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Robusto

01:43

@Cerberus A camel is better than Trump.

@DanielRigg Try blurt.

RegDwigнt

I think the site layout has reached some kind of singularity.

Nice tag, tho.

@DanielRigg we'd need context. Could be anything from "non sequitur" to "brainfart" to "Tourette".

@DanielRigg that one is just the sum of its parts. Which of the words involved do you specifically find confusing.

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Robusto

04:20

@RegDwigнt Voting to close because post was written by The Invisible Man.

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skullpatrol

06:02

@Mitch I think it's a local thing.

re: Finland^

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M.A.R.

07:58

Happy Nowruz!

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Daniel Rigg

12:37

And what does it mean ''to be or not be emotionally prepared to say or do something''? someone please answer this question

Matt E. Эллен

11 hours ago, by RegDwigнt

@DanielRigg that one is just the sum of its parts. Which of the words involved do you specifically find confusing.

Daniel Rigg

look I just don't really know what it means so please just explain what it means

Matt E. Эллен

but I don't understand what you don't understand. where do you get tripped up?

Daniel Rigg

please explain what it means please

Matt E. Эллен

to be
or not to be
emotionally prepared
to say
or do something

Daniel Rigg

12:43

no that's not the explanation I want

Matt E. Эллен

but I don't understand what you don't understand

do you understand what "to be" means?

I'll go through a bit a time time, but you need to tell me what you don't understand

Daniel Rigg

does it mean you have not thought carefully about what you are saying?

Matt E. Эллен

no. it seems like a definition of some kind

to be emotionally prepared to say something
to not be emotionally prepared to say something
to be emotionally prepared to do something
to not be emotionally prepared to do something

Daniel Rigg

okay then just explain what it really means please

Matt E. Эллен

that's what it means

Daniel Rigg

12:48

I said that's not the explanation I want

Matt E. Эллен

well I can't tell you what you want to hear if you can't tell me what you don't understand. is there further context around that that you can give

to be or not be emotionally prepared to say or do something

I've linked to the definition of each word

skullpatrol

@DanielRigg Are you "emotionally prepared to say" that the coronavirus will wipe out all of mankind?

Daniel Rigg

skullpatrol

then you understand the meaning :-)

Daniel Rigg

to be emotionally prepared comes from emotions of anxiety,nervousness,stress,etc?

skullpatrol

12:56

emotional preparation comes from emotions

Mitch

What's the context? Link? Text around that where you found it?

skullpatrol

you are preparing your emotions

Daniel Rigg

@skullpatrol you said it means you have not thought carefully about what you are saying.

Mitch

@DanielRigg it's actually a bit confusing so we are not able to give a straightforward answer

skullpatrol

@DanielRigg In this case it means you have not thought carefully about what you are feeling

Mitch

12:59

@skullpatrol nice

skullpatrol

@Mitch :-) thanks pal

Matt E. Эллен

I see, so when you say something and the emotions that you feel because of that are ones that you were not prepared to feel, then you were not emotionally prepared to say something

skullpatrol

I think that's the idea...

Mitch

13:39

@M.A.R. OMG that was fast. It was only last year that...

Eide Nowruz Mobarak!

For your ... grandparents:

Top 10 best of googoosh

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For your older siblings:

Jun 19 '18 at 15:23, by Cerberus

Barobax - Baba To Ki Hasty OFFICIAL VIDEO

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What do the kids listen to today?

Matt E. Эллен

baby shark?

skullpatrol

kids don't listen these days :P

M.A.R.

13:59

@Mitch M&M

Matt E. Эллен

I also listen to chocolate covered in a crispy sugar coating

I must be a the kids

M.A.R.

@MattE.Эллен If your last name is these days then yeah

Mitch

@M.A.R. That stuff is ancient

CowperKettle

Everyone at the wedding was happy except for the cake. It was in tiers.

Mitch

14:36

> I ran out of toilet paper, so have begun using old newspapers...The Times are rough.

Cerberus

15:02

@Mitch Barobax!!

Even though @Færd will look down on us.

@Mitch I've run out of diapers. The Times are changing.

Daniel Rigg

15:41

What is a forward behaviour?

Cerberus

> - ready, prompt, or eager.
- presumptuous, impertinent, or bold: a rude, forward child.

dictionary.com/browse/forward

Daniel Rigg

is a forward behaviour bad?

@Cerberus

hello?

Cerberus

Probably.

You can look up the meanings of the words in the given definitions.

Daniel Rigg

16:06

what words that mean ''to say something random''?

skullpatrol

@DanielRigg what do you think?

Q: An adjective to replace "so random" (to describe one who is apt to say random things)

Among friends, we describe a person as "so random" (he/she is so random) if that person says random things (often in group discussions). That is, we do not use it as defined below (i.e., he/she is "so odd"). random (informal, LDOCE #3): strange, unusual, or unexpected She's great - she'...

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Færd

17:32

@Mitch Dombe shoma se-charak :)

Sasy - "Doctor" OFFICIAL VIDEO

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Which makes me pine for @Cerberus's Barobax!

Mitch

@Færd classy!

@Færd Sassy!

CowperKettle

How do you pronounce the surname Frangou?

I'm translating an article into Russian

fran-goo?

M.A.R.

18:05

@CowperKettle translate.google.com/?source=gtx_c#auto/en/…

Apparently the accent on alpha means "sound extremely shocked"

RegDwigнt

18:35

Statewide confinement starting 00:00. Yay!

@Cerberus yeah I really don't know, either. You know you could just as easily argue the exact opposite point.

Lots of things can be used as toilet paper. Kitchen paper. Paper handkerchiefs and wet paper tissues. Newspapers. Books. Leaves from the garden.

And quite a few cultures don't wipe their asses to begin with. They properly wash them every single time. There's something to be sad for that, actually.

Spaghetti, on the other hand, it's just spaghetti. Yes you can cook them fifty different ways, but in the end all you have is spaghetti. Good luck eating that for even just a week. You'll go insane.

I think it really comes down to self-perpetuating feedback.

Everyone is buying toilet paper because everyone is buying toilet paper.

You go to the store, and there's none left, and you think gee, I only have three rolls left myself. So the next time you go to the store and they have any toilet paper at all, you buy ten times the amount you normally would.

Especially seeing how you only go to the store once a week now and not twice a day.

M.A.R.

@RegDwigнt Can't blame 'em for being human

The real culprit is no one used to be aware of their surroundings, now everyone is too aware

We've been used to overreacting to small signs of distant danger. Now there are too many signs

It's like an adrenaline overdose

In that it's . . . uh, an overdose

CowperKettle

19:01

@M.A.R. Thank you!

> Similarly, positive school involvement was protective against suicidal ideation (OR, 0.8; 95% CI, 0.7 – 0.9).

I wonder what "positive school involvement" means.

@M.A.R. I never knew that you know Greek

Does it mean "positive experience that a child has in school"?

But how to assess that?

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Mitch

20:34

@CowperKettle I read it as involved more in school in a positive manner? That is one could be considered to be involved more in school if one is attending detention after school everyday (a punishment for unruly behavior which is basically sitting in a class all afternoon with no instruction).

So positive involvement is things like athletic (sports like football or basketball) or academic teams (chess club, school newspaper) or arts (like dance or theater) after school but at school.

Attendance at those are easily assessed. (as opposed to 'has general good feelings' or 'has friends they like at school')

Daniel Rigg

21:04

what does it mean to ''say something in an unguarded moment''?

RegDwigнt

21:24

@DanielRigg I suppose the question is about the word unguarded.