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Oh sorry, in Ireland that just means sandwiches. I had to Google why you were angry (though it should have occurred to me). Delete.

Yes. Absolutely. And great markets. 7-11 is overpriced and a lot of the stuff in there is pretty low quality by comparison. But they do a decent Thai ...

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News to me. They're everywhere in Thailand anyhow. There are at least five or six just on our campus.

Gee thanks, dude. Well, I hope you enjoy your feast, Scrooge, while tiny Tim here chews on his neon cheese and cardboard burritos.

Never buy something called a "burrito" from something called a "7-11" in somewhere called "Thailand". I did really bad on the food front today. :cry:

E.g. There are (supposedly) 645 distinct meanings of the word "run". Would English be a better language if we had a separate word for all of them? I d...

To a degree it depends on how you measure things. If you include all possible combinations in agglutinative languages where words are made up of multi...

In fairness, this does hit the protein/fat combo cravings that are the main priority for any bona fide bogman's meal. In other words, don't be giving ...

Possibly from the chicken, which is a bit of a misnomer as what you get underneath the sauce is really just a kind of edible rubber that looks like ho...

So you thought I was bluffing, eh? /uploads/resized/files/g3/eiz1lcxzeyht8vcy.jpg /uploads/resized/files/z5/4xwpvy818mem9lk3.jpg Nice one-upmanship. *...

Korean cheese chicken pretzel. Probably same as every Irish person is eating today. *shrug*

Thanks guys! Merry Christmas to all! :sparkle:

I have just realized I have no alcohol in my apartment. Also, I have to work tomorrow. On the plus side, I am completely alone so there is no chance o...

In the plum pie sequel a couple decide to spice up the holidays by cooking up a massive Christmas pudding to have sex in. There's your conceit. Work o...

Still time. :strong:

Thanks for the vids. :up:

Got my seed lines last night and wrote my story this morning. Maybe a bit more editing. But I will be submitting. :smile:

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It was 12 midnight and I had an important meeting the next morning. Should I spend more time trying to convince someone on here that a comedian was wr...

Maybe you can send me a link to the study or studies. As @"Hanover" said, it's more likely just cultural stuff that's being seen there. At least that ...

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No, that's not how it happened either and Ulster is not a "County" and you have no clue what you're talking about but if you would like to know someth...

I have work to do. I'll come back to this tomorrow.

It's not disagreement. He just got it totally wrong. The whole island of Ireland was fully under the control of Britain and then we fought a war of in...

Have we not being addressing the topic for 155 pages? But please just spell out the new and incisive contribution Maher has made here and of course we...

The bit about Ireland is completely and utterly wrong, but whatever, it's light entertainment, so I don't expect him to know anything about that or bo...

American audiences on mainstream TV are odd and seem to laugh when they think they're supposed to, regardless of content. I remember watching a Letter...

Sounds right.

Stupid and superficial. There's nothing of substance there. There's no sharp satire or ... well, anything. Of course Hamas is not taking over Tel Aviv...

:lol: Yes, and that becomes automatic. Relatedly, from a very young age we can "code switch" between and within a language depending on who we're talk...

I very much doubt he does, but to highlight how much I dislike listening to popular American mainstream comedians who I find the absolute dullest and ...

Don't know why you're tagging me. I'm not going to waste my time on this guy. Maher is boring, conventional, and not too sharp. The comedians I like a...

OK, well could hardly be clearer (even though I originally thought I was reading satire).

@"NOS4A2" The "poisoning" was done by the Democrats according to Trump as you pointed out, but the poison is the illegal immigrants. Trump is saying t...

Interesting question. I think you'll find the relative frequency varies according to language community. So, they can become a marker of being a membe...

I think this article might be a useful reference point; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_determinism#:~:text=Linguistic%20determinism%20is%2...

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Yes, you seem to be confused about tense and future reference. You don't need the former for the latter and the latter is what's important functionall...

This would represent both a strong form of linguistic determinism for which there is no evidence and a confusion about grammar. You don't need tenses ...

Well, I was going to say something... Anyhow, fwiw, from a linguistic perspective, the question is somewhat analagous to asking a biologist if salmon ...

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I am full of shit. But one must fertilize the soil. :razz:

I appreciate that perspective, but what are they reading? And how do we separate out the day-to-day reality of who people are from what is selectively...

It looks OK. There is an answer to the question from a linguistic perspective too. I might get involved.

Discussion or post? And what was it about? Then I'll go check.

I would like to know the context for that but remember the way the attacks are presented is just as skewed on the Palestinian side. I would like to kn...

Firstly: "Hamas's fighters did not behead Israeli babies, was the conclusion of an investigation conducted by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz" https://w...

Of course, Israel could be more brutal. It could nuke Gaza or just completely level it, but we ought not to give credit to them for not being as bruta...