The Off Topic Topic

[Barrister]

It amuses me when my oldest boy Timothy unironically calls his little brothers "bros".

[HVC]

I don't know why but I feel like it might be ok with the beans.

[Sheilbh]

Thrilled to have just discovered the Dorset villages of Toller Porcorum and Toller Fratrum

[The Brain]

Thrilled to have just discovered the Dorset villages of Toller Porcorum and Toller Fratrum

German settlers?

[mongers]

Thrilled to have just discovered the Dorset villages of Toller Porcorum and Toller Fratrum

German settlers?

Toller is an old Dorset dialect word roughly meaning 'people who have a close bond with their sheep'.

[Tonitrus]

The COVID threat started in mid-January, and is already #9 on the forum with the most replies/pages.

Closing in on #8, a thread that started in 2009. 

The 2016 elections thread is still at #3.

Still under 10% of this thread, tho, 

[mongers]

The COVID threat started in mid-January, and is already #9 on the forum with the most replies/pages.

Closing in on #8, a thread that started in 2009. 

The 2016 elections thread is still at #3.

Still under 10% of this thread, tho,

Tony don't worry, the rate of posting will slow once more of us catch it. 

[Eddie Teach]

Well, Hans has been posting at his highest rate in years and I don't think it's slowed Zoupa much either. 

[PDH]

I am asympathetic

[merithyn]

Huh. Fall ball means something different in baseball. Didn't realise that.

But if you move when the ball is outside of the strike zone it still counts as a strike?

Not if you just move, you have to swing the bat.

There's also the check swing, when the batter starts his swing but changes his mind and tries to stop.  The rule is if the head of the bat goes out past the front of the plate it's a swing.  If he stops before then it's not a swing.

Is that a change? It used to be if you broke the wrist it counted as a swing.

[Admiral Yi]

Is that a change? It used to be if you broke the wrist it counted as a swing.

Beats me.  Squeeze doesn't know anything about baseball and I wanted to keep it simple.

[Valmy]

Is that a change? It used to be if you broke the wrist it counted as a swing.

This is actually not defined in the rulebook exactly. It is entirely under the arbitrary discretion of the umpire which standard they use.

[Syt]

Elon Musk's latest child is called X Æ A-12.

https://www.businessinsider.com/x-ae-a-12-elon-musk-grimes-baby-name-meaning-2020-5?r=DE&IR=T

Grimes broke down the significance of each letter of the bizarre name on Twitter on Tuesday night, explaining that X stands for "the unknown variable," Æ stands for "my elven spelling of Ai" and A-12 is the "precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft)."

His other kids are named Damian, Griffin, Xavier, Saxon and Kai (plus Nevada Alexander who died of sudden infant death syndrome.

[Eddie Teach]

Poor rich kid.

[Josquius]

Oh wow. I read about Grimes having a kid (and didn't click the link as who cares) but didn't realise she was with Musk.

Is this name legal?