DontMockMySmock posted:

You know what they say: ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer. So it follows that if you ask a load of stupid questions, you'll get a load of stupid answers. Here we gooooooo


Yes, because English is weird and people use "accident" to mean "vehicle collision."


Well, if "twice as cold" has any meaning, then there are two options: defining it against an arbitrary reference point, or half as hot. The arbitrary reference point is untenable, because it leads to unintuitive situations. For example, let us say that our reference point is 70F, which is pretty standard for "comfortable human temperature." Then -70F would be twice as cold as 0F, since it's twice as far from the reference point. But that also means that 90F is twice as cold as 80F, which doesn't really pass the smell test, in my opinion. That leaves us with the second definition: half as hot, which does actually have a physical meaning. -229.8F is half as hot as 0F because it's half the distance from absolute zero (-459.67F), our handy non-arbitrary reference point.


Yes, it did. It's one of the most amazing and remarkable things in the universe. Out of this entire list, this one most deserves the weed "whoa".


The word "scent" comes from a French word spelled with a (non-silent) s; the c was added in English later. So I would say the c is silent.


This was already explained, but the "d" in "fridge" is an added letter to clarify the pronunciation of the short "i", which wasn't necessary to add to the original word "refrigerator."


You're cleaner, but you're not ever 100% clean. Furthermore, bacteria can live in the towel, feeding off your skin oils and skin flakes, and producing gross smells as a byproduct.


The strange thing about alphabetical order is that it predates English by millennia. Our alphabet comes ultimately from the Greek alphabet, and so does the word "alphabet", which comes from the first two letters in Greek alphabetical order, "alpha beta." No one really knows why the Greek alphabet was ordered the way it was, but it rubbed off on speakers of Latin, and from there to various Latin-based languages like French, and from French to modern English.


You don't need language to think. But often you do use language when you're thinking, and if you're deaf from birth, you've probably learned a form of sign language, and that's what you'll think in.


Yes. Well, 1% chewed-and-mixed-with-stomach-acid nacho.


No, that's not weird. We learn to process language through sound long before we learn to process it through sight, and that auditory understanding of language never leaves us.


This is less like a weed "whoa" moment and more like a dad joke. Words can have more than one meaning.


By the changing of the seasons. The whole business of setting up a calendar system is to track the changing of the seasons, so, y'know, the calendar is synced to that. As for why (for example) the vernal equinox is called "June 21st" instead of rotating everything around so that it occurs on April 2nd or some other day instead, well, that's down to arbitrary tradition going back thousands of years. The history of the modern calendar is pretty interesting, actually, especially with how much the Romans used to gently caress with it.


Yes; the term "dogpile" does not require the animals to be dogs, only that they pile up like a group of fighting dogs. Why ask this question about cats but not about humans? Humans are no more dogs than cats are.


Another dad joke. "Lie" has two meanings. You're telling the truth if you're telling the truth - regardless of whether you're lying in bed.


Put it in a bigger garbage can, or compact it so that it can fit in another garbage can.


Water itself does not activate your taste buds, but it can have flavor for a couple different reasons: 1, because it is impure, and the impurities carry taste; 2, because it washes away a taste that your mouth had adjusted to, thus giving you the opposite taste. For example, if you eat something sour, then wait a bit, your tongue will adjust to the trace amounts of sour left in your mouth, and washing them away with water may taste sweet.

Zetsubou-san posted:

DontMockMySmock posted:

You know what they say: ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer. So it follows that if you ask a load of stupid questions, you'll get a load of stupid answers. Here we gooooooo


Yes, because English is weird and people use "accident" to mean "vehicle collision."


Well, if "twice as cold" has any meaning, then there are two options: defining it against an arbitrary reference point, or half as hot. The arbitrary reference point is untenable, because it leads to unintuitive situations. For example, let us say that our reference point is 70F, which is pretty standard for "comfortable human temperature." Then -70F would be twice as cold as 0F, since it's twice as far from the reference point. But that also means that 90F is twice as cold as 80F, which doesn't really pass the smell test, in my opinion. That leaves us with the second definition: half as hot, which does actually have a physical meaning. -229.8F is half as hot as 0F because it's half the distance from absolute zero (-459.67F), our handy non-arbitrary reference point.


Yes, it did. It's one of the most amazing and remarkable things in the universe. Out of this entire list, this one most deserves the weed "whoa".


The word "scent" comes from a French word spelled with a (non-silent) s; the c was added in English later. So I would say the c is silent.


This was already explained, but the "d" in "fridge" is an added letter to clarify the pronunciation of the short "i", which wasn't necessary to add to the original word "refrigerator."


You're cleaner, but you're not ever 100% clean. Furthermore, bacteria can live in the towel, feeding off your skin oils and skin flakes, and producing gross smells as a byproduct.


The strange thing about alphabetical order is that it predates English by millennia. Our alphabet comes ultimately from the Greek alphabet, and so does the word "alphabet", which comes from the first two letters in Greek alphabetical order, "alpha beta." No one really knows why the Greek alphabet was ordered the way it was, but it rubbed off on speakers of Latin, and from there to various Latin-based languages like French, and from French to modern English.


You don't need language to think. But often you do use language when you're thinking, and if you're deaf from birth, you've probably learned a form of sign language, and that's what you'll think in.


Yes. Well, 1% chewed-and-mixed-with-stomach-acid nacho.


No, that's not weird. We learn to process language through sound long before we learn to process it through sight, and that auditory understanding of language never leaves us.


This is less like a weed "whoa" moment and more like a dad joke. Words can have more than one meaning.


By the changing of the seasons. The whole business of setting up a calendar system is to track the changing of the seasons, so, y'know, the calendar is synced to that. As for why (for example) the vernal equinox is called "June 21st" instead of rotating everything around so that it occurs on April 2nd or some other day instead, well, that's down to arbitrary tradition going back thousands of years. The history of the modern calendar is pretty interesting, actually, especially with how much the Romans used to gently caress with it.


Yes; the term "dogpile" does not require the animals to be dogs, only that they pile up like a group of fighting dogs. Why ask this question about cats but not about humans? Humans are no more dogs than cats are.


Another dad joke. "Lie" has two meanings. You're telling the truth if you're telling the truth - regardless of whether you're lying in bed.


Put it in a bigger garbage can, or compact it so that it can fit in another garbage can.


Water itself does not activate your taste buds, but it can have flavor for a couple different reasons: 1, because it is impure, and the impurities carry taste; 2, because it washes away a taste that your mouth had adjusted to, thus giving you the opposite taste. For example, if you eat something sour, then wait a bit, your tongue will adjust to the trace amounts of sour left in your mouth, and washing them away with water may taste sweet.

DontMockMySmock posted:

You know what they say

Zetsubou-san posted:

biracial bear for uncut posted:

Anybody got that GIF of the PTSD cupcake dog where instead of flashes of atrocities, the flashed images are of Valentine's Day related things?

Zetsubou-san posted:

Zetsubou-san posted:

MizPiz posted:

Have you ever seen a piece of art that you could swear was made about you?

Brewmaster posted:

joedevola posted:

steamed hams isn't good

it's never been good

Powered Descent posted:

Very good. Now, prepare for your final challenge...

DontMockMySmock posted:

The strange thing about alphabetical order is that it predates English by millennia.

Garrand posted:

I know it's loss...I just don't know how


Oh god this is the future of puzzles isn't it.

Garrand posted:

I know it's loss...I just don't know how

vyelkin posted:

My guess is it's the average colour of each panel.

Firstborn posted:

Literally a joke from Gallagher
E: I see someone else saw a watermelon get wrecked

RareAcumen posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8UQ57XPQ60

SpacePig posted:

I just don't get modern art. I used to be hip to Loss memes, but these ones just do nothing for me.

Zetsubou-san posted:

FFT posted:

Mezzanine posted:

Got it... the RGB values, if shown as vertical graphs (in Photoshop or something?) would show as "one line, two lines, two lines, two lines with a half-sized one on the right"

Data Graham posted:

Did they change what "it" is?

FFT posted:

that's ... not terribly far off and a way better idea even though i don't currently know how to make that work

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_{my goal is for someone to shout "OH, MOTHERFUCKER" when they figure it out}

SpacePig posted:

I thought it was going to be something about hex values. Dang.