TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gribnit I didn't know you're Russian. Now it all makes sense! It's not mercury - just methanol!
Weird thing is, he wasn't even Russian. If I'm Russian at all and not entirely half-Polish it's on my mother's side. Mighta been the Cherokee blood or something. Don't think yer basic Magyar / British mix is that alcohol-susceptible.
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@Gribnit ty tak na serio z tym półpolskim czy tylko udajesz?
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@Gąska Not even a little. And I am only guessing at what you asked me.
Parsing blind. Yes, half, reportedly, or 1/4 and 1/4 "Black Russian" or "White Russian" some shade of Russian.
Google translated: Yes, seriously semi-Polish, but not seriously enough not to need to use Google Translate or think you were asking if I spoke Polish.
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@Gribnit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska Not even a little. And I am only guessing at what you asked me.
I asked if you're just pretending that you're half-Polish.
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@Gąska Much fixed above.
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@Gribnit now I know you're most definitely a liar. Either that, or your father is.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gribnit now I know you're most definitely a liar. Either that, or your father is.
The Polish would be on my mother's side. It is uncertain whether my maternal grandfather was Russian or Polish. That such an uncertainty could exist? Only in America...
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@Gribnit oh, so you mean double-quarter-Polish, not actually half-Polish. Now it makes more sense. Also, doesn't count.
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TIL "double-quarter-Polish" is when your maternal grandparents are both Polish but you're not entirely sure about the grandfather.
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@Gribnit how in the hell can both your mother's parents be Polish if she's not Polish herself?
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I think @Gribnit might be quintuple-quarter-Polish.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gribnit how in the hell can both your mother's parents be Polish if she's not Polish herself?
I never said she wasn't. I'm pretty sure she's pretty sure she is. My paternal grandfather does not admit to being either Russian or Polish, but he's also dead, like grandparents tend to be at my age...
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@loopback0 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I think @Gribnit might be quintuple-quarter-Polish.
By unenlightened arithmetic that would put me past @Gąska levels...
That probably wouldn't count either...
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@Gribnit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gribnit how in the hell can both your mother's parents be Polish if she's not Polish herself?
I never said she wasn't.
How the hell you don't know Polish if you have Polish mother!?
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gribnit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gribnit how in the hell can both your mother's parents be Polish if she's not Polish herself?
I never said she wasn't.
How the hell you don't know Polish if you have Polish mother!?
She was only double double-half Polish maybe.
I know
zbidkie
at least, but not the proper parasites to spell it.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gribnit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gribnit how in the hell can both your mother's parents be Polish if she's not Polish herself?
I never said she wasn't.
How the hell you don't know Polish if you have Polish mother!?
Maybe he liked not knowing half of what she was saying.
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@brie that explains a few things.
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@Gribnit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Parsing blind. Yes, half, reportedly, or 1/4 and 1/4 "Black Russian" or "White Russian" some shade of Russian.
How many parts Kahlúa?
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@Gribnit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I know
zbidkie
at least, but not the proper parasites to spell it.Whatever it is, I'm pretty sure it's not a Polish word.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gribnit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I know
zbidkie
at least, but not the proper parasites to spell it.Whatever it is, I'm pretty sure it's not a Polish word.
Might be Yiddish. Might be made up for all I know. I am informed it means "luxury" or something.
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@Gribnit Jewish-Polish mother that taught you neither Polish nor Jewish, and a non-Russian grandfather so drunk that when he lost his arm, his body didn't even notice. Yeah, sure.
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@Gąska He didn't lose his arm. If he'd been sober, yeah, he'd have lost the use of his hand.
- Yiddish isn't Hebrew - and whatever the hell the Hebrew-Polish creole is probably ain't Yiddish...
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...at least in the US... now to find an equivalent job nearby.
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Dog Sitting
in the US
<insert joke about being too lazy/physically incapable of dog walking>
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Dog Sitting
in the US
<insert joke about being too lazy/physically incapable of dog walking>
Filed under: par for the course here
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Dog Sitting
in the US
<insert joke about being too lazy/physically incapable of dog walking>
If you live an apartment and work fulltime it comes in handy and if you are vacation.
We have live in dog sitters (and babysitters) so we've never actually paid for it.
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TIL that Marian is a female name abroad.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that Marian is a female name abroad.
TIL Marian is a male name in Poland, I guess.
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@Gąska Not that strange, it's just a different spelling of Maryanne
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@Carnage even if it makes sense (it does, but you're wrong on the etymology), it's still weird. Imagine travelling to another country, meeting a girl named Donald, and when you ask someone about it, they tell you that Donald is a common female name and they don't see anything weird about it.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Carnage even if it makes sense (it does, but you're wrong on the etymology), it's still weird. Imagine travelling to another country, meeting a girl named Donald, and when you ask someone about it, they tell you that Donald is a common female name and they don't see anything weird about it.
No, I am not wrong about the etymology of the name. But I am not interested enough in names to have a long discussion about it.
There are several roots of it, one being Mary+ann, an other being of the Mari people, a third being of Marius the roman dude, and so on.I've had the experience several times, just not with Donald. The fist time was with a girl called Sam, which is a very male name in Svitjod, but it wasn't particularly strange to me even the first time. Though, the next few years my friends teased me a fair bit about it.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska
Vladimir Zhirinovsky discusses the status of the Russian language
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkuISzKZX3Y)So I finally got the time to watch this. At 5 minutes in, his rant is just becoming epic, though it's then only downhill when Putin starts lecturing him at 8:00.
It looks like they didn't laugh him completely out of the room so they must be keeping him as the court jester?
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@JBert Even with subtitles I still didn’t get what the fuck he was on about. I was greatly amused by Putin’s increasing level of facepalm though.
And then he got schooled.
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@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
a girl called Sam
Short for Samantha, or plain Sam?
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TIL: TomTom sells devices with "Lifetime map updates" where they define lifetime to mean whichever period they feel like supporting the device (typically 2 years).
https://us.support.tomtom.com/app/content/id/9/page/4/locale/en_US
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@Zecc It's decades ago, but I think it was just plain Sam.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Carnage even if it makes sense (it does, but you're wrong on the etymology), it's still weird. Imagine travelling to another country, meeting a girl named Donald, and when you ask someone about it, they tell you that Donald is a common female name and they don't see anything weird about it.
I know a couple who were traveling one time and stopped over in France, where they booked a hotel. The clerk on the phone was a little confused that they wanted a room with only one bed, and when they showed up to claim their room, the desk clerk had to go and get some of his coworkers to come see the wife's ID, which proved that her name really was "Lauri," which is apparently a male name in French.
There is also a female TV news hostess that shares one of my names. There is a very similar female name, but the spelling of hers is the male version.
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@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Zecc It's decades ago, but I think it was just plain Sam.
Other nicknames as names (plus usage for both boys and girls): Alex, Jesse.
Other names that I was surprised to meet a guy with the name: Tracy, Stacy, Shannon.
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@djls45 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Carnage even if it makes sense (it does, but you're wrong on the etymology), it's still weird. Imagine travelling to another country, meeting a girl named Donald, and when you ask someone about it, they tell you that Donald is a common female name and they don't see anything weird about it.
I know a couple who were traveling one time and stopped over in France, where they booked a hotel. The clerk on the phone was a little confused that they wanted a room with only one bed, and when they showed up to claim their room, the desk clerk had to go and get some of his coworkers to come see the wife's ID, which proved that her name really was "Lauri," which is apparently a male name in French.
There is also a female TV news hostess that shares one of my names. There is a very similar female name, but the spelling of hers is the male version.
Jamie (M) /Jaime (F),
Jesse (M) / Jessie (F) (I think)
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@Karla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@djls45 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
There is also a female TV news hostess that shares one of my names. There is a very similar female name, but the spelling of hers is the male version.
Jamie (M) /Jaime (F),
Jaime is also a Spanish version of James. (I think Diego is another name-equivalent.)
Jesse (M) / Jessie (F) (I think)
Those are the usual forms, yes.
None of these are my name, though. :)
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@djls45 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
a room with only one bed,
@djls45 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
her name really was "Lauri," which is apparently a male name in French.
From context it seems the French would not let them have a room if they were homosexual?
Scandal!
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@Tsaukpaetra With the same last name? They were clearly expecting either two brothers or a father-son or uncle-nephew duo.
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@djls45 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
clearly expecting
I wonder what they would expect if my father and I attempted to check in. Our names are basically identical, after all...
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@Tsaukpaetra Except for the Sr. and Jr. at the end?
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@djls45 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra Except for the Sr. and Jr. at the end?
Not even that. Mine sometimes has a II, but that's not always an option in many booking forms.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@djls45 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
a room with only one bed,
@djls45 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
her name really was "Lauri," which is apparently a male name in French.
From context it seems the French would not let them have a room if they were homosexual?
Scandal!
I didn't get that. It used to be common for hotels to not allow unmarried couples to stay in the same room. I've always assumed it's some combination of prudishness and a desire to keep prostitution out of their hotel.
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@boomzilla Fantastic opportunity for me to start a love hotel next to them.
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TIL Reddit uses J/K to scroll down/up, just like Vim. Of course H and L are shortcuts for something entirely different - not sure exactly what, but I've got toasters that something happened.
Goddamn how I hate keyboard shortcuts on websites.
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@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Reddit uses J/K to scroll down/up, just like Vim.
At least, Reddit is easy to exit