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sweeperbravo posted:Bill Paxton has one of those faces that is just so ordinary and average and there's no feature that particularly stands out so it's really easy to see him in something and then later not remember In some of the more recent pictures the lower part of his face looks like it's a transplant.
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Lamprey Cannon posted:John K, though he did a lot of cool stuff way back when, is a weird homophobic animation-grognard. Although I can imagine that he's be a weirdo, and an absolute nightmare to work with, and basically all the troubles that his productions have experienced can be chalked up to that, I respect Bakshi's integrity as an artist, and also not being a shithead. I watched a cartoon directed by him on Youtube yesterday and I was so loving bored because it was 3 minutes of things and 17 minutes of repeating blinking and drooling. I guess it was funny and novel in 1734 or whenever he was still relevant.
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Titus Sardonicus posted:Bakshi or Kricfalusi? Because neither are relevant now. Bakshi is well-known for his repeated blinking cartoons, yes.
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It's not gay to suck a mate's cock on a lark. Oh this isn't the PYF proverb thread? Well gently caress you.
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Phyzzle posted:"It's a dog-eat-dog world", not "It's a doggie-dog world." It's a hard nog life.
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Lamprey Cannon posted:The game Metroid: Other M, is about its protagonist's weird maternal attachment to the last member of a species of freaky monsters. 
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MariusLecter posted:Jet fuel can't melt steel beams. True, true. Fire can, though.
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Thing I realized earlier today: in many languages the nouns for victim and sacrifice are the same because welp. (I mean in Swedish it's literally offer which should have clued me in a lot earlier.)
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Actually I guess I shouldn't have posted (it in this thread) because the etymology isn't questionable.
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Intoluene posted:Iirc, English is fairly unique for having a special word for light red. Not to mention dark blue.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:And the ancient Greeks described color all fuckin' weird-like. The sky was bronze, and sheep were the color of wine. I didn't read the whole thing and I certainly haven't read the original material but it seems much more likely they simply weren't describing colour as we understand it, as opposed to them describing certain colours weirdly. Oxfam's laser and all that.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I didn't read the whole thing and I certainly haven't read the original material but it seems much more likely they simply weren't describing colour as we understand it, as opposed to them describing certain colours weirdly. Oxfam's laser and all that. e: also, maybe his wine, sheep, and sea all were black (to a degree)?
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Sep 11, 2016 17:56
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Maybe he just really liked bilberries. I mean who doesn't?
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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. True fact: it used to be called "America's Got Hicks" but they abbreviated it.
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Even empty books (i.e. notebooks) can have ISBN:s. Don't exactly know why though.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:That's called a UPC, for selling it at a retail location No you idiot poo poo fuckhead it's got an ISBN it's pretty loving easy to tell because it says "ISBN" in front of it. 
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Hyperlynx posted:Do they have Dewey Decimal numbers though? This one doesn't. Also, looking up if we use the Dewey system I stumbled upon the fact that there are three separate systems in use in this country  One for municipal libraries, one specifically for the Helsinki municipal library, and e: Stuff I can't believe I just bothered to look up.
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Ddraig posted:Oook.
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Sentient Data posted:You can buy a huge block of isbns for relatively cheap as a one-time fee (and can turn the isbns into scannable barcodes), but if you need upcs you have to pay a pricy recurring license basically forever Ah that makes sense in this case as the bar code is just the ISBN. The manufacturer is also an old publisher (number 23 for this country) so they probably had a few to spare.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:That's called a UPC, for selling it at a retail location You were sort of close though, it's both ISBN-13 and EAN-13  at the same time  but not UPC.quote:Barcode format compatibility is maintained, because (aside from the group breaks) the ISBN-13 barcode format is identical to the EAN barcode format of existing 10-digit ISBNs.
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Sep 22, 2016 13:20
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JoelJoel posted:I recently learner that the expression "dead as a door nail" is derived from the fact that the nail in a door hinge (usually) doesn't move when the hinge swings open or shut. This makes no sense even without binging (  at googling in 2016 just  ) because those would be hingenails not doornails.Have some doornails: 
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You Are A Elf posted:This is for the auto mechanics and DIYer goons: This is what happens with autodidacts 
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at the same time. All those years of missing and lost straws and cursing the tape from whence they came. I'm never taking the caps for granted and tossing them ever again.
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Simply Simon posted:I'm not the kind of person who really listens to lyrics with songs unless they're really easy to understand, so the first line always jumped out at me and the rest was lost in the same "rhyming sounds" salad most songs for me are comprised of. I'm not a native speaker to boot, so I mishear/don't understand a LOT of lyrics, because they tend to use uncommon words to fit the music, be slurred to fit the rhythm, shouted to fit the emotional content etc. For the longest time I tried to make out what Die Toten Hosen were singing in this one bit. Then I got a version of the song by another band and turns out it was "lalala" 
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JoelJoel posted:I recently learner that mondegreen is a really cool word. Homology.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:The word "decide" comes from the same root as suicide/homicide: "caedere" in Latin, meaning "cut, strike, or kill". if you didn't just go to a real school and had Latin for six years... yeah, ...
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Phlegmish posted:I had Latin for six years in high school and I don't remember a thing If you don't know what a verb means, it's always kill. (Works well with Old English texts as well.)
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John Lee posted:It also happens with people who've been taught by others, though! I was 22 before I realized that the little towels on hanging rings by the faucet were for drying your hands, because when I was young and asked what they were for, my mother told me they were decorative and I wasn't allowed to touch them. Haha your mum is gross. There's two labeled hooks by the sink in the bathroom in my apartment. One is labeled hands and the other Oscar. (To clarify: they were already there when I moved in.)
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Hirayuki posted:I just figured out that the name is actually spelled "Hands" and the D is silent. What name 
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Flyball posted:Oscar Hands, of course. Is there a joke here I'm not getting?
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Powaqoatse posted:Good God. Two sets of towels, one for Hands, one for Oscar (a pet?). Hands with a silent D is pronounced Hans. Hans and Oscar. Now they're both names! WELL e: Also, that's not how you pronounce Hans 
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You can't spell parson without pee and arson.
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Memento posted:Ironically for someone that relies on it so heavily, Stephen Hawking hates technology. It's why he still has a computer voice box that sounds like it's from the early 90s, he refuses to accept a new one. Hates technology or doesn't want to change his voice?
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Did anyone suggest changing the genders of the singers yet?
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Len posted:Lady Gaga and Joseph Gordon Levitt did a couple years back. On the Muppet Show
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Len posted:You got a problem with Muppets? I do when they glorify rape. (Which they didn't on this occasion.)
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Phlegmish posted:But sabre-toothed tigers were bigger than regular tigers, right? You mean saber-toothed cat, no close relation to tigers.
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System Metternich posted:The Smilodon subspecies of the sabre-toothed cats is also known as “sabre-toothed tigers“. The largest ones were about the same size as modern tigers, even if they're not related. They only lived in the Americas, though. Common speech calls other sabre-toothed cats in Europe “tigers“ as well, I'm guessing because a) it sounds cooler and b) most people don't have the foggiest about paleobiology dude America wasn't even discovered until way after those animals went extinct how could they have lived there check your facts
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dirksteadfast posted:I just realized it's called the Silver Screen because the term was coined during or regarding the age of black and white movies. Meanwhile, in the real world, it's called the silver screen because of the reflective metal in the actual screen.
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Baronjutter posted:Why is this huge light silver screen called a "silver screen" ?! 
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