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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:today I learned that the NATO logo doesn't contain OTAN just for weird "read it backwards in a mirror (despite the N)" reasons - as I had believed for years - but it actually stands for the organisation's name in French. lmao I am weirdly fascinated by words and acronyms like that in different languages. Like the energy label that covers a whole load of languages with just 4 suffixes  Plus Greek Plus Bulgarian Or the former Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market in Alicante, whose initials in different languages looked like a weird incantation ritual to summon that nice sensible Mr Barnier to sort everything out #FBPE OAMI - HABM - OHIM - OHMI - UAMI
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OwlFancier posted:depends on whether you subscribe to the "the french just write everything backwards to annoy the anglos" theory (which I just made up and now have decided is good)
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Borrovan posted:This actually kinda stands up, considering a lot of their slang is saying things backwards to annoy the prescriptivists (e.g. "ci mer" instead of "merci", "oinj" (pronounced "waanj") instead of "joint" (pronounced "jwa", yes a lot of my French language experience consists of talking about spliffs)) Verlan is just French Cockney Rhyming tbh. But now Im starting to think forums poster Namtab might be suspiciously French 
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Can't find the article but they've got a near-identical headline about the Chinese internet, sure that's real?
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idk I copied it from the war thread
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lol that's obviously fake c'mon but funny
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Lmao https://twitter.com/periuspb/status/1497926176811139077?s=19
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I think it's not the first time that a NYT article has been 'shopped with a screenshot of C-SPAM
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Borrovan posted:This actually kinda stands up, considering a lot of their slang is saying things backwards to annoy the prescriptivists (e.g. "ci mer" instead of "merci", "oinj" (pronounced "waanj") instead of "joint" (pronounced "jwa", yes a lot of my French language experience consists of talking about spliffs & no I have no idea about correct spellings of weird French slang)) you've also got "le teush" which derives from "le poo poo", also for weed much more loving useful than learning about the past historic tense but guess which one schools and universities want you to learn
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Skibadee died. My girlfriend went to college with him & has mutual friends, apparently he was a nice lad
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I can't even remember what hot takes he's famous for, and I can't be bothered looking it up.
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He's a very boring centrist who thinks he's ten times smarter than he is and won't stop yelling about how the left are the real fascists but honestly none of that matters, I just loved the dril style meltdown
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I'm donating my bones to the cockroach natural history museum where after the apocalypse they'll display me in the grand atrium (the shipping container at my unfinished house). Looking forward to when cockroach historians reassemble our bones in the wrong order and think we were a race of extremely racist feathered crocodiles
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Borrovan posted:Skibadee died. My girlfriend went to college with him & has mutual friends, apparently he was a nice lad Yeah I heard this. Fuckin  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtm2wAigEXc
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ThomasPaine posted:He's a very boring centrist who thinks he's ten times smarter than he is and won't stop yelling about how the left are the real fascists but honestly none of that matters, I just loved the dril style meltdown I know the name from the internet politics brain bund, but I couldn't place a single opinion against it.
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Feb 27, 2022 22:55
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Wasn't Oz the Assadist? Or does he call everyone he doesn't like Assadists?
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ThomasPaine posted:He's a very boring centrist who thinks he's ten times smarter than he is and won't stop yelling about how the left are the real fascists but honestly none of that matters, I just loved the dril style meltdown But ten times zero is still zero 
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Yeah iirc he's the guy who saw a couple of delusional tankie posts and decided everyone on the left was unironically pro-Assad
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As a general conceptual statement or specifically in his house/city/juridiction?
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Remember when brexit people thought that Yorkshire Tea was grown up in the Dales or some poo poo?
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why are we copping it?
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This is from 2014: How come all these 'world leaders' have Chechen bank accounts or at least bank accounts which Chechnya can freeze? https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/chechen-leader-threatens-freeze-barack-3921553 quote:The Russian-backed leader of Chechnya has warned Barack Obama and top EU officials they face being banned from the region and having bank accounts frozen.
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Religious ties like what Mormons wear?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:This is from 2014: To pay for the pee tapes?
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jiggerypokery posted:To pay for the pee tapes? It wasn't Obomba with the pee tapes!
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So I think I might have Mr. Bean'd my way to the best-cooked bit of beef I have ever eaten. Barely needed to carve it, a sharp word would have been enough to slice it, and despite being just a cheap generic Asda rolled joint it tasted like steak. Now part of this might have been I was bloody starving by the time I ate it but genuinely I've not cooked myself anything this good in *years*, probably since I last hosted Christmas and splashed out on a proper joint from Smithfield. I wonder actually if the sear after letting the salt and pepper sit on it for half an hour, then effectively just resting it for another half hour after the sear, might have been what did the trick - a lot of the outside fat had soaked down into the joint by the time I did the actual cooking, I might have to play around with this a bit.
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or covid
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goddamnedtwisto posted:So I think I might have Mr. Bean'd my way to the best-cooked bit of beef I have ever eaten. Barely needed to carve it, a sharp word would have been enough to slice it, and despite being just a cheap generic Asda rolled joint it tasted like steak. Now part of this might have been I was bloody starving by the time I ate it but genuinely I've not cooked myself anything this good in *years*, probably since I last hosted Christmas and splashed out on a proper joint from Smithfield. you probably accidentally did a partial cure and ofc letting it have a good rest is essential, so good job
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Dabir posted:Wasn't Oz the Assadist? Or does he call everyone he doesn't like Assadists? The latter. He calls everyone Assadists & Tankies for not backing US intervention here there & everywhere. A world view that has all the nuance of a thing very lacking in any nuance.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:So I think I might have Mr. Bean'd my way to the best-cooked bit of beef I have ever eaten. Barely needed to carve it, a sharp word would have been enough to slice it, and despite being just a cheap generic Asda rolled joint it tasted like steak. Now part of this might have been I was bloody starving by the time I ate it but genuinely I've not cooked myself anything this good in *years*, probably since I last hosted Christmas and splashed out on a proper joint from Smithfield. Have you ever tried sousvide?
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Mano posted:Have you ever tried sousvide? I have, and even bought a dedicated heater for it, but it's such a faff to set up and while the results are good I don't feel like they justify said faff (especially as I'm loath to leave anything that gets hot running in the house without me also in the house, so it effectively locks me in all day). The heater isn't wasted though, it's *perfect* for water baths to keep photo chemicals at the right temperature. I really must get round to ordering a C41 kit and have a stab at colour at some point.
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i don't do it super often but imo it's hardly more effort than filling a kettle. fwiw i don't bother sealing bags, i just clip them open over the top of the pot
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OwlFancier posted:depends on whether you subscribe to the "the french just write everything backwards to annoy the anglos" theory (which I just made up and now have decided is good) I don't think anyone mentioned it yet but EU in French is UE and UN is NU. Has to do with the word order. e: Though the French do have a cryptic fetish for inverting things in words but it's syllables instead of letters, it's their version of Cockney rhyming slang. e2: Apparently somebody already mentioned the latter. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Feb 28, 2022 |
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And because the anti cancel culture faction will accuse us of bias if we don't throw in some outright fash, their National Front (NF) was the Front National (FN). Although it's now trying to disguise that by becoming le Rassemblement National (RN) which means National Rally (NR). And is getting no votes, (  ).
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Private Speech posted:I don't think anyone mentioned it yet but EU in French is UE and UN is NU. English goes adjective-noun and French and other Romance languages go noun-adjective (which makes more sense to me tbh, the noun is usually more important)
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The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC. This abbreviation comes as a result of the International Telecommunication Union and the International Astronomical Union wanting to use the same abbreviation in all languages. English speakers originally proposed CUT (for "coordinated universal time"), while French speakers proposed TUC (for "temps universel coordonné"). The compromise that emerged was UTC
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