@onyx said in Swedish idioms:
If I got the meaning correctly, that's "dirty laundry" here, which is almost universal and no fun. I prefer your version.
The only time I have heard "dirty laundry" used is in "airing their dirty laundry in public".
@onyx said in Swedish idioms:
If I got the meaning correctly, that's "dirty laundry" here, which is almost universal and no fun. I prefer your version.
The only time I have heard "dirty laundry" used is in "airing their dirty laundry in public".
@mott555 said in Swedish idioms:
We use "Get your ducks in a row" in the US. "He lacks a few players in his team" sounds like a variation of "He's not the brightest bulb in the box" or "He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer."
I maintain I was the inventor of that phrase, or at least coined it independently. Prior to the '80's, people said, "He's not the sharpest tool in the shed."
@choonster said in Swedish idioms:
Translating that into Dutch and back via Google Translate somehow results in "not a donkey would consider that to be true", which seems odd but mostly legible. Is the donkey supposed to be dumb in this idiom?
I suspect so. In Sinhalese, burrowa (donkey) is what you call a stupid person.
@frostcat said in Swedish idioms:
We also have the core of the poodle.
- Ew.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
@pleegwat said in Swedish idioms:
@PleegWat said:"Falling between the dock and the ship"
What does that mean?Frequently used when procedures change (eg. a new law applies) when a situation is handled by neither the old nor the new rules. Dutch original is "Tussen de wal en het schip raken"
Less poetically, we will say, "It fell between the cracks."
@salkin said in Swedish idioms:
The courier left the package outside the man's apartment, but when the man got home it had already grown feet.
Here we might say, "There was a box of donuts there, but they walked away."
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@boner said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor they're made of sterner stuff North of the border.
Mr Salina, 51, who rapidly bled to death, managed to say as he lay dying: “There's no need for that, Tony.”
Pshaw.
paging @Karla
It would have been ironic had he been a veteran of The Big One, but it was just the Korean War.
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
leave here for good, in fact, something I should have done a long time ago.
Did he actually leave? :(
That was just seven days ago. I can do seven days without TDWTF standing on my head.
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@chozang Gah, put that in a spoiler tag please!
Done. But wouldn't the reader have already read it (if he was going to) by the time he got to my post?
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@boner said in In other news today...:
This is a longer read but worth it. Woman has a weird childhood on the run from the "mob".
Wow, that's just... wow.
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
They pragmatically expanded the powers of the federal government to cover necessary functions, but they remained somewhat shell-shocked after British oppression and the war that arose from it, and kept trying to cling to their small-government ideas (which had already failed once!) as much as they could, in defiance of reason and human nature.
You're rewriting history here and confusing federalism with "small government."
Yes, what we now call "small government" was the status quo for about 150 years after independence, thus there was no need for a special phrase for it.
@rhywden said in The Unofficial Funny Comic Strips Thread®:
@chozang said in The Unofficial Funny Comic Strips Thread®:
@rhywden said in The Unofficial Funny Comic Strips Thread®:
So, let me be frank: Even an obviously dangerous person cannot be committed in your eyes?
chozang replied: Cannot or should not?
rhywden replied: Answer the question.
If you can't understand my question, then I will have to answer yours as you stated, which was almost certainly not what you intended to ask. An obviously dangerous person can be committed (in some circumstances) in my eyes, and certainly in anyone else's eyes who understands the law.
@rhywden said in The Unofficial Funny Comic Strips Thread®:
@chozang said in The Unofficial Funny Comic Strips Thread®:
@rhywden said in The Unofficial Funny Comic Strips Thread®:
@djls45 said in The Unofficial Funny Comic Strips Thread®:
@Rhywden That deserves capital punishment, not psychiatric "treatment."
It could have been prevented. That is what I'm saying. Did you ever work in a closed mental institution?
A good friend of mine does. Some of those people in there you do not want on the streets, unsupervised and unmedicated.
I worked on the locked psych ward of a hospital for a couple of years. I also worked for three years in the criminal justice system, first as a correctional officer in a maximum security prison, then as an addictions counselor on a pre-release unit. Many of the prisoners I would not want to see on the streets, either. But yet, they have not lost their rights apart from sentencing for crimes. People with "mental illness" are no different.
So, let me be frank: Even an obviously dangerous person cannot be committed in your eyes?
Cannot or should not?
@rhywden said in The Unofficial Funny Comic Strips Thread®:
@djls45 said in The Unofficial Funny Comic Strips Thread®:
@Rhywden That deserves capital punishment, not psychiatric "treatment."
It could have been prevented. That is what I'm saying. Did you ever work in a closed mental institution?
A good friend of mine does. Some of those people in there you do not want on the streets, unsupervised and unmedicated.
I worked on the locked psych ward of a hospital for a couple of years. I also worked for three years in the criminal justice system, first as a correctional officer in a maximum security prison, then as an addictions counselor on a pre-release unit. Many of the prisoners I would not want to see on the streets, either. But yet, they have not lost their rights apart from sentencing for crimes. People with "mental illness" are no different.
@boner said in In other news today...:
I don't know if there were critical details missing, but no published lines are what I would call "abusive". She's probably not the smartest person in the world, because some of her lines were not quite correct, but that's a different question.
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
@chozang said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
I remember having to trace my name in 1st grade. My last name has a 2nd capital letter but no space...what I was given had a space so I would pick up the tracing paper to fix.
Hmm. A lassie.
No space. Typical Irish last name.
I thought those are Scottish.
TIL (assuming I'm even thinking of the right thing)
However "Macs" are more likely to be Scottish.
@rhywden said in The Unofficial Funny Comic Strips Thread®:
@antiquarian Sorry, but anyone who thinks that some people shouldn't be treated against their will might want to talk to the widow whose son caved in his step-father's skull with an axe because he was hearing voices.
They also weren't able to get him committed before because "treatment has to be voluntary."
Strangely enough, now he's locked away.
There are far more accurate predictors of violence than hearing voices. I doubt that there's any statistical correlation between hearing voices and violence. It's just that it makes the news when it happens.
@karla said in In other news today...:
I remember having to trace my name in 1st grade. My last name has a 2nd capital letter but no space...what I was given had a space so I would pick up the tracing paper to fix.
Hmm. A lassie.
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Making a nice, straight, clean cut (I assume from the context that we're talking about paper here) is actually very easy:
Oddly enough, there's a shortage of those in kindergartens.
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Careful with that strawman. Be a shame if something were to happen to it...Might not actually be your opinion, but it's not quite a strawman either. Or what do you think of "I get my wages from the taxpayer, but taxes are stealing"?
I think that is pretty hypocritical, FWIW. But I also don't think that taxing wages is the only way for a country to fund its government.
I think the view that it is hypocritical is reasonable, but I disagree with it. I see nothing hypocritical in wanting the rules to be changed but playing by the existing rules. You may think that the Designated Hitter rule (baseball) is a bad rule, but that doesn't mean you're obligated to disadvantage your team by not having one. The position has already been budgeted - if you don't apply (or quit if you're already employed by the government), the only one it hurts is you. You've already paid your share of taxes for it.
@boomzilla said in Crypto-cows:
Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
(/assets/uploads/files/1518621984098-969d492d-9a0a-414c-8982-e529a7e1ff2f-image.png)
They got Socialism wrong. It should be, "The State takes one and gives one to your neighbor."
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-accuses-west-of-using-lizards-for-nuclear-spying/
I expect one day to find out that they were right.
@jbert said in In other news today...:
Don't put it on wood!
What if you have to take a picture of it on a wooden table?
@ben_lubar said in Random thought of the day:
lXqIu7f0RCAaubCxJFPNhX38sGkOpW0SoxfCnvUqeBO8FY37Sc6k7wx4B5KgUiY
qAAUpORr0jdcRbF2ng40f2a7v1bsZCBWmKP8DWdptuQJr6ZQVL2rCpUsFCPkA01
qu4kQqSO3HfFSt15BijWP7rbhImwnDwmvOffPHtEYr1Qk6YdjPt8vtxxxS75prH
THhYHLbURlk7JazCAKVtbWLAIciIeq30AzqQZYYOK0s8bOKRsrp7OTZL0xnpyTa
Is this encrypted, or is it a randomly generated thought?
@hardwaregeek said in Random thought of the day:
@chozang No, it's not — unless the performers use some random method to select the performance element(s); it wouldn't surprise me at all if some composer directed the performers to do that — but it is out of the control of the composer, who does not know in advance what the result will be. Even if the performers' judgement is excellent, it might as well be random from the viewpoint of the composer, since he/she cannot predict the outcome.
I'm not sure the inability to predict the outcome is the same as randomness, especially if it's only done a small number of times.
@karla said in In other news today...:
@pjh said in In other news today...:
I guess I won't be travelling to Turkey.
This isn't quite as crazy as it sounds. In the Middle East (as in many countries, even today), eating utensils were not used. The left hand was for personal cleaning (performed with soap and water, not paper), the right hand was for eating.
@bb36e said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boner is this an old people music thing?
I think it's from the Frasier theme song.
@bulb said in In other news today...:
@chozang said in In other news today...:
The only thing that cats actually need from meat is taurine. And there are vegetarian taurine supplements for cats.
The only thing cats need from raw meat is taurine, which is why it has to be added separately to most cat food. They still need more nutrients from meat, just the others survive cooking.
Not sure what you're saying here. The only thing they need from meat, period, raw or cooked or processed, is taurine. And even that doesn't need to come from meat. I challenge you to name a nutrient they need which comes only from meat. You will not be able to do so.
@hardwaregeek said in Random thought of the day:
@chozang said in Random thought of the day:
I have wondered in the past if you could produce Beethovenesque symphonies in this manner.
I'm not sure about Beethovenesque, but perhaps Mozartian; he is believed to have created a Musikalisches Würfelspiel (musical dice game). Quite a few other, especially 20th century, composers have used various forms of randomization in composition and/or performance.
I'm not sure leaving something to the determination of the performers is quite the same as randomization. Though it does display a high opinion of the musicians, that their judgment is so worthless it might as well be chance.
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@chozang said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Well, WTDWTF denizens can go over and complain about Discourse, which they can no longer do here.
Who told you that? The discopocalypse thread is still going pretty strong...
I just assumed... I guess they're all suffering from post-Discourse-stress-syndrome.
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@chozang said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
candidates for re-education
I like re-education! Tell me more at my new site!
Https://discourse.tsaukpaetra.com
Filed under: Shameful plug because Discourse told me to.
So what niche does your site fill that WTDWTF does not? Well, WTDWTF denizens can go over and complain about Discourse, which they can no longer do here.
@scholrlea said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@chozang No, that's how many were willing to admit it.
We have 21 candidates for re-education. No true Party member would be able to figure it out.
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
@cursorkeys said in 🐝 The synergistic thread of data-driven agile community-based buzzwords leveraged to present a business and personal advantage:
Save bandwidth and just loop this locally for an authentic experience:
someone_from_another_department_having_a_loud_call_by_your_desk.wavSUDDEN IDEA: can you use something like a markov chain, but to generate sound? You know, take a bunch of sound files, analyze them, then be able generate an infinite stream of audio with the same patterns.
I have wondered in the past if you could produce Beethovenesque symphonies in this manner. I used to use something called QuasiFractal Composer which was the closest approach to this. Well, maybe it didn't use a markov chain, but you could produce random music based on a pattern of numbers.
@jaloopa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That guy has clearly never met a Linux weenie
Linux is for weenies. TempleOS is for tough guys.
@pie_flavor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I think if you randomly picked an OS to recommend, your friends and colleagues would soon stop asking you for recommendations.
@doctorjones said in The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨:
What kind of train eats to much?
A chew chew train!
I went through life until now not getting "Choo Choo Charlie".
@lolwhat said in The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨:
@heterodox So, Picard is standing in water and holding up Riker in some ballet pose and shit. Fly through the air, Number One?
Does the shape remind you of anything?
@rhywden said in In other news today...:
Well, to be honest, some of that wet catfood doesn't really require carnivore teeth either...
Or even the dry food.
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@bulb said in In other news today...:
our little feline friends are obligate carnivores and literally can't digest anything but meat
Actually, housecats can digest starch a bit. They're better off eating meat (and need to do so for their non-energy needs), but they can eat other things in a pinch. I think it's an adaptation to being better able to survive off of what they can scrounge from humans or get by raiding
middenswaste bins.
The only thing that cats actually need from meat is taurine. And there are vegetarian taurine supplements for cats.
@bulb said in In other news today...:
@dragoon said in In other news today...:
I call lies, no Vegan is that cognizant.
I had funny moment with vegetarians (not vegan) sometime last year when I ran across this cat café. They had a poster in the window that they are vegetarian and that “you won't find a single piece of meat around here”¹.
Oh, right. Except for all that premium quality cat food that the cats have such nice shiny hair from², because our little feline friends are obligate carnivores and literally can't digest anything but meat.
Your statement's not quite true. But the important question is, did you actually see cat food (with meat) on the shelves? If not, what's the "except"?
@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
Also, the lottery has a such a brain-rapingly high potential payout for such a seemingly minuscule investment (because no one in human history has ever considered how much they have spent on a lottery in the past for any reason other than to apply the Gambler's Fallacy towards justifying their decision to spend even more), that it overrides the good sense of even those who realize it that they would be more likely to find a gold bar lying out on the sidewalk.
I have wondered if your chances of becoming wealthy would be better or worse by randomly buying shares of stock. I.e. if you normally spend $100 on lottery tickets (a modest amount), but instead buy $100/ year of randomly-selected stock, what would your chances be of becoming a millionaire?
@dkf said in The Unofficial Funny Comic Strips Thread®:
@pleegwat said in The Unofficial Funny Comic Strips Thread®:
I was about to reply that sudoku puzzles don't have 0s
Conventional ones don't, no, but the rules don't require that to be so. The digits are just arbitrary symbols really…
The ones I solve don't have 0's, and they're in binary.