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

[Arakhor]

They had some great names too, though even I will admit that spelling "Ethelred" as Æðelræd is showing off somewhat.

 

[SouthernKing]

The use of thorns makes any language automatically awesome.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Question: Other than maybe brain cancer, what would cause a person to be so forgetful that I literally have to repeat myself about every 3 to 5 minutes?

I can understand it with a 90 year old, but this person is in their *twenties*, with no mental disabilities, that I'm aware of.

 

[Synobun]

Question: Other than maybe brain cancer, what would cause a person to be so forgetful that I literally have to repeat myself about every 3 to 5 minutes?

I can understand it with a 90 year old, but this person is in their *twenties*, with no mental disabilities, that I'm aware of.

Juvenile dementia, premature Alzheimer's, mental degradation, brain trauma... There are a lot of things.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Well, if they had any of those, I don't think they would've been hired as a career counselor, considering that person is the one who helped me get my job at Burger King.

Unless I'm mistaken?

 

[Synobun]

Early stage of any of those things are mostly unnoticeable and often starts with your memory decreasing. It sometimes takes many years for something like that to get to the point where a person has no choice but to go get their head checked.

 

[Rashiminos]

Question: Other than maybe brain cancer, what would cause a person to be so forgetful that I literally have to repeat myself about every 3 to 5 minutes?

I can understand it with a 90 year old, but this person is in their *twenties*, with no mental disabilities, that I'm aware of.

What sort of conversation are you repeating every 3-5 minutes? I can think of a number of reasons for an average person's attention and memory to be diverted in that lengthy span of time, including disinterest and going off on tangents. If someone is speaking around 150 wpm, I don't think I'd recall the exact content of 450-750 words ago complete with inflections and pauses (and stenographers typically work at a slower pace).

 

[sophie]

They had some great names too, though even I will admit that spelling "Ethelred" as Æðelræd is showing off somewhat.

Huh. I always thought Æthelred was spelled with a þorn, not an eð.

 

[Cutlass]

Question: Other than maybe brain cancer, what would cause a person to be so forgetful that I literally have to repeat myself about every 3 to 5 minutes?

I can understand it with a 90 year old, but this person is in their *twenties*, with no mental disabilities, that I'm aware of.

Drugs.

 

[Ajidica]

Incompetence?

 

[Borachio]

Post traumatic stress disorder?

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Early stage of any of those things are mostly unnoticeable and often starts with your memory decreasing. It sometimes takes many years for something like that to get to the point where a person has no choice but to go get their head checked.

True.

What sort of conversation are you repeating every 3-5 minutes? I can think of a number of reasons for an average person's attention and memory to be diverted in that lengthy span of time, including disinterest and going off on tangents. If someone is speaking around 150 wpm, I don't think I'd recall the exact content of 450-750 words ago complete with inflections and pauses (and stenographers typically work at a slower pace).

My job, how I'm doing at it, my concerns, etc. (She's my career counselor.) We talk at a slightly slower than normal pace, due to my hearing disability and my comprehension is slightly slow anyway.

Incompetence?

I've been working with her over a year, doesn't seem incompetent to me, until recently when I noticed she started to keep forgetting what I've been saying.

Post traumatic stress disorder?

I wouldn't know.

 

[shadowplay]

If someone working on your neighbour's home is damaging your property, specifically your lawn, is the neighbour liable for the damage, or only the company that's directly doing the deed?

 

[Cutlass]

It should be the company which actually did the damage. They shouldn't be on your property to begin with, unless they've asked your permission. Or your neighbor did.

 

[shadowplay]

It's the people doing his landscaping. They blow all of this guy's weeds and yard waste onto my property week after week, and it's completely killed the lawn and periwinkle in the area where they do this. I've tried sorting it out with the neighbours amicably - they've made it perfectly clear they don't give a crap and refuse to have them alter their behaviour. The landscapers themselves are even worse, they simply won't hear any of it and become very belligerent. I'm starting to think the only option left is to film them in the act and to sue for the damage.

 

[bhsup]

Just hire a local teen with a big 4x4 pickup to rut his yard at 3am some upcoming morning.

 

[Cutlass]

Record them, and then file a police report. File a complaint with the cops, and then when they are actually doing it, call the cops and get one to show up and talk to them. Then if necessary you can file a claim in small claims court.

 

[Cutlass]

You could also get a bigger leaf blower, and blow it all right back onto the guy's yard.

 

[Zelig]

Find a better hobby than caring for grass.

 

[Arakhor]

Huh. I always thought Æthelred was spelled with a þorn, not an eð.

They're used interchangeably in Anglo-Saxon, as is the pronounciation of æ - flat, bed or even seed. There's a memorial to Athelstan in Gloucester Cathedral, I think, which uses the capital Eth, rather than the Thorn, so unless you know what you're looking at, it seems to spell "ADALSTAN".