goreyfantod

Regarding different pronunciations of, "lasso:"
https://forthright.livejournal.com/222078.html#:~:text=Usage%2C%201926%2C%20p.,'%20In%20ed.&text=1)%20The%20word%20lazo%20is,contact%20in%20the%20US%20Southwest.

TLDR: Americans tend to say LASS-o, while speakers of British English (UK, Australia & some but not all Canadians) say la-SOO. Speaking as someone who grew up in Western Canada, I say la-SOO.
Vinny is something of an anomaly.

I missed this one live, but watching it now, I'm glad I did. This was easily the most frustrating one of these co-op Astroneer episodes, so far.

@knockingnick: I have a box or two worth of PC game manuals I can send you. I'll even include the game discs!

@brad At 13:55 that bartender isn't talking in riddles, exactly. It's reciting the opening lines of Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain."

I dunno why, but it definitely made me laugh.

@gooddoggy:

@danryckert@alex For future reference:

Mento: Hard Time - Count Alert, Lyn Taitt & Baba Brooks Band

Ska: 1. Simmer Down - Wailing Wailers 2. My Boy Lollipop - Millie Small

Rocksteady: 1. Rock Steady - Alton Ellis 2. Nice Time - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Reggae: Right Time - Mighty Diamonds 2. One Drop - Bob Marley & The Wailers

@drewbert The flower is a poppy. It's a symbol of remembrance of military war dead used in the UK & Commonwealth countries. It has become all but mandatory to wear a red poppy in the weeks leading up to Nov. 11 (Remembrance Day), with proceeds from sales going to veterans' groups. It actually started out as an American Legion thing, but it seems to have been semi-forgotten in the US.

Fun(ish) Fact: When I was a child growing up in Canada, we had to memorize the poem that inspired the wearing of poppies, In Flanders Fields, & recite it at school assemblies for Remembrance Day. I still remember most of it some thirty years later.

In Flanders Fields

I wonder if @vinny & @alex realize that going off-road to avoid traffic (laws), is about as Russian as it gets. It instantly made me think of these comrades:

@darkjester74 said:

Whoa! You go, big guy!

@danryckert@alex@vinny

Reading hanzi & kanji is not at all like reading the standard english alphabet, even for first generation native speakers.