TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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I don't ever remember it costing 99p. Even when I was little, I'm sure it was £1.
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TIL text editors are very srs bsns.
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i watched that one happen.... it went from like 10 unread posts to ..... what are they up to now 3k? in the space of one meeting today.... seems to have slowed down now though.
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TIL that you can get notifications before your account is activated.....
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TIL @Yamikuronue types in her sleep.
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you don't? it's a handy skill. Now if you'll excuse me, I have violet zombies to discombobulate.
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Context, lest people think I'm sleeping with you.
FWiP: I took a sleeping pill to help me sleep. Now I can't wake up.
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discombobulate
My second favourite English word, ever.
Right after "defenestrate".
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Right after "defenestrate".
which means something rather different than one might assume just by looking at the word.
:-D
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I became a fan of "petrichor". Thanks @accalia.
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I quite like 'sapphic'.
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Do I even dare to ask?
Defenestrate means to throw someone out of a window....
I became a fan of "petrichor". Thanks @accalia.
=D I'm helping!~
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I became a fan of "petrichor". Thanks @accalia.
I only know of it from Dr. Who. It's cool, but not cool enough to replace current favourites.
I quite like 'sapphic'.
Defenestrate means to throw someone out of a window....
I know that. I'm wondering about the buttumptions...
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I know that. I'm wondering about the buttumptions...
oh. that?
it's nothing much. Just every guy i've had a chance to use that word on in casual conversation (who didn't already know the word) has assumed that
defenestration
==castration
and to be fair the last 7 letters are the same.... but that doesn't mean the words are the same.
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Wat? How... Why would you... But...
TIL that native English speakers can be even more wrong than me about their own words at times.
Well, the fact that I knew that "Fenster" is "window" in German might've helped slightly in remembering what it means, though I addmitedly didn't make the connection at first.
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yeah, that was more or less my reaction too.
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I like 'cromulent'
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TIL that native English speakers can be even more wrong than me about their own words at times.
Some people are plain old ignoramuses. Doesn't mean that everyone is.
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Doesn't mean that everyone is.
Are you going to go all shoulder aliens on me as well now? :P
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Am I required to add a "not all members of a set" to every post I make?
I buttumed people who interact with me on this forum are aware that I'm not the sort of person that's closed-minded and prone to over-generalization.
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Am I required to add a "not all members of a set" to every post I make?
Not at all. It just depends on what mood the rest of us are in.
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Just every guy i've had a chance to use that word on in casual conversation (who didn't already know the word) has assumed that defenestration == castration
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Well, the fact that I knew that "Fenster" is "window" in German might've helped slightly in remembering what it means
It's also fenêtre in French.
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Just every guy i've had a chance to use that word on in casual conversation (who didn't already know the word) has assumed that defenestration == castration
It just occurred to me that might be semi-correct, depending on whether you throw the bits you chop off out of the window…
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as i understand it defenestration is ususally throwing the whole person out the window.
not so bad for first floor, rather more serious for 6th floor.
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If you say it in the right tone, men will assume ANYTHING is a threat to their junk
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Oh, a “conventional interpretation”.
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If you say it in the right tone, men will assume ANYTHING is a threat to their junk
a fact i have used to my advantage in the past.... and doubtlessly will again.
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@Yamikuronue said:
If you say it in the right tone, men will assume ANYTHING is a threat to their junk
a fact i have used to my advantage in the past.... and doubtlessly will again.
So, when you say 'Not necessarily evil'…
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Well, the fact that I knew that "Fenster" is "window" in German might've helped slightly in remembering what it means, though I addmitedly didn't make the connection at first.
The Latin word for Window is Fenestra. You're welcome.
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Am I required to add a "not all members of a set" to every post I make?
According to naive set theory, any definable collection is a set. Let R be the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. If R is not a member of itself, then its definition dictates that it must contain itself, and if it contains itself, then it contradicts its own definition as the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. This contradiction is Russell's paradox.
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Gibberish.
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"petrichor"
That is a good word. Unfortunately, I don't get to experience petrichor very often here in Phoenix.
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well that's what you get for living in a fracking desert!
:-P
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I just accidently learned that if I type the accent
^
followed by a digit, I get a superscript character of that digit. Ie,^
followed by1
becomes¹
;^
followed by2
becomes²
, etc. up to⁹
.That's going to become pretty useful.
Filed under: works on my machine
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I can do that through WinCompose: ¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹⁰
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Interesting... In my regular Croatian layout it doesn't work. It works on my layout that includes digraphs (and I only have that one installed to troll with digraphs).
I'm sure that Windows default behaved the same, as in I had to hit AltGr3 twice to get
^
, and would probably behave the same....I have no idea where to set that up in Cinnamon / Gnome.
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THAT sounds like a useful thing to add to markdown
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Sure, add what you like—it's not like it's standardized or anything.
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well that's what you get for living in a fracking desert!
At least I don't have to worry about getting buried in the winter!
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<fr>touch point</fr>
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Bunch of whiny babies, the lot of you. I get both buried in show in the winter and fry in the summer. Parts of the country regularly suffer winds reaching hurricane speeds and those are handled by a TV announcement saying "don't go out if you really don't have to, k?"
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I just get rained on a lot :shrug.cshtml:
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fry in the summer.
How would you define "fry in the summer"?
suffer winds reaching hurricane speeds
We occasionally get those. And the usually pick up the sand when they come. Scenes like this are not unknown:
http://icons.wunderground.com/data/wximagenew/c/ChandlerMike/520.jpg
In fact, that is a picture of Phoenix.
And then there is the occasional flooding we get when it happens to rain:
http://main.abqjournal.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Arizona-Flooding_Brow-1000x653.jpg