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Organza Quiz posted:Jail and prison mean the same thing (over here anyway, I think they’re slightly different in the US) but jailer and prisoner are opposites. It's term and who runs it. In the US and Canada a jail is for awaiting sentencing, and shorter sentences. In the US it's run by some local authority, like the county or the city in a big enough one (For example Riker's Island is a jail run by NYC, not a prison.) In Canada they're run by the province. A prison is for longer term. In the US that's the state or federal, Canada federal.
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Tiggum posted:I've never understood how that "lefty loosy right tighty" mnemonic is supposed to be helpful. Instead of memorising that and also remembering that you're talking about the direction of the top of the circle rather than the bottom, why not just remember that counterclockwise loosens? Neither one is easier to remember than the other. Because it's supposed to be for kids.
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Mar 14, 2018 14:10
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An easy way to remember is that port is left and starboard is right.
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Mar 16, 2018 15:16
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A port of a game is usually worse than the original, and left handed people are like worse versions of normal people.
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Mar 16, 2018 15:22
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Proteus Jones posted:Because you let the printer advertise a wireless network, you connected to it sometime in the past to print something, and your phone still has that particular wireless 'network' configured. If you let your phones attach to the "best" network, it's going to flip over to that stupid ad-hoc network you let your printer run when it sees a stronger signal. Not if it’s an iPhone which will cling to the weakest useless WiFi until it goes 100% undetectable.
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May 9, 2018 00:10
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The "Ye" in Ye Olde is just pronounced "The".
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May 11, 2018 23:35
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It's not written with the ß much anymore, but the name (and also just word, it means white) Weiss/Weisz is a common one you'll see that has it.
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May 15, 2018 14:15
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A modern french door fridge with an ice dispenser and/or water tap is usually wider or taller than the space an older house will have for a fridge.Metal Geir Skogul posted:I used to think ice and other "drink accessories" (hydroflasks, fridge filters/dispensers, mio, all that poo poo) were overrated Hydroflask is just a brand name of water bottles.
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Jun 3, 2018 20:53
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It's a fine cut from the pork part of the cow.
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Jun 6, 2018 19:15
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It's not true. In France maybe, but not always in French.
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Jun 6, 2018 19:23
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:ergo... No that's snails.
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Jun 6, 2018 19:29
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It's phrased like my post but I don't $10 care enough about my own account, nevermind others.
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Jun 6, 2018 20:41
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We speak French here and it's beef.
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Jun 6, 2018 20:52
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The dictionary definition of moot is the opposite of moot. Many dictionaries now literally say literally doesn't mean literally.
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Jun 18, 2018 17:32
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Blackguard is "Blagard"
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Jun 29, 2018 00:20
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Most folks'll never lose a toe But then again, some forecastle Like Cletus, the Slack-Jawed Yokel
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Jun 29, 2018 23:04
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John Lee posted:Hey, I know a dude from Canada, and he only knows Canadian Bacon as the sad ham. No, it just doesn't have that name in Canada.
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Jun 30, 2018 20:14
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How dare you.
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Aug 27, 2018 16:11
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Manfred Mann has a lisp so it actually does sound like douche. Plus his version changed the lyric from “cut loose like a deuce” in the original Springsteen version so the rhyme there is gone too.
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Sep 10, 2018 05:35
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But they have the company logo and "Amazon Ambassador" in their name?
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Sep 24, 2018 01:46
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:This conversation is literally killing me I don't mind that use because it's just hyperbole for emphasis.
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Sep 28, 2018 19:24
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So you freaks call it a drott horse?
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Sep 29, 2018 03:13
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Shifty Nipples posted:Questionable etymology itt. Again. None of this is etymology.
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Sep 29, 2018 17:33
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Proteus Jones posted:When I hear “gaming room” I think parcheesi, cards and what not. Hmm... Hunting trophies were the anime statues of the early 20th century.
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Oct 27, 2018 20:27
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Ugato posted:I can guess what I’m supposed to see but I don’t see it at all. Does this help? 
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Nov 19, 2018 21:38
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Cacafuego posted:Rings are on the wrong side 0/8 It's upside down. ~~Magic!~~
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Nov 19, 2018 23:14
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It's no tears as in crying, but what they mean obviously is once it's on their head if some drips into a baby's eyes (babies don't really have that blink to defend your eyes response for a while) it's not supposed to sting.
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Jan 21, 2019 15:39
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Saoirse Ronan doesn’t pronounce her name quite like it’s meant to be.
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Feb 25, 2019 22:47
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Memento posted:Is it not SER-sha? That's what they were calling her on the Graham Norton show last night. Saoirse Ronan is ser-sha, yeah. I saw her on Conan or Colbert or something where she said how to pronounce it, and mentioned Irish people always tell her it’s wrong. So both are right depending on if you mean the actress, or the name in general. Also there are absolutely See-ob-hans now. People see it spelled but never spoken and like how they think it sounds.
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Feb 26, 2019 06:03
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TheMaskedUgly posted:People pronounce words differently to other people sometimes for reasons Proper nouns have actual correct pronunciations.
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Feb 26, 2019 16:34
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Apple's now doing what Microsoft did but their market share is still small enough that it's okay, I guess?
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Mar 21, 2019 13:54
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Yeah, and I assume the reason nobody cares for now is because Android's market share is significantly higher (like 80 to 20 last I read?)
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Mar 21, 2019 15:31
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It's not like I'm having my knives personally forged.
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Apr 1, 2019 16:21
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bell jar posted:A plastic knife is only 2 molecules away from the margarine its spreading drat that's pretty sharp.
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Apr 1, 2019 22:58
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Low level rogues need gear too.
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Apr 2, 2019 00:47
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You shouldn't, they paid death squads to exterminate villages.
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Apr 26, 2019 16:23
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Jerry Cotton posted:What the gently caress kinda place does this instead of using a cross? What the gently caress direction is a lowercase T?
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Apr 28, 2019 05:55
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:I'm guessing that they can't put a cross on the sign due to trademark laws, but I don't understand how a giant H is supposed to be more clear than just making a sign that fuckin' says "HOSPITAL". You ever had a sign made? You gotta pay by the letter.
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Apr 28, 2019 06:08
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Since Mary is a name it could be pronounced like Merry or Marry too though depending on the person, or even like Marie if you and/or your parents are monsters.
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In the song Stan kills himself and his girlfriend because Eminem doesn't answer his letter. So it started as a way to call people that kind of crazy obsessed. Now people use it positively.
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