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flatdawgs

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  1. And here I thought she got in as a Genius. Foreign language is compulsory in Slovenian education starting in first grade; most children take English from then throughout their education. Oh, and she's stupider than even I thought if she's from Slovenia and hates Christmas. I spent the holidays in Ljubljana a couple of years ago and it was amazing - beautiful little city, markets, the whole bit. Everyone I interacted with spoke flawless English. 5/5, would return. (I get the challenges with trying to speak a non-native language when in a different country and don't wish to belittle it- my Portuguese is at best mediocre and it's a serious challenge for me when I'm there. That said, I just started learning a couple of years ago, not 40+.)
  2. I don't often use the "hook 'em" rep - I'm not Texan, didn't go to UT; that belongs to all of you and not a guest from Outside. In this case, however, I think it's warranted. Congratulations for making it happen and never giving up - you may have thought you did at times, but in your heart you never did. So, yeah - Hook 'em!
  3. I'm sure the 16 Qataris and couple of hundred Egyptians that show up in town will have already had their eyes opened by the time the match begins. It's not terribly challenging to run into the rainbow anywhere and everywhere in the area, and Pride Week is a pretty big deal, parade and festival and all. That draw is pretty perfect for this, though. 😂
  4. Every bar owner in Seattle has been sobbing nonstop since the draw: Qatar, Egypt x2, Iran... possibly Bosnia. Aussies will do their best to help out, but it's a tall ask even for them. Perhaps Italy or Northern Ireland will win the playoff and give the poor pubs some hope.
  5. lolol if the US wins their very winnable group, they wouldn't play a match outside of the west coast megablue states (WA and CA) until the semifinals. 😂
  6. Tomorrow morning, I believe, 11am CT. The delay is definitely to try and align TV times with local markets as best as possible.
  7. The only thing I've seen says they'll announce "the locations and times" at 11a CT Saturday - maybe that's because most cities are hosting games from two groups (Seattle's are B and G). We'll definitely know which teams are in which groups today, but maybe not which group games are where. Seattle (and Vancouver) being exactly equidistant between Europe and Asia, it will be interesting to see who gets placed in the PNW.
  8. Since that game is against a pot 2 team, the USA’s possible opponents are Croatia, Morocco, Colombia, Uruguay, Switzerland, Japan, Senegal, Iran, South Korea, Ecuador, Austria and Australia - mostly pretty good matchups. Since I live here, I'm hoping to go to a match or two, but probably won't be that one. It looks as though we won't actually know where the vast majority of games will be played until tomorrow morning, though, as they're trying to set optimal TV times for as many countries as possible.
  9. You'll get Mazepin's used Haas* and you'll like it. *some assembly required
  10. Nobody wins in a shovel fight. Well, at least that guy didn't.
  11. The roast dinners are generally great and pretty much every pub has them. You can get them every Sunday (at the least); many do a special Christmas dinner for regulars as well. That said, my sister and BIL have always kept the Thanksgiving dinner tradition for their family and have done for the nearly 20 years they've lived there. They want roast beast, they can get that anytime.
  12. So this is allegedly from US Southern Command? And we're still trying to convince ourselves that "oh, the military wouldn't follow illegal orders" when it comes to this (or anything else)? There's a lot of rot that will need to be excised when the time comes. I still have hope that the vast majority of our military will do the right thing in any circumstances when illegal orders are given, but it's gonna be messy if that comes to a head.
  13. Yes, this is typical, particularly on larger projects where you can "stage" the various permits (clearing/grading, dry utilities, site, foundation etc.) and begin work on each in turn. Of course here there's likely no permitting authority, or if there is it was ignored, so here we are. We try to "freeze the backgrounds" as early as possible, especially where stuff is touching ground, so that those permits can be obtained early and subsequent work begun. Freezing the backgrounds in other areas sometimes doesn't occur until closer to building permit application, mainly due to clients constantly changing their minds. (Right, McCrery?)
  14. Oh, he was definitely on from early days - when the renderings came out it was difficult to even find out who the architect was, but eventually I found a blurb somewhere. He's definitely creditable but the weird thing was is, unlike most architecture firms his was difficult to find much info on. At the time there were about 2 intern-level staffers on LinkedIn and his website looked like something a small residential shop would've done about 10 years ago. Most of his work appears to have been on Catholic churches and for a conservative Catholic university, along with some smaller neoclassical projects. His work isn't bad - style is irrelevant; we all work in the style we tend to be comfortable with, and neoclassical certainly is an appropriate style here - but he seems to be one of those architectural demagogues that believe in One True Style, much like King Charles or Trump himself (or Speer/Hitler, if you want to take it there). He was all on board but is now the perfect example of the frog on the scorpion. "You knew what I was when you got on."
  15. Fuck McCrery. He knew what he was getting into. No architect takes over a project - assuming his tiny firm wasn't involved from the start - without a full understanding of what had been done to date. I've done this on multiple large projects; you normally get all previous work (the client typically owns the rights) and often chat with the previous architect before going forward. He deserves all the shit that is about to come his way.
  16. My sister and her family live in London and have for 17 years (they're dual citizens now) - she told me this morning turkeys were running £80-£100 this year. She said to hell with it, chicken it shall be.
  17. flatdawgs

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    Adoro disso. Adoro muito! Tchau tchau, Jairzinho!
  18. The French Foreign Legion is after me at the order of the French president. Our president confirms this. Non, ils ne regrettent rien. /Edith Piaf
  19. Yeah, Rwandan forces were a good choice by Mozambique and I'm sure ExxonMobil and Total were happy to see them in Mocimboa da Praia. The SADC forces seemed to have deployed into more civilian/local communities; that mandate ended last year unfortunately.
  20. Seems like, oh, Nigeria has some of that as well. Surprised they've not started up on Mozambique now that Ansar al-Sunna and ISIS is back in Cabo Delgado province (large nat gas reserves) and raising hell with civilians again. Maybe it's because the moçambicanos don't speak English as well. (I know you know the region well, Inka)
  21. You know, if they mess that one up and it says "UO Sucks", I'll pay for that one.
  22. This is a huge problem for me as well. I have junior staff doing code research (building, fire, ADA, zoning etc.) and they invariably rely on AI to do this. Nearly daily it returns incorrect answers similar to what you got - wrong code, section was revised, etc. Although I require staff to return the actual code cite language and section reference to me, a lot of them just want to take the AI result as gospel. The last search I did, for a building code reference in a WA state suburb, current (2021) code, returned a reference to the 2009 Santa Clara CA building code. When I showed it to staff, they started to get it - I hope....
  23. "You know the best way to raise your income 26%? Move from a red state to a blue state." Yeah, makes about as much sense. These people are shameless.
  24. Aside from what may have happened to his family in Mandatory Iraq, looking at the guy's photo I'm pretty sure his parents weren't killed by anyone in 1941 and likely not even his grandparents. (as an aside, there was a pro-German coup in Iraq in April/May 1941; it was put down by British and Commonwealth forces following which - i.e. back under British control - riots in Baghdad's Jewish Quarter killed about 200. Bad shit, no doubt; but where was the asylum from a British protectorate supposed to come from?)
  25. My dumbass brother became an attorney, so I get it 😂
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