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Sappo569 posted:Did anyone see my UPS question? You spun the wheel of fortune and got a crappy UPS agent. Hang up, call back, spin again. If they have your phone number and can call you, they can look you up by phone number. If they want to. Make them want to.
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Sappo569 posted:Did anyone see my UPS question? Sign up for UPS my choice, if you input your address it'll email you about incoming packages.
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Jul 27, 2014 17:08
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photomikey posted:You spun the wheel of fortune and got a crappy UPS agent. Hang up, call back, spin again. Ha thanks, that's what I said to the lady too "Someone called me, so you must have my phone number associated to a package right?" Durrrr
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Jul 27, 2014 17:35
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Baldbeard posted:Would you say, "It's about time bakers baked more food" rather than "....bake more food" though? To be grammatical, "that" should be inserted before bakers, but either is correct depending on context. Baked would refer to a general sense, and bake to a more specific sense. "Oh poo poo, we're out of bread and the evening rush of customers will be here soon, it's about time that the bakers bake more food!" I'd be hard pressed to specifically detail the differences but in my mind those two versions have different connotations and usage.
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Jul 27, 2014 17:48
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Is there a way to set document defaults in Google Drive? I'm tired of setting number formats every time I make a new spreadsheet or new rows within a spreadsheet.
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Jul 27, 2014 18:27
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I recently discovered an unsanitary condition in my bathroom. Tiny white and black pillbugs have infested my bathroom sink. I just cleaned the sink itself two days ago with Oxiclean and a sponge, but the bugs appear unphased. I just had to rinse off my electric razor because it was crawling with these loving bugs. What do I do? I have cat roommate, so any chemicals I employ need to be safe for him. Edit: I checked my kitchen sink. No bugs. They're only in the bathroom. Raimundus fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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Jul 27, 2014 19:15
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Raimundus posted:
Diatomaceous earth, it cuts bugs exoskeletons to shreds, which dries them out, and won't hurt anything with skin.
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Jul 27, 2014 19:38
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Raimundus posted:I recently discovered an unsanitary condition in my bathroom. What do you mean by sink? Like the whole cabinet/counter or just the basin where water sits? Try emptying out your counter and finding what they're eating or where they're coming from. If it's not down there, just pour a few litres of boiling water down the drain (don't forget the overflow) and see if it helps.
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Jul 27, 2014 19:38
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I'm trying to create a facebook page for a local artist. The setup page has a question: "Is _____ a real celebrity or famous person? This will help people find this celebrity or famous person more easily on Facebook." Is that asking if the person is a real person, or is it asking if the person is genuinely famous? I was presuming the latter, but now I'm not so sure.
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Jul 27, 2014 19:44
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Aggressive pricing posted:Diatomaceous earth, it cuts bugs exoskeletons to shreds, which dries them out, and won't hurt anything with skin. This sounds promising. I'll pick some up later when I'm out. tuyop posted:What do you mean by sink? Like the whole cabinet/counter or just the basin where water sits? They're mostly in the basin (which includes the tiny countertop), and crawling all over everything on it. I'm wondering if I need to replace my toothbrush... 
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Jul 27, 2014 19:45
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Yes, you do.
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Jul 27, 2014 20:05
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Baldbeard posted:Would you say, "It's about time bakers baked more food" rather than "....bake more food" though? Since other languages actually make this distinction, and English does not, here's a different word to use for "past tense": "completed tense". That makes such structures easier to make sense of, maybe.
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Jul 27, 2014 21:28
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pupdive posted:Since other languages actually make this distinction, and English does not, here's a different word to use for "past tense": "completed tense". English has the subjunctive mood, it is just that most people never learn about it because it is almost identical to the indicative mood. This is an odd example, since "It's about time..." is not a typical set-up phrase for the use of the subjunctive. Basically, Balbeard is saying "It is important that the bakers bake more bread." The subjunctive is kinda weird because there are some (a bunch of) nuances. Check out the Wikipedia article if you want to read more.
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Vegetable posted:Are there any consequences to ripping out a kid's shaky baby tooth or should you bring them to the dentist?
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Jul 27, 2014 22:10
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Baldbeard posted:Would you say, "It's about time bakers baked more food" rather than "....bake more food" though? This is the same use of the past (because we don't have a distinct subjunctive) that you see in structures like "if I were you" and "I wish I was/were rich". It's not a real present situation, so we use the past to talk about it. "It's about time I got a haircut" means your hair is a mess. "It's about time for my haircut" or "it's about time to eat" are just describing reality. Ed: so in your examples, if you think the bakers are lazy, you'd say "it's time they baked more bread." If they need to start again after their break you'd say "it's time for them to bake more bread." greazeball fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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Jul 27, 2014 22:23
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Mak0rz posted:Is there a way to set document defaults in Google Drive? I'm tired of setting number formats every time I make a new spreadsheet or new rows within a spreadsheet.
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Jul 28, 2014 00:21
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Thanatosian posted:It looks like you can create a template. Have you tried using that? Yeah, but it's not exactly what I'm looking for. What I want is a sort of "master" setting that will apply to all new documents, like you can do with Microsoft Office applications.
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greazeball posted:This is the same use of the past (because we don't have a distinct subjunctive) that you see in structures like "if I were you" and "I wish I was/were rich". It's not a real present situation, so we use the past to talk about it. "It's about time I got a haircut" means your hair is a mess. "It's about time for my haircut" or "it's about time to eat" are just describing reality. You are correct that English does not have a distinct subjunctive conjugation for anything other than the verb 'to be'. This fact does not change the use of the subjunctive. "It's about time I got a haircut" may be acceptable in a spoken context, but it is not grammatically correct. "It is about time I get a haircut" is the proper usage. The subjunctive in English is always used with the infinitive verb with the 'to' in front of it removed, regardless of when it happens. If you want to explain when certain events occur relative to your main verb, it is almost always better to completely change your sentence. In English, the subjunctive does not imply any tense, as they are all the same conjugation. 'My hair is a mess, so I need a haircut' is clearer than 'It's about time I got a haircut' If you insist on using the incorrect conjugation of subjunctive verbs, that is fine by me. However, it is not grammatically correct.
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the posted:I'm trying to create a facebook page for a local artist. The setup page has a question: "Is _____ a real celebrity or famous person?
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Jul 28, 2014 04:22
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Can anyone point me to some research that are pro-vaccines? Preferably Canadian sources that are within the last year. I have learned that apparently my boyfriend is anti-vax and does not want our newborn to get her routine vaccinations and I need some articles to link to him. Sigh. (I'm taking her, btw, this is one thing I'm not letting him have a choice in.)
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Jul 28, 2014 04:57
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Er, if he's doing that he's just going to say everything you show him is lies. Research that is pro-vaccine is literally all good research on vaccines in the history of forever. You may find this page, and this site in general useful though http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/reference/vaccines-and-autism/
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Oddly enough he hasn't jumped on the Vaccines = Autism thing, I think he's just confused about what vaccines actually DO and what they are. He didn't seem to mind (or just kept his mouth shut) when I got my MMR vaccine after the birth of our daughter. Thank you for the link 
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Emily A. Stanton posted:Can anyone point me to some research that are pro-vaccines? Preferably Canadian sources that are within the last year. I have learned that apparently my boyfriend is anti-vax and does not want our newborn to get her routine vaccinations and I need some articles to link to him. Why does he want Canadian sources though? Does he think the efficacy of vaccines are affected by northerly latitude or socialized medicine?
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Aggressive pricing posted:Diatomaceous earth, it cuts bugs exoskeletons to shreds, which dries them out, and won't hurt anything with skin. Does this work on cockroaches? Just wondering.
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FrozenVent posted:Why does he want Canadian sources though? Does he think the efficacy of vaccines are affected by northerly latitude or socialized medicine? Well we are Canadian and he mentioned something about a lawsuit currently happening here against Vaccines or something to that effect that I honestly can't find info on, so I'm not sure what it's about.
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I feel like you have a very uphill argument ahead of you.
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TATPants posted:You are correct that English does not have a distinct subjunctive conjugation for anything other than the verb 'to be'. This fact does not change the use of the subjunctive. "It's about time I got a haircut" may be acceptable in a spoken context, but it is not grammatically correct. "It is about time I get a haircut" is the proper usage. The subjunctive in English is always used with the infinitive verb with the 'to' in front of it removed, regardless of when it happens. If I was a prescriptivist grammarian, I would try harder. But as it is, the correct conjugation of subjunctives is something that is rapidly fading from everyday use so I seldom use the word "subjunctive" in a class. I only use it here to tie what I was saying to what you were saying. "Proper usage" depends so much on the context of use that a more useful concept for learners is "common usage". Soon, hopefully (because there's rarely any communication problems between native speakers regardless of how they conjugate their subjunctives), we won't even talk about it at all. So it might be about time you found a new hobby! 
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Nintendo Kid posted:Er, if he's doing that he's just going to say everything you show him is lies. Research that is pro-vaccine is literally all good research on vaccines in the history of forever. I think you can even remove the word "good" from that second sentence and it would still be true. All research, ever. quote:In 2011, Andrew Wakefield, a leading proponent of one of the main controversies regarding a purported link between autism and vaccines, was found to have been financially motivated to falsify research data and was subsequently stripped of his medical license. When the "research" is found to be so fraudulent that the author was stripped of his medical license in response, it's not really fair to use the word research. It is straight up venal fraud for profit. In terms of human cost, no different than killing for profit. quote:The claims in Wakefield's 1998 The Lancet article were widely reported; vaccination rates in the UK and Ireland dropped sharply, which was followed by significantly increased incidence of measles and mumps, resulting in deaths and severe and permanent injuries. Physicians, medical journals, and editors have described Wakefield's actions as fraudulent and tied them to epidemics and deaths, and a 2011 journal article described the vaccine-autism connection as "the most damaging medical hoax of the last 100 years" That is saying something given the last 100 years. The suffering caused by this one man's greed and fraud is unbelievable. Even given the real side effects from some vaccinations, the huge advances in public health simply do not exist without widespread vaccination programs. In the times of our grandparents, polio was simply a fact of life. It is simply unheard of today. Smallpox has become a scareword for terrorism because it has simply been as good as eradicated.
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^ Mind you, this is just the most damaging "medical hoax". How many of those could there have been in the last century? ^Emily A. Stanton posted:Well we are Canadian and he mentioned something about a lawsuit currently happening here against Vaccines or something to that effect that I honestly can't find info on, so I'm not sure what it's about. Why is it your responsibility to find information about someone else's arguments? Seems like you've done your due diligence -- ask where he heard the story.
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Grundulum posted:^ Mind you, this is just the most damaging "medical hoax". How many of those could there have been in the last century?    And countless others. 99% of weight loss products. Some early mental illness treatments. Misinformation about breast milk/formula. Vitamin crazes and other "drastically life prolonging" methods.
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pupdive posted:I think you can even remove the word "good" from that second sentence and it would still be true. To clarify. Wakefield made up a whole bunch of bullshit statistics about how all those existing vaccines cause Autism. But he had financial interests in a competing new vaccine without all the Autism chemicals, so you should totally insist on getting his whole new entirely non-Autism causing MMR vaccines. Wakefield wasn't anti-vaccine, he was just trying to scare people away from his competitors vaccine in the most horrific possible way. Wakefield wanted people to get vaccinated, but he also wanted a cut of that sweet, sweet vaccine money. If Wakefield showed up as a James Bond villain, he would be dismissed as an over the top villain. Surely nobody could be that evil. thrakkorzog fucked around with this message at 10:10 on Jul 28, 2014 |
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Are there any American comedy panel shows (like QI, Spicks & Specks, etc.)? It just occurred to me today that I watch tons of these sort of shows but the only ones I'm aware of are Australian or British. It seems like with as much TV as America makes there should be a few American versions of these shows, but I've never seen or heard of them.
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Tiggum posted:Are there any American comedy panel shows (like QI, Spicks & Specks, etc.)? It just occurred to me today that I watch tons of these sort of shows but the only ones I'm aware of are Australian or British. It seems like with as much TV as America makes there should be a few American versions of these shows, but I've never seen or heard of them. Not really. Hollywood Squares would probably be the closest American equivalent, but it's been off the air for a decade. thrakkorzog fucked around with this message at 10:42 on Jul 28, 2014 |
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thrakkorzog posted:Not really. Hollywood Squares would probably be the closest American equivalent, but it's been off the air for a decade. Whose Line Is It Anyways? It has its roots in England though so it's not purely American.
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Tiggum posted:Are there any American comedy panel shows (like QI, Spicks & Specks, etc.)? It just occurred to me today that I watch tons of these sort of shows but the only ones I'm aware of are Australian or British. It seems like with as much TV as America makes there should be a few American versions of these shows, but I've never seen or heard of them. @midnight is probably as close as you'll get. Radio has more options, like Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and Says You. Plus there's tons of podcasts. But I'm with you, brother. Pickings are slim.
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Emily A. Stanton posted:Well we are Canadian and he mentioned something about a lawsuit currently happening here against Vaccines or something to that effect that I honestly can't find info on, so I'm not sure what it's about. If you're interested in coming off as slightly less combative, this medical history podcast is fun and lays it out plainly in their "vaccines" episode: http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/sawbones Most of their topics are explicitly chosen to be non controversial (to laypeople), but they made an exception for vaccines because they're just that important.
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So I've got an antennae to get those digital over the air channels on my HDTV. What's weird is that I get my standard network channels, but I also get these "sub" channels. So NBC is on channel 17. Normally (back in the days when I was a kid and had antennae TV), I'd expect that to be on channel 17. However, I get that on "17-1." And I also have a 17-2 and 17-3, which are different channels. Why are things arranged like that? Are those just other channels broadcasted by the NBC affiliate?
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I was visiting a friend and while I was there he had some other friends over, now these other friends aren't from a small village like us, they're from a big place, like london. What is critical to the story and I haven't mentioned it yet is that they are black. So we had a good time hanging out and stuff, I was hoping we'd go to bonertown but we didn't, anyway after a while we're hungry and they insisted that we eat fried chicken. Did they do this because they suspect I'm some kind of racist and were baiting me into revealing a racist nature? I'm not Bowser and would never say the N word.
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the posted:So I've got an antennae to get those digital over the air channels on my HDTV. If you just have one it's an antenna, not antennae.
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Tiggum posted:Are there any American comedy panel shows (like QI, Spicks & Specks, etc.)? It just occurred to me today that I watch tons of these sort of shows but the only ones I'm aware of are Australian or British. It seems like with as much TV as America makes there should be a few American versions of these shows, but I've never seen or heard of them. I've read that the idea has been explored by production companies, but the belief is that Americans simply won't go for a "quiz" show like this where nobody cares about actually winning.
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