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Post by tzarine on Mar 29, 2020 6:07:06 GMT 2
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 29, 2020 6:36:55 GMT 2
The meaning and etymology of Nosocomial, as in a nosocomial infection (hospital-acquired infection) Sad, very sad, very true.
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Post by Baz Faz on Mar 29, 2020 11:24:44 GMT 2
I read somewhere that he is accompanied by 40 concubines. If that is not fake news then it is f*ck news.
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 12, 2020 9:37:32 GMT 2
Not today, but it was received like a slap yesteday when I heard this evidence again:
"change cannot happen if you do not change yourself"
it is super generic, but super effective, isn't it?
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 13, 2020 20:19:46 GMT 2
over this latest translation gig, i really learned I am not made to work for social services. The worst part of the translation was the emotional storm I went through as I was translating. bleurgh!
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Post by slowcoach on Apr 14, 2020 4:06:36 GMT 2
And a lot of people are not designed for work "in" social services either.
I remember from a very long time ago, that in the UK students either took a training course after their degree or a social services degree that was part vocational. As part of the training/vocational content they would have to observe at the sharp end for a month or two, I am sure it was during their summer vacation. Some returned shell-shocked and thought better of the whole idea.
Poor lambs thought that doing good would be rewarding, life-affirming.
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Post by OnlyMark on Apr 14, 2020 18:00:14 GMT 2
I have learned/learnt today that though I'm currently living on a quite small road that even has just a 30km/h speed limit, the Police will still mount a secret camera inside a secret car, nestled closely within other parked cars along the fringe of the road, and 'blitz' you if you do over that limit. It is difficult to go above 30km/h anyway on the road because of the road furniture, speed bumps, cyclists and cycle paths, pedestrians, parked cars, joggers, roller bladers, bin wagons, ad infinitum - but yet it appears I have achieved the virtual impossible and within 100m or less from pulling out of my parking spot, I've achieved about 43km/h and had my photo taken. I hope it's my pretty side.
I'll have to wait for the official notification to arrive and see what their instrumentation reveals about my true subsonic speed.
Bugger. Needless to say, Mrs M will hear absolutely nothing about this. Unless my daughter, who was with me, grasses me up.
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 14, 2020 22:09:30 GMT 2
at the moment, the streets are so quiet here that people have been pushing the pedal to the metal for fun... have have gotten fined for it.
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Post by kuskiwi on Apr 15, 2020 5:49:33 GMT 2
at the moment, the streets are so quiet here that people have been pushing the pedal to the metal for fun... have have gotten fined for it. They are doing that here to. Unfortunately some then wrap themselves round lamppost and take up resources that should be used else where. Fire brigade have run out of extinguishers and one of the techs had to open the testing station and fill 20 x 9kg cylinder plus one of the big ones on a trolley. Problem now is getting bulk supplies as no one thought to put them on the essential list🤔 they may just go on that list super fast.
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 15, 2020 9:04:12 GMT 2
Exactly why hefty fines are being delivered. we need the resources.
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Post by slowcoach on May 6, 2020 9:40:01 GMT 2
Not today exactly but the term Transtasman/Trans-Tasman was a new one on me.
As in the Trans-Tasman (Travel) Bubble.
Not exactly learned but I am watching an online physics lecture:
8.01x - Lect 24 - Rolling Motion, Gyroscopes, VERY NON-INTUITIVE (I have set the video to start at some demonstrations of gyroscopic dynamics)
The dynamics of rotation are quite hard to fathom, but are hopefully entertaining to watch.
Those that master them you know rather a lot about motion.
Those that could master them under Specical Relativity (not the subject of the above lecture) would no more than all but a few.
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Post by Netsuke on May 10, 2020 11:56:27 GMT 2
Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy) was the name of a jazz song in America. The original title was Flat Foot Floozie (with a Floy Floy), but the record company baulked at the word "Floozie" because it meant a woman with loose morals or to be precise, a sexually promiscuous woman, so Floozie was changed to Floogie!
What the men at the record company didn't know was that "Floy Floy" was slang for venereal disease, so it slipped past the censors!
BTW, the song title makes a good tongue twister.
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Post by slowcoach on Jul 2, 2020 12:08:09 GMT 2
That the UK is a backwater of Νεφελοκοκκυγία transliterated as Nephelokokkygia. It appears in Aristophanes' The Birds (BCE 414) and is also known as Nubicuculia or Cloud Cuckoo Land.
Ancient Greek never was one of my strengths. Along with Modern Greek or any language for that matter.
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 2, 2020 12:57:01 GMT 2
Ah, Aristophanes! He would say the greek version of "told you so" if he could see it today.
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 3, 2020 20:14:53 GMT 2
I bought some bulghur earlier in the week and it is only tonight that I realised that it is a parboiled preparation. I knew it was "cracked wheat", but never bothered to enquire how it was made.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 3, 2020 20:19:11 GMT 2
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 3, 2020 20:32:40 GMT 2
Oh, Tzarine, it is one of my really quick meals, for evenings like today when it's been a long day and tomorrow will be a long day and it's almost 8PM and I just got home. I just cook it with some stock and sometimes I add veggies to it, too. I had it warm tonight as temps are not too seasonal, but you can have it as a salad.
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Post by Voy on Jul 3, 2020 23:31:44 GMT 2
tzarine - thank you for that lovely article on the nightwatchmen !
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Post by Netsuke on Jul 4, 2020 8:12:41 GMT 2
I learnt I had forgotten about the two fancy cake/bread slices I bought from a coffee shop last week as a treat for myself. They're both hard as a rock now.
Furthermore, the only reason I found both today is because I needed to put something in the boot!
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Post by Baz Faz on Jul 4, 2020 10:53:07 GMT 2
I learnt I had forgotten about the two fancy cake/bread slices I bought from a coffee shop last week as a treat for myself. They're both hard as a rock now. Furthermore, the only reason I found both today is because I needed to put something in the boot! Soften the slices up with a slug of sherry, top with apricot jam, then cream. Pretend it is a sort of trifle.
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Post by Netsuke on Jul 4, 2020 22:30:00 GMT 2
Thank-you, Baz, that's brilliant! I haven't any sherry, but I have cognac!
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Post by tzarine on Jul 6, 2020 2:01:17 GMT 2
i learned how annie makes her bulgur
what 踣街 means
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Post by Netsuke on Jul 7, 2020 5:54:43 GMT 2
i learned how annie makes her bulgur what 踣街 means I don't understand. Bulgar is wheat. Don't you just buy it from a shop? What does ( insert fancy foreign letters) mean? Is it Chinese? Not being Romanised, I am unable to replicate it.
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Post by Netsuke on Jul 7, 2020 9:12:05 GMT 2
I learnt dear leader is putting Melbourne back into Lockdown Stage 3 from midnight tomorrow.
We have a stupid premier whom I have never liked, he's done a dismal job, it's not just the corruption, or the secret deal with freaking China, or the cancelling of the East West Link, I don't trust his ferret face with its eyes too close together - he looks sneaky and is common.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 7, 2020 18:16:47 GMT 2
nets people cook bulgur differently & serve it in many ways
踣街 is a cantonese profanity
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Post by Netsuke on Jul 14, 2020 11:06:33 GMT 2
The piece of rubber hosing used in the spout hole of a jerry can is called a donkey dick.
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Post by Voy on Jul 14, 2020 15:35:05 GMT 2
now THAT ^ is just wonderful . and it's my new "what I learnt today" too -- LOLing !
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Post by tzarine on Jul 14, 2020 18:21:57 GMT 2
louis malle made ascenseur pour l'echafaud when he was 24 miles davis improvised the score
thanks, tcm
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Post by Netsuke on Jul 18, 2020 4:31:20 GMT 2
The word schmuck is a vulgar word for penis!
(And I thought it was an American slang word for an idiot or a moron!)
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Post by Voy on Jul 18, 2020 14:51:09 GMT 2
Which is how it's used in non-Yiddish ^ today. Or maybe even in Yiddish today! Jeff?
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