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Not for the faint of heart or those easily triggered by English (or other languages) in the raw. That doesn't mean we want to talk about YouTube comments or hemorrhoids or other such topics.

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alphabet

Aug 29, 2024 01:51

I just want the Russians to return that raccoon.

alphabet

Nov 1, 2024 03:15

Word of the day: noogie. (Informal, US) "An act of putting a person in a headlock and rubbing one's knuckles on the other person's head, often a playful gesture of affection when done lightly."

Xanne

Jul 3, 2024 02:19

George H.W. Bush, on campaigning for president: Nobody said it would be easy, and nobody was right.

tchrist

Oct 31, 2024 18:00

Yes. It has come up on the main site.

Robusto

Aug 26, 2024 15:00

@Mitch Which Indian state has "Bhārat's Dairyland" on its license plates?

tchrist

May 12, 2024 23:19

They're Made Out of Meat

"They're Made Out of Meat" is a short story by American writer Terry Bisson. It was originally published in OMNI. It consists entirely of dialogue between two characters. Bisson's website hosts a theatrical adaptation. A film adaptation won the Grand Prize at the Seattle Science Fiction Museum's 2006 film festival. The story was collected in the 1993 anthology Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories, and has circulated widely on the Internet, which Bisson found "flattering". It has been quoted in cognitive, cosmological, and philosophical scholarship. == Plot == The two characters are intelligent...

Lambie

Mar 27, 2024 21:45

Question: Why is Lambie such a pain in the patoutie? Answer: Who knows? Maybe she was born that way.

alphabet

Oct 31, 2024 03:20

Word of the day: creps. (British) "An informal name for training shoes."

Mitch

Oct 31, 2024 02:30

@Cerberus Use nines. They're bigger.

Robusto

Jun 29, 2024 21:36

How arrogant to say that another's approach to language is "dumb and wrong."

Robusto

Oct 28, 2024 14:22

We've been misreading the Latin of Newton's 1st Law for 300 years

MetaEd

Jun 24, 2024 14:40

"If you wish to live wisely, ignore sayings."

Tanner Swett

Jun 24, 2024 05:55

"Homolinguistic" is heterolinguistic, and thus heterological; but "heterological" is homolinguistic.

jlliagre

Aug 20, 2024 02:19

Wow! 80 aircrafts ;-)

M.A.R.

Feb 1, 2024 21:44

I took the "comprehensive PharmD exam" today.

jlliagre

Aug 19, 2024 15:05

Painting genre of the day: Singerie.

MetaEd

Aug 19, 2024 14:19

"Scientists have stopped using laboratory rats in favor of attorneys. The only negative is that it's sometimes hard to apply the experimental results to humans. On the plus side, there are more of them, and you don't get so emotionally attached. Also, there are some things a rat won't do."

jlliagre

Oct 26, 2024 21:43

You would have to localize every book, song, etc. that mention an hour.

CowperKettle

Oct 26, 2024 21:08

@Robusto "left of boom" is military jargon for "before the bomb goes off"

CowperKettle

Oct 26, 2024 01:04

> A 14-year-old boy fell in love with a flirty AI chatbot. He shot himself so they could die together telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/10/24/…

M.A.R.

Aug 17, 2024 15:45

Sitting on the needle has not been researched for effectiveness.

Mitch

Oct 25, 2024 21:45

'When I was a kid I had my dad slap me on the back of the neck before school so I would look cool to the rest of the gang'

CowperKettle

Aug 16, 2024 22:06

Robusto

Apr 27, 2024 04:16

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

Mitch

Oct 23, 2024 22:36

I usually listen to Sam Charrington who hosts TWIML AI (This Week in Machine Learning). He mostly interviews PhDs and Postdocs and asst profs about their research. It's all very technical but is satisfying enough to me.

Mitch

Oct 23, 2024 16:15

@Cerberus I know it's a fringe view but yes, some things on the Internet might be misleading.

M.A.R.

Oct 23, 2024 00:08

Its name is as corny as clinical studies called IMPACT

M.A.R.

Oct 22, 2024 23:44

@Robusto I really wanna try eating at Chuburckrger.

Robusto

Oct 22, 2024 20:02

All journeys have an end, so even the end is part of the journey and hence part of the reward.

Robusto

Sep 15, 2023 01:56

@tchrist Welcome back, Tom. Good to see you in here again.

Cerberus

Oct 21, 2024 19:32

What are we talking about?

Robusto

Jun 10, 2024 18:33

@M.A.R. BTW, @M.A.R., you're a valuable asset to this chat. Don't ever leave!

HippoSawrUs

Aug 9, 2024 13:08

Sometimes I really have a far superior answer that puts the matter of "opinion" to rest. So prematurely closing a question, really gripes my ass.

Robusto

Oct 20, 2024 21:34

@Mitch Why you ping me wid dis boolshit?

Cerberus

Oct 20, 2024 20:52

We could have had a pubescent child together by now.

Cerberus

Oct 20, 2024 20:06

I wouldn't trust Wiktionary in this.

CowperKettle

Oct 20, 2024 08:53

alphabet

Oct 19, 2024 01:15

Word of the day: tomoz. (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Tomorrow.

jlliagre

Aug 4, 2024 08:14

@Vikas French is by far easier to learn, I don't even remember having needed to do it. It just comes naturally when you're a toddler ;-)

Cerberus

Aug 1, 2024 22:48

There are so many cities with trolley buses.

GratefulDisciple

Oct 15, 2024 20:26

Here's a good article about how cilantro, parsley, and celery are related along with typical use.

Cerberus

Oct 15, 2024 19:13

Let's not give up yet!

CowperKettle

Oct 15, 2024 01:30

There's a joke that Russia imports several thousand baseball bats a year, and only a couple of baseball balls.

jlliagre

May 24, 2024 15:55

@XanderHenderson You should have more respect for pronunciation advice from French people ;-)

Robusto

Jul 27, 2024 13:26

@CowperKettle That's likely your ulnar nerve. Try getting a bike fitting to make sure that one is not stressed. Hands are, funnily enough, the Achilles heel of cycling. After I hit 35-40 miles (56-64 km) on a ride my hands start getting numb and I have to stop more frequently for relief.

MetaEd

Jul 26, 2024 16:51

"The great merit of society is to make one appreciate solitude." ---Charles Chincholles, "Reflections on the Art of Life"

M.A.R.

Jul 26, 2024 00:59

@alphabet ha! The crazier ones call the Supreme Leader "The leader of all the [free spirits] in the world".

Robusto

Jul 25, 2024 18:50

There are many ways to measure poverty. One is people who can't afford medical care or who have lost all their savings due to catastrophic medical bills. Other developed countries have national health care.

Araucaria - Him

Jul 24, 2024 07:38

@CowperKettle Riff on l'esprit de l'escalier

Robusto

Oct 10, 2024 14:32

How I Fell Out Of Love With Facebook

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