You drink soup, but it’s definitely not a beverage.
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How about broth? Drinking broth?
Or soup made of stock cubes?
Maybe a new poll?
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Your way to cool down
- Drink cold beverages
- Turn on the air-conditioner
- Turn on the fan
- Open windows and wait for wind
- Others (comment)
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Ice cubes
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Lying in the bed.
Staying quiet and calm helps me refreshing myself.
I guess it’s matter of reducing heartbeat rate and let heat dissipate for a while.
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This is what we do in summer: Set your alarm to 4.00 in the morning, open all windows and go back to sleep. Close them again when you get up for real, roll down the blinds and don’t open until the outside air is cooler than the inside air (late evening). Your flat will be comfortably cool compared to the outside all day long.
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If I can’t take a shower, I wash my hands and forearms, and if possible my face.
During summer, I wash my hands up to the elbows all the time, really.
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My husband has dozens of once used, unsharpened, basically too small to properly hold IKEA pencils, and they are just so useless. I hate them. We also have all kinds of other pencils at home, so I just don’t see any point in keeping these stupid IKEA pencil stumps.
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Does anyone else think it’s weird that “custard” rhymes with "mustard?
Today I know, but I wish, they would have told us about that in school. 
It was actually one of the very first (British) English words I ever learned, so it’s hard to erase it from my vocabulary. 
Putting a wet towel over my legs. Very effective.
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Who knows? Maybe society might collapse and people will have to use those little IKEA pencils as currency? 
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I don’t own a single one. 
Didn’t even know it was such a thing.
I too am bankrupt in IKEA pencils, but I think it’s interesting how we can all relate to the idea that they are there.
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Well, let’s examine the etymologies.
custard apparently derives from croustade, a fancy Francophone synonym for pie, a crouste (crust) -ade (dish – in a culinary sense). In turn, crouste comes from Latin crusta, which could also mean rind, shell, or bark. Obviously, doublet of crust.
mustard descends from another French word, moustarde; deriving from moust, from Latin mustum which meant must. Must is “freshly crushed grape juice that contains the skins, seeds, and stems of the fruit”, being the first step in producing wine. Perhaps the jump was made because must, wine, or wine vinegar was a component of French mustard at the time.
We have a third word to throw into the mix, though: bustard – bustards are a group of Old World birds. Wiktionary suggests that the word emerged from a blend of French bistarde and oustarde, from a Latin name auis tarda (slow bird), but adds the curious note that “the name is unexplained, the bustards being swift runners.”
So the best answer is: custard and mustard sound the same because they both come from French, and the -ade and -arde suffixes they took (respectively) seem to have similar meanings of “something to be eaten or drunk / added to food”. cf. lemonade, from French limonade, again formed with that -ade suffix.
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The -ade-suffix usually comes from the Participle Perfect Passive ending -ata.
So a crustata is something crusted, a limonata is something that has been lemoned and so on. I suspect there used to be some other substantive next to it like pullum crustatum ‘crusted chicken, chicken with a crust around it’, but the PPP eventually became independent and its suffix used for many other culinary things, even if the underlying verb does not exist (like limonare).
The effect that moved the r from the crust to the ard is called a metathesis and affects quite often the letters r and l.
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Which would you find the most morally troubling?
- I know a powerful person is bad and it bothers me, but I keep silent
- I know a powerful person is bad, but it doesn’t really bother me
- I don’t even realize that a bad person with power is bad
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It’s still the case, it’s a basic component with the grains of the mustard tree
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Kinda funny that even the mustard tree (is it a tree? I though a herb) is called ‘the thing we make that vinegar-stuff with’.
German and Italian has Senf and senape which is from Latin sinapis from Greek σίναπι which is a loanword from a non-Greek language.
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If I know that I know nothing, what do I know?
- Nothing
- Everything
- what
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If a time traveler murders his own great-grandfather, the time traveler cannot exist. But if he does not exist, then there’s no one to kill the great-grandfather.
Who will stay alive?
- The time traveler
- The time traveler’s great-grandfather
- I don’t know
0 voters
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2020 has been so much, it might as well be a good year to solve Terminator.
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