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CowperKettle

5:33 AM

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Rand al'Thor

7:23 AM

@CowperKettle Is that like a VPN for dyslexic people?

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CowperKettle

9:27 AM

Guys washing the keyboard monument

I jogged there today

Tsundoku

9:42 AM

@CowperKettle What's the keyboard layout?

@CowperKettle Cleopatra it domum. Julius Caesar it domum Cleopatrae.

CowperKettle

@Tsundoku фыва олдж

Cyrillic

Keyboard Monument

Keyboard Monument (Russian: Памятник клавиатуре) is an outdoor sculpture featuring the QWERTY/JCUKEN keyboard. It is located in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg and is popular among tourists. == History == It was created by Anatoly Vyatkin and installed on October 5, 2005 on the embankment of the Iset River in the city centre.The landmark depicts an IBM PC compatible Cyrillic computer keyboard at 30:1 scale (the area covered by the monument is 16 × 4 m), with 104 concrete keys. Each regular key weighs 180 pounds, while the space bar alone weighs 1,000 pounds.The keyboard attracts many visitors...

Tsundoku

> There should be a restaurant that has a meal called "conjugate the verb". That way, somebody can order a "conjugate the verb" to go. (YouTube comment below "Romanos eunt domus" scene)

Rand al'Thor

10:18 AM

@Tsundoku That only works in American English: over on this side of the Atlantic, we say takeaway instead of "to go".

Tsundoku

10:42 AM

> There should be a restaurant called "decline the noun". That way, somebody can order a "decline the noun" takeaway.

@Randal'Thor I think we can cater to a great variety of tastes ;-)

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Tsundoku

11:45 AM

Above: Lady Macbeth's hand sanitizer at the National Theatre, tweeted by Amanda Lees.

Rand al'Thor

> All the vaccines of A'Zeneca will not sweeten this little hand.

Tsundoku

So, does the men's room have Pontius Pilate's hand sanitizer?

b_jonas

12:48 PM

@Tsundoku nice

Bookworm

1:07 PM

Q: Looking for a children's book about a boy who drifts to a mysterious island on an inflatable tube after being washed out to sea

The story based in Britain is, as far as I can remember, about a boy who falls asleep on an inflatable tube at sea - while on a family holiday to the beach. He then drifts to a mysterious island whose inhabitants don't know about or come into contact with the outside world; and is adopted by the ...

identification-request

b_jonas

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Tsundoku

4:59 PM

> We've all got immortality that wears off, that's just mortality. (That Mitchell and Webb Look - Season 2 Episode 6)

Rand al'Thor

5:19 PM

@Tsundoku Even without seeing the source, that just naturally reads in David Mitchell's voice.

Aryendu Kumar

5:46 PM

hi all

how are u ?

Bookworm

6:09 PM

Q: Are there online ebooks of English translations of ancient Indian cookbooks?

Ancient Indian cookbooks draw exquisitely from Ayurvedic scriptures and apply it to everyday cooking. This is very important from the view point of preservation of both health and culture. There are four such available books Manollasa 1130 AD Paka Darpana 1200 AD Soopa Shastra 1508 AD Bhojana Ku...

sanskrit-literature my-india

Rand al'Thor

6:33 PM

Apr 29 at 9:00, by Rand al'Thor

Any more proposed edits to the audience-specific texts for our custom close reason? I've already made a number of edits incorporating excellent suggestions from @verbose and @bobble. The meta's been up for nearly a month, so I'm thinking to kick it to CMs next week if there are no more suggestions. (cc @Tsundoku @Gallifreyan)

I forgot to kick this to CMs after incorporating Tsundoku's feedback as minor edits. Done now.

Although it's been a month (tomorrow) since I put status-review on the corresponding SFF posts, so nobody hold your breath waiting for the texts to be edited. It's not a high-priority thing in the CM queue.

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Rand al'Thor

8:38 PM

@Bookworm I've reopened this question since it's no longer a recommendation question. I'm not completely sure whether this kind of question is on-topic, though, so would appreciate some non-mods taking a look. We do seem to have accepted questions like that before.

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Rand al'Thor

9:43 PM

@Bookworm And I just realised it's cross-posted from a Hinduism SE post that's now gone HNQ.

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