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For me, “a handful” needs to be more than two and could be as many as seven or eight, which “several” can only ever be two or three. “A couple” is always two, except on occasional drunken and open-minded evenings from one’s youth.
For me, “a handful” is a full C cup.
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yes
boobies!
yes
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it a few more times before I’m through…
I appreciate boobies more now as an actual boob farmer than I ever did as a dude.
If I had my own there is a better than average chance that I’d never leave the house.
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But, for the record, more than a handful is PERFECTLY OKAY.
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YAY!
♥
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A handful of beans isn’t 2 to 5. It could be like 30.
I’m with you on a couple always meaning two. A few, to me, almost always means three. The other two I don’t have strong feelings about, but I would always be thinking more than two.
Whatever the exact size of the number, it’s a small sample.
Somehow, I had this argument multiple times with my ex (not the reason she’s an ex). I was originally on the couple = 2-5ish (as in someone saying “it’s a couple of miles down the road not necessarily meaning exactly 2), but I was persuaded (read: indifferent enough) to accept that one of those phrases above could be used to mean exactly 2.
As for a handful, that always suggest more than 2 to me.
yes, men might think more often that women do that being in a couple means being in 2-5 different people and maybe this argument is exactly why she’s your ex and you’re stuck with a handful… or did i read that wrong?
*than women do
Poppy? Are you still bestowing immortality on certain comments? ‘Cuz there’s one right above me.
DUDE I NEED YOU.
A few parents are having a very strange discussion on player nicknames. One of the kids (Parker) was nicknamed Parkinho by one of the coaches. When I spelled it that way, though, his mom (jokingly) gave us a bad time and said that it should be spelled with -ño instead of -ho at the end. Obviously, because I like Brazilian players, I responded and said that it was spelled the Brazil/Portugese way, not the Mexican/Spanish way because I idolized Ronaldinho growing up, and there are guys like Robinho and Juninho etc who have been great.
She still says because the coach pronounces it with the ñ sound and not the /yo/ sound it should be spelled that way, but I say that we’re all gringos and pronounce it the same regardless of spelling.
Thoughts?
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portuguese nh = spanish ñ, for sure. piranha, piraña. ronaldinho, ronaldiño. it sounds exactly the same in spanish or portuguese and it’s just a different way of writing it. if someone thinks they sound different, they’re not saying it right. it’d be like someone claiming there’s a different sound at the beginning of german foto and english photo.
if you want ammo on your side, while it sounds the same, iño doesn’t actually mean the same thing as inho. in portuguese inho/inha means “little.” like ronaldinho means little ronaldo. in spanish, little ronaldo would be ronaldito, so not even close to needing a ñ for spelling.
in spanish we might use the ñ to make a name cuter but only if it already sounds close to that. like antonio might become toño, but that doesn’t mean little antonio, just shortens anthony to tony, where antoninho in portuguese would definitely be little tony.
I love you.
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I would argue that Brazilian Portuguese nh doesn’t sound exactly the same. But I’m too busy with work to make the argument.
NH vs NY?
Live free or die!
Yeah, fuck those guys! New Haven forever!
damn Yalie!
fair ’nuff, but i’m only gonna take that from someone who really knows his phones and phonemes. which it seems you might.
I was playing with “photo” and “foto” and I’m pretty sure I start my lip in a slightly different bottom lip/top teeth position for each. Maybe 1mm difference.
The first ‘o’ in each word is different, so even if the initial /f/ sounds were normally identical (which they may be–I’ve never really thought about it), you would usually end up changing the lip/teeth positioning in anticipation of the following sounds. In general, American English seems to require a lot more lip/facial movement than Spanish.
yeah, i just meant the consonant part.
I think “a handful” is often used to indicate a small percentage of a much larger pool of things, even if the “handful” is in double digits. E.g. There are lots of MLB players on Twitter, but only a handful really worth following.
Worthwhile article about the first employee ever hired by Walter Haas, and her role in exposing Marge Schott as a despicable bigot.
It’s an excellent article about an impressive person in Sharon Jones. I’m skeptical that the lesson learned isn’t that “you can’t talk like Marge, but you can behave like her if you keep your mouth shut in the presence of outsiders”.
That is a great article.
Hooray for rescue dogs(!), named Diamond(!!!).
Also, I’ve been pondering a bit on the matter of character, maybe because there have been so distressingly many examples of its absence lately in the news (Edwards, Judge Seeman (prolly), That McQ guy at Penn State (along with many others thereabouts) — you just never know when an opportunity/test of same is gonna rear-up and slap your face.
Obviously and suddenly, it did so to Ms. Jones on the phone, and it seems she handled it well, both immediately and later on the follow-through. My first two above appear to have been just habitual scumbags who may have found a way to rationalize their scumbaggary (different problem), but how do you maximize the probability that you’ll do the right things when the situation is thrust-upon you (like the Penn State guy who walked-in on a case of scumbuggery)?
I don’t think you can be prepared for any specific such test, but it seems to me that some generic forethought might lead many folks to better responses. Progression would be something like: recognition of the situation/test for what it is, understanding in the moment or two that some decisive response is required from you (like it or not), and realizing there’s a choice among options, and going for the best reflection of your values. Thoughts?
I probably don’t have the content or order right, but, like the old saying that “that which gets measured, improves”, I’m convinced that that which gets practiced improves, too.
From Camper Van Beethoven’s song Civil Disobedience:
Will you know what to do?
Will you know what to do?
Will you do it?
Will you do what you know what to do?
The original column has already been roundly mocked here (and pretty much everywhere) but Charlie Pierce hits this one out of the fking park.
1 Rasmus nonsense
2 How is this even close?
3 Brian, everybody wears these, except you major leaguers. They don’t really look funny.
4. Another way Michelle is trying to aid our enemies. If we all ignored here and did our part, WORLD DOMINATION BY 2019.
5. You know what to do.
3: Also ironic coming from a guy wearing his cap backwards.
2: I think that if the US had an election between “World Suicide/Armageddon” and “Not World Suicide/Armageddon,” it would be neck and neck.
“The Rapture: Bring It On” would be a great campaign slogan for the Rs.
Pssh. Hat Club. Sun Valley Mall, Concord. 2 weeks ago.
I’m too lazy to go there.
Everyone laughs at the conspiracy wackos, until they come for you!
I don’t work on South Pole Telescope (I work on another microwave telescope that is also located at the South Pole), but I know a lot of people who do. Evidently, they get a significant amount of email asking about their secret purpose of tracking Nibiru.
Sitchin is awesome, I dig those books like Genesis Revisited and The 12th Planet. The Sumerian pictographs that depict what appears to be laboratory creation of humans (even though they date from the 9th Century B.C.) sure are fascinating.
One time in the 1990s I went to a folk festival and this kid got up and sang a song about that stuff, titled “You Ain’t Gonna Find No Missing Link (Cuz the Aliens Fucked the Monkeys).
Have you ever read any of Lee Carroll’s “Kryon” books?
no, can’t say that I have. What are they about?
Mr. Carroll channels or “channels” a spirit named Kryon, whose (IMHO) greatest asset is self-deprecation. It often suggests to never take Mr. Carroll’s word as dogma, and compares its’ energies to high-density psychedelic download and apologizes for the inefficiencies of language.
Oh man, I remember reading this article back when it was posted, and it’s still soooo good. I cannot stop being fascinated by conspiracy nuts, and not just because my tinfoil hat is awesome and pretty.
Occasionally poking around Zodiac boards was a hobby of mine back when I was an insomniac, and if you love internet people-watching… man. The way people come up with their pet suspects, the way they defend them, and the antagonism between different factions, the way arguments can literally happen over the course of *years*… I always felt bad for O’Hare and a few of the other suspects-with-no-reason-to-suspect that just get caught up in the overzealous sleuthing crossfire by accident, Penn’s just so universally recognized as batshit and douchey (Graysmith just ranks ‘douchey’), but it seems like ‘having a book’ is all that’s required for the media to pull your pet suspect out when they trod out a Zodiac show every five or ten years.
There’s this absolute conviction that people have for their personal favorite suspects, regardless of evidence, and an absolute unwillingness to acknowledge what happens to associating someone’s name with being a serial killer in the information age, and I find it *fascinating*. I kind of love O’Hare’s take on it, since the rap against him was ‘WELL HE NEVER SAYS HE ISN’T’ and it’s like… well, yes, how else do you not give fame to famewhores except not engaging?
I had never heard the TAL about the bombing blogger that’s linked in the comments, and it’s a interesting listen.
Poor O’Hare. Penn is such a profiteering charlatan, as are that Voigt guy and Graysmith for that matter. They should have to pay all their profits to the victims’ families IMO.
The true identity of Z will never be known unless someone — a relative, probably — comes across the hoods, the cabdriver’s shirt, Bryan Hartnell’s car keys, whatever in the way of hard evidence. Sometimes I have thought that the cops were in on it or that it was a military intelligence project where the murders were in fact carried out by more than one person. Regardless, it’s pretty certain it was someone who had been or was then in the military, given the Wing Walker shoeprints and the Naval codes and ciphers and all.
I think Mike Mageau knows who it was, but good luck getting him to say so. He is still terrified, can’t blame him. Darlene Ferrin knew Z’s name, I’m pretty sure.
Penn’s certainly a profiteer and famewhore, but I’d also say he’s genuinely a bit unhinged, based on some of the people that have tried to contact him and use his talents for less-destructive purposes. The dude is just *creepy*, I’m pleased things haven’t been more than an aggressive nuisance for O’Hare, but I can’t even imagine having to explain My Crazy Stalker to an employer on Day 1 (it was awkward enough having to do a ‘if this person show up, I’m not here’ with a harassment issue, to people that knew me and trusted my work ethic).
I kind of love some of the methodology and research and what-the-fuck guesswork people use, but damn, the ‘suspect du jour’ and accusing random people because of the numerology of their name…. What.
Totally agree on with you on where the profits should go. I read a friend’s secondhand copy of Graysmith and run screaming away from Penn and the rest’s world of self-publishing, I don’t want those guys to ever have an extra cent (…if I found the new Lafferty book on a street corner, I’d probably read it for the lulz).
Yeah, I assume that if it ever gets discovered, it’ll be deathbed confession or a relative going through his stuff after his death, maybe an estate sale, and come across Paul Stine’s wallet/driver’s license (I mean, I assume if you find a weird driver’s license in a relative’s house, you might google the name). If they even recognize the stuff for what it is (okay, bloody shirt, slightly suspicious). And it’ll be someone totally not even on the radar of the current suspects.
I have no idea if Mageau knows, but man… Yeah, I can’t blame him for being terrified, given what he’s had to live with for 40 years.
I think Mageau and Ferrin knew they were gonna be targeted… hence MM wearing 18 layers of clothes on a steamy July 4th. Some people think it was drugs and DF and MM were involved in some sort of ring and may have been dealing drugs for Z… there’s also a theory that Z was a cop and that more cops were involved, hence the systematic bungling of the whole investigation, esp. in Vallejo. Look up Eric Zelms — he is one of the officers who may have spoken to Z after he killed the cabbie about a block away — he was killed weeks later when his partner sent him ahead to secure an alleged burglary location and he got ambushed… that always stuck in my mind as a set up.
All just theories, but entertaining to consider. It’s such a shame that Fincher decided to use the Graysmith book as his template, because as good as the movie turned out — it was, admittedly, excellent and compelling for a story arc where all the action is over after 1/2 hour and the rest of the 2 hours+ is spent talking about who might have done it — it would have been even better if they had not used the fanciful notions that RG puts forth (since disproven by DNA) that it was Arthur Leigh Allen.
Kyli, this might interest you, it’s the best film I’ve seen on the Z case, a documentary with interviews with everybody, including Mageau.
This guy is off his rocker. McCarthy will not be an interesting free agent because he will resign here.
The author is quite dumb.
Not to mention that Hamilton isn’t married to Mrs. McCarthy. And is not an all-time tweeter.
So that’s dumb too.
My favorite part:
I used to write like that, then I turned seven.
According to webster’s dictionary…
mccarthy is full of beer?
That’s very high-level writing – at least for those who normally visit MCC.
i just sweated spain – croatia game. i had the math all wrong in my head and thought this group was fairly settled, with spain in for sure, and ireland mathematically eliminated, so that today was just about letting either croatia or italy through. in which case i wanted croatia to get in. but nothing was settled though, and it went down to the wire. sorry bojan.
and i was hoping that with a whole week away from the bay area, and thus in a non-blackout zone, one of MLB’s free games of the day would be the A’s. nope. and i’m way out of radio range. i’m getting very lonesome for the green and gold.
Well, doc, the A’s aren’t actually playing today. Sorry about that.
i figured that out eventually.
also, hurray! i think that’s my first “doc.”
I went looking for an appropriate Bugs Bunny quote, but all the good quotes come from the Duck.
This was very cool, even though it was at Dodger Stadium.
yeah, that was a little better. At what point do the wives/girlfriends/children know that their SO/Dad is gonna be there.
So, the Clemens acquittal: I’d have preferred that the DOJ didn’t waste my money prosecuting Clemens, just like Bonds before him. That said, and without having followed the actual trial and evidence and such, he can’t possibly actually be innocent, right? I mean, the guy told Congress he had never taken PEDs, and then his DNA shows up on used steroids syringes.
I have to lean toward the camp that says it doesn’t matter WHAT he (allegedly) lied about under oath, but HE (allegedly) LIED UNDER OATH
That crap needs to be prosecuted every time. The entire basis of our justice system is that you CAN NOT lie under oath.
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Yup.
Morally, I agree.
However, Brian McNamee is too scummy of a fuck to rely on as the main source of evidence.
this
Except Clemens lied to Congress. There aren’t enough jail cells to lock up everyone who lies to Congress.
Yeah that’s a lot of bankers.
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and Congresspeople!
there it is again. this is like whack-a-mole.
Nah, they just lie to us.
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whoot, there it is.
As expected, the Coliseum Authority awarded the contract for day-to-day management of the complex to AEG this morning. As Angela Woodall’s story describes, some of the commissioners were worried about AEG using the contract as an in to lure one or more the teams out of Oakland, because AEG is the developer of the hypothetical LA NFL stadium and might be involved in the hypothetical SF NBA arena. The AEG VP who’ll be taking over the management of the Coliseum denied it (although of course he would). But whatever one might think of Philip Anschutz, I think this is likely to be a good thing for A’s fans. AEG has a reputation for good customer service and good management. They take over on July 1, although all the current staff will stay for at least six months, so we may see some improvement in the lackluster Coliseum atmosphere even this season. They are also planning to book a lot more concerts and non-sports events into the arena and even the stadium, in order to raise the revenues and reduce the subsidy from Oakland and Alameda County.
Does AEG manage the Detroit Stadium? Because they know how to do it right.
I believe AEG would have managed the new arena in downtown Sacramento if it got built, and a big plus to that would have been them undoubtedly bringing in more events, concerts and so on that don’t happen at the existing Maloof-run Arco Arena.
Well, they brought Sir Paul, who’s birthday it is today. He was AMAZING,and so was everyone I met there. My bff from Chi and I got together for that, but we didn’t have seats together, The usher there found a way to do that without blinking an eye. He just said you’ll have to move if those people come for their seats. So refreshing!
(flashes wacchampions signal)
Well, he was my primary source for AEG’s reputation….
So, more torn up field?
If they can make getting concessions be less of a three-inning-sadness event, I will be pleased.
If this really IS a secret plot to lure teams into somewhere, I will be unpleased.
I don’t really buy into the conspiracy theory. Not that AEG wouldn’t be above the poaching, I just don’t see that cozying up to the teams by taking over the contract is that crucial of an element when all three teams are openly looking at other places already. The AEG guy said that in fact, they want to improve the teams’ satisfaction with how the Coliseum is run and thus make them more inclined to stay — which again, is a he-would-say-that-wouldn’t-he, but that doesn’t make it untrue.
After the AEG guy said this, one of the commissioners turned and looked at me and the KCBS guy and said “And you are recording this, right?” — big laughs all around.
Nice.
Yeah, I figure they’re just in to make some cash and make things suck less, but. Y’know. This team, man. This team. It makes me jump at shadows.
That’s kind of totally amusing and awesome.
I think this is good for A’s fans too. The team poaching thing seems like a red herring to me…if one of the teams leaves the Coliseum, it’s not going to be because AEG came in deliberately made itlook worse than it already is. What are they gonna do, make the sewage leaks worse?
Hook the leak up to the root beer supply lines.
Problem?
They could downgrade the computerized cash registers at the concession stands. Perhaps to a punchcard system.
Or adopt the old Soviet model – one line to order, another to pay, and a 3rd to collect.
At least the people working them wouldn’t take 15 minutes to find where to press the button for a hot dog.
is AEG union? Our people have been worried about a non union contractor coming in.
I can’t imagine a public entity in the Bay Area approving something that didn’t protect existing contracts, at the least. I didn’t hear a reference to it in the brief discussion yesterday, but that’s not surprising because the board had already discussed this proposal several times at length. The RFP for bidders stipulated a plan for “maintaining and retaining current employees and labor agreements (including a plan for working with unions to improve service and make union employees feel motivated to provide excellent service)”.
Were all good. Theyre the ones that do staples center which is under us.
I’d guess AEG works within the hiring conventions of whichever local contract it picks up (ie union in CA, probably not in Houston).
And now my thread comes with Internal Server Error.
I get it.
I was raised to be paranoid and believe in conspiracy theories. Even though I’m calmer and less suspicious now, I still think “Wild Monkey Attack” whenever there’s a server issue here.
He would have to become a much better hacker than he is.
Also, I sincerely hope he has just moved on (at least until he feels like coming back as old monkey). Obviously it wasn’t a good place for him when he left.
I never even thought about this. I don’t frequent enough places to worry about it.
I was definitely picturing baboons invading a server farm rather than someone called Monkey being nefarious.
Seeing as I’ve unleashed my Tim Minchin love on another thread, here it would seem to be appropriate to issue some full on mb bait.
I was just shown that video about a week ago.
Funny stuff.
Yeah, he’s pretty good. I hope you check out the other one I linked relative to boobs, if you haven’t already seen it. I think Storm is actually my favorite of his.
Reasons why the Nationals should be the Senators: Bryce Harper/Clowns Edition
Reid is also LDS, no?
He is.
If you missed Fresh Air this afternoon: Bob Ojeda on Pitching Through the Pain. Really good stuff. The interview had begun when I turned my car on to leave work, so the first thing I heard was Ojeda talking about unnatural arm movements, and I wasn’t sure if I was listening to KQED or 95.7. Then after about 15 seconds, when no one interrupted him or laughed over him, I figured it had to be the former.
On a completely non-baseball note, yesterday’s Fresh Air on the new book about Superman was fascinating too.
Hey Rangers, quick, hire Vince!
At least he didn’t sound like Mike Tyson this morning on the Today Show!
Maybe we can trade Vince for a AAA broadcaster and a reliever. Frankly, I’d trade him for a turkey sandwich and not even insist upon condiments.
Maybe he was just trying to buancast.
Euphemism alert
XKCD science nerd bait. It’s a big big big big galaxy.
There are lots of planets, for sure, but collectively they’re still smaller than the Sun.
The really big thing about space is, well, the space.
I would be more down with Cosmological Principle if I could add an extra “W” to FLRW… WONKA!
Is FLRW how we are supposed to refer to it? I always call it the FRW metric — I’ve been giving Lemaitre the shaft all this time!
What’s sad about the whole affair is the fact that that was the best joke I could come up with after three hours of cracking out on a cosmology hyperlink binge.
all i see is “15.” i guess i’m color blind.
I just can’t get that excited about exoplanets, though it seems like every other person in my department is studying them.
If you can’t trust ConAgra, who can you trust?
Meh. Ancient dietary rules are dumb. ConAgra are greedy crooks. Everybody loses.
Picture of the day:
Invisible step ladder!
Strong retort
Well, one was from a win, the other was just from pregame.
Physics is fun:
Those videos are awesome. I understand what he is saying, and have a pretty good idea of the dynamics, but it is still so counter-intuitive to watch.
Right. I mean the pre-drop length is based upon gravity vs. the spring effect, so it makes sense that gravity would then pull the COM down at the same rate the spring effect condenses. Just bizarre to see it so perfectly.
Besides the fact that you need high speed video to really appreciate it, I probably have never really waited for a slinky to reach that stationary stretched out state before dropping it.