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christmas boots posted:Nothing came before Hamlet. Nothing and no-one. He was an incredibly selfish lover.
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Proteus Jones posted:At first this blew my mind that you didn't know, but then I realized it has to have been more than a decade since I've actually posted mail from my mailbox. So I can completely understand someone having zero idea what it's for. Yeah, that. I've never seen one used, so I've never even wondered what it might be for.
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in my experience, most mail carriers don't even know to put the flag back down when they pick up.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Just found out what mailbox flags are for. My first thought was to wonder how but then I realized, in addition to what Proteus Jones said, people who grow up in apartments probably legitimately don't know either. The mailboxes at our appartment complex don't have any flags, and if you were just posting something from a Post Office box, you just drop it in. It doesn't have a flag either.
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Also some countries don't have mailbox flags at all.
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I always lkeave the flag up because it has an american flag and ill be damned if i strike the colors Also it's just plain festive
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Organza Quiz posted:Also some countries don't have mailbox flags at all. Yeah, growing up watching American TV was weird. It took me years to work out what the point of the little flags was. Still seems a bizarre way to send mail.
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Sadly I think I figured it out from a video game (day of the tentacle?) where the flag being up was a plot point.
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And I've just learnt it from this thread! I've lived in countries where you post your mail either at the post office or put it in the nearest post box and your post is delivered through the slot in your front door. I thought the flag was to tell you that you had mail to collect from the box.
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Helith posted:And I've just learnt it from this thread! I've lived in countries where you post your mail either at the post office or put it in the nearest post box and your post is delivered through the slot in your front door. Yeah, that's what I always thought the flag was for.
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iajanus posted:Yeah, growing up watching American TV was weird. It took me years to work out what the point of the little flags was. Still seems a bizarre way to send mail. Put the flag up if you want mail picked up. Always put the mail on edge so the postman knows what mail you want picked up. Flag goes down once it's been picked up. If you don't have mail outgoing, set the flag up with nothing in the box after you get the mail. This is done when you don't want to walk down a long driveway to the box until you know it's been delivered. That's mostly rural. The postman will flip the flag down so that you know that they have delivered. If you have a vertical box on the outside of the house, put the mail vertical so that they know it is outgoing. Incoming is always horizontal. Those boxes often have flags. If you have a mail slot, just set the outgoing mail in the slot sticking out when you leave. The mailman will take it. Simple rules, reliable and easy. You have mail six days a week so no reason to go to a box on the corner. If it's that important, go to a post office and get a postmark. USPS has it's issues of which I could go on at length. Of course they suck on ice a lot of times, but they follow the rules and they're predictable. My driver has dog treats on him and he always knocks if he has a package that won't fit in the box. Other carriers can't be bothered to knock, but my driver always knocks, waits for me to come to the door, and gives me a treat for my dog.
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mostlygray posted:If you don't have mail outgoing, set the flag up with nothing in the box after you get the mail. This is done when you don't want to walk down a long driveway to the box until you know it's been delivered. That's mostly rural. The postman will flip the flag down so that you know that they have delivered. Wow, I wish I had known about this for the previous 30 years of my life. So many long, hot walks down to the mailbox only to return empty handed. Of course these days I just check USPS Informed Delivery to know whether or not I have any mail.
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Yeah, not too complicated. Although our rules of "incoming mail goes in your mailbox, outgoing mail goes in any of the hundreds of postboxes in the streets" seems a little more streamlined.
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I get my mail in a community mailbox. You put outgoing mail in the red boxes. Or take your envelope to a postal outlet, usually in a drug store, and buy a stamp at the same time. But that's only been over the past few years, before then we had our box on the wall of our house next to our front door. Mailboxes on posts on streets don't exist here.
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If you play The Sims at all I'm pretty sure they still use the single mailbox and flag
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Lester Shy posted:Wow, I wish I had known about this for the previous 30 years of my life. So many long, hot walks down to the mailbox only to return empty handed. Of course these days I just check USPS Informed Delivery to know whether or not I have any mail.
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Driveways areu bourgeois.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Driveways areu bourgeois. Yep! Large front yards weren't a thing for most people until mechanical mowers were invented in the 19th century and the middle class could suddenly afford to emulate the tended lawns of the aristocracy's manor houses since there was no longer a need to hire gardeners to scythe them manually.
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Or, you know, farms.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Or, you know, farms. Farms are also bourgeois.
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So is food
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Twitter decided to do that thing where it says "hey, you've got a contact who is on Twitter!". It's a haven't seen in ages friend. Turns out, she's an adult entertainer now. 
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Diagon Alley. Diagonally. *head explodes*
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Stuff I just didn't figure out, but stuff I just realized: I have no idea how to pronounce anaerobic.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Stuff I just didn't figure out, but stuff I just realized: I have no idea how to pronounce anaerobic. If you google "dictionary [word]" or "define [word]" it'll show a dictionary entry with a button that will say that word out loud for you. define anaerobic
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pik_d posted:If you google "dictionary [word]" or "define [word]" it'll show a dictionary entry with a button that will say that word out loud for you. Yeah I know I can find out how things are pronounced very quickly (even without Internet) but I was just so surprised to realize I've never actually heard anyone use the word in speech. It's not exactly uncommon.
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The Moon Monster posted:Diagon Alley. Diagonally. *head explodes* also, Knockturn Alley..
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Abugadu posted:also, Knockturn Alley.. Son of a bitch, I just got that.
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The more I think about the Harry Potter books the more they piss me off.
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pik_d posted:If you google "dictionary [word]" or "define [word]" it'll show a dictionary entry with a button that will say that word out loud for you. no matter how many times I have the magical internet dictionary pronounce the word "satiety" for me, it will never, ever stick; I just seem to have a burnt-out bulb where that word ought to go in my thinky cavern
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Roblo posted:The more I think about the Harry Potter books the more they piss me off.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Stuff I just didn't figure out, but stuff I just realized: I have no idea how to pronounce anaerobic. An(without) Aer(air) Obic(living).
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MariusLecter posted:An(without) Aer(air) Obic(living). Anne Aerobics. An Aerobics class, run by a lady called Anne.
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MariusLecter posted:An(without) Aer(air) Obic(living). It's pronounced withoutairliving? Neat.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Yeah I know I can find out how things are pronounced very quickly (even without Internet) but I was just so surprised to realize I've never actually heard anyone use the word in speech. It's not exactly uncommon.  Do you work in a biology-adjacent field or something? I'm sure I have heard it used, but I can't remember the last time, and I can't imagine it coming up in casual conversations.
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I've said anaerobic a lot, because I've been a fishkeeper, taken biology, and was really into fitness for a while.
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Not "just figured out," per se, but I just learned that this guy: is Robert Redford.
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