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[WWGD]

I have one those, which is build in a way thermos are. But it's plastic.

I decided to mirror their in my eyes devalued term of "continentals", which they have for the rest of Europe, and will call them islanders. Still better than what a colleague of mine once used: teabags.

Ouch! Still sore over Brexit? It seems at least 50% of " Islanders" are too.

EDIT: What is the name of the cup? Will consider buying one.

 

[fresh_42]

Ouch! Still sore over Brexit? It seems at least 50% of " Islanders" are too.

This is independent of the Brexit. I like the Brexit, because UK had always been merely more than an obstacle. They had special payment conditions, didn't participate in the Schengen agreement and favor an Adam Smith capitalism I don't appreciate. To say it with Monty Python: "What have you lost?"

EDIT: What is the name of the cup? Will consider buying one.

I have no idea. It's one of these things you pick up during a lifetime and which you don't have any idea about where, when and why. Yet, my list of unintended losses is longer ... You don't need a formal divorce to get ripped

 

[WWGD]

This is independent of the Brexit. I like the Brexit, because UK had always been merely more than an obstacle. They had special payment conditions, didn't participate in the Schengen agreement and favor an Adam Smith capitalism I don't appreciate. To say it with Monty Python: "What have you lost?"

I have no idea. It's one of these things you pick up during a lifetime and which you don't have any idea about where, when and why. Yet, my list of unintended losses is longer ... You don't need a formal divorce to get ripped

Embarrassingly, after 10 years in PF I still don't know how to use multi-quotes :(
i) Rule of thumb I know is losses from 3 house moves equal losses from one housefire. But I don't know that much about getting ripped.

I almost used by mistake the emoticon ;( . Wonder if it means anything.

 

[fresh_42]

Embarrassingly, after 10 years in PF I still don't know how to use multi-quotes :(

You simply only click the "quote" button (multiple times, yet finitely often) and then "insert quotes" in the reply area. You can also change the order by left-click-movement.

i) Rule of thumb I know is losses from 3 house moves equal losses from one housefire. But I don't know that much about getting ripped.

We have the same saying here. And this adds up to the others.

I almost used by mistake the emoticon ;( . Wonder if it means anything.

I have found a translation page on Wiki, here and here, which I'm of course too lazy to look up or learn. Guess it means something sad.

 

[WWGD]

This is independent of the Brexit. I like the Brexit, because UK had always been merely more than an obstacle. They had special payment conditions, didn't participate in the Schengen agreement and favor an Adam Smith capitalism I don't appreciate. To say it with Monty Python: "What have you lost?"

The Scots may be an exception to this. They are pretty far Left of the rest of Britain , AFAIK.

 

[fresh_42]

The Scots may be an exception to this. They are pretty far Left of the rest of Britain , AFAIK.

Here's how I like to describe the difference between Scotts and the non-Celtic tribes:
If you meet ten drunken football (Am.: soccer) fans on the street, which are Scotts, chances are good you'll have a great party. Whereas with the others, non-Celtic tribes you can only have a brawl or run away. That's experience, no prejudice.

 

[WWGD]

Gutt Nacht and Gutten Jahr, Fresh, Starbuch Macht jetzt . Nein Haben Internet Bei Mir Hause. Gutte Jahr.

 

[fresh_42]

Gutt Nacht and Gutten Jahr, Fresh, Starbuch Macht jetzt . Nein Haben Internet Bei Mir Hause. Gutte Jahr.

Thanks, I guess. You'll have still 3:25 to go. Times square?

 

[OCR]

Hah !

-22 °F right now, too... .

 

[Orodruin]

Wonder if the " Likewise" is a direct translation from some language.

I would say the direct translation in both my other languages (Swedish and Spanish).

Speaking of cold, I must tell you. I recently saw snow for the first time in my life and it was amazing !

Try having your entire city covered in a non-negligible layer of snow for two or three months a year and report back ...

 

[WWGD]

Thanks, I guess. You'll have still 3:25 to go. Times square?

Nein. Ich went home. Sorry for the boring story. Too cold, and too crowded at (Times $\times$ Times)=$Times^2$

 

[WWGD]

I would say the direct translation in both my other languages (Swedish and Spanish).

Try having your entire city covered in a non-negligible layer of snow for two or three months a year and report back ...

True, looks fine in post cards, not so great with 2F winds hitting you in the face . First it falls looks nice. After a few hours: " When will someone get the #$%@ out of here"?

 

[Orodruin]

True, looks fine in post cards, not so great with 2F winds hitting you in the face . First it falls looks nice. After a few hours: " When will someone get the #$%@ out of here"?

When I was a PhD student there was an unexpected early and very heavy snowfall. At five another PhD student said "I am going home before this becomes worse". An hour and a half later he came back and pointed out at the highway, which you could see from the department and where the queues were staggering, "my car is over there".

 

[WWGD]

Continuing on this snow topic, I usually fool myself pretty well into believing Winters are even cool, welcome. Until there are two weeks of it left and then I say, let's get this #$% Winter over with!

 

[WWGD]

" If you cannot see the content of this post then click _here_ ". But the link "click_here_" usually does not work either. Should we go on: If "click_here link does not work..."

 

[fresh_42]

Continuing on this snow topic, I usually fool myself pretty well into believing Winters are even cool, welcome. Until there are two weeks of it left and then I say, let's get this #$% Winter over with!

Rent a groundhog!

 

[WWGD]

Not as much fun as it may first seem

Rent a groundhog!

Groundhog is just the messenger, though.

 

[WWGD]

@Psinter :
It gets so cold here in Winter, we use refrigerators to _Warm things up_ !

 

[Psinter]

@Psinter :
It gets so cold here in Winter, we use refrigerators to _Warm things up_ !

That's hilarious.

I recently saw today in the news that the cold is starting affect the south of the US. Many people ending in ER . The area I'm visiting went below 30F today. I saw again little bits of snow ❄ falling . Although it wasn't much.

 

[Psinter]

For the cold: https://imgur.com/gallery/OLYW6vN

I wonder who the artist is.

 

[fresh_42]

What is the sine of angle SAM?

@Chestermiller I had to make this lame joke, sorry, and I did it here in order not to derail the other thread:

Those typos! But what should the sign of uncle Sam be?

 

[WWGD]

@Chestermiller I had to make this lame joke, sorry, and I did it here in order not to derail the other thread:

Those typos! But what should the sign of uncle Sam be?

Angle(Uncle) Sam is how you pronounce when you have a gold (cold).

 

[WWGD]

I thought I had a brilliant idea to send myself reminders of different sorts to myself by phone. Then I realized... I don't have an internal search engine...nor the ability to delete eventually-useless data. Wonder if Root Explorer can take care of it, or if I may have to upload phone data to PC and then use PC search. EDIT: Part of issue is I don't know where the self-messages end up " living" Are they in my phone memory or in a Phone company server?

 

[Psinter]

I thought I had a brilliant idea to send myself reminders of different sorts to myself by phone. Then I realized... I don't have an internal search engine...nor the ability to delete eventually-useless data. Wonder if Root Explorer can take care of it, or if I may have to upload phone data to PC and then use PC search. EDIT: Part of issue is I don't know where the self-messages end up " living" Are they in my phone memory or in a Phone company server?

I don't know if they are stored by the service provider (most likely yes in a huge database that clients have no access to), but for certain they are in the phone. They are in a sqlite database with .db extension. You need root to access the file with an explorer. Perhaps an Sqlite Viewer will let you view the sms/mms database. The viewer must have root access though to read it directly.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Where-are-mms-messages-saved-on-android
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I was thinking, why do people call each other names? Really, why?

I have heard girls calling their boys: "Daddy." And boys calling their girls "Babe." I have also heard women calling their husbands: "Honey."

Woman: Hey, honey.
Man: What is it, my agave syrup?


I can't imagine a man calling his wife: "My cotton candy." or if you want to get nerdy: "My dIssacharide."

I shouldn't have thought of this. Now a bunch of funny names came to my mind. "My sugar beet. My diabeetus." The name "sweetbums" I think I have heard too.

 

[WWGD]

I don't know if they are stored by the service provider (most likely yes in a huge database that clients have no access to), but for certain they are in the phone. They are in a sqlite database with .db extension. You need root to access the file with an explorer. Perhaps an Sqlite Viewer will let you view the sms/mms database. The viewer must have root access though to read it directly.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Where-are-mms-messages-saved-on-android
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I was thinking, why do people call each other names? Really, why?

I have heard girls calling their boys: "Daddy." And boys calling their girls "Babe." I have also heard women calling their husbands: "Honey."

Woman: Hey, honey.
Man: What is it, my agave syrup?


I can't imagine a man calling his wife: "My cotton candy." or if you want to get nerdy: "My dIssacharide."

I shouldn't have thought of this. Now a bunch of funny names came to my mind. "My sugar beet. My diabeetus." The name "sweetbums" I think I have heard too.

How about : my crack cocaine, my Rat poison, my raw sewage? ( In a good way, of course).

 

[Psinter]

How about : my crack cocaine, my Rat poison, my raw sewage? ( In a good way, of course).

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So... If you have a bachelor in physics... are you a phyisician?

Trust me, I'm a physician. Just look at my degree in physics.

 

[Orodruin]

If you have a bachelor in physics... are you a phyisician?

No. Not even on your way to becoming one ... unless you also have graduated from med school.

A person doing physics is a physicist.

 

[fresh_42]

No. Not even on your way to becoming one ... unless you also have graduated from med school.

A person doing physics is a physicist.

But sometimes, it's a bit more difficult. My math professor told me the following phone call by his mother.
Mother calling the doctor: "Mr. ..., can you come over? I need a shot against my heavy migraine episode."
Doctor: "Why don't you ask your son? I've heard he's a doctor, too."

 

[Psinter]

A person doing physics is a physicist.

Yup.

I was messing around .

Doctor: "Why don't you ask your son? I've heard he's a doctor, too."

That must have been epic.

"Dangit, Jim, I'm an astronomer, not a doctor! I mean, I am a doctor, but not that kind of doctor. I have a doctorate — it's not the same thing! You can't help people with a doctorate, you just SIT there and you're USELESS!"

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm an expert in the laws of physical science.

 

[BillTre]

Normally, in the US when you say your a doctor, people think you are talking about being a medical doctor.
However, when I spent a year post-doc'ing in the UK (in the 1990's) I meant several (non-academic) people (in the Newcastle area) who told me they thought PhD's were "real" doctors.

Maybe they were just being nice, but I liked it.