Can anyone here please suggest me what would be the right wording to say, "this turned me on intellectually"? I feel like using "turned on" is kind of weird to use in a decent document so I wanna replace it but couldn't find any suitable replacement.
A flat (short for scenery flat) or coulisse is a flat piece of theatrical scenery which is painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background.
Flats can be soft covered (covered with cloth such as muslin) or hard covered (covered with decorative plywood such as luan). Soft-covered flats have changed little from their origin in the Italian Renaissance. Flats with a frame that places the width of the lumber parallel to the face are called "Broadway" or "stage" flats. Hard-covered flats with a frame that is perpendicular to the paint surface are referred...
Oh, the expression in the wings is derived from wing flats of the theatrical stage.
@M.A.R. Interesting comments on Reddit. I've never participated, though I come across the occasional Reddit thread. I agree that by general internet standards SE is relatively functional. Though given those standards, it's really not saying much.
There is some sort of equivalent of the Third Law of Thermodynamics which says that human organizations tend towards dysfunction.
There should be paid moderators and paid administrators to keep a communal site functional. Wikipedia is gathering litter for lack of paid moderators who would winnow out unnecessary text.
> I recall on Aug 8,1974 turning to my wife and saying “what the fuck!” It was at the end of intermission at a ply in DC. We heard Richard Nixon announce his resignation”
It randomly occurs to me that Melville and Dickens have a not-dissimilar prose style in some respects. They both like to randomly comment on lots of things, are very descriptive and idiosyncratic. There are other similarities that are harder to pin down.
We had a heavy rain today for almost two hours. Best of this year. But after that weather changed instantly and sky has become clear with strong sunlight. Like nothing happened. You realize it rained only by seeing water in the streets.
The US announced that they had started giving Ukraine some HARM rockets, which act against radars. Now OSINT people on Twitter wonder how Ukrainians duct tape these rockets to their Soviet planes.
Early today, there was an unconfirmed report of an explosion 150 km from the frontline, also in Crimea, and also double the range of HIMARS. But it was not believed because of the range.
@jlliagre Yeah common. I've even watched some Hindi movies which I later realized those were actually remakes of Hollywood movies. I realized it when I watched those Hollywood movies.
There is even a remake of 'The Usual Suspects'. It was super flop in Hindi. Years later I watched 'The Usual Suspects' and I couldn't enjoy it much because I already knew what's going to happen in the end. So it was ruined. Now I do some research before watching Hindi movies :P
Well, I thought you might have read part of it. Whatever. I've read long books, though mostly as a child, when there seemed to be plenty of time. The plentitude of time, however, is an illusion, as I have since discovered.
If you think you have plenty of time, you've forgotten about the many things you should be doing. Unless you are super rich and can hire people to do everything for you. And even that might not work out well, if you hire the wrong people.
@Mitch Well, maybe it was special. Though honestly the beginning didn't grab me.
@Mitch Well, I was talking about "popular culture" in general. Including the non-magical variety. In real life, if you are better at killing, you usually win.
@FaheemMitha The movies are 1) only made for fun and 2) only really give the plot. So the quality of those movies is a little independent of the books.
@FaheemMitha If you follow the links you'll see immediately that I was responding to a post you made mentioning Jane Austen. That's another way conversations work in chat.
Far from the Madding Crowd is a 1967 British epic period drama film adapted from Thomas Hardy's 1874 book of the same name. The film, starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp and Peter Finch, and directed by John Schlesinger, was Schlesinger's fourth film (and his third collaboration with Christie). It marked a stylistic shift away from his earlier works exploring contemporary urban mores. The cinematography was by Nicolas Roeg and the soundtrack was by Richard Rodney Bennett. He also used traditional folk songs in various scenes throughout the film.
It was nominated for one Oscar for...
But scooters are super convenient. you can get somewhere pretty quickly (within a city center) but you don't have to worry about/take time with locking up your bike or carrying it up 5 flights of stairs
The only thing is that electric scooters are so silent you don't hear them coming even when they are speeding, so they might hit you in the back when you are overtaking another bicycle.
A scooter (motor scooter) is a motorcycle with an underbone or step-through frame and a platform for the rider's feet, emphasizing comfort and fuel economy. Elements of scooter design were present in some of the earliest motorcycles, and scooters have been made since at least 1914. Scooter development continued in Europe and the United States between the World Wars.
The global popularity of motor scooters dates from the post-World War II introductions of the Vespa and Lambretta models in Italy. These scooters were intended to provide economical personal transportation (engines from 50 to 150...