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Originally Posted by RWE
Originally Posted by Jim in Idaho
So you prefer to answer the explicit question, not the implied one.

"Do you know what time it is?"

"Yes."


Had a boy call my daughter at home once.

He said, "hello, is <daughter> there?

I said, "Yes" and hung up the phone.

Wife and daughter gave me grief over that.

For all future calls, he said, "Hello, this is <boy>, may I please speak to <daughter>?

I win.



I did that with a previous wife and two hydrocephalic step children. They thought I was awful..but their demon spawn friends learned at least a little courtesy. Never could break them of eating with their hands instead of silverware....


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If you're the kind of person that asks things like, "How would I go about building a nuclear reactor, if I was so inclined?", you probably shouldn't beitch when you don't get a two word answer.



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Originally Posted by Steelhead
You know my answer.


Yes, you're a curmudgeon.



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I like to be succinct when I say things. There's a reason the english language has so many words right? Might as well use them...

Example: Yesterday I tell someone The German Shepherd won the Herding Group at Westminster. Today I tell them the German Shepherd won Best in Show. " Yeah, you told me that yesterday..."

Example: I ate way too many fish as a poor college student. I still like fish with shells and claws but I won't eat a fish with fins. " What About Halibut?"

Example: I ate way too many beans as a kid, now the only legume of any kind I will eat is a peanut. " What about lima beans?"...


And on it goes......


Or is it just that I'm a curmudgeon?


I would ask why you keep talking to a moron, but then realized you were talking to yourself again.


I'd imagine it'd get mighty lonely, even in much more populated locales.



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Originally Posted by 4ager


I would ask why you keep talking to a moron, but then realized you were talking to yourself again.


You just can't help yourself sometimes can you Sean?


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Nothing succinct about the OP....only word that comes to mind with that post is obfuscation.

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Originally Posted by ingwe
Originally Posted by 4ager


I would ask why you keep talking to a moron, but then realized you were talking to yourself again.


You just can't help yourself sometimes can you Sean?


Truth hurts?

wink

And, no, I can't. I call it a virtue. cool

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People just hear what the want to hear, and answer the question not asked.

For example, order a small black coffee at Starbucks. I'll take five to one odds the answer will be 'do you want room for cream?".


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Originally Posted by Dutch
People just hear what the want to hear, and answer the question not asked.

For example, order a small black coffee at Starbucks. I'll take five to one odds the answer will be 'do you want room for cream?".


Having spent 6 years as a pilot and 24 years as an Air Traffic Controller I plead guilty. Words, all of them, have meaning. And the ones left out, were left out on purpose. If you speak them to me I will assume that you meant to use them.

Starbucks: What can I get started for you?

Me: You can start what ever you like, here's what I want you to finish!!!

They still think I am an @$$hole.... Actually I am, it's part of my charm......

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It's not just Starbucks....

One slow day at the ARTCC...

FastJet: Hey Center(that's me) you got time for a question?

Me: Was that It?

FastJet: ha ha, can I have another?

Me: You just used it!

FastJet: Can I have two more?

Me: You have one left, go ahead!

A short while later someone keyed up and said 'What an @SShole'


Pilots think I am charming also.....

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Originally Posted by kid0917
I think it should be "Donde es el bano?" as it's location is not a temporary thing.


"Donde esta el baño" is correct in Spanish as it refers to a place.

"Donde es el baño: would translate more like where is the essense (being) of "el baño."

Es is a conjugate of "ser" or to be.
Estar is more complex as in this case its meaning is seen as to be here.




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Originally Posted by 1minute
Have go arounds with Cookie on that. Ask a yes/no question like do you want to...., and rather than a simple answer she starts off into some dissertation on the justification for her decision.



Yep or like.....

Have you see X? Simple yes or no response needed.

You get: I don't have time to go looking for X.............................etc. smirk


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Good, succinct description. So, as I understand it:

Q: "Dónde está el baño?"
A: "El baño no está aquí. Usted debe utilizar el patio trasero."

whereas:
Q: "Dónde es el baño?"
A: "En el aroma de la mierda."


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Originally Posted by Jim in Idaho
Good, succinct description. So, as I understand it:

Q: "Dónde está el baño?"
A: "El baño no está aquí. Usted debe utilizar el patio trasero."

whereas:
Q: "Dónde es el baño?"
A: "En el aroma de la mierda."



In essense, yes. laugh

But should be la aroma.


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Gracias. I wondered about that since nouns ending in "a" are normally feminine. I'll have to inform Google translate they screwed up. wink


Which, speaking of gender distinctions, makes me wonder why the Spanish word for sh*t is feminine...?


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Originally Posted by Jim in Idaho
Gracias. I wondered about that since nouns ending in "a" are normally feminine. I'll have to inform Google translate they screwed up. wink


Which, speaking of gender distinctions, makes me wonder why the Spanish word for sh*t is feminine...?


Don't know but mierda is from French "merde" due to the French occupation of Mexico. But the more coarse words "cagada" or "quacha" probably from native words are also feminine. laugh

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