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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3mtbESTkKI

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

If they have an equal number of hours, I would want the high-paying job. No contest.

If the easy job had twice as many hours, I would still take the high-paying job.

If the high-paying job had more hours, I'd need to know how many more.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

He's the one who delayed the vote until after Trump left. This is entirely doublespeak and lies.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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It's more of a trope or rhetorical weakness, but I also like what I call "Dark Lord Syndrome." So the protagonists or main antagonists will be vry ebil and have to go out of their way to be contrarian to nice things.

So you get them running around with "Oh, that cake is so sweet and tasty and therefore disgusting! I would much rather eat worms, which are delicious, by which I mean gross."

"Praise our wonderful, by which we mean bad, Dark Lord, the master of all that is good, by which we mean evil in the world, like pain, which we find pleasurable and fun, because it's unpleasurable and bad."

"Today is gloomy and rainy and stormy. How glorious it is, by which I mean nasty and foul."

The new Sabrina on Netflix did a lot of that in the first season.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

It hasn't been much of a thing lately, but "magic duel" was a big thing in the 80s and 90s. Like, not characters who usually use magic, but a stage magician would come to town, challenge the regular characters (or a one-off friend) to a duel and they'd have to do tricks, either with real or stage magic.

Defenders of the Earth, Jem, Batman, two different generations or My Little Pony and I think Tiny Toons all did it.

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CE_gonna_CE posted...

All signs point to sure

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'The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer'

*shudder*

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Please, call me Vanai.
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The worst was when I was a late teen and had never been socialized, so I thought it'd be quirky to call repeatedly with long, detailed messages.

The most damaging/damning was after a hookup became my sole fixation during masturbation or sex for over a year after it happened.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Flauros posted...

How is that a malfunction?

Do they have a chucky preset for the test function?

I don't know how it would have gone out to people, but when they do run tests internally, it'd wise to make obviously fake ones so that no one mistakenly elevates it to, well, to a system-wide broadcast.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Any judge who ruled against them would be subjected to death threats on themselves and their families. It's already happening.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

I needed something to fill the void left by Mr. Boop's seamless resolution. Thank you.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

MabusIncarnate posted...

I think we may have lost @SimpleMan also. I know he was homebound with serious medical problems and was around here a lot for as long as I can recall. His last login was December 1 2020.

That really sucks. I'm sorry to hear that. RIP to him, too.

The name is sort of familiar, but not very. Did he have any alts that you know of?

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Please, call me Vanai.
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AlisLandale posted...

thighs/hips (these are the best)

HOW do you do this?!?!?! I have troubled hips from...well, just goddamn everything. I have a foam roller and lacrosse balls, but nothing ever releases. My left hip socket pops when I do leg lifts or high marching steps, but in a painful, not loosening way.

RetsuZaiZen posted...

Hmm. I crunch up Doritos into dust before I eat it.

Huh. Neat. Just Doritos, or other flavR-blasted snacks too? Do you use a spoon to eat it, or what?

EmbraceOfDeath posted...

I like to imitate people, like copying the way they speak or their physical mannerisms. Rhythmic stuff especially though, like matching my footsteps or breathing to theirs.

Do you do echolalia? I would silently mouth the last few words a person said all throughout childhood. Phonology/phonetics ended up being my pet concentration in grad school.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

bump

I eat the leaves of loose leaf green tea after brewing.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

The term 'mommy milkers' is somehow so much worse than our obsessive flirtation with incest in the 00s.

The pics can stay tho.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

It's the same reason we have "really" as an intensifier (and to a lesser extent, "actually"). People use hyperbole and figurative language to drive their points home and to express how deeply they felt something.

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WalkingLobsters posted...

Did you also watch the movie? That was pretty cool

Aw, yeah. That one, I had on DVD because I was real fan. Very pretty, very interesting, even though it was like a total different imagining of the story. I liked Sora so much that I considered making it a future a lullaby if I had had kids.

I tried to find the manga at every convention I went to for years, but could only find numbers 1, 2 and 4.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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WalkingLobsters posted...

Did that fox kids dub use it?

They did for a couple fight scenes scenes, but they cut out a lot of the first two episodes and I'm not sure the show even got a full run.

For my thirteenth birthday, my parents bought me the whole VHS set of the anime with subtitles. It was real yarr.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

PalmerSensei posted...

I must finish all of one type of food on my plate before moving on to the next.

Ex: I will not touch chicken if there's still plenty of fries.

Do you allow your foods to touch? Or is that also off the table?

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

I liked the Escaflowne opening, even though it's pretty obvious now that it was thrown together in twenty minutes on a Friday afternoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8BGINS86ok

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

Notti posted...

When I was a kid I would run from say, an auto closing door (elevator etc) to the next door I had to get open (exit, front door) before the automatic one closed.

The Popo posted...

Whenever I eat something, I try to keep things as even as possible on both sides of my mouth as a chew.

that makes sense. Weird asymmetries in the jaw and neck are totally cascades for other pains. It's probably almost certainly a decent habit to have.

Also affection and props to everyone who does the color/symmetry thing. I just don't feel like bothering to quote them all right now.
Light_Dragon posted...

Chewing water bottle caps after I'm done drinking a bottle of water. I think that's bad for my teeth but I can't help it for some reason.

I have never had a styrofoam cup that I didn't chew through.

Machete posted...

You have a rich and buttery life. I don't have commentary on that, but also very little judgment to pass. Keep it up.
Ving_Rhames posted...

I rearrange my room in some way every month.

Do you repeat patterns or always try to mix it up novelly?

Bad_Mojo posted...

I turn the door knob before I close it so it doesn't make a lot of noise.

Oh, and I also shower and take a bath in total darkness.

That's really considerate. I like that and do it most of the time, but not with as much automaticness as a true habit.

I've taken showers in the dark and I really like it, but I rarely do it. I think my next shower will be dark.

__Fiale__ posted...

I'll be watching a movie/show, hear some random line or singular word and I HAVE to write it out on my thumbnail using my index finger.

Do you have small handwriting? :o

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

RIP. Cancer is awful.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

R1masher posted...

I wipe in a counter clockwise circular motion

Wax on...?

Heartomaton posted...

Every time I go to make stovetop ramen, I take a nibble out of the uncooked noodle brick.

Aw. They do have a pretty fun texture. I like stale cheese puffs, which is definitely not as good as raw ramen.

MedeaLysistrata posted...

If I pass by a light switch I press on it quite hard, not sure why

Sometimes if I have a lot of energy I will pump my arms like a hydraulic three times

Neat! I don't do the light switch thing, but I will reflexively switch them off if no one is around.

Kitt posted...

When no one's looking, I pour hot sauce on the palm of my hand and eat it plain.

Intense~ Any specific sauce you like best, or just anything?

EnvoyOfTheLight posted...

When I was a kid, I thought I was fat, so I constantly contracted my abs to appear less fat. Now I just do it by habit.

Oh, word. Yeah, I do some of that, too. Poor kid.

DeadBankerDream posted...

I eat the pizza crust first.

Get the bready part out of the way! Yeah.

shironinja posted...

If entering a doorway I prefer to turn right -- this is in relation to certain Zen practices.

Care to elaborate? I read somewhere once about how the US has their grocery stores laid out opposite of other countries (more people turning one way than the other), but never bothered tying it to philosophy.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

*I always tap my shoes upside down before putting them on. I lived in a barn with wasps and spiders in it for three years. After flopping into bed onto a yellow jacket twice, and after having a dead wasp tumble out of my shoe once, I developed a lot of superstitious tics.

*I keep the tab on beer/soda cans up at a 90 angle so it rests against my philtrum while I drink, because I've gotten too much at once and burped/hurrked too many times.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

Latine is the best option. When I was a little tyke first learning Spanish as a second language (almost 20 years ago) I read a little general interest handout the teacher gave us about how more young Spanish-speakong people were using -e word-finally to be neutral. Not sure why that was overtaken by LatinX, but I guess it's similar to why 'womyn' was mocked but 'womxn' is trendy.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Garioshi posted...

Shoutout to this happening

Eeeee!

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Ruvan22 posted...

Aww how old is Steve the cat? She sounds very cuddly

Little Stevethe is going on 11 now. :o She is so cuddly. She's always loved being pet on the chest and rump, even as a little wildling. She doesn't like to sit in laps or be held, she's too serious to play with toys, but sometimes she'll have a 'love attack' and take a flying leap onto my dad's chest and love all over his face. It's unfathomably cute. If there were such a thing as a $400 cat, Steve would definitely have been worth it. <3

Born April 2010, adopted sometime mid-October same year. It's easy to remember, because my now-spouse and I had just started dating when she was born and adopted her when we were at about the six-month mark and feeling all fuzzy about each other. We call her our mascat (and about seventy other affectionate things).

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Please, call me Vanai.
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This is Steve the Cat. It's a female cat who was named before being sexed. However, gender is an oppression structure and cats literally cannot care. Steve was born in the bushes outside my house in college. It was a split-level house with the downstairs bedrooms having ground-level windows, so my roommate had called us all in to gawk one day when a cat was having babies; we sat there like yokels at an aquarium.

A couple months later, Steve would always be in my parking spot when I came home, then started following me to the door whenever I came home with sushi. I fed it a few times, then decided to bring it inside because it was getting cold for the year. As soon as I did, we got a knock on the door from the people across the street.

Neighbor 1: Hey, that's my cat.
Me: Oh, sorry. Here you go, you can have it back.
Neighbor 1: Nah, nah, nah, it's fine, you can keep it. But, uh, that's a good cat. It cost me $400. That's a $400 cat.
Me: Oh. Sorry. No, cats should be free. You can have it back.

At that moment, another person from the neighboring house came out.

Neighbor 2: What are you doing?
Neighbor 1: They have my cat.
Neighbor 2: Th- Wha-? You drunk, that's MY cat!

They ran back inside and came over to my doorstep about two minutes later with a little plastic dish. The following neighbor lines happened at the same time, overlapping.

N1: Yeah, I don't know, I've been feeding it, but I think it's a stray.
N2: $400 cat!
N1: I don't really care, so long as it's got a home. You guys can keep it. Here's the dish and everything.
N2: It is a $400 cat!

At that point, one of my housemates heard the slight commotion and, being a nervous sort, ran to the front door and thrust two twenties into the faces of the neighbors and yelped "We don't want any trouble!"

N1 said something else like we didn't need to pay or whatever; N2 took it. At that point, I basically had to keep Steve. And I'm glad I did because she's a sweety keety meowmeow and I wuv her.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

Jeez, of they would have just taken it goddamn seriously in the first place, we could be at the car race watching the cars race. I hate that they act like we're all giddy to have lost the last year and next six+ months of plans while they're the only ones with hobbies.

Yesterday during a call, someone hollered to me that "I do NOT have COVID! The doctors diagnosed me with PNEUMONIA and that test was wrong!"

That's like saying "I do NOT have chicken pox! I have varicella blisters and scarring!"

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

Bill Clinton; various, small number of wrestlers who just touched hands with fans and shouted "Heey!" on their victory walk back down the aisle at a Smackdown show; the guy who played James Hathaway in Lewis (I didn't know it at the time); and a bunch of state-level politicians in WA state and MD.

And Dick Valentine once played the song suggestion I hollered at an Electric Six concert, but that probably doesn't really count.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

45 if you believe in the Voldemort-speak-not-his-name rule; 47 if you're going by typical classifications of which president he was.

cf. Grover Cleveland

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Shablagoo posted...

I dont think anyone believes this is revolutionary

Just a fun factoid, not disagreeing or needling, but The Mooch himself referred to it as "the French Revolution of the stock market" yesterday. He was very troubled. XD

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Read as "non-meme cryptids" and was hoping to learn about more regional monsters.

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I Like Toast posted...

or the shorter version with more pintsized headlines for you to understand

yo, wtf? Why are you getting so fucking personal? I know shorting is bad. I'm not going pro-hedge fund, I'm saying that she did not make an inaccurate statement. The workers aren't suddenly owners of the company or benefitting from the stock wealth and this doesn't help the workers. The few who were able to cash out are lucky to have been holding onto the dead stock so long and were wise to cash out when possible, but it's not like this is some sort of grand populist utopia we've haxxed into.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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She's not wrong that it doesn't help the workers.

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I got some on a CJayC video from 14 years ago last week. Noice.

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Not racist, just a misogynist dominionist who goes with the flow to annoy those around him. Great, redeeming.

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sauceje posted...

could be passed into legislation so the GOP couldn't do anything about it such as repealing Roe v. Wade.

Different branches of government and different functions. Roe v Wade is a constitutional standard as ruled by the Supreme Court. Only the Supreme Court can "overturn" it unless Congress amends the constitution. But any Congress can repeal or overwrite simple legislation.

Thanks to successful Republican gerrymandering, propaganda, court installations and threats at the federal and local levels, the right to an abortion has been whittled down to be mostly symbolic. But the only thing keeping it even nominally legal in most states is the constitutional standard written in Roe v. Wade's insulting compromise about when pregnant women cease to be people (and then made worse in Gonzales v. Carhart).

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Smoothie and some protein powder. Was planning on eggs over easy too, but now it's all getting a little hard.

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Duncanwii posted...

If I has a gimmick I'd be a famous explorer searching for the jewels of the Nile to buy the elephant sanctuary before poachers kill all the Elephants.

Is it too late to do that? I think it'd be a fun read. (srs)

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bruh... :/

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Yeah! Jack isn't typical around where I live, but I've always had a solid experience with them.

Ever been to Cook-Out? That's a quality joint.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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LightHawKnight posted...

greatly increasing your sandwich making

We likely would. We already make a lot of them, but this would be a a boon. The new technology would create the uptick, just like getting the blender drastically increased the number of smoothies I consumed.

Do you have any insights on good models?

PoundGarden posted...

Slicing is for princesses

My spouse is my princess. I oblige daily, with meat. ;)

BuckVanHammer posted...

ive looked into myself and it wouldn't be worth it for us. im lucky, my butcher is rad and slices stuff for us all the time.

There's a preferred deli I go to when I want to buy their lunch meats, but since I already have all these hunks so often from my turkeys and stuff, I'd likely cease to go there with the same frequency anymore (except for their pickled eggs, which are fantastic and not worth making on my own). They won't let us bring in a slab of meat for choppin', though. Health code blah blah, with COVID on top of it. It's a trade-off of home convenience and getting the most mouthfeel mileage out of my leftovers vs. support small business/community. And then weighing that convenience against the inconvenience of the lost space.

When you were looking, was there anything not too extravagant that caught your eye?

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Anyone have experience with these in a home kitchen? There are some pretty affordable ones (and some more expensive ones and some yet-nicer still ones that I definitely don't need). I've been kicking around getting one for a while, but am now in a position to actually be making these purchases.

We buy a lot of full hunks of meat and cook whole birds pretty often, which leaves us with lot of great leftovers. If we could cut them down into thinner slices, they'd have greater versatility for sandwiches.

But I don't usually go for uni-taskers and a deli slicer seems like a lot of counter/cabinet space for something I'll totally cut myself on.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Good luck to them. It is scary. Hopefully they're able to stay stable and comfy and ride it out.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

I love being an adult so much more than being a kid. If I could New Game+ my life, I think I would take it, but I definitely wouldn't want to live my childhood again just for the sake of extra youth or to return to a simpler, happier time, because it wasn't.

As for the type of person I am now... Well, I actually like that I enjoy athletics, politics, cooking and music more than I did when I was a kid (bcuz sports r dum and politics r boring and cooking is 4 girlz and jazz is weird), but as for "What would ten year-old Vanai think of thirty-one year-old Vanai," I can't deny that I'd think I was boring.

I was definitely going to live in Ireland or Japan and be a famous writer/computer programmer/Rottweiler breeder who played video games and wore goth clothes every day, even when it wasn't the Renaissance Festival. I'm elated to have failed to live up to that.

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It's just a new Stand.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Vananana, nananana, hey, hey, hey, Vanai.

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PatrickMahomes posted...

dont ever scare me like dat again

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