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[fresh_42]

Thanks. It's a word we need, if we don't already have some funny neologism I haven't heard of.

Besserung is pretty much the same as betterment. The word 'schlimm' comes from old German 'slimp' (slanting, awry). It became 'schlimm' (unwell) in German and 'slim' in English.

So if you do not want to fall back to the Latin suggestion by @Jonathan Scott then try 'Shlimbetterment'. Slim betterment sounds nice, too. I like the sarcasm in it.

 

[WWGD]

Well, we have real conjugation and declination, not just three 's' for plural and genitive, and third person, or an 'ed' for past tense.


I think I'm going to try to get that one adopted in English, like schadenfreude. "The app is verschlimmbessern t it" or "the app developers did something a Verschlimmbessernung". The 'n' is only in the indicative. Anyway, drop the 'c' and it is even pronounced correctly, so no big deal.

 

[WWGD]

Exprovement?

Just like with increment, decrement, excrement.

 

[fresh_42]

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Still moderate. Russian has eight or nine cases IIRC.

 

[WWGD]

Still moderate. Russian has eight or nine cases IIRC.

I bet Chinese has even more.

 

[WWGD]

Marking the date. First day ever calling customer service that I don't get a message telling me they're experiencing an unexpectedly high number of calls.

Just like this supermarket product that is perpetually on sale.

 

[Frabjous]

Marking the date. First day ever calling customer service that I don't get a message telling me they're experiencing an unexpectedly high number of calls.

Just like this supermarket product that is perpetually on sale.

So they were experiencing an unexpectedly high number of long calls?

 

[Borg]

Marking the date. First day ever calling customer service that I don't get a message telling me they're experiencing an unexpectedly high number of calls.

Just like this supermarket product that is perpetually on sale.

But was your call very important to them?

 

[WWGD]

But was your call very important to them?

They kept asking me to visit the website. The website suggests I can call instead, and provides several numbers ?? Worse is now they've paired up with Fedex, who just leaves stickers with alpha numerical strings, but without names nor apt numbers. How do you figure who they're for?

 

[fresh_42]

 

[WWGD]

Al Bundy's Ed O' Neill is a martial arts expert. Still not enough to get through custo service. I miss those reruns.

 

[WWGD]

Nope. Just a short ending: -ung.

Just reminds me of Gotterdamerung ( Sp). I've looked up the word a few times just to forget what it is. Harder to do on the phone. I just remember the root ' God's.

 

[WWGD]

Al Bundy's Ed O' Neill is a martial arts expert. Still not enough to get through custo service. I miss those reruns.

A classic. I wish I still had a TV to watch it. This and Book TV from C-Span. I used to enjoy the History Channel too, until they jumped the shark and started airing shows like ' Ancient Aliens'.

 

[ergospherical]

Unashamedly consumed nothing but an entire rotisserie chicken and Tabasco sauce for lunch today after seeing one selling for £2.50.

 

[gmax137]

Unashamedly consumed nothing but an entire rotisserie chicken and Tabasco sauce for lunch today after seeing one selling for £2.50.

Prepare for the Götterdämmerung!

 

[WWGD]

Unashamedly consumed nothing but an entire rotisserie chicken and Tabasco sauce for lunch today after seeing one selling for £2.50.

That's extremely cheap. Maybe it was a Fukushima chicken that grows back when you eat it?

 

[ergospherical]

That's extremely cheap. Maybe it was a Fukushima chicken that grows back when you eat it?

The surprising thing is that the supermarket was also M&S, which is one of the pricier establishments round these parts. If you make an effort to go just before closing time, there's usually a ton of those yellow "reduced" stickers (especially, as might be expected, in the meat/fish/veg/bread sections) and I've managed to snag some pretty great stuff for cheaps. But this time it was midday...

 

[gmax137]

The rotisserie chickens in food stores around here are usually $5 to $7 (US) which is a good deal. I think the food stores sell them at a loss hoping customers come in and buy other items. In a restaurant they are much higher (I see 1/2 chicken for $8.50).

£2.50 is a real bargain, ~$3.40.

 

[WWGD]

The rotisserie chickens in food stores around here are usually $5 to $7 (US) which is a good deal. I think the food stores sell them at a loss hoping customers come in and buy other items. In a restaurant they are much higher (I see 1/2 chicken for $8.50).

£2.50 is a real bargain, ~$3.40.

I heard of that as being a " loss leader" in restaurants mostly. You lose on it, but , as you said, it brings in the customers. It was in that Tv show with this guy who tried to turn around bars mostly; a slight difference with Ramsey.

 

[WWGD]

I heard of that as being a " loss leader" in restaurants mostly. You lose on it, but , as you said, it brings in the customers. It was in that Tv show with this guy who tried to turn around bars mostly; a slight difference with Ramsey.

It was called " Bar Rescue", by Jon Taffer. A sort of bar version of Ramsey's restaurant show. I thought it was a fun show.

 

[WWGD]

Gah! Only picked up pepper packets with my dinner. No salt. Is pepper good as anything other than being the name of an exotic dancer?

 

[fresh_42]

Gah! Only picked up pepper packets with my dinner. No salt. Is pepper good as anything other than being the name of an exotic dancer?

I cannot understand how you can live with pepper as a description for the entire variety. We have:
Pfeffer (black, green, white, coloured), Paprikapulver (hot, sweet), Paprika (the fruit, yellow, green, red), Pepperoni (all variants, fresh or in vinegar), and Chillischoten (hot variants of Pepperoni, usually red). Every time I look up the English word for one of them I end up with "pepper".

 

[WWGD]

I cannot understand how you can live with pepper as a description for the entire variety. We have:
Pfeffer (black, green, white, coloured), Paprikapulver (hot, sweet), Paprika (the fruit, yellow, green, red), Pepperoni (all variants, fresh or in vinegar), and Chillischoten (hot variants of Pepperoni, usually red). Every time I look up the English word for one of them I end up with "pepper".

Good point. Never got into that spice-zone for food. Closest I remember was this " Lawrie's Salt", a generalized condiment mix. Will look it up next time I go shopping.

 

[WWGD]

So which variant of the feffer family is used in pfeffernuse( Sp?)

 

[fresh_42]

So which variant of the feffer family is used in pfeffernuse( Sp?)

Wikipedia: "Pepper is usually not included in the pastry, but the dough is usually spicy. As with gingerbread, which is also called pepper cookies, the name probably goes back to the Middle Ages, when the exotic spices were generally referred to as pepper."

... and obviously still in English.

 

[WWGD]

Wikipedia: "Pepper is usually not included in the pastry, but the dough is usually spicy. As with gingerbread, which is also called pepper cookies, the name probably goes back to the Middle Ages, when the exotic spices were generally referred to as pepper."

... and obviously still in English.

I thought that was the Rabbit dish. ( Embarrassed)

 

[gmax137]

I cannot understand how you can live with pepper as a description for the entire variety.

Quite agree. The hot ones are sometimes called "chile"

Here's my version for 2021: Cayennes, Thai Chilies, serranos:

 

[WWGD]

Quite agree. The hot ones are sometimes called "chile"

Here's my version for 2021: Cayennes, Thai Chilies, serranos:

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How about the Crocus?

 

[gmax137]

How about the Crocus?

I will have to try that sometime, see if I can harvest the saffron

 

[WWGD]

I will have to try that sometime, see if I can harvest the saffron

I heard you need thousands to produce just a single ounce.
Tell me about the American Woman too;).

 

[WWGD]

I thought that was the Rabbit dish. ( Embarrassed)

I meant to refer to Hasenpfeffer. Rabbit .

 

[WWGD]

What do you make of someone who gives a very poor ( even incorrect) about Dunning Kruger?

 

[ergospherical]

What a fricking beautiful day!

 

[Hamiltonian]

What a fricking beautiful day!

looks like someone's in a good mood.

 

[fresh_42]

looks like someone's in a good mood.

 

[WWGD]

looks like someone's in a good mood.

Maybe another chicken for €2.50?

 

[BillTre]

Here is a National Geographic picture I found (its very nice):

It is from the bottom of a cenote, in the Yucatán Penninsula.

A cenote is like a sink hole with water at the bottom. They are more common in the Yucatán Penninsula than anywhere else in the world.
Presumably, this is due to the mega-disturbance or the area's geology from the Chicxulub impact (which killed the dinosaurs).

Photograph by Boris Vetshev, Shutterstock

 

[WWGD]

Here is a National Geographic picture I found (its very nice):

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It is from the bottom of a cenote, in the Yucatán Penninsula.

A cenote is like a sink hole with water at the bottom. They are more common in the Yucatán Penninsula than anywhere else in the world.
Presumably, this is due to the mega-disturbance or the area's geology from the Chicxulub impact (which killed the dinosaurs).

Photograph by Boris Vetshev, Shutterstock

It takes a few C- notes to visit a Cenote.

 

[BillTre]

It takes a few C- notes to visit a Cenote.

I bet I could do it for less.
I have a bunch of friends (tropical fish hobbyists) who go to the Yucatán for fish collecting.
They are cheap people (cheap peep?).

 

[WWGD]

I bet I could do it for less.
I have a bunch of friends (tropical fish hobbyists) who go to the Yucatán for fish collecting.
They are cheap people (cheap peep?).

Hey, I go to all-you-can-eat contests, get my free meal and then declare I lost .

 

[Ibix]

I bet I could do it for less.
I have a bunch of friends (tropical fish hobbyists) who go to the Yucatán for fish collecting.
They are cheap people (cheap peep?).

There's a reason astronomers build telescopes in Chile and La Palma. They talk about high altitude and seeing, but don't believe them...

 

[WWGD]

There's a reason astronomers build telescopes in Chile and La Palma. They talk about high altitude and seeing, but don't believe them...

Ditto for Hawaii. Kind of skeptical of people who would study something like Philosophy in any tropical paradise. Maybe Philosophy of mixed drinks including rum?

 

[WWGD]

Yet another benefit of listening to Queen's music. Reading on how it incentivized non-native speakers to learn English, because of the lyrics. As examples; from Black Queen: " ...Tatterdemalion and a junketer...". Curiosity about the unusual words , used in interesting musical compositions.

 

[ergospherical]

looks like someone's in a good mood.

Just some very pleasant weather. It can be a rare commodity this time of year!

 

[Oldman too]

For those who appreciate irony.
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-intelligence/2022/01/patchwork-apt-caught-in-its-own-web/

 

[WWGD]

Cured sausages? What, were they sick?

 

[WWGD]

Kind of funny/interesting but not quite a joke. Just in case, the two pics are not related.

 

[WWGD]

Why are there hot-dog eating contests but none for bacon? I think I know ;).

 

[Hamiltonian]

Dumping someone a day before valentine's day should be illegal.

 

[fresh_42]

Dumping someone a day before valentine's day should be illegal.

Valentine's day should be illegal.