That's a real booter of a comeback, mate!Kory wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 4:23pmYeah but there biscuits are cookies and crumpets are biscuits. And colonialism is divine.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 4:00pmThen it would involve biscuits and colonialism.Kory wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 3:58pmFunny, it really sounds like something the Limeys would come up with.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 2:24pmOkay, the answer:
A booter mainly happens in spring, but sometimes winter, when you're wearing rubber boots and end up soaking your feet. It's mainly little kids, maybe walking on thin ice, falling thru into a puddle, and the water overflows. It was sometimes a good tactic to get sent home. Get a booter during recess, have to go home for dry socks. I still use the term even when wearing shoes and I step into a puddle.
To really get a sense of its usage, think about any of the yokels from Fargo saying it. Ya, I was walking to Lindgren's and got a booter when I stepped off the curb.
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Limeys have their own special term for it it is called a ‘wet sock’.Kory wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 3:58pmFunny, it really sounds like something the Limeys would come up with.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 2:24pmOkay, the answer:
A booter mainly happens in spring, but sometimes winter, when you're wearing rubber boots and end up soaking your feet. It's mainly little kids, maybe walking on thin ice, falling thru into a puddle, and the water overflows. It was sometimes a good tactic to get sent home. Get a booter during recess, have to go home for dry socks. I still use the term even when wearing shoes and I step into a puddle.
To really get a sense of its usage, think about any of the yokels from Fargo saying it. Ya, I was walking to Lindgren's and got a booter when I stepped off the curb.
Don’t ever recall having to go home and change my socks.
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New World civilization.101Walterton wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 5:19pmLimeys have their own special term for it it is called a ‘wet sock’.Kory wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 3:58pmFunny, it really sounds like something the Limeys would come up with.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 2:24pmOkay, the answer:
A booter mainly happens in spring, but sometimes winter, when you're wearing rubber boots and end up soaking your feet. It's mainly little kids, maybe walking on thin ice, falling thru into a puddle, and the water overflows. It was sometimes a good tactic to get sent home. Get a booter during recess, have to go home for dry socks. I still use the term even when wearing shoes and I step into a puddle.
To really get a sense of its usage, think about any of the yokels from Fargo saying it. Ya, I was walking to Lindgren's and got a booter when I stepped off the curb.
Don’t ever recall having to go home and change my socks.
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Because it wasn't really fucking cold where you lived.101Walterton wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 5:19pmLimeys have their own special term for it it is called a ‘wet sock’.Kory wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 3:58pmFunny, it really sounds like something the Limeys would come up with.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 2:24pmOkay, the answer:
A booter mainly happens in spring, but sometimes winter, when you're wearing rubber boots and end up soaking your feet. It's mainly little kids, maybe walking on thin ice, falling thru into a puddle, and the water overflows. It was sometimes a good tactic to get sent home. Get a booter during recess, have to go home for dry socks. I still use the term even when wearing shoes and I step into a puddle.
To really get a sense of its usage, think about any of the yokels from Fargo saying it. Ya, I was walking to Lindgren's and got a booter when I stepped off the curb.
Don’t ever recall having to go home and change my socks.
I remember getting snow on my wrists really sucking. Your gloves covered your hands but if your sleeves weren't long enough that icy cold on your wrists when you fell in the snow was a bitch.
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That was nasty. When I was a kid, it never seemed like my sleeves were long enough, so, yeah, coming in from recess with red wrists and forearms. My mother also knit my mittens, and she used some cheap-ass polyester material that kept out neither the cold nor water. They only sort of worked as long as I kept my hands in my pockets.
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Surely water freezes at the same temperature everywhere?revbob wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 7:18pmBecause it wasn't really fucking cold where you lived.101Walterton wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 5:19pmLimeys have their own special term for it it is called a ‘wet sock’.Kory wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 3:58pmFunny, it really sounds like something the Limeys would come up with.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 2:24pmOkay, the answer:
A booter mainly happens in spring, but sometimes winter, when you're wearing rubber boots and end up soaking your feet. It's mainly little kids, maybe walking on thin ice, falling thru into a puddle, and the water overflows. It was sometimes a good tactic to get sent home. Get a booter during recess, have to go home for dry socks. I still use the term even when wearing shoes and I step into a puddle.
To really get a sense of its usage, think about any of the yokels from Fargo saying it. Ya, I was walking to Lindgren's and got a booter when I stepped off the curb.
Don’t ever recall having to go home and change my socks.
I remember getting snow on my wrists really sucking. Your gloves covered your hands but if your sleeves weren't long enough that icy cold on your wrists when you fell in the snow was a bitch.
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Generally speaking yes but it continues to get much colder than 32/0 in some places.101Walterton wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 9:05pmSurely water freezes at the same temperature everywhere?revbob wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 7:18pmBecause it wasn't really fucking cold where you lived.101Walterton wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 5:19pmLimeys have their own special term for it it is called a ‘wet sock’.Kory wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 3:58pmFunny, it really sounds like something the Limeys would come up with.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 2:24pmOkay, the answer:
A booter mainly happens in spring, but sometimes winter, when you're wearing rubber boots and end up soaking your feet. It's mainly little kids, maybe walking on thin ice, falling thru into a puddle, and the water overflows. It was sometimes a good tactic to get sent home. Get a booter during recess, have to go home for dry socks. I still use the term even when wearing shoes and I step into a puddle.
To really get a sense of its usage, think about any of the yokels from Fargo saying it. Ya, I was walking to Lindgren's and got a booter when I stepped off the curb.
Don’t ever recall having to go home and change my socks.
I remember getting snow on my wrists really sucking. Your gloves covered your hands but if your sleeves weren't long enough that icy cold on your wrists when you fell in the snow was a bitch.
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If you don't know the experience of having your snot freeze when outside and then melt and start running inside, you don't know cold.revbob wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 9:29pmGenerally speaking yes but it continues to get much colder than 32/0 in some places.101Walterton wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 9:05pmSurely water freezes at the same temperature everywhere?revbob wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 7:18pmBecause it wasn't really fucking cold where you lived.101Walterton wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 5:19pmLimeys have their own special term for it it is called a ‘wet sock’.
Don’t ever recall having to go home and change my socks.
I remember getting snow on my wrists really sucking. Your gloves covered your hands but if your sleeves weren't long enough that icy cold on your wrists when you fell in the snow was a bitch.
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-40 F, (not with wind chill) is the coldest I've knowingly experienced. Just brutal, you don't want wet socks with that.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 9:36pmIf you don't know the experience of having your snot freeze when outside and then melt and start running inside, you don't know cold.revbob wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 9:29pmGenerally speaking yes but it continues to get much colder than 32/0 in some places.101Walterton wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 9:05pmSurely water freezes at the same temperature everywhere?revbob wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 7:18pmBecause it wasn't really fucking cold where you lived.101Walterton wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 5:19pm
Limeys have their own special term for it it is called a ‘wet sock’.
Don’t ever recall having to go home and change my socks.
I remember getting snow on my wrists really sucking. Your gloves covered your hands but if your sleeves weren't long enough that icy cold on your wrists when you fell in the snow was a bitch.
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I've walked to school or work when it's -40C or worse. Most winters you can expect a few days of that. I tend to do fairly well in it because I have a solid pulse and once you get walking the blood moves around (which works against me in summer). It ain't fun, but It's much easier to take than +40C.revbob wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 9:42pm-40 F, (not with wind chill) is the coldest I've knowingly experienced. Just brutal, you don't want wet socks with that.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 9:36pmIf you don't know the experience of having your snot freeze when outside and then melt and start running inside, you don't know cold.revbob wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 9:29pmGenerally speaking yes but it continues to get much colder than 32/0 in some places.
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I love semicolons; this is indeed true, though.
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An old prof once told me, "Save that semi-colon. You never know when you'll need one." I've come to use them more often in my own writing, but when editing for others I usually take them out. Which probably reflects an unconscious arrogance on my part that *I* know when they're appropriate or justified.
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Samesies-ish. I like it for casual writing (like message boards and such) when it works well enough to just let me keep writing as I think, but I tend to remove them from more professional writing I have to do.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑23 Oct 2020, 2:26pmAn old prof once told me, "Save that semi-colon. You never know when you'll need one." I've come to use them more often in my own writing, but when editing for others I usually take them out. Which probably reflects an unconscious arrogance on my part that *I* know when they're appropriate or justified.
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