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I've heard grognard applied to fans of any game, the meaning being that they insist on playing old editions or at least pining for them
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Grognard means grumbler, it was Napoleon's nickname for the people who'd served the long haul with him and would generally bitch and moan the most while also being incredibly brave and experienced.
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Jan 1, 2024 03:44
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I first saw "grognard" in a magazine column dedicated to war gaming, so I just assumed it was a self-applied label for war gamers. I also assumed, and never cared to investigate further, than it originated through fans of age of sail war games, because didn't they drink "grog" at sea or something? Why not something WWII related, since so many of them like to replay that specific war over and over again?
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Jan 1, 2024 03:50
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Wait, grognard isn't the name of like a funny little ugly goblin creature or something from the game??? Holy poo poo Well that's American education for you
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Jan 1, 2024 04:07
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Similarly, the Chupacabra sounds like a creature from old folklore which has been around forever but it was invented in 1995 and was almost certainly based on jumbled up recollections of the movie Species IIRC a lot of photos or "encounters" with chupacabra ended up being coyotes or foxes with severe mange
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Jan 1, 2024 04:39
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FreudianSlippers posted:D&D is a fantasy version of a Napoleonic wars themed wargame that escalated into roleplaying in the 1960s. ..... and they date back to at least the early 1800s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsspiel HG Wells was a big fan of Napoleonic wargaming and actually created his own gaming system from scratch and published the rulebook in 1913 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Wars 
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Jan 1, 2024 05:11
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Fifty Farts posted:And the high-five was invented by a fascinating dude named Glenn Burke in the late 1970s, because he was so excited for a teammate who hit a home run. He just stuck his hand up and the other guy didn't know what to do, so he slapped it It was like a handshake while running past someone.
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Jan 1, 2024 05:16
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Gaius Marius posted:Grognard means grumbler, it was Napoleon's nickname for the people who'd served the long haul with him and would generally bitch and moan the most while also being incredibly brave and experienced. They were the elite veterans in his Imperial Guard and one of the privileges granted to them was the freedom to complain about poo poo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Guard_(France)#Les_Grognards The French Armée de l'Air were developing a single-seat, low-level ground-attack aircraft in the 1950s which was going to be called the Grognard but the program was cancelled  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sud-Est_Grognard
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:..... and they date back to at least the early 1800s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsspiel Peter Cushing was a fan of the game too. The number of historical figures that would be very into Warhammer is larger than we think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGag8Qllgnw
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Jan 1, 2024 06:00
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What little I know of French leads me to believe the word would be pronounced gro-NAW, with a nasal inflection
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Jan 1, 2024 06:09
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It's pronounced grognard.
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Jan 1, 2024 06:23
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French is just bespoke Danish in that in both languages if you randomly ignore 40% of the letters in every word and slur your speech like you've had a bit too much to drink and you'll probably land on the correct pronunciation by chance. Also: -Bicycles -Racism -Drunkenness -Desperately clinging to long-dead colonial empire Basically the same country.
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Jan 1, 2024 06:33
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French cuisine is the greatest in the world. Danish cuisine looks like you trained an ai exclusively on dogfood and told it to create a meal.
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Fifty Farts posted:And the high-five was invented by a fascinating dude named Glenn Burke in the late 1970s, because he was so excited for a teammate who hit a home run. He just stuck his hand up and the other guy didn't know what to do, so he slapped it, and a legendary move was born. The Dollop podcast did an episode about him, which is pretty good (tragic ending, though). Wow, you don't say! Fun fact: the low five predated it by 50 years!
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The Moon Monster posted:Now that you mention it I have a hazy memory of a probably racist Looney Toon where a black guy says "give me some skin, brother" before doing a low five. "probably racist" lmao I'm going to guess yes
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Gaius Marius posted:French cuisine is the greatest in the world. Danish cuisine looks like you trained an ai exclusively on dogfood and told it to create a meal. Smørrebrød and flæskesteg aren't quite on the level of French cuisine but both are quite good. Also Danes are pretty world class in all things baking related. You're probably thinking of Iceland or Norway where eating actual food and not charred sheep faces or other ghoulish horrors wasn't discovered until circa 2000.
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Jan 1, 2024 06:49
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I''ll eat all that danish food
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Gaius Marius posted:French cuisine is the greatest in the world. Danish cuisine looks like you trained an ai exclusively on dogfood and told it to create a meal. All countries and cultures on the continent are 100% the same.
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FreudianSlippers posted:French is just bespoke Danish in that in both languages if you randomly ignore 40% of the letters in every word and slur Actually that sounds more like Australia  FreudianSlippers posted:... your speech like you've had a bit too much to drink and you'll probably land on the correct pronunciation by chance. Oh I see. E: wait a minute FreudianSlippers posted:Also: Okay apart from the bicycles thing it still sounds like Australia
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Powered Descent posted:What little I know of French leads me to believe the word would be pronounced gro-NAW, with a nasal inflection grrrrronyarrrr (add the merest suggestion of a 'd' at the end).
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Torquemada posted:grrrrronyarrrr (add the merest suggestion of a 'd' at the end). there's no d, and you roll the r's (apologies if you're french and I'm just wrong, but afaik you never say the final consonant without an 'e')
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sebmojo posted:there's no d, and you roll the r's (apologies if you're french and I'm just wrong, but afaik you never say the final consonant without an 'e') Rolling r's isn't a feature of French accents from France, it's all in the back of the mouth. The d is indeed silent https://forvo.com/word/grognard/#fr
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Captain Splendid posted:Rolling r's isn't a feature of French accents from France, it's all in the back of the mouth. oh sorry, that's what i was meaning, you're right of course. what's the word for that back of the throat R
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sebmojo posted:oh sorry, that's what i was meaning, you're right of course. what's the word for that back of the throat R Voiced uvular fricative /ʁ/ 
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At the time of the actual napoleonic grognards, southern guard soldiers (and probably the Corsican himself) probably did say the d and roll the r. Parisian hadn’t taken over yet. Occitan is similar to catalan, not standard french  The french gn is prolly more well-known to americans as the spanish ñ
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CJacobs posted:Wait, grognard isn't the name of like a funny little ugly goblin creature or something from the game??? Holy poo poo You must have slept through your class's grognard unit.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:At the time of the actual napoleonic grognards, southern guard soldiers (and probably the Corsican himself) probably did say the d and roll the r. Parisian hadn’t taken over yet. Occitan is similar to catalan, not standard french See also: Italian gn, Portuguese nh Does Romanian have anything similar?
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root beer posted:See also: Italian gn, Portuguese nh Tsuika enthusiasts make every sound known to linguistics.
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You can't "beat" Berzerk; there's thousands of rooms.
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I've just realised that each string on a guitar, up to the 12th fret, has all the notes of the chromatic scale. They just start and end at different notes. I've been playing guitar for like 18 years now. I'm finally getting around to actually learning the fretboard, and this leapt out at me. Obvious when I think about it, I already knew each fret was a semitone and there are only 12 of them in the whole scale...
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Wait till you figure out about pinch harmonics and their positions!
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Thanks for the warm reception to my turtle Speedy. I learned another fact about her! https://i.imgur.com/pvmB3Ap.mp4 This was so obvious in hindsight, but she's been a house pet for 15 years and likes her independence, so we never realized that she likes to perch if you offer! My slipper is a rock from her vantage point. It's warm, a place to settle and get a look around, and get some bonus scratches. So I got her some slippers to mess around with and perch on.  But the wildest thing is that she conveyed to me she wanted me to do that. She was looking back and forth at me like an expectant dog, taking a few steps, looking back until I followed. How can something with such a little pea brain be so intelligent at conveing intentions like that? Are there studies on reptile smarts??
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You should crosspost this in the Blessed thread
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Isn't it tho? That is a great idea. We also recently learned that it's not just fish and shrimp, she also loves GRUB TREAT
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CJacobs posted:Thanks for the warm reception to my turtle Speedy. I learned another fact about her! Love it
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root beer posted:You should crosspost this in the Blessed thread Hope you don't mind CJacobs, but I did that when you made your post about shell scritchies! You and Speedy are very welcome over there. 
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Turtles are some of the cutest animals IMHO
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Anchor's aweigh!
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The Moon Monster posted:This Thing I just realized: those are wrinkles to the sides of Squidward's eyes, they're not Chuck Jones-style eyelashes. CJacobs posted:Are there studies on reptile smarts?? It's not my field so I don't know how extensive the literature is, but I did find out last year or so that there was a study that determined crocodiles can and do play.
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Phy posted:Thing I just realized: those are wrinkles to the sides of Squidward's eyes, they're not Chuck Jones-style eyelashes. Actually Squidward is an octopus and octopuses don't have eyelashes.
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