the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW

[2dimes]

In memory of Bernie Sanders

So the curlson's daughter now calls me "Grandpa Jonesey". That's fine, but she's taken to calling her dad "Daddy Jonesey", which I find much more amusing than he does.

Once when I was working at a camp job there was a fellow that was a single Dad. Not sure of the story on the kids mom. So while he was in camp his son would be at home with the fellows parent/the kids grand parents.

One of the other guys on the crew would tease him that his kid would be confused on turn around and used to mimic him saying, "Mommy, I don't like it when my big brother comes home. Why do I have to let him sleep in my bed?"

Most of the crew enjoyed that.

[DoomYoshi]

Kill Franch now:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-useless-french-language-and-why-we-learn-it/

[DoomYoshi]

poor robots are getting kicked:
https://www.businessinsider.com/people-are-kicking-starship-technologies-food-delivery-robots-2018-6

[2dimes]

I have no pity for those jobs stealing bastards.

[2dimes]

Kill Franch now:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-useless-french-language-and-why-we-learn-it/

I couldn't get through that. Is there some point where it becomes less annoying than French?

[Quirk]

[DoomYoshi]

Kill Franch now:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-useless-french-language-and-why-we-learn-it/

I couldn't get through that. Is there some point where it becomes less annoying than French?

No. It's just a collection of funny anecdotes about how terrible french is.

[2dimes]

Maybe I should try again. I missed the funny.

[DoomYoshi]

All this convinced me, on some subconscious level, that to learn a foreign language meant almost by default to learn French. Sufficient exposure to the sounds of French, I also gathered, might lead to fluency by osmosis. More than a quarter-century later, French President Emmanuel Macron has set about spending hundreds of millions of euros on an international campaign to reintroduce versions of those now unpopular notions: that his country’s language is easily acquirable, and that it’s worth acquiring in the first place. Macron believes, as he told a group of students in Burkina Faso last year, that French (which in number of speakers currently occupies sixth place behind Mandarin Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, and Arabic) can potentially become “the number one language in Africa and maybe even the world.”

This whole paragraph is funny, but especially the punchline.

How about this:

The result, more than 200 pages later: “I still don’t speak French, only now I don’t speak it better.”

[2dimes]

Maybe it's me.

[Quirk]

[King_Herpes]

A happy medium for recent husky enthusiasts and human body worshipers.




My name is Sofia.

[Dukasaur]

[riskllama]

that dog looks high AF.

[Dukasaur]

Kill Franch now:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-useless-french-language-and-why-we-learn-it/

I couldn't get through that. Is there some point where it becomes less annoying than French?

No. It's just a collection of funny anecdotes about how terrible french is.

Serendipity.

I was just reading this Stephen Hawking lecture about leaky black holes, and even he can't resist making fun of the French:
http://www.hawking.org.uk/into-a-black-hole.html

[2dimes]

Well he's being eaten by worms so... The French win this round.

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BPotW

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[DoomYoshi]

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BPotW

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[jonesthecurl]

Grand-daughter (the curlsonette) is staying here for a few days which is nice, but unfortunately involves putting up with the mother too. Having a very hard time not screaming "GET OUT OF BED YOU LAZY BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[DoomYoshi]

Would you rather....
Georgia plays a real team
or
a game against a school that is more fictional than Hogwarts (Austin peay..., not even in Austin)?

[Quirk]

Austin Peay 0
Georgia 45