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[Graknorke]

Nah, I'm not. Apparently, the now politically correct term is 'Chalkboard' and 'Wipeboard'

TBH, the latter sounds rather... masturbatory...

I've never heard anyone care. In fact, the only time I've heard it is when Daily Mail Reader-types are ranting about 'political correctness gone mad'.

[Graknorke]

Nah, I'm not. Apparently, the now politically correct term is 'Chalkboard' and 'Wipeboard'

TBH, the latter sounds rather... masturbatory...

I've never heard anyone care.

Nobody does care. The people supposed to be enforcing it don't give a crap.

I am suspecting that there is nobody supposed to be enforcing it because it's not a real thing. If I had to guess, it's like the 'baa baa rainbow sheep' thing, which was in one private school and then a conservative newspaper latched onto it and rode the policy like a mechanical bull hooked up to a fusion reactor.

[miauw62]

We just call it "bord" in Belgium. Which, as you may have guessed, translates to "board".

[Tomcost]

We just call it "bord" in Belgium. Which, as you may have guessed, translates to "board".

Hey, miau, you are from the French speaking Belgium, right? How do you do with three official languages there? Are you able to speak all three?

[miauw62]

I'm from Flanders. I speak fluent Dutch, obviously, and I am eh in French. No German skill whatsoever. I'm not even sure if it's an official language.

[Helgoland]

If you want, you can dump your German-speaking parts on us - a seventeenth Bundesland...

[Tomcost]

I'm from Flanders. I speak fluent Dutch, obviously, and I am eh in French. No German skill whatsoever. I'm not even sure if it's an official language.

Well, Wikipedia says German is an official language there. But after a 20 seconds read through the languages part it says that about 60% of Belgians speak Dutch, and 40% speak French. Which means that German-speaking Belgians are a minority. Huh.

[10ebbor10]

If you want, you can dump your German-speaking parts on us - a seventeenth Bundesland...

Actually, I wouldn't mind. It's not that they're that valuable, and we'd probably come out at a profit with the reduced administrative costs. Especially know that they want to be their own region thingy, rather than being part of Wallonia. Doubt they're big enough for a Bundesland though.

Anyway, on the 3 languages front. You don't actually have to learn all 3 Languages. In Flanders, French is part of the curriculum, so pretty much everyone speaks it*. Depending on personal choice, people can however opt to exchange their German lessons for Spanish, or other alternatives. Sometimes you do retain a token hour of German lessons, but most people can't speak it. (German is an official language though.)

Now, from what I know of my nephew who lives across the language border, language education in Wallonia is a lot more lenient. Dutch is a separate studying direction, so a majority opts out of it in favour of English, german or other European languages. Don't know about german, or those little german districts. 

*Or something that resembles it in some form or another.

I'm from Flanders. I speak fluent Dutch, obviously, and I am eh in French. No German skill whatsoever. I'm not even sure if it's an official language.

Well, Wikipedia says German is an official language there. But after a 20 seconds read through the languages part it says that about 60% of Belgians speak Dutch, and 40% speak French. Which means that German-speaking Belgians are a minority. Huh.

The german speaking part of Belgium only has 76.128 inhabitants, and measures 854 km². There's about 1800 German speaking living is surrounding areas too.

Truly, this is just some token gift we got after the first world war. The real prizes were to be found in Africa.

[BFEL]

Was just playing Ironman Crusader Kings 2.
I'm the Byzantine Empire fighting a holy war for the little islands of Sicily against a bunch of Muslims.
I get the warscore up to 94%, only need a few more minutes to get it to 100% and win the war, taking the territories and making the map look less retarded, when suddenly the war ends "inconclusively" with the message "casus belli no longer valid"

WHAT THE FUCKING BULLSHIT???!!!!

[SalmonGod]

I am so socially overstimulated that it's killing me and I don't know what to do about it.  This isn't an immediate thing.  It's something that's been building up for years, and it's getting unbearable.  I feel like I need to go a year without seeing or hearing another human being just to feel level again.  Everytime I interact with another person through anything but text, I'm screaming inside.  No matter how much I want to maintain my relationship with the person in question. 

I'm very solitary by nature.  I think if I were already in a good place, it would be healthiest for me to only do things with other people maybe a couple times a week.  But for the last several years, I've been lucky if I get an hour out of the day to myself uninterrupted.

And it doesn't seem like there's anything I can do about it.  It seems impossible to find a job where I'm not surrounded by people all day, and my wife and one of my kids are extremely extroverted.  It's impossible to explain my needs to them.  Their idea of giving me time to myself is to only pop in and interrupt me every 10 minutes at best between the two of them.  I can't seem to demand any better than that without making myself out to be an asshole, because no matter how I try, I can't explain to them what they're doing to me.

But I feel like I'm going to start having anxiety attacks or an aneurysm if something doesn't change.

[scrdest]

Was just playing Ironman Crusader Kings 2.
I'm the Byzantine Empire fighting a holy war for the little islands of Sicily against a bunch of Muslims.
I get the warscore up to 94%, only need a few more minutes to get it to 100% and win the war, taking the territories and making the map look less retarded, when suddenly the war ends "inconclusively" with the message "casus belli no longer valid"

WHAT THE FUCKING BULLSHIT???!!!!

Heh, I had the exact same thing. I've been fighting yet another Holy War in my Great Northen Crusade in Lithuania and neighbors as Poland-Bohemia (under HRE). Warscore 90-something, cue 'lel, convert, u no war me'. And then when I sent my Diplomacy 30 Chancellor to fabricate  claims, THEY FUCKING KILLED HIM!

[MagmaMcFry]

I am so socially overstimulated that it's killing me and I don't know what to do about it.  This isn't an immediate thing.  It's something that's been building up for years, and it's getting unbearable.  I feel like I need to go a year without seeing or hearing another human being just to feel level again.  Everytime I interact with another person through anything but text, I'm screaming inside.  No matter how much I want to maintain my relationship with the person in question. 

I'm very solitary by nature.  I think if I were already in a good place, it would be healthiest for me to only do things with other people maybe a couple times a week.  But for the last several years, I've been lucky if I get an hour out of the day to myself uninterrupted.

And it doesn't seem like there's anything I can do about it.  It seems impossible to find a job where I'm not surrounded by people all day, and my wife and one of my kids are extremely extroverted.  It's impossible to explain my needs to them.  Their idea of giving me time to myself is to only pop in and interrupt me every 10 minutes at best between the two of them.  I can't seem to demand any better than that without making myself out to be an asshole, because no matter how I try, I can't explain to them what they're doing to me.

But I feel like I'm going to start having anxiety attacks or an aneurysm if something doesn't change.

Schedule some time with your family in which you don't want to be social'd at unless in dire emergencies. When they pop in again, look at them, put on your angry face, and say nothing until they leave.

[BFEL]

I am so socially overstimulated that it's killing me and I don't know what to do about it.  This isn't an immediate thing.  It's something that's been building up for years, and it's getting unbearable.  I feel like I need to go a year without seeing or hearing another human being just to feel level again.  Everytime I interact with another person through anything but text, I'm screaming inside.  No matter how much I want to maintain my relationship with the person in question. 

I'm very solitary by nature.  I think if I were already in a good place, it would be healthiest for me to only do things with other people maybe a couple times a week.  But for the last several years, I've been lucky if I get an hour out of the day to myself uninterrupted.

And it doesn't seem like there's anything I can do about it.  It seems impossible to find a job where I'm not surrounded by people all day, and my wife and one of my kids are extremely extroverted.  It's impossible to explain my needs to them.  Their idea of giving me time to myself is to only pop in and interrupt me every 10 minutes at best between the two of them.  I can't seem to demand any better than that without making myself out to be an asshole, because no matter how I try, I can't explain to them what they're doing to me.

But I feel like I'm going to start having anxiety attacks or an aneurysm if something doesn't change.

Schedule some time with your family in which you don't want to be social'd at unless in dire emergencies. When they pop in again, look at them, put on your angry face, and say nothing until they leave.

Or cover them in syrup while they sleep. That should buy you some alone time

[Aptus]

Piece of shit wireless headset crashed again... once again I have to wait for the thing to drain all its charge so it will turn off itself before I can start using it.

Last fucking time I buy a wireless headset... last fucking time...

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[Elephant Parade]

Piece of shit wireless headset crashed again... once again I have to wait for the thing to drain all its charge so it will turn off itself before I can start using it.

Last fucking time I buy a wireless headset... last fucking time...

Can't you just remove the batteries?