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The opposite of Weird Al is... NormAl. Sorry for the whitest possible addition to the current discussion.
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There's that Simpsons bit with Mr Burns' childhood, where his dad(?) at the atom mill has a man fired. As the worker is dragged away, he shouts about unions and how "we'll grow corrupt and shiftless, and the Japanese will eat us alive!" (The Japanese? Those sandal-wearing goldfish tenders?) "eat us alive" is a reference to the remarkable growth of the Japanese economy in the 80's, in particular its automotive and electronics divisions, and HAS NOTHING TO DO with some sort of obscure act of cannibalism by imperial forces in the Pacific theatre during WW2. Also, the american slang term "stroking out" means "to suffer the effects of a stroke" and not "masturbation." This realisation has made reading the Trump threads much less horrifying.
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There's a Simpsons episode where the kids visit a haunted house called The Screamatorium. This is a pun on "crematorium." I Can't Believe I Just Figured This Stuff Out.
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Hyperlynx posted:Idk, a machine that can reconstitute food would be pretty cool. Not sure what you'd use it for, though. Where did you think the stuff at Whole Foods shops came from?
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RoboRodent posted:Today I found out that moose don't range as far south as I thought they did. Oops. Your megafaunaposting is extra fun under the assumption that your avatar is actually your portrait.
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Assistant Manager Devil posted:This is not an assumption, it's an established avatar fact for every user. *scrolls page* wow, that does work.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Oil companies have known about global warming since the late 70s they just don't give a poo poo. Ahh. Guess what happens in the mid 70's? The Venera probes land on Venus and transmit images of the surface back to earth. Humanity is presented with images of a planet transformed into a blasted baking greenhouse hell; and a lot of very important and very rich people take this as a cue to Think Of The Shareholders.
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Trabant posted:A hundred thousand words about Heathcliff and it's not even the cat. Catherine loves the meat tank?
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May 25, 2021 06:58
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Shia LeBoof is not "Post Malone". No no, you must be mistaken. They're the same person.
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Jun 18, 2021 04:03
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I got halfway through university before I worked out that "=" means "the things on either side of this symbol are exactly the same, just written in different ways" and not "GET THE ANSWER! WHY AREN'T YOU GETTING THE ANSWER! YOU SUCK AT MATHS!"
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Nov 22, 2021 05:13
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Jestery posted:Speaking of multiplication by hand, I learnt the Arabic method and distinctly prefer it That's great. I feel like I'm watching a magic trick. Lady Disdain posted:I was taught this method, and drawing a grid takes a lot longer than just using the Western method. It might be good as a teaching method, but once you understand the concept, it just slows things down. Nothing can be slower than how I currently handle maths. BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:You're a talented art person though so you don't need* to know that. Or what XOR means or stuff from programming languages like == and != and the arcane mysteries of regular expressions. The mere sight of == makes me feel really uneasy. Equals equals equals, right? I mean, that's what it does. It's equals. You can't have double equals.
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Nov 22, 2021 11:16
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I forgot what a hideous character design monsieur Jetson was.
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Nov 30, 2021 10:17
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Hyperlynx posted:I remember that as a child my grandma didn't believe me that Venus is a planet, not a star. She said "but it's called the 'Evening Star'!" I distinctly remember an uncle pointing at Sirius and declaring "see that there? That's the evening star. It's actually Jupiter." Thanks Uncle Geoff
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credburn posted:You guys know that electronic techno song "Sandstorm"? I know exactly what you mean, but I don't know why. Like as of a few years ago, everyone suddenly had always known about Darude Sandstorm; while I didn't even know if it's the song that is called Darude or the artist or what. I'm sure it's all a result of brain algorithms filtering out useless background info etc etc etc, but it's a really uncanny feeling. I can see why the mandelastein effect people get so unsettled.
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Oct 10, 2022 00:37
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Brawnfire posted:Well that's cool, etymologically speaking. Another bit of cool etymology relates to the origins of that name; it was believed they came from Egypt originally.
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Well, don't worry, you're just in time for some rad etymology facts! e: exactly how bad could things get as a result of getting etymology mixed up with entomology?
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credburn posted:I listen to a lot of podcasts and the term "inside baseball" is used all the time. Frequently whenever the podcast hosts start talking about something perhaps a little too in-depth, they will say, "We're getting a little inside baseball here" or something like that. All this time I assumed there was some popular show about baseball called Inside Baseball and this was a reference to that somehow, but it just comes from 1950s political slang. What! I've been imagining some decades-old show called Inside Baseball. With a bunch of late middle aged guys smoking pipes while discussing McDichael's bat-strike returnage rate or something.
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The best slang term for any tube-shaped meat-derived fast food item is the Democracy Sausage.
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Brawnfire posted:It's French so it probably exists as a ghost of a phoneme that you never actually voice but it's wrong if you don't as well Then there's the opposite of this, when people make things too French and say "now, without further adieu..."
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In the RATM song "sleep now in the fire" the words are "the field's overseer" not "the fields of Ossea." I just assumed Ossea was the site of some horrible massacre or other.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:It took me forever and probably a youtube lyrics video to realize that it's "some of them that work forces. Are the same who burn crosses". Hmm. What did you think it was before? Zac-parsing can be hard work.
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A Festivus Miracle posted:I work outside for a living. Bears, cougars, bobcats (a native cat to the West US that is somewhat larger than your average house cat), and rattlesnakes are all mentioned in the same breath at safety circle up as being so incredibly dangerous. The OSHA stats show that something like 95% of the accidents that are non-slips,trips,falls are caused by other people and dogs. In my years of being outside, I've run into bears, cougars, bobcats, and rattlesnakes and none have tried to attack me, including that one time I literally blundered into a mama bear and her three cubs less than 20 feet from me. What if this is one of those ww2 airplane damage diagram situations, and all the people devoured by bears and coyotes and skunks simply never survived to tell of their various maulings
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Manga doesn't have a convention of drawing everyone with vampire teeth; it's just the shape of the upper teeth seen from a slightly lower angle as they recede into the shadow of the oral cavity.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yeah I know what Tree Bucket is refering to but some anime characters do have fangs, it's usually a sign that the character is mischievous and a bit wild What! I thought I'd made some real progress in understanding anime. And it was all an illusion.
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Mar 17, 2023 10:34
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hawowanlawow posted:parts of the congo river are 720 feet deep. that's nuts I bet there's hecka cryptids down there.
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Mar 25, 2023 00:09
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Then there's the people who insist on saying "without further adieu." aaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Mar 29, 2023 08:45
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That ai picture generating thingy is called midjourney, not mindjourney
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May 31, 2023 05:58
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THe word "shot" actually derives from the word "shed" as in the small building where arrows were stored. In time, the word for the storage building came to be applied to its contents, and then, to the act of using those contents. This isn't true either.
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Ah, the mysterious and disgusting ocean.
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What would be the last common ancestor of snakes and birds?
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Plz stop kicking buckets, everyone
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Jul 28, 2023 08:40
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Captain Splendid posted:The guy on the screen is shot as if he's in the same room, rather than on a screen. Agghh. A while back I noticed that countless comic artists do this, and now it can never be un-seen.
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Mokelumne Trekka posted:despite being a politics junkie over the years I never knew the origins of the phrase "astroturf", that Astroturf is an actual manufacturer of fake grass for sports. I never made that connection before! What a useful phrase
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I'm Australian and 38 and have just worked out that John Farnham and Jimmy Barnes are not the same person
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Inceltown posted:Are you about to realise that Jimmy Barnes was also the lead singer of Cold Chisel too? Pretty sure you're referring to noted lyricist "Farnsy" e: or possibly Barnsy Tree Bucket has a new favorite as of 08:38 on Sep 4, 2023 |
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When Smithers said "I think women and seamen don't mix" there was a double entendre occuring
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Tis!
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SLOSifl posted:Count Chocula is based on a Prince in a Serbian fairy tale, who collected all the children in the (fictional) town of Pezcny and forced them to eat each other over the course of several months. The “winner” was given a single piece of chocolate as a prize, and when he ate it he realized that he had no taste for it anymore. Then he ate the Prince, etc etc. Not directly relating to Dracula/Romanian folklore. what
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Torquemada posted:My first serious girlfriend was called Penelope, and I can confirm I occasionally pronounced it to rhyme with Antelope. Did it make her utterly, insanely furious? Or would that be engaging in hyperbowl.
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