It's linguistics (or lexicography, or w/e): https://korystamper.wordpress.com/2018/01/11/down-the-shithole-why-lexicographers-need-your-profanity/ And, as the article notes, it's not who said it, but that newspapers printed it, mostly without asterisks.

Unsurprisingly, the newspaper I read just used "shithole countries" in quotes, both in the header, and in the rest of the article: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2018/01/12/trump-wil-geen-immigranten-uit-shithole-countries-in-afrika-a1588119 Okay, this newspaper does slightly better - they do translate in the article, though "achterlijke landen" would more accurately mean "retarded countries" or "backward countries", but more likely the former than the latter, so, be careful with whether that translation works in other circumstances (which, of course, is a warning for w/e other languages you might look at too): https://www.ad.nl/buitenland/vn-reageren-gebeten-op-shitholes-van-trump~a1db954f/ This one does the same thing: http://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1532639/trump-ontkent-dat-hij-sprak-over-shitholes

Sorry I'm still so far behind. Boeja!

Edpo! During one Behavioral Neuroscience lecture the prof was offering a Twinkie (or similar) to whomever would volunteer for something, so DW pointed at me and said I'd never had one. Which was true. I got it. I could've done without, but hey, it was educational.

Dutch word of the day #1: the Dutch word for monkey is aap. Also, the Dutch word for ape is aap. Nobody cares whether they have tails or not. In school, they typically teach that the English word for aap is monkey. With butter and lemon. Dutch word of the day #2: kreeft means lobster.

Um, what!? Best I can tell, the Continental Reformed Church both predates Presbyterianism and is Calvinist. Also, say, the Dutch Reformed Church is about the same age as Presbyterianism (and is Calvinist as well). (not that I have much of a clue what Presbyterianism is, other than that Wikipedia says it originated in the British Isles in the 16th century - okay, Wikipedia says that there have been a handful of Presbyterian churches in NL since the 1950s, so, not that surprising that I'm clueless about them)

Okay, but he's constitutionally ineligible to be *elected* President, not constitutionally ineligible to the office of the President. I.e., if he gets there some other way, there's no conflict, therefore, he'd be eligible to run for VP. Or, at least that's how I read it. Not that I think him running as VP would be a great idea. Nor Oprah. I like Reich, but he's getting too old... Saving Capitalism is a great documentary though. I really do wonder who on earth might run.

Did you get it done yet?

I feel like the word Protestant is used a lot more often in NL than in the US. I could be wrong though. ETA: iirc every primary school I attended billed itself as a Protestant-Christian school - I don't think they got specific about whether they were Dutch Reformed or Continental Reformed (the two main branches of Protestant Christianity in NL).

I think it's related to the raw foods movement. That said, when I hear "raw water" I think of raw sewage, and that does not make it sound appealing at all. Unlike raw foods, which makes me think of uncooked carrots and the like, which, well, I happen to prefer cooked carrots, but I don't think "ew!" when I think raw carrots.

When I lived in rural Thailand we drank the rainwater too. It was safer than the tap water, which was for showering and flushing the toilet etc. I would not drink bottled raw water though - that sounds dumb.

I'm working my way through LOF Linear Algebra, and DW has decided to dub it "Life of Dread". Anyway, that was just a random funny. Do any of your curricula have nicknames?

A PP thought the same thing, but apparently the board software doesn't (her posts do have two spaces). Of course, it's also possible that it depends on your device or browser etc. Your space bar is the same size as the period? My period is right next to the space bar too, but the space bar is way bigger. It's very similar to this one: http://i-cdn.phonearena.com/images/reviews/142157-image/Samsung-Galaxy-Note-3-Review-064-messaging.jpg I do use the actual period though, not the double space bar, or, predictive text... it will suggest a period after certain words.

I hate to break it to you, but, I'm counting only one space after each period in that post.

Texting is a relatively new way of communication that became really popular when I was in high school. Therefore, I'm going to claim that Millennial title and declare that whatever I text goes. Period. No old fuddy-duddiness about it. I would not take texting advice from a tween, tbh. They're still at that age where they're discovering all the neat features of stuff. Just like someone who encounters PowerPoint for the first time and goes overboard... ETA: the more sentences I text in a single block, the more likely it is that the last one will have a period. I also can't stand Twitter. Who can say stuff in 140 characters? (I know that they've got more now, but still...)

Some years ago, my mom booked a hotel room in a hotel right next to Houston's busiest airport. I was like :willy_nilly: , but we actually couldn't hear the planes at all... I guess they had the sense to build with great soundproofing because of the location. I do think we had the top floor, and the top floor was probably less popular because of people assuming being right next to a busy airport would suck. Anyway, ymmv and all that, just wanted to throw those thoughts out there.

So, I searched Amazon for books with the terms "current events" and ordered them by publication date... which meant I had to go to about page 27 or so to not be in pre-order territory: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_27?rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Acurrent+events&page=27&sort=date-desc-rank&keywords=current+events&ie=UTF8&qid=1515268695 Most results aren't relevant, but, some finds published in about the past month: https://www.amazon.com/Not-Normal-Progressives-Trumps-Election/dp/197963467X/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 May or may not be your cup of tea wrt political slant, but seemed appropriate to assignment iiuc. https://www.amazon.com/Eruptions-Popular-Anger-Economics-Development-ebook/dp/B078SGDBTL/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1515268846&sr=1-1 Looks like a tougher read (this one is about Arab Spring and its aftermath - the aftermath being current events, right?). https://www.amazon.com/Vanilla-Not-Only-Flavor-Re-Education/dp/1979173281/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 Current events poetry (again, may or may not be your political slant - I'm not really picking a political angle here, just what Amazon has listed for current events that was published in about the last month). https://www.amazon.com/Controlling-Cyberspace-Politics-Governance-Regulation-ebook/dp/B077KF6YXM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1515269025&sr=1-1 Probably a tougher read too (probably relevant wrt net neutrality and the like... not sure). Anyway, if you have a topic that interests you, you could probably find better results by searching for that topic and sorting by publication date - the above is just to show some examples of things that might work.

E.g.: https://www.amazon.com/TIME-Year-Review-2017-Editors/dp/1547841028/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

My high school history teacher once said that according to some historians, anything more recent than 30 years ago is too recent for historical analysis, and is current events. So, no, not anything during your lifetime (nor my lifetime). That said, for what you describe, I'd aim for things within the past 5 years. You can find a fair number of books about things within the past year even. Ongoing things tend to be great - like, the Israel-Palestine conflict... I don't know what books have been published about that recently, but it's an ongoing issue. Likewise, there should be books about Syria, or you could even get the coffee table photo book What Happened Last Night in Sweden (okay, that one doesn't sound appropriate for the assignment, since it's mostly photos, but, it was published in Sept iirc, and has to do with Trump's tweet in Jan or Feb, and then the actual attack that happened in April). There are probably recently published books about North Korea's nuclear ambitions as well. You could probably already find some book recapping 2017 overall.

I think that that far out, they can basically say "yes, we'll probably have weather of some sort". Right?

Oh, and 53 on March 31st and 56 on April 1st. As if they can accurately forecast that far out.

Hey, we're supposed to hit 50 on Thursday as well. :party:

Car wouldn't start last night, probably because of the cold and because the only reason it'd been driven the day before was to move it across the street.

If that's too much to ask, anything >32 will suffice. That'd still be something like 35 degrees warmer than it is atm, and warm enough to melt some snow.

Can we have some of that, instead of trying for a record low? Any record high will do, i.e., it doesn't have to be 72 - I'm not sure what the record high for today is, but for most days in January the record high is somewhere between 61 and 65. I'm even willing to settle for a near record at just 60 or so.