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I'm going to be at Denver Starfest sometime this weekend. Anyone else in the area want to meet up?

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Apparently capacitive touch manicures do not exist?

Someone get on that.

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Accidentally reading a fic where (some people will recognize this fic from the description) where Person A likes to dirty talk in French, and may have said some things confident in the assumption that Person B does not speak French, and comes home to Person B googling French-English translations: drama!

Thing is, Person A is speaking Quebec French. I am honestly reasonably confident that no non-linguist anglophone could transcribe Quebecois in such a way that they could later usefully google it. T'sais?

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( White Cat (Curse Workers, #1): ★★★☆☆Collapse )

( Code Name Verity: ★★★★☆Collapse )

( Kiss of Steel (London Steampunk, #1): ★★★☆☆Collapse )

( The Forest of Hands and Teeth (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #1): ★★★☆☆Collapse )

( Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy, #1): ★★★★☆Collapse )

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The way my brain works, and maybe other peoples' are not like this? Is that when I read or hear the first half of an aphorism, my brain supplies the other half, such that the impression given by reading the first half is actually supplied by the second half. The first half is the signifier, and the second half is the signified.

(IOW: $foo = "bar" and when I read "foo" I don't think "foo", I think "bar".)

(Also, when I come across the second half, I generally supply the first half, but the effect is not quite as strong.)

So when I come across fic titled "The Wages of Sin" I am expecting it to be about death, and when I come across fic titled "Lie down with Wolves," I am mentally reading a fic titled 'Get up with fleas.'

And I'm not sure that this is what the authors intended, in most cases.

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Is there a story out there where Peggy Carter and Steve Rogers are dating post Steve's thaw, and Steve thinks Peggy at 90 is the most beautiful woman he knows, and Peggy knows that everyone thinks she should let Steve go gracefully, but screw it, she's lived and fought through more wars than you and if she wants a hot young boyfriend and glass of scotch, she will get it, dammit.

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Metafilter's April Fool's page is pleasing to me.

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I think my battle-cry is "While this has nothing to do with the subject at hand, I feel the need to point out:"

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I begin to feel, more and more, like capitalism is a tool for efficiently selecting and rewarding people who are good at maximally exploiting their environment, and which has as its side-effect the generation of an unbounded quantity of plastic and silicon tchotchkes.

I mean, I also believe it is the worst system there is, except for all the other ones we've tried, so I have no alternative to propose, but man, look at the people capitalism rewards.

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Snobby Canadians Who Only Speak French: Tu parles comme une vache Espagnole.
Snobby Canadians Who Speak French: Will pretend to only speak French, unless they are in Alberta, and want to find a bathroom.
Snobby Canadians Who Do Not Speak French, But Learned How To Pronounce it in School: Will insist on using French pronunciation for words of French extraction, or words that look like they might be French, except for 'chandelier', and other words we will inform you of when you get them wrong.
Snobby Canadians Who  Do Not Speak French: Proud of Canada's status as a bilingual country; will pronounce arbitrary words of French extraction with what they imagine to be a French accent, will correct you if you get them wrong.
Albertans: Will not pronounce any words according to French pronunciation, even if it is the name of a Francophone.

(This entire document is a joke and untrue?  Mostly.)

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