Starred posts

tchrist

Feb 1 22:54

SURVEY: Todos North Americans from anywhere north of the Darién Gap should por favor take Dr Geoff Lindsey’s North American English Survey, especially if you’re a ɴᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ English speaker. He’s trying to tease out our ᴘʜᴏɴᴇᴍɪᴄ inventories for a new edition of his team’s highly configurable free online pronouncing dictionary to cover cis-Atlantic dialects. ¡Miles gracias!

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Mitch

Thu 22:29

That's what maturity really is, being able to express ones emotions with a larger vocabulary.

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CowperKettle

yst 15:20

MetaEd

Thu 18:58

I'm old enough to remember Clippy

Robusto

Feb 8 18:01

Mitch

Feb 8 15:04

@Robusto I'm so fancy don't go to clubs at all. They come to me.

alphabet

Feb 8 04:58

Trump's former aide tells how he dictated tweets

Dannyu NDos

Feb 3 08:20

Chinese idiom of the day: Ghosts and goblins are the easiest to draw — Because they don't exist.

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Cerberus

Feb 3 03:34

E.g. cats seem smarter than they are.

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Mitch

Feb 7 17:14

@Cerberus It might be recent, but is easily standard, used in formal writing.

Cerberus

Feb 7 16:57

Identify [no object] as is really ugly language, sorry!

CowperKettle

Feb 7 09:31

Insulin eyedrops for treating corneal defects: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11124528

GratefulDisciple

Jan 28 13:22

@CowperKettle Another signs of how deeply ingrained Confucian values are is when I witnessed going to a Chinese restaurant with my dad who by that time had to be on walker and walked very slowly from the car to the front door, while I'm standing next to him just in case he needs assistance. A Chinese family who arrived just after, holding the door open for us and waited about a full minute instead of just going in first, out of respect for my dad who was oldest in that impromptu group.

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Robusto

Jan 20 15:45

The National Archives Needs Your Help

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Cerberus

Jan 24 01:13

You're such a kind and helpful person and pharmacist.

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HippoSawrUs

Jan 27 02:55

Quote of the day (NJTODAY.NET): "However, the two sides will pretend to fight over the health of the nation because politics has become a form of entertainment that distracts citizens from demanding real change."

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tchrist

Jan 31 11:34

> 1 Ideology produces disagreement, but stupidity produces befuddlement.
2 Stupidity often inheres in organizations, not individuals.
3 People who behave stupidly are more dangerous than people who behave maliciously.
4 People who behave stupidly are unaware of the stupidity of their actions.
5 Stupidity is nearly impossible to oppose.
6 The opposite of stupidity is not intelligence, it’s rationality.

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CowperKettle

Feb 5 09:35

A prick of conscience.

CowperKettle

Jan 28 12:40

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Mitch

Jan 27 22:11

If only we could convince China and Japan to start using 'ciao' as a gretting/farewell, then we could have a real United Nations.

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tchrist

Jan 19 16:25

@Lambie Exactly what part of "DO NOT ANSWER THIS. AT ALL." did you fail to understand? You are being disruptive. Take a vacation.

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tchrist

Jan 19 15:31

@Lambie Stop stirring the pot. You will learn to turn the other cheek. Disrupting communities in petty acts of retributive vengeance destroys them from within. It will not be permitted. And don't answer this. At all.

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Cerberus

Jan 25 03:43

And I have a fever of 39.1 degrees.

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Robusto

Jan 1 16:45

Feliz año nuevo!

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M.A.R.

Jan 1 16:43

سال نو مبارک!

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alphabet

Jan 21 19:55

Word of the day: broligarch. "A politically influential younger male tycoon, particularly one involved in technology. Seemingly derived from tech bro."

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Robusto

Jan 18 20:05

In the Realm of the Senses

In the Realm of the Senses (French: L'Empire des sens, Japanese: 愛のコリーダ, Ai no Korīda, "Bullfight of Love") is a 1976 erotic art film written and directed by Nagisa Ōshima. It is a fictionalised and sexually explicit treatment of a 1936 murder committed by Sada Abe. An international coproduction of France and Japan, the film generated great controversy at the time of its release. The film had the involvement of pink film luminary Kōji Wakamatsu as co-screenwriter and assistant producer. While intended for mainstream wide release, the film contains scenes of unsimulated sexual activity between the...

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tchrist

Jan 1 17:20

@GratefulDisciple Perhaps Novus annus ad omnes – MMXXV.

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GratefulDisciple

Jan 1 17:07

@Robusto Selamat Tahun Baru!

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CowperKettle

Jan 1 17:05

С Новым Годом!

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Cerberus

Jan 28 22:41

@CowperKettle youtube.com/shorts/ztI1PCEAGcc

Robusto

Jan 15 19:01

BTW, the WWW above has an extension: "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; and those who can't teach, teach gym."

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alphabet

Dec 27, 2024 00:29

@Araucaria-Him I maintain my position that the worst offenders among the close voters should get a stern warning from the mods, followed by a suspension if they don't stop. I see no other viable solution to the problem, other than outright banning migration.

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Robusto

Jan 13 20:46

New House Rules for Trump Voters, From Your Local Bartender

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Araucaria - Him

Jan 13 20:17

@Xanne I think ChatGPT etc can only hallucinate! It's just that sometimes the hallucination's very convincing ;-)

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Mitch

Jan 25 13:50

I think, of the many points I'm not making clear, is that there are thousands of actual experts, who are paid to be experts, that -could- give good and accurate and helpful answers, but there's no reason to come here to do it for free.

Robusto

Jan 1 17:08

Happy New Year!

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CowperKettle

Jan 25 03:10

> The government of this country is criminal :)

Vikas

Jan 1 14:44

नए साल की शुभकामनाएँ!

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Robusto

Jan 1 14:34

あけましておめでとう!

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jlliagre

Jan 1 14:21

Bonne année à tous !

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Robusto

Dec 21, 2024 20:56

Happy Winter Solstice, everybody!

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HippoSawrUs

Jan 24 05:49

Nobody wants a teenager who passes out after 5 real words in succession.

M.A.R.

Jan 24 00:42

If I have a very bad headache, toothache, what have you, I will take high doses of paracetamol only. If you haven't turned your liver to stone with alcohol, you can take 4 g of paracetamol a day. That's much superior to these kidney-killing painkillers.

M.A.R.

Jan 24 00:24

@Cerberus research melatonin? Well, there's a sort of bias that I can't name . . . Obviously it's supposed to be 'evidence-based medicine' so my typical retort for cash grabbing placebos in the market is "where's your RCT? Huh huh huh?" But realistically people that can do good research avoid what's already built on shaky ground like the plague. There's nobody out there to do some Mythbusters work on whether if any of the hundreds of supplements I sell at the pharmacy actually do something

alphabet

Jan 10 05:53

Phrase of the day: to be away with the fairies. (UK, humorous) "to behave in a way that is slightly strange."

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HippoSawrUs

Jan 23 06:29

In my youth, I could imitate Dylan imitating Loretta Lynn singing Coal Miner's Daughter, drunk.

alphabet

Jan 23 03:31

Word of the day: attrit (verb). "To weaken or reduce by attrition." Backformation from attrition.

Robusto

Jan 8 14:56

@GratefulDisciple I'm going to coin a phrase here to describe Connections categories that are NWT3K: "Not Worth the Trouble to Know." That certainly describes today's purple.

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tchrist

Dec 27, 2024 12:54

@Araucaria-Him New York Times obituary from Christmas Eve: William Labov, Who Studied How Society Shapes Language, Dies at 97.

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