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Frisky posted:what does greek yogurt taste like compared to regular plain yogurt? I know we have something of that sort but with a different name It's a bit stronger in taste, with more sourness. Flavor itself is not a huge difference, but the smell is much stronger.
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Oct 10, 2016 15:07
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Does alliteration where the words start with different letters have a special name? Like 'crazy quack' or 'silly cephalopod?'
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Oct 10, 2016 15:13
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Homophonic alliteration, yeah? Fuckin' homophones. What are pro- and con- short for again? Pro(verse) and Converse?
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Oct 10, 2016 15:19
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tie-dye my titties posted:Why, in England, is the television called a tellie and not the telephone? Surely the telephone would've spread more rapidly and been more common before the tv, and they both start with tele- God dammit, I can't get this question out of my head now.
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Oct 10, 2016 16:19
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spog posted:God dammit, I can't get this question out of my head now. ugh i looked this up and it's way too complicated, just assume it's slang but if i had to guess, telephone came way before television so phone was already a thing and calling it a tellie would be stupid that's my official guess
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Oct 11, 2016 06:42
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also i bet some people were murdered or at least horribly disfigured and/or lost large amounts of money arguing about the distinction
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Oct 11, 2016 06:45
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Frisky posted:what does greek yogurt taste like compared to regular plain yogurt? I know we have something of that sort but with a different name It's generally more rich and creamier because it's strained to remove the whey making it much more thick. If you're in Northern Europe it's similar to Skyr but with a more intense sour yogurt flavor. Although honestly some brands (Fage specifically) are basically indistinguishable from skyr so YMMV.
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Oct 11, 2016 08:32
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Dinosaurmageddon posted:Homophonic alliteration, yeah? They aren't short for anything. They're actual words. 'Pro' is literally 'for' and 'con' is literally 'against'.
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Oct 11, 2016 19:07
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Aren't they Latin for pro = for, contra = against?
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Oct 11, 2016 20:30
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Why didn't midget porn ever take off?
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Oct 11, 2016 20:36
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Gaunab posted:Why didn't midget porn ever take off? Why are Americans so relentlessly upbeat and positive to the point where saying anything negative is defeatist (unless they're an in-group/out-group joke attached)?
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Oct 11, 2016 20:39
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mind the walrus posted:Small pool of willing talent + very niche market = Limited potential It's all we've got. Edit: the American attitude of optimism is probably deeply rooted in the idea that there's no such as thing as poor people, just currently down on their luck millionaires.
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Oct 11, 2016 21:19
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does it feel good for the lady when you push into her cervix a little? serious question and not a brag because thats not even deep for an average wang
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Oct 15, 2016 15:20
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Khazar-khum posted:They aren't short for anything. They're actual words. 'Pro' is literally 'for' and 'con' is literally 'against'. So it's chili against carne?? 
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Oct 15, 2016 17:05
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Nooner posted:So it's chili against carne?? Con is the equivalent of 'with' in this context since it's from a different language (Spanish).
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Oct 15, 2016 17:26
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tie-dye my titties posted:Why, in England, is the television called a tellie and not the telephone? Surely the telephone would've spread more rapidly and been more common before the tv, and they both start with tele- spog posted:God dammit, I can't get this question out of my head now. The telegraph predated the telephone. So phone is the logical slang to call it to differentiate it while the two were existing side by side. And UK slang always has a way of shortening words to their first syllables only, esp for long words. Electric has the slang word 'lecky' for example. I blame Yorkshire.
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Oct 15, 2016 17:28
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Frisky posted:what does greek yogurt taste like compared to regular plain yogurt? I know we have something of that sort but with a different name it smells like pungent sour poo poo by comparison. taste is similar but the smell affects the taste or whatever i guess
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Oct 15, 2016 18:11
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Macasaurus posted:what are the things on the ends of shoelaces called Aglets
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Oct 18, 2016 05:54
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SirEvelynTremble posted:where is the G-spot? In the of Aluminium (and only in this case damnit!) The American way is right. For some reason in the UK we decided it should end in 'ium' like all the others. Only... Wtf? It comes from some word 'Alumin' or something, so, alumin-um follows, but then we added a pointless i to make it fit. But it doesn't even fit. Dumb.
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Oct 18, 2016 07:43
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!Klams posted:In the of Aluminium (and only in this case damnit!) The American way is right. For some reason in the UK we decided it should end in 'ium' like all the others. Only... Wtf? It comes from some word 'Alumin' or something, so, alumin-um follows, but then we added a pointless i to make it fit. But it doesn't even fit. Dumb.
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Oct 18, 2016 07:58
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Magnets, how do they loving work?
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Oct 18, 2016 12:02
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Yolomon Wayne posted:Magnets, how do they loving work? except in everything else the electrons are spinning around in random directions and overall cancel each other out except on a small scale which is why you cant simply pass your hand through solid material even though its almost empty space in magnets the electrons are spinning in the same direction and in that way they reinforce each other and extend their overall reach to create a field gary oldmans diary fucked around with this message at 12:23 on Oct 18, 2016 |
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Oct 18, 2016 12:18
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does anyone actually "understand" how magnets and electricity work like I know what the science books will say and I could write out an answer good enough for a high school physics class but it doesn't really make sense to me as a concept do you feel like you "get" electrons or is it just me
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Oct 18, 2016 12:20
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feynman accidentally gave the only sane explanation of how magnets work that ive ever seen he was in the middle of trying to explain why you cant simply explain how magnets work in layman terms without hard science because you constantly have to cheat using physical metaphors that themselves work on the same principles youre trying to explain with magnets a perfect explanation of magnets just slipped out in the middle of the point he was trying to make about the need to study to fundamentally understand higher concepts in physics. i credit him for being just that good
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Oct 18, 2016 12:27
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So what was the explanation?
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Oct 18, 2016 19:36
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outerw posted:So what was the explanation? he just whipped out his dick and pointed at it
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Oct 18, 2016 20:21
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outerw posted:So what was the explanation? It was this: gary oldmans diary posted:they work the same way everything else works
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Oct 18, 2016 21:57
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The last eyelet holes in your shoes arent for lacing. http://ijr.com/2015/05/319570-that-extra-loop-on-the-top-of-running-shoes-turns-out-weve-been-using-it-wrong-all-these-years/
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Oct 18, 2016 21:59
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Pelvic Floor Wax posted:It was this: that's dope as hell ive heard one sign of true genius is being able to explain insanely complex things in a way the layman can grasp fairly simply by comparison
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Oct 18, 2016 22:26
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let it mellow posted:a) we can afford it it has nothing to do with any of that. there's no different between American toilets and Australian toilets other than the amount of water in them. i can only assume it's a lack of concern about wasting water
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Oct 19, 2016 11:55
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i thought they spin in different directions when flushing
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Oct 19, 2016 11:59
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thathonkey posted:i thought they spin in different directions when flushing it spins whichever direction you make it. stick your hand in and swirl it around it works both ways
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