What are you doing right now?

[EndOfTheEarth]

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

[Fake]

The rules of thermodynamics:

1. You can't win.

2. You can't break even.

3. You can't get out of the game.

[EndOfTheEarth]

3b. You just lost it.

[Fake]

Actually, I was banned from the game about two years back.

I got Red-Carded for excessive violence, and when they ran a background check they discovered a history of performance enhancing drugs.

...I don't really like to talk about it. It was a weird experience.

[Nighthawk]

Thanks, End. >/p>

XD

[Omega]

Made doughnuts. They were delicious.

[Contradiction]

What is an appropriate way to thank a teacher for writing you a college rec letter?

[Xuut]

Just saying thank you and telling them how grateful you are for their help?

I've gotten like four or five teachers to do reference letters for me already and it's been very standard "thank you so much!". 

[EndOfTheEarth]

With a thank-you letter, handwritten.

[nathan_p]

Still not dead, just midterms.

[Omega]

Hey Nathan. Nice to hear from you! Good luck with the torture sessions exams

[EndOfTheEarth]

[Omega]

I'm cackling over an article about misunderstandings that occur because of dialects and accents - in particular the fact that the blogger is a kiwi living in the US with his American wife.

We've discussed it on here before, but it seems weird because there are lots of examples of words that people don't use outside of NZ(and Aus) that I wouldn't have even thought of because I use 'em all the time.

And when I think about the number of Maori or Pasifika derived words I actually use in convos... It boggles the mind.

Apparently nobody else uses 'choice!' as an exclamation much like 'awesome', and usually appended with 'bro'. Or occasionally 'cuz', or rarer still 'cuzzy-bro', which, when I think about it, is quite incestuous.

'Heaps' isn't used many other places. Bet most of you don't know what a 'trolley' is, or a 'ute'. Or 'peckish', which is an extremely useful word.

And wait. 'toilet' is apparently not used over there either? wha? How weird.

And that's not even starting on the fact that beer and bear sound the same, and awesome and possum most certainly do not rhyme.