Interesting_Test_814 @ Interesting_Test_814 @jlai.lu

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What's wrong with linking to imgflip ?

The poop post and your advertisement campaign stopped by a strike have to be there

Knowledge is power, France is bacon.

Maybe you're aromantic ? Though that depends on what you mean by "in love with a girl who doesn’t exist" - are you in love with an actual fictional girl or just not in love with anyone ?

I never got very close to death but my dad did. Four times.

(The first two were before I was born, so I can only tell from what he told us.)

First one was when he was 4. He fell into a big hole in a circus. He lost audition from his right ear in the accidentt. To this day, he still can only hear from his left ear.

Second one was after graduating high school. Excited from his graduation, he crossed a road on the way back home without paying attention and got hit by a car. Thankfully he hasn't got any long-term sequel from this one. But this served as a lesson, always pay attention when crossing the road.

Third one was during a holiday with all the family 7-8 years ago. He was paragliding when he hit a tree and fell from the height of the tree. Broke an arm and couldn't use it for months after that. He was supposed to drive us back home at the end of the holiday, instead we got back home by taxi. No long-term sequel for him after either.

Fourth one was at the beginning of 2019. It was late in the evening when his vision from the left eye started getting blurry. He called the emergency service and, as during the call he had struggle finding his words, they sent an ambulance. It turned out he had a stroke. Had he thought he was just getting tired and gone to sleep that night, he might not have seen the next day. The day after we tried talking to him, but he was only responding with gibberish. He eventually mostly recovered, but is still sleepier than before his stroke to this day.

Same in France (cochon d'Inde)

Imperial unit system.

16 June 2023 - my account appears newer than that because I switched instance.

Me too

Also : Brilliant, NordVPN

In France, it is illegal to name your pig Napoleon.

And, in the other direction : lose.

We actually have the same issue with our « quotes » and accentuated capital letters in French, so « l'État » sometimes becomes "l'Etat".

Doesn't work on a phone/tablet

Yeah, there are quite a lot of exceptions but "-e is female, otherwise is male" works most of the time. Then if you want to be more precise you can remember some generic exceptions like -age, -isme are male and -tion, -té is female. You'll still have some exceptions like une souris, une vis, une dent, un câble, un graphe, un cône, une image (exception to the exception) but it probably works in about 80-90% of cases.

(Also "icône" is actually female in French)

In French we have a similar problem. Currently the most popular form is "citoyen.ne.s" or "citoyen.nes" (besides the good old "citoyens" or "citoyennes et citoyens"), which sometimes gets rendered as a website by some text displayers (e.g. les habitant.es). It's technically supposed to be a middle dot (citoyen·ne·s) but nobody has that on their keyboard (I literally had to copy-paste it from wikipedia) so people use the point instead. We used to use parentheses like "citoyen(ne)s" but these have vastly be replaced by the dots.

This is the same in french, the gender of words is generally determined by their ending. (Which is not pronounced.)

Agreed

"Rule #1. It's forbidden to tell the rules of Mao.

Rule #2. There are two exceptions to rule #1, which are rule #1 and rule #2."

This is how Mao was introduced to me. Very fun game

(Actually I watched an ongoing game of Mao before I joined the party and started playing. As I was watching the game I understood a rule and said it out loud, not knowing I wasn't supposed to say the rules. This, of course, granted me a penalty at the beginning of my first game.)

Actual zombie