The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXII

[Borachio]

OK, then. Fair enough. Carry on.

 

[Flying Pig]

The most important of those is keeping what soldiers tend to call stuff on the place: this came very much into play in 1982, when the supply of stuff on Ascension Island was absolutely critical in allowing blokes to be brought from Britain on boats to the Falklands. Blokes and boats can be stored at such a place, but not normally in enough quantity to take them off fighting.

 

[Borachio]

That's a lot of jargon: stuff, blokes, boats, "off fighting".

 

[hobbsyoyo]

What is kedgeree?

 

[Flying Pig]

That's a lot of jargon: stuff, blokes, boats, "off fighting".

I nearly went for the far more soldierly 'sleek grey war canoes'.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I just ran into a weird issue. I was watching a video and the audio was all echoy and weird. But then I went to swap headphones to see if it was an issue because it had never did this before, I mean the weird echoing, and I found they were on backwards and when I put them the right way it stopped echoing. How does that work?

 

[Borachio]

What is kedgeree?

Smoked haddock, rice, hard-boiled eggs, iirc. I like it without the eggs.

edit:

Kedgeree (or occasionally kitcherie, kitchari, kidgeree, kedgaree, or kitchiri) is a dish consisting of cooked, flaked fish (sometimes smoked haddock), boiled rice, parsley, hard-boiled eggs, curry powder, butter or cream and occasionally sultanas.

Near enough.

I don't see why anyone would ruin good fish with curry powder and sultanas, though. Are they quite, quite mad?

 

[ace99]

Oh good, I was beginning to fear that the British Empire was built through a combination of absurd luck on its part and glaring incompetence and divisions among its victims.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

What is the proper name for that little o that comes after a temperature number?

 

[Cutlass]

Bolding mine.

A staging post has two purposes: serving as a base from which attacks can be made, and guarding supplies, troops, leadership, and infrastructure necessary for these attacks.

Not to mention the only safe harbor for repairing ships in the area that was safe from a land war.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

What is the proper name for that little o that comes after a temperature number?

the degree symbol I think

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Hey Warpus,

You do realize that all of my recent Poland hate has nothing to do with Poland and everything to do with trollin Domen, right?

I'm not a racist, I have Polish friends. I don't even say anything when they use the same bathroom and waterfountains that I use.

Edit:
Is the Civ5: Poland Can into Civ expansion out right now or was it just announced?

 

[LegionSteve]

Edit:
Is the Civ5: Poland Can into Civ expansion out right now or was it just announced?

Just announced. Though CFC has a new subforum for it already!

 

[Farm Boy]

I've been trying to get back into actually playing Civ games with civ 5, but the lack of a mod like BUG that give explanations for things like diplomacy modifiers and relationships/maintenance for a specific unit/and so forth are really keeping me from giving much more than two deuces about the game in general. I've dug through the forums a bit and found something called vanilla enhanced, but it doesn't seem like it quite does what BUG did. Am I simply being too dense to find what I'm looking for or have LM and the like decided to quite reasonably spend more time on themselves and less on keeping us happy?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

There is a mod called InfoAddict and I am pretty sure it does exactly what you want it to do. I think.

 

[ShahJahanII]

Edit:
Is the Civ5: Poland Can into Civ expansion out right now or was it just announced?

This will hopefully satisfy all the people who say Africa is underrepresented in Civ V.

 

[Gamemaster77]

I've been trying to get back into actually playing Civ games with civ 5, but the lack of a mod like BUG that give explanations for things like diplomacy modifiers and relationships/maintenance for a specific unit/and so forth are really keeping me from giving much more than two deuces about the game in general. I've dug through the forums a bit and found something called vanilla enhanced, but it doesn't seem like it quite does what BUG did. Am I simply being too dense to find what I'm looking for or have LM and the like decided to quite reasonably spend more time on themselves and less on keeping us happy?

I rarely play civ5 anymore. I'm afraid that if I play more than an hour of it, it will continue on for the next seven.

 

[Dachs]

Oh good, I was beginning to fear that the British Empire was built through a combination of absurd luck on its part and glaring incompetence and divisions among its victims.

Is there any reason to suppose this wasn't the case?

Not to mention the only safe harbor for repairing ships in the area that was safe from a land war.

Yeah, I kind of subsumed that under "infrastructure".

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Sorry for bringing up an old question, but...

I have a question: Has anybody ever found that if they listen to a certain piece of music too many times in a row it starts sounding weird?

(I listen to music overnight as I slleep but I forgot to take the media player off 'track repeat' and now the song sounds really, really .... odd. Ive never seen this happen before.)

Happened to me once or twice. You overdo a song and then it doesn't do anything for you anymore.

I do have a question about this myself. Is this reversible? Can one undo it, so they can enjoy the song again?

 

[Cutlass]

Sorry for bringing up an old question, but...



I do have a question about this myself. Is this reversible? Can one undo it, so they can enjoy the song again?

Give it time.