Random thoughts 1: Just Sayin'

[Snerk]

How does one define society? (not being rhetoric, I'm genuinely wondering)

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Have you read any of her recent Flavia Alba books, featuring his adopted daughter, now also a delatrix?

I've been getting them as they come out (I'm behind on the current one, but I can't afford those in hardcover). Haven't read them, though, since I got bogged down in the Falco series when a long time went by before getting one of them. I think I've got them all now, though. But since I don't remember where I left off (it's been a long time), I'm just going to start over with Silver Pigs and re-read everything until I get to where I left off and then finish the series.

So NO SPOILERS!

I remember one day in class, when my instructor mentioned "the baby" and I said "What baby?", he literally gasped, and put his hand over his mouth. He realized that I hadn't read that far, when Helena Justina had their first kid.

It was kinda funny, since the rest of the class had no idea what we were talking about.

Do animals have society?

Yes, of course. You're living in one, and some other animals also have society.

 

[Arakhor]

You're safe from spoilers from me. I have all the Falco novels (in softback, of course), but I haven't read them all myself, by any means.

 

[civvver]

Tip when you take a taxi/Uber, tip when you eat at a restaurant (where you get served, fast food not included), tip if something gets delivered to you (not mail, but food). Tip the hairdresser. Tip the bartender.

Ranges depend on where you are. 15% is usually a safe bet everywhere across the board.

Tipping is weird, like what we tip on and what we don't tip on, there's no consistency. You just kind of know. That list is about half complete in my estimation. You also tip:
-Valets
-Bellman/luggage helpers
-Room service, but I guess that falls under deliveries
-Baristas

You wouldn't tip sales people like at the att store or best buy, even if they are on commission. Take out food from a take out place don't tip, but if it's from a normal sit down place I'm never sure, I usually just round up a tad and do like a 5-10% tip or $2-3.

I work for a german company and ever high level manager seems to be a Dr. I found out it means they have doctorates in engineering, and their doctorate is basically a masters in the US I believe. I guess germans are just very formal with their titles.

 

[Samez]

Well the German doctorate is the same as the PHD but in Germany you can be as good as you want but without a title you will be a nothing. I think it is going back to Prussian militarism when (military) ranks and titles were more important than anything else. See e.g. Hauptmann von Köpenick.

 

[Takhisis]

MY sandwich?!?!

We were on a break!

How does one define society? (not being rhetoric, I'm genuinely wondering)

I'll give you a genuine answer: with a dictionary.

 

[Takhisis]

Tipping is weird, like what we tip on and what we don't tip on, there's no consistency. You just kind of know. That list is about half complete in my estimation. You also tip:
-Valets
-Bellman/luggage helpers
-Room service, but I guess that falls under deliveries
-Baristas

You wouldn't tip sales people like at the att store or best buy, even if they are on commission. Take out food from a take out place don't tip, but if it's from a normal sit down place I'm never sure, I usually just round up a tad and do like a 5-10% tip or $2-3.

 

[Snerk]

There was a drinking thread, but it died. I'm guessing liver failure.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I don't know how to spell this word.

What is a "trifecter"?

 

[Arakhor]

Trifecta.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I don't think that's the right word, unless it was used wrong.

The way the word was used was for a group of three people making all the decisions. I thought that word was triumvirate but the word they used sounded like trifecta.

 

[Arakhor]

The old Latin word was triumvirate, yes. Trifecta can simply be used to mean any group of three, but that's not what it "originally" meant.

 

[sophie]

Trifecta: it can mean either:

Successfully achieving a group of three related achievements, or, successfully predicting the first three winning horses in a race. The latter is whence the word originally; a portmanteau of "triple" and "perfecta" (a Spanish word referring to correctly picking a winning horse)

 

[Synobun]

Also note that some dialects/accents entail mispronouncing words. In the American South, never in your life paint your windows yellow lest you be told about your yeller winders every day.

I've heard people say 'trifecta' as 'trifecter'. I assume it's just a mispronunciation because they've never seen it written down or sufficiently enunciated by someone else.

 

[Takhisis]

And then the Fire Nation attacked?

 

[Cutlass]

Troica is another similar word that is used to mean a group of 3 in charge of something.
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/es/troica

 

[Arakhor]

I've only ever seen that word spelt with a K before.

 

[Takhisis]

In Spanish it's supposed to be spelled with a k as it's a transliteration of a Russian name (and c always stands for ʦ when transliterating Slavic names anyway) but there's been one or two spelling reforms recently which I simply refuse to follow, because they are disastrous.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I've only ever seen that word spelt with a K before.

Same here.

 

[josh12345]

Do you know what it means?

so there's this girl i kinda have a crush on so last friday i was staring into space & the girl i liked was walking over to throw something away in the trash can while i was staring into space . Then later I was staring at the wall & when i look over she was Leaning her Head Against her Hand While looking at me & smiling. Then the next day she said ” i don’t know why he looks at me."

Moderator Action: Welcome to CFC, Josh!

There's not enough here for a full-fledged discussion, so I merged it and the replies into a general discussion thread where people ask and answer questions informally. I also inserted the title of the thread in as the first line of your post here. - Bootstoots