I hate people who say "Ding" or other similar stupid declarations of level in an mmo. Especially when they are like level 5.
Man, back in the Everquest days gaining a level was an event. The entire zone would leave their camps and hold a parade to celebrate such a rare treat.
Yeah and the "Welcome back to 49 message" was also a treat.
Yea, then what you got was less "parade" and more "wake."
For some reason it is cheaper to book London -> Amsterdam by travelling "Leisure select" class on Eurostar to Brussels, and first class on Thalys to Amsterdam than it is to book both legs standard class.
Don't complain. Nothing better than not having to sit with the rest of the sheep.
It is still £130 return per person and we'd have to get to London first. There is probably a budget airline that operates out of BHX that would make the same trip cheaper, but the trouble with budget airlines is that they rarely fly to airports actually located in the cities they are named after.
Ryanair for example calls Weeze airport "Dusseldorf (Weeze)". Weeze is not in Dusseldorf. It is only just barely in Germany.
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But really though, it is much more logical to call 16.30 half five and 17.30 half six.
Halving something does not increase it.
"Half five" meaning "half past five" is a result of people saying "half past", never saying "half to" and dropping the extraneous word.
You aren't halving anything. It's one half plus five.
When we say half five we are referring to the final designated hour being halved. Seems much more logical to me.
To understand this British way of saying half five I would have to have knowledge that you decided to leave out the word that lends the correct meaning to the phrase.
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Hi I'm Vee!Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C ERegistered Userregular
edited January 2010
I thought of like 3 possible meanings for half five before I read the actual explanation in [chat].
My first one was some sort of weird high five where only half of your hands touch.
No we don't use "half five" or "half [anything]" in the US. I've literally never heard that expression before.
For some reason it is cheaper to book London -> Amsterdam by travelling "Leisure select" class on Eurostar to Brussels, and first class on Thalys to Amsterdam than it is to book both legs standard class.
Don't complain. Nothing better than not having to sit with the rest of the sheep.
It is still £130 return per person and we'd have to get to London first. There is probably a budget airline that operates out of BHX that would make the same trip cheaper, but the trouble with budget airlines is that they rarely fly to airports actually located in the cities they are named after.
Ryanair for example calls Weeze airport "Dusseldorf (Weeze)". Weeze is not in Dusseldorf. It is only just barely in Germany.
Easyjet is quite good at flying to where they claim. Ryanair really are fucking awful though.
And yes, the Eurostar is stupidly expensive.
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Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
Also as much as I dislike the thought of eugenics, hearing about welfare mothers with 8 fucking kids makes you want to stab a bitch.
I grew up with CCR. It's like Hendrix or the Troggs for me. Do not ask if I like them, as if I can not like them. First songs I could sing by heart were Purple Haze, Foxy Lady, and Bad Moon Rising.
Also as much as I dislike the thought of eugenics, hearing about welfare mothers with 8 fucking kids makes you want to stab a bitch.
I grew up with CCR. It's like Hendrix or the Troggs for me. Do not ask if I like them, as if I can not like them. First songs I could sing by heart were Purple Haze, Foxy Lady, and Bad Moon Rising.
See for me it was Bad to the bone, money for nothing, and we're not going to take it.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
For some reason it is cheaper to book London -> Amsterdam by travelling "Leisure select" class on Eurostar to Brussels, and first class on Thalys to Amsterdam than it is to book both legs standard class.
Don't complain. Nothing better than not having to sit with the rest of the sheep.
It is still £130 return per person and we'd have to get to London first. There is probably a budget airline that operates out of BHX that would make the same trip cheaper, but the trouble with budget airlines is that they rarely fly to airports actually located in the cities they are named after.
Ryanair for example calls Weeze airport "Dusseldorf (Weeze)". Weeze is not in Dusseldorf. It is only just barely in Germany.
It's in the administrative district of Düsseldorf, that's probably why.
But really though, it is much more logical to call 16.30 half five and 17.30 half six.
Halving something does not increase it.
"Half five" meaning "half past five" is a result of people saying "half past", never saying "half to" and dropping the extraneous word.
You aren't halving anything. It's one half plus five.
When we say half five we are referring to the final designated hour being halved. Seems much more logical to me.
To understand this British way of saying half five I would have to have knowledge that you decided to leave out the word that lends the correct meaning to the phrase.
If you weren't a mainland european you would have that knowledge, because "half to five" is not a construction that is ever used in (British, can't speak for other variants) English, so the abbreviation only has one possible expansion.
Also as much as I dislike the thought of eugenics, hearing about welfare mothers with 8 fucking kids makes you want to stab a bitch.
I grew up with CCR. It's like Hendrix or the Troggs for me. Do not ask if I like them, as if I can not like them. First songs I could sing by heart were Purple Haze, Foxy Lady, and Bad Moon Rising.
See for me it was Bad to the bone, money for nothing, and we're not going to take it.
Hah, I can imagine a 4 year old you singing Bad to the Bone at the top of your lungs while taking your pre-bed-time bath.
For some reason it is cheaper to book London -> Amsterdam by travelling "Leisure select" class on Eurostar to Brussels, and first class on Thalys to Amsterdam than it is to book both legs standard class.
Don't complain. Nothing better than not having to sit with the rest of the sheep.
It is still £130 return per person and we'd have to get to London first. There is probably a budget airline that operates out of BHX that would make the same trip cheaper, but the trouble with budget airlines is that they rarely fly to airports actually located in the cities they are named after.
Ryanair for example calls Weeze airport "Dusseldorf (Weeze)". Weeze is not in Dusseldorf. It is only just barely in Germany.
It's in the administrative district of Düsseldorf, that's probably why.
It's because Ryanair are cocks, that's why.
This is the same airline that the Office of Fair Trading is currently yelling at because there is a £5 (sometimes £10) fee per person, per flight, for bookings paid for by credit or debit card that they do not add to their advertised prices because, theoretically, you can avoid it by using an incredbly obscure payment mechanism that very few people have access to and only 3% of the population (the OFT did a poll) have actually even heard of.
Using 12-hour time involves fewer syllables and the ambiguities are overcome by intuition over 98% of the time.
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PasserbyeI am much older than you.in Beach CityRegistered Userregular
edited January 2010
I think Japan and most other Asian countries have solved this problem nicely - 24-hour time. No crazy am/pm, and they only ever say the time as ##:##, none of this half passed five nonsense.
Is it so hard to say a quarter till or a quarter past? Are people really this lazy?
The abbreviation doesn't happen in English.
German, however, is a phenomena all to itself when talking about time expressions.
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SarksusATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered Userregular
edited January 2010
A 24 hour clock is the better clock.
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edited January 2010
Yes I would know that if I lived there, because that's how you use it. What I'm getting at is that it can't possibly be the most common way to interpret half five. Because it sounds like the expression developed by pure chance, it could've just as likely had the opposite meaning. Whereas the other way of thinking about it is kind of intuitive.
It was interesting to get to know this at least, so that I don't use it wrongly when in Rome... err Londoninium.
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Pretty sure somebody half to.
CCR FTW. :^:
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I've watched it a second time now, btw, this time not dubbed. It's fantastic. Tarantino did a wonderful job with the languages in the movie.
and I guess they're a bitch to get in and out
Half passed five would be 530.
Half five makes me think of half of the hour of five, so 530.
Does sound different though, as do most other British syntax changes.
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See even muslims appreciate john fogerty.
Also as much as I dislike the thought of eugenics, hearing about welfare mothers with 8 fucking kids makes you want to stab a bitch.
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It is still £130 return per person and we'd have to get to London first. There is probably a budget airline that operates out of BHX that would make the same trip cheaper, but the trouble with budget airlines is that they rarely fly to airports actually located in the cities they are named after.
Ryanair for example calls Weeze airport "Dusseldorf (Weeze)". Weeze is not in Dusseldorf. It is only just barely in Germany.
When we say half five we are referring to the final designated hour being halved. Seems much more logical to me.
To understand this British way of saying half five I would have to have knowledge that you decided to leave out the word that lends the correct meaning to the phrase.
My first one was some sort of weird high five where only half of your hands touch.
No we don't use "half five" or "half [anything]" in the US. I've literally never heard that expression before.
Easyjet is quite good at flying to where they claim. Ryanair really are fucking awful though.
And yes, the Eurostar is stupidly expensive.
I'll probably have to sign the slip and leave it for the UPS person, so I guess I'll get it tomorrow
I grew up with CCR. It's like Hendrix or the Troggs for me. Do not ask if I like them, as if I can not like them. First songs I could sing by heart were Purple Haze, Foxy Lady, and Bad Moon Rising.
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See for me it was Bad to the bone, money for nothing, and we're not going to take it.
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It's in the administrative district of Düsseldorf, that's probably why.
If you weren't a mainland european you would have that knowledge, because "half to five" is not a construction that is ever used in (British, can't speak for other variants) English, so the abbreviation only has one possible expansion.
Hah, I can imagine a 4 year old you singing Bad to the Bone at the top of your lungs while taking your pre-bed-time bath.
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But then you get into the problem of saying Four thirty, or sixteen thirty. Whole other can of worms.
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Ok, just to get you going: What do you think "quarter five" means? :P
If you need to specify just say 4:30 in the morning or the afternoon.
This shit isn't rocket surgery people.
I very much want web browser + e-reader
I would buy the kindle in a heartbeat if it had the iphone's web browser
Depends quarter to five would mean 4:45, where as quarter five to me would mean 5:15.
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It's because Ryanair are cocks, that's why.
This is the same airline that the Office of Fair Trading is currently yelling at because there is a £5 (sometimes £10) fee per person, per flight, for bookings paid for by credit or debit card that they do not add to their advertised prices because, theoretically, you can avoid it by using an incredbly obscure payment mechanism that very few people have access to and only 3% of the population (the OFT did a poll) have actually even heard of.
That doesn't mean anything. You can't miss out the word there, because we use quarter past and quarter to when discussing time.
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I think it means the person I am talking to doesn't know how to convey the time in a way that would make sense to anyone in the area in which I live.
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the nintendo dsI has a web browser and I am seriously considering buying one for that reason alone
I realize what I REALLY want is Iphone-quality web browsing but I can't afford an iphone
It means quarter past four. Hah!
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The abbreviation doesn't happen in English.
German, however, is a phenomena all to itself when talking about time expressions.
It was interesting to get to know this at least, so that I don't use it wrongly when in Rome... err Londoninium.