[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected, toxic answer detected (160): Can we call a person who loses things a "loser"? by PJ Brown on english.SE

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I mean "middle of a sentence", not "end of a sentence".

hunger haunts again though last wee hours I went out to eat a big bowl of noodles.

I think food demand is amazing. I need a lot of food to keep functional.

if there is automatic meal delivery and public shower room nearby, it can save me a lot of time.

@CaptainBohemian Can you give me an example? Without knowing what you have in mind I'd just be unhelpfully rambling

@CaptainBohemian So how come you are so interested in shower rooms?

Until you mentioned them, I had never heard of public shower rooms.

@Cerberus Also I've never seen anyone complain so much about food. Maybe it's what's making them hungry in the first place

I always get hungry when I talk about fo . . . dammit

Oops!

Perhaps he is on a diet or experiencing a famine.

@Cerberus because I need to shower at least once every 2 to 3 days usually to feel comfortable. I could shower every day when I was in my graduate school, but after graduation, shower every day is often impossible. I look for public shower rooms every time I went to an institute. When I do find a public shower room, I feel great relief and gratified.

I also often dream that I move to the dorm of my graduate school and feel a great relief because I wouldn't have the problem of not having access to a warm shower facility anymore.

@RegDwigнt: Is there a German term for someone with a toxic personality who is always criticizing, often at length, and for whom no reply is good enough? I seem to remember there was such a word, but I can't for the life of me remember it.

Actually I just went back from a travel to shower.

@CaptainBohemian Okay, so you have no shower at home, nor a different kind of suitable washing facility?

@Cerberus no, my home at my home town has long become a ruin whose warm shower facility has long broken even before I graduated and moved back.

I'm sorry to hear it.

What kind of disaster happened?

So you are now living in some other building but in your home town?

only people having no access to warm shower facility know the merit of public shower rooms. My ex-boss used to have no access to a warm shower at his rented house because he went abroad and didn't pay the electricity fee so that his house was cut from electricity. Therefore he and I have once looked for public shower rooms together in our institute.

@Cerberus no, I live in the ruin in my hometown and that's why I need to travel to shower often. I found a university stadium in my home city has public shower rooms in Jaunary.

That sounds tough.

Earthquake? War?

no. this building is just too old, so its warm shower facility gets broken. It's like the conduit inside wall related to warm water is blocked somewhere.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I actually can't understand how others wouldn't have hunger trouble since hunger haunts if you don't eat for several hours and getting cooked food so often is really a hassle.

Maybe because they live in an environment where there are people to cooperate each other to resolve hunger.

I am in a wasteland without anybody to cooperate.

my cooperation doesn't mean focusing on dealing with food but some common interest while taking dining or hunting just as an accompanying activity.

@CaptainBohemian I think the confusion is that ruin in English refers to some place that is abandoned to its current state, usually in speaking of some lost or dead civilization (e.g. Roman ruins, Mayan ruins). Ruins can actually be very beautiful, or picturesque; the connotation is not of decline, but of a state of disrepair that is permanent because some catastrophe has rendered it unsuitable for restoration

A building or neighborhood can be said to be run-down if it has not been maintained, or dilapidated from neglect

A street or neighborhood with many run-down or dilapidated buildings may be called blighted in formal parlance, or simply as a slum area compared to nicer parts of town, but slum has different uses and different connotations in different parts of the world

@choster actually my home is in the situation "a state of disrepair that is permanent because some catastrophe has rendered it unsuitable for restoration". This home is unlikely to be recovered to its original prosperity.

@tchrist: I don't know if you'll see this, but at this point in GoT I think the whole series is a cheat. They are deliberately undermining the entire moral progress of the series because they are interested only in setting up spin-offs. There is no longer any moral arc, only confusion and violence as pornography, as well as a selling out to expediency—to whatever sells.

@Robusto Sounds like one of the do-gooders went ahead and burned down a whole city?

Could be.

I get the urge to try and be different from the normal good vs. evil thing, but ruining character development is betraying the audience

this is not a slum; the buildings in the neighborhood are all in good condition. Actually the richest people in my state live in my surrounding. The deteriorated condition in my home is unique and not known in public.

Which state is that? Mississippi?

I actually know ruin connotes the meaning of destroying or harmful.

for example, alcohol is the ruin of his health.

@Robusto I am not from USA, but recently I found state can be used to refer to a place having its own government and my place is referred to as a state probably because our country has experienced a civil war and has long had our own government separated from the other part of our original country.

Ah, my apologies.

I know some ruins can be very beautiful and I have often been interested in that kind of ruin when I find them when traveling.

@CaptainBohemian That's now how native English speakers would use the word state. Almost invariably they would use country in that context.

this is a ruin I found when I traveled to an island.

@CaptainBohemian Ah, and there is nobody whom you could call on to have it repaired? So how come your Internet conexion still works?

@Robusto The clue is "my" state instead of "the" state or "a" state: the first generally does not refer to a country / national government.

@CaptainBohemian Looks romantic.

Tripoli?

Damascus?

Baghdad?

Of course you don't have to tell us.

Huh o.o

I was under the impression it's urban China