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Robusto

12:02 AM

Daily Octordle #823
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CowperKettle

12:15 AM

> "I'm going to see the folks I dig
I'll even kill a Sunset pig"

This South American Tribe Has The Healthiest Arteries Ever Seen

Robusto

@CowperKettle Once again, it all comes down to diet and exercise.

CowperKettle

@M.A.R. It's rially cheap

tchrist

@Robusto Almost nobody in our office culture is vigorously active four to eight hours a day.

jlliagre

@CowperKettle That pig is a different beast.

Kill or kiss?

Robusto

@tchrist I don't think it's necessarily vigorous exercise that is needed, but I take your point. My worst period, healthwise, was when I was sedentary due to a knee injury, and I decided to put my energy into coding. I think I mentioned the outcome of that experiment.

alphabet

12:38 AM

@Robusto Curiously, their diet is much higher in carbs than the typical American one.

They also have unusually problems with intestinal worms. Maybe that's the cure.

Robusto

@alphabet I suspect that's to keep them going while putting in that 4-7 hours of exercise. I couldn't ride my bike for three or four hours at a time without carbs.

alphabet

They also have high fertility rates. Worms and babies, the keys to heart health.

Robusto

Daily Sequence Octordle #823
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alphabet

Of course, only a low-NMF diet can prevent AIDS.

Robusto

@alphabet NMF?

alphabet

12:47 AM

@Robusto As I've explained, an NMF, or Non-Milk Food, is a food that is not 100% whole cow's milk.

Only a strict no-NMF diet can cure all diseases.

Robusto

@alphabet Having babies young is for women a way to lower the chances of breast and other cancers.

Feb 18, 2021 at 3:26, by Robusto

Yeah, who has time to read all your shit?

alphabet

@Robusto Maybe R Kelly was just trying to reduce cancer rates.

Robusto

@alphabet I'm sure that was his motivation.

alphabet

"U on prep?" "Kinda."

(I will not be explaining that joke.)

CowperKettle

> “MDMA enhances empathy-like behaviors in mice via serotonin release in the nucleus accumbens.”

I wish I were an MDMouse,
Empathic, small, and gray,
With lots of serotonin stuff,
Under my red beret

Robusto

1:02 AM

@CowperKettle Chorus: Under my red beret, sport, under my red beret / That is where I sleep and think and idle my life away.

CowperKettle

udio.com/songs/7nr6i1KJdF91y6YGanvbRw

Robusto

Feel free to use the chorus.

CowperKettle

OK

alphabet

I should go on another milk cleanse this weekend.

Longest I've gone thus far is three days.

In my defense, I have mental problems.

(I am kidding. I won't be doing that again.)

CowperKettle

udio.com/songs/u3tqX7svZZVKNH42NSpWoG

udio.com/songs/v3t1woqwTMcuZMaDGfHTe7

(this last one is cute)

Mitch

1:12 AM

@alphabet is that like kashering your home for Passover, but you're trying to clean out all the milk instead?

alphabet

whoa, didn't know there was AI song generation yet

Mitch

@alphabet what are they gonna come for next, bad puns?

alphabet

@Mitch Opposite, of course. A juice cleanse means consuming only juice; hence a milk cleanse means consuming only milk.

Mitch

Oh... listens to earpiece ... Oh I'm hearing that no one would stoop so low.

alphabet

But yes, the all-milk diet is Kosher, Halal, vegetarian, and gluten-free.

Mitch

1:14 AM

@alphabet or a third way is to clean everything in your house -with- milk.

Your choice

alphabet

I mean, I've already replaced my body wash with a tub of whipped butter.

Mitch

@alphabet slams on mute button

Is the thumbs up emoji really that problematic?

Robusto

@Mitch If it's bad puns they want, then they'll need to look no further than this chat.

alphabet

@Mitch Empties out bottle of all-purpose cleaner, refills it with milk

Mitch

@CowperKettle they literally don't do anything other than the Paleo diet

@alphabet Thank you!

@jlliagre why buy the cow when you get the milk for free?

That's probably a problematic thing to say about pigs. Kind of specialist.

@CowperKettle To be fair, they all die of parasites or murder or hunger by the age of thirty.

alphabet

1:26 AM

@Mitch So you can slaughter it, duh.

(Yes, that was a joke.)

Robusto

A traveling salesman knocked on a farmhouse door and was invited in. He was shocked to find a pig in the kitchen as the family were sitting down to dinner. Even more shocking was the fact that the pig had a trotter (front leg) missing, though it was replaced by a wooden prosthesis.
"There's gotta be a story behind that pig," the salesman said.
"Oh, yes, indeed there is," said the farmer. "Once when little Jimmy here was two he fell into the creek. Horace—that's our pig's name—rushed in and pulled him out, then ran to the house and grunted and squealed until we went to see what was all the c…

alphabet

"Why buy the cow when you can mail-order one for cheap?"

tchrist

2:33 AM

@Mitch @Araucaria-Him Your friend is unhappy. But I can't see what he still wants to know.

the autistic rigidity (closure of this Q) is UNIVERSAL at Stack exchange. — S K 46 mins ago

Could you please explain exactly what question remains unanswered? The one in your title clearly has been answered (yes, both strong and weak forms have always existed in Modern English), and anything else is just a survey question ("Do Americans feels....?"), which we don't do. — tchrist ♦ 5 mins ago

Xanne

2:55 AM

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alphabet

@tchrist Flagged that comment, since it contains no actual substantive point about why the closure was wrong, and instead is just insulting and offensive.

(Not that tchrist can see my messages.)

Mitch

@alphabet yeah, that sounded mean.

alphabet

3:19 AM

@Mitch In Britain they pronounce it as "min."

alphabet

3:44 AM

Word of the day: productionize. According to Wiktionary: "To put into production; to manufacture; to turn a prototype into a mass production item."

An odd case of a verb (produce) becoming a noun (production) becoming a verb again (productionize).

Wikipedia has an article on productionization--meaning this has turned back into a noun again, with the suffix -tion occurring twice.

I assume productionizationize will come along eventually.

Robusto

4:03 AM

We’re All Reading Wrong

> To access the full benefits of literature, you have to share it out loud.

> Compared with reading silently, the hippocampus is more active while reading aloud, which might help explain why the latter is such an effective memory tool. In a small 2012 study, students who studied a word list remembered 90 percent of the words they’d read aloud immediately afterward, compared with 71 percent of those they’d read silently. (One week later, participants remembered 59 percent of the spoken words and 48 percent of the words read silently.)

Dannyu NDos

^ Try reading out math expressions - good luck!

Robusto

@DannyuNDos If you can't say it, you can't think it.

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CowperKettle

5:36 AM

I Glued My Balls to My Butthole Again

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CowperKettle

5:58 AM

twitter.com/jacob_pfau/status/1783951795238441449

Dannyu NDos

10:22 AM

Korean idiom of the day: Either all heads or all tails ― means the situation is very extreme.

Araucaria - Him

10:35 AM

@tchrist @Mitch WELL, it seems to me that Herrison's answer on the linked to question is lacking somewhat because it doesn't ever actually point out that - at least as far as the UK situation goes - been is a strong form, and bin (strong or) weak one, which is pretty basic.

Perhaps it would be better to reverse the direction of the dupe or merge the questions. I think there are still useful additional answers people might give, or useful additional bits. Costillo's contribution isn't bad. And it could usefully be pointed out that /bi:n/ is the suppletive past participle of go when a person has returned from wherever they went to, and when used in that way is very often, if not usually, stressed. I'm sure there's other bits and bobs to be said too.

But I suppose we're unlikely to find out unless the question gets reopened!

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