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Birds come from eggs? Amazing. 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. Similarly (having never been any kind of musician) "play it by ear" means to play something by sounds alone, without the sheet music. Both if these may be false as I can't be bothered to google them.
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HairyManling posted:That's pretty much what it means, yes. But I'm genuinely curious what you thought it meant before figuring this out. Just figured it meant to "wing it", which is, incidentally, another expression I can't make heads or tails of. Oh, there's another one. Idioms, man. I tried to bing em, but all I got was very specific porn.
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Sep 29, 2016 19:28
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Simply Simon posted:Summer of 69 does not begin with "Got my first real sex dream". I recently learner that mondegreen is a really cool word. It's also one of the few words in English that is what it describes. I'm sure there's a word for it.
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Oct 6, 2016 21:54
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FELD1 posted:Speaking of Quebec, I was glancing at a map and realized that Montreal is not in fact the provincial capital. It's Quebec. I'm usually very knowledgeable about geography, so I felt pretty ashamed of myself. It's not. It's Quebec City. And since it's Quebec were talking about it's technically Ville de Québec.
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Nov 2, 2016 12:24
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I just learned that military acronyms are really cumbersome and dumb.
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Nov 15, 2016 20:32
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I owned a ps4 for like four months before I realised the colour LEDs on top don't indicate battery level but player number. Like blue for p1, red for p2, green for p3. I kept charging the red one and the blue one kept dying. What really hosed with me was that the other day p1 was green, which makes no sense to me. Plus now this crystal on my hand is blinking.
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Nov 30, 2016 07:01
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Mazerunner posted:It can be game specific. Some games will match to your character color, like Towerfall Ascension, or game state, like Destiny will be blue normally, red for low health, yellow for charged super etc. I hate that. I feel like that kind of pointless confusion is more a Microsoft idea. I also hate how when I turn the lights off to get into the game, the rooms glows with whatever confusing colour the remote dictates.
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Nov 30, 2016 08:12
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Like all music, it's about sex.
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Dec 1, 2016 07:29
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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. His maid or whatever should just change it to a current model. What's he going to do about it?
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Dec 2, 2016 20:35
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You're thinking of tapout.
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Dec 9, 2016 21:01
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Phlegmish posted:Sounds like it's worth its salt LOL Na, Clearly worth more.
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Dec 20, 2016 21:23
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Useless Rabbit posted:I'd love to believe this was intentional. I took it with a granum of salt.
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Dec 21, 2016 02:42
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Figured this one out years ago but for a good portion of my life I didn't realize that wax burned and was the fuel for a candle. I just figured that the wick burned and the wax simply prevented it from burning too quickly.
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Dec 30, 2016 01:58
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Camels are originally native to North America. Would have been, like, my fourth guess.
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Jan 5, 2017 07:25
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Yeah, I forgot that Pangaea was still together 2 million years ago.
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Jan 5, 2017 07:56
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 Like, I couldn't even find the new world on that crazy unrecognizable jumble of land.
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Jan 5, 2017 08:05
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Schadenfreude thread is over there.
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Jan 19, 2017 06:24
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Yeah, man. Bill and Ted buy is almost a decade younger than John Wick guy.
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Feb 18, 2017 00:30
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Next to lead in the water, defunding schools is the best way to ensure a strong conservative voting base.
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Feb 28, 2017 08:27
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Also, if you give money to the poor they'll just use it on drugs and lobster. Nasty, nasty poors.
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Feb 28, 2017 18:39
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Please go eat a hot dog.
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Mar 1, 2017 17:59
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Uh, p sure expedient means like a correct or appropriate means of accomplishing something. Like to do something expediently is to select the proper or desired course of action. I'm not seeing how a negative connotation exists unless you use it specifically in the negative, e.g. Your completion of the task was not very expedient. Am I missing something here?
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Mar 7, 2017 23:49
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^^^- Jumping straight to google takes all the fun out of it. Okay, then the original claim is dumb because it seems like it can carry a negative connotation, but doesn't necessarily have to, which in a broader sense is how connotation works.  The original statement should probably have gone something like "expedient can carry a negative denotation" since we're arguing dictionary definitions and not contextual usage or subjective interpretation. E: ehhh, content. Few years ago I was shocked to learn that dogs and cats lap up water backwards from how I imagined. 
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Mar 8, 2017 00:07
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Again, you guys are mixing up connotation with denotation.
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Mar 8, 2017 00:37
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Powaqoatse posted:
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Mar 11, 2017 18:18
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Saul Berenson is Inigo Montoya
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Apr 9, 2017 23:43
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Aaron Eckhart is not Jamie Lannister. I had to look this up because I am an idiot and identify people by chin.
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May 17, 2017 00:39
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Every group of animals is a group. The fancy names are just for fun.
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Jun 24, 2017 01:09
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Jerry Cotton posted:Summer starts when the daily average temperature is over 10 degrees. Mean is a type of average. What you said amounts to "bill eats fruit in the summer. E: or maybe it's apples bill eats in the summer, I'm not a botanisto."
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Jun 30, 2017 02:10
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They play just fine for me.
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Jul 10, 2017 04:46
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Xibanya posted:I can't believe I just figured out that a belt for men's slacks is more than just decorative. So you thought the pants held up the belt and just realised that the belt holds up the pants?
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Jul 20, 2017 22:45
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Xibanya posted:I mean, that's how it works for most women! It was a failed attempt at a mitch reference.
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Jul 21, 2017 08:15
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Every Italian ever posted:I know the mafia
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Jul 26, 2017 00:58
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Not new to me but a surprising amount of people don't know that cmyk stand for cyan, magenta, yellow, and key. Key is black.
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Aug 23, 2017 05:21
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Memento posted:I knew "k" indicated black, but I didn't know it just stood for key. Neat! Key is also shorthand for chroma key which is basically a blue/green screen superimposition. So if someone on tv is "keyed up" or "keyed" it means they're set up for a background swap / superimposition / overlay. Also - and this one might not be true- I was taught that we use green and blue because they are not colours that appear in human pigment. Just don't wear the green and blue shirt the day you're going live.
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Aphrodite posted:The Switch develops a bend just from being in its own dock. I hear some docks even prefer switches with right kind of bend.
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Aug 29, 2017 17:12
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Use hotdogs as your base.
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Aug 30, 2017 02:14
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Jerry Cotton posted:Which is irrelevant because doing math in your head or on a piece of paper is about 40000 times faster and more convenient than using the shithell that is smartphone calculators. This is true for all equations and applications. (yeah, I get your point but c'mon son)
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Aug 31, 2017 12:05
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:A homemade smoothie like that is equivalent to eating some fruit and some 30cal almond milk. It may even be higher cal than a soda but it's actually nutritious and will fill you up and help your poops with delicious fiber. It's not at all the same as a totally non-satiating can of sugar. 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!).
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:That's not at all the same thing as "a soda." 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. E: Besesoth posted: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. Lol, whatever you say, goon lord.
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