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

[Snerk]

What kind of black shoes are we talking about here?

 

[Arakhor]

Definitely.

 

[Synobun]

Do whatever makes you happy. Fashion snobs are the crocs of society.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

What's the occasion?

 

[Broken_Erika]

The finest fashion is Purple shoes with neon-green socks, fluorescent orange pants and a polka-dot shirt and plaid boxer shorts on your head!

 

[Zkribbler]

The finest fashion is Purple shoes with neon-green socks, fluorescent orange pants and a polka-dot shirt and plaid boxer shorts on your head!

I tried that once. Didn't work.

 

[Cutlass]

Blue suede shoes has always been where it's at. timeless.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

My philosophy of socks has changed over the years: If nobody is going to see them, who cares what color they are? As long as you wear one on each foot, that's the important thing.

I had to change my mindset on this after Lightning (one of my cats) decided to steal one half of every pair of socks I owned (she adopted them as surrogate kittens after we gave away two of hers). Since nothing matched anymore, I had several options. Getting mad at the cat would have been mean. Fretting about the socks would have been pointless. In the 22 years between the time she took them and the time I moved, I never found them. She hid those surrogate kittens very well.

So I bought a couple of packages of white socks and after that it didn't matter if she took any. As for the colored ones I still had, if I wore mismatched socks, what difference did it make?

 

[The_J]

My philosophy of socks has changed over the years: If nobody is going to see them, who cares what color they are?

These considerations normally come into play when someone might be able to see them, and it could be somewhat important (so normally when you decide what to put on below the suit) .

 

[Takhisis]

crocs

shots fired

 

[Snerk]

As a white, straight guy in my thirties, crocs are a crucial part of my peoples' sacred ancestral folk costume. We wear them with pride to fend of evil spirits, and women.

 

[Cutlass]

Around here it's a fad with pre-teen girls to always have not matching socks on.

 

[Arakhor]

As a white, straight guy in my thirties...

I would say, "as a straight, white guy in my thirties..." What it is about English that makes my version sound more idiomatic than Snerk's?

 

[Snerk]

You're face is idiomatic!

No I hear you, it definitely sounds better.

Somebody once posted this quiz/survey where you chose among a bunch of different sentence structures in English and it tried to decipher if English was your primary language and if not, what was. Didn't come up with correct results on me IIRC but still kind of interesting. Anybody remember?

 

[Lohrenswald]

You're face is idiomatic!

No I hear you, it definitely sounds better.

Somebody once posted this quiz/survey where you chose among a bunch of different sentence structures in English and it tried to decipher if English was your primary language and if not, what was. Didn't come up with correct results on me IIRC but still kind of interesting. Anybody remember?

jeg har din rygg, hvite rette mann

{mod]If you are going to post in a language other than English, you must provide an English translation. Thank you. --LM[/mod]

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/international-english-dialect-online-test.616409/

 

[Snerk]

It was even glorious Lohrius!

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Retook the test. Still thinks I'm black.

 

[Snerk]

You're a beautiful black man, deal with it.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The brand of shampoo I bought changed the diameter of the hole you squeeze the shampoo out of. Anytime I try and use it now it gushes an enormous amount of shampoo out which all goes down the drain. A bottle that used to last me two months or so is empty in just a couple of weeks as a result. The hole diameter is now wide enough that the surface tension of the shampoo cannot contain it and it just floods out even if you don't apply pressure.

So my question is does anyone else have any examples where companies have changed their product to artificially drive up demand?

 

[Synobun]

There's a "proper order" to adjectives.

1. Quantity or number
2. Quality or opinion
3. Size
4. Age
5. Shape
6. Color
7. Proper adjective (often nationality, other place of origin, or material)
8. Purpose or qualifier

Being straight falls under 2 (as a side effect of how sexual orientation is seen in our society).

Related: https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ectives-rule-elements-of-eloquence-dictionary