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Questions and Answers - Part 3

  
  

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Less searchable M0rd4nt
23:35 / 19.08.07
Anything by DWJ should rock your world (unless you have no soul). Where to start? Archer's Goon, The Ogre Downstairs... My personal num-num blanket is Charmed Life, which is sort of the apotheosis of fantasy kid-lit; Howl's Moving Castle is also composed entirely of joy, win and more joy. She also has some super books aimed at older teens. They basically all win at book, so just hop on anywhere.
 
 
Gendudehashadenough
19:26 / 20.08.07
How do you pretend to learn?
 
 
electric monk
19:38 / 20.08.07
I'll never learn, and I see no reason to pretend otherwise.

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My cellphone sustained serious damage to its screen recently, and had to be decommissioned. I got all my contacts transfered to my new phone (for a small fee), but I'd really like to get the photos, videos, and rockin' ringtone off the old phone and load 'em on to the new one. I'm able to get the phone to sync with a PC, but nothing shows in the resulting window. The phone's an LG(X8500?) "Chocolate". Help, please?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
19:46 / 20.08.07
I identify key areas where the beginner will usually founder, and then I proceed to mock them in a formulaic and repetative manner.

(Actually I should try that, it works for everyone else.)
 
 
Whisky Priestess
10:43 / 21.08.07
Anyone got the name or number of a make-up artist who can do weddings, specifically one in Oxford this Saturday 25th August?

This is a somewhat desperate plea on behalf of my friend, btw, not me ...
 
 
Mistoffelees
16:19 / 21.08.07
1) Why is the name of the novel (and sometimes even the name of the author) printed at the top of every second page of so many novels in the english language?

2) Recently, someone told me, chemicals from plastic bottles might get into the water/soda/etc. Is that an urban legend, or a rumour started by the glass bottle lobby? Could there be something to it? Ca. 20 years ago, I heard the same story about soda cans.
 
 
grant
16:50 / 21.08.07
Bottles & Cans: Bisphenol A Leaching seems to be the main thing.

More on that here. As usual, contested.
 
 
Mistoffelees
18:01 / 21.08.07
Thanks for those links, grant!
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:40 / 26.08.07
Is there anyway to get around a tracker required registration in order to d/l a torrent file?
 
 
Saint Keggers
15:04 / 27.08.07
I have a file which claims to be .mp3. My I tunes wont play it and my Windows Media Player will play it but it claims the format does not match the extension.. is there anyway to find out what the actual format is?
 
 
Spatula Clarke
15:19 / 27.08.07
Right click - Properties.
 
 
Saint Keggers
15:23 / 27.08.07
No, it says "MPEG Layer 3 Audio"
 
 
grant
18:22 / 27.08.07
Might be some kind of DRM thing - I know iTunes gets hinky about things bought on other people's accounts.
 
 
This Sunday
18:37 / 27.08.07
Is it wrong of me to find Barbelith is dying... dying... is it dead yet? posts funny? Does this make me a worse person than I would be otherwise?

I simply must know.

Also, can anyone suggest a good joint/muscle cream? Not finding a good one and I don't want to keep buying random tubes on the basis of optimism. Humidity loves me, and it hurts the things it loves. Like my knees.
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
18:38 / 27.08.07
It makes you a BAD, BAD person.

Are you talking about my latest whinge in Policy?
 
 
This Sunday
18:54 / 27.08.07
You're not dead just because you pulse is low. It has to stop. And other things, as well. Otherwise, you could just be napping. Or, Cthulu.

That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
19:04 / 27.08.07
Hm.

Hmmmm...

Sorry, this isn't a terribly constructive post.

Hmmmmmm....
 
 
grant
19:45 / 27.08.07
a good joint/muscle cream

Tiger balm. Also, the smell clears congestion (in a good way).
 
 
My Mom Thinks I'm Cool
14:39 / 28.08.07
Yes on tiger balm.

I have been warned to never, ever get tiger balm in your eyes. I have also been warned that as soon as you are done putting it on you need to immediately wash the hell out of your hands, because otherwise you will, later that day, get it in your eyes.
 
 
grant
14:41 / 28.08.07
Ehhh.

That's just something you must OVERCOME.
 
 
This Sunday
15:17 / 28.08.07
I was kinda hoping I wouldn't read 'tiger balm' but, selah. Live, learn, make same mistake again on Tuesday. It's a bit harder to get out here, but maybe I can mail-order (or have someone ship me a little thing as ballast in a package). Thanks.

And, yeah, I've heard the not-in-the-eyes thing, the wash your hands immediately thing, but I've used it and not washed my hands and have yet to suffer any actual blindness or intense accidental ocular stinging. Still, accidents can happen, rare or not.

Also, I'd put money on the iTunes not playing it because of silly security measures. Mine does that sometimes and I know that's what it is.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
13:23 / 29.08.07
Oh please Barbelith tell me what this is called:

A mistake in speech where people replace one verb with another linked one, which is, effectively, its pair or opposite:

E.g:
"Is my jacket dirty?"
"Yes, but it doesn't notice," (for "it doesn't show")

and

"Can you give me a lend of that?"
rather than "can I borrow that?"

Other examples as I think of them. There MUST be a proper grammatical term for this phenomenon, surely!
 
 
Ron Stoppable
13:32 / 29.08.07
With apologies for pedantry; I'm not sure "Can you give me a lend of that" is quite the opposite of "can I borrow that" - I think that would be just "Can I lend that?." 'Giving a lend' may not be great English but I think the structure is probably sound.

Don't know if there's a specific name for it - is another example; "Don't itch that mosquito bite" rather than "don't scratch.."?
 
 
Spatula Clarke
18:59 / 29.08.07
Lending is the act of giving. Borrowing is taking. "Can I lend that?" makes no sense, unless you're asking to borrow an item so that you can then lend -give - it to a third party, or something along those lines.

So, yeah. Opposites.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
19:06 / 29.08.07
Although, that said, I've only just noticed that Whisky's example is actually different from yours. So, um, huh. Mmm.

Yes. "Can you give me a lend of that" is grammatically wonky, rather than nonsense - it's effectively "can you lend me that", and that's coolio.

Yr example of "can I lend that" to mean "can I borrow that" isn't, though - lend and borrow in those cases are still opposites.

Fuck, I almost sound like I know what I'm talking about here. Excellent.
 
 
grant
02:20 / 30.08.07
Is a kind of malapropism, only semantic, not phonetic.
Hmm.
 
 
Ron Stoppable
07:14 / 30.08.07
Spatula, yeh I agree the lend / borrow thing is poor english - opposites as you say - but you'll hear the two mixed up quite a lot, particularly in the North of England (though I don't know if it's peculiar to any particular dialect.)
 
 
Whisky Priestess
14:49 / 30.08.07
Ron, you genius: this is the third example I couldn't remember -

"Don't itch that mosquito bite" rather than "don't scratch.."?

Please don't be distracted by the lend/borrow one, as I think it may be something of a red herring - show/notice and scratch/itch are much purer examples of what I'm really talking about.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
13:55 / 31.08.07
What's the worst possible taste combination with peanut butter? I'm hovering between dill pickles and sardines, but there might be something even more gross. Added challenge: must be a commonly available (North American supermarket) food that your average eight-year-old would know about and (preferably) hate.
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
14:00 / 31.08.07
Mayonnaise.
 
 
grant
14:09 / 31.08.07
I actually used to make pickle and peanut butter sandwiches.

I'm thinking probably the worst thing would be meatloaf or instant mashed potatoes, followed by canned smoked oysters, sardines and (for an 8-year-old) pickled mushrooms or roasted peppers.

Liverwurst might go back and forth. Vienna sausages would repulse me, but might delight a smaller child. Same for Velveeta cheese or refried beans.

Oh, and if you want to get wild, then maybe canned green chiles or jalapenos. (But again, I'd probably like a jalapeno + peanut butter sandwich.)
 
 
grant
14:12 / 31.08.07
Oh, man - onions. Either fresh or else the "French" kind that are fried, then put in a can. For use with green bean casserole. Canned asparagus! Cream of mushroom soup!
 
 
Mistoffelees
14:17 / 31.08.07
I´ve never tried peanut butter. I don´t even know if it can be bought here.

Does anyone know how it compares to the awesome taste of Nutella?
Would I only be disappointed or should I try peanut butter at least once?
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
14:21 / 31.08.07
Well, you can simulate the taste of all-natural peanut butter by putting a bunch of peanuts in your mouth and chewing really fast. For commercial peanut butter, put a bunch of peanuts in your mouth with two tablespoons of icing sugar and a teaspoon of salt and chew really fast.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
14:21 / 31.08.07
Peanut butter is nothing nothing NOTHING like Nutella. Nutella is awesome choc muck, peanut butter is an abomination and a stain on the good name of the peanut.
 
  

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