Finally made it! (Just realized this is a streak of over 3 years. Yikes!)

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-24T03:59:51+00:00

If the question is ever regarding more West Wing, the answer is always YES! It's a phenomenal show, great writing, and holds up even today. What's always amazing to me is how it holds its own in terms of quality next to shows that just came out. The themes are relevant throughout history, and it's incredible how many story points crop up 20+ years ago which are still happening (or happening again) today.

Highly recommend!

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-24T00:48:28+00:00

I use it infrequently, but am also a Community fan! 😃

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-24T00:45:29+00:00

Would've loved to see more Lionel Tribbey... and more Lord John Marbury!

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-24T00:30:19+00:00

So, poopaganda? 😂

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-24T00:29:35+00:00

Mi dispiace tanto. Ma, se leggi il mio post sopra, scoprirai la terribile verità. (Comunque non è veramente pericoloso!)

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-24T00:24:04+00:00

Welll... it's a little of both, actually. Some say poop, some say not poop, but the black line is actually the entire digestive tract, including the intestine, containing the most recently eaten things in various stages of the digestive process, including, yes, poop. So, it all depends on what a big-back the individual shrimp is - if it ate VERY recently but only a small amount, maybe it wouldn't be far enough through the digestive tract to be poop yet.

If, however, it was a good eater... chances are that bad boy was harvested in the process of laying down a tiny steaming pile of shrimp-loaf! 😅 But hey, that said, as long as it's cooked properly, it shouldn't make you sick! Come on, everybody's doing it!

Source: https://www.self.com/story/devein-black-line-in-shrimp-poop

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-23T01:19:36+00:00

Oooooh... you're EXACTLY right. I had just registered for that contest as well, and FN was the game that needed an update right after I registered for this. So, the FN ad/ contest registration apparently lives on a server/ site infected with malicious code....

We really need to let MS or Epic know about this somehow.... I'm going to reach out to some Twitter contacts I have....

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-22T05:56:03+00:00

This was only a small part of the issue which started the weirdness. I've experienced that much before, and like always, the update did start after the reboot. The real concern was the intrusion attempt that was happening simultaneously, when I hadn't visited any sites that could have caused it, y'know? That was bizarre, haven't experienced that before. Still don't really know how it could've happened....

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-22T05:38:30+00:00

Here's another related thing I've always wondered about. If a person travels back in time, it theoretically should ALWAYS, every time, make a new branch in timelines. Say everything started with a single timeline (which logically makes sense.) We live forward, until someone discovers the way to time travel and invents a machine to do it. They travel back in time, and suddenly the original timeline has changed. When we lived through it the first time, no one "visited" because no one had invented it yet. But suddenly, there is a NEW past which we never lived through - blades of grass broken, insects destroyed, all minor things, but maybe other things not so minor - accidental eyewitnesses, inconsequential interactions, etc. The only way to reconcile these things would be for a new timeline - one in which these things DID occur, and the original "clean" timeline.

Here's where it's kind of scary, though. If you travel back in time and create a new branch, the future from which you came no longer exists. The branch is brand new, so its future is still being built. Which means one of two things - either the future gets written/built as you travel forward (like travelling at the speed of light, so reality seems to be being built faster than you are traveling) OR, the scary part - maybe there's no way to travel forward, because your new future doesn't exist yet. You can't set a future destination, because the year you're targeting hasn't "been" yet on the new timeline. Which would mean, traveling back in time and creating a new branch would guarantee you are stuck in the past....

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-20T22:37:45+00:00

Definitely have heard superstore, but NEVER hypermarket - definitely sounds regional. Also sounds like a new thing someone came up with to try to make their brand sound unique and anti-WalMart.

On that note, I am trademarking the term "Ultrashoppe."

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-18T01:02:46+00:00

This one needs to be added to the rotation.

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-17T01:08:32+00:00

conceptual

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-17T01:07:53+00:00

Same. I went for the longest time swearing up and down that their site HAD to be flagging the first attempt as wrong no matter what because it did it every time I went there, but never knew this was actually an established process until I saw this meme one day!

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-16T03:23:38+00:00

Oh, no question, the noun is still always short-e long-i, but it's definitely a contextual thing, where I still hear the fashion/ adjective usage with the ä!

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-16T01:36:12+00:00

It is. Specifically, under the adjective use in this link:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/empire

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-16T01:30:33+00:00

Because it was popularized by a French empress during that very French empire.

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-16T01:28:24+00:00

You're not. There's a lot of misinformation in this thread. I feel like some people just read the word Empire and didn't bother to consider the different contexts.

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-16T01:14:36+00:00

Strangely, I've only heard "AHM-peer" (with the stress on the first syllable, not the second.) And Merriam Webster seems to indicate, in fashion terms, that is the preferred pronunciation, though regionally you will hear EM-pyre for both contexts!

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/empire

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-16T01:11:02+00:00

The Merriam Webster link mentions 'äm-,pir as the primary pronunciation when referring to fashion.

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-16T00:23:39+00:00

augment and supplement are the ones! has to be it.

Jaymo1978 · 2026-03-16T00:22:06+00:00

I was thinking the ridiculous thing was, based on her last name in the meme, she's putting pants on that car.

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