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Munchies_Matt wrote: Antipasti means 'before the pasta'
It would be "before the pastI", with pasti being the plural of pasto, which means meal. And yes, you are right, it is an exception, most likely it changed with use for phonetic reasons.
I understand that pasta is a mainstay of our cuisine but it's not that important to refer to the generic concept of appetizers as "something consumed before the pasta" 
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den2k88 wrote: pasti being the plural of pasto
I always eat more than one. 
den2k88 wrote: t is an exception, most likely it changed with use for phonetic reasons.
OK, so generally in Italian ante is before, except here. Didnt know that. Thanks.
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A_Griffin wrote: Damned Americans - can't get anything right!
...so they kicked out the Inglish because they kept complaining about that.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: future conditional tense? |
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I prefer air conditioned trailers to future conditional tents
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
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Slow. Missing posts. Missing points. Other such stuff. What's going on (Millennial speak: Wuz-zup?)
Well - I've gotten it on good authority that the IP address is nearly used up. Just plain worn out.
Look. It happens. Worse things could happen (I don't really believe that last part)
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W∴ Balboos wrote: The IP address is nearly used up. Just plain worn out.
The hamsters as well! 
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I bet they have an ordered index on a high transaction table and rebuilds the index every 5 minutes
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I usually don't enjoy phrases like "losing faith in humanity" but when I see this[^], I may reconsider it.
Either my fellow co-citizens are so stupid that they can fight for nutella - talk about first-world problems - or too poor and this is such an opportunity for them that they are ready to fight to stand for it - which is kind of sad. Anyway, the whole thing is pathetic.
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Nutella I can understand. If it had been Marmite, I would have seriously questioned peoples sanity.
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Relax. Breathe easy. It was in France - your faith in humanity should (obviously) remain unaffected.
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Neither of the polite Frenchmen participated in the riot.
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Hey! No reason to bring LGBT into the thread. Give them their privacy!
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I was referring to their manners, not their sexual orientation.
Harrumph!
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You just don't have the proper degree of social insulation. Next to a Black Friday sale, that seems downright folksy and mildly charming.
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Huh? The froggies go on about their cuisine and they're fighting over nutella?
Could you image if it were bacon? (Not in france, I mean in a proper normal country.)
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Nutella? Isn't he the boss of Mickeysoft now?
And we used to call my former bossette Nutella, since she was from Italy and her name also ended on 'ella'. But that was only one name among many. I liked 'Alosaurus' even more.
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I think this may be part of the reason politicians want to control everything. When they see how dumb the common person is they assume they must take control because the common person is too stupid. 
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Rage wrote: Anyway, the whole thing is pathetic.
Plain biology, hardly interesting. It's always been like that, and always will be 
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Back in November I saw an article about Nutella changing their recipe[^], lower cocoa content with more skimmed milk powder and sugar, and decided to give it a try.
My impression was that the consistency was a a little more plastic like and taste was too sweet for my taste. Now this could have been because I had not had Nutella for almost three years but it reminded me of the Hostess Twinkies recipe change... which is to say not an improvement.
I'll admit I was tempted to throw the nearly full container through a window in disappointment, instead I just threw it out.
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Stupid French, it wasn't even Nutella covered bacon!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Nutella is quite delicious actually.
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It is pathetic but also normal.
It is often disaster that restores our faith in humanity and usually that greed diminishes it.
I don't eat Nutella as I find it too sweet, but when I see it, it always reminds me of french people.
I watched two Frenchmen having breakfast in Australia.
We couldn't converse as they had no English and I had no French.
They took their crossants and spread Vegemite really realy thickly on them, about 1 cm, thinking that the Vegemite was a form of Nutella from Down Under.
The look on their faces was priceless when they bit into their crossants.
They both spat it out and screamed like they were being murdered.
Lots of coffee was then used as an antidote.
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I was developing a small WordPress site for a client, and while looking for free hosting, just for staging, I found an outfit called CloudAccess.net[^] that offered free hosting of a WP site under certain very unclear conditions. But very easy, just click a button and WP is set up for you.
Great, I built and staged the site on Cloud Access, and did a file and DB backup to move the site to my prod ISP. Wednesday I took it live on my local ISP and all seemed fine. Today I found the site logo missing, and on inspect element I found the URL for the logo was an absolute URL rooted at Cloud Access. Then I tried an admin login, only to get a bad password error.
On closer inspection I now find that every single URL I have tried to use on our local, prod WP site is also an absolute URL rooted at Cloud Access. I now have to basically spend several hours tonight rebuilding the local site from scratch and just copying the content over from Cloud Access.
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You don't need hosting to develop Wordpress sites.
I normally use Free Portable Webserver (USBWebserver) - YouTube - With that you can run a wordpress site with MySql database access locally on your development machine - basically without internet connection at all.
Extremely easy to work with. It even runs from a USB stick if you should want that.
I highly recommend it! Best invention since sliced bread (and bacon)
I even have a USB stick with a portable USBWebServer instance and a standard Wordpress installation with the most used plugins. So whenever I need to develop a new site, I just update Wordpress to the latest version, copy it - and Presto! I'm up and running.
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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So how does my client that is some 400 km away access and review the site?
Otherwise all I do is switch on Apache and MySql and develop away, but then I'd be sending my client several screenshots several times a day and playing email tennis.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
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