And I have no clue where I’ve hidden my calligraphy stuf
Le excuse maxima
What’d you need “calligraphy stuff” for?
I really haven’t written jack shit in years except on digital so excuse the shittiness but I think that shittiness makes it a rather good example of casual writing.
Saved by the bell is more than lonely from boxing. Apocryphally about those safety bells but theyre an overblown myth by all estimates
Neutral shouldn’t be in the same as against imo.
I think the earlier guy was asking if he’s ever left the US because “travel widens the mind”, but when people like that leave the country, they don’t even really need to “leave the country”. A private plane, constantly driven by his own people, eating his own food, etc etc etc.
Like Trump can go anywhere in the world and still not leave his cosy little McD and Fox&Friends bubble.
The initiative was first proposed by Charlie Weimers, an MEP from the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), as a symbolic measure “to declare that our right to freedom of speech cannot be extinguished,”
Well no, right to free speech isn’t curbed here. The people are just reserving their right to kill off hypocritical dogwhistling would-be fascists.
Nice reference.
Btw Ali G came up nice. As in Sacha wasn’t left to be defined by Ali, went on to become Borat (which was also like the 20 years ago), has done some seriously good drama shows and now is looking like this:
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Misspelled? Letters used to cost money, you know. 160 chars/msg.bst to shrten evrything
Not really. Just look up the some slang words from 2000’s you’ve never heard of but what everyone in my generation would’ve been constantly using.
Ofc some of them are still around, but most aren’t.
Yup
Phrase what’s cooking? “what’s up, what’s going on” is attested by 1942. To cook with gas “do well, act or think correctly” is 1930s jive talk.
The expression “NOW YOU’RE COOKING WITH GAS” has bobbed up again — this time as a front page streamer on the Roper Ranger, and as the banner line in the current advertising series of the Nashville (Tenn.) Gas and Heating Company, cleverly tying gas cooking to local food products and restaurants. “Now you’re cooking with gas” literally took the gas industry by the ears around December 1939 — Remember? — when it flashed forth in brilliant repartee from the radio programs of the Maxwell Coffee Hour, Jack Benny, Chase and Sanborn, Johnson Wax, Bob Hope and sundry others. [American Gas Association Monthly, vol. xxiii, 1941
Random question; The city you grew up in wasn’t called “Forssa”, was it?
I should(not, actually) like to see Russia trying to open up a new front in Northern Europe.
Remember when they tried in WWII, when Finland didn’t have unions without defence clauses with Europe and NATO, and was very poorly equipped?
Well since then we’ve beefed up in all imaginable ways. Infra, troops, equipment.
Also now we’ve got NORDEFCO, EU and NATO to have our backs.
We’re also apparently remining the border with anti-personnel mines. I’m a bit conflicted about that, but it’s an extra layer of deterrence to be sure, despite the negatives around them.
Seeing how much they’ve been wasting in Ukraine, both troops and equipment, I don’t realistically see how Russia could even imagine opening up a front with a NATO/EU member.
Yeah it’s kinda annoying that the “real things” happening this world all have to be treated that way.
Like on a tangent, Trump lies incessantly, we know it. But… we still pretend like that’s going to have any repercussions for him, just because lies often (but not that often) do in our every day lives. You can’t just make deals with businesses and then tell them to fuck off. That’s a rich people prerogative.
It’s just so annoying that the “highest class” of geopolitical discussion is "well i can’t actually be sure that smelly guy in the elevator with us is the one who farted, even though there was only two of us in there, but like, he’d get mad if I told him straight up and people would question me probably so I’ll just probably not say anything. "
Or even if one did say “yo dude stop farting” the farter would just keep shitting his pants out loud while saying “idk what you’re talking about, fake news”. And then there’d be a rush of tankies yelling at you about how it isn’t actually that smelly at all and no-one can be sure that it wasn’t actually me who’s shitting my pants, even when the shit is leaking out from the other guy’s pant leg, pooling by his shoe.
And then when you speak up against it you’re put down as “being too sensitive. That’s just how things are”
Fkin normies eff
Sure there’s quite a lot of them to choose from, but for instance USPS tracking numbers are 22-digit numbers.
Are you apologising for me not having a VPN? I don’t think that’s your fault tbh.
(edit oh yeah, you got to realise the person is looking for information from their relatives who then directs them to the library — because it’s the 90’s)
I thought the discussion was about legibility in general, not the exact typeface. My bad.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minim_(palaeography)
Since the typeface is standardised it highlights the issue, whereas when you write manually, you can use slightly different spacing (like making the u wider) so it’s more easily legible.