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Written by Abie on 2025-01-20 at 21:45

I would gladly listen to @molly0xfff reading the phonebook aloud.

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Written by Abie on 2025-01-20 at 21:47

Yes, I am old enough to think of the phonebook as my go-to boring text.

What should I replace it with?

The dictionary? Tsk, it is way too interesting to fit the intention.

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Written by Abie on 2025-01-20 at 21:48

Yes, I tried to read the dictionary from cover to cover as a child, is anyone here surprised?

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Written by Farfadoc on 2025-01-20 at 21:50

@temptoetiam non pas vraiment #TeamDictionnaire

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Written by randomized on 2025-01-20 at 21:50

@temptoetiam

wait, who didn't ?

( the important point i think is : at what letter did one stop ? )

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Written by Akash on 2025-01-20 at 21:54

@temptoetiam I bet you were then thrilled with curiosity as much you are today. And this is exactly why many here are caring for your delightful findings 🙏

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Written by Abie on 2025-01-20 at 21:56

@akash that is very kind of you to say <3

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Written by Akash on 2025-01-20 at 21:57

@temptoetiam (you're welcome, I also was quite into dictionaries myself)

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Written by Akash on 2025-01-20 at 21:56

@temptoetiam but did in any way @molly0xfff actually promised to read the whole dictionary and why such a commitment ?

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Written by Abie on 2025-01-20 at 21:58

@akash @molly0xfff haha, no, I just find her podcast voice deeply soothing :)

https://www.citationneeded.news/podcast/

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Written by Akash on 2025-01-20 at 22:00

@temptoetiam @molly0xfff oh. Aesthetics 😊

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Written by Bruno Bord on 2025-01-20 at 21:55

@temptoetiam I think I did try and failed miserably. At some point one word leads to another several hundred pages away, and then you're jumping from one to another for a couple of hours until you realized you've failed your first intent.

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Written by Abie on 2025-01-20 at 21:56

@brunobord same :)

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Written by Bruno Bord on 2025-01-20 at 21:57

@temptoetiam a.k.a. "the wikipedia game"

https://xkcd.com/214/

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Written by Sylvhem on 2025-01-20 at 22:15

@temptoetiam No, but I also tried that.

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Written by Éléanore on 2025-01-21 at 08:33

@temptoetiam

Is it considered weird ?

Ok, I stopped after a third, but still ?

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Written by Abie on 2025-01-21 at 08:55

@sous_mon_masque not weird, but peculiar :)

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Written by ∅🧠 on 2025-01-20 at 21:58

@temptoetiam might recommend La philosophie de l'argent par Georg Simmel ? You might have a better tolerance than me to the content but I remember it being very hard for me to read, forcing my brain to rererereread some paragraphs until i managed to extract the meaning. Pretty sure i used it as a go-to-sleep book in the years after..

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Written by Sylvhem on 2025-01-20 at 22:16

@temptoetiam I spent a lot of time on the phonebook as a kid. The first few pages about the special number especially held my interest.

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Written by Brome on 2025-01-21 at 02:45

@temptoetiam Microsoft Windows's EULA?

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