@RegDwigнt maybe it's assignment rather than homework.

so hot

@CaptainBohemian TL;DR. Can you please shorten it to "be rubbish when you write?" Thanks!

@RegDwigнt what do you mean?

I mean that it is a) very long and b) very rubbish.

Be weak when you are strong. Yeah awesome advice thanks.

@RegDwigнt I don't write it. I found that picture somewhere on web.

I know.

I'm not asking you to write it. It's already been. I'm asking you to re-write it. Which it hasn't.

I don't actually know what badass on that picture means.

It means "ignore the advice I only just gave you".

"Badass" is the opposite of "humble".

@CaptainBohemian well here's 14.

Basically they're going for "cool" but "cool" is not cool enough for them.

So they go for "bad" with some ass on the side. That makes it extra cool.

But it also makes it the opposite of "humble", as I said.

So for example, Bruce Willis in Die Hard is badass. Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction is badass. And Steven Seagal and Michael Dudikoff are trying to be badass in everything, and failing.

That is totally badass.

That is not.

I get it now. "badass" means "wayward".

We need to be badass in adversity.

I am sleepy.

be badass. go to sleep.

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer (60): What does 'worn smooth' mean? by Butche1r on english.SE

@Jasper__ Lost interest counting video views for Reg?

@RegDwigнt Some comments are even better than eleven 10-minute long videos.

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Scientists have stumbled upon thousands of wild orchids growing in Siberia. This is mind-blowing, because orchids do not grow in Siberia, it's too cold.

Ah. Turns out it was false news.

It's not too cold, and there are cultivars growing in Siberia trv-science.ru/2019/07/30/tajny-sibirskix-orchidej

> “What you find in the lungs of people who have stayed with the disease for more than a month before dying is something completely different from normal pneumonia, influenza or the Sars virus,” he said. “You see massive thrombosis. There is a complete disruption of the lung architecture – in some lights you can’t even distinguish that it used to be a lung.

What does he mean by in some lights?

@CowperKettle It's another metaphor of viewing: 'points of view', perspective, opinion, way of thinking. It just implies that it's hard to tell if it is lung tissue 2and maybe if you didn't know ahead of time that it was lung you might not be able to tell.

@Mitch Ah! Thank you! I thought it was some specialized jargon, probably meaning "on an X-ray image"

@CowperKettle what you mean, "turns out"? Every word in it is wrong on more levels than there are levels.

It is obviously written by someone who doesn't know what an orchid is and can't point to Siberia on a map.

Siberia covers 10% of the Earth's landmass. And 1 in 10 plants belongs to the orchid family.

This is where orchids grow.

This is all Siberia.

They might as well have claimed that it's too cold for roses to grow in the United States.

Even in Alaska, summer temperatures go all the way up to 38 °C. That's what summer means. And Siberia isn't even in Alaska to begin with. It goes all the way down to Kansas.

Today I saw a mountain chicken in a lake nearby.

Ah so you watched my animal-naming video, nice.

This map includes my region, Sverdlovsk Oblast, as part of Siberia, while it's not.

In other regards, yes, I agree with you.

The Urals is not Siberia, it's the border after which Siberia begins.

@RegDwigнt No, my time is valuable.

feel kind of upset.

@Gigili well yes, observing mountain chickens is a very time-consuming task.

@CowperKettle I suppose that 'in some lights' -could- be very literal, ie that a slightly different backlit fluorescent X-ray box could result in not being able to distinguish, but I think that is unlikely. If you wanted to be literal you'd be more likely to say 'in some lighting conditions'. 'in some lights' is not a common alternative to what I would expect 'in some ways'.

@RegDwigнt Well, if you pay attention to what I said, I didn't observe it but happened to see one.

@CowperKettle All that said, 'in some lights' is almost always literal.

like installing some lightbulb fixtures, or under different kinds of illumination.

@RegDwigнt It kind of depends on your definition what Siberia is, doesn't it?

this is being badass @RegDwigнt

@Cerberus the whole point is that it does not. Look at the map where orchids natively grow.

For orchids to not grow in Siberia, your definition of Siberia would need to be "the upper half of Greenland".

Are you defending deliberately fake clickbait news written by morons?

Never side with idiots. Even when they are right. But especially when they are wrong.

@Gigili I always pay the closest of attentions to everything you say.

#Trump_campaign_much_wow

I don't make the rules of English. I merely observe them.

@M.A.R. nah, let's not be unfair, "think less" is not a thing that Trump supporters of all people can possibly do.

Kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel on the "stupid more" bit, too.

I think the primary target of this campaign are Nobel prize laureates.

I always wonder with questions like this whether they’re put-ons to torque us around, get a few illicit thrills.

I decided this wasn’t, but I probably got taken in.

Certainly creative question-writing.

So itching; mosquitoes bite me.

@RegDwigнt That's not what I replied to.

nobody has invented an automatic food supply

like the power supply in lab

@Xanne Sure looks like trolling, but looks like you get the checkmark nevertheless.