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I just figured out we didn't have a thread for this. The Amazon logo has a arrow going A to Z and makes a smile,  FedEx logo has an arrow in it,  Toblerone logo has a bear on the mountain.  Also best to take any etymology in this thread with a pinch of salt.
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Geokinesis posted:FedEx logo has an arrow in it, spoon
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Apr 7, 2015 20:38
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I didn't JUST figure this out, but I was well into adulthood when I realized that the song "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" wasn't about someone's mom having an affair with Santa Claus. 
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Apr 7, 2015 21:00
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No it's definitely an arr... gently caress
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Apr 8, 2015 04:57
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The fire chief in Chicago Fire is played by the same guy as the titular character in the homoerotic London police TV movie version of Othello. I had a feeling he was hiding an accent.
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Apr 13, 2015 05:07
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I figured out last year that cavities like the ones you get if you don't brush your teeth are named that because a "cavity" is being created in your tooth. I'm college educated for fucks sake.
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Apr 13, 2015 05:22
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Haruharuharuko posted:I figured out last year that cavities like the ones you get if you don't brush your teeth are named that because a "cavity" is being created in your tooth. I'm college educated for fucks sake. What did you think they were before?
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Apr 13, 2015 06:17
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I found out this year that the broil setting on the oven turns on only the top coil so you can...broil stuff. All this time I thought it was just a term for max overall oven temperature, since it was at the end of the dial.
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Apr 13, 2015 06:31
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Tiggum posted:What did you think they were before? Hell if I know man. Like maybe John Q. Cavity figured out how to fix em gently caress. Like really I feel dumb enough already but it just never clicked until I was at work and had a full on "holy poo poo" moment.
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Apr 13, 2015 10:17
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I rented a car recently, and it was the first time I've driven a vehicle that wasn't 15+ years old in ages. I noticed something like this:  The arrow shows you what side of the car the fuel door is on. loving genius. edit: I also learned that I disrespect the gently caress out of rental cars. I'm not proud of it Radio Help has a new favorite as of 10:40 on Apr 13, 2015 |
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Apr 13, 2015 10:36
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Delicatessen = Delicat Essen = Delicious foods. Surprised I didn't notice it when I used to work in one.
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Apr 13, 2015 13:22
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YeahTubaMike posted:I didn't JUST figure this out, but I was well into adulthood when I realized that the song "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" wasn't about someone's mom having an affair with Santa Claus. Don't worry, you're not the only one. In a similar vein, I was in my 20s before I figured out that "If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?" was a double-entendre. I just thought it was the stereotypical example of a bad pickup line because it was dumb, not because it was a cheesy pun.
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Apr 13, 2015 14:12
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smdh stands for "shaking my drat head", and not, as I'd previously thought, " suck my dick, haters ". I've almost never seen the abbreviation outside of yospos, so it took me a while to bother looking it up because my version almost always fits.
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Apr 15, 2015 16:19
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This past week I realized that the flat edge of a cutlery knife is the side that should be used to take spreads out of a jar and distribute it on a piece of toast. Last year I finally realized that the name 'The Beatles' was misspelled to make a pun ... "beat" -- get it? gently caress.
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Apr 15, 2015 16:22
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DrAlexanderTobacco posted:Delicatessen = Delicat Essen = Delicious foods. Surprised I didn't notice it when I used to work in one. Amazing, it's only the first page and the thread title is already correct! You're right that Deliactessen is a German loan word, but it's more than that. It's actually a French loanword in German with the original French, délicatesse meaning something like delicious thing. Even this French word isn't original, that would be the Latin delicatus. It's a logical assumption, what with the incredible German compound nouns, but it's still questionable etymology.
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Apr 15, 2015 16:29
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Mister Macys posted:smdh stands for "shaking my drat head", and not, as I'd previously thought, " suck my dick, haters ". Similarly, I thought "ftfy" was "gently caress this, gently caress you."
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Apr 15, 2015 17:23
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YeahTubaMike posted:Similarly, I thought "ftfy" was "gently caress this, gently caress you."
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Apr 15, 2015 19:45
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YeahTubaMike posted:Similarly, I thought "ftfy" was "gently caress this, gently caress you." I knew someone who thought "ftw" meant "gently caress the world"
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Apr 15, 2015 20:41
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syscall girl posted:I knew someone who thought "ftw" meant "gently caress the world"  I'm pretty sure that this dude does not have a "For The Win!" patch on his cut.
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Apr 15, 2015 21:02
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John Big Booty posted:
Yeah, I was gonna say he was an older dude and I think bikers had it that way but it was in the context of a mmo guild. "We just knocked the poo poo out of their capital, gently caress the world guys!" just seemed like an odd reading to me.
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Apr 15, 2015 21:17
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I blame being a really big fan of the movie "Fear of a Black Hat", where in one scene, the leader of the group uses the abbreviations FYM, and ASMD; "gently caress ya'll ma'fuckas", "and suck my dick", respectively.
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Apr 15, 2015 21:25
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syscall girl posted:I knew someone who thought "ftw" meant "gently caress the world" I thought this too. I am horrible at acronyms. I also thought "hth" was "heart to heart."
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Apr 15, 2015 21:25
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until about a year ago when I accidentally trapped one I thought racoons weighed about as much as a cat but it turns out that they weigh about 100lbs. they are some very dense, garbage eating, little pandas.
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Apr 15, 2015 21:38
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The raccoon is the largest of the procyonid family, having a body length of 40 to 70 cm (16 to 28 in) and a body weight of 3.5 to 9 kg (8 to 20 lb). Are you sure you didn't catch a baby bear wearing a mask?
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Apr 15, 2015 21:40
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amityville anus posted:racoons I used to smoke out in front of my garage and I saw one of those fat fuckers come out from between the trash cans and it was terrifying, those things are huge.
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Apr 15, 2015 21:47
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Radio Help posted:I rented a car recently, and it was the first time I've driven a vehicle that wasn't 15+ years old in ages. I noticed something like this: Similar to this but if your car doesn't have the arrow then the handle on the fuel pump is on the side of the hole for the fuel tank. 
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Apr 15, 2015 21:47
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amityville anus posted:until about a year ago when I accidentally trapped one I thought racoons weighed about as much as a cat but it turns out that they weigh about 100lbs. they are some very dense, garbage eating, little pandas. I wouldn't know from raccoons but a little pug weighs way more than you'd think compared to a cat. Cats is mostly bones and hair. Hell, their terminal velocity isn't enough to kill them.
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Apr 15, 2015 22:08
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bamhand posted:The raccoon is the largest of the procyonid family, having a body length of 40 to 70 cm (16 to 28 in) and a body weight of 3.5 to 9 kg (8 to 20 lb). im positive. it might have been a cat-sized full grown panda but I think thats the definition of a raccoon. it was easily about 44kgs and when i let it loose it went to go eat more garbage.
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Apr 15, 2015 22:20
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syscall girl posted:I knew someone who thought "ftw" meant "gently caress the world"
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Apr 15, 2015 23:53
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When i was a kid, my next door neighbors had the most awful children. One of them came over once with FTW scrawled on his forehead with a Bic. I asked him what it meant, and he raised both middle fingers and screamed "fuk th' worrrrrld!!!" Kid was like three, days-old boogers encrusted all over his face. So yeah, FTW confuses me too.
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Mister Macys posted:smdh stands for "shaking my drat head", and not, as I'd previously thought, " suck my dick, haters ". I thought 'smh' was 'something'. It never really made any sense, come to think of it.
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Apparently there is a rapper called A$AP Rocky. For ages I've thought a few people I knew were just pronouncing Aesop Rock really, really incorrectly.
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Apr 21, 2015 15:53
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I just found out goatse is actually a woman.
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Apr 22, 2015 01:32
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YeahTubaMike posted:Similarly, I thought "ftfy" was "gently caress this, gently caress you." Wait what does it stand for?
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Apr 22, 2015 02:03
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"Fixed that for you", I think? I was also guilty of thinking it meant "gently caress this, gently caress you". I can't believe I'm not the only one!
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Apr 22, 2015 02:17
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I just learned that you're supposed to moisturize your balls.  I thought it was normal for your scrotum skin to flake off sometimes... Anyway I've been using Eucerin on it for a few weeks and it works great.
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Apr 22, 2015 02:23
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AnxietyMan1488 posted:I just learned that you're supposed to moisturize your balls.
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Frostwerks posted:I just found out goatse is actually a woman. AnxietyMan1488 posted:I just learned that you're supposed to moisturize your balls.
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skander posted:Not if there's nothing wrong with them. I'd say 85% of ordinary men have dry balls. Spit on them, slap some lotion on them, olive oil, Pam, whatever--moisturize your balls, gentlemen. I knew a farmer whose fingertips split open from a combination of wear-and-tear and chronic dryness; ball sacks are capable of doing the same thing, given sufficient desiccation. You might be taking a seat or trying to ollie off of a roof, and then bam, your nutsack splits in twain like a rotten banana skin and a bunch of mush and something that looks like Krang (from TMNT) comes slithering out.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I'd say 85% of ordinary men have dry balls. Spit on them, slap some lotion on them, olive oil, Pam, whatever--moisturize your balls, gentlemen. I knew a farmer whose fingertips split open from a combination of wear-and-tear and chronic dryness; ball sacks are capable of doing the same thing, given sufficient desiccation. You might be taking a seat or trying to ollie off of a roof, and then bam, your nutsack splits in twain like a rotten banana skin and a bunch of mush and something that looks like Krang (from TMNT) comes slithering out. A new horror has entered my life
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