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Rolig Loon

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  1. Dear Linden Lab, We the residents of Second Life like bacon. Vegetarian options not allowed except waffles and tacos. Please, a pony would really neigh
  2. Two really is excessive. Stop AT ONE. (If it bothers you that AT ONE looks like two words, just look at it as the word ATONE, and atone for your sins of excess. Do it now, please.)
  3. Really awkward. I'm not surprised, STILL ...
  4. Oh, I really can't resist this ... hehehe..... No, no.... I am not a Grammar Nazi. Just a fun-loving nit-picker. You left the door open. I just walked in. 😂 I'll see myself out.
  5. We all change our ways of speaking and writing from one context to another. It's natural. If we didn't, we'd look like buffoons or elitist twats. The thing is, though, being a buffoon or a ***** should be on your shoulders, not something that anyone else needs to point out. I've never liked the term "grammar Nazi", but I can recognize one when I see her (or him -- let's be fair). The GN is one who is overly sensitive to mismatched contexts. She calls out someone for using street language in a garden party, or makes fun of someone talking like an egghead on the basketball court. She may be right in either case but overlooks the fact that being a pedant is socially boorish and just makes her look like the worse fool. Teachers and mothers get special dispensation to be Nazis at times, but anyone else is on dangerous ground. I look at "correctness" in language the way I look at table manners. When my kids were young, I taught them to sit up at dinner and keep their elbows off the table. "But .. but.. but we're at home! Who cares?" I do, because I want you to know how to code switch gracefully so you don't embarrass yourself later at a job interview or when you are at dinner receiving the Nobel Prize. You learn the "rules" that work in different contexts, so you don't end up looking like a buffoon or a *****. On the other hand, if the King of Sweden puts his elbows on the table at the Nobel dinner, don't be the "Table Manners Nazi" who calls him out. Edit: Ooo! Lookit! The editing censor bleeped out one of my words (but not always). There's a GN at work.
  6. I'm not sure whether STUFF or RIGHT is the intended seed, so I'll pick one: So they use far fewer WORDS
  7. I can't tell whether the one you posted was the solo piano version by Monk: Or this one with Coltrane: Personally, I prefer the piano solo version, but Coltrane is cool in the other one. YMMV.
  8. I am me. Everyone else is different, by definition. If I tried hard, I could probably find something about any of them that annoys me. I rarely try, though. The people whose friendships I value most highly are all "different", and we've tolerated our differences for 17 years. In rare extreme situations when I find "different" behavior hard to accept, I try to remember the wise words of a long-deceased mentor: "Never wrestle with a pig. You'll both get muddy and the pig enjoys it."
  9. I've used Last Pass to store info like that for years.
  10. Heavens! Even a real twit LOVES (Well, at some point, anyway.)
  11. Many, understandably, sung in choirs (BADLY) 🤐
  12. Is the PayPal account verified? See
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