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Dudebro posted:When people whose native language is not English and they speak English, it's often considered "sexy" sounding or attractive, e.g. people with French and Italian accents speaking English fluently or semi-fluently, or even not fluent at all. I've been told my nearly-fluent german sounds "cute," and they also think I sound like a Dutch person  (native language is english)
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Thanatosian posted:It's pretty broadly agreed upon that the oldest party in the world is the Democrats (i.e. the "Grand Ol' Party" is yet another Republican lie How is this defined?
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How much does it cost to tune a piano in the UK? I've got an upright piano that I don't think has been tuned in 25 years and it sounds... well, bad. The sustain pedal sounds like it's pressed down all the time and some keys just don't sound right - it's not so much that they're out of tune, but they don't sound like a piano. It'll need a lot of work if I'm ever going to play it again. (Is it even worth trying to tune, given that it was never a great piano and it hasn't been tuned in donkey's years?)
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photinus posted:How much does it cost to tune a piano in the UK? I've got an upright piano that I don't think has been tuned in 25 years and it sounds... well, bad. The sustain pedal sounds like it's pressed down all the time and some keys just don't sound right - it's not so much that they're out of tune, but they don't sound like a piano. It'll need a lot of work if I'm ever going to play it again. (Is it even worth trying to tune, given that it was never a great piano and it hasn't been tuned in donkey's years?) I've always seen prices around $100 per tuning session in the US, although that can vary based on how badly out of tune it is. A quick Google shows that the situation isn't too different in the UK, but that's of course assuming there isn't any other work that needs to be done. I'm far from a piano specialist, but it sounds like there could very well be some other damage. You could probably get someone to at least give you a quote for free or cheaply by looking up piano tuners in your area. If you can't find any (or don't know who to choose), maybe talk to someone at a local music conservatory. University music departments have quite a bit of need for piano maintenance services as you can imagine, and in the US, they'll either have someone on staff (who can at the very least recommend someone they know to be good) or an outside person/group of people who do most of the work. In order to be not worth restoring, it would have to either have been an exceptionally terrible piano in the first place or have sustained some serious structural damage.
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Geokinesis posted:How is this defined? The political parties in the U.S. are legally incorporated entities. They were informal coalitions for a while, until the formal creation of the Democratic Party in 1828. The first Democratic National Convention was in 1832 in Baltimore, Maryland. Note that the party is only called the "Democrat" Party by Republicans. They apparently think that it is an insult to get the name wrong or something.
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Every frozen yogurt place I've ever gone to (like three or four places, small smaple size) has been anime-themed. Like, the logo is always kawaii frozen yogurt cup, even at different chains. Is this common or do I go to weird frozen yogurt places?
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Geokinesis posted:How is this defined? To my knowledge, the only other party that could even really kinda sorta make the claim would be the UK's Conservative party, but it takes some pretty serious mental gymnastics to say that the guys supporting Pitt constituted the founding of the Conservative party, given that he was against formalized political parties at all.
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ThatPazuzu posted:Every frozen yogurt place I've ever gone to (like three or four places, small smaple size) has been anime-themed. Like, the logo is always kawaii frozen yogurt cup, even at different chains. Is this common or do I go to weird frozen yogurt places? If you're talking about the recent trend of "build your own frozen yogurt cup" places, I think it's because this trend originates in east asia, I think Taiwan? And a lot of the places are being opened by people from that area, and so it carries a lot of aesthetic influences from that area. Including totally kawaii logos.
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That must be it. Thanks. I just thought they were targeting a very specific demographic.
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ThatPazuzu posted:Every frozen yogurt place I've ever gone to (like three or four places, small smaple size) has been anime-themed. Like, the logo is always kawaii frozen yogurt cup, even at different chains. Is this common or do I go to weird frozen yogurt places? Unless bright and/or pastel colors = anime (god forbid) google image search for "frozen yogurt logo" is pretty anime-free for many pages. Do you have a few examples in mind.? Also where do you live?
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How is that Bing can use the Google logo and show bullshit "simulated" Google results in its commercials and not get sued?
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Noni posted:How is that Bing can use the Google logo and show bullshit "simulated" Google results in its commercials and not get sued? Fair Use of copyrights and trademarks allows comparisons to competitors in ads as long as it's not misleading. Back in the day some car ads would even include competing brand models explicitly, rather than the implicit manner mostly done now.
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randyest posted:Unless bright and/or pastel colors = anime (god forbid) google image search for "frozen yogurt logo" is pretty anime-free for many pages. Do you have a few examples in mind.? Also where do you live? Toppers is right by my house and it has very Kawaii frozen yogurt.  This isn't the only anime-like logo I've seen on frozen yogurt places. But I guess it's all just coincidence/I'm subconsciously seeking them out.
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photinus posted:How much does it cost to tune a piano in the UK? I've got an upright piano that I don't think has been tuned in 25 years and it sounds... well, bad. The sustain pedal sounds like it's pressed down all the time and some keys just don't sound right - it's not so much that they're out of tune, but they don't sound like a piano. It'll need a lot of work if I'm ever going to play it again. (Is it even worth trying to tune, given that it was never a great piano and it hasn't been tuned in donkey's years?) Penguissimo gave you some good advice, but I just wanted to mention that, if your piano hasn't been tuned in 25 years, it will likely need multiple tuning sessions to "bring it up to pitch". The strings can't handle the stress of being tuned up multiple semitones, so they will quickly fall out of tune again, snap, or even warp the soundboard if there's uneven pressure placed on it. Assuming everything but the tune is in working order (and based on what you said it probably needs some hammers replaced/realigned and possibly the dampener adjusted), the tune alone assuming three sessions should run you the equivalent of 250-300 US dollars. Replacing hammers isn't really that expensive in the long run, strings its really a crapshoot. Like he said, a reputable repairman will give you a free or very low cost estimate and you can go from there, but sight unseen I could see you easily spending $500 to get it back in tip top shape. That all said, at least here in the US uprights are a dime a dozen and you can't even seem to GIVE them away, so it's up to you to decide whether its worth repairing or not, because its not going to hold any sort of equity. And THAT said, nothing you're describing can't be fixed easily, so it's not like you would be wasting money on something that can't be fixed. Former piano mover/apprentice tuner here btw. I abandoned the trade when the shop I worked at closed down, but I know enough! RaoulDuke12 fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Jun 21, 2013 |
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ThatPazuzu posted:Toppers is right by my house and it has very Kawaii frozen yogurt. 
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randyest posted:Maybe I'm desensitized (and I hate all anime) but that just looks like a cutified big-eye thing. Please don't tell me all big eye things are now anime I agree. Those eyes could just as easily have been pulled from pop/commercial art from the US in the 50's or 60's.
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48 24 20 10 6 3 What comes next? Not a homework help question, just can't figure out the answer to this.
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I guess it's just me then. I showed my friends pictures of it and they agreed that it was pretty anime but maybe they were being polite.  Xandu posted:48 24 20 10 6 3 Negative one. The pattern is divide in half, then minus four, then divide in half, then minus four and so on. ThatPazuzu fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Jun 21, 2013 |
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Xandu posted:48 24 20 10 6 3 48 / 2 = 24 24 - 4 = 20 20 / 2 = 10 10 - 4 = 6 6 / 2 = 3 3 - 4 = -1 e:f;b
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What comes next is that the Swan implodes and it turns out they were dead all along.
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What about .5 .1 .3 1.2 6 36 edit: \/\/\/\/ thanks, apparently I suck at this specific type of question
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Xandu posted:What about .5 .1 .3 1.2 6 36 If that's supposed to be 0.05 then it's *2, *3, *4, *5...
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ThatPazuzu posted:But I guess it's all just coincidence/I'm subconsciously seeking them out. It could also be a case of lesser yogurt parlors trying to mimic the logos of more popular places.
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I hear the word "towards" pronounced more like "tords" and less like uh... how it's spelled, I guess, which is how I say it. I'm no linguist. Is this a regional difference? I've heard it both ways.
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It sounds like tords to me and I'm not even sure how else you would pronounce towards. There are literally dozens of words with minor regional variations in pronunciations like this. There was a good thread about this a few years ago in GBS.
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:I hear the word "towards" pronounced more like "tords" and less like uh... how it's spelled, I guess, which is how I say it. I'm no linguist. Definitely a regional thing, in SE Pennsylvania it's "twords". Or, it is around here at least.
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South-central PA, to'ardz.
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Rhode Island, Drizz't Do'Urden
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Oof I did not mean to start a pronunciation derail, sorry
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If I went back in time and changed my past, then back to the future where there were now 2 of me, what would be the best course of action for my now displaced self? Try to buy a fake id, win big money off the stock market and move to the west coast? I can't imagine creating a new identity, especially when you have a fully documented identical double, would be easy.
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change my name posted:If I went back in time and changed my past, then back to the future where there were now 2 of me, what would be the best course of action for my now displaced self? Try to buy a fake id, win big money off the stock market and move to the west coast? I can't imagine creating a new identity, especially when you have a fully documented identical double, would be easy. Mortal Kombat is the only option.
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Xandu posted:It sounds like tords to me and I'm not even sure how else you would pronounce towards. Two syllables. To-ords, tuh-wards. change my name posted:If I went back in time and changed my past, then back to the future where there were now 2 of me, what would be the best course of action for my now displaced self? Try to buy a fake id, win big money off the stock market and move to the west coast? I can't imagine creating a new identity, especially when you have a fully documented identical double, would be easy. Can you meet up with yourself or will that cause problems? If you can, you can just share a single identity. Some of the people who know you are going to notice that there are two of you now, so you'll need to explain that, but you should be able to keep that to minimum if you're careful, and since all your identifying documents will still match you you'll be able to use them fine. And if you're ever caught you can show pretty compelling evidence that you're not committing fraud, because even identical twins don't have identical fingerprints but the two yous will. If you want to keep the time travel secret (maybe it doesn't exist in the new timeline?) then you can just say that you suddenly found yourself duplicated and don't know how it happened. Who's going to contradict you and how would they prove it? The more important question is what you do when you meet yourself.
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syscall girl posted:I agree. Those eyes could just as easily have been pulled from pop/commercial art from the US in the 50's or 60's. Well the anime big eyes style came from Disney,
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What's the most successful film not released in theaters?
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FCKGW posted:What's the most successful film not released in theaters? I'd bet it was one of the Disney straight to video sequels, like Aladdin 2 or Lion King 2.
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FCKGW posted:What's the most successful film not released in theaters? I know that Boondock Saints was only shown on five screens for one week because it came so soon after the Columbine massacre, only becoming a hit when it was released on DVD. Would that count?
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randyest posted:Maybe I'm desensitized (and I hate all anime) but that just looks like a cutified big-eye thing. Please don't tell me all big eye things are now anime
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