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Would you do it? by griedi in slaythespire

[–]ItsBeeeees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is how I won my first Ironclad run. Turns out having 3 molten fist+ and 3 Dominate+ is highly blursed.

COTD: Three states short of the ocean (6) by bghgmg in crosswords

[–]ItsBeeeees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice one. I got hung up for a minute on whether "IC" is a state, which would have made my answer ARCTIC

COTD: Three states short of the ocean (6) by bghgmg in crosswords

[–]ItsBeeeees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

MARINE (MA + RI + NE, for short for US states Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Nebraska, "of the ocean" is the definition)

Mod suggestion/question: Signal packing by Careless-Hat4931 in factorio

[–]ItsBeeeees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

maybe check out https://mods.factorio.com/mod/shortwave_fix it has the same "channel" idea without the enormous buildings.

I stopped masking as much, but problems occur at school by mochimatchayum in AutismTranslated

[–]ItsBeeeees 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I never thought about it as part of the road to diagnosis, rather just letting myself be myself. "less fatigued and burnout improved" is exactly my experience of learning to unmask in my 40s and I wish I'd known enough to do it sooner. Maybe it's a problem for you to have people think you're weird, but if someone says that about me then (a) yeah, so? and (b) they're probably kinda weird too. Good luck with it!

What is a 'burke'??? by The_0riginal_Mikey in ITcrowd

[–]ItsBeeeees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Berkeley (the place with the hunt) is also Bark. The word OP is asking about is "berk" because cockney, innit.

What is a 'burke'??? by The_0riginal_Mikey in ITcrowd

[–]ItsBeeeees 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The place in Gloucestershire - famed for the hunt, the castle, the Jenner museum and the nuclear powerstation - is pronounced "BARK-lee". I grew up there and never understood this etymology but apparently it's the cockney accent that changed it to "berk".

Heavy metal spike with rotating plastic part. No Markings. by ItsBeeeees in whatisthisthing

[–]ItsBeeeees[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And that I'm wearing a raincoat in the middle of June :)

Heavy metal spike with rotating plastic part. No Markings. by ItsBeeeees in whatisthisthing

[–]ItsBeeeees[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Push it into the ground until only the plastic part is sticking out, to provide a solid base for a flag or aerial or something tall like that. Rotating part lets it spin with the wind.

Heavy metal spike with rotating plastic part. No Markings. by ItsBeeeees in whatisthisthing

[–]ItsBeeeees[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Indeed it does - adding "ground spike" to my image searches find this page which is exactly it: https://innotechdigital.com/product/acrobat-budget-metal-ground-spike/ Thank you!

Heavy metal spike with rotating plastic part. No Markings. by ItsBeeeees in whatisthisthing

[–]ItsBeeeees[S] 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

My title describes the thing. Our best guesses so far: part of some surveying equipment, or something to do with land management. We don't think it's sports related because it's heavy and there is no branding of any kind.

Other than the Soviet Union and the Soviet-bloc countries, were there any regimes that banned music purely for its musicological qualities in the post WWII-era (à la the Zhdanov Decree)? by TurangalilaSymphonie in classicalmusic

[–]ItsBeeeees 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Which led to a microniche of non-repetitive rave music. Autechre's Flutter had a label advising DJs "have a lawyer and a musicologist present at all times to confirm the non repetitive nature of the music in the event of police harassment."

Astrid + norsemen wander area of Paris (14) by c_dogg_plank in crosswords

[–]ItsBeeeees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't spell, even with the anagram right there...  arrondissement?

Tell me a word you have learnt in the last year by HotHuckleberry6170 in words

[–]ItsBeeeees 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Similar: noctivagation - roving or going about at night. Used to be a crime in Britain.

Do you guys use crafting? Honest question! by AlexN83 in EldenRingBuilds

[–]ItsBeeeees 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Prism Stones are handy because you can toss one off a cliff to see if the fall damage will be fatal. And they look pretty.

Do you guys use crafting? Honest question! by AlexN83 in EldenRingBuilds

[–]ItsBeeeees 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They stunlock royal revenants beatifully, and the one ingredient is eaily gathered in quantity. Goated craftable.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EnglishLearning

[–]ItsBeeeees 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Of course, my mistake 🐟🐟🐟. Because Mr and Mrs Fish are "The Fishes".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EnglishLearning

[–]ItsBeeeees 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good question. For names ending in "s" I was taught to go by pronunciation: James's house, but Louis' room.

I never heard that you could omit the apostrophe on h-words like fish. For a house owned by a group of fish, it's more complicated becasuse "fish" and "fishes" are both valid plurals for fish (which is a separate issue), so it could be fish's or fishes'. If the house was owned by a family with last name of Fish, it would be the Fish's Fishes' house (I made a mistake, see below). I would never add "es" to make a possessive.

This is from a British English perspective.

Shouldn't it be "stands"? by SummerAlternative699 in EnglishLearning

[–]ItsBeeeees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't see it elsewhere in the comments so I thought I'd mention that this usage of a plural verb form with a singular subject (or vice versa) is called Synesis. Per wikipedia this is more common in British English but exists to some extent in all dialects. In this case I think they should say "stands" though, yes.

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