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Pocket Billiards posted:Curlews and feral red foxes are the worst. One sounds like a crying baby and the other like a woman shrieking The latter has been theorised to be the origin of banshees in Irish mythology
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Pocket Billiards posted:Curlews and feral red foxes are the worst. One sounds like a crying baby and the other like a woman shrieking One time me and my brother were exploring the ruins of a castle in extremely rural Wester Scotland - the place fell down after the last lord's son died young so the old lord just gave up. Anyway we were picking our way around this dank, decaying, sad place when a horrible shriek nearby sent us running like startled bunnies back to our parents. We didn't find out for a few years that what we heard was just a vixen, so we had a fun family ghost story for a while.
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As a kid in Colorado, living in a basement bedroom with a window well above my bed was fine until elk started showing up right outside and screaming high pitched vuvuzelas in the middle of the night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gBk04ajuxk
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Dec 18, 2020 16:26
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What a silly sound for a big animal 
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Pookah posted:What a silly sound for a big animal I wish I could hear what an Irish elk sounded like.
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:I wish I could hear what an Irish elk sounded like. It sounds exactly the same as a regular elk except with whipped cream and whiskey
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:I wish I could hear what an Irish elk sounded like. Basically the same, but with a long, mournful "baai' at the end.
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Dec 18, 2020 20:41
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I'm more of an elk sour man
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:I wish I could hear what an Irish elk sounded like. Oh, hey, apparently the Irish elk wasn't closely related to either the North American elk (seen above, also called wapiti), or the European elk (which in North America is called moose, because of reasons)
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Phy posted:the European elk (which in North America is called moose, because of reasons) TIL
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One of those reasons is that we were already using the word Elk for something else (a species of giant fuckoff deer)
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among other things, colonizers are really bad at naming species "this one is vaguely similar to one we have at home, lets call it the same [...] oh they have those too? too late, now there are two species for every name"
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Carthag Tuek posted:among other things, colonizers are really bad at naming species And the natives are like "we already have a name for it, you can just use that one" and we're like "no, no that's ok."
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christmas boots posted:And the natives are like "we already have a name for it, you can just use that one" and we're like "no, no that's ok." hey they discovered it they should get to name it
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At least "moose" comes from an Algonquin word But yeah the whole thing stems from English colonizers remembering the word "elk", meaning roughly "a huge loving deer" but not having anyone along from Scandinavia or Russia to tell them, "actually, rosbif, that thing you're calling a moose is an elk, and the thing you're calling an elk is I don't know what, but it's a huge loving deer though"
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Opossum is a powhatan word iirc. Lol that that then went on to become possum and describe another similar animal in a third colonized land.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Opossum is a powhatan word iirc. Lol that that then went on to become possum and describe another similar animal in a third colonized land. theyre even less similar than moose and elk!
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christmas boots posted:One of those reasons is that we were already using the word Elk for something else (a species of giant fuckoff deer) Yeah, I had to read up on it. I guess I'd never heard/noticed what was being referred to as elk in Europe, just assumed it was similar since elk and moose are pretty different here in my mind.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Opossum is a powhatan word iirc. Lol that that then went on to become possum and describe another similar animal in a third colonized land. Woodchuck also comes from a native American word, proto-Algonquin I think. Skunk too!
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one of my earliest memories is my dad giving me a bath in a kitchen sink in his dad's vacation house. i was maybe two or three years old; definitely grandpa sold that house before i turned four. oh i also remember dad reading rudyard kipling's repetition on the limpopo river water quality* every day near that house, we could hea a woodchuck. in danishj, a woodchuck is a spætte ie "one who makes spots". but also, there is another spætte, "one who has spots". i forgot where i was going with this.. one thing i do know is that the so-called "spotty fish" are just plaice/flatfish so they wont go into the limpopo river and its fine to eat them with remoulade & citron * in that house from a book that was by the window, thats why it came to mind Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 04:34 on Dec 19, 2020 |
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Dec 19, 2020 04:31
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Pocket Billiards posted:Curlews and feral red foxes are the worst. One sounds like a crying baby and the other like a woman shrieking Can wild animals be feral?
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Dec 19, 2020 09:22
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When all the boats anchored in a harbour are pointing the same direction, it's because the tide pushes them all in the same direction, not because they were all "parked" facing the same way.
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Carthag Tuek posted:one of my earliest memories is my dad giving me a bath in a kitchen sink in his dad's vacation house. i was maybe two or three years old; definitely grandpa sold that house before i turned four. oh i also remember dad reading rudyard kipling's repetition on the limpopo river water quality* Great, grey-green, greasy, all set about with fever trees. This is apparently - TIL - an accurate description of the actual Limpopo, which rises in South Africa and drains into the Indian Ocean in Mozambique.
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Dec 19, 2020 14:23
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The number "8" is just the number "3" with the left half bitten out of it
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EorayMel posted:The number "8" is just the number "3" with the left half bitten out of it This is one brain blast away from becoming a viral Facebook share explaining how the end of days are upon us
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EorayMel posted:The number "8" is just the number "3" with the left half bitten out of it And the elites still want us to think that's a coincidence?
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Dec 19, 2020 17:27
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Dear god, the GBS "There are only ten numbers" thread is going to be destroyed when they hear this 
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Wait, when you bite things is it supposed to make there be more of the thing? Have...have I been doing it wrong all this time?
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rydiafan posted:Wait, when you bite things is it supposed to make there be more of the thing? This goes deeper than any of us imagined
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And what happens to the two extra bits? 
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Assistant Manager Devil posted:And what happens to the two extra bits? 7 used them. Got a shave and haircut.
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Beachcomber posted:Can wild animals be feral? They can't, no. A feral animal is a domesticated one that lives wild.
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Ferrule posted:7 used them. Got a shave and haircut. This got a real life chuckle out of me. Well done!
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Silver Falcon posted:They can't, no. A feral animal is a domesticated one that lives wild. Counter point. Your mother was never domesticated and she's feral.
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Phy posted:At least "moose" comes from an Algonquin word Yeah, moose/elk were extinct in Britain for a long time by then. The Brits knew that "Elk" meant big rear end deer because other parts of Europe had them still, but most of them had never seen one. On top of that, many of the areas they landed don't have moose. North American Elk look like British deer but larger, so obviously that must be the Elk thing we keep hearing about! In areas that have both elk and moose, they used different names but the Deer = Elk side must have argued better when it came time to square up all the names for stuff.
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The balls we're all familiar only exist because of David Attenborough
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EorayMel posted:The number "8" is just the number "3" with the left half bitten out of it Hmm and I always thought 7 ate 9
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OK I am so confused now now which is which. Bullwinkle is a moose in NA. Is he an elk in Europe? Elk in US is big deer with an ascot and pointy head bones. Are those moose in Europe? Is it different in the US, Europe AND the UK??
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Wasabi the J posted:Bullwinkle is a moose in NA. Is he an elk in Europe? I don’t know about how he was localised, but in general, members of his species would be ‘elk’, yes. Wasabi the J posted:Elk in US is big deer with an ascot and pointy head bones. Are those moose in Europe? Those are never ‘moose’. They’re not native to Europe and they don’t come up much, but when they do, they’re ‘wapiti’.
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Wait, then what is the animal being talked about at the beginning of Holy Grail?
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