sanguinepar

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[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 17 minutes ago

Colombia
Columbia
Colón
Colombo
Columbus
Colomb
Colom

Uhhhh... Just one more spelling, Sir, if you don't mind...

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago

Dancing Queen by Abba. Something about the baseline makes me feel physically sick (literally, not figuratively). Can't bear it.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

UK here - dearly wish we would take up the No Kings thing... 😔

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Idris Elba and Dominic West will always be Stringer Bell and Jimmy McNulty for me.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

John Goodman will always be Dan from Rosanne for me. And Buscemi will always be Mr Pink 😁

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now is the winter of our discontent, but that is not for us to decide....

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Excellent answer, particularly Alan Robinson/Jim Dale. Or whatever :-)

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Ah good, hopefully I'll be able to watch Falkirk getting relegated 😁

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

200-300 12" singles. Thus reducing my Discogs wantlist by about... 12%.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Ha, fair point 😁

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

"scoring more goals" is not a skill. It's an outcome.

That's fair. But the game is not decided on skills, it's decided on goals.

Unless you want a label of judges along the touchline holding up 9.8 9.7 9.9, etc for a keepie uppie competition, I think penalties is the best way so far devised.

Your first argument against stopped clocks is utter nonsense.

Is it? Maybe in your opinion.

Yes, it's an argument from tradition, and that's a fundamental part of football culture. Tradition is at the heart of everything that has made, and still makes, the sport great.

I don't feel any need to defend it beyond that, particularly not to someone who is talking like a belligerent prick for no apparent reason. I'd have been happy to have a discussion, but apparently you just came to abuse anyone with a different point of view. So bite me.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Oh, I see what you mean - sorry, misunderstood which issue was being solved!

I'm still not sure about such a change, but fair enough, my argument wasn't really pertinent.

 

I'm currently trying to get in better shape and to that end have started dieting and cycling in my local area. For motivation, I've decided to try to 'virtually' cycle from John O'Groats (henceforth JOG) in the north of Scotland to Land's End (LE) in the south of England.

To do this, I measure how far I cycle each day (locally) and record my progress, which I then use to map where I would be on the route Google Maps recommends for cycling (I'm handwaving altitude comparisons because it's just for fun).

Ok, so - Maps says the recommended cycling route from JOG to LE is 965 miles. Fine. I've covered 21.1 miles so far (I've only just started and am not very fit).

Now, on the full 965 mile route, that 21.1 miles gets me to a small village called Haimer. However, if I ask Maps to plot me a route from JOG to Haimer, Maps says it's only 18.7 miles.

I've tried the same thing with other towns on the route, and the same is true there too - there's a roughly 10% disparity, even though the route being plotted is identical. A few yards here or there I could understand, but a 10% difference?? FFS.

 

This is a sort of comedy western, based around a high stakes poker game. I saw it years ago and loved it. Truth be told, I can't remember a great deal more about it, and don't want to spoil it for myself by looking it up, but I definitely remember enjoying it a lot.

 

So, even if you had been immune, through previous illness, vaccination or via maternal milk, you may not be anymore after having measles.

I had never heard this until today, and it's an absolutely horrifying thought.

You're welcome.

 

Per this thread, I'm wondering if it might be possible to create feeds of favourited people or communities.

I guess this would be similar to how multireddits worked and since that's not available on Lemmy, this might not be either. But maybe some smart person out there knows of a way.

It's not even me that wants to do it, but I'm invested in an answer now! :-)

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