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16:20
@Mitch Being drôle, it is not a conventional drame.
@MetaEd Did you know your chat profile still says you're a moderator here? You should probably change that
14 hours ago, by Mitch
Quelle honte
@jlliagre It looks kinda old...is it well known?
Bizarre, Bizarre (French: Drôle de drame) is a 1937 French comedy film directed by Marcel Carné. It is based on the 1912 novel His First Offence by J. Storer Clouston. == Plot == At a meeting in London, Bishop Soper denounces scandalous literature, in particular the latest crime novel from Felix Chapel. An invited member of the sparse audience is his cousin Irwin Molyneux, who is asked to speak but is interrupted by William Kramps, a serial murderer of butchers who is on the run. After the meeting ends in uproar, Soper invites himself to dine and sleep at the Molyneux house. This throws M...
That -is- bizarre, a French story set in England with serial killers and posing as a servant to hide the fact that you have no servants.
Is the author...
oh... Scottish
but the movie arranged (?) in France. Are there French authors that are similar to Clouston?
(ie comedic detective stories)
Simenon is not comedic, but at least he eats well.
16:41
I wonder if the rule "don't charge above 85%" will extend the service life of the battery on my old iPhone 5s
On my newer phone, there's this feature that limits the charge to 85% to improve battery life
I'm not sure about iPhone 5s though. Maybe it had a different type of battery.
I want to continue using it for running, cause it's so small and neat
@Mitch Drôle de drame dialogues are famous and were written by Jacques Prévert.
Jacques Prévert (French: [ʒak pʁevɛʁ]; 4 February 1900 – 11 April 1977) was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. His best-regarded films formed part of the poetic realist movement, and include Les Enfants du Paradis (1945). He published his first book in 1946. == Life and education == Prévert was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine and grew up in Paris. After receiving his Certificat d'études upon completing his primary education, he quit school and went to work in Le Bon Marché, a major department store in Paris. In 1918...
By the way, drôle doesn't mean funny here but odd, weird, bizarre...
@Laurel huh, thanks, let me look at that
17:00
@MetaEd Actually, why don't you look at your main site profile too lol, the images are all messed up for me
@Laurel Stack Exchange made some changes to profiles a number of years ago. Existing content was grandfathered, but if I ever wanted to edit my profile it would have broken. Then they broke even the grandfathered content.
@jlliagre Comme c'est... inattendu
@CowperKettle That makes me want to hoard holy water
17:19
@Mitch The drôle de guerre wasn't funny, although I just read this: L'origine de l'expression « drôle de guerre » est revendiquée par le journaliste Roland Dorgelès, mais elle pourrait provenir d'une mauvaise compréhension de l'expression phoney war, confondue avec funny war, utilisée dans un reportage sur les armées franco-britanniques.
La « drôle de guerre » (en anglais : phoney war, « fausse guerre » ; en allemand : Sitzkrieg, « guerre assise » ; en polonais : dziwna wojna, « guerre étonnante ») est la période du début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale qui se situe entre la déclaration de guerre par le Royaume-Uni et la France (les Alliés) à l'Allemagne nazie le 3 septembre 1939 et l'offensive allemande du 10 mai 1940 sur le théâtre européen du conflit. Cette période se caractérise par : la campagne de Pologne et ses répercussions sur le front occidental ; la guerre russo-finlandaise ou guerre d'Hiver ; la campagne de Norvège,...
Thoughts on reopening? The other question/answer doesn't include the word "shorts" at all: english.stackexchange.com/q/617854/191178
Though I think the dupe is probably sufficient for OP, who is merely doing HW, not pursing the origin of every variation of a phrase
17:39
AI-generated
Someone, @alphabet, anyone please look over the newest edits so I can make this live soon: english.meta.stackexchange.com/a/15742/191178
For the new close reason
I think the changes I made are superficial enough that it doesn't need extended review
18:14
> - The great Russian composer Rakhmaninov at first failed to understand the Bolshevik Revolution, and moved to Sweden for a time.
- And what happened next?
- And then he finally understood the Revolution, and moved to the USA
Hmm did Soviet Russia really conquer any new countries after WWII?
It did increase its hold on several countries, by forcefully repressing uprisings.
18:44
@jlliagre That's funny because phoney comes from 'fainne' (/fa nje/) which means 'ring' in Irish (presumably because rings were often phony in Ireland?
Why do I mention this, you may ask? Because it is funny.
If only Albert Finney had a strange rear end, I could put all the words together.
For example...
Albert Finney had a funny phony fanny.
Or...it's funny that people claim that Nicki Minaj has a phony fanny.
Now if an Italian luxury goods seller and the first in line to the French throne went to Switzerland what would they eat? It's pretty obvious it would be a...
Fendi and Dauphin fondue
Do you find a Fendi foundering offending?
I am fond of defending a found fondue
19:53
@Laurel I think my chat and SE profiles should be working a bit better
It might have taken you something like five years but at least it's fixed now lol
@Laurel yeah, but of course SE might break markdown again .. or one of these days I might get a wild hair and decide to moderate again
In the year 2030 I might just be complaining about your profile again. See you then...
@Laurel in the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive ...
Whoa-oh-oh-oh
20:05
@Robusto what does that first verse even mean.
it's like a sentence fragment.
"In the year 2525, if man is still alive / If woman can survive, they may find."
@MetaEd Beats the shit out of me.
20:28
@Robusto Drinking coffee is easier and less painful.
Well, maybe not easier.
@MetaEd That was an AM Top 40 kind of song that I never paid much attention to. Just seemed kinda silly.
Too commercial, I guess.
 
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21:49
@Laurel LGTM. We can presumably fix it later if any issues are encountered. (I might change "should be answered by" to "can likely be answered by," but let's not bikeshed this.)
@alphabet I mean, the "we" that would have to fix this later is a CM. Mods can only create new close reasons, which isn't desirable for mere wording tweaks
@Laurel Regardless, LGTM, as they say.
I'm hoping to have someone else look it over before I actually pull the trigger but I really will make it live soon. I feel bad that this process has taken months
Actually I think I'm required to have another mod look it over. I think this is one of the few tools that require two keys to turn so to speak. (The other one I know of is redactions, since that doesn't leave an accessible edit history for obvious reasons.)
22:43
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> But even with small-scale, local, holistic honey production, bees are almost always harmed in the harvesting of honey, which does not align with the principles of veganism.
What does that word even mean here, mellifluous apian homoeopathy?
Something related to the supernatural, no doubt.
Seems shamanistic.
Or maybe they live in holes.
Must be the latter.
Something in my Firefox profile is blocking this request.
It works in a blank profile.
I wonder what it is, it is even blocked when I turn off Ublock Origin and Umatrix.
It is a dictionary website.
Does it work for everyone else?
Works for me.
22:56
Merci.
It is something in my profile.
23:12
When I hear people abusing the word "holistic," it always reminds me of this lady:
@tchrist I think the usual word that goes there is 'organic' but there must be some inside-bee-tech reason for not liking that term so they're using a similar undefined term to mean 'what we're doing which is not as bad as you all'
like it's vegan or something?
Fruititarian?
but I came here to say...
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Q: Do Brits and Aussies get confused when ordering coffee or playing chess?

user14094230Like if a Brit says "checkmate" is it sometimes confused for "check, mate". Or if they ask for some Coffee-Mate, is it sometimed understood as asking for just coffee? Edit, yes this question is about English. And I'm asking if the confusion happens at times, not always. Anecdotal information may ...

"I'm a holistic vocal coach." Simon: "What does that mean?" "I'm a vocal coach and I work holistically."
Wasn't this exact question asked a few weeks ago?
I think it is a reasonable question (how to resolve ambiguities, does the ambiguity exist)
but it may be a duplicate of something deleted
@tchrist nice. I searched and it didn't show (but I have enough rep to see deleted things). Maybe search doesn't retrieve deleted things for people who could see them.
23:19
It does not. I specified deleted:1.
oh
i can't remember all those tags. they need to give me the menu
But because you lack a diamond, it will only show you posts you own that are deleted.
oh again
And I have to go deal with a jerk.
my condolences
you're doing god's work
dealing with a jerk
23:29
Raccoons getting into mukbang
23:44
Word of the day: to gift as a ditransitive verb. It appears to have suddenly become popular starting around 2000.
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