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Me in highschool: "Huh. 'Desire' is a weird name for a streetcar. And I wonder why it has a name, anyway..." Me in the shower this morning, 20 years later: "Oh. It's probably a metaphor." (I haven't seen the movie)
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Hyperlynx posted:Me in highschool: "Huh. 'Desire' is a weird name for a streetcar. And I wonder why it has a name, anyway..." It was a streetcar line in New Orleans, the city the play is set in. And it's also a metaphor.
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Aug 5, 2021 01:56
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It's a metaphor like backronyms; ascribed meaning after it's existence. gently caress definitely doesn't stand for "Fornication Under Consent of King" or whatever.
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Aug 5, 2021 02:03
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Wasabi the J posted:It's a metaphor like backronyms; ascribed meaning after it's existence. That's how all metaphors work.
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Aug 5, 2021 02:28
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good start to this page everyone keep it up
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Aug 5, 2021 02:42
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Megillah Gorilla posted:The Canadian wildlife service is now using speakers playing the sounds of running water to entice beavers to build dams in locations where they will prevent flooding of roads and homes during high rains. That's fuckin cool.
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Aug 5, 2021 03:29
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Weembles posted:That's how all metaphors work. Wait -- gently caress.
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Aug 5, 2021 03:39
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Weembles posted:It was a streetcar line in New Orleans, the city the play is set in. Oh. Oh well.
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Aug 5, 2021 03:45
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"parge the lath" is correct terminology
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Aug 5, 2021 20:08
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Weembles posted:That's how all metaphors work. Can numbers be metaphors?
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Aug 5, 2021 20:15
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christmas boots posted:Can numbers be metaphors? Only figuratively.
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Aug 6, 2021 02:15
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You know those pieces of cartilage you get in frankfurters and other sausages sometimes? When I was little my dad would tell me they were rat teeth from the rats that fell into to machinery at the sausage factory. I was 28 when someone set me straight. I am now telling my kids they are rat teeth.
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Aug 6, 2021 18:06
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Mzuri posted:You know those pieces of cartilage you get in frankfurters and other sausages sometimes? When I was little my dad would tell me they were rat teeth from the rats that fell into to machinery at the sausage factory.  about it, but now I'm thinking about poo poo I can tell my son as he starts driving. For a while there I would tell him I loved him as big as an ant, but the biggest ant in all existence, which is larger even than the universe and the reason the night sky is black (because you're looking at that ant).
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Aug 6, 2021 18:52
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Mzuri posted:You know those pieces of cartilage you get in frankfurters and other sausages sometimes? When I was little my dad would tell me they were rat teeth from the rats that fell into to machinery at the sausage factory.  My kids don't believe anything I tell them anymore because I had way too much fun doing poo poo like this when they were younger. My personal best was convincing them that the kids on leashes at Disney were "seeing-eye babies"
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Aug 6, 2021 18:53
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AFewBricksShy posted:
Lmao
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Aug 6, 2021 18:56
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AFewBricksShy posted:
Legit lol
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Aug 6, 2021 19:02
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The sun sets near Flagstaff and is about the size of a quarter.
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Aug 6, 2021 20:08
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AFewBricksShy posted:
lmao. For a few golden years, my brother had his kids convinced that every so often they were being chased by international spies on the freeway. He'd tell them not to look, and being kids they inevitably did. So he'd say "shoot, now you've done it!" and take one exit early or one exit late and then drive randomly around side streets on the way back to their house to "shake the tail". Whenever they'd tell him to floor it, he'd always say "no that's a rookie mistake. You have to stay at the speed limit or it'll draw attention." My youngest niece, who just graduated high school, says International Spy is her favorite memory of growing up
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Aug 6, 2021 21:52
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Proteus Jones posted:lmao.  adorable
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Aug 6, 2021 22:09
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These balls are to float the power lines during floods. Yeah idk how that works either. Thanks Dad.
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Aug 6, 2021 22:16
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I'm getting some real Calvin's Dad vibes from a lot of Goon's fathers.
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Aug 6, 2021 22:20
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Most definitely. My favorite thing about reading that big Calvin and Hobbes collection that came out a few years ago was how much funnier the dad was now that I was in a similar position.
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Aug 6, 2021 22:33
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Proteus Jones posted:I'm getting some real Calvin's Dad vibes from a lot of Goon's fathers. I'm not a father but I learned how to deal with kids from Calvin's dad for sure. His explanation of bridges is probably half the reason I went into structural engineering.
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Aug 6, 2021 22:40
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Mzuri posted:You know those pieces of cartilage you get in frankfurters and other sausages sometimes? When I was little my dad would tell me they were rat teeth from the rats that fell into to machinery at the sausage factory. I had a similar moment with my father telling me the bubble in spirit levels was made by training small fish to fart in specially designed green tanks
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Aug 7, 2021 03:03
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Jestery posted:I had a similar moment with my father telling me the bubble in spirit levels was made by training small fish to fart in specially designed green tanks  we may have a dad-flagrantly-lying winner here
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Aug 7, 2021 03:17
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My dad and uncle were going bald and when I asked them one day where the hair on the top of their heads had gone my dad told me that because they climbed a lot of high hills when they went hiking that the clouds had rubbed their hair away.
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Aug 7, 2021 03:31
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I had my younger brother and sister convinced that the crust was the "best" part of the pizza and that's why I saved it for them. To the point where their friends looked at them weird when they got older and had pizza parties and so on. (To prevent a food derail, we grew up in a small town with only one pizza place and they'd be mostly bread and have this stone like hardtack texture on the crusts. Which is a shame because the rest of the pizza was good)
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Aug 7, 2021 05:12
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I never liked Calvin and Hobbes cause I thought it was really lovely for a parent to bullshit their kid like that, I would feel kind of betrayed if my parents did that to me (when I was a kid).
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Aug 7, 2021 05:49
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Shifty Nipples posted:I never liked Calvin and Hobbes cause I thought it was really lovely for a parent to bullshit their kid like that, I would feel kind of betrayed if my parents did that to me (when I was a kid). There's like three comics that made that joke over a decade-long run
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Aug 7, 2021 05:51
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Captain Hygiene posted:There's like three comics that made that joke over a decade-long run I was a kid, I didn't know that. I saw it once and just never paid attention to the comic again.
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Aug 7, 2021 06:33
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All those "uncles" and "aunts" were just friends of my family!!! 
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Aug 7, 2021 06:34
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Shifty Nipples posted:I was a kid, I didn't know that. I saw it once and just never paid attention to the comic again. So why bring it up, this ephemeral thing you barely remember from your disappointing childhood?
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Aug 7, 2021 06:38
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Shifty Nipples posted:I was a kid, I didn't know that. I saw it once and just never paid attention to the comic again. It happens more often than that but it's extremely funny to reduce Calvin and Hobbes to "the strip about the lying dad"
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Aug 7, 2021 06:46
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gleebster posted:So why bring it up, this ephemeral thing you barely remember from your disappointing childhood? 
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Aug 7, 2021 07:06
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I'd loooove to read a "bullshit you were told by your parents as a child" thread. I'd start one, but I don't have any to contribute 
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Aug 7, 2021 07:07
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ShortyMR.CAT posted:All those "uncles" and "aunts" were just friends of my family!!! I never understood calling any adult person uncle/aunt It's even weirder in Sweden where they use "farbror" which literally means "dad's brother"
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Aug 7, 2021 07:15
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Hyperlynx posted:I'd loooove to read a "bullshit you were told by your parents as a child" thread. I'd start one, but I don't have any to contribute
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Aug 7, 2021 07:17
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New thread about parents bullshitting their kids up, so we don't derail this one further: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3975789 (or IS IT?!)
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Aug 7, 2021 07:58
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A chipotle pepper is just a jalapeño that has been smoked. It isn’t a different breed of pepper, it’s just a smoked jalapeño.
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Carthag Tuek posted:I never understood calling any adult person uncle/aunt i'd have much preferred this growing up cause it's just easier for my big family. for indians (gujaratis) specifically we have a different word based on if the aunt or uncle comes from my mom's side or dad's side. mom's brother and wife: mama, mami mom's sister and husband: masi, masa dad's brother and wife: kaka, kaki dad's sister and husband: foi, foa when you're older this terminology does help a lot more because not only do you have something to call them, but it also helps me remember how i'm related to this person. Indian families are HUGE god drat.
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