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Reply #345 - Oct 2nd, 2024 at 1:19pm
 
   This is admittedly going back aways but I suppose at least some of you are old enough to remember The A Team.   It was a 1983 TV show about a squad of Special Forces Vietnam vets who stayed together after the war.  Each week they get involved in some dicey stuff and battle bad guys. 
     In every episode they end up in an automatic weapons fight with assorted villains.  In every episode hundreds or even thousands of rounds are fired.  In every episode none of the A Team members or any of the bad guys are hit.  Through five seasons and ninety eight episodes and hundreds of thousands of rounds fired NO ONE EVER GETS HIT.   As an army vet and former M-60 gunner I can assure you that this is quite impossible. 

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Reply #346 - Oct 2nd, 2024 at 5:07pm
 
Sorry, I was -1 year old...

I've heard of the A-Team (or maybe I've only heard of Mr. T) but I haven't seen any episodes of the show, just references to it in other media.
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Reply #347 - Oct 2nd, 2024 at 6:09pm
 
I was young, but I loved the A-Team.  The no-death was due to the time slot.  The show was running at prime time on NBC.  All the guns and explosions were allowed, but no death.  So it wasn't a "creative" decision per se.
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Reply #348 - Oct 5th, 2024 at 9:24pm
 
My pet peeve is when people score things out of five or ten, or whatever number ever known to mankind, and they answer with a decimal. It defeats the entire purpose of scoring that way. I'm sorry, 6.8/10 is not 6.8 out of ten, that's 17/25, or 34/50 for consistency with increments of two tenths, like 6.6/10 (33/50) or 6.4/10 (32/50). If one's asking to score out of X number, they mean whole numbers. Even if they don't mean that, it's still heavily implied by scoring out of X number!
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Reply #349 - Oct 25th, 2024 at 10:20am
 
    The dumbing down of America is complete.  We now need instructions on how to use a poopy bag.
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Reply #350 - Oct 25th, 2024 at 10:40am
 
Conspiracy theories. I've been obsessing over them for over a decade.

Coming to terms with the existence of stuff like creationism, flat-earth, antisemitism, ancient aliens, Q-Anon and the like has been a constant struggle for almost half of my life.

I have grown and matured as a person in the process, solely based on battling my cognitive dissonance regarding conspiracy theories.
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Reply #351 - Oct 25th, 2024 at 9:57pm
 
What's wrong with creationism? Used to be a common viewpoint until recently.
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Reply #352 - Oct 25th, 2024 at 11:17pm
 
Just a reminder.  There is no discussion of religion on the forum (https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?virboard=1;num=1639081613).  That hasn't happened here yet, so I'm just trying to make sure it doesn't.

If there's something along that line you would like to discuss with someone, feel free to do so via private message.
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Reply #353 - Oct 26th, 2024 at 2:49am
 
Yeah I was thinking of the ban on politics and religion discussions, I'll make sure not to discuss that here.
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Reply #354 - Oct 27th, 2024 at 8:24pm
 
When it comes to English I dislike how it works (or rather doesn't) with relatives. You never know which side of the family is being spoken of. In Swedish, and many other languages for sure, you INSTANTLY know. Your grandfather on your fathers side for instance is called "farfar" (translates to father-father). But if I tell a story about the same guy in English I have to write "my grandfather... ON MY FATHER'S SIDE". It's honestly quite annoying; especially since there already ARE different words; grandpa/granddad/grandfather/whatever else. Just standardize one each for either side of the family and stop with the "on X side"?

^Same with "the day before yesterday". Surely something could be done there? It COULD be contracted into a single word right? "Thedabay" or something idk...

In Swedish it's people who use the word "egenKligen". Yeah that's "egenTligen" and the K is making you spit...

As a person with massive issues with sleep also can't stand it when I'm tired for an entire evening, I go to bed, OH suddenly I'm NOT tired. Oh now I'm just lying here wide awake and annoyed? That's cool!

Time of writing all of this is 01:30 and I got up again as I couldn't sleep. DST just makes it all even WORSE (that needs to go as well). Just made a big bowl of pasta just to try to go into a carb-coma. We'll see how it goes.
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Reply #355 - Oct 28th, 2024 at 11:33am
 
For grandparents you can also say 'paternal grandfather' or 'maternal grandfather'.  It's still adding another word, but shortens it a bit from 'on my father's side'.
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