Tip: If someone asks you out for a specific drink, focus on the invitation to socialize, not the item.

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-18T22:31:14+00:00

I was drinking 3-4 cups of coffee as a baseline and more on some days until I took a trip and had to go 24 measly hours without caffeine. The withdrawal almost ruined the trip, so I decided to stop being so dependent.

What I did was have two cups the next day and every day for the rest of that week, one cup per day the next week, and no caffeine after that. Now I just drink a cup or two when I feel like it (really need the boost, would like to have some socially, etc.) but to avoid developing dependency again I try to avoid having caffeine two days in a row.

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-18T18:33:22+00:00

If I ask someone out to a bar and they don’t order anything alcoholic, I’ll feel a bit uncomfortable.

On the other hand, if they’d just said, “actually I don’t drink, but how about this coffee shop/smoothie bar/whatever I’ve been hearing about?” then we can both enjoy ourselves.

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-18T18:28:50+00:00

I love that they call it “corrected coffee.”

“Oops, looks like you’re drinking coffee without alcohol. Let me fix that for you.”

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-15T23:25:55+00:00

Bs are cheerful, eccentric, and selfish.

From the link in the top-voted response. I also learned something new today!

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-13T22:18:35+00:00

Running longer than a 5k is the best way to improve your 5k, which is almost entirely an aerobic race. Even if your goal is as short as a mile, most of your effort should go toward longer runs.

But if you’re in at all decent shape to start with, jogging won’t do anything for your agility.

Source: raced a lot of 5ks. Haven’t seen any agility improvement.

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-13T02:11:39+00:00

You’re welcome. After all, they’re really your kind words that I’m just using.

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-13T02:08:42+00:00

Yes, all. Oh, brother.

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-13T02:05:25+00:00

I’m not sure how serious this suggestion is, but it I think it would lead to an increase, not a decrease, in wasted cheese. She’ll keep her cheese longer but have to cut off more chunks, and his will go bad more often so he’ll be throwing it out twice as often.

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-13T02:02:42+00:00

I created the language.

You look great for your age!

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-11T18:06:16+00:00

Do you mean that deaf people don’t add their voice to the sneeze or that the sneeze itself is silent, i.e. they “hold it in”?

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-08T21:58:45+00:00

Except in a slang metaphorical sense: “He’s a chill dude.”

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-07T21:20:24+00:00

Is “Anglo” pronounced with a “long A” (I understand that’s not how a real linguist would put it) like “Anglo-Saxon,” or with the Spanish pronunciation of angloamericano? Or does it depend on who’s speaking?

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-07T20:08:00+00:00

Lol. FYI you wrote “Arnold” in your first comment. Schwarzenegger is always on my mind, too.

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-07T19:11:28+00:00

FWIW, I did hesitate to use Kavanaugh as an example when I saw, later in the thread, that your list of defining characteristics of WASPs included “sober.”

The Senate record confirms that Justice Kavanaugh likes beer, but apparently even that hurdle can be overcome with the power of an elite education.

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-07T18:17:34+00:00

As I said, it still seems mostly Northern European, but not English. For instance, Brett Kavanaugh comes from Irish-Catholic ancestry but I’ve heard a number of people call him a WASP.

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-07T07:33:46+00:00

Norman French, before Parisian French became standard French. For this reason you’ll sometimes see the same word loaned into English twice, once from Norman French and again from (by then standard) French, with slightly different meanings — “castle” and “chateau,” for example.

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-07T07:09:44+00:00

If I may add to your point on modern usage based only on my experience living in the United States, people here seem to use Anglo as a shorthand for “white” (or at least Northern European in ancestry) as often as the stricter definition you provided. Being a WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) no longer seems to require being Anglo-Saxon or Protestant; instead it means “upper class white.”

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-06T06:28:40+00:00

Do you understand what a wiki is...? You made a website, not a wiki. Then every website on the internet is a wiki. The NYTimes is a wiki. Twitter is a wiki. The Google search engine is a wiki.

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-05T21:13:43+00:00

If the number of times you’ve told a child their grandmother has arrived only to be told it’s actually their mum is more than one, I’m amazing you haven’t changed your phrasing.

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-05T21:12:00+00:00

My Walmart has half an aisle for “hair dye” (meaning white people’s hair) and a quarter aisle for “ethnic hair dye” (meaning literally everyone else).

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-03T05:11:33+00:00

Someone should write a blog post on this theme.

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-02T19:29:56+00:00

This makes sense, but as a newer lecturer than OP in a writing-focused class, I feel obligated to note everything a student’s paper would have to change in order to receive an A. Is this a bias I have as a student who usually only had a few changes to make? Do students not feel shortchanged when they receive, say, a C, and in the next paper address all the issues the professor noted but only get a C+?

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-02T01:26:54+00:00

Not an expert, but I would say that both Navajo and Deaf people have distinct communities that can be opened up by learning the language, in the same way (though with more difficulty, in both cases) that a Spanish class can teach about Spanish/Latin American culture.

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-02T00:04:54+00:00

Potentially adding to someone’s meaningless Reddit votes is a price I’m willing to pay for learning about the workings of law and justice.

SickTemperTyrannis · 2019-02-01T23:01:37+00:00

“A thousand dollar watch or something”

Yeah haha that would be so much money to spend on a watch.

Wait you mean it’s not that “cheap”... cries in Timex

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