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JoelJoel posted:Really depends on your diet. If you eat well and get enough fibre you don't really need to add all that sugar to your diet. There are innumerable fibre sources that are far better for you (and far less expensive!). Remove all energy sources from your diet, just eat protein and fiber. You'll be bedridden and catatonic but by god you'll be skinny and regular.
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JoelJoel posted:I was responding to the fibre comment and overall heath benefits of these things. Most people consume too much sugar. It's fine to like smoothies or soda; doesn't change my point. A proper diet will give you all the vitamins you need and smoothies exists to sell fancy blenders and Booster Juice/Orange Julius and the like. I think we found Soylent's CEO, guys
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Sep 1, 2017 00:15
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Unkempt posted:"Mario" is just the male version of "Maria" which is just "Mary". That cartoon plumber is called Mary. Super Mary Brothers. Huh. You'd think so, but no. "Mario" is from the Latin "Marius", which probably has to do with the god Mars; "Maria" and "Mary" are both from Hebrew's "מִרְיָם" through Greek Μάρια/Μάριαμ. They're unrelated.
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Sep 5, 2017 13:36
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Meanwhile, "Luigi", "Louis", and "Ludwig" are all basically the same name in different languages - and "Ludwig" was first.
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Sep 5, 2017 17:20
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bewilderment posted:Yeah OK I don't understand how people can mispronounce Mario (as in, the video game character, anyway) when he will happily yell his name at you in any number of games. I still run into people who pronounce it "mare-ee-oh" as though it hasn't been 20 years since "it's-a me, Mario".
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Sep 6, 2017 02:20
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DavidAlltheTime posted:It's the same difference as Pasta/Paw-sta, Mazda/Mawzda. In North America I've known it as an east/west difference. ...please tell me you don't think pronouncing the first "a" as in "hat" is the correct pronunciation. Both of those are loanwords from languages that don't have that sound. e: I'm aware of dialects, but spelling one the way the word's actually spelled implies "correctness". SneezeOfTheDecade has a new favorite as of 05:15 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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Sep 6, 2017 05:10
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Jesus Christ sperg less and talk more 
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Sep 9, 2017 02:29
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Also, Gaius Julius Caesar may have proposed the Julian calendar fixes but he almost certainly didn't invent them. Not to slander him, dude was doing plenty of other poo poo, but astronomer extraordinaire he was not. True enough! Here's another Calendar Fun Fact: we don't know what "April" means. Our best guess is that it's related to the Greek "Aphrodite", maybe through Etruscan, but since Etruscan isn't just dead but extinct (we only know a few hundred words of Etruscan, and none of them are helpful), we can't be sure.
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Sep 16, 2017 16:03
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The thread title isn't an invitation to just make stuff up  I just learned that a) "solder" is pronounced differently in the UK and AUS/NZ, and b) some Brits get REALLY salty about the US pronunciation.
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Oct 6, 2017 14:59
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someone awful. posted:what, do they pronounce the L? weird More than that: some of them use a long "o" (so it's basically "soldier" without the "j" sound).
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Oct 6, 2017 17:05
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Uh, let's see ..... uh, 'muscles' were originally called 'mouse-cles' because when you flex it looks like there's little mice jumping around under your skin. Boy, were people surprised when the Dark Ages ended and they were finally allowed to dissect dead bodies and find out what was really in there! You, uh, you're actually right on this one. From Latin "musculus", "little mouse", because some muscles look like mice moving around when you flex them (or at least did to ancient Romans).
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Oct 6, 2017 17:21
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Weembles posted:The cobalt thing is true too. I'll be damned.
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Oct 6, 2017 18:23
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Weembles posted:The cobalt thing is true too. I mentioned this elsewhere and got another cool element name etymology in response: nickel is named for the Devil! It's from Kupfernickel, "the Devil's copper", a compound so named because it looks like silver but is "just" copper plus "impurities" (that turned out to be elemental nickel).
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Oct 7, 2017 01:15
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:English people are real proud that they have exactly one word where the spelling and pronunciation makes more « logical sense » than the american version. Those place names are pretty easy to pronounce once you figure out that the pronunciation has come decoupled from the root. "Gloucester" looks like it should be "glou" + "cester", right? That's where the word came from - the fort at Glevum, "Glevum" + "castrum". But the pronunciation shifted to place the "ce" in the first syllable, so it's pronounced "Glouce" ("gloss") + "ster" = "glosster". The same goes for other place names with the same pattern, like Leicester: "Leice" ("less") + "ster" = "lester". With "shire" you just have to remember that the "i" is short in place names. So "Gloucestershire" becomes, pronunciationally, "glouce" + "ster" + "shire" = "gloss" + "ster" + "sher" = "glosstersher"; Leicestershire is "lestersher", etc.
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Oct 10, 2017 13:35
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Tiggum posted:a jar full of snakes, freckles, and licorice whose... whose freckles are they 
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Oct 11, 2017 17:14
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Proteus Jones posted:C'mon, be fair. It's not like he was talking about pastries. I believe those are shrimp.
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Oct 13, 2017 04:26
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Elizabethan Error posted:It says right on the map, that's Austria no, it says it's the True Size of EG Ghana. (EG must stand for Equatorial Giant)
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Oct 14, 2017 00:56
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Apparently the (edible) green substance in a lobster is called "tomalley", not "tamale". I always wondered what it had to do with corn husks.
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Oct 20, 2017 04:52
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Hirayuki posted:Beaubien, Livernois... But it's not just French! Case in point: Schoenherr. Also "Heydenreich" which seems easy enough to pronounce properly, but I still hear people say it "HEY den, Rich." Oh, the Midwest's got plenty. See Valparaiso, IN ("val puh RAY zoh") and Cairo, IL ("KAY roh").
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Oct 23, 2017 22:07
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Henchman of Santa posted:There's also Newark, pronounced "Nurk" Nobody can agree on how to pronounce Newark. In New Jersey it's "NOO erk", in Delaware it's "NEW ark" (and they get mad if you pronounce it "NOO erk").
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Oct 24, 2017 00:28
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I'd known about ballad/common meter, but I keep discovering new pop-culture uses of it; my kid just came in singing the "Pokémon" theme song to the tune of "Amazing Grace". 
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Oct 24, 2017 03:47
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fruit on the bottom posted:It’s definitely jumped. I remember that from one of the Berenstein books. 
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Nov 1, 2017 00:08
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ubergnu posted:Dammit! At least Walk Like an Egyptian is safe no wait why do I bother If it makes you feel better, the percentage of pop songs actually written by the people who performed them is astonishingly low (Terius Nash, aka The-Dream, wrote, like, half the pop hits between 2000-2010), and if nobody else actually released a performance of the song it's not really a cover. The Bangles were the first group to release recordings of "Manic Monday" and "Walk Like an Egyptian", so you can feel comfortable in that, at least.
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Nov 1, 2017 14:33
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Charlie Brown is supposed to have close-cut, very-light hair, not be bald with a little tuft at the front.quote:Charles M. Schulz claimed that he saw Charlie Brown as having hair that was so light, and cut so short, that it could not be seen very easily. It's more obvious when he's drawn side-on in the early strips: 
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Nov 7, 2017 16:22
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hawowanlawow posted:when I was like 6 years old I read a bunch of charlie brown comics, but had no idea how "sigh" was pronounced. I didn't know what the gently caress the characters meant by "sig-uh" This reminds me of the story about the kid who saw "c'mon" in a comic book but thought the "c" was pronounced separately, so asked his mom what the word "c-mon" in his comic book meant.
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Nov 7, 2017 16:44
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I still maintain that "sleight" (as in "sleight of hand") should rhyme with "weight" and not "height".
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Nov 8, 2017 03:41
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We've come this far and not a single person has commented on the orientation of the toilet paper in the video?
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Nov 10, 2017 22:41
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I don’t know how I didn’t pick up on this earlier, but “to pass/succeed with flying colors” is a reference to naval custom, where a defeated ship would lower its colors (national flag) and only a victorious ship would return to harbor with its colors flying.
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drat it, today’s a twofer day. Today I finally connected the dots and realized that IBM’s Watson supercomputer is not a Sherlock Holmes reference, but a nod to Thomas J. Watson, first president and namer of International Business Machines.
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Nov 26, 2017 02:45
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om nom nom posted:The slur is just "wop", it originated as an acronym for "with out papers". Thread title strikes again.
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Dec 21, 2017 04:24
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The founder of Burger King was named Leroy.
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Even better, bungie (also bungee, bonji, etc.) cords are named after them, because parrotkeet bones are not only hollow but elastic. If you stretch a bungerigar out it'll snap right back into shape. There's even a sport named after it, where you stretch a parrotkeet out and then fling it at someone's feet, and they have to leap over it; predictably, it's called bungie jumping.
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Mar 30, 2018 06:13
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Jerry Cotton posted:What's up with nerds giving a poo poo about a 30-year-old childrens' adventure movie anyways oh wait nevermind There’s dumb, and then there’s calling Indiana Jones movies “children’s movies” when the MPAA literally invented the PG-13 rating so people wouldn’t mistake them for kids’ movies.
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Apr 2, 2018 23:34
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purple death ray posted:most pg-13 movies are aimed at kids? I mean if you don't see the difference between "this is aimed at kids" and "we're not going to complain if kids see this" then I don't know what to tell you.
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Apr 3, 2018 02:47
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Torquemada posted:Just watched it again to confirm my initial take that this is horseshit: I was right. Raiders is so much better it’s not true. Better villains, better love interest, better music, better action set pieces and the Ark, front and centre with it’s spooky theme and sense of otherworldly power vs a cup of Alka Seltzer that appears in the last five minutes of the movie. Counterpoint: in Last Crusade, Indy's moved on to banging college students instead of 15-year-olds.
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Apr 4, 2018 04:24
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Torquemada posted:Uh he only bangs nazi Grace Kelly in Crusade. He's got a college student over with him when Brody comes to visit at the beginning of the movie. (Her scene was cut but the evidence is still there.)
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Phyzzle posted:Rick Moranis is not the lead singer of a band called Arcade Fire. I have no idea how you got to this point, but I'd pay to see that concert.
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Randaconda can't believe he just figured out that not everybody had the same musical influences he did growing up.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Seriously this isn't hard So did you actually read the link you posted? "lede" is a deliberate misspelling of "lead", but it's been around for 40 years. And quote:Despite the acknowledgment of "lede" by Safire and others, and its subsequent use by journalists and non-journalists alike, phrases employing the traditional spelling of "lead" still find their way into print. implies that "bury the lede" is the more accepted phrase.
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rydiafan posted:Famous singer Jimmy Buff-ay is made entirely out of beef. Except in France.
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