I've talked for years with friends of mine about MLB+Steroids+Aluminum Bats. I want to see someone hit two 700ft homers in a night.

That's a term I haven't heard in a very, very long time. I keep one in a drawer with my Sound Blaster PCMCIA card.

Portuguese, to me, sounds like this: msh msh oowow msh msh. I love it.

I don't speak Spanish, but do Spanish authors pull the same shit English ones do, where they give characters absolutely nonsense names with ambiguous pronunciations? Is it even possible? I will read a name of a character or place and spend the next 20 chapters reading the word twice or three times in different ways.

I pronounced epitome epi-tome for the longest time. Now as I read, I pop onto Google when I encounter something I'm unfamiliar with. And I'm 36, my job has me fairly familiar with the English language, but I swear some writers discover a word and they're like "can't wait to use this two or three times in the next couple chapters."

It's that and character/place names, but character names are dangerous lookups, spoiled a plot in WoT looking up how to pronounce Moraine. And the worst part is her name's pretty obvious, but I fucking looked it up anyway. I thought Hermione was obvious as a kid, but that's probably because I transposed the I and O, now that I think about it.

I've noticed, on ones I've seen in person and online, the paint job makes a huge, huge difference. Black ones look pretty good. Someone has a dark red one by me that's just less bad.

Pretty brave to admit that.

My bag of flour is in a Ziploc bag as we speak. As was the previous bag. The choice between environmentalism and a pantry without flour everywhere is unfortunately an easy one to make for me.

It's funny, two things that made it infinitely easier to pick up women were my wedding ring and my kids. Of course it's probably the complete lack of pressure, knowing I'm not actually picking up anyone. Always been a confidence issue.

Aerospace engineer, 16-40$ per hour. I hope the benefits include an actual salary.

Just another strategy, she clearly wants to date a Nazi, grammar or otherwise.

And here we are talking about it.

Have you considered being born massively wealthy?

Not just in sport, but in life. With a bit of talent and a bunch of money, you can do whatever you want!!!

I speak French until they have enough of me butchering their language with my Jersey (New) accent. Bon Joor, je voo le pan. They beg me to stop and I keep going. Jaim vo d-nay. Mare C bo coo. They thank me for leaving.

We have a black coffee table and sometimes it's just on the coffee table and I'm like "Jesus fucking Christ what is wrong with you.". In fairness to me, it's summer, I keep the shades drawn, keeps the temps down.

Hey, I'm not even 37.

My six year old daughter is getting the hanging of the spelling and whatnot, but earlier on in her Kindergarten year, words like "driver," to her, started with a J. I had never thought about it, but it absolutely (at least in our NJ dialect) has a J sound, because, as you say, we all talk fucked up (paraphrasing).

I feel like it's the glottal T. I know for me, personally, my tongue doesn't touch my teeth, but there is still a T sound. I am not British, though I am from Jersey (New).

It's probably bad parenting, but I tell my daughter that people who litter are bad people. I can probably put it better, but she's young, simple is good, and so litterers=bad people. I honestly think that to essentially be true, because if you litter, you've essentially internally rationalized your entitlement to make your shit someone else's problem. Right there with people who don't put their carts back.

That being said, I do also say to her that sometimes the wind will carry trash from a receptacle, and that sometimes folks have difficulty ambulating, and so there are exceptions.