Thanks for that - even though it was utterly depressing!
I live in the North of England, near Manchester, so I know our house prices are more reasonable than some other places, but I wasn’t expecting that I’d need to earn the value of our house annually to get a mortgage in San Jose. That’s crazy!
I think people are downvoting you because “effect” is in there twice.
The first one is right.
The baby doesn’t understand English (although they can recognise the rhythm and sounds of language).
The mother understands English
The baby experiences the same emotions as the mother.
In conclusion, read something that will make the mother relaxed and happy. If that happens to be The Cat In The Hat, then great. I read Don Quixote when my wife was pregnant with our first, our second got Moomin and Hairy Maclary (by virtue of being there when I read to the first).
The most important thing is to keep reading to them, every day, after they’re born too. Buy tons of children’s books (for your own sanity), do the voices and have fun with them.
It says “Access to this page has been denied” for me, so I’m just going to assume it’s a list of every US city.
I see two possibilities:
You get paid for posting this kind of nonsense - in which case then I get it, everyone has to make a living.
Your brain is actually broken
A quick run through your recent posts have shown that you’re actually the author of some of the worst posts I’ve come across on here, so kudos. But I’m afraid it’s now a “no” from me, and I’ll be blocking you from now on.
I love these kinds of stories, but I think that specific example is just a misunderstanding of idioms, rather than an example of pretending something isn’t happening, though.
Exactly this.
Warhammer is now what the Empire was parodying in the fiction.
A bloated system run by bureaucrats, keeping things exactly the same, because everyone involved in the creation, and who understands what made it good, is now gone.
Except instead of scores of over-zealous inquisitors they have a massive over-zealous legal team.
The game stopped improving in a meaningful way years ago. There are similar alternative systems that are more fun. Minis are available for a fraction of the price. Games Workshop’s entire M.O. nowadays is to make sure that as few people as possible catch on.
I’VE FOUND IT!
It’s called Cake Dance
I’d completely forgotten that the animation was part of a larger story of other similar music videos called There She Is!!
OK, that’s my evening viewing sorted now! :)
20 - although that’s regardless of the season. I only ever wear pjs to bed if I’m ill.
Bit late to replying, but there was a UK Yellow Pages advert in the 1990s that followed this same plot. Maybe that?
Apologies if you’re not, but surely you can see why I thought you were?
When I was a lecturer, I contacted authors of papers on two occasions (to update slide decks - the papers in question were pay-walled), and both just forwarded the relevant paper on to me. They were both British, which again makes me think there’s a culture difference here.
I think for transparency, and to avoid confusion, it’s worth pointing out to everyone that authors don’t get paid for submissions. This isn’t like book publishing. The publishers take other people’s work and then make money off that. That’s their business model.
Found the American!
I’m not an expert, but I imagine when they change sex, their behaviour changes accordingly.
They don’t need to understand social constructs - they’re changing gender as a result of changing sex.
Here’s that insane t-shirt in all its glory.
The one I encountered on Reddit (way back when) was more focused on occasions where slightly wonky translations led to funny results, rather than just making fun of bad translations, or the people who wrote them.
E.g.
It’s like the posts showing unnecessary quotation marks on signs - it’s not about making fun of the people who wrote the sign, it’s funny because it now conveys something else.
E.g., a sign outside a farm offering Fresh brown “eggs” for sale.
I was about to suggest the same guy. His stuff is brilliant.
Fair point, I retract my statement! The idea of using a baked potato as a side sounds bizarre to me, but if it’s a thing I guess it’s a thing.
That’s fair, it’s just that the context suggested otherwise.
I guess if he’s from northern England, and by “dinner” means the midday meal, then it makes sense. Otherwise there is no universe where baked potatoes are served for a fancy dinner. Roast potatoes are a part of a fancy dinner, though. The two cooking techniques are similar enough that I think it’s not unreasonable to assume, again given the context, that it’s just the wrong word.
Same here - my kids had these, but I’m of the generation raised on Roger Red Hat.