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cougr

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“I think it would be hard if George Washington came back from the dead and he chose Abraham Lincoln as his vice president, I think it would have been very hard for them to beat me,”
-Donald Trump


And I reckon if Mickey Mouse and Goofy had the presidency, they couldn't have done any worse than Trump.
 

daeman

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«Σούρτα φέρτα πάει να πει το ήξεις αφήξεις στα ιταλικά.

Όταν θεραπεύεται το κάταγμα, τότε το λέμε παλινόστηση, δηλαδή, ότι μπαίνουν πάλι τα οστά στη θέση τους, όπως ήταν πριν τα τσακίσουμε.

Όταν ο ατμός παράγεται έξι φορές ταχύτερα, το λέμε εξάτμιση.

Ετεροφαλή είναι τα αδέλφια που προέρχονται από τον ίδιο πατέρα. Από την ίδια μάνα λέγονται ετεροθηλή.
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https://www.protoporia.gr/markopoyl...rwn-kai-ta-dyo-den-ginetai-9789602355978.html
 

daeman

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“Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.”
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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daeman

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Ό,τι πρέπει για το νήμα και την εποχή:

"In the manner of diet —I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it."
~ Mark Twain, 70th birthday speech
 

daeman

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Like a virgin (mother): analysis of data from a longitudinal, US population representative sample survey

Abstract

Objective
To estimate the incidence of self report of pregnancy without sexual intercourse (virgin pregnancy) and factors related to such reporting, in a population representative group of US adolescents and young adults.

Design Longitudinal, population representative sample survey.

Setting Nationally representative, multiethnic National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, United States.

Participants 7870 women enrolled at wave I (1995) and completing the most recent wave of data collection (wave IV; 2008-09).

Main outcome measures Self reports of pregnancy and birth without sexual intercourse.

Results 45 women (0.5%) reported at least one virgin pregnancy unrelated to the use of assisted reproductive technology. Although it was rare for dates of sexual initiation and pregnancy consistent with virgin pregnancy to be reported, it was more common among women who signed chastity pledges or whose parents indicated lower levels of communication with their children about sex and birth control.

Conclusions Around 0.5% of women consistently affirmed their status as virgins and did not use assisted reproductive technology, yet reported virgin births. Even with numerous enhancements and safeguards to optimize reporting accuracy, researchers may still face challenges in the collection and analysis of self reported data on potentially sensitive topics.
 

daeman

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Overzealous profanity filter bans paleontologists from talking about bones

A virtual conference was thrown into confusion when the platform hosting the event came with a pre-packaged ‘naughty word’ censor

Fri 16 Oct 2020

Participants in a virtual paleontology session found themselves caught between a rock and a hard place last week, when a profanity filter prevented them from using certain words – such as bone, pubic, stream and, er, beaver – during an online conference.

The US-based Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) held its annual meeting virtually this year due to the pandemic, but soon found its audience stifled when they tried to use particular words.

Convey Services, which was was handling the conference, used a “naughty-word filter,” for the conference, outlawing a pre-selected list of words.

“Words like ‘bone’, ‘pubic’, and ‘stream’ are frankly ridiculous to ban in a field where we regularly find pubic bones in streams,” said Brigid Christison, a master’s student in biology attending the event, in an interview with Vice.

To root out wrongly identified “naughty words”, SVP members created a spreadsheet tracking all the words that seem to have been banned, and shared it on Twitter. It included: damn, hell, ball, stroke, pubis, wang, jerk, knob, stroke, stream, erection, dyke, crack and enlargement.
 

cougr

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“You will have to pull yourself back to the last century. I hate acronyms"

Judge Anthony Kelly warning Novak Djokovic's lawyers not to use acronyms during the tennis star's Federal Circuit court hearing in Melbourne yesterday.
( In which case I advise the judge that he stays well clear of this website).:-)
 
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cougr

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"...keep calm and visit....The country is open and safe for tourists."
Ukrainian Tourism Board Jan29, 2022

Φαντάζομαι ότι με την παραπάνω δήλωση τα αεροπορικά εισιτήρια προς Ουκρανία θα γίνουν ανάρπαστα.
 
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SBE

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Δεν ξέρω για διακοπές, πάντως πριν μερικά χρόνια το φτηνότερο εισιτήριο Λονδίνο- Αθήνα ήταν μέσω Κιέβου, μιλάμε για 75% φτηνότερα. Το σκεφτόμουν σοβαρά μια εποχή. Τώρα με την Ετζίαν βρίσκεις σε τιμές που θυμίζουν τσάρτερ της δεκαετίας του '90, πριν ανοίξει το νέο αεροδρόμιο με το κατοστάρικο φόρους. Οπότε φίλτατοι Ουκρανοί, χάσατε.
 

cougr

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"Sometimes yellow is just yellow"
Η αντίδραση των ρωσικών αρχών για τους ρώσους κοσμοναύτες, οι οποίοι φορούσαν στολές στο χρώμα της ουκρανικής σημαίας.

Τι άλλο να έλεγαν; Ότι είναι το αγαπημένο χρώμα του Πούτιν;

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Putin in Hazmat suit
 
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SBE

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"Sometimes yellow is just yellow"
Η αντίδραση των ρωσικών αρχών για τους ρώσους κοσμοναύτες, οι οποίοι φορούσαν στολές στο χρώμα της ουκρανικής σημαίας.

Τι άλλο να έλεγαν; Ότι είναι το αγαπημένο χρώμα του Πούτιν;


Putin in Hazmat suit
Πάντως εγώ όταν είδα την αρχική είδηση, με τη φωτογραφία με τους αστροναύτες και λεζάντα "οι Ρώσοι αστροναύτες δείχνουν συμπαράσταση στην Ουκρανία" αναρωτήθηκα αν ο ΔΔΣ έχει και ντουλαπι για μεταμφιέσεις και διαμαρτυρίες. Παρατήρησα επισης τα χρώματα της Ρωσσίας που πιάνουν μεγάλη εκταση της στολής και είπα σε αυτόν που μου έστειλε τη φωτογραφία μήπως η λεζάντα έπρεπε να είναι "Γκάφα ολκής: Ρώσσοι κοσμοναύτες στα χρώματα της Ουκρανίας" ή κάτι άλλο τέτοιο πιασάρικο;
Το αποτέλεσμα ήταν να τα ακούσω γιατί χάλαγα την ωραία ιστορία.
 

cougr

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“I wasn’t being thrown to the wolves, I was being fed to the wolves.”

Meghan Markle commenting on her treatment by the royal family.

Και αναρωτιέμαι, ποια η ουσιαστική διαφορά μεταξύ των δύο;
(Ρητορική η ερώτηση).
 

Zazula

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“I wasn’t being thrown to the wolves, I was being fed to the wolves.”

Meghan Markle commenting on her treatment by the royal family.

Και αναρωτιέμαι, ποια η ουσιαστική διαφορά μεταξύ των δύο;
(Ρητορική η ερώτηση).
Στο πρώτο, τον πετάς τον άλλονα στους λύκους κι ό,τι καταφέρει να κάνει· μπορεί να μην επιζήσει, μπορεί να ξεφύγει (με τραύματα ή χωρίς), μπορεί να βρεθεί και κάποιος (τρίτος) για να τον βοηθήσει/ξελασπώσει/απομακρύνει από τον κίνδυνο.
Στο δεύτερο, βεβαιώνεσαι και διασφαλίζεις ότι οι λύκοι θα τονε φάνε.
 

cougr

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Retired FBI special agent Nicole Parker appeared on Fox News in the wake of the tragedy, but soon went viral for her controversial comments about the cause of the tragedy.

“We need to remember, the side door. I’m not trying to point fingers, I don’t know the exact facts at this moment, but from what I understand a side door was unlocked,” she said on air.

“That seems to be a common pattern in many of the these shootings. A side door."


Δίκιο έχει. Ο κοινός παρονομαστής των μαζικών πυροβολισμών δεν είναι ούτε η οπλοκατοχή ούτε τα τουφέκια εφόδου - είναι η πλαϊνή πόρτα. Αυτή φταίει.:mad:
 
The Luxembourg Wurst
Luxembourgish ‘a mix of, like, German and, uh, French’

A man who moved to Luxembourg nine months ago and has been exposed to Luxembourgish dozens of times has proposed what linguists are calling an exciting theory: that Luxembourgish is a fusion of German and French.

If Philip Gardener’s theory is proven true, it could show that languages are nothing more than two- or three-ingredient salad dressings, half oil and half vinegar, sometimes with a dab of mustard added in.

Gardener, 34, released his theory during a video chat with his family back home when the topic of Luxembourgish came up.
“It’s basically a mix of, like, German, and uh, French,” Gardener said.

Dr. Phoenix Lazarus, who speaks 17 languages, holds six PhDs, and refers to linguists Steven Pinker and Noam Chomsky as “amateurs,” says he cannot understand how Phil Gardener was able to do it.

“I’ve spent years studying the phonology, syntax, morphology, and orthography of Luxembourgish and other Moselle Franconian languages, and this guy comes along and blows all of my research out of the water with his elegant thesis,” Lazarus says. “Touché. Well done, sir.”

Gardener, who is fluent in three English dialects and can understand Australian English and a little bit of Spanish, says the idea just came to him.
“I was looking at some verbs in Luxembourgish, and I was like, those kind of look like German,” he said. “But then some words in Luxembourgish, like merci, are basically French.”
“And, well,” he added. “Yeah, you see what I mean.”

Now that Lazarus and his peers from linguistics departments at the most prestigious universities have a lead, they say they will look at every language as simple blends of others.

“Just as Bordeaux wine is a mix of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, so too are languages a bit of this and a bit of that, it seems,” Lazarus said. “Is Spanish a mix of Portuguese and Italian? Is Croatian a combination of Czech and Bulgarian? We now think so.”
 

Earion

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Σιγά το πράγμα. Ένα σωρό παραδείγματα. Ας πούμε, όλος ο κόσμος ξέρει ότι τα αγγλικά δεν είναι τίποτ' άλλο από γαλλικά που προσπαθούν να τα μιλήσουν Γερμανοί, που προσθέτουν για σάλτσα κάτι λατινικούλια. 😂
 
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