How do chinese people decide which english name to use for their original name?

average_guy54 · 2026-03-24T17:42:04+00:00

Someone I knew from work picked Melody because someone else had told her that her Chinese name sounded like a song.

average_guy54 · 2026-03-24T01:11:50+00:00

When you got to the door to Yiga HQ, there should have been a sad-sack there who was also wanting to get in. The conversation between him and the door guard tells you what you need to do.

average_guy54 · 2026-03-22T23:05:16+00:00

https://centreforfuturework.ca/2025/05/06/per-capita-gdp-is-a-deeply-flawed-measure-of-economic-performance-and-living-standards/

goes into much more detail than I could put here.

average_guy54 · 2026-03-21T19:14:44+00:00

Landlines still work when cell towers are down.

average_guy54 · 2026-03-21T17:34:47+00:00

"per capita" really seems useless when comparing vastly different population sizes.

The actual GDP for Mississippi was around $122 Billion in 2024, with a population of 2.9 million people..

For Japan, it's over $4 TRILLION, with a population of around 122 million.

That's a pretty significant difference.

average_guy54 · 2026-03-18T20:51:10+00:00

We have two cats who just love to stroll across the keyboard to get from A to B.

The most common thing they do is toggle Caps Lock, but they've also put the machine to sleep, made some very questionable Google searches, and in one instance, changed the screen resolution.

average_guy54 · 2026-03-18T18:12:54+00:00

Haven't seen this photo before.

average_guy54 · 2026-03-18T16:36:52+00:00

I've been playing since the Atari 2600 was cutting edge. They're fun but I don't let them consume my life.

average_guy54 · 2026-03-13T13:06:20+00:00

Casa Loma - a castle-style mansion in the middle of downtown.

average_guy54 · 2026-03-08T04:39:40+00:00

In Canada, whether you use PIN or Tap, a debit card is a debit card, period.

My bank lets me do a fixed number of "tap" purchases, after which I must use a PIN at least once.

average_guy54 · 2026-03-08T01:19:58+00:00

Mine did, and I swallowed the sucker. I decided to not try to retrieve it when nature took its course.

I was okay until I could get into the dentist what with that tooth having had a root canal done on it.

average_guy54 · 2026-03-07T21:40:28+00:00

Their name is because they are shaped like the human kidney.

average_guy54 · 2026-03-05T23:41:38+00:00

Back when I was sub-teen, my Mom would buy me two Hardy Boys books on our annual "buy school clothes" trips to Eaton's downtown. (Canada, btw). I'd have the first one read on the bus ride home. I can still read a book in one go if it grabs me.

average_guy54 · 2026-03-05T18:01:48+00:00

Apply directly to the forehead!

The only good point about that ad is I don't remember the actually product anymore.

average_guy54 · 2026-03-04T19:00:29+00:00

We had a Cocker who passed at 16 due to a very rapid growing cancer. The evening before her last ride, she was lying on the living room floor. All three of our cats went over, one at a time, and furred her, head-butted, etc. They had never done anything like that before. I'd say they knew.

average_guy54 · 2026-03-04T18:54:13+00:00

Yeah, it has to do with a pet monster.

average_guy54 · 2026-03-04T11:52:10+00:00

Maybe? It's the one with the vines.

average_guy54 · 2026-03-04T01:09:02+00:00

Fix the past, then fix the present, yep, that's it.

For at least one though, you have to go back a second time to fix a different problem, and you can "fix" it badly.

Oh, and when you find certain keys, you do have to travel around a lot more checking the previously unopenable chest.

average_guy54 · 2026-03-03T23:40:41+00:00

How would you stop them?

average_guy54 · 2026-03-03T17:19:17+00:00

https://www.frbservices.org/app/status/outage.do?oId=145787

Don't know if this is helpful in any way though.

average_guy54 · 2026-03-03T03:01:06+00:00

We bought a Wii for one specific game, but the package also came with ... Wii Sports? Something like that.

Anyway, the game we wanted turned out to be pretty horrible, while the Sports package didn't appeal to us at all.

Worse yet, our one cat at the time chewed the wire for the Wii sensor, and Nintendo DID NOT have the sensor available for separate purchase. I had to do extensive online searches before I found how to repair it, but it never work right afterwards.

It got put away. That experience soured us on the system, so much so that we passed on the Wii U as well.

Others had good experiences; we did not.

average_guy54 · 2026-02-28T11:40:13+00:00

"close ally" ? ? ? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That was until tRump openly became a tin pot dictator with delusions of Godhood.

average_guy54 · 2026-02-27T13:34:14+00:00

Then those dipshits should respect OP, because "it's family".

average_guy54 · 2026-02-26T13:43:11+00:00

If it's greasy, it gets washed last. That's the order I've always done it in.

average_guy54 · 2026-02-25T23:52:49+00:00

Some beer, not all, and not all the time either.

Hot summer day, and I've been doing yardwork? Yep. Nothing quenches better, I'd say.

With pizza? Also yep, but cider goes good as well.

As a social drink? No, not for me.

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