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SirSlarty posted:It's based on Dance of the Cygnets from Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky Ah. Well, I guess I was right the first time, then. And I guess that's why it's called "Swan's Splashdown", too.
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I don't understand FYAD and I don't understand Twitter. Or Instagram, or Snapchat. Get off my fuckin' lawn.
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purple death ray posted:Considering you are posting on the internet while apparently being baffled by like most of it, maybe you are the one on the wrong lawn It was supposed to be self-deprecating, dude.
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Jun 25, 2017 01:42
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Bogan King posted:Thankfully here in You're kidding, right? The refugee issue is nothing but dog-whisle politics. Has been since Howard. Though, to be fair, it seems like the bigots are becoming more open about it in recent times.
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Jun 27, 2017 10:15
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Hirayuki posted:What do you consider "middle"? It starts in September in the States, April in Japan. That's quite a spread. "Not January or February"
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Jun 29, 2017 02:26
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Besesoth posted:The US doesn't have official fixed dates for the beginning of seasons, period; the common understanding of seasons beginning on the solstices and equinoxes is drawn from astrology. The period between the June solstice and the September equinox is referred to as "summer" in astronomy for convenience, and likewise September-December as "autumn", etc., and as astrology (that is, tacky dollar-store knock-off astronomy) gained popularity in the 60s, so did its seasonal definitions. But astrology aside, aren't the equinoxes the actual points in our orbit around the sun where the northern and southern hemisphere are getting the same amount of light, and the one is going to get colder and the other warmer? It makes far more sense to me to define the seasons by that. And I'm Australian
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Jun 30, 2017 09:38
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Memento posted:Equinoxes and solstices are just to do with the length of the day. Equi-nox = equal night. Sol-stice = sun still (the sun's declination appears to stay in place instead of getting lower or higher, like it had been for the last three months). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox posted:An equinox is the moment in which the plane of Earth's equator passes through the center of the Sun's disk,[2] which occurs twice each year, around 20 March and 23 September. Besesoth posted:Sure, but that's what I mean by an "astronomical convenience"; I'm not sure how much sense it makes in the everyday world to define "summer" as "the part of the year when it starts getting colder and darker". Huh? No, I'd call that "mid autumn". I'd go with the solstices and equinoxes being the middles of their seasons.
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Jul 1, 2017 09:27
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purple death ray posted:This is fuckin shameful It's not shameful. It's incredible
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Jul 18, 2017 00:40
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bewilderment posted:The USA has the concept of the 'pickup truck': Wait. "Pickup truck" isn't simply American for "ute"? e: I'd call both those vehicles "utes"
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Jul 18, 2017 09:20
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Intoluene posted:There is actually a difference and it's mostly about how the chassis is constructed. The ute is based on a standard car chassis while a pick up has a truck body with the passenger cab and tray bolted to the base. Wait... what's a truck, though? I know we have this conversation like every week, but I can't remember. "Truck" to me means what I think Americans call a "semi trailer", which obviously isn't what you're talking about. A van?
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Jul 18, 2017 13:35
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IUG posted:Pantera did break up and some of the members did form another band called "Damageplan". They had one album out and toured. This is when Dimebag Darrel was killed. " 'Was killed?' A guy called 'Dimebag' didn't die of a drug overdose? What's Wikipedia say?..." Wikipedia posted:On December 8, 2004, 34 dates into the Devastation Across The Nation tour[19], Abbott was shot on-stage while performing with Damageplan at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio. A crowd of approximately 250 had watched four support acts (two local bands entitled Volume Dealer and 12 Gauge[20], and the tour support Shadows Fall and The Haunted,) when moments into Damageplan's set, 25-year-old former Marine Nathan Gale shot Abbott five times in the head with a 9 mm Beretta 92FS pistol, killing him instantly. Some in attendance initially believed the shooting was part of the act, but as Gale continued shooting, the audience quickly came to the realization that the event was not staged. Firing a total of 15 shots, Gale killed four other people and wounded seven more. Holy poo poo  . That reads like an action movie script. Funny name aside, that cop nailed the guy in the head while he had a hostage in headlock, using a shotgun.
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Jul 19, 2017 09:15
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Ferrule posted:You all do realize "ute" is short for "utility", right? As in "utility vehicle". So any sort of vehicle used with that generic purpose would be called a ute. I know the etymology. I have never heard anyone call a vehicle a "ute" that wasn't a car sized thing with a tray at the back.
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Jul 20, 2017 00:16
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ladron posted:fu australia no need to get salty just because no one wants to use your stupid made up words Call them what you like in your own countries, but if you want to sell them here then they're utes 
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Jul 20, 2017 08:59
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Bringing up an old topic, but I just found out that in countries that use the solstices to define the seasons they use them to mark the START of the season. Why? That doesn't make a lick of sense to me. Surely the winter solstice, when the night is longest, should be the exact MIDDLE of winter? At the winter solstice, that hemisphere is getting the least amount of light in 24 hours it's ever going to get in that year, so it follows it should be as cold as it's going to get and about to start getting warmer. That would be the middle of winter, surely? Isn't midwinter meant to be the coldest, and midsummer the hottest?
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Jul 24, 2017 04:27
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Ein cooler Typ posted:are you a foreigner? how do they mark seasons in your country? I'm not a foreigner. You're a foreigner  Metal Geir Skogul posted:Yes Dec 22nd is the coldest part of the year, surely. Weather and temperature are 100% to do with the amount of sunlight, to the day, with no thermal carryover. Okay, yes, there's a lot more to weather than just how much sun you're getting. But which end of the Earth is getting more sun is indeed the reason for seasons, and so it makes the most sense to me to use that.
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Jul 24, 2017 08:21
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Mike Patton isn't the guy named Mike from Linkin Park. That's Mike Shinoda. Different Mikes altogether.
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Aug 16, 2017 13:19
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Antivehicular posted:I want to live in the universe where Coldplay is a Pantera side project. Surely there has to be a mashup or two out there
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Aug 18, 2017 11:29
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Just put ArtIsResistance on ignore and move on. Apparently I already had, and my decision was justified.
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Aug 19, 2017 03:25
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I think it depends how you're taught. I was pretty sure "living things" was divided into "plants, animals and insects" for a long time.
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Aug 20, 2017 00:17
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Memento posted:Also, fish farms are spectacularly bad for the environment. It takes more fish used as feed to raise a fish than you get out of it, so you're still depleting stocks. It also introduces all sorts of foreign things into the environment, like antibiotics and pesticides. You can't separate fish farms from the open ocean because you need a way to get rid of the waste from the fish. The CSIRO came up with microbe-based prawn food, but even then they only say it "reduces" the amount of wild fish you need to feed the prawns. And obviously that's only for prawns, not fish.
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Aug 20, 2017 13:45
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syscall girl posted:https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/once-upon-a-time-the-catholic-church-decided-that-beavers-were-fish/ Chametz is leavened grain, not just grain .
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Aug 21, 2017 12:17
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bongwizzard posted:I would've gone with "I laid an egg in your mom last night, now what motherfucker?" That was nice of you to donate eggs so that that goon's mom could get IVF!
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Aug 22, 2017 13:13
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ladron posted:sounds kinda like your dad just likes killing folks Who doesn't?
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Aug 29, 2017 11:15
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I have a rice cooker, that I use pretty frequently. I always struggled with dividing up the cooked rice evenly, though, when I made a big batch of food and wanted to freeze it with rice. Like, it's easy enough to divide it into quarters when I made four meals' worth, just by splitting the rice in half and half again, but not as easy when making six meals' worth or whatever. I worked out ages ago that one scoop of uncooked rice makes about two portions of cooked rice (when put with other food, like stew or whatever). It JUST occurred to me - like last night - that I can just use the scoop again, and that two scoops of cooked rice will be the amount I want.
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Aug 31, 2017 13:38
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purple death ray posted:Also any dude running around named Josh is actually named after Jesus No, that guy running around being Jesus was actually named after Josh! "Joshua" is a Jewish name. It's "Yehoshua" in Hebrew. There's an entire book of the Old Testament called Joshua, after the main character. A thousand years after that, some Jewish heretic with the same name gets told on by the Jewish religious authorities, becomes a martyr, and a splinter faction of Judaism forms. Two thousand years later it's still going and that Josh is popularly known by the Anglicised version of the Greek version of his name, but meanwhile Orthodox Jews still name their kids Joshua after Joshua. Hyperlynx has a new favorite as of 09:35 on Sep 7, 2017 |
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Sep 7, 2017 08:58
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poly and open-minded posted:dont tell the Koreans that (because it's wrong, the war is ongoing) Fine, if you want to split hairs: the show lasted longer than the period between the commencement of hostilities and the truce & creation of the demilitarised zone.
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Oct 6, 2017 02:54
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There's a bit in the Overwatch background story where the government gives the robots some land in "the outback" to appease them, but the folks that live in "the outback" get pissed off and form a rebellion. Yeah, nah. The outback is mostly a whole expanse of sweet gently caress all, and nobody would care or even notice. e: 
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bewilderment posted:Well, better late... Organza Quiz posted:Probably, but the toilets don't help:
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As a kid, I used to wonder why some analogue watches have marks instead of numbers, and figured it was just a stylistic choice. The other day, I realised that it makes sense from a design point of view, too, since the marks represent both hours and minutes. The numbers are only useful if you're looking at the hours hand, so it kind of makes sense to not have them at all.
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Organza Quiz posted:It probably had its own name before we decided it was our special origin myth place. Surprisingly enough, the Turks were apparently quite willing to help it be our origin myth place, though. There's this monument there, which I find really moving:  (Ataturk is, to my knowledge, the father of the modern Turkish state as an entity distinct from the ancient Ottoman Empire and, I believe, a hero figure in Turkey). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANZAC_Cove says the Turkish government officially declared it ANZAC Cove in 1985. I haven't managed to find a former name for it. My point is, I don't think it's actually a case of us unilaterally deciding to rename some piece of foreign land for our national origin myth, but rather them actually being quite happy to participate in that national origin myth too. I don't know why, though. My guess is a lot has to do with the Ottoman Empire - the enemies of the ANZACs - ceasing to be after WW1 and being replaced by successor states like modern Turkey, but I don't know details...
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"A little help from my friends" by The Beatles is not the same song as "Lean on me" by Bill Withers, even if the subject matter is similar and they were both covered by Joe Cocker.
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Jan 14, 2018 13:13
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Supertramp and Pink Floyd are different bands.
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Jan 22, 2018 06:25
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You call each writing implement, individually, a (whatever coloured) Floyd.
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rydiafan posted:My dad taught me Red, Right, Returning so I wouldn't run aground coming into port at night. But that referred to the harbor lights, not the ship's. If it's yella, that's juice you got there, fella! If it's brown, you're in cider town!
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Mar 29, 2018 12:36
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"Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine" was hot, squirty garbage. "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis" was good, though.
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Memento posted:Did Fate of Atlantis have voice acting or have I populated my own memories of it with spoken version of the lines I read? The CD version did, yeah. The floppy disk version didn't. Same as all the old Lucasarts adventure games.
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Apr 5, 2018 10:46
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Apparently Jimmy Buffett is not Jimmy Hoffa.
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Apr 15, 2018 08:37
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I dunno. My sister was telling me something the other day about this musician called Jimmy Buffett, and I was like "wait... isn't that that union guy who disappeared in mysterious circumstances a long time ago?"
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Turpitude II posted:Rosanne Barr and Rosie O'Donnell are also different people. Wait, what?
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Henchman of Santa posted:They’re both heavy set brunette comedians from the late 80s/90s with similar names. They may have opposing world views but that’s not that weird. No, I mean "wait what they're two separate people?"
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