Anara, Palao isn't Kazakh for plov, plov is Russian for palao. Don't ever forget that.
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other categories found with "politics": patriotism (15), stupidity (13), provincialism (13), religion (12), SSSR (10)
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[edit] added: 30 March 2007
[edit] added: 1 September 2006
18:14:37 kesuari: ummm. they have a holiday on the first day of classes?
18:14:56 kesuari: how can you have a day of classes on a holiday?
18:15:11 kesuari: isn’t that like going to work to celebrate a day off?
18:15:46 kesuari: soviets are weird.
[edit] added: 13 June 2006
Jonathan: "Whoa, there's a Russian Passport Helpline! And it's a 1-800 number."
Rianna: "1-800-BRIBE-US?"
[edit] added: 2 June 2006
Jonathan: "You know how the saying goes, three Jews in a room, four opinions."
Rianna: "Three Americans in a room, two opinions. I mean, I'd rather be stereotyped as having lots of opinions instead of…not thinking."
[edit] added: 29 May 2006
Sharon: "So now there's this book on Iraqi Arabic with MP3s."
Noah: "I'm sure the army's all over that."
[edit] added: 27 March 2006
Leyzer: "I should drop International Relations and take Georgian."
me: "The Georgian language is like international relations."
Shoshana: "Georgian wine maybe…"
[edit] added: unknown
"Have you ever fought an idea, Picard? It has no weapon to destroy, no body to kill!"
[edit] added: 21 April 2006
"This Birthright haggadah has less hebrew and songs, and more ‘Come to Israel.’"
[edit] added: 31 December 2004
(20:26:16) Kesuari: i sometimes forget how far back america is
[edit] added: 19 August 2003
"They are not interested in many things which are interesting. And that's the American way."
[edit] added: 13 February 2008
(14:54:07) Michaela: in english school can refer to either a university or an elementary school--as long as it's an educational institution
(14:55:12) [me]: no, in American English
(14:55:29) Michaela: true
(14:55:39) Michaela: but really, i mean, we know who's running the show these days
(14:55:44) Michaela: i'm not ethnocentric, but come on
[edit] added: 18 March 2006
03:36:29 [me]: cardinal vowels are so wrong
03:36:44 [Tristan]: oh, yeah, they're quite arbitrary
03:37:58 [me]: very franco-centric, though, if you ask me
03:39:24 [me]: btw, Kazakh has aspirated voiceless stops
03:39:27 [me]: go figure
03:39:40 [me]: but those voiceless stops voice and fricativise on occasion :)
03:40:11 [Tristan]: the primaracy of voice distinction in stops is also very fraco-centric :)
03:40:28 [Tristan]: maybe the americans should make their own freedom phonetic alphabet :)
[edit] added: 18 March 2006
03:04:45 [Tristan]: i don't think there's much bush could do to cause the necessary change in system that'd result in the english dialects splitting up
[edit] added: 17 December 2007
Я: "Алло?"
Телефон: "Пойдите на выбор!"
Я: "Но я не могу, я иностранец."
Телефон: "Хозяйка есть у вас? Ей можно сказать."
Я: "Нету хозяйки у меня."
Телефон: "Вообще нет? Тогда пожалуйста, всем скажите."
Я: "Ладно."
[edit] added: 1 September 2007
"The leader of Turkmenistan—what does he call himself again? Turkmen Bob?"
[edit] added: 20 July 2007
"Chomsky would always cut people's feet off so he didn't have to step on their toes."
[edit] added: 9 December 2006
"It's always unfair to the women! Especially in Central Asia.."
[edit] added: 17 November 2006
Jonathan: "People never write on your wall. They write on my wall all the time."
Derek: "Yeah, that's because you're friends with an entire country."
[edit] added: 9 May 2006
[edit] added: 8 May 2006
[00:59] Ryan: It amuses me to see Jesus fish on cars. I always see sideways vagina.
[edit] added: 4 May 2006
"There's another French politician who[se name] has to do with nasalisation!"
[edit] added: 10 February 2005
"I have to file taxes in like 5 states."
[edit] added: 11 December 2004
"Are you guys getting me a chancellorship for Hannukah? I want to be chancellor of Germany for Hannukah."
[edit] added: 8 November 2004
(03:19:22) Оберон: I believe in baltimore
(03:19:25) Оберон: I'm bad with locations
[edit] added: 3 November 2004
"I'd sleep with President Bush for money. It'd create a huge scandal."
[edit] added: 8 October 2004
"Apparently some people see the glass as half-full, and some see it as a dragon."
[edit] added: 5 October 2004
"What is this? This is beginning to sound like the student union."
[edit] added: 30 September 2004
Vickie: "Yes, you can change positions. Refusing to change your positions just means your pig-headed and stubborn and stupid."
Jonathan: "That makes me sad."
[anon]: "Drink up, Jonathan. That's the leader of the `free world'."
[edit] added: 30 September 2004
oberon: "Yeah, they're not even allowed to talk to eachother. It's not even a debate, it's a joint press conference."
Matt: "That's why the only appropriate way to respond to the political system in this country is to imbibe alcohol."
[edit] added: 10 September 2004
Aaron: "So how was Israel?"
Preston: "It was great. I mean, what can I say? I got disillusioned with some things, illusioned with others."
[edit] added: 13 March 2004
(02:19:17) Aaron B: 4am central time is what time in US?
[edit] added: 20 February 2004
"You see, that's what's wrong with the U.S.—we don't have rebels in the mountains who shoot at planes and no one wants to deal with."
[edit] added: 10 July 2003
"You're only so good as your last sound byte."
[edit] added: 16 June 2003
(02:06:56) Casuarius: you're insane, though. i have *no* idea why you're doing this when you could be bringing about world peace or something :P
[edit] added: 5 May 2003
[Cem]: i swear economics is a lie created by a bunch of fat old bored men
[edit] added: 28 March 2003
"You know those circus freak shows where there are people who can fit inside tennis rackets and shit? It'd be cool if you had like a guy who could fit inside a tennis racket dressed up just like Hitler. And then you have a Mussolini tennish racket guy and another one for Emperor Hirohito. And then you have these giants like eight feet tall with four arms each. And they're all dressed up like Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt. And they look like Vishnu. So, you know, you have this Hitler Oompaloompa and this Stalin Vishnu."
[edit] added: 28 March 2003
"That's the white trash thing to do to chocolate."
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"Define democracy, and then shove it up Bush's ass—that's what you should do."
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"I'm sticking with FOX News—I like getting upset."
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"I'm against beating children, but if my kids ever call french fries freedom fries, I'm going to seriously beat them."
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"Hey guys, this just in on the Wouldn't've happened under Gore channel: . . . ."
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(20:58:11) LunaCamilla: with friends like you and alex, who needs enemies?
(20:58:31) [me]: that's getting quote-listed
(20:59:00) LunaCamilla: good. it's about time the world realized what i'm dealing with.
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"Where I live? Not in England! ... It's cause they give you a choice, where you live, and they showed a map of England."
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(01:30:53) Kd5cfx: we bomb the shit out of some country and we call it a justified political maneuver. A couple of our buildings are knocked down and we call it terrorism
(01:31:57) [sn withheld]: It's all fine and good to rag on the Americans, they deserve it, but you have to admit there's a difference between a military attacking a military target and an agency attempting to slaughter as many civilians as possible with one shot
(01:32:33) Kd5cfx: uhm
(01:32:58) Kd5cfx: they "slaughtered" around 3'000 people
(01:33:25) Kd5cfx: we drop bombs on civillian targets all the time
(01:33:34) Kd5cfx: and kill many more than 3'000 people in a shot
(01:33:45) [sn withheld]: right, they slaughtered 3000 noncombattant businessmen/women and children. When do we bomb civilian targets? Find one instnace
(01:33:53) [sn withheld]: say in the last decade
(01:34:05) [sn withheld]: when we have purposely targeted noncombattants
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"Why do they look so freaky? Does Lowell reverse engineer people's souls?"
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"I don't think someone who holds those beliefs should be listened to—I think he should be repudiated—and the American Jewish Committee agrees with me."
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"And he shouldn't just repudiate the words, but he should repudiate the man."
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"I just think that cutting taxes is being disengenuous."
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"So BWT means 'Big Weird Things' and if they work, they work tremendously."
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"And if it says on the [box?], 'Banana from Iceland,' then they need to check it."
[edit] added: 21 December 2007
(15:15:12) [anon1]: no CIA for you. better finish the PhD
(15:15:27) [anon2]: why do you keep denying me the government jobs?
(15:15:35) [anon2]: they must have a pretty interesting file on me already
(15:16:16) [anon1]: on me too i would imagine
(15:16:48) [anon1]: if we ever applied we would fail the background check -- they wouldn't have the energy to complete it! :)
[edit] added: 23 December 2007
(13:35:56) [me]: oh man teleportation would solve so many problems wouldn't it
(13:36:04) [me]: I'm only just starting to see the potential
(13:36:11) Michael: well it would probably create more problems than it would solve
(13:36:20) [me]: oh?
(13:37:33) Michael: well... obviously security would have to be completely rethought.. or i guess it would just be more like network security
(13:38:09) Michael: i mean, can you imagine? illegal immigration would turn into like a DoS attack
[edit] added: 12 January 2008
(01:43:50) Шыңғыс: i am a future politician
(01:44:01) Шыңғыс: i have to be insane
[edit] added: 8 December 2003
(05:24:51) Aarón: you know you should stop working on a paper when you write:
(05:24:53) Aarón: Had Schwarzenegger been an author rather than a film-star, those who were literate might have been more likely to vote for him than those who could not read.
[edit] added: 22 December 2007
(02:30:11) [me]: and I'm pretty open minded, I guess
(02:30:26) Rianna: you guess?
(02:30:38) Rianna: You're one of the most open-minded people I know
(02:31:16) [me]: huh, I have some pretty strong beliefs in certain directions though, and that makes me closed minded on those issues
(02:33:04) Rianna: hrm, yea, I guess, I have some stuff like that, but I dunno, it tends to be in the direction of "let's tolerate people who aren't hurting others" rather than "lynch the [racial slur]"
[edit] added: 21 February 2008
(17:26:23) [me]: well, the ranking of constraints in America right now is something like Security >> Freedom
(17:26:59) [me]: and that's Security[National], not Security[Personal], mind you
(17:27:15) kesuari: (in australia: IDon'tCareButIVote >> *)
[edit] added: 6 March 2008
(03:24:42) Derek: you know
(03:24:52) Derek: I have absolutely nothing against a woman being president but
(03:24:54) Derek: Hilary Clinton?
(03:24:59) Derek: does it have to be her??
[edit] added: 2 October 2004
"Actually, I think Cuba's biggest export is Floridians."
[edit] added: 11 October 2008
"I mean, Indiana is a throw-up state."
[edit] added: 11 March 2009
prof. Kara: "Benjamin, what's regressive assimilation?"
...
prof. Kara: "Well, you could say, when the Chinese borrow from the Tibetans, for example."
[edit] added: 20 March 2009
(04:34:55) kesuari: "What the country's political opposition doubts is whether it was an accident at all." well given the way people in kyrgyzstan drive, i doubt *any* crash could be described as an accident
[edit] added: 26 September 2009
"The letter ‹q› is just hanging around waiting for English to gain uvular stops."
[edit] added: 18 January 2010
(23:37:02) Sarah: Is it bad that I want to take parts of Anne Rice's erotica, copy and paste it into a note on my Facebook, and tag my extremely conservative friends?
[edit] added: 1 November 2010
Baatar: "It says here that the republican candidates were going ‘reverse trick-or-treating’."
me: "What does that mean?"
Baatar: "They call it ‘trick-or-campaigning’. But it should be ‘trick and campaigning’."
[edit] added: 10 February 2011
"What we need is a friendly rogue nation."
[edit] added: 24 April 2011
data sources:
- http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ftp/trends/co2/siple2.013
- ftp://ftp.cmdl.noaa.gov/ccg/co2/trends/co2_mm_mlo.txt
- http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2012/assets/hist07z1.xls
further reading:
[edit] added: 20 June 2011
(05:56:07) zfe: Turk dil kurumu
(05:56:22) zfe: the national association for screwing up turkish
(05:56:30) zfe: i can see their building from my window
(05:56:34) zfe: and every day i spend 20-30mins
(05:56:46) zfe: thinking how i could drive a boing 737
(05:56:49) zfe: in their offices
[edit] added: 18 January 2012
(00:36:40) crawfora: the "read more" page does actually explain that the use of easily-disabled javascript was deliberate; they want to make it possible for people to access the site in emergencies
(00:36:59) firespeaker: crawfora: hmm, wikipedia for emergencies?
(00:37:06) jarrettwold2: someone on a cell phone looking up medical information
(00:37:07) twb: crawfora: like "oops I stabbed a guy now how do I do first aid... ask wikipedia"
(00:37:15) ***TomyLobo searches "what is the number of 911?"
(00:37:16) jarrettwold2: twb: that's how it is now :)
(00:37:18) crawfora: twb: I'm sure it happens
(00:37:30) firespeaker: uhm
(00:37:36) vry: "what color is blood?!? quickly, open wikipedia"
(00:37:43) firespeaker: and they're going to what, figure out how to disable the javascript?
(00:37:52) firespeaker: on their blackberry
[edit] added: 15 March 2013
(13:11:51) spectie: қ:ғ {а}: ь: {☭}: >: {S}: ы: ь:ь {n}:н ы: __HFST_TWOLC_.#.
(13:12:00) spectie: uh oh, communism in our transducer
(13:17:45) selimcan: Фонологи всех стран, объединяйтесь! :)
[edit] added: 10 December 2014
basically what i should do is, hang out with her and every time she rolls her eyes about someone, demand to meet that person
[edit] added: 2 April 2024
"I feel like the Titanic has struck an iceberg, and the crew is being asked to put on a play while bailing water."
[edit] added: 2 April 2024
"The president's defense has been «I don't read it». That's like a pilot telling you he doesn't read the instruments in the cockpit. That pilot is going to get you killed."
[edit] added: 2 April 2024
(22:39) Jonathan: What's up with the firewood stacked to the ceiling behind Bernie?
(22:39) Jonathan: (Sorry, watching the DNC, not sure what to make of Bernie's backdrop)
(22:41) DC: [...] He's probably just doing it from his backyard?
(22:41) Jonathan: Lol, yeah I feel like he's in a woodshed
(22:42) DC: lol might just be the spot in his yard with thebest service