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Quick Oats, I'm guessing. I just figured out that there's a link to the user control panel at the bottom of the page as well as at the top. All those years of scrolling back up to the top of the page like a chump 
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Oh hey the Stuff you can't believe you figured out thread is doing how to pronounce poo poo again. This is exciting!
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I just realized that the word analysis comes from the word anal and the word "lysis", as in destruction. Students at ancient Greek academies would have their arguments ruthlessly dissected by their teachers, and the students were said to be "analysed".... that is.... ancient Greek for "butthurt".  Source here.
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Sep 29, 2015 19:17
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Lying is wrong, gentle pete.
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One Swell Foop posted:Quick Oats, I'm guessing. I never bothered scrolling up, I just clicked the "up" button that appears when I put the cursor in either lower corner. Although I guess I'm done doing that now that I know about the control panel link at the bottom.
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They number the bottom of pages in some books too, apparently! Very convenient.
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Sep 30, 2015 06:20
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Patchwork Shaman posted:when I put the cursor in either lower corner well goddamn
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Sep 30, 2015 06:49
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So everyone knows goons love The Wire but it took me to the drat end of the show to be completely certain that Snoop was a woman. I'm going to have to rewatch to see if there are any indications at all about this. I always wondered I mean, I'm not blind but I honestly couldn't figure it out and didn't want to look it up. I guess the tendency for enjoying The Wire goes along with face blindness in the hivemind.
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Wanamingo posted:Yes, it was SO much better back in the 90s when it was the Hitler channel. Next on Modern Marvels: Beans.
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syscall girl posted:So everyone knows goons love The Wire but it took me to the drat end of the show to be completely certain that Snoop was a woman. I think it's more goons are loving around with their phone or something while watching a thing instead of paying attention. Her gender is mentioned all the time. This is one of Snoop's earliest scenes, Marlo literally says "your turn, girl": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTLhRojxEtk
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syscall girl posted:So everyone knows goons love The Wire but it took me to the drat end of the show to be completely certain that Snoop was a woman.
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Sep 30, 2015 23:46
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John Big Booty posted:Goons schmoons. You may just be retarded. This, and what snapchat a titty said. I really don't "watch" shows and well, often don't listen to them either.
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Sep 30, 2015 23:56
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Just Offscreen posted:Next on Modern Marvels: Beans. Modern Marvels is a good show and I'll fight anyone that disagrees 
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Thump! posted:Modern Marvels is a good show and I'll fight anyone that disagrees Yeah but the name was really inappropriate for a lot of the stuff they covered. e: unless you define "modern" as mid-Paleolithic
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syscall girl posted:Yeah but the name was really inappropriate for a lot of the stuff they covered. You're misreading the title. It's not the marvels that are modern, it's the time we are marvelling at them!
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Thump! posted:Modern Marvels is a good show and I'll fight anyone that disagrees It was good until they literally ran out of relevant things to Marvel at. Edit: holy poo poo Episode- "World Trade Center" June 25, 2001 Just Offscreen has a new favorite as of 20:22 on Oct 1, 2015 |
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Oct 1, 2015 20:18
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another episode that fails to live up to the show's name
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Snapchat A Titty posted:I think it's more goons are loving around with their phone or something while watching a thing instead of paying attention. Her gender is mentioned all the time. This is one of Snoop's earliest scenes, Marlo literally says "your turn, girl": She's also dressed in all pink during a motorcycle drive-by, IIRC. I don't think a lot of male enforcers in the hood are ever seen wearing pink.
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Oct 2, 2015 06:34
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Just realized that the word alphabet likely comes from "alpha beta"
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Oct 2, 2015 06:58
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Davinci posted:Just realized that the word alphabet likely comes from "alpha beta" Yup! And Arabic and other scripts have an abjad instead, where short vowels are unmarked. The first four letters of Arabic? A - b - j - d
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Oct 2, 2015 07:03
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Henchman of Santa posted:She's also dressed in all pink during a motorcycle drive-by, IIRC. I don't think a lot of male enforcers in the hood are ever seen wearing pink. It's included in the link 
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Oct 2, 2015 09:57
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Just Offscreen posted:It was good until they literally ran out of relevant things to Marvel at.  "Garbage"
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Oct 3, 2015 05:53
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When you consider the amount of garbage people make, that's probably something to marvel at.
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Oct 3, 2015 06:26
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Zesty Mordant posted:When you consider the amount of garbage people make, that's probably something to marvel at. I remember a school trip to the waste treatment plant where a guy pointed out that modern society would have been impossible if the chemical used to break down the massive amount of literal poo poo we generate hadn't been discovered.
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Oct 3, 2015 06:31
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What kind of school takes a field trip to a waste treatment plant?
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Oct 3, 2015 07:31
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Parrotine posted:What kind of school takes a field trip to a waste treatment plant? My school did it too. Part of a thing about recycling I think, some 20 years ago. Idk if current schools here still do it. It was pretty cool though.
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Oct 3, 2015 07:36
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I'm going to guess in the mid-atlantic to northeast of the United States. I'm going to guess even further and say New Jersey. Because that totally seems like something they would do.
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Oct 3, 2015 07:37
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The whole big comb thing filtering out the toilet paper from the poopwater man. The smell is godawful, but also it's hilarious.
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Oct 3, 2015 07:39
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Cadence: the tempo or rhythm at which something does Decadence: moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury. They have the same roots obviously.
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Oct 3, 2015 10:09
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Parrotine posted:What kind of school takes a field trip to a waste treatment plant? I went to one through Girl Guides, which is basically Girl Scouts in Canada. They were teaching us what kind of stuff would get dumped into the environment if there weren't treatment plants, how all the mechanical and chemical filtration systems work. There's also a program in my city that takes junior high students rafting on our biggest river, and they do water testing just before they reach the treatment plant and immediately after they pass the outflow pipe to demonstrate how effective it is. It's actually super cool.
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Oct 3, 2015 10:33
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I went to a waste treatment facility (and a separate recycling plant) as a school field trip, and this was in Australia.
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amityville anus posted:Cadence: the tempo or rhythm at which something does They do, but you actually have to go back a pretty long way to get to it! "Cadence" directly derives from Latin's cadere, which means "to fall, to sink, to cease". The link seems to be the unstressed portion of speech, writing, activity, etc. falling away from the (stressed) beat. "Decadence", on the other hand, also ultimately derives from cadere, but through decadere, which is almost as old a word. (In fact, a couple of etymology sources I've checked don't even acknowledge cadere at all, stopping the traceback at decadere.) decadere means "to sink, to fall, to decay", with the connotation that the fall is irrecoverable. In fact, "decay" comes from the same word; "decadence" is more closely related to "decay" than to "cadence". They look similar in English because they were both participles in Latin: cadens "falling" and decadens "decaying". Incidentally, "decade" has nothing to do with "decadence". We get "decade" from Greek δέκα which, predictably, means "ten".  or  , take your pick!
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Besesoth posted:They do, but you actually have to go back a pretty long way to get to it! i think that is actually what he said though with less bb codes
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Snapchat A Titty posted:i think that is actually what he said though with less bb codes The point was that two words that "obviously" have the same roots don't always, or don't always take the same etymological route to get to us. That's why I included "decade" - "decade" and "decadence" are "obviously" related except that, of course, they're completely not.
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Wanamingo posted:Yes, it was SO much better back in the 90s when it was the Hitler channel. You mean Civil War: The channel with occasional filler show about Hitler?
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In Detroit/Windsor, there is a radio station called The River (93.9 FM). It's slogan is "Deep. Cool. Current." which does a fair job of describing the music it plays (modern indie rock). I only recently realized that all of those words are also meant to describe a river (although "current" would be a noun in that case and not an adjective).
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Henchman of Santa posted:In Detroit/Windsor, there is a radio station called The River (93.9 FM). It's slogan is "Deep. Cool. Current." which does a fair job of describing the music it plays (modern indie rock). I only recently realized that all of those words are also meant to describe a river (although "current" would be a noun in that case and not an adjective). I really hope they have a news segment called "Current Events".
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Henchman of Santa posted:In Detroit/Windsor, there is a radio station called The River (93.9 FM). It's slogan is "Deep. Cool. Current." which does a fair job of describing the music it plays (modern indie rock). I only recently realized that all of those words are also meant to describe a river (although "current" would be a noun in that case and not an adjective). It doesn't describe just any river. It's the Detroit River.
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Zero One posted:It doesn't describe just any river. It's the Detroit River. 
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e:Besesoth posted:They do, but you actually have to go back a pretty long way to get to it! quote:Cognates of CADENCE under Indo-European kad (to fall) include ACCIDENT, CADAVER, CADENT, CASCADE, CASE, CHANCE (see CHANCE), CHUTE (a fall in French), DECADENCE, DECIDUOUS, ESCHEAT, INCIDENT, OCCASION and RECIDIVISM. E: My uneducated opinion is you're not going back far enough if just considering latin and not indo-european roots. Fo3 has a new favorite as of 05:45 on Oct 5, 2015 |
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