@RegDwigнt so it's so obvious that water is fertile that people don't say it? (though that definition of fertile 'causing or promoting fertility' is a bit obscure!) For example people take fertility drugs not fertile drugs.

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Does that grammar?

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Vaccination after exposure[; (using)] PEP, is

or should be in parenthesis, ideally

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@barlop Maybe. Maybe not. My whole point is that it's beside the point. It doesn't matter why people don't say it. All that matters is that they don't. There is no knowledge to be gained from wondering why. There is no why. There is no reason.

Why do people use the word "cat" to mean a cat? That's not what the word means.

But it's pointless to try and understand why they do it, or try and insist that they don't. There is nothing to be gained from that. No insight, no advantage. Just a waste of time.

That is my actual point here.

> The solution to this question should not be more difficult to obtain than that to the other question.

^^^^^ What’s wrong with that replacement sentence?

I find it klunky and perhaps even ungrammatical.

@RegDwigнt what do you mean cat doesn't mean cat? And i'm not asking a why question, i'm asking what other usages of 'fertile' meet that definition of 'promoting fertility'?

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@barlop 'fertile soil' or 'fertile ground' are common enough. But 'fertile air' and 'fertile water' sound off to me.

@MattE.Эллен Dude. "Happy countries are all alike; every unhappy country is unhappy in its own way."

lol

no happy countries end in revolution

What I want for christmas a few years ago is to only get national news from some not terribly important country, like say Uruguay or Thailand, and see what kind of problems they have. Maybe everything is going swimmingly there? Maybe they're beheading people who make jokes about the deputy housing minister's hairline? I just want to know that everything is falling apart somewhere else in a much worse way. Or that it's possible to not totally fall apart because people aren't always idiots.

@MattE.Эллен France?

Dammit. They have their problems too.

Slovakie?

Litchenstein?

Czechia just divorced them outright. But I think it was mutual?

(how do you spell that?)

@MattE.Эллен I don't try. Just say "That place"

I think they have good tax rates?

Then again we don't know who killed who to keep those boundaries.

I suppose it could be colder there.

I hear Iceland is pretty peaceful. although they prosecuted a bunch of their MPs a while ago

But 1) the MPs deserved it but 2) they weren't beheaded.

I hear that their rampant child alcoholism problems have been mostly eradicated.

that's good news

Also note that your town has a higher population than Reykjavik.

:-o

Leichtenstein*

Pronounced 'eye goar'

@MattE.Эллен No, Liechtenstein. QED.

@MattE.Эллен I have Iceland in my refrigerator. It is a land full of ice.

@Mitch indeed.. it's that definition of "promoting fertilty" that s strange(producing vegetation definition fine so fertile ground no problem), but it's the "promoting fertility" definition that is used for ash and i'm not sure what else the "promoting fertility" definition is used for (and it still sounds strange 'cos it's so obscure). I've seen one person argue that we don't refer to fertile water or fertile air because it's so obvious.

But i'm not convinced.. We refer for example to fertility drugs, not fertile drugs. So fertile ash seems to be the only example I see for that usage of fertlie.

@barlop cat does not mean "cat" because no word means anything in and of itself. It's just a random collection of sounds. It has no meaning. The meaning is assigned to it artificially. If we agree that cat means "orange", then that's what it means. If we agree that it means "to sell your pants", then that's what you get. The word itself has no say in what it ends up meaning to us.

We take a word that thinks it means "a door", and we say lol screw that, you mean "a scandal" now. Easy.

@RegDwigнt You must hate words so much to tell them they have no say.

@Mitch I didn't take the door and make it mean a scandal.

I don't have time for that nonsense.

I have other nonsense of utmoster importance to attend to.

@RegDwigнt I think, rather, that you did.

You're the only one saying that

Word hater

Yawn.

Also, I question your loyalty to cats.

What is wrong with you?

You need to ask that on the main site. We don't have enough room in this room for an exhaustive answer.

But, what if, all along, you really meant cats?

Sly devil

Also, stop mentioning Tannhaeuser Gate, you perv.

And by that I mean orange pants-selling cat.

@RegDwigнt I see no moon beans there

Look under the sofa.

Them's under the sofa.

Ah. Thanks.

Wait...

Under the sofa to the left of the gate.

Not the right!

Those are no beans

Never look under the right sofa. That's the wrong sofa.

Tannhaueser gate? Is that some opera with Bugs Bunny shooting the Road Runner?

Yes. Also with C++ exceptions glittering in the dark.

exceptions are the anti-OOP

exceptions are exceptions to OOP

OOP is OP. Pls nerf.

synonym is an antonym of antonym

Y tú mama tambien.

It's funny that you bring up my mom.

Also, the guy in that movie who was not Garcia Second-Name Third-name-was-something-else was the guy in Rogue One.

Who watches Rogue One. What are you, twelve?

What happened to him? The same thing as every other character in that movie.

@RegDwigнt Oh shit.

I do not watch idiot children movies for idiot children.

@RegDwigнt Who listens to ELO? What are you 70?

@RegDwigнt That's where you and I are different

I might turn 70 one day. But I sure as fuck will never turn 12.

Ahh, a sublimated childhood. Tell me about your mother.

I can tell you my mother is not 12 either.

That's who I must have my movie watching habits from.

BRB

Yeah you be right back, I must go watch YouTube.

I just heard someone uploaded a new video to it just now!

Must go find it.

Maybe it's good.

@RegDwigнt By right, I mean wrong

@Mitch yeah talk about wrong. No new videos on YouTube! I looked and looked. Looked under the sofa. The left one. Nothing.

Looked on Jasper's channel, no videos there. In fact there's not even a channel.

Looked here, and there, and everywhere. But it's all just full of The Beatles. A shame.

In conclusion, YouTube is a scam. Once you've watched all of it, there's nothing left to do.

Buyer beware.