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Post by Queen on Jan 9, 2024 11:03:58 GMT -5
LC and I are amusing ourselves by pronouncing the place names of where we are holidaying with a bad French accent. Fitzroy Falls was ok. Burrawang was mildly amusing. But Ulladulla and Narrawallee crack me up every time. And Mollymook is pretty good as well. I hope you are doing this while miming wearing a beret and smoking a Galoise.
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Post by sprite on Jan 9, 2024 12:00:00 GMT -5
"Class, what's the difference between a job interview in Glasgow and one in Hong Kong?"
"In Hong Kong we can speak Cantonese!"
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Post by tucano on Jan 9, 2024 12:02:22 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 10, 2024 6:20:42 GMT -5
Article in the NYT recommending that I spend January eating baked chicken thighs, salmon, and muesli, which is basically already what I eat
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Post by kneazle on Jan 10, 2024 16:06:26 GMT -5
My cousin's husband posted a photo on Facebook of their house with scaffolding as it's being painted with my cousin standing in front of the house. His caption was 'the old girl is getting a face lift'.
He's now being roasted by people saying 'did you really write that caption with your wife in the picture?'
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Post by jimm on Jan 11, 2024 0:40:19 GMT -5
A line in the last ep of Fargo - the Lorraine Lyon character tells her security chief to tell her lawyer? to phone 'the orange idiot' to call out the FBI. The show is set in 2019.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 12, 2024 18:35:30 GMT -5
DJ announced that a band called Common Loons was playing in San Francisco, and bird nerds pero and I both turned to each other and gasped at the same time
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jan 13, 2024 6:51:30 GMT -5
A Facebook friend is boycotting Woolworths. He doesn’t yet know that Aldi is also not selling Australia Day merchandise either. He is well over 80, so I’m not commenting. One of his relatives has now told him he’s an idiot!
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Post by Queen on Jan 13, 2024 14:39:12 GMT -5
Friend is contemplating buying a full size version of Gandalf's staff. I am encouraging her.
She's barely 5ft tall.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 13, 2024 17:33:40 GMT -5
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jan 13, 2024 22:18:35 GMT -5
Cottage cheese AND sour cream?
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 13, 2024 22:38:46 GMT -5
The video where the little guy slumps over and starts falling apart is sad!
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Post by psw on Jan 13, 2024 23:53:48 GMT -5
Soundtrack:
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 14, 2024 20:29:25 GMT -5
Review of a Vietnamese restaurant described the pho as "The soup, rife with rice noodles...." (Guys, "rife with" is not a positive descriptor.)
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Post by sprite on Jan 15, 2024 12:55:18 GMT -5
Maybe that was some super subtle shade, like, too many rice noodles...
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 15, 2024 13:10:21 GMT -5
Ha! That's a little subtle for our local news website, but there are a lot of underemployed people with creative writing degrees out there....
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Jan 16, 2024 2:48:16 GMT -5
I contacted various companies today to start organising quotes for our balcony blind to be replaced - filled in the forms online and three of the companies rang back quickly.
Laughed with one - they thought I was wanting blinds for the whole apartment complex and when they discovered it was just one blind they quickly changed their tone. No, they won't come out for a quote, instead I have to measure the area and take a photo and send it in to them. Stuff that!
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 16, 2024 6:56:02 GMT -5
A New York Times article saying that work wellness programs don't actually help, and what workers really need to be "well" is pay raises and control over their schedules, like YES I've been saying that all along
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Post by sprite on Jan 16, 2024 9:50:08 GMT -5
I taught a zoom class today, but there are a few couples in it. So often, I'd be talking to one of them in a breakout room, and could hear the other one, in the same physical room, chatting away--OBVIOUSLY not about the course work.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 17, 2024 8:12:54 GMT -5
“Upon reviewing the .aspx bugs, we have been able to start actioning on them this week.”
Yes yes language evolves, I get it, but there are limits you guys
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Post by Queen on Jan 17, 2024 9:19:45 GMT -5
“Upon reviewing the .aspx bugs, we have been able to start actioning on them this week.” Yes yes language evolves, I get it, but there are limits you guys I read this and it took me a moment to figure out what your problem was.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 17, 2024 9:54:14 GMT -5
“ACTION” IS NOT A VERB, Q
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Post by Queen on Jan 17, 2024 12:51:18 GMT -5
“ACTION” IS NOT A VERB, Q Oh I know, but it took me a moment because I read bad English emails all day - mostly not from people who have English as a second (or third) language
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 17, 2024 13:04:44 GMT -5
Figured as much, plus the IT shitshow context
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Post by Queen on Jan 17, 2024 15:15:42 GMT -5
Yes the geeks, bless them, do have certain quirks of language usage. But the most dangerous abusers of English are my native-English speaking communications colleagues. I shit you not.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 17, 2024 16:07:13 GMT -5
Sigh
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Post by psw on Jan 20, 2024 10:14:29 GMT -5
All the ads for the latest swimsuits and beach gear piling in as I look out on my frozen yard, driveway and front walk.
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Post by groo on Jan 20, 2024 10:25:03 GMT -5
Yes. 33C forecast for today, 38C for Monday. Summer fashions are disappearing from the shelves here but Easter buns are readily available.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 20, 2024 10:35:27 GMT -5
pero telling me the roads are too dangerous for me to go to the library, but he's going to drive down to Hains Point to look for a rare sparrow his friend found because some things are an EMERGENCY
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Post by tzarine on Jan 20, 2024 15:08:32 GMT -5
“Upon reviewing the .aspx bugs, we have been able to start actioning on them this week.” Yes yes language evolves, I get it, but there are limits you guys ah yes, actioning another new use
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