The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread IX

[Tani Coyote]

Spam it on your Snoic fanboy sites.

I figured that was what I should do...

...Oddly enough, I'm not registered at any Sonic sites...

 

[Tani Coyote]

Is it cuss, or curse?

 

[Birdjaguar]

Typically, how long does it take for a cruise ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean?

In 1964 NY to South Hampton took 4 days on the RMS Queen Elizabeth.

Modern crossings are more cruises and they take longer with more stops so they take 7-9 days.

 

[Yared]

How fast do they go and how long is the shortest distance?

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Another unrelated question:

Can anyone give me some recommendations on a screen-recorder (I'm thinking of recording some games for newbies)?

 

[Mike Hussey]

How fast do they go and how long is the shortest distance?

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Another unrelated question:

Can anyone give me some recommendations on a screen-recorder (I'm thinking of recording some games for newbies)?

Camtasia is a good one. Heaps of Starcraft casters use it for their commentaries and lots of gaming walkthrough makers use it also.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Is it cuss, or curse?

I think they're interchangeable. But I prefer to use them something like this:

I cussed when I found out the nearest Petty concert in Canada was in Toronto.
I cursed that person out for punching me in the face.

Where "cuss" is specifically swearing, "curse" is more just saying nasty things (which may or may not include swearing.) However this is my own usage I don't know if it's proper grammar or not.

 

[Dachs]

"Cuss" is chiefly of use as an amusingly archaizing noun, not as a verb. As in, "That old cuss darned tootin' whipped them rustlers last night!"

 

[say1988]

I mostly hear it as a synonym to "to curse" as in "to swear" as in bad words ("he cussed me out" or "hey, quit your cussin', boy").
That said, it is usually used either humourously or to make it sound old.

 

[Yared]

@Mike Hussey

Thanks, I downloaded the trial version. Let's see how good it is.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Why is it that the first day I'll well enough to go to school this week, it's cancelled?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Is that about my response to Zelig or the response to Tekee?

The statements about "biology".

What's the most bizarre thing a signature's revealed to you when you fully deciphered it's meaning/clicked it's links?

I'm curious why you would indicate voraphilia in yours.

 

[Brighteye]

Cuss: 'Vulgar pronunciation or attenuation of curse'

 

[Tani Coyote]

I'm curious why you would indicate voraphilia in yours.

I shared it with my family. Why not everyone else? I'm also going for a very bizarre, unique siggy.

Back on topic about cuss vs. curse.

I always use curse. I consider "cuss" to be a hick term, and so does my mother, who's an English major. In fact, she once told me it is a hick term. I also see meaning in curse, i.e. you'd get bad luck - you'd be CURSED - for swearing too much. Cuss just sounds like a slurred version of it to me.

...Then again, she's a fairly right-leaning person who always repeats the same damned talking points and disregards any statistics that don't agree with her... so... her sanity can be questioned.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Is it me, or does the sky (sky and horizon) at sunset appear slightly different from the sky (again, sky and horizon) at sunrise? If so, why is it that?

 

[Ulyaoth]

different angles and such? I don't know but thinking about it lately I started thinking that shouldn't it really look the same? Yet we all know dusk looks completely different from dawn.

 

[Tekee]

if you eat a lot of sodium will you get those painful gall stones, or kidney stones that you're gonna have to pee out? Or can you get kidney stones from eating too much vitamin c?

 

[bhsup]

Is it me, or does the sky (sky and horizon) at sunset appear slightly different from the sky (again, sky and horizon) at sunrise? If so, why is it that?

Sunlight is passing through a lot more of the atmosphere at sunset to reach you than it is when it is over head.

 

[cardgame]

Sunlight is passing through a lot more of the atmosphere at sunset to reach you than it is when it is over head.

re-read his post

 

[Birdjaguar]

How fast do they go and how long is the shortest distance?

Queen Mary 2:
The ship was intended primarily to cross the Atlantic ocean, and was therefore designed differently to many cruise ships. She has a maximum speed of 29.62 knots (54.86 km/h; 34.09 mph) and a cruising speed of 26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph), much faster than most other passenger ships, such as Oasis of the Seas, which has a cruising speed of 22.6 knots (41.9 km/h; 26.0 mph). Instead of the diesel-electric configuration found on many ships, Queen Mary 2 uses a CODAG configuration in order to achieve her maximum speed. This uses additional gas turbines to augment the power given by the diesel generators onboard, and allow the ship to reach a higher maximum speed.

QE1: (My trip in 1964)
Length: 1031Feet (314.9m)
Beam: 118 Feet (36m)
Draft: 39 Feet (11.9m)
Gross Tons: 83,673
Engines: 4 Steam Turbines to 4 propellers
Service Speed: 28.5 Knots
Passengers: 2,283

This will tell you about the QM2 cruises:

http://www.cunard.com/Destinations/default.asp?Region=7

 

[Nerowannabe]

How do you pronounce this "Pas grand-chose"? It would be best if it was written out phonetically.