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[Klystron]

More tattoos-more mentally ill a person is

"It's Art! Darn it! ART!", shouts the tattoo aficionado.

 

[hmmm27]

More tattoos-more mentally ill a person is

I've occasionally wondered if the current tattoo fad is a reaction to an earlier poor fashion choice of branded/advertisement clothing.

 

[nsaspook]

Be careful with all this time at home. Don't let the tombstone read: “Here lies Florida Man. He survived the pandemic but he stood on a chair.”

 

[WWGD]

Ah, feels good to be back in PF , not answering questions like: "Avance Calculas: How to proof a Banach Space?"

 

[WWGD]

Wonder how far you should take a situation where you accidentally take someone else's cart in the supermarket.
" Excuse me, you took my cart"
" Well, not really, technically, those things are not yours until you pay for them."
...

But these are times to be risk-averse.

 

[Keith_McClary]

technically, those things are not yours until you pay for them

A guy in the parking lot sold it to me for $1.

 

[hmmm27]

With the roads clear, people are flooring it on the highway, trusting the cops don't want to pull anybody over, I imagine.

 

[collinsmark]

With the roads clear, people are flooring it on the highway, trusting the cops don't want to pull anybody over, I imagine.

I live on/near a busy street and I can hear the traffic outside my window. I can attest (given the traffic sounds) that while over 99% of vehicles are adhering to traffic rules, there's that tiny fraction that are pushing it to the limit more than normal.

What really surprises me is that there is still a a lot of traffic out there. I get that health care workers, grocery store employees, bank employees, essential construction workers, people going to get groceries, etc., must still travel, but that doesn't seem to me to justify the amount of traffic that I'm still hearing.

 

[dlgoff]

What really surprises me is that there is still a a lot of traffic out there.

Highways near where I live look like "ghost" highways.

 

[WWGD]

Highways near where I live look like "ghost" highways.

Why would a ghost need a highway? (Setting it up nicely for everyone).

 

[BillTre]

Why would a ghost need a highway? (Setting it up nicely for everyone).

1) Too many for the surface roads.

2) To make creepy movies.

 

[dlgoff]

Why would a ghost need a highway? (Setting it up nicely for everyone).

Well, I'm kinda gullible when it comes to language.

Ghost, as in;

a faint, weak, or greatly reduced appearance, trace, ...
Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

 

[WWGD]

Well, I'm kinda gullible when it comes to language.

Ghost, as in;

Hey, I do the same, just haven't got caught...yet.

 

[WWGD]

Wonder why the British use the spelling 'centre' but not ' Septembre'.

 

[fresh_42]

Wonder why the British use the spelling 'centre' but not ' Septembre'.

The French left in August.

 

[Klystron]

Wonder why the British use the spelling 'centre' but not ' Septembre'.

Centre has been used in the US. My birth town is spelled Rockville Centre. The British spelling seems closer to Latin centrum. The month September is Settembre in modern Italian with similar spellings in other Latin languages. When English spelling was standardized not that long ago, Latin had fallen out of common use outside the Catholic church.

The French left in August.

Funny. After Junius Brutus named the month June for his family, Julius Caesar renamed the month of July after his family. His great-nephew and adopted son Octavian took the title Caesar Augustus and grabbed the month August. Living gods, or so they told the plebs.

 

[WWGD]

The French left in August.

But Canadians were there with them in Oout ( Aout, or however French, Canadians pronounce it).

 

[Keith_McClary]

I collected these quantity comparisons from various science articles. In most of these the reader would have no idea how large is the thing compared to.

Fifteen-meter high waves that pushed boulders the weight of a Leopard tank inland

At its peak, the lake was draining the equivalent of one Olympic-size swimming pool every three seconds, according to the study’s lead author, Thomas Chudley of the University of Cambridge.

To put it differently, the meltwater was enough to fill one U.S. Capitol rotunda every two minutes and 19 seconds.

Sending NASA's Space Shuttle into orbit required more than 3.5 million pounds of fuel, which is about 15 times heavier than a blue whale.

To put that in perspective, Los Angeles County residents consume 1 billion tons of water per year.

1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers, or the equivalent of around 3,000 Eiffel Towers stacked on top of one another

They said that the leaks alone were worth nearly two thirds of all natural gas use in France every year

I wondered why they do this and where the journalists get them? Then I ran across The Measure Of Things . That accounts for the blue whales anyways.

 

[Bystander]

How slow is the internet in quarantine? It's taking forever for the spam to load.

 

[lavinia]

Highways near where I live look like "ghost" highways.

Like in a Stephen King movie. The few slowly rolling vehicles are steered by ghosts who will continue down the road until they run out of gas.

 

[WWGD]

Like in a Stephen King movie. The few slowly rolling vehicles are steered by ghosts who will continue down the road until they run out of gas.

I never run out of gas. Maybe that's why I have trouble keeping roomates ;). Cheesy double-meaning.

 

[dlgoff]

Like in a Stephen King movie.

Wish it was just a movie ...

 

[dlgoff]

@Greg Bernhardt You're my hero ... "The Man". I can't imagine the hours you've spent making this forum great.

Thank You Sir

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

@Greg Bernhardt You're my hero ... "The Man". I can't imagine the hours you've spent making this forum great.

Thank You Sir

I stand on the shoulders of giants (mentors, advisors, members)

 

[WWGD]

Journalists said the professor had a bloody saw. But maybe it was British journalists. Je had a bloody saw. How would they say it: He had a bloody bloody saw?

 

[lavinia]

Journalists said the professor had a bloody saw. But maybe it was British journalists. Je had a bloody saw. How would they say it: He had a bloody bloody saw?

I saw Saw but I didn't see Saw 2

 

[WWGD]

I saw Saw but I didn't see Saw 2

You saw saw the bloody bloody saw?

 

[fresh_42]

Don't forget: These are the good old days of tomorrow!

 

[WWGD]

Not too bright of a thing to do. New comedian making political jokes. Lost half the potential audience. Stay out of politics until you're successful. I prefer to separate the two unless you're with people you agree with.

 

[WWGD]

Don't forget: These are the good old days of tomorrow!

I will proudly tell my grandsons I saved the world by sitting on my ass all day watching TV and eating chips. I deserve a medal for bravery.

 

[fresh_42]

Is there a reason why you use the same word patient in two different contexts? Ok, you have to be patient as a patient nowadays, but this is a thin explanation.

 

[jbriggs444]

Is there a reason why you use the same word patient in two different contexts? Ok, you have to be patient as a patient nowadays, but this is a thin explanation.

Online etymology suggests that patience has always been attribute of a patient -- suffering in silence. I see no reason to disagree.

 

[WWGD]

Name for a new mice trap: The demise of de mice.

 

[WWGD]

Is there a reason why you use the same word patient in two different contexts? Ok, you have to be patient as a patient nowadays, but this is a thin explanation.

The demise of de mice. Same thing.

 

[lavinia]

The demise of de mice. Same thing.

Five men in a car are commuting to work and are driving through the Lincoln tunnel. Their tongues are hanging out, Their eyes are bulging. Their heads are hanging out of the window.They are ripping their shirts open. They are yanking convulsively on their ties. They are clutching the roof of the car.

It was diagnosed as Carpool Tunnel Syndrome

 

[lavinia]

The demise of de mice. Same thing.

To my Swiss friend Michele, whose native language is French, the words "garbage" and "cabbage" in English sound exactly the same. In French the words "fossils" and "faux cils" sound exactly the same to me.

 

[WWGD]

To my Swiss friend Michele, whose native language is French, the words "garbage" and "cabbage" in English sound exactly the same. In French the words "fossils" and "faux cils" sound exactly the same to me.

Combining both languages, she can sho(w) the cabbage is chaud.

 

[DrGreg]

Un oeuf is enough.

 

[fresh_42]

Un oeuf is enough.

No, it isn't.

 

[Ibix]

No, it isn't.

Depends if you're egged on to eat more or not.

 

[fresh_42]

Anybody with a 3D printer here?
https://scoollab.web.cern.ch/quark-puzzle

 

[lavinia]

sho

Combining both languages, she can sho(w) the cabbage is chaud.

Sho an oeuf

 

[nsaspook]

 

[fresh_42]

We have a phrase here to answer someone who told you something completely irrelevant, not of any interest or boring: "That interests me about as much as if a sack of rice falls over in China."

Can someone please remind me, to run and buy: sanitizers, one way gloves, FFP3 masks, toilet paper, paper towels, canned food, and pasta if in China falls a sack of rice again.

 

[Janus]

We have a phrase here to answer someone who told you something completely irrelevant, not of any interest or boring: "That interests me about as much as if a sack of rice falls over in China."

Can someone please remind me, to run and buy: sanitizers, one way gloves, FFP3 masks, toilet paper, paper towels, canned food, and pasta if in China falls a sack of rice again.

Why is it that China keeps getting used in these sayings? The one I grew up with was:
"What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?"
For when someone said something irrelevant.

 

[Ibix]

Why is it that China keeps getting used in these sayings? The one I grew up with was:
"What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?"
For when someone said something irrelevant.

Similarly, my Dad used "not for all the tea in China" to mean "not under any circumstances".

 

[BillTre]

Maybe because it is often considered to be on the "other side of the world".

 

[WWGD]

Sign of the times? I saw an empty , used, cup with the Starbucks logo by the side of the road and I felt a pang of nostalgia, almost shed a tear: ah, the old days when you went to a coffee shop to hang out...

 

[fresh_42]

Why is it that China keeps getting used in these sayings?

I think because it is as far as it can get, it's (had been) mysterious, and it is strange in comparison to the alternatives downunder.

 

[Janus]

Wait, maybe we can find a connection here:
Rice is a food staple in China, If a bag of rice falls over and spills, this could reduce the food supply, which in turn is used to feed the workers in the tea industry. Poorly fed workers produce less, causing a shortage of tea, driving its price up!