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Captain Monkey posted:Thanks I'll give it a try. yw 
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Captain Monkey posted:Gout is no joke. I've got a genetic predisposition to gout/kidney stones (my dad gets one or two stones a year even on an aggressive diet for it) and gout is basically just a few days of absolute hell and hobbling around. First happened when I was 23 years old. There's a medieval image of a demon gnawing on a toe, and it's is very very accurate. It's like you have glass embedded in the meat around your joint. Eat cherries, or at least drink the juice. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6914931/
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I just realized The Jungle Book is stupid. At the scene where the wolves are discussing Sher Kahn, the pack leader says "even the strength of the pack is no match for the tiger." loving bullshit. There's at least a dozen wolves in that scene. Even if you say the female wolves can't fight because Victorian Sexism, that's still 6 wolves vs. one tiger. Sher Kahn would get ripped apart. Either Kipling vastly overestimated tigers or grossly underestimated wolves, cuz wolves do not take any poo poo from nobody. Yes this is the sort of thing I think of late at night when I'm supposed to be asleep. Thanks, brain.
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I dunno tigers are pretty badass
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Silver Falcon posted:I just realized The Jungle Book is stupid. In the original story, Sher Khan was a robot tiger.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Well, no doctor here would presrcibe Allopurinol to a patient who's having a gout attack. It's meant to be used as a preventative, not curative. The standard (nowadays, although old and bad doctors won't know it) is a short oral corticosteroid course in diminishing doses...
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Wolfram is tungsten
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Captain Splendid posted:Wolfram is tungsten The worst part about this is tungsten literally means "heavy stone" in Swedish, but the Swedish word for it is volfram 
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Remulak posted:Huh? They gave me Colchicine to take when I have an attack and it works just about instantly. In fact the Dr told me they use it to diagnose gout. Those are different drugs.
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Captain Splendid posted:Wolfram is tungsten Which I now realized is why its symbol is W!
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A whole lot of the basic elements have different names in different languages. Potassium is Kalium etc
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I learned a few Latin words like that! Aurum Plumbum Nacium Cuprum
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It's normal to put both salt and pepper on a fried egg, but not on a boiled egg. We talking hard or soft boiled? Cause I put S+P on hard boiled eggs all the time, decent little high protein snack I try to bring with me in my lunches instead of, like, chips or something. But a soft boiled? Yeah, I guess now that I think about it, the few times I ever make a soft boiled egg, it's pretty much just eaten as is...but it's rare I do that. Only if I feel like making "fancy ramen" with a soft-boiled egg. If I want egg with a runny yolk to, say, dip my toast into, I just make over easy eggs which DO get salt and pepper, as you mentioned.
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The name 'Ursula' means 'little she-bear' Pretty obvious when you think about it, I just never thought about it before. 
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The term tensile strength has roots etymologically with utensil(s) when they were first being widely used and had to have a strong utensil when at a dinner or banquet. No one wants to be taking a chunk of meat or a potato and have their utensil get bent out of shape.
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MariusLecter posted:The term tensile strength has roots etymologically with utensil(s) when they were first being widely used and had to have a strong utensil when at a dinner or banquet. No one wants to be taking a chunk of meat or a potato and have their utensil get bent out of shape. when im bored or just doing something mindless like walking, i like lemmatizing words to figure out why they mean what they mean — ie the above + tension, tense or defer, confer, refer, etc etc its also a fun little game to try and put a new pre- or suffix to sometihng and see if that makes sense. like say you have the stem side & go okay inside, aside, upside, how about withside? maybe that could mean "along with"?
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Whatever you deside
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MariusLecter posted:The term tensile strength has roots etymologically with utensil(s) when they were first being widely used and had to have a strong utensil when at a dinner or banquet. No one wants to be taking a chunk of meat or a potato and have their utensil get bent out of shape. Tensile actually comes from the latin root word 'tenso', basically meaning 'to stretch'  Something getting 'bent out of shape' would be more flexural strength. Which has it's root word in 'flecto'... literally just 'to bend'. Materials science is remarkably straightforward with most of its terms. Even a lot of specific things like phases within steel, martensite, austenite, etc are just 'some guy's name' + 'ite'.
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MariusLecter posted:The term tensile strength has roots etymologically with utensil(s) when they were first being widely used and had to have a strong utensil when at a dinner or banquet. No one wants to be taking a chunk of meat or a potato and have their utensil get bent out of shape. Can't find any evidence for this. "Tensile" ultimately comes from the proto-Indo-European root word "*ten-" meaning "to stretch," through the Latin "tensus." "Utensil" also comes from Latin and just means "thing one uses," from "uti" meaning "use." As far as I can tell from looking up their etymologies, their similarity in spelling is simply a coincidence.
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Carthag Tuek posted:when im bored or just doing something mindless like walking, i like lemmatizing words to figure out why they mean what they mean — ie the above + tension, tense or defer, confer, refer, etc etc  /
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Carthag Tuek posted:when im bored or just doing something mindless like walking, i like lemmatizing words to figure out why they mean what they mean — ie the above + tension, tense or defer, confer, refer, etc etc Same and also make up poo poo. DontMockMySmock posted:Can't find any evidence for this. "Tensile" ultimately comes from the proto-Indo-European root word "*ten-" meaning "to stretch," through the Latin "tensus." "Utensil" also comes from Latin and just means "thing one uses," from "uti" meaning "use." As far as I can tell from looking up their etymologies, their similarity in spelling is simply a coincidence. Lmao
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My brother told me that velodrome came from the Latin velus, to cycle
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ishikabibble posted:Something getting 'bent out of shape' would be more flexural strength. Which has it's root word in 'flecto'... literally just 'to bend'. 
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Carthag Tuek posted:inside, aside, upside, how about withside? maybe that could mean "along with"? Gonna replace the known slur “cis” with this.
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If anything, I'd think utensils need compressive strength, not tensile
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Hyperlynx posted:If anything, I'd think utensils need compressive strength, not tensile poo poo, I've been eating food wrong this whole time
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Eyes are directional antennas
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Walruses are equipped with death rays...Got it.
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Guillermo del Toro and Benicio del Toro are not brothers, and in fact Benicio isn’t even from Mexico
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Benicio isn’t even from Mexico Duh, he's from The Bull
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Harry Styles is not in fact the actor that portrayed Theon Greyjoy in Game of Thrones.
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MariusLecter posted:Harry Styles is not in fact the actor that portrayed Theon Greyjoy in Game of Thrones. Correct, he's the prince of England.
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Ommin posted:Correct, he's the prince of England. They have one too?  Well, I bet ours is at least a better guitar player.
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To return to etymology chat, the Icelandic word teppi (blanket), the Swedish word tapet (wallpaper), and the English word tapestry all come from the ancient greek "tapes" meaning "woolen cloth or rug used as a covering".
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And teppanyaki is meat covered in sauce.
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The old 1968 psychedelic rock song Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) by The First Edition which was famously featured in the soundtrack to The Big Lebowski had country music superstar Kenny Rogers on lead vocals. I had no idea, lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meJP410N9Gg Also it was technically a cover version because Teddy Hill & the Southern Soul released a version in October 1967 and Jerry Lee Lewis also released it in November 1967 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFCVme78YL0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2KIr4Wnp88
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for fucks sake posted:To return to etymology chat, the Icelandic word teppi (blanket), the Swedish word tapet (wallpaper), and the English word tapestry all come from the ancient greek "tapes" meaning "woolen cloth or rug used as a covering". German Teppich, French tapis, Italian tappeto, Portuguese tapete etc...
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Torquemada posted:And teppanyaki is meat covered in sauce. 
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