Notices by stephen ryner jr. 🦉 (nuthatch@infosec.exchange)

I’ve reached the “How old are your grandparents” lessons in Duolingo. Fortunately this old Tumblr meme had prepared me for what was to come 🫣

French: ...four twenties! :) Four twenties one...

I love this so much!

Other languages: **stares**
French: **stares back**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rmBqIFeHN8

“And this is the craziest part. Right before I dropped him off, you know what he said? He tried to tell me what a hundred was. I said, ‘Listen, if you tell me some stupid shit I'm gonna be so pissed.’ He said, ‘There's two choices. And the two choices are, you got two fifties, or four twenty-fives.’”
“Wait. Is it actually?”
“Nah, it's just a hundred.”

"Bet the French loved the new millennium. 1999 - Mille neuf cent quatre vingt dix neuf.”

“I can just imagine the relief when the 2000’s came and they didn’t have to spend 3 hours saying the year”

@anneapplebaum @wa7iut reminds me of the drumbeat of propaganda leading America into the Gulf War not long ago. “We’ll be greeted as liberators,” said the idiots. But we had to do it because someone said something about pipes.

@PlayAllTheThings @anneapplebaum @wa7iut Mission Accomplished