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I have a reversible leather belt. One side is black, the other is brown. Steel buckle. Great. For a year now I have been unscrewing the buckle with a tiny screwdriver and turning it around and screwing it back in every time I want to wear my other shoes. I got to a point where I would just wear brown one week and black the next. Two days ago I got it caught in the bathroom and found that I can just pull out the buckle a tiny bit and swivel it around. I am deeply ashamed.
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Inzombiac posted:I have a reversible leather belt. One side is black, the other is brown. Steel buckle. Great. It may well last longer if you use the screwdriver because reversible belts are poorly constructed trash and the buckle inevitably snaps off sooner or later. I have never had one last even a year.
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Oct 27, 2016 13:38
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Bertrand Hustle posted:It may well last longer if you use the screwdriver because reversible belts are poorly constructed trash and the buckle inevitably snaps off sooner or later. I have never had one last even a year. The belt I had was garbage in that the belt itself fell apart, like there was a layer of "leather" covering one side to make up the brown portion, and it peeled off in big scab-like flakes. That's what I get for being poor I guess.
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Oct 27, 2016 14:46
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Titus Sardonicus posted:The belt I had was garbage in that the belt itself fell apart, like there was a layer of "leather" covering one side to make up the brown portion, and it peeled off in big scab-like flakes. That's what I get for being poor I guess.
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Oct 27, 2016 16:22
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Titus Sardonicus posted:The belt I had was garbage in that the belt itself fell apart, like there was a layer of "leather" covering one side to make up the brown portion, and it peeled off in big scab-like flakes. That's what I get for being poor I guess. Hmm, I've had this guy over a year and I wear it every day. I'm pretty sure it is actually dyed twice because there is no sign of wear or flaking.
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Oct 27, 2016 17:11
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The TMBG song contrecoup is about a coup contrecoup head injury
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Oct 27, 2016 19:55
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The home symbol on twitter is a birdhouse.
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Oct 31, 2016 17:26
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The word "decide" comes from the same root as suicide/homicide: "caedere" in Latin, meaning "cut, strike, or kill". The "de" means "off" in this case, so apparently deciding is killing off or cutting off an option. Separately, I feel smart that I guessed right on the root for "insidious"; it is indeed "sidere/sedere" meaning "to sit". The image being "sitting in wait to ambush someone". Other English words from the same root include sediment, sedentary, preside, resident, sedative, etc. I took a class in Greek and Latin roots my very first semester of college, and it's probably one of the best academic bangs for the buck I've ever gotten. If anyone has GRE/SAT/etc coming up, bone up on your classical roots and your ability to recognize vocabulary will increase dramatically.
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Oct 31, 2016 17:42
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:The word "decide" comes from the same root as suicide/homicide: "caedere" in Latin, meaning "cut, strike, or kill".  if you didn't just go to a real school and had Latin for six years... yeah, ...
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Oct 31, 2016 17:44
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Remember, nothing is a better judge of one's intelligence than being familiar with words that are less widely used than 'fictional' ones
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Oct 31, 2016 20:38
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Grillfiend posted:this will blow your mind : the 69 does not refer to the year 1969 oh uh hm this is my mom's favorite song .... 
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Oct 31, 2016 20:43
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Jerry Cotton posted:
I had Latin for six years in high school and I don't remember a thing
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Oct 31, 2016 21:41
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Phlegmish posted:I had Latin for six years in high school and I don't remember a thing If you don't know what a verb means, it's always kill. (Works well with Old English texts as well.)
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Oct 31, 2016 21:43
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:I took a class in Greek and Latin roots my very first semester of college, and it's probably one of the best academic bangs for the buck I've ever gotten. If anyone has GRE/SAT/etc coming up, bone up on your classical roots and your ability to recognize vocabulary will increase dramatically. I've found that kind of stuff to be helpful in teaching A&P to freshmen trying to get into the university's nursing program.
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Nov 1, 2016 00:31
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Phlegmish posted:I had Latin for six years in high school and I don't remember a thing maybe because you went to high school for 6 years
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Nov 1, 2016 00:42
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ladron posted:maybe because you went to high school for 6 years High school goes for six years in lots of countries.
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Nov 1, 2016 05:55
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My school was K-6, JH was 7-9, HS was 10-12. I know that some places have senior-only schools, or skip junior high and have HS be 7-12, or have a middle school that's 7/8, JH that's 9/10, and HS that's 11/12. Are there any other common combinations?
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Nov 1, 2016 05:58
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:My school was K-6, JH was 7-9, HS was 10-12. I know that some places have senior-only schools, or skip junior high and have HS be 7-12, or have a middle school that's 7/8, JH that's 9/10, and HS that's 11/12. Are there any other common combinations? 6-8 was middle school, 9-12 was high school. That one is pretty common.
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Nov 1, 2016 06:05
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Where I'm at, Elementary is K-4, middle is 5-8, and High School is 9-12.
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Nov 1, 2016 06:32
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Primary school in most of Australia is K-6, high school is 7-12. It's probably a dumb idea especially with the new thinking about segregating 13-14 year olds (year 9) but it's the way it's done here 
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Nov 1, 2016 06:40
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Kindergarten was its own entity, then elementary 1-6, middle 7-8, high 9-12
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Nov 1, 2016 06:43
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PYF School Grade System
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Nov 1, 2016 06:46
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I didn't go to school. I learned everything I needed to know on the streets.
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Nov 1, 2016 06:49
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Memento posted:Primary school in most of Australia is K-6, high school is 7-12. I think another difference is that in America, kindergarten is what we call prep, rather than a separate pre-school year? And technically 7-10 is secondary college and then you can do either two or three years of HSC or VCE. And if you do three years then the second and third are both year 12, not 12 and 13.
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Nov 1, 2016 07:01
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Thandie Newton and Zoe Saldana are two different people.
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Nov 1, 2016 18:37
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It took me many years to finally realize Led Zeppelin's "Ramble On" has Tolkien references and Yes' "Your Move" uses chess metaphors throughout, leading me to the conclusion that despite thinking of these bands as cool, rock and roll legends they were massive nerds in their youth.
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Nov 1, 2016 20:33
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XenoXiaoyu posted:Thandie Newton and Zoe Saldana are two different people. So are Darren McGavin and Martin Balsam.
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Nov 1, 2016 20:40
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dirksteadfast posted:It took me many years to finally realize Led Zeppelin's "Ramble On" has Tolkien references and Yes' "Your Move" uses chess metaphors throughout, leading me to the conclusion that despite thinking of these bands as cool, rock and roll legends they were massive nerds in their youth. I'm not sure Yes were ever considered "cool" by anyone.
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Nov 1, 2016 20:41
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Henchman of Santa posted:I'm not sure Yes were ever considered "cool" by anyone. Young me did. I had low standards I guess. "Plays music, that's cool, sure."
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Nov 1, 2016 20:43
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dirksteadfast posted:It took me many years to finally realize Led Zeppelin's "Ramble On" has Tolkien references How did you not catch them? Go read more of their lyrics, there's more. Misty mountain hop had it right in the title
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Nov 1, 2016 20:47
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sweeperbravo posted:So are Darren McGavin and Martin Balsam. And the kid from arrested development and the social network.
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Nov 1, 2016 20:54
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:My school was K-6, JH was 7-9, HS was 10-12. I know that some places have senior-only schools, or skip junior high and have HS be 7-12, or have a middle school that's 7/8, JH that's 9/10, and HS that's 11/12. Are there any other common combinations? Quebec is K-6, 7-11, then something called CEGEP for 2 years, then university OR For some programs CEGEP for 3-4 years total instead, and you get a degree. They're referred to elementary, and highschool. Though when I went the grades in HS were typically called Sec(ondary) 1 through 5. Some schools offer a voluntary grade 12 instead of CEGEP if you're planning on going to university out of province/country. I don't think CEGEP is mandatory though.
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Speaking of Quebec, I was glancing at a map and realized that Montreal is not in fact the provincial capital. It's Quebec. I'm usually very knowledgeable about geography, so I felt pretty ashamed of myself.
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Nov 2, 2016 01:55
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It's Johnny Depp in The Ninth Gate, not Ethan Hawke.
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Nov 2, 2016 02:22
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FELD1 posted:Speaking of Quebec, I was glancing at a map and realized that Montreal is not in fact the provincial capital. It's Quebec. I'm usually very knowledgeable about geography, so I felt pretty ashamed of myself. It's not. It's Quebec City. And since it's Quebec were talking about it's technically Ville de Québec.
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Nov 2, 2016 12:24
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Calypso (the nymph, probably not the style of music) comes from the same root as "apocalypse", because the latter is literally "unveiling" and thus to "Revelation", thus to the book of Revelation, thus to the modern usage of "end of the world".
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Nov 7, 2016 23:33
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:And the kid from arrested development and the social network. I watched all of Zombieland and most of the special factures before realizing that it wasn't Michael cera.
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Nov 8, 2016 02:58
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Jerry Cotton posted:This is what happens with autodidacts It also happens with people who've been taught by others, though! I was 22 before I realized that the little towels on hanging rings by the faucet were for drying your hands, because when I was young and asked what they were for, my mother told me they were decorative and I wasn't allowed to touch them. Wanamingo posted:The TMBG song contrecoup is about a coup contrecoup head injury Yeah, but it's also like a metaphor about like love and stuff Fun fact: They got challenged by a podcast to make a song using obscure, extinct words. Said podcast, The Next Big Thing, made a habit of contacting artists and asking them to make songs incorporating near-unknown words.
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Nov 8, 2016 05:19
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There's a Fanuc factory in Japan producing robot machines that is fully automated and can run for a month with no human intervention. The product the lights out factory produces is CNC machines to be sold to automate the machine shop process elsewhere. Soon business deals and materials purchasing will be done by A.I. and the one guy who owns all that poo poo will be busy building an ATM that never stops shooting out money.
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John Lee posted:It also happens with people who've been taught by others, though! I was 22 before I realized that the little towels on hanging rings by the faucet were for drying your hands, because when I was young and asked what they were for, my mother told me they were decorative and I wasn't allowed to touch them. Haha your mum is gross. There's two labeled hooks by the sink in the bathroom in my apartment. One is labeled hands and the other Oscar. (To clarify: they were already there when I moved in.)
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