ArtieShaw

I think there may have been a joke in there.

Or maybe not.

30 Helens agree.

This advice always gets downvoted, but it works for me. I’ll offer it for what it is.

When I lose something I’ll take a moment and politely ask the thieving house elves to give it back. Then I stop thinking or stressing about it. I usually find it within a day.

It’s a Vulcan on a… oh, never mind.

There might be something further upstream. All the way upstream.

We don’t even have a photo of this dry sandwich? My curiosity demands it

I don’t like it.

Same here. “First names of baseball players with one extra letter?” Never.

I’m feeling pretty good today though, because I avoided the fake out “film crew” category. (Best boy, gaffer, etc)

That kid went for the performance and absolutely nailed it.

Not Russian, but 35 years ago there was a widely repeated translation joke: The slogan “come alive with the Pepsi generation” was translated into Chinese, but it literally meant “Pepsi revives your dead ancestors.”

That example may be apocryphal, but translations are interesting. It’s something to be mindful of when talking with otherwise fluent ESL people.

I had a very intelligent and fluent coworker who knew the English phrase “to shag” from the Austin Powers movies. She completely misinterpreted the meaning of “a shag carpet,” though. It was so funny (and came up so infrequently) that no one ever corrected her.

Riker, his chair maneuvered.

I think we’re all a bit perplexed by the situation. That guy looks pretty dead, but that shirt ain’t red.

If I see gills I’m not touching it.

Of course it’s bees. It’s always bees with that crowd.

Utah “It’s been dull around here since hive-collapse” has spoken.

Speaking as a new hobbyist (2 months), I went with an Creality Ender 3 V3 KE. The cost was in the $250-300 USD range and it had a decent range of features.

I’ve used it almost every day since unpacking it. It’s pretty easy to get to know. The Creality cloud slicing tool is good enough for me (for now), and can be run via a browser or app.

Microcenter has a variety of display models that you can check out. If I had known about it I probably would have gone prior to making my selection. I’m not sure my choice would have been different, but a little extra knowledge never hurts.

You’re right, of course. But I think it’s equally plausible that the original writer didn’t really grasp the difference and mixed some things up.

Nice! That’s very similar to something I want to do with my tablet and reader.

The two hobbies I picked up over the past year are leather working and 3D printing. Funnily enough, I was about two weeks into printing before I realized… “hey - I can combine these.”

Twenty years ago my grandmother was dying of old age. She didn’t have any specific disease or diagnosis. She was just 92 and her body was shutting down. Whenever she was hospitalized for general organ failure they would give her a blood infusion and she would rebound.

Yes, everyone in the family made the same grim vampire jokes.

No one asked for her to receive this treatment, and she was definitely not well off financially. Her treatment was entirely driven by the medical staff. The only money being collected was through Medicare.

In retrospect, I’m more than half-way wondering if they were collecting data.

Indeed. Too real.