This will be reply number 189 to this post, so heaven knows if it's going to be seen by anyone at all. I only got to Dr Emilio's post (maybe number 15 or so?) before I got sick of trying to get from one top level thread to the next.
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*asking out of interest, not as a passive-aggressive challenge* How does Kinja prevent that problem of questions being asked over and over and over? If I were to ask you a terribly pertinent question about Kinja right here - a question that will revolutionise everyone's understanding of the system and how it works,…
Yes, please bring back the ability to view all comments at once. This Kinja system looks really pretty, but it's a right feckin pain for reading all those comments.
It's hard to think of Connor as 'eminently punchable'. I believe it is testament to Kartheiser's skill that he can be both a hard-ass Connor, and a punchable Pete.
Agreed, but I love it. I feel 900% tougher because I live here.
I've noticed a lot of stuff about accents when I went on a student exchange to Indonesia.
Cordwainer Smith? Born in the US, travelled to China, Europe and Australia I think.
I'm another. Never owned a car, never bothered to get a licence. Still a lard-arse though.
Blue-ringed octopuses and box jellyfish have instilled a self-preserving fear in me of anything coloured attractively blue and living in the ocean. I was in Samoa a few years ago, and pretty much sprinted from the sea when I saw these bright blue starfish there. The locals asked what was wrong, I said "Blue…
I can knit. I WILL make this scawl/sharf/whatever. I could totally make one of these. I'm going to. I'm going to add another project to my pile of half-completed projects!
I love 'When World's Collide' I love its terrible science, and its ridiculous premise and its special-for-the-time effects.
They might look something like this - I love this map projection and orientation.
5'3"? They're coming for you, before they come for me!
The phenomenon isn't well studied because it generally doesn't cause any problems.
I love Eco's work - he always seems so uncompromising in his expectation that you too will understand the references and allusions he is making in his writing. I also love how he moves so easily through different sorts of writing. And I'm always very pleased with myself when I manage to complete one of his novels -…
It makes me happy too!
For pure WTFness, I do admire the Javanese calendar (Weton). And it's still used culturally - at least one newspaper in Yogyakarta had the Javanese date on the front page, along with the Gregorian and the Islamic dates. And lots of Javanese folk consult the calendar to find out lucky or fortunate days for doing…
High fives. That's what I'll teach the cat next.
My cat has learned to play fetch. Well, taught himself - I had no part in it. He likes to play while I'm on the computer, and has learned to drop his toy just behind me, and then paw at some paper or plastic, so I hear, and turn around. That's his most impressive trick, but the only tricks he does in front of guests…
These are country kids - and in the country there are plenty of guns. Most of my school friends had access to firearms. According to the article I linked to below, there's over 1200 _registered_ guns in the area where I grew up.