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Rest assured that they’ve already had that idea a dozen times already, and if they thought they could make it stick, they would have done so by now.

Mental health problems by any chance? He may need more help than family can provide if you want him to get back on his feet (and out the door).

It would be a good sign if he seems like he wants to get his own place again, even if he’s not able to make steps towards it.

Source: I’d probably be in the same boat if the laws and property upkeep rules were stricter here. Even so, I’d be wanting to get out of family accommodation ASAP. My family are good people, but I can’t spend long periods with them. There might be a hint or two in that somewhere.

(But whatever you do, please don’t fail to be kind.)

Most of the old buildings (usually churches / cathedrals) here have been built upon and changed over the centuries so what you see above ground is still old, but it’s not - at least comparatively - ancient.

I’m in England. I may or may not be in a town that has something like that, but even the places that don’t have something are within a couple of hours’ drive of somewhere that does.

I will say that where I am is listed in the Domesday book, but that isn’t saying much to be fair.

How it became the most prominent conspiracy theory is wild to me.

Every word in “Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” is a single syllable. Very easy to rattle around in an empty head. I mean, heck, it’s still rattling around in mine…

Or any of the churches that have kept Christmas where the Julian calendar had it, which is generally some time in January.

WHY IN GODS NAME ARE YOU LEAF-BLOWING AT 8AM ON A SATURDAY

These people are usually the sorts who rise at 5am regardless of day and have become bored after 3 hours awake. If they think about it at all, they believe that everyone who is not yet up by 8am is a fool who ought to be out of bed, thus that is the perfect time to make noise.

As to why they rise at 5am, take your pick from: i) Old and unable to sleep for long periods - Will be asleep again in an armchair by 11am once they’ve gone back inside; ii) Military bearing or wannabe - Probably has reveille.wav for an alarm; iii) Abject a-hole who gets a kick out of it. Honourable mention: iv) someone with no choice under direction from one of the above.

Aa ay luv mi sum daownvoats fer tryin tu help with spellinz

May ay sujest that we all comprumize on “braik” insted? :p

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While the word for a thing used for slowing and stopping a vehicle probably came from the word meaning “to destroy or cause to not work”, they are spelled differently, and may even have been pronounced differently at one point (assuming there aren’t any places which maintain a difference even now). The thing in a car is a brake.

See also: “then” and “than” which have a similar kind of relationship, and “steak” and “stake” which don’t.

A guy has to go to extreme lengths to get away from Tom Jones.

Elvis and I were alive at the same time.

https://www.paralympic.org/athletics/classification for para-athletes on their own.

As for the all-inclusive idea, I forget where I came across it. Maybe it was a Reddit comment back when I still went there. All I know is that it hadn’t occurred to me as an idea and seemed like an idea that better qualified people would be able to flesh out. Or provide reasons it wouldn’t work.

Someone sharper than I am came up with the suggestion of categorising people in a similar way to how it’s done by disability in the Paralympics. As to what those categories should be and whether it’s practical, let alone possible is another thing entirely.

Basically turn the “categorisation by disability” on its head and make it “categorisation by ability”.

There’s no proof the universe will end in a Big Crunch. Apparently there’s some measure of the universe where if it’s less than 1, we’ll get a Big Crunch, and if it’s greater than 1, we’ll get a Big Rip where everything just falls apart. I may have those backwards, but the important thing is when it’s exactly 1, it implies a universe that continues forever, getting colder and colder. And as best as science can determine for our universe, the value is precisely that.

But here’s another, well, dimension to that: There’s a popular but unprovable conjecture that our universe is the inside of a black hole that exists in a higher-level universe. In our universe, black holes boil away due to Hawking radiation, a process that can take trillions of years for very large black holes.

Once the black hole we’re inside of stops consuming matter in the level above, that spells a very slow but alternative end to our universe. One day it will simply cease to exist.

“This the way the world ends: Not with a bang, but a whimper.” – T.S.Eliot.

Not completely mysterious, but still largely so. The usual zodiacal constellations are listed, and the names therein have allegedly been decoded as resembling a Turkic language.

That doesn’t mean it isn’t a hoax, only that someone with knowledge of a Turkic language helped create those pages in particular.

As I used to say to customers of the ISPs I worked for, Internet e-mail was not designed to be instant, and it’s largely good fortune that it works fast enough most of the time.

It would be closer to IM if everyone in the conversation was on the same mail server, which is what often happens within a large organisation, but even then there are overheads that expect there to be a sending and receiving server if not a lot of other things along the way. And as soon as someone outside that organisation needs to be included, their mail system could introduce a bottleneck even if there’s no bottleneck at the sender’s side.

Instant messaging tends to be far more streamlined and centralised precisely so it can be quick.

Assuming 1) you want things to be colder, 2) your budget can accommodate a bit of extra electricity usage and 3) the following actually exists on your appliance, many freezers have a dial somewhere that can be used to set the temperature.

Sometimes it’s coupled to the setting for an attached refrigerator section. Sometimes, yes, it’s an unchangeable setting whether there are other settings elsewhere or not. Might still be worth double-checking.

Akimbo

It’s an honest-to-goodness English word and not derived from French, Latin, Greek or anything else, like a lot of the words here. Yes, it looks like it might be from an African language, but it’s a squashed form of “in keen bow” meaning “well bent” or “crooked”.

By all accounts, “one” should rhyme with “stone”, but bear in mind that we also have “done” which is pretty close, as well as “gone” which is pretty out-there by comparison. (This suggests the compromise pronunciation of “scone” should be “scun”, but on the other hand…)

There’s also that in some accents / dialects, the word “own” fills that particular pronunciation niche, necessitating an alternative pronunciation for the number.

The theory is that a non-standard regional pronunciation is the, uh, one that caught on everywhere else.

Fun fact about “two”: It’s the “w” making the vowel sound, and the “o” is silent (compare Latin “duo”). Even more strangely, it’s “w” that makes the vowel sound in “who” as well! It was originally spelled “hwo” until all “hw” words were forced to conform to all the other modifiers where the h goes second. It’s also hwy / why the h sounds out first in old-fashioned pronunciations of words like whip / hwip.

A technically correct alternative would be to drop that plural “s” but forego any uncountable noun that describes the form the beans take: “I had too much refried bean today.”

In the wrong context it might evoke the idea of one enormous bean that the speaker was unable to finish, but like I say, technically correct.