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Strange questions that sometimes need answering (or not asking in the first place really).

Why is it only me who celebrates The Night of the Radishes?

Is it down to my gardening heritage?

Have a good one.
 
Is the height of a tilt coaster measured from the top of the lift hill, or the back of the tilt track when raised?
 
What does "lesser spotted" actually mean when referring to birds such as the Lesser-Spotted Woodpecker? Is it:

(a) The bird has spots but fewer than the Greater Spotted,
(b) The bird has spots that are smaller than those of the Greater Spotted,
(c) The bird itself is smaller than the Greater Spotted,
(d) The bird is less often observed than the Greater Spotted?

Google can't give me a useful answer here, hoping we have some ornithologists or linguists in here that can shed light on this very important question.
 
My Primary school teacher made my whole class join the "young ornithologists" club.
I'm 99% sure this is wrong, but I assumed "lesser" meant "Looks about the same, but is somehow much rarer"
 
Now this is a thoosie site.
We should be chatting rides not birdies.

Carousel, Merry go Round, Gallopers.

What are the differences again?

Wickypudding "Gallopers" takes you to Yarmouth!
 
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Gallopers is the British name, but the main difference is the direction they turn. Gallopers go clockwise, carousels go anti-clockwise. Not sure if Merry Go Round has a defined status.
 
The Pathfinder (D&D but better) group I am in just started a new game. New setting. New characters all round.
My new character is a 16 year old chaotic neutral half-orc bloodrager [that doesn't matter] speaks with an east London MLE accent.

I'm genuinely on the fence here. On the one hand, I have to ham up the accent because I'm playing with a bunch of septics and they are all trying to do a [BLEEP] Van [BLEEP] cockney accent for their characters. But at the same time, I'm acutely aware that I, a middle aged white guy, imitating an MLE accent, could come across as "misguided" to some people.

Have I spent too long online? Do I need to go back to my "A level theatre studies a quarter century ago" roots, where no one cared? Or am I offending people I grew up with as a child before I even knew what melanin was?
 
Hmm; that’s a tough one, Diogo. I understand your quandary.

I probably wouldn’t, but that’s because I don’t do accents more generally as mine are rubbish (my attempt at a Cockney accent always comes out a bit Australian!).

In your shoes, I would maybe consider your audience. You know your gamemates better than we do. Are they the sort of people who would be easily offended by you attempting an MLE accent? Or are they the sort of people more likely to criticise you for not getting in character?
 
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Well, my fellow gamers consist of either "Best mate I've been improving with since we were children", M'lady, and "Transatlantic friends I've known for the best part of a decade, and we all gladly debate the finer points of our shared language". None of them have an issue with it, if anything I'm educating some colonials. 🤣

... However, the game is streamed on Twitch (to an audience of <10).
 
Dare I ask; do you know your Twitch audience and their level of offence to things?

I’d generally say that doing anything that might cause offence on the internet, particularly a site such as Twitch, is not a good idea. The internet, particularly a social media site, is probably the most easily offended place you can name!

But again; if you only stream to a cherry picked audience (is Twitch the sort of site where you can send people a livestream link without going public?), and you know they aren’t offended by that sort of thing, it may be less problematic.

Sorry to be so unhelpful. I just think it really does depend on audience with things like this!
 
Our group's gaming style has always been "quote unquote edgy", so I would hope that anyone who watches is not easily offended.
 
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