My brother accidentally discovered that nasal passages can amplify sound from earbuds fairly well. He stuck the buds in his nostrils for a joke, but then found that if he opened his mouth, the rest of us could hear whatever was playing on his MP3 player.
djls45
@djls45
I don't mind my Lounge posts leaking outside the Lounge except for posts in my own work thread ("Studies in My Career") and the bits quoted from other posts . Please, no off-color jokes, though. I try to maintain a certain (some might say Puritanical) image. (I'm a fundamental independent Baptist Christian.) :) Thanks.
Alternate accounts (sockpuppets): RNG, Jedalyzer
Science explains how events occur, but it cannot provide for us that they occur. - paraphrase of C. S. Lewis ("The Laws of Nature" in God in the Dock)
"Now these should not be displeased, by our endeavouring to declare the truth in terms the most offensive to them which we can find, but we should rather seek out the softest and most winning way of encountering their prejudices. Otherwise we make a parade, and grow big with a sense of our own wisdom and importance, but we shall do little good." - John Newton in a letter to John Ryland, Jr., and later published as an open letter to preachers.
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RE: TIL: Resonance
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RE: :wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
@sockpuppet7 The difference between how a request by a paying and non-paying customer is handled should be:
to paying customer: We'll get on that right away.
to non-paying customer: We'll get to that when we have time.It should not be:
to non-paying customer: No one else seems to be having the same problem (because we've deleted all their requests), so you must be doing it wrong and also DELETE REQUEST. -
RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@pie_flavor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
How many people can you pack into a Honda on a Jewish holiday?
At least twelve:Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one Accord in one place.
The first Christian martyr, Stephen, was hit by a Honda before being stoned to death:
Acts 7:57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one Accord,
Only those with a Honda can see miracles:
Acts 8:6 And the people with one Accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
Angels drive Hondas:
Acts 12:10 When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own Accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him.
The early church in Jerusalem preferred Hondas:
Acts 15:25 it seemed good unto us, being assembled with one Accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
Hondas give happiness:
Philippians 2:2 fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one Accord, of one mind.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The thunder god went for a ride
Upon his favorite filly.
"I'm Thor!" he cried.
The horse replied,
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RE: For the love of God, PLEASE just tell me what your company does!
@blakeyrat said in For the love of God, PLEASE just tell me what your company does!:
Used the original headline because it's pretty great.
84.51° is a terrible name. It's reminiscent of both 1984 and Fahrenheit 451.
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RE: WTF Bites
It sure makes sense for some acronyms. "I LOL'd" is common; "at work everybody is BYODding" would be fine. "Let me just LCD this widget" would be weird though, just like "try to IIRC this" or "I hope I've been able to Q.E.D. it". All the right verbs but accompanied by nonsense.
Those are all intelligible in that they (probably, with context) communicate the intended meaning, even if they don't make perfect sense grammatically.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Atazhaia said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error is using "K-9" instead of "dog".
In this case, it carries the specific meaning of "police dog."
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RE: Quotes Out of Context
@Tsaukpaetra said in Quotes Out of Context:
@djls45 said in Quotes Out of Context:
@topspin asked:
WTF is a Beka?
It's a publisher of a Christian (home-)school curriculum associated with Pensacola Christian College in Pensacola, Florida.
It's short for Rebecca!
Well, yes, that was the original context.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I doo...
Make sure you clean up after yourself! No one else wants to deal with it.
I mean.... I'm sure someone would....
Well, sure, someone would, but they still (most likely) wouldn't want to.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I doo...
Make sure you clean up after yourself! No one else wants to deal with it.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
And Calvin is wrong. There is nothing weird about using "access" as a verb. Again, it's an action, you are doing something, and that's what verbs are for.
It's weirder if you use Access as a noun
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RE: WTF Bites
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
Pet grammer peeve: using RSVP as a verb.
It always takes me a minute to remember the French source phrase for the acronym; I instantly think of the English that my siblings made up: respond so violently please.
When I was a kid someone told me that it was "Respond So Very Promptly" and it was a long time before I found out that was wrong.
As for using RSVP as a verb, I see nothing wrong with that. Responding to something is an action, you are doing something, and that's what verbs are for.
I respondpleased
Is it not literally "respond if you please"? If that's what it is, then there is absolutely nothing wrong with using it as a verb, because that's grammatically what the word "respond" in there is.
Now, requesting "Please RSVP" in your letter is redundant.
And I can see the argument that saying something like "I RSVP'd" would expand weirdly. But a reasonable response would be that when using an acronym that contains a verb as a verb itself, the verb in any expansion of the verbed acronym would attract any and all verb appurtenances (and pronouns and conditionals and any other such things would switch appropriately as well).
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RE: Quotes Out of Context
@topspin asked:
WTF is a Beka?
It's a publisher of a Christian (home-)school curriculum associated with Pensacola Christian College in Pensacola, Florida.
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RE: WTF Bites
Pet grammer peeve: using RSVP as a verb.
In English, everything is a verb!
Filed under: Verbing weirds language!
Verbing weirds language.
Verbing weird languages.
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RE: WTF Bites
@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Weird Outlook complaints.
Pet grammer peeve: using RSVP as a verb.
It always takes me a minute to remember the French source phrase for the acronym; I instantly think of the English that my siblings made up: respond so violently please.