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My mother used to refer to the badly-maintained road out to our house as "holey, but not righteous."

Quote from: the_geneticist on April 22, 2025, 09:49:14 AM

Quote from: Minervabird on April 21, 2025, 11:56:24 AMDon't just tie a knot in your holy socks and leave them on the dresser...the trash can over there has a use.

But, but "holy socks" are sacred! 

:-)

So are "holy/holey: T-shirts.  I have to surreptitiously get rid of his clothing that is well past its sell-by date.  The stuff from college/mementos I leave alone, but no, dear husband, that shirt with the frayed cuffs and spaghetti stains is only now fit for the rag bag.

When we were kids we referred to anything with holes ( old clothes, Swiss cheese, etc) as "religious."

Geddit?

When ALHS worked as a landscaper, he referred to his work clothes as his Sunday pants, since they were hol(e)y.

Quote from: Minervabird on April 22, 2025, 11:46:24 AM

Quote from: the_geneticist on April 22, 2025, 09:49:14 AM

Quote from: Minervabird on April 21, 2025, 11:56:24 AMDon't just tie a knot in your holy socks and leave them on the dresser...the trash can over there has a use.

But, but "holy socks" are sacred! 

:-)

So are "holy/holey: T-shirts.  I have to surreptitiously get rid of his clothing that is well past its sell-by date.  The stuff from college/mementos I leave alone, but no, dear husband, that shirt with the frayed cuffs and spaghetti stains is only now fit for the rag bag.

I assume you mean "chucked in the bin" or "relegated to the garage".

Folks used to keep a rag bag - my grandmother used them for cleaning cloths, stuffing inside homemade potholders, etc.

It is certainly true that I have a very strident opposition to attempts to deny what by now is essentially a scientific consensus with regard to the reality that 18 yos of either gender are far from all growed up, and I have taken a lot of flak for this for years here and on the predecssor fora.  Even as the evidence for my view keeps on piling up (I remember anthroid acknowleding this in a civil discussion once, where she had to allow her view was more traditional, and in keeping with the administrative practices she was observing, but that she should probably acknowledge that they needed updating, which I assume she (eventually) did.).  Like it or not, this reality needs to impact our pedagogical choices and opinions of our students.  Even 23 yo grad students.

Quote from: the_geneticist on April 23, 2025, 10:31:00 AM

Quote from: Minervabird on April 22, 2025, 11:46:24 AM

Quote from: the_geneticist on April 22, 2025, 09:49:14 AM

Quote from: Minervabird on April 21, 2025, 11:56:24 AMDon't just tie a knot in your holy socks and leave them on the dresser...the trash can over there has a use.

But, but "holy socks" are sacred! 

:-)

So are "holy/holey: T-shirts.  I have to surreptitiously get rid of his clothing that is well past its sell-by date.  The stuff from college/mementos I leave alone, but no, dear husband, that shirt with the frayed cuffs and spaghetti stains is only now fit for the rag bag.

I assume you mean "chucked in the bin" or "relegated to the garage".

Folks used to keep a rag bag - my grandmother used them for cleaning cloths, stuffing inside homemade potholders, etc.

I am on an American forum, so using Americanisms.  Chuck in the bin is British, as is put it in the rubbish.

Did you know that trash was originally a British term....it was brought over by the colonists and now mainstream in the USA. There was a study of Smith island off Maryland, one of the first colonised, and isolated...word usage there now is more like Elizabethan parlance (with a southern accent), which apparently is how we know. It was recently on 60minutes

https://www.facebook.com/60minutes/videos/linguists-study-the-unique-accent-of-smith-island/1096716808573189/

In the UK, trash is little used. Interesting how word usages morph.

Quote from: the_geneticist on April 23, 2025, 10:31:00 AM

Quote from: Minervabird on April 22, 2025, 11:46:24 AM

Quote from: the_geneticist on April 22, 2025, 09:49:14 AM

Quote from: Minervabird on April 21, 2025, 11:56:24 AMDon't just tie a knot in your holy socks and leave them on the dresser...the trash can over there has a use.

But, but "holy socks" are sacred! 

:-)

So are "holy/holey: T-shirts.  I have to surreptitiously get rid of his clothing that is well past its sell-by date.  The stuff from college/mementos I leave alone, but no, dear husband, that shirt with the frayed cuffs and spaghetti stains is only now fit for the rag bag.

I assume you mean "chucked in the bin" or "relegated to the garage".

Folks used to keep a rag bag - my grandmother used them for cleaning cloths, stuffing inside homemade potholders, etc.

Yep, I still keep a rag bag.  We don't use paper towels. I also knit dishclothes and have a hot composter/digester at the back of the veg garden, and a compost heap.  We have 24 solar panels used for electricity/hot water/electric car..not totally off grid but getting that way. Next is an air source heat pump.  Not doing this to virtue signal, but because we are very rural, and this system saves us from blackouts/brownouts and in the longer run cheaper. The kit for the solar was wholesale as husband works in the soft energy industry.

Apparently a number of supposed Americanisms are actually archaic Britishisms.  Don't criticize us for using them--we got them from y'all!

Quote from: apl68 on April 24, 2025, 07:09:46 AMApparently a number of supposed Americanisms are actually archaic Britishisms.  Don't criticize us for using them--we got them from y'all!

No criticism from me...I'm an American living in the UK now! :-). That's why I am probably interested in this stuff!

My goodness what an ugly dog!


(Didn't really want to say that on my walk this morning, certainly not to the dog's owner--but I can't deny that it crossed my mind!)

Students, you need to learn to not be on your phone every time there is a hint of a pause.  Learn to tolerate a tiny bit of down time. 
You are going to be very sad (and very bored) in lab next week when phones are absolutely forbidden due to using microbes.

What will happen when one or more of said phone zombies pop out phones during the germ-laden experiment?

Cell phones ARE a germ-laden experiment. 

Anyway, that's what autoclaves are for....

A previous colleague of mine who taught microbiology had a 0 tolerance for water bottles in the microbiology lab.  Oh, the student would get their bottle back.  After it went through a sterilizing cycle in the autoclave.  Not sure how they are handling the cell phones.