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Re: Claim for a missing tooth

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Post by pavel_lishin »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #37
pavel_lishin wrote: post #35

This is very cool. My daughter was very worried that she might lose her tooth and swallow it, so I told her that the sewer mermaids have an agreement with the tooth fairy, and they'd deliver the tooth to her, and then she would deliver the money. My child didn't buy it, but maybe ya'll's will be more believing :p

Sewer mermaids does strain credibility a bit, you have to admit. The human-scale rabbit which delivers gifts in eggs is far more credible.

Funnily enough, just 30 minutes ago, my child accused me of lying to her about the Easter Bunny.

Re: Claim for a missing tooth

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Post by chupasaurus »

chrisweekly wrote: post #31
chupasaurus wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even in Soviet textbooks for English in elementary schools (which are garbage by any standard) both variants were presented (:

I have a TEFL certificate (Teacher of English as a Second Language) and I'm a native speaker and avid reader -- and this was the first time I ever encountered "rubber" as a synonym for "eraser". The benefit of the latter term is it's unambiguous and easily understood.

I agree on eraser being superior.

I have an even weirder example from Russian language: file, folder and pocket are 3 out of dozen different words being used to describe a plastic envelope for documents in various regions and people don't understand each other. I remember only one more.

Re: Claim for a missing tooth

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Post by like_any_other »

silisili wrote: post #6

Neat idea! This brings back an embarrassing memory from childhood. Playing football in the yard, a careless neighborhood kid accidentally knocked two of my baby teeth out. I remember scouring the grass for them to no avail, then getting in a rage about how I wouldn't get tooth fairy money, so punched the boy, and he started crying and ran home. I don't even remember who it was, but to this day feel bad about that. Wh…

The hubris in thinking the Tooth Fairy of all beings couldn't tell you didn't have any extra teeth missing...

Re: Claim for a missing tooth

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Post by CoastalCoder »

egypturnash wrote: post #32
TZubiri wrote: post #10

Very creative and well executed. When I was like 6 a friend choked me and I swallowed my tooth. I was very sad because the tooth fairy ("ratón perez") would not pay me :( But thankfully I found a note notifying me that they found my tooth and reimbursing me :) So I see where the idea came from, but I wouldn't ever had imagined this bureocratic twist

This note has horrifying implications. Did the tooth fairy go spelunking in your stomach and/or intestine? Are they sieving your sewer pipes for teeth just in case? They must really want those teeth bad .

It's less nefarious than that.

Every tooth contains a government-installed tracker.

Re: Claim for a missing tooth

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Post by dullcrisp »

chupasaurus wrote: post #23
cpfohl wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ooh! Perfect opportunity to ask a question I’ve definitely not spent an inordinate amount of time wondering about without bothering to look for an answer! Is maths in British English plural? Like, should that be “the maths say”?

Mathematics is uncountable (:

And dense!

Re: Claim for a missing tooth

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Post by hnbad »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #37
pavel_lishin wrote: post #35

This is very cool. My daughter was very worried that she might lose her tooth and swallow it, so I told her that the sewer mermaids have an agreement with the tooth fairy, and they'd deliver the tooth to her, and then she would deliver the money. My child didn't buy it, but maybe ya'll's will be more believing :p

Sewer mermaids does strain credibility a bit, you have to admit. The human-scale rabbit which delivers gifts in eggs is far more credible.

Oh, I'd like you to know that there is (internationally at least - I know the US likes its anthros) very intense debate around the issue whether the Easter Bunny is a human-sized rabbit or just a very fast rabbit-sized rabbit strong enough to lift a basket. I've also at several times heard kids argue that there's more than one rabbit involved or that the Easter Bunny is assisted by his family.

There's plenty of prior art depicting rabbit-sized Easter bunnies painting and loading eggs onto baskets and most kids have heard of the idea of Santa Claus having a workshop staffed by elves so I guess it's no big leap (or hop?) to deduct that there must be more than just one bunny involved, although you can argue about the relative time cost of hiding presents in multiple places compared to having to sneak into a building.

Re: Claim for a missing tooth

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Post by skavi »

ascorbic wrote: post #49

Is it bad that I was immediately jarred by the fact it doesn't use Transport Sans? Of course that is actually correct according to the GDS rules, because it's not on a service.gov.uk subdomain. [1] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/styles/typeface/

if i had to hazard a guess, that’s probably the exact response the design system is hoping for
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