Random Thoughts Part 5: Time to Split Again

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The discussion revolves around various topics, including a dream about a person named Borek, reflections on the book "The Martian," and the complexities of educational systems in the US and UK. Participants share insights on the long and short scales of numbers, particularly regarding the term "billion," and discuss the differences in high school and college education between the two countries. The conversation also touches on personal anecdotes, such as perfecting a Kung Pao sauce recipe and experiences with local disturbances. Overall, the thread showcases a blend of light-hearted personal stories and deeper discussions on education and cultural differences.
  • #801
1oldman2 said:
"don't let the cat out of the bag"
We have the same idiom. However, without "not". Let the cat out of the bag. This let's me conclude that it is pretty old. It means to reveal your intentions, sometimes bad ones. Who let the cat out the bag cannot pretend anymore to have a rabbit, i.e. food in it.
 
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  • #802
Sophia said:
That's unpleasant, I'm sorry. I hope you'll be able to go to the dentist and solve it ASAP.
Thank you. It helped. Just back from a small surgery.
 
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  • #803
Ibix said:
So remind me - what do I do here? Tell you a story about a time I posted on the wrong thread, or offer ways to help spot which thread you are on? :wink:
Hehe. I'll take the story anytime. :biggrin:
 
  • #804
You can me the latter and tell Psinter the former.
 
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  • #805
Silicon Waffle said:
TPP signed : Japan, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam...
They finally did it eh? Pft, I'm not even going to comment.
 
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  • #806
Psinter said:
They finally did it eh? Pft, I'm not even going to comment.
I was excited after hearing it on the TV as I thought I would be having more open chances to choose what enslaving system I would work for as well as which noble slave I could later become.
I certainly expect my government to level up the country's living standard higher enough such that people will have better better lives while we can still keep our investors. :nb)
 
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  • #807
Silicon Waffle said:
I was excited after hearing it on the TV as I thought I would be having more open chances to choose what enslaving system I would work for as well as which noble slave I could later become.
You are funny, I'll give you that. I couldn't have expressed it better.

You are ready. I hereby bestow you, Silicon Waffle, with the technique that has been passed down for generations:

Internet Secret Technique: Sarcasm!

You are now a fully fledged sarcastic warrior like me. I'm proud of you and I know this isn't even your final form. In time, with practice, you will learn other Internet Secret Techniques like Heavenly Sarcasm, Godly Sarcasm, and so on. Make good use of it.

Don't know if I said it already, but I'm proud of you. *tears* :H They grow so fast.
 
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  • #808
Silicon Waffle said:
I was excited after hearing it on the TV as I thought I would be having more open chances to choose what enslaving system I would work for as well as which noble slave I could later become.
I certainly expect my government to level up the country's living standard higher enough such that people will have better better lives while we can still keep our investors. :nb)
TTIP, TTP... I really don't want to be negativistic, but somehow I don't believe that politicians want the best for us. I don't want to bring any conspiracies here because I'm not that type of person. But I have no bright visions for near future of the planet as far as normal people are concerned. This will only be good for those who are already rich.
I have no facts to support this claim. These are only my subjective feelings. Will not argue with anyone who claims the opposite.
 
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  • #809
fresh_42 said:
We have the same idiom. However, without "not". Let the cat out of the bag. This let's me conclude that it is pretty old. It means to reveal your intentions, sometimes bad ones. Who let the cat out the bag cannot pretend anymore to have a rabbit, i.e. food in it.
We've got "don't buy cat in the bag". That means don't buy something if you are not sure about the quality or don't let someone fool you.
 
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  • #810
Sophia said:
We've got "don't buy cat in the bag". That means don't buy something if you are not sure about the quality or don't let someone fool you.
Yes, we have this one, too. I guess all these idioms date back to the Middle Ages.
 
  • #811
fresh_42 said:
Yes, we have this one, too. I guess all these idioms date back to the Middle Ages.
And we also have Es ist noch kein Meister von Himmel gefallen. I've learned that one on Duolingo :-)
 
  • #812
Sophia said:
And we also have Es ist noch kein Meister von Himmel gefallen. I've learned that one on Duolingo :-)
Oh how I hoped that would have been 'Es ist noch kein Braumeister von Himmel gefallen'
 
  • #813
fresh_42 said:
Oh how I hoped that would have been 'Es ist noch kein Braumeister von Himmel gefallen'
LOL! Tell me where you live and I'll take my private helicopter and I could make it happen for you :-) just don't forget to wear a helmet.
 
  • #814
Psinter said:
Hehe. I'll take the story anytime. :biggrin:
I don't think I've ever posted on the wrong thread, I must say. I'll probably do it later this evening now I've said it, of course.

I did use to hang out with a bunch of people on an IRC channel. Four of us lived in the same neighbourhood and we went out together one evening. Afterwards, we went back to one guy's house and logged on to the IRC channel - four sessions on one computer, each one logged in as one of us. A few alcoholic beverages may have been consumed, and we kept forgetting which window was logged in as who. We were all well known on the channel and all had quite distinct and recognisable "styles", but user and user name were usually not the same. And we were frequently forgetting to change window, so a comment in one style would be answered in another style by the same user name, which didn't match either style. I gather it was very strange for the others on the channel until we explained what was going on.

Silicon Waffle said:
You can me the latter and tell Psinter the former.
You're the one with the binoculars...
 
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  • #815
Sophia said:
We've got "don't buy cat in the bag". That means don't buy something if you are not sure about the quality or don't let someone fool you.
That sounds like a local adaptation of the saying to buy a pig in a poke.[/color]

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-pig-in-a-poke.html
 
  • #816
Ibix said:
I did use to hang out with a bunch of people on an IRC channel. Four of us lived in the same neighbourhood and we went out together one evening. Afterwards, we went back to one guy's house and logged on to the IRC channel - four sessions on one computer, each one logged in as one of us. A few alcoholic beverages may have been consumed, and we kept forgetting which window was logged in as who. We were all well known on the channel and all had quite distinct and recognisable "styles", but user and user name were usually not the same. And we were frequently forgetting to change window, so a comment in one style would be answered in another style by the same user name, which didn't match either style. I gather it was very strange for the others on the channel until we explained what was going on.
That must have been epic.
 
  • #817
NascentOxygen said:
That sounds like a local adaptation of the saying to buy a pig in a poke.[/color]

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-pig-in-a-poke.html
That's interesting, how European languages share similar sayings even when they are from different language groups.
BTW it's a nice site, will use it to enrich my vocab :-)
 
  • #818
She will neuer bye the pyg in the poke
Thers many a foule pyg in a feyre cloke.
 
  • #819
My email client went nuts. A couple of days ago it opened up English,... ok, today it opened up French, ... ok, but please don't go Mandarin ...
 
  • #820
fresh_42 said:
My email client went nuts. A couple of days ago it opened up English,... ok, today it opened up French, ... ok, but please don't go Mandarin ...
:DD Glad to see you around fresh_42, no one there ever knows our relationship.
 
  • #821
Silicon Waffle said:
:DD Glad to see you around fresh_42, no one there ever knows our relationship.
Onto or into, in any case morph.
 
  • #822
So I wondered if I could probably make hot chocolate in a coffee maker. I'm about to use a coffee maker to make hot chocolate. I'll tell you guys if it works.
 
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  • #823
Wait up! You can't because the chocolate will not melt completely. You can use a microwave then though.
 
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  • #824
Silicon Waffle said:
Wait up! You can't because the chocolate will not melt completely. You can use a microwave then though.
Too late, I logged out too fast. I did it and it didn't work. The result was an aqueous solution that tasted like coffee :coffee:. ?:) Even after adding milk and sugar. ?:) Looks like the taste of coffee is impregnated in the coffee maker. I don't like coffee. ?:) ?:)

On another random thought: I'm a sweets person and I've yet to see a coffee that tastes sweet.
 
  • #825
Psinter said:
Looks like the taste of coffee is impregnated in the coffee maker. I don't like coffee.
And now everyone after is damned to say: "This coffee tastes like chocolate. I don't like chocolate."
 
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  • #826
Psinter said:
So I wondered if I could probably make hot chocolate in a coffee maker. I'm about to use a coffee maker to make hot chocolate. I'll tell you guys if it works.
Email me some please.
 
  • #827
Psinter said:
Too late, I logged out too fast. I did it and it didn't work. The result was an aqueous solution that tasted like coffee :coffee:. ?:) Even after adding milk and sugar. ?:) Looks like the taste of coffee is impregnated in the coffee maker. I don't like coffee. ?:) ?:)

On another random thought: I'm a sweets person and I've yet to see a coffee that tastes sweet.
You can still use it as toppings for cakes, cookies, ice-creams or make your own Mocha (chocolate coffee :wink: - my favorite) or use it with milk as a shake or with other smoothies for kids around. :biggrin:
 
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  • #828
Silicon Waffle said:
You can still use it as toppings for cakes, cookies, ice-creams or make your own Mocha (chocolate coffee :wink: - my favorite) or use it with milk as a shake or with other smoothies for kids around. :biggrin:
Yes, or icced cappuccino.
 
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  • #829
Someone started a Fred: "Interested in AI"
Nobody nowadays seems to be concerned about NI anymore.
 
  • #830
PF already affects my behaviour. I cannot read "same time" or similar anymore without getting an allergic reaction.
 
  • #831
fresh_42 said:
"same time"
In which frame?
 
  • #832
Sorry - instinct.
 
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  • #835
WWGD said:
Email me some please.
Digitizing and feeding the data through optic fiber. :-p
 
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  • #836
I'm on my way to Nobel Prize :biggrin:
I managed to make the papers in my room reproduce/clone on their own, without any added source of energy or material!
I make a large cleaning 3-4x a year and each time I am able to throw away a bag of papers and other redundant "stuff. After doing so, my room is nice and organized. In 3 months time, the papers have reproduced again! Could antibiotics work? But they are not technically living...or are they? Do they want to suffocate me? :bugeye:
 
  • #837
Sophia said:
After doing so, my room is nice and organized.
Funny enough the kid of my cousin (which is 4 years old... I think, I don't know) entered my room and asked me: "How can you sleep with all this mess in your room?" I did not know what to say so I replied: "You see, I sleep in the bed, not in the floor or room tables... And there is no mess in the bed. Makes sense?" But I don't think she's buying it guys. She is very suspicious of me and thinks something is not quite right with my answer. Plus she called me a kid. Although I must admit the following sometimes happens with the laundry:
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Sophia said:
Do they want to suffocate me? :bugeye:
Entropy? Yeah. Albeit very slowly. :-p
Sophia said:
Could antibiotics work?
funny-frozen-yogurt-antibiotics-protesting.jpg
 
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  • #838
fresh_42 said:
Yes, we have this one, too. I guess all these idioms date back to the Middle Ages.
Seems it was possible that while buying a piglet (packaged in a bag of course) at ye old village market it was a scam to substitute a cat for the piglet. at least that's one of many explanations I came across while researching my post
 
  • #839
February 14 coming soon! 8 days and counting!

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Something for valentines:
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  • #840
Psinter said:
Funny enough the kid of my cousin (which is 4 years old... I think, I don't know) entered my room and asked me: "How can you sleep with all this mess in your room?" I did not know what to say so I replied: "You see, I sleep in the bed, not in the floor or room tables... And there is no mess in the bed. Makes sense?" But I don't think she's buying it guys. She is very suspicious of me and thinks something is not quite right with my answer. Plus she called me a kid. Although I must admit the following sometimes happens with the laundry:haha, she's a smart girl! You'd better come up with a more reasonable explanation. Maybe you are doing a research on entropy and you're trying to create one spot of order in a large area of chaos. Than show her one of your thick Physics textbooks to leave her speechless. That could work for a while...[/SPOILER]
 
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  • #841
1oldman2 said:
Seems it was possible that while buying a piglet (packaged in a bag of course) at ye old village market it was a scam to substitute a cat for the piglet. at least that's one of many explanations I came across while researching my post
One Snopes author is highly skeptical this could ever have worked:
http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/catbag.asp

However, to become a famous scam, it really only needed to have been tried.

I also question the Snope's author's assumption that the "pig" must have been sold live. If the vendor's cry was, "Pigs in a poke! Slaughtered just this morning!" then it would be much harder to tell you had a cat in a bag.
 
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  • #842
Big thing in fashion recently is having a tear in the jeans/pants. Which makes it seem that survival is not too high of a priority, or people wearing the fashion are not too sharp. When you are more worried about looking fashionable than about having a wave of freezing wind hitting your legs, it seems surviving and adapting to the environment is not the top priority. Similar with the fashion of wearing sweats in Winter, which fail to protect against cold weather.
 
  • #843
zoobyshoe said:
One Snopes author is highly skeptical this could ever have worked:
http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/catbag.asp
I have found a rabbit to be sold. Its substitution with a cat makes much more sense by weight and activity.
 
  • #844
WWGD said:
Big thing in fashion recently is having a tear in the jeans/pants ...
Early 90's ...
 
  • #845
fresh_42 said:
Early 90's ...
Seems like people have run of ideas: movie remakes, fashion remakes.
 
  • #846
Sophia said:
haha, she's a smart girl! You'd better come up with a more reasonable explanation. Maybe you are doing a research on entropy and you're trying to create one spot of order in a large area of chaos. Than show her one of your thick Physics textbooks to leave her speechless. That could work for a while...
Hihi, that could work.
 
  • #847
fresh_42 said:
Early 90's ...
1960's
 
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  • #848
I have ended up recently watching a lot of TV on murders, torture, betrayal, etc. But done n a very entertaining way, as sick as that may sound. Welcome to channels 130-140.
 
  • #849
WWGD said:
I have ended up recently watching a lot of TV on murders, torture, betrayal, etc. But done n a very entertaining way, as sick as that may sound. Welcome to channels 130-140.
No, not betrayal! Why does this always have to happen? I must become Captain Anti-Betrayal to help people. I need a logo for my dress.
 
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  • #850
WWGD said:
I have ended up recently watching a lot of TV on murders, torture, betrayal, etc. But done n a very entertaining way, as sick as that may sound. Welcome to channels 130-140.
I watch such programmes as well. like investigation discovery. I know it's perverse, but they make me fall asleep.
I wonder why I don't feel anything even when I know it's based on true story. The same thing when watching the news. If many people have died, I feel no sympathy.
But some 2 months ago I saw a dead man in the street, he got heart attack and he was already in plastic bag and that made me really sick.
 

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