> (Metrically speaking, these words are compounds consisting of one element with a single stressed syllable and a second disyllabic element with a trochaic pattern, i.e., stressed-unstressed. As a metrical foot in poetry, the whole stressed-stressed-unstressed pattern is known as antibacchius.)
> But shitgibbon didn’t originate with MetalOllie. Its early history has been traced by Hugo van Kemenade, a resourceful word researcher whose biggest claim to fame is finding the earliest known use of the word selfie in a 2002 Australian forum post. (He goes by @hugovk on Twitter and just “Hugo” elsewhere.)
The insult shitgibbon predates Twitter.
Searching Usenet, I found several examples from 2000 and 2001 from the British bootlegging scene, where people would record the audio (and sometimes video) of a gig, and then arrange trades of tapes with other bootleggers and fans.
A shitgibbon was someo...
> Via email, Hugo shared some more of his impressive research on shitgibbon: ......
> Magnentii Hrabani Mauri ... opera, quae reperiri potuerunt, omnia : in sex tomos distincta ; 6 Autor / Hrsg.: Hrabanus <Maurus> ; Pamelius, Jacobus ; Hénin, Antoine de Verlagsort: Coloniae Agrippinae | Erscheinungsjahr: (1626) | Verlag: Hierat Signatur: 6690999 2 P.lat. 1281-5/6 6690999 2 P.lat. 1281-5/6 Permalink: http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10635038-6
> Hrabanus Maurus ; Pamelius, Jacobus ; Henin, Antoine de
> This paperback book is SEWN perfect bound, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of paperback binding. It can also be open wide. The pages will not fall out and will be around for a lot longer than normal paperbacks.
That's nice.
A great tree right next to my house was felled by a tremendous wind this morning. Its crash was defining. Damage to my effects was "minimal", but merely clearing it may be as much as $3k.
There are various small amounts of damage to be repaired as well.
But it could easily have been a complete catastrophe.
Bounced of the corner of my house, bounced off the apple tree sheering half of it away but missing the garage and car, fell upon the wooden gate and stone wall you see in the background, extending out into my driveway and the street, blocking traffic.
You know. Please don't tell me about those things.
@tchrist Sorry to see that. Maybe clear the immediate environs of tall trees.
@tchrist I tohught it was a fox at first!
@NVZ Poor thing. What did you do? Did you check if it was alive?
Don't tell me you just drove on.
(tchrist, avert your eyes!) There are so many of them around here that a cat carcass is not a rare sight. I usually try to collect the remains and put them in boxes or something ...
@JasperLoy Apropos to my recording, what do I do about my accent? People say to pick one accent, British or American but I'm comfortable with the original accent I have, that way I make less mistakes and speak with ease. Copying an accent is just dumb. I would love to hear your thoughts. But I'm sticking with the one I already have.
@englishstudent I just watch them one after another, with a break in between, of course.
@englishstudent If you like your accent, then it is fine to stick with it. If you don't like it, then it is also fine to try change it, by listening and copying what you hear.
@JasperLoy I don't get monster movies. A lot like topology.
What do you think of Jack Reacher or John Wick. They aren't terribly dissimilar to the Jason Bourne movies (but the latter has a really good plot motivation premise)
@Jdoh possibly there's a term but it might end up being extremely technical sounding.
@tchrist oh
Firewood for someone else?
Or build a more complicated cat climbing structure
If I were a cat that's what I would want
If I were a dog, I probably wouldn't care
Hmmm what would a dog want done with a big dead tree?
Robanly for there to have been a best of squirrels in it before it fell, and still there afterwards. You know, for easy access.
Ya know $3000, as much as that sounds, is probably the going rate. Probably would have been even more expensive if it were still upright
I'm not saying you should be thankful for the storm, but ... could be worse?
@Mitch I'm quite lucky, actually. If it had fallen on either house or either garage, it would have been incredibly worse. It could even have killed someone.
@englishstudent It's not really meaningful to me personally. Also, I generally like Single Word Requests, although that is an example of one of the worst sort. Anybody asking for a synonym needs to check a thesaurus to pass the research requisite, and explain why the best alternatives provided therein don't work for them to make the question sufficiently clear.
So speaking of firewood and all the best steak in the world can just be cooked on a camp fire. You don't even have to go to Texas if you know what I'm sayin'. Cheap and best in the world, literally.
@Tonepoet Yes I agree, some of the them (SWR) are quite interesting.
@Mitch I have not watched them. Actually, Jason Bourne is like the American James Bond.
@Tonepoet I think certainly extrapolate doesn't fit into the turning a square into a cube question. I don't think porject does either, so I don't know why that comment has so many upvotes.
I noticed Josh's single word request answers often are totally off, which is a sign of his non-native status.
So I guess I can answer single word requests but I'd rather not because everyone now knows I'm a newbie to English and I will be brigaded hard with downvotes lel.
@JasperLoy Your avatar reminds of a supernova. It's picture I mean.
My agenda is to pick people's brains here in chat so my English side of the brain, whatever that is, jogs and I become fluent in English. At least in written English.
Well, many things happened, which is not possible to say in this chat. I have not been working for many years and I am trying to get well before doing anything else now.
So I'm not a native speaker, so please don't mind me. Just a apology in advance in case you know... well it is the internet and no sound etc. here. Damn.
@JasperLoy Oh well good luck friendo. I sincerely hope you find all the happiness this life has to offer.
So on a totally unrelated note...
So speaking of coolness, I test my friends by being around gorgeous girls. I used to have a good friend, I trusted him and all but once in a bar a gorgeous girl approached and the foker started insulting me.
I just laughed and got the message, I told him to go ahead dude, no need to stoop so low, I can always find someone very very easily lel.
@JasperLoy Oh I will give you an example if something like that happens.
@JasperLoy I can't exactly put my thoughts into words I guess. What I meant was some folks are just tough to talk to on the internet. They are always in an argumentative mood or whatever. You know what I'm sayin'?
I was talking to a friend that day and told him how maybe 9 of 10 research articles are trivial, and he said 99 out of 100 actually.
@englishstudent I have undergone tremendous suffering for many years. It might not end this life, but I am trying to do the impossible and end it. I need to believe that something extraordinary is possible.
@englishstudent Here, I am talking about professors in academia. How they are forced to publish or perish, so often they publish some not very good stuff.
Today's education is kind of idiotic, it teaches us to make money and stuff but it is not comprehensive. In my life I have seen tons of asshole Phds and doctors etc. What's the use of such an education? Just give drugs, operate, make money and then what? go home and get drunk and shit? It's useless. But that's what the society expects I guess from its citizens. Bah.
There are some good humble servants of god too. I mean docs etc.
@JasperLoy Lel. You are right. Not frustration per se but yeah... in chat if I'm just talking then well I might as well spout my frustration with the world lel.
I have a passing familiarity with Pali and Sanskrit. I just speak Hindi and English now. Speaking of Sanskrit have you heard of Jainism? It is quite a peaceful religion.
@JasperLoy They have almost all the SEs under the sun now lel.
I'm an atheist though. But they say atheism is a religion too. But calling atheism a religion is akin to saying abstinence is a sex position lel. Or like off is a TV channel.
Considering how there are different definitions of god and God and atheism and theism, it doesn't mean anything to me to say whether you are atheist or not.
Yes I will definitely read the 4 Nikayas. By the way are these Nikayas freely available on the internet. I don't mean torrent... I don't... but if there is a torrent then... :)
You might want to check gen.lib.rus.ec I mentioned that day. But if you want to make serious use of a book it is best to eventually buy it. I use it only for evaluation purposes.
@Tonepoet I see. Anyway, did I tell you that my enemy on SE likes to use that smiley? LOL. Every time I see it I get frightened. Just seeing their avatar in the room makes me run away already.
Hmm, I don't particularly appreciate the combing artifacts it seems to exhibit during movement. I might need a progressive scan model. More extensive testing is needed.
The color quality is more or less as expected though.
@Tonepoet Yes, they do lots of stupid things here in Antarctica.
@Tonepoet Same thing goes for my mum's phone which will need to be changed this year because of the signals. That's what upgrading is all about, making old machines useless...
@Tonepoet And same thing goes for the stuff that gives me the internet, need to change those this year too. That's a lot of money altogether for poor folks like me.
@Tonepoet The cost of living here is higher than in New York City, which is another reason I must leave Antarctica soon!
Let's assume we have n methods of doing X,
When i ask "When to use which ?" i expect the answer to be something like : "Use A when ... , Use B when ..."
By asking this question I want to ask "When to use each method"
I am sure i heard this expression before but I'm not sure whether it is corr...
@Cerberus obviously not as durable as concrete. also presumably more of a fire hazard, but my impression there is not currently much of a US-Euro difference in how long a house (or even apartment bldg (it seems those many new ones around here are also timber frame)) in general lasts. I don't think there are more fires here (US) than Europe.. (But I don't have data at hand)
oh. there are termites. that's a problem for wooden frame homes (with wood close to a a low foundation) in certain geographic areas with known termite problems (hm that was not intended to be a tautology, so take it as not one).
@JasperLoy met and surpassed. Every day you walk down the street past agendaless people. Then they snap out of their reverie and BAM. Agenda IN YOUR FACE!
@Cerberus but that's the same for a concrete framed house. and also the big box steel framed warehouses are often in the news being destroyed by a tornado or even just heavy snow fall (in the US is all I've heard)
@Cerberus probably not very well, but then there's no comparison to concrete houses...unless that's what they do in Mexico.
I wonder what the effect tornadoes have on small concrete homes. In order to compare to what we know happens to US wooden homes, which is partial to total destruction.
When you look at the tsunami in Japan, with wooden hice, compared with the floods of 1953 in Holland, with brick hice, the latter seem to have withstood the water better.
The insult shitgibbon predates Twitter.
Searching Usenet, I found several examples from 2000 and 2001 from the British bootlegging scene, where people would record the audio (and sometimes video) of a gig, and then arrange trades of tapes with other bootleggers and fans.
A shitgibbon was someo...
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