Zompist Bboard Again

alice wrote: ↑Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:59 pm Because we'll need one sooner or later. So...

alice wrote: ↑Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:59 pm Because we'll need one sooner or later. So...

alice wrote: ↑Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:59 pm Stack space exceeded. Please restart your system.

Risla wrote:I dreamed that I was one of twenty-ish test riders for Noam Chomsky's new invention, the air railroad. An air railroad is a railroad where the rails are not placed on ties on the ground, but rather suspended in the air. At one point, the rails twisted for some reason, and it distorted reality within the rail car.

At one point, I approached Chomsky, who was standing by the train door quietly and also looked a lot like a LotR dwarf, told him that I respect his work in linguistics even though I strongly disagree with many points, and then I gave him a very awkward hug.

mèþru wrote: ↑Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:41 am From the dream thread:

Risla wrote:I dreamed that I was one of twenty-ish test riders for Noam Chomsky's new invention, the air railroad. An air railroad is a railroad where the rails are not placed on ties on the ground, but rather suspended in the air. At one point, the rails twisted for some reason, and it distorted reality within the rail car.

At one point, I approached Chomsky, who was standing by the train door quietly and also looked a lot like a LotR dwarf, told him that I respect his work in linguistics even though I strongly disagree with many points, and then I gave him a very awkward hug.

Weirdest dream I've ever heard of, and I've read quite a lot

Salmoneus wrote:Jeremy Hunt - another homeopath. Manners of a drunk serpent and survival ability of a cockroach. Has no friends and is rubbish at everything, but apparently might be Prime Minister now because he has a name people recognise and he's somehow not managed to get sacked. He's not a frontrunner, but he'll be in the race if the people ahead of him cock up.

alynnidalar wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:33 am (not that I'm much of a WSJ reader. We always have a copy in the breakroom at work, so I skim the headlines when waiting for my friends to finish making their elaborate pourover coffee. The Mansion section is the best bit because rich people spend their money in incredibly stupid ways; I enjoy reading extracts aloud to my friends, who have threatened to stop being my friends if I keep reading from it, but it's too good to stop.)

mèþru wrote: ↑Mon Nov 05, 2018 8:04 am Holy shit that's such a huge wall of text that Trump wants to contract you for the border wall.

Raholeun wrote:Genuinly curious; what's the fun posting only an inventory? Why not go the extra mile and flesh out a proper phonology?

2+3 Clusivity wrote:I hate fun; therefore, I post only inventories.

Salmoneus wrote:What does that mean? Well, if the Prime Minister and/or the Attorney General is found in contempt, they could be suspended from Parliament (not unheard of), expelled from Parliament (very rare) or even imprisoned in the clock tower and forced to listen to the chimes of big ben until they have gone mad, or until parliament feels like letting them out (theoretically and historically, but no longer implemented in practice).

zompist wrote:Now, amazingly and for reasons economists can only deplore, people really really hate to see their wages drastically cut.

Salmoneus wrote:All this demonstrates is that she is colossally stupid, uninterested and unaware of politics to a level that would astonish a well-informed rhesus monkey, and entirely ignorant of her supposed area of responsibility. But, to be fair to her, if these things were considered disqualificatory in British politics, we'd have to dispose of four-fifths of parliament.

Hallow XIII wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 2:29 pm the proper amount of cross-linguistic knowledge to have is when you look at standard average european and go "what the fuck"

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alice wrote:Don't forget the typically Scottish variety of British cuisine; by law it typically contains enough cholestorol to kill the average Sassenach within hours.

Acid Badger wrote: ↑Wed Feb 06, 2019 8:59 pm Fui mongen aavas javun to' lielali ñankai kafu.
COP=1SG need sleep but=SS PFV drink-PST excess coffee
I need to sleep but I had too much coffee.

Monia'i olielas. Malavun kaa ka'isto kafu.
still=1SG without-sleep | go=SS make more coffee
I'm still awake. I'm gonna make more coffee.

Aso'a nokon kulossut.
be.shit-& 1POSS gloss-PL
My glosses suck too.

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[head smashes into keyboard]

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:17 pm

Regarding the special place in hell line, a representative for the British prime minister told reporters, “I think it is a question for Donald Tusk as to whether he considers the use of that kind of language to be helpful.”

I think the British prime minister has mistaken Donald Tusk for someone who actually gives a fuck.

chris_notts wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 4:42 pm

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 4:33 pm Meanwhile, repeating something I posted elsewhere earlier: The attitude of the British Parliament towards Brexit reminds me of the phases during my depression when there was nothing I felt like doing, but I didn't feel like doing nothing, either.

Do you think a bit of parliamentary CBT might help matters? Or perhaps a straight-jacket and a padded cell in a few specific cases.