You can’t really get a joke, can you?
Tommi Nieminen
Staunchly Peircean pragmaticist linguist, phonetician and semiotician. Does translation studies and comparative literature too when time allows. Politically far left, deal with it. Localizes FOSS (eg. KDE Plasma, Vivaldi browser, Handbrake media transcriber).
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Well, “inchic”, “football field-ic” or “large rock-ic” would be more appropriate than metric.
Well, I don’t know about Balkans, but at least for me, a half-liter beer of any kind takes 30–45 minutes. Stouts and porters are too thick to drink faster, ales too bitter etc. A light lager may be, but why bother?
There’s a easy rule. Allow ~ 45 min per beer and think how long the meeting will last. Most will actually not drink that much, but it’s good to have spare ones.
1·6 months agoI wholeheartedly agree; but there’s now growing fear all around the world that not even attending to a research conference will save you from ICE if they are behind their daily quota.
I’ve heard of a big conference this year in the US (decided and planned for years before Trump) that now offers remote participation option.
…and being boring is only one of Europe’s strong points.