Sep
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2014
Protection from Memes · 1:08pm Sep 2nd, 2014
It appears that yamgoth has nominated me for the Ice Bucket Challenge. The following is my response:
No.
Don't get me wrong, it's a very good cause. However, as even the Uncle of Machines noted, I value my anonymity too much to participate. I'll definitely look into donations for ALS, though.
(And yes, for those wondering, I have made Meme cards. It's a spell type, like Arcane.)
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FanOfMostEverything · 479 views
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I admire your...I don't think there's an actual word for it?
It's in the intersection between integrity, being resolute, correctly estimating things, being reflective, and not being willing to go along with trivial or nontrivial things. I'm probably forgetting things.
Anyway, I admire you for having a thing that is in the middle of all those other things.
Wasn't the original description of the challenge that either you do the bucket, or you make a donation? So if you make a donation that's not actually a refusal to participate
Good on you for the refusal on this new fad. If you do a little bit of research, you can find that as little as 7% of the money donated to that charity actually goes to research. (last financial year, I'm told it was in the vicinity of 25%)
Can't blame you, I'd do the same. I don't like when pictures of me are on the internet to begin with, and I have this weird username specifically because I wanted to avoid my usual picks and not be found on this site by people I know offline.
2422091
Snopes says that's false:
2422231
Oh wow, didn't even think to Snope that info. Thank you for the correction.
2422235
You're welcome
2422077 I believe the term you are searching for can be approximated in the Yiddish "chutzpah." (pronounced CHUTS-puh (With the "ch" being that sound like you are trying to hock something up.)) I am sure there's a more exact term in Yiddish, versatile language that it is, but I don't know the language well enough.
2422078
Oh, right. Well, good to know I'm not being a complete party pooper.
2422112
For several years, my go-to username was the super-generic "A Fan." Then I found out that that's a favorite for people who confirm the GIFT, so I went with something a bit more unique.
2422658
Chutzpah has some rather negative connotations in Yiddish. I think the word that best describes 2422077's intent is "mensch." (Rhymes with "wench".) Basically, an honorable, respectable person. No convenient adjective form; Yiddish doesn't have English's modular parts of speech. At least, I don't think it does. Not exactly a fluent speaker myself; my primary sources are grandparents and the Internet.
2422752
Wait, isn't "mensch" just German for "man"?
I know I've heard it in relation to Robin Williams' character shortly after his death, and I'm confused
2422756
In German, yes. Not in Yiddish, where the word's meaning deviated from its base. In Yiddish, a mensch isn't a man, but what a man should be.
2422784
Ooohhh...that's actually quite cool.
Thanks for having given me interesting information! :-)
But I want to love you, physically.
Oh well...you still gonna nominate folks?
2423118
B-But, Hat-kun, my body is not ready.
(Also, I don't want to bother people with this. If you want to consider yourself meme-tagged, go nuts.)
2423225
(100* and terrible California weather
!)
Honestly an excuse to dump ice water on myself is just nice.
Do you have somewhere you keep ALL of the cards you've made? I want to see them.
2423591
I would also like to know.
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Not a publicly available one. How about I make one this weekend?
2424361
I would enjoy it if you did.
2422752 Mensch might work, but not quite. Yiddish is actually quite similar in its history to English: both are partially Germanic languages that are a mix of a lot of other stuff. English has the Brittanic, Nordic, and Romance families as the largest secondary sources, while Yiddish has the Nordic, Slavic, and Semitic. However, since the ties with German are much closer than in English (in addition to all the wordplay and doubletalk you can do in Slavic languages and in Hebrew,) I'm sure that there is a word that has the exact connotation and denotation he's looking for.
2424361 I would enjoy that greatly, yes.