[mycroft]

Trinidad, on 2013-April-26, 12:34, said:

I believe that, but with how many kilograms of force?

32-ish pounds per slug would be expected...

Ah, GreenMan did the conversion already. Sorry about that.

[gwnn]

Puns for which I need to look up the 15th (!) meaning on dictionary.com

[barmar]

You'll lose an enormous amount of mass from the process of climbing Everest, far dwarfing the difference in weight due to the change in altitude.

[gwnn]

I can't believe I went 51 posts here without mentioning foreigners (mostly Eastern Europeans I think) trying to be respectful by writing You with a capital Y. It gets me every time.

[kenberg]

I recently made some modest use of LinkedIn. Since then, I have received identical messages, supposedly from three different people, expressing joy that I am now back on LinkedIn. I did not even know that I was LinkedIn to them, and I am fairly certain that they don't give a flying squirrel whether I am or am not making use of LinkedIn.

[Trinidad]

kenberg, on 2013-May-25, 11:53, said:

I recently made some modest use of LinkedIn. Since then, I have received identical messages, supposedly from three different people, expressing joy that I am now back on LinkedIn. I did not even know that I was LinkedIn to them, and I am fairly certain that they don't give a flying squirrel whether I am or am not making use of LinkedIn.

Well, let me take the opportunity to express my joy to see your contributions to BBF.

Rik

[Vampyr]

gwnn, on 2013-May-25, 02:21, said:

I can't believe I went 51 posts here without mentioning foreigners (mostly Eastern Europeans I think) trying to be respectful by writing You with a capital Y. It gets me every time.

They probably find our practice of capitalising "I" instead of "you" difficult to get used to. The opposite, which of course they do in their native (Slavic, though there may be others) languages does, it must be admitted, seem more courteous. And they may think that the uncapitalised version is the equivalent of the familiar "you".

So don't be too hard on them.

[gwnn]

I'm not hard on them, I'm just suffering inside In Hungarian it is quite common to use "Te" or "Ön," for example (te is the familiar pronoun and ön is the formal one, so they capitalise sometimes either of them).

[kenberg]

Trinidad, on 2013-May-27, 03:41, said:

Well, let me take the opportunity to express my joy to see your contributions to BBF.

Rik

I appreciate this heartwarming sentiment and have forwarded it to five thousand of my closest Facebook friends.

[barmar]

I live in the Boston area, so last year's capture of Whitey Bulger, and the trial that began last month, have been big news. I have no problem with that. What bugs me is that they always have to say "James (Whitey) Bulger". Either say "James" or "Whitey". I'm not sure why, but hearing them both bugs me.

It's in the same class as "formerly known as Burma", which reporters seem required to say the first time they mention Myanmar in a story.

[mike777]

serial or multiple murders have 3 names not 2.

James Whitey Bulger.
-----------------

In Chicago:

I guess Richard Speck was a bit before this time.
but see John Wayne Gacy...etc...

[Thiros]

Loud construction work going on outside my window before about 10 in the morning.

Makes me wish I knew the local laws about that stuff.

[mike777]

Thiros, on 2013-July-08, 00:56, said:

Loud construction work going on outside my window before about 10 in the morning.

Makes me wish I knew the local laws about that stuff.

Loud construction work good......


no louid construction bad......

ten am....really?




I CAN SUGGEST 1000 PLACES OR MORE IF YOU NEED SILENCE. 75% OF EARTH IS OCEAN OR SO,

[mike777]

btw are you gys find American....south American....asia drug experts go to Europe based on lesser drug laws?

Do you attract druggies to take advantage of you?

If you don't...cool.

[Cyberyeti]

Thiros, on 2013-July-08, 00:56, said:

Loud construction work going on outside my window before about 10 in the morning.

Makes me wish I knew the local laws about that stuff.

Can live with that before 10, before 8 I draw the line.

Guy next door on drumkit before 10 however ...

[barmar]

mike777, on 2013-July-07, 21:28, said:

serial or multiple murders have 3 names not 2.
...
but see John Wayne Gacy...etc...

Hmm, never real noticed that, but you're right: John Wilkes Booth, James Earl Ray and Lee Harvey Oswald. But not Sirhan Sirhan or Jack Ruby.

I think what bugs me is that "Whitey" is not part of Bulger's name, it's his mob nickname. It feels unseemly that professional journalists should be calling someone by their nickname.

[GreenMan]

barmar, on 2013-July-08, 09:07, said:

It feels unseemly that professional journalists should be calling someone by their nickname.

This happens all the time if it's how the person is widely known. No one has ever called the former U.S. president James Carter, for instance. Or speaking specifically of people known as Whitey, no one called the former baseball player Edward Ford.

There are limits, and cases like this one where the nickname is in use but not universal sometimes end up looking kludgy. But the general principle is to identify people in ways that make them recognizable.

[barmar]

GreenMan, on 2013-July-08, 10:03, said:

This happens all the time if it's how the person is widely known. No one has ever called the former U.S. president James Carter, for instance. Or speaking specifically of people known as Whitey, no one called the former baseball player Edward Ford.

There are limits, and cases like this one where the nickname is in use but not universal sometimes end up looking kludgy. But the general principle is to identify people in ways that make them recognizable.

But they never said "James (Jimmy) Carter" or "Edward (Whitey) Ford".

If a person was mostly known by their nickname, that's fine. If they said "Edward Ford", no one would know who they were talking about. It's the combination that bugs me. Either he's James or he's Whitey, but he's not "James Whitey"; it's not his middle name.

[GreenMan]

I'm not familiar with the specific case, but if some people know him as James and others know him as Whitey, then you're well advised to cover the bases. Not everyone is known universally by the same name.

[ggwhiz]

Anyone who has 2 first names bugs me as in Bill James is listed as James, Bill in some references although there are many worse examples. A root cause of (my) dyslexia.