Michael DeBusk

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@MonicaMAlmaguer I have never in my life agreed to take out the trash at a particular time on a particular day. Nobody has. You're straw-manning. You don't need to. Just offer an example of a man ACTUALLY failing to keep his word.

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@VyprCEO I know I'm not married to one. I'm not married at all. This is the only way.

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@squiggle888 @BrianAtlas I absolutely agree that this is frequently her motivation. Women talk to connect; men talk to get shit done.

(I think one of the great barriers to communication is the assumption that what matters to me matters to everyone.)

Phone messages aren't for "connecting".

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@BrianAtlas I've seen A LOT of YouTube videos like that. A 15-minute video the written version of which I could have read in four. I've taken to skipping to the "outro" to see if the last minute of a video has all the information. It often does. Maybe it's become a cultural thing.

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@deaflibertarian I suspect it is the result of a simple, but expensive, cosmetic surgery that has been difficult to get women to buy until now.

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@BrianAtlas I doubt they hate men. I think they just want us all to believe they do, hoping we'll take it as a "challenge".

Kind of sad, really.

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@deaflibertarian Wow. You had a whole dog you didn't know about. 😀

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@pureMetatron Usually nothing.

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@SandyofCthulhu I'll have to try that.

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@ywomendeservles They miss being able to reject and humiliate men for having the absolute gall to approach them.

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@BrianAtlas So... anyone want to guess what the next big "trend" in plastic surgery will be?

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@GiaMMacool My name is Legion: for we are many.

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@Fat_Electrician You don't really need a scale at all, then. You just need "fucking cold" and "fucking hot" and similar flowery descriptions for grades in between.

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@tuuu28283 I have a friend who is genetically Taiwanese but was raised in Japan. Her mannerisms and speech are Japanese. I don't know if I can tell that her face doesn't match her voice or if I merely think that because I know her history.

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@pureMetatron I was in a crib and had not yet learned to speak or understand speech. Someone was making noises and faces at me and I couldn't understand why. I was REALLY confused and frustrated.

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@BlackDumpling We don't fantasize about dying so much as we desire that our death matter. That it mean something.

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@GuertlerThomas @deaflibertarian It's not just that, though that does matter. What we found at my job was that you can see little changes in your loved ones sooner than even the monitors or tests can. "Something's wrong; they just seem, I don't know, OFF" is a great alarm bell.

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@deaflibertarian Former hospital security officer, and former EMT, here: absolutely agree.

Visitors could be a pain for staff at times, but overall they were a huge advantage.

I recently spent a few days in a hospital and had not one visitor, but I prefer it that way.

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@LundukeJournal Their appearance aside: from a pragmatics perspective, isn't there a minimum number of attendees necessary for an event to be called a "convention"?

[Michael DeBusk @nlphilia]

@tuuu28283 He's wrong. Sometimes "foods" is correct.

We have countable and uncountable nouns. "Water" in a glass is uncountable; you can't count how much water is in a glass, so it's always "water". But you can count the number of lakes, oceans, seas, etc. So you can refer to "waters".