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Subjunctive posted:If it helps for future tellings of the story, “fiancée” is feminine and “fiancé” is masculine. poo poo. English is hard. Sorry.
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theHUNGERian posted:poo poo. English is hard. Sorry. Imported French words, putting genders on good American non-gendered words.
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Jun 18, 2018 01:50
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Subjunctive posted:If it helps for future tellings of the story, “fiancée” is feminine and “fiancé” is masculine. I didn't know this factoid and probably most english speakers don't either. Also they're apparently even pronounced the same, so lol
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Jun 18, 2018 01:55
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BMan posted:I didn't know this factoid and probably most english speakers don't either. Also they're apparently even pronounced the same, so lol How do you feel about blonde and blond? (That is weirder, I admit.)
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Jun 18, 2018 01:57
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I say we bring out another french invention, the guillotine
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Jun 18, 2018 01:58
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BMan posted:I say we bring out another french invention, the guillotine Not a French invention!
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Jun 18, 2018 02:00
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guillotine, guillotin we're all deffo pretty far ahead in line for it in this here thread (german-french)
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BMan posted:I didn't know this factoid and probably most english speakers don't either. Also they're apparently even pronounced the same, so lol Factoid means "false fact", not "small fact". Factoids are untrue by definition. For example, "you only use 10% of your brain". 
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Jun 18, 2018 07:58
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BMan posted:I say we bring out another french invention, the guillotine Guillotinée
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Jun 18, 2018 08:18
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Guillotinée Oh so you're going to assume its gender now, are you.
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Jun 18, 2018 10:03
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Devian666 posted:Especially if you have a horse dick, then you need to get the lumps of smegma out of your dick eye so you can piss. I have to wonder how horses survive in the wild, but iirc racehorses are basically the purebred genetic disaster dogs of the horse world.
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Jun 18, 2018 10:17
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I have to wonder how horses survive in the wild, but iirc racehorses are basically the purebred genetic disaster dogs of the horse world. They probably don't (survive in the wild). Feral animals usually live about half as long as their domesticated versions. Go out to the Great Plains and there's probably loads of miserable horses suffering from smegma related illnesses.
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Jun 18, 2018 12:01
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Guillotinée Half price tickets if you go before noon! 
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Jun 18, 2018 12:59
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Krispy Wafer posted:They probably don't (survive in the wild). Feral animals usually live about half as long as their domesticated versions. They're doing just fine in the outer banks. But of course they aren't selectively inbred and don't have access to molasses-covered grains that can literally kill them if they eat too much and aren't (prey animals) stuck inside of an artificial enclosure (which is what leads to a lot of injury-causing freak outs).
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Jun 18, 2018 13:10
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Morholt posted:Factoid means "false fact", not "small fact". Factoids are untrue by definition. For example, "you only use 10% of your brain". "Factoid means a false fact" is a factoid in that sense, and the Oxford dictionary gives both the definitions of "false fact" and "small fact". "Small fact" is particularly common and perhaps the more common usage in American English. It's possible even that the most common usage of the "false fact" definition is when incorrectly correcting others using the "small fact" definition.
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Jun 18, 2018 14:22
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There's a population of feral horses on Cumberland Island (GA) that's loving miserable and infected with all sorts of parasites and diseases, and apparently they even suffer from over-consumption of sand. Wildlife managers want to cull the herd, but the public is horrified by the idea, so they just continue to live their lovely short lives on the island so that people can take instagram photos of them.
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:"Factoid means a false fact" is a factoid in that sense, and the Oxford dictionary gives both the definitions of "false fact" and "small fact". "Small fact" is particularly common and perhaps the more common usage in American English. It's possible even that the most common usage of the "false fact" definition is when incorrectly correcting others using the "small fact" definition. Next you're going to be telling me that inflammable and flammable don't mean different things.
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Jun 18, 2018 14:37
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Fitzy Fitz posted:There's a population of feral horses on Cumberland Island (GA) that's loving miserable and infected with all sorts of parasites and diseases, and apparently they even suffer from over-consumption of sand. Wildlife managers want to cull the herd, but the public is horrified by the idea, so they just continue to live their lovely short lives on the island so that people can take instagram photos of them. This seems like a factoid.
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Jun 18, 2018 14:38
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Either usage of factoid is perfectly cromulent.
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I don't really think that we have any wild horses as such left in the world; there are horses that exist without caretakers, but I believe they're all simply the descendants of escaped domestics (like the 'wild' mustangs in the US). Having said that, there are domestic horse varieties that are sturdier and less disaster prone than race or show breeds - basically those used for work and those that are relatively old stock. The better we get at keeping horses alive and stopping them from killing themselves, the more we're able to refine them for specific, non-life-saving, traits. Kind of like pugs, which are only really an existing breed because we no longer expect some dogs to do anything besides focus entirely on continuing to breathe. They're a mess, but they are also a dead limb on the family tree which includes many more healthy branches like working dogs. If you want an idea of what a wild horse would be like, it's probably similar to the still-existing wild relatives, which are asses and zebras. Both of them are generally hardier, smaller, and stocky. Modern horses are basically only sustainable because we support them.
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Donkeys are great animals. The world should have more donkeys.
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Elephanthead posted:This seems like a factoid. If you read any travel piece about the island it sounds so romantic, but then read a management report and it's like "they are killing the island and themselves this is awful we need to remove them for the love of god" like compare this glowing bit that evokes the Spanish explorer myth: https://parade.com/612357/lindsaylowe/stunning-photos-the-wild-horses-of-georgias-cumberland-island/ to this one where the horses are literally dying of hunger: https://www.blueridgeoutdoors.com/go-outside/hard-truth-horses/ (warning, uh, pictures of the horses that live on the island) Fitzy Fitz fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Jun 18, 2018 |
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Jun 18, 2018 15:04
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I mean, lots of animals die of hunger. Nature is a hell world
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BMan posted:I mean, lots of animals die of hunger. Nature is a hell world If it makes it easier to understand, it's like a bunch of inbred rednecks dying of consumption and diabetes, but we aren't doing anything about it because we think they're cute a healthy population of wild animals has lower incidences of disease, a larger genetic pool, etc. Fitzy Fitz fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Jun 18, 2018 |
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Jun 18, 2018 15:12
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BMan posted:I mean, lots of animals die of hunger. Nature is a hell world The problem is that really that these are not wild animals, they're domesticated animals that have escaped, and to make matters worse they have escaped to an environment they aren't well suited to, and is poor for providing for them. It's not really a situation where you are just observing the natural course of animal's life and it can be rough, it's that humans have created a lovely situation and are failing to do anything about it. It's like if you breed a bunch of mice and then reduce their food so they start eating their young/each other - yea, that's a thing that can happen in the wild, but it doesn't make it less hosed up that you put them into that situation and are just spectating it.
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BigDave posted:Do you have a link? I'd love to read that thread.
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Girlfriend is about to severely overpay for collegequote:Hey everyone, so my girlfriend (20F) wants to become teacher which is cool. She has aleady done a couple years at the local CC to get some basic classes out of the way and was planning on commuting to a university nearby and cashflowing her education while working which would have been very smart. But she recently went on an orientation the college her friend goes to (liberty university, private christian college) and being a christian girl, she loves the fact that the school is pro god, religion, ect, she fell in love with the school and applied and got accepted that same weekend. She has no scholarships, and total cost of school attendence each year is $35k (mostly private loans around 7% interest) and she needs to be there 3 years to get the required degree to teach at public schools. She has a very small savings of a couple thousand and her parents will not help pay, but they are going to cosign for the loans (what an awful idea on both partys) So just right there student loans is going to be 105k+a few thousand from community college+a few thousand owed on her car would put us in the $130k ish zone for total debt after all is said and done. 
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Jun 18, 2018 18:00
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The best part of all is the school she has chosen is Liberty University.
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At least the Mormons don't gouge you for college once you drink the koolaid
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quote:even for females
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Jun 18, 2018 18:34
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electrician, for example
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Nocheez posted:The best part of all is the school she has chosen is Liberty University. Lol holy poo poo. My wife had a bunch of friends from high school that went there and they all paid super dumb amounts of money to come out with degrees that will net them, at most, $50k/year.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:If it makes it easier to understand, it's like a bunch of inbred rednecks dying of consumption and diabetes, but we aren't doing anything about it because we think they're cute that's just a description of discovery channel
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Jun 18, 2018 19:30
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feral horses are honey boo boo
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Nocheez posted:The best part of all is the school she has chosen is Liberty University. Hahaha, hopefully this poor sod can snap this girl back into her senses. Otherwise - 
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https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/189829/blockchain-developer-binance-chain-dex-binance-the-no1quote:Blockchain Developer/Binance Chain DEX  I'm the $60,000 salary range. Also the word "Binance".
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Dick Nipples posted:Lol holy poo poo. My wife had a bunch of friends from high school that went there and they all paid super dumb amounts of money to come out with degrees that will net them, at most, $50k/year. Also, as much as Liberty disgusts me, it will absolutely be a strong networking tool among other Christians and their huge alumni base (if you include online education, they're the largest university in America). Public teaching won't bring in a ton of money, but a degree from Liberty will open a lot of doors if she changes her mind and does something else, and the lifetime value of a college degree is still extremely worth it, on average. Liberty's leadership and policies and everything else are horrific, but it's also not a for-profit diploma mill like University of Phoenix or DeVry, it's a real university. Just like a law degree from Regent's, it shows you're a rightwing zealot but will absolutely get you employed at a ton of places with people who share your (terrible) values. Congrats to boyfriend Johnny Tradeskills for his electrician's apprenticeship, but apprenticeships are really really hard to even get in lots of areas and pay like dogshit for years before you can start earning any money. It's a viable path towards honest work for some people, but demand is very regional. There's way too strong a cultural attack on universities/educations, which not only ignores the non-financial side of better-educated people, but continues to go against actual average results because of the really shocking outliers (and the shittiness of the overall system - fund universities again and we can reduce tuition and not need today's awful student debt crisis). Academician Nomad fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Jun 18, 2018 |
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Private schools pay significantly less than public schools. So while you will make lots of networking contacts at Liberty, those are going to get you job opportunities a fair bit lower-paying than the average starting teacher salary of around $40k. And you could probably get that job at Abraham's Day School for Sacrificial Lambs with a teaching degree from a regular school too.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Private schools pay significantly less than public schools. So while you will make lots of networking contacts at Liberty, those are going to get you job opportunities a fair bit lower-paying than the average starting teacher salary of around $40k. An expensive degree isn't financially worth it if she sticks with being a private school teacher, agreed. But a non-trivial amount of people change careers from teaching when faced with that reality.
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