The Very Many Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread ΛΓ

[Valka D'Ur]

You'd be surprised at what can be done to recycle clothes. It doesn't take much effort to turn a t-shirt into a shopping bag, or cut them into strips and they're usable for various crafts.

Of course they're always usable if you need cleaning rags.

The last time I moved I wrapped some of my breakables in various pieces of clothing (socks are especially useful for packing and transporting cups and glasses).

 

[Birdjaguar]

I guess there's some regulation that may not be in effect any more in Canada that said only cola's could have caffeine. Weird.

Yes I get all my caffeine from pop or energy drinks, though I tend not to drink the later much since they cost double or triple what pop does. I love coffee, I love the flavor and smell but my stomach can't handle it any more. Right after college I was having a ton of upset stomachs and I was drinking 1-3 cups of coffee at work every morning. I stopped and instead drank one pop and a bunch of water and upset stomachs went away. Now I have acid reflux and coffee and wine are the biggest triggers by far. The only case I'll even chance coffee is if it's with a really great breakfast like on the weekends where you just have to have it and I'll take pepcid and tums before. Pop goes fine with bacon and eggs and stuff cus it's sweet vs salty/savory but bitter coffee with sweet breakfasts like pancakes and pastries is amazing. I do miss it.

You might try cafe au lait (in a 1/3 coffee and 2/3s hot milk ratio). That might not upset your stomach.

 

[civvver]

You might try cafe au lait (in a 1/3 coffee and 2/3s hot milk ratio). That might not upset your stomach.

I think that would just dilute the coffee flavor which is the only reason I would drink it in the first place. I'm not opposed to trying though. Maybe next time I make homemade biscuits and sausage gravy. (American biscuits, not cookies for you brits)

 

[Birdjaguar]

Make the coffee a stronger brew or otherwise play around with the proportions.

 

[Live trash can]

What does the word Theater mean to you?

 

[Synobun]

What does the word Theater mean to you?

Depends on the context.

If someone says, "I enjoy the theater", then I think they're referring to live action plays and performances.

If someone says, "Let's go to the theater", then I think they're referring to the cinema.

 

[Live trash can]

Okey, I didn't even realize it meant the same as the cinema before you said it.

The cinema is, some would say, a more developed in some senses, form of theatrical performance.
But they have different strengths and weaknesses still.

 

[Traitorfish]

You might try cafe au lait (in a 1/3 coffee and 2/3s hot milk ratio). That might not upset your stomach.

I think that would just dilute the coffee flavor which is the only reason I would drink it in the first place.

Make the coffee a stronger brew or otherwise play around with the proportions.

Surely that would put him back to square one? It's not hot water that is causing acid reflux, after all.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

What does the word Theater mean to you?

Some of us spell it "theatre."

I haven't set foot in a movie theatre since last century, so when I think of "theatre" it's in the context of a play - either Shakespeare or musical theatre. I worked on various backstage crews for both genres. I tried dinner theatre (in which the audience has a meal while they watch a play), but found it pretty boring in comparison to the other two.

 

[Arakhor]

I always associate theatre with the stage, as we watch films at the cinema in the UK.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

This sounds very silly, but the other day during a brief power outage, I could somehow hear what sounded like a radio station. I guess someone in the apartment building could've had a battery-powered radio but it sounded a lot closer, almost inside my head. Could this be a weird form of tinnitus or something?

 

[Takhisis]

A more mundane explanation might be that during a power outage more or less all background noise from electrical machines ceases. In an apartment building this includes elevators, refrigerators, TVs, computers, music playing devices, cooking appliances, washing machines, etc. So a radio could be heard across quite the distance in such an unaccustomed silence.

Anyway I've just remembered that you have Parkinson's disease so you should mention it to your neurologist just in case.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

This sounds very silly, but the other day during a brief power outage, I could somehow hear what sounded like a radio station. I guess someone in the apartment building could've had a battery-powered radio but it sounded a lot closer, almost inside my head. Could this be a weird form of tinnitus or something?

Was it music or speech? If music, someone might have had a battery-operated radio going, or maybe a CD player (surely I can't be the only person left in the world who uses CDs...).

If it sounded like talking... could have been a radio, or just your neighbors talking. The acoustics in my building are crazy. There are things that sound like it's next door or overhead, and it could actually be a couple of floors up, on the other side of the building.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I heard music and what sounded like an ad for a carpet store. I wondered if it might've been an auditory hallucination from my new meds, but that seems like an oddly specific thing to hallucinate.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Well, I assume that you don't usually spend a lot of time thinking about buying carpets, so I would guess that you probably heard somebody's battery-operated radio.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I did a bit more searching on this and found stuff about metal tooth filling being able to occasionally pick up radio signals. I wonder if that could be it? Not very likely, I'd think. Wouldn't discount it entirely though.

 

[Takhisis]

I heard music and what sounded like an ad for a carpet store.

99% sure it was a radio.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I did a bit more searching on this and found stuff about metal tooth filling being able to occasionally pick up radio signals. I wonder if that could be it? Not very likely, I'd think. Wouldn't discount it entirely though.

I've heard of that, actually. Don't know if it's just an urban myth.

 

[Mouthwash]

Does any Russophile here know of someone called 'Veles' and associated historical revisionism about the Russian language/Russian history?

 

[Takhisis]

Veles as in the old Slavic pre-Christian deity?