Notices by Christina O'Sullivan ✅ 🇨🇦 (christinao@mastodon.cloud), page 16

@kemonine In Bengali the phrase for "You are a priest of farting" is "pedo pundit."

@kemonine I love reading nationality insults from one country to another. They say something about the culture. For instance the French malign the English as "rosbifs."

@kemonine My son runs a "Schlock Cinema" class for teens and so he's prescreening "Turkish Superman" which has "Kunt" and "Cokseker" in the opening credits. I offer translations so he can edify the class once they settle down.

Last week our house was making merry with the French slang phrase "Je m'en calisse." This week our lingual jollies turn Turkish as we learn the work "cokseker" which translates as "so sweet" in English.

@gemlog @jeremiah

I am so grateful. May you accidentally overhear someone praising you to another.

@gemlog @jeremiah @Combaticus LOL is overused, but I really did.

@SlowRain The good thing is that change for the better is easier when people are shown the change leads to a superior condition or circumstance. We don't all have to share the same motivation to work for the same effect.

@bobjonkman I love UBC's CITR in Vancouver, CJAM in Windsor, KEXP in Seattle (our PM recorded a Station ID for it!) and KMRE in Bellingham (btwn Vancouver and Seattle) #CampusRadio

@jeremiah Thank you! I'm listening to it now.

@gcupc I'm reading Ray Bradbury's 1955 short story collection _The October Country_, and 18 Edgar Allan #Poe stories collected by #VincentPrice. Sometimes I'm lazy and go to YouTube for #BasilRathbone to read some aloud to me. #ebooks #spooky #october #halloween

A fun modern horror master I discovered last year is Thomas Ligeti.

@jeremiah I haven't watched TV at home since 2004. I log on to Twitter only to answer cryptic crossword quizzes, and use RSS feeds for news. I have still a ways to go toward contentment.

Jon Kabat-Zinn in Sunday's Guardian. Under the fold because I feel it's kinder to not mention the 'five-letter' pumpkinhead infesting global mindspace

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/22/mindfulness-jon-kabat-zinn-depression-trump-grenfell

I have 13 'hits', ranked eighth. I won't likely climb higher, as the vocational obit writers have claimed nearly all my stiffs.

I wonder about the competitors with zero hits, ten weeks away from 2018: Jerry Lewis, Jimmy Snuka, Gord Downie, Mary Tyler Moore, John Hurt, Glen Campbell, Errol Christie weren't giveaways worth taking? Are they filled with "Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth, George HW Bush" and suchlike?

@PeteMoss carbs.

Bonne matin, good morning ☕

Why isn't the ☕ first in the food and drink emojis? It's certainly the first food or drink I reach for in the morning.

Serious question: why does it seem 80% of social media memes have typos or misspellings? Are they meant to be subtle author signs? "That meme originated by MeMetheMethTheme, you can tell by the classic past participle error."