TheEmpireStrikesDak

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Nerd time, sorry.

    Does Latin have two different types of “to be” like Portuguese, Spanish (and maybe Italian?). French collapsed them into one, pretty similar to your Latin above.
    Suis, es, est, sommes, êtes, sont!
    But I’m wondering why the other Latin languages have different versions of be. When I started learning Portuguese, I realised why être had such a weird conjugation. It looked like a mashup of ser and estar. Anyway, I’m too lazy to look it up, so I will continue to wonder.

    Nerd moment out.










  • They’re like the UK far right, call themselves the party of “protecting our wimmin an’ gurlz” while half of them have convictions for domestic abuse and the other half cheer on women getting beaten on the head and dragged by the hair for heckling.

    And people still fall for it :(


  • There was a fire alarm (not drill) in the department store I worked at 10 years ago. The managers didn’t know what was going on and were running around like headless chickens.

    It was up to us lowly minimum wagers to evacuate the customers. One woman said, “But I want to buy this jumper.” I had to tell her there’s a fire alarm and she needs to evacuate.

    “But how will I buy this jumper?”

    I’m like, just leave it there, you can buy it when we’re allowed back in.

    One other colleague had a customer who refused to leave the restaurant because she wanted to finish her fish and chips.

    And one colleague took advantage of the situation to pocket a bunch of money from the till.




  • I’ve had the skin test three times, I think. I had it once as an outpatient, and then the routine one at school, and then the time the teacher got it. All came back negative.

    I had the BCG as an infant and my dad had TB before he married by mum, I don’t know if immunity is hereditary, but the nurses did ask about it. For some reason they were baffled by me not needing it.

    I checked in better lighting and there is still a faint scar on my left arm, but I can’t say for sure it’s the BCG one.

    I don’t think anyone at school actually got TB from the teacher (I doubt they’d have announced it anyway). But most of the kids in my year did get the jab, I was one of the few who didn’t. I don’t get how she didn’t have the BCG already though. She was British so I’m assuming she was raised here. This was in 1998 and she was in her 20s or 30s.


  • Exactly. It’s a way to announce to everyone that you’re a selfish wanker. Some of us are tired or stressed and some of us have sensory issues. I’ve had to get off buses/tubes before because of people triggering my misophonia or being too loud when either chatting on their phone or playing audio out loud. It’s bad enough having to move to a different deck because of creeps making me feel unsafe, I don’t need this extra obstacle to using public transport too. Using headphones is just the considerate thing to do.

    They don’t stand for this crap in Japan. You chat loudly on a phone, you get death stares from everyone.