Happy Things Thread
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Ooh, very nice.
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I just read the online obituary for a friend's mother in the Shreveport Times. At the bottom of it, I was offered three options:
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Send Flowers
Send Comfort Food
I think my stony Yankee heart may have melted just a little bit.
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Send Flowers
Send Comfort Food
I think my stony Yankee heart may have melted just a little bit.
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When my dad died there was a group in town that would send me and my mom dinners every night for a few weeks. It was pretty cool.
(I live in Connecticut)
(I live in Connecticut)
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Yeah, perhaps I should've said "My stony urban heart". This is really more of a small-town/closed-community sort of thing than a regional feature. (Or perhaps "My stony bourgeois heart" because there's a class dimension as well.)Rui wrote:When my dad died there was a group in town that would send me and my mom dinners every night for a few weeks. It was pretty cool.
(I live in Connecticut)
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Probably more urban than anything, as my hometown is firmly upper middle class (median household income is 6 figures, for example).
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Since last night, I have relearned all the hiragana to the point that I can essentially read and write them fluently, almost all the katakana, and a handful of kanji. I'm a bit alarmed by how fast I'm going, but it's probably mostly a function of having learned them a few years ago (and subsequently forgotten everything).
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That happened to me with Matrix Algebra. I nearly failed it 6 years ago due to having a terrible professor and being really really depressed. This summer I wanted to re-learn it and I was like "dafuq this is so simple"Risla wrote:Since last night, I have relearned all the hiragana to the point that I can essentially read and write them fluently, almost all the katakana, and a handful of kanji. I'm a bit alarmed by how fast I'm going, but it's probably mostly a function of having learned them a few years ago (and subsequently forgotten everything).
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Electric is back!
Just to say, the crisis is still going quite strong, enough for someone to come and steel the transformer... again.
Just to say, the crisis is still going quite strong, enough for someone to come and steel the transformer... again.
It was about time I changed this.
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my iberian relatives told stories about how rumanians stole power wires, leaving entire pueblos in the dark, to sell the copper.
España va bien!
España va bien!
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romanians
putos rumanos xD
putos rumanos xD
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Doesn't a transformer need a cool down period after it is switched of? Pretty cool if it does, and they / them managed to snatch it burning hot. Also electricity powerful to knock your socks of.ol bofosh wrote:Electric is back!
Just to say, the crisis is still going quite strong, enough for someone to come and steel the transformer... again.
If I stop posting out of the blue it probably is because my computer and the board won't cooperate and let me log in.!
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Qué sí, qué sí, todo va bien.Torco wrote:my iberian relatives told stories about how rumanians stole power wires, leaving entire pueblos in the dark, to sell the copper.
España va bien!
It usually is the Romanians (by all reports, anyway).
Does it? The first time they removed it, threw it down and whipped the copper out. The second time they were caught. This third time they took the entire thing away. I suppose a little heat or a heavy weight doesn't matter for a couple of thousand euros. That'll fill little stomachs for a little while, anyway.Shrdlu wrote:Doesn't a transformer need a cool down period after it is switched of? Pretty cool if it does, and they / them managed to snatch it burning hot. Also electricity powerful to knock your socks of.ol bofosh wrote:Electric is back!
Just to say, the crisis is still going quite strong, enough for someone to come and steel the transformer... again.
It was about time I changed this.
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And not rumanos? Never heard my girlfriend saying rumaneses.
It was about time I changed this.
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well, the same person said "chequia" when referring to the czech republic soooo yeah
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I am now on HRT. Woo!
I did have a bizarrely similar (to the original poster's) accident about four years ago, in which I slipped over a cookie and somehow twisted my ankle so far that it broke
Aeetlrcreejl > Kicgan Vekei > me /ne.ses.tso.sats/What kind of cookie?
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Croatian television, is it? Gz.Nesescosac wrote:I am now on HRT. Woo!
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The Planet Construction Kit found. Someone else had it all along.
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Oooh, congratulations Nesescosac!
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xDDDDTorco wrote:well, the same person said "chequia" when referring to the czech republic soooo yeah
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You know Czechia is its name, right? And the Czech Republic is just the long name, i.e. the Kingdom of Spain and the Republic of Chile?
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New washing machine in place and working well. I mostly pleased, apart from when they tried to sneak some insurance we didn't want into the deal. I spotted the move though, and resisted it successfully.
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No, it isn't- not in English. I have never heard "Czechia" in the wild, nor in the media. I've occasionally heard it from Eastern Europeans with minimal levels of English. Czech Republic is the normal form, it's not a rarely-used hyper-formal "long name" like "the Kingdom of Spain".Astraios wrote:You know Czechia is its name, right? And the Czech Republic is just the long name, i.e. the Kingdom of Spain and the Republic of Chile?
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I've never seen Czechia anywhere in English or any similar equivalents in either French or German, either. In the latter two, it's still always the equivalent of "Czech Republic". (That said, plenty of people misuse "long names" and hyper-formal names all the time: see Ireland as an example.)Dewrad wrote:No, it isn't- not in English. I have never heard "Czechia" in the wild, nor in the media. I've occasionally heard it from Eastern Europeans with minimal levels of English. Czech Republic is the normal form, it's not a rarely-used hyper-formal "long name" like "the Kingdom of Spain".Astraios wrote:You know Czechia is its name, right? And the Czech Republic is just the long name, i.e. the Kingdom of Spain and the Republic of Chile?
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Yeah I know, I'm just saying it's not incorrect to call it Czechia. Like it's not incorrect to call Wales Cymru in English but who does that because normal people use Wales instead.
Just like how normal people say 'left groin'. >:|
Just like how normal people say 'left groin'. >:|