#158

this has (not entirely relevantly) reminded me that when i was in Luxembourg i had a Portuguese roommate who didn’t speak English and we had to try and communicate in French… she asked me if I was a student, so I said I was a student but worked as well, and she asked me where I worked and I said “un magasin” and - totally reasonably - she thought I meant that I worked for a magazine :grinning:

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#159

Is that one true? If so that’s pretty mind blowing

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#160

This reminds me of when I was on a childhood holiday in France and my dad ordered “Quatre poissons et frites”, and we were bought four plates of (excellent) chips. When after 30 minutes we asked about the fish, we managed to establish the waitress assumed we wanted “portions” of chips, probably because my dad mangled poisson so badly.

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#161

But what about brown people and Burnley?

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#162

This seems quite dangerous. What if they imprint Prometheus into some bacteria dNa and I becomes sentient?

#164

Isn’t that how theo was made?

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#165

My favourite German colloquial phrase is ‘Katzensprung’ meaning ‘a stones throw’ or literally ‘A Cat’s Leap’. Which I thought you would like.

I posted a set of pictures of my cats I took in spring with ‘Cats In Spring - Katzensprung’ as the title. Punning gold for my one German friend.

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#166

Well I am an immigrant, so yeah. Duh.

#167

My favourite of those is Fingerspitzengefühl- to do some with the feeling of your fingertips (to do something with a lot of care and attention)

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#169

For the sake of clarity, the last sentence doesn’t mean ‘I have one friend who happens to be German’.

#170

I attended a seminar yesterday on IT security and the girl that took it was born in the NINETEEN NINETIES

#171

That’s not a very good one zxcvbnm.

A better one: In two years freshers at uni will mostly have been born after 9/11. Weren’t even born when an event that shapes the whole world today took place.

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#172

Shhhhhhhh. La la la. I CAN’T HEAR YOU

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#173

tbf camera work reached its peak in I Am Cuba

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#174

I was talking to someone about sixties music at the pub last night and it occurred to us that we’re much closer to the 2060s than the 1960s

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#175

That this is all real, it’s not like an extended work experience week.

#176

Sorry mate. Just don’t believe you. FAKE NEWS!

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#178

This whole article totally blew my mind

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#179

interesting piece, cheers

A human egg outweighs the sperm cell that fertilizes it by a million to one, the difference between a Thanksgiving turkey and a housefly

that’s pretty amazing

#180

It’s old but I still can’t get over Bryan and Ryan Adams sharing the same birthday, I think it pretty much proves the simulation theory.

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