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Hardcordion posted:Some
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A smash mouth quote gimmick account? What a concept.
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Dec 2, 2020 08:07
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"Secular" can mean non-monastic, not just non-religious.
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Dec 2, 2020 11:12
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Ants and bees are wasps.
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Dec 3, 2020 09:53
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Ants and bees are wasps. 
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Dec 3, 2020 09:59
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You can't deny their protestant work ethic
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Dec 3, 2020 10:53
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AKA Pseudonym posted:The reason I hated Brussels sprouts as a kid but like them as an adult isn't because of my more sophisticated adult palette. It's because, back in the 90s, a Dutch scientist identified the chemical compounds that made them taste and smell like hot garbage, found a few varieties that didn't produce them, and managed to cross-breed a new better tasting variety. I put my and my wife's DNA from ancestry.com kits into Promethease and it said she had a gene (TAS2R38) that, according to one study, made it more likely that she would hate brussels sprouts as a kid and like them as an adult. It was true for her and at least some of her siblings, and I didn't have the same gene and I don't remember disliking brussels sprouts, but now I don't know what to believe. I also can't believe I just figured out they're called brussels sprouts and not brussel sprouts, and only because the red squiggly underline.
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Friend posted:I put my and my wife's DNA from ancestry.com kits into Promethease and it said she had a gene (TAS2R38) that, according to one study, made it more likely that she would hate brussels sprouts as a kid and like them as an adult. It was true for her and at least some of her siblings, and I didn't have the same gene and I don't remember disliking brussels sprouts, but now I don't know what to believe. But Brussels is called Brussel in dutch so really, brussel sprout is authentic. Also, my spellcheck says Brussel is correct but brussel isn't. e: Brussels is the most english name for a city ever. The bastard son of Brussel and Bruxelles.
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Dec 3, 2020 17:49
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In English, it gets kind of awkward to say a word that begins with the same sound the last word ended with. It's "brusselsprout."
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Dec 3, 2020 18:00
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One is a Brussel Sprout. Many are Brussels Sprout.
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Dec 3, 2020 18:15
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They're actually B. Russell Sprouts, named of course for Bertrand Russell.
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Dec 3, 2020 18:51
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Rose cabbage.
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Dec 3, 2020 19:06
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Prouts de Bruxelles
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Dec 3, 2020 19:08
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Rose cabbage. 
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Dec 3, 2020 19:26
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Flipperwaldt posted:Prouts de Bruxelles lol
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Dec 3, 2020 19:29
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Aphrodite posted:One is a Brussel Sprout. Many are Brussels Sprout. If you don't grow your own and just buy them from the store that's a Prefab Sprout
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Dec 3, 2020 19:59
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RoboRodent posted:In English, it gets kind of awkward to say a word that begins with the same sound the last word ended with. And Priminister.
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Dec 3, 2020 21:30
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:e: Brussels is the most english name for a city ever. The bastard son of Brussel and Bruxelles. The sort of name that makes you grind your teeth
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Dec 4, 2020 01:15
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Fast Knobs is the preferred vernacular.
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Dec 4, 2020 03:09
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flakeloaf posted:The sort of name that makes you grind your teeth 
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Dec 4, 2020 04:23
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Was last year but finding out Southern Sons sung Heart in Danger, not John Farnham. I found out while whinging Johnny didn't play it at a live show I was backstage at - was kinda awkward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy2gGNS6o78
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Dec 5, 2020 10:01
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So there's the Leidenfrost effect - that thing where big differences in temperature create a vapor barrier, so you can just stick your hand briefly into liquid nitrogen without getting hurt, since it vaporizes and prevents actual contact with the liquid. Or you can cover your hand in water and do the same trick with molten lead. That's the reason why beads of water on a hot skillet will skitter around, too. I thought it was named based on an early experiment or something - like putting ice on a hot surface or whatever - but no, it turns out it was just discovered by Dr. Leidenfrost.
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Dec 8, 2020 04:39
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Tunicate posted:So there's the Leidenfrost effect - that thing where big differences in temperature create a vapor barrier, so you can just stick your hand briefly into liquid nitrogen without getting hurt, since it vaporizes and prevents actual contact with the liquid. Or you can cover your hand in water and do the same trick with molten lead. That's the reason why beads of water on a hot skillet will skitter around, too. Veganism was invented by Umberto Vega.
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Dec 8, 2020 09:45
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Nudism was named after its inventor Nuta Kotlaryenko.
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Dec 8, 2020 09:52
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FreudianSlippers posted:Nudism was named after its inventor Nuta Kotlaryenko. This is false. If it's done in the Nuda district of the double city Nudapest it's nudism, elsewhere it's sparkling naturism.
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Dec 8, 2020 09:57
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All I can say is I'm really disappointed with the isle of Lesbos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos Completely overrated.
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Dec 8, 2020 10:12
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Nudapest on the other hand is a pretty appropriate name
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Dec 8, 2020 10:13
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:All I can say is I'm really disappointed with the isle of Lesbos My stepdad had an awakening when he heard about big banana island and the nude beach.
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Dec 8, 2020 12:34
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remote controlled cars are the perfect Christmas gift for pretty much anyone of any age
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Dec 9, 2020 19:57
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Tunicate posted:So there's the Leidenfrost effect - that thing where big differences in temperature create a vapor barrier, so you can just stick your hand briefly into liquid nitrogen without getting hurt, since it vaporizes and prevents actual contact with the liquid. Or you can cover your hand in water and do the same trick with molten lead. That's the reason why beads of water on a hot skillet will skitter around, too. I had the same thing happen to me after learning about Early voltage/Early effect
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Dec 9, 2020 21:46
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There's also Greatbatch medical named for pacemaker inventor Wilson Greatbatch and the John B Goodenough prize in material sciences.
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Dec 9, 2020 21:51
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Electrical Fire posted:I had the same thing happen to me after learning about Early voltage/Early effect Paskapuhetta mutta uskon.... how?
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Dec 9, 2020 22:01
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Electrical Fire posted:I had the same thing happen to me after learning about Early voltage/Early effect It was the Heaviside layer for me - it just made so much sense to me that radio waves would bounce off this strange denser stratum of the atmosphere (obviously without stopping to wonder whether it made any sense at all for there to be a layer of "heavy air" floating 60 miles above the ground).
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Dec 9, 2020 23:07
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1 posted:It was the Heaviside layer for me - it just made so much sense to me that radio waves would bounce off this strange denser stratum of the atmosphere (obviously without stopping to wonder whether it made any sense at all for there to be a layer of "heavy air" floating 60 miles above the ground). So the cats in Cats weren't choosing rebirth, they just wanted better reception?
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Dec 9, 2020 23:10
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1 posted:It was the Heaviside layer for me - it just made so much sense to me that radio waves would bounce off this strange denser stratum of the atmosphere (obviously without stopping to wonder whether it made any sense at all for there to be a layer of "heavy air" floating 60 miles above the ground). Yessss I knew there was another one that I couldn't think of. Glad I wasn't the only one.
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Dec 10, 2020 00:07
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rodbeard posted:the John B Goodenough prize in material sciences. He never ever learned to read or write so well But he could design a lithium-ion battery just like a-ringin' a bell
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This is why you need to be really careful with ant powder as it kills Bees just as easily.
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