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Since it's apparently on topic, https://twitter.com/foxfeather/status/1260951278961786883
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Tree Bucket posted:Google tells me "emu" comes from the Portuguese word for "ostrich." This is deeply upsetting. It's as bad as working out that "Nullarbor" is actually Latin and "echidna" is greek. “Platypus” is Greek. It means “wide foot”.
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# ? May 15, 2020 08:13 |
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Tree Bucket posted:Google tells me "emu" comes from the Portuguese word for "ostrich." This is deeply upsetting. It's as bad as working out that "Nullarbor" is actually Latin and "echidna" is greek. Let me tell you about camel herons and noble deers (lions). Not to mention salmon snakes (dragons).
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# ? May 15, 2020 08:28 |
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Tree Bucket posted:Google tells me "emu" comes from the Portuguese word for "ostrich." This is deeply upsetting. It's as bad as working out that "Nullarbor" is actually Latin and "echidna" is greek. kan-garou, feared cousin of the loup-garou?
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# ? May 15, 2020 08:49 |
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Tiggum posted:Americans say "ee-moo". It's actually pronounced "eem-yoo". I've only ever heard ee-moo on King of the Hill and I assumed that it was part of joke.
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# ? May 15, 2020 08:54 |
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Solemn Sloth posted:cryptic crosswords are bad, hth Zetsubou-san posted:A retort follows this jumbled refrain of puckering oily mouths (4, 4, 4, 7) much like your posting
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# ? May 15, 2020 09:24 |
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If I go to Nullarbor and I see even one tree I’m going to have some choice words for the manager
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# ? May 15, 2020 09:42 |
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Pirate Radar posted:If I go to Nullarbor and I see even one tree I’m going to have some choice words for the manager God luck finding the manager. The shop is massive.
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# ? May 15, 2020 09:50 |
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Pirate Radar posted:If I go to Nullarbor and I see even one tree I’m going to have some choice words for the manager According to my research it has at least one. Though otherwise the name is not ironic.
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# ? May 15, 2020 10:57 |
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Tree Bucket posted:Google tells me "emu" comes from the Portuguese word for "ostrich." This is deeply upsetting. It's as bad as working out that "Nullarbor" is actually Latin and "echidna" is greek. nullarbor loving killed me when I found out it was latin i'm still furious
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# ? May 15, 2020 13:13 |
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Inceltown posted:God luck finding the manager. The shop is massive. *Karen startles awake in a cold sweat
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# ? May 15, 2020 14:21 |
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As someone with a passing fancy for Latin and a penchant for spotting latinate roots, I'm curious what y'all thought Nullarbor was, if not Latin.
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# ? May 15, 2020 15:05 |
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Tree Bucket posted:Google tells me "emu" comes from the Portuguese word for "ostrich." This is deeply upsetting. It's as bad as working out that "Nullarbor" is actually Latin and "echidna" is greek. Uh, that's weird, and maybe incorrect. the Portuguese word for ostrich is avestruz, from Avis struthio. Its name is a Latin and Greek word put together, and the species is struthio camelus, because it lives in a dry place you see.this is what zoologists call a joke. "Avestruz" is nowhere near "emu". Antifa Poltergeist has a new favorite as of 15:50 on May 15, 2020 |
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Dareon posted:As someone with a passing fancy for Latin and a penchant for spotting latinate roots, I'm curious what y'all thought Nullarbor was, if not Latin. There's a lot of place names in Australia based on Indigenous words (or, more often, early explorer's terrible interpretations of Indigenous words) and a lot of them have "nulla" or "mulla" or "walla" or similar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_place_names_of_Aboriginal_origin
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# ? May 15, 2020 15:48 |
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Dareon posted:As someone with a passing fancy for Latin and a penchant for spotting latinate roots, I'm curious what y'all thought Nullarbor was, if not Latin. It's something that's obvious in retrospect because of 'arbor', but at first glance it seems like something out of Lord of the Rings. I assume people thought it was an aboriginal name.
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# ? May 15, 2020 15:49 |
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Phlegmish posted:It's something that's obvious in retrospect because of 'arbor', but at first glance it seems like something out of Lord of the Rings. I assume people thought it was an aboriginal name. Since when the gently caress would Lord of the Rings have a place without trees
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# ? May 15, 2020 15:56 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Since when the gently caress would Lord of the Rings have a place without trees since about 5 minutes after the orcs started building war machines
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# ? May 15, 2020 16:01 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Please don't bring negative emotions into the "Everyone is going to die" thread
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# ? May 15, 2020 16:16 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:According to my research it has at least one. I've got a shoe tree next to my front hall closet and that's not a forest either And I was more weirded out when I found out South America had its own emus, just, like, 5/6 scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhea_(bird) Also, is it pronounced "Nuller-bore"? That would go a long way towards disguising that it's just Latin for "no bloody trees"
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# ? May 15, 2020 16:39 |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Just noticed I have a book on cybernetics from the 70s. I bet if I read it I could build a robocow. jesus WEP posted:we gonna rock down to
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# ? May 15, 2020 17:04 |
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Lord Awkward posted:born in a cave
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# ? May 15, 2020 17:09 |
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Phy posted:Also, is it pronounced "Nuller-bore"?
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# ? May 15, 2020 17:36 |
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:kan-garou, feared cousin of the loup-garou? loving A-grade right here
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# ? May 15, 2020 17:51 |
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lol but posted:the abstract notion of feeling almost totally at ease but you might later (but not right now) need to piss
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elise the great posted:loving A-grade right here shut up
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# ? May 15, 2020 20:21 |
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Breakfast All Day posted:if trump really respects keyboard warriors he will finally fund the tomb of the anon poster
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# ? May 15, 2020 23:47 |
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D. Ebdrup posted:Covers, you say? Here's the first one I read: The Bloop posted:My name is a jilling word
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# ? May 16, 2020 05:24 |
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Ruffian Price posted:The future will just be empty airplanes flying in circles around the world while the last remaining executives pretend it makes the economy go. Powered Descent posted:There Will Come Soft Planes
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Phy posted:Also, is it pronounced "Nuller-bore"? That would go a long way towards disguising that it's just Latin for "no bloody trees" Usually pronounced 'Nulaboar', so 'Null-arbor' is pretty close. 'Nullandboring' is more accurate. I spend a few weeks out there doing a vegetation survey and it's aggressively boring. An impossibly huge wide open dusty sun blasted plain of scattered sticks and lovely saltbush. In any 50x50m quadrant there was a 50% chance of an abandoned rabbit warren and a 10% chance of a dead rabbit. The chopper set us down once and my camera couldn't take a panorama because the lack of features wouldn't let it recognize I was turning. Just grey-brown below and pale washed out blue above. Another time the chopper buzzed off and between us and the horizon in all directions we counted a total of five trees. Four were dead. We knew this because we marched out to inspect each one before sitting down and waiting to get picked up. Best summed up by the first guy to cross it: 1865, Henry Kingsley posted:
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# ? May 16, 2020 07:48 |
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Tip posted:It's "Intim Report", but I should probably just tell the full story.
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# ? May 16, 2020 13:29 |
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The Walrus posted:once i lived in a rooming house with a german named Till who ate nothing but jasmine rice and got mad when my girlfriend and I were awake past 10 PM Icochet posted:I'm a German named Till and I once lived in a rooming house with an American who ate all my food except my rice (they thought rice was gay) and blasted Wheatus every night starting at 10 PM. They owned a pot-bellied pig named Girlfriend
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# ? May 16, 2020 15:36 |
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hahaha
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Skwirl posted:Thank god I'm only sexually attracted to Volkswagen Beetles, unlike all you freaks. minato posted:Be careful you don't catch herbies.
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# ? May 16, 2020 22:27 |
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From the PYF bad graphs thread:Phlegmish posted:80% of the time I have no idea what you guys are talking about but I just take my cue from other goons and add a 'lol' or 'lmao what a bad graph', hoping that no one will notice that I don't understand statistics Absurd Alhazred posted:Have you considered a career in consulting? Maxwells Demon posted:Ah, so which college are you employed as a Dean in? ranbo das posted:Which DC think tank are you a part of? Munin posted:Which circuit are you a judge in?
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# ? May 16, 2020 23:43 |
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No one welcomed Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Something Awful comedy forums.
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# ? May 16, 2020 23:47 |
I can't stop laughing. I can literally feel the pure joy he felt as he delivered the line "We're watching your dad gently caress a morbidly obese German woman."
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# ? May 17, 2020 01:36 |
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Captain Hygiene posted:The US space program spent several years and millions of dollars developing a space suit with a specialized velcro fitting for astronauts to scratch their nose, the Soviets just used a pencil to sign the execution orders of anyone who complained of an itch
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# ? May 17, 2020 03:29 |
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i'm posting this picture in every somewhat relevant thread because it's really good source https://www.somethingawful.com/comedy-goldmine/baby-bishie-bolsheviks/1/
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# ? May 17, 2020 03:49 |
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Hedrigall posted:When I was a little goon
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This is gold Jerry GOLD
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