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And that sports and portable have something to do with each other etymologically. Pyeuh.
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I picked up a random episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast because I'm running out of poo poo to listen to. Two hours in I realize, oh hey that's the Fear Factor guy. 
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Dec 8, 2015 09:10
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Do you listen to the Richard Herring Leicester Square Theatre Podcast? You should.
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Dec 8, 2015 09:36
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I just figured out that "up to 15% or more" basically means nothing.
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Dec 8, 2015 10:15
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Xun posted:I just figured out that "up to 15% or more" basically means nothing. It's not the "up to" that's meaningless, it's the part where they say it's only among people who switched to geicko. Since, obviously, if they were quoted a higher price then they didn't switch.
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Dec 8, 2015 10:35
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Wanamingo posted:It's not the "up to" that's meaningless, it's the part where they say it's only among people who switched to geicko. The "up to" isn't meaningless on its own, the whole phrase including it is. "Up to 15%" means 0-15, and "15% or more" means 15-100, so "up to 15% or more" means a saving of 0%-100%, or any goddamn amount whatsoever.
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Dec 8, 2015 10:42
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AlphaKretin posted:The "up to" isn't meaningless on its own, the whole phrase including it is. "Up to 15%" means 0-15, and "15% or more" means 15-100, so "up to 15% or more" means a saving of 0%-100%, or any goddamn amount whatsoever. With geicko at least, which I assume is what Xun was referring to, they don't even say "up to". Their slogan is that 15 minutes could save you 15% or more, which sounds better but still doesn't mean much because they're only counting people who switched.
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Dec 8, 2015 11:02
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Wanamingo posted:With geicko at least, which I assume is what Xun was referring to, they don't even say "up to". Their slogan is that 15 minutes could save you 15% or more, which sounds better but still doesn't mean much because they're only counting people who switched. Also, making it hypothetical (it "could save you 15%") means they're not saying it will, so it only has to be true for someone who switches from their worst competitor's worst option to their best one.
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Ironicism posted:I picked up a random episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast because I'm running out of poo poo to listen to. Two hours in I realize, oh hey that's the NewsRadio guy.
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Dec 8, 2015 15:39
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For Navy/navigate guy, Wikipedia says: Navigation: "The term stems from 1530s, from Latin navigationem (nom. navigatio), from navigatus, pp. of navigare "to sail, sail over, go by sea, steer a ship," from navis "ship" and the root of agere "to drive"." Navy: First attested in English in the early 14th century,[1] the word "navy" came via Old French navie, "fleet of ships", from the Latin navigium, "a vessel, a ship, bark, boat",[2] from navis, "ship".[3] The word "naval" came from Latin navalis, "pertaining to ship";[4] cf. Greek ναῦς (naus), "ship",[5] ναύτης (nautes), "seaman, sailor".[6] The earliest attested form of the word is in the Mycenaean Greek compound word 𐀙𐀄𐀈𐀗, na-u-do-mo (*naudomoi), "shipbuilders", written in Linear B syllabic script." So I guess there might be some similarities?
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:Do you listen to the Richard Herring Leicester Square Theatre Podcast? You should. I haven't, but it's going on my list 
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It's "Immortan Joe", not (with an Ozzy accent) "Me mornin' Joe!" (coffee)  ArcMage posted:Transparent alumina is just sapphires and such, and we were definitely working on the engineered ceramics at the time, though we sure as hell weren't building whale tanks from them. Actually, it's slightly different. 1.) This isn't sapphire/corundum (Aluminum oxide, which companies can't even use for phone screens still), this is the real deal; used in bullet proof glass (it's the same material mentioned in Jurassic World, in that lovely Jimmy Fallon bit).
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Dec 9, 2015 18:05
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Mister Macys posted:It's "Immortan Joe", not (with an Ozzy accent) "Me mornin' Joe!" (coffee) Also, it's Aussie, not Ozzy. Unless you mean a Brummie accent.
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Dec 9, 2015 18:10
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Bad Roy posted:Also, it's Aussie, not Ozzy. Unless you mean a Brummie accent. An Ozzy accent would be an incoherent mumble punctuated with profanity.
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nexus6 posted:An Ozzy accent would be an incoherent mumble punctuated with profanity. This is coincidentally also an Aussie accent 
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Holy crap In Malcolm in the Middle all of the boys except Francis are some sort of geniuses (Reese in cooking, Malcolm in most things, Dewey in music, Jamie in general). Lot of fun is being poked about Hal's obsession about crazy things in every other episode, but what I have missed thus far is that ultimately, he is loving amazing in whatever he takes up, be it building a robot, Dance Dance Revolution, painting, rollerblading, powerwalking, etc. Hal is a genius! They get it from Hal! (Except Francis who is painfully, obviously, his mother in a disturbingly Freudian way) Also the kids are all sociopaths pretty much since birth and Hal and Lois were a genuinely perfect, loving couple before they came into the picture and despite all the obstacles their children put in their way manage to stay as such. DarkCrawler has a new favorite as of 21:36 on Dec 9, 2015 |
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Dec 9, 2015 21:34
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A case could be made that Francis is a genius at reading people. He used it mostly to antagonize everyone, especially Lois, until he got married.
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Dec 9, 2015 22:55
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Skaw posted:A case could be made that Francis is a genius at reading people. He used it mostly to antagonize everyone, especially Lois, until he got married. He's anti-Lois, they both are just at their most natural when they buck against somebody - for Francis, primarily Lois and any authority figure, for Lois her children and any authority figure that disagreed with her on anything. And he kept antagonizing Lois pretty routinely after getting married too The true genius with people is also Dewey though. Francis honestly wins on being the worst of them all though. DarkCrawler has a new favorite as of 23:27 on Dec 9, 2015 |
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Dec 9, 2015 23:25
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Yeah, he kept antagonizing Lois after he got married, but he let up on everyone else. They do eventually bury the hatchet though in that episode where both of them have to deal with taking care of Lois' mom. I still maintain that Francis was a genius with people. Dewey just managed to eke out some empathy for others leading in to his teen years, which made him a natural leader for the troubled kids in his class. He didn't really use those kids for his own personal gain, which Francis would've at the drop of a hat. Man, I miss Malcom in the Middle. Skaw has a new favorite as of 23:53 on Dec 9, 2015 |
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Dec 9, 2015 23:50
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Complacent and Complaisant are both real words that each mean a different thing. I learned that when I called someone a giant idiot for writing 'complaisant'.
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Skaw posted:Yeah, he kept antagonizing Lois after he got married, but he let up on everyone else. They do eventually bury the hatchet though in that episode where both of them have to deal with taking care of Lois' mom. I still maintain that Francis was a genius with people. Dewey just managed to eke out some empathy for others leading in to his teen years, which made him a natural leader for the troubled kids in his class. He didn't really use those kids for his own personal gain, which Francis would've at the drop of a hat. Dewey had the most developed conscience of any of them, but he played his family and bystanders like a fiddle, Francis included. He just never targeted anyone who didn't deserve it. More often then not Francis got the poo poo-end of the stick when he tried to play someone (almost all his sub-plots eventually end with him suffering) while Dewey almost always coasted through. (And I don't think they really bury the hatchet for good. In the finale Francis is still pretending to be a slacker just to torture his mom) Definitely one of the most underrated shows ever. Kind of a semi-SFW proto-Shameless. Really one of the few shows I watched as a child that made it clear that you definitely shouldn't sympathize with the protagonists (but you did because you were a kid). DarkCrawler has a new favorite as of 00:35 on Dec 10, 2015 |
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"Compound" meaning (roughly) "a group of things gathered together" and "compound" meaning "a protected group of buildings" are apparently not the same word (the latter seems to come from Malay, not Latin). (This is "found out", not "figured out", it just took me a little by surprise.  )
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Dec 10, 2015 00:38
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Wanamingo posted:Stolen from somebody in DnD Huh, so that's why the nationalists are always waving the St. George's Cross. I should probably be ashamed that I didn't know it was the flag of England but eh.
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The worst Star Trek: TNG episodes were the ones with Deanna Troi's mother. There were so drat many of them, I didn't get it. But I just realized that that actor played Nurse Chapel in the original series.  It make so much more sense now.
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Captain Lavender posted:The worst Star Trek: TNG episodes were the ones with Deanna Troi's mother. There were so drat many of them, I didn't get it. And she was also creator Gene Roddenberry's wife.
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Stairs posted:And she was also creator Gene Roddenberry's wife. Well poo poo. It now finally, finally makes sense.
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Captain Lavender posted:The worst Star Trek: TNG episodes were the ones with Deanna Troi's mother. Lwaxana Troi was great. The worst episodes were the Borg ones, 
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Captain Lavender posted:Well poo poo. It now finally, finally makes sense. She was also the voice of the computer and returned as Lwaxana (idk) for some terrible DS9 episodes. It kinda made me wonder if she had something on paramount or desilu or her dead husband. Like Mrs. Olsen from Little House just rocketed in to Space Journey and started sucking.
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Tiggum posted:Lwaxana Troi was great. The worst episodes were the Borg ones, Stop sucking up to Ralp
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Dec 10, 2015 03:46
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Tiggum posted:Lwaxana Troi was great. The worst episodes were the Borg ones, Oh, bullshit. Next you're going to tell me that Wesley Crusher isn't a terrible character.
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Wanamingo posted:Oh, bullshit. Next you're going to tell me that Wesley Crusher isn't a terrible character. No, he was terrible. His mother too. I wish they'd kept Dr Pulaski.
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Dec 10, 2015 06:01
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Wanamingo posted:Oh, bullshit. Next you're going to tell me that Wesley Crusher isn't a terrible character. That boy is an inspiration.
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I grew up watching Star Trek: The One with Data and was well into my teens before I realized that he was a robot not a space albino
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There's an episode of Always Sunny where Frank and his brother are telling a story of their youth wherein they are competing for the affections of a beautiful singer. When they first say her name it's so absurdly elegant to the ears that I didn't realize that it was in fact an incredibly crass name for a black woman. Sha-Dynasty is actually Shady Nasty
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Dec 10, 2015 16:42
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Wanamingo posted:Stolen from somebody in DnD Needs a dragon on top.
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speshl guy posted:There's an episode of Always Sunny where Frank and his brother are telling a story of their youth wherein they are competing for the affections of a beautiful singer. When they first say her name it's so absurdly elegant to the ears that I didn't realize that it was in fact an incredibly crass name for a black woman. So the part where the bar was named "Shadynasty's" didn't clue you in?
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The Mentalizer posted:So the part where the bar was named "Shadynasty's" didn't clue you in? Yeah my brain basically processed the written version how everyone was saying it in the show "Oh yeah okay so that place is called Sha-Dynasty's too"
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Dec 10, 2015 20:04
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speshl guy posted:Yeah my brain basically processed the written version how everyone was saying it in the show And when they outright point it out in the scene with the bar?
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A guy in the episode literally says "Why is the bar called Shady Nasty's?"
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