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pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Snapchat A Titty posted:

no theyre the worst

if only they were made of meat :|

What, have you never heard of mint's meat?

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pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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I only just realized that the song "Coked up Personality" is actually "Cult of Personality"... my version is better though.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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HaB posted:

Because Gandhi, Mussolini and Kennedy were all on coke? :confused:

I didn't interpret it as the people themselves being on coke, just that their personalities were a bit amped up in some way

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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JoelJoel posted:

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.

"This expression comes from the theater, where it alludes to an actor studying his part in the wings (the areas to either side of the stage) because he has been suddenly called on to replace another. First recorded in 1885, it eventually was extended to other kinds of improvisation based on unpreparedness."

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Nordick posted:

I am 34 years old and I have managed to go my entire life until recently without noticing that the diagonal bits in the Union Jack aren't symmetric.
Sure, I'm not from the UK, but that flag is pretty loving ubiquitous and just... how in the sincere gently caress did I not see that before :psyduck:

They are symmetric, just rotational symmetry instead of mirror symmetry. :eng101:

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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MariusLecter posted:

The worst kind of symmetry.

Actually that's translational symmetry.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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EmmyOk posted:

jumps not jumped

This is some Nelson Mandela effect poo poo

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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The thing about venomous snakes having triangular heads, it just dawned on me that their head shape is due to them being venomous. The extra space is where their venom glands are. Correlation is causation in this case.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Shifty Nipples posted:

Vipers specifically have triangular heads, for instance Coral snakes don't have that distinct triangle head shape.

Must have not leveled up enough to upgrade their venom glands to the larger capacity

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Jerry Cotton posted:

Stuff I just didn't figure out, but stuff I just realized: I have no idea how to pronounce anaerobic.

If you google "dictionary [word]" or "define [word]" it'll show a dictionary entry with a button that will say that word out loud for you.

define anaerobic

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Nostradingus posted:

The Green Mile is not about a prison football team.

Were you thinking of Escape to Victory?

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Pneub posted:

The Longest Yard probably.

Yeah that makes more sense.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Captain Monkey posted:

The song that goes ‘Put me in coach, I’m ready to play’ is not a random background noise song made for a baseball stadium by some lazy jackoff, it’s actually a very popular song by the guy that sang in CCR called ‘Centerfield’.

It remains the most vapid song I’ve ever heard in my life.

I just found out it's not "Put me in cold, I'm ready to face the day". Thanks I guess.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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He's talking about a classical labyrinth which is a single path from entrance to center:

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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I really annoying one, yeah

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Fartington Butts posted:

I was just listening to it and I realized "pokerface" is a song about blowjobs. And has incredibly clever ways of getting around censoring.

"I'll get him hard, show him what I got"
"Fuh-fuh-fuh-pokerface fuh-fuh-gently caress her face"

Do you think those are the words? Is this some kind of modern newer "revved up like a deuce/douche" thing?

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Grumio posted:

Moderna -> ModeRNA -> mRNA

(and 'modern')

I looked it up because I didn't believe that this is actually what it is (because I figured they were an older company, which was wrong) and

quote:

Within several months, Rossi, Langer, Afeyan, and another physician-researcher at Harvard formed the firm Moderna — a new word combining modified and RNA.


Close, and honestly "modern" makes more sense. I kinda hate it.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

It was today, at age 37, that I finally looked closely at a 'Littering Is Illegal' road sign and realized that the can isn't a face with a big, evil, toothy grin. Maybe I read too much Calvin and Hobbes as a kid.

Can you outline the face please

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Len posted:

That saying "union-buster" hurts peoples feelings

https://projectionsinc.com/unionproof/union-buster-stop-using/

To be fair, the article only seems to indicate that it hurts the feelings of union busters.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Captain Monkey posted:

Huh you’d think it’d be the sperm whale.

Looks like someone hasn't met Mr. Right.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Milo and POTUS posted:

Was your username always old bean factory?

What does your gut tell you?

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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You have to bake them or else a watermelon grows in your stomach.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Brawnfire posted:

Regarding the Forest Moon of Endor, apparently, Endor is the moon. I always thought it was a forest moon, of a planet named Endor. So that's taken a while to realize, I guess!

EDIT: Okay, so the Star Wars wiki tells me both the planet and the forest moon are named Endor, which is loving stupid

And the Suns!! Endor (the planet) is also called Tana, if that makes you feel better.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Brawnfire posted:

Sure, by the Ewoks :rolleyes:

Well it's not like anyone lives on Endor* to give it a more official name. It only makes sense that the inhabitants of Endor** give a name to Endor***.


*the planet
**the moon
*** *

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Philippe posted:

I can't believe you did a recursive footnote. What is this, House of Leaves?

That's not recursive though, just a simple footnote redirect

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Baron von Eevl posted:

They also did poo poo like instead of saying "the third day of March" they'd say like "12 days before the middle day of March" because they were assholes.

Makes sense when you consider roman numerals

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Failed Imagineer posted:

Something I just learned from a fucken reddit thread:

The old CD-burning software was called "Nero burning ROM", as a reference to the Roman Emperor Nero. Works even better because they're a German company who would natively spell the city as "Rom"

Nero is blamed for the great fire of Rome, that is to say, Nero burned Rome.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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When it was released and I was like 5 years old there was a song "Whoop daddys!" which I then realized when I was a little older that no, it was "Whoop, there it is"

Yesterday I learned that it's "Whoomp! (there it is)", why is there an 'm'??

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Failed Imagineer posted:

I don't care if this is fake cause that dudes laugh-scromit put a smile on my face

Same, really impressive for the DJ to figure it out if it's real

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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TK-42-1 posted:

Because it’s a rip off of another band called 95 South that did Whoot! There It Is a few months earlier.

https://youtu.be/aBwvFBxf_Eg

Yeah that makes sense. Very exciting to know I was wrong about both songs at once

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Henchman of Santa posted:

There’s a preserve here in Washington where you can pay for a Jeep tour to see all the hooved animals and are instructed to not get out of the car under any circumstances. You can just roll up on bison and they do seem pretty chill but the guide mentioned their heads alone weigh 300 pounds :stare:

Its easy to see how they can weigh so much when you see this kind of comparison

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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credburn posted:

waitwait

Is tenders short for tenderloins?

Oh my god we've wrapped around to being back on topic

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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old bean factory posted:

You can super and sub script from the reply box, how long as this been a thing? I've always had to use a sketchy site.

I'm pretty sure you can get pretty wild with them too.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Baron von Eevl posted:

The most specific group that includes everything we consider fish is vertebrates.

Feels like the hagfish gets through on a technicality here

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Feb 24, 2006

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Bats are bugs

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Feb 24, 2006

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You'll love this

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