Let us not speak of Indiana
― coupvfefe (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
My terrible idea: set the whole world to a single time zone and it's either dark at 2pm or it isn't dealwithit.gif
― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
I've had this idea before. universal time. it's the same time everywhere all the time and you just get used to what time it is where you are. so you're like 'damn I'm up late, it's 4pm" and you're just used to it
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
Swatch tried that in 1998, without overwhelming success. It may not have helped that they made it decimal and called it "Internet Time".
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
That scene in the TZ episode "To Serve Man" when the reporter (I think) is on the ship and he demands "What time is it on earth?" will finally make sense.
― nickn, Thursday, 19 November 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
GMT still works!
― pplains, Thursday, 19 November 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link
"In an oral history, Fred Silverman said he landed on the name Scooby-Doo after hearing Frank Sinatra singing the familiar riff from his 1966 hit “Strangers in the Night.”: do-be-do-be-do."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 November 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
Strangers in the night, where are you?We've got some glances to exchange now
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 19 November 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
That Nick Gilder and Bryan Adams were in a band together?!?
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 06:27 (three years ago) link
Oh weird, I just noticed the Scooby-Doo trivia a few posts up, which harkens back to my recent discovery that this song pre-dates the show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdbI7fuE_x0
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 06:34 (three years ago) link
W.E.B du Bois had a more unsung brother called Schubert so Webby doo bwa hada brother who close friends called Shooby doo bwa.LIttle known fact like
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 09:40 (three years ago) link
Melanie Griffith was married to Antonio Banderas, and *twice* to Don Johnson, and Dakota Johnson is their kid! Anyone following basic tabloid news would know this but these four celebrities have never been filed anywhere near each other in my brain. I did at least know Griffith was Tippi Hedren's daughter, thanks to Roar.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 13:21 (three years ago) link
Are you inside my brain? I went looking up Melanie Griffith's family the day before yesterday (couldn't remember which out of her and Goldie Hawn had which parents/children)
― kinder, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link
melanie griffith, mauled by a lion because her mom was crazy.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
Now I’m terrified of poison ivy. Nettle rash is quite tame by comparison, passing very quickly.
This is true, but don't go groping random plants on a walk in the UK either, because giant hogweed can fuck you up. https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2019/06/giant-hogweed-facts/
(It grows along the riverbanks here and gets pretty tall and close to the path in summer, as do the nettles - though looking at the above page I'm wondering if the stuff I've seen might be common hogweed and not giant after all, but I'm still going to try not to touch it)
― scampus unrest (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
Turn and runNothing can stop themAround every river and canal their power is growingStamp them outWe must destroy themThey infiltrate each city with their thick dark warning odorThey are invincibleThey seem immune to all our herbicidal battering
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
wow, kinder! freaky. my partner and i just watched Something Wild and i looked up her Wiki.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 04:01 (three years ago) link
That confidant and confidante are masculine and feminine forms (I think I just thought they were alternative spellings)
― Alba, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 04:09 (three years ago) link
Some common surnames in other languages that are (more or less) exact translations of the word 'smith':
Hungarian = KovácsPolish = Kowal(ski)Russian = Kuznets(ov)Portuguese = Ferreiro/FerreiraSpanish = Herrero/Herrera
― Naughty Boys Hoo! (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
it took me years of posting here to finally figure out what xpost meant. esp since I didn't use Usenet much and they used it slightly differently anyway
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link
(obv I have known what it means for the last few years, but my first few years i thought it was someone saying "excellent post", which wouldn't make sense when it followed text like "you fucking idiot, go play in traffic")
similarly for ages I thought smh stood for so much hatedon't know where I got that idea from but it fit, even if it made posts seem more aggressive
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:27 (three years ago) link
i thought rmde was "rub my damn ears"
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
restore 'rollin my damn eyes' plz u bastardsgood times
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
I've heard a lot of adults say "mischievious," it must be a very common mistake.I say "buoyed" like "booyd" and "buoyant" like "boyant".― Maria, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
I say "buoyed" like "booyd" and "buoyant" like "boyant".
― Maria, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
I've just heard Captain Kirk AND Spock say 'mischievious' in a Star Trek episode.
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
ffs
― kinder, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
It obviously became Standard English in the future.
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
the long influence of "Ebeneezer Goode"
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
mischievious is the aluminium of mischievous
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
Grievious misuse imo
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
Mischievious seems to be popular with people I know from the Indianapolis area.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
Maybe that's where Spock's ancestors were from.
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
The Indianapolis 500-years-from-now
― release the turkraken (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
Indianapioulis
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
I just learned today that a president can pardon himself (I think I knew that) and do so without announcing it (definitely didn't know that).
― clemenza, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
Can he pardon himself in anticipation though? I mean, he isn't (yet) under investigation for any federal crimes is he?
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 23:24 (three years ago) link
According to John Dean--I know--he can pardon himself in advance, as an insurance policy, and not in any way make it public.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
I thought it was supposed to be debatable grey area and fun things like that. An admission of guilt as well.If it is true then it needs to be looked at. Needs the turtle blockage of the Senate to be removed too surely.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 26 November 2020 09:19 (three years ago) link
I found the conversation from yesterday on CNN transcripts.
BROWN: Right. And I just want to go back to this and we'll go back to Flynn. But sources I've spoken to close to the president, John, they backed down the idea he would ever issue a self-pardon because it would be essentially admitting wrongdoing, admitting criminal wrongdoing in their view and president would never want to do that.
Do you really think he would? DEAN: Well, that -- that's a good question. He might, as an insurance
policy, want to stick one in his pocket, and not announce that he had done it, a self-pardon. But there is no question, a pardon is -- to accept a pardon is to acknowledge guilt. There is a Supreme Court case on that.
In fact, Gerald Ford, after he pardoned Nixon, carried a little slip of paper with a quote from the relevant Supreme Court ruling that he could pull out when anybody asked him why he was giving Nixon this pass. He said, well, Nixon admitted guilt when he accepted the pardon which is true.
So, that's what Trump is worried about. That's why he wouldn't announce it. If he were ever indicted, that's his -- that's his check, that is his ability to say, hey, you can't prosecute me because I have self-pardoned.
[16:50:01]
Then we'd litigate that issue for probably several years.
BROWN: So, you're saying essentially in the dark of the night, he could pardon himself, no one would -- no one would know? Is that what you're saying? Of course, this is speculative.
DEAN: He could do that.
BROWN: OK, OK.
DEAN: He does not have it announce it.
BROWN: OK.
― clemenza, Thursday, 26 November 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
Should've edited that, but it's clear enough.
― clemenza, Thursday, 26 November 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
He doesn't have to announce it, but it wouldn't be a secret for long.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 26 November 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
I don't think the "admitting guilt" thing would stop him from self-pardoning; he would just claim he's doing it to protect America from all the fake hoax Democrat Socialist prosecutions of your favorite president.
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 26 November 2020 21:31 (three years ago) link
Better be able to get him on something else he can't pardon Obstruction of the last couple of weeks should be bad enough. & he had been criminģ when he's not been golfing so surely there must be something not covered. has he combined the 2 at any point. Surely he'll be back to criming as soon as he's left office too. Will he be able to project a pardon forward.
― Stevolende, Friday, 27 November 2020 07:43 (three years ago) link
Christmas Island isn't in the middle of the Pacific somewhere, but a bit south of Java.
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 28 November 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link
Imagine how much more the concentration camps would cost the taxpayer if they were that far away. You really didn't think it through.
― huge rant (sic), Saturday, 28 November 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
Fair I guess (Nauru though?)
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 28 November 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
That 'send them to coventry' is an actual English idiom and not just the title of Pa Salieu's mixtape.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
yeah, not bad town. I think it got heavily bombed in WWII but there you go.my half sister went to University there too.Close to BirminghamI think the phrase must go back further than WWII.HOme of 2 Tone too
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
folk etymology of "send them to Coventry" dates it to the Civil War but i dunno if that's really really true
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
yeah, not bad town.
Who told you that?
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link