Coffee (well, cocoa-mocha) and stubborn, yes. Additional security measures go! Definition of luck. Is it a bad thing when I can say, “Yep, that scans….” Aww, Calvin! Terrible, terrible decisions…. KCoke Demon Hunters! Cackles
And… well, oof. So much oof.
I, too, keep getting that feeling of “someone poking you with a stick to see what will set off the boog.”
Oh yes. When we visit Texas, I always get Dr Pepper at restaurants so this hasn’t happened to me. But I remember a friend (who was not from the South) complaining, “I asked for a Coke and the waitress said, “What kind? We got Dr Pepper, Sprite, Coke, 7-Up…” If I meant Dr Pepper I’d have said Dr Pepper! I said Coke and I meant Coke!”
So, my first flight into the US was crewed exclusively by Texans. Er… not the most cosmopolite… okay, redneck chick.
I asked for coke. They asked me what kind of coke I wanted. I said coca cola. They said “Coca what?”
I drew it. “Oh. You mean pepsi!”
I didn’t mean pepsi. But I sure drank pepsi.
To be fair, there are some accents that are hard to calibrate and ear-process. Probably because the phonemes are just different enough to fall in the cracks of one’s own accent.
I will note that your map on the naming of a recent popular Netflix anime movie is incomplete/incorrect. In much of Eastern Massachusetts (say from Worcester west mostly coincident with the area encompassed by I-495), the Northeast Corner of Connecticut (say North and East of Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Casino), New Hampshire from Manchester and Nashua east and most of Maine it would be KTonic Demon Hunters. Parts of Northern/Western New Hampshire might also use this nomenclature. It is not clear what terminology would be used in Vermont, but with the 2020 invasion of evacuating NYC residents it is likely to be KSoda Demon hunters, the native New Englanders having nearly gone extinct (or moved in disgust to New Hampshire) from the ludicrous rise in housing prices.
Only where contamination from Worcester and MA in general is strong. I grew up in coastal Connecticut and never heard tonic used other than for something used with gin. Tonic for soda along with the use of bubbler for a water fountain baffled me when I went to college in Worcester.
I have heard 2 sources for the etymology of tonicas soda. The first, I believe is apocryphal and implies it was often called Tonic as Soda and Sodas were banned from sale on Sunday blue laws wheras health tonics were always permitted. The more likely one is that early soda concoctions Like Coca Cola, 7-Up and Lowell’s own Moxie were literally sold as health tonics and pick me ups (Coke with its Cocaine and caffeine, 7-up with lithium salts, and Moxie with Gentian root and other things used in spring tonics) and the tonic usage stuck.
That’s why I do it, and I have lots of other methods, like giving my age in days when they ask it. My day is made when they get annoyed enough to cuss me out before hanging up.
I recently heard a bit from a fellow who had worked as telespammer. He wasn’t allowed to hang up unless things went “abusive” (profanity, “What are you wearing?”) but had to endure if someone was just, “Huh? Could you repeat that?” over and over.
I answer the phone with, “Good morning, Good afternoon, or Good evening,” depending on time of day. It throws the bot off.
Currently I’m getting a lot of Medicare scripts and especially if It’s a bot I’ll tell them I’m not giving personal information to a stranger on a phone.
I try to be halfway decent, but sometimes my patience runs dry.
If I answer the phone at all, it’s with “Ahoy!” or maybe “Start talking, it’s your nickel.” but NEVER “Hello?” — unless I recognize the caller… and even then…eh..
Virgil Samms will now be interviewed. He will return to the consciousnesses of the rest of you in exactly six of your hours.”
Practically dazed by the shock of their first experience with telepathy, not one of the Chicago’s crew perceived anything unusual in the phraseology of that utterly precise, diamond-clear thought. Samms and Kinnison, however, precisionists themselves, did.
I have occasionally responded to a superior at work asking if I want to perform some odious task with a No. The, after a sufficient pause to get a flustered look on the face of said superior who was trying to soft soap a directive, continue that I will.
I was never so brave to offer such an answer on a test, but I had an Anatomy and Physiology lab exam where the TA had stuck pins, with letter flags attached, into a preserved/dissected human heart, and the instructions were ‘name this structure’. (Even though I already had a BA and MLS, I couldn’t absorb an F on a quiz; I needed the class for nursing school.)
I told the TA I would be justified in writing ‘I name the structure marked “E” “Bob”. I did suggest he use ‘identify’ in future, and he did.
Grandma, in an aside to my mother, “Let’s not have this for bedtime. I do not like the calibre of English in this book.”
Little pitchers have big ears, so much later…
“No mommy, we can’t read that one, it has English in it.”
Great teacher, my grandmother, very precise in all she said. And good: the only way one could discern those she very much disliked was that she did not speak of them.
Actually, it beats the heck out of dying from a major historical event.
The real reason why the west invented air conditioning. (You know how hot armor gets inside a closed vehicle in the desert in summer?)
No boog today. Maybe boog tomorrow.
One of the things that drove my father’s second wife nuts (because I was a teenager at the time) was when she told me to set the table, I’d pick it up and ask her where she wanted it.
No, nothing to do with a George. Actually seem to have missed something; I’ve seen a little discussion of a George, but have not noticed anything from a George.
Dhimmitude is an alternative to full conversion, including a lot of limitations socially, as well as the jizya ‘tax’; I wondered if there were anything the Loony Left could be compelled to promise in order to avoid full conversion, or if the only route involves the sword.
While I’m being clueless, might someone explain “SFBS”? I am familiar with “SFB”, fecal matter for central nervous system, but that trailing “S” eludes me.
I’d as soon we, a freedom loving people, not adopt such a horror a jizya/dhimmi (which is, after all, just another form of unpersoning).
There’s a lot more on the left out there than you think that just need the right person or event to open their eyes and get their heads out of the sand. You are seeing a LOT of that happening this week. I’ve seen more than a few posts/videos shared of someone going “Okay, you know what, I’ve been a democrat my whole life but celebrating the assassination of a guy who just had an opinion–even though I didn’t agree with him–is sick and wrong. I’m switching parties.” And these are just the ones bold enough to announce it–I expect there are many who just quietly shift gears.
And then you’ve got the ones who will still bury their heads back in the sand after the shock wears off (I’ve got a couple of friends I think are like that–or very carefully refused to UNbury their head in the first place. They’re not celebrating the murder, but they’re also not saying anything at all, so it could go either way.)
No. May they repent and turn away from evil. If you believe in hell is a real possibility, that’s a concept out of Christianity. To wish them to burn in hell shows that you are in danger of it yourself. You need to fight the battle within, not just without.
Strive with ideas against the evil ideas. Stand firm against specific actions. Don’t allow the box to be the reason to hate.
If you have trouble telling the difference between disagreeing with people, and wishing for their eternal destruction, this is probably not a great choice of locations for you.
Some of the regulars have been here for around fifteen years, and may remember several years of argument here, madgeniusclub, and monsterhunternation, involving disputes over a contest, which had some trolls engaged who could do a moderately okay job of pretending reason for a few days or for a few weeks.
(Okay, there were also a bunch of idjits. There was also a time, IIRC, when one of her kid’s teachers was trying to stir shit by sending school children. )
I’ve basically been in retirement these days, but those were some educational years.
Anyway, george is a fairly recent new comer here, and he is actually coming across as unskilled and boring. He’s obviously either a poor thinker, or not arguing in good faith. Sometimes he fakes engagement a little, but mostly it seems like a daily stream of boilerplate that is shifting between trying to fit in, and trying to incite people.
If he had more energy, he would probably have managed to get himself banned, so I imagine most people are just going ‘ah, george again’ most of the time, and are too bored to argue.
Some of the regulars have very deep disagreements with me on certain points. I have generally found that they will at least give me a chance to explain myself, even when I am being idiotic, as long as I do not make too much of an ass of myself.
And, yes, some of the people here do take their theology seriously, and will pay careful attention to those details, and will find more energy to call out even an otherwise very boring man on those points.
Disagreements with you: We still don’t think we should nuclear bomb Canada, Bob. But you’ve a good chance of convincing us we should send Castreau a gift of Putin’s special tea..
Here’s the thing Mr. OneMoerThing, the imprecatory Psalms are dicey anywhere. The stones cry out for justice for the blood of innocents… and…
Our current crowd of self-appointed moral absolutists are singing “Charlie got it in the neck” and the part of our hearts that calls for a rain of fire are an occasion of sin.
It’s complicated.
If we all got what we deserved, who’d escape a thorough ass-kicking? Or the fires of hell.
Which, you know are likely real, since you can’t miss that evil it’s own damned self is real. So, given that, d’you want to wish that on anyone? Knowing the measure by which you judge others will be muted out to you in full?
Go with God.
And if you decide to stick around read the FAQBBQ.
Everything everyone said, plus, not all liberals are raving progressive loons. Many are, but not all. I know a few who are probably, “I didn’t like Kirk but nobody ought to be shot for his opinions.” (One of them shoots and butchers his own deer).
Saw some makeup dude with bubblegum pink hair who was live-streaming when the news came out, found out via commenters in his chat, and that guy was flat out brutal about dismissing the folks who were celebrating as the abject losers they are.
Because when you’re a pirate, if somebody reeeally pisses you off and you run them through with a sword, nobody gets on your case about it because, you’re a pirate. That’s just what pirates do. If you’re not a pirate, it causes talk. 😁
I actually have known a number of people who really do seem much better suited to their lives post-transition. But they went through an extensive “test drive” process and assessment prior to any serious rearranging. Not the current “hey, let’s accelerate the irreversible!”
Offhand, I can think of two examples who did the transition without making hairy assholes of themselves (bearing in mind I don’t do (anti)-social media, so I might have missed lapses). The older transition, Walter/Wendy Carlos, of Switched On Bach fame, and the other Bruce/Kaitlin Jenner, though he did a fair amount of talking/being on magazine covers as being Brave/Stunning and such BS.
Blaire White seems sensible, what little I have looked at her videos. Doesn’t approve of transitioning children even if she herself says she wanted the change since she was about 5 years old, and says she is a transwoman, not an actual woman, and that the two are different.
And even Blair admits that the bottom surgery thing has not happened. (and I want to say that even Bruce/Kaitlyn Jenner hasn’t gone that far?) Also that yes, transgenderism IS a mental illness, no matter how you look at it–of course the rest of the trans community hate her (and I will call him her, because Blair actually tries to pass, and if I didn’t already know, I would have assume he was a she.)
From what I’ve read about the procedure…bet he regrets it. And it is an absolute horror show to try and inflict on a child (it’s a horror show for an adult, too, but on a kid–!!)
Same reason why I don’t have problems calling him her. She is honest, at least mostly honest, about the whole thing as far as I know, and yes, actually looks like a woman, not like a man in bad drag.
Heh. White does, BTW, have one video about certain two wives of high level politicians in France and the USA, thinks the France one is a better candidate to fit the rumors, the American one most likely is an actual woman.
Of course the worst thing and something we know for sure about the France one, and less talked about for some reason, is what the age difference and when and how they met tells about her, and about him too, and whether it might be enough to disqualify him for the position he is in. Like, with that, is he running the show, the whole show, or might it actually be her?
Yeah. I haven’t seen White’s video on it, but I agree with her conclusions!
And honestly, the power imbalance in the French couple’s relationship at the start is to my mind, a LOT more questionable than whether or not she is actually he. It definitely paints her in my mind as a groomer and abuser. NOT a healthy relationship whatever the genders involved and no matter how long they’ve been together.
I would think the lefthand knight would have a Polish flag on their breastplate. Maybe I missed something, but I have not seen the Germans really standing up of late…
AfD is growing so much that the elites are trying to outlaw them. They may not be standing up successfully as yet, but the average German is starting to stand up.
OK, I’m not a big horror fan, so I totally missed the relationship to Miskatonic U. I was just pointing out that in the area around Boston, soda pop is called tonic by a lot of people. That was very confusing to me when I moved up there, so I’ve always remembered it.
BTW, wanted to say thank you for No Man’s Land. It’s been a bad time, and this was just what I needed to get out of my head for a while. Skip is definitely my favorite; shooter, swordsman, hero – and stress baker!
I’m still chewing over what I want to put in a review on it. Part of what I want to get in is, “You want to have read some older SF first. Heinlein and Norton especially. Burroughs wouldn’t hurt either. Stories that unabashedly get into, even pure human cultures can be very different.”
I don’t think they HAVE TO. Yes, it will blow some minds who are used to looking for meta narrative applying to our world in SF/F. BUT here’s the thing, I fell for all the classic sf coming from a completely different culture.
I think classic sf is just catchy. Which is why I’m trying to bring it back.
Any you’ve done it really well, Dear Hostess. I needed to read it myself after the latest medical mis-adventure(s)*. Part 2 comes out just before I go to Oregon’s Westside for my next retina exam. I’ll read when my eyes aren’t dilated.
(*) I had been trying to get a medical clearance for a key test prior to knee surgery. The relevant form was supposedly faxed** out 3 times, never reaching the recipient. I eventually persuaded the sender to give me a copy and I carried it the 1000 feet to the relevant person. Sneakernet for the win; much less painful than headdesk. Was in the area because yet another one of my teeth is ready to part company. The bit about British teeth being awful? I’m 3/4s Brit, and it’s true, alas.)
(**) I don’t know why the local medical establishment loves them some fax machines, but yikes!
…Meaning I need to figure out a way to write some, so I can make sure more gets out there.
Hmm.
I might be better suited aiming for Weird Tales, I do have a rough draft I think I might have figured out one of the major problems with that is a bit Lovecraft Lite….
Unicorns are in the Bible. And so are bicorns, which are described elsewhere in there as two-horned rhinoceros. So yes, a unicorn is exactly a one-horned rhino.
I believe “cameleopard” is also a giraffe, come to that.
In general the only 707 like birds still flying are the KC-135 and special stuff like Cobra Ball and its relatives. I have a friend that spent much of her career working with Cobra Ball and other RC-135 derivatives. Apparently, although the KC-135 family shares SOME of its parts with the commercial 707 the 707’s changed a lot before they got shut down for being to loud and too fuel thirsty so can’t totally act as spares for the older KC/RC-135 airframes. Modern stuff seems to be based mostly off the 737 (P-8) or 767 (KC-46).
As for that hummingbird I thought KC-135s only did probe and drogue off the wingtips?
A nice bit of aviation trivia lives here. The KC-135 actually had a Boeing model number – it’s the Boeing 717 (way before the re-badged DC-9 got that number). And it’s based more on the original 367-80 (especially the narrower fuselage) than it is on the 707, which is why 707s can’t be a complete spares package.
As for the probe and drogue, the KC-135 does that by fitting a special kit to the end of the boom. It can do either boom/socket or probe and drogue, but not both on the same flight. Some of the newer tankers, like the KC-10, can do both because they have both a boom and a drogue reel. There are also some probe and drogue-only tankers (British, I think, though there may be others) that have wingtip and fuselage reels, so they can refuel up to three planes at once.
On the less serious side, I want to take a moment and rave about the “Lord of Mysteries” anime adaptation.
I was enjoying the anime, so this week, I went back and binged the source material. Turns out the first 12 episodes of the anime equal 207 chapters of the webnovel. If I’d have read the story first, I would have said there was absolutely no way to adapt it to a visual medium. It’s almost entirely third person narration, and about intricate abstract things, at that.
But they pulled it off brilliantly. First, they shifted the voice to first person* and changed things to internal monologues about what the individual characters were noticing, suspecting, thinking, feeling, etc. Then they did a full structural edit. Characters were combined. Relationships were simplified. The sequence of events was changed to make the storylines more coherent. Entire subplots were cut. (Then went and showed a mastery of their craft on top of it. I found the use of audio cues and visual epithets to be top notch, once I actually noticed them.)
*Until a critical moment in episode 13, when the actual author narrated a couple of paragraphs.
Interesting; I’ll have to figure out how to get hold of an English-language copy over here. But FIRST, I want to ask you your opinion: should someone who hasn’t read it before start with the manga or the anime? You watched the anime first; does reading the manga make you wish you’d started there and seen the anime second?
It actually doesn’t have a manga. It was adapted straight from text. (Adapting from manga isn’t as hard, because both are visual.)
I’d watch the anime. There are a few things that aren’t fully explained in the anime, but the pitch perfect emotional beats more than make up for it. They seriously nailed them. If you want to go back and see what the other members of the Tarot Club and (part of what) Mr. Aziz were up to in the background and more about the setting, you can always read the webnovel, but I don’t think it’s necessary.
A couple of warnings, though.
The first is you’ll be drinking from a firehose for the first few episodes, but if you enjoyed Fringe or Heroes, you’ll be fine. By episode 8, you’ll be understanding almost everything that happens.
The second is that there are a series in animated shorts of Old Neil teaching the protagonist about the magic system, History, cults, and other important infodumps. They’re made to be watched interleaved between main episodes from the time Klein starts getting the classes, until he doesn’t need them anymore. They aren’t strictly necessary. All the information is in the anime. But you’ll have to pause and rewind a good bit to catch all of it. (Plus, it’s fun to hang out with the irascible old coot.)
I have always assumed that was a Dune reference in the song. I know nothing of Fatboy Slim except for that song and video, but it seems to distinct a reference not to be (though it might be to the Lynch film version).
While firing a “three gun” match many years ago, decide to go old-school. Used an M-1 Garand (.30-06), M-1911 (.45) and a Winchester 1300 pump action 12.
The latter two are fairly normal for such competitions. The Garand? Decidedly not.
When I engaged a target through a horizontal barrel, with the muzzle 6″ before the barrel, the contained and returned muzzle blast caused the timer operator to drop it and jam his earmuffs on more tightly, swearing heavily.
I was also zinging the folks who were pretending that 5.56mm made “major caliber” if they so voted it.
A guy goes on vacation to a tropical island. As soon as he gets off the plane, he hears drums. He thinks, “Wow, this is cool.” He goes to the beach, hears drums. he eats lunch, hears drums. He tries to go to sleep, hears drums.
This goes on for several days and nights. It’s driving him nuts!
He goes down to the front desk and asks, “Hey, what’s with these drums? Do they ever stop? I cannot get any sleep.
The hotel staff replies, “No! Drums must never stop. Very, very bad if drums stop.
(Singing a bootleg YMCA camp song that worked well for Army)
“Does your (HONK!) hang low? Does it wobble to and fro? Can you tie it in a knot? Can you tie it in a bow? Can you show it over your shoulder like a Continental Soldier? Does your (HONK!) hang low?”
“Luck” – Yes indeed. Someone appears to have forgotten to install the fuse assembly / detonator on the nose of that mortar round. Sergeant gonna smoke someone for dat.
Inside mind – GAH! IT Guy Nightmare! Nooooooooo! (grabs phaser, sets to “Twinkle” fires repeatedly)
Some of the others give me ideas….. (Wyle E Coyote smirks….)
According To Hoyt 
Coffee (well, cocoa-mocha) and stubborn, yes.
Additional security measures go!
Definition of luck. Is it a bad thing when I can say, “Yep, that scans….”
Aww, Calvin!
Terrible, terrible decisions….
KCoke Demon Hunters! Cackles
And… well, oof. So much oof.
I, too, keep getting that feeling of “someone poking you with a stick to see what will set off the boog.”
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Soda demon hunters here.
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OPSEC, Sarah. You are narrowing the possible locations of the Space Princess Volcanic Lair Undisclosed Location…
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By mentioning “Volcanic Lair”, so are you.
IE There aren’t that many Volcanos in the US. [Twisted Grin]
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Maskirovka isn’t just for commies…
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No. But “volcanic lair” still covers a huge swath of the west. Even Hawaii has a few acreage to be scoured.
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Nah. In my family it’s legacy from Dan’s Connecticut upbringing.
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Heh! I have a similar legacy; the first time I heard someone ask for a “coke Sprite” I was completely boggled.
I live in KCoke, but that part I have not assimilated….
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Oh yes. When we visit Texas, I always get Dr Pepper at restaurants so this hasn’t happened to me. But I remember a friend (who was not from the South) complaining, “I asked for a Coke and the waitress said, “What kind? We got Dr Pepper, Sprite, Coke, 7-Up…” If I meant Dr Pepper I’d have said Dr Pepper! I said Coke and I meant Coke!”
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So, my first flight into the US was crewed exclusively by Texans. Er… not the most cosmopolite… okay, redneck chick.
I asked for coke. They asked me what kind of coke I wanted. I said coca cola. They said “Coca what?”
I drew it. “Oh. You mean pepsi!”
I didn’t mean pepsi. But I sure drank pepsi.
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To be fair, there are some accents that are hard to calibrate and ear-process. Probably because the phonemes are just different enough to fall in the cracks of one’s own accent.
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I will note that your map on the naming of a recent popular Netflix anime movie is incomplete/incorrect. In much of Eastern Massachusetts (say from Worcester west mostly coincident with the area encompassed by I-495), the Northeast Corner of Connecticut (say North and East of Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Casino), New Hampshire from Manchester and Nashua east and most of Maine it would be KTonic Demon Hunters. Parts of Northern/Western New Hampshire might also use this nomenclature. It is not clear what terminology would be used in Vermont, but with the 2020 invasion of evacuating NYC residents it is likely to be KSoda Demon hunters, the native New Englanders having nearly gone extinct (or moved in disgust to New Hampshire) from the ludicrous rise in housing prices.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Maybe the northeast corner of CT, but not the northwest!
(At least not as of some decades ago. I can’t speak to now, wouldn’t go back there, too tempting to set things on fire….)
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Only where contamination from Worcester and MA in general is strong. I grew up in coastal Connecticut and never heard tonic used other than for something used with gin. Tonic for soda along with the use of bubbler for a water fountain baffled me when I went to college in Worcester.
I have heard 2 sources for the etymology of tonicas soda. The first, I believe is apocryphal and implies it was often called Tonic as Soda and Sodas were banned from sale on Sunday blue laws wheras health tonics were always permitted. The more likely one is that early soda concoctions Like Coca Cola, 7-Up and Lowell’s own Moxie were literally sold as health tonics and pick me ups (Coke with its Cocaine and caffeine, 7-up with lithium salts, and Moxie with Gentian root and other things used in spring tonics) and the tonic usage stuck.
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Being particular about the difference between “can” and “may” may be pedantic and pretentious, but I do it all the time when talking to telemarketers.
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Annoying telespammers is a net good.
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That’s why I do it, and I have lots of other methods, like giving my age in days when they ask it. My day is made when they get annoyed enough to cuss me out before hanging up.
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I recently heard a bit from a fellow who had worked as telespammer. He wasn’t allowed to hang up unless things went “abusive” (profanity, “What are you wearing?”) but had to endure if someone was just, “Huh? Could you repeat that?” over and over.
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I answer the phone with, “Good morning, Good afternoon, or Good evening,” depending on time of day. It throws the bot off.
Currently I’m getting a lot of Medicare scripts and especially if It’s a bot I’ll tell them I’m not giving personal information to a stranger on a phone.
I try to be halfway decent, but sometimes my patience runs dry.
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Something changed all at once for me about three weeks ago, and spam phone calls have just been nuts ever since.
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If I answer the phone at all, it’s with “Ahoy!” or maybe “Start talking, it’s your nickel.” but NEVER “Hello?” — unless I recognize the caller… and even then…eh..
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When it’s a non-local area code and I don’t recognize the number, I answer “KRAP, you’re on the air”.
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I’d forgotten about that option.
TY
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About that time, again. Sigh. A lot of calls and mail fliers coming in.
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People answer phones?
I maintain a landline, but almost never answer it unless from doctors. Family and friends use the cell phone.
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When I have to answer an unknown number at work, I speak Klingon.
¿nuqneH?
…
¡pataQ!
Always amuses my coworkers.
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I would reply that precision of language leads to clarity of thought, and pedantry is the polite way to encourage such precision.
Or, we could go back to the strap and the cane in classrooms.
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“Specificity is the soul of all good communication.”
Middleman!
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As the Arisians demonstrate:
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I (and Mentor) approve of this Message
Tregonsee L2 signing out…
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Had an English teacher in 9th grade whose reply to “I’m done” was “Really? HOW LONG DID YOU BAKE?”
She was a bit of an odd duck.
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“About 9 months, like everyone else.”
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Very helpful for dodging vampires, too.
“Shall” is also underappreciated
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Does anyone know about the protest marches going on in Britain?
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Getting spicy as we speak.
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Yes. The overhead pictures were amazing. I have trouble conceiving of so many people, at one place, at one time, for one reason.
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My Late Mother was a school teacher.
But she’d would say things like “you may set the table”.
Then she would be annoyed when I’d respond “Yes, I have permission to set the table”. [Twisted Grin]
Note, I knew that she wanted me to “set the table” but wanted to see her response. LOL
Oh, after her response I’d tell her “yes, I’ll go set the table”. [Wink]
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Mom’s response would be what Dad and I would call a “Dark-Brown look” or a “School Teacher Look”.
Oh, Dad and I enjoyed “plays on word” and when we got going, we’d generate plenty of “Dark Brown Looks” from Mom. [Very Big Grin]
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Sounds very Navy.
Repeating back orders is important for clarity, correct?
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Not really.
“Paul, you may set the table” doesn’t mean “Paul, set the table”. 😉
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Tarkin: “You may fire when ready.”
Imperial junior officer: “Can we wait? We’re watching the battle outside and it’s really cool. Once they’re done we’ll get right to it. Sir.”
:)
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Fire at will.
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“Which one is Will? And, is there only one?”
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Will Riker or Wil Wheaton?
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Both?
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OK, with the leading h:
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Wesley really shou,d have been named Marty Sue.
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I’d like to like this more than once.
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And for some reason in slow motion:
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Wait, she has a point.
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What has Will do to deserve that?????
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What did Will do to you?
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Triumphed?
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I have occasionally responded to a superior at work asking if I want to perform some odious task with a No. The, after a sufficient pause to get a flustered look on the face of said superior who was trying to soft soap a directive, continue that I will.
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I was never so brave to offer such an answer on a test, but I had an Anatomy and Physiology lab exam where the TA had stuck pins, with letter flags attached, into a preserved/dissected human heart, and the instructions were ‘name this structure’. (Even though I already had a BA and MLS, I couldn’t absorb an F on a quiz; I needed the class for nursing school.)
I told the TA I would be justified in writing ‘I name the structure marked “E” “Bob”. I did suggest he use ‘identify’ in future, and he did.
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I am a high school teacher. 21 years. About the first thing I learned was not to phrase questions as optional.
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I once asked Mom if she’d request her students to do something as passive as she asked me to set the table.
She admitted that she won’t. [Wink]
Oh, her last teaching job was remedial reading for grade-schoolers.
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Better than teaching remedial reading to college students. ☹️
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College Football Players. ☹️☹️☹️☹️
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”Set the table, Aye.”
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Grandma, in an aside to my mother, “Let’s not have this for bedtime. I do not like the calibre of English in this book.”
Little pitchers have big ears, so much later…
“No mommy, we can’t read that one, it has English in it.”
Great teacher, my grandmother, very precise in all she said. And good: the only way one could discern those she very much disliked was that she did not speak of them.
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I’ve been thinking about that “We are not the same” meme, so here.
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Try that again: We are not the same
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The Shining…Innnn Spaaaaaace!! Darth Vader would back away slowly. 😧
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Sith Lords clearly. Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice
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SFBS, I guess…
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c4c
A lot of truth that needs spreading.
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if I had been given that button as a kid I would still be wearing it.
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I’ve been at the ‘too old to fight’ spot for years now.
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Aye.
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May all Liberals burn in hell.
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NO!
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May all creation repent of the wrongs they have done and be forgiven. Amen.
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Whether or not that happens is not ours to determine. Or even, if we are being careful of our authority, to *wish.*
Besides, having them convert is much more satisfying.
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That, especially the last part.
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What jizya could they pay to be allowed to be dhimmi in our civilization?
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Are you being facetious at George?
(Can’t tell, best check first)
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No, nothing to do with a George. Actually seem to have missed something; I’ve seen a little discussion of a George, but have not noticed anything from a George.
Dhimmitude is an alternative to full conversion, including a lot of limitations socially, as well as the jizya ‘tax’; I wondered if there were anything the Loony Left could be compelled to promise in order to avoid full conversion, or if the only route involves the sword.
While I’m being clueless, might someone explain “SFBS”? I am familiar with “SFB”, fecal matter for central nervous system, but that trailing “S” eludes me.
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I’d as soon we, a freedom loving people, not adopt such a horror a jizya/dhimmi (which is, after all, just another form of unpersoning).
There’s a lot more on the left out there than you think that just need the right person or event to open their eyes and get their heads out of the sand. You are seeing a LOT of that happening this week. I’ve seen more than a few posts/videos shared of someone going “Okay, you know what, I’ve been a democrat my whole life but celebrating the assassination of a guy who just had an opinion–even though I didn’t agree with him–is sick and wrong. I’m switching parties.” And these are just the ones bold enough to announce it–I expect there are many who just quietly shift gears.
And then you’ve got the ones who will still bury their heads back in the sand after the shock wears off (I’ve got a couple of friends I think are like that–or very carefully refused to UNbury their head in the first place. They’re not celebrating the murder, but they’re also not saying anything at all, so it could go either way.)
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orphangeorge, that’s not for us to determine…. thank God.
I’d love to just leave them to stew in their own juices; since they won’t give me that, I can only deal with them in this world’s terms.
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No. May they repent and turn away from evil. If you believe in hell is a real possibility, that’s a concept out of Christianity. To wish them to burn in hell shows that you are in danger of it yourself. You need to fight the battle within, not just without.
Strive with ideas against the evil ideas. Stand firm against specific actions. Don’t allow the box to be the reason to hate.
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Fuck off back to your father below.
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I can see people being very angry and expressing it without being Feds.
I can see Feds trying by saying things to get certain people very angry.
These may not be the same.
I’m new here. Still trying to get a hang for what initiates the “convene circular firing squad” memo. Don’t want to create any kerfuffles.
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If you have trouble telling the difference between disagreeing with people, and wishing for their eternal destruction, this is probably not a great choice of locations for you.
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Some of the regulars have been here for around fifteen years, and may remember several years of argument here, madgeniusclub, and monsterhunternation, involving disputes over a contest, which had some trolls engaged who could do a moderately okay job of pretending reason for a few days or for a few weeks.
(Okay, there were also a bunch of idjits. There was also a time, IIRC, when one of her kid’s teachers was trying to stir shit by sending school children. )
I’ve basically been in retirement these days, but those were some educational years.
Anyway, george is a fairly recent new comer here, and he is actually coming across as unskilled and boring. He’s obviously either a poor thinker, or not arguing in good faith. Sometimes he fakes engagement a little, but mostly it seems like a daily stream of boilerplate that is shifting between trying to fit in, and trying to incite people.
If he had more energy, he would probably have managed to get himself banned, so I imagine most people are just going ‘ah, george again’ most of the time, and are too bored to argue.
Some of the regulars have very deep disagreements with me on certain points. I have generally found that they will at least give me a chance to explain myself, even when I am being idiotic, as long as I do not make too much of an ass of myself.
And, yes, some of the people here do take their theology seriously, and will pay careful attention to those details, and will find more energy to call out even an otherwise very boring man on those points.
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Disagreements with you: We still don’t think we should nuclear bomb Canada, Bob. But you’ve a good chance of convincing us we should send Castreau a gift of Putin’s special tea..
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Yes, let’s not nuke Canada.
The geese are bad enough with out comic book radiation powers.
To say nothing of the moose.
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And we have friends there.
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But what about the Syrup Maples and their Elves? No! Don’t Nuke Maple Goodness Lands!
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I hear Putin’s special tea is poloni-yummy.
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Here’s the thing Mr. OneMoerThing, the imprecatory Psalms are dicey anywhere. The stones cry out for justice for the blood of innocents… and…
Our current crowd of self-appointed moral absolutists are singing “Charlie got it in the neck” and the part of our hearts that calls for a rain of fire are an occasion of sin.
It’s complicated.
If we all got what we deserved, who’d escape a thorough ass-kicking? Or the fires of hell.
Which, you know are likely real, since you can’t miss that evil it’s own damned self is real. So, given that, d’you want to wish that on anyone? Knowing the measure by which you judge others will be muted out to you in full?
Go with God.
And if you decide to stick around read the FAQBBQ.
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No, no. May they trip over their own bootlaces.
If they’re living ordinary lives, this will only be a discomfort.
If they’re trying to do something harmful, this will be instant karma.
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THIS.
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They are certainly figurately tripping on their bootlaces in spectacular fashion all over the internet…and just cannot seem grok why people are upset…
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Everything everyone said, plus, not all liberals are raving progressive loons. Many are, but not all. I know a few who are probably, “I didn’t like Kirk but nobody ought to be shot for his opinions.” (One of them shoots and butchers his own deer).
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Saw some makeup dude with bubblegum pink hair who was live-streaming when the news came out, found out via commenters in his chat, and that guy was flat out brutal about dismissing the folks who were celebrating as the abject losers they are.
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Knock it off, glowy.
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SFBS!
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Had to print the profession change from schoolmaster one for the wife…
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Because when you’re a pirate, if somebody reeeally pisses you off and you run them through with a sword, nobody gets on your case about it because, you’re a pirate. That’s just what pirates do. If you’re not a pirate, it causes talk. 😁
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“If you’re not a pirate, it causes talk”
And of course, if you -are- a pirate, it causes talk. Sept 19 is the Annual Talk Like A Pirate Day.
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There are days that I try to keep sharp pointy objects away from the wife…
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That rejection letter tells everything we need to know about ‘the rise of gender dysphoria’. 😡
Boys are not girls. Girls are not boys. Those are immutable biological facts that can’t be changed by wishing at them and lying about them.
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Don’t blame the peer reviewers. Language policing typically happens in the first internal review prior to peer review assignment.
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I actually have known a number of people who really do seem much better suited to their lives post-transition. But they went through an extensive “test drive” process and assessment prior to any serious rearranging. Not the current “hey, let’s accelerate the irreversible!”
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Offhand, I can think of two examples who did the transition without making hairy assholes of themselves (bearing in mind I don’t do (anti)-social media, so I might have missed lapses). The older transition, Walter/Wendy Carlos, of Switched On Bach fame, and the other Bruce/Kaitlin Jenner, though he did a fair amount of talking/being on magazine covers as being Brave/Stunning and such BS.
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Blaire White seems sensible, what little I have looked at her videos. Doesn’t approve of transitioning children even if she herself says she wanted the change since she was about 5 years old, and says she is a transwoman, not an actual woman, and that the two are different.
And she looks quite convincing.
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And even Blair admits that the bottom surgery thing has not happened. (and I want to say that even Bruce/Kaitlyn Jenner hasn’t gone that far?) Also that yes, transgenderism IS a mental illness, no matter how you look at it–of course the rest of the trans community hate her (and I will call him her, because Blair actually tries to pass, and if I didn’t already know, I would have assume he was a she.)
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Yeah Kaitlyn did, but it took time.
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From what I’ve read about the procedure…bet he regrets it. And it is an absolute horror show to try and inflict on a child (it’s a horror show for an adult, too, but on a kid–!!)
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Same reason why I don’t have problems calling him her. She is honest, at least mostly honest, about the whole thing as far as I know, and yes, actually looks like a woman, not like a man in bad drag.
Heh. White does, BTW, have one video about certain two wives of high level politicians in France and the USA, thinks the France one is a better candidate to fit the rumors, the American one most likely is an actual woman.
Of course the worst thing and something we know for sure about the France one, and less talked about for some reason, is what the age difference and when and how they met tells about her, and about him too, and whether it might be enough to disqualify him for the position he is in. Like, with that, is he running the show, the whole show, or might it actually be her?
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Yeah. I haven’t seen White’s video on it, but I agree with her conclusions!
And honestly, the power imbalance in the French couple’s relationship at the start is to my mind, a LOT more questionable than whether or not she is actually he. It definitely paints her in my mind as a groomer and abuser. NOT a healthy relationship whatever the genders involved and no matter how long they’ve been together.
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That Javier Miley picture makes him look a lot like Dirty Harry.
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And why the hell did this comment end up here… oh well.
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Because WPDE, of course.
I can just see Milei saying “Go ahead. Make my day.”
Or “So ask yourself, ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya…punk?”
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You’re not allowed to fly the British flag in public, but I bet they’ll let you burn it.
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I would think the lefthand knight would have a Polish flag on their breastplate. Maybe I missed something, but I have not seen the Germans really standing up of late…
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AfD is growing so much that the elites are trying to outlaw them. They may not be standing up successfully as yet, but the average German is starting to stand up.
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And all their leaders are mysteriously dropping dead. If ‘3 times is enemy action’, what is 8 from the same disfavored party in two weeks?
“There’s statistically improbable, and then there’s ‘violates the fundamental principles of the universe’ improbable.”
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Not all. It’s several local leaders. But it is odd enough to draw comments.
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And as for the KPop meme, there’s a small area around Boston where they’re KTonic Demon Hunters.
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I’m fairly sure that’s unrighteous?
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My beloved is from the area and he’s talking about KMoxie.
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Possibly someone might Mis- that.
Also remember, those demons hunt you …
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Miska-Tonic?
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Brewed with the Milk of the Dark Mother! The perfect treat for your spawnling!
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See my concurring opinion above :-)
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OK, I’m not a big horror fan, so I totally missed the relationship to Miskatonic U. I was just pointing out that in the area around Boston, soda pop is called tonic by a lot of people. That was very confusing to me when I moved up there, so I’ve always remembered it.
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#3? You gotter be kidding!
And I can’t believe it took ’til today to see a Charlie Won Kirknobi meme. I know I wasn’t the only person to ever see Star Wars.
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I saw one like it on Thursday. Luck, I guess. (or was it the force?)
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BTW, wanted to say thank you for No Man’s Land. It’s been a bad time, and this was just what I needed to get out of my head for a while. Skip is definitely my favorite; shooter, swordsman, hero – and stress baker!
(And the kpop vid rocks.)
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Great to hear this.
I’m happy to hear both that you have found some comfort, and that the book is pretty good.
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:) This is one of those things that goes in the heart folder. It’s always special when a writer I admire likes something I wrote in turn.
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I’m still chewing over what I want to put in a review on it. Part of what I want to get in is, “You want to have read some older SF first. Heinlein and Norton especially. Burroughs wouldn’t hurt either. Stories that unabashedly get into, even pure human cultures can be very different.”
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I don’t think they HAVE TO. Yes, it will blow some minds who are used to looking for meta narrative applying to our world in SF/F. BUT here’s the thing, I fell for all the classic sf coming from a completely different culture.
I think classic sf is just catchy. Which is why I’m trying to bring it back.
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Any you’ve done it really well, Dear Hostess. I needed to read it myself after the latest medical mis-adventure(s)*. Part 2 comes out just before I go to Oregon’s Westside for my next retina exam. I’ll read when my eyes aren’t dilated.
(*) I had been trying to get a medical clearance for a key test prior to knee surgery. The relevant form was supposedly faxed** out 3 times, never reaching the recipient. I eventually persuaded the sender to give me a copy and I carried it the 1000 feet to the relevant person. Sneakernet for the win; much less painful than headdesk. Was in the area because yet another one of my teeth is ready to part company. The bit about British teeth being awful? I’m 3/4s Brit, and it’s true, alas.)
(**) I don’t know why the local medical establishment loves them some fax machines, but yikes!
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Classic SF is indeed catchy.
…Meaning I need to figure out a way to write some, so I can make sure more gets out there.
Hmm.
I might be better suited aiming for Weird Tales, I do have a rough draft I think I might have figured out one of the major problems with that is a bit Lovecraft Lite….
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The Venn diagram describing the shared characteristics of a Marxist, mountain lion & toddler is inaccurate.
Marxists also resist taking baths.
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You know, I thought EXACTLY that when I first saw it. :D
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I used to think it was really wrong for LEOs to use firehoses on humans.
Then I got downwind of a Communist/Anarchist/AuntTifa/WTF protest.
O….M….G…..
People, Humanity has had soap for over 4,800 years! No excuse!
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I’m not sure if mountain lions dislike water. Some other big cats like the tiger and jaguar are quite at home in the water.
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Yes, but don’t try to BATHE one….
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Those “behold, a unicorn” posts made me LOL.
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Unicorns are in the Bible. And so are bicorns, which are described elsewhere in there as two-horned rhinoceros. So yes, a unicorn is exactly a one-horned rhino.
I believe “cameleopard” is also a giraffe, come to that.
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Save the Chubby Unicorns!!!
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I thought I put that up last week?
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And Ace of Spades promptly swiped it.
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The Reader will be sad when the last Boeing 707 heads to the boneyard. And he still believes no sane hummingbird would try this with the new tanker.
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The boom only fell of that once…
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In general the only 707 like birds still flying are the KC-135 and special stuff like Cobra Ball and its relatives. I have a friend that spent much of her career working with Cobra Ball and other RC-135 derivatives. Apparently, although the KC-135 family shares SOME of its parts with the commercial 707 the 707’s changed a lot before they got shut down for being to loud and too fuel thirsty so can’t totally act as spares for the older KC/RC-135 airframes. Modern stuff seems to be based mostly off the 737 (P-8) or 767 (KC-46).
As for that hummingbird I thought KC-135s only did probe and drogue off the wingtips?
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A nice bit of aviation trivia lives here. The KC-135 actually had a Boeing model number – it’s the Boeing 717 (way before the re-badged DC-9 got that number). And it’s based more on the original 367-80 (especially the narrower fuselage) than it is on the 707, which is why 707s can’t be a complete spares package.
As for the probe and drogue, the KC-135 does that by fitting a special kit to the end of the boom. It can do either boom/socket or probe and drogue, but not both on the same flight. Some of the newer tankers, like the KC-10, can do both because they have both a boom and a drogue reel. There are also some probe and drogue-only tankers (British, I think, though there may be others) that have wingtip and fuselage reels, so they can refuel up to three planes at once.
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Bravo, sir.
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On the less serious side, I want to take a moment and rave about the “Lord of Mysteries” anime adaptation.
I was enjoying the anime, so this week, I went back and binged the source material. Turns out the first 12 episodes of the anime equal 207 chapters of the webnovel. If I’d have read the story first, I would have said there was absolutely no way to adapt it to a visual medium. It’s almost entirely third person narration, and about intricate abstract things, at that.
But they pulled it off brilliantly. First, they shifted the voice to first person* and changed things to internal monologues about what the individual characters were noticing, suspecting, thinking, feeling, etc. Then they did a full structural edit. Characters were combined. Relationships were simplified. The sequence of events was changed to make the storylines more coherent. Entire subplots were cut. (Then went and showed a mastery of their craft on top of it. I found the use of audio cues and visual epithets to be top notch, once I actually noticed them.)
*Until a critical moment in episode 13, when the actual author narrated a couple of paragraphs.
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I’m sorry…. less serious than…. memes?
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Well, no. But some of the conversations above…
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Interesting; I’ll have to figure out how to get hold of an English-language copy over here. But FIRST, I want to ask you your opinion: should someone who hasn’t read it before start with the manga or the anime? You watched the anime first; does reading the manga make you wish you’d started there and seen the anime second?
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It actually doesn’t have a manga. It was adapted straight from text. (Adapting from manga isn’t as hard, because both are visual.)
I’d watch the anime. There are a few things that aren’t fully explained in the anime, but the pitch perfect emotional beats more than make up for it. They seriously nailed them. If you want to go back and see what the other members of the Tarot Club and (part of what) Mr. Aziz were up to in the background and more about the setting, you can always read the webnovel, but I don’t think it’s necessary.
A couple of warnings, though.
The first is you’ll be drinking from a firehose for the first few episodes, but if you enjoyed Fringe or Heroes, you’ll be fine. By episode 8, you’ll be understanding almost everything that happens.
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&))$ WordPress.
The second is that there are a series in animated shorts of Old Neil teaching the protagonist about the magic system, History, cults, and other important infodumps. They’re made to be watched interleaved between main episodes from the time Klein starts getting the classes, until he doesn’t need them anymore.
They aren’t strictly necessary. All the information is in the anime. But you’ll have to pause and rewind a good bit to catch all of it. (Plus, it’s fun to hang out with the irascible old coot.)
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I’ve been a Frank Herbert / Dune fan forn over 40 years but now all I can think of is Fatboy Slim singing:
Walk without rhythm, you won’t attract the worm
while Christopher Walken dances.
Sorry.
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I have always assumed that was a Dune reference in the song. I know nothing of Fatboy Slim except for that song and video, but it seems to distinct a reference not to be (though it might be to the Lynch film version).
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Er, hang on… guns for FISHING?
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“Baramundi’s a bloody big fish.” 😁
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Been around for a while, actually….
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2020/08/19/flying-carp-hunting-shotguns/
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So our notional carp-a-pult is merely a way to take advantage of natural behavior.
If we were so inclined, we might speculate on how Vernian our sabots for carp must be for the fish to land as identifiable creatures rather than mush.
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Carp vs SEAL – classic . . .
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What? You never shot fish in a barrel????
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Has no one ever heard “muzzle blast” in a barrel?
ouch
While firing a “three gun” match many years ago, decide to go old-school. Used an M-1 Garand (.30-06), M-1911 (.45) and a Winchester 1300 pump action 12.
The latter two are fairly normal for such competitions. The Garand? Decidedly not.
When I engaged a target through a horizontal barrel, with the muzzle 6″ before the barrel, the contained and returned muzzle blast caused the timer operator to drop it and jam his earmuffs on more tightly, swearing heavily.
I was also zinging the folks who were pretending that 5.56mm made “major caliber” if they so voted it.
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From Ace:
A guy goes on vacation to a tropical island. As soon as he gets off the plane, he hears drums. He thinks, “Wow, this is cool.” He goes to the beach, hears drums. he eats lunch, hears drums. He tries to go to sleep, hears drums.
This goes on for several days and nights. It’s driving him nuts!
He goes down to the front desk and asks, “Hey, what’s with these drums? Do they ever stop? I cannot get any sleep.
The hotel staff replies, “No! Drums must never stop. Very, very bad if drums stop.
“Why?”
“When the drums stop, the bass solo begins.”
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Ha! (Bass player here. I don’t want me playing a solo just as much as you don’t.) :D
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Hey, now, Geddy Lee has played some wicked bass solos. 😁
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Label on a friend’s bass:
“You are NOT Geddy Lee”
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(Adapted from another meme)
If you want to play bass solos, you should look in the mirror and ask yourself: “Am I Geddy Lee?”
If the answer is No, then you should not play any bass solos.
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Mr Pastis has a nice, meme-y strip in Sunday’s Pearls Before Swine.
Maybe it will appear … yes!
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For all the lady Huns of A Certain Age:
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Definitely for me. Send it in email?
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I am so stealing.
Amen.
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Reminds me of the T-shirt:
I HAVE PMS AND A LOADED GUN. ANY QUESTIONS? 😄
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To that Greek soldier: Could be worse. The dude in front of you forgot his pants. 😄
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And in the ancient Greek army that was terrifying indeed.
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(Singing a bootleg YMCA camp song that worked well for Army)
“Does your (HONK!) hang low? Does it wobble to and fro? Can you tie it in a knot? Can you tie it in a bow? Can you show it over your shoulder like a Continental Soldier? Does your (HONK!) hang low?”
We could get away with “ears”….
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I love all you guys. And hopefully WP will let me post this comment.
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“Luck” – Yes indeed. Someone appears to have forgotten to install the fuse assembly / detonator on the nose of that mortar round. Sergeant gonna smoke someone for dat.
Inside mind – GAH! IT Guy Nightmare! Nooooooooo! (grabs phaser, sets to “Twinkle” fires repeatedly)
Some of the others give me ideas….. (Wyle E Coyote smirks….)
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