Quinos in 2005-2010 was awesome. Their management fell off with handling their franchise owners though to my knowledge.

Rubber duck programming

Nope, I’m not an Ai advert. I read the book and still have it. I hope you like the book. I also recommend a diamond age, also known as a primer for young girls.

It’s not a direct connection to Rowling but I was just pointing out another example.

Could be, I may be wrong but still an awesome book

Ok, it’s been a decade since I read it so I remembered wrong.

Completely agree.

Wait, are you correcting me or giving social commentary? I thought the guy on the skateboard was delivering pizzas but it has been over a decade since I read it so I may be wrong

Sorry, it’s snowcrash and I corrected the original comment.

If you like techno-fantasy I highly recommend snowcrash. For years I’ve wanted a game of the first chapter, basically a guy is delivering pizza but gas is really expensive so all he has is a skateboard and a harpoon gun with an electromagnet. He basically shoots the harpoon at cars and gave them pull him towards the destination, it sounds like a cool video game like a race but you don’t control speed only which car you are connected to.

Don’t worry that didn’t spoil anything. The book goes into a totally different direction with technology and science.

In the book snowcrash by Neil Stephenson the main character is named “Hiro Protagonist”. Yes it’s a real book, and one of my favorites, by a real author.

I under your reasoning but technically if it’s a septic tank it does mean shit 😋

A large strap around the outside securely tightened attached to a tall crane should be able to raise the bar… Assuming said bar meets building standards.

Depends… Pregnant by a horse? That will give you attention. Pregnant by a human male well…

I 100% disagree. If I say “go back to your station, you cogswallow” that could be offensive. You should be offended by that. If I say “haha, you cogswallow, that’s an amazing painting” its no longer offensive. I am showing appreciation of your painting.

What does cogswallow mean? I have no idea, I just made it up.

I don’t know any other languages but if someone is insulting me in French or praising me in French I could tell the difference based on context and body language. Did they just catch me stealing an apple? Did they just watch a presentation I did with a smile on their face?

Words are used to express an emotion. The emotion is what matters. Back decades ago retard wasn’t an offensive term, it was used to describe people with a specific condition. It was used because “imbecile” and “invalid” were seen as offensive. Yes, some people have severely limited mental capabilities. Sometimes combined with limited physical capabilities. We need a word to express I mean them. That could be “flogtrough”. I could offend you with that word or I could praise you. I just made it up.

I will say in text communication like commonly used on the internet it’s hard to express context so people rely on previous context of usage of that word. If a person has been exposed to cogswallow or flogtrough previously, first get out of my brain, but seriously that impacts their interpretation of the word relative to given context.