It really wasn’t much of a hassle to install.

Edinbruuuuuugh …

It’s worth remembering that something like 5% of the population is sociopathic. That’s a lot of people who are morally compromised.

Ehh … It’s more likely etiquette to not descend on the rolls like a starving Labrador retriever. Much of manners is about self restraint and making oneself ‘small’. The idea is that you wait a minute or two, so it’s not like being at the Chinese food buffet when a fresh load of sweet and sour pork comes out. Everyone piling in for the rolls is undignified. It’s related to the idea that even if you really want that last roll, you ask if anyone else would like it before snatching it for yourself.

… but judging someone for grabbing one when they come out? Pretty prissy.

I liked Shyamalanamans “The Last Airbender.” I started hearing how everyone thought it was terrible, and I’ve kept my secret until now.

Are they all the same woman? I can’t tell.

All I’m seeing is that somehow a lab was trained not to eat. Doubt.

Lol! This is pretty well the cycle for dismissive-avoidant attachment style.

Ivy League schools were never about education. They’ve always about making connections with other elites.

Ok, but seriously. Why exactly was a ninja turtle hanging out with Vanilla Ice at a Republican rally? That’s like some fever dream shit and I don’t get how they all fit together.

Ok. Thanks for confirming that, and answering my second unasked question. I’d wondered if it was a legacy of Alexander’s conquests, but doubted because I didn’t think he made it as far as Bengal, though I wondered if it was a Greek linguistic relic that got naturalised into Hindi/Bengali. It’s Sanskrit; makes more sense.

Means, “is the city”, yeah? Like, the Greeks just referred to it as The City?

Pretty unrelated, but I always wondered if the -pur ending for Indian cities was a cognate of -polis.

I watched a few documentaries on the 100 Years’ War recently; I’m convinced we’re still living out THAT trauma … and that was just one crazy time out of many. It’s one of the ways I cope with climate change and the degradation of the global environment: reminding myself that living in really fucked up times is more the norm than anything. I do believe that modern technology and the absolute privilege we live with has given many of us in the developed world the illusion that we’re in control of the world. I have a suspicion that the awareness of how little we can do to stop the sheer randomness and brutality of life and human callousness is why religion has been so prevalent for most of history, it’s people having some solidarity in, “Holy shit, this is fucked. God, save us, you’re obviously our only hope.”

Yeah, that seems to be the most likely explanation for how the coins got to India too. Egypt was the entry point into the Roman Empire, and there were maritime trade routes from the Red Sea to India.

IMO geologists missed a lot of opportunities: i.e barfite, flashlite, holdmetite, alrite, campsite, dogshite (it’s white and fossilized, found in small deposits).

IMO this is personal. It’s the Opium Wars Pt. II.

I’m willing to bet half those BC stats are actually Albertans driving into the mountains. Significantly more westbound than eastbound fatalities in the Rockies. If you fall asleep at the wheel in Alberta you wake up in the middle of a corn field. If you fall asleep at the wheel in BC you don’t wake up.

From the article you linked:

“This has traditionally been considered incorrect on the basis that it is equivalent to referring to a judge as being an honourable or an adult man as a mister, both of which are also grammatically improper.[8][9] It is likewise incorrect to form the plural reverends. Some dictionaries,[10] however, do place the noun rather than the adjective as the word’s principal form, owing to an increasing use of the word as a noun among people with no religious background or knowledge of traditional styles of ecclesiastical address.”

I wouldn’t correct someone who dropped this in casual conversation, but I do expect more from a news source that should be employing people with a better grasp on the English language.

This article is a mess.

Firstly, “Reverend” is an adjective, not a title. Sounds like it was a priest, minister, or pastor depending on denomination. It would be like referring to a judge as “an honourable” for an entire article.

Secondly, even if this minister pushed through the paperwork, there is no way it’s valid. Both parties have to sign the completed document at the time of the wedding itself, and it typically has to be also signed by witnesses. “Pre-signing” it would indicate it. It’s not a legally valid document.

Ironically, marriage documentation is pretty tight about the consent of both parties and witnesses to prevent women from being married off against their will.

Checkmate in TWO moves? How? The quickest I know is four.