"Oh So Very Many Questions Than Before Not Worth Their Own Thread" Thread Vol. XXVI

[Kennigit]

Just because I'm in a chipper mood at the moment:

As a (very brief) recommendation, which online dating sites have people had good (or bad) experience inside the USA? And/or if people really know if people (friends, whoever) are satisfied with online dating in the 22-25 age demographic.

long detailish stuff, can skip:

While it is probably ~75% of a chance I will simply return to my parent's home to be unemployed for some unknown duration, eventually (hopefully by 2015) I will be hired at some unknown location somewhere in the US, where I will know no one, male nor female. But, I'd like to probably set up an account a shortish while in at wherever I get a job at, and am wondering what cfc'ers think might be a good place to start.

In a similar vein, any job I may get has about a 33% chance of being literally in the middle of nowhere, a 33% chance of being near or in a major city, or a 33% chance of being maybe an hour outside the outskirts of a reasonably metropolitan area. Is it even worth bothering to try online dating in some geographical or demographic regions? For instance, I know at least a couple people that have talked about living in places where the dating population in the relevant ages would be terrible [i.e. people are married by 20 and/or divorced by 25, so anyone who is 22/23-28 is looking at really a rather odd dating population].

Or on the opposite side of that, I'd be a 22-24 year old single male who really would be more comfortable trying to have longer term relations, rather than use a lot of the more mobile dating apps that pretty much aren't for that purpose. Do everybody in a metropolitan area look for more of a "fling" type of relation in online dating?

too long didn't read: do cfc'ers have any impressions for beginning online dating in the 22-25 age demographic?

 

[downtown]

I used OKCupid for a while and I had no complaints. I probably could have easily had a date every weekend if I wanted to, and the people I actually did end up meeting were pretty normal.

 

[Takhisis]

I do love this term. It does not really exist in Greek in any similar manner, due to the Byzantine timeline.

Mostly interested in why it was formed in this way. "Tower of the clock" or something similar would have been a lot more descriptive, although the later more common existence of such towers could render it a pleonasm.

In what language did the original phrasing appear? Also: how did it develop to the English one?

Oh, it's quite simple. The first noun modifies the second, it's said to be used in an adjectival position because it defines the noun that follows it.
Clock tower. What type of tower is it? One with a clock on it. See?

Why can't the world look at the whole imperial / metric thing like this?

As we are USA #1, the rest of the world really should be conforming to us, not the other way around. However, we'll let it slide because, frankly, we don't care if the rest of the world uses an inferior system. Just quit pestering us about ours.

Nah, you just have enough of an internal market to make it economically viable. To the people making your plugs and cables in South East Asia, English is largely incomprehensible anyway.


You filthy gwailo.

I used OKCupid for a while and I had no complaints. I probably could have easily had a date every weekend if I wanted to, and the people I actually did end up meeting were pretty normal.

Well, but in any decently managed website downtown is a popular option.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

The singular E in the same spot I asked about earlier, on the top right. What does it mean? It's been showing up a ton tonight, & my mobile internet is spotty tonight, and the E shows up when the connectivity dies.

 

[The_J]

too long didn't read: do cfc'ers have any impressions for beginning online dating in the 22-25 age demographic?

Not in the US, and a negligible amount older, but I didn't have good experiences with online dating. Also see that parship doesn't have an US site, but guess I'll still add my 2 cents: In my case that was a) due to language barrier, trying that in another country b) paid sites. Half of the population on paid sites are only test accounts, which can't really participate c) age. Apparently more people 50+ do online dating than 30-.
Since a) doesn't apply, and if you can find something where b) doesn't, then I'd give it a try. Can't lose anything, can you?

 

[Synobun]

The singular E in the same spot I asked about earlier, on the top right. What does it mean? It's been showing up a ton tonight, & my mobile internet is spotty tonight, and the E shows up when the connectivity dies.

E stands for Edge. It means you have a data connection at "Edge" speed, which is 2G. It's the equivalent of dial-up for mobile internet (still better, Edge caps at 100Kbps).

 

[hobbsyoyo]

How long can possums play dead?

I found this in our driveway and thought it was playing dead but my wife says it was there at 7am this morning. I didn't think they could play dead that long. also, the babies hanging out of it's pouch aren't moving either.

Spoiler :

 

[Kennigit]

No idea

wiki just says 40 min-4 hours typically, first indication of movement is twitching of ears.

but today I learned about bifurcated (two branches/forked) reproductive organs for both the male and female opossum and that babies stick out of the opossum's relaxed pouch [can see on wikipedia too]. And that "Opossums do possess a placenta, but it is short-lived, simple in structure, and, unlike that of placental mammals, is not fully functional. The young are therefore born at a very early stage, although the gestation period is similar to many other small marsupials, at only 12 to 14 days"

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Ok thanks, that helps because now at least I know they can do it on the order of several hours. It's probably pushing 7 hours now but it's also very preggers so it may take longer to get out of the catatonic state. I just walked by it again and the fleas/lice/ticks haven't started jumping off of it so it's probably still alive. I want to call the city to come dispose of it but I also want to be sure it's really dead first.

Are possums native to NA?

 

[Farm Boy]

They are. North America's only marsupial!

 

[Mouthwash]

I totally missed this fracking thread until now.

I've taken out Alexander to Actium through an inter-library loan and I'm about halfway through it. The trouble is, I've procrastinated in the extreme and spent most of my free time reading fiction or playing Civ (and I've found it difficult to find places to concentrate). It's a tremendous book and I have two days in which to finish it, with no renewal. So yesterday I panicked and started reading 100 pages a day, leaving me mentally and physically exhausted. If I don't return the book on the due date, will it impinge my ability to do another ILL? What penalties can I expect?

 

[Flying Pig]

Most libraries allow you to renew books, or could you not simply return it and then withdraw it again, assuming that it hasn't been requested by anybody else? Also, if reading 100 pages per day leaves you physically exhausted, you probably have worse problems than your library record!

 

[Mouthwash]

Most libraries allow you to renew books, or could you not simply return it and then withdraw it again, assuming that it hasn't been requested by anybody else?

I've taken out Alexander to Actium through an inter-library loan and I'm about halfway through it.

I'm totally fine with a fee for being lazy. I'm just worried about ticking off university libraries that are basically lending their books to me free of charge.

Also, if reading 100 pages per day leaves you physically exhausted, you probably have worse problems than your library record!

Aw, heck. It's very dense, and I need to remember names and events and contextualize them.

 

[Flying Pig]

I'm totally fine with a fee for being lazy. I'm just worried about ticking off university libraries that are basically lending their books to me free of charge.

I still don't follow. At most libraries, they have a system whereby you can renew the book - that is, increase the amount of time for which you hold it - provided that nobody else has asked that it be put aside for them when it next comes in. Even if they don't have this as a formal procedure, most will allow you to take a book out twice in a row, again provided that nobody else has requested it. Perhaps I haven't quite grasped the subtleties of an 'inter-library loan', but is there no means by which you can go to the issuing library and ask for this?

 

[Takhisis]

Why don't you ask the library staff about it?

 

[cybrxkhan]

I've been renewing the same couple of books for more than a year now from my uni's library. No one cares, apparently, until someone else wants to borrow it.

 

[Mouthwash]

I still don't follow. At most libraries, they have a system whereby you can renew the book - that is, increase the amount of time for which you hold it - provided that nobody else has asked that it be put aside for them when it next comes in. Even if they don't have this as a formal procedure, most will allow you to take a book out twice in a row, again provided that nobody else has requested it. Perhaps I haven't quite grasped the subtleties of an 'inter-library loan', but is there no means by which you can go to the issuing library and ask for this?

It specifically says no renewal. I'd probably have to wait a while for my own library to contact and get permission from the academic library it's from.

 

[Mouthwash]

Oh, and: I need to know how to get from Peachtree City to Atlanta tomorrow at about 6:00pm. Both of my parents are working. Is there a way to see bus fares online? I don't even know where to find a bus stop.

 

[Takhisis]

They're usually OUTSIDE™. *scary music*

 

[Synobun]

Oh, and: I need to know how to get from Peachtree City to Atlanta tomorrow at about 6:00pm. Both of my parents are working. Is there a way to see bus fares online? I don't even know where to find a bus stop.

What is the bus company? Go to their website.