That Moment...

It is referring to each section. My house is 2 13ftwide by 62 ft long picees.
A single wide can be up to 16 ft wide.
I hope this helps explain it.

 

TMW you get an email from your boss saying:

Emphasis mine.

I know what they mean, I know my contract, I'm a cooperative (and renewable) employee, and I couldn't write something half so coherent in Japanese.

But I can still giggle.

 

Thanks for this. It's cos we're not Americans. You guys do tend to say stuff like this, not realising that others won't have a clue what you mean, as it's not something we have, or we call it something else entirely! I would say we should make an american-european/english dictionary, but there is so much stuff, it would take a lifetime to compile!

 

I think the closest we have to that is a (stationary) caravan.
When you say trailer, you mean that it can be moved on one. That just adds more confusion!

 

They were at one point based on the widest size allowed on streets. They are the successful predecessors to prefab housing, used as office, home, school, and clinic. I used the panels as a basis for my panel-pak apartment wall-bed design.

 

Indeed.

 

^^^ I love spotted dick with custard! I've never tried faggots, and I doubt I ever would.

ETA: Took me a while to realise what dessert it was, as it's usual shape is a simple pudding bowl dome.
ETA2: I don't know what a 'west country sauce' is either...! I swear I am English!

 

TMW you realise that you have some things in your culture that have very questionable names!

 

If anyone has any Anglicanisms* they'd like explained, I'll do my best.

ETA: * Is this Anglicanisms, Englishisms, Britishisms??!!

 

Anglican is the CofE. Anglicisms is what you want.

 

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"Mr. Brain and His Pork Faggots" would be a totally brilliant name for a rock band!

 

You keep doing this. Are you ok @Some Guy ?

 

Agreed! Might have to ask the company first though.

 

Sometimes they peg my silly meter. I would love to animate my avatar!
Forehead palm, head bang on keyboard, pulling his tie to choke himself, dancing. ..

 

TMW you wonder if you even have a snout. I’m a whale, what’s the tip of my snout called?

 

I don't know about the very tip, but what looks like your cetacean "forehead" is called your melon. It's part of your echolocation apparatus.

 

Goddman I love this place for being a safe haven of writer's curiosity! Now I'm curious to see if Link can smell things in the water too!


ETA: I was going to correct my dyslexic Goddamn but it's too funny. Laugh away, kids.

 

What I think is even cooler about the dolphin melon, is that, to some extent, dolphins can scrunch, flatten, and elongate the melon. They have control over like focusing a lens. Also, orcas (killer whales) are the biggest of the dolphins, but most people know that one.

 

That is very cool! [Goes to Google porpoise vs. dolphin, because we have porpoises too...]

Here's the diff, if anyone wants to know. I didn't!


ETA: That moment when the buzzer goes off, and you know it's time to step up to the plate...Yep. The dryer has finished, and the time has come to make an attempt at folding a queen size fitted sheet. (I'm under 5'2".)

edited to write a better sentence

 

...when you realize that the roleplay you're novelizing could only ever be considered a romance book because the damn relationship is the primary component. The war with other species? The fantasy aspects of shifting (excluding how it impacts marriage, breeding, and societal structure)? The death and angst? Nah. Those are all in second place.

I don't even like romance.

Yet here I am.

 

LOL I can relate to that, with my WIP. It's not what I planned at all, but there was my MC, being all hot and romantic and making women fall for him, so I let him have his way with them.