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Captain Splendid posted:"The Beach That Makes You Old" is actually taken from a 2021 film. ... is this a thing people say ... ?
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Captain Splendid posted:"The Beach That Makes You Old" is actually taken from a 2021 film. Frederik Peeters (who illustrated the original album the film was based on) is not Benôit Peeters (who wrote the Les Cités obscures albums). The main reason I conflated them was that the authors of LCo were listed as Schuiten - Peeters, and usually the illustrator is mentioned second.
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credburn posted:... is this a thing people say ... ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etaA94eM2AE
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FreudianSlippers posted:Australia really has a village named after the historical novel Ivanhoe ? i mean, is it so unusual? *gestures at california*
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Jan 19, 2024 17:40
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Frederik Peeters (who illustrated the original album the film was based on) is not Benôit Peeters (who wrote the Les Cités obscures albums). The main reason I conflated them was that the authors of LCo were listed as Schuiten - Peeters, and usually the illustrator is mentioned second. and neither of them are Ted Benoît who wrote Cité Lumière
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Jan 19, 2024 17:44
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Carthag Tuek posted:i mean, is it so unusual? *gestures at california* True. If we somehow stumble upon a new previously hidden world to ravage and devastate there'll for sure be towns called Tatooine and Westeros and Batman.
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Jan 19, 2024 18:19
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I found out the opening line of Seal's 1989 song, "Crazy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fc67yQsPqQ&t=20s is about Mikhail Gorbachov doing glasnost /cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/S4GHCEQZ4RKV5FPNCLKSD4OMVQ.jpg)
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FreudianSlippers posted:True. i think theres a batman in the balkans but i think its a coincidence
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It’s in Türkiye We’ll see you next week, same Batman District, same Batman Province
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root beer posted:It’s in Türkiye thx 
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root beer posted:It’s in Türkiye Um actually it's in Kurdistan.
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Reminds me of that guy that changed his name to be basically a long string of popular food chains, because in the country he was in, a popular way of doing restaurant promotions was "if your name is [e.g.] Kentucky, you get free fried chicken this week!" ...and then got stuck with that name, after the government put a limit on how many times you can change your name because they got sick of all the overhead from the promotions.
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Jan 19, 2024 20:14
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this guy rules and i hope his dad is named Suparman bin Spidarman
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the Great Lakes only started to form 14,000 years ago
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Empty Sandwich posted:the Great Lakes only started to form 14,000 years ago there was a huge inhabited peninsula in the north sea between england, the netherlands, and denmark. human settlements and forests and roaming animals, way up until only around 8-9 thousand years ago e: doggerland
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Carthag Tuek posted:there was a huge inhabited peninsula in the north sea between england, the netherlands, and denmark. human settlements and forests and roaming animals, way up until only around 8-9 thousand years ago kick-rear end e: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-the-great-lakes-formed-lake-huron-archaeology this article talks about underwater archaeology for similar sites in the lakes. Empty Sandwich has a new favorite as of 20:46 on Jan 19, 2024 |
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Wish I could go there and see all the cute doggers
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Similarly, Australia and New Guinea used to form a single landmass known as Sahul, which is how early humans managed to migrate there from what is now Indonesia despite their limited oceanfaring techniques at the time
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Jan 19, 2024 20:49
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Carthag Tuek posted:there was a huge inhabited peninsula in the north sea between england, the netherlands, and denmark. human settlements and forests and roaming animals, way up until only around 8-9 thousand years ago  Wild to be reminded how ephemeral the coasts of countries really are on the longer scale.
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who's a good land mass, that's right, you are
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Pookah posted:Wild to be reminded how ephemeral the coasts of countries really are on the longer scale. I'm reminded of the Terry Pratchett book where an island pops up out of nowhere, and all the various nations rush to claim it as their own.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I'm reminded of the Terry Pratchett book where an island pops up out of nowhere, and all the various nations rush to claim it as their own. Jingo. Good book. Does a very clever thing with fonts where people who are speaking Klatchian (basically Arabian and/or Turkish) have a vaguely Middle Eastern looking font but non-native speakers have Rs in the same font as the rest of the book because they can't get them right and first generation Klatchian immigrants in Ankh-Morpork (Fantasy London) have the normal font except their Rs are in the Klatchian font.
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Shrek was modeled (visually) after an actual person
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I'm reminded of the Terry Pratchett book where an island pops up out of nowhere, and all the various nations rush to claim it as their own. Terry Pratchett will go down in history as a great political and social writer who sent his message almost entirely via very good comic writing.
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Pookah posted:
and its not even that long when you think about it. i mean i tend to think of geography being basically the same in geologic time, so hundreds of thousands or millions of years, but nope this is not very long ago at all.
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Carthag Tuek posted:there was a huge inhabited peninsula in the north sea between england, the netherlands, and denmark. human settlements and forests and roaming animals, way up until only around 8-9 thousand years ago You can still see remnants of the past self today 
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:I found out the opening line of Seal's 1989 song, "Crazy" Here I am just now realizing Seal's face was once real smooth?
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:I found out the opening line of Seal's 1989 song, "Crazy" Gosh that's a big smoke detector! I didn't know that about the song either, that's really cool. FreudianSlippers posted:True. There's places called Batman in Australia, after a guy with that surname, because "batman" is British for a kind of military officer's servant/second-in-command. Also he was a violent, murderous, monstrous shitstain and nothing should be named after him.
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Pookah posted:Terry Pratchett will go down in history as a great political and social writer who sent his message almost entirely via very good comic writing.
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doctorfrog posted:who's a good land mass, that's right, you are "Ruff!" - terrain
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credburn posted:Here I am just now realizing Seal's face was once real smooth? probably as a child, but not in that video. hence the bangs Inceltown posted:You can still see remnants of the past self today i always wondered where that word come from, that makes total sense!
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Inceltown posted:You can still see remnants of the past self today lol batman is the word for basically an officer's military butler in English English. JRR Tolkien had one in WWI and that's basically Sam Gam. anyway, there's a joke early on in Gravity's Rainbow where the batman is named Bruce Wayne
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Alfred is Batman's batman.
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Hyperlynx posted:Alfred is Batman's batman. 
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FreudianSlippers posted:Um actually it's in Kurdistan. 
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Hyperlynx posted:Gosh that's a big smoke detector! There's a ton of parks and other features around Melbourne named after John Batman and we're slowly getting around to changing them, although every single time we have to go through the usual "Heritage not hate"/"Muh childhood!!"/"That was all in the past just get over it" song and dance. Batman Park in Northcote got changed to Gumbri Park a few years ago  https://www.darebin.vic.gov.au/Community-and-pets/Aboriginal-Darebin/Our-commitment/Batman-conversations Batman train station on the Upfield line still hasn't been changed 
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Captain Splendid posted:It is, however, cognate with "car" ... in that it's short for "horseless carriage," right? Or is that just "horseless horsecart?"
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Baron von Eevl posted:... in that it's short for "horseless carriage," right? Or is that just "horseless horsecart?" cart is apparently a whole different word horse & car both come from PIE *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”) cart comes from PIE *gret- (“tracery; wattle; cradle; cage; basket”) also i just learned that henchman is cognate to the danish "hest"*, ie a dude who handles the horses i guess * which is from PIE *kankest- (“horse”), so suck it with your weird other words lmbo Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 03:54 on Jan 20, 2024 |
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Captain Splendid posted:"The Beach That Makes You Old" is actually taken from a 2021 film. based on a 2011 comic about a beach that makes you old
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