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I usually use water as the base, if only because proper stock is problematic. (Allergies and other restrictions argh.) Proper stock does add depth and character, for sure. In lieu of stock, I'll fry up the initial garlic/onion/spices/tough veggies in the same pot that will be cooking the soup. It'll...

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Yes. Join the liberation movement.

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I took it as a play on "like ships passing in the night". Which, now that I've typed that out, seems less plausible than your thought.

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Deva is a minor deity at go-seek.

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There are a few bacteria that have propeller-type flagella, according to the wiki . There's actually a decently detailed discussion of "why not wheels" also on wiki . No intermediate forms that would survive competition with the simple and powerful intermediate forms of run/walk/swim/slith...

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Oh hje. Hjow's it going?

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I'm allergic to hibiscus (because of course I am), but I haven't tried a piece of clove yet. My current batch has these things, in roughly descending volume: almonds, hazelnuts, dried figs and dates, dried cherries, dried blueberries, flaked unsweetened coconut, crushed cinnamon stick, crushed allsp...

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And still has guns. (Apparently Stewart credits his genetics for this. He doesn't put nearly enough work into his biceps to earn them the usual way.)

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TS, hello there.

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Looney Tunes, all the way. I think Tom and Jerry might have been my favourite, though Bugs was way up there. He was kinda mean sometimes, though.

Come to think of it, so was Jerry. I learned some poor socialisation strategies from that show.

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Hah! No! ... Wait. Maybe?

When was the last time you played a piano?

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But then who would inspire these drunk genii onward to ever greater wit and comedic splendour?

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Clicking the X in my relentlessly-customised Firefox does nothing. Maybe I should try Chrome... hey, it works there.

It's probably a random script being blocked. I can't be arsed to go through the list and figure out which one it is.

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Very small rant: I can't read today's SMBC comic because of the giant unclosable ad for his new book. Seriously.

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I just went to check it out on Steam, then remembered that I've barely touched Witcher 3 because committing to an hour or more of playing at a time is haaaaard.

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I think the typical use differs for each version.
"It's for everyday use."
"Use it every day."

I have seen it used the way you mention, but I've always thought it was a typo.

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Flumble wrote:~~RTFM!~~ Watch the pictures on the fucking add-on page!

What, read the instructions? Like grownups are supposed to?

I should probably start doing that someday.

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Not quite very. More like not very. Fatbergs are still a thing.

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You are both genii. I had indeed just added that but didn't know it had the highlight feature. (Haven't been using FF51 long enough to have highlighted much text yet.)

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Quick question for folks. I was forced at gunpoint* to upgrade to the latest version of Firefox. Now whenever I highlight some text, I get this small fucklet: fucklet.png What is it called? Can I disable it? How? Thankee. * where "gunpoint" is "a permanently crashed old version of Fir...

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My solution has evolved into a dumbphone plus a tablet. If I bothered to get a data plan for the tablet, I'd be ~~unstoppable~~ walking into things, like decorative fountains and traffic.

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Then we'd have AAALLLLLLLLLLLL the maple syrup.

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standards = standards + 1

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Clive Barker's Weaveworld?

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I know of people (not personally) who are sexually attracted to the three things I mentioned, which is why I used them as examples. It was a somewhat flippant comment, but intended to distinguish asexuals from people who are attracted to entities other than men or women. I apologise if it was too fl...

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After operating in German for a couple of months, reverting to English was a nice relief except when I tried to say something that was a common phrase in German. I could not come up with "train station" without a good 30 seconds of thinking, but bahnhof was right there and kept insisting o...

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Serious answer: I think two-ness is part of the definition of polar. One [X] goes one way, the other [X] goes the other way. (Magnetic charge, electric charge, planetary rotation axis, that sort of thing.) Two-ended things in a state of one-ended-ness are described as monopolar, as in the eternal se...

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Asexuality is defined as a lack of sexual attraction, more or less. As in, I'm not heterosexual because I'm not turned on by the opposite sex. I'm not homosexual because I'm not turned on by the same sex. (Also not turned on by any of the other things that some people are - cars, dogs, velociraptors...

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Gender can be a strange issue. I'd describe myself as non-gendered, except that sometimes I do feel like a woman and occasionally like a man. And sometimes I can't even gender because what is that. There is correlation between asexuality, a-gender, and autism spectrum. I don't know whether there is ...

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I'm asexual and occasionally post about it (here and other places). AVEN is a decent resource (www.asexuality.org). They have a "Meetup Mart" where folks from different cities post about where the group is going for coffee or whatnot.

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I've heard of other people (totally not me) breaking up the leaves, sautéing (how is that even spelled) in butter for a bit, then dumping the whole mess into the cookie/cake/etc recipe in place of civilian butter. A buddy once made the butter mix then took it along camping. Spread on toast and eat l...

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Christmas day for the family becomes equal to "the day $family_member died". It rather screws up the holiday for them. (You're right that it might not be that bad for the dying one.)

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"Lemon juice", at least around here, means the stuff squeezed straight out of the fruit. Not a highly sought-after beverage. Mostly used for cooking. (Also "punch" tends to mean mixed fruit something beverage sugar maybe booze? Not really descriptive of lemonade.)

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It's softer around here than in the UK, I think. It's still an insult, but it's closer to "get the hell out" than "fuck off". It does vary, though.

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"I can't be buggered"
"I can't be arsed"
"I can't be bothered"
Roughly in ascending order of politeness, I think.

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Fainting is just the body's way of saying "k, enough of that now" for a while.

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As a kid, I thought it described someone who bugged you. A botherer, as it were. Made much more sense to me than the definition involving one's fiddly bits that turned out to be more widely accepted.

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