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its called tuesday because it is the second day of the week
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500excf type r posted:its called tuesday because it is the second day of the week Also Friday is because it's when you get off work (free) and Sunday because it's a good day for lounging in the sun
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# ? Mar 24, 2020 13:27 |
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Thursday, literally "the third day"
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# ? Mar 24, 2020 13:37 |
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October got it's name because it's the tenth month, and then when Germans hold their beer festivals (Oktoberfests)
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# ? Mar 24, 2020 14:00 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:October got it's name because it's the tenth month, and then when Germans hold their beer festivals (Oktoberfests) Octo means 8, and it was the 8th month until Augustus Caesar added two more to the calendar, if I remember my history correctly. see also the prefixes for September, November and December.
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# ? Mar 24, 2020 14:03 |
Henchman of Santa posted:Octo means 8, and it was the 8th month until Augustus Caesar added two more to the calendar, if I remember my history correctly. see also the prefixes for September, November and December. This can't be true people can't just add months to the calendar thats crazy talk.
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# ? Mar 24, 2020 15:14 |
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TK-42-1 posted:This can't be true people can't just add months to the calendar thats crazy talk. throw this man to the lions
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# ? Mar 24, 2020 15:21 |
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I decree there to be 13, 28 day, months. When October is over we shall have Beantember in my honor.
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# ? Mar 24, 2020 15:26 |
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This thread is really great when people poo poo it up with lame FW:fwd:fw:fwd-caliber factoids that nobody under 60 actually believes. Now do one about Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden!
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# ? Mar 24, 2020 15:45 |
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Henchman of Santa posted:Octo means 8, and it was the 8th month until Augustus Caesar added two more to the calendar, if I remember my history correctly. see also the prefixes for September, November and December. The actual history is much, much dumber, and I'll take any opportunity to tell people about it: SneezeOfTheDecade posted:Okay! A brief divergence on calendars, which I originally wrote to answer the question:
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# ? Mar 24, 2020 15:56 |
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:The actual history is much, much dumber, and I'll take any opportunity to tell people about it: This is neat, thank you
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# ? Mar 24, 2020 16:47 |
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beanieson posted:This is neat, thank you Seconded, thanks.
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# ? Mar 24, 2020 18:26 |
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I'm rather in favour of having an entire-rear end other month in the middle of February, February sucks
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# ? Mar 24, 2020 18:33 |
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I don’t think extending February so it lasts 60 days is the way to go about getting through it quicker.
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# ? Mar 24, 2020 18:41 |
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:The actual history is much, much dumber, and I'll take any opportunity to tell people about it: Lmao this incredible
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# ? Mar 24, 2020 18:55 |
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I have an important business question from business people. Can we have an intercalary month starting now and ending sometime when the economy is back so that I can still get my Q1 bonus?
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# ? Mar 24, 2020 18:58 |
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September, 1963 (the "Oh what a night" song) is The Four Seasons, not KC and the Sunshine Band.
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# ? Mar 24, 2020 20:18 |
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Torquemada posted:I don’t think extending February so it lasts 60 days is the way to go about getting through it quicker. No, see, you break it up into smaller more manageable chunks. A whole month of February is rough going, even at two days shorter than a usual month. But three weeks of February, and then a month of Smarch, and then just seven more days of Feb? I think I could just about handle that.
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# ? Mar 24, 2020 21:06 |
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Just when you thought you were out (of February), they pull you back in!
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# ? Mar 25, 2020 00:06 |
Torquemada posted:Just when you thought you were out (of February), they pull you back in! Lousy Smarch weather.
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# ? Mar 25, 2020 01:30 |
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walrusman posted:This thread is really great when people poo poo it up with lame FW:fwd:fw:fwd-caliber factoids that nobody under 60 actually believes. Now do one about Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden! without our lame FW:fwd:fw:fwd-caliber factoids that nobody under 60 actually believes we would never have learned about the Roman calendar together, sir
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# ? Mar 25, 2020 01:37 |
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If the month wherein you have Yule isn't called Yule Month then you're calendar is poo poo and you should feel bad and the Yule Goat will eat you.
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# ? Mar 25, 2020 02:55 |
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The Yule Goat will probably eat you anyway. This is possibly good?
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# ? Mar 25, 2020 02:56 |
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I prefer the Yule Cat as he only eats those who receive no clothes amongst their Yule presents.
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# ? Mar 25, 2020 03:16 |
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Lincoln posted:September, 1963 (the "Oh what a night" song) is The Four Seasons, not KC and the Sunshine Band. You can be forgiven for that because it's unreasonably disco and because Frankie Vallie didn't even sing lead on the verses because his voice had gone to poo poo by then.
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# ? Mar 25, 2020 05:28 |
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zedprime posted:I have an important business question from business people. Can we have an intercalary month starting now and ending sometime when the economy is back so that I can still get my Q1 bonus? Things I just learned, Some people work at jobs where they get a Bonus which Google tells me is free money they get just for going to work on top of their normal pay.
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# ? Mar 25, 2020 07:00 |
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Len posted:Things I just learned, "work"
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# ? Mar 25, 2020 10:51 |
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Lincoln posted:September, 1963 (the "Oh what a night" song) is The Four Seasons, not KC and the Sunshine Band. The song was originally November, 1963 (Oh what a day) but they had to change it
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# ? Mar 25, 2020 10:51 |
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purple death ray posted:"work" C'mon, plenty of blue collar jobs get bonuses as well. You're going to tell me an underground driller at a gold mine doing 12 hour days isn't "working"?
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# ? Mar 25, 2020 10:54 |
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:the priesthood - who until not long before Julius controlled the release of the calendar, meaning that people paid attention to them to know when the months started - would extend or contract years to keep politicians (who were on yearly terms) they liked in power or force politicians they didn't like out early. Can we please have this back?
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# ? Mar 25, 2020 10:55 |
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Memento posted:C'mon, plenty of blue collar jobs get bonuses as well. You're going to tell me an underground driller at a gold mine doing 12 hour days isn't "working"? I mean my job still gives me a Christmas bonus but referring to it as your Q1 bonus suggests you get several of them, very strong investment banker energy. I'd be pleasantly surprised to learn that miners get paid that decently in 2020
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# ? Mar 25, 2020 11:00 |
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Assuming that tax program that benefits big business but not individuals sticks around in 2 years I'll get my 5 year anniversary bonus of $100. They only created that last year though
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# ? Mar 25, 2020 11:16 |
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gschmidl posted:Can we please have this back? Yes except not loving priests.
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# ? Mar 25, 2020 11:29 |
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purple death ray posted:I mean my job still gives me a Christmas bonus but referring to it as your Q1 bonus suggests you get several of them, very strong investment banker energy. I'd be pleasantly surprised to learn that miners get paid that decently in 2020 Miners make loving shittons, mate. In Australia there's lots of fly-in-fly-out miners, and they're very well paid. Less so now that the mining boom is over, I guess, but I bet they're still doing well. https://www.seek.com.au/mining-jobs?salaryrange=100000-999999&salarytype=annual (actually, holy gently caress I didn't realise just how well. I set that filter to $100k/yr minimum, and even trainee jobs are showing up). e: loving Jeepers. Hyperlynx has a new favorite as of 11:40 on Mar 25, 2020 |
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That's really nice. I'm in America so I assume anybody who does anything useful or dangerous gets min wage and a green cookie on st. patricks day
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# ? Mar 25, 2020 13:33 |
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purple death ray posted:That's really nice. I'm in America so I assume anybody who does anything useful or dangerous gets min wage and a green cookie on st. patricks day My job falls into the guidelines of essential even though we aren't a food or pharmacy warehouse. So I'm coming to work every day and interacting with ltl and tl carriers and their paperwork that has seen who knows how many hands, across who knows how many states and just have to grin and bear it. My bosses who have decided to keep us open are all working from home right now and sending daily emails about how strong we are as a company and how they know we'll do the smart thing and call of if we think we're sick. Did they relax the no fault attendance point system? Ehhhh if you're confirmed to have corona you won't get any points but you have to be confirmed to have it. Anything else and it's a point a day 10 points is instant termination. In short, roll out the guillotines because gently caress these people. I'll have a 4 for 4 no onions please
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# ? Mar 25, 2020 14:59 |
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Len posted:My job falls into the guidelines of essential even though we aren't a food or pharmacy warehouse. So I'm coming to work every day and interacting with ltl and tl carriers and their paperwork that has seen who knows how many hands, across who knows how many states and just have to grin and bear it. My bosses who have decided to keep us open are all working from home right now and sending daily emails about how strong we are as a company and how they know we'll do the smart thing and call of if we think we're sick. yea I work in SCS and the poo poo I'm building now is definitely not essential, but the company in general is so they get away with keeping everyone on I got a nice speech about how everyone should be grateful they're still working and the unemployment office has lines boss even went so far as to say that they've put up more hand sanitizing stations and that if anyone has any other "crazy" requests to let him know, before catching himself and saying "nevermind, not crazy"
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# ? Mar 25, 2020 16:37 |
Baron von Eevl posted:You can be forgiven for that because it's unreasonably disco and because Frankie Vallie didn't even sing lead on the verses because his voice had gone to poo poo by then. I like how it’s just a song about that guy finally getting laid.
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# ? Mar 25, 2020 17:44 |
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Lincoln posted:September, 1963 (the "Oh what a night" song) is The Four Seasons, not KC and the Sunshine Band. Wait until You Just Figure Out it’s December, 1963.
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cows have horizontal slit pupils like goats, it's just hard to tell because their irises are so dark
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