attempts to make time pass differently
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yamamanama6 days until the vernal equinox
Wednesday really got my hopes up.
I meant to say this last week: There are easier, cheaper, and quicker ways to determine sex. I'm just saying it's possible to do it by looking at their chromosomes.
I found out that Incubus has a song called Trust Fall. I prefer Atlas Lab's version, of course.
A trust fall, I've learned, is a real thing. Hank Scorpio does one and Homer hits the floor because Hank has to answer the phone. Don't chalk that one up to mistrust, now.
We can now test for lead ourselves.
A fossil collector discovered an intact gigantic anomalocaris, which were the apex predator before sharks and eurypterids, in Morocco. This explains how insect limbs, specifically, the branches on insect limbs, evolved.
Jack, who is partially if not wholly Greek, tried and failed to learn Greek.
Emma, who is partially Hungarian and partially Polish and 99 percent Ashkenazi Jew and says there's always a 1% something else no matter who you are, is biased towards learning Spanish because it's nice-sounding.
I said that Spanish and French are taught in most schools because they're such commonly spoken languages. Greek, not so much. Maltese* to me sounds like a mixture of Italian and Arabic. I couldn't find the video of Nuxalk I was looking for when he asked about my favorite languages and the Maltese language video I found was a Maltese-speaker saying words in her language for an English-speaker, rather than someone speaking Maltese.
*You know, where the poofy dogs** are from.
**Come to think of it, I think I met a Maltese named Emma. Dog, not human nationality.
We need more King Rogers and fewer King Mswatis and King Salmans.
I had to tell them about this: A person is biologically white if they are of at least 15/16ths (93.75%) consanguinity of non-Jewish, non-Asiatic European ancestry, descendants of the autochthonous Peoples of the contemporary states of Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, and Ukraine.
Italy is only the 5th largest country in Europe*, sixth if you include all of Turkey instead of just the portion of Turkey located in Europe. I can understand not including the tiny countries, because they can fit into Rhode Island and have a combined population less than West Virginia. I can understand not including Cyprus because it honestly looks like it's in Asia, and don't give me that crap about how Cyprus is culturally European because nobody, and I mean nobody, considers New Zealand to be in Europe. But since his list includes Estonia and Belarus, I'm going to assume the lack of Italy was a deliberate exclusion rather than an oversight he made while listing every European country that came to mind and then alphabetizing them. Nay, he probably went through a list of countries and deleted all the countries he didn't like and all the tiny countries except for Iceland and then deleted Serbia for good measure. Also, I don't know if Muslims are lumped in with Asiatics (but Jews aren't? That's like anti-semitism 101.) or he just forgot to mention them when he didn't include Macedonia, Bosnia, and Albania (or Serbia or Croatia for that matter) in his list of white nationalities.
*this sentence makes me think that English needs either Hungarian's flexible word order or those punctuation marks Hervé Bazin used. The kind where you could tell which Emma I'm talking about by punctuation alone instead of having to rely on something like context. Spoiler alert: I'm not talking about artist Emma.
Sometimes I forget that Belgium and the Netherlands exist, but that's more Sporclitis than ignorance.
I'm going to ask some people who aren't Emma, Jack, or Brody to name some European countries.
I have other thoughts on this but I'm blanking right now. So here's the
burning question: hold on the fuck on, Movieguide. Grand Budapest Hotel had more explicit sex and nudity than her? her has light sex and moderate nudity. I can understand the moderate nudity part. But only in one scene and that scene is more awkward than explicit.
Wednesday really got my hopes up.
I meant to say this last week: There are easier, cheaper, and quicker ways to determine sex. I'm just saying it's possible to do it by looking at their chromosomes.
I found out that Incubus has a song called Trust Fall. I prefer Atlas Lab's version, of course.
A trust fall, I've learned, is a real thing. Hank Scorpio does one and Homer hits the floor because Hank has to answer the phone. Don't chalk that one up to mistrust, now.
We can now test for lead ourselves.
A fossil collector discovered an intact gigantic anomalocaris, which were the apex predator before sharks and eurypterids, in Morocco. This explains how insect limbs, specifically, the branches on insect limbs, evolved.
Jack, who is partially if not wholly Greek, tried and failed to learn Greek.
Emma, who is partially Hungarian and partially Polish and 99 percent Ashkenazi Jew and says there's always a 1% something else no matter who you are, is biased towards learning Spanish because it's nice-sounding.
I said that Spanish and French are taught in most schools because they're such commonly spoken languages. Greek, not so much. Maltese* to me sounds like a mixture of Italian and Arabic. I couldn't find the video of Nuxalk I was looking for when he asked about my favorite languages and the Maltese language video I found was a Maltese-speaker saying words in her language for an English-speaker, rather than someone speaking Maltese.
*You know, where the poofy dogs** are from.
**Come to think of it, I think I met a Maltese named Emma. Dog, not human nationality.
We need more King Rogers and fewer King Mswatis and King Salmans.
I had to tell them about this: A person is biologically white if they are of at least 15/16ths (93.75%) consanguinity of non-Jewish, non-Asiatic European ancestry, descendants of the autochthonous Peoples of the contemporary states of Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, and Ukraine.
Italy is only the 5th largest country in Europe*, sixth if you include all of Turkey instead of just the portion of Turkey located in Europe. I can understand not including the tiny countries, because they can fit into Rhode Island and have a combined population less than West Virginia. I can understand not including Cyprus because it honestly looks like it's in Asia, and don't give me that crap about how Cyprus is culturally European because nobody, and I mean nobody, considers New Zealand to be in Europe. But since his list includes Estonia and Belarus, I'm going to assume the lack of Italy was a deliberate exclusion rather than an oversight he made while listing every European country that came to mind and then alphabetizing them. Nay, he probably went through a list of countries and deleted all the countries he didn't like and all the tiny countries except for Iceland and then deleted Serbia for good measure. Also, I don't know if Muslims are lumped in with Asiatics (but Jews aren't? That's like anti-semitism 101.) or he just forgot to mention them when he didn't include Macedonia, Bosnia, and Albania (or Serbia or Croatia for that matter) in his list of white nationalities.
*this sentence makes me think that English needs either Hungarian's flexible word order or those punctuation marks Hervé Bazin used. The kind where you could tell which Emma I'm talking about by punctuation alone instead of having to rely on something like context. Spoiler alert: I'm not talking about artist Emma.
Sometimes I forget that Belgium and the Netherlands exist, but that's more Sporclitis than ignorance.
I'm going to ask some people who aren't Emma, Jack, or Brody to name some European countries.
I have other thoughts on this but I'm blanking right now. So here's the
burning question: hold on the fuck on, Movieguide. Grand Budapest Hotel had more explicit sex and nudity than her? her has light sex and moderate nudity. I can understand the moderate nudity part. But only in one scene and that scene is more awkward than explicit.
