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Alhazred posted:It's not like the US government proclaimed that "yes, aliens do exists!" Yeah, I mean I'll happily proclaim that there are 100% things in the world that are unidentified. I have unidentified fluffy objects in the corners of my pockets right now. I don't think they're extraterrestrial, though.
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Gromit posted:Yeah, I mean I'll happily proclaim that there are 100% things in the world that are unidentified. I have unidentified fluffy objects in the corners of my pockets right now. I don't think they're extraterrestrial, though. /extremely Dumb and Dumber voice "So you're saying there's a chance that your pocket is full of aliens??" Galaxy-brained conspiracy theorists don't need evidence to believe in something, they just need the absence of evidence which would conclusively rule it out.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:/extremely Dumb and Dumber voice *camera zooms into pocket fluff to such a degree that atoms look like galaxies and suddenly we see spaceships*
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Gromit posted:*camera zooms into pocket fluff to such a degree that atoms look like galaxies and suddenly we see spaceships* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTOBxlFjgc0
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Krispy Wafer posted:Dan Aykroyd is his Ghostbusters character in real life. No one would or should trust him with anything important. It's not entirely unreasonable to look at Ray and Peter and disbelieve everything they say, even if all evidence points to the contrary. Someone brought a bottle of that to a house party when I was in college and it was unspeakably foul. There was some left at the end of the night, that’s how bad it was. It tasted like someone spilled it on a dirty lineloeum floor, wiped it up with an old rag, and wrang the rag out into the bottle.
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May 14, 2020 01:18
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But the bottle works great for sand art
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Yeah I really wanted one of the big Crystal Head vodka bottles for planting a terrarium but there was no way I was going to buy it off the shelf. I'm sure one will turn up at a garage sale or a thrift shop some day when we get past THE PLAGUE and I start going outside again
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Apparently, it must be drank (drunk?) with food. That's at least what Aykroyd said when he was signing bottles in the liquor store in my hometown when he came to visit (this was 2007). I got him to sign a bottle, and my GB DVD. The next day, he also visited the technical school I was just about to graduate from, and actually remembered me from the day before. The man is Ray Stantz, though. We were teleconferencing with another campus all the way on the other side of the country, and we were all doing a Q&A sort of thing. Someone brought up aliens, and he ranted for about 20 minutes, which used up most of the time we had. I didn't get to ask him about GB3 
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May 14, 2020 02:51
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Apparently, it must be drank (drunk?) with food. Drank - recent time can remember exactly Drunk - general past tense , no specific temporal space Same for swam vs swum There are exceptions to this but that's the general rule
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yeah I really wanted one of the big Crystal Head vodka bottles for planting a terrarium but there was no way I was going to buy it off the shelf. I'm sure one will turn up at a garage sale or a thrift shop some day when we get past THE PLAGUE and I start going outside again Check your local TJ Maxx / Winners (when safe to do so). You can find them filled with vinegary, mediocre hot sauce for ten bucks
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RandomFerret posted:Check your local TJ Maxx / Winners (when safe to do so). You can find them filled with vinegary, mediocre hot sauce for ten bucks Wait for Halloween, and then go to a craft store. I have one for like $10 from a Micheal's or something like that.
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May 14, 2020 15:12
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Jestery posted:Drank - recent time can remember exactly Not really.
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RandomFerret posted:Check your local TJ Maxx / Winners (when safe to do so). You can find them filled with vinegary, mediocre hot sauce for ten bucks Did you mean TK Maxx?  Never heard of TJ Maxx, that must be a weird regional thing.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Did you mean TK Maxx? They likely meant TJ Maxx. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TJ_Maxx
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May 14, 2020 15:27
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It’s TJ Maxx in America and TK Maxx in any other country they operate
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Escobarbarian posted:It’s TJ Maxx in America and TK Maxx in any other country they operate I wonder why? I find it hard to imagine that some guy called TJ Maxx who complained.
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May 14, 2020 15:59
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It's TK Maxx until they think up a better name
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May 14, 2020 15:59
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It has three different names in Canada and none of them have the letters T or X in them
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Jedit posted:I wonder why? I find it hard to imagine that some guy called TJ Maxx who complained. There's a chain called TJ Hughes they didn't want to get confused with.
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RandomFerret posted:It has three different names in Canada and none of them have the letters T or X in them Marshall's? Home Goods? Sierra Trading Post? (all owned by the same company as TJ/TK Maxx, and all operate in the U.S., even like...next door to one another sometimes)
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In one mall in Montreal the Winners and Homesense are on top of each other on the 2 floors, with an escalator between them inside the stores. It was originally a 2 floor department store, I don't remember which chain. So a pretty good adaptation of that unit I guess. There's a Marshall's across the street.
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May 14, 2020 16:10
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CPColin posted:It's TK Maxx until they think up a better name I appreciated this joke a lot.
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Aphrodite posted:In one mall in Montreal the Winners and Homesense are on top of each other on the 2 floors, with an escalator between them inside the stores. It was originally a 2 floor department store, I don't remember which chain. So a pretty good adaptation of that unit I guess. Fairview! I used to live right across the 40! Edit: wait, Homesense/Winners there, just has an elevator between them, but both The Bay and Sears (rip) had 3-floor escalators.
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I got this confused and checked it up I'm an interpreter by trade so this less autistic than it appears. "To have" in this context conjures the past perfect tense implying specific knowledge of the temporal nature of the activity of "I have run the marathon this morning" Vs "I ran the marathon some time ago" "Yes I have eaten the Danish" Vs "I ate the Danish sometime ago" "I caught the bus on Wednesday" Vs "I catched the bus to school when I was a student" As I said it's not an exact science, and I deffo got it wrong up there. But that is the general jist of the "to have" and "run ran" . English is messy and I wanted to avoid getting into deep tense talk cos it sucks Content tax: I have been on a Jackie Chan marathon lately And I've noticed an interesting commonality in his films Often during a tense scene he will carry some object between scenes, like a broken vase or paper, it's surprisingly effective at maintains tension and gives energy to the next fight scene something to start from Jestery has a new favorite as of 10:24 on May 15, 2020 |
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May 15, 2020 10:20
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One of the many insane things about English is that the only consistent rules it does have (Mainly related to sentence structure and adjective order) are ones that its speakers are not consciously taught and are not aware of at all.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:One of the many insane things about English is that the only consistent rules it does have (Mainly related to sentence structure and adjective order) are ones that its speakers are not consciously taught and are not aware of at all. This is definitely the bane of having listen to people talk all day and do the interpreter thing. You definitely hear these mistakes and it's very " You are doing it wrong " 
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https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adjectives-order The order of adjectives, and how most people intrinsically know it, is fascinating.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:One of the many insane things about English is that the only consistent rules it does have (Mainly related to sentence structure and adjective order) are ones that its speakers are not consciously taught and are not aware of at all. Are you a big red dog or a red big dog?
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adjectives-order My L2 has virtually no adjective hierarchy and the subject can be anywhere in that mess of adjectives. When I get home after work it takes a few minutes to speak properly and I find myself struggling while drunk with the varied structures Jestery has a new favorite as of 12:55 on May 15, 2020 |
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food court bailiff posted:I appreciated this joke a lot. 
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Afriscipio posted:a red big dog? It’s amazing how my brain just naturally reacts to this like a movie vampire with a cross jammed in its face.
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I just pictured that BigDog robot.
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Afriscipio posted:Are you a big red dog or a red big dog? My current Windows password is a keyphrase like that with the adjectives specifically out of order, it's great because I'll never forget it but it was mildly uncomfortable to even type the first several times.
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Can I post the opposite of subtle? Because, god drat, that rat at the end of The Departed was the most hamfisted thing I think I've ever seen.
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May 15, 2020 17:25
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I kinda liked the X motif.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I just pictured that BigDog robot. Listen Here, Bud. America Deserved Skynet.
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BiggerBoat posted:Can I post the opposite of subtle? 
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May 15, 2020 18:43
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You don't understand, Scorsese was overdue for an oscar, therefore the movie was good
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I’ve heard it pronounced Score-says-he and score-sez-he
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