that if you're talking to someone with an unfamiliar accent, I am personally grand with it if you ask something to the effect of, "Where are you from?" (Not that everyone is okay with that question, so mind that.) However when I answer, "I'm from here." it is annoying to say, "Well, where are your parents from?" or even worse, "No. You can't be." and then when I go on to say I've lived here all my life, as in this one town, it is not okay for you to argue with me that I must be lying or have some kind of foreign aspect to my family line.
Would it be appropriate to ask you where your accent comes from, then?
TOBAL about people who derail threads with Maths! ;)Would lack of intent be exculpatory? I was making what I thought was a joke about an extra letter added to "math."
TOBAL also against leaving pubic hairs on the toilet seat.I wouldn't make a law against that specifically because there are a LOT of worse things you can leave on a toilet seat, and almost all of them are worse than little strands of lifeless keratin.
Pubic hair: Curly little strands of lifeless keratin don't have little things clinging on for dear life?
Re: accents - It is completely possible to live somewhere and have an accent that is different from most of the people in the area! I have a friend who is from a small town in Texas and you'd think she'd never been to the south in her life based on her accent. Also her dad has one, but she and her sister don't really.Anyone care to speculate on how that happens?
TOBAL also against leaving pubic hairs on the toilet seat.I wouldn't make a law against that specifically because there are a LOT of worse things you can leave on a toilet seat, and almost all of them are worse than little strands of lifeless keratin.
Generally, UK and former colonies use "maths", while US (and Canada, it rubs off) use "math"Both the USA (or at least parts of it) and Canada are former colonies. I say "maths".
Sometimes teenagers hang out on the stairs between the tram station and the train station.TOBAL against riding up an escalator, stepping off, and then stopping dead to hold a discussion.
(and Canada, it rubs off)
TOBAL against people letting their kids run around a supermarket by themselves.
Quietly chewing should be mandatory. There are few things more offputting or disgusting to me than hearing someone eating from across the room.In Singapore, it's even stricter than that. Chewing gum is completely illegal except for medical use, on the order of a physician. Kinda like medical marijuana in the U.S.
Like some latter-day Eliza Doolittle, I went to what were called "accent reduction" lessons as part of my ESL education. How far a hypothetical Henry Higgins would be able to identify any remaining Chinese influence on my English speech, I do not know. I have travelled to a number of regions of the USA (though not Baltimore as yet :-)), and nobody seems to have any trouble understanding me, which is the main thing.
If there is a traffic jam and I am in the passing lane, stuck there, I do NOT want to see the far right lane cruising steadily along unless there was a goddamn car fire in the left lane up ahead. Normal hustle-bustle traffic is NOT supposed to fuck over the people who use the roads properly (I drive about 250 miles a day for work...it gets to me).
If you had a detectable non-Australian accent, doesn't that excuse the people who complimented you on your English, if they could tell it was ESL?It might, but I'd be more inclined to give the benefit of the doubt if I didn't suspect that their reaction had more to do with how I look than how I sound. I like to think that my English is good now, but I have sometimes wondered if it still projects otherness, at least at a subliminal level. No stranger has ever made such a remark after talking to me only on the phone as <my "English" name>, but someone who had never met me might feel it was not socially appropriate anyway, so that is hardly decisive. Short of wearing some Mission Impossible-style "white girl" disguise, it is difficult to separate people's reaction to my spoken English from their recognition of my ethnic appearance.
Traffic jams: it's impossible to maintain the recommended distance from the car in front, but the closer everyone comes to that, the more stable the traffic flow is.There have been closed-course tests on cars networked together, each keeping track of the distance from the one in front of it. They move as a beautiful synchronous convoy.
"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are a called law firm; and that three or more become a congress."
~John Adams, as portrayed in 1776
Wait, do a bunch of you guys know each other in real life?
Nary a one has ever tried to murder me in my sleep!
There ought to be a law that prevents random people coming up to my kid and touching him. I mean, they wouldn't consider it cute if I did that to them, right? So what does age matter in that respect?
I'm sure a few of us live in the NYC area, which would take away the need for (significant) travel and lodging.
Why would any one think that is okay? I suggest teaching your child to yell, "Stranger Danger!" loudly at them.
Why would any one think that is okay? I suggest teaching your child to yell, "Stranger Danger!" loudly at them.
... BEST idea EVER!
...but I still consider them to be demeaning harassment.because they are.
Well you get told they're meant to be a compliment by some people but that hardly means you have to take it as a compliment. I've been told I should appreciate male attention of any kind since I "must not get it much as a bigger girl".
You're supposed to take wolf whistles as a compliment but I still consider them to be demeaning harassment.
Even worse is the look you get from the Japanese when you try to speak to them in their native tongue. My wife's Japanese instructor, an American, spoke fluently to a group of people in Kyoto, asking where the nearest train station was...they just looked at him like he couldn't understand him.
I'm surprised by some of the replies describing PJ in this thread -- it's just another "talk about anything" forum, with fewer subsections.
There oughta be a law that when a foreigner talks to you, you respond in the same language that they're speaking. If someone makes the effort to speak your native language to you, then it's disrespectful to just default to English or any other language that you know the other person understands better, otherwise that effort is wasted.
It should come as no surprise that I just came back from Germany.
TOBAL that anyone who holds your data, forum or not, has to give you a chance to preserve it if they're going out of business.
Looking over the posters at PJ I realized why I like the QC forum so much more these days.I do miss some of the crowd who went over to PJ because they were very interesting, but so far not enough to register there.
"Are you REALLY sure you want to post this?"
"Disclaimer: by posting this to (whatever) you are removing any liability or injury that could be claimed against (whatever) and squarely placing it upon you, up to and including charges of aggravated assault/homicide if you are threatening anyone. So, one last time - Do you REALLY want to post this?"
There needs to be a language analysis algorithm that determines how many times you have to click a confirmation (or pass a CAPTCHA) depending on the number of keywords and phrases in your post.
In other words, smart forums.
I can promise you that bots are FAR more numerous than legitimate posters
no bots register here these days.
It protects us from spambots. Let's raise a drink for our '4our' or '4 or four' fort.
[...] no one's arrived saying that it was tricky to get in. [...]
TOBAL against wearing skinny jeans with these dress boots that are fashionable around here now.
TOBAL against Polyglotism in bed. :-D... speaking in tongues not accepted?
I would just fold the edges back along themselves
TOBAL against Polyglotism in bed. :-D
Also, overly-affectionate shower curtains.
Ah, Pilchard, I admired the coinage! I googled on it, and found, among other things: http://www.microwaves101.com/content/unknowneditor18.cfm (http://www.microwaves101.com/content/unknowneditor18.cfm)Also, overly-affectionate shower curtains.Yes. There has to be a way of fixing this. More magnets at the bottom?
Also, overly-affectionate shower curtains.TOBAL agains baths. Baths are wasteful of water, energy, and space. Like many homes in Australia, mine has no bath, just a shower cubicle. I had the curtain replaced with a sliding door, mainly because it was easier to keep clean. Problem solved!
Also, overly-affectionate shower curtains.Magnets.
TOBAL agains baths. Baths are wasteful of water, energy, and space. Like many homes in Australia, mine has no bath, just a shower cubicle. I had the curtain replaced with a sliding door, mainly because it was easier to keep clean. Problem solved!Baths I can agree with, but pleeease don't take away the hot tub!
If you have a kid, you'll be a trans parent.
OhgodI'msosorrybutsometimesIcan'tresist.
Baths don't waste water! At least, a medium-full bath uses less water than a long shower.You would have to be taking very long showers for this to be true. The average modern bath has a capacity of around 200 litres. Some old baths (like Carl's Lusitania) had capacities up to around 500 litres. A modern efficient shower-head has a flow-rate of around 10 litres per minute even on a mains-pressure water system of the sort installed most houses in Sydney. An Australian "three-star" shower-head is certified to have a flow-rate under 9 litres per minute. Assuming you have a 200 litre bath, and "medium fill" it with 150 litres of water (http://www.confusedaboutenergy.co.uk/index.php/energy-saving-tips/hot-water/79-shallow-bath-or-deep-bath), you'd need to be taking showers lasting in excess of 15 minutes to exceed the bath's water consumption. Obviously a 100 litre bath is roughly equivalent to a 10 minute shower, and so on.
you'd need to be taking showers lasting in excess of 15 minutes to exceed the bath's water consumption.
Akima, the poster raises a question: You or someone here recently posted a couple of Chinese posters with slogans, with an awkward English translation that it seems to me no English speaker would take seriously.To avoid derailing this thread too much, I decided to answer your questions (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,28341.msg1109852.html#msg1109852) over in the Political Art thread in the Discuss sub-forum.
I do turn the water off when I shampoo usually, as well.
I never understood why people claimed that dishwashers use less water than washing by hand until I discovered that there were many, many people who just ran the tap the whole time they washed dishes.
Shows how little I know about fashion. I think the third one looks better than the second one. Then again I'm not quite sure I know the difference between "leggings", "trousers" and "pants". (I'm pretty sure the second and third are the same, just regional. Are leggings just tight pants?)
TOBAL against driving under the speed limit. I now have to factor extra time into my schedule to accommodate slow driving idiots.TOBAL against people that drive way too slow on single-lane roads, then when the yellow line goes dotted (indicating it's legal to pass if there's no oncoming traffic), they try and speed up to fuck with you when you're trying to pass them.
By the way, I am picturing every last one of you in the shower, one by one, and it's awesome. :psyduck:
My gender isn't so much fluid as really, really big.
Another problem with leggings:
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nUDN9DQrRHQ/T_30tDbA6II/AAAAAAAAAes/JKYK85MHqCs/s640/nude-leggings1.jpg)
Hint: look at her ankles.
I would call jeans trousers, in the general sense of the sentence "I no longer wear trousers", but I definitely wouldn't call leggings trousers. That'd be a bit like saying that boxer shorts are "pants" because they're the same sort of shape and cover the same areas as regular shorts. True, but if you go out in a shirt and your boxers you will look undressed. Same with leggings.Fair enough...but shorts aren't pants, they're shorts. But boxers are underpants. Are leggings just long underpants or something? I'd never heard the term used until recently.
Thank you all for explaining and much better than I could, including the pants/trousers definitions. Nekowafer linked the image I couldn't find, even. My discussion skills are a bit rusty, it seems.
just that they're too... short... to be outerwearAre we talking short shorts or all shorts?
I've heard the whole leggings vs. pants before, and I still don't get it. Probably because the word "pants" to me means "something you wear from the waist down that covers your legs". I don't see how leggings aren't pants. Unpleasant looking and tight pants, sure, but pants nonetheless!
Leggings and opaque tights are acceptable as the only thing covering your legs, but not your butt/crotch. But I wouldn't necessarily say the outfit has to be able to stand without them. They can serve to bring a top from "is that supposed to be a shirt or a dress? either way it's way too short to wear in public" to "acceptable because now I won't see your panties if you happen to bend over".
Pilchard, are those a thing? Because if so...ew.
TOBAL against trousers with boxers sown in so that you can walk around with your backside hanging out.
Holy shit. 1-20, that's crazy impressive.It is, but trancendentalize is a word only a Dalek would love.
At the beginning of each semester, I apologize to my students, and tell them that, "If at any time you can't read what I've written, please be sure to stop me. Odds are, no one else can read it either, and sometimes even I can't read it..."
That makes me sad, especially since I just found some nice calligraphy pens.I actually just took up cursive again on account of having gotten myself a fountain pen.
The only thing I ever write in cursive is my name. Strictly speaking, I don't have a signature, I just write my name in cursive. One could say that there's no difference but my signature will look at least a little different each time. There's no muscle memory, it's just me writing my name, since I don't have to sign my name terribly often.
Guys, is it sensible to post your signature on the internet...?
The thing is, plenty of people see both my signature and full name every day. When I send paperwork to doctors, I sign the cover page. And there's all the old paperwork, some secured and some not, with my signature.
If this included any information on a bank account, then I would absolutely be concerned. But just my signature isn't going to get anyone anything.
stuff on pastebin
The links didn't work. Also, I've heard it plenty of times but I'm still not sure what it means to "check your privilege".
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/PrivilegeInteresting. Not really sure what to do with that, but...interesting.
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/PrivilegeInteresting. Not really sure what to do with that, but...interesting.
Being in places where I feel like I don't belong or fit in makes me anxious.
Wait, do people actually not have this sort of anxiety? Because I know that when I go to a place where I feel that I don't fit in (most recently it was going to the bar down the street, it just didn't feel right to be in a bar having a shot) I just feel weird and want to leave and go back to my room where everything is familiar.
I never answer if the number isn't stored in my phone and don't return calls if there's no message.
I've never heard it. What's it mean?
Conjunction of the words Facebook and rape.
When a person leaves their laptop/PC unattended whilst signed into Facebook and other people change various parts of their personal page to humiliating or undesirable material.
Oh shit, their Facebook got shut down? That's horrible! Were they able to get it back?Would that really be such a huge disaster?
It could mean losing a lot of pictures/messages, so...yeah.Oh shit, their Facebook got shut down? That's horrible! Were they able to get it back?Would that really be such a huge disaster?
I don't think you would lose all your photos etc. When you deactivate your account, everything is held in stasis so that when you reactivate (as of course they want you to), it is all still there.Yes, if you deactivate, but if they delete it as punishment, that might be irreversible.
This is a library and I´m Anal McLoonypants today :O
TOBAL against microwaving fish in the office kitchen. Ugh.I reheat all sorts of delicious smelly things in the microwave at work, and dare anyone to say anything... I don't complain about the smell of their milk and cheese, or the horrid oily miasma rising from their mass-produced deep-pan pizzas, so they can put up with my pickled vegetables or hot-sour-soup. I don't use my microwave much for cooking at home, but for the things I do use it for, it is pretty indispensable.
I relish all these food puns.If we let it go too long, we'll never ketchup.
That said, I mustard heard them all before.
ketchup used to just mean sauce. That is why the bottle still frequently specifies "tomato ketchup"
There is a "没有" pun here some where, but I can't speak enough Chinese to make it. Akima?没有 (méiyǒu) is quite close to the English "mayo", but the third-tone on the second syllable is a bit off. Closer would be 煤油 (méiyóu) with both syllables in the second-tone. It means "kerosene", which might be just as oily as mayonnaise, but probably won't taste as good on your salad.
When I tutored my Chinese student/friend in English one of our lessons went over condiments, because she never knew what to order when she got food. I brought in a small sample of everything I could find and a container of french fries and she tried them all and I helped her learn the names. She had trouble pronouncing "mayonnaise" (which she liked and so would want to know how to ask for) I told her to just say "没有" (Chinese for don't have) instead, because, to my ears anyways, it was the same sound as "mayo" and if I heard it that way, so would most waiters.
It is one of the few times my very limited Chinese has been useful.
I don't believe I've seen vinegar packets anywhere 'round these parts.
"Salad cream" sounds gross. After wikiing it, it appears to be similar to mayo, which means yes...it is gross.
I don't believe I've seen vinegar packets anywhere 'round these parts.
And I can't wrap my head around mayo in packets - I know it's fine but why doesn't it go bad?
I add salad dressing and pickle relish to my canned tuna for sandwiches.
I'd never heard of salad cream until today. Looked it up on Wiki, and saw as I suspected that it "resembles" salad dressing, which to me "resembles" mayo.Salad dressing in the USA is very strange. In Chicago, having been warned of fat-laden horrors like Ranch Dressing, I once ordered a salad with French Dressing. It was gooey, sweet, pink, and not at all what I expected (a vinaigrette made with oil, wine vinegar, salt, pepper, and maybe a small pinch of ground mustard).
You might be getting some of that back: www.bofaoverdraftsettlement.com
Ugh, BoA. I keep meaning to switch because they've pulled that shit on me, too.
I'm surprised they don't try to charge overdraft fees for not being able to cover the overdraft fees.
They could at least be honest and say "Yeah, we just get shitloads of money this way."
Join a credit union.
Join a credit union.
There is a "没有" pun here some where, but I can't speak enough Chinese to make it. Akima?没有 (méiyǒu) is quite close to the English "mayo", but the third-tone on the second syllable is a bit off. Closer would be 煤油 (méiyóu) with both syllables in the second-tone. It means "kerosene", which might be just as oily as mayonnaise, but probably won't taste as good on your salad.
When I tutored my Chinese student/friend in English one of our lessons went over condiments, because she never knew what to order when she got food. I brought in a small sample of everything I could find and a container of french fries and she tried them all and I helped her learn the names. She had trouble pronouncing "mayonnaise" (which she liked and so would want to know how to ask for) I told her to just say "没有" (Chinese for don't have) instead, because, to my ears anyways, it was the same sound as "mayo" and if I heard it that way, so would most waiters.
It is one of the few times my very limited Chinese has been useful.
Holy shit, second- and third-tones? What in the actual fuck, I've got a really good ear and I think I'd have a lot of trouble with Chinese.
I can see them... marching in formation... twirling those wrenches in beautiful, horrible patterns as the populace flee before them...Very wrong, very fucking funny.
And on each arm, the black lugwrench in a white circle on a red armband...
Kinda like this;
[...]
There ought to be a law that makes it illegal to leave an unoccupied building lit up like a Christmas tree.
The boyfriend wears shorts and sandals year-round.
How is wearing shorts a social issue?
It is forecast to be 43C in Sydney tomorrow. I just thought I'd get that out there...
There ought to be a law that building numbers and house numbers should be in a standardized location and size so that you can find them while driving without being dangerously distracted by the task.
Well sheeeeet I hope none of you ever come visit my mum's house. Not only does it not have a number, its name is only visible once you're in the garden and it's on an unnamed road.
Or worse: how many times has the wrong door been broken down by a SWAT team?NSW police once demolished an entire house looking for drugs. It had the right number, in the wrong street!
Well sheeeeet I hope none of you ever come visit my mum's house. Not only does it not have a number, its name is only visible once you're in the garden and it's on an unnamed road.
On Skype or it didn't happen.
how certain words are said.Wait, isn't that what an accent is? :?
TOBAL that when people leave their cars running in the winter to warm them up, that they can't turn on the radio or music to decibel breaking levels for the five or ten minutes it takes for the car to thaw.
It would be fun to hear that.