Friday Ephemera (747)
Suboptimal situation. || Suboptimal situation 2. || Skilled or lucky? || Grab that cloud. || A bedlamite scolds you for your lack of piety. || Choices were made, a thread. || Adventures in modernity. || Cigarette lighter versus molten glass. || Divine intervention. || This is one of these. || Career path. || Coping strategy. || “You can’t buy anything like it in the shops.” || Lily likes cooking and wants to feel “safe and celebrated.” || When you arrive at a crash scene. || On recidivism. || Stairway obstruction. || Performing CPR. || The progressive retail experience, parts 595, 596, 597, and 598. || Some precision required. || Pod people walk among us. || Nips or no nips? || She’s taking her reborns to a princess day. || Failing to reproduce. || Educated fleas do it. || A traffic light in the Gobi Desert.
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I suppose I will give it a try. But I have had too many experiences with runny whites. They have scarred me!
Say again all after hello, you’re coming in broken and stupid.
Aside from my not knowing “Brazilian” was a race, I’d be willing to bet she could practice speaking to minimize her accent.
This should be interesting case law given all the accents across the UK even among wypipo – is Geordie a race?
Maybe they’re traditionalists: It used to be commonplace to speak of “the French race”, “the German race”, etc.
Here’s what’s happening on Bluesky right now.
Curious…I would think you want to eat them while they’re still hot/warm but would they still taste good if you put them back in the fridge to eat another day?
Yes…at least in my opinion. I do a boiled egg for breakfast every day, and am not awake enough in the AM to be faffing about with eggs, so I boil and salt 5 on Sunday night, take one in cold every morning. I put them in the pan with water straight from the fridge, then on to the heat. I haven’t timed the boiling, but it’s probably 5-7 minutes. I found that if I put them in cold water right away, I get a nice soft jammy yolk. Even if I boil for 4 min, if they stay in the hot water, the yolk gets very hard boiled.
Was helping a friend make deviled eggs this weekend; she put them in boiling water, let them boil for a good 10 min, but iced them after and the yolks were just a wee bit soft inside. Yes, we got a couple egg-thulu but we used those for quality control on the final product.
Breaking: Evil Israeli Evaporator exposed!
A reference to the latest claims from Hamas/Hezbollah.
Moar of this plzkthx. Men with zero attempt to appear feminine should sign up for women’s sports en masse, to the point of displacing all of the women, and then let the lesson stand.
Brazilians typically have an easier time pronouncing English than Spanish speakers because Portuguese has two short vowels (ê, ô), whereas Spanish has none, so Spanish-speakers can’t hear or reproduce all our short vowels.
That said, people who learn new languages are often unaware that the biggest barrier to communication is not bad grammar but bad pronunciation. If we natives know which words you’ve said, we can often work out the grammar on our own, but if we can’t understand the words at all, we’re lost.
Learners also don’t realize that mimicking the accent of native speakers — as if you were making fun of them — actually improves your speaking skills. They don’t get that you have to shift into a new “mode,” which might involve another vocal register, to make yourself better understood.
Not understanding someone’s accent isn’t racism — puhleeze. It’s the natural outcome when people try to speak a foreign language. Some people are good at it and some aren’t.
In 2003 the evil Zionists could only make a penis disappear.
https://www.gov.uk/employment-appeal-tribunal-decisions/miss-e-carozzi-v-1-university-of-hertfordshire-2-ms-a-lucas-2024-eat-169
Original tribunal ruling:
Appeal court ruling:
So the original court was mistaken in thinking that Hate requires the consciousness and speech of a specific English person for its cultivation and targeting against foreigners, so if Mrs Lucas sent no Hate out, none could have been received.
We must see Hate as looming every time the foreignness of a foreigner, or their failure to assimilate, causes problems for English people. Low-class English people express those problems out loud. Nice English people like Mrs Lucas walk on eggshells in order not to be so low class, and tell self-undermining lies like “your English is good apart from the technicality that English people don’t understand a word you say”.
One’s ethnicity is wholly unrelated to one’s ability to pronounce certain phonemes.
I work with a few Brazilians whose English is really quite good. I understand them perfectly. They’re not 100% pasty white. I have a hard time understanding some of my Hispanic coworkers when they speak English, so if we can switch to Spanish, I prefer it. Also, my Indian co-workers speak English in different degrees if intelligibility. Indians come in all shades of brown, including pale beige, like me.
Please explain to me where race comes into this. I would never in 1000 years decide whether to ask someone to repeat themselves based on skin tone.
This is all so very exhausting.
And alienating, and demoralising.
The general idea is the obfuscation of the law through the obfuscation of the meaning of words. Once they accomplish that, and they are well on their way, government power can be applied however those holding it choose to do so. Tyranny.
I remember that. Hilariously ignorant savages and barbarians–sorry, that’s noble inheritors of ancient knowledge and wisdom.
Of course, it’s not so hilarious when you remember the people harmed and even murdered as a result of these superstitions and lies.
Lara Croft on Netflix vs. the actress that voiced her
A reference to the latest claims from Hamas/Hezbollah.
I guess that is less embarrassing for them than the “victims” weren’t – when even The Atlantic calls you out you have to come up with something, I guess.
You’ve sunk pretty low when even the Atlantic notices.
I lower them into the boiling water with a slotted spoon to prevent this problem. The tumor things are creepy and I also don’t want the stress of figuring out the timing if I boil the water with the egg pre-loaded.
BOILING EGGS IS HARD.
Makes you wonder how we ever got to the Moon.
[ Declares egg-boiling crisis, awaits government instructions. ]
Don’t let them see who voices Bart Simpson.
Lara Croft: heard but cannot confirm that Eddie Murphy made more money as the donkey voice in Shrek (over multiple movies) than in any other role or movie he had. I also think it was his best work. hahahaha
Cheated of their prey.
Cutting off your nose to spite your face is now the rule.
David is still not clear on that government grift thing. Change “instructions” to “subsidy”.
Don’t let them see who voices Bart Simpson.
Regarding that Lara Croft thing, and ignoring the absurdly inflated boobs in the altered photo, as I am not into Anime, is Haley Atwell supposed to be a downgrade from the cartoon?
If so, it just goes to show how out of touch Anime freaks are with reality and/or have never seen a real woman.
BOILING EGGS IS HARD.
These thingies actually work.
We need a complete shutdown of egg-boiling until our sharpest boilologists can figure out what’s going on.
We need a complete shutdown of egg-boiling until our sharpest boilologists can figure out what’s going on.
I have to say the amount of time and energy y’all have spent trying to figure out how to cook the vile and inedible, I suspect the lot of you are the pay of Big Ovum™.
“Don’t touch her, dont yell at her….she could be the next president.”
Currently reading Sowell’s “Social Justice Fallacies”. Wow. He documents every point he makes with stats and citations in case someone does not believe him. He points out that while discrimination does exist, it is not necessary to explain most of what is going on. He points out for example that married black couples make more $ than white average–do racists not discriminate against blacks if married? Indian immigrants make much more than whites (of course not average Indian is immigrating) but how does that square with US being so racist. and so on.
Some satire detected.
Mamma is fishing for a lawsuit.
Mamma should be fishing for change to call her lawyer.
Time for a crusade.
High school stopped sorting kids by ability. The result was disastrous.
Liberal educationists have been pushing this insanity since I was a young child–if not much longer.
It’s been a while since we’ve been exposed to the very best in performance art.
Really, thanks aren’t necessary.
Actually, she’s from a video game series (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was the beginning of the series). The video game character was known for having rather prominent breasts. Ms. Atwell is closer to matching the game character than as the anime character was drawn.
ICYMI, the astonishing story of a girl who got top surgery from Sidhbh Gallagher and nearly died, while Gallagher laughed at her post-op complications.
Gallagher is in Florida, which doesn’t require doctors to have malpractice insurance, so it’s useless to sue her.
Me, I say she should be in jail.
Also, I need someone to explain how “Sidhbh” comes out as “siv.” Yes, I know it’s Gaelic. What possessed them to invest in dh and bh phonemes in sequence?
Aelfheld
Can replace poached eggs in many recipes. Some restaurants do it this way to avoid the hassle of poaching.
David
i thought boilologists choreograph the musical numbers in Indian movies.
Aelfheld
From the article:
Orwellian inversion of language. Sterilization preserves reproductive rights…. How exactly?
They figure that abortion will be completely banned when Trump takes office, so they want to make absolutely sure they won’t have an unwanted pregnancy.
Women this stupid shouldn’t reproduce anyway.
They work for the first eggs you boil, but when someone pipes up afterwards that they’d like one as well you’re screwed until it cools down.
[ Marches about with sandwich board declaring BOILING EGGS IS HARD. ]
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No worries on that score.
Dicentra,
In re Sidhbh…