I probably should stop fondling my breasts at work as well.
That could be very awkward.
@aedia Does make me feel better about the +2 sizes since last I populated my wardrobe. Of course that was about four or five years ago — pre-children and pre-pregnant.
So I grab that little fucker by the lapel, pull his pimply little face to mine, and say "Why the fuck would I want my whiskey chilled, shaken, and strained into a up-glass?"
I know it was for the double entendre, but he really meant "neat."
btw, you mentioned the USSR.... Yes we lost.... but at the time of the USSR was excllent ed1ucation system, as example. Now only looters. All Russia hate Moscow.
@Kit You have just made me feel very young. I felt ignorant, looked in Wikipedia, and now I feel excused for not knowing about that due to my not being alive yet when it happened.
@Kit I don't remember any world events before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and even that's fuzzy. But I saw pieces of it in the Newseum and it made me cry.
@vemv Oh! Right, of course. Um, I wasn't actually listening to it. Just something someone said this morning made me think of it, and now I've thought of it again.
yeah, that's early by my standard. it's funny, i was reading skeptics.SE the other day that eating within 4 hours (or something) of sleeping gave you nightmares
A lot of restaurants (other than pubs) might close at 22:00 or so on weekdays so if I want to go out when I get home it is good for beating the evening rush, but I have to be mindful of closing times.
I have never in my life heard that eating close to bedtime gives you nightmares! Ha.
In many cartoons and on Sesame Street there are many storylines where a character eats just before going to bed (usually pizza) and they end up having nightmares or very crazy vivid dreams.
Normally this ends with another character pointing out that they shouldn't have eaten just before going to...
@Jez It is, a bit, here too but as it's just two of us, we live in an only-slightly-overpriced studio apartment, and time is more of a premium, we go out more often than average. Right now I live somewhere I can walk to a lot of places too so that's nice and I want to take advantage of it.
@Jez Ohhh cheese. That's my favorite drunken bedtime snack.
I'm very good about not eating before bed when I'm sober, but I think after a few beers I could eat all the cheese in the house if I'm not careful...
Hmm. A lot of sites specifically address urban myths and stuff too. I don't think it would have to cover all those areas to be viable. And it is ok to require that an author do some work in writing or researching a question -- I don't think that'll kill it.
I think the biggest problem is that it's not at all clear what you're supposed to go there to be skeptical about. Planes? Trains? Automobiles? Cancer? Current news?
Well, SO at least has one domain about which you're supposed to ask questions... You don't go on there asking about whether the Yeti is real, or if pessaries in history were effective, and then in your next question ask if antivirus software works. But all those areas are seemingly ok in the realm of "let's be skeptical."
I dunno. It seems for a successful community you've gotta both create ways to get a lot of questions to be of some minimum quality (notability/requiring research on author's part might do that, maybe there are other ways) and to narrow the scope to something that interests a common group of people.
It seems like that's all harder to do for a topic that's not full of... how do they say it? "real, practical problems that you face". If it's our job or hobby we can much more easily make a common scope and agree on what makes a good question.
Maybe a lot of the English linguistics type questions will be answered and eventually I'll learn the names for all the parts of speech and stuff. I know how to speak and all, but I barely even know what an adverb is. I must have slept through that bit in school.
@Jez What's funny also is A) you're watching a movie while referring to said movie's Wikipedia entry and B) I didn't even notice that until now. Pretty soon we're all going to need third and fourth forms of input to keep us occupied. Oh wait, you're chatting as well. Got that covered.
@Cerberus I have not gotten quiet there yet with the links, as I keep having to use non-wonderfully-pluginified browsers today. But what I have done is set up my text-searching to go four ways so I can search Wikipedia and Wiktionary as well as Google (when I remember which way is which).
It is so much amazingly faster than going up to the search box and changing my search engine and typing or pasting; I don't know how I lived without it.
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…