Loathe though I am to link to a YouTube short: https://youtube.com/shorts/zyKAhpZC2hM

That’s … Pretty depressing.

I was going to post a note about typewriters, allegedly from Tom Hanks, which I saw years and years ago; but I can’t find it.

Turns out there’s a lot of Tom Hanks typewriter content out there.

I should have picked up on that. Thanks!

I would like to know what this is referencing, please.

I also initially misread the name as “Righty” and wondered how you determined the handedness of a dog.

I have a dog and a five year old. The dog will, indeed, engage with the mail person; he won’t bark, but he’ll stand at the window and kind of huff.

One time, he did so and my child also ran over to the window, asking something like “who is that?!” I jokingly suggested that the kid could help the dog to defend the property.

Since then, whenever the kid notices anyone unexpected on the porch, they run to the window going “huff! Huff!” I haven’t seen any delivery people react yet, but I have to wonder what they think.

You couldn’t construct a Chinese sentence with dual meanings? Maybe not this one, but any? I know literally no Chinese, so I can’t cite an example; but I thought completely unambiguous communication was why constructed languages like lojban exist.

edit: In a question about grammar, I used redundant words, but I can’t think of a better replacement for “construct” in either case. I tried, though.

XcQ, link stays blue.

You’ve lost your ability to see anything else?

My feelings about them mirror yours exactly.

I was once a kid (I’m pretty sure) and have never enjoyed a banana.

Engine. Start.

I have a pixel watch 2 and have had a few false positives - one because it thought I had fallen (for some reason. I don’t know why; I was just lying in bed at the time) and one because I didn’t know you could press the button five times to call emergency services, so I let my kid play with the watch.

In both instances, the watch vibrated violently and constantly for about five seconds before initiating a call. During those five seconds, it displayed a prompt to cancel the upcoming call. I wasn’t quite fast enough to cancel the call my kid started, but I did manage to cancel the one for the alleged fall. For the one that went through, I hung up just as it connected, so they called me back. They did not appear perturbed by the mistaken call, but it only happened once; if it were repeated like you described, they probably would have been more upset.

I agree that we should have false positives as rarely as possible, but I think having the opportunity to cancel a call from one is a good stopgap.

It’s been a while since I watched the video, but I think I remember this guy having some interesting things to say about surgeries. The things I vaguely remember align with what you said.

I don’t know.

My dad explained it to me as “men like long legs” and that’s all the context I have.

If you figure out more, I’d long to have the context myself. I never really got those movies.

Strongly agreed!

I learned that from Daniel Radcliffe.

edit: Fixed a word.

I thought that was pretty typical.

I don’t know, but my dad definitely didn’t want to explain this scene to me when I was a kid.