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@Cerberus it's a Cartesian quarter of an hour. Any longer and he's over stayed his welcome. You know what they say, how fish and visitors are allike? After a quarter of an hour they both stink.

Hey, did I miss an announcement or something?

Cerberus

Haha, I know the saying about fish and visitors, which rhymes in Dutch.

But it is 3 days in Dutch.

Mitch

It seems the way people learn English these days is through the avengers movies.

Cerberus

And what is a Cartesian quarter?

Mitch

7:25 PM

Q: Captain America said "if you get killed，walk it off!" How to understand "walk it off"?

The Avengers 2 just hit China yesterday. The official translation of the line "if you get killed, walk it off!" is "Someone is trying to kill you, run, run for your life" (This is the English version of that Chinese translation). Such a nonsense. But how to understand it right?

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Q: Who is being referred to in this dialogue from the motion picture "Captain America: The First Avenger?

There was this scene in the motion picture "Captain America: The First Avenger" where Steve Rogers and Agent Peggy Carter are driving through Brooklyn. The below dialogue ensued: Steve Rogers: I know this neighborhood. I got beat up in that alley. And that parking lot. And behind that diner...

personal-pronouns dialogue

@Cerberus 15 minutes, 3 days, vive la difference.

Entre les Francais et l'Hollandaise.

Allons enfants de la Cuisine!

@Cerberus It's a region of the plane where they start off being skeptical, and end up with a vacuous proof of the existence of God?

Cerberus

7:51 PM

What plane?

@Robusto @tchrist This might interest you, the latest research into American religion ^.

Mitch

8:07 PM

@Cerberus the Cartesian plane

@Cerberus Non-Christian faiths - "Includes Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and other world religions..." Because, you know, US is Christianity.

Robusto

8:26 PM

@Cerberus Still, the fact that "unaffiliated" only clocks in at < 7% is rather alarming.

2 hours later…

George Pompidou

10:15 PM

@Robusto it doesn't

what are you looking at

I see it at 22 percent having risen

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Cerberus

10:43 PM

@Mitch Gosh, I had no idea Descartes had invented the coördinate system!

With the quadrants and all.

@Mitch I'm not sure I understand what you mean here.

@Robusto Clocks in? That is just by how much their number has increased in seven years. They are the most rapidly growing group, now at 23% of the population. Among young people, their proportion must be far greater still.

George Pompidou

cøôrdinate system

Cerberus

Naaah.