Okay this is really just a trailer for a video game, but it kinda made up for a shitty 14 hour work day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVGAfA15U1I
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 03:56 (twelve years ago) link
Haha, aww.
Wait. That's a national ad! Did the Red Sox used to be as big a joke as the Cubs?
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not sure they were ever quite as big of a joke as the Cubs, I mean they never made it into Back to the Future as a lol moment, but they were seen as the second biggest underdogs in MLB until they won the 2004 World Series. They had an 86 year championship drought, but the Cubs currently sit at 103 years.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 05:05 (twelve years ago) link
That's amazing when you think about it. They're living history; a link to the past. 103 years! 103 Years of Suckitude
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 05:57 (twelve years ago) link
I'm wearing a suit. I feel like I look like crap in a suit. Stupid suit.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
I'm guessing by your wdyll pictures that you would pull off a suite quite well.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
A suit too. Not sure how your suite approach would be.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Nick, you look pretty fly in a suit, BUT I totally TOTALLY can identify with the "WRONG CLOTHES WRONG CLOTHES" feeling. I always feel like I'm in drag when I wear suits. I'm still working on perfecting the sheath dress and cardigan combo for business attire, which is going to be my life's work should I ever manage to achieve it (I am not recommending this as a solution for you).
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
Ugh. I almost wore a suit today because I ran out of cardigans and I need something I can take on/off to adjust for the temperatures in my office.
― courtnoodle, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
What did you wear instead?
I don't like my suit - it fits too baggy, especially the pants. I feel wide in it.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
I've found it much more tolerable and enjoyable to ditch the entire suit concept, when I can, and go with a couple nice jackets that I can interchange with other pants/shirt/tie combos. For some reason it feels a whole lot less stifling and stiff than a proper suit.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
I wore a short sleeve sweater, thinking I could throw a suit jacket on if I got cold. It's cold, and I'm not wearing one. I don't want to be asked if I am going to interview or if I client is coming in today. I need a workplace snuggie.Xp
― courtnoodle, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
I feel boxy in my suit. Probably just need a better suit.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.designformankind.com/images/2011/01/hermes-erwin-wurm-412x549.jpg
n/a, today
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
Yeh, I feel boxy and blowsy. I know I'm a thick guy, but the narrow pant legs aren't doing me any favors and I couldn't get the tailor to make the jacket fit like I wanted. (Though I wasn't too impressed when I asked her for advice and she said "You have to tell me what you want me to do." So she was less a tailor than a sewer (person who sews).)
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
I feel boxy in a suit, too, but that's because nobody on this planet makes a suit that has enough boob and upper arm real estate to accommodate my creamy amplitude that is also sufficiently narrow in the waist to visually clue other people into the fact that I am not, in fact, a giant walking russet potato. (The solution is tailoring, but I have as yet not found a tailor I like.)
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
suits are costumes
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
All clothes are costumes.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
Indeed.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
I feel at my best in a suit!!!
― "marvellously inoffensive" (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
Then it's a costume that works for you. I don't even know when I feel my best tbh. Depends on the situation, I guess.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
I am going to a gala event for the charity R's been working with, it's 'cocktail attire'... been thinking about trying to pick up a new jacket (not an entire suit) for the occasion but have no leads.
― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
okay so i'm driving to chicago for spring break/birthday this weekend and everybody but me wants to do some medieval dinner theater thing that looks awful. i need other options to put on the table and drinking too much + karaoke isn't winning the battle so far.
― Check out these bent items: (arby's), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
come on, that's FUN! what will it take to convince these people
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
do they require an activity?
ALSO NO SUITS
― Check out these bent items: (arby's), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
medieval times?
― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think they require an activity but i'm guessing there's pressure to show us a good time since we don't visit often etc
xp yeah
― Check out these bent items: (arby's), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
karaoke is a good time
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
are there any late nite dance parties at the hideout this weekend?
i think i was at the hideout once
― Check out these bent items: (arby's), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
Ugh. It sounds truly dreadful.
Also which people??
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Oh!
I thought you meant Medieval Times was fun!
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
the ppl = my girlfriend and her sister and bf. probably won't take too much but they all really wanna go to the medieval times
xp lol
― Check out these bent items: (arby's), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
i remember thinking the hideout was an unusually packed place considering the guy on stage was almost exclusively playing mid-tempo waltzes
― Check out these bent items: (arby's), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
i liked the venue though
it's a good time, hard to get to without a car but i imagine you will have a car if you're going to the burbs for turkey legs
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
mm, doesn't look like any dance party stuff there this weekend. oh well if i wind up along for the ride to medieval times that's only part of our night. there's always room for whatever else we decide on
― Check out these bent items: (arby's), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
Medieval Times is in Shaumberg! I desperately want to go there some day but if I were coming to Chicago for a weekend, that's the last thing I would want to do. It's not even Chicago!
I don't have alternatives to propose since "drunken karaoke" seems like a great way to spend an evening.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
AMANDA BEAR WITH ME
There's a donut shop just opened on Randolph bw Peterino's and Corner Bakery. They were playing the uncensored version of Can I Get A, which was p funny given the crowd (not the type to have a copy of Hard Knock Life on their iPods or be too cool with someone yelling CAN I GET A FUCK YOU while they buy donuts).
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
arby's idk if you know but http://www.chicagoreader.com/ has a good listings of what's going on at any particular time
― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
AMANDA COME BACK
Is it code switching if a person doesn't switch between languages but switches between accents or I guess dialects?
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
I believe so, yes. Some people would disagree, but I believe it falls under that umbrella. Not accents so much, but dialects yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
Types of switchingScholars use different names for various types of code-switching. Intersentential switching occurs outside the sentence or the clause level (i.e. at sentence or clause boundaries).[30] It is sometimes called "extrasentential" switching.[31] Intra-sentential switching occurs within a sentence or a clause.[30][31] Tag-switching is the switching of either a tag phrase or a word, or both, from language-B to language-A, (common intra-sentential switches).[30] Intra-word switching occurs within a word, itself, such as at a morpheme boundary.[31]
Scholars use different names for various types of code-switching.
Intersentential switching occurs outside the sentence or the clause level (i.e. at sentence or clause boundaries).[30] It is sometimes called "extrasentential" switching.[31] Intra-sentential switching occurs within a sentence or a clause.[30][31] Tag-switching is the switching of either a tag phrase or a word, or both, from language-B to language-A, (common intra-sentential switches).[30] Intra-word switching occurs within a word, itself, such as at a morpheme boundary.[31]
Constraints
In studying the syntactic and morphological patterns of language alternation, linguists have postulated specific grammatical rules and specific syntactic boundaries for where code-switching might occur. None of these suggestions is universally accepted, however, and linguists have offered apparent counter-examples to each proposed constraint.[1][24] Some proposed constraints are: The Free-morpheme Constraint: code-switching cannot occur between bound morphemes.[25] The Equivalence Constraint: code-switching can occur only in positions where "the order of any two sentence elements, one before and one after the switch, is not excluded in either language." Thus, the sentence: "I like you porque eres simpático." ("I like you because you are nice.") is allowed because it obeys the relative clause formation rules of Spanish and English.[25] The Closed-class Constraint: closed class items (pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, etc.), cannot be switched.[26] The Matrix Language Frame model distinguishes the roles of the participant languages.[27] The Functional Head Constraint: code-switching cannot occur between a functional head (a complementizer, a determiner, an inflection, etc.) and its complement (sentence, noun-phrase, verb-phrase).[28]
The Free-morpheme Constraint: code-switching cannot occur between bound morphemes.[25] The Equivalence Constraint: code-switching can occur only in positions where "the order of any two sentence elements, one before and one after the switch, is not excluded in either language." Thus, the sentence: "I like you porque eres simpático." ("I like you because you are nice.") is allowed because it obeys the relative clause formation rules of Spanish and English.[25] The Closed-class Constraint: closed class items (pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, etc.), cannot be switched.[26] The Matrix Language Frame model distinguishes the roles of the participant languages.[27] The Functional Head Constraint: code-switching cannot occur between a functional head (a complementizer, a determiner, an inflection, etc.) and its complement (sentence, noun-phrase, verb-phrase).[28]
Watch out for the FREE MORPHEME CONSTRAINT mwa ha ha ha
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
There's a new donut next to Corner Bakery? Wow.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
WOW
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
Well, maybe not WOW, but it seems like a strange place for a donut shop, especially since Corner Bakery has donut-like products.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
Is it donut switching if a person starts going to the donut shop instead of Corner Bakery?
― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link