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user19161

12:10 AM

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Maybe I was thinking of Wacoal, lol.

tchrist

1:49 AM

> There are very few who marry into our sort of set. We are just betwixt and between.

Ok, I give up. What’s the difference between betwixt and between? :)

Or vice versa.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@tchrist some letters here and there.

tchrist

$ perl -e 'printf "%vb\n", "between"'
1100010.1100101.1110100.1110111.1100101.1100101.1101110
$ perl -e 'printf "%vb\n", "betwixt"'
1100010.1100101.1110100.1110111.1101001.1111000.1110100

I see a bit of difference between them. Two bits, maybe.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Shave and a haircut.

tchrist

I hadn’t taken you for a hip-hop fan.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

You're obviously not a golfer.

tchrist

1:54 AM

Or whatever kind of noise the 50 Cent guy puts out.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Aloha, Mahnax.

Mahnax

Hiya.

I've just been grocery shopping.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Heh.

Me too.

And I thought about what my purchases said about my life, and I was pleased.

Mahnax

Neat! My mother is a wizard, apparently, because she managed to get $200 of groceries for $115.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

O_O

tchrist

1:56 AM

What do you get when OR together a plagiarizer and a plagiarist?

Mahnax

Not even her best haul, apparently.

tchrist

$ perl -le 'print "plagiarizer" | "plagiarist"'
plagiari{ur

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

No, you're plagiariur.

Mahnax

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 What do they say about your life?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Mahnax that it is awesome.

Mahnax

1:57 AM

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Haha, what did you buy?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I went to Target, so there was a mix of sundries and groceries.

Mahnax

Cashews and vodka?

Oh.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Pop-tarts, condoms, mascara, milk, and a mini dustpan and broom. And then I went to the liquor store.

Mahnax

Haha, excellent.

tchrist

I don’t think you can usually buy vodka at Target.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

1:59 AM

S'mores pop-tarts are too good.

You can in a Missouri store.

tchrist

At the drive-through?

Mahnax

@tchrist Apparently you can buy alcohol in American grocery stores, but I don't know to what extent.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

But this corncake lives in Kansas now.

Mahnax

There is no properly drinkable alcohol in Canadian grocery stores.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Same with Missouri CVS.

Mahnax

2:00 AM

Closest thing you can get is probably vanilla extract.

tchrist

It varies substantially by state.

Here Target sells only no-alcohol beer, or maybe near-beer. I don’t go near it.

Mahnax

Yech.

Beer is icky.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

This.

tchrist

Well, yeah.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Missouri is Sodom and Gemorrah compared to Kansas.

tchrist

2:01 AM

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I thought they killed him.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

pours wine

tchrist

KCM != KCK

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

KCK is another story.

Greetings, he who is both shiny and new.

tchrist

But they are undeniably next to one another.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

KCK is very unlike the next county.

tchrist

2:02 AM

Ah.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

KCK is HoneyBooBoo land compared to Johnson County.

tchrist

I have rather bad news for you.

It snowed pretty heavily here today, with 3-5" coming tonight.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

cries

checks weather.com

tchrist

Maybe Max will take it.

But I doubt it will go his way.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

It was supposed to be close to 70 by Friday.

Mahnax

2:03 AM

We're getting 5-10cm on Friday night.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

It is going southward.

tchrist

It will be 60 tomorrow and 70s the rest of the week. This has no bearing on the snow we’ll be getting tonight.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

weather.com/weather/5-day/Overland+Park+KS+66204:4:US

@Mahnax lame.

tchrist

We never have spring, only a big tug-of-war between summer and winter.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

actually goes to pour wine

Mahnax

2:05 AM

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Eh, it'll probably melt a few days afterward.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Red or white?

tchrist

Oh Lord, I was last in Overland Park something like a quarter-century ago.

They’re wrong. There is a 100% chance of precip, because it already happened.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

all the way from Missouri.

Mahnax

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Hmm.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@tchrist was

Mahnax

pours glass of imported apple juice

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

2:09 AM

@Mahnax oooh

Mahnax

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I'm just making a crack at how I'm too young to drink, I'm not actually that classy.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Mahnax apple juice is tasty, though.

I would like some fancy apple juice.

tchrist

@Mahnax What, you’ve never had an offer of being drunk? :)

Mahnax

Some apple juice is better than others.

tchrist

I guess we’ll just have to let you age in your bottle a bit first.

Mahnax

2:11 AM

@tchrist I never said that, but… I'm not allowed.

I mean, my dad lets me have a drink once in a while, but nothing enough to get me even remotely intoxicated.

tchrist

There are more parses in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in thy philosophies.

Mahnax

Yeah, OK.

Look to the lady.

tchrist

Always.

She’s the one with the bottle, after all.

Mahnax

Kit told me that I'm too young to look to the ladies. C'est la vie.

tchrist

Well, there goes 50% of the populace.

-1

Q: I thank to you for good introduction

I thank to you for good introduction. is this correct sentences?

grammaticality

I see the sun has risen on the Orient.

Now, where are those extra close reasons?

Mahnax

2:15 AM

May 14 '12 at 14:36, by Robusto

These ones?

tchrist

Well, those would be a good start, but this one, somehow, seems to cry out for something sterner still.

More like: Are you out of your mucking find?

Wow, neither censor nor spellchecker rebelled on that one.

Mahnax

Oh, that was clever.

Heh.

On an unrelated note, I got three hours of sleep last night, and I feel like I'm about to fall off the earth, despite my two hour nap.

tchrist

@Rob We got a new Close reason for your list.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Mahnax nooo

tchrist

Oh, please repair to your restroom then.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

2:18 AM

Also, la vie.

Mahnax

I'll just wait for the caffeine to kick in.

tchrist

Well, resting room.

From the apple juice?

Mahnax

Nah, I had a weird drink of some sort that I found in the fridge. It's caffeinated strawberry lemonade.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Quoi?

tchrist

Sounds foul.

Mahnax

Wasn't so bad.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

2:20 AM

@Mahnax you told me to c'est la vie, so I obliged.

Mahnax

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Ah, OK.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Isn't there some html for horizontalScrollBarNever?

tchrist

Hm, how does Yoichi get this one so confuso? He usually does much better:

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Q: Can the word, “Deceiving” stand for “Positive”?

I was puzzled with the line, “(President Lyndon Johnson’s) appearances can be deceiving,” in the Washington Post’s (April 2) article titled “President Lyndon Johnson did indeed attend an Easter Egg Roll” with a photograph showing President Johnson at an Easter event at the White House on May 7, 1...

phrases

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Here’s Old Man Winter’s fickle finger flicking your way (although I guess it won’t get there):

That blue a lot further east than I’d been expecting.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@tchrist jeebus.

I'm going to kneecap Old Man Winter.

tchrist

Don’t trust the lacunae to my immediate west. They probably aren’t there. So to speak.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

2:27 AM

Seriously, why is there a horizontal scroll bar?

tchrist

Because Microsoft people are FITH.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

No, on my site.

tchrist

Oh.

Width issues.

Mahnax

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Do you have things with fixed widths that add up to more than the width of your screen?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Umm

Mahnax

2:29 AM

If you want me to look, I could try it?

tchrist

Are you not specifying things in percentages?

As soon as you get into pixels, all bets are off when people resize their windows.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@tchrist in some places :x

tchrist

Well, then an arbitrarily narrow window can always be constructed that will trigger the horizontal scroll bar, no?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

If you ctrl + mouse wheel all the way down, there's still a bit of a scroll. :{

This site is totally not ready for prime time

tchrist

I See.

I’m staring at the HTML, but don’t know how div works well enough when you have pixels involved.

Mahnax

2:36 AM

Something interesting: on div#logo, if you remove the text-align:center; you end up with text off-screen.

Which has to do with the left:-250px;.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Mahnax My original logo was just [kp], and I haven't really dealt with that yet

This started life as a test site when I was learning from my udemy course.

tchrist

All men are drama queens, huh?

-2

A: Is there a word that describes a person who constantly exaggerates?

all the male species (men) (drama-queens)

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Oh my.

Mahnax

Ohh, I see how this works.

tchrist

Kind of, um, not nice.

@Mahnax Tell tell tell!

Mahnax

2:42 AM

The image is pushing the <ul> out of the blue bar at the top.

Haven't solved the problem, just an interesting side note.

tchrist

Ah.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I would like more hours in the day, pls.

Mahnax

Fixed it!

div#nav has a left:581px on it.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Mahnax true. I wanted it right-aligned.

Mahnax

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Hm, lemme see.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

2:47 AM

I'm thinking of making a stacky right-hand nav instead, though.

Home
Services
About
Contact

Mahnax

So what you can do is give the <ul> a margin-left:60%;.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

good ol' H-SAC.

Mahnax

That makes the nav buttons right-aligned.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

OIC

okay, I thought right-aligned would mean the side of the window, but the width of the div they're in is not that wide

Or something.

Thank you!

Mahnax

After my little tweaks, this is the result.

I'll delete that in a second, btw.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

2:51 AM

!

Tweaker.

tchrist

Hee.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Guh, I am tired.

Mahnax

BTW, I really enjoy the code comments in your stylesheet.

/* was 481px omg change this to make it relative to the picture's right edge */

Hehe.

tchrist

omg omg omg

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Mahnax :D I wondered if those came through.

Mahnax

2:54 AM

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Also, if you want the buttons to be rounded in Webkit as well, you could add some -webkit-border-radius and so on.

I see the style is applied in Firefox, but not on Chrome.

There's one for Opera, too.

I think.

-o-border-radius, or something.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

O_O

I did this class last summer, and sort of walked into the woods regarding HTML and CSS.

So I've stared at this stuff and most of it came back to me.

Mahnax

Last year I did a Web Design module in Communications Technology and they recommended that you set up the different parts of a your website with a giant table.

I almost cried.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Funny enough, I look at it most in Chrome.

A giant table!

Mahnax

I think I sent an e-mail to the instructor about how it instilled bad designing techniques in students early on. No response.

So it goes. The world probably has more than enough web designers anyway.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Perhaps.

Mahnax

3:01 AM

shrugs

Robusto

10:02 AM

@tchrist WTF covers that as well. Economy, my friend. Two reasons should suffice to close any bad answer on this site. Think of Socrates and his cup.

Cerberus

Hello.

I was just thinking about you.

Robusto

Moi?

Cerberus

About how you think women cannot be funny.

Robusto

I think some women can be funny.

Cerberus

!

Like Maggie Smith?

Robusto

10:05 AM

?

Maggie Thatcher.

Cerberus

Oh, she was funny...in other ways.

Robusto

Margaret Smith (comedian)

Margaret Smith is a six-time Emmy Award winning standup comic, actor, writer and producer. Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Smith is known for her deadpan and often acerbic delivery, reminiscent of Eve Arden. She was a writer and producer for The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Her first book, What Was I Thinking? How Being a Stand Up Did Nothing to Prepare Me to Become a Single Mother, was published in 2008 by Crossroad Publishing. A reviewer at Book Apex commented: :What Sedaris, Lebowitz and Dave Eggers should aspire to. Margaret Smith is a one-of-a-kind comedian. Her off-kilter worldview and ...

This Maggie Smith is funny. Seriously funny.

> My favorite Margaret Smith-ism goes something like "I saw my mother today. (long pause) It's okay, she didn't see me."

She's like the female Steven Wright.

►

Cerberus

10:33 AM

@Robusto Haha.

Anyway, I'm shocked you find a woman funny!

> When I came home, I realised I didn't like the blouse: I just liked the music they were playing when I bought it, so I went back to the store. Give me the money and I'm going to get the tape.

When I didn't get what she was going to buy, I realised this was from the '80s!

Although the audience's haircuts are a dead give-away.

Okay, she's funny.

tchrist

11:22 AM

@RegDwighт Congrats on hitting double-digit golds.

Robusto

11:38 AM

@Cerberus I like the part about the dressing room. The punch line was so funny she almost cracked herself up, and had to start over. I've seen Steven Wright do that too, but he kept his deadpan expression; he just turned around, back to the audience, for about fifteen seconds while he composed himself.

Cerberus

Yeah that was funny to watch.

I was amazed that she could even continue after her composure had broken.

I couldn't.

TRiG

@tchrist Yes.

tchrist

@TRiG Jaded, much? :)

Robusto

@Cerberus BTW, she has a very distinct Chicago accent.

TRiG

@tchrist Well I know I am.

tchrist

11:49 AM

Ah, projection.

TRiG

@tchrist Probably.

Cerberus

@Robusto It is distinct all right!

Although I wouldn't be able to tell from which area myself.

Though not the South.

Journeyman Geek

waves

Mahnax

12:24 PM

tides

Journeyman Geek

I asked my first question here today ;p

KitFox

I saw it. I almost closed it.

But then, it was you, so I reconsidered.

Journeyman Geek

If its that bad, its fine to close it ;p

I don't demand special treatment

RegDwighт

@tchrist oh.

Oh!

Yeah baby yeah.

tchrist

You worked so hard for that last one, too.

RegDwighт

12:38 PM

For the famous question?

Journeyman Geek

^^

thats a hard one to get

RegDwighт

I'm working hard on a Steward. But Famous Question comes for free with every question.

tchrist

That’s why there are a zillion of those for every other gold on ELU.

KitFox

@JourneymanGeek Not bad, I'm just not convinced it's on-topic.

tchrist

@RegDwighт Hm, anybody I know? :)

Journeyman Geek

12:39 PM

@KitFox: its mainly a grammar issue, I just like to give context

KitFox

Yeah, that's why I reconsidered.

RegDwighт

Even Anderson Silva has a Famous Question, for the origin of cum.

So much for that.

tchrist

Pretty hard to stomach, eh?

RegDwighт

Nah. Except as a double-entendre.

Cuz as I was saying, it's a given that anyone with X questions will end up having less (@Kit) Famous Questions than anyone with X+1 questions. So I know that I'm no match for anyone with more questions than the 32 that I have.

Steward, on the other hand...

KitFox

What?

Oh. I had to read that three times to make sense of it.

> Exposure to television and video games was associated with greater attention problems.

tchrist

1:07 PM

I wonder what proportion of late answers to old questions with lots of views from rep=1 first posters get up getting deleted. It seems to be a really high one.

I don’t have the tools at my disposal to figure that out, but I really do wonder about it.

KitFox

Stupid snow. It's April FFS.

Journeyman Geek

@tchrist: wouldn't be suprised if its a lot

KitFox

1:23 PM

Morning @Mr.Shiny.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox good morning

tchrist

@KitFox I have new snow from last night down to about 100' above me, but it has melted at my level. I’m under an ice cloud right now. April is tied with November for our second snowiest month; March of course is first.

Robusto

@KitFox You have snow? We have none here.

KitFox

Scattered flurries. Big flakes.

Cerberus

We have sunshine.

And frost is now really over.

It's 7 degrees.

Feels like 4.

I wonder why it always feels like colder?

Robusto

1:36 PM

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Q: What is the origin and meaning of the term 'Chubby Chubs'?

I have this expression stuck in my head and can't figure out where I've heard it. I think it can be a term of endearment for 'plump babies'. But not sure if it has any other connotations because of the terms 'chubby' and 'chub' being linked to the gay scene. These are the only references I fou...

meaning word-choice etymology grammar

Candidate for a WTF.

tchrist

Ayup.

OFFS:

Chub (gay slang)

A chub is an overweight or obese gay man who identifies as being part of the related chubby culture. Although there is some overlap between chubs and bears, chubs have their own distinct subculture and community. There are bars, organizations and social events specifically catering to this subculture, which allows members of the community to socialize with each other and develop social networks. In the last several years, large regional social events have developed. They often feature pageants much like beauty pageants but more sexual in attitude in which titles are given to winners, li...

I want to unsee that.

I want to unknow that.

Robusto

Thanks for sharing your misery, though.

tchrist

It lessons the pain.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus wind chill

Robusto

I thought a chub was a kind of fish or hard-on or something.

tchrist

1:40 PM

I thought it was a fish.

Chub

Chub may refer to: Fishes * Any one of a number of ray-finned fishes in several families and genera. In Europe, the term "chub" usually refers to the European chub (Squalius cephalus). Other fishes called "chubs" are: In family Cyprinidae * Bigeye chub, genus Hybopsis * Creek chub, genus Semotilus * European chub, genus Squalius * Flame chub, Hemitremia flammea (a monotypic genus) * Flathead chub, genus Platygobio * Hornyhead chub, genus Nocomis * Lake chub, genus Couesius * Least chub, Iotichthys phlegethontis (a monotypic genus) * Leatherside chub, Snyderichthys copei (a monotypic gen...

Doesn’t Squalius cephalus sound like some Monty Python skit out of The Life of Brian?

Chubby-chub sounds rather like Chupa-chups. I’m pretty sure this is simple reduplication.

Chupa Chups

Chupa Chups® (/ˈtʃʌpətʃʌps/; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtʃupaˈtʃups]) is a world wide registered trademark. It was originally used on a lollipop and now is a popular confectionery brand sold in over 150 countries around the world. The brand was founded by the Spaniard Enric Bernat in 1958, and is currently owned by the Italian multinational corporation Perfetti Van Melle. The name of the brand comes from the Spanish verb chupar, meaning "to suck". History In the early 1950s, Bernat worked for an apple jam factory called "Granja Asturias". After he broached the idea of making lolli...

KitFox

1:59 PM

There was a guy here who opened a place called "Club Chubby."

In the place that used to be my regular hangout eons ago.

I shudder every time I think of the name.

Who would think that's a good name for a club?

Well, except that he was a morbidly obese coke head.

tchrist

Chubby Checker

Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans, October 3, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He is widely known for popularizing the twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard's R&B hit "The Twist". In September 2008 "The Twist" topped Billboard's list of the most popular singles to have appeared in the Hot 100 since its debut in 1958. Early life Ernest Evans was born in Spring Gulley, South Carolina. He was raised in the projects of South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he lived with his parents, Raymond and Mrs. Eartle Evans and two brothers. By age eight Evans formed a st...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox Maybe it was a club for morbidly obese coke-heads.

KitFox

That's what I'm saying.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

In which case it's an appropriate name

so more proof that my wife is the best: Yesterday when I went down to my office I found this under my keyboard: rebrickable.com/sets/76004-1/…

KitFox

Yeah. Still grosses me out. Either it means 'club for fat people' or it means 'club for partial erections' or most likely 'club for fat men with partial erections' and all of those are pretty negative in my mind.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Happy birthday!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

2:07 PM

@KitFox it isn't even!

Really that kit is just an excuse to get a venom and spidey fig

KitFox

Even better!

We've got this one: rebrickable.com/sets/6867-1/…

I just realized that my profile is out-of-date. Gasp!

Robusto

@Cerberus: Notwithstanding your excellent and nuanced response to Yoichi's question about the difference between gay and homosexual, I would like to point out that, having appropriated the word gay in such a way that it can never be spoken in its former meaning without a snicker, the homosexual community now finds itself victims of a newer version of the word which means "lame" or deficient in some way. Having gone on the record as pro offensive speech, how do you feel about that?

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Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox That's a good one too. a nice small kit with a couple good hero figs.

KitFox

I like the blue color too.

Robusto

@tchrist His job was to check chubbies. What's the big deal?

-3

Q: How do you say:

How do you say: Even with all that is covered, the price to adopt is still much lower than the price is at a pet store, in a better way than what is already said?

usage words

I say it "closed"!

KitFox

2:12 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 My little son loves the Iron Man minifig.

There, I think I got all the new ones added.

Oh wait, no. The big son got a book with LEGO in it. I can't remember what it's called.

Mommy wants the Sith Fury-class Interceptor for her birthday.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox My son just got this for his birthday

KitFox

Oh, I really like those.

We have a bunch of the Super Hero Squad ones.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

He insists that the grey dude is Superman. Despite having spent the weekend at his grandparents house where he has a spidey vs rhino placemat.

KitFox

Hahaha.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

And despite having just the other day watched Superman III while playing with an old-school Superman action figure that used to belong to my brother.

Oh well.

KitFox

2:16 PM

It's fine. He's just playing.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

He's inherited the "I'm always right" disease from his father, I think.

And his mother.

KitFox

My eldest got this for his third birthday, I think:

toysrus.com/product/prodpop.jsp?LargeImageURL=/graphics/…

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

yeah my son has that one too.

KitFox

He played with it for years, now the little one loves it.

No box love. Bummer.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I think this particular family of toys is the go-to gift for his uncle to buy at christmas/birthdays.

KitFox

2:18 PM

It's pretty good. We've got a lot of the SHS and also the Star Wars ones.

They are a nice size and very durable.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

yeah

KitFox

They have withstood literally years of play.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I feel like my kids have too many toys that they don't play with.

KitFox

We're going to have an intervention with Gramma soon about toy purchases.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

(says the man with 34824 lego parts)

KitFox

2:22 PM

Things like new lego, art supplies, etc are OK. New guns, new equipment, new hex bugs, not OK.

Because you can make stuff with the former. The latter get played with and then not.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

heheh my daughter has so many art supplies that even she can't get through it all

we are actually returning some that she got for her birthday (thank gods for gift receipts!)

KitFox

Well, the idea being that he's encouraged to use up the art supplies so he can have the thrill of getting new stuff.

We don't have a lot of that kind of thing, but he was tremendously occupied with Lego in March.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

yeah. She needs no encouragement, but she makes so much art at daycare that by the time she gets home she doesn't want to do it anymore. also most of her supplies are slow-use stuff like pencil crayons.

she does go through paper pretty fast.

KitFox

Is she practicing her scissor skills?

I didn't realize that was a kindergarten readiness thing until recently.

Oh, an uninventoried set on rebrickable. I suppose I could inventory that.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox She's pretty good with scissors. I think they teach them that in daycare.

oh, and remember last week I mentioned toilet training, and how my son was off diapers, even at night? Well, we ran out of pull-ups for my daughter, and she decided she didn't need them anymore, so now they're both diaper-free.

I guess the idea that her brother was night-time trained before she was was insulting

KitFox

2:32 PM

Wow. envy

Theone Manis

Hello, can someone tell me what this means: "In his day, thousands of people were rushing to California to search for gold." -- what does In his day mean here?

KitFox

@TheoneManis During the time that he was alive.

Theone Manis

Oh!!!!!! ok

thank you very much

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I should go. woik calls.

KitFox

@TheoneManis It can be more specific. Like "In my day, we used to walk to the corner to get the school bus." would mean "when I was a kid."

Theone Manis

2:34 PM

Yes, I've heard that.

KitFox

And not to be confused with "back in the day" which just means "sometime in the past."

Theone Manis

ok. I am already making a note of all this. :)

KitFox

Actually, you can tag those other expressions with "back" as well and the meaning doesn't change. "Back in his day, thousands of people..."

That might help you remember the meaning. Or it might confuse you.

Theone Manis

It helps.

KitFox

In this case, day substitutes for some generic time.

MετάEd

2:38 PM

Well, what do we know today.

KitFox

Nothing. As usual.

MετάEd

Good. That means you're not responsible.

KitFox

But I'm very responsible!

I have children!

In my day, we didn't have these fancy-schmancy chatting rooms. If we wanted to talk to strangers, we'd hitch up the wagon and go to the next town over.

Robusto

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Q: th followed by an s sound

What is the correct way to pronounce such complicated combination of sounds when not pausing for breath? As an example, how would one pronounce something like "The Eighteenth century"?

pronunciation consonants

I deliberately didn't vote to close this because of Lawler's answer.

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