Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@kiesa very seasonal!

@mythologybot might want to asterisk the kind of sleep a bit tho

@mythologybot correct

@bright_helpings your autocorrect is quite horny it seems!

@melodicake@hellsite.site if you’re willing to leave it expired for a month, DW does a sale in December (a lot of people also gift paid accounts as solstice/new years gifts as a result lol)

@twistylittlepassages @pagrus yes that seems like it would solve the issue fairly efficiently!

@pagrus @twistylittlepassages nitty gritty just stands like standard rhyming reduplication of an existing word to me (easy peasy, hodge podge, etc) but i did not follow up to check

@pagrus @twistylittlepassages have attempted some internet research and it looks like bad egg was the original invention, coming directly & uneuphamistically from how terrible rotten eggs are. There was apparently already an older term in British slang “curates egg” for when something is terrible, but politeness requires you to praise its good features anyway (wikipedia has extensive documentation on the history of this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curate%27s_egg ) and if the term has any precedent besides the actual rotten eggs it was likely that

However apparently in 2002 a British police officer claimed that political correctness had gone “too far” citing phrases he claimed the police force had been banned from using including nitty gritty & bad egg. The British police claimed they didn’t have a list of banned words at the time, and there’s no evidence that either of them would be on said list if there was, so it seems like a fair assumption that the dude just threw “bad egg” in there to try to prove how ridiculous his non-existent PC culture problem was and then it accidentally got circulated into internet lore without the context

@JessMahler the word you’r looking for is responsive design, i think?

@melodicake@hellsite.site whats your handle over there?

@alis @Betty

@runpunkrun yeah i’ll be surprised if they let us keep asking questions haha

this does create a kind of odd dynamic where, between the “you can only ask q’s during meetings but we’ll keep answering them after” and the specific formatting requirements for questions, audience members are heavily incentivized to pre-prep any questions that come up between meetings and then just log in and immediately start submitting them regardless of meeting content