It is peeping from under my curtains, telling me, "go to bed, Cerberus! You know you should have been in bed hours ago, and your sleep cycle is fucked up anyway, but you should still go now, because there is no other moment that is better or worse, and otherwise you'd never go to bed!".
Do you think it will have much of an effect if the drinking age is raised from 16 to 18? That is a new law here. As a youngster, you would probably know more about this than I.
I mean, we all know kids can get booze anyway, if they really want to. The question is, how much of a barrier is it, and does it truly stop the right segment of kids, that is, the ones who drink themselves into a coma?
@DavidWallace Oh...that's odd. Was that a temporary effect? Because we don't have that problem, so far as I know.
I was a heavy drinker when I was a teenager. Arguably an alcoholic. If the legal age had been 18 rather than 20 at the time, it would have done me in, totally.
Pfft. I tried to add "Taita Community Hall" to Google maps, since it currently fails to find it. I put my little pink marker on the right spot, and it told me "we do not support adding a place here yet". Great. I'll just arrange for the Taita Community Hall to be moved to a place where you guys DO support adding a place. Pfft again.
The same what you are doing here :P j/k Visited here casually though I am actually interested in rectifying my errors in English and hone up my language skills.
@Noah Eid Mubarak. Your name sounds Muslim and he who survived after the dooms day, right? @DavidWallace Yeah. Thanks for correcting. This is what I wanted.
No, but I had made arrangments with this man that I would meet him at the masjid at quarter to eight. In the morning, obviously. But I thought he meant the evening.
So at 8am, I was lying in bed, chatting online to another Muslim; when he texted me unexpectedly, saying "where are you". I had to ask the person that I was chatting to whether Eid was supposed to happen in the morning or the evening. Which was just embarrassing.
No, it's not. I remember not knowing how to perform Eid prayer at all. So went to the mosque and had to listen to the Imam, I kind of overheard the instruction, but didn't really get all of it. So I quickly pulled out my iPhone and luckily found a Wiki page with all the instructions on it.
Eid prayers are always in the morning. I didn't know that a year ago. Anyway, the one that I missed last year was the other Eid. The one at Hajj time, not the one at the end of Ramadan.
@ΠαρθΚοχλι It got two stars because of the double meaning.
@DavidWallace I didn't know that. That's also a good way, but I thought it wouldn't be a good idea to sneak around and see what others are doing. I am a bit shy when it comes to not knowing these kind of things.
I was miserable at it once. Then I met this guy from Turkey and he told me an interesting thing. He said that you have to pray as if Allah were watching you. Just imagine doing that and you will feel how different it is.
Now, I don't listen to music and I try to pray five times a day. I always put my matters in the hands of Allah. Put my trust in him and I feel serenity inside. I never feel depressed or anything like that.
@Παρθ Κοχλι Yes, you are right :) @Noah I remember I have read in a Muslim holy book that a person who named Knoah received a message from God about the dooms day and he was asked to go by a ship with his descendants. I don't remember exactly. So, I might be wrong too.
Guys, could you tell me if this sentence is correctly written? I think not (because it sounds weird), but someone insists it does (and doesn't tell me why):
Your doom to the depth of Hell with me on the day of the Apocalypse.
I capitalise because an Oxford dictionary tells me to. But the rationale is something like, we're only ever expecting one apocalypse. So if we're referring to that particular apocalypse, as opposed to apocalypses in general, it is the Apocalypse.
> Has food always been genetically modified? Yes. I think we would consider all of the crops that we have as crops that have been subjected to some type of genetic modification. Now, of course, we have the newer techniques--recombinant DNA techniques--of introducing a single gene or a few genes. . . .
So everything that we eat in the US has been somehow modified.
I think the main difference that people get upset about is that artificial selection is a lot easier to understand than humans fiddling about at the microscopic level with the genes of plants
TIL dirigible does not refer to a lighter-than-air ship with a rigid construction, but rather to an LTA ship that can be steered. Thus, any blimp is a dirigible. From Etymonline: dirigible (n.) "airship," 1885, from French dirigeable, literally "capable of being directed or guided," from Latin dirigere. The word existed as an adjective in English from 1580s, with the literal sense.
@DavidWallace That's why a replicater (a la ST-TNG) is acceptable. You ask for a food item, it produces something with the right shape and texture, and rigth chemical taste to it, but it was really made out of reconstituted petroleum products and organic chemicals.
@Robusto "Upstream"? goddam it, more escape plan revision
@MετάEd No like 1980's food, when ST-TNG was on the air and producing all our grocery food in a holodek. Food science has moved -way- on from then. It's all quantum detanglement...the fettucini vs linguini experiment on a macro scale. Hawking explained it all in the 50's but industry took a while to catch up. Soy beans? Insect proof crops? It's a sham to keep people in jobs.
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@MετάEd I know! The emergency brake should be used for making on-the-dime 180 turns, so you can smash out the windshield and shoot at your pursuers while driving in reverse down the highway. Wait, are we still talking about religion?
I can't remember what it stands for but damn I can't wait to play GTA 5.
It's the thing you do when in pursuit of another vehicle where you tap the front fender and they spin out and you end up blocking the door to the driver's side of the vehicle.
I got bored with GTA 4. It's annoying when you're doing a race mission when you have to drive for half an hour just to get to it. The save points could be handled better.
another sign of my disability... I really have a hard time with the game controller. te two joy sticks and the A B X Y and two left and right triggers. Holy crap...it's like a messed up keyboard in 5 dimensions.
@Robusto We solved it. Funny joke at the end. "That's it?"
Oh, I thought you were saying you didn't solve it. What I liked about it was the introduction of an unreliable narrator into a video game. A brilliant conceit!
But hilarious. It was so funny. My husband did not understand why some of the stuff would send me into peals of laughter, so I guess it must be a scientist thing.
If take question 'Do you want to eat?' as example, I don't understand meaning of 'do' because:
to do something in my understanding is to take some actions, to want
something is not an action, it is not something, that you 'do'.
And in form of simple statement this question will be 'I want to ...
A former lecturer of mine once explained why, from a syntactic point of view, the English rule that negation and questions are formed with the auxiliary do follows from other syntactic facts about English.
More precisely, if you gave a good syntactician not familiar with English a corpus of Engl...
> ‘Not idly do the leaves of Lórien fall,’ said Aragorn.
> ‘Neither does he use his right name, nor permit it to be spelt or spoken,’ said Aragorn.
> But no answer did he ever get.
> Only by a hair did they escape.
> Once only, as he stood and stared wildly round, did it seem that, though now awake, he could still see pale lights like eyes; but soon they flickered and vanished.
No English dictionary has been able to adequately explain the difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED. However, in a recent linguistic conference held in London England, and attended by some of the best linguists in the world, Samsundar Balgobin, a Guyanese, was the clear winner. His final challenge was this:
Some say there is no difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED. Please explain the difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED in a way that is easy to understand.
Here is his astute answer: "When you marry the right woman, you are COMPLETE. But, when you marry the wrong woman, you are …
What I'm looking at today...the yawning abyss of a Friday with so many things not done this week, should have been done last week, and the day filled with meetings about what's been done so no time to do them.
If take question 'Do you want to eat?' as example, I don't understand meaning of 'do' because:
to do something in my understanding is to take some actions, to want
something is not an action, it is not something, that you 'do'.
And in form of simple statement this question will be 'I want to ...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…