English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Cerberus

12:29 AM

Perhaps you'd need to be more specific about what desire from drugs...

RegDwigнt

Water is not bad, but you need a Glass Relief Hands-Free Headset to use it.

And it's $12.95. I don't have that kind of money.

Cerberus

That's cheap for a bottle of water.

KannE

12:47 AM

@Jasper My husband built his own computer once, put the biggest fan in it (because our house was often hot due to major remodeling at the time). It had red neon lights and sounded like a jet engine, ha-ha, really. It was ridiculous, but it never overheated.

KannE

1:19 AM

Not according to Seth...**Value Fulfillment and the Seth Material
Value fulfillment is a central concept in the Seth material, a body of work brought forth by Jane Roberts, Robert Butts, and Seth. Seth, who described himself as a 'non-physical energy essence personality,' communicated through Jane while she was in trance, with her husband Rob taking notes. They worked together for 20 years and produced 24 published books and volumes of unpublished material, all of which is archived at Yale University.** Ha-ha, I would've linked it, but it's not secure per my computer.

David Coffron

1:36 AM

What's it called when a prepositional phrase is after an past tense verb. I.e. "He bought the book written by Jimmy"

KannE

@Mitch That's crack...everybody knows that...it makes eyes...all googly...not sure about the other...5 requirements.

Mitch

1:52 AM

@KannE googly eyes = panophthalmia?

@KannE haha no ... it's ...

Huey Lewis and The News - I Want a New Drug

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Jasper

2:41 AM

@KannE IT guys are hot.

KannE

3:08 AM

@Mitch I dunno...is that drug induced? You'll have to ask the thin people in the Midwest (that's how you can spot them, BTW). On a lighter note, my 2nd ex (from California) could make one eye stick out and roll it back in his head while, simutaneously, spinning the other eye around wildly and pulling a long piece of cooked spaghetti out of his nose, which he had just swallowed, of course. But, those are "googey eyes"...not sure of the spelling...but we all miss him every Halloween.

@Jasper IKR! And mine is watching LOTR right now...so, so hot.

Jasper

@KannE Are you excited about the upcoming midterm elections? I hope the Democrats win control of the House.

I read about the bombs being sent to prominent Trump critics. That is very bad. Luckily noone got hurt.

@KannE I did watch all three movies in the series, but I did not watch any in the Hobbit series, which is a prequel to LOTR.

KannE

@Jasper I inherited New Deal land... I have no choice; my Papa asked me not to turn him over in his grave, seriously...and so far, so good.

@Jasper I don't like the Hobbit series. I tried to for my husband's sake...but I fell asleep at the IMAX...which is almost impossible...got upset when the battles or whatever woke me up.

KannE

3:28 AM

@Jasper Did you see those 'mysterious' packages? The font size was...36? Florida was spelled FLORIDS...instead of FL (like a normal person would do). New York was N.Y. vs. NY (I guess that's not so strange). There were no other abbreviations, I think...like who spells out DEPARTMENT or CORPORATION in huge letters? It was so obvious...and the big stamps--every which way--businesses have postal meters. Good thing it was so obvious...

Matt E. Эллен

4:03 AM

limits to inference from Google Books and therefore Google ngrams.

user2236

5:06 AM

@MattE.Эллен wow! That's some heavy duty work there.

(thanks for sharing)

Matt E. Эллен

5:23 AM

No problem ☺️ it's a surprisingly accessible read, too

SmokeDetector

5:34 AM

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SmokeDetector

6:31 AM

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SmokeDetector

6:54 AM

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SmokeDetector

7:24 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body (98): Definition The Audio-lingual Method? by Goodbooks on english.SE

Gigili

11:00 AM

Oh that's la lot of smoke, perhaps we're on fire? So stop, drop and roll.

user1414

or put it on ignore

RegDwigнt

11:50 AM

@KannE my bad, I always forget to include the Seth Material in the list of corpora that I search. I vow improvement.

Not to mention volumes of unpublished material, these always fly completely under my radar as well.

user1414

12:08 PM

~~volumes of unpublished material~~

there^ you didn't mention it :P

Bruno Augusto

12:25 PM

Good morning, may I ask a quick question?

I understand that "thine" is an archaic form of "yours" and that it's a pronoun. But could it be replaced with a noun instead?

I'm asking because I'm panning information here and there regarding a word representing the name of a star, but because I don't know the language it was written it would sound weird to have something like "<Blah>, the star of <yours>" while others in the same context could be, I don't know, "<Boo>, the star of the Ape"

KannE

2:09 PM

@RegDwigнt It's hard to get published...when you're a figment of someone's imagination, but he made it to Yale...he, that is, assuming he's a male figment.

RegDwigнt

2:30 PM

@KannE Have you ever been to Yale? I haven't. For all I know, the United States as a whole are a figment of Trump's imagination. And Trump is a figment of mine.

Bielefeld Conspiracy

The Bielefeld Conspiracy (German: Bielefeldverschwörung or Bielefeld-Verschwörung, pronounced [ˈbiːləfɛltfɛɐ̯ˌʃvøːʁʊŋ]) is a satire of conspiracy theories that originated in 1993 in the German Usenet, which claims that the city of Bielefeld, Germany, does not exist, but is an illusion propagated by various forces. Originally an internet phenomenon, the conspiracy has since been mentioned in the city's marketing, and referenced by Chancellor Angela Merkel. == Synopsis == The story goes that the city of Bielefeld (population of 336,352 as of December 2016) in the German state of North Rhin...

Jasper

Anyway today I tried to record that flower song about 10 times and was still not satisfied with it, so I will try again next week when I feel better @RegDwigнt, lol.

RegDwigнt

Yeah I've done 80 takes on some of my pieces.

But there's a point at which you should just let go.

This is YouTube. It doesn't need to be good, it needs to be good enough.

Jasper

For me, it's because I can't focus because of my mental problems.

So I get the pitch and the tone wrong.

RegDwigнt

Set yourself a deadline. Like I do with one week. Whatever I get accomplished in that week, good. Whatever I don't, shrug. The state the piece is in after that, that's the final state. And then you move on.

Jasper

Also, sometimes I am so frustrated that I scream and shout.

Then I become too hoarse.

RegDwigнt

2:32 PM

Hold on a sec I'll find someone who explains it better.

Jasper

I understand what you mean.

A second has become a minute.

Soon it will become an hour.

Well, the title of that video doesn't seem to be about what you just said.

RegDwigнt

Exactly, which is why it was hard to find and which is why you're unlikely to bump into it by accident.

Jasper

The title of the video suggests it is about, well, finding motivation.

RegDwigнt

2:35 PM

Just click on it and listen. By now you would have gotten the point.

Jasper

I see, it's probably some sentence in it or two about what you just said.

RegDwigнt

No, it's a whole bit.

You can actually start listening from the very beginning. It's very interesting. But I've skipped the first 1:51 and linked to the meat of it.

Jasper

I have not gone out for a month. Today I went out to meet a friend, and he offered me some comfort and some help in various ways.

Oh I now have 8 subscribers, which is a record for me. I will certainly keep this forever. It's impossible to get 8 subscribers again.

Once I get 10,000, I can start making some money out of it, lol.

Note that 10,000 is literally over 9,000.

Now I wonder whether 9,000 is over 9,000.

That depends on whether over means greater than or equal to, or strictly greater than.

But certainly, 9,001 is over 9,000.

Wait, Halloween 11 is already showing now, time to watch it.

Oh, and the Apple October event is on Tuesday. Maybe they will announce more new products.

KannE

3:20 PM

@RegDwigнt Dubya went to Yale (Dubya and Seth--two figments so far), and Bill did too, for a law degree, but Bill could drown kittens and we wouldn't mind so much... and Bush Sr. (alias Big Daddy, CIC) knew how to win a war, too quickly, so 'we' wouldn't let him...like it was a figment of 'our' imagination. And, Trump is...an actor, like Reagan without the good hair and the state of California.

KannE

3:55 PM

@RegDwigнt So, all I've learned about answers so far...doesn't equal, individually, the time I just typed a list of synonyms straight out of Roget's...the same month I joined, just days after, I think.

Mitch

4:13 PM

@Jasper October and November is apple season in the north-east. Apple pie, apple cider, apple cider donuts, apple butter, apple crumble, apple juice. There's apple picking, there's apple bobbing, there's apple pressing, there's apple tree climbing, there's apple tree pruning. Oh and there're apples. Roma, Cortland, Fuji, Mcintosh, Granny Smith, countless varieties. You can boil them, bake them, pan fry them, deep fry them, dry them, freeze dry them. There is nothing you can't do with apples.

@KannE Roget's is a bunch of highfalutin words that no one ever uses anymore.

What are the synonyms of 'dang'? Ain't in Roget's, that's for sure.

And there are a shitton of them.

SmokeDetector

4:39 PM

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CowperKettle

5:27 PM

0

Q: best way to find a word to match my exact feelings?

I would like to know if there is a certain kind of a way I can find a word to exactly convey my feelings. Is there an app for this? Or how do you deal with this?

vocabulary

Jasper

5:42 PM

@Mitch I prefer bananas to apples.

6:44 PM

@Jasper Oh.

Bananas?

hm

There's no banana season. they're picked all year round.

also you can only do one thing with a banana and that is eat it.

wait... also dipped in chocolate fondue

so, two things

RegDwigнt

Oh dear you've not talked to your mom in years, have you.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt my mom? let me tell you about my mom.

RegDwigнt

lets

Mitch

She was pretty nice.

RegDwigнt

6:56 PM

Oh sorry, is that all you had to say. I wasn't sure when to speak up again.

Mitch

haha.

But I can't really say anything about that

I can't even tell you it was the case

RegDwigнt

Anyway. That makes your answer to my original question a "no, I have not talked to her in years".

Which is too bad, as I am very certain she would have had more than two uses for even just half a fruit, any fruit.

No need to remove anything, every spy in the world has read it by now. And future spies still can.

Also everyone is a spy anyway.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt She made a really good blueberry pie?

RegDwigнt

I for one am three spies.

Which is like regular pies but with an ass in front.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt Wow.. you have some imagination there, thinking I said my mom was a spy

RegDwigнt

7:01 PM

No, that's not what I thought at all. What I thought was you never said that, but then the CIA invented it and forged the chat history twenty years from now.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt Then it evens out a bit. I am even less than not a spy.

RegDwigнt

But you are correct, my imagination has run away with me there.

ELU was an inside job. Wake up, pineapples.

At this point spies upload their strats on YouTube.

Like I'm not even joking I saw a video just two days ago.

And the funniest thing is half of it was rubbish I would have done much better.

Cerberus

What was in the vidyo?

RegDwigнt

They said stupid things like "people in Europe stand this way, and people in the US stand completely differently". Which is not even necessarily wrong per se, but what the difference was, was complete and utter bullshit that is demonstrably false.

Gigili

@RegDwigнt You sounded like Casey Neistat there.

RegDwigнt

7:04 PM

Former CIA Chief Explains How Spies Use Disguises | WIRED

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Mitch

@RegDwigнt how they stand in the US is an abomination

Cerberus

Hah.

Mitch

all upright and two feet in the ground and stuff

absolutely terrible

RegDwigнt

That woman thinks that if I stand like such and such, people will think I'm American. And she was the fucking head of the fucking CIA.

Shit's hilarious.

That's what happens when you don't actually go visit other countries but sit in Podunk and dream up how everything else must be.

Explains the whole Cold War bullshit, really.

Mitch

Dreams are the truths we tell ourselves

TV and movies are biologically proven to replace our dreams

RegDwigнt

7:07 PM

You can sit on your ass in D.C. and think that Russia has killer robot dogs from Mars that are a threat to everything, or you can fly over to Moscow have a look around for two seconds and realize that that pseudo-country will collapse if not next week then tomorrow.

Same the other way round.

@Mitch only if you have aphantasia. Or are in Abhasia.

Cerberus

So why would Americans move utensils back and forth between hands?

That doesn't make sense?

I know Englishmen keep one hand on their lap at dinner when they're not using it, which is an abomination here if you're U.

The standing bit makes little sense. People naturally shift their weight between one leg and other other; they only tend to stand symmetrical when there are special reasons to do so.

Gigili

@Cerberus You're U? what's it mean?

Cerberus

Basically upperclass.

But in fact also upper middle class.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus yeah that's what I do when I'm alone and never when I'm not. Horrible Brits with no manners.

Cerberus

Right.

RegDwigнt

7:13 PM

Anyway, thing is, I could stand on both feet, and dress up like @Robusto, tutu and everything, and even quickly google what end of the flute the air goes in, but nobody, not for a second, would mistake me for an American.

Cerberus

Maybe if you grew some fat.

Mitch

@Cerberus where do U people put it? in their ear?

Cerberus

And learned the accent.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus Rob is slenderer than myself.

Cerberus

@Mitch On the table.

Mitch

7:14 PM

@Cerberus They grow that on fat farms

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Right, he's hopelessly fit.

RegDwigнt

See. So obviously he's not an American but a spy from Ghana.

Cerberus

God forbid you should walk the dangerous bridges across the Seine!

RegDwigнt

Says head of CIA.

Cerberus

Nobody ever does that, it's too dangerous.

Mitch

7:15 PM

@Cerberus There's barely enough room on the table with all the extra forks and spoons and glasses for water, glasses for wine, red wine, white wine, claret, and then a digestif.

and the fingerbowls! agh!

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Head of disguise of the CIA.

RegDwigнt

@Mitch easy fix: don't put the fucking clarinet on the fucking table.

@Cerberus yeah maybe that's the thing. She's only disguising as the head of the CIA.

Cerberus

@Mitch There is plenty of room. It is de rigueur. Outside England, it seems.

RegDwigнt

In reality she's the left buttcheek of MI6.

Cerberus

She is right that wearing big white gym shoes and baseball caps outs you as an American.

RegDwigнt

7:16 PM

Well yes and no.

Cerberus

And it's ugly anyway, so don't.

RegDwigнt

Which was my point earlier. If I dress that way, I'll still not pass.

Mitch

what else does one wear on ones head?

RegDwigнt

Hair.

Cerberus

She isn't making 100% claims.

RegDwigнt

7:18 PM

You've not heard of that in America.

Mitch

um... and if is, let's say, hair challenged, what does one wear then?

Cerberus

But she seems to ignore language, so far, which is the number-one give-away of everything.

RegDwigнt

@Mitch skin. Hence the term skinhead.

Cerberus

@Mitch Nothing? Or any kind of standard hat?

I also wonder why she is sitting on an uncomfortable stool.

RegDwigнt

David Mitchell's wand and top hat - Would I Lie to You? [HD] [CC-EN,FI]

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Mitch

7:19 PM

@RegDwigнt I've done that. rain tends to fall collect on the top then srip over the forehead into ones eyes.

also you have to get a German Shepard and those dogs eat everything

RegDwigнt

@Mitch that's why Europeans like to wear eyebrows.

One more thing to keep in mind when travelling.

Mitch

tattooed eyebrows don't count I'm guessing

RegDwigнt

Dunno, haven't tried.

Give it a go, report with the results.

Mitch

you should

Cerberus

Almost everything she's saying is common knowledge, I should think.

RegDwigнt

7:21 PM

@Cerberus duh. Only Europeans sit on comfortable stools.

Cerberus

Oh, is that it.

Mitch

they make the best stools

RegDwigнt

Stool is literally Russian for chair. Any chair. That's how comfortable European stools are.

Cerberus

In Dutch as well, stoel.

And probably German Stuhl.

RegDwigнt

Well that's where Russian got it from. And English, I suppose.

Mitch

7:23 PM

In Englsih, stool is a stool

Cerberus

So the commies probably got it from the krauts.

RegDwigнt

Peter the Great stole the stoel.

No not from the Krauts. Peter the Great. That's why every word in Russian that ain't French is Dutch.

Cerberus

Right.

RegDwigнt

From the Krauts Russian has exactly two things: "хендехох" and "хайль Гитлер".

Cerberus

I wonder what the commies used before they had stoelen.

They sat on the floor?

RegDwigнt

7:24 PM

Hay.

And straw.

Cerberus

Haha.

RegDwigнt

Wha, I'm not joking.

Cerberus

I presume the first word is three words?

Mitch

@Cerberus they stood up straight

RegDwigнt

I've lived in Russian villages. Things still that way even today. Hay and straw and a cow in the corner of your living room.

Cerberus

7:25 PM

@Mitch That's dangerous.

@RegDwigнt Lovely.

RegDwigнt

Inorite.

Fresh milk at all times.

Mitch

cheese?

Cerberus

Will Putin let Trump milk his cow when he visits?

RegDwigнt

Not like them stupid Turks whose milk has all gone off, so far are their cows removed from civilization.

And thems not even cows but mares.

Cerberus

Or does he shoo his cow into the troll factory.

Oh, it's groceries time!

RegDwigнt

7:27 PM

Well you know the saying. If the shoo fits, wear the cow to the troll factory.

And if you didn't, you know it now.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt I'll ask about that on ELU

No, I'll.

OK

In fact I've.

Link?

7:28 PM

But I'm not a native speaker and worded it all strange so it sounds like I'm asking about pizza.

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Q: How does the "Dalai Lama walks into a pizza shop..." joke work?

On YouTube, there's that famous joke the Dalai Lama didn't understand — and neither did I. It even made headlines in my part of the world, and on some of the sites I frequent, yet nobody ever bothered to explain it. I am at a loss. I suppose pretty much every non-native speaker will have trouble ...

ambiguity meaning-in-context jokes

Luckily @Cerberus right there answered it.

That is how I came to trust Cerberus.

He knows things.

Mitch

Cerb was in on the conspiracy

RegDwigнt

You know what they say. Keep your foes closer.

Mitch

Look too far into the abyss and you might fall in.

RegDwigнt

That's loser talk. Pros know that the only way to look real far into the abyss is by falling in.

Mitch

Pros know how to stand up straight

RegDwigнt

7:32 PM

Otherwise all you see is there's an abyss. Well thanks for nothing I could have stayed at home for that.

Mitch

and how to wear a hat

RegDwigнt

Pros also know all the tips. Contras never do. Not a one, like.

Mitch

Every good abyss is good in the same way. Every bad abyss gets fallen into in a different way.

RegDwigнt

All was confusion in the Oblonskys' house.

Gigili

So today I watched over a million youtube videos on how to get motivated and I still am unmotivated.

RegDwigнt

7:35 PM

Right guys. Excuse me for an hour or so while I do a couple more bars of the Titanic thingie.

@Gigili did you watch the one me and Jasper discussed?

Gigili

@RegDwigнt You playing piano? Or Jasper singing?

RegDwigнt

It's actually not about motivation at all, even though it's titled that way. But that's the thing, it's very motivational out of left field.

@Gigili ah no not our shit, someone else's advice.

Mitch

@Gigili you were very motivated to watch all that. It won't go on a resume but...

RegDwigнt

Finding Motivation

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That one.

Ayell bee buck!

Gigili

@Mitch Highly motivated actually, but then I found out Youtube sucks big time.

@RegDwigнt Oh, that one. tanks

Mitch

7:40 PM

as in it suck out a lot of time or that it sucks terribly? Yes to both surely

There are so things that are not terrible, like all the music. and some people make informational things that are ok

Robusto

@RegDwigнt I'm frequently confused with non-Americans. Tutu and all.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt It's so weird how my most popular answer on the entire SE network was to your question, and at the time I never even realised it was you who asked.

Mitch

In the US it is known to those who look at data that a small fraction of terrorist events in the US are foreign or 2nd gen (all proxies for Muslim). Is that the case in the UK or France?

> Between 1 September 2001 and 31 August 2012, there were 2,297
people arrested for terrorism related offences, of which 1,066 (46%)
self-declared to be Muslim. The remaining 54% were reported as being
of a different religion, of no religion, or were recorded as unknown.

so half and half.

in the US it's more like 5% muslim

Cerberus

7:59 PM

@Mitch Which country is this?

I suspect some of the remaining 54% were also related to Islam.

But a large number of them may be related to the extreme right.

And perpetrated against Muslims specifically.

Jasper

8:13 PM

I see you guys have been naughty while I was away.

Cerberus

What? We?

This doesn't happen.

Jasper

Just a select few.

Cerberus

It's not the noughties any more.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus I'm the silent benefactor like that. The invisible hand that feeds.

Cerberus

Heck, even the onesies are slipping away.

RegDwigнt

8:15 PM

When I'm at a party, everyone's dancing, and I'm in the kitchen washing the dishes. And it's not my party and not my dishes. But that's what I do.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Yes. But you, too, got all your reps from that page.

Jasper

I must remember that a viscacha is a rabbit and not a bat.

Cerberus

That's a novel way of gate-crashing.

RegDwigнt

I don't care for reps. I care that people have fresh clean dishes to eat from, and then a day later nobody even knows I was even there.

Jasper

I once ate food from the dustbin.

This is a true story.

RegDwigнt

8:17 PM

Jasper, you are saying things out loud again.

Jasper

But I cannot remember why now.

Cerberus

The question is, then, why you threw it into the bin in the first place.

RegDwigнt

Oh Cerberus it wasn't him who threw it there.

It wasn't his bin.

Cerberus

I see.

Jasper

Ah, I think it was the school canteen. Someone didn't finish his food, and it looked so nice, so I took a bit.

RegDwigнt

8:19 PM

See.

That's why I'm in the kitchen washing the dustbins. So once everyone is finished dancing and drinking, they can eat off the floor.

Jasper

Sometimes, food in the bin can be cleaner than food outside the bin.

Cerberus

Sure, it's fine.

RegDwigнt

Food is never clean. And God forbids you learn what's in your mouth.

Cerberus

My friend, who is a nurse, eats food other people left at their table at Mc Donald's.

Jasper

I ate food outside the bin and got food poisoning.

Cerberus

8:20 PM

At 3 AM.

Jasper

But the food in the bin did not give me food poisoning.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus now that's just disgusting. Nobody eats at McDonald's. Help your friend, you heartless bastard.

Cerberus

He says the worst diseases you could realistically get, from eating a normal stranger's food in a clean country, are mono, flu, cold.

RegDwigнt

Don't you have cheese in your country.

Cerberus

I didn't eat anything there. But he insisted.

Jasper

8:21 PM

It is very strange that I got food poisoning twice last year and twice this year. Previously I never had any incidents.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus yes that's what Klaus Nomi and Freddie Mercury thought, too.

Jasper

Has anyone here watched Halloween 2018 yet?

RegDwigнt

No.

Cerberus

I don't know Nomi, but I suspect Freddie did a little more than eat people's food.

RegDwigнt

Klaus Nomi - Total Eclipse 1981 Live Video HD

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Listen to that.

I will specifically leave the room such that you have to.

Cerberus

8:22 PM

Okay, then.

He looks healthy.

Jasper

The man in the video has a very white face.

Cerberus

Lovely countertenor.

@Jasper No racism in this room.

Jasper

Looks like the man on a particular brand of toothpaste.

I have not eaten McDonald's burgers for years. Don't look delicious to me.

Burger King is much better.

Cerberus

Speaking of Nomi, Noma is much better than Burger King.

Jasper

Maybe we can have a new fast food chain called Burger Queen.

Well, maybe the McDonald's burgers taste different depending on the country you buy them in.

I think my favourite McDonald's burger is the Big Mac.

And I eat it layer by layer.

Cerberus

8:30 PM

Makes sense.

Jasper

That way you get value for money. Makes you feel you ate a lot.

Poof.

RegDwigнt

8:43 PM

@Robusto see, when an American can't pass for an American, I cannot possibly pass for an American by becoming more American. Clearly that is not an approach that can work.

Mitch

@Cerberus UK

researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7613/…

@RegDwigнt wear a baseball cap. and stand the dreadful way those Americans stand, with their awful feet and awful torsos and backs.

ugh

@Jasper That is arguable, but of course you'd lose that argument. McDonald's does everything the Burger King does but better

@Jasper McDonalds's food hasn't changed taste in 60 years.

True fact

They are so consistent, you can go to the McDonalds in the jungles of central Africa and it'll taste the same. It might be made out of chickpeas and antelope but it will be identical

RegDwigнt

8:58 PM

@Mitch all solid advice, but there's still that tiny little problem. I'm not Blaxican.

Also, McDonald's is better than Burger King. For starters, you can have a veggie burger at McDonald's. Burger King said "fuck that" a decade ago. And all vegetarians said well, fuck you right back.

And now they wonder why there's a McDoof on every street corner in Germany, but not a single Burger King anywhere.

Gigili

9:32 PM

@Mitch Impossible. Each time I bake a cake, I follow the same recipe and I use the very same ingredients but I get a different taste and texture. I even stand at the same position next to the counter. The only difference I can think of is my hair bring loose or tied.

You can't get the same taste in a single place, let alone different places and different countries.

And by the way, @Cerb, you're forgiven.

Forgiven and free.

Gigili

10:05 PM

Go buy a house on a tree.

You can get help from Siri.

tchrist

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