EMT 16 June 2024

Happy Sunday.

Posted by: krakatoa at 07:02 AM

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1 Yo!

Posted by: Jamaica at June 16, 2024 06:04 AM (IG7T0)

2 Nooded

Posted by: Jamaica at June 16, 2024 06:05 AM (IG7T0)

3 Happy Father's Day dear morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 06:05 AM (RIvkX)

4 Happy Father's day guys
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 06:06 AM (fwDg9)

5 Use no. 896875137815486 for duct tape:

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/
status/1802043096911233466

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 16, 2024 06:06 AM (LGZQv)

6 I thought that this was a nice account of a American doctor serving as a medical missionary in Sudan and the importance of his faith:

https://tinyurl.com/y4mbvprn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 16, 2024 06:07 AM (NvSdF)

7 Good morning to all. Later this morning my local Elk's Lodge is having the annual US Flag ceremony and Father's Day celebration. I am looking forward to this.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at June 16, 2024 06:09 AM (K89t5)

8 Happy Father's Day to all.

Heavy overcast this morning.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 06:10 AM (a1415)

9 Comedian makes fun of the accents of pilots as well as boarding procedures

https://tinyurl.com/2zsvhd2k

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 16, 2024 06:11 AM (NvSdF)

10 I am grateful for FenSpouse who is very good dad, a fine man and a very good husband and who is giving the Father's Day Message at church today!

Happy Father's Day!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 16, 2024 06:15 AM (NvSdF)

11 Does anyone else here study foreign languages like French and Spanish? I ask because it would be cool to have a club of people who study languages and want to work on them.

I’ve thought back a lot about my own language studies and I think I’m pretty much intermediate or advanced intermediate Spanish and French. Maybe that is my life. I’ll never be fully fluent either one, but it is the way it goes. Looking back at it and looking at it right now for some reason, I just can’t decide.

I personally really enjoy studying foreign languages. I know our own language is as rich as it comes, and it is also the dominant language, Except for particular situations, you really do not have to study foreign language, they all study ours.

But at the same time studying foreign languages has been a normal part of Western Education over hundreds of years. Then again the reality is how many native born Americans not from a family that speaks foreign language actually speak a foreign language? My guess is this is a very tiny amount, like less than five percent.

I just enjoy studying French in Spanish. I wish I could only choose one if I could, it would be French, but no one here speaks French

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 06:17 AM (RAUB3)

12 No French.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 06:21 AM (RIvkX)

13 I also do enjoy Spanish so I focus on the Spanish from Spain, which is different. I also took Spanish in college and number no matter what anyone thinks a lot of that still is down there you still know it.

One thing about language that you ever discussed today is that yes it’s true. English is the dominant language and nothing is going to change that. There is this thing called global English, and that is kind of like the thing you get from people who answer at call centers. The funny thing about global English, and I’m not the first to recognize this, but it is really bad, It is really poorly spoken English. I hope we all do not default to this so-called global English English.

There is a common refrain about language learners from America, who are upset because the French and Spanish always respond to them in English because they think they’re English is better than the original speaker’s French or Spanish. But to be clear, we cuddle a lot of foreigners because their English is actually not really that good but for some reason, we don’t criticize bad English in the way other people could assize those speaking, their native tongue.

There have Been actual Academic

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 06:23 AM (RAUB3)

14 SanFranpsycho, but whining up breakfast treats in French would sound classier.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 16, 2024 06:23 AM (7iAr4)

15 So it's 0623 in the morning...and the friggin woodpecker is hammering on the aluminum chimney cap!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 06:24 AM (a1415)

16 My best languages are Russian and Spanish. I have a lot of Hebrew, can read and understand Dutch and a lot of German.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 06:24 AM (RIvkX)

17 Writing about the subject, A very taboo subject. So many think they’re fluent in English, but they are not. And the general level of English worldwide is actually quite poor. I could look up the citations, but I promise you this is an issue. Many academics are researching.

But getting back to the American foreign language student who is eager and wants to speak with someone from abroad. When that person always responds in English because they think their English is better than the speakers foreign language, The foreign speaker of English is often wrong.

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 06:25 AM (RAUB3)

18 SanFranpsycho, but whining up breakfast treats in French would sound classier.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 16, 2024 06:23 AM (7iAr4)
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Merde!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 06:26 AM (RIvkX)

19 ...When that person always responds in English because they think their English is better than the speakers foreign language, The foreign speaker of English is often wrong.
Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 06:25 AM (RAUB3)
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So you've been to Quebec.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 06:27 AM (RIvkX)

20 Apparently it was a wild night at one of the bars on Main Street in Las Cruces with the excitement provided by Kaitlyn Rayann Lee who went all punchy-punchy and then tore up the place. Extra credit multiplier: she has outstanding warrants.

https://tinyurl.com/ecnse392

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at June 16, 2024 06:28 AM (K89t5)

21 Also, Ace speaks French

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 06:28 AM (RIvkX)

22 Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 06:29 AM (oaGWv)

23 16, very nice. Reading is easier, but very important. I have mainly studied Spanish and French with some Italian thrown in. When people discuss whether French or Spanish is easier, I am pretty much anyone else’s actually worked on these things laughs, Because neither are. The old saw about Spanish being easier because the pronunciation is easier does not hold if you actually go deep into the languages. Shockingly Spanish is not pronounced like English nor is French. We would be lucky if pronunciation was a big part of learning the language.

One thing about Spanish versus French is while there are obvious a bunch of similarities, Words in vocab are different, And to truly learn the language, you need to learn upon thousands of words of vocab.

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 06:30 AM (RAUB3)

24 21, ace and I both speak French and study French. Since most conservatives inherently do not like anything French, it’s good to have a few showing the other perspective to keep it lively. If I didn’t keep messing around with Spanish, my French would be fluent, but I hate being tied down.

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 06:32 AM (RAUB3)

25 My Spanish is not global Spanish, it's Puerto Rican, mami because I grew up in NYC

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 06:32 AM (RIvkX)

26 There Is Nothing More Important Than Being Gay.

Posted by: There Is Nothing More Important Than Being Gay at June 16, 2024 06:32 AM (JKPiI)

27 You must take care because learning French will distort your mind and sap your intelligence.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 06:33 AM (RIvkX)

28 "Also, Ace speaks French"

Ace speaks French better than Kamala Harris speaks English.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 06:34 AM (a1415)

29 mornin yall. My boys are not coming today, #2 son is sick. He sounded all stopped up last night. Probably caught something after 14 hours on airplanes.

Posted by: fd at June 16, 2024 06:35 AM (vFG9F)

30 "You must take care because learning French will distort your mind and sap your intelligence."

Might be better to just give-up that endeavor.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 06:35 AM (a1415)

31 30, many of them drown on about global warming, and it does make the language seem kind of stupid, And to be fair to the French, their level of English, these days is pretty good. And to be really fair to the French, and this should be underlined, They don’t move here, So there’s no one to speak to,

But the so-called extreme, right, just one big time in France and it has been clear for a long time. A bunch of them are sick of this left-wing crap. But don’t worry trust me I never trust a Frenchman when it comes to politics they always let us down. Maybe this time will be different, but I’m not holding out too much hope.

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 06:39 AM (RAUB3)

32 Might be better to just give-up that endeavor.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 06:35 AM (a1415)
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Heh. ISWYDT

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 06:39 AM (RIvkX)

33 "Does anyone else here study foreign languages like French and Spanish? I ask because it would be cool to have a club of people who study languages and want to work on them."

LOL. I was a gal in search of a language. Took Latin and French in H.S. I wasn't happy with those so ended up taking a couple of quarters of Italian in college. Influenced by a close friend who was majoring in Arabic, ended up taking 2 years of that language. I enjoyed the Arabic but have lost it after so many years. I've often thought about learning some Spanish but really at my age what's the point? I admire anyone who can pick up a language later in life.

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 06:39 AM (oaGWv)

34 28, true

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 06:40 AM (RAUB3)

35 Happy Father's Day to the "guys of the Horde"

Posted by: Ben Had at June 16, 2024 06:40 AM (7iAr4)

36 I've commented on emt before when I was watching an Argentinian TV series that I could hardly understand their Spanish without subtitles. It sounded like they were speaking Italian.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 06:41 AM (RIvkX)

37 Good morning! If I were going to study a language, I think it'd be Spanish and/or Portuguese, simply so that I could read the writings of the New World explorers, conquistadores, and pirates. I've read Cook and Dampier, but I'd like to read from earlier explorations and adventures.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 16, 2024 06:42 AM (YRsIm)

38 ...I've often thought about learning some Spanish but really at my age what's the point? I admire anyone who can pick up a language later in life.
Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 06:39 AM (oaGWv)
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It's very good brain exercise.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 06:43 AM (RIvkX)

39 I’d study more German than I currently know to become fluent. But I find when I am in Germany I have to be there for a few days for my German to really get going on its own. Weird, I know.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 16, 2024 06:44 AM (JKPiI)

40 I've commented on emt before when I was watching an Argentinian TV series that I could hardly understand their Spanish without subtitles. It sounded like they were speaking Italian.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 06:41 AM (

It's funny. I'm the opposite. I can understand Argentinian and Venezuelan Spanish pretty good, but Mexican, Puerto Rican, or Spaniard Spanish is darn near unintelligible to me. Granted, Borinqueño is more or less its own language, being as close to Spanish as Glaswegian is to English. But still.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2024 06:44 AM (BpZ5k)

41 I wonder if anyone's in those porta-potties:

https://x.com/stillgray/
status/1801765887781048509

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 16, 2024 06:45 AM (LGZQv)

42 Well, that horrible city raised $28 million for Joe. No, not that horrible city, the other one.

Posted by: fd at June 16, 2024 06:46 AM (vFG9F)

43 LOL. I was a gal in search of a language. Took Latin and French in H.S. I wasn't happy with those so ended up taking a couple of quarters of Italian in college. Influenced by a close friend who was majoring in Arabic, ended up taking 2 years of that language. I enjoyed the Arabic but have lost it after so many years. I've often thought about learning some Spanish but really at my age what's the point? I admire anyone who can pick up a language later in life.
Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 06:39 AM (oaGWv)

My mother was thrilled that I was going to take up a language in HS. Not so much when I said “Latin”. She just shook her head at that. “Why not Spanish?” she always insisted. Then she really freaked out when I changed from Latin to German.
P.S. SHE is German and German is her first language.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 16, 2024 06:46 AM (JKPiI)

44 But I find when I am in Germany I have to be there for a few days for my German to really get going on its own. Weird, I know.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 16, 2024 06:44 AM (JKPiI)

I wanted to listen to German TV and internet radio broadcasts to keep up with my German. Eventually i said "ugh, this is just the hottest of hot garbage" and stopped.

It would be like trying to keep up with your English, and all you have at your disposal is back episodes of MSNBC broadcasts.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2024 06:46 AM (BpZ5k)

45 "There is a common refrain about language learners from America, who are upset because the French and Spanish always respond to them in English because they think they’re English is better than the original speaker’s French or Spanish. But to be clear, we cuddle a lot of foreigners because their English is actually not really that good but for some reason, we don’t criticize bad English in the way other people could assize those speaking, their native tongue."

My sister second husband was German and she and my nephew moved to Germany with him after the marriage. My nephew was plunked down in a German school when he was middle school aged. Had to pick up the language or not succeed. He did just that and it proved to be advantageous to his career. His biggest complaint was that his German friends all wanted to practice their English so they would refrain from speaking German to to him so he could practice their language.

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 06:47 AM (oaGWv)

46 I'm convinced more than ever that the VP actually graduated from a community college:

https://x.com/RNCResearch/
status/1801672404101366201

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 16, 2024 06:48 AM (LGZQv)

47 There is nothing more important than being gay?

There is NOTHING more important than being gay.

Posted by: There Is Nothing More Important Than Being Gay at June 16, 2024 06:49 AM (JKPiI)

48 38, yes. The reality is very few native, born Americans, who aren’t from a household, such as a Hispanic household, ever learn a foreign language to the level of being able to speak it with others. It is not easy. You’d be better off, taking up karate and getting a black belt then actually trying to learn to speak Spanish or French fluently or even conversantly.

But I do think it is an Excellent intellectual exercise, To me, it is become to the point where if I don’t do it on the specific day, I miss it. I took in high school and college and that language has always been around me. I started about 30 years ago after a trip to Europe and sure hit it has been on and off again, but it has been 30 years. I am still plugging away because to be honest I enjoy studying languages more than watching a random TV show or seeing who won the latest ballgame.

Everyone has to find their own thing but for me it’s just something I enjoy and I realize it is very difficult. My recommendation is for sure to choose one language not to like me, but for some reason, I can’t make a final choice. I tried many times and now I realize that it’s just not who I am. So I am mediocre two foreign

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 06:50 AM (RAUB3)

49 I wanted to listen to German TV and internet radio broadcasts to keep up with my German. Eventually i said "ugh, this is just the hottest of hot garbage" and stopped.

It would be like trying to keep up with your English, and all you have at your disposal is back episodes of MSNBC broadcasts.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2024 06:46 AM (BpZ5k)

I have the ZDF app on my phone. I need to start using it again.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 16, 2024 06:50 AM (JKPiI)

50 gay?

There is NOTHING more important than being gay.
Posted by: There Is Nothing More Important Than Being Gay

Bless you for the reminder. A truism that is so easily forgotten. Keep up the good work.

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 06:51 AM (oaGWv)

51 Languages, but I really do enjoy the studies. It is to the point where I tune out most English language, podcasts, etc. because I’ve heard it all before they have nothing new to say. I would rather feel I’m learning something.

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 06:51 AM (RAUB3)

52 Of course, to go with the German, I would like to get back into Russian again.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 16, 2024 06:53 AM (JKPiI)

53 Latin is the language I like. Words like "perhorrescunt" are just fun to say, and you can figure them out pretty easily if you know what the pieces of the words mean.

Posted by: fd at June 16, 2024 06:54 AM (vFG9F)

54
But the so-called extreme, right, just one big time in France and it has been clear for a long time. A bunch of them are sick of this left-wing crap. But don’t worry trust me I never trust a Frenchman when it comes to politics they always let us down. Maybe this time will be different, but I’m not holding out too much hope.
Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 06:39 AM (RAUB3)

Yeah, but a right-winger in France isn’t exactly an aficionado of Bastiat.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 16, 2024 06:54 AM (JKPiI)

55 45, they all know that they have to learn English to to survive in this world at least in the business world. Do you have to have English.

When an American or a Brit study Spanish or French yes it could be about business, but it is also about learning and wanting to communicate with others. For those studying English, it is almost always about survival and making a living.

This is a bit of the point I was trying to make because a lot of people learn this global English for jobs and it’s really a very poor level of English. We buy our nature would never criticize them, but the global English that is used for business these days is nothing like the language of the great poets and writers of history.

I keep hearing people saying how English is easy. Let’s be honest no western language is easy, but the absurdity of saying English is easy is crazy. I could spend the rest of my life, improving my English and so could pretty much anyone. Foreigners who learned basic English to get a job in a call center think they know English, OK.

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 06:56 AM (RAUB3)

56 Every Chinese kid in San Francisco goes to Chinese language school on Saturday. Every Chinese kid learns Cantonese here. Every Russian kid learns Russian.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 06:56 AM (RIvkX)

57 My late BIL was fluent in English, French and Spanish. Could get along in Italian and Portuguese. Maybe it had to do with being raised in Europe where he was exposed to a multitude of languages frequently?

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 06:57 AM (oaGWv)

58 Morning, Early Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at June 16, 2024 06:57 AM (86W+h)

59 There is a common refrain about language learners from America, who are upset because the French and Spanish always respond to them in English because they think they’re English is better than the original speaker’s French or Spanish. But to be clear, we cuddle a lot of foreigners because their English is actually not really that good but for some reason, we don’t criticize bad English in the way other people could assize those speaking, their native tongue.

Interestingly, I have heard it said that as far as people learning English go, they find English speakers very tolerant and understanding of their attempts to converse in English. Not to mention helpful. You won’t find this with other speakers of other languages.

Take German. In Germany, they being in Germany, the Germans will speak German with me. But if they are outside Germany, forget it, English it will be, and always.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 16, 2024 06:59 AM (JKPiI)

60 I'm convinced more than ever that the VP actually graduated from a community college:

https://x.com/RNCResearch/
status/1801672404101366201
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 16, 2024 06:48 AM (LGZQv)
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And don't forget to order a Kamala talking doll for you daughter or granddaughter:

https://x.com/C3PMeme/
status/1801699226017001692

lulz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 16, 2024 06:59 AM (LGZQv)

61 I know that English language is required in Dutch and Norwegian schools.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 06:59 AM (RIvkX)

62 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 16, 2024 06:59 AM (3Fz6p)

63 Has anyone contacted Mel Brooks for comment regarding the flaming trebuchets?

It speaks badly of the state of our press corps that they have not.

Posted by: fluffy at June 16, 2024 07:00 AM (86W+h)

64 Happy Fathers Day

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2024 07:00 AM (ENQN6)

65 Apparently Biden received a phone call from another leader...

And Youtube was there to preserve it for posterity.

https://tinyurl.com/5y3ktzua

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 07:01 AM (a1415)

66 There is a common refrain about language learners from America, who are upset because the French and Spanish always respond to them in English because they think they’re English is better than the original speaker’s French or Spanish. But to be clear, we cuddle a lot of foreigners because their English is actually not really that good but for some reason, we don’t criticize bad English in the way other people could assize those speaking, their native tongue

Where do you meet these people? I hear nothing but how hard English is to learn.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 16, 2024 07:01 AM (JKPiI)

67 @11

>>Does anyone else here study foreign languages like French and Spanish?

The only Spanish I know is...

Dile a tu tio que tengo su pescado.

and

¿Donde estan sus banos?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 16, 2024 07:01 AM (XV/Pl)

68 I'll use it in a sentence.

"I was alarmed by the transvestite's perhorrescunt face."

See how well that works? What a perfect word.

Posted by: fd at June 16, 2024 07:02 AM (vFG9F)

69 ¿Donde estan sus banos?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 16, 2024 07:01 AM (XV/Pl)

Cerveza fria, por favor. : o )

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 16, 2024 07:03 AM (JKPiI)

70 French sounds nice, but never learned another language. In HS and even USAF wanted to try Russian but sadly didn't

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 07:04 AM (fwDg9)

71 Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 16, 2024 07:01 AM (XV/Pl)
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You live in the Bronx and don't speak Spanish?

How do you get food?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 07:04 AM (RIvkX)

72 We all know from Deadpool 2:

Donde esta la bibiliteca?

(I don't bargain.)

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 16, 2024 07:04 AM (3Fz6p)

73 I hear nothing but how hard English is to learn.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

English is hard but compare to a tonal language like Chinese. Yikes. I heard on a radio show once that Chinese babies start to recognize the tonal differences very, very early.

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 07:04 AM (oaGWv)

74 When I become president, the motto on all currency will be “Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest”.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 16, 2024 07:05 AM (JKPiI)

75 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at June 16, 2024 07:07 AM (dg+HA)

76
English is hard but compare to a tonal language like Chinese. Yikes. I heard on a radio show once that Chinese babies start to recognize the tonal differences very, very early.
Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 07:04 AM (oaGWv)

According to DLI, Mandarin Chinese is the hardest language for an English speaker to learn. Although one thing English and Chinese speakers can agree on: as far as grammar goes, ultimately the only thing that matters in both languages is when the action takes place. The whole obsession with gender and how everything in a sentence is dominated by that as is the case with every other European language exasperates both English and Chinese speakers.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 16, 2024 07:08 AM (JKPiI)

77 @71

>>How do you get food?

Typically, point and grunt, I usually get what I want.

There was that time though where I almost got a live goat shoved into the back of my truck.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 16, 2024 07:08 AM (XV/Pl)

78 Tom Wolfe deduced that the "pilot accent" comes from Chuck Yeager, baddest of all badasses in the air.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 16, 2024 07:08 AM (3Fz6p)

79 The old cliché with Spanish is the sentence everyone learns in school, “ Donde Está la Biblioteca”?

As if asking where the library is is a comment thing in Mexico today. That’s another thing about languages I focus mainly on French and the reality is there’s a thing called written French, The French you learn in school, And the French actually spoken, not just on the so-called street, but by anyone. So literally, you have to learn three languages of French to actually understand it.

But the funny thing is the more I study languages such as French. I realize it’s it is exactly the same thing with English. We don’t speak the way we write and I’m not talking about dumbasses. I’m talking about educated people. Don’t speak the way we would teach the language in a textbook even people on the news and politicians don’t speak that way.

Languages are hard, but I really enjoyed doing it. I enjoyed the intellectual exercise. I’m not telling anyone else to go with that fishing hunting or hiking is probably a better thing to do better for your mind and body. But I have been flailing around with Spanish and French for 30 years so I doubt I’m going to stop.

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 07:09 AM (RAUB3)

80 When I become president, the motto on all currency will be “Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest”.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

I highlighted that phrase and tried to get a translation. The translator recognized it as being Dutch. So much for technology.

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 07:09 AM (oaGWv)

81 And to be clear here and to beyond the record. I know a native born American or Englishman could spend their entire lives, improving their knowledge and facility with the English language. You could focus on English and learn until the day you die.

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 07:09 AM (RAUB3)

82 I still haven't replaced my broken bird bath

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 07:10 AM (fwDg9)

83 The whole obsession with gender and how everything in a sentence is dominated by that as is the case with every other European language exasperates both English and Chinese speakers.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 16, 2024 07:08 AM (JKPiI)
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Read Mark Twain's "The Awful German Language" for an overview.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 16, 2024 07:10 AM (3Fz6p)

84 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 16, 2024 07:10 AM (Q4IgG)

85 70 French sounds nice, but never learned another language. In HS and even USAF wanted to try Russian but sadly didn't
Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 07:04 AM (fwDg9)

Yeah, but good luck finding a HS that teaches Russian. Or French, even.

Back in the day, in HS, I could have taken French, Latin, Spanish, or what I decided on: German. (This in TX.). The HSs I have seen around this part of TX only offer Spanish. Is that due to a lack of instructors or lack of demand? Don’t know.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 16, 2024 07:10 AM (JKPiI)

86 As if asking where the library is is a comment thing in Mexico today.
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Or where your aunt's pen is in France.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 16, 2024 07:11 AM (3Fz6p)

87 My HS had French and Spanish for multiple years, I didn't bother

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 07:13 AM (fwDg9)

88 @85

>>Yeah, but good luck finding a HS that teaches Russian. Or French, even.

Yeah, but with the technology and access we have now, there is no barrier to learning any language.

The only barrier is desire and dedication.

The State Department ranks the difficulty in learning languages and most languages fall under the 52 week mark, and the only languages that take longer are the super difficult, super different languages like Arabic and Asian languages.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 16, 2024 07:14 AM (XV/Pl)

89 One of the cool things about learning French is you learned why certain English words mean what they mean. It is a good thing language learners. Don’t always ask why a word means what it means, but it is also cool to learn that we use those words for a reason. When you study French, you see thousands of words related to English or words that we use in English much more than any other language by far.

English got a double dip of French because we had the influence of Latin, but also from the Normans who invaded England. French vocabulary is much closer to English than Spanish vocabulary. But there is also the Spanish vocabulary that is seed in because we have bordered Mexico for so long and had so many immigrants.

I jokingly say this, but it’s not a joke you have to give the credit they don’t move here.

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 07:14 AM (RAUB3)

90 French

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 07:15 AM (RAUB3)

91 Back in the day, in HS, I could have taken French, Latin, Spanish, or what I decided on: German. (This in TX.). The HSs I have seen around this part of TX only offer Spanish. Is that due to a lack of instructors or lack of demand? Don’t know.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 16, 2024

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Morning, early Sunday people!

My junior high and high school offered French, but I got shunted into Spanish in ninth grade and was stuck. By the time I was decent in that language and got curious about others, my HS didn't offer French any more. I think I'm glad; those silent letters would have floored me. German wasn't even on the school board's radar then, and I know those gigantic portmanteau words would have been tough.

Spanish has very few silents. "H" at the start of words, for instance, so that "Mi hija" gets elided into "mi-a" in actual speech.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 07:18 AM (omVj0)

92 And to be clear here and to beyond the record. I know a native born American or Englishman could spend their entire lives, improving their knowledge and facility with the English language. You could focus on English and learn until the day you die.
Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024

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I still am.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 07:19 AM (omVj0)

93 English really is a wonderful language. Glad I speak it.

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 07:20 AM (oaGWv)

94 I still am.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 07:19 AM (omVj0)
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I try to go for the creative word usements.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 16, 2024 07:20 AM (3Fz6p)

95 66 there are many scholarly and also tabloid writings about how the level of “Global English” is poor. In many ways, the language has been reduced to the least common denominator. You often find foreigners who say English is easy.

I am no expert on the subject, but English is the language of some of the greatest writers and poets that have ever lived. It is not a phonetic language so the people that criticize French have to do some thinking if they’re native languages is English. Neither languages, phonetic or easy. The level of so-called global English is poor and those who study these things say so regularly.

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 07:21 AM (RAUB3)

96 92, there is a great line in the movie, The Remains of the Day” Where the head Butler says, he reads to improve his ability with the English language. It showed how dedicated he was to his craft and designated board Englishman. He knew there was always more to learn.

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 07:23 AM (RAUB3)

97 "In many ways, the language has been reduced to the least common denominator. "

Urban English

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 07:23 AM (a1415)

98 urbane English > urban English

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 16, 2024 07:25 AM (3Fz6p)

99 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 16, 2024 07:25 AM (3Fz6p)

100 USA Yesterday shows an AR with a chainsaw bayonet.

WTF

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2024 07:25 AM (ENQN6)

101 And speaking of case endings: That was part of what tripped me up in my personal study of German in the "German Made Simple" book and the reel-to-reel tape. English has lost nearly all of its case forms, except for pronouns like he/ his/ him, she/ her/ her, etc.

Also why I don't want to learn Latin for real.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 07:26 AM (omVj0)

102 Happy Father's Day to all the Horde dads!

May St Joseph obtain for you and your families the blessings and mercy of his Divine son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns forever.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 16, 2024 07:27 AM (Ka3bZ)

103 Atlas Shrugged comes to life:

https://tinyurl.com/3rnx8rs2

(Daily Mail)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 16, 2024 07:28 AM (LGZQv)

104
"Archaeologists at George Washington’s Mount Vernon have discovered dozens of glass jars filled with fruit preserves in the cellar of the historic Northern Virginia home that “likely haven’t seen the light of day since before the American Revolution.”

I'll give you one guess as to what was in most of those bottles.

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 07:28 AM (oaGWv)

105 UK to be blasted by 48 hour 26C heatwave with five cities in England the hottest

78.8 My Wife would be wearing long sleeves.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2024 07:28 AM (ENQN6)

106 Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 06:17 AM (RAUB3)

I have some halting Spanish and a very little French

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 16, 2024 07:29 AM (Ka3bZ)

107
English is hard but compare to a tonal language like Chinese. Yikes. I heard on a radio show once that Chinese babies start to recognize the tonal differences very, very early.
Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024

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I apparently am tone-deaf to the point I cannot carry a tune if it has handles on it. I think I'm fine, but listeners wince. With my luck, in Chinese I'd plan to tell a girl, "You are very lovely," and it would come out "You have the complexion of the more expensive spread."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 07:30 AM (omVj0)

108 Everybody tends to bitch when it gets above 70 in England.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 16, 2024 07:30 AM (qZEuM)

109 Boker Tov Patriots

Happy Fathers Day

Fuck all democrats

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 16, 2024 07:30 AM (SHAib)

110 Good morning y'all!

What did I miss?

Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2024 07:31 AM (uCfKO)

111 5 UK to be blasted by 48 hour 26C heatwave with five cities in England the hottest

78.8 My Wife would be wearing long sleeves.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2024

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I'm reading in A.J. Cronin's The Citadel how the summer of 1923 -- in the north near Scotland, mind you -- has "broiling heat." And I laugh and laugh --!

I'll give the Brits this. Their houses are constructed to hold heat in during the winters, not let it out in summer. So indoors would probably be pretty bad.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 07:33 AM (omVj0)

112 "What did I miss?"

Breakfast.

0600-0700.

Brunch is 1030-1300, though.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 07:33 AM (a1415)

113 Good morning y'all!

What did I miss?
Posted by: Muldoon

In depth discussion of why English is the superior language.

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 07:33 AM (oaGWv)

114 "What did I miss?
Posted by: Muldoon"

The heat dome extends all the way to England.

Posted by: fd at June 16, 2024 07:33 AM (vFG9F)

115 Everybody tends to bitch when it gets above 70 in England.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 16, 2024

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I would too.

Sir Hugo Drax tells James Bond in Moonraker, "Seventy degrees [F.] is quite warm."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 07:34 AM (omVj0)

116 Learn all the dirty words in a new language first. Because helpful.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 16, 2024 07:34 AM (qZEuM)

117 My first language is English.
Supposably.

Posted by: Ross Geller from Friends at June 16, 2024 07:34 AM (dg+HA)

118 "So indoors would probably be pretty bad."

Go to the train station in Naples Italy during August.

Funk so thick, even the maggots are gagging.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 07:35 AM (a1415)

119
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 16, 2024 07:35 AM (tljrc)

120 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 16, 2024 07:35 AM (eBi0N)

121 91, right on about mi’ja. The Spanish do liaison too. I am talking from experience and I will tell you the French pronunciation is actually easy. It’s one of those obstacles you have to overcome, but after that, you know it and there’s nothing to guess about.

Many linguiste say that Spanish is easier in the beginning and then it becomes much more difficult than French. In my experience, that is true. The reality is Spanish is more difficult than French , but it doesn’t rear its head until you get past the basic sentences. Spanish uses the subjunctive much more often than French, and also Spanish has about four or five more verb conjugations. No actual language expert would say Spanish is easier than French because it is actually harder.

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 07:38 AM (RAUB3)

122 Thanks for the summary.

Speaking of summary, it is supposed to hit 100° today.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2024 07:38 AM (uCfKO)

123 England burns like an inferno do
Bobbies on bicycles, in flames too
Westminster Abbey, the tower of Big Ben
The rosy-red cheeks of the little children

Posted by: fd, with apologies to Roger Miller at June 16, 2024 07:39 AM (vFG9F)

124 116 some Randos in a car recently called me a Pendejo. Sure, I could’ve said a lot of things I should’ve fired off of some vulgar French if they were going to assume with me.

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 07:40 AM (RAUB3)

125 Growing up my grampa told me to always mind my grammar. Sound advice.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2024 07:40 AM (uCfKO)

126 It would appear this place is filled with cunning linguists.

Posted by: Just the punchline at June 16, 2024 07:41 AM (dg+HA)

127 46 I'm convinced more than ever that the VP actually graduated from a community college:

https://x.com/RNCResearch/
status/1801672404101366201
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 16, 2024 06:48 AM (LGZQv)

I think she's the idiot that some community is missing.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 16, 2024 07:42 AM (UcAQV)

128 bad."

Go to the train station in Naples Italy during August.

Funk so thick, even the maggots are gagging.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

My mom and dad traveled a lot. She never said anything insulting about other nationalities except that she could tell the difference between German Swiss and French Swiss in that the German Swiss obviously didn't bathe as often as they should and that Brits did not wash their hair as often as they should.

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 07:42 AM (oaGWv)

129 Pendejo isn't bad.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 16, 2024 07:42 AM (qZEuM)

130 Or where your aunt's pen is in France.

--

What I remember from the one HS French class offered is
Je ne fume pas

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 16, 2024 07:43 AM (Ka3bZ)

131 So if the purpose of language is to communicate, what are we to make of a sentence llke this:

"Act now and you can save up to 50% or more!"

Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2024 07:43 AM (uCfKO)

132 Go to the train station in Naples Italy during August.

Funk so thick, even the maggots are gagging.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024

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Maggots in S. Lousy-ana take summer vacation in Maine.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 07:43 AM (omVj0)

133
Purchasing top notch audio equipment is sound advice.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 16, 2024 07:44 AM (RKVpM)

134 > Atlas Shrugged comes to life
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I periodically follow a couple social media sites/accounts that deal with "off grid" living. It's a weird culture. A mixture of weirdos, criminals, addicts, preppers, naturalists, techies, introverts, etc. Some have legit jobs, others don't. Some of the off grid compounds are pretty cool while others are only a step or two above a cardboard box.

Common feature: where they locate the land is very cheap and normally without any utilities. It's common to find 10, 20 acre plots for a couple grand. But the location is shit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 16, 2024 07:45 AM (Q4IgG)

135 There are some things expressed in one language od another, but English has the most beneficial effect on thought and shaping the mind.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 07:45 AM (RIvkX)

136 And how can a product be both "new" and at the same time be "improved?"

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 16, 2024 07:46 AM (dg+HA)

137 I think she's the idiot that some community is missing.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 16, 2024 07:42 AM (UcAQV)
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It takes a village.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 16, 2024 07:46 AM (LGZQv)

138 131, I see those all the time in my line of work. Some of the texts they send to inform me are literally laughable. There is a book called “Eats, chutes, and leaves” That doesn’t entire play on poorly written, English and English without proper punctuation marks. It was actually a best seller.

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 07:46 AM (RAUB3)

139 It would appear this place is filled with cunning linguists.
Posted by: Just the punchline at June 16, 2024

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The difference between a women's track team and a group of puzzle-solving midgets?

The latter is a bunch of cunning runts, and . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 07:47 AM (omVj0)

140 What I remember from the one HS French class offered is
Je ne fume pas
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

I only thing I remember is my class name: Francoise.

Italian instructor didn't do the class name thing

Arabic professor gave me the class name of Widad which I hated.

Anyone else remember their language class names?

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 07:48 AM (oaGWv)

141 "But the location is shit."

I guess if someone is looking for a location for when the balloon goes up, defensible and not desirable would be good attributes.

Probably hard to find the right combination though.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 07:48 AM (a1415)

142 Morning all. Happy Father's Day

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 16, 2024 07:49 AM (FTjSO)

143 9 people, including an 8and 4 yr old were shot while playing on a Splash pad in Rochester Hills , MI yesterday. Shooter was found dead at his home last night of a self inflicted gunshot wound. 42 years old, lived with his mom. Used a Glock and three magazines. Police found another pistol which he used to shoot himself, and an AR was on the kitchen table.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 16, 2024 07:49 AM (AmmRv)

144 Shooter was found dead at his home last night of a self inflicted gunshot wound.
Posted by: Jen the original at June 16, 2024 07:49 AM (AmmRv)
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How long until we read its manifesto?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 16, 2024 07:50 AM (LGZQv)

145 Shooter was found dead at his home last night of a self inflicted gunshot wound. 42 years old, lived with his mom. Used a Glock and three magazines. Police found another pistol which he used to shoot himself, and an AR was on the kitchen table.
Posted by: Jen the original

I saw that late last night. Have they IDed the shooter yet?

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 07:51 AM (oaGWv)

146 "And how can a product be both "new" and at the same time be "improved?"

Sort of like, 'Same great product, with a new look!'

Or...25% more than our xxoz package.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 07:52 AM (a1415)

147 Anyone else remember their language class names?
Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024

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I always wanted to know how "Paco" translated to "Frank."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 07:52 AM (omVj0)

148 I think it was seventh or eighth grade we had a class called introduction to foreign languages or IFL. Looking back at it, the teacher wasn’t that great because though she was nice, I don’t think she inspired anyone to pursue the foreign languages she was teaching.

It was a kind of cool class because for a semester, we did 1/3 Spanish 1/3 French and 1/3 German. That is for sure the time the teacher should’ve pushed people or at least inspired them into choosing one of those languages.

This is in the 1980s so we didn’t have Arabic or Zulu or whatever. And to be honest, there’s nothing wrong with that we were right. The wrong part is virtually. No one comes out of public school, speaking of foreign language.

And there is nothing weird about studying a foreign language, even if you love the English language, which is the best, This goes down in history, our founding father studied foreign languages, such as Latin French, Of course, many did not become fluent, Some did.

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 07:52 AM (RAUB3)

149 146 "And how can a product be both "new" and at the same time be "improved?"

Sort of like, 'Same great product, with a new look!'

Or...25% more than our xxoz package.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

My dad always said that "new and improved " meant more expensive and not as good.

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 07:53 AM (oaGWv)

150 Speaking of foreign language names, I was thinking of the name Jesus in Spanish. I recall someone saying, of course no one would call themselves Jesus in English Jesus in Spanish is something else.

Actually, it isn’t something else. It is the exact same name.

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 07:54 AM (RAUB3)

151 143
Posted by: Jen the original at June 16, 2024 07:49 AM (AmmRv)

That was 1 of 2 shootings in that area. Another occurred yesterday also at a block party. 6 wounded, no clue on shooter. My daughter lives in this area (until I can convince her to move).

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 16, 2024 07:55 AM (UcAQV)

152 Arabic professor gave me the class name of Widad

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lol

Posted by: runner at June 16, 2024 07:55 AM (V13WU)

153 In grammar school, the closest we came to foreign language instruction was the French lessons being given on NET (the precursor to PBS). Every couple of weeks our teacher would herd us into the "TV room," where we would watch a pretty dark-haired lady chatter Gallically at us and say "Bon!" a lot.

By the time it came to be tested on it, we'd all forgotten everything, and had to be taught what would be on the test.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 07:56 AM (omVj0)

154 145. Not yet. I imagine they will later today.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 16, 2024 07:56 AM (AmmRv)

155 People frequently thought I was Latinx.

Posted by: Hey Suess at June 16, 2024 07:57 AM (dg+HA)

156 Speaking of foreign language names, I was thinking of the name Jesus in Spanish. I recall someone saying, of course no one would call themselves Jesus in English Jesus in Spanish is something else.
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Actually, it isn’t something else. It is the exact same name.
Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024

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Just pronounced "Hay-soos." In fact, on the Rawhide TV series, there was a (part?) Mexican character called that, and his name was spelled in the credits as "Hay Soos."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 07:57 AM (omVj0)

157 Happy Fathers Day, all.

First-world problem: using Brave on Kindle, copying a link that doesn't begin with "http://www" and pasting it into the address bar only takes you to the default search page. So I have to manually add that bit, like a caveman.

I thought browsers had figured out how to do that automatically by c. 2001 or so.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 16, 2024 07:58 AM (iRX3h)

158 Not yet. I imagine they will later today.
Posted by: Jen the original

Figured as much. Why do I always get suspicious when they don't release the name of the shooter?

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 07:58 AM (oaGWv)

159 I'm scratching my head over this one:

"I lost 35 pounds on Wegovy™, some people lost more than 46 pounds!"

Never mind the oddly specific number, I have no idea how many people lost how much weight, but the crowd of smiling chubby people seemed enthused so it must be good stuff, right?

Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2024 07:59 AM (uCfKO)

160 151. The shooting at the party was in a house where all victims were 19-21 years old. Quite the party.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 16, 2024 08:00 AM (AmmRv)

161 and I was told there is no pill to make people skinny

Posted by: runner at June 16, 2024 08:00 AM (V13WU)

162 "I lost 35 pounds on Wegovy™, some people lost more than 46 pounds!"

Never mind the oddly specific number, I have no idea how many people lost how much weight, but the crowd of smiling chubby people seemed enthused so it must be good stuff, right?
Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2024

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And they all look like they have a ways to go to get to an ideal weight, i.e., in proportion to their height and build.

"I'm keeping the weight off!" No, dear, you're not.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 08:02 AM (omVj0)

163 Lenyn is now playing for the White Sox !

Posted by: runner at June 16, 2024 08:02 AM (V13WU)

164 "Figured as much. Why do I always get suspicious when they don't release the name of the shooter?"

Sort of like when you see..'Police are asking for your help in identifying...'

And you get the description of the removable clothing that they were wearing. But no mention of more difficult to change things.

Like skin shade.

'City Police are looking for a person, wearing a dark hoodie.

Can't narrow it any closer, can we?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 08:02 AM (a1415)

165 Happy Father's Day.
May God bless you and keep you.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at June 16, 2024 08:02 AM (gxokI)

166 156, lol as a kid, I never understood parents who said Jesus in Spanish was somehow different than saying Jesus in English. Sure, it is culturally taboo to name yourself Jesus in English, But they’re probably 1 million Jesuses in Spanish. And yes, it does mean the same thing

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 08:04 AM (RAUB3)

167 Today ranks just below Arbor Day in the cultural landscape of American holidays. Overshadowed by the incessant cackling of the Rainbow Mafia to insist upon itself and being squeezed by an obscure historical event commemorating the day Democrats had to give up their slaves.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 16, 2024 08:05 AM (dg+HA)

168 “Pilot accent”! Ha.

I was listening to Tom Stafford, an Oklahoman. That’s the Okie drawl I used to like to hear when “This is your captain speaking” pinged on a long flight over the ocean or whatever. Test pilot, combat, etc.

Somebody who has about 8000 hours and memorized all the systems and components. Maybe we’ll all die on this flight due to some unforeseen event or catastrophe. But if someone can pull our nuts out of the fire…

Posted by: Common Tater at June 16, 2024 08:06 AM (5/wly)

169 My language name was Raul.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 16, 2024 08:07 AM (qZEuM)

170 They have pretty much stopped pretending those medicines are for diabetes.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2024 08:07 AM (uCfKO)

171 We were paid to look enthused.

Posted by: Smiling chubby people at June 16, 2024 08:08 AM (dg+HA)

172 We were paid to look enthused.
Posted by: Smiling chubby people at June 16, 2024

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And promised a buffet of ice cream and pastries afterward.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 08:10 AM (omVj0)

173 They have pretty much stopped pretending those medicines are for diabetes.
Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2024

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Do they actually reduce blood sugar, though?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 08:11 AM (omVj0)

174 Time I went to shave, I guess. Didn't feel like it right after my workout, so I just showered.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 08:12 AM (omVj0)

175 as soon as people stop taking those meds the weight comes back, doesn't it

Posted by: runner at June 16, 2024 08:12 AM (V13WU)

176 158. Police have said this am they have not found a manefesto, but that his family said he recently had an episode where he was walking around the house with a gun and had been expressing paranoid thoughts. He had zero history of police interaction. Since Michigan has red flag laws, family has probably now shut up because of the recent successful lawsuits.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 16, 2024 08:12 AM (AmmRv)

177 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 16, 2024 08:13 AM (u82oZ)

178 When confronted with an illegal invader who claims to not speakadaengish, I always use Jules line from "Pulp Fiction".

English, motherfucker, do you speak it?...

Gets them every time.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 16, 2024 08:14 AM (R/m4+)

179 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 16, 2024 08:15 AM (u82oZ)

180
Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 16, 2024 08:13 AM (u82oZ)

--. --- --- -.. / -- --- .-. -. .. -. --. / -.-.--

Posted by: runner at June 16, 2024 08:15 AM (V13WU)

181 Do they actually reduce blood sugar, though?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

No they reduce appetite by making you feel full, and slow down your digestion

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 16, 2024 08:17 AM (Ka3bZ)

182 4th grade they made us take Spanish. Lessons in the classroom on the TV(Educational TV!). Looking back I'm pretty sure it coincided with the Kennedy Immigration shit.

Hated it.

It was bad enough they made us study English when I already talked it real good, but now Spanish?

Posted by: davidt at June 16, 2024 08:17 AM (SYTee)

183 G'morning, Salty!

Glad you're home safely.

And 13 hours sleep?

I'd pay good money to be able to do that.

The glass studio visit....

Somebody was, and still is on maneuvers with the National Guard, so it would not have worked out.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 08:17 AM (a1415)

184 the crowd of smiling chubby people

Like a herd of elephants?

Posted by: dantesed at June 16, 2024 08:18 AM (Oy/m2)

185 Shooting in Texas last night at a Juneteenth party. Two dead. Surprised? Expected?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 16, 2024 08:19 AM (FTjSO)

186 Do they actually reduce blood sugar, though?

*******

Well, they all claim that they lower Hgb a1c, so that people who have no idea what a1c is or why it should be lower can feel all sciency and suchlike.

The odd language used on the Jardiance ad is that it "helps flush out some sugar".

(its mechanism of action is to block the kidneys from reabsorbing glucose, so that more glucose is excreted in the urine. )

Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2024 08:20 AM (uCfKO)

187 "Shooting in Texas last night at a Juneteenth party. Two dead. Surprised? Expected?"

Required?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 08:20 AM (a1415)

188 Shooting in Texas last night at a Juneteenth party. Two dead. Surprised? Expected?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 16, 2024 08:19 AM (FTjSO)

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Only two? Those are rookie numbers.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 16, 2024 08:20 AM (u73oe)

189 "Well, they all claim that they lower Hgb a1c, so that people who have no idea what a1c is or why it should be lower can feel all sciency and suchlike. "

Maybe try blood letting?

Or leeches?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 08:21 AM (a1415)

190 Happy Fathers Day to all the wonderful moron dads!

Posted by: LASue at June 16, 2024 08:22 AM (gHjhb)

191 I wonder what a Pride Festival, held on Juneteenth would get you.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 08:23 AM (a1415)

192 And I find it deliciously ironic that they use mainly plus-sized actors in the commercials, to show diversity and avoid fat-shaming while touting how happy you will be after you've shed those ugly fat pounds.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2024 08:25 AM (uCfKO)

193 I think our culture is changing... resulting in more chubbies.

When was the last time you saw kids outside playing and thought; "wow... kids playing outside!"

We saw a couple kids playing in a creek the other day. It's not that common anymore. Most days we pass that spot, it's void of kids. So's the playground nearby.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 16, 2024 08:26 AM (Q4IgG)

194 If you are fat and happily singing and dancing your way through life why would you want t lose weight?

If I were a cynical man I might think they are being manipulative and dishonest.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2024 08:28 AM (uCfKO)

195 I guess back in 2022, Father's Day fell on Juneteenth.

Some might argue that a Gay Pride festival on the 19th would have been the trifecta.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 08:28 AM (a1415)

196 Used to be they put attractive people in commercials, under the old belief that if you like the messenger, you'll listen to the message and then maybe reach for your wallet

now, TV commercials are telling me that most Americans are fat, unattractive, sexually ambiguous and involved in biracial relationships

Posted by: Don Black at June 16, 2024 08:29 AM (/7KEl)

197 "We saw a couple kids playing in a creek the other day. It's not that common anymore."

Parents might get arrested for child neglect.

Body of water, no lifeguard.

Etc.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 08:30 AM (a1415)

198 now, TV commercials are telling me that most Americans are fat, unattractive, sexually ambiguous and involved in gay biracial relationships*

*Suggested edit

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 08:31 AM (a1415)

199
I like Tucker Carlson quote about "a total inversion of virtue".

Describes perfectly what we're observing right now.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 16, 2024 08:34 AM (RKVpM)

200 runner

Happy Fathers day to you, in addiction to good morning.

My Dad was very fluent in Morse Code. Esp. Russian language or number code Morse.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 16, 2024 08:34 AM (u82oZ)

201 > "We saw a couple kids playing in a creek the other day. It's not that common anymore."

Parents might get arrested for child neglect.

Body of water, no lifeguard.

Etc.
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Normally, I'd agree, but we're rural and the cops wouldn't waste their time with that. They might stop to make sure an adult was around... maybe. The water's only a couple inches deep anyway. And, on a local social media page someone was asking where the local "swimming hole" was. (The directions were like; "go behind Wilson's barn, past the dead tree and go over the old bridge... it's on the left about 250 feet. Watch out for snakes.")

It's refreshing to see this.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 16, 2024 08:35 AM (Q4IgG)

202 Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2024 08:25 AM (uCfKO)

I seen a few of these commercials. Whatever the medication that's being advertised, the actors are happy at a party or BBQ. It's like they are saying if you take the medicine, you will be happy.

I think it's very deceptive type of advertising.

Posted by: dantesed at June 16, 2024 08:35 AM (Oy/m2)

203 Maybe one day the pendulum will swing back so far that it will be seen as progressive to put hetero-caucasians in your commercials

Posted by: Don Black at June 16, 2024 08:35 AM (/7KEl)

204 And I find it deliciously ironic that they use mainly plus-sized actors in the commercials, to show diversity and avoid fat-shaming while touting how happy you will be after you've shed those ugly fat pounds.
Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2024 08:25 AM (uCfKO)

Are you a fat slob who has been seduced by the drug companies to think if you take our happy new pill you will lose all that weight, be in a happy fulfilling relationship with some dark skinned minority and become the envy of your fat friends and relatives?

If so call me! I want to get you money!

Call Now!

Posted by: Alexander Shunnarah, Billboard King And Ambulamps Chaser at June 16, 2024 08:35 AM (R/m4+)

205 "It's refreshing to see this."

Yes...yes it is.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 16, 2024 08:36 AM (a1415)

206 dantesed

They forgot to start those ads with "Dear Penthouse letters ..."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 16, 2024 08:38 AM (u82oZ)

207 Wherever in the world that creek is, rest assured that there is something in there that is known to the state of California to be bad for you

Posted by: Don Black at June 16, 2024 08:38 AM (/7KEl)

208 Martini Farmer

The real America has retreated to the rural areas or very small towns.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 16, 2024 08:38 AM (u82oZ)

209 The real America has retreated to the rural areas or very small towns.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 16, 2024 08:38 AM (u82oZ)

I think you are correct that this is the trend.

The Balkanization of America is accelerating.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 16, 2024 08:41 AM (d9fT1)

210 Well you can tell my family were oilys! I have Farsi and Bahasa Indonesia. We were studying French in Indonesia and would wake up at night saying “here is the um-ber-ella.” Strange since Indonesian second language is Dutch.

Posted by: Anna at June 16, 2024 08:43 AM (ANuwa)

211 Happy Father's Day!

Posted by: Persnickety at June 16, 2024 08:43 AM (6fdSm)

212 > The Balkanization of America is accelerating.
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I think this is the way we collapse. It's already happening in a lot of areas.

Shucking the mantel of government / state control is coming.... but we're not there yet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 16, 2024 08:44 AM (Q4IgG)

213 The Balkanization of America is accelerating.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

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That reminds me, I am going to make French toast this morning. I shall not divulge what toppings I use..

Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2024 08:45 AM (uCfKO)

214 Have a great morning. See you on the book thread.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 16, 2024 08:45 AM (u82oZ)

215 I suggest a syrup, made from the rendered sap of a particular deciduous tree

Posted by: Don Black at June 16, 2024 08:48 AM (/7KEl)

216 That shooting incident happened very near where I used to live.

I hated seeing Whitchmer fly in on her broom to deliver the usual feelz about how "we're all horrified by this tragedy" when I know she'll try to use it to curtail gun rights.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 16, 2024 08:49 AM (FkUwd)

217 Over $280 at grocery store
Another day older and deeper in debt

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 08:50 AM (fwDg9)

218 (its mechanism of action is to block the kidneys from reabsorbing glucose, so that more glucose is excreted in the urine. )
Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2024

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Isn't that pretty much the action of diabetes? The reason why diabetics have to urinate so soften?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 08:50 AM (omVj0)

219 I shall not divulge what toppings I use..

Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2024 08:45 AM (uCfKO)

Expand your horizons! Savory is the best French Toast!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 16, 2024 08:50 AM (d9fT1)

220 Good morning. Happy Father’s Day!

Posted by: Mick at June 16, 2024 08:51 AM (KOTG6)

221 Did get cinnamon swirl bread for easy French Toast this week

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 08:54 AM (fwDg9)

222 Oh, that's right. Father's Day today. Mine is long gone, and we were never close anyway. I suspect Miss Linda will get me a FD card "from the cats," since she seems to think they relate to me as "their daddy."

No, I'm their roommate, manservant, playmate, and sleep companion. Stirling as a kitten did milk-tread and even try to nuzzle me as if I were his mother, but he's pretty much outgrown that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 08:54 AM (omVj0)

223 Oh, that's right. Father's Day today. Mine is long gone, and we were never close anyway. I suspect Miss Linda will get me a FD card "from the cats," since she seems to think they relate to me as "their daddy."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 08:54 AM (omVj0)
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My cats showed me their love by throwing up in my bed and pooping on my pillow.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 16, 2024 08:56 AM (BpYfr)

224 No one ever stopped me playing in the river as a kid

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 08:56 AM (fwDg9)

225 >>I suggest a syrup, made from the rendered sap of a particular deciduous tree

I bought something quite like that from an Amish kid in upstate NY yesterday. Not modern at all.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 16, 2024 09:00 AM (LkLld)

226 Noodus biblio

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 16, 2024 09:00 AM (omVj0)

227
When I was young lunch was pretty much optional. I'd spend the day with friends and get so involved eating was the last thing on our minds. "Wanna go back to the park?"

"Sure."

Four hour round trip walking along the railroad tracks. All for an hour or so exploring the Pennypack Creek.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 16, 2024 09:03 AM (RKVpM)

228 Isn't that pretty much the action of diabetes? The reason why diabetics have to urinate so soften?

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The kidneys normally have a threshold level for reabsorbing glucose. When sugar levels in the bloodstream are below this threshold (i.e. normal), virtually all of the glucose is returned to the bloodstream and none is detected in the urine. with diabetes, when the amount of glucose in the bloodstream exceeds the threshold, it resullts in "spilling" of sugar in the urine. Due to the higher solute content or osmolarity this results in water "following" the sugar, which makes you urinate more. The word diabetes means diuresis, i.e. increased amount of urine.

Jardiance blocks the kidneys' mechanism for reabsorbing glucose so glucose exits the body in the urine, lowering the average blood sugar levels (and thus the Hgb A1c)

Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2024 09:10 AM (uCfKO)

229 My son had a friend who couldn't do languages at all. He backed into Cantonese because he loved drawing the characters. He actually spent a graduate year in China.

He also rode a unicycle. So in the New Year's Day parade that year, amid all the Chinese celebrants was a yellow-haired young man riding a unicycle.

Posted by: Wenda at June 16, 2024 09:18 AM (4GhzG)

230 Many linguiste say that Spanish is easier in the beginning and then it becomes much more difficult than French. In my experience, that is true. The reality is Spanish is more difficult than French , but it doesn’t rear its head until you get past the basic sentences. Spanish uses the subjunctive much more often than French, and also Spanish has about four or five more verb conjugations. No actual language expert would say Spanish is easier than French because it is actually harder.

Posted by: Quint at June 16, 2024 07:38 AM (RAUB3)

Try Hungarian.

When I was a little kid, I picked up quite a bit from my Mom, and her mom, who lived with us. Plus, most of the older folks in my neighborhood came here from the "old country", so there was a lot of Hungarian spoken around me. But, once my grandmother passed, and many of the old neighbors passed on, Mom didn't speak it much anymore, and I lost most of it. Except for a few choice curses. Heh.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at June 16, 2024 09:44 AM (iODuv)

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