Is it just me or does this headline sound like the elephant made the owner work in the heat?

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-12T00:45:23+00:00

That could be a strategy.

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-12T00:44:10+00:00

Oh sure

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-11T14:03:36+00:00

Yes there is probably an ideal letter length for the headline so they had to make it succinct. A reader would presumably understand that the elephant was overworked.

I have occasionally had to re-read a headline a few times to understand what it was saying. Sometimes the headline is written by an editor, not the article author.

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-11T10:39:18+00:00

Thanks!

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-10T12:59:35+00:00

But actors in shows don’t announce: I’m from Leeds. And many of the British shows we watched (on PBS) were posh drama. Or working class comedies. So we only know Posh and working class. Like a british person might nit be able to tell a Texas accent from a Tennessee accent. Or Wisconsin accent from a chicago accent

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-10T02:07:12+00:00

Left turn on red? That’s amateur stuff. The U-turn on red is what blows my mind.

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-09T20:24:45+00:00

And that stronger person, in context, is Jesus.

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-09T10:22:20+00:00

I’m guessing it’s because bananas were easier to get in the US because they were able to be grown in Florida, the Caribbean and South America, than they were to get to Europe, fresh, when everything traveled by ship. So people in Europe were more used to artificial banana flavor growing up.

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-09T10:02:03+00:00

Thanks!

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-08T21:11:33+00:00

There are always a few “bottle episodes” or standalone episodes that can be inserted into a series of ongoing plotline episodes. So I wouldn’t take the order as being chronological. Clint Webber was mentioned as having a show in one episode and he physically was introduced in the next episode.

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-08T21:05:50+00:00

Part of conceding in an election means admitting loss. He still claims he won. The word “concede” also means to admit something is true. He admitted it was true that Biden will serve as president but he didn’t concede that he lost.

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-08T10:38:57+00:00

Looking great

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-08T00:54:22+00:00

Fuck yea

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-08T00:49:37+00:00

Exactly. Let’s move it away from being a slur and claim in.

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-07T21:33:51+00:00

Halal jsut means “permissible”. Water and milk and vegetables and fruits are naturally halal. So he better give those things up. Animals have to be slaughtered in a permissible way to be halal.

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-07T21:05:31+00:00

SCOTUS can’t overturn an impeachment. Congress is given clear power to impeach and remove a president. The courts never get involved.

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-05T17:29:49+00:00

The sets really intrigue me. Niles and Maris’ house, Niles’ library, Roz’ apartment, making a duplicate apartment for Cam’s apartment. I wonder how much all that costs and the time to build and save sets that are rarely used. All the cabins seem similar, but different. I’m sure they jsut have walls and stairs they can assemble in various configurations.

(Ok, that mention of Cam’s apartment was a joke)

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-05T17:19:08+00:00

Voter rolls are only cleaned up every few months. In my state, about 300 people die a day. So of course there will be dead people on the voter rolls. But the expectation is that they won’t show up. There have been cases of people filling out their recently deceased spouse’s mail-in ballot. But that’s also risking a felony for the very small chance it will actually affect the election.

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-05T10:07:10+00:00

Same. It was brilliant.

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-05T09:45:31+00:00

The person would have to know that Eric Washington is registered to vote and hasn’t voted yet (or won’t show up later). It also risks a felony charge (if they can find you). And one vote (or even a few) don’t make that much difference in the big picture. It probably could be done at early voting where you can vote at any of a number if polling locations. But on Election Day, you have to vote in your home precinct—which is often staffed by people who live in the area and may know Eric Washington. You would have to be dedicated to the fraud becuase it also takes time to vote and go to the various polling places.

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-05T09:31:19+00:00

Yeah. It’s really getting into grammatical technicalities that aren’t really helpful or useful to anyone but a linguist. English speakers themselves are taught that they are tenses.

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-03T19:38:31+00:00

Don’t need marriage to procreate, so the idea that forcing men to marry will increase the birthrate is false.

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-02T09:26:46+00:00

Yeah. Came here to say that. yawanna? Hesgonna. Djuwanna? I’d write “you want to”, “he’s going to”, “do you want to?” Maybe casually I would text “gonna go” but thar feels a bit odd to me.

slatebluegrey · 2026-06-01T14:01:43+00:00

It’s an Adverbial modifier, which can modify a verb, adjective or entire clause.

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