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Post up facts and things that hardly anyone knows...... (for entertainment purposes only. NO need to fact check)

66/440 said:
While we are all familiar with Cotton Candy or Candy Floss, in Asia Pork Floss is a popular addition to many dishes as well as bakery items. It is made by drying pork then shredding to a fine texture. It melts in you mouth the same as candy floss.
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A standard item in some stores here, it's sold in square jars similar to mixed nuts.
 
YY1 said:
I have a high school education and I've been chastised by people with masters and doctorate degrees for writing above their heads.

I try to keep my communications at middle school reading level.

Sigh.
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All one has to do to understand current reading level is pick up a modern book, like say, one of the "Hunger Games" books lauded as a modern literary masterwork and read a few pages.
Then pick up "A tale of Two Cities" and read a couple pages there.
One book you will want a book mark to take a break, the other you could read while standing up in the store, finish it, and put it back without buying it. Ask me how I know.
 
An AI test....
Unfortunately, the provided context does not contain specific information on the number of cans of sardines sold in the US. However, it does mention that sardines are sold in basically every grocery store, gas station, and dollar store across the country, indicating a widespread availability of the product.
 
1STMP said:
An AI test....
Unfortunately, the provided context does not contain specific information on the number of cans of sardines sold in the US. However, it does mention that sardines are sold in basically every grocery store, gas station, and dollar store across the country, indicating a widespread availability of the product.
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What's that got to do with the price of fish?

Oh, hang on..... :lol:
 
While it is possible to keep your eyes open when you sneeze, it is not easy.

I know this as it got me off a serious traffic ticket when I caused a 4-car pile-up about 23 years ago. :lol:

I did one guy a favour when he had his sh6tbox Fiat Escargo van absolutely rooted.... doubled what he paid for it from the Insurance.

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Detective D said:
All one has to do to understand current reading level is pick up a modern book, like say, one of the "Hunger Games" books lauded as a modern literary masterwork and read a few pages.
Then pick up "A tale of Two Cities" and read a couple pages there.
One book you will want a book mark to take a break, the other you could read while standing up in the store, finish it, and put it back without buying it. Ask me how I know.
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One modern writer that does not write at a lower level is Charles Palliser, a one time university teacher of creative writing. This book, his first, reads like it was done by Dickens. He was in his forties when it was published.
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Detective D said:
All one has to do to understand current reading level is pick up a modern book, like say, one of the "Hunger Games" books lauded as a modern literary masterwork and read a few pages.
Then pick up "A tale of Two Cities" and read a couple pages there.
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Just a difference between modern prose and purple (or flowery) prose.
 
The shipping date on my Procar by Scat passenger bucket seat bracket.

It's been on backorder since the end of November 2023.
 
Explain why our electric bills never decrease, even though we have swapped to all LED lights, energy star appliances, built massive solar and wind farms.......
 
Pops1967GTX said:
Explain why our electric bills never decrease, even though we have swapped to all LED lights, energy star appliances, built massive solar and wind farms.......
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Corporate greed.

(Apologies for giving an answer) :)
 
Pops1967GTX said:
Explain why our electric bills never decrease, even though we have swapped to all LED lights, energy star appliances, built massive solar and wind farms.......
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My power bill dropped in December. I had been paying a flat rate of around $80 per month (Canadian dollars), but they said I was using less power this year so it got reduced to $68 per month.
 
Dipstick said:
Just a difference between modern prose and purple (or flowery) prose.
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Not really, the hunger games books the book itself is about 1/3 as big, the print is half again bigger, and the line spacing was at least half again on top of that. It's like when you ask a middle school student to write a paper that is 3 pages long. Bust out the double spaced notebook!
And the "difficulty" of the language is not even comparable. One describes and the other simply tells.

We all used to say the book is better then the movie, because of the amount of detail, plus extra scenes, dialogue, entire events.... for the hunger games, this is simply not the case. There is no extra substance to the book, it is just a string of sentences with "and then"s in between.

"But no one is returning except me. And that’s only for a brief visit. The authorities in District 13 were against my coming back. They viewed it as a costly and pointless venture, given that at least a dozen invisible hovercraft are circling overhead for my protection and there’s no intelligence to be gained. I had to see it, though. So much so that I made it a condition of my cooperating with any of their plans."

Above is from Mocking Jay. Typically you wouldn't start a sentence, much less a paragraph, with a conjunction, it isn't a grammar rule but typically you would avoid that for professional writing. Note is was done twice in a row. This was a random excerpt from a simple google search.

"There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none. A clammy and intensely cold mist, it made its slow way through the air in ripples that visibly followed and overspread one another, as the waves of an unwholesome sea might do. It was dense enough to shut out everything from the light of the coach-lamps but these its own workings, and a few yards of road; and the reek of the labouring horses steamed into it, as if they had made it all."

Above is from Dickens. I even looked for a paragraph that had "normal words" to try to make it a better comparison. It is more often that much more unique language is used for more accurate descriptions.
From just a bit further in the chapter-

"The stillness consequent on the cessation of the rumbling and and labouring of the coach, added to the stillness of the night, made it very quiet indeed. The panting of the horses communicated a tremulous motion to the coach, as if it were in a state of agitation. The hearts of the passengers beat loud enough perhaps to be heard; but at any rate, the quiet pause was audibly expressive of people out of breath, and holding the breath, and having the pulses quickened by expectation."


There is more to it then a difference in prose.
 
There are only 4 words in the English language that end in dous, tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
 
ffgreg32 said:
There are only 4 words in the English language that end in dous, tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
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nonhazardous

It is curious though, how some common words we use daily can end up being much more unique then we think they are.
 
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