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extra placebo to make your tea appear to taste better.
Common placebos are sugar pills, so this might actually not be a placebo. Except then...
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No, not slang, just the normal word for the birds.
("Meise, die", noun, f., pl. "Meisen" – tit, a small bird.)So he was watching her birds, not her anatomy? Silly fellow.
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noland said:
"gestählt" – hardened (from "Stahl" – steal)Oops, I overlooked the "h".
A Stalinist bird ... (it's actually the same construct as "Stalin")
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So he was watching her birds, not her anatomy? Silly fellow.
This is, why it was put in italics ...
Actually, "Meise" is often used in common metaphoric phrases (esp. in Germany, "du hast ja eine Meise", you're silly) and its also a part of the beef.
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"gestählt" – hardened (from "Stahl" – steal)
BTW, you mean "steel," not "steal" — hard metal, not commit theft.
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BTW, you mean "steel," not "steal" — hard metal, not commit theft.
Actually ... err ... sorry ...
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Actually ... err ... sorry ...
English has many homonyms that can confuse non-native speakers (and many native speakers).
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English has many homonyms that can confuse non-native speakers (and many native speakers).
And it's very punny when it happens, too.
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noland said:
Here you are:So what's all that translated as a sentence?
The assistant captain of the corvette of the Danube steam boat company was watching through the high precision optics binoculars the tits (non, no, its the birds!), hardened by the high alpin air, of the (girl) guardian of dairy cattle from the upper valley of the Enns.Or some like this. (Doesn't translate to a decent sentence that easily.)
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German people are strange...
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German people are strange...
This is, why we have German and German speaking people in the first place!
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German people are strange...
It's not really so strange if you strip the sentence down to its basic structure: "The assistant captain was watching the tits." The rest just elaborates on which assistant captain, whose tits, the condition of those tits, and how he1 was watching them.
1 It would be erroneous to use inclusive language here. The German word does not have the feminine -in ending, so it is correct to use the masculine pronoun "he."
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It's not really so strange if you strip the sentence down to its basic structure
A+!
(the student exhibits a general understanding of the language, even in its finer details, like observing some of the concepts foreign to the native language)
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A+!(the student exhibits a general understanding of the language, even in its finer details, like observing some of the concepts foreign to the native language)
All I see is tits. But if you say so...
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Forgot how good this is for an IPA
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A+!
(the student exhibits a general understanding of the language, even in its finer details, like observing some of the concepts foreign to the native language)Thanks, but to be honest, I got almost all of that from the English translation. I know just barely enough German to observe the presence or absence of the feminine ending on my own.
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Thanks, but to be honest, I got almost all of that from the English translation. I know just barely enough German to observe the presence or absence of the feminine ending on my own.
I forgot to mention that this was the "reconstruction from translations" class
(This would make same great courses for future curricula. Understanding post-human language, as by Bing or Google, and (re)adjusting it to context.)
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Yeah, that's a good one. I like Ninkasi's IPA quite a bit, but then again, I worked the for two years. My favorite is still Arrogant Bastard.
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Just as most Americans have no idea how awesome tea is because it's so hard to get a decent cup of it anywhere
That's because all you fools drink the wrong kind of tea.
Sweet tea wins.
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Peppermint tea without sugar and without milk is the only tea I ever drink.
And I mostly have it when it's cold and I'm doing unexciting things.
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and I'm doing unexciting things.
unexciting things like drinking tea? I think you might get in a loop there.
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To be fair, if she only did it while doing exciting things, she'd have to stop immediately.
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That's because all you fools drink the wrong kind of tea.
Sweet tea wins.Fuck you and your sweet tea, in the ear with a very large purple cactus dildo.
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Fuck you and your sweet tea, in the ear with a very large purple cactus dildo.
And yet some still doubt evolution... In about two years I expect the ultimate form of this meme appearing, but we'll all need to have it in a bookmarklet or something because it will get too long to type every time.
Filed under: White hot steel (or was it iron?) purple cactus dildo?
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Well... ordinarily I wouldn't have invoked either in the ear or it being a purple dildo, let alone a cactus one but one does not simply suggest sweet tea to a red-blooded Englishman!
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red-blooded Englishman
I thought that's an unfashionable blood colour for Englishmen these days.
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I thought that's an unfashionable blood colour for Englishmen these days.
I'm one of the hoi polloi. Common people. I'm not one of those dem aristos.
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I'm one of the hoi polloi. Common people. I'm not one of those dem aristos.
You are aware that hoi polloi (properly, οἱ πολλοί) means “the people” (or perhaps “the (unwashed) masses”)? Hoi is a definite article (of some variety) in Greek, though my Greek is weak enough that I can't tell you much more than that . That means you'd have been better off writing:
I'm one of the common people. Hoi polloi. I'm not one of those dem aristos.
Edit - PJH
Awarded Knight Pedantic Dickweed of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath
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Nominated for pedantry.
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You are aware that hoi polloi (properly, οἱ πολλοί) means “the people” (or perhaps “the (unwashed) masses”)? Hoi is a definite article (of some variety) in Greek, though my Greek is weak enough that I can't tell you much more than that . That means you'd have been better off writing:
> I'm one of the common people. Hoi polloi. I'm not one of those dem aristos.
Yes, I am aware. I just chose to phrase it that way knowing full well that there would typically be someone pedantic enough to pick up on it in the quest for PD badges.
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knowing full well that there would typically be someone pedantic enough to pick up on it in the quest for PD badges
I like to encourage that behaviour.
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Awarded Knight Pedantic Dickweed of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath
I consider that cheating. We've already had this discussion, here and here. This is but a pale imitation of the original.
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Yeah, that's a good one. I like Ninkasi's IPA quite a bit, but then again, I worked the for two years. My favorite is still Arrogant Bastard.
Pretty much anything from Stone is good.
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I consider that cheating. We've already had this discussion, here and here. This is but a pale imitation of the original.
I'm lead to believe that the award is not so much for single instances of pedantic dickweedery, so much as sustained pedantry. I'll probably get there in the end; I really can't help it (though it's also counterbalanced by laziness).
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I'm lead to believe that the award is not so much for single instances of pedantic dickweedery, so much as sustained pedantry. I'll probably get there in the end; I really can't help it (though it's also counterbalanced by laziness).
No, no, it's for instances of suitably pedantic dickweedery. Some cases may require prolonged inflictions, some require just excessive doses in a single hit. But sufficient pedantry one way or the other will attain it.
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>dkf said:
I'm lead to believe that the award is not so much for single instances of pedantic dickweedery, so much as sustained pedantry. I'll probably get there in the end; I really can't help it (though it's also counterbalanced by laziness).No, no, it's for instances of suitably pedantic dickweedery. Some cases may require prolonged inflictions, some require just excessive doses in a single hit. But sufficient pedantry one way or the other will attain it.
My intent when I proposed it here was to have the awards represent good, excellent and exceptional achievement in individual examples of pedantic dickweedery, thus relieving the mods of the bookkeeping involved in tracking sustained pedantry, since bookkeeping effort was a major concern of @PJH. (Being awarded at the discretion of the mods, they are welcome to consider the history of the poster's pedantry if they want to, but my intent was to eliminate the obligation to do so.) Further, my intent in suggesting pedantic posts be flagged was simply to draw moderators' attention to potentially worthy posts, which they could then evaluate and award or not.
However, @PJH chose to implement the badges using flag count as a measure of worthiness, and low level badge count as a measure of worthiness for higher-level badges. I can't really argue with that, since he's an admin and I'm not, but I am a bit disappointed that it seems to be about quantity rather than quality.
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I was inferring based on my perception of it, rather than really caring about the details.
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Assuming this is still the place for beer discussion (after 168 days, no less):
@chubertdev, please call your office
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I'm not clicking that link from work, but for clarification, is the whole whale smoked or just the testicles? I'm trying to work out how big their smoking apparatus is.
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Just the testicles are smoked. The link is SFW. They have a picture of whales swimming and one that beached itself in the UK a few years ago.
The testicles are cured “according to an old, Icelandic tradition” before being salted and smoked. One is used per batch and they can weigh nearly 6 pounds each, according to The Times.
I assume they eat the rest of the whale, too, but the article doesn't say.
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Blasphemy! I cast BELGIUM and HOLLAND on you!
Oh look, the filter must be case-sensitive.
Edit: oops, no, I got fooled by the necro.
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Assuming this is still the place for beer discussion (after 168 days, no less):
@chubertdev, please call your office
Yeah, not gonna happen.
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What, to busy with your new fangled job?
I'm on vacation right now. Work 5 days, spend the next week in New England. Makes sense, right?
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