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What is your least favourite acronym?

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  • The remix version of Mmmbop

    • What is your least favourite acronym?

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  • Would that mean anything if it were?

    • What is your least favourite acronym?

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  • I always confuse that first ETA between Estimated time of arrival vs Estimated time to arrival.

    • What's a piece of classical music that everyone knows but most people don't know they know?

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  • Huh, this one doesn't ring any bells for me. Is there some reference in particular I should recognize it from?

    • What is it, that you currently imagine is stopping you from being content with your life?

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  • My unwillingness to knowingly hurt people. I think I would be happier doing my own thing, but would hurt or disappoint do many people by leaving them (my boyfriend, family, colleagues, friends....). So I'm just wasting my own life instead...

    • As Someone Learning German, I Know This Pain

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  • I'm semi-fluent in German and Spanish, and my strategy is guesstimate. I figure that I've probably read/heard the word before, so I just test out the genders on it and whichever one "feels more natural" or "sounds less weird", it's probably because I've heard it that way before, so I go with that.

    • As Someone Learning German, I Know This Pain

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  • Sometimes it changes. For example, Covid in French, everyone was using "le covid" (i guess cos it's a virus, and virus is a masculin word), but then I believe the French academy weighed in that it should be "la covid" because it's not the virus but the disease (la maladie) we're talking about. Anyway. Yeah other than the official sources, many of us peasants all still say Le covid because by the time they weighed in we were all saying Le and so now saying La sounds weird.

    • What is the best TV show that you have ever seen?

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  • A lot of shows I liked are mentioned here already, so I'm going to add Brooklyn 99. Recently finished it and it's a surprisingly rich show, really enjoyed it.

    Whole different vibe, but Don't Look Up. As an environmental scientist, that one really nailed the existential dread many of my colleagues and I feel every day...

    • Maybe ghosts are real, but since they're incorporeal they're unaffected by gravity and get left behind in the void of space

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  • Which is why they're usually just temporary visitors to Earth. The planet is actually passing through them, so they fade in, crying their despair at their lonely fate, and fade back out...

    • Can you tell me about any lesser-known local fruits or vegetables in your area that you think more people should discover?

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  • Pakay! Also called ice cream bean. It's a giant bean, inside there's big seeds surrounded in white solid-fluffy stuff. You eat the white stuff. It's sweet without being overpowering and the consistency is interesting. Delicious

    • Have you ever been accused of something that wasn’t true, yet you had no way to prove your innocence?

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  • Yeah I don't think he is projecting in that sense, but I do believe he has really bad abandonment issues, that is making him "see" things that aren't the case, maybe to have a reason to push me away before I hurt him, too... I'm not sure what to do, he's so convinced that I've betrayed him already, and even if the offense is not real, the pain clearly is, and I'm not sure there is anything I can do to reassure him. It's so painful to watch (beyond the hurtful accusations..)...

    I appreciate you looking out for me, friend!

    • Have you ever been accused of something that wasn’t true, yet you had no way to prove your innocence?

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  • My bf is convinced I have/had feelings for some other guys. Keeps pressing the issue and "Why can't you just admit it?". I can't admit something that isn't true...

    • Can you drive a manual transmission?

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  • Yes. Europe. We pretty much all do. Automatics are becoming a bit more common in recent years, but 90% of cars here are still manual. Especially the old beat-up cars we learn to drive on are all manual. And if by chance you learned on an automatic, and pass your driver's test on automatic, it says so on your driver's licence and I think you're not actually allowed to drive/rent manual cars.

    • Without using pronouns (me, he, she, it, etc) or articles (a, an, the), how did you come up with your user name?

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  • Cookie Monster has eyes like predator. Is Cookie Monster predator? Are cookies alive?