PYF Thing You Just Realized: Everyday someone on Earth takes the world's biggest shit

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foobardog: Apr 19, 2007; There, now I can tell when you're posting.

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Zesty Mordant posted:

When you consider the amount of garbage people make, that's probably something to marvel at.

I remember a school trip to the waste treatment plant where a guy pointed out that modern society would have been impossible if the chemical used to break down the massive amount of literal poo poo we generate hadn't been discovered.

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foobardog: Apr 19, 2007; There, now I can tell when you're posting.

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Snapchat A Titty posted:

In my day it was "you wanna come up and see my stamp collection?"

It was "Coming up for coffee" in the 80s, but I generally just use "hang out". It's such a weird thing across generations.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2015 04:11

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QuelleFuck posted:

content: until I was eight, I pronounced "rabies" like the multiple of "rabbi."

Until I was in my late 20s, I pronounced caste, as in the social class, with the same vowel as "case". It's pronounced like "cast", without an e, because it's some latinate bullshit term that breaks the English silent-e rules for no good reason. :argh:

# ¿ Mar 12, 2016 14:55

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Someone Awful! posted:

stuff you can't believe you just figured out: pigeons are goddamn complicated

You should take a look at what exactly "panthers" are.

Basically, it just meant any big cat, so it's been applied all over.

Now, lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars, and snow leopards are all in the Panthera genus.

When the Europeans colonized the Americas they came across pumas, who are NOT in the Panthera genus, but their own, Puma. However, they got called panthers too, as well as cougar, catamount, mountain lion, and painter.

In more modern times, panther has been usually applied to black versions of these cats too, though usually only leopards and jaguars. There have been rumors of black pumas, but none have been found.

So basically, a single species solely known as a panther does not exist, and the name could basically mean almost any big cat.

Taxonomy is hard!

# ¿ Mar 14, 2016 19:05

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ninjahedgehog posted:

People listening to The Devil went Down to Georgia always complain that the Devil's awesome rock and roll song was way better than Johnny's generic fiddle solo, and they would be right, except that you never actually hear the songs that Johnny played. That fiddle part in the middle isn't his song, it's just an instrumental break. Instead, Charlie Daniels just kinda tells you what he played:

He played Fire on the Mountain, run, boys, run
Devil's in The House of the Rising Sun
Chicken in the bread pan pickin' out dough (apparently this isn't actually a named song, but some sort of square dance patter thing)
Granny Does Your Dog Bite? No, child, no

So it's not the greatest song in the world? It's just a tribute?

# ¿ Mar 18, 2016 23:10

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Lady Naga posted:

My main problem with it is that being an overconfident prick seems very Un-Christian.

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins, and by gambling, Johnny himself knows he's sinning. I presume when he dies that Jack Chick rear end in a top hat God will kick him to hell anyway, and the Devil will just laugh like "lol pwned".

# ¿ Mar 18, 2016 23:20

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Ddraig posted:

The painting American Gothic is only called that because the window in the house in the background is in a Gothic style.

Also, the woman in the painting is meant to be the man's daughter, not wife, according to the artist, Grant Wood. The models were Wood's sister and Wood's dentist.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2016 20:40

foobardog: Apr 19, 2007; There, now I can tell when you're posting.

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On top of all that, hot prepared food is blocked from EBT (food stamps) while cold prepared food is not. So many grocery stores will just make twice as much and throw half in the fridge while keeping the others warm and fresh.

This is part of the reason cook-at-home pizza exists.

If poor-hating assholes had their way, they would probably also take away benefits from anyone who is rich enough to own a microwave oven instead of a conventional oven.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2019 21:19

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Hardcordion posted:

So you know the joke "Why did the chicken cross the road?" That extremely well known joke that we've all been hearing since we could understand what a joke is? The punchline isn't just about the simple motivations driving a chicken to do what it does. The other side is the afterlife, because the chicken gets run over.

I'm pretty sure it's just baby's first anti-humor. That it's been enshrined as the Templar of a joke is itself ironic.

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christmas boots posted:

Much like existence

ftfy

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