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Classic movies are in black an white.

As a European citizen: is it really a possibility for any US president not to do so? (Honest question, since from Europe US’s policy is seen as supporting Israel no matter what)

That must be really frustrating.

Don’t they complain about hypochondriacs?

If I hadn’t heard about Andre Agassi’s autobiography I’d read this tweet as a joke, but now I’m not sure any more.

LOT. When cats do this “messing around your feet stuff”, instead of normal walking, sort of drag your feet.

That’s an extra dangerous behaviour they have, especially for old people.

Mint + xfce

I thought it was being used sarcastically.

Idiot language pedant? I mean, the difference between it’s/its is just a matter of basic grammar. We’re not talking here about some obscure feature of the English language. And to be honest, the “fuck off” part was kind of off-key, if you ask me.

None of us here have invented the rules of the English language (or, for that matter, any other language). But once these rules are given, let’s try to use them as best as we can.

I refuse to believe that distinguishing between “its” and “it’s” is complicated (you just need to know that “it’s” is a contraction of “it is”). Rather, I believe that most people simply don’t want to take their 0.01 seconds to think of the correct case: “I’ll be understood just the same.”

Or in other words: I’m sure that if you gave a prize of, say, $100 to a group of people for correctly placing “its/it’s” in a hundred sentences, more than 90% would do it correctly in all of them.

From my point of view, the number of times “its/it’s” is written incorrectly does not measure how difficult the English language is but rather the number of people who bother to try to write it correctly.

I wonder how much of a brain is needed to tell it’s from its.

And so do mastodon and mastectomy (not a joke).

Not sure whether it’s unusual, but at least it took many years to be introduced to combining any chocolate dessert with red wine.

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Homework for my 7yo: Please, write a short story, around 300 words. I want a prince named Anna on it, and a unicorn, a castle and a treasure must be mentioned too. At the end, write for questions related to the tale.

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I’d say anything by Asimov. He had a clear, simple style that makes it the perfect author for the no native English reader.

There’s a sort of misogynistic that thinks women are superior to men (and I assume that’s the reason they “hate” women). Spanish director Luis Garcia Berlanga would an example.