I've realized that this thread, it is various iterations, might be the only place on the internet where "like" means pretty much the opposite.
TBH, not "liking" there anything normally, because I think it's just weird.
I've realized that this thread, it is various iterations, might be the only place on the internet where "like" means pretty much the opposite.
I'm specifically celebrating your misfortune.When my posts there get liked I take it as a validation of whatever happened and never as a celebration of my misfortune.
Hmmmm, no.The term Hmmmmm refers to the pre-linguistic system of communication posited to have been used by archaic Homo. It is an acronym for
Holistic (non-compositional),
manipulative (utterances are commands or suggestions, not descriptive statements),
multi-modal (acoustic as well as gestural and facial),
musical, and
mimetic.
Sounds dubious to me.
Reminds me of the early days when my housekeeping helper started coming. She said, "Go ahead and watch your soap, I won't bother you."Replace "Husband" with "(Pre)teenage sons", and that's pretty much my experience.
Drives me nuts — especially when they start asking questions about the story later.
("Well if you'd just listened to the dialogue in the first place, you — and I — might now have more of a clue, mightn't we?")
They did. And no, they wouldn't have worried about "AD" because that isn't how they reckoned time.I imagine they had some kind of bank in the Roman Empire.
She never did get that
@amadeus was clearly making a joke...They did. And no, they wouldn't have worried about "AD" because that isn't how they reckoned time.
The Roman calendar had fewer months than we have, and their new year started at a different time than ours does. Furthermore, they reckoned the years from the founding of Rome, aka A.U.C. The birth of Jesus meant nothing to them in terms of the calendar until Christianity became the official religion.
The Romans had their dishonest, unethical merchants, just as every era does.
In her case, I think it's just a matter of disrespect and not bothering to remember. Or thinking that whatever she had to say just couldn't wait.I hate dealing with people who won't shut up. From my experience this is usually a problem because they aren't comfortable with silence. Could also be a case of a narcissist who loves the sound of their own voice. Usually it just seems to be somebody who was brought up thinking that silence = awkward.
This goes hand in hand with people who love talking about themselves and commandeer any conversation and steer it away from whatever was being discussed and make it all about them. You tell them about rocketry and they say: "That reminds me of this time in 6th grade when I..."
Which clearly makes it illegal to offer some accurate information...@amadeus was clearly making a joke...
Do you honestly not see how the inaccurate information is part of the joke? Thank you for the book recommendations, but at a time in my life when I have little time and energy for reading full books, I appreciate historical humor where I can find it.Which clearly makes it illegal to offer some accurate information...
Want humor associated with the Romans? Read Lindsay Davis' Falco series. It's about a detective in the reigns of the Flavian emperors; Falco works as an 'informer' for Vespasian and Titus, has cases in Rome and in various areas of the Empire, has a crazy-exasperating-funny family, and I got hooked on it back in college when my Classical History instructor let me borrow one of his books.
Lindsay Davis puts in an incredible amount of research into her books, consulting historians and archaeologists, and she visits actual archaeological sites to be sure her details are as historically accurate as possible.
Do you honestly not see that I DON'T CARE.Do you honestly not see how the inaccurate information is part of the joke? Thank you for the book recommendations, but at a time in my life when I have little time and energy for reading full books, I appreciate historical humor where I can find it.