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[Good Intentions]

The last one was at 22 pages.

[C of heartbreak]

Just want to repost cf's last link because it's something I find pretty fascinating myself.

Here's a link to a new language log thread exactly about English names for foreign places: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2046

[coldforge]

(which we had just been discussing in re: pah-kee-stahn etc)

[clare]

Just want to repost cf's last link because it's something I find pretty fascinating myself.

Here's a link to a new language log thread exactly about English names for foreign places: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2046

Well, that's a couple of hours I'll never get back :-) (I had a great time there though)

[elpollodiablo]

Goddammit dudes I am bored as fuck. Start posting!

[donblood]

Dear Mr. Pollo,

Don will not be posting today.  He is sick with the early stages of what is either a cold or the flu.  I would have included a note from his doctor, but Don doesn't have a doctor, since he stubbornly refuses medical care even when it's in his best interests.  Heaven forbid something serious ever happen.  At least he has health insurance.  And he finally set up his 401k!  I'm so proud, but I wish he was more consistent in addressing the responsibilities of adulthood.  Still, he's my special little guy.

Yours,
Mrs. Blood

[Greg Nog]

I had an MRI the other day!  I had to hold my head still for an hour while the machine made very loud clicking, whirring, and electronic scraping noises.  I pretended I was listening to that Machinefabriek I'm always hearing about.

[elpollodiablo]

Everything okay?

[Greg Nog]

Everything's peachy!  I was the control in a research experiment.

[diesel_powered]

Did they implant anything this time?

[Greg Nog]

Not that I know of, but we'll see if I get all River Tam in the next few weeks.

[clare]

MRIs freak me the fuck out. All that thumping and clicking really really really got to me. Still, I'm glad you're OK, and you were doing it for 'research purposes'. Yay Greg!

[Bernard]

So kiddo has a onesie that says I  Daddy, and we were joking about getting one for her father that says I  daughter. That sounds odd, though, doesn't it? To my ear, you can plug in Mommy, Grandpa, Auntie, etc. -- anybody up a level genealogically, but for people on your own level or lower, you need to throw in 'my' -- I  my daughter, my cousin, my nephew, whatever. Why is that? Is there some rule, is it just my ear?

[jess]

I think it's because we often call the older people by those names (sometimes exclusively and not ever their first names) but rarely do peers/younger people. Even if you say "hey cousin" at some point, you probably don't usually refer to them as cousin instead of their name.

[Andrew_TSKS]

Also, I know at least one person who uses "cousin" to refer to anybody he feels like calling such a thing. Like, the way I use "dude."

[Maaik]

I went to a party tonight...I did not know the hosts  .  A friendof mine was going and I tagger along and drakn theyr beer.  Thing Was--it was in my apartment compelz--so i could walk there and back.  so I hung out with one of my afavorite guys who I haven't seen in months, whcih I think buggerd his lady and we played pictionary and WON and I think I drank moreof their beer than was maybe appropriate, but I thinkI made some new friends.  BREASTS.

man, beer.  yes.

[G.C.R]

 

[Maaik]

BREASTS I SAY, APPARENTLY.

[Maaik]

guys guys, I live on the third floor, it is 2:30 am and I am intoxicated---should I pee off my porch Y/N?

[diesel_powered]

Y. Don't get arrested.

[Nick Ink]

I had an MRI the other day!  I had to hold my head still for an hour while the machine made very loud clicking, whirring, and electronic scraping noises.  I pretended I was listening to that Machinefabriek I'm always hearing about.

In all seriousness, I like the noise of MRIs - I've had about a dozen at least, as you know, and (as long as I don't have to have that fucking dye injection) I look forward to them.

[YojimboMonkey]

BREASTS.

expound

man, beer.  yes.

solidarity brother

(fuckin took me 3 times to get "solidarity" right)

[clare]

I had an MRI the other day!  I had to hold my head still for an hour while the machine made very loud clicking, whirring, and electronic scraping noises.  I pretended I was listening to that Machinefabriek I'm always hearing about.

In all seriousness, I like the noise of MRIs - I've had about a dozen at least, as you know, and (as long as I don't have to have that fucking dye injection) I look forward to them.

I hear you on the dye. Did it all go to the top of your head and burn like mustard? The noise, no. It just didn't work for me. The repetitive nature of it was part of the problem and the fact that my brain got sick of the repetition and started changing the rhythm of the noise willy-nilly was more than 17 year old me could cope with. And the techs were really unsympathetic and mean to me. And I got really claustrophobic.

[Nick Ink]

I had an MRI the other day!  I had to hold my head still for an hour while the machine made very loud clicking, whirring, and electronic scraping noises.  I pretended I was listening to that Machinefabriek I'm always hearing about.

In all seriousness, I like the noise of MRIs - I've had about a dozen at least, as you know, and (as long as I don't have to have that fucking dye injection) I look forward to them.

I hear you on the dye. Did it all go to the top of your head and burn like mustard? The noise, no. It just didn't work for me. The repetitive nature of it was part of the problem and the fact that my brain got sick of the repetition and started changing the rhythm of the noise willy-nilly was more than 17 year old me could cope with. And the techs were really unsympathetic and mean to me. And I got really claustrophobic.

Sorry to hear that - I thought I'd feel claustrophobic, but I was much older of course, and I suppose the first time, when I already knew I had a tumour from the optician, I wasn't really in a state to think about that, and later on I got used to them. I've only had the dye injection a handful of times, but I remember it being really painful - I don't normally mind injections, I even quite like them if I'm honest(in Korea I had about 100 in two weeks, I calculated, my wrist was black when I got out) but at least one was very nasty. As for people working there, they've usually been pretty unprepossessing, but overall calmly reassuring. What I do try to stop myself doing, because it sets off bad thoughts, is watching them looking at their screens on that 45 degree mirror thing. As I said, I just shut my eyes and enjoy the music.

Also, it's not so much Machinefabriek as Pan Sonic.

[jm]

I went to a party tonight...I did not know the hosts  .  A friendof mine was going and I tagger along and drakn theyr beer.  Thing Was--it was in my apartment compelz--so i could walk there and back.  so I hung out with one of my afavorite guys who I haven't seen in months, whcih I think buggerd his lady and we played pictionary and WON and I think I drank moreof their beer than was maybe appropriate, but I thinkI made some new friends.  BREASTS.

man, beer.  yes.

Maaik, just FYI:  this was an extremely entertaining post to read.  The best part is that my eye caught the BREASTS bit when I was just glancing over it, and I was thrilled to learn that it actually had nothing (that I can tell) to do with the rest of the post.