Duolingo puts exclamation points at the end of nearly every sentence of explanation.
People say “utilize” when “use” is a perfectly good word.
Also they say “gift” as a verb. Why?
8.
Starfish
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Peple do not spend enuff time correcting my speling on this blog.
9.
SiubhanDuinne
I had a huge baked potato for breakfast.
It was sublime.
10.
smith
@Geo Wilcox: Isn’t this how the hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin crazes got started? Lots of common compounds have already been shown to be effective against covid in cells. Not that it’s bad to be optimistic, but we’ve been down this road before.
Need more people to send John emails in CAPITAL LETTERS.
21.
sab
@Starfish: But occassionally they post about capybaras. That should count.
When we had guinea pigs we kept the cage roght besode the tv. When we watched tv they thought we were hanging out with them.
22.
Kalakal
Red and Green status indicators on electrical stuff. Can’t tell ’em apart
23.
oldgold
@Starfish: Checking spelling can be tough, if you don’t know how to spell the word. Earlier today on this blog, I wanted to joke about onomatopoeia (someone has to) but did not have a clue about how to spell it. I tried sounding it out (ha), to no avail. I typed “Anomamapeeya“. The auto-correct spell function whirred, buzzed and then went clink, clank, clunk.
Here’s my gripe. Leave the VP alone. Enough is enough. A thread:
In every piece critiquing VP we see the same name, many times the only named source. He worked for VP nearly 9 years ago for a measly 5 months but supposedly respected journalists think this is an important *source* we need to listen to. It is such malpractice and manipulated
— Thee Kriss (@KMC4wauk) December 26, 2021
26.
Starfish
@oldgold: Once, I dated someone with dyslexia. The spell checker for MS Word could never figure out what he was trying to write because the correct guesses are built on common misspellings and not the type of misspellings that people with dyslexia make.
You’re better off typing it into your browser’s address bar or search window. The awesome power of the Google takes over and quite often gives you the result you’re looking for. Typing “anomamapia” returns “Showing results for onamonapia.” (But “anomamapeeya” does give me “Did you mean anomaly?”)
32.
Kathleen
Why haven’t President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris done my laundry?
33.
oldgold
@Starfish: When life gives you melons, you know what you have to do.
@Kathleen: I imagine the answer the press would print is that the former is too feeble-minded to know that the clothes are dirty and the latter is too uppity to do it.
We had a nice morning on the Blue Ridge Parkway from Floyd to Roanoke. Now we’re at my wife’s hometown at a B&B where she babysat when she was a kid. Her family home is just up the street so she took Artie for a walk.
Send me this list and I'll do a proper year end write up on VP #KamalaHarris. It's fcuking ridiculous how the media leap frogs over all of the substantive work and leadership VP puts in to regurgitate the same gossip hack jobs. pic.twitter.com/w9Gm1v1hpP
@WaterGirl: Young Lady, I think you have demonstrated your readiness to work for NYT!
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Betty
@Kathleen: Great interview. Thanks for sharing it. It reminds me of a grievance I have been raising on Twitter for a long time. Build Back Better was okay as a campaign slogan, but it doesn’t work for legislation. Senator Cardin said it right, the bill is about investing in American families. That seems to me a much more accurate and marketable focus for the bill.
Grievance: it’s gray and 64 here in Memphis. The forecast for the week is gray. I hope I have enough caffeinated beverages. I also have 32 hours of cpe left to do before 12/31 to keep my CPA license. That will require even more caffeine.
First, COVID research has become so corrupted I want to see some replication.
Second, while diphenhydramine is easy enough to use, getting a protein into a cell isn’t easy. So using this for in vivo treatment won’t be easy.
46.
Kathleen
@Betty: You’re welcome! Wasn’t he great? I agree with your assessment that Dems should list benefits (the top 3?) resulting from BBB provisions.
47.
Miss Bianca
@eclare: Weather Grievances con’t – the winds are howling round the Mountain Hacienda. Not looking forward to having to split more wood for the wood stove! Gotta keep that bad boy blazing all day , cuz I have a duck carcass in the stock pot.
Yes, fellow Marxists*, I am in fact making…Duck Soup.
*As opposed to “Dear Reader(s)”
48.
oldgold
Thanks for the spelling tips. It just doesn’t come to me gnaturally.
@WaterGirl: She is! We got to the BnB early and the room wasn’t ready and it’s a good thing. It was up a narrow circular stairway and there was no way she was going up it. They gave us another room with easier access and all is well. Meanwhile our Sil’s mom died at 90 after a very long illness so what this day will be I don’t know.
51.
citizen dave
Until an easy COVID treatment comes around for the magical thinkers in our population, my grievances are: We’re not all in this together, because a large minority of stupid people won’t take a scientifically-developed vaccine. Leading to Grievance #2: Because of #1, we stopped talking about what it takes to get to “herd immunity” long long ago. Anyone remember that chapter early in the COVID book (I feel like every new development is a new chapter).
Grievance: After brilliant films The Big Short and Vice, Adam McKay made a real stinker with Don’t Look Up. So very boring and a total waste of 2 hours and 18 minutes.
52.
laura
I have made a donation to the Human Fund on all your behalves. The Human Fund – money for people. You can thank me in the replies. \\
53.
UncleEbeneezer
Just tested negative again!! But was legit worried since I spent 10 minutes in a gas station with 15 unmasked rednecks yesterday. In short: f*** North Texas!
54.
Felanius Kootea
Could we please get a Desmond Tutu tribute open thread? Dead at 90 years.
@Raven: Sigh. Circle of life. Artie gets a new life and there’s joy in that, 90-year-old mom dies after a long illness. Joy, sadness, relief. I know you guys will roll with the punches.
58.
E.
@citizen dave: oh man I gotta disagree. I don’t think I have seen a better film than “Don’t Look Up” for the present moment in decades. It’s on Netflix.
@WaterGirl: Yea, Sil may or not be vacxed even though she’s a schoolteacher. The rub is that she basically spent 10 years taking care of my wife’s dad before her mom’s decline so fussing about Covid ain’t happening. We have our rapid’s so that is just what we’ll do.
61.
BeautifulPlumage
Ha ha ha – idiot in OR who ruined his kid’s Xmas call with the President has opened a bucket of worms for himself & his family’s business. Why did he leave the Medford police force after only 6 years. His dad was charged with illegal weapons sales in 1991 while a Navy SEAL. How did the 2 family businesses get startup money & justify the large PPP loans? Keep opening your yap, asshole.
Not sure links works. It’s to a Twitter thread with a link to the 1991 article. Further down are links to address lookups. PPP of $400K stated but I haven’t looked up the PPP website myself.
ETA ugh, let me try that in another post
67.
Kelly
@BeautifulPlumage: idiot in OR who ruined his kid’s Xmas call with the President has opened a bucket of worms for himself & his family’s business
Nope, for that very MAGA region of Oregon it’s good publicity. He’ll get hi fives all around
68.
Central Planning
Here’s my Festivus grievance: People who double click EVERYTHING annoy me. There are plenty of things that just need a single click. Don’t those people ever wonder why there are multiple copies of the exact same web page opened in their browser?
I’m starting to think this death threat shit is over-rated.
What does that mean?
80.
BeautifulPlumage
@germy: one twitter theory is that they’re so in their bubble that they don’t think any of their behaviors are a problem. Then they discover the 2nd half of FAFO.
I sometimes think we’re in our own bubble. Often I’ll see reporting here about some magat or another who has done something terrible, and we’re all “he’ll never be accepted again, he’s finished” and then the magat is greeted as a conquering hero in his own bubble.
I always liked when he read (in an angry voice) angry letters to the newspaper.
93.
Starfish
@germy: If there is anything we have learned from the Trump years, it is that there are very few moral standards or standards of civility left on the right.
The things that are forbidden are:
Being gay and being a priest
Jerry-Falwell level exploits (but only because he was a minister, and the lawsuits were going to cost his university a lot)
Saying anything against Trump
Other than that, they can feel free to not uphold any civility standards.
94.
mrmoshpotato
They still haven’t arrested that Liberty Mutual creeper.
Good luck with the studyin’. Or is it just watching required videos, etc.?
101.
eclare
@Steeplejack: Written courses and test questions on-line. It is SO boring, and I don’t learn anything. But I worked too hard to get that license, I will keep it til the end.
102.
mrmoshpotato
Chuckles can get fucked, forever and ever, Amen.
This shows why I absolutely cannot stand to watch Chuck Todd. He’s horrible. Notice how when she busts him on his implicitly racist framing he tries to talk over her and shut her up. What an asshole. https://t.co/SElEMbFMre— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 26, 2021
103.
Starfish
@Central Planning: My sister had to have “the talk” with me. It consisted of “You know you can single click that instead.” It was painful to hear. I am not sure that I am doing much better, but I try.
One of the things on the personal must do list whenever am setting up a new computer running Windows is to change the appropriate setting so single click applies to everything.
IMHO double clicking shortens mouse life. And aggravates arthritic fingers.
Gift as a verb has a long historical usage in English. It has gone out of fashion (as have other eccentricities of more formal speech) but is not some radical new coinage.
Being on the Left Coast, and subject to occasional bouts of insomnia, I feel it is a great failing of this blog that conversations start petering out after 2:00 AM my time.
People are using computers in the way they may have been accustomed to. I would always get mad when my boss dragged and dropped wrong, and now I am noticing myself dragging and dropping things into the wrong folders.
“There is a lot of ‘Oh no, you are watching me type, so I will mess it up because I am being observed'” that goes on too.
@CaseyL: That’s because we ran all the trolls off.
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A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@NotMax: I grew up with “snuck” and was appalled to learn semi-recently the more “correct” usage is “sneaked” and that “snuck” is considered a non-standard version of the past tense of sneak, which just sounds WRONG to me. Of course I prefer non-standard versions of tenses etc. in English, they are usually older versions.
Yup yup. Joint used to be much more lively overnight.
Nowadays it seems like even Sinatra would be absent at Joe’s.
119.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Starfish: It was well known in my IT department office that many people could not type properly while being watched, for whatever reason (particularly with someone looking over your shoulder as you typed).
@sab: Also, people are less anxious and are sleeping better.
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Central Planning
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan): If people are watching, I ask to take the keyboard because I don’t have a problem if someone watches me, especially if they are not a touch-typer. I have things to do and can’t be waiting around for slow typers.
I grew up with “snuck” and was appalled to learn semi-recently the more “correct” usage is “sneaked” and that “snuck” is considered a non-standard version of the past tense of sneak.
Much like the word “ain’t,” I think that “snuck” has stuck around, because it just seems right.
My imaginary conjugation of the verb has always been “sneak, snack, snuck.”
It’s all good so long as you are gruntled with it.
;)
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Ella in New Mexico
@Geo Wilcox: Benadryl and colostrum is sure going to be an intersting cocktail to sell to the public.
128.
zhena gogolia
Just watched the Queen’s message. I’m in tears. I guess because it was like another episode of “The Crown.”
129.
Miss Bianca
@NotMax: I am one gruntled customer, as I do not reluct to tell you!
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lowtechcyclist
@Raven: We had a nice morning on the Blue Ridge Parkway from Floyd to Roanoke.
Ooh, nice! It’s been too many years since I’ve driven the Blue Ridge Parkway. My then-girlfriend and I drove the length of it, from Rockfish Gap to the Smokies, all the way back in 1982. That was a good trip!
My wife and I are down in central FL with her family this Christmas. We drove over to the Dali Museum in St. Pete this morning, and it was awesome. I’d seen reproductions of the four or five best-known Dali paintings, but that was the sum total of my exposure to Dali before today. I came away totally awed.
On the way home, we swung through (let’s go) Brandon, and had a terrific lunch at Jimmy Hula’s. My wife and I had tacos – I had the Voodoo and the Kingston, and my wife had the Wipeout, all of which were amazing, as were the zucchini fries. The kid devoured a Burnt Reynolds burger.
Now it’s nap time.
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NotMax
WT everlovin’ F? Half listening, with back turned to it, to the TV but ears caught enough of an ad to pick up it is for a perfume named Aryan Goddess.
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lowtechcyclist
@Central Planning: Here’s my Festivus grievance: People who double click EVERYTHING annoy me. There are plenty of things that just need a single click.
Then I’d have to pay enough attention to figure out, and remember, which is which.
In my work environment, there’s often a lag time between clicking and opening, during which I wonder whether it even registered my clicks (often enough, it doesn’t). During that time, I’d rather not also wonder whether or not I needed to do a double click, so I always double click. Makes it more likely that at least one click got through.
I know what works in a petri dish does not always pretty close to never translates well to real life
In vitro data is fine for prioritizing things to investigate further, but pretty useless for predicting what will happen in humans. The vast majority of things that look good in vitro fail before they even get into clinical trial. Even those that do fail about 90% of the time. In this particular case some one at In the Pipeline points out a pretty big problem:
In the article, the EC50 of their proposed therapeutic combo was 54 ug/mL diphenhydramine, but diphenhydramine is lethal >8ug/mL plasma levels. Don’t think it’s anything to write home about.
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Raven
We’re sitting outside as the sun drops, it’s been nice but it’ll get cold quickly. My BIL has SIX dogs, three goldens, a bulldog, a cocker , a mutt and a bichon!
Up until not long ago I’d find myself up till 3 or 4 am. Just couldn’t sleep. Now 1am is about as late/early as I stay up, normally it’s midnight. Part of that is retirement, I can now sleep as late as I want, which is difficult to do when you actually have a starting time that you get paid to abide by.
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Argiope
Coworkers who constantly reply to all, when replying to sender would be sufficient. Can I get a witness? Some people need that option taken away from them due to abusive practices.
Texts sent to a long string of recipients, which results in phone blowing up for 30 minutes, with EVERY SINGLE PERSON replying to EVERYONE with a string of emojis. And then replying to all those non-informative messages.
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Central Planning
@Argiope: +1 to that. My coworker and I would bet on the ratio of account managers to sales engineers that would reply all. The ratio was ALWAYS high.
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Starfish
You never post enough about the topic that I think is most relevant. Guinea pigs.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us
I got a lot of problems with you people!
Starfish
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us:
We don’t use enough exclamation marks on this blog!!!!
Jerzy Russian
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us: It really annoys me when people don’t put question marks at the end of a question.
Baud
All of my grievances are about myself.
Geo Wilcox
I know what works in a petri dish does not always translate well to real life but if this combo is for real, Covid is finished.
https://ufhealth.org/news/2021/two-common-compounds-show-effectiveness-against-covid-19-virus-early-testing?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Starfish:
Starfish
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Peple do not spend enuff time correcting my speling on this blog.
SiubhanDuinne
I had a huge baked potato for breakfast.
It was sublime.
smith
@Geo Wilcox: Isn’t this how the hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin crazes got started? Lots of common compounds have already been shown to be effective against covid in cells. Not that it’s bad to be optimistic, but we’ve been down this road before.
Starfish
@Geo Wilcox: It’s a Festivus miracle.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Gift is a verb in Spanish! ¡Regalar!
To re-gift in Spanish is reregalar, I assume.
Miss Bianca
@Starfish: You are pet-sitting some guinea pigs, yes?
Do you ever hope they’ll start squeaking just so’s you can watch their little ears flap?
Starfish
@Miss Bianca: They talk to us a lot when we go give them their morning snacks.
This is the first job that my son, age 11, has had.
We never had pets because of his allergies and my allergies. This is a fun short-term commitment.
SiubhanDuinne
I just watched/listened to Mandy Patinkin singing “White Christmas” in Yiddish, and I’ve finally stopped hating that song.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Baud: Do not care
Sandia Blanca
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Don’t know anything about Duolingo, but I highly endorse your items 2 and 3. Bring back “use” and “give”!
BellyCat
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Surely you mean: “Do not care!”?!?!
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
No me importa.
Renie
Need more people to send John emails in CAPITAL LETTERS.
sab
@Starfish: But occassionally they post about capybaras. That should count.
When we had guinea pigs we kept the cage roght besode the tv. When we watched tv they thought we were hanging out with them.
Kalakal
Red and Green status indicators on electrical stuff. Can’t tell ’em apart
oldgold
@Starfish: Checking spelling can be tough, if you don’t know how to spell the word. Earlier today on this blog, I wanted to joke about onomatopoeia (someone has to) but did not have a clue about how to spell it. I tried sounding it out (ha), to no avail. I typed “Anomamapeeya“. The auto-correct spell function whirred, buzzed and then went clink, clank, clunk.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@oldgold:
onomatopoeia
I don’t wanna see ya
speakin’ in a foreign tongue! ! !
germy
Here’s my gripe. Leave the VP alone. Enough is enough. A thread:
Starfish
@oldgold: Once, I dated someone with dyslexia. The spell checker for MS Word could never figure out what he was trying to write because the correct guesses are built on common misspellings and not the type of misspellings that people with dyslexia make.
Baud
@germy:
Oh wow. I didn’t know that. Important information.
It reminds me a little of how NYT interviews the same “independents” who hate Biden who just happen to be deeply connected to the GOP.
germy
@Baud:
Salena Zito-ism.
VOR
@Geo Wilcox: when pasting a URL, the section which matters is before the ? The ? Indicates the start of site internal tracking and other information.
Kathleen
@SiubhanDuinne: OT but I found a link to Senator Ben Cardin’s interview on Fox this mornng:
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6288737909001#sp=show-clips
I posted it downstairs also but it was late in the thread so I wanted to make sure you saw it!
Steeplejack (phone)
@oldgold:
You’re better off typing it into your browser’s address bar or search window. The awesome power of the Google takes over and quite often gives you the result you’re looking for. Typing “anomamapia” returns “Showing results for onamonapia.” (But “anomamapeeya” does give me “Did you mean anomaly?”)
Kathleen
Why haven’t President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris done my laundry?
oldgold
@Starfish: When life gives you melons, you know what you have to do.
WaterGirl
I have seen “Dear Reader” three times on this blog in the past week or so. When did we start doing that on Balloon Juice?
WaterGirl
@Kathleen: I imagine the answer the press would print is that the former is too feeble-minded to know that the clothes are dirty and the latter is too uppity to do it.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@BellyCat: Maybe I mean I do not gift a fuck
Raven
We had a nice morning on the Blue Ridge Parkway from Floyd to Roanoke. Now we’re at my wife’s hometown at a B&B where she babysat when she was a kid. Her family home is just up the street so she took Artie for a walk.
WaterGirl
@Raven: Artie is definitely living his best life.
germy
Kathleen
@WaterGirl: Young Lady, I think you have demonstrated your readiness to work for NYT!
Betty
@Kathleen: Great interview. Thanks for sharing it. It reminds me of a grievance I have been raising on Twitter for a long time. Build Back Better was okay as a campaign slogan, but it doesn’t work for legislation. Senator Cardin said it right, the bill is about investing in American families. That seems to me a much more accurate and marketable focus for the bill.
Joe Falco
The Festivus scene but they’re animated like cartoon characters.
eclare
Grievance: it’s gray and 64 here in Memphis. The forecast for the week is gray. I hope I have enough caffeinated beverages. I also have 32 hours of cpe left to do before 12/31 to keep my CPA license. That will require even more caffeine.
brantl
@oldgold: Do it with your phone, and voice.
Fair Economist
@Geo Wilcox: Two comments:
First, COVID research has become so corrupted I want to see some replication.
Second, while diphenhydramine is easy enough to use, getting a protein into a cell isn’t easy. So using this for in vivo treatment won’t be easy.
Kathleen
@Betty: You’re welcome! Wasn’t he great? I agree with your assessment that Dems should list benefits (the top 3?) resulting from BBB provisions.
Miss Bianca
@eclare: Weather Grievances con’t – the winds are howling round the Mountain Hacienda. Not looking forward to having to split more wood for the wood stove! Gotta keep that bad boy blazing all day , cuz I have a duck carcass in the stock pot.
Yes, fellow Marxists*, I am in fact making…Duck Soup.
*As opposed to “Dear Reader(s)”
oldgold
Thanks for the spelling tips. It just doesn’t come to me gnaturally.
WaterGirl
@Miss Bianca: I see how you snuck that in. :-)
Raven
@WaterGirl: She is! We got to the BnB early and the room wasn’t ready and it’s a good thing. It was up a narrow circular stairway and there was no way she was going up it. They gave us another room with easier access and all is well. Meanwhile our Sil’s mom died at 90 after a very long illness so what this day will be I don’t know.
citizen dave
Until an easy COVID treatment comes around for the magical thinkers in our population, my grievances are: We’re not all in this together, because a large minority of stupid people won’t take a scientifically-developed vaccine. Leading to Grievance #2: Because of #1, we stopped talking about what it takes to get to “herd immunity” long long ago. Anyone remember that chapter early in the COVID book (I feel like every new development is a new chapter).
Grievance: After brilliant films The Big Short and Vice, Adam McKay made a real stinker with Don’t Look Up. So very boring and a total waste of 2 hours and 18 minutes.
laura
I have made a donation to the Human Fund on all your behalves. The Human Fund – money for people. You can thank me in the replies. \\
UncleEbeneezer
Just tested negative again!! But was legit worried since I spent 10 minutes in a gas station with 15 unmasked rednecks yesterday. In short: f*** North Texas!
Felanius Kootea
Could we please get a Desmond Tutu tribute open thread? Dead at 90 years.
Thank you!
Raven
Along the Blue Ridge Parkway
i just happen to be traveling with a gallon of gumbo in the cooler!
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us
@Raven: Is Floyd as hippie-d out as I’ve heard tell?
WaterGirl
@Raven: Sigh. Circle of life. Artie gets a new life and there’s joy in that, 90-year-old mom dies after a long illness. Joy, sadness, relief. I know you guys will roll with the punches.
E.
@citizen dave: oh man I gotta disagree. I don’t think I have seen a better film than “Don’t Look Up” for the present moment in decades. It’s on Netflix.
Raven
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us:
It appeared to be at 7am!
https://flic.kr/p/2mTqhsB
Raven
@WaterGirl: Yea, Sil may or not be vacxed even though she’s a schoolteacher. The rub is that she basically spent 10 years taking care of my wife’s dad before her mom’s decline so fussing about Covid ain’t happening. We have our rapid’s so that is just what we’ll do.
BeautifulPlumage
Ha ha ha – idiot in OR who ruined his kid’s Xmas call with the President has opened a bucket of worms for himself & his family’s business. Why did he leave the Medford police force after only 6 years. His dad was charged with illegal weapons sales in 1991 while a Navy SEAL. How did the 2 family businesses get startup money & justify the large PPP loans? Keep opening your yap, asshole.
debbie
@Kathleen:
If only they could dust every week!
Baud
@BeautifulPlumage:
We are Brandon. Resistance is futile.
Kent
@BeautifulPlumage: link?
Kalakal
@E.: I’m with you on this. I really enjoyed it. Sums up the last few years perfectly. And it’s very funny
BeautifulPlumage
Not sure links works. It’s to a Twitter thread with a link to the 1991 article. Further down are links to address lookups. PPP of $400K stated but I haven’t looked up the PPP website myself.
ETA ugh, let me try that in another post
Kelly
Nope, for that very MAGA region of Oregon it’s good publicity. He’ll get hi fives all around
Central Planning
Here’s my Festivus grievance: People who double click EVERYTHING annoy me. There are plenty of things that just need a single click. Don’t those people ever wonder why there are multiple copies of the exact same web page opened in their browser?
BeautifulPlumage
https://mobile.twitter.com/Maximum_Meow_/status/1475058482290335748
Jackie
@Kathleen: I saw it on the earlier thread and watched it. It was a GREAT interview! That it was on Fox News is amazing!
It’s too bad it won’t be seen by CNN or MSNBC viewers – instead of Manchin ad nauseam.
Starfish
@BeautifulPlumage:
Go to the text tab and not the visual one to post that. I make that mistake all the time.
Kathleen
@debbie: Harrumph. They’re so out of touch they’d use polish and rags instead of Swiffer!!!
Raven
I’m starting to think this death threat shit is over-rated.
germy
Schmeck! Schmeck!
Isn’t that what Steve Allen used to say?
BeautifulPlumage
Thanks for the help, everyone, I don’t post links often
germy
@BeautifulPlumage:
My question is: Why do these cockroaches keep switching on the kitchen light?
If their pasts are so sketchy… why not keep a low profile?
WaterGirl
@BeautifulPlumage: I fixed your twitter link above.
WaterGirl
@BeautifulPlumage: The trick with a tweet is that you copy the code in your browser and THEN click the TEXT tab in the comment editor.
Your issue appears to be that you were copying the code with the visual tab, and the visual tab doesn’t know what to do with HTML code.
WaterGirl
@Raven:
What does that mean?
BeautifulPlumage
@germy: one twitter theory is that they’re so in their bubble that they don’t think any of their behaviors are a problem. Then they discover the 2nd half of FAFO.
gmat
@SiubhanDuinne:
Kathleen
@Jackie: Amen!
Kathleen
@germy: I think it was “Smock Smock”.
germy
@BeautifulPlumage:
I sometimes think we’re in our own bubble. Often I’ll see reporting here about some magat or another who has done something terrible, and we’re all “he’ll never be accepted again, he’s finished” and then the magat is greeted as a conquering hero in his own bubble.
BeautifulPlumage
https://mobile.twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1474106063297339392
Testing a Twitter link – T Greg Doucette and his kitty Biscuit.
ETA you can teach an old dog new tricks
WaterGirl
@Felanius Kootea: Ask and you shall receive!
Oh, wait, this is the Festivus thread, that’s clearly the wrong attitude.
germy
@Kathleen:
That’s it!
gwangung
@germy:
Very much so. The two bubbles come from both human nature and is encouraged by social media algorithms.
Kathleen
@germy: Yes. I won’t say how I know that! LOL (Translation: I watched Steve Allen when I was a kid).
eclare
@BeautifulPlumage: Awwww…
gmat
How do I work this?
germy
@Kathleen:
I always liked when he read (in an angry voice) angry letters to the newspaper.
Starfish
@germy: If there is anything we have learned from the Trump years, it is that there are very few moral standards or standards of civility left on the right.
The things that are forbidden are:
Other than that, they can feel free to not uphold any civility standards.
mrmoshpotato
They still haven’t arrested that Liberty Mutual creeper.
germy
@Starfish:
That last line is blurring… ever since his interview with Candace O.
mrmoshpotato
@Raven: Who’s sending you death threats?
WaterGirl
@gmat: Hi there,
Your first comment has to be manually approved before they show up for everyone.
I just approved your first and second comment, so you are good to go now.
zhena gogolia
@germy: SMOCK! SMOCK!
mrmoshpotato
@Raven:
That’s how to do it! ??
Steeplejack
@eclare:
Good luck with the studyin’. Or is it just watching required videos, etc.?
eclare
@Steeplejack: Written courses and test questions on-line. It is SO boring, and I don’t learn anything. But I worked too hard to get that license, I will keep it til the end.
mrmoshpotato
Chuckles can get fucked, forever and ever, Amen.
Starfish
@Central Planning: My sister had to have “the talk” with me. It consisted of “You know you can single click that instead.” It was painful to hear. I am not sure that I am doing much better, but I try.
Ruckus
@Starfish:
Having lesdyxia I can attest to this. Spell checkers do regular, common misspellings, not the weird ones we do.
Starboard Tack
@Kathleen: “Smock! Smock! How’s your bird?”
Big A Cleaners.
Hebrew National Salami.
Kent
They are following their cult leader Trump. I mean who the hell had more sketchy shit in his past than Trump? No one.
Central Planning
@Starfish: My ire is more directed to those that should know better, like an IT professor I was working with last week. Arrrgh!
NotMax
People pooh-pooh Seinfeld, but it did give birth to Festivus.
@Starfish
One of the things on the personal must do list whenever am setting up a new computer running Windows is to change the appropriate setting so single click applies to everything.
IMHO double clicking shortens mouse life. And aggravates arthritic fingers.
@Dorothy A. Winsor
Gift as a verb has a long historical usage in English. It has gone out of fashion (as have other eccentricities of more formal speech) but is not some radical new coinage.
@WaterGirl
“snuck”
:shudder:
CaseyL
Being on the Left Coast, and subject to occasional bouts of insomnia, I feel it is a great failing of this blog that conversations start petering out after 2:00 AM my time.
debbie
@Central Planning:
Dammit. You just made me double-click on the refresh button!
Starfish
@Central Planning: I think that age matters in these things.
People are using computers in the way they may have been accustomed to. I would always get mad when my boss dragged and dropped wrong, and now I am noticing myself dragging and dropping things into the wrong folders.
“There is a lot of ‘Oh no, you are watching me type, so I will mess it up because I am being observed'” that goes on too.
James E Powell
@germy:
Some comedian whose name I cannot recall did that with negative yelp reviews. I laughed my ass off.
James E Powell
@Starfish:
You left out “Treating Obama like a human being.”
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Sneaked? :)
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@germy:
Probably because they’re idiots
sab
@CaseyL: That’s because we ran all the trolls off.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@NotMax: I grew up with “snuck” and was appalled to learn semi-recently the more “correct” usage is “sneaked” and that “snuck” is considered a non-standard version of the past tense of sneak, which just sounds WRONG to me. Of course I prefer non-standard versions of tenses etc. in English, they are usually older versions.
NotMax
@CaseyL
Yup yup. Joint used to be much more lively overnight.
Nowadays it seems like even Sinatra would be absent at Joe’s.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Starfish: It was well known in my IT department office that many people could not type properly while being watched, for whatever reason (particularly with someone looking over your shoulder as you typed).
Miss Bianca
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan): I am a “snuck” fan, myself. Of course, I will also proudly use “ain’t” as well.
Central Planning
@Starfish: I agree that age is a part of it, so some people can get a pass ;)
mrmoshpotato
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan):
WTF?
Geminid
@sab: Also, people are less anxious and are sleeping better.
Central Planning
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan): If people are watching, I ask to take the keyboard because I don’t have a problem if someone watches me, especially if they are not a touch-typer. I have things to do and can’t be waiting around for slow typers.
Brachiator
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan):
Much like the word “ain’t,” I think that “snuck” has stuck around, because it just seems right.
My imaginary conjugation of the verb has always been “sneak, snack, snuck.”
NotMax
@Miss Bianca
It’s all good so long as you are gruntled with it.
;)
Ella in New Mexico
@Geo Wilcox: Benadryl and colostrum is sure going to be an intersting cocktail to sell to the public.
zhena gogolia
Just watched the Queen’s message. I’m in tears. I guess because it was like another episode of “The Crown.”
Miss Bianca
@NotMax: I am one gruntled customer, as I do not reluct to tell you!
lowtechcyclist
Ooh, nice! It’s been too many years since I’ve driven the Blue Ridge Parkway. My then-girlfriend and I drove the length of it, from Rockfish Gap to the Smokies, all the way back in 1982. That was a good trip!
My wife and I are down in central FL with her family this Christmas. We drove over to the Dali Museum in St. Pete this morning, and it was awesome. I’d seen reproductions of the four or five best-known Dali paintings, but that was the sum total of my exposure to Dali before today. I came away totally awed.
On the way home, we swung through (let’s go) Brandon, and had a terrific lunch at Jimmy Hula’s. My wife and I had tacos – I had the Voodoo and the Kingston, and my wife had the Wipeout, all of which were amazing, as were the zucchini fries. The kid devoured a Burnt Reynolds burger.
Now it’s nap time.
NotMax
WT everlovin’ F? Half listening, with back turned to it, to the TV but ears caught enough of an ad to pick up it is for a perfume named Aryan Goddess.
lowtechcyclist
Then I’d have to pay enough attention to figure out, and remember, which is which.
In my work environment, there’s often a lag time between clicking and opening, during which I wonder whether it even registered my clicks (often enough, it doesn’t). During that time, I’d rather not also wonder whether or not I needed to do a double click, so I always double click. Makes it more likely that at least one click got through.
Baud
@NotMax:
Why are you watching Tucker Carlson?
zhena gogolia
@Baud: lol
mrmoshpotato
Snowy in Seattle!
Go Bears!
NotMax
@Baud
Heh. Never in a bazillion years.
PAM Dirac
@Geo Wilcox:
In vitro data is fine for prioritizing things to investigate further, but pretty useless for predicting what will happen in humans. The vast majority of things that look good in vitro fail before they even get into clinical trial. Even those that do fail about 90% of the time. In this particular case some one at In the Pipeline points out a pretty big problem:
Raven
We’re sitting outside as the sun drops, it’s been nice but it’ll get cold quickly. My BIL has SIX dogs, three goldens, a bulldog, a cocker , a mutt and a bichon!
mrmoshpotato
@Raven: That’s SEVEN dogs.
Central Planning
@lowtechcyclist: That’s different. At least you are putting some thought into it :)
Raven
@Raven: Fuckers won’t sit still!
mrmoshpotato
@Raven: They’re antsy for New Year’s Eve.
Ruckus
@Geminid:
Up until not long ago I’d find myself up till 3 or 4 am. Just couldn’t sleep. Now 1am is about as late/early as I stay up, normally it’s midnight. Part of that is retirement, I can now sleep as late as I want, which is difficult to do when you actually have a starting time that you get paid to abide by.
Argiope
Coworkers who constantly reply to all, when replying to sender would be sufficient. Can I get a witness? Some people need that option taken away from them due to abusive practices.
lowtechcyclist
@Argiope: Strongly seconded.
Juju
@oldgold: make melon balls?
Timill
@Juju: That would be meloncolic…
dopey-o
Texts sent to a long string of recipients, which results in phone blowing up for 30 minutes, with EVERY SINGLE PERSON replying to EVERYONE with a string of emojis. And then replying to all those non-informative messages.
Central Planning
@Argiope: +1 to that. My coworker and I would bet on the ratio of account managers to sales engineers that would reply all. The ratio was ALWAYS high.