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[Ibix]

Going over training videos makes me miss the old days of books.

Agreed. I read a lot faster than people talk, so I always find videos annoying. Automatic transcriptions help...

 

[WWGD]

Agreed. I read a lot faster than people talk, so I always find videos annoying. Automatic transcriptions help...

I may change my mind if someone comes up with an equivalent of Ctrl+ F for videos, if that were even possible.

 

[Ibix]

I may change my mind if someone comes up with an equivalent of Ctrl+ F for videos, if that were even possible.

Yeah - that's one use for the transcriptions. Videos are great for some things (GUIs, howtos for things like DIY/household maintenance), but text is so much easier to search and do random access.

 

[WWGD]

Buffet tray was covered , read "Meet Loaf". I opened it. Hello, Loaf, I'm WWGD.

 

[WWGD]

Leif Erickson weighed 180lbs. I weight 190 lbs.

That makes me larger than Leif.

 

[WWGD]

Trick to slow bread from becoming stale: put mayo or other things on top. I broke a roll into equal halves. One was left as is while I prepared a chicken sandwich on the other. The ' as is' became stale, while the ' sandwiched' one remained fresh.
How do I sign up for a Nobel Prize?

 

[collinsmark]

I just shove the whole loaf into the jar of mayonnaise from the get-go. 'Let it absorb the mayonnaisy goodness.

 

[WWGD]

I just shove the whole loaf into the jar of mayonnaise from the get-go. 'Let it absorb the mayonnaisy goodness.

Love to taste that with some fried eggs ( yech to my taste).

 

[Astronuc]

Searching back in family history, it appears that an ancestor, and possibly his son, was charged and fined for hunting after dark in one of the king's forests.

Elsewhere, one of my ancestors was born out of wedlock, given the mother's family name as the father is unknown.

 

[WWGD]

Strange situation in that I bought a lot of food , but not the combinations I need to prepare my meals. And it happened twice in a row. Now I made up for it but have a gigantic amount of good.

 

[WWGD]

Strange sale: The same product has been on sale for the same amount for like a year. I guess at some point it becomes the actual price.

 

[kyphysics]

I find people can be more attractive with face masks on. *braces for being called shallow*

Really, I don't know why. Some people I don't find as physically attractive suddenly seem more attractive with masks. I feel like it slims many people's faces or blocks out potentially asymmetric or less attractive features, while showing areas that are almost universally attractive: eyes, forehead, hair, neck, etc.

 

[valenumr]

At least he had a football team named after him, though. The Houston Eulers.

Now he is considered a Titan in his field.

 

[fresh_42]

Ugly sausages, scrambled eggs, beans in tomato sauce, bacon, toasted bread: and then they call it fast break.

 

[WWGD]

Ugly sausages, scrambled eggs, beans in tomato sauce, bacon, toasted bread: and then they call it fast break.

Guess if you scarf it down quickly.

 

[fresh_42]

Guess if you scarf it down quickly.

And cooking time?

 

[WWGD]

And cooking time?

Nuke it.

 

[fresh_42]

The point is, that the English world has the most complicated breakfast and still calls it fast. In French it is little, and in German early. Neither of them is near as time-consuming as sausages and beans or pancakes.

 

[Ibix]

I take it you are aware that it is a meal in which you break your (overnight, usually) fast - "fast" as in "not eating", not "not slow"?

 

[fresh_42]

Ramadan? No. I wasn't aware of this.

 

[valenumr]

The point is, that the English world has the most complicated breakfast and still calls it fast. In French it is little, and in German early. Neither of them is near as time-consuming as sausages and beans or pancakes.

I precook a bunch of bacon in the oven once a week. An egg take two minutes.

 

[WWGD]

My main beef ( at least recently) is the overload of the term 'Entropy' : I recently heard it mentioned in regards to how much you can deviate from the normal/standard spelling or pronunciation and still have a high probability of being understood. By this definition, English has low Entropy , in that you can mangle words and spelling and still likely be understood. The opposite in Chinese, in that slight misspellings/mispronounciations have a small chance of being understood.

I also have a beef with vegetarians. They don't like it. ;).

 

[Ibix]

The opposite in Chinese, in that slight misspellings/mispronounciations have a small chance of being understood.

In a conversation about difficulties in foreign languages, a lady who used to live in China told us that in at least one Chinese dialect the words for "nine" and "penis" differ only in intonation. She noted that if she wanted nine of something she always asked for ten and threw one away.

 

[WWGD]

In a conversation about difficulties in foreign languages, a lady who used to live in China told us that in at least one Chinese dialect the words for "nine" and "penis" differ only in intonation. She noted that if she wanted nine of something she always asked for ten and threw one away.

So what's the deal with the line: " Number Nine, Number Nine,..."?

 

[fresh_42]

So what's the deal with the line: " Number Nine, Number Nine,..."?

They don't speak Chinese in Liverpool, it only sounds that way.

 

[WWGD]

They don't speak Chinese in Liverpool, it only sounds that way.

I remember this Jamaican guy who was interviewed on TV and he was livid because they added subtitles/translation on the bottom.

 

[WWGD]

Maybe this is for anyone else but maybe @BillTre : Do viruses have gender?
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/viruses-are-there-male-female-viruses.1010478/

 

[fresh_42]

I remember this Jamaican guy who was interviewed on TV and he was livid because they added subtitles/translation on the bottom.

I just thought yesterday how amazing it is that I understand most German dialects (schwizerdütsch included) although they have barely something in common with the language taught at schools. I assume it is similar for native English speakers. I remember an interview with Amy Macdonald on a radio show or John Higgins after a Snooker match: Scottish is hard.

 

[WWGD]

I just thought yesterday how amazing it is that I understand most German dialects (schwizerdütsch included) although they have barely something in common with the language taught at schools. I assume it is similar for native English speakers. I remember an interview with Amy Macdonald on a radio show or John Higgins after a Snooker match: Scottish is hard.

And there are, I think , many dialects/accents within Scottish.

 

[Ibix]

My wife, not a native English speaker, occasionally tells me she fell in love with me because my BBC English accent made me one of the few people she could understand when she first came here. I like to think that's a compliment...