That my son said he will call me next weekend because he wants to make sure that I'm ok.

**** off, young man. I raised you to be a caring person, TOWARD OTHERS. I'm the damn one who gets to check on you, you bastard

My son is starting his Sophomore year at the School of Mines in Golden, CO. He and his roommate were supposed to find a ratty ass apartment (like I lived in when I was in college). But, NO, his roommates parents only want the best for their little boy, so they bought a brand new 1800 sq. ft. 3/2 condo with a balcony and a gorgeous view of the mountain. Even though they aren't charging rack rate rent, it is nicer than any place I have ever lived. Millennials.

Mine is at UCCS. He wasn't accepted at the mime school.

There is at least 1 mime school in Boulder, a pretty good mexican restaurant is across the street from it. I always called it the clown college...

Yeah it kinda sucks. When he used to call and check on me, I couldn't hear anything. Took a while to figure out Skype was the only way for him to communicate with me.

Where/what is UCCS?

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

I assume, unlike me, that you married for brains.

Yeah she was super smart but ugly as hell. Could only put up with her ass until my son was 4, and then traded her in for a new model that was blond and clueless. Never been happier.

Just uploaded a bunch of pics of his place if anyone is interested.

Also, what is your kid studying?

I refuse to hijack this fine thread. Pics of kids abode might be appropriate

Agreed. So just 1 pic of the kitchen. I love to cook and this pisses me off.



Carry on....

hehe.....

That should piss you off. Because he obviously believes to have better grip on life than you do. And he probably does. :P

Not really. That is why it's called mathematics. It's all a bit random and people used to say 'Physick,' meaning medicine rather than physics, but they don't now. Youtoob Lady is mistaken, because, after all, you never say 'stat' to mean 'statistics,' you say, 'stats.' 'Math' is just a thing Americans have decided to say, just as they have decided to call dumplings 'biscuits', pavements 'sidewalks' and prams 'bassinettes'. They can if they like, but it's just random.

Incidentally, the official name of the 13th chemical element in English, as laid down by IUPAC, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, is 'aluminium,' and the second I figures in the element's name in almost every language on Earth except US English. Americans have just decided to adopt a brand name registered and advertised by a US smelting firm in the 1890s. On the other hand, IUPAC calls the 16th element 'sulfur', which is just illiterate, because it's 'sulphur.' This is universally understood to be a bone thrown to the Trumplandians so they don't feel so sore about 'aluminium,' but they keep banging on about it anyway.

Should read 'blonde' for a woman. It's the only gendered adjective in English.

That random Brits think that we call strollers "bassinettes."

Not to mention shortening perambulator to "pram" instead of "peram," and yet have the gall to prattle on about what is and isn't appropriate in linguistics.

Lol Brits correcting Americans in America, and lol Americans correcting Brits in Britain.

AFAIK we are on an American website currently.

Lol getting pissed off at pram instead of peram is absolutely perfect for this thread.

True, but it doesn't actually piss me off. It's just an illustration that language changes are based on what people want to say, not on Victorian-era putative "rules" of English. This is particularly dumb, as many these "rules" are based on Latin, when English is a predominately Germanic language.

We're on the World Wide Web, invented by an Englishman (Sir Tim Berners-Lee) working at CERN in Geneva.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

Lol classic incorrect response. If you were posting on Chinese websites, hosted in China, using Chinese characters, would you try to claim that we were simply posting on the WWW invented by an Englishman?

What kind of website are you posting on right now, what is the predominant nationality of the vast majority of posters, and what customs should you conform to?

In the heated debate between UK v. US spelling, both should just adopt whichever formulation is more efficient and easier for non-natives to deal with.

And the taeks just keep coming. Yes, clearly both Americans and Brits should spell things according to whatever is easier for Chinese people.

I'd post even more about it itt, but these taeks should piss me off.

English Snob Emeritus

Actually we call a stroller a buggy. A bassinet (I got the spelling wrong) is what we would call a cot, i.e. an infant's bed, but, because US 'bassinets' could also be on wheels, which cots aren't, bassinet was used back in the day for what we would call a pram. As a kid watching Peyton Place in the Sixties (with Ryan O'Neal and Mia Farrow and so on), I used to have to ask my mum to translate certain terms, because Americans talk funny, and bassinet was one of those terms.

Well, I'm not about to conform to the customs of ignorant American nationalists who pine for Jim Crow and lynching and segregation and all that kind of thing, because they're basically rather horrible and foolish people. As you have just demonstrated.