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I have just been asked how to make instant coffee.
EDIT: No, that isn't what you stir it with. Not until it's cooled down, anyway
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And I've finally caught up since my Virginia trip!
Only about 6 pages.
So...no, I'm not a big anime fan either. There are a few I've liked, but most just annoy me. The ones I like are likely some form of heresy to Freehold, but that kind of makes me happy at the same time.
Castlevania on Netflix - I do like that one.
Progress bars on computers...yeah...what NH said. Plus, some of them aren't tied to anything more than a counter that's set to *about how long* someone *thinks* it might take. They are in no way set up to reflect a basis in reality.
Anime isnt heresy. Dubbing is.
I prefer dubs, by and large.
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I only care about dubbing when one of two things occur:
1) Obviously bad translation issues.
2) Voice actors that don't fit with the characters.
I deal with the "sound doesn't match the mouth movements" issues.
Castlevania is not dubbed. And it has Richard Armitage as one of the voice actors.
NH - mostly unimportant PMs have gone your way.
NH - mostly unimportant PMs have gone your way.
Thanks! I'm sure I would've missed them!
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In other news, just in case we get some wee toddlers trick-or-treating in broad daylight, I set up the first "little bars" bowl.
One 5-pound bag of candy completely filled the large salad bowl.
Looking at the other two 5-pound bags, and not even considering the three boxes of full-sized bars we also have, we may be in trouble...
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In other news, just in case we get some wee toddlers trick-or-treating in broad daylight, I set up the first "little bars" bowl.
One 5-pound bag of candy completely filled the large salad bowl.
Looking at the other two 5-pound bags, and not even considering the three boxes of full-sized bars we also have, we may be in trouble...
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We don't get Trick-or-Treaters at our house, which is a little weird to me because we're on a main road that ties a lot of dead-end streets together.
So this year I'm heading over to Zelda's house, we're setting up a fire pit, sharing a bottle of wine, and handing out candy from her yard.
Image came in. Bye, y'all!
Big (Slow) Pete called in sick today, said he worked for too long in the rain yesterday.
We worked for ten minutes in the rain, five of which we were taking shelter in a garage.
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But of course...
...the owner of the SUV finally came out and moved it...
...and it was the woman who hit my Celica in her moving van.Some people just shouldn't own cars.
The problem is without a car you can't get anywhere in States. The public transport, like Bart example you were saying earlier, is atrocious.
I have just been asked how to make instant coffee.
EDIT: No, that isn't what you stir it with. Not until it's cooled down, anyway
I think I'll avoid cream this time...
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I speak good English. Sure, I may not wax lyrical or poetic, but I get my point across. Also I am snarky. Might have been too much Simon R Green or Dresden files.Oh em gee Mort are you my long lost sister? I love Simon R Green!
I don't think we look at all alike, since I'm fun sized and Asian...or well you'd have to get rather imaginative. But I like Simon R Greens dark humor. Yes, I try to be fluffy but I've got a rather dark streak in me. Again not tapping into forbidden cheese helps me stay fluffy. I haven't created any characters in a while.
Slight derail: I was damn happy to be fun sized in antelope canyon. The ladders and quarters were rather tight (or at least would be for you Caucasians). Me? That low ceiling?
*walks under it without needing to bend down/crouch*
Also in the Midway Museum. "Small" ladders don't bother me.
I think only in those two places have I been happy about my size.
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Have I mentioned the story about heading in to IKEA, and I walked under a sign and Hi was following me and smacked hard forehead-first into it?
I think I have.
Anyway, I have no proof whatsoever, so this is entirely a matter of NobodysHome's opinion.
I dropped the Celica off at Berkeley Wright's Auto Shop Tuesday of last week, and picked it up yesterday.
Not only did they not do any repairs, but there is damage on the passenger side that I don't recognize.
I'd nuke 'em into legal la-la land, but as I said, I have no before/after pictures, there's no good way to determine whether a dent is a week or a month old, etc.
But I'm certainly going to mention the possibility that they did that to me to anyone who'll listen...
Trick or treating!
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Anime isnt heresy. Dubbing is.
I dub thee heretic.
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Big (Slow) Pete called in sick today, said he worked for too long in the rain yesterday.
We worked for ten minutes in the rain, five of which we were taking shelter in a garage.
He was operating on Central Pete Time.
Anime isnt heresy. Dubbing is.I dub thee heretic.
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I spent yesterday looking at bank loans, then the bank increased the interest rate on us as we were filling up the forms. Looks like we're probably going to end up doing a fixed rate loan from the government since the Sibor rates, which the bank interest is tied to, looks to be going up in the future.
That's amounting to 1794.15 from both of us every month, for 25 years.
I've been catching up on The Office. I stopped watching after Steve Carell left the show. It's just not the same. It's still...decent...but not really good. It went from an A+ to a B-/C+ borderline.
Also, I think I hate Nellie.
If I were Andy...
Frankly, Erin should've punched her in the uterus. And her being dumped by an ex-boyfriend did NOT excuse the horrifically offensive douche she was. Jim and Pam have far too much pity. That damn b$~+%.
...and that's why I haven't just totally stopped with the show, despite it's decline in quality. I'm invested in the characters.
I spent yesterday looking at bank loans, then the bank increased the interest rate on us as we were filling up the forms. Looks like we're probably going to end up doing a fixed rate loan from the government since the Sibor rates, which the bank interest is tied to, looks to be going up in the future.
That's amounting to 1794.15 from both of us every month, for 25 years.
Is that...like your money, or an equivalent of Euros, or USD? Plus - is that good? I mean, here that would buy you a mansion, probably, but in the New York that's what - half a studio apartment?
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A new potato masher was an excellent way to spend 15 złoty.
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My money. In SGD. Our house is about 90ft from the inside. Honestly it's quite heavy for our salaries since by financial guides we're supposed to each earn at least 3834 per month for a 470,000 house (and ours costs more then that - 529,100),which none of us do.
Now you know why I stay with my parents instead of getting a house?
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Is that...like your money, or an equivalent of Euros, or USD? Plus - is that good? I mean, here that would buy you a mansion, probably, but in the New York that's what - half a studio apartment?I spent yesterday looking at bank loans, then the bank increased the interest rate on us as we were filling up the forms. Looks like we're probably going to end up doing a fixed rate loan from the government since the Sibor rates, which the bank interest is tied to, looks to be going up in the future.
That's amounting to 1794.15 from both of us every month, for 25 years.
My guess would Singaporean Dollar which is 0.72 in US dollars.
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I told him we'd each contribute $300 to a joint account for the household expenses. I think I can do it myself but it might get a bit tight.
I wonder if I should su*k up the maths curse to actually start keeping an account book,which my aunt keeps telling me to do. Maths still eats the thoughts out of my head.
I'm running some basic arithmetic down here to help me focus and clear my head.It's not a I need help thing.
Then after that if we get kids, that'll be extra costs and I haven't even factored in wedding costs yet (though they say you can reclaim part of the sum spent on your wedding because guests here give ang paos(red packets which have money)).
Wow. That...really sucks. I'm sorry Mort.
Don't you guys have a "middle of nowhere" option in Singapore? Or is it too population dense? I know here in the US, if you don't mind living in a dinky little town (mine has ~3000 people) you can get dirt cheap apartments. I'm paying less for a 2 bedroom in Ohio than I would've paid for a studio in Florida. By almost 20%, frankly. An equivalent sized apartment would probably be double the price in, say, Miami.
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Have I mentioned the story about heading in to IKEA, and I walked under a sign and Hi was following me and smacked hard forehead-first into it?
I think I have.
Poor Hi =( There are disadvantages of being tall, I see. *snickers*
Try get him to fit into the Cu Chi tunnels. Those are small, even by Asian standards.
I disagree and will not argue the point. This is a rare instance where I will agree to disagree because your thought process in regard to not enjoying The Office is so counterintuitively foreign that my brain cannot comprehend the original knowledge base it would require to dislike a show of such quality writing, character development, and just overall excellence that was that show (seasons 2-7). To me, you sound like my mother saying The Simpsons, a show 100% designed for adults in every way, shape, and form, is "a kid's show" - a superficial analysis based upon a quick glimpse and no real depth into it at all.
And you're totally entitled to that opinion, but every word you say of it might as well be Mandarin Chinese for the sense it makes to me.
Zhè duì wǒ lái shuō shì wánquán cuòwù de, wǒ bùgù yīqiè de fǎnduì nǐ.
这对我来说是完全错误的，我不顾一切地反对你
My money. In SGD. Our house is about 90ft from the inside. Honestly it's quite heavy for our salaries since by financial guides we're supposed to each earn at least 3834 per month for a 470,000 house (and ours costs more then that - 529,100),which none of us do.
Now you know why I stay with my parents instead of getting a house?
Wow! Bargain basement prices!
It was entirely Google Translate, which I believe is word-for-word, so it won't correct grammar. It was the most foreign language I could think of. Maybe I could've gone with Icelandic, which people say is the hardest language to learn non-native, but the characters Chinese alphabet confuses most Americans just to look at.
I admire your bilinguality. I am decent with Spanish. My best friend, a Colombian, says I sound "like a Mexican outside Home Depot speaking English" when I speak it, but he understands me!
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What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages? Bilingual!
What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages? Trilingual!
What do you call someone who speaks 4 or more? Multilingual!
What do you call someone who only speaks 1 language?
(your average) American!
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First kids showed up at 5:39 pm. Not a good sign.
And one of them was a complete a$$hat, grabbing a full handful of minis and then trying for a second. When I told him, "No," he tried anyway, and I had to pull the bowl out of his reach. When I said, "You only get ONE," (as in handful), he told everyone with him that they only got ONE candy. Then as soon as I put the bowl within their reach he went for the bowl again.
I was pretty sure that front-kicking him off my porch in a nice satisfying arc would have been frowned upon, him being all of four or so. But seriously, parents? You were RIGHT THERE! You HEARD him being a little snot! How about a helpful, "Howie, come on down so the other kids can get theirs?" or SOMETHING!?!?!
So in that table, I can get a 3, 4, or 5-bedroom house, but not a semi-detached house. What's up with that?
EDIT: And seriously, if you can afford $65,000/month, you're NOT going to be taking a loan to buy the house. You're just going to pay cash.
Nope. Thus the argument "your words are so foreign to me you might as well be speaking Chinese". Hyperbole - ya know I love it.
The best I could do is Spanish, which, without hitting Google Translate this would be my best attempt:
Tus palabaras estan de maciado mal que no podria entiendo en todos cosas que puedos comprehendamos. No estas verdad de nada, y tu debas estar triste con tu.
Which, IIRC is "your words are so most possible wrong that I can't possibly understand, and your things are not able to be understood. You are not truthful, and you should be sad with you" - because I don't know the words off the top of my head to get any closer to what I said in English than that.
Yo se sufficiente que estoy in la ciudad grande, podria encontrar la embassio, perro no mucho mas que la pequito cosas.
"I know sufficient that if I were in the big city, I could find the embassy, but not much more than the little things."
Source: A lot of Cubans and other hispanic folk live in South Florida. That and a few discs of Pimsleur language series.
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Aaaaaand... the second batch just made the night SO much better.
Obviously locals, and I love me some Albany kids. Middle schoolers by the look of them, I heard, "And THIS is the 'legendary house'" before they knocked, then they were wonderful and polite, and took one big bar apiece without me saying anything, then thanked me and the guy said, "I TOLD you this was the legendary house."
I told them they could come back all night as long as they changed costumes. One guy immediately said, "I took my hat off!"
We both laughed, and he did not grab at the bowl. It was a joke.
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Well, there are always misbehaving kids and honestly in America their dogs make less noise then the kids.
Though I have to confess my uncle grabbed quite some candy from the hotel lobby candy bowl. I went for the apples, eating 4 apples in a day.
Since leaving education, I thought I didn't like kids, but having encountered children from foreign nations, I realize it's our country's spoiled little brats I dislike. I'd say overall I dislike 60-75% of the kids I've met (I used to teach. The used to has a reason), but the truth is, I've met many exceptions. Not enough to shift my general starting attitude when someone wants to bring their child to a get together, but enough to know it's almost certainly the new generational attitude of befriending their kid before being a parent to them. Ugh. Sickens me just typing it.
But there are good kids out there, and it is a joy and wonder to see them when they appear.
It was entirely Google Translate, which I believe is word-for-word, so it won't correct grammar.
Google occasionally does grammar correctly, when it deals with a common expression in that language. Assuming that people who contributed that expression put it correctly.
When dealing with Google translate into Chinese, or into Polish for the matter, assume the sentence will go out all wrong and funny.
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Well, there are always misbehaving kids and honestly in America their dogs make less noise then the kids.
Though I have to confess my uncle grabbed quite some candy from the hotel lobby candy bowl. I went for the apples, eating 4 apples in a day.
Since leaving education, I thought I didn't like kids, but having encountered children from foreign nations, I realize it's our country's spoiled little brats I dislike. I'd say overall I dislike 60-75% of the kids I've met (I used to teach. The used to has a reason), but the truth is, I've met many exceptions. Not enough to shift my general starting attitude when someone wants to bring their child to a get together, but enough to know it's almost certainly the new generational attitude of befriending their kid before being a parent to them. Ugh. Sickens me just typing it.
But there are good kids out there, and it is a joy and wonder to see them when they appear.
In my experience of chaperoning middle and high schoolers for the last 8 years, it's not that the good kids are rare, it's that you don't notice them because the bad ones are so awful.
You complained a bit ago about a screaming kid in a restaurant and how much it upset you. Next time take a moment and look around. I bet you see half a dozen kids who aren't screaming, and at least one harried parent taking a different screaming kid out of the restaurant so as to not disturb the other guests. (After doing that particular perp walk about a dozen times I just gave up on dining out for nearly a decade. But I happen to have a personality where that worked for me -- my friends went out, had dinner, brought me home takeout, and we were all happy.)
The problem with perception is that you remember what you notice. And hoo, BOY do you notice bad kids! (Not the personal "you", but the general "you".)
Alias change - cause I loves dragons!
Seriously, I know we all do. But how many of you guys have mirror imaged Eastern/Western dragon tattoos on both arms? (On the backdrop of a pagoda/castle respectively, with fire/water themes between them, and destruction/creation. My ink guy is amazing.) Okay, my Eastern one needs to be colored in when I have enough money to do that (and visit my mom - my tat guy is in her town), but yeah. I do!
For my most recent birthday, my girlfriend got me a nice tapestry of black dragons flying across the sky. It's the only thing in my room, besides my mattress, and a poster of assorted ones.
I think when I crossed the 35 threshold, I just stopped giving a crap what looked kiddie in the eyes of other people. I like me some physics defying flying intelligent energy breathing lizards.
Edit - Since NH ninja'd in
Actually, I take the time to compliment good parents when I see them. In that restaurant (it was a McDonalds, so I should've been prepared), it was mostly bratty. It's really been a massive disparity for my personal experience. Massive.
Also, we need another word for general second person perspective that isn't personal second person.
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I will say in SG, kids are getting more bratty. Because of the general decline in birthrate, parents tend to spoil their kids more. I'm not really sure what kind of parent I would make at the end of the day. I don't think I would actively monitor my kids homework or stuff like that, besides asking me maths...uh I'd probably point to my husband.
I would warn them about misbehavior in public and if they misbehaved I'd probably forgo the outing and drag them back home. Discipline.
Yeah, a lot of American parents think it comes down to spanking, or some form of corporal punishment. I won't weigh in on that at all. I will say this:
Follow through on any threat you make.
That's it. If you say "X will happen if you don't..." then do X. Don't say it if you don't mean it. Kids then assume that there's a chance in the future you won't actually punish them. You show consistency in whatever you do, you're good.
Example: When I was a kid, my dad kept telling me not to hook my Nintendo up to the big screen in the living room, and especially to not leave the controllers uncoiled or tangled in front of it. He warned me he bought my Nintendo and that he could do what he wanted with it, and he'd break it, in front of me while I was watching, if I kept it up.
I didn't believe him until I saw him throw the entire system and the games down the stairs as hard as he could.
Tell you what, when I got a Super Nintendo that sucker stayed in my room.