I wish I could get my Muse published.
3-4 solid stories floating around in my skull.
Then I guess you're not going to start an e. e. cummings appreciation thread?
;)
I hate topics that are all in small letters.StUdLyCaPs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studly_caps) are far worse.
I've been watching Prime Minister's Questions (from the UK and Australia) and it's way more interesting than anything that happens in the U.S. Congress. Only once in a short while does a Congressman give an animated speech, and disputes between parties play out in long, boring speeches or in press conferences. But in Parliamentary systems there's a built in procedure for yelling right at each other. It's brilliant.The U.S. Congress could always go back to the old way of settling disputes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner)
EDIT: Jamaica may be the winner though. You come outside and say that! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXWZAh6sh0c)
I know. May made the topic in my post look like that. Because she's mean. :xI hate topics that are all in small letters.StUdLyCaPs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studly_caps) are far worse.
I've been watching Prime Minister's Questions (from the UK and Australia) and it's way more interesting than anything that happens in the U.S. Congress. Only once in a short while does a Congressman give an animated speech, and disputes between parties play out in long, boring speeches or in press conferences. But in Parliamentary systems there's a built in procedure for yelling right at each other. It's brilliant.The U.S. Congress could always go back to the old way of settling disputes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner)
EDIT: Jamaica may be the winner though. You come outside and say that! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXWZAh6sh0c)
edit -- The one from 1858 is pretty funny. (I guess except for the postscript that most of the people involved in the fight died in the Civil War.) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_violence#United_States)
Allow me to suggest the following song as an educational tool.
Then taking him to the appropriate fine shops and have him pick out an appropriate pair of fighting trousers.
Do not however show him this link: http://www.steamgirl.com/ NSFW and lovely in it.
I wish I could get my Muse published.
It's weird.That doesn't answer my question :roll:
Babies can't help crying, but their parents can do things about it - feeding a baby on a flight is a good way to get them calm. Small children can help kicking the back of seats and if their parents aren't stopping them, they're crap parents.
itis: Suffix meaning inflammation. For example, colitis is literally colon inflammation or figuratively inflammation of the colon. The ending -itis is one of the building blocks derived from Greek (in this case) or Latin used to construct medical terms.
-osis
a suffix occurring in nouns that denote actions, conditions, or states ( hypnosis; leukocytosis; osmosis ), especially disorders or abnormal states ( chlorosis; neurofibromatosis; tuberculosis ).
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Checking the phone is almost like a reflex.
Anyone else get the phantom buzz against your leg (or wherever you usually keep you phone)?Often. And often a few seconds before the alarm actually goes off.
Even when it's not on vibrate...
"I want someone to exercise a moral influence on [my fifteen year old daughter]. She is not normal".
"Thymus gland?", hinted Ann.
THYMUS-CENTRED TYPE
As already mentioned, the thymus has a great influence upon the sex characteristics and sexual life of each person. It lies at the base of the throat at the upper chest, and in early childhood (up to six or seven) is very large and active. Sometimes, however, it does not become as inactive as it should, and we then have hyperthymus persons.
These people carry childhood traits into adult life. Their skin is soft and rounded, there is little sex differentiation, as the organs have been retarded in their development. Thus the thymus-centred male will lack the aggressiveness and dominant emotional attitude of the balanced man, while the women seem sexless and lack the retiring disposition.
The thymus-centred person is often one in whom unbalanced attraction towards his or her own sex is a pathological situation, and not a development from mental or emotional disturbance. The sex organs of such people have been retarded in their normal development, and thus their body is not receiving sufficient male or female hormones to polarise and stabilise them in their own sex.
One also finds that their moral nature does not become mature, and also, because of a pathological cause, they can sometimes become inveterate liars or even criminals.
Yeah I do that, my brother had a song he really liked and it had a sound in it that made me check my phone every single time, despite knowing that it was the song.
Just know that I am on my way (know that i am on my way)
It doesn't matter where or when there's trouble
If ya just call my name
Okay, I dont know where to put it.It seems you have bigger problems than references to glands you're not getting...
Have some deep thoughts.How U-U of you!
being in Cleveland Ohio is probably what kissing your second cousin at a family reunion is like, it only lasts a moment but the regret lasts a lifetimeI spent a pleasant night with a second cousin. Lots of hanky minus PIV panky, and it was sort of a lifetime ago -- Thanksgiving 1962 comes to mind. No regrets.
being in Cleveland Ohio is probably what kissing your second cousin at a family reunion is like, it only lasts a moment but the regret lasts a lifetimeI spent a pleasant night with a second cousin. Lots of hanky minus PIV panky, and it was sort of a lifetime ago -- Thanksgiving 1962 comes to mind. No regrets.
Sometimes I think about the possibility that there is just nothing after death and I freak out a little bit.Me too.
If anything I hope there's nothing after death because the only religion I've come close to believing in would send me to hell.Basically this.
If anything I hope there's nothing after death because the only religion I've come close to believing in would send me to hell.Just become jewish and everything becomes negotionable.
What are these near-imperceptibly tiny flying bugs that are swarming the hot summer air - and after I opened my window, my room - by the thousands? They're almost too tiny to squash and there's too many of them!Gnats.
Personally, I would hope that I could get reincarnated as a rather spoilt cat.Not as a rather spoilt hedgehog? :P
Gnats.Looked them up, and their appearance doesn't match. These things look nothing like flies, they're are about half as wide as a pinhead and about twice the length. They're completely black and appear to be wingless, and they're so small that they're practically invisible in flight.
Sometimes I think about the possibility that there is just nothing after death and I freak out a little bit.I've never been able to shake some of the Christian teachings I learned since childhood, although I'm not a churchgoer. I've said this before elsewhere in the forum: When my wife of 40 years died in 2011, I realized that even if mankind had never invented religion, grieving people would have invented an afterlife as a matter of necessity. How can a person you love deeply just disappear?
Nope. Because they can never be buggered at all.Personally, I would hope that I could get reincarnated as a rather spoilt cat.Not as a rather spoilt hedgehog? :P
Emoroffle and Nekowafer's names merged in my brain and created Emowaffle.
How can a person you love deeply just disappear?
What are these near-imperceptibly tiny flying bugs that are swarming the hot summer air - and after I opened my window, my room - by the thousands? They're almost too tiny to squash and there's too many of them!
Yeah, not enough forIt's not enough for me, but I still don't believe in an afterlife, although like I said earler...sometimes I wish I did.somemost. That's why there's such a strong afterlife belief around the world.
Midges actually look like super-tiny mosquitoes, and yeah, the dirt thing.
Some varieties bite.
That, and hedgehogs have this inescapable dilemma, that personally I'd like to get out of.Nope. Because they can never be buggered at all.Personally, I would hope that I could get reincarnated as a rather spoilt cat.Not as a rather spoilt hedgehog? :P
I agree. Would it apply to May's cauliflower, though?
Someone mentioned that they didn't like beer, and I thought of this: "Saying you don't like beer after having a Bud Light or something similar is like saying you don't like juice after drinking the dishwater that was used to wash a juice glass in which the last dregs were left in a warm room to go mouldy."
Someone mentioned that they didn't like beer, and I thought of this: "Saying you don't like beer after having a Bud Light or something similar is like saying you don't like juice after drinking watered down orange drink."
Sad thing as that at least in my part of the US (where we actually have access to a metric shit-ton of good craft beers), Stella is generally considered one of the "fancier" options. It does make me laugh rather sardonically, but yeah, I'd rather drink well G&Ts than Stella.
I have in the past. When I use the direct approach he basically takes it as 'try again 2 weeks later'
The important thing is you've tried them. My objection is when people decide all beer is the same and that they hate it after trying a particularly shitty one.Someone mentioned that they didn't like beer, and I thought of this: "Saying you don't like beer after having a Bud Light or something similar is like saying you don't like juice after drinking watered down orange drink."
I've tried some pretty good quality beers, thanks, and while I could taste the quality being much higher than say, Stella Artois, it still tasted absolutely rancid.
How direct are you being? I get the impression from the other threads that you can be quite socially anxious and so likely aren't a fan of confrontation. Have you explored actually just telling him to fuck off and leave you alone because you're sick of his bullshit? I understand if you're too sweet-natured to do that.
Out of interest, and obviously being that you're quite new here you may not want to answer any of this, why do you still even talk to him in any format?
My answers have ranged from just a flat out no, saying that I'm not interested in him in that way any longer, and actually explaining to him why a couple times when he asked. It's hard to tell him to fuck off completely because usually this stuff comes out of left field from an innocent conversation.
After dealing with this multiple times and having to explain why I don't like him like we're in middle school or something, I've stopped initiating contact with him. I didn't go to his birthday when he invited me because when he mentioned it in the past he hinted about fooling around on his bed, something I'm not really interested in dealing with in front of his friends that I don't know. Every once and a while he talks to me on facebook and I think he still has my number so he could text me if he wanted to.
Yeah, I *know*, which is why I tend to laugh when I see someone order one… Especially since one of my local pubs has a great drinks selection, and another is a dedicated beer shop with about 20 on draught.Sad thing as that at least in my part of the US (where we actually have access to a metric shit-ton of good craft beers), Stella is generally considered one of the "fancier" options. It does make me laugh rather sardonically, but yeah, I'd rather drink well G&Ts than Stella.
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I'm sorry, let me just compose myself.
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Over here Stella is considered to be so classy that it's a byword for domestic violence.
Wait, really? I don't think Stella is great, but I wouldn't call it bad by any means.
Honestly, there are so many threats to the planet's existence at the moment that it's hard to pick just one to panic about.
Honestly, there are so many threats to the planet's existence at the moment that it's hard to pick just one to panic about.Time to get a Worry Hat.
Honestly, there are so many threats to the planet's existence at the moment that it's hard to pick just one to panic about.Hellooo, new sigquote :P
I haven't seen a strain identified in the news, but they keep saying 90% so it's either Zaire, or sources aren't saying and the news people are assuming the worst for ratings (more likely).
Either way, it's blood borne, so it shouldn't pose much of an infection risk in a first world medical environment.
Honestly, there are so many threats to the planet's existence at the moment that it's hard to pick just one to panic about.There are threats to us, sure, but there are no threats to the planet's existence short of the sun exploding.
What about the rest of you? Which personage would you like to have a sit down with?I would like to make tea for Master Hsu Yun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsu_Yun).
There are threats to us, sure,
What about the rest of you? Which personage would you like to have a sit down with?I would like to make tea for Master Hsu Yun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsu_Yun).
But change is always on the cards; the only issue is the extent to which we can be held directly responsible for influencing or even driving some aspect of it.
Who caused it isn't the issueFinding out who caused it is the issue if they refuse to stop causing it.
By the end of this month, I'll be in my late twenties. Whoa.
I've never been invited to a baby-eating.(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BuiJWh2CIAAGs9M.jpg)
Quite informative, especially WRT the process involved. (Someone step up and launch a funding drive to get this guy a 3D printer)
The guy with the stick (and I'm glad it's obvious it's a stick) is Miyamoto Musashi
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I dunno much about the art of tube stroking.
Could be worse. The AF base I was stationed at had a bomb range where they could drop MOABs.
MY children, however, are required to be in the top 5% of their class.
Otherwise, I will restrict them from all other non-academic activities.
That's so weird to me. I know I come from a very different academic background (my school didn't actually have grades) but it just seems like that is asking for students to view each other as competition and to overvalue grades over actual learning.The implicit assumption here is that somehow good grades are divorced from actual learning. It is certainly possible for "grade focus" to be harmful if it leads to rote learning in high-school and beyond, but that has a great deal to do with poor teaching, bad test design, and poor incentive/assessment schemes for teachers. How much creativity is involved in learning functional literacy in your native language, or the sort of mathematics needed for 99% of later life?
MY children, however, are required to be in the top 5% of their class.My parents would not have given you any argument. Except they'd have regarded your 5% as ridiculously over-liberal. :laugh:
*I'm embarrassed to admit it, but resentment was a powerful spur. Behind a polite facade, I was one angry little girl.
That's ridiculous. What if different students are aiming towards different goals? Or starting from different points? What's far more important is knowing where you are compared to where you want to be, and how to get there.
"I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or god persuade a thousand cats to do anything at the same time" -- Neil Gaiman
MY children, however, are required to be in the top 5% of their class.My parents would not have given you any argument. Except they'd have regarded your 5% as ridiculously over-liberal. :laugh:
About your signature:Even then, with a thousand cats the chances are good that some of them will not notice, not care, not like that particular brand or simply be asleep.Quote"I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or god persuade a thousand cats to do anything at the same time" -- Neil Gaiman
Have you tried opening a can of cat food?
MY children, however, are required to be in the top 5% of their class.
Otherwise, I will restrict them from all other non-academic activities.
Or high on catnip, or chasing invisible insects, or shredding/pissing on something that you rather like (It's much easier to reply once someone else has taken the trouble of writing about half of what I would have written).About your signature:Even then, with a thousand cats the chances are good that some of them will not notice, not care, not like that particular brand or simply be asleep.Quote"I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or god persuade a thousand cats to do anything at the same time" -- Neil Gaiman
Have you tried opening a can of cat food?
You could always just not do it... it's not like you're required.
The rules say if you skip the ice water you donate $100, if you do the ice water you donate $10Those are more guidelines, really. You should donate whatever you can/wish to whether you ice or not. If you don't want to do the ice, donating $30 is still very helpful.
The rules say if you skip the ice water you donate $100, if you do the ice water you donate $10Those are more guidelines, really. You should donate whatever you can/wish to whether you ice or not. If you don't want to do the ice, donating $30 is still very helpful.
Carpets are warm and soft.
Carpets are warm and soft.Aye, but they can be a nasty source of friction burns.
Ok, here's what I don't get. The metric system, for the most part, makes sense. The only thing that seems unnecessarily complicated is the definition of a meter as "the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second." Ok, if that's how you're going to measure a meter, and you already know how generally long it is, why not define a meter as an even 1/300,000,000th of a light second?Because then the length of the meter would have changed by about 100 microns. It doesn't sound like a whole lot, but that amount matters.
Are dudes in tight pants a negative?
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So, an acquaintance of mine married on Wednesday (civil, church and Klingon law).And here I am, thinking that you're roughly my age (plus a few), and I never even had a relationship yet. Yup, definitely weird.
People roughly my age (+3 years or so) are getting married and get kids (although at least the latter is accidental in the two cases I know of).
This is all kinds of weird.
For example, you could have no toy soldiers.
I wish I did.
Hell, I wish I hadn't had to sell the Van!
Either that, or a bunch of rather strange people frequent this place.
Yeah, the "measure twice, cut once" is carpentry, where wood is cheaper than rifled barrels.
Then again, as my grampa once said in the middle of a project, "Damn! That's twice I cut it off, and it's still too short!"
APPLE WATCH
I doubt I'm going to get a terribly good grade on this initial project.
Lol I just had a Random Thought:Random indeed.
You're all calling me dreamy, so I guess that makes me McDreamy, right?
Also makes Patrick McSteamy
A pipe dream, perhaps. But giving any oxygen to the concept at a high political level fosters a breeding ground that, once unleashed, becomes difficult to contain.
This forum doesn't seems to have a favicon set and so my browser has random public wi-fi favicons assigned to various pages. The main page is something that is a Giant 'A', Chatter is Tim hortons, and some thread somewhere is Starbucks (the rest are blank). I think it's funny, but also I think it contributes to my having the forum open in multiple tabs.
Does that mean I have to stop dogging my own painting skills? Cause I still think I suck.The feeling that one can do better is the mother of progress.
Does that mean I have to stop dogging my own painting skills? Cause I still think I suck.The feeling that one can do better is the mother of progress.
"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing." Paul Cezanne
I don't understand why birthday cards sometimes say 'congratulations' on them.The vast majority of humans is dead. If you are one of the six percent that is alive, isn't that worth celebrating?
'Congratulations on continuing the compulsory aging process!'
'Congratulations on not being dead yet!'
You've not achieved anything except not dying, which everyone who isn't dead has achieved.
It makes-ah-no-sense-ah to me-ah.
Do catbuses go feral? If so, is it a good idea to spay or neuter them?
Yep. Tolerances range from .002 thousandths to .10 thousandths depending on the part in question or even areas on the same part.How the fk do you even measure that?
Oh. Well, still, I've never seen such a request in a public toilet before.
In other news hand filing to super tight tolerances (thousandths of an inch) is hardcore bullshit.Nearly... nearly... nearly... Shit! Yeah... Even on a lathe you can do this.
What happens if you file too far? Is the whole thing scrapped?
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t34.0-12/10714595_867534286605167_1040414311_n.jpg?oh=70775c10ad1134f0ee4ae03b91778415&oe=5427251B&__gda__=1411789195_b52b387dd4d17b67ef56be5de61a9485)I've been using public rest rooms for seven decades, and nowadays I think I may be unclear on the concept. I see guys pass up an unused urinal to go into a stall, close the door, stand and pee into a toilet. What's wrong with the urinal? Are they shy because someone might see their penis? I don't recall seeing that behavior in my adolescence and young adulthood. Why did it start? And peeing through the seat instead of raising it? When did that begin? That's not how the people who had to clean our toilets in our childhood -- our mothers -- taught us. What changed? How much of the change in behavior comes from avoiding contact with contaminated things like seats and flush handles? Oh yeah -- when did adults stop flushing toilets and urinals?
Saw this in the loo at a restaurant today. First of all...no. Second of all...why? To avoid a mess? Wouldn't "clean up after yourself" suffice?
In other news hand filing to super tight tolerances (thousandths of an inch) is hardcore bullshit.Nearly... nearly... nearly... Shit! Yeah... Even on a lathe you can do this.
My biggest personal metalworking fuck-up was snapping off a tap flush in a hole I'd spent a long time carefully drilling in a steel bike part I had hand cut and filed from bar stock, ruining the piece so that I had to start again from scratch. My Dad was all "Well, you'll be more careful next time, won't you, Elder Daughter?"
I was ready to die. :claireface:
And peeing through the seat instead of raising it?What's wrong with this? It's a sufficiently large hole and why would I want to touch that seat if I don't have to? I still flush, of course...with my foot. If it's not an automatic, that is.
I could, but like I said, it's unnecessary. I take care to aim and not hit the seat, so why is it a problem if I don't lift it?In case you sneeze mid-piss.
This we do that others might live.
people with fish bumper stickers staring at you.People with fish bumper-stickers stare at me anyway...
Still remains that there was a LOT of religious violence back and forth their Grog, so characterizing that as a prayer against a religious group is not outlandish. England at the time being mostly Christian, the various pagan forms of faith were mostly stamped out, Scandinavia being the last serious bastion of Germanic Paganism left. (There really wasn't much of that in a "pure strain" in England to start with. The Celts had some very rich pagan traditions of their own that we've lost far too much of sadly)
The Vikings were scary because A. they were incredibly effective military forces and B. they were pagans back when Christians still burned people at the stake for that.
I have glasses now (for close focus - so basically whenever I'm using a computer, studying, reading a book, watching TV or pretty much almost all the time!) and the way I can tell that they are working is that when I take them off, the world is fuzzy and curves towards me in the middle of my field of vision. It is weird.
Is this a bad time to boast that I have 20/15 vision in both eyes, and my hearing is acute enough to hear up to about 20KHz? Then again, my sense of smell is basically gone, but I figure it's one of the less important ones.
Then again, my sense of smell is basically gone, but I figure it's one of the less important ones.I couldn't disagree more. Then again, maybe that's because my sense of smell is really good. My sight's pretty good and my hearing's ok, I guess, but my sense of smell is as far as I can tell way above average. It also gives me more enjoyment than sight or sound, probably (although I can't imagine parting with any of them).
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Well, IIRC, those of us who aren't blind receive about 70% of their sensory information through sight. There's a lot too with hearing. I have problems being touched, so I won't get into that sense, but as far as they go, smell is fairly expendable. I can even be a good cook without it, though I do have to taste all the time. And I know that my ability to taste is weakened by my weak sense of smell. Still, if I'm going to nuke one sense, the one I get from my nose is the one to go.Then again, my sense of smell is basically gone, but I figure it's one of the less important ones.I couldn't disagree more. Then again, maybe that's because my sense of smell is really good. My sight's pretty good and my hearing's ok, I guess, but my sense of smell is as far as I can tell way above average. It also gives me more enjoyment than sight or sound, probably (although I can't imagine parting with any of them).
"Whatever anxiety might arise at the failure of our actions is nothing compared with the terror of having to recalibrate our perceptions."
What happens if you file too far? Is the whole thing scrapped?
Video compression is inherently more compressed and lossier. So there's less information present in the source material prior to resizing it.
No butt jokes, is the point.
The Oklahoma City airport has free wifi, but to use it you have to watch a video about how great Texas is. :psyduck:
I hope this is the right place to post this, but if it isn't, oh well. I need to say this.
I really enjoy reading this forum. You guys don't throw hate around, and if something does happen that is offensive, the mods and members are not quick to be incredibly angry. Instead, everyone here is pretty civil and more than willing to explain things- whether it be about forum rules, or sexuality, or music or vegan-ism- it doesn't matter what the topic is. Everyone is okay expressing their own opinions (from what I've seen so far).
This is a pretty cool place to hang out, even if, as a member, you don't post too often and just like to read what other people say. So thanks to everyone for just being awesome dudes and ladies. :-)
Honestly, because of Luke's recent post when you mentioned "buzzing" I thought that was going to go in a whole other direction :roll:... me too.
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Just saw an American Express commercial with Tina Fey and it has a close up of her swiping her card...backwards :psyduck:
http://qz.com/273255/how-american-parenting-is-killing-the-american-marriage/
I found this a fascinating piece.
http://qz.com/273255/how-american-parenting-is-killing-the-american-marriage/Why did you post the same link twice?
Interesting theory. I've certainly seen large chunks of it in practice.
You won't BELIEVE what this Marine does next, it will BLOW YOUR MIND
"Hold my beer and watch this" stories.Famous last words in the US South.
Well...no, by "backwards" I mean they swiped the side of the card without the magstripe.Just saw an American Express commercial with Tina Fey and it has a close up of her swiping her card...backwards :psyduck:
This works on most card readers. When I worked retail, if a card was being finicky about being swiped, swiping it backwards would often work better than forwards.
After six years with AT&T I switched to T-Mobile almost on a whim. I had a few reasons, but I hope I don't regret this.If your experience with AT&T was anything like mine with Verizon, you won't regret it.
As for miscellanousness:
Dear Brazilian metal band I've never heard of,
I was not the drunken gringo who extremely awkwardly asked you for an autograph tonight. I was however the drunken gringo sitting at the bar laughing at the drunken gringo who asked you for your autograph.
Sincerely,
cesium133
So out of boredom today I Wikipedia-ed vampire folklore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_folklore_by_region) and it was amazing. I can see why the east european ones sparked Dracula way back when. They are very intricate. In turn looked up dhampire which is basically Blade.Sadly the book hasn't been published in English but if you happen to speak German you should look to get your hands on a copy of "Kinder des Judas" by Markus Heitz. One of my favorite books ever and the different species of vampires he creates are all based on east european vampire lore. It's a great read.
I really like the different coloured triangles for Mod-speak as demonstrated in the new thingy about people's private parts. Makes me wonder how many colours there are, whether that number can be enlarged and randomised. It's very ... christmass-y.
edit -- incidentally, when the name "RoboCop" is spoken in Portuguese, it sounds to an English speaker like "HoboCop."
Lucifer sits back on his throne if one could call it that, an obsidian chair raised no higher then any others in the great hall. "I am the Bright and Morning Star, as the humans have called me. Another translation of my many names is "light bringer". Humanity survives because I went to them and gave them what God would not. Reason, curiosity, the sweet succour and poison of knowledge. Without reason, without knowledge then free will is nothing. For what use is the freedom to make choices without knowledge and the ability to reason the impact of those decisions? This is the war humanity has been waging it's entire existence. The war between Heaven and Hell in microcosm, each human able to be Angel and Demon in equal amounts, and both of those beings capable of terrible and wonderful things. Freedom or control, justice or law, dogma or wisdom... this is the battleground in which you have found yourself elevated to young angel and you have come into your enemy's camp."(This paragraph IS copyrighted and part of an ongoing writing project, please do not reprint or repost elsewhere without asking)
I know he's around, I still miss him around these parts.I think a lot of us have someone who they miss around their parts :claireface:
Don't Jinx it. We're thirty years in. Some would argue for much longer though they tend to get smacked down by their peers.In such matters, beginnings are defined variously, for self-interested reasons. Consensus, and who gets smacked down, is just a matter of which set of prejudices is more widely held among those drawing the lines, and who has the power to draw them.
There's tons of response to that that I might type up later but can't be arsed to now.
For those who may have self-esteem or jealousy issues - if you discover your partner masturbating to pornography without your prior consent or awareness, which is more insulting:
- A porn star who looks a whole lot like you but, and heavy emphasis on the quotation marks here, 'sexier'
- A porn star who looks absolutely nothing like you?
I've been thinking about this lately (no idea why) and it occurred to me that maybe it's actually less offensive for the porn star to bear no resemblance, because that implies there's lust there but no love, whereas if the porn star does look like you, there's an implication that your partner has a 'type' but you're not good enough/sexy enough for them.
Obviously these are all largely irrational and unhealthy thought processes, but hey, that don't mean they don't happen, amirite?
Noone gets my dirty mind.I know he's around, I still miss him around these parts.I think a lot of us have someone who they miss around their parts :claireface:
Noone gets my dirty mind.I know he's around, I still miss him around these parts.I think a lot of us have someone who they miss around their parts :claireface:
I'm more interested in why anyone would need their partners consent to masturbate.Yeah, this was also confusing to me.
Come to 'Straya, GM! The only gun-nuts we have here are crazy/stupid, it'd be nice to have a (moderately) rational one down here :emotrex: :emotrex: :emotrex:
I think I know how to spend my money better than other people spending it for me, and hold the radical opinion that you are entitled to the sweat of your brow.
Metope, at least your country's leader isn't threatening to literally crash tackle Vlad the Impaler...Tony Abbott vs. Vladimir Putin has a certain appeal. I mean... Triathlete and university boxer vs. KGB-trained hard man? We might get a new PM out of it. Horrorshow!
Horrorshow!
Never really been comfortable with the (humourous?) notion of killing politicians. Even if their politics are terrible, they're generally people, with families and such.
Maybe I'm just squeamish.
they're generally people,
That style of topical humor might be one step below puns.
Depends on if you happen to have some topical ointment to help clear up the topical humor. :claireface:I was going to respond with tropical humor, but a coconut fell on my head. :claireface:
Quantity has a quality all it's own.
DOWN WITH PUNS!!You're saying you won't put up with them? :claireface:
I dunno, maybe they're right? Maybe it is time to put puns to the side.
CONTAIN YOURSELVES!!!! :claireface:
How does a recycling bin have a monthly charge?
Not that we don't allow the use of real names if you wish, but it is the internet, after all...Wait...your name isn't actually Carl?
No, it's Fritz
Uh, Noxx? Real name in that screenshot.
I hear that. Anyone really wants my identity they get my 60k in student loans with it. :-P
Not that we don't allow the use of real names if you wish, but it is the internet, after all...There are all sorts of creeps on the internet.
I've spent an absurd amount of time keeping my name out of this place. For no good reason, either.
Not that we don't allow the use of real names if you wish, but it is the internet, after all...There are all sorts of creeps on the internet.
I've spent an absurd amount of time keeping my name out of this place. For no good reason, either.
I mean, I know I'm a creep, at least.
Oh, I usually browse the forum with Tapatalk these days. Signatures are off by default.Uh, Noxx? Real name in that screenshot.
Yeah, my facebook with my real name is linked in my sig too. I ain't got enough to bother stealin
I've known people who have and they say that generally they're a pretty decent employer.Apparently they give benefits at 20 hours, which is enough for me to say hell yes if they offer me the job, even if it means two separate commutes some days ("main" job by train, Starbucks would be by car).
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Oh look. It's Fuckthisshito'clock . Corporal Nathan Cirillo, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, this drink's for you mate. Rest well.
You do realize that 50 years ago the word #### was not used in polite society?How do you pronounce ####?
Hehehe he said pound.
You do realize that 50 years ago the word fuck was not used in polite society?They were bigger than Jesus, polite society would've dealt with it :roll:
You do realize that 50 years ago the word #### was not used in polite society?
And as for the infamous statement in "Hey Jude" - I always thought Lennon was saying "Take it out" as if George Martin could take his vocal track out of the mix.
People in pre-industrial times tended to be shorter than people are in more recent times, so they probably were bigger than Jesus. Even I'm probably bigger than Jesus.You do realize that 50 years ago the word fuck was not used in polite society?They were bigger than Jesus, polite society would've dealt with it :roll:
GarandMarine, do not open this link with pictures on (http://www.capitalwired.com/an-entomologist-found-puppy-sized-goliath-spider/24185/).
I changed my ringtone for the first time in two years. It's so much better now.I changed mine from the Parks and Recreation theme song to the Game of Thrones theme song. Except for Sarah, she still has the P&R so I know it's her ^_^
My ringtone is a recording of my kid. This makes me happy.That's adorable, Gavin.
See, I used to think that. But now I have a slightly more forgiving rule. My ringtone will never have words in it.
I would totally use the TARDIS materialization sound if my phone could accept custom ringtones. Just to see how many people would look around when they hear it going off. :)
Hell, I'd call myself just for that. :D
I alternate between 'Trololo' and the Leekspin song.
Akima has argued passionately for using UTC to coordinate such things.
Protip: Don't quote a post if it's the one immediately preceding your own.
Protip: Don't quote a post if it's the one immediately preceding your own.
Many moons ago when I was kinda doing project management and working with coders in the Philippines, Ukraine and Bangladesh (sometimes all of the above at once), it was a lot easier to set everything up -- meetings, deadlines, etc. -- by GMT than by trying to keep track of everybody's time zones.Tell me about it, and at least all those locations are in the Northern Hemisphere:
One thing I do find irritating is people who can't (or at least won't) understand time in 24-hour format. Twelve-hour format is fine for everyday, casual use, but not when scheduling events across multiple countries, in several time-zones, with various daylight-saving rules, in hemispheres with reversed seasons so that daylight-saving-time changes go in opposite directions. Frankly, I'd prefer to use a single fixed time reference like Zulu time, so everyone only has to worry about their own single local offset, but no... Instead I'd get e-mails from colleagues in America telling me that some system was going down for maintenance at "12pm EST". In July. And they'd get all butt-hurt when I replied asking: "Do you really mean EST, or would that be EDT seeing as it's your summer? And by the way, is that 12pm noon or midnight?" I mean OK, some of these systems only processed transactions worth millions of dollars an hour, and kept factories running (and workers in jobs) on five continents, so it's not like they were important or anything! EEE-HAH EEE-HAH! (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=755)
That all made sense except for "is that 12pm noon or midnight?" 12pm is always noon, 12am is always midnight, and anyone who suggests otherwise is wrong.
That all made sense except for "is that 12pm noon or midnight?" 12pm is always noon, 12am is always midnight, and anyone who suggests otherwise is wrong.Not according to the NIST, which simply lists 12pm and 12am as "ambiguous (http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/times.cfm)". Wrong or otherwise, I have frequently encountered people who use 12pm to mean midnight. IBM used to recommend, and might still do for all I know, that events should never be scheduled for noon or midnight to avoid these problems of ambiguous usage.
Owing to the ambiguity of whether UTC or UT1 is meant, and because timekeeping laws usually refer to UTC, GMT is avoided in careful writing.
In the community of Greenwich, GMT (in the form of UTC) is the official time only during winter (during summer the time in Greenwich is British Summer Time rather than "GMT").
My gender is Currently Unspecified.
Even though I don't personally need it, I think a gender option of "Nunya"would come in handy.(click to show/hide)
It's both actually. "Garand Motherfucker Danger MarineYour parents must have hated you.
It's both actually. "Garand Motherfucker Danger MarineYour parents must have hated you.
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What about Welu?
P.S. I prefer gender neutral terms. My gender is Currently Unspecified.
No, no. GMT stays the same, but is only the official UK time for half the year.I thought so too, but apparently, not everyone agrees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time#Summer_time).
We've had forum members in the past (and perhaps some in the present) who identify as genderfluid -There are also folks who identify as neutrois (http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Neutrois) or Genderqueer (http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Genderqueer).
You can weld material with explosives. I am excited.
Help, my bed is holding me hostage
Do Australian people ever use the phrase "It'll be a cold day in July before ____"?And here I thought that Australia was like Arrakis in terms of climate. (Okay, kidding, 'cept for the part where I wouldn't be surprised if there were giant sand worms).
Do Australian people ever use the phrase "It'll be a cold day in July before ____"?No.
And here I thought that Australia was like Arrakis in terms of climate.Nah! There are a few small areas that are a bit dry.
... for Shai'Hulud.“Bless the Maker and His water.
Meh
Stick a Tank in the front yard, then we'll talk.
So I still don't really get why it's a thing, and I don't know anyone who uses it as far as I know but I finally downloaded snapchat out of curiosity.
Oh, I downloaded it a few days ago and set up an account, but haven't actually used it on account of not knowing anyone who has it. I'd probably just send people the occasional picture of Teddy (my pup).So I still don't really get why it's a thing, and I don't know anyone who uses it as far as I know but I finally downloaded snapchat out of curiosity.
4 hour old post, can I assume your sick of it already?
Iroh because he likes to fuck around.This. He is funny and a deep character (cf eg the Tales of Ba Sing Se, or the time he meets Toph)
Count me in for Iroh as well. He's got the wisdom and the skills, but more importantly the man has an absolutely wonderful sense of humor and believes in slowing down and appreciating life.Iroh because he likes to fuck around.This. He is funny and a deep character (cf eg the Tales of Ba Sing Se, or the time he meets Toph)
Oh, I downloaded it a few days ago and set up an account, but haven't actually used it on account of not knowing anyone who has it. I'd probably just send people the occasional picture of Teddy (my pup).So I still don't really get why it's a thing, and I don't know anyone who uses it as far as I know but I finally downloaded snapchat out of curiosity.
4 hour old post, can I assume your sick of it already?
Married once is the new virginity
If you can hear them, but you can't shoot them, you can probably grenade them.
If you can hear them, but you can't shoot them,they must have some damn good camouflage.
Yes! I've seen footage... but... yeah... I mean I got to go to a shuttle launch, I've been space happy since I was a pup, but this is the first time I've gotten to see a new spacecraft launch (the shuttle program was over 30 years old when I was born) and of course capsule splash down.You're less than 15 years old?
As much as Mana claimed to have invented the whole "gothic lolita" thing, I'm pretty sure that Strawberry Switchblade did it first.
As much as Mana claimed to have invented the whole "gothic lolita" thing, I'm pretty sure that Strawberry Switchblade did it first.
I honestly don't think there's a traceable origin point for Gothic Lolita. Somewhere deep in Shinjuku ward, or perhaps Harajuku itself.
gawthThis spelling is just utterly confusing.
Explains speed limits. *braces for shitstorm*
"Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them"If a FPP doesn't meet a quota of prisoners, they lose their operating license. They certainly don't want law abiding citizens, that's bad for business.
Subaru, the money they make is peanuts compared to the revenue generated by the state via their enforcement arm.Which is a bad idea. From last weeks edition of The Economist:
In Ferguson, bad policies help to explain why distrust turns to anger. Take, for example, the way the town is financed. In 2013 a fifth of Ferguson’s general revenues—some $2.6m, in a city of 21,000 people—were derived from fines and asset confiscation. That is equivalent to $124 a year for every man, woman and child in the city. Paying fines, even for minor traffic offences, can involve queuing for hours. Those who miss court dates can be jailed until they pay, accumulating more fines along the way. Slowly but surely, the justice system has become an elaborate mechanism for criminalising poverty.
A friend of mine recently pointed out to me that Shakespeare's lead characters often have somewhere else to be during most of Act IV so that the actor can have a break.And in season 4 of The Wire, McNulty spends most of it drunk off screen. COINCIDENCE?
Romeo spends Act IV in Mantua. Hamlet, save for a brief scene, is in England. Macbeth has the witch's prophecy scene at the beginning but then the rest of the act is at Duncan's castle and about half of Act V is without him as well.
I just randomly remembered a very fun night with one of my friends. We watched a terrible sci-fi movie called Sci-Fighters starring Rowdy Roddy Piper, made in 1994 and set in 2009. It was 2010 when we watched it, which amused us greatly. Any time we saw some kind of futuristic technology, we'd respond with 'I don't think you could do that with a laser, but then, this is the distant future of... 2009.' I never stopped finding it funny.
Rowdy Roddy Piper makes everything funny. Admittedly, I think the only one of his movies that I have seen in full is "They Live", which has a fight scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9rrgJXfLns) that is an even more effective rebuttal than the one from "The Quiet Man" to complaints about long unrealistic fights in wuxia cinema.
Yeah it's hard being the good guy. It's supposed to be. It's not easy to maintain your morals and standards in the face of scumbags who have none, but when you become them, when you abandon your standards, you've already lost.Outdated? If so, I must be too; I couldn't have put it better myself. I believe this is right, not for the sake of the scumbags of this world, but for our own sakes. We demonstrate that we are not like our enemies by refusing to treat them the way they treat their victims. The idea that we are of such inherent worth that our actions become acceptable, no matter how base they may be, is a step onto a very slippery slope.
I just passed a sign that forbids me to drive faster than sixty miles per hour.
I thought they used km/h instead of mph on the Autobahn.I converted for the
It's just like Nietzsche's "he who fights monsters" bit.
Wait... 60 MPH is slow as hell. Isn't the Autobahn supposed to be super fast?Not all of it. Some parts have no speed limit, while others do, the most common ones being 100, 120 and 140 km/h.
The Marlboro Man died of Cancer.
Are those cigarettes or amarillos?
I thought they used km/h instead of mph on the Autobahn.I converted for thebackwards, non-scientific people who still use imperial unitsUSAsians onthe forum.
One of them wanted to date me and even sent me nudes. It was true love.
"It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.""there is no strong coffee, only weak people"
I did not know that. It might explain something that has always puzzled me a little. I don't drink a lot of coffee, being mainly a tea snob (big surprise, right?), but when I do drink coffee it is always a "short black" (espresso) or a "long black (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_black)", to use Australian coffee-shop terminology. Both are strongly flavoured and dark, and yet I have not noticed myself getting twitchy, and can get a good night's sleep even if I have an espresso after dinner. Or maybe I'm just habituated, because there is caffeine in tea too.
The days have been getting shorter for months and it's getting really bad. I don't know how much more of this trend I can take.
The days are about to start getting brighter. The mornings, not so much (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30549149).The days have been getting shorter for months and it's getting really bad. I don't know how much more of this trend I can take.
In Britain today is the solstice, which means the days will start getting longer again, is that not the case where you are?
Would it help for me to say that we just passed the longest day of the year, and that it is 29C (84F) outside?
The days are about to start getting brighter. The mornings, not so much (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30549149).The days have been getting shorter for months and it's getting really bad. I don't know how much more of this trend I can take.
In Britain today is the solstice, which means the days will start getting longer again, is that not the case where you are?
So, I've had a lot of spam bots on the forums I help admin (a gaming community with a few hundred members or so), you guys ever get those here?
I cannot confirm that any contents of the article is true. I cannot confirm that I have ever been to the nation of PRONA, or that the United States performs any of this training. I cannot confirm that I STILL fucking hate and have odd reactions to that fucking Kipling poem. I cannot confirm that this is one of the most in depth and accurate descriptions of SERE East that I have ever read.
War Criminal 131 signing off.
http://www.wearethemighty.com/sere-school-just-tortured-2014-12?utm_content=buffer3f4a9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Doesn't work like that, privilege is what you are given through no action of your own, doesn't matter what norms you do or don't have.
Oh, you mean the Gods of War ad with Justin Verlander's girlfriend - that I see at the bottom of this page when I'm on Tapatalk? :psyduck:I didn't know who that was, but apparently he's Kate Upton's boyfriend. Lucky bastard.
Yeah, I'm guessing that one is targeted at horny teenage boys...
I don't know who or what Pewdiepie is, and with a name like that, I don't think I'll google it.He's one of those new media celebrities that anyone over the age of 25 can't figure out why the hell they got their fame. The answer to that is "by filming yourself being funny while playing videogames". That's all you really need or want to know about it...
The answer to that is "by filming yourself being funny while playing videogames". That's all you really need or want to know about it...
I don't know who or what Pewdiepie is, and with a name like that, I don't think I'll google it.He's one of those new media celebrities that anyone over the age of 25 can't figure out why the hell they got their fame. The answer to that is "by filming yourself being funny while playing videogames". That's all you really need or want to know about it...
At this point I would declare my absolute incapability of understanding why My Little Pony is likable to anyone, but GM is on the forum and something tells me that saying so would get my head sniped.
other than legal retaliation or for stopping corruption in the landThe problem here is with the bolded part. That can be used to justify almost anything. Of course, you have that sort of cherry picking lines and interpreting them to justify awful behavior in every religion.
And Bulldog's pants fall down.
The MOP suit is a coat and pants that go over your uniform and are buckled together, and Bulldog's buckles weren't done right. The TI takes a deep breath to rip into Bulldog, and before he can, Bulldog does the only thing he can do. He flops on the ground, and pretends to seize and die from nerve agents.
Do computer industry workers there have SHIT jobs?Hey, ITSH a gig, alright?
You can have a dinosaur sandwich whenever you want one.In Japan, you can have a whale sandwich. Bon appetit!
My issue with the horseburger scandal was always that we then didn't know what our food had in it. I have no problem eating horse, because as you said, it's better for you.
I still feel guilty (prolly mentioned this before) about using a dash of fish sauce in a dish I prepared for a vegetarian.I remember your posting on this, and you did it unintentionally, so don't beat yourself up too hard.
You can have a dinosaur sandwich whenever you want one.In Japan, you can have a whale sandwich. Bon appetit!
I never really understood the point of watching the Super Bowl for the commercials. I avoid watching TV commercials the other 364 days of the year, why should this day be any different?Because they bring their A-game* this time of year since they have more of an audience than any other time.
I never really understood the point of watching the Super Bowl for the commercials.Does anyone actually do that?
Well, there are people in the west that object to food like lamb, veal, and pork. Not as many as the number of people that object to eating dolphin, but they're still here. Personally, I don't have a problem with the actual consumption of any kind of meat, though I can certainly understands the protests against unnecessary animal cruelty in the farming/hunting process. Admittedly, I have very few moral or ethical objections to things that other people have serious problems with, so I'm a poor judge of this sort of thing, but I can see the logic in the various arguments made by others. As far as I'm concerned, someone has the right to believe or protest against whatever they want, as long as they're consistent about it. If meat is murder, don't just protest about the cute ones, and if murder is delicious, let people eat anything and everything, not just the meat that your culture deems acceptable. PETA should throw paint on leather-wearing bikers as well as little old ladies wearing fur coats, and it's ridiculous to look down on a culture for eating certain kinds of meat when you enjoy a bacon cheeseburger.
I never really understood the point of watching the Super Bowl for the commercials.Does anyone actually do that?
I don't actually care about football of any kind, and professional sport is possibly the worst industry of all for discrimination against women (http://www.forbes.com/athletes/list/#tab:overall), so should I buy products advertised by companies that buy into this cult of male superiority? :-D
Some animals are also tastier than others.
Eh, I have my own ethics for meat and I admit they're not always consistant. My main view is that if you kill something you should eat it, dont just kill something to be a dick. And, if it harms the ecosystem (by eating it, not getting into cattle farming or whatnot, so like eating certain types of fish) then I dont do it (also if the animal is unjustly treated, but that's where my ethics get inconsistant).
Basically, I just refuse to eat veal, certain seafoods, animals with a threatened or close to threatened status, apex predators or domestic animals. I'm not joining any rally against those things though
PETA should throw paint on leather-wearing bikers as well as little old ladies wearing fur coatsHostility to fur coats but not leather jackets, like hostility to fox-hunting but not angling, is more about class warfare, I think, than animal welfare.
PETA should throw paint on leather-wearing bikers as well as little old ladies wearing fur coatsHostility to fur coats but not leather jackets, like hostility to fox-hunting but not angling, is more about class warfare, I think, than animal welfare.
My girlfriend is a pescetarian and only eats animals she thinks she could kill with her bare hands in an 'in the wild' type situation. I kinda like that attitude.
Does it have to be bare hands? I know how to make a proper spear without access to tools.
, I just refuse to eat veal, certain seafoods, animals with a threatened or close to threatened status, apex predators or domestic animals.Veal is god damn delicious, but I get not eating it. Why not apex predators*, though? I'd feel less bad about eating a predator than anything else, as long as it wasn't endangered.
Leopold's conviction towards the wolf was changed forever on the day in his youth when he saw a wolf die. Aldo Leopold and a friend of his opened up on the wolves, never wanting to pass up a chance to kill a wolf in those days. When their rifles were empty, the old wolf was down. They reached the old wolf in time to watch "that fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then," wrote Leopold, "and have known ever since -- that there was something new to me in those eyes -- something known only to her and the mountain." He saw the green fire in the wolf's eyes die, and since then he recognized his brutal error.
Leopold wrote that since that day, he has seen the wolves driven to the brink of extinction and the wolfless mountains defoliated by the exploding deer herds. And he suspected, just as the deer herd lived in mortal fear of its wolves, so does the mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while the buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a deer's range pulled down by too many deer, may never be replaced. In essence: The wilderness we hunt is the salvation of the world, to paraphrase Thoreau. It must not be destroyed.
Perhaps this is the hidden meaning in the howl of the wolf, long known by the mountain, but seldom understood by men. Just as Leopold came to realize, so must we: that wildlife populations are a part of a bigger picture, and that no matter what new game laws are passed, wildlife populations will not improve until the carrying capacity of the land that supports them improves.
In his last paragraph, Leopold reels the reader in. To paraphrase: In our lives, we all think about that which will better ourselves and secure ourselves, but those who look for a little temporary safety instead of wildlife understanding deserve neither. We should look to help secure the blessings of wildlife before we secure the blessings of ourselves because "in wildness is the salvation of the world."
I actually wouldn't really worry too much about those two. Wolves, bears, large sharks, large cats (any feline really, but I think most of that has to do with many of them being endangered); stuff like that.Except for house cats, they are contributing a fair amount to the extinction of species themselves. :laugh:
But they're so cute when they kill things.I actually wouldn't really worry too much about those two. Wolves, bears, large sharks, large cats (any feline really, but I think most of that has to do with many of them being endangered); stuff like that.Except for house cats, they are contributing a fair amount to the extinction of species themselves. :laugh:
Actually, python needs "C" salt.
Had an idea this morning for a car movie set on the streets of Boston during a snowstorm. It's called Slow and Furious.
Prank #11: Boston
Boston? Slow and Furious applies to a nice sunny day there too.(click to show/hide)
I just realised depending on the length of my post, my avatar points at the Doge in my signature.
... Think it's time for a change.
I just realised depending on the length of my post, my avatar points at the Doge in my signature.
... Think it's time for a change.
If you plan on still being the pointer outer of dicks, it's quite possible that it'll keep happening. Unless you get a dick pointer that points upwards or left.
I just realised depending on the length of my post, my avatar points at the Doge in my signature.
... Think it's time for a change.
...and just noticed that he is also in Better Call Saul! Now I'm excited!
When I saw Megamind with a few friends we struggled to place the voice actor for one of the characters. It wasn't till the credits came up we all exclaimed at the same time, "Jonah Hill!!" So now any time we struggle to recognise an actor or voice we say they're Jonah Hill till proven otherwise.
One theory that did the rounds back then was that a certain individual with a big red 'S' on his chest saved himSanta!? :-o
SATAN? >:DOne theory that did the rounds back then was that a certain individual with a big red 'S' on his chest saved himSanta!? :o
SANTANA?SATAN? >:DOne theory that did the rounds back then was that a certain individual with a big red 'S' on his chest saved himSanta!? :o
SANDIEGO?SANTANA?SATAN? >:DOne theory that did the rounds back then was that a certain individual with a big red 'S' on his chest saved himSanta!? :o
(http://imgs.l4lmcdn.com/2013/12/Santana-1024x768.jpg)
Hostility to fur coats but not leather jackets, like hostility to fox-hunting but not angling, is more about class warfare, I think, than animal welfare.Though I've never understood fox hunting's appeal, at least in the British style that's usually meant. The 'hunters' don't actually do anything but ride their horses through the woods real fast, following a bunch of barking dogs, who do the actual hunting under the direction of an employee. I just don't see the point in involving the fox; surely one could just get a bunch of friends together and ride horses fast through the woods? You could even still follow a pack of dogs, who will be happy to charge off through the woods barking their heads off, I'm quite certain.
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So here's a thought, why do we call people homophobes? If someone hates someone else it's usually an ism and they're called an ist, like racist, sexist, etc. Is it just the way that it sounds because gayist (or whathaveyou) sounds silly?Gay is used to describe a sexuality, and if you want to put -ist after something it's usually after the more general term. Calling a homophobe 'gayist' is like calling a KKK member 'blackist'. If we wanted an -ism for gay it'd have to be sexualityist or orientationist, but the latter sounds more like someone you'd ask along on a hiking trip. Xenophobia would become otherist. Islam is the name of a religion, not exactly a category, so that doesn't work either. The -ist in islamist is a whole different -ist, the one that's also in arsonist.
I just realized that when I typed gayist, it's like gayest. Calling homophobes "gayist" would be so much irony I'd choke on my laughter.
I digress, is it because hate and fear are similar? Because I guess we also use words like xenophobes and islamophobes.
Random thoughts...
An <something>-ist is someone who takes <something> to its extremes as a dogma.I am a typist, a cyclist, and a Buddhist. I will leave judgement on how extremely dogmatic I am about any of those things to you. :laugh:
An <something>-ist is someone who takes <something> to its extremes as a dogma.I am a typist, a cyclist, and a Buddhist. I will leave judgement on how extremely dogmatic I am about any of those things to you. :laugh:
Damned cyclist fundies ruining our roads and making it unsafe for cars and pedestrians alike. :-Dhttp://satwcomic.com/this-is-bikeland
An <something>-ist is someone who takes <something> to its extremes as a dogma.I am a typist, a cyclist, and a Buddhist. I will leave judgement on how extremely dogmatic I am about any of those things to you. :laugh:
How would one go about cycling dogmatically, anyway?
Running down skateboarders?Icelanders?
An <something>-ist is someone who takes <something> to its extremes as a dogma.I am a typist, a cyclist, and a Buddhist. I will leave judgement on how extremely dogmatic I am about any of those things to you. :laugh:
How would one go about cycling dogmatically, anyway?
Yeah, you'd just go around in circles.An <something>-ist is someone who takes <something> to its extremes as a dogma.I am a typist, a cyclist, and a Buddhist. I will leave judgement on how extremely dogmatic I am about any of those things to you. :laugh:
How would one go about cycling dogmatically, anyway?
An <something>-ist is someone who takes <something> to its extremes as a dogma.I am a typist, a cyclist, and a Buddhist. I will leave judgement on how extremely dogmatic I am about any of those things to you. :laugh:
An <something>-ist is someone who takes <something> to its extremes as a dogma.I am a typist, a cyclist, and a Buddhist. I will leave judgement on how extremely dogmatic I am about any of those things to you. :laugh:
Or typing your chants whilst cycling... "Nam myoho renngeejh -- dammit. Namm myo40 r3ng -- shit. Nam myoho reenie -- oh, the hell with it."
I never could get along with those anti-Church-and-State separationists.
Could be weirder. Could be a tinder ad for 9/11 truthers.
:roll:
Xkcd had a game where you pick the two weirdest items to bring to the checkout of a store. The alt text had the winner being a pregnancy test and a wire hanger.
Time to Exorcise your phone then.what, why?
Perhaps Kugai misspelled "exercise." Your phone needs to get in shape.Time to Exorcise your phone then.what, why?
Also, never.
Xkcd had a game where you pick the two weirdest items to bring to the checkout of a store. The alt text had the winner being a pregnancy test and a wire hanger.
Once I was going camping, around the same time I started rebuilding the transmission for my mom's car and I needed supplies for both.
I ended up buying:
rubber gloves,
rope,
a survival knife,
ether (a.k.a. carb cleaner),
huge box of paper towels,
a tarp,
heavy duty soap,
bailing wire,
screwdrivers,
camping stove and propane,
concrete stain remover,
a hamburger grinder,
and an ax.
The 3rd season of Dexter was on sale at the time, but I'm pretty sure the cops would've been called if they saw that at the checkout counter.
Perhaps Kugai misspelled "exercise." Your phone needs to get in shape.Time to Exorcise your phone then.what, why?
Also, never.
To get rid of what? Tapatalk, or Windows Phone?
Yeah, if everyone's gonna bring that up again I'm outta here.As much as I'm anti-M$, I do have one friend with a Windows phone. I actually found the interface rather intuitive and it looked like it would provide a better user experience than either my Android, or the Crackberry that it replaced. But given the low market penetration, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the software was more glitchy on that platform than Android or iOS.
How often these days do Oscars get won for roles that don't scream 'FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION' under the fucking trailers?
I mean I knew Michael Keaton never really had a shot, but I'd really love it if somebody won an Oscar for such an obscure, strange part.
I mean I knew Michael Keaton never really had a shotDid you? I fully expected him to win. Honestly, I would've been much less surprised with him winning and the movie not getting Best Picture than I was with this result.
I mean I knew Michael Keaton never really had a shotDid you? I fully expected him to win. Honestly, I would've been much less surprised with him winning and the movie not getting Best Picture than I was with this result.
I just saw the worst example of male privilege ever and it's disgusting and makes me be embarrassed of my manliness.
You kidding? We had someone going full retard* to play Stephen Hawking. He never had a chance.
*SATIRE
But he didn't go full retard. That's why he won.
You kidding? We had someone going full retard* to play Stephen Hawking. He never had a chance.
*SATIRE
I don't agree either, the girl I've been with for a year greeted me with it at the start of our second date. We're a bit more liberal about that word over here, but it's a LOT stronger in the US than it is over here.
I don't agree either, the girl I've been with for a year greeted me with it at the start of our second date. We're a bit more liberal about that word over here, but it's a LOT stronger in the US than it is over here.
Have you heard an American say it? Our accent(s) make it sound like a physical assault.
Well, it's a terrible word. Like moist.There is nothing wrong with that word.
The guy is thirty years old. He frequently gives me shit on how immature I apparently behave. He lectures me on how I'm not a good friend to him. That was funny because up until that moment I wasn't even aware he saw us as friends. He was just roommate to me.
Stupid hypocrite [mod snip]
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I don't get it, what's wrong with moist?
Some 18th-century European cultivars were yellow or white and resembled goose or hen's eggs, hence the name "eggplant".[
The usual word in Italian remains melanzana.[13] An alternative Italian etymology is "mela insana", insane apple.
I'm now dancing in public
Y'know, this Tapatalk guy really needs to get out of peoples phones. That has to be uncomfortable, if not also a massive invasion of privacy.I kicked his arse out of my phone.
Listening to Get Lucky on earphones in public was not a good idea as I'm now dancing in publicYou've come too far to give up who you are.
sdgfhfiouikjrhedfsgfhgfjghkAnd it was able to spell the name of an Icelandic volcano. That's impressive.
This message was typed by an orange striped cat walking across the keyboard of a mac laptop in the living room of an orange house in south-eastern Norway.
"Ya know that stuff ain't no good for ya, right?"
"Ya know that stuff ain't no good for ya, right?""Neither is sticking your nose into other people's business." Seems like an appropriate response.
Yes, threatening people, how wonderful.I don't threaten people.
(http://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/tellmemore.png?w=655)Oh, the word "trenchant." How I loathe it. When I took the GRE, the computerized test figured out I didn't know the meaning of the word and ended up using it repeatedly.
Yes, threatening people, how wonderful.I don't threaten people.
I make statements of observation and let them take it how they will.
Intimidation is probably a better word for it. :)
100 Simple Cures for ComplexityI...didn't know "complexity" was a disease. Am I missing something?
Asbestos is bad; definitely get the one on the right. Wait -- this one over here has no swine flu! Now I can't decide.
The sign at the supermarket next to the eggs said "gluten free".
Those who are engaged in creative endeavors,
Have you ever had an idea for a song/painting/story/play [what it is in my case], etc. that was so depressing that you absolutely don't want to write it. But then you feel like because it gives you that response that's all the more reason to go through with it?
I think what dr. nervioso says gets to something else, 94ssd. A lot of it's going to come down to what feels right to you. If it makes you uncomfortable, examine where the discomfort comes from. If it's uncomfortable because it's forcing you to take yourself and your work somewhere you've never been, that can be a good thing. If, on the other hand, you feel uncomfortable because you'd feel like you're working within a form, medium, or subject that doesn't fit because it's not you or not the right reasons, you may just end up resenting yourself later. If it comes from an authentic place and you approach it in a spirit of openness and honesty, it's worth doing. If not... well, that's really a call only you can make.
Those who are engaged in creative endeavors,
Have you ever had an idea for a song/painting/story/play [what it is in my case], etc. that was so depressing that you absolutely don't want to write it. But then you feel like because it gives you that response that's all the more reason to go through with it?
I miss seeing May in the forum.
Wait, wait, wait.
There's a 6 am as well?
If you took a whole chicken and cooked it guts and all.
When you tore it to pieces would you find a hard boiled egg inside?
Surely the egg would be cooked no matter how the chicken was cooked?
A chicken lays one egg every day give or take some hours.
As soon as it's laid one egg it's started on the next. So the chances are good that there'll be one inside.
Semantics. :)
You can't chuck a chicken into a fire and boil an eggThat sounds like a metaphor for something.
You can't chuck a chicken into a fire and boil an eggThat sounds like a metaphor for something.
So ... you're saying I should... Eat more ... Red meat?
My Mammy bought a handwash that smells exactly like cola bottle sweets and for some reason I've been thinking about this for over two hours now. Only now has it occurred to me a brightly coloured non-edible substance that smells exactly like sweets and children have easy access to seems like a terrible idea.
I was happy with it because it's the kind of present that if you tell someone what it is ('a soap dispenser!') without any context it sounds like an appalling present when in fact it was meaningful and she loved it.
Gareths G comes in as a square for me though. He is now squareth
Huh, I am important enough to have my name flipped. I approve.
Not for me!
I didn't know it was possible to take a worse drivers license photo than the one I had the last time I renewed my license, but it is.
Random Thought: I love the Interstellar soundtrack.
When you get your (semi)permanent WI drivers license, you'll wonder if it's real, because they sorta look and feel counterfeit.
Off to the pun thread with ye.
When you get your (semi)permanent WI drivers license, you'll wonder if it's real, because they sorta look and feel counterfeit.
You have experience in these matters? Hmmmmmmm? :police:
The hard part is getting the blood out of one's clown suit.
Just went to the farmers market, and I got a bag of cheese curds while I was there. I'm going to gain so much weight living here. :psyduck:
They're supposed to squeak.
You need to get out more, chaos. ;)
I created an email address that is just my full name for the express purpose of applying for jobs. I set up auto-forwarding to my main account but became concerned that a response to an application could still get lost in the junk folder. Thus I have set up the following filter.
matches: -buttholes
action: Never send it to spam
Hey, it's not my problem if the South likes old cheese. :roll:They're supposed to squeak.
So are mice. Who eat cheese. Here in the south, cheese don't squeak unless there's something living inside it.
Suspicious cheese is suspicious.
It's an intelligent algorithm. It determined that they were buttholes for not hiring you, and sorted appropriately.I created an email address that is just my full name for the express purpose of applying for jobs. I set up auto-forwarding to my main account but became concerned that a response to an application could still get lost in the junk folder. Thus I have set up the following filter.
matches: -buttholes
action: Never send it to spam
Apparently I failed, because gmail just sent a job application response (it's a no, eat dicks Chicago Shakespeare Theatre) to spam, and nowhere in the email wishing me the best of luck in all my future endevaours were there any iterations of the word butthole.
I created an email address that is just my full name for the express purpose of applying for jobs. I set up auto-forwarding to my main account but became concerned that a response to an application could still get lost in the junk folder. Thus I have set up the following filter.
matches: -buttholes
action: Never send it to spam
Apparently I failed, because gmail just sent a job application response (it's a no, eat dicks Chicago Shakespeare Theatre) to spam, and nowhere in the email wishing me the best of luck in all my future endevaours were there any iterations of the word butthole.
The phrase, "Makes my teeth curl," makes my teeth curl.
Now you're making me imagine curling played on a field of skin instead of ice.Or a field of dreams.
Now you're making me imagine curling played on a field of skin instead of ice.
Now you're making me imagine curling played on a field of skin instead of ice.Or a field of dreams.(click to show/hide)
That describes the Wausau Curling Club's new World-Class facility on the southeast side of the city.
When you get your (semi)permanent WI drivers license, you'll wonder if it's real, because they sorta look and feel counterfeit.Wow, you weren't kidding. I don't think it would look any more counterfeit if the name on it was McLovin'.
At least they do compared to the previous ones I had before this new design.
But Lisa, Lisa will curl us apart again.
Lisa, Lisa will curl us apart again.
Words you do not want to hear from an electrician inspecting your wiring: "Oh, I see this all the time. I do fire investigations."
Brangequaylesh: Brangelina hooks up with the Bush/Quayle presidential ticket. :psyduck:
Nobody wears a monocle while on vacation.Peter Wimsey? And PWH lives in the locale of Gaudy Night. Well, the same city anyway...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-D_gP7hR6Q
Why would "actor" require a female form, when "doctor" does not (at least in English - dottoressa is a thing in Italian).
But in theatre, there is still a gender separation because it generally determines what roles you'll play.So? The roles may be different, but you're still both doing the exact same thing...acting.
But in theatre, there is still a gender separation because it generally determines what roles you'll play.So? The roles may be different, but you're still both doing the exact same thing...acting.
I'm not talking about then, I'm talking about now. Why do we still use the term different words for people who act?
Nope, like you just said, the verb doctor has nothing to do with being a doctor. Although I have heard people use "lawyering", which is just weird, so I guess you can use "doctoring" in the same sense.
I am living in a porn right now.Did someone just deliver a pizza?
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The only thing I know about North is that Roger Ebert hated it.
I believe they are also in the same universe as the CSI franchise as well.
Except for some reason, the Los Angeles in NCIS: LA looks a lot like Las Vegas... :roll:
Ahh, right. You don't teach, do you?
In 1895, the age of consent in Delaware was 7.
Pornography, a relatively latter developmentPornography is much older than Christianity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turin_Erotic_Papyrus), it is probably older than civilisation.
Pornography, a relatively latter developmentPornography is much older than Christianity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turin_Erotic_Papyrus), it is probably older than civilisation.
I said "they're just fucking with us" in front of my 5th graders this week. They're city kids. Didn't even phase them.
I know a lass who answered a phone taking it out of her bikini top so clearly they aren't digitally dependent. Which is good because now I know you're a lot less likely to end up on Embaressing Bodies talking about how you suffer from finger-cock.
I once played Cards Against Humanity with some high school kids I was substitute teaching for. I don't remember what words I used, but I'm pretty sure some swear words were inevitable. (shrugs)I said "they're just fucking with us" in front of my 5th graders this week. They're city kids. Didn't even phase them.
How.
Really.
How.
I called a 10th grader a dickhead after he crash-tackled another 10th grader into me and lungs were shat. It was even mid-impact startled exclamation.
Cats are effectively liquid.
Cats are effectively liquid.
Quite true. They take the shape of whatever container you put them in.
what the eff
review: blur – the magic whip
by (your full name)
Who is Pete Townshend anyway?
Posted by (your full name) in Uncategorized
Cats are effectively liquid.
Quite true. They take the shape of whatever container you put them in.
See, that's why the root folder of the porn section of a drive is typically named "New Folder 1"
... Cathal?
Is there any such thing as too easy?
Mathematically, there's a 50% chance of a drunk dude putting his shirt on backwards.
Let's be real. It's 100%
Mathematically, there's a 50% chance of a drunk dude putting his shirt on backwards.
Let's be real. It's 100%
Though, I used to have a six-pack, so maybe that was why.
i have a one pack.As they say here, a full barrel is better than a six pack.
i have a one pack.It's called a keg. (I have one, too)
but it's ok because after i die, i will recover like i always do.YOU LIVE! YOU DIE! YOU LIVE AGAIN!
YOU LIVE! YOU DIE! YOU LIVE AGAIN!
Thwow him to the floor.
THWOW him to the floor!
Biggus Dikkus.
bwahahahaha.
Ouch
My advice, stick to Mentos and Cola bottles
dammit thai food! why must you be so good, but hurt stomach with your spicyness so bad!
Maybe it's just the three years of Latin I took in HS, but I never refer to it as "persons". I usually go with personae.
It's more annoying when it's a dumb animal that causes the accident, IMNSHO and experience.
It's a shame my boyfriend was already married once, otherwise we should have totally engraved our wedding bands with #yowo
You just told us what it said! Why are you showing us???Evidence that the tweet was actually made, and the columnist didn't just make it up? Even if it is subsequently deleted? Rather as that public shaming (http://publicshaming.tumblr.com/) Tumblr thing does?
We're in a fairly interesting period in the development of digital social media where the masses are learning that they can hold people to account faster than they're leaning that they can be held accountable. It's happened before with TV and radio and live broadcasting, except the thing that the majority haven't really got to grips with is that this really can affect absolutely anyone, anywhere, at anytime.
What amuses me is that this new era has given rise to the notion of a "keyboard warrior" where people are accused of hiding behind a veil of digital anonymity that allows them to say anything they like without consequences. That is, to an extent, a truism. But the flip side of that is that what is dismissively classed as "saying anything they like" also very much includes "saying exactly what they think". Part of what is shocking and upsetting us these days is the blunt, unadulterated, unfiltered truth. We've given people the means to shed social conventions and they've used it.
Perhaps this, more than many others, is a situation deserving of one of my favourite catchphrases: "How did you think this was going to end?"
What about the problems it would cause with turning?Is that a problem when they're mounted on the back wheels? I can see how making the front wheels heavier would make them harder to turn while moving, but on the other hand, this seems like an easy variable for account for. Correct me if I'm wrong, but in modern cars the force applied to the wheels to make them turn is multiple steps away from the degree to which the steering wheel is turned, right? That's regulated by the onboard computer for safety reasons, I assume. Adding proportionally more force for the weight of the flywheel and the speed of the vehicle seems rather simple.
I ordered something last week, and it shipped on the 6th, out of Milwaukee. The "estimated delivery date" is the 17th. Milwaukee is 1 hour by car from here... :psyduck:i had something being delivered to me at work.
Which one?
My computer concepts class today required us to make a powerpoint for a presentation on Galileo. We had to insert photos, from the internet if possible, but my computer could only use clip art.
This is how I learned QC shows up when you search 'Philosopher.'
I don't know how this happened, but a nine year old strip appeared, between Dora and Marten, and it made me very happy.
My computer concepts class today required us to make a powerpoint for a presentation on Galileo. We had to insert photos, from the internet if possible, but my computer could only use clip art.
This is how I learned QC shows up when you search 'Philosopher.'
I don't know how this happened, but a nine year old strip appeared, between Dora and Marten, and it made me very happy.
I'm betting it was 976.
Isis is the name of the main river through Oxford (it's called the Thames elsewhere, but let's not quibble over such things - both names are formed from the same Latin root anyway).I thought it was the Cherwell, but it seems I was wrong. It probably comes from learning about Oxford from Gaudy Night.
DeGassing?It was a grad student in the lab I used to work in asking how long he should de-gas an ion gauge.
Nobody was sent to New Zealand, since it was never a penal colony. Treating NZ's history as the same as Australia's is as silly as treating Canada's as the same as the USA's.
Anybody mind if I steal all of these observations for song lyrics? No one has stolen any of it have they?I mean I may not be the first one to say what I said (in fact I almost certainly wasn't) but I didn't get it from anywhere.
There's nothing new under the sunshine, processed or otherwise.
There's nothing new under the sunshine, processed or otherwise.
Hmmmmmmmmm. I just noticed that I have spent 364 days, 12 hours, and 42 mnutes on this forum.Wow, much more than me. 136:05:31.
And made 2506 posts.
I am not sure just exactly what this means, though, except for spending a lot of time here.
For each of my posts I've spent a little under 14 minutes on the forum.Hmmmmmmmmm. I just noticed that I have spent 364 days, 12 hours, and 42 mnutes on this forum.Wow, much more than me. 136:05:31.
And made 2506 posts.
I am not sure just exactly what this means, though, except for spending a lot of time here.
I always pronounce it "Siffy" instead of "Sci-Fi."
Ha! I do, too! But I call it that because that's what it looks like.
I had to look up Diggnation to know what it was (so no...) though I did watch TechTV back when it was a thing.I always pronounce it "Siffy" instead of "Sci-Fi."
Same. Another old Diggnation viewer? That's where I picked it up...
I had to look up Diggnation to know what it was (so no...) though I did watch TechTV back when it was a thing.I always pronounce it "Siffy" instead of "Sci-Fi."
Same. Another old Diggnation viewer? That's where I picked it up...
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Random Thought: the literal translation of the verb jumping in Turkish, "atlamak", is "to horse".In German the horse's-head chess-piece called "knight" in English is called Springer.
What's cool is that the words all have etymologies
Yes. As long as a word is defined and used, it's perfectly cromulent. Even if spell-check hasn't been embiggened to contain it.
TOAST!!!
Self-esteem is dumb.
Thinking of getting a haircut but wanna try something new. Any suggestions? Thrillhouse already suggested a jewhawk :parrot:
Thinking of getting a haircut but wanna try something new. Any suggestions? Thrillhouse already suggested a jewhawk :parrot:What about a jewfro?
Don't forget
Sand In My Pants
Sand In My Pants: Kids At Play
Sand In My Pants: Big Religious
Don't forget
Sand In My Pants
Sand In My Pants: Kids At Play
Sand In My Pants: Big Religious
Okay, you got me there. (I figured out the ones on xkcd.)
How can they say you live your life wrong when they never fuck with the lights on?
More of that unique, FOTC style of humour :D
I strongly disagree but that comes from a place of being a content creator.I'm not saying the content creator is usually wrong. They're usually not...probably. But they're not inherently right just because they made it.
Lately there's always exactly one bug (visible, at least) in my bathroom. The other day there was a spider, which I was sure to spray to death and not squish in case it was carrying eggs. Yesterday, there was a fucking millipede crawling around in my sink which scared the crap out of me when I saw it. And this evening there was a house fly, I was able to coax it out the front door.
I need to find out how they're getting in, the landlord recently installed a new vent fan in the bathroom which may be a suspect.
Why did Achilles wear a helmet?Why did he wear any armour other than a pair of really strong boots?
Did he? I seem to recall some Greek heroes being pictured as going into battle naked. Or am I confusing that with the Olympics?
There were a lot of people who fought naked back then. Something about naked guys charging at you is frightening.
Connect it to another device of the same brand once in a while and call it Jaime or Cercei
Connect it to another device of the same brand once in a while and call it Jaime or Cercei
Connect it only to other PCs and call it Renly or Loras?
HP?
Call it Voldimort and be done with it
:-D
My gf and I finally put that we were dating on facebook. I think it's interesting that out of the 40 people who've liked that status none of them are my friends. I feel like there's a lesson there."Like!"
Saw a girl who posted, "what if he's your Romeo, but you're not his Juliet?"
Saw a girl who posted, "what if he's your Romeo, but you're not his Juliet?"
Then you're Rosaline
You may also be Friar Laurence.Nah, that dude had his chance to tell Lord Capulet that Juliet was married. Motherhugger squandered it. I hold him in disrespect, where Mercutio's a bit of a dick, but at least he's funny
Saw a girl who posted, "what if he's your Romeo, but you're not his Juliet?" and I really wanted to comment, "then you both get to fucking live next week, that's what".
"Both alike in dignity" - both have none?
Saw a girl who posted, "what if he's your Romeo, but you're not his Juliet?" and I really wanted to comment, "then you both get to fucking live next week, that's what".
You may also be Friar Laurence.Nah, that dude had his chance to tell Lord Capulet that Juliet was married. Motherhugger squandered it. I hold him in disrespect, where Mercutio's a bit of a dick, but at least he's funny
You may also be Friar Laurence.Nah, that dude had his chance to tell Lord Capulet that Juliet was married. Motherhugger squandered it. I hold him in disrespect, where Mercutio's a bit of a dick, but at least he's funny
Mercutio is absolutely a dick. Depending on the staging Romeo is either receiving an ass-kicking or actively walking away when Mercutio decides it's swordfight time in order to protect Romeo's honor. This after spending the preceding 5 pages lecturing Benvolio for being too hotheaded. And then with his dying breath curses both houses (which in Elizabethan theatre-world actually has implications) because he was killed in a fight that he ABSOLUTELY started
Am I disrespectful to my kidneys? They do vital work by means still only partly understood by science, but I take the product of their work and dispose of it in one of the most undignified ways possible.
Eating contests are obscene.
Living in the US as a foreigner, I can safely say the most asked question I get has nothing to do with where I'm from or why I'm here, "Are you still working on that?" from servers. Why are your portions so huuuuge! And yes, I would like a box to put the leftovers in, thank you very much.
Eating contests are obscene.
I can eat 8 dogs. And then throw up for 2 days.
If I went there I'd probably share a meal or maybe get an appetizer as my meal. Or maybe I'd just go there for lunch after not eating breakfast and eat a meal because food is awesome.Living in the US as a foreigner, I can safely say the most asked question I get has nothing to do with where I'm from or why I'm here, "Are you still working on that?" from servers. Why are your portions so huuuuge! And yes, I would like a box to put the leftovers in, thank you very much.
The same any time for me I've visited. Then while I was in San Jose I went to a restaurant that was known for ridiculously huge portions. I probably could have lived off that one meal for the whole trip if it stayed safe to eat.
That reminds me of a joke.
Back in the 1860's a ship's captain was conducting battle against another vessel. When the enemy boat was undefeated after all canon and rifle ammunition had been used, he ordered his helmsman to ram them with the front of the boat. With a good wind, they were able to cripple their enemy but the crew remained fighting. Not wishing to risk his men's lives in sword fighting, he ordered that the enemy were cut down with arrows. Alas, when all of these were expended one lone enemy combatant remained and refused to yield. Clearly the man was determined and would fight bitterly to the last. So he summoned his bosun and commanded he take the cabin boy's fiddle and advance on their lone adversary while playing a jig. The bosun, a man with clumsy, broad fingers and ears ruined by years of canon fire rendered such a terrible tune that swiftly the forlorn sailor of the other ship threw down his sword and begged for mercy.
It was an Add Homonym attack.
I got that far, but I don't get why that's funny.(click to show/hide)
...Hey, where'd that brick come from?
And is Netflix a requirement, or can Hulu or Amazon Instant Video be substituted? What about Blu-ray? DVD? VHS?You can Netflix and chill, Hulu and hang, or Amazon and masturbate whilst crying.
I though "Netflix and chill" was just fucking and didn't require any Parks and Rec. I think it's the new "I've got a friend coming over to do some homework" to serve the post-college era.Is THAT what that means!? No wonder nobody responded to my OKCupid profile.
I like how blow is at least a triple entendre.
I like how blow is at least a triple entendre.
TYBALT: Gentlemen, good e'en. A word with one of you.
MERCUTIO: And but one word with one of us? Couple it with something. Make it a word and a blow.
TYBALT: You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, an you will give me occasion.
I want to make a post about the allegation that our Prime Minister had sex with a dead pig but can't decide where it should go.The internet is just going to town on this.
Headline Thread or Miscellaneous TV thread?
I like how blow is at least a triple entendre.
TYBALT: Gentlemen, good e'en. A word with one of you.
MERCUTIO: And but one word with one of us? Couple it with something. Make it a word and a blow.
TYBALT: You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, an you will give me occasion.
Oh lordy. This gives their whole attitude towards each other a new angle.
I like how blow is at least a triple entendre.
TYBALT: Gentlemen, good e'en. A word with one of you.
MERCUTIO: And but one word with one of us? Couple it with something. Make it a word and a blow.
TYBALT: You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, an you will give me occasion.
Oh lordy. This gives their whole attitude towards each other a new angle.
These two love double entendres and puns.
TYBALT: Mercutio, thou consort'st with Romeo [Consort meaning 'associate with,' but also implying that the two have a special relationship]
MERCUTIO: Consort? What, dost thou make us minstrels? [the third meaning of 'consort', a group of musicians] An' thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but discords. Here’s my fiddlestick [his sword]. Here’s that shall make you dance.
And the world is a better place when it does.Oh, no question, but I wish we lived in a world where they could live as they wished and not have to hide who they are to such a degree that it hurts so many others as well.
Consort as a musical group being an example of that.I didn't know that usage at all. English-points increase! When will I level-up and equal PWH?
I've sometimes thought it's a pity that consort does not have wider use. It's more elegant that SO, less ambiguous than partner, and it's not gendered.
Queen Victoria's husband, Albert (of the Albert Memorial and the Albert Hall), was given the title of Prince Consort, so that usage is still moderately familiar here. However, although the consort of the present queen is a prince, he has never been given that same title of Prince Consort, but remains Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; it was suggested that he get the title of Prince Consort in 1957 and again in 2007, but nothing came of it either time.I don't quite understand why Philip isn't King Consort if a king's wife is Queen Consort.
In the posts above, fiddlestick was noted as meaning sword; that is of course also a pun, being able to refer to a violin (fiddle) bow as well to continue the musical meanings.
She shares models, with Sylvanas
And she's always found at Wyrmrest Temple too
Her consort's name, is Korialstrasz
And she helps you take down Malygos the Blue
Channel π News was just talking about Facebook's assimilation policy. Better safe than sorry. As of September 28th at 2:40* p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, I do not give Facebook or any hive minds associated with Facebook permission to use my physical form. By this statement, I do nothing. My permission is not needed. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
Shout this message into the nearest toaster. DO NOT SHARE. You can copy, but we're out of paste.
In response to those silly Facebook posts that reference the fucking Rome Statute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_Statute_of_the_International_Criminal_Court) of all things, I made a similar version.Quote from: me!Channel π News was just talking about Facebook's assimilation policy. Better safe than sorry. As of September 28th at 2:40* p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, I do not give Facebook or any hive minds associated with Facebook permission to use my physical form. By this statement, I do nothing. My permission is not needed. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
Shout this message into the nearest toaster. DO NOT SHARE. You can copy, but we're out of paste.
It only makes sense if you've seen the one going around.
*That's what time it was then.
Hey, I'd rather they copy and paste that then the one that's going around. Mine is actually somehow less full of shit than the "real" one.
...wait, my version started showing up? :wow:
To paraphrase Mitch Hedberg, isn't every picture a #latergram?
You know that thing that happens sometimes, when you try to join your community colege's brand new Film Club, and accidentally end up on the committee to write and shoot this year's 30 second ad space?
No?
This is just me, then?
Here's a weird, random thing! Facebook has decided to suggest King Buzzo (the guy from The Melvins) as one of the people I probably know, despite us having no friends in common. Okay, Facebook.
I tweet more than I Facebook.This was me for a while but whenever I was on Twitter I felt like I had to read ALL THE TWEETS of anyone I followed, and if I went away for a few days it didn't seem worth it to catch up, and therefore I would go months without using Twitter at all. I'm back once in a while but for the most part Facebook's just easier to keep in touch with people.
I use the facebooks quite a lot - mostly informative memes about politics / also a lot of stuff about my music. I'd like to think I'm informative, at least.
Also I use twitter incredibly sparsely
Also Gaz, don't you go a'deletin your facebook. Who else am I going to talk about dicks with? :psyduck:
That's nice, but it also seems like kind of an invasion if you have roommates.
Haha no, that would have been awful!Haha, agreed. I'm glad I was wrong about that.
I tweet more than I Facebook.
I increasingly entertain deleting my Facebook entirely. My main issue is the friends I have around the world and country.Veto.
I'm actually not even sure who among you here is actually on my Firends List at FB. I think I still have GM on it, but I'm not sure who else is there ATM.Me. And from our mutual friends, two current forumites and two former ones (including GM).
K-Mart still exists? Last time I was in one was when I was in college, and the place looked like it hadn't changed since the 1980s.
It was existing by the skin of its teeth ten years ago. Now I'm trying to picture how it could be worse.
edit -- Out of curiosity I went to the K-Mart website and searched for the nearest location to Madison, WI. It told me "That location does not exist." Which is odd, because I'm pretty sure Madison exists. :psyduck:
You may need to visit the deep south to find oneYes, there's a K-Mart in a shopping centre near my home, and another nine branches in the Sydney metro area. You don't get much deeper south than Australia.
You may need to visit the deep south to find oneYes, there's a K-Mart in a shopping centre near my home, and another nine branches in the Sydney metro area. You don't get much deeper south than Australia.
You don't get much deeper south than Australia.Of course, we have them around Adelaide too. You might say you don't get much deeper south than South Australia :mrgreen:
Isn't New Zealand farther south than South Australia? :-PPart of it is. The southernmost point of NZ is Jacquemart Island which is 52°37′10″S, while the southernmost point of Australia is the Bishop and Clerk Islands at 55°03′S, so we're still deeper south than the Kiwis.
The morning after is why we have a hair of the dog and Ativan.
Did you open with a joke?
"If you're reading this, then the doomsday device I set to activate when I died has failed. This is awkward."
In the words of Dark Helmet
"Even in the future nothing works."
So, if you work in Sales & Marketing for Black & Decker, and someone asks what you do, is the answer
"B&D S&M"?
Why is it that 90.x% of the time that people whinge about "political correctness", it's just 'cos they can't stand to be decent or polite to someone else?
But was the table maple wood?
Hey, I may be a complete loser who can't get a date, but I at least have enough self-respect to buy real cheese.
And I'm pretty sure if you're a Wisconsin resident and you buy Kraft Singles, the penalty is exile to a place that's even colder.
It's not always Canada. Sometimes it's Alaska, Siberia, or even Minnesota.
I dunno, in Quebec they do make delicious concoctions with cheese curdsPoutine :parrot:
IS exile to Canada a punishment?Climate-wise, isn't it like being sent to Siberia?
Explicit, that is a good question, and in a perfect world, one where people really and truly learned from their mistakes, we wouldn't 'hold that against them,' but we live in an imperfect world where criminals not only repeat their previous crimes, but they repeat them in the exact way that got them caught to begin with, or else they expand upon them in ways that get even more folk incarcerated.Part of the problem is that our society makes it hard for people who want to go straight to do so. A well-run system would make it easier to go straight than to go back to crime.
I came here to post an entirely different, light-hearted piece. Then this was here. Sigh.
Explicit, that is a good question, and in a perfect world, one where people really and truly learned from their mistakes, we wouldn't 'hold that against them,' but we live in an imperfect world where criminals not only repeat their previous crimes, but they repeat them in the exact way that got them caught to begin with, or else they expand upon them in ways that get even more folk incarcerated.
I came here to post an entirely different, light-hearted piece. Then this was here. Sigh.
(That's called "recidivism", by the way.)
That is called passive vocabulary.(That's called "recidivism", by the way.)
RECIDIVISM. I knew the word, but only would have recognized it, if that makes any sense.
That made my skin crawl...
a REOL mangaka!Well played!
Wait, what? If you donate your body to science, why would you need to be cremated?
Wait, what? If you donate your body to science, why would you need to be cremated?There will inevitably be "bits left over" if you organ-donate, and/or leave your body to science.
In Germany, according to a medical student friend, nobody donates bodies to science anymore because you actually still have to pay your own cremation fees.Eh? Don't you (through pre-paid plan or insurance), or your family, normally have to pay your own funeral expenses anyway? It might be a worthwhile deal for hospitals etc. to offer funeral expenses to attract donations, but there would have to be a cap, because the funeral industry tends to "up sell" despite fancy coffins being ridiculous for cremations.
Hooray!
Another miscellaneous musing: why is breakfast pronounced "breck fist" instead of "break fast"?
Who the hell does that?Probably nobody. Amazon charges sales tax now, not sure about other major sites.
I forget if I've brought this up, but why is / a forward slash
Huh, interesting... randomly threw a disc from a pile into the Bluray player.
Valentines Day episode of Chuck season 2.
The Universe is making fun of me.
But you could, I'm guessing? Did you buy it?
disappointed I couldn't buy it.
From the story it sounded like he thought he couldn't, but it turned out he could, and they looked at him strange for thinking he couldn't even though he had the money required. That is, he's used to adding sales tax but Brazil doesn't maybe?
I think I'd like to add "deliver a baby" to my bucket list, but it feels unfeasible. I suspect most women would not risk their lives and the lives of their children for my shits & giggles.
So this is my last semester in college (oh god help me) and I have this plan to make little gifts for my friends. I'm going to probably do one and week and what it is will depend on the friend. But do you guys think I should give them out as I finish them or horde them and hand them out at the end of the semester?
Or just going off chaos, don't wait until graduation day, plan for like, 3 weeks before. If you want to give them all at once and not miss anyone.
Wait, what's rude? Did I do something rude again? I was just trying to help by giving more options :(
Wait, what's rude? Did I do something rude again? I was just trying to help by giving more options :(
I might have misread. I read your comment as something to the effect of 'Don't do what Chaos did. Start earlier.' And in this case, I might just be sensitive because I'm really bad about procrastination in general.
buy the good stuff for home, and drink swill when they go out.
Most people, maybe, but there's still folk like myself. We do not have money enough for good stuff, whether at home or away from it. We drink swill, except when other people pay. Sometimes we have good fortune and can get less-terrible swill, but I've had good stuff before, so I'm aware that while it's less horrible, it's still swill.To be fair, "most people I know" make far more than I ever have. Right now, I'm stuck buying the cheap booze, and drinking coffee that tastes worse than something that has been sitting for two hours on the warmer at the shittiest diner in the US.
drinking coffee that tastes worse than something that has been sitting for two hours on the warmer at the shittiest diner in the US.
Chaos, another good situation to be in is if you have a little brother who (while still a legal minor) occasionally makes incredibly impulsive purchases. About half were confiscated, and the other half were given to me as punishment. I still have a set of gen-1 Beats I got that way.
As an extension to all the good answers above, an additional bonus to workout music is if its tempo matches the cadence you want to achieve in your workout.
As an extension to all the good answers above, an additional bonus to workout music is if its tempo matches the cadence you want to achieve in your workout.
What if they're too fast Tova, WHAT THEN.
Anyway, how do runners keep their headphones in so easily? mine fall out all the time
Absolutely agree.
Also, I find music about depression uplifting, not depressing - makes me feel like someone else has been there.
I have QC set as my Homepage, so I tend to wait till the next day when I first open my Browser to read the Comic.
You know Rick Possum?
and listen to CreedThem's fightin' words.
I usually just talk about balls.
Ted Cruz is NOT the lead singer of Stryper.Have you ever seen them in the same room?
Maybe it's a really cool bird:(click to show/hide)
I thought they tasted like coffee grounds.The ground are what's left after all the coffee essence has left, and are but mere shells.
So, when Nixon began the war on drugs, 2/3 of the budget was put aside for care for addicts. And I saw footage of Nixon saying, more than once, nobody turns to drugs unless he has exhausted other options, so obviously we want to help addicts.Where I come from, Richard Nixon is regarded as a great statesman. He might have been a scoundrel, but definitely not ignorant, stupid or loopy, and I think he got the big issues of his time right, for America and the world. I've written about this before elsewhere (https://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,27686.msg1068787.html#msg1068787).
For sure, the Republican party of the present in many respects doesn't reflect its history.Though I have spoken positively of Nixon, arguably the rot set in (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy), in many ways, in his time.
P[resident] emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to.
Why is farting possible? Gas bubbles float up, not down.So that's why Donald Trump is rising in the polls.
Why is farting possible? Gas bubbles float up, not down.
On 1 April 2005, the law changed so that anyone who registers to donate their
eggs after this date must give identifying information. This information will be made
available to a child born from the donation, if he or she requests it, after they turn 18.
A couple weeks ago, I watched all 19 seasons of South Park. That was a mistake.I've been watching it weekly since the turn of the century (I caught up a few seasons in).
Is South Park even still on?
It's weird seeing a person from your past pop up once in a while where there was such this volatile thing for a while that never got resolved. I'm chill about it now and in a way, I wish we could just be acquaintances or acknowledge the friends of friends thing. In another way I think it would just be too weird because it was such a pile of teenage drama. I have no idea how they feel though, whether they have bad feelings or are like me and like, "Hey, that was shitty for various reasons but I have no ill will." or if they'd even pause if they saw me. I think even just apologising for how I was would be more awkward than anything.
Ah well, at least it's from a time where I can admit my fuck ups and am a little better prepared for the world from it.
She better get busy living or get busy dying.
Am fairly upset that my girlfriend did not try watching The Shawshank Redemption with me. I even had to tell my mom who in turn told her to watch the movie. Watch the movie Nessa.That reminds me of when I watched My Cousin Vinny with Sarah and she thought it was only ok. Probably the first sign the relationship ultimately wasn't gonna work.
I was wondering if anyone ever built one of those secret bookcase doors in real life. Then I Internetted.
I'm slightly disappointed the door just pushed open, was hoping for one of those sconces to pull down, or setting the clock's hands to a certain time would act as the doors latch.
Am fairly upset that my girlfriend did not try watching The Shawshank Redemption with me. I even had to tell my mom who in turn told her to watch the movie. Watch the movie Nessa.
I thought of this in connection with a quote from the Tao Te Ching at this link: http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2005/10/thug-or-hero.htmlThat article involves a questionable interpretation of a passage it inaccurately translates, and incompletely quotes. A more correct translation would be something like this:
I just *knew* that one couldn't trust Tom Baker.
Are people who eat jelly-babies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_Babies) cannibals?
Why do some people have an issue with "they" being both singular and plural, but no issue with "you"?Generally, because they are sexist arseholes.
Collective nouns I use for my students are generally 'team,' 'folks,' very occasionally 'peeps' if I'm feeling sassy.
I think maybe because it's relatively new to their ears while "you" as both singular and plural is so ingrained.If the "singular they" is new in their ears, it is only because they have not been listening. Jane Austen used it. Shakespeare used it too. In fact a great many respected authors have done so. I believe the practice goes back at least to Middle English, but I have not studied that. Learning modern English was bad enough. :P
Collective nouns I use for my students are generally 'team,' 'folks,' very occasionally 'peeps' if I'm feeling sassy.
My most common collective noun is "you guys." Which here in the South I've been called out on before, but growing up I literally had never heard of 'guys' being a gendered term.
But also yeah, singular they is and always has been grammatically correct.
So is Jon Oliver's show just a giant liberal circle jerk?
Mr. Burns: I think I'll donate a million dollars to the local orphanage...when(https://frinkiac.com/gif/S07E05/931746/935750.gif)I get 100 likespigs fly!
Smithers: Will you be writing that check now, sir?
Mr. Burns: No, I'd still prefer not.
Why do they call rolling a pair of ones 'snake eyes' when a pair of ones is exactly what snake eyes don't look like?I guess because two dots symbolise eyes generally? :) Two is a bad result, in craps at least, and snakes are (quite unjustly) symbols of evil? "Rat eyes" would be more accurate, but rats are cute!:
Trailing right back to the Granddaddy of all Fanships, Kirk/SpockGranddaddy? What about the Lois Lane/Lana Lang thing in Superman comics?
Personally, I rather wish that creators wouldn't go around after the fact telling people what their work really meant, especially when it is years after the work was released, since the work itself should do that. Taking Blade Runner as an example, was Ridley Scott's inserting/emphasising, in the director's cut, the idea that Deckard is a replicant, any different from George Lucas' "Greedo shot first" thing*, except for being less clumsily executed? Both essentially involved telling a large proportion of their audience that they were wrong and stupid.
*I declare my interests: Han shot first. Deckard is human. ;)
In canon, it must be one way or the otherWhy? If it cuts off before you find out, isn't it neither and both?
Protest, training, or bizarre club initiation?
(The last two sort of go hand-in-hand in a lot of instances I think.)
http://www.acronymattic.com/POSC.html
I'm really upset that there's no Know Your Meme page for this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP9Wp6QVbsk) because I really desperately need it to have some kind of social context.I have literally never heard of that before and now my Youtube history is tainted with schlager music forever. (Nah, I am kidding.)
Juno that Jupiter has sixty-seven known moons? Whatever he's been up to, he's been doing it a lot.From the top of my head, I can think of at least 5 women he had sex with: Lada; Alcmene; Europa; ...the one he came down on a golden rain... the wive of the king of Crete... and I am forgetting a few I know about.
There is that one video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUlKHQflD2g) explaining a bit of it. The song itself is sung from the viewpoint of an anthromorphic spruce who says we have to protect it and its kind, otherwise Earth will be pretty bad off (basically).
Juno that Jupiter has sixty-seven known moons? Whatever he's been up to, he's been doing it a lot.
I have literally never heard of that before and now my Youtube history is tainted with schlager music forever.I thought a schlager was a kind of duelling sabre. I googled, and found what a difference an umlaut makes...
The busier you are, the less time you spend Posting
The busier you are, the less time you spend Posting
Actually, in one of the pizza chains in Spain, you can have a really odd interchange...
"Hi this is Telepizza, how may I help you?"
"A burger."
"Ok on its way"
"o.O?"
You mean like tonic water (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonic_water)?I specified cola, not just any carbonated beverage.
Oh, I can answer that. Ahem. SUGGGGAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRAnd going back to my original question: does soda exist without sugar or artificial sweeteners? (And seltzer doesn't count, I mean soda with actual flavor).
But our water has Fluoride in it! That's a chemical! Chemicals are always bad! /sNot to mention all the Dihydrogenmonoxide. That stuff is the worst.
But our water has Fluoride in it!(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2402/2125426786_e0d4d40399.jpg)
I really hate the number of documentaries that insist on having provocative titles. The number of titles for documentaries that are something like 'FAT: The fattest man who ever FATTED is FAT for you on camera' just to get a rise out of people. It angers me.
My benders usually culminate in either a fight, inadvisable sex partners, or an OD. Or any combination thereof. Never had the urge for public nudity. Never really understood that particular drive.
What about the barber, then?
There's an old logical paradox about the Spanish barber who shaves only the men in the village who do not shave themselves.There could also be another barber and they shave each other.
What about the barber, then?
You're supposed to think about it and get into an unresolvable dilemma. If the barber shaves himself, then he's one of the men he doesn't shave, so he's not shaving himself.
Unresolvable, that is, until you take into account that the barber could be a woman.
My benders usually culminate in either a fight, inadvisable sex partners, or an OD. Or any combination thereof. Never had the urge for public nudity. Never really understood that particular drive.I honestly don't think he had a drive to take his clothes off. He just thought he had a reason. He was tripping balls on who knows what (a mutual friend cleaned out his trailer, before the police could check on it. Everything he found was legal, which actually makes it worse because that dude was apparently smoking the craziest mixtures of herbs, and probably some "research chemicals" mixed in as well. I'm fairly certain LSD or some analogs, 1P, ALD-52, something like that were in the mix too. His irises looked practically nonexistant for two days, and with the way he was ranting in the end, I'd deem it likely he went into full blown drug induced psychosis.
If Spain is any indicator, Trump would probably win by a landslide if that were to happen.
One way I can tell when I'm back in Madison: the drivers here are colossal dickweasels.
I'm growing my hair out, and it feels weird when it gets wet and sticks to my neck. Like someone has their hands around my throat.That's not nearly as bad as the transitional period when the ends poke you in the eyes.
I've driven in New Jersey, but it was mostly just on the NJ Turnpike. I figured out that if I just followed at exactly the same speed as everyone else, people would leave me alone. If only drivers in Madison were that nice.It's all Walker's fault.
It's similar in the service industry where "sir" or "ma'am" can either be a standard thing one does, or have all the venom a king cobra can pump in its lifetime.
For once maybe someone will call me "sir" without adding "you're making a scene."
I think Spain's was recently bumped up to 16 but don't quote me on that.
I was thinking of it as starting in 2000.That's not really better! I know this proves your point about Americans, but...still.
Fair enough, but that doesn't change the fact that each purchase still gives you an extra entry, thus increasing your odds of winning.
the one which accidentally has my hand on itThat's where we differ. I would've deleted that one immediately.
Was sitting in traffic today, found that the drumbeat of this song PERFECTLY matched the timing of my turn signal.It's sad music mostly has no bend, swing, or swerve to it any longer. As a guy who routinely tries to feed a drum machine crooked beats it frustrates me to no end that people with actual drummers have producers that go back and "fix" the beats so that everything is quantized to a grid. But then I'm a failure and people listen to their music so WTF do I know?
http://youtu.be/Huk3eYCnvHI
No variation from start to finish. 8-)
1000 times this, that's what makes human performance so captivating and relatable - slight imperfection.Was sitting in traffic today, found that the drumbeat of this song PERFECTLY matched the timing of my turn signal.It's sad music mostly has no bend, swing, or swerve to it any longer. As a guy who routinely tries to feed a drum machine crooked beats it frustrates me to no end that people with actual drummers have producers that go back and "fix" the beats so that everything is quantized to a grid. But then I'm a failure and people listen to their music so WTF do I know?
http://youtu.be/Huk3eYCnvHI
No variation from start to finish. 8-)
In the UK surgeons are called Mr and physicians are called Dr - this goes back to the times when surgery was a new thing, associated with barbers (previously) and grave-robbing for anatomical specimens to learn and practice on. Surgeons were definitely not "proper". I have no idea how widely this convention has been copied.It is common, but not universal, in Australia. I think it is fair to say that the practice is declining as Australia emerges, hesitantly and slowly, from the shadow of the British Empire. :-P
I'm a tank!"It's hard to pull aggro in a toilet.
"That's the Staatsoper," says Neumann Two one night. The facade of a grand building rises gracefully, pilastered and crenelated. Stately wings soar on either side, somehow both heavy and light. It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the face of the seismic, engulfing indifference of the world—what pretensions humans have! Why bother to make music when the silence and wind are so much larger? Why light lamps when the darkness will inevitably snuff them? When Russion prisoners are chained by threes and fours while German privates tuck live grenades in their pockets and run?
Opera houses! Cities on the moon! Ridiculous. They would all do better to put their faces on the curbs and wait for the boys who come through the city dragging sledges stacked with corpses.
O Del’vig, Delvig!
O Del’vig, Del’vig! Chto nagrada
I del vïsokikh i stikhov?
Talantu chto i gde otrada
Sredi zlodeyev i gluptsov?
V ruke surovoy Yuvenala
Zlodeyam groznïy bich svistit
I krasku gonit s ikh lanit,
I vlast’ tiranov zadrozhala.
O Del’vig, Del’vig! Chto gonen’ya?
Bessmertiye ravno udel
I smelïkh vdokhnovennïkh del
I sladostnogo pesnopen’ya.
Tak ne umryot i nash soyuz,
Svobodnïy, radostnïy i gordïy!
I v schast’i i v neschast’i tvyordïy,
Soyuz lyubimtsev vechnïkh muz!
"What you give, write it down in sand. What you receive, carve it in rock."
Would your feet warm due to being elevated and level with the rest of the body, aiding circulation? Combined with a blanket trapping heat around you and even with a decreased core temperature, extremities tend to feel external temperature more intensely?The first one seems like the best explanation. When sitting or standing still, blood pools in your legs, making heat exchange slower. Laying down flat probably speeds it up enough that your extremities warm up in a few hours.
Oxfordshire (specifically the village of Newington, a bit South-East of Oxford) was the coldest place in Britain last night (-7.5) and may be again tonight (-8). But none the less I do not plan to wear socks in bed.(does the math)
At this point I don't remember the actual code, I just muscle memory the action and if I try to think about it, my brain short circuits. Except it's my entire freaking work shift.
I wish. Just was using code to mean password in that context. My job has nothing to do with coding.Holy shit, that site's amazing.
Although if you mash the keyboard on http://www.hackertyper.com it can feel like autopilot.
Is there a word or phrase to perfectly encapsulate the feeling of being scared of something while also being intensely interested in it? For example being too scared to watch a horror movie but filled with utter curiosity that you feel you should watch it.
:psyduck:
Is there a word or phrase to perfectly encapsulate the feeling of being scared of something while also being intensely interested in it? For example being too scared to watch a horror movie but filled with utter curiosity that you feel you should watch it.
:psyduck:
Why does the QC comic page invite me to date Russian women?
Why does the QC comic page invite me to date Russian women?
I have a wisdom tooth coming through. I'm 31. Is this supposed to happen this late on?
I want an inverse musical kitchen timer, not one that rings when the time is up, but one that picks a song (or multiple, the last one preferably with a punchy ending) with a length equal to the time it takes to boil an egg, bake a pizza, stew a stew etc. so you know that it's done by the time it stops playing.
Saw a post of various Disney ladies made into mermaids and seeing Tiana as a mermaid made me wonder, what would constantly being submerged in sea water do to afro textured hair? I guess what would it do to all kinds of hair really but that's the texture with which I'm least familiar. Would it be healthy or not for hair? It wouldn't be getting wet and fully dried very often so I don't think dry damage and tangling would be too bad. Or would the salt be damaging and add texture and frizz? Is greasy/oily hair and skin an issue underwater?
Legit, friends, the facetious response of "It's magic" has irked me. While I mentioned Disney, I think my questions were clearly structured to indicate what would in reality happen to hair long term in sea water. I know the circumstances are fantastical. I didn't ask what would happen to Tiana's hair or even mermaid hair. I wasn't really expecting any answer though, I guess, but also not a dismissive one.
Legit, friends, the facetious response of "It's magic" has irked me. While I mentioned Disney, I think my questions were clearly structured to indicate what would in reality happen to hair long term in sea water. I know the circumstances are fantastical. I didn't ask what would happen to Tiana's hair or even mermaid hair. I wasn't really expecting any answer though, I guess, but also not a dismissive one.
A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.
I realised that being a sadomasochist allows me to get along with cats better.
Bear with me.
Cats when they play with you will slash the shit out of you (my right hand is a ruin right now).
As a dom, I both enjoy pain and inflicting pain, but I do that to the people I love. Pain is not harm. Pain, in my context, is love.
So when I am playing with the cats and they are biting me and scratching me - it's just an expression of love. And it makes perfect sense to me and I totally understand them. And it means I can tolerate a LOT more of their savagery than most.
It was a happy realisation.
Here is a PDF link about dog and cat skin thickness. It states that dogs have a thickness of 2.6-5.2mm , while a cat has 0.4-3.6mm skin thickness. One should also take into consideration cats skin is more flexible and hangs off of the muscle, so that injuries are more superficial.
If I'd gotten here a minute sooner I could have posted at 17:17:17 at 17-7-2017.
Doesn't "Bamboo" sound like it should be the name of a cartoon character?So does "Shampoo":
Idea for Macbeth in the twenty-first century. Macduff was born to a trans man. Makes more sense than “c-section means never born.”Problematic in that implies that transmen are not men, or at the very least that they are not born men. Seems the better solution would be to simply have Macduff be a woman since the prophecy specifically says "no man".
How effective would donating blood be as a weight loss strategy? You automatically lose a pound with each donation, and even though most of that is water, you also lose all the calories it was carrying and spend energy replenishing your hemocytes. In the absence of lifestyle changes, could a monthly donation make a difference?
The average donation is 1 pint of blood, which weights about 1 pound, so right off the bat, you’re walking out of the donation center 1 pound lighter. However, that weight is easily put back on with the liquids you are instructed to drink after donating, along with cookies or other sweet treats to give your blood sugar a quick boost.
Everything that happens within the body, related to metabolism, comes along with some level of calorie-burning. Obviously, every action requires energy, including the production of billions of new red blood cells. Replacing one pint of blood burns approximately 650 calories, which is equivalent to about one hour of cardio – not bad!
So, donating once every two months earns you the same as a one-hour workout, which doesn’t seem that impressive (see above: don’t give up your gym membership). That being said, the real weight-loss benefits of blood donation are a bit more complex.
Some people have compared donating blood to changing the oil in your car, which is a fair description. New blood cells are better at holding and transporting oxygen than old blood cells that are wearing down, which gives your muscles and metabolism a helpful boost. When your body is more oxygenated, your energy levels increase, and your body naturally burns more calories during its daily activities.
It may not be equivalent to a daily workout, but regularly donating blood can help your body run more efficiently and aid in your weight-loss efforts!
What? No, I'm not saying Macduff is trans. I'm saying the person who gave birth to him is. Therefore, he's not "of woman born" or whatever the line is.Idea for Macbeth in the twenty-first century. Macduff was born to a trans man. Makes more sense than “c-section means never born.”Problematic in that implies that transmen are not men, or at the very least that they are not born men. Seems the better solution would be to simply have Macduff be a woman since the prophecy specifically says "no man".
Apologies, I misread what you posted.What? No, I'm not saying Macduff is trans. I'm saying the person who gave birth to him is. Therefore, he's not "of woman born" or whatever the line is.Idea for Macbeth in the twenty-first century. Macduff was born to a trans man. Makes more sense than “c-section means never born.”Problematic in that implies that transmen are not men, or at the very least that they are not born men. Seems the better solution would be to simply have Macduff be a woman since the prophecy specifically says "no man".
That's not bad. I doubt the effects of refreshing your stock of red blood cells are relevant, though. Your old blood cells don't rise to the top or anything, your entire supply is a mix of new, old, and middle-aged cells, so for every end-of-life blood cell you're giving up one that's fresh out of hematopoiesis. Whatever efficiency you gain from replacing all of it can't be much.
The Red Cross ought to work this into their marketing, though. Imagine how many people will be glad to skip a gym day in favour of sitting in a chair for half an hour and eating sweets! And also having a needle stuck in their arm, but no need to emphasise that.
The older generations could have bought a car and it lasted them 20-30 years.
Sometimes I wonder if future generations will write about my generation as the ones who were crazy or had a hard time coping due to the influx and speed of new technologies and the advent of a connected culture. That the future generations will view us as simpletons or backwards the same way we look back at European medieval hygiene or medicine. That to them its such an every day common sense type of subject, whereas now it is so new and different.
(Terry Pratchett: A collegiate casting-out of devilish devices)
“Dean! We are going to move on and put this behind us!” Ridcully snapped.
“Excuse me, Archchancellor?” said Ponder Stibbons, who was Head of Inadvisably Applied Magic and also the university’s Praelector, a position interpreted at UU as “the one who gets given the tedious jobs”.
“Yes, Stibbons?”
“It may be a good idea to put it behind us before we move on, sir,” said Stibbons. “That way it will be further behind us when we do, in fact, move.”
“Good point, that man. See to it,” said Ridcully.
Chargers and powerbanks are your friend.Yeah, the problem was ultimately solved by running out to my car and grabbing a charger.
I remember around 1990 visiting the UK factory of a pharmaceutical company whose IT department had decided that the way to be secure was to automatically change everyone's 8-random-character password every seven days.I worked at a shop where "sysadmin" passwords were twelve character, random letters and numbers, and automatically changed monthly. Worse though, I think, was a place where they enforced password changing with a rule that the new password could not have any letter in the same position as in any of the last five you'd used, for ordinary user accounts. Typically, a user would have to try several words before they found one that worked. Then the next day they had to remember which was the right one. Oh, and if they got it wrong three times, the system locked them out.
If they know what characters are in what positions, it means they're storing the passwords in plaintext instead of as a hash, which is even worse...I remember around 1990 visiting the UK factory of a pharmaceutical company whose IT department had decided that the way to be secure was to automatically change everyone's 8-random-character password every seven days.Worse though, I think, was a place where they enforced password changing with a rule that the new password could not have any letter in the same position as in any of the last five you'd used, for ordinary user accounts.
I remember around 1990 visiting the UK factory of a pharmaceutical company whose IT department had decided that the way to be secure was to automatically change everyone's 8-random-character password every seven days.I worked at a shop where "sysadmin" passwords were twelve character, random letters and numbers, and automatically changed monthly. Worse though, I think, was a place where they enforced password changing with a rule that the new password could not have any letter in the same position as in any of the last five you'd used, for ordinary user accounts. Typically, a user would have to try several words before they found one that worked. Then the next day they had to remember which was the right one. Oh, and if they got it wrong three times, the system locked them out.
And they probably did it twice so that it'd be doubly secure.
I wouldn't do that to you. The latest series of Wondermark strips has got me fuming.
Anyway, it's raw carrots, I hiccup like crazy after swallowing just one, then it's gone a few minutes after. Unless I keep eating them in which case it keeps going until I stop. Must be something with their texture because it doesn't happen when I cut up carrots and cook them in soup.
I'm reading comments on the film Mid90s and it's weird. The way people are talking about it. You'd think the mid-90s were decades ago.
You'd think the mid-90s were decades ago.
I'm reading comments on the film Mid90s and it's weird. The way people are talking about it. You'd think the mid-90s were decades ago.
That ... that wasn't nice, Tova :x
I'm reading comments on the film Mid90s and it's weird. The way people are talking about it. You'd think the mid-90s were decades ago.
That ... that wasn't nice, Tova :x
So sorry. I was reading the comments and experienced the jolt I guess you've just experienced... and had to share. :mrgreen:
... and had to share. :mrgreen:
I'm reading comments on the film Mid90s and it's weird. The way people are talking about it. You'd think the mid-90s were decades ago.
That ... that wasn't nice, Tova :x
So sorry. I was reading the comments and experienced the jolt I guess you've just experienced... and had to share. :mrgreen:
I have a general question: What characteristics distinguish Bogans and Chavs?
'Cos a few days ago a couple friends of mine were debating whether Donald Trump is more like a Bogan or more like a Chav, and I couldn't follow the arguments at all.
FWIW, the verdict was 'Chav.' I have no idea why.
Less than 34 years if you count the 1922 film Nosferatu (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Nosferatu) - a Dracula film in all but name (although not 100% faithful). That's a 25-year difference.
Bram's son wasn't so enthusiastic about that one, though. They didn't have permission.
What's a 'Bogan'...?Australian for white trash. Typically meant as uncultured people from rural or poor areas. The US equivalent to a "redneck" or so thats my understanding.
From context, I'm pretty sure it's an anti-civilized negative stereotype. A few google hits agree with that.
But that's also true of Chav. I can't really distinguish them from this distance.
'Chav' is a term I stopped using because I realised it was basically racism without the race involved. It's snobbery, it's classist, it's victimising.
'Chav' is a term I stopped using because I realised it was basically racism without the race involved. It's snobbery, it's classist, it's victimising.
I first heard the terms "chav" and "ned" from UK goths, for many of whom, they *are* about as predictably dangerous as the reavers in the Firefly 'verse.
Is there a term or phrase for when an artist looks upon their own art and then instantly hates it and rips it to shreds?Familiarity breeds contempt?
I am writing an overview for my novel for nation novel writing month and I feel that way right now.
One of my favorite frozen dishes, bacon wrapped scallops, is a seasonal item at the grocery. I asked when it will re-appear this year, and they said November 5. Now I have to make sure I don't forget to buy them.Remember, remember the fifth of November. But not because of some kook trying to blow up Parliament, but because of the bacon-wrapped scallops.
How am I supposed to remember? Remember the 5th of November? Bacon wrapped scallops or not?
One of my favorite frozen dishes, bacon wrapped scallops, is a seasonal item at the grocery. I asked when it will re-appear this year, and they said November 5. Now I have to make sure I don't forget to buy them.Remember, remember the fifth of November. But not because of some kook trying to blow up Parliament, but because of the bacon-wrapped scallops.
How am I supposed to remember? Remember the 5th of November? Bacon wrapped scallops or not?
It's kind of funny how the definition of "spooky" has morphed from "strange and frightening" to "fun and halloweeny."
It's also funny that Dutch has always had a word for "fun and halloweeny", griezelig, and English is only now catching up.
One of my favorite frozen dishes, bacon wrapped scallops, is a seasonal item at the grocery. I asked when it will re-appear this year, and they said November 5. Now I have to make sure I don't forget to buy them.
How am I supposed to remember? Remember the 5th of November? Bacon wrapped scallops or not?
I watched a video where someone bit into a candle, and they put an apple crunch noise over it. For some reason this is really fucking with me. It wouldn't make a crunch noise. Wax is pretty soft. Although I don't quite know what noise it would make and my brain won't let this go till I know. Except I don't want to know, no one should ever bite into a goddamn candle!
Joe, that's interesting and I hadn't heard of that but I'm pretty sure this instance was legit.(click to show/hide)
Cornelius, thanks for the info. It's genuinely calmed my brain down a bit, because I was still background processing this.
Plane is about to take off. I hear a grinding noise below the cabin floor. My brain:
Air Crash Investigation narrator voice: "At approximately 15:40 PM, a grinding noise could be heard below the cabin floor. Less than five minutes later, the plane would crash, leaving no survivors."(click to show/hide)
How am I supposed to remember? Remember the 5th of November? Bacon wrapped scallops or not?
Eeeeeeeeep!
No, iz not just you ...
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The danger of delegating tasks to future you is that future you never turns up.
Past me is an asshole, why would I give a shit what he thinks?
I'm not procrastinating, I'm delegating tasks to future me.
Past me is an asshole, why would I give a shit what he thinks?
Well, his thinking is the reason you have to deal his procrastination ... :-D
More and more, I am of the opinion that tribalism is at the root of all public discourse dysfunction.
[...]
I'm at a loss to know what could be done to improve this state of affairs.
What we have to find out is: How did our societies keep our tribal instincts in check in the past?
What we have to find out is: How did our societies keep our tribal instincts in check in the past?
Did we keep our tribal instincts in check in the past? I could be wrong, but I'm not convinced that we did.
I wasn't trying to suggest that what I'm describing is a new phenomenon, or even that it's now worse. I'm just becoming increasingly aware of it.
"The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club. People miss that.
David Dunning, 2018"
Family Guy didn't start off that way though but gradually became that way. Golden girls I have seen but I haven't binged the whole series to really say, same with All In The Family. This isn't to say all sitcoms characters become terrible, but the longer the show lasts the more likely it is to happen. Live long enough to become the villain so to speak. Its not bound to happen but increases the chances of it happening.
Actually what I forgot to mention was that the way to guarantee poilteness in Paris no matter the scenario for me was to at least attempt to discuss in French first.
In the US, kids generally learn two "magic words," which are "please" and "thank you." According to "Bringing Up Bebe," French children learn four — "s'il vous plaît" (please), "merci" (thank you), "bonjour" (hello), and "au revoir" (goodbye). Although it is polite to say greet people in the US, in France, it is essential.
In "Bringing Up Bebe, Druckerman writes that, in France, "saying bonjour acknowledges the other person's humanity." So, it's important.
It almost seems comical but it is typical.
It almost seems comical but it is typical.
You mean the France/Greece/Italy thing seems almost-comical to you, did I get that right?
When studying French in high-school, I was taught that in France it is rude to just walk into a shop and ask for what you want, and that one should first greet the person behind the counter, or respond to their greeting if they got in first. However, I have never actually visited France, so I have no idea how far this is true "on the ground", as it were.
Actually what I forgot to mention was that the way to guarantee poilteness in Paris no matter the scenario for me was to at least attempt to discuss in French first.
Surely in your customer service experience you have greeted the customer and they did not greet you back but went straight to the point and asked for help or make a demand/complaint?
"Hello Sir/Ma'am, can I help you with something?"
"Yeah, where do you keep the x? Mine broke."
"Yes its in aisle 14 next to the B."
"Thanks."
I can also attest to seeing something similar in emails. Usually emails begin with "Hello" or "Dear" or some sort of formal greeting, but I have seen so many that doesn't even give you the courtesy and just make a demand or complaint that something is not working. Such emails usually stick out like a sore thumb to the co-workers and they generally complain among themselves at the rudeness.
Same, I just notice that its less common here in the states in a customer service role and wouldn't be surprised if such behavior would rub elbows outside of the states. Which may also explain the "ugly american tourist/ugly american" stereotype.
It's mildly fascinating to me. How do you *do* that?Emulate the joker? Its so common in the states to smile that way that to not do so seems off.
It's more common in the US to fail to wait for acknowledgement than it is to skip a greeting entirely. The classic approaching-an-employee-in-a-store script in the US usually starts with the customer saying something like,
"Hi, where do you keep the widgets?"
Without stopping after saying "Hi" for an acknowledgement or return greeting. It abbreviates the greeting to the point of something you can do without the acknowledgement or cooperation of the other party, which is to say it completely undermines its purpose.
Another thing that's common in the US is to abbreviate or omit *responding* to a greeting, especially in "customer service" type situations. In fact, the usual "script" for restaurant interaction with serving staff usually has the customer responding to a full greeting by simply saying "Yes," and then going straight to their order, as in:
server: "Hello, welcome to our establishment! My name is Michael, and I'll be your server today!"
Customer: "Yes, we'll have the green eggs and ham..."
Which I've been told is considered astonishingly rude in other cultures.
Well, for the sake of brevity I don't say hello to a grocery store employee I interrupt restocking just to ask where the chips are located.
As for the server thing - over here the servers usually don't introduce themselves like that. You all just say your hellos and goodbyes in a brief manner, because you're not there to make small talk. That's what bars are for :-P
It's mildly fascinating to me. How do you *do* that?Emulate the joker? Its so common in the states to smile that way that to not do so seems off.
In that way, I guess you could say I've integrated. After over a decade of living in Germany, I now lack "Begeisterungsfähigkeit" — the ability to get excited, as the Germany-based American writer John Doyle calls it in his book, Don't Worry, Be German.
Why don't Germans smile more? (https://www.dw.com/cda/en/why-dont-germans-smile-more/a-40811098)
When studying French in high-school, I was taught that in France it is rude to just walk into a shop and ask for what you want, and that one should first greet the person behind the counter, or respond to their greeting if they got in first. However, I have never actually visited France, so I have no idea how far this is true "on the ground", as it were.
"To whom it may concern" doesn't register as rude for me, but it does kinda sound like you're crashed on a desert island and are putting a letter in a bottle.
Formal settings - and written conversation count as highly formal, as they cannot transport gesture & mimics - require more adherence to proper protocol, not less. As I said above, I vividly remember the first exchange that omitted the greetings & goodbyes years after the fact, and wondering what I'd done to offend the offender.A complication I have encountered when using French on the internet, is offending some French people by being too formal. Learning French purely in a formal, classroom situation (and often only getting speaking practice addressing the teacher), I am much more at home in the formal "vous" form of French than the intimate "tu". Also, I was taught that prematurely attempting to tutoyer was just asking for a snub*, but some French internet people insist on it, even on first encounter. With my French being as bad and rusty as it is, half the time I can't remember the tu form of the verb. Culture is complicated...
Formal settings - and written conversation count as highly formal, as they cannot transport gesture & mimics - require more adherence to proper protocol, not less. As I said above, I vividly remember the first exchange that omitted the greetings & goodbyes years after the fact, and wondering what I'd done to offend the offender.A complication I have encountered when using French on the internet, is offending some French people by being too formal. Learning French purely in a formal, classroom situation (and often only getting speaking practice addressing the teacher), I am much more at home in the formal "vous" form of French than the intimate "tu". Also, I was taught that prematurely attempting to tutoyer was just asking for a snub*, but some French internet people insist on it, even on first encounter. With my French being as bad and rusty as it is, half the time I can't remember the tu form of the verb. Culture is complicated...
*Par exemple:
"Peut-on se tutoyer?"
"Si vous voulez..."
I got ordained online, so I use the title "reverend" when writing to congresscritters, in hope that they're more likely to listen.
That's a ways above my French, I have to admit. So take the following with truckloads of salt:My French is rusty and fairly terrible. I took it to satisfy a high-school requirement that I study a foreign language, and never mind that I was already studying English as a second language, and spoke Chinese (but the DoE barred native-speakers like me from using Chinese to meet the foreign language requirement). But I think your comments about the use of formal mode to emphasise rank or social status in German apply to French too.
This doesn't mean he can't ever let go of his hammer while on a moving vehicle, because he decides whether the hammer stays still or not. This is how he uses it to fly, too. Normally he has it follow his movements if he wants to swing it like a weapon, but it travels of its own accord when thrown. You can see that it never arcs, so it's not just a thing that obeys the laws of physics when asked.
a 'dèanamh nan saighdean airson cinneadh MacLeòid
We Wear Woad When We Write Code
Ní féidir liom labhairt na Gaeilge.
Seachd reultan, agus seachd clachan, agus aon chraobh geal.
On St. Patrick's Day, they say, everyone is Irish, to which I respond: "What? Even me? Um... begorah?"
Aye and begorrah, I'd be able to claim Irish citizenship. I can trace my ancestry back to County Longford through my dad's mother. (Helps her last name was "Kelly", of course.)Jwhouk, you can claim an Irish passport if at least one of your grandparents were Irish.
On St. Patrick's Day, they say, everyone is Irish, to which I respond: "What? Even me? Um... begorah?"
I hear Arranmore is advertising to American immigrants
quick who's Irish around here again? :angel:
Just throwing it our there that Scotland is similarly welcoming.
And will be even MORESO (when!) we become Independent.
:)
Jwhouk, you can claim an Irish passport if at least one of your grandparents were Irish.
And to everyone else, you'd be more than welcome to come here, you'd have a friend to welcome you at the gates.
Interesting, but as I'm completely unfamiliar with Island of Doctor Moreau, I'm none the wiser, I'm afraid!
I mean, the cute facepaint and clingy leotards is just a low-res portrayal of the same thing, no?Not really, but YMMV. Its suppose to look like cute facepaint and leotards rather than trying to be realistic which then cascades into the uncanny valley (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UncannyValley). The stage play you can tell its just people in cat costume so you mind recognizes it that way. But the film looks like the person is not quite cat and not quite human and so the mind just cannot shake how eerie that it is neither while trying to be both.
I mean, the cute facepaint and clingy leotards is just a low-res portrayal of the same thing, no?
7th HeavenYou have seven heavens? It seems you do... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Heavens) I did not know that. I suppose I should have, since I'm familiar with the idiom "in seventh heaven" meaning very happy.
Does The Fantastic Four fall flat in places that speak UK-flavored English? Does Johnny Storm's superhero name come across as "The Human Flashlight"?
Does The Fantastic Four fall flat in places that speak UK-flavored English? Does Johnny Storm's superhero name come across as "The Human Flashlight"?
I thought flashlight was american english?
Is there a word for the phenomenon where you develop a kind of familiarity or "friendship" with people you see every day but have not met or talked to? For example during my commute to and from work I may see a person or two that I see quite frequently but I have never talked to them but I feel familiar to them. Like an unspoken friendship but they are total strangers. Like you mentally/emotionally acknowledge their familiar existence?
This is how we know the flat-earthers are totally incorrect. Never mind that they need a different theory of planetary accretion that squares with the facts we already know...
Is there a word for the phenomenon where you develop a kind of familiarity or "friendship" with people you see every day but have not met or talked to? For example during my commute to and from work I may see a person or two that I see quite frequently but I have never talked to them but I feel familiar to them. Like an unspoken friendship but they are total strangers. Like you mentally/emotionally acknowledge their familiar existence?
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
~ Emo Phillips
This must have been asked many times before I came up with it.
Was the author of "The Never Ending Story" paid by the word?
But apparently Austria has an entirely different approach to these things. Once their army attacked itself and lost ten thousand men.
I've had lightning bolts hit uncomfortably close to me, and I think it's a good reason to fund Spacewatch, asteroid observatories, and space exploration.
but I dropped the butter knife with a huge dollop of butter on the ground.
Wife wasn't amused.
And for that matter: baby oil.
Those who believe in nearly unlimited "free speech" have never had to spend their entire lives harassed, threatened, broken-down, or otherwise had any chance of happiness in life destroyed by the words of others. Every one of them should check their privilege, and shove it so far up their fundament that they feel and fear what I do every day.
It's my right to shit on my front lawn but I don't do it.Ofcourse ought not have right to let stink in other's property.
according to that one pig, throwing things at a person while threatening to kill them with the means to do so is "free speech" here. And when I was smashed over the head with a bottle of Jäger, and it was on tape, I never heard anything back from the pigs.Free speech, but also threat. One ought not can protect against speech, but definitely ought can protect against threat. Irregarding threat credibility. (Ought not promise what not shall be fulfilled.) And (ofcourse) ought have protection against violence.
but definitely ought can protect against threat.
IIRC, the ankles thing was mostly an American attempt to emulate the Victorians. IIRC, in the 12th and 13th centuries, heavy cleavage, if not bare breasts were fairly common amongst the ladies.
let people check off list items that something had been "properly addressed" in a useless, one-size-fits-one-size way without actually accomplishing a thingDepends on checklist. Bad checklist, yes. How to make good checklist?..
[bad:] not taking one person seriously is a moral crime but actually hearing out this other person is actually wrongEspecially longtime outmodes.
I feel it should be made acceptable to threaten in self-defence. If someone brandishes a weapon at you, and you threaten them, I don't think that should be a crime. Though that sort of thing can get very complicated if we want it to,Can be simple: (practically: reasonably seemingly) minimal counterthreat threat is OK. (Likewise about counterviolence.) (Unnecessary implies null is minimal.)
Headwear protect against falling pest. (Wanna revive headwear tradition with embeded panoramic cameras to fight surveillance with surveillance?)
How to make good checklist?..Don't make them more superficial than the process necessitates. The problem is, checklists encourage superficiality. Like the one that says
They're fine for situations where you can really enumerate all the questions that matter. If you can't do that, the checklist is pretty much going to cost you whatever questions you can't predict the need for . But people aren't good at determining whether a checklist is sufficient for a given solution or not-- perhaps because they're using a checklist to determine the suitability.Each thing (or sufficient approximation) is enumerable. `Checklist' in me stands for explicit recordable procedure. Good checklist determining checklist goodness would be great. Until such metachecklist..
Charles Manson died in prison for saying far less than many preachers in this country, and I'll leave it at that.Charles Manson died 83 years old of cardiac arrest (after dubious medical treatment of serious illness) while imprisoned by conviction of (conspiracy to) murder. What his speech contributed to his death? Of that, was it the speech of it that contributed to his death, or something else? e.g. conspiracy to murder.
IIRC, the ankles thing was mostly an American attempt to emulate the Victorians. IIRC, in the 12th and 13th centuries, heavy cleavage, if not bare breasts were fairly common amongst the ladies.
That could be. I know the shoulder thing is true though. I was surprised to find out my wife was brought up saying you should cover your shoulders when trying to be presentable and especially when going to church. It was something that stuck around in eastern europe and survived into the modern age (along with many other superstitions I was made aware of). Looking at some medieval art of women from the period seems like the ankle thing might not be too far off though (for nobles since they could afford nice clothes). And I almost say the same with men in that regard. Granted central heating wasn't a thing and keeping warm while working outside in brisk weather was probably important and common whether you were a lowly peasant or a noble. And then the inverse when it was to hot I am willing to bet the men and women had bear arms and legs to help cool off when farming.(click to show/hide)
"What I find fascinating about the generational wars is how Gen X, the Switzerland of generations, has managed not to get involved in all this nastiness. While boomers, zoomers and millennials are at each other’s throats, Gen X just stands in the background, smoking cigarettes and wryly observing the strife. As a wise Gen Xer would probably tell you, what goes around comes around."
"The culture war between Gen Z and millennials is on." (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/10/the-culture-war-between-gen-z-and-millennials-is-on-the-first-battle-side-partings)
Good lord, I'd never heard about the nuclear salt water rocket. That makes Project Pluto look like a reasonable idea by comparison.
Has anyone noticed how close this forum is to one million posts? I wasn't sure where to note this, but. Exciting.The forum is past one million posts, now. Woo.
I know there's a book on different types of dragons that was published in antiquity. I wonder if there is one for sea monsters? Looking at different legendary sea monsters, many of them seem to just be sea serpents, then you have cephalopods, big fish (whales), mermaids of different varieties, etc.https://books.google.com/books/about/Sea_Monsters_on_Medieval_and_Renaissance.html?id=FxCdMQEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description
by mavi_yelken ( 801565 ) on Monday April 19, 2021 @04:33AM (#61289636)
In nearly a century, we went from first powered flight on Earth to first powered flight on another Planet. Permit yourselves a moment of joy please, among the torrent of the adversity we call Life.
It's just, every time another detail comes out, it gets worse.I know the feeling...
For that matter if they want to make the trip in a single lifespan,why bother with breaking physics for FTL travel?
Is a calzone just a rolled-up pizza?
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Funny how those who demand that they be respected, often because of age, relation, or position automatically prove that they’re not worthy of it in the least by making that demand.So true, which brings to mind this well-known meme.