Post a website, entertain me!

http://science.time.com/2013/10/22/the-united-states-of-attitude-an-interactive-guide-to-americas-moods/

Take a personality test, determine what state you should live in.

It told me I need to move to the Rockies. Dammit, I'm trying. I'm trying.

Miashara wrote:

http://science.time.com/2013/10/22/the-united-states-of-attitude-an-interactive-guide-to-americas-moods/

Take a personality test, determine what state you should live in.

It told me I need to move to the Rockies. Dammit, I'm trying. I'm trying.

Utah... what?

Colorado here.

Also Colorado...which has been in the 3-year plan...

Time to move to Oregon!

Maybe some day Washington, some day.

Montana?! f*ck that!

MeatMan wrote:

Montana?! f*ck that!

I know right? What am I goimg to do surrounded by Mormons other than irritate the f*ck out of them?

LouZiffer wrote:

Time to move to Oregon!

Yay!

MeatMan wrote:

Montana?! f*ck that!

Demosthenes wrote:
MeatMan wrote:

Montana?! f*ck that!

I know right? What am I goimg to do surrounded by Mormons other than irritate the f*ck out of them?

Boo!

"You belong in Wyoming!"
Eh, I figure 60 miles is close enough.

I'm where I belong! My life is now complete!

Ah warm sunny Oregon, one of the places we would move to if we could.

Zaque wrote:

Ah warm sunny Oregon, one of the places we would move to if we could.

If it weren't for the epic levels of bwuh over fluoride in the drinking water, I'd consider it.

Vermont? Naa, I'm ok with being a few hours away from it.

California. I've been trying (sort of) desperately to get back to California for over a year now.

Georgia. Grew up in Georgia been trying to find some reason to move back for 25 years. We must move Miss Redneck this website says so!

Demosthenes wrote:
Zaque wrote:

Ah warm sunny Oregon, one of the places we would move to if we could.

If it weren't for the epic levels of bwuh over fluoride in the drinking water, I'd consider it. :D

Pfft, that was months ago. Now we're back to how wifi networks cause cancer of the brainmeats, possibly due to a conspiracy of some sort.

ruhk wrote:
Demosthenes wrote:
Zaque wrote:

Ah warm sunny Oregon, one of the places we would move to if we could.

If it weren't for the epic levels of bwuh over fluoride in the drinking water, I'd consider it. :D

Pfft, that was months ago. Now we're back to how wifi networks cause cancer of the brainmeats, possibly due to a conspiracy of some sort. ;)

Well, I mean, everyone knows a wired connection is best.

ragin_redneck wrote:

Georgia. Grew up in Georgia been trying to find some reason to move back for 25 years. We must move Miss Redneck this website says so!

You should move to Nashville! It's better!

BadKen wrote:

Hypatian, the title of the essay is "Now We Are Five: a big family at the beach" not "My Weird Sister (Who I Hadn't Spoken To For Eight Years) Is Dead".

Almost everything David Sedaris writes is about himself (and often his family), and how he sees the world and how things that happen affect him. What makes him a great essayist - apart from being a master mechanic of prose - is that the way he sees things is interesting and unusual, even when he writes about mundane events or common themes.

I'm a Sedaris fan, and loved the piece, but Hypatian and LifeInNeon made me see it in a new light. In particular, you can protest all you want that the focus of the piece is not his sister, but that's the jumping off point. It's literally the first sentence of the essay. And, as Hypatian points out, this essay is for all intents and purposes the sum total of what the larger world will ever know of this woman, written by someone who she explicitly excluded from her life. I'm not saying that Sedaris shouldn't write about whatever he wants to write about, but I would feel as if my story had been taken from me in the worst way if it were told to the world by someone whom I did not trust.

Reddit thread of someone asking advice for an unusual problem:

Homeowners: How do you keep local sous chefs from harvesting urban edibles on your property?

...It was fine when they were just harvesting pineapple weed and mallow from the alley and the parking strip, although it was admittedly a little off-putting. I'm also totally cool with them picking the crab apples because some of the branches are in the public right of way. But yesterday my neighbor called to let me know she had to help a sous chef who got stuck on top of my fence holding a baggie full of chicory leaves.
I get that part of living in inner SE is dealing with locavore sous chefs and all the problems that follow them, but it is frustrating and kind of scary knowing that they are constantly combing my yard for garnishes while I'm away.

This sounds like a joke, but I know a restaurant that does stuff like this so I imagine it's not that uncommon.

ruhk wrote:

Reddit thread of someone asking advice for an unusual problem:

Homeowners: How do you keep local sous chefs from harvesting urban edibles on your property?

A big, mean-looking dog that has been trained not to accept food from strangers.

Yeah, but that would require getting a dog, which is barely better than having strangers steal weeds from your backyard. It could even be worse, depending upon the breed of dog.

I would put a winky face emoticon here to show I was joking, but I'm not really sure whether I'm not joking.

Looks like someone was unfamiliar with all the various varieties of Lorem Ipsum available on the internets.

50 People On ‘The Most Intellectual Joke I Know’

I confess. I laughed at this one.

The programmer’s wife tells him: “Run to the store and pick up a loaf of bread. If they have eggs, get a dozen.”

The programmer comes home with 12 loaves of bread.

This sentence contains exactly threee erors.

The eggcorn database.

The word _eggcorn_ was coined collectively by the linguists who write at the excellent group blog Language Log.

In September 2003, Mark Liberman reported an incorrect yet particularly suggestive creation: someone had written “egg corn” instead of “acorn”. It turned out that there was no established label for this type of non-standard reshaping. Erroneous as it may be, the substitution involved more than just ignorance: an acorn is more or less shaped like an egg; and it is a seed, just like grains of corn. So if you don’t know how _acorn_ is spelled, _egg corn_ actually makes sense.

Mark Liberman’s colleague Geoffrey Pullum chimed in and suggested that this type of linguistic error should be called an _eggcorn_. Then Arnold Zwicky, wrote an enlightening article in which he gave his blessing to the term _eggcorn_ and explained that new labels for spontaneous reshapings of known expressions are sorely needed, and listed the aspects under which eggcorns overlap with but yet differ from known classes of lexical creativity: malapropisms, mondegreens, folk etymologies etc.