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Recently, animuson was dissatisfied with his clock. Therefore, one of our illustrious members sought out an Amazon link to a clock that would solve all of animuson's needs. And this happened:
It's huge. Like, screen-shatteringly huge. It even prompted this message:
Why are Amazon one-boxes...
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If you've been using SE network for some time, you have surely seen some chat rooms displayed in the sidebar on the right, something like this:
I will add that I consider something like this useful. It promotes chat and displays rooms that had some activity recently.
Main question: Were there...
Tetraphobia (from Greek τετράς—tetras, "four" and φόβος—phobos, "fear") is the practice of avoiding instances of the number 4. It is a superstition most common in East Asian nations.
== Rationale ==
The Chinese word for four (四, pinyin: sì, jyutping: sei3), sounds quite similar to the word for death (死, pinyin: sǐ, jyutping: sei2), in many varieties of Chinese. Similarly, the Sino-Japanese, Sino-Korean, and Sino-Vietnamese words for four, shi (し, Japanese), and sa (사, Korean), sound similar or identical to death in each language (see Korean numerals, Japanese numerals, Vietnamese numerals...
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