aramis87

I speak English. And, as James Nicoll said,

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

I speak some Spanish and some Dutch, but I don't know if I borrow many words from them that aren't "normal" borrow-words.

You're forgetting the male incel epidemic, including the ones who legitimately want the government to issue them a girlfriend. I'm sure some of them feel that the only reason they didn't have a girlfriend is that "their girlfriend" mistakenly believes she's gay or was "taken" by a lesbian. Similar to that guy who was like "I'm sure the reason I don't have a girlfriend is that the one who was destined to be mine got aborted by some 'liberated' woman".

I opposed childhood gender transitions, unlawful and divisive DEI mandates, and the excesses of Critical Race Theory. I argued against biological males competing in women’s sports and being housed in women’s prisons.

Thus proving a basic misunderstanding of most of these issues. Welcome to the future that you voted for, sucks for all of us.

I've tried the foam earplugs from a drugstore/chemist's. They're extremely difficult to put in properly

Take the earplug and roll it between your fingers until it's a smaller size that goes in easily. Take your other hand and grab your earlobe toward the back and bottom. Pull your lobe backward and away from your head; that straightens and opens your ear canal. The combination of these two should make it easy to insert the earplugs.

[If you like, you can play around with putting the tip of your finger at the entrance of your ear canal and then pulling the lobe with your other hand, to feel how it changes the entrance to your ear canal.]

and get dirty after a few uses.

Maybe clean your ears? Also, most of the cheap foam earplugs aren't meant to be a long-term solution, they're definitionally disposable.

Yeah, I suspected you were a troll. Blocked. Goodbye.

Fuck spez, fuck his not-covert support of Trump, misogyny and the alt-right neo-Nazis, and fuck him blatantly trying to profit from my comments and submissions.

Well, that's a shame .... /s

I do this when a company is doing something I want to encourage. I have a friend who's deaf but we go to open-captioned movies, and I always stop by customer service to thank them for doing those showings. My cousin is immunocompromised, and I stop by the customer service desk at the grocery store to thank them for continuing to provide the cart wipes.

Apparently there was some school of teaching for a while, where the teachers were emphasizing getting your ideas down on paper quickly, without regard for spelling, spacing, paragraph-ing, punctuation, verb tense, etc. I ran across it when I was trying to find out why there was this generation of fanfic writers who had interesting concepts but couldn't write to any kind of standard - and who were extremely resistant to any suggestions. Some of the concepts sounded really interesting, too, but it was entirely too much work to try to parse the story.

When texting (ie, fast reading and writing), I'll occasionally do it for legibility when using exclamation points, when the sentence I'm writing ends in too many thin, upright letters. Like in a text, I think I will !

reads faster than I will!

Yes, I take the deal - but he loses his American citizenship for meddling in US elections, and can't ever get a visa here, either.

To be fair, a decent amount aren't normal "fine upstanding citizens". A bunch of them were criminals or foreigners duped into going to Russia and not given an option about fighting.