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@Robusto I always forget what that idiom means. As usual, I just pretend to understand what other people are saying.
In my defense, my native language is Raccoon.
Oct 9 at 0:41, by alphabet
Feb 3 at 21:04, by alphabet
Did you know? Raccoon is an agglutinative language; the word human literally means "stripeless idiot."
@alphabet In my defense, my native language is Elephant. That pun doesn't work at all in English :-)
00:41
Word of the night before the night before Christmas: pagophile "He realized that he was becoming what the Arctic scientists liked to call a “pagophile”—a creature that is happiest in the ice." —Sides, Hampton. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
@jlliagre It's Greek to me.
@Robusto Défense translates to 'defense' but also to 'tusk'.
@jlliagre So Défense de fumer means smokers will get gored with a tusk?
@Robusto That's an extreme interpretation.
It's an important issue.
@jlliagre Sounds like she's mastered the single-entendre.
01:05
> They knew little of Minogue and had forgotten that she was arriving; as a result, they wrote "I Should Be So Lucky" in forty minutes while she waited outside the recording studio.
Mike Stock wrote the lyrics for the song in response to what he had learned about Minogue prior to her arrival. He believed that although she was a successful soap star in Australia and very talented, there must be something wrong with her and figured that she must be unlucky in love.
Minogue recorded the song in less than an hour, which Stock attributes to her good ear for music and her quick memorization skill
@Robusto (Wikipedia)
01:34
@jlliagre What I mean is it sounds like she's using "I should be so lucky" literally, without any added layer of doubt or self-deprecation or expectation of a negative result.
01:55
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I admit I was impatient.
But two out of four were about stupid commercial mass productions that I don't know enough about.
And one was the kind of letter puzzle.
So I could only get one.
02:15
@Cerberus did you see my grammar question above?
5 hours ago, by think_meaning_buildß
@Robusto Is there a grammatical reason for the switch from single quotation marks to double?
6 hours ago, by Robusto
> Back in July, Azealia Banks dropped the single 'Fuck Him All Night', a raunchy and weird track that perfectly captured 2021's failed summer of love in all its horny, messy glory. Now, Banks is back with her very own "Fuck Him All Night" perfume
Could it be to distinguish between the song and the perfume?
@think_meaning_buildß I wouldn't go looking at random posts on the Web to divine writing practices.
02:54
Yes. I just wondered if there was a writing style convention.
In other news: AI was used for the first time to score a championship fight.
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Ugh. That was painful.
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Dec. 23, 2024

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My Score: 2080
118–112
3 humans: 116–112
Chris Rock on Luigi Mangione:
> Everybody’s fixated on how good-looking this guy looks. If he looked like Jonah Hill, no one would care. They’d already given him the chair, already. He’d be dead, OK? But he actually killed a man, a man with a family, a family, kids, man. I mean, I have condolences. I have real condolences for the health-care C.E.O. I mean, this is a real person. But you also got to go, you know, sometimes drug dealers get shot.
@think_meaning_buildß That is not normally done.
Single and double marks are often used somewhat indiscriminately, though within the same text one expects consistency.
Normally, double are mostly used for direct quotations, single for other things, such as terms an author wants to distance himself from, or article titles in journals.
6 hours ago, by think_meaning_buildß
We were always drilled with "keep it consistent."
03:10
Then there is also the convention of using different marks for quotations within quotations.
Thanks @Cerberus for the confirmation.
03:22
@alphabet Harsh. I bet Chris and Jonah know each other though
If they can embed a sensor in the world cup soccer ball, they should be able to do the same with the gloves of the boxers.
04:04
Is this going to be the adult version of those teens who get obsessed with the Columbine shooters and start writing smut about them?
04:24
Teens have that^ to look up to.
05:11
Ultimate capitalism, yay!
05:31
@Cerberus everything is "ultimate" these days: Ultimate Fighting Championship, Ultimate Bare-knuckle Fighting Championship, ...
Anyway, @Cerberus, mind deleting those past few messages? I feel like I'm gonna end up on a watchlist somewhere.
Oh, they kept diaries? How sweet...
TIL
06:11
@alphabet Feci.
@think_meaning_buildß Haha and anything marketed at men...
06:33
@Cerberus Everything seems to have a "for men" version now.
Jul 2 at 15:46, by alphabet
Ah, yes, I must use Dove soap FOR MEN, since ordinary Dove soap is incompatible with my manly man skin.
@alphabet Yes.
And it will look even corner and stink even worse than the stuff 'for women'.
06:51
We all know that the best and easiest way to attract a woman is Axe Body Spray. No luck? Just use more of it.
Smellmaxxing is a term describing a phenomenon where pre-adolescent and adolescent males use fragrances to enhance their musk. This trend occurred in 2024 and was fueled by social media, specifically TikTok. Designer fragrances are often used to achieve this, frequently at a high cost. == Background == As adolescent males progress through puberty, body odor is a frequent occurrence; a stereotype that has persisted in the United States is teenage males using Axe body spray as their primary fragrance. With the ubiquity of social media, the trend of smellmaxxing became prominent. As lower-end brands...
> Christian Dior, Chanel, and Tom Ford were particularly popular brands. Teenage males often obtain these high-end items by saving their personal money and/or requesting them as gifts for birthdays or Christmas.
07:22
This thing must be so alien that I don't even understand the introduction, no idea what it means.
 
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"Hey, you're tastier!" "No, you're tastier!"
 
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Wordle 1,284 3/6

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@Robusto Yes. What I mean is she wasn't involved at all in choosing the title or anything about that song.
> Pete Waterman recalled in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, "I was at home one Friday afternoon when I got a phone call from Mike Stock at the office who asked if there was something I had forgotten to tell him. 'A small Antipodean called Kylie Minogue?' prompted Mike, 'Oh yes, I forgot, she's in town.' Mike said, 'No she's in reception.' I apologized for messing up and said we'll have to drop the whole project. Mike said, 'We can't, she's expecting to do something with us.' 'She should be so lucky,' I replied. 'Great,' Mike said, 'That'll do. I Should Be So Lucky. Can we w
 
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@DannyuNDos Reminds me of Chick Fil'A bovine mascot going on a campaign to encourage people to "Eat Mor Chikin":
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Hahaha. All I have to say.
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#WhenTaken #301 (24.12.2024)

I scored 847/1000🏅

1️⃣📍5.0 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇200/200
2️⃣📍158 km - 🗓️14 yrs - 🥈167/200
3️⃣📍13.1K km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥉99/200
4️⃣📍469 km - 🗓️4 yrs - 🥇182/200
5️⃣📍21.5 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇199/200

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Daily Octordle #1065
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Dec. 24, 2024

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My Score: 2090
 
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Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital.
 
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#WhenTaken #301 (24.12.2024)

I scored 850/1000🏆

1️⃣📍7.1 km - 🗓️9 yrs - 🥇187/200
2️⃣📍1.8K km - 🗓️29 yrs - 🥉72/200
3️⃣📍53.6 km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥇196/200
4️⃣📍1.6 km - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥇197/200
5️⃣📍2.1 km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥇198/200

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