toynbee

Weren’t they trying to establish that in the first Rincewind book? I thought they determined it to be unknowable, but it has been a long time since I read it.

My parents had to explain this detail to me while watching the movie Hair, IIRC.

Take the time, watch the movie. Will not disappoint.

And that’s coming from Captain Mal, so you know it’s good advice.

What is a “cooker dipshit”?

What about the big breath you take because you’ve forgotten to inhale for a while?

To be fair, they didn’t ask.

As if the cats don’t enjoy your disdain.

That’s different from how I remember M. Bison sounding.

I don’t like that what appears to be a sex toy website prompted me to “continue without consent.”

My local hospital handles this by being only one story tall.

Funny, since they hate water.

Mine was in my native language, not Japanese, but I also had a job that mandated a long greeting. I also had cause to repeat it sufficiently frequently that I could have done so in my sleep. In fact …

Once I was at home, in bed, asleep. I had a dream that my work phone was ringing. Of course, I wasn’t fully awake (or really at all) and my work phone was at work, not near my bed. In my half awake state, I picked up the nearest thing I could find - my personal cell phone - and recited the long spiel. Only after several minutes of slowly blinking myself awake did I realize my cell phone wasn’t connected to anyone and, also, I wasn’t at work.

The only character I had engaged was my dog, who was staring at me in apparent confusion. Probably that was just because I had gone from dead asleep to jerking upright grabbing my cell phone, but I like to think that in his head he was thinking I was a dumbass for thinking I was at work.

I disagree; it seems like they’d often be quite warm.

I agree, it seems odd; however, I will state that my kid’s school provides an app that allows you to communicate in both directions with teachers. They also use the app to make general announcements like closure for snow, etc. My wife is generally the one doing non-in-person communicating so I haven’t actually used the app (I only recently learned it exists), but hopefully the teacher can filter notifications outside of school hours.

Were I a teacher, I’d be glad to have a way to communicate without sharing personal information.

Fair enough. Thank you.

It’s okay, it’s not like any of those games claim a lot of your time.

I just don’t print.

“Gainsay” is antiquated? Huh.

I know, but only because of an early episode of Family Guy.

I like that the answers you got are definitively “yes” and “no.”