I've heard of hair models and hand models, but roll models?
I almost looked up whether it was role or roll, and then I forgot that I was about to do so. Somehow that one is hard for me to remember.
I think the phrase roll call throws me off.
Luckily I've seen the post post-correction, so I can say:
The whole concept of a role model is kind of cheesy
Why?? Role models are awesome. Don't be embarrassed to think someone is great! And to say so.
Fishing? I just meant that I think having role models is fine, and being defensive about it is silly. Which I guess you understand.
I'm tired, and have been commenting too much today.
For me it's bear/bare. I just get annoyed with looking it up and forgetting over and over, so I kind of just...alternate, when I'm not sure. I figure I can't look stupid all of the time.
How did "cheesy" ever come to connote lameness? Cheese is fabulous.
12: Truer words have been spoken, but not often.
Or if you're talking about a runny cheese.
The Platonic form of cheese is a block of mild cheddar and the Platonic form of schmaltz is liquid (or at most chilled to shortening-like consistency.
Neither is as grate as cheese.
As any fule kno.
They're all very well by themselves, but a combination of vanilla, cheese, and schmaltz liquor would presumably utterly enrage dsquared.
The Platonic form of cheese is a block of mild cheddar
Another reason why Plato is full of shit.
Loose/lose oss the one that really shocks me. I probably am to decimated by the seedy underbelly of the interhttps
Also thee concert of role models is completely baffling. far too concrete to be something I could have in my brain
Fascinated. I moved onto three non pirated swype and it sorta sucks
I have insomnia. Again. This is getting really old.
26: I feel your pain. Insomnia bites.
Drinking may send you to sleep, but more likely than not it'll wake you up again after two or three hours and keep you awake. Sex is a better bet, but not infallible.
You probably need to think about your bed. IME, one's requirements in terms of firmness, quantity and type of cover, head support, etc. change gradually over time, so that what was a good bed when you got it may no longer be right for you.
If you're being kept awake by things on your mind, read something frivolous, but train yourself to stop as soon as you feel sleepy.
Insomnia's a bitch. So sorry.
Also, small meal in the evening, and no caffeine after 4 pm - really helps.
Have you tried reading rather boring books?
I seem to suffer insomnia when I don't excercise, so last week with the busted toe was pretty rough. But I sorta wonder if it's psychosomatic, or if it's just that I need to have a pretty "full" day before I'm ready for sleep. Yesterday, I had a rather trying day emotionally (nothing crazy, just a very busy, engaging day of phone calls and projects and such), and I was falling into bed before midnight, which never happens.
And then I found five dream dollars.
Schmaltz could be if you froze it.
This sounds like a very low rent version of a thing they make at Momofuku Ko.
31: Did you ever find that Silk Road book?
Have you tried reading rather boring books?
Wow, that's a great thread. I nominate Hans Kelsen's General Theory of Law and State, which is not only absurdly soporific, but also functions very well as a mosquito-crushing missile.
Another great gem on that thread is Witt's remark on how the shift towards renting rather than buying books is making libraries more vulnerable to fiscal cycles. Wish I'd seen that when we were having that IP argument the other day.
Not the silk road book, but I have since that thread picked up a back-breaking tome on the Thirty Years War (Peter H. Wilson), which has been just excellent. Lots of eye-glazing detail about Dutch military techniques.
Biographies of long lived people are a good resource for dull books. Because Florence Nightingale or the Duke of Wellington or whoever did their best work in early middle age and then spent decades becoming more and more boring, but the biographer feels obliged to document every dreary day of it.
Because Florence Nightingale or the Duke of Wellington or whoever did their best work in early middle age and then spent decades becoming more and more boring, but the biographer feels obliged to document every dreary day of it.
There's a new biography about Paul McCartney coming out, and he was like, barely 30 when he started getting boring really quickly.
When McCartney was my age, he had been boring for two years.
McCartney turned 30 in 1973, IIRC. What did he start doing then which was qualitatively less interesting than everything else he'd done since leaving his other band.
After he stopped with the red baiting, it wasn't fun anymore.
After he stopped with the red baiting
That would be when he fell out with Lenin, presumably.
41: You're pretending to be confusing Paul McCartney and Joe McCarthy???
Gosh, and I thought I would do anything for a stupid joke.
Well, to be fair Lennon was pretending to be left wing around that time. Gave a ton of money to the IMG and stuff.
schmaltz liquor
I keep reading this as Schlitz Malt Liquor. I'm pretty sure the schmaltz liqueur would be worse.
Florence Nightingale or the Duke of Wellington or whoever
Now there's a natural kind!
Now there's a natural kind!
Both extremely interested in improving the efficiency of troops in the field by providing better conditions. So, yes.