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I don't know why you would start shit in a Döner joint. Anyone who runs one of them invariably look like they gave their last shit twenty years ago, and they could not under any circumstances be bothered to find more.

Fun ancedote; I had some very specific problems when I tried to learn Spanish. I know German well, and I know some Swedish, and there are a surprising number of false friends. 'Es' means 'it' in German, and 'it is' in Spanish. 'En' means 'the' in Swedish or 'in' in Spanish. 'Og', pronounced 'oh, means 'and' in Swedish, while 'o' in Spanish, pronounced the same, means 'or'. 'Y', in Spanish is pronounced the same as 'i' in Swedish; the former means 'and', the latter means 'in'. 'De' means 'of', in Spanish, and means 'they' in Swedish, but it is pronounced 'dome'. It took several weeks before I could reliably keep myself from pronouncing 'de' Swedishly. I still use 'es' in Spanish as the German 'es', which fortunately is fairly interchangeable, at least to the point that I'm understood. Another interesting thing is that whenever I learn languages now, I tend to relate them to German. IE Spanish first person's -o conjugation to German -e, second person -as to -st, third person plural -en to -en, etc.

Whoa ist dye baydezimmer

It's kind of scary how you can just totally forget languages, even primary languages, if you don't use them. I had a professor from Lithuania who hadn't spoken Lithuanian in so long that he couldn't even recognize Lithuanian.

How close is Afrikaans to Dutch? I can't tell the difference in written, but I don't know either language either. There's seven unique definite articles in total if you don't count dessen and deren. Such a huge pain for the small return of being able to put nouns in any order. Also, there's a handy mnemonic I learned RESE NESE MRMN SRSR Where the rows are nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive, and the columns are der, die, das, die.

As a Dutch speaker, how easy was it to pick up German? Written Dutch looks like German with extra 'o's and 'a's to me, and I can understand some of it. I assume it would go the other way too, but I've never had the chance to ask someone who didn't also have German as a mother tongue.

Iceland has had a running war with England over fishing rights near its shores for some 600 years. In the most recent Cod Wars, three people lost their lives, one in noble defense of Icelandic sovereignty, and two imperialists attempting to exploit the natural resources of foreign shores for selfish gain. Each time, despite universal Natosupport of GB, Iceland secured fishing rights to their waters to the dismay of imperialist Great Britain. Many African nations lent their support to Icelandic in anti-imperialist solidarity. Kind of fascinating; Icelanders are very proud of besting their more powerful neighbors on the international stage; granted their victories came mostly from their geographical location in relation to the GIUK gap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars

I think stormtrooper armor is better explained by the circumstances around A New Hope. No one really thought the film was going anywhere, so I don't think they put that much thought into prop design. Besides, if the Empire has learned anything through the years, it's that plot armor is much stronger than durasteel. No sense spending resources on stormtroopers that are going to die in one shot regardless of what armor they have. I guess the actual in-universe reason that the armor was white was because of Kaminoans and all, but we don't have to acknowledge that the prequels exist.

Fury Road is the pinnacle of Australian western world cinema. It's sad to think there is nowhere to go now but down.

As long as we are talking about canon and high quality Star Wars films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3a5j8PgQxg Because I'm not allowed to post embedded Youtube apparently

Web stuff is complicated and all I know is languages; who would I be to complain?

Aw hell yiss

Well I better fucking spampost like I'm trying to get banned and incite mayhem. That was a pointed comment.

I'm not seeing this option. I'm not going to blame everything on alcohol intoxication, but I'm just not seeing it.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat I don't see where one changes this

As long as this thread is in permanent derailment, would it be the correct place to ask if I could get "The Worst Scandihoovian" as a member title?

No need for any references; video provides its own context. Not as good as "plane wing sharp like katana".

My two gripey cents, now that I literally just got done watching the movie; the Star Killer thing was a planet converted into a super weapon I guess, it absorbs the energy of the star it's orbiting, then blows up, and forms a star of the same size as the planet was previously. Where did the star's matter go? Also, there's finally one stormtrooper that can aim, but none of his former comrades can hit sheeit Also, inventing space languages for the sole purpose of it not being comprehensible to the audience is dumb Also, how is every character except the stormtrooper fluent or at least competent in every single space language Also, how does BB8 get picked up from the top by the X-Wing's grabby suction cup thing, but show up as if being pushed from below when it shows up at the top of the X-Wing?

Decent chance she isn't following it, and she wasn't quoted so she won't get the notification that way.

Didn't really occur to me that drag chutes might be one time use

Some stuff I took pictures of in the German Museum in Munich; more to do with technology than anything explicitly German. Could not recommend against going if you want to see some neat stuff. I don't know if my cheap tablet can compete with the professional photography exhibited here, but this stuff was pretty neat all the same. It's so long ago I don't know if I can correctly accurately identify any of these pictures accurately to what they actually are. Cutaway of a 24 cylinder airplane engine, but I don't remember exactly what it was from. Vaguely recall it having military application. ME-262 engine; it had a little knob (visible on the right hand side of the engine) that you could use to turn the turbine blades. German museums are more interactive than American counterparts; I think in America you wouldn't be allowed to touch it at all. I remembered this being of a German experimental VTOL craft, or at least a German designed craft, but cursory google search tells me it's an F-104. Memory is probably in the wrong here. COSMONAUTS Sikorsky S-58 (unless I'm mistaken), back from when turbines were less viable than radial engines for helicopter applications. I know as a pilot I wouldn't want a whirling pole of death sitting directly beside me. This is an agricultural helicopter from some aircraft-focused museum from a municipality in the vicinity of Munich. The funnel at the bottom was used to distribute insecticides/herbicides etc. I had many more pictures, but my tablet had an unfortunate and fatal fall from the upper bunk of a hostel bed in Cologne. I have now only the pictures that I had already uploaded.

Not to mention the T-62 probably earns some name recognition from that one tank game, where it is featured, but not the T-64.

I have been absent a while. How does things go?

Reminds me of nuclear pulse propulsion. Very neat, but I'd think parts would wear out quickly and the fuel would be less convenient than liquid fuel.