I am craving like 8 different foods right now and I'll be able to have 2 of them over the next 3 days. That's just gonna have to be good enough.
 

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Some kids are having a flag burning protest on my old college campus. Got a permit for it. It's happening after another kid vandalized the school's flag shortly after Bin Laden's death. There's gonna be a big counter protest where people surround them and sing the anthem. Jeez.
 
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Elathril

I knew this would be the place to 'Like' the google logo...
I just made everyone at work go to Google to check out the awesomeness and got reactions like
"oh ya it moves" & " hm, nice"
where I'm... Are you ppl looking at the same google as me? this is AMAZING... Almost had to call them all Hipsters, but they wouldn't have gotten that either... damn the real world...
 

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Hylian, that was cool. I hate to say it, but my mom put her foot down a little harder than that on me with the whole "art is worthless, get a real job" thing. I didn't do much until I got to college.
 
There is a massive hawk in my backyard, who is sitting there quietly and calmly as two bluejays and a grackle continuously dive at him. He's gonna snap any minute now...
 
Bluejays are the assholes of the bird kingdom. They harass every other bird that's different from them. God damn racist bluejays.
 
Bluejays are the assholes of the bird kingdom. They harass every other bird that's different from them. God damn racist bluejays.
They have an asshole friend in the red-winged blackbird, then. That thing doesn't just hate other birds, but they dive bomb people, too.
 
in my experience, most birds are assholes. The hawk wound up just relocating to another tree and hanging out some more. Eventually the jays chased off the grackle, and while they were gone, the hawk went and sat back in their tree again. He really wasn't doing anything at all, so I kind of stopped watching.
 
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Elathril

he's actually really smart... just chillin out maxin relaxin
waiting for the Jays to tire themselves out

then he murders them in their sleep :)
 
I loathe Grackles, they have pretty much taken over my small town. They live very well off of garbage. The big down side to them is that they eat the eggs of songbirds.
 

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At Texas A&M, they had a huge grackle problem. They hired a service that came through at night to basically make the campus trees inhospitable by shining bright lights on the roosting grackles, and by setting off noisy fireworks.
 
Is the word "on" a preposition? It sounds wrong in my head to end sentences with "on" which I know to be a rule with prepositions. For instance, it sounds incorrect to me to ask "What are you commenting on?" Whereas it sounds alien because of disuse, but correct to ask "On what are you commenting?"
 
Is the word "on" a preposition? It sounds wrong in my head to end sentences with "on" which I know to be a rule with prepositions. For instance, it sounds incorrect to me to ask "What are you commenting on?" Whereas it sounds alien because of disuse, but correct to ask "On what are you commenting?"
It's actually not inappropriate to end a sentence with a preposition. This rule seems to have shown up in, I believe, the 17th century, in a book on language by a writer (whose name I forget unfortunately), and was relatively recently adopted as 'correct', but among linguists and writers, it's pretty well established that you may end sentences with prepositions and you're not wrong.

That said, yes, 'on' is a preposition.

Also, I only recently learned that this whole preposition business isn't necessary, but I've become so good at phrasing things without ending on a preposition that it's basically useless information. I can't end that habit!
 

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You beat me to it. One of my English teachers told me it was an attempt to emulate Latin, in which ending a sentence with a preposition renders the sentence meaningless. I'm not sure if that's true or not.
 
Good to know. Though now I will probably also be unable to stop re-ordering sentences to keep from ending on prepositions.
 
I dislike shaving. I almost always cut myself, or leave some stubble... But I look silly with a beard. Life is hard.
Leaving some stubble doesn't bother me so much, it's when I notice that I've missed the same spot so many times that I've got a two inch long whisker in a random place that bothers me.
 
I am 24 years old and I got carded today for buying NyQuil cause the cashier thought I looked under 18. Oh well I guess looking younger will be beneficial later on in life.
 
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