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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #900 on: January 24, 2009, 07:25:51 AM »
"Tös" means "girl" where I live, though only old folks or real hillbillies use that word. In Norwegian, however, it means "whore", even though this province was once Norwegian. The usual Norwegian word for "girl" is "jente", which also exists in Swedish; "jänta". I actually used the pretty archaic word "flicka", that is a purely Swedish word, when I was a child. Though the most common word for "girl" today is "tjej", which comes from the Gypsy Romani language.  ::) The Danes use the word "pige" which in Swedish means "maid".
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« Reply #901 on: January 24, 2009, 07:30:42 AM »
The Swedish word for "boy" is "pojke", which comes from the Finnish "poika". An older word is "gosse", which in Norwegian is "gutt" and still used by them today. The usual word is "kille", though, which means "bloke" or "dude". In Danish they once again use the word "dreng", which in Swedish means "farm-hand".
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« Reply #902 on: January 24, 2009, 10:25:24 AM »
Interesting. I alwas thought it was the other way around, with "pojke".
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« Reply #903 on: January 24, 2009, 11:31:52 AM »
Nope. "Gosse" or "pilt" is Germanic, while "pojke" is Finno-Ugrian.
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« Reply #904 on: January 24, 2009, 05:20:58 PM »
SPDIF out from a motherboard that plug into a VGA cards SPDIF in can only transmit PCM over the VGA cards HDMI and not Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect due to I think timing issues. That sucks.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #905 on: January 24, 2009, 10:46:59 PM »


I was wrongg!
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #906 on: January 25, 2009, 01:02:04 PM »
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #907 on: January 25, 2009, 02:14:32 PM »
I had a great nap
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #908 on: January 25, 2009, 02:23:19 PM »


Quote from: odeon on January 25, 2009, 01:02:04 PM
Quote from: DirtDawg on January 24, 2009, 10:46:59 PM


I was wrongg!

About?


... about how my cunty tantrum would be viewed by the peers (that term is used as a conversational device, for I have yet to find anyone I would call peeer after a few blinks) who share my workplace.

It seems as if there were many others who felt the same way as I and I just happened to be the one hard ass who made a harshly defined point of NOT PARTICIPATING. I have become something of a minor hero in the eyes of many of the people who also did NOT want to participate in the  "pie-in-the-face"  bullshit.

This development is almost as bad, from the perspective of a person who wants to make only small, shallow tracks in life, as being seen as a cunty punk-assed whiner  (which is how I left the meeting, yesterday - feeling like a total loser, whiner, poor sport), because instead of everyone overstimming me with some kind of ridicule, they are overstimming me now with some kind of acceptance and some crap that feels like worship.

I've had my coffee for now and I am mostly calm, but I still can't feel anything. I had an expectation, when my tactiles went away so quickly, that it might be a while before I could feeel again. Feeling usually comes to my tongue, first and there is nothing, nuthun zero, zip, nada!





To be quite frank with myself, though, there are so many things that I am wrong about that I can only post reasonably acccurately about the most painful for now.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #909 on: January 25, 2009, 03:13:33 PM »
You only want to make small tracks in life? Why?
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« Reply #910 on: January 25, 2009, 04:21:19 PM »

(This life.)

... because I do not want to take the chance that some roots may grow. I would prefer wings over roots.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #911 on: January 25, 2009, 04:46:43 PM »
Ah. That's different.




My random factoid of the day is that I have three different to-do lists and a couple dozen stickies currently sitting around my computer waiting to be taken care of.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #912 on: January 26, 2009, 03:47:22 AM »
Göring didn't wear a German gun for his own protection but a S&W revolver.
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« Reply #913 on: January 26, 2009, 06:04:47 AM »
Every digital camera is really B/W, but use a special filter (called a bayer filter) to bring out colour that's made of squares of red, green and blue. The camera then blurs each colour and upscales them to the proper size, giving you a colour image. This also means that our cameras are only 1/3-1/4 the megapixels the manufacturers claim, depending on the size of the CCD/CMOS sensor and the kind of bayer filter used. :zoinks:
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #914 on: January 26, 2009, 06:34:47 AM »
A Swedish pound was 425.076 grams. A Swedish inch was 2.48 cm. An old Swedish mile was 10690 meters.
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