The Off Topic Topic

[Ed Anger]

The war between the Titan CEO and the French Industrial Renewal Minister Arnaud Montebourg continues with The minister being called an imbecile.

Hilarious.

[garbon]

is stagnatory a real word?
a google search suggests no....but sounds like it should be.

How would you use it differently from stagnate?

[garbon]

Why doctors?

For the same reason as lawyers or cops - fear that their specialized expertise will naturally cause the rest of the jury to defer to them, particularly as so many cases are likely to involve medical or forensic evidence.

Of course, there also the risk of the opposite bias too - you hate members of one of those three groups and refuse to agree with them.

[Admiral Yi]

is stagnatory a real word?
a google search suggests no....but sounds like it should be.

How would you use it differently from stagnate?

A signatory is a person who signs, therefore a stagnatory is a person who stagnates.

[garbon]

is stagnatory a real word?
a google search suggests no....but sounds like it should be.

How would you use it differently from stagnate?

A signatory is a person who signs, therefore a stagnatory is a person who stagnates.

And how do combinatory or condemnatory fit that?

[garbon]

That said I fucked up as I think whatever he'd use stagnatory for could be done by stagnant.

[Malthus]

is stagnatory a real word?
a google search suggests no....but sounds like it should be.

How would you use it differently from stagnate?

A signatory is a person who signs, therefore a stagnatory is a person who stagnates.

Or perhaps a "stagnator"? 

[Tamas]

If you are interested, an english-subtitled Hungarian movie about a middle-aged guy, figure of the opposition in commie times, goes to the archives to figure out if the secret service had anything on him, and finds out that his best friend, a writer, was the snitch.

http://film.indavideo.hu/video/f_draga_besugott_barataim


It's a topic still alive, as the dirty secret pact which gave us our bloodless "revolution" of 1989 let a lot of the old functionaries into positions in the new world, probably all accross the current political spectrum. So still there is no full disclosure on the archives, and they are a mere tool for daily political games, with files appearing or dissappearing at seemingly random.

And its a very personal tale for the whole society as well. Informants ruined lives, and while they WERE collaborators, judgement on them is not entirely easy I think. Some of them were ideological supporters of course, but if the system picked you as possible informant, they also used coercion. If you declined to cooperate, your life was not less ruined than of the targets'.

[ulmont]

Fascinating.  Another myth dispelled.

Of course, it's extremely rare for a lawyer to actually make it onto a jury, and I am no exception.  Struck from the jury pool after two boring days.

[garbon]

Interesting vis-a-vis the difficulty of purchasing concert tickets on ticketmaster.


http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/6-reasons-why-its-so-hard-to-buy-concert-tickets

[MadImmortalMan]

Percent of Americans obese.

[Eddie Teach]

Wonder what got invented in 1990 to start that trend 

[Josephus]

Interesting vis-a-vis the difficulty of purchasing concert tickets on ticketmaster.


http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/6-reasons-why-its-so-hard-to-buy-concert-tickets

The only thing that surprised me was the Amex slice.. didn't know it was almost half.

[derspiess]

Sad.  You can tell a stark difference just by looking at pictures from the 1980s of large groups of people.  For example, I was looking at my elementary school class pictures and the "fat" kid in class (only had like 1 or 2 each year) seems the same size as the average kid today.

[derspiess]

Interesting vis-a-vis the difficulty of purchasing concert tickets on ticketmaster.


http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/6-reasons-why-its-so-hard-to-buy-concert-tickets

The only thing that surprised me was the Amex slice.. didn't know it was almost half.

I guess they're not lying on those commercials after all.  Never took advantage of that with my Amex card.