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Just say the English word, you nerds Whirlybird
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Failed Imagineer posted:That spiral pussy got me acting strange Did you know ducks do actually have spiral pussies and corkscrew cocks, and quote:sonova bitch, they did know...
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Aug 9, 2022 13:23
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flavor.flv posted:Just say the English word, you nerds People assume the etymology of that is whirly + bird but it's actually a 18th century word from the German verbleib 'whereabouts' + Proto-Germanic erd 'land, country, region' and the correct pronunciation should be "verleeb-ird'
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Aug 9, 2022 13:46
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Okay that one was a total lie but the helicopter post was real
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Aug 9, 2022 13:47
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I ride up in my pterohelico
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Aug 9, 2022 13:49
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Brawnfire posted:I ride up in my pterohelico Honestly a pterahelix is a much cooler name for them anyway
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Aug 9, 2022 14:49
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It sounds vaguely like a Dinotopia thing
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Aug 9, 2022 14:55
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Brawnfire posted:It sounds vaguely like a Dinotopia thing Weird, I'm getting Boss Baby vibes...
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Aug 9, 2022 14:56
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So in English it's screw-wing
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Aug 9, 2022 15:11
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 "You're a screwing pilot?" "Yup"
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Aug 9, 2022 15:17
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Join the army, get hundreds of hours of training in screw-wing, get your commercial screw-wing license when you get out, and have a fulfilling and challenging career slinging loads
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Aug 9, 2022 17:08
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Phy posted:Join the army, get hundreds of hours of training in screw-wing, get your commercial screw-wing license when you get out, and have a fulfilling and challenging career slinging loads I thought it was mostly the wives that got an education in screwing when their husbands joined the Army.
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Aug 9, 2022 18:32
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Captain Monkey posted:I thought it was mostly the wives that got an education in screwing when their husbands joined the Army. What kind of non-standard army recruits people old enough to be married
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Aug 9, 2022 18:47
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I think the general cliche is that they get married once they're in the army, by women that either weren't prepared for, or were actively counting on, an absent husband with reliable pay deposits.
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Aug 9, 2022 19:55
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Jack B Nimble posted:I think the general cliche is that they get married once they're in the army, by women that either weren't prepared for, or were actively counting on, an absent husband with reliable pay deposits. while their wives collect other deposits hey-ooooo
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Aug 9, 2022 19:57
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Captain Hygiene posted:I grew up in an rural area where all the county road names go down to fractional precision in terms of distance from the south/west county border (e.g. 700N is 0.7 miles up from the border), and it took me way too long to realize that wasn't just the standard everywhere*. I didn't figure out the Eight Mile title until after college because I'd never noticed that naming convention for mile roads before. Coming from the other end of this, concepts like "caring about a county border" and "Unincorporated land in a state" make absolutely no sense to my Massachusetts brain. I just can't... process, mentally, land not being part of one town or another.
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Aug 10, 2022 16:46
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Speculum is Latin for Mirror from which the German word Spiegel derives. This caused me to realise that "Der Spiegel" is just "The Mirror" in German. Also simultaneously to realise why a newspaper would be called The Mirror in the first place, I.e. it reflects current affairs.
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Aug 11, 2022 15:31
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Prurient Squid posted:Speculum is Latin for Mirror from which the German word Spiegel derives. This caused me to realise that "Der Spiegel" is just "The Mirror" in German. Also simultaneously to realise why a newspaper would be called The Mirror in the first place, I.e. it reflects current affairs.
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Aug 11, 2022 18:06
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specchio Spiegel espejo
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Prurient Squid posted:Speculum is Latin for Mirror from which the German word Spiegel derives. This caused me to realise that "Der Spiegel" is just "The Mirror" in German. Also simultaneously to realise why a newspaper would be called The Mirror in the first place, I.e. it reflects current affairs. Your mind is going to be blown when you realize why Microsoft Windows is called Windows
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Aug 11, 2022 18:21
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Gaius Marius posted:Your mind is going to be blown when you realize why Microsoft Windows is called Windows It's further away than this 
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Aug 11, 2022 18:23
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It's called a keyboard because when you press a bunch of keys others get bored.
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Aug 11, 2022 18:40
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Captain Splendid posted:It's further away than this Win deez
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Aug 11, 2022 20:01
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They call it an oven cus you of in heat out eat the food.
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Aug 11, 2022 20:07
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Is the answer because Bill Gates is a dirty thief?
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Aug 11, 2022 21:51
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No it's because he's a WIMP
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Aug 11, 2022 22:38
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He named his company the Small Flaccid Corporation
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Aug 11, 2022 23:59
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mikkkro$haft
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for fucks sake posted:No it's because he's a WIMP touche
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Aug 12, 2022 18:11
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The etymology of the word 'helicopter' isn't heli + copter but helico (Greek helikos "spiral", as in "helix") + pter (Greek pteron "wing", as in "pterodactyl") e.
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Aug 12, 2022 19:02
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This is a weird one, not even sure how it came up in my head. I was thinking about the word "epinephrine" and how epi means roughly "above" and neph or nephr is kidney, so above the kidneys. I was then like "well that's what adrenal means", but wouldn't that be "adrenaline...for the chemical". So epinephrine means the same exact thing as adrenaline. Because it is the same thing. edit: I think it was because of treatment notes listed in a respiratory training scenario I was working with, where epinephrine was to be administered.
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Jack B Nimble posted:I think the general cliche is that they get married once they're in the army, by women that either weren't prepared for, or were actively counting on, an absent husband with reliable pay deposits. Check out Watertown, NY lol
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Aug 12, 2022 19:13
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SLOSifl posted:This is a weird one, not even sure how it came up in my head. I was thinking about the word "epinephrine" and how epi means roughly "above" and neph or nephr is kidney, so above the kidneys. I was then like "well that's what adrenal means", but wouldn't that be "adrenaline...for the chemical". So epinephrine means the same exact thing as adrenaline. Because it is the same thing. Yeah I had an  at that about a decade ago. Around the same time I realised all the names for paracetamol derive from the INN name
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Aug 12, 2022 19:18
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Two things: first, just because an animal's eyes look completely black doesn't mean they don't have separate sclera, iris and pupils. Second, ferrets have loving weird ones 
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Aug 12, 2022 19:28
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Cybernetic ferret!
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Aug 12, 2022 19:29
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I always appreciate it when my cockatiels sit in the sun and I can see their eyes as dark brown with a pupil rather than just black.
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Aug 12, 2022 19:57
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flavor.flv posted:
Not quite as weird looking as goats, toads, et cetera.
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The name of the dog in Disney's "Old Yeller" has a double meaning:quote:the fur color yellow pronounced as "yeller", and the fact that its bark sounds more like a human yell. I've never seen the film but I've seen it referenced a bunch everywhere 
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Aug 15, 2022 06:22
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Vulcans are just elves in space
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they are called HVAC systems because they vacuum up hydrogen. Hydrogen Vacuums. HVAC. Huh.
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