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cyberia posted:I'm pretty sure this is a recent made-up term rather than some ~official~ dictionary-listed word and I hate it. It sounds so stupid, argh. This is starting to sound like it could start a derail for several pages, but you'd expect the wrong of the nibling to be pretty epic.
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The very top end of Australia is near-equatorial tropics so they really only have the wet/monsoon season and the dry season. The indigenous population had their own seasons:quote:For the Jawoyn people, from around Katherine near south east Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, six seasons are described in the tropical zone in which they live: Wakaringding is a great word for a season, I wish we had Wakaringding down here in the south.
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InediblePenguin posted:Thanksgiving is a harvest festival Halloween was also originally a pagan harvest festival (which is why it features pumpkins and apples and other food so heavily) until it got hijacked by Christians and turned into a remembrance of the dead dealie. Maybe Sentient Data is Australian? We don't really have a harvest festival here. People are starting to celebrate Halloween in Oz but there's still a lot of pushback against it for being "too American" and "just another over-commodified holiday" but mostly because Australians are lovely parochial fun-haters.
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Oh yeah. In that case I have no idea.
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EmmyOk posted:We were taught in school that it's when all the monsters came out so you had to dress up as a monster to blend in so they wouldn't eat the harvest. They're called Native Americans, please show some respect 
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EmmyOk posted:I'm not American you daft racist Then why are you celebrating Thanksgiving???
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Jul 3, 2017 13:43
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Croccers posted:they keep you warm and a decent one is thick/tough enough to stop you from getting too scuffed up on little bails. Try wearing better pants or maybe a sports cup? Edit: sorry, misread your post 
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Jul 21, 2017 14:02
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Jerry Cotton posted:What I find crazy is that Finnish is apparently the only existing language that uses the proper name for the 12th month of the year: yule month. 'December' is absolutely the wrong name for the 12th month of the year, it translates to "10th month". Julius frickin' Caesar decided to gently caress around with the Roman calendar which originally only had 10 months but instead of inventing a new 11th and 12th month he added two extra months at the start of the year which meant that pretty much all of the other month names were wrong. Quintilis (5th month) and Sextilis (6th month) would have become the new 7th and 8th months except Caesar decided to rename them after himself and his buddy Augustus. And that's why the calendar that most of the world uses today is dumb and wrong and all mixed up.
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Jul 24, 2017 12:46
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IUG posted:Haha, I had to look this up: ...aaaand it turns out he's actually super familiar, we've been watching him do this silly dance in the Charlie Brown Christmas special for decades:  The girl in purple is one of his sisters, either called 3 or 4. The other girl doing the exact same dance elsewhere on the stage is her twin sister.
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Aug 5, 2017 10:56
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Scaramouche posted:This isn't me, but was actually a co-worker a while ago. He'd just come back from a trip to London and was talking about all the Sherlock Holmes stuff he'd seen while there (221B Baker Street, etc.). He thought Sherlock Holmes was at one point, a real guy, as did his girlfriend who was on the trip with him. This apparently isn't unusual, in that a poll in 2014 found that close to 20% of people surveyed thought he was a real historic figure: Yeah it's really common for people to believe that fictional things are real: Robin Hood, King Arthur, the Titanic, Robinson Crusoe, narwhals, etc etc
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:i thought monty python was a real person until i was twenty. According to the lore they were stuck with the name 'Flying Circus' when the BBC said they'd already printed that name on their schedule and weren't prepared to change it and the cast decided to call the show "______'s Flying Circus" and went through a bunch of different names before choosing Monty Python. Apparently Michael Pail wanted to call the show 'Gwen Dibley's Flying Circus' after a woman he'd read about in the paper because he thought it'd be hilarious if this woman picked up a TV guide one day and discovered there was a TV show named after her.
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Pastry of the Year posted:ah gently caress, I was on wookieepedia Well that would explain the confusion, that article doesn't explain his origin at all http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Locust
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I've had dumb arguments with people over whether monotremes like the platypus are mammals. They get really insistent that they're not. "But they lay eggs!"
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You could also use platypus eggs, milk and venom to make some delicious devilled eggs.
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Choco1980 posted:Aren't echindas also egg laying mammals? Placental mammals (including humans) also lay eggs, they just gestate them internally. It's always fun pointing this out to people who don't believe that platypuses are mammals, it blows their mind. 
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Aug 22, 2017 12:57
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Jerry Cotton posted:but it doesn't mean much. Well that's not what you told me last week YOU MONSTER 
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Frankston posted:Not being allowed to say anything sounds lovely and you might as well just be watching a YouTube video at home. Hell, at least you could rewind the parts you don't get. .... or play them at 1.5 speed if they're super boring!
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Unkempt posted:Huh. So what would a male version of 'Maria' be? According to my 30 second google search one of the origins of the name Maria (there's apparently several) is the feminine version of the name Marius so the male version of the name would be ..... Mario.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Stress on the second syllable. Maria as a feminine form of Marius/Mario would have the stress on the first syllable. Wait, Mario is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable? Stuff I just figured out: well that explains why the Gamestop guys are always laughing at me 
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dirksteadfast posted:"quesadilla" I pronounce that as "kwess- addiler"
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Yeah the Roman calendar had a weird history, it's come up in this thread before:Snowglobe of Doom posted:'December' is absolutely the wrong name for the 12th month of the year, it translates to "10th month". Julius frickin' Caesar decided to gently caress around with the Roman calendar which originally only had 10 months but instead of inventing a new 11th and 12th month he added two extra months at the start of the year which meant that pretty much all of the other month names were wrong. Quintilis (5th month) and Sextilis (6th month) would have become the new 7th and 8th months except Caesar decided to rename them after himself and his buddy Augustus. Besesoth posted:Today you get to learn about Roman calendars!
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The Mighty Moltres posted:C.S. Lewis and Lewis Carroll were not the same person. They probably were in the Marvel/DC comics crossover Amalgam Universe, if that makes you feel any better.
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The Mighty Moltres posted:Pretty sure "avocado" is actually Aztec for "testicle." Oh come on, at least put some effort into your fakeposts 
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Besesoth posted:The thread title isn't an invitation to just make stuff up I'm gonna make poo poo up and there ain't squat you can do about it, buster.  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! Many people think that the dungeons & dragons monsters called Kobolds are named after the mineral cobalt but it was actually the other way around. 'Noon' comes from the Latin word for 'nine' because it happens at the 9th hour of the day. But then someone decided to move it to 12 o'clock for some reason? 'Antarctic' means "No bears here!" because someone went and checked and there weren't any bears there.
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I heard the Mr. Mister song 'Kyrie' on the radio the other day. I hadn't heard it for a decade at least and I'd always vaguely assumed it was about a woman because Kyrie sounds a bit like Kirrily and the song seems to be addressed to someone ("Kyrie eleison, where I'm going will you follow?) and I never really listened to it that closely anyway. It turns out that "Kyrie eleison" is Greek for "Lord, have mercy".
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Organza Quiz posted:Wait, Americans pronounce solder without the L? I'm not trying to be a smartarse, I literally don't think I've ever heard it and can't imagine how it sounds like that. What O sound is it? It feels like I consume enough American media that I should have come across this before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwIHFmagmyk Edit: you should see how they pronounce 'colonel', it's a travesty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2pkUecLaxI Edit 2: oh jeez they really gently caress this one up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhANvLXAmb8 Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 13:20 on Oct 10, 2017 |
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Henchman of Santa posted:I have never heard anyone do that in my life. Here in Australia we usually pronounce 'almond' as 'armand' (which also seems to be the UK pronunciation) but I usually pronounce the 'l' because I like to appear mysterious and enticing to strangers but also because I'm really loving annoying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFkV_Gfgpi8
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iajanus posted:What's the third city? I count Sydney, Melbourne and then I'm at a loss. Adelaide, they at least have some festivals which people fly in for.
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Zero One posted:All the French street names around Detroit are pronounced wrong. Maybe they should start pronouncing it the French way "Dee Twaa" to make it sound fancier, might help spruce up the place. Here in Australia there was a brief phase of people pronouncing Target (the big box store full of cheap crap) as "Tar-jay".
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hawowanlawow posted:I didn't know what the gently caress the characters meant by "sig-uh" No one ever found out, it's still a mystery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ&t=60s
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walrusman posted:Are the Animaniacs really supposed to be cats? Huh. They're not any specific kind of animal. Creator Tom Ruegger said their species is “Cartoonus Characterus.”
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Red Bones posted:in general, a bird probably has a longer neck than you'd think by looking at it. Legs too!  Edit: owls are simultaneously much smaller and longer but also bigger and wider than you realise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSGHNfxxDjw&t=33s Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 12:16 on Nov 22, 2017 |
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Karatela posted:I learned yesterday that Diagon Alley in Harry Potter stuff is literally "diagonally"and a bad pun. One of the streets running of Diagon Alley is Knockturn Alley (where they have shops dedicated to the Dark Arts)
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Karatela posted:
There are hundreds of pun names in the Harry Potter series
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and I had to work that out for a minute.
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FreudianSlippers posted:For those not in the know: Tarantula posted:Don't forget New Zealand. Corrected statement: quote:Gallipoli was the place where the Australians lost a battle so badly it forced them to forget New Zealand and also develop their own national identity instead of just being tanned Englishmen.
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Icochet posted:I just love this picture. The owl is so intent on loving me up that some joker basically lifting it's skirt up down doesn't invoke a reaction, if anything it just makes it angrier at ME. Science has shown that once an owl fixates on something it's almost impossible to make it turn away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYL7fa3rxV0
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Quote-Unquote posted:Alternative option: just use the search feature it's tyool 2018 I downloaded all my music from Limewire in 2003 so half the files are misspelled anyway
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Trans-LoafWithTail posted:today i learned that the french have a phrase for the urge to be a goon. “l’appel de l’escalier” C'est vrais, je suis protégé 
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Trans-LoafWithTail posted:oh yeah, do the commonwealth countries even do the ABC song? because doesn’t their hosed up “zed” thing gently caress up the whole rhyming structure at the end? Yeah we do the ABC song and our pronunciation of 'Z' does gently caress up the rhyming structure but we just go with it.
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I love that Mr. Bad Guy was yelling at SLOSifl for copying his "Obvious Brand Name as a Surname" joke after the Simpsons did it 27 years ago in the Flaming Moes episode.
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