It’s actually Mr. Fahrenheit’s wife’s body temperature on one particular day. Luckily she happened to be human.

It ain’t gay if feather layers don’t compress.

This is just an example of course. Succession can look differently and lead to very different results, depending on where exactly it is happening.

I’d also argue, that leaving your garden alone to let succession run its course is not neccessarily the ideal to strive for. Even simply speeding up the process to get to the final stage isn’t.

Gardens are a very different sort of ecosystem from an extended woodlands area and there are many ways to use them for human recreation and as a habitat for many species, that even exceed the biodiversity of the potentially naturally occuring ecosystem.
A trimmed suburban lawn is just one of the worst options.

My dude jumping right ahead to futures.

You think that’s a picture of my family? No! It’s the A-Team!

Punch me I bleed in my ass.

Literally listening to Children of Bodom, while I read this post. Alexi would have approved, I’m sure.

You are using all of these yourself? What kind of crazy job is that?

Yeah. Microsoft managed to make Windows both better and worse over time.

It’s like a scissor, spreading ever wider. The shitty end convinced me to ditch Windows quite some time ago, so I’d say it feels like an asymmetric scissor.

I don’t think a different base explains things really well. Even though the way you guys count to 16 may point to a hexadecimal system, but then all the higher numbers would have to work entirely different. It’s at least an inconsistent mix of systems.

But of course you don’t do maths in your head and it all just boils down to words for numbers, that you simply know. That’s just how language works, and a lot of language starts to become weird, if you think about it too much. Doesn’t mean we can’t have fun teasing each other about it. ;)

It absolutely reminded me of the fight we have here in Germany about how to say what time it is.

Some rare people (like my beloved girlfriend) only really understand when you say something like, “four o’clock thirty”
The rest of us is fine using “half five” to refer to that.

But the real argument is in the quarters.

16:15

Some people just say “quarter past four” while others borrow the concept from above and say “quarter five”

16:45

The one group calls it “quarter to five” while the others stick to their concept and call it “three-quarters five”

It is a regional difference, but the groups are totally scattered and don’t follow typical geographical or administrative borders.

We’ve had meme wars over this.

My favourite for life will always be kræftedme = cancer eat me - usually uttered in a sentence to underline how pissed off you are and how serious you are about being pissed off.

Just curious: do you take that as a reference to cancer as a sickness or actual crabs eating you?

In German the word for cancer (Krebs) is a homonym referring to both the sickness and a crustacean. So I wondered how this works in Danish.

(It is in English too, though the reference to crabs is only scientific and thus a very exotic interpretation)

(edit the 4x20+10 is similarly just 90)

I can let you get away with the first part about 4x20 just becoming the word for 80, but with this one, you’re just fooling yourself and others.

If it were just another word for ninety, than ninety-two would be (4x20+10)+2 instead of 4x20+12 And it works that way up to 96.

Just stop making excuses and own the weirdness.

"Hi,

I’m the real Nicole. I got all my pictures stolen, my identity has been tainted and life is very hard for me now, because of these scammers.

Please send help! Here’s my bitcoin wallet. "

though most will not do make the r in markt as hard as Germans do.

Most German dialects (including standard German) barely pronounce that r. It is noticeable, but far from a “hard” pronunciation, in that case i is more like prolonging the “a” sound.

Well, if the market so undervalues that stuff, the logical step would be to go buy other people’s beanie babies for cheap, before people realize how much they are actually worth. And then sell heaps of them for profit, once people come to their senses.

That’s obviously a very stupid idea, that you could pose to her, and let her argue why she doesn’t do that. Maybe it triggers a realization about how value is constructed.
But maybe it’s not worth the risk of her taking up on this very stupid idea.

If all you need is one single mug of hot water, a microwave is the way to go.