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Haruharuharuko posted:I figured out last year that cavities like the ones you get if you don't brush your teeth are named that because a "cavity" is being created in your tooth. I'm college educated for fucks sake. What did you think they were before?
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Jason Jones was not in The Hangover. That was Ed Helms. They were both on The Daily Show, and I probably thought they were the same person then too.
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Aug 12, 2015 02:54
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nexus6 posted:Is there a thread for asking dumb questions or should I just post my assumptions here? The Stupid/Small Questions Megathread
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Oct 13, 2015 04:50
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Taeke posted:You know that new South Park game coming up? Fractured but Whole? I am a native English speaker, and it took me a second because "but" is not normally pronounced the same way as "butt".
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Nov 5, 2015 13:26
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AlphaKretin posted:Australian English too as far as I know, and that's where Tiggum's from I think. The vowel sound in "butt" is clearly pronounced but in "but" it's de-emphasised and the whole word is rushed over. If you were taking care to pronounce it clearly they'd sound the same, but in the normal way people speak they're different.
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Nov 6, 2015 02:59
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SwissDonkey posted:God drat, you are the most insufferable sperg on the internet. Stop making GBS threads up every thread with your pedantry. No one gives a flying gently caress what you have to say. Under this post you'll see a button labelled "profile". Click it. Scroll down till you see a button marked "Add user to your ignore list". Click it.
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Nov 7, 2015 16:33
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Wanamingo posted:With geicko at least, which I assume is what Xun was referring to, they don't even say "up to". Their slogan is that 15 minutes could save you 15% or more, which sounds better but still doesn't mean much because they're only counting people who switched. Also, making it hypothetical (it "could save you 15%") means they're not saying it will, so it only has to be true for someone who switches from their worst competitor's worst option to their best one.
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Dec 8, 2015 12:30
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Captain Lavender posted:The worst Star Trek: TNG episodes were the ones with Deanna Troi's mother. Lwaxana Troi was great. The worst episodes were the Borg ones, 
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Dec 10, 2015 03:42
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Wanamingo posted:Oh, bullshit. Next you're going to tell me that Wesley Crusher isn't a terrible character. No, he was terrible. His mother too. I wish they'd kept Dr Pulaski.
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Dec 10, 2015 06:01
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InediblePenguin posted:What do you drink with dinner at home if not milk? Soda all day every day? Coffee at 7 pm? Wine? Just water? Why is milk-drinking supposed to be worthy of note? rydiafan posted:Good point. Drinking with meals must be super uncommon. Otherwise every single meal you can purchase at every restaurant on the planet would come with a beverage.
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Jan 1, 2016 02:24
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AlphaKretin posted:Thread title not withstanding, the pet in pet peeve could be an abbreviation of petty. But it isn't.
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Jan 2, 2016 01:43
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Besesoth posted:A val-LAY parks your car. A VAL-ett is your body man/butler. A butler and a valet are different things. A valet is basically a PA, a butler is in charge of managing the household and other servants.
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Jan 19, 2016 02:06
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syscall girl posted:In Casino Royale he implies M was part of Judi Dench M's name but it probably meant something else before her. No idea about C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_(James_Bond)#Background quote:A further inspiration for M was Maxwell Knight, the head of MI5, who signed his memos as "M" and whom Fleming knew well. The tradition of the head of MI6 signing their name with a single letter came from Mansfield Smith-Cumming, who would sign his initial "C" with green ink.
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Feb 15, 2016 01:41
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Wanamingo posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k At face value, it's just about the YMCA. There's nothing about gay men in the lyrics.
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Mar 15, 2016 13:51
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God Hole posted:I still think Bizarro Superman is an incredibly tragic character, but learning that he was merely a messed up clone with no past was, I have to admit, a little disappointing for me. Isn't he from a parallel universe where everything is backwards?
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Apr 18, 2016 04:15
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Fagtastic posted:The druid from the Asterix books is called getafix. Pretty much all the names are like that.
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May 24, 2016 04:11
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Hirayuki posted:It reminds me of my grandmother, who would say "breakfrist" (among many other quirky pronunciations). A lot of small children say that, so it could be a mistake that she just never bothered to unlearn, like how some people go their entire lives saying "fink" instead of "think" or "somethink" instead of "something".
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May 25, 2016 05:26
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FreudianSlippers posted:"Some people" being Cockneys, the Cornish, some people from Yorkshire, a significant number of African Americans and Newfies. I didn't even realise it was a regional thing, I just meant individuals from places where that pronunciation is not usual who say it that way. 
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May 26, 2016 04:04
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FreudianSlippers posted:Bryan Adams is old but I don't think he was around in 69 AD. And he was nine years old in the summer of 1969.
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Oct 27, 2016 04:16
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Memento posted:Primary school in most of Australia is K-6, high school is 7-12. I think another difference is that in America, kindergarten is what we call prep, rather than a separate pre-school year? And technically 7-10 is secondary college and then you can do either two or three years of HSC or VCE. And if you do three years then the second and third are both year 12, not 12 and 13.
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Nov 1, 2016 07:01
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fruit on the bottom posted:Turns out this song was considerably less creepy in its original context, performed between the songwriter and his wife at their holiday parties to let people know the party was ending.
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Dec 2, 2016 01:44
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the future is WOW posted:It's more that having a knee jerk response to song lyrics from 70 years ago because you can't be bothered to look up a little background on them is ridiculous. "You've got to consider the context!" says guy completely ignoring the context.
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Dec 4, 2016 02:19
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Jerry Cotton posted:For some reason my mother had a small comic book in Swedish and one of the strips had a small girl peering through an oven door asking "Lever du, låda?" and it still cracks me up even though it's the worst joke. I put this into Google translate and it gave me "Do you live, drawer?" I don't get it.
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Dec 20, 2016 11:30
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porkswordonboard posted:Also: does anyone else hate it when people pronounce it "ex cetera?" Not as much as when people write it "ect."
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Dec 21, 2016 04:39
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Hyperlynx posted:I'm not sure Latin terms count as loan words Why not?
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Dec 22, 2016 01:53
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MisterBibs posted:For content: I just learned, today, that spreadable butter was a thing. Memento posted:Yep, that's the problem with Wikipedia, unless it's a niche thing that most people don't understand, the fact that anyone can edit it means a list like that ends up looking like something from TvTropes.
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Jan 18, 2017 03:36
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Henchman of Santa posted:Ed Helms looks way more like Stephen Colbert than Jason Sudeikis. He doesn't wear glasses as much anymore but it was very confusing at times when they were both on the Daily Show. I've always thought that Ed Helms and Jason Jones are practically identical, and it wasn't until quite a while after Ed Helms left the Daily Show that I realised they were two different people.
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Feb 27, 2017 03:29
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KoRMaK posted:Jesus christ misterbibs look at the average wordcount in your boring rear end tryhard sincere posts You know you could just not read his posts, right?
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Mar 3, 2017 03:02
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Simply Simon posted:I had a heated argument with a colleague because of the word "facile". I had only ever read that in scientific journals, with sentences like "we have found a facile new method to synthesize this compound", so I mentally saved it as "simple, in fact simpler than before". Said colleague got up in arms because "facile" means oversimplified so it's not actually positive at all, yet everyone uses it. I've never heard the word "facile" used in a positive way about anything. I wouldn't have been able to tell you off hand what it meant, but I knew it was negative.
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Mar 8, 2017 15:07
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) word - very short, has a lot of (positive!) connotations and everyone in the community will get it. Still think of my colleague everytime though and send a silent sorry in his direction.
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bewilderment posted:Helpful hint: The words marry, merry and Mary all sound different too, guys. The one that annoys me is Americans writing "make due" because to them "do" and "due" sound the same. It's such an incredibly obvious mistake that that accent just makes you totally blind to.
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Jun 26, 2017 04:04
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Iron Crowned posted:The school year in the USA is basically based upon farm work EmmyOk posted:Surely it starts at the same time everywhere but rather than a certain date it starts when summer ends and ends when summer starts. In Oz it's summer during December etc. right? Osama Dozen-Dongs posted:That's nonsense tho, the Italian gn is a palatalized nn. This Lil Wayne character seems somewhat uneducated.
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Jun 30, 2017 02:30
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Hyperlynx posted:Wait. "Pickup truck" isn't simply American for "ute"? My father used to have what I'd call a "large ute" that he insisted on calling a truck because it was "too big to be a ute".
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Jul 19, 2017 05:28
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syscall girl posted:SUVs (or utes, if you like) Leavemywife posted:The phrase is "deep-seated" not "deep-seeded". I thought it was the latter because it made sense to think that certain things were deeply planted within someone (i.e., a deep-seeded fear of heights, or a deep-seeded fear of water).
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Jul 20, 2017 05:16
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Ein cooler Typ posted:are you a foreigner? how do they mark seasons in your country? In Australia the seasons start on the first of the month. Dec-Feb is summer, Mar-May is autumn, Jun-Aug is winter and Sept-Nov is spring.
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Jul 24, 2017 07:53
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Memento posted:I knew "k" indicated black, but I didn't know it just stood for key. Neat! Yeah, I assumed it stood for "black" because B could be mistaken for "blue". Like how in Magic: the Gathering U stands for blue because B stands for black.
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Aug 23, 2017 06:05
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MisterBibs posted:The devices you can put on a frying pan to ensure that eggs don't splay out far and wide are called Egg Rings, and are common-as-poo poo items and not the "I saw them once, somewhere, can't remember where, and rue the fact that I didn't buy them" rare jewels I figured they must be. 
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Aug 26, 2017 03:12
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:A taco is more of a hot dog, as the shell is connected, like a hot dog bun.
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Sep 7, 2017 08:45
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Memento posted:Yeah "lollies" is any non-chocolate candy in Australia.
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Oct 11, 2017 10:00
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Besesoth posted:whose... whose freckles are they  What do you call them? Croccers posted:I thought it was named after the dude that made it.
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Solumin posted:The sprinkles are called nonpareils. That particular kind of treat in the picture is a chocolate nonpareil, though everyone just calls them nonpareils. No, the chocolate with sprinkles on is called a freckle. The sprinkles are called sprinkles or hundreds-and-thousands. I've never heard anyone call hundreds-and-thousands "freckles".
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