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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2225 on: January 17, 2017, 10:37:26 pm »
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I'm pretty excited for the Switch, personally.
We don't take kindly to optimists 'round these parts...

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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2226 on: January 17, 2017, 11:31:22 pm »
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I'm pretty excited for the Switch, personally.
We don't take kindly to optimists 'round these parts...
Well it's not possible to take kindly to anything. It's only negative. I mean try it out. "I take kindly to optimists." See, it's gibberish.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2227 on: January 17, 2017, 11:39:44 pm »
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Are you saying we shouldn't use idioms?

Edit: Also "take kindly" can be used in a non-negative fashion...
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2228 on: January 18, 2017, 08:27:24 am »
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"I only read eBooks," said Tom kindly.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2229 on: January 18, 2017, 01:00:09 pm »
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"I only read eBooks," said Tom kindly.

Oh, very well done.  My wife loves Tom Swifties.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2230 on: January 19, 2017, 05:01:42 am »
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I thought of something cool but I forgot what it was.

EDIT: Oh yeah, now I remember what it was. I was planning to take a shower.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2231 on: January 19, 2017, 07:41:58 am »
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Somebody was asking how to approximate 1% with only six-sided dice.

I was thinking of ways to finagle it, but then I saw someone posted that you stick in a bag 99 white dice and one red die.

I was done. There's no following that.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2232 on: January 19, 2017, 09:27:09 am »
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I'm pretty excited for the Switch, personally.
We don't take kindly to optimists 'round these parts...
Well it's not possible to take kindly to anything. It's only negative. I mean try it out. "I take kindly to optimists." See, it's gibberish.


It's like how no one is ever plussed or couth, or gruntled. 
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2233 on: January 19, 2017, 10:05:15 am »
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It's like how no one is ever plussed or couth, or gruntled. 

I was gruntled to learn that gruntled is an actual word.

We should use it more often, I feel. I like the image of someone so happy with how things are that they just kind of settle in and gently grunt contentedly.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2234 on: January 19, 2017, 10:15:50 am »
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I'm pretty excited for the Switch, personally.
We don't take kindly to optimists 'round these parts...
Well it's not possible to take kindly to anything. It's only negative. I mean try it out. "I take kindly to optimists." See, it's gibberish.


It's like how no one is ever plussed or couth, or gruntled.
Or whelmed.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2235 on: January 19, 2017, 10:19:25 am »
+1

I'm pretty excited for the Switch, personally.
We don't take kindly to optimists 'round these parts...
Well it's not possible to take kindly to anything. It's only negative. I mean try it out. "I take kindly to optimists." See, it's gibberish.


It's like how no one is ever plussed or couth, or gruntled.

Actually, couth is a not wholly unused word in my circles.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2236 on: January 19, 2017, 12:44:23 pm »
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Kay look. Any idiom is going to sound like gibberish if you think about it too hard (the other words mentioned aren't even idiomatic).

"take kindly" can be used without the "not"--although it isn't done so as often.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/take+kindly+to

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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2237 on: January 19, 2017, 12:55:22 pm »
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2238 on: January 19, 2017, 01:01:12 pm »
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Somebody was asking how to approximate 1% with only six-sided dice.

Seems pretty trivial to me. Write out 1% (0.01) in base 6. Roll a dice repeatedly, putting each result after the decimal point, treating 6's as 0's (i.e. first roll is 1/6ths, second is 1/36ths and so on). Repeat until your number is definitively above or below the binary expansion. If below, success (1% of the time) - otherwise if above, fail.

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Okay maybe trivial isn't quite the right word. You technically also don't need to do the whole base 6 number thing, it's just an easier way to visualise what's going on. Another way to do it is:

Step 1: Roll twice. Double 1's = keep going. Anything else = fail.

Step 2: Roll. 1-2 = success. 3 = keep going. 4+ = fail.

Step 3: Roll. 1 = keep going. 2+ = fail.

Step 4: Roll. 1-5 = success. 6 = keep going.

Step 5: Roll. 1-4 = success. 5 = keep going. 6 = fail.

Step 6: Roll. 1-3 = success. 4 = go to step 2. 6 = fail.

This is equivalent to the above (with the rolls required adjusted for ease of checking), but gives exactly a 1% chance of success. It does have the potential to never finish, but you can just say stop after Step 6 and call it fail if you like and you're still at 1.000% to 4 sf or something like that.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2239 on: January 19, 2017, 06:01:41 pm »
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"take kindly" can be used without the "not"--although it isn't done so as often.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/take+kindly+to
You can also find "sitting in the catbird seat" in an idiom dictionary, and point at it in a James Thurber story from before any of us were born; that won't magically turn it into something people actually say in 2017.

It's a living language! And taking kindly to things has gone the way of the snows of yesteryear.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2240 on: January 19, 2017, 07:22:07 pm »
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"take kindly" can be used without the "not"--although it isn't done so as often.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/take+kindly+to
You can also find "sitting in the catbird seat" in an idiom dictionary, and point at it in a James Thurber story from before any of us were born; that won't magically turn it into something people actually say in 2017.

It's a living language! And taking kindly to things has gone the way of the snows of yesteryear.
Sure. Then again I didn't use the positive form.
However, just because you and I don't use a particular phrase doesn't mean there aren't locales where it is still in use. "Don't take kindly" is still used today in certain parts of the United States.

I can admit that the non-negative form has virtually fallen out of the vernacular; however, I've lived my whole life on the West Coast. Maybe I'd answer differently if I lived somewhere else.
I just don't think one can call something that's still in a current dictionary "gibberish".

Plus it's fun to bring back old phrases sometimes. There are lots of words in dictionaries that are not used by the general population, but that doesn't render them meaningless.

But maybe I'm alone in thinking this way.

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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2241 on: January 19, 2017, 07:57:28 pm »
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My point is that the average person knows the general meaning of "take kindly" and "don't take kindly".

You might be thought odd for using them, but people would still know what you meant. Not so if you were speaking actual gibberish--or Middle English.
I'm not sure why this is a disputed statement.

If I thought I was wrong here, I would admit it.

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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2242 on: January 19, 2017, 10:22:57 pm »
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Personally, I think making up your own idioms is as fun as a tickle fight with a baby panda.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2243 on: January 19, 2017, 11:07:52 pm »
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Sure, but getting other people to use them is like rolling an armadillo uphill.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2244 on: January 20, 2017, 01:49:38 am »
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Personally, I think making up your own idioms is as fun as a tickle fight with a baby panda.
Sure, but getting other people to use them is like rolling an armadillo uphill.

Those are similes, not idioms.

Buncha idioms in here, I tell ya.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2245 on: January 20, 2017, 05:27:45 pm »
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...and now Dr McNinja is over :'(

So long, and thank you for being one of the best things on the Internet.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2246 on: January 20, 2017, 05:48:32 pm »
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...and now Dr McNinja is over :'(

So long, and thank you for being one of the best things on the Internet.

I feel bad that I lost track of it about... 3-4 years ago?  It really was awesome though.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2247 on: January 21, 2017, 10:53:00 pm »
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Is it common in English for people to refer to kilocalories as just calories?
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2248 on: January 21, 2017, 10:56:46 pm »
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Is it common in English for people to refer to kilocalories as just calories?
This is my first encounter with the term "kilocalories."
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2249 on: January 21, 2017, 10:57:59 pm »
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Is it common in English for people to refer to kilocalories as just calories?

Yes when discussing food. It is also capitalized "Calories" when referring to kilocalories as opposed to lowercase "calories", which is real calories.  I don't know why it happened, I just know that's how it is. I'm pretty sure the only times I've ever heard the word kilocalories used was in science classes.

*edit* The capitalization use is formally correct, but don't count on people actually using it correctly...
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