Also QED, “quod erat demonstrandum” meaning “thus it has been demonstrated.“
Remember:
e.g. stands for exempli gratia, “for [the sake of an] example”
i.e. stands for id est, meaning “that is [to say]” or “in other words”
QUI BONO?
And remember! If you can’t remember how to spell any of these, or you have trouble keeping the meanings straight, it’s fine. All these phrases have perfectly fine plain English equivalents that work just as well, in addition to the literal translations above.
Ad hoc: just for this. Et cetera: and so on. In flagrante delicto: caught in the act. Ipso facto: therefore / inevitably. Per se: as such. Pro bono: donated.
In particular, I would really love to see people use “as such” instead of “per say” please. I don’t blame anyone for not knowing how to spell it, but just remember that you don’t have to use it!
tl;dr this woman was hearing creepy phantom nursery rhymes every night and it turned out to be a local industrial building’s alarm system, being triggered by spiders on the motion detectors
which is all well and good but “we investigated the creepy nursery rhymes, and it turns out it’s spiders” is one hell of a true statement
You left out the best part!
The alarm was at some kind of industrial building, and is apparently SUPPOSED to play creepy nursery rhymes, to deter criminals from breaking in in the middle of the night! It was just turned up too loud, and too sensitive, so it was being triggered by spiders.
That’s some creative theft-deterrent there. If you’re breaking in to a place, you kind of expect to hear a burglar alarm. You’re prepared for that, and you’re prepared to grab and go once it goes off.
But if you hear a creepy kid’s voice singing nursery rhymes at a seemingly abandoned industrial building in the middle of the night, you’re going to shit your pants and get the fuck out, in that order.
Give the guy who thought that up a promotion.
holy shit thay video is terrifying i should not have watched that alone
A healthy relationship keeps the doors and windows open. Plenty of air is circulating and no one feels trapped. Relationships thrive in this environment. Keep your doors and windows open. If this person is meant to be in your life, all the open doors and windows in the world won’t make them leave.
I had a dream last night that they made a new Bond movie, but they didn’t say who was playing Bond. Throughout the movie you have no idea which character is really Bond, because he’s undercover, duh. And every single character, no matter how minor, was played by somebody famous, so they could all conceivably be Bond. And at the end it turns out Bond was Leslie Jones.
James Bond AU where the character actually acts like a spy and doesn’t inform every single person they meet of their real name every five seconds
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