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05 Sep 2017, 8:48 pm

I rock spreadsheets. I just taught myself how to sum function using formulas.


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05 Sep 2017, 8:54 pm

For each human on earth, there's 1.9 million ants.


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05 Sep 2017, 11:21 pm

smoke in the air from forest fires makes for gloriously red sunshine :sunny:



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06 Sep 2017, 1:11 pm

Which bus to take from aikido to the bus station



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06 Sep 2017, 10:18 pm

Learned what [sic] means.



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06 Sep 2017, 10:43 pm

You should keep your nuts in the freezer. :P


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06 Sep 2017, 11:57 pm

Noca wrote:
Learned what [sic] means.

do tell? i know they use it to indicate an error but always was curious about the etymology.



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07 Sep 2017, 12:06 am

^ It's the Latin for "Thus" or "Like This". It's generally used in an ironic or mocking fashion when quoting a misspelling or bizzare opinion, as if to indicate "I know that looks wrong, but that's what the other person really wrote/said".

In later Latin, the word was used to indicate 'Yes', hence Spanish/Italian 'Si'.



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07 Sep 2017, 12:43 am

Noca wrote:
Learned what [sic] means.



What does it mean?


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07 Sep 2017, 2:05 am

DeepHour wrote:
^ It's the Latin for "Thus" or "Like This". It's generally used in an ironic or mocking fashion when quoting a misspelling or bizzare opinion, as if to indicate "I know that looks wrong, but that's what the other person really wrote/said".

In later Latin, the word was used to indicate 'Yes', hence Spanish/Italian 'Si'.

thank you :flower:



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07 Sep 2017, 2:05 am

League_Girl wrote:
Noca wrote:
Learned what [sic] means.



What does it mean?

quoting Deephour-

It's the Latin for "Thus" or "Like This". It's generally used in an ironic or mocking fashion when quoting a misspelling or bizzare opinion, as if to indicate "I know that looks wrong, but that's what the other person really wrote/said".

In later Latin, the word was used to indicate 'Yes', hence Spanish/Italian 'Si'.



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08 Sep 2017, 3:00 pm

Teabags were originally samples given out by tea salesmen.


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08 Sep 2017, 6:48 pm

Found out what chipotle is and how to pronounce it.


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08 Sep 2017, 7:02 pm

that at least for me, hard cider should never be consumed in any amount, on an empty stomach.



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10 Sep 2017, 1:45 pm

I upset somebody this weekend.

It wasn't intentional, I was actually a joke.

It went wrong.

Maybe my sense of humour isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Anyway, because of my poor judgement I made someone feel bad but me not having much in the way of empathy, I found this hard to see and it's taken quite a lot of contemplation to understand this.

Also, as I am naturally an antagonist it has taken me quite a lot of strength to not add any more fuel to the fire.

Today I've learned patience.


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15 Sep 2017, 9:38 pm

Pixel art games can be extremely addictive.

(Spent 3 days playing Stardew valley)


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