@Robusto No, I'm pretty sure that's it.

@Mitch The only thing you've exhausted is your interest, your ambition, and, probably, your tolerance for mouth contortions.

@Robusto Why us every one so concerned with a handful of one-off individuals trying to cheat when the concern should be about more effective methods like ballot stuffing, voter suppression, gerrymandering, the electoral college. You walk into a polling station, and they go the voting fraud thing totally covered.

Oh...sorry... it should have been obvious. It's because of that one guy. Shooting his mouth off.

@Robusto No. I know Russian now. You're just jealous.

@Mitch The point is, the Republicans are shouting about voter fraud and yet they're the only ones who seem to be committing it. And yeah, that is minuscule compared to voter suppression and gerrymandering, but the irony of this is rather delicious.

@Mitch You know a Russian. Maybe.

@Robusto Oh...great... does that count? Then yes.

Wait

forget it it, they're Ukrainian.

On the other hand, since you dropped the article—"Russian" vs "a Russian"—that would lend credence to your claim.

@Robusto Also another delicioso part of all this is the senate and rep stuff. If there was ...shenanigans with the presidential vote, it's there with the senate and representative votes.

But most people seem to think there was no ballot tampering or 'as the votes get counted' attacks.

It's just that every time that one guy says anything, it's like a poker tell, figure either the exact opposite is really the case -or- that they're the ones committing the crime and they accuse everyone else of it.

@Robusto You presume way too much of me.

I've already forgotten more Russian than I've ever known.

and all in these last few moments.

Do you smell toast burning?

I always smell toast burning. My toaster is defective.

Whenever I try to figure out the geography of New Guinea I simply want to avert my eyes and think about something else.

> The eastern part forms the mainland of Papua New Guinea, which has been an independent country since 1975. It was formerly the Territory of Papua and New Guinea governed by Australia, consisting of the Trust Territory of New Guinea (northeastern quarter, formerly German New Guinea), and the Territory of Papua (southeastern quarter). The Papua New Guinea part encompasses three of four regions:

So let me get this straight: Papua and West Papua are Indonesian, and are on the island of New Guinea. And Papua New Guinea is a separate country on the same island.

I blame the Dutch in general. And @Cerberus in particular.

And don't even get me started on Borneo.

@Robusto It's like Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

@Cerberus In other words, a mess.

Islands can be divided.

Well, why a mess?

Of course the Papuas would like to govern the whole island, just like the Irish.

There you go.

I don't know whether the East Timorese(?) would like to rule over the entire island.

I'm thinking these thoughts because of this video:

Nor the Haitians.

@Robusto Yeah that didn't go well.

@Cerberus Yeah, but Hispaniola has a natural division of mountains. New Guinea is bisected by an artificially straight line.

Right.

New Guinea is a collection of completely unrelated peoples anyway, I think.

With a language (isolate?) in each valley.

> New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse region in the world. Besides the Austronesian languages, there are some 800 languages divided into perhaps sixty small language families, with unclear relationships to each other or to any other languages, plus many language isolates.

> Agriculture was independently developed in the New Guinea highlands around 7000 BC, making it one of the few areas in the world where people independently domesticated plants.

@Cerberus It makes my head hurt.

No, you must learn them all.

Wah!

This is a new record.

Four answers, and every single one of them is wrong.

Hot Licks is the only person that got it right, but he only posted a comment.

Goes to show how much perspective people stand to gain by speaking more than one language.

@RegDwigнt Ummm, let's take a wild guess here ... is it because ally is defined as "1. a nation, group, or person that is associated with another or others for some common cause or purpose"?

> My wife always starts conversations by yelling that I never listen to her.

> My wife said, "You really have no sense of direction, do you?" I said, "Where did that come from?"

@Cerberus haha. Quora.

And yet I'm more likely to be clickbaited into reading another question there no matter how stupid the answers. I mean, the answers here are often stupid too.

I like all those maps of 'what word do they use for X (and etymology)' in all the European countries (as though that's the center of the world).

Today was 'nurse'

@Mitch Generally, one tends to be a bit more interested in things familiar.

enfermera, krankenschwester, медсестра, νοσοκόμα, they have all of them

پرستار = parsatar ... dang forgot what the root means

@Cerberus I want it for all the languages on New Guinea

You're lying there in the jungle floor with a twisted ankle and bloody knees.

And there's this row of fire ants stomping your way.

What do you yell out?

OK maybe not 'nurse' or its translation.

maybe that's what you say in the hospital

"Hey X (nurse in the local language), where is my leg?"

@Cerberus It could be done for China. Except they claim there's only one language there.

It could be done for India, but you'd have to learn a new script for every single language.

Africa. That would work out.

Or the Middle east

@Mitch Yes, that would be eminently useful.

@Mitch Even translitterated, it would probably not speak to us much.

@Cerberus The population of most states in India is larger that the largest in Europe (but not Russia)

I think of that when there's a news item about Israel. Or Iceland.