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STA(I)RS 19 Regional Words All Americans Should Adopt Immediately When traveling across the United States, it sometimes feels like the locals are speaking a whole different language. That's where the Dictionary of American Regional English comes to the rescue. The last installment of this staggering five-volume tome, edited by Joan Houston Hall, was published in 2012, and let me tell you, it’s a whoopensocker. In celebration of slang, here’s a list of 19 delightful obscure words from around the U.S. that you'll want to start working into conversation. 1. whoopensocker (n.), Wisconsin You know when something’s wonderfully unique, but the words “wonderful” and “unique” don’t quite cut it? 2. snirt (n.), Upper Midwest A gem of a portmanteau, this word means exactly what it sounds like: a mixture of windblown snow and dirt. 3. slug (n. or v.), Washington, D.C. In Kentucky, the (perhaps more onomatopoeically correct) word for terrible liquor is splo, while in the mid-Atlantic, whiskey—especially the moonshine variety—is ratgut. 16. snuggy (n.)

How feminism destroyed real men Last updated at 16:27 04 August 2006 Women thought the last victory of equality was to make men more 'sensitive'. The bitter irony, says this male writer in a piece that will infuriate the opposite sex (including his wife Liz Jones), is women don't like wimps after all... At a dinner party recently, I encountered the depressingly familiar sight of a dynamic thirty- something woman accompanied by a nerdy male sidekick that she'd browbeaten into proposing to her. The mismatch in power was obvious. On her wedding finger was the most enormous, glittering engagement ring. That huge diamond was his declaration of surrender in the sex war. Instead, he'd been sucker-punched into a lifetime of nagging and neglect, and looking at his bossy wife-to-be parading her huge rock, I felt a shiver of pre-emptive schadenfreude. Her smug smile might have given the impression that her glossy-magazine-inspired life was all going to plan, but I could see the tragedy to come. The question threw her.

HeyHeyHey Flashy Birds Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it. - By Farhad Manjoo Can I let you in on a secret? Typing two spaces after a period is totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong. And yet people who use two spaces are everywhere, their ugly error crossing every social boundary of class, education, and taste.* You’d expect, for instance, that anyone savvy enough to read Slate would know the proper rules of typing, but you’d be wrong; every third email I get from readers includes the two-space error. What galls me about two-spacers isn’t just their numbers. Typographers, that’s who. Every modern typographer agrees on the one-space rule. Type professionals can get amusingly—if justifiably—overworked about spaces. This readability argument is debatable. But I actually think aesthetics are the best argument in favor of one space over two. Is this arbitrary? Besides, the argument in favor of two spaces isn’t any less arbitrary.

www.actualsanity.com Dynamic Optical Illusions - GROW ILLUSION. Stare at the center of the below illusion for about a minute. The longer the better. Then look away and watch you world melt! Press F11 to see the illusion full screen for a stronger effect! Try all 8 above for different effects. This optical illusion (now at version 3) has been featured on the new page along with 6 other brand new illusions exclusive to Skytopia. That that is is that that is not is not is that it it is That that is is that that is not is not is that it it is is an English word sequence demonstrating lexical ambiguity. It is used as an example illustrating the importance of proper punctuation.[1] The sequence can be understood as either of two sequences, each with four discrete sentences, by adding punctuation: That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is that it? That that is is that that is. This relates a simple philosophical proverb in the style of Parmenides that all that is, is, and that anything that does not exist does not. A similar sequence, consisting of only one sentence and no punctuation, is: That that that is that that is not is not that that is that that is is not true is not true. Which can be made clearer by the use of synonyms and punctuation: The idea, that the statement "what is that, which does not exist, is not that, what is that, which exists" is false, is incorrect. There is a slightly longer construct following a similar pattern: That that is is. See also[edit]

Top 10 Common Faults In Human Thought Humans The human mind is a wonderful thing. Cognition, the act or process of thinking, enables us to process vast amounts of information quickly. For example, every time your eyes are open, you brain is constantly being bombarded with stimuli. You may be consciously thinking about one specific thing, but you brain is processing thousands of subconscious ideas. Unfortunately, our cognition is not perfect, and there are certain judgment errors that we are prone to making, known in the field of psychology as cognitive biases. The Gambler’s fallacy is the tendency to think that future probabilities are altered by past events, when in reality, they are not. Reactivity is the tendency of people to act or appear differently when they know that they are being observed. Pareidolia is when random images or sounds are perceived as significant. Interesting Fact: the Rorschach Inkblot test was developed to use pareidolia to tap into people’s mental states. Self-fulfilling Prophecy

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