Basilisk

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

You'd get even weirder looks if you said "those persons travel a lot", while also sounding like someone who doesn't really speak the language.

"Those people" can be a racist or classist dog whistle, but isn't always, and also there isn't really an alternative. Say what you're going to say, and don't worry too much about it. The people who would misinterpret it to fit an agenda are probably going to do so regardless of what words you use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The pharmacist did say that it was to reduce the queasiness since both the antibiotic and the steroid I was prescribed are apparently quite rough on the stomach, so I have to take the pills with food, which I inferred to mean as a meal. Which was fine when I took them with lunch and dinner yesterday since obviously that's gonna be tons of food to go with it, but then it came to this morning, and I don't normally eat breakfast. I wasn't sure if something simple like toast or a granola bar which I would take with the morning dose would be enough food to counteract it, since obviously I didn't want to spend my morning with a miserable stomach.

 

Like, is it enough just to have something like a granola bar with it, or do they really mean a full meal?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What extension is that? Sounds like something I'd want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It's sometimes used here, I think it depends how English you are. I just use "lol" but my fiancée does use "mdr" with other French speakers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Depends on how the fight resolved. Sometimes you get snippy for a bit but ultimately either come to an agreement or the fight resolves and that's it. You rankle for a bit after, get over it, and move on.

Sometimes the fight isn't about what you're fighting about. They've had a bad day and it manifests as some bitchy comments about how the dishes were done. You stop fighting about the dishes but you're still upset because they're taking their bad day out on you, or they're still upset because they feel you don't care about them. These can last much longer because the fight revealed bad blood, but didn't do anything to address it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (5 children)

A French one is common enough that it's used in English- "Répondez, s'il vous plaît" (Respond, if you please) is where we get RSVP. "SVP" is also sometimes used as a shorthand for "please", at least in Quebecois.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I remember Dolly Parton singing about her.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

They sell them cut like that as dog treats, with the hole packed with food. Probably either dragged out as a treat for some camper's dog or scavenged by wildlife and abandoned when the good stuff was gone.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Maybe we also should talk about not needing to work so many hours that it's necessary to ration the sun then, too.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago

I truly do not care even one little bit about whether it stays on daylight time or standard time, I just want to never have to perform this absurd little ritual ever again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Could be exercise-induced asthma? I get this as well and only found out it wasn't a common affliction a few weeks ago, when it was pointed out that this might be a cause. For me at least, after a while the pain gets so bad that every time I swallow it feels like my throat doesn't want to reopen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Nuclear power, genetics, steam power, modern explosives...

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