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Try to book yourself in for some Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, or failing that, at least read up on the techniques online and try to absorb them a bit. It's all about patterns of thinking - learning not to be so black-and-white, for instance. Hope it goes well for you, and please don't kill yourself ever.
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stubblyhead posted:Is is possible on Facebook to have status updates and pictures and poo poo visible to all your friends, but only certain people are allowed to add comments? No, but you can block individual status updates from particular people or lists of people by clicking the padlock icon, so if you wanted to put up a status and didn't want a particular person commenting, you could just hide that one status from them.
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Ana Lucia Cortez posted:Is there a way to block mail from a certain address? I'm talking about real SNAIL mail here, not email. An ex keeps sending letters and cards in the mail. As much as I've pleaded with him to stop, I still receive the occasional birthday card or "Hey what's up girl" letter... which my fiance is not too happy about. Even if there was, he could just stop putting his return address on the letters and then they wouldn't be blocked, would they? It wouldn't work very well.
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Sep 3, 2010 09:39
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Gravity Pike posted:Why is Greece (the country) called "Greece" in English? Looking at Google Maps, it looks like the local name for it is "Eλλάς", which (I think) would be pronounced "ellas" or "hellas", which isn't even close to "Greece." Where'd out name for it come from? We do have 'hellenic' though, meaning related to Greece.
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Sep 10, 2010 00:05
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Robin Sparkles posted:You're a lot closer than the other person, but still far off. I think you mean Ugg's 'Cardy boots':  That's what they look like fully stretched out but you can fold them down to ankle height, too. There are zillions of knockoffs around as well if you don't want to pay the Ugg price.
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Sep 22, 2010 09:38
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but more slipper-like and made of sweater-knit.
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Steve Yun posted:I saw this ceiling light at an airport parking lot: That style's called an uplighter if that helps 
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Sep 23, 2010 21:56
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FLX posted:When I "like" a page of an artist/a company on Facebook, is it the same as being "friends" with them? I.e. can they see my full profile and news feed? No. Those pages are run by admins, usually the Facebook accounts of people who work at the agency that runs the brand's page. When said admin logs on, they can try and view your page, but their account still isn't friends with yours so they can only see as much as you've deemed OK for strangers to see. It's a bit annoying for those of us who run brand pages sometimes, because some people don't even let strangers see the 'send a message' link on their page, and that's pretty annoying when they've been spamming/swearing/requesting help on the page and you can't contact them.
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Oct 14, 2010 12:12
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Power of Pecota posted:How would one go about getting a ticket to a Borders book signing online? I saw a sign advertising Amy Sedaris' on November 13th yesterday, and the website just gives details, no purchase option I can find. I'd rather not spend another few hours on the L just to pick up a ticket tomorrow. Do you definitely need a ticket? I don't know about America but in England you just turn up on the day and queue.
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Oct 17, 2010 12:53
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Power of Pecota posted:On her website it mentions it's a ticketed event and two of the other appearances on the tour are already sold out. I guess call Borders and ask then.
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Liface posted:I know with Facebook Insights, and the Facebook Social Graph (http://www.webgraphr.com/facebook-social-graph/www.somethingawful.com), you can track how many users are sharing which pages on your site. This might work, if they pasted the URL into their status: http://youropenbook.org
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Nov 11, 2010 15:00
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TetsuoTW posted:So you know how in a lot of songs - mostly pop, it seems - for the final repetition of the chorus or maybe even the final verse they shift the key of the song up slightly? Is there a name for that? Colloquially, it's known as a 'truck driver's gear change'. There's a website and everything. Truck Driver's Gear Change FAQs posted:
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CrunchyTaco posted:I can't figure out what this scarf is called... Cravat?
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Busy Bee posted:I sold something as-is and broken on eBay. I made it very clear that what I was selling was not guaranteed to work. The buyer is not threatening me to ruin my 100% feedback by leaving a negative feedback and filing a claim. I am not worried about him filing a claim since I know I will win. But what I am concerned about is him leaving the negative feedback. Can the buyer leave me negative feedback even before he files a claim / loses the claim? Yes, but you can get it removed if eBay agree that it's defamatory (which pretty much only requires you filling a defamation form and faxing it to them). marshmallard fucked around with this message at 13:31 on May 11, 2017 |
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Busy Bee posted:Wow is that so? I have 400 feedback at 100% that I've kept at for the past 7 years..... Yep. I'm on 501 positive and one negative. marshmallard fucked around with this message at 13:30 on May 11, 2017 |
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Do Americans use 'mad' to mean 'crazy' as well as 'angry'? In the UK, 'mad' mostly means crazy/insane, although obviously we understand the 'angry' meaning as well. If I said 'are you mad?' in America, would it only mean 'Are you angry?' or could it mean 'Are you nuts?' too?
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Feb 1, 2011 12:37
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Mr.Hotkeys posted:It's pretty much the other way around for us, though that specific phrase is usually understood as the "crazy" mad more than the "angry" mad in the proper context. Outside of that phrase and maybe a few others like "going mad", though, we generally don't use it with that meaning, but it won't confuse us if you say it. OK. So for example, there's a picture of a cat that's always floating around these forums - it's sitting in a box that says 'Free kittens' which is crossed out, and 'Mad cat' is written over the top. I've always taken that to mean 'crazy cat' but would it actually mean 'angry cat' to someone American?
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kapalama posted:To me, yes. I would assume the cat was angry at not being taken or something. What do you read it as? Why would the cat be crazy? I found the actual image which might help me explain:  I just assumed the writing was warning you that the cat was crazy - I can't see why it would be angry in such an awesome structure! Would you read that as 'angry cat' then?
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haveblue posted:That one in particular says "mad" because it's a nerd reference so this whole argument is somewhat academic. Oh. Clearly I misunderstood the whole thing. The picture was much funnier when I thought it was a crazy cat 
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kapalama posted:Actually since you brought this up, it's worth mentioning that a word that has no shared meaning: pissed. (and also piss) It's a bit more complex than that, actually. We understand 'I'm really pissed' as 'I'm really angry' when Americans say it, but we'd say 'I'm pissed OFF' to mean that. Pissed off is angry, pissed is drunk in England. You're right about 'taking the piss', that means teasing. But 'taking A piss' means having a wee, the same as it does in America.
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Feb 2, 2011 11:18
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Orzo posted:Why doesn't my timg work properly with Chrome? I can't make the images bigger. Same for me. The only way I've found is to quote the message and then copy & paste the image URL.
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Feb 5, 2011 22:30
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TremendousMajestic posted:For Chrome, right click on it, and then open in a new tab. Does that not work? It does for me. Ah that's a better workaround than mine - thanks.
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kapalama posted:Flash should gently caress off and die. Seeing as it works fine on other computer platforms and even on phones, I don't think it's Flash you should be blaming for the problems on your Mac.
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Gravity Pike posted:Is there anywhere legit online that I can watch the IBM Watson Jeoparty games? Not asking for You'll have more luck finding them if you spell it correctly - it's 'jeopardy', like the word 'jeopardy', not 'jeoparty' like some kind of misspelt geography party.
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, just want to know if they're streaming on Hulu or NBC or ABC or whatever channel Jeoparty is on.
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Avocadoes posted:Im getting blood drawn and a huge health assessment test for a grade tomorrow. Im not so much worried about peeing into a cup or getting blood pressure, but what I am scared of is NEEDLES. I've always found blood tests less painful than getting shots. The only way I can endure them is to watch the needle going in. I can't not, otherwise I get too worked up about when it's going to go in. It might not work for you, but it definitely does for me.
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elbow posted:I've got a blog on Wordpress (pretty small, mostly friends who read it), and this last week I've been getting referrals from URL shortening sites, which I've never had before. I don't know what's going on exactly, but going to a couple of those shortened links goes to some dodgy websites rather than your blog.
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greazeball posted:I had a HS music flashback last night and I can't remember the group or song or anything but this: Suicidal Tendencies - Possessed To Skate? Edit: could also be Urban Dance Squad - Deeper Shade of Soul marshmallard fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Mar 27, 2011 |
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silversiren posted:What causes that pain in your jaw you get when eating sweet things? No, I get this too - have done all my life. It's like your teeth kind of baulking at how sweet the item is, yeah? And then it goes off and it's gone.
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My friend's Mac laptop has a ludicrously shiny screen. Is there some kind of plastic sheet or something I can buy to stick on it so it's not so shiny? I'm envisaging some sort of sticky-backed plastic sheet that mattifies, but I can't seem to find one.
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Mar 31, 2011 20:46
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I'd like an MP3 player that: - Doesn't look like a fake iPod - Allows me to just drag and drop music onto it like a Flash drive - Has a screen (doesn't have to be big enough for videos) - Comes in colours (ideally) Does this exist? I've looked all over the place
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Eyeball, I could use my phone but the battery life is lame enough as it is.gwar3k1 posted:I assume when you say "doesn't look like an iPod" you mean rectangular, screen, wheel? That's going to be difficult. I don't mind if it looks vaguely like an iPod, I just don't want one that looks almost exactly the same. I've got a Sony one at the moment but it comes with this godawful software called Sonicstage that I'm required to use to put music on it. That's exactly what I don't want - I literally just want to drag and drop. I went to a Currys Digital at the weekend and they only had about 10 options, all of which were rubbish :/
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gwar3k1 posted:Sony dropped SonicStage years ago So I can literally just drag my MP3s onto the player without using iTunes or any other wanky bloatware? marshmallard fucked around with this message at 13:34 on May 11, 2017 |
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Its drag and drop now, promise. They have this weird iPod "syncing" software which involves you dragging out of iTunes onto this window to copy the music, but you can just go into your Windows directory and drag/drop. One of the reasons I liked it.
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Does anyone know a good site to buy a tanzanite ring, either in the US or UK? Ideally a really good-quality tanzanite. Thanks
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Fig Newton posted:I'd definitely check in with a doctor if your fever doesn't go away in, like, a day, because you can get ghastly brain infections from bacteria that move up your nose into your brain. Seriously. Er, poo poo. I have a bad habit of putting things up my nose to make myself sneeze - have done for years. Am I going to die of a horrible brain infection?!
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Fists Up posted:You can deactivate and reactivate your profile so its basically like he never went away except I think he will lose all his wall posts and photo tags and some other things. What's the app called? Would be interested to have this if it works.
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fishmech posted:TV channels have to aminatin a lot of different equipment to receive these various formats, although lately it's preferred to be DVD video or modern video codecs like h.264. Not nitpicking your spelling, but what was this word supposed to say? Can't make sense of the sentence without it.
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May 2, 2011 21:04
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PlasticPaddy posted:A friend of mine is going to ask me to be a groomsmen in his weddding. I do not want to do this. How rude would it be to turn him down? Do people say no often to this sort of thing? What's the actual reason you don't want to do it?
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NESguerilla posted:I am selling a few fairly pricey collectibles on Ebay (Valued at about 5-600 bucks a piece) and it's the first time I have used Ebay in about 10 years. I stuck the auctions up yesterday and noticed I have a few people asking if I will ship internationally. All of the questions are from Indonesia and a couple are asking if I will claim the value is under $50 on the customs form. Is there anything sketchy going on here? The buyers themselves seem legit and have good feedback. Honestly, yes. While there are some international buyers who won't cause you any problems, it's more hassle than it's worth with dodgy postal systems in some countries, customs hassle (never ever lie about a customs value for ebay, it's not worth the pain it could cause you for the sake of someone you don't even know), shipping restrictions etc. The US is massive, I'm sure you'll have enough buyers
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gwar3k1 posted:Take a look at your contract. I think the minimum would be 1 month but it should be equal to the amount of notice you have to give your landlord if you vacate, if ot more. This. There isn't a universal rule - you need to look at your contract.
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axolotl farmer posted:What's the good options for shipping about 200 pounds of books, about a large suitcase's volume of clothes and a bike to Europe from the US? Unless they're rare or hard-to-find books, surely it would be vastly cheaper just to re-buy them second hand in the US?
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Egg Poacher posted:I work part-time in the UK. I'm contracted to work 21 hours of the week and my agreed - but not in the contract - days of work are Mon, Tue, Wed. This week had a bank holiday Monday and here we are on Wednesday. My line manager stated that I should work on Thursday this week because I haven't done 21 hours but I argued that my usual working Monday fell on the bank holiday and so I shouldn'd have to. You're both kind of right, but why don't you want the hours? 'I shouldn't have to' makes it sound like you're working against your will, but presumably you do need 21 hours' worth of money?
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