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FF league 8 people needed, details inside - J Jul 14, 13:57 4
- I'm only in one league this year, I could join another. I'm in. -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 14:11
- At Yahoo? -- nm - David Jul 14, 14:09 2
  - yes....forgot to post the direct link -- (link) - J Jul 14, 14:10 1
    - FAIL!!!!! nm -- nm - groiny Jul 14, 14:11
I've been checking into these "free" kids game apps for the iPhone. They're total scams. One dad got billed $600 - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 14, 13:49 1
- i call it divine retribution - chuckles Jul 14, 13:51
"Poles in Chicago constitute the largest ethnically Polish population outside of Warsaw" -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:47 8
- there are more native speakers of Polish in Chicago than in Poland's capital city of Warsaw -- nm - 'lia Jul 14, 22:03
- NY has more Jewish people that anywhere outside of Israel. - Krusty Jul 14, 13:56
- Chicago is a huge metropolitan area. But I've also recently heard that London has over half a million Poles. Far from all are registered as residents - facto Jul 14, 13:50
- Toronto has the largest Italian population outside of Italy -- nm - zork Jul 14, 13:49
- "Poets in Chicago..." -- nm - nubby Jul 14, 13:49
- ...and are often found gathered in large groups, changing light bulbs. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jul 14, 13:49 2
  - *golf clap* -- nm - zork Jul 14, 13:52
  - tak.. -- nm - facto Jul 14, 13:51
it's usually about 50/50 on the bus or subway whether you'll hear anyone speaking english -- nm - chuckles Jul 14, 13:46
Computer Worker Poll: Are the lights on in your office/cubicle/workspace where you work on a computer? - JaxSean Jul 14, 13:43 7
- We now have motion-sensitive lights. -- nm - mara Jul 14, 13:55 1
  - hopefully they aren't racist -- nm - Beryllium Jul 14, 13:57
- i used to try to keep my ceiling lights off on bright sunny days - tRuMaN Jul 14, 13:52
- on -- nm - znufrii Jul 14, 13:51
- Yup. I hate it when I get here late and the other guys have the lights off. -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 14, 13:51 1
  - It's easier on my eyes if the lights are off. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 14, 13:54
- giant open-floorplan space with suspended light fixtures. Always on. - Beryllium Jul 14, 13:49
in Canada, Chinese-Canadian and Chinese speaker are practically a one-to-one relationship -- nm - zork Jul 14, 13:41
Jax, Mandarin and Cantonese are said differently but use the same characters. Like a stop sign is "stop" in English and "arret" in French. -- nm - zork Jul 14, 13:38 5
- wait, what? -- nm - JaxSean Jul 14, 13:39 4
  - think of the icons in a program's tool bar. An English speaker sees one and thinks "open" and a French speaker will think "ouvret" -- nm - zork Jul 14, 13:43
  - To put it another way, imagine if "A" makes the "'eh" sound in your language, but "oh" sound in another language. -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 14, 13:43
  - there is only one set of chinese characters for both mandarin and cantonese. they just pronounce those characters differently. - Andie Jul 14, 13:42 1
    - Ah, ok. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 14, 13:44
david, re: b2 - tRuMaN Jul 14, 13:34 16
- You know, I understand a lot of human behavior, but this one is a complete mystery. - David Jul 14, 13:43 12
  - "Do you have my knitting table?" is a new euphemism to me. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 14, 13:45 11
    - I don't understand what positive outcome she sees as a possibility from this text. -- nm - David Jul 14, 13:49 10
      - getting her aggrevation out on someone, I guess. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 14, 13:52 9
        
        I don't think she's being taunting. It feels a lot more like a bit of arrogance, a sense of entitlement. - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 14, 14:04 1
        
        no. - tRuMaN Jul 14, 14:07
        
        yeah, i dont know, probably - tRuMaN Jul 14, 13:56 6
        
        "Uhm, because you told me to stay the f*ck out of your life?" -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 14, 14:02
        
        "I divorced you. Take the hint." -- nm - David Jul 14, 13:58 4
        
        no. - tRuMaN Jul 14, 14:00 3
        
        This is probably silly, but - facto Jul 14, 14:31
        
        all the more reason why she has no reason to complain. - Andie Jul 14, 14:04
        
        I agree with your IM. Besides, it's a text - who the eff cares about a text? :) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 14, 14:04
- That sucks. Ignore her as best as you can. -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 13:42
- that takes a whole lot of nerve. sorry, tru. -- nm - b. Jul 14, 13:41
- That sucks. Block her number -- nm - amoxy Jul 14, 13:36
ST Quiz: Name the 10 most spoken languages in the world -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:29 36
- No. 9 is Indonesian -- nm - facto Jul 14, 13:44 3
  - *Malay-Indonesian* -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:45 2
    - yup, see below - corrected myself :-) -- nm - facto Jul 14, 13:47 1
      - I just opened ST, so I had to just take a minute to review what was already mentioned -- nm - facto Jul 14, 13:47
- #7 and #9 are left. Both Asian languages. -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:43 4
  - #7 is Bengali.. ? No 9 is Indonesian, or Malay/Indonesian(?) -- nm - facto Jul 14, 13:46 1
    - Yep #7 is Bengali -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:47
  - vietnamese -- nm - zork Jul 14, 13:44
  - korean -- nm - Andie Jul 14, 13:43
- nobody else has mentioned cantonese? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 14, 13:40 2
  - although a lot of the Chinese in North America are Cantonese speakers, they are far outnumbered by Mandarin speakers - zork Jul 14, 13:47 1
    - I'm still surprised they didn't end up being 8th or 9th on the list though -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 14, 14:17
- arabic, hindi, spanish, portugese, russian, -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 14, 13:36
- French, Portugese, Japanese, Urdu, Thai, Mandarin, Cantonese -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 13:35 2
  - Urdu was the one that was slipping my mind. -- nm - zork Jul 14, 13:37 1
    - I work with a lot of people that speak Urdu, otherwise I never would have guessed it. -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 13:38
- Swahili. It's the most spoken Bantu language. -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 14, 13:35
- Farsi -- nm - zork Jul 14, 13:35 1
  - ooh, or "persian". heh. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 14, 13:36
- mandarin. cantonese. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 14, 13:33 1
  - and japanese. (ok, probably not) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 14, 13:33
- french. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 14, 13:33 1
  - #10 -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:33
- English, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Hindu, Russian, Italian. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 14, 13:30 12
  - #2, Be more specific, #4, #6, Hindustani is #3, #5, and nope. -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:32 5
    - mandarin or Hunan -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 14, 13:34
    - Mandarin Chinese -- nm - JaxSean Jul 14, 13:34
    - Mandarin, French, Portuguese, Italian -- nm - zork Jul 14, 13:33 2
      - and Portugese is #8 -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:42
      - Mandarin is #1 -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:38
  - German. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 14, 13:31 5
    - Japanese? (is Japanese different from Chinese in terms of speaking? I would assume so.) -- nm - JaxSean Jul 14, 13:33 2
      - Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese (etc.)), Korean are all different. -- nm - zork Jul 14, 13:36
      - do we speak european? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 14, 13:35
    - French and Portuguese. -- nm - Loyola Jul 14, 13:33
    - nope -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:32
I can only kill and skin so many different animals before it gets boring as fuck. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 14, 13:27 1
- I was reading that you should just do the missions and not hunt unless you need to so you can complete - Krusty Jul 14, 13:32
Krusty - I'd probably prefer thief to grifter so that sounds good to me. -- nm - crash davis Jul 14, 13:25 3
- Perfect. I have a lot of work to do if I'm going to get to Sophie's level. -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 13:29 2
  - I only have a few things to work on, such as fear of elevator shafts, fear of window washer contraptions, fear of dying, etc. -- nm - crash davis Jul 14, 13:30 1
    - You have to learn some crazy, it'll get rid of the fear. -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 13:33
*displays cracked purple heart* -- nm - b. Jul 14, 13:25
Not that I would actually recommend she do this, but a much better casting choice for Linda Lovelace? -- (link) - Dr.Vermin Jul 14, 13:22 [Image]
WHERE ARE THE FUCKING COOKIES? THE NEW CHICK IS SUPPOSED TO KEEP THE COOKIE DRAWER FILLED!!! -- nm - David Jul 14, 13:19 9
- heh, there was no yelling, just wounded puppy looks when the drawer was empty. -- nm - Andie Jul 14, 14:00
- Andie's boss is Mel Gibson? -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 14, 13:22
- *enters an oreo contest* -- nm - Andrea si Jul 14, 13:20 2
  - This is my favorite post in weeks. -- nm - David Jul 14, 13:43
  - better yet, enter the drawer in the contest -- nm - Beryllium Jul 14, 13:22
- It's a very important and complex job you know. -- nm - decline Jul 14, 13:20 3
  - actually, I'm sure there are a number of factors there, like being Kosher -- nm - zork Jul 14, 13:49 1
    - this is probably true, thank goodness i don't have to *buy* the cookies, just replenish! -- nm - Andie Jul 14, 14:01
  - If Don Homer was doing the job, the cookies would be numbered -- nm - oblique Jul 14, 13:21
ty, babe (there I go again, so odd)... - b. Jul 14, 13:16
According to a 2001 Gallup poll, how many Americans can carry a conversation in a language other than English? TPIR rules. -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 14, 13:16 43
- 25% for the u.s. at large, 75% in california. -- nm - b. Jul 14, 13:20 26
  - Winner! The actual number is about 26%. What are the top 3 languages? -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 14, 13:22 25
    - Until last week, it was Russian -- nm - Andrea si Jul 14, 13:26
    - Spanish, Portuguese, Canadian. -- nm - Loyola Jul 14, 13:25
    - spanish, french, german (a lot of it has to be what's taught in the most schools, eh?) - b. Jul 14, 13:24 16
      - this was my second choice (German) -- nm - JaxSean Jul 14, 13:25
      - You memorize these polls, don't you? -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 14, 13:25 14
        
        I don't think I buy that. - decline Jul 14, 13:29 5
        
        Chinese-American does not equal Chinese speaker. -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:30 1
        
        yep. I've seen this a lot. -- nm - b. Jul 14, 13:32
        
        *shrug* Here's the poll. -- (link) - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 14, 13:30 2
        
        Isn't 1000 a rather small sampling? and funny, they simply asked the people if they could carry a conversation - not varified that they could -- nm - decline Jul 14, 13:33 1
        
        fwiw, I clicked around wikipedia and found that census data from 2000 showed different results, but they asked a different question. - b. Jul 14, 13:37
        
        sometimes! - b. Jul 14, 13:28
        
        I expect Spanish is because of heritage while French is because of educational choices. German? I don't know. -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 14, 13:26 6
        
        I think spanish is from heritage combined with popularity in schools in big population states. -- nm - b. Jul 14, 13:31
        
        Those are the three languages that were taught when I was in high school. I'd say ASL would rank up there as well nowadays. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 14, 13:29 4
        
        Same here, but I doubt that more than 1 in 10 people who took one of those languages in HS could hold a conversation -- nm - decline Jul 14, 13:30 3
        
        the people who're answering are self-describing and may well think they can. (I think it's a higher number than you in any case, for at least bare- - b. Jul 14, 13:39
        
        Donde esta la biblioteca? - Dr.Vermin Jul 14, 13:35 1
        
        Aqui. Donde esta mis pantalones? -- nm - JaxSean Jul 14, 13:38
    - Spanish, Chinese and Hindu (?) -- nm - decline Jul 14, 13:24
    - Spanish, French, Chinese -- nm - JaxSean Jul 14, 13:24 1
      - 2/3 -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 14, 13:24
    - Spanish, Chinese, Korean. -- nm - Don Homer Jul 14, 13:23
    - Spanish, Polish, German -- nm - oblique Jul 14, 13:23 1
      - 2/3 -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 14, 13:24
- 31.250% -- nm - oblique Jul 14, 13:19
- 15% -- nm - mara Jul 14, 13:19
- 23% -- nm - Loyola Jul 14, 13:19
- 20%? -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 13:18 1
  - 22% -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 13:20
- "Americans?" 1%. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 14, 13:18 3
  - Think of all the Spanish-speaking citizens. -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:20 1
    - Arizona doesn't count them. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 14, 13:23
  - Why do we have all these signs and forms printed in Spanish??? -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jul 14, 13:19
- 20% -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jul 14, 13:17 1
  - Damn it! -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 13:19
- 47 million -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:17 3
  - (in percentages... it's all I've got) -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 14, 13:18 2
    - That would be 16.7% of the 2000 population. -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:20 1
      - Yeah, sorry. I could have run the numbers myself. I'm a slacker. -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 14, 13:21
- 10% -- nm - decline Jul 14, 13:17
LIR: TFox/Mop. If not Twitter than Facebook but a universal system of communication with customers in a public way is very unusual, especially when - oblique Jul 14, 13:16 2
- It's taken the customer service elements of Twitter (leveraged by companies such as Dell, Comcast and United Airlines) and taken to another level. -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 14, 13:17 1
  - It's like the optical scan direct marketing from Minority Report, but done by an actual team of humans ... -- nm - Beryllium Jul 14, 13:18
Now look at B2 - B1 Jul 14, 13:15
engrish interpretation of Batman Begins -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 14, 13:14 [Image]

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