They're most interested in the blue collection boxes from what I heard reported.triviawayne wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 7:31 amSo they steal the keys at gunpoint to then go to a mailbox to empty that out and go through what's in there, but they don't take the bag strapped over the mail person's shoulder?alietr wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 6:35 amWe have this thing around here where thieves have gotten hold of the keys for the mailboxes and are rifling them for mail with checks. They bleach out the information on the check and put their own information in. They've even been holding up mailmen at gunpoint to take their keys. I will only hand outgoing mail to the mailman or take it to the post office.Robert K S wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 12:37 amI'm about to go to the post office tomorrow to mail some government forms. With a paper check.econgator wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 10:22 pmDo you actually still mail things?Robert K S wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 10:05 pm
Good idea: buying a load of Forever stamps right before they go up in price.
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We have the rob-the-mailbox-to-commit-check-fraud problem here, too. There have been arrests.
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Where the Crawdads Sing Author Wanted for Questioning in Murder
Zambian officials seek to question Where the Crawdads Sing author Delia Owens in connection with a murder possibly committed by her husband during the 1990s, when the pair lived and worked in that nation as conservationists. Several plot points in the novel appear to mirror the incident, potentially making it sort of a fictionalized If I Did It. A feature film adaptation of Crawdads opened yesterday.
Zambian officials seek to question Where the Crawdads Sing author Delia Owens in connection with a murder possibly committed by her husband during the 1990s, when the pair lived and worked in that nation as conservationists. Several plot points in the novel appear to mirror the incident, potentially making it sort of a fictionalized If I Did It. A feature film adaptation of Crawdads opened yesterday.
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Sounds like a new season of True Detective if you ask me.BigDaddyMatty wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 8:16 pm Where the Crawdads Sing Author Wanted for Questioning in Murder
Zambian officials seek to question Where the Crawdads Sing author Delia Owens in connection with a murder possibly committed by her husband during the 1990s, when the pair lived and worked in that nation as conservationists. Several plot points in the novel appear to mirror the incident, potentially making it sort of a fictionalized If I Did It. A feature film adaptation of Crawdads opened yesterday.
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For the Johnson/Truss post it's fine to insult readers' intelligence and name the UK as the place.
For the Johnson/Truss post it's fine to insult readers' intelligence and name the UK as the place.
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Cool! Ok, everyone reading this is a moron. Also, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss are from the UK.MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 11:33 am Just to bump this from page 4:
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(Pedantry: Boris Johnson was born in New York)opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 1:26 pmCool! Ok, everyone reading this is a moron. Also, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss are from the UK.MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 11:33 am Just to bump this from page 4:
For the Johnson/Truss post it's fine to insult readers' intelligence and name the UK as the place.
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Is it ok to insult people's intelligence by joking about needing a truss to help heal their injured johnson?MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 11:33 am Just to bump this from page 4:
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Fine. Everyone reading this EXCEPT VOLANTE is a moron.Volante wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 5:07 pm(Pedantry: Boris Johnson was born in New York)opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 1:26 pmCool! Ok, everyone reading this is a moron. Also, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss are from the UK.MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 11:33 am Just to bump this from page 4:
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Instagram fined $400 million for failing to protect children's data
Dublin--Ireland's data privacy regulator has agreed to levy a record fine of 405 million euros ($402 million) against social network Instagram following an investigation into its handling of children's data, a spokesperson for the watchdog said.
Instagram plans to appeal against the fine, a spokesperson for its parent company, Meta, said in an emailed statement.
The investigation, which started in 2020, focused on child users between the ages of 13 and 17 who were allowed to operate business accounts, which facilitated the publication of the user's phone number and/or email address.
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Dublin--Ireland's data privacy regulator has agreed to levy a record fine of 405 million euros ($402 million) against social network Instagram following an investigation into its handling of children's data, a spokesperson for the watchdog said.
Instagram plans to appeal against the fine, a spokesperson for its parent company, Meta, said in an emailed statement.
The investigation, which started in 2020, focused on child users between the ages of 13 and 17 who were allowed to operate business accounts, which facilitated the publication of the user's phone number and/or email address.
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It is important not to confuse current UK Prime Minister Liz Truss with Lynn Truss, author of “Eats, Shoots, and Leaves”.
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Given the Partygate scandal that eventually lead to the ouster of her predecessor, would Boris Johnson be Eats, Drink, and Leaves?LucarioSnooperVixey wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 4:55 am It is important not to confuse current UK Prime Minister Liz Truss with Lynn Truss, author of “Eats, Shoots, and Leaves”.
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Well played, Jeff.jeff6286 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 10:08 amGiven the Partygate scandal that eventually lead to the ouster of her predecessor, would Boris Johnson be Eats, Drink, and Leaves?LucarioSnooperVixey wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 4:55 am It is important not to confuse current UK Prime Minister Liz Truss with Lynn Truss, author of “Eats, Shoots, and Leaves”.
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It's also important to get the book's title right: Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The absence of the Oxford comma is part of the joke.jeff6286 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 10:08 amGiven the Partygate scandal that eventually lead to the ouster of her predecessor, would Boris Johnson be Eats, Drink, and Leaves?LucarioSnooperVixey wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 4:55 am It is important not to confuse current UK Prime Minister Liz Truss with Lynn Truss, author of “Eats, Shoots, and Leaves”.
Also worth pointing out: The past tense of lead is led...
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It's not the absence of a comma that makes the joke possible, but the presence of one (or two, if you include an Oxford comma). Really, though, the joke is only really possible in spoken form, where "eats shoots and leaves" isn't intoned any differently from "eats, shoots, and leaves" and thus you don't have to digress before the punchline to say that the dictionary used in the joke has been punctuated improperly.davey wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 1:27 pmIt's also important to get the book's title right: Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The absence of the Oxford comma is part of the joke.jeff6286 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 10:08 amGiven the Partygate scandal that eventually lead to the ouster of her predecessor, would Boris Johnson be Eats, Drink, and Leaves?LucarioSnooperVixey wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 4:55 am It is important not to confuse current UK Prime Minister Liz Truss with Lynn Truss, author of “Eats, Shoots, and Leaves”.
Also worth pointing out: The past tense of lead is led...
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The absence of the serial comma is what makes the statement ambiguous (and incorrect). If there are 2 commas, the statement makes singular if absurd sense.seaborgium wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 11:51 pmIt's not the absence of a comma that makes the joke possible, but the presence of one (or two, if you include an Oxford comma). Really, though, the joke is only really possible in spoken form, where "eats shoots and leaves" isn't intoned any differently from "eats, shoots, and leaves" and thus you don't have to digress before the punchline to say that the dictionary used in the joke has been punctuated improperly.davey wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 1:27 pmIt's also important to get the book's title right: Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The absence of the Oxford comma is part of the joke.jeff6286 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 10:08 amGiven the Partygate scandal that eventually lead to the ouster of her predecessor, would Boris Johnson be Eats, Drink, and Leaves?LucarioSnooperVixey wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 4:55 am It is important not to confuse current UK Prime Minister Liz Truss with Lynn Truss, author of “Eats, Shoots, and Leaves”.
Also worth pointing out: The past tense of lead is led...
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The joke isn't ambiguity; it's the absurd sense of the phrase, which requires the comma after "eats" for that sense to exist in writing. Its presence turns "shoots" and "leaves" into verbs instead of objects of "eats," whether or not there's a comma after "shoots."davey wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 12:14 amThe absence of the serial comma is what makes the statement ambiguous (and incorrect). If there are 2 commas, the statement makes singular if absurd sense.seaborgium wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 11:51 pmIt's not the absence of a comma that makes the joke possible, but the presence of one (or two, if you include an Oxford comma). Really, though, the joke is only really possible in spoken form, where "eats shoots and leaves" isn't intoned any differently from "eats, shoots, and leaves" and thus you don't have to digress before the punchline to say that the dictionary used in the joke has been punctuated improperly.davey wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 1:27 pmIt's also important to get the book's title right: Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The absence of the Oxford comma is part of the joke.jeff6286 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 10:08 amGiven the Partygate scandal that eventually lead to the ouster of her predecessor, would Boris Johnson be Eats, Drink, and Leaves?LucarioSnooperVixey wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 4:55 am It is important not to confuse current UK Prime Minister Liz Truss with Lynn Truss, author of “Eats, Shoots, and Leaves”.
Also worth pointing out: The past tense of lead is led...
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In any event I’m glad my joke lead to this important discussion.
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Lynn Truss writes-seaborgium wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 3:46 amThe joke isn't ambiguity; it's the absurd sense of the phrase, which requires the comma after "eats" for that sense to exist in writing. Its presence turns "shoots" and "leaves" into verbs instead of objects of "eats," whether or not there's a comma after "shoots."davey wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 12:14 amThe absence of the serial comma is what makes the statement ambiguous (and incorrect). If there are 2 commas, the statement makes singular if absurd sense.seaborgium wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 11:51 pm
It's not the absence of a comma that makes the joke possible, but the presence of one (or two, if you include an Oxford comma). Really, though, the joke is only really possible in spoken form, where "eats shoots and leaves" isn't intoned any differently from "eats, shoots, and leaves" and thus you don't have to digress before the punchline to say that the dictionary used in the joke has been punctuated improperly.
My own feeling is that one shouldn’t be too rigid about the Oxford comma. Sometimes the sentence is improved by including it; sometimes it isn’t.
Maybe she didn't intend her title as an illustration - she doesn't mention it in her section on the Oxford comma. But it seems apt to me, so I'll continue to consider it "part of" the joke...