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learnincurve posted:My parents refused to believe that their air conditioning filter and gas bottle needed periodically changing on a car they owned for 20 years. What's a gas bottle?
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Ford Focus have a bottle for R134 refrigerant which needs topping up (and changing if you haven’t filled it for 20 years) If you don’t then I’m not sure what gets pumped round the car but it smelled like petrol fumes and wet dog.
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Atticus_1354 posted:What's a gas bottle? The street term is "jenkem".
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Pastry of the Year posted:the phrases "here comes the Incredible Hulk" and "there goes the Incredible Hulk" from this old sweatshirt Marvel used to sell ... I want it
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I somehow just learned that Dustin Rhodes was Goldust. In my defense, I only occasionally watch wrestling.
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Did I know Mick Foley was Mankind and Cactus Jack?!
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And Dude Love And the best.
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But one time Mankind, Cactus Jack and Dude Love were all in a sit down in interview together! Are you telling me late 90s wrestling would engage in chicanery?!?
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Scotland Yard is not actually in Scotland.
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Them investigating crimes In london probably shoulda tipped you off.
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I just figured it’s full of Scots
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I think the misconception comes from all the weird UK stuff. I'll break it down : The UK (which is Ireland, Scotland, London, and Wales) is all part of England. So Scotland Yard is actually in London in England, while Scotland the country is in the UK which is part of England, but not part of London.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I think the misconception comes from all the weird UK stuff. I'll break it down : Someones asking for a carbomb.
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Scotland Yard is not actually in Scotland. TK-42-1 posted:I just figured it’s full of Scots Like the Scots had the best investigative minds and agencies and they just kinda made it an official entity. I don't care if it's not real, it's real to me.
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MariusLecter posted:Like the Scots had the best investigative minds and agencies and they just kinda made it an official entity. The noted historical documentarian Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has led me wrong
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That’s where they meant to keep all the scots but then they kept getting out and they sent detectives to find out how and then all the scots were gone and it was just the detectives left
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“Scotland Yard” started as a form of metonymy. It’s the same thing as when the Prime Minister’s office is referred to as “Downing Street”. London’s police headquarters used to have an entrance on a street called the Great Scotland Yard. The street was, in turn, named that probably because a lot of important Scots resided there way back when, sort of like “Embassy Row” is today in Washington D.C..
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Solice Kirsk posted:I think the misconception comes from all the weird UK stuff. I'll break it down : I think you should leave the explaining to someone else, buddy
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Failed Imagineer posted:I think you should leave the explaining to someone else, buddy I think a couple of you got whooshed.
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Failed Imagineer posted:I think you should leave the explaining to someone else, buddy You trying to tell me that Scotland Yard isn't located in London in England?
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Someone better update the UK venn diagram with London and Scotland Yard. No other way to explain it really. E. It's axtually just a british englishism in that drives so much confusion imo. Scotland yard is where detectives live while Scotland garden is the yard outside a Scotland house. zedprime has a new favorite as of 17:10 on Apr 9, 2021 |
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I just learned that Samoa effectively time traveled itself two days into the future by switching its time zone to jump the international date line, a fact you'd think I'd remember since it was only a decade ago. And I learned it in the PYF comics thread, no less!
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Captain Hygiene posted:I just learned that Samoa effectively time traveled itself two days into the future by switching its time zone to jump the international date line, a fact you'd think I'd remember since it was only a decade ago. And I learned it in the PYF comics thread, no less! Wouldn’t it be one day into the future? Or 23 hours?
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Dross posted:Wouldn’t it be one day into the future? Or 23 hours? Because of when they did it, they effectively skipped December 30, going straight from 11:59 PM December 29 to 12:00 AM December 31. (I think that's right; UTC-11 is exactly 24 hours behind UTC+13.)
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Yeah, I was being kinda casual in my phrasing, they effectively skipped a day so I was loosely generalizing jumping from Thursday to Saturday.
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Platystemon posted:“Scotland Yard” started as a form of metonymy. It’s the same thing as when the Prime Minister’s office is referred to as “Downing Street”. London’s police headquarters used to have an entrance on a street called the Great Scotland Yard. The street was, in turn, named that probably because a lot of important Scots resided there way back when, sort of like “Embassy Row” is today in Washington D.C.. Well yeah you want the police quartered there if all those dodgy Scots are around.
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Captain Hygiene posted:I just learned that Samoa effectively time traveled itself two days into the future by switching its time zone to jump the international date line, a fact you'd think I'd remember since it was only a decade ago. And I learned it in the PYF comics thread, no less! Prince Philip was old enough to have a birth registered in Julian calendar, which was month or two behind the actual calendar depending on the country. So his centennial should have been something else than his birthday and subject of a recount similar to the recent US elections.
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Der Kyhe posted:Prince Philip was old enough to have a birth registered in Julian calendar, which was month or two behind the actual calendar depending on the country. So his centennial should have been something else than his birthday and subject of a recount similar to the recent US elections. So he was at least 270 years old?
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EasilyConfused posted:So he was at least 270 years old? he was clearly 440 years old, since the julian calendar went out of use in 1582 duh
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Carthag Tuek posted:he was clearly 440 years old, since the julian calendar went out of use in 1582 duh England didn't adopt until 1752.
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EasilyConfused posted:So he was at least 270 years old?  I mean
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Captain Hygiene posted:
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EasilyConfused posted:England didn't adopt until 1752. your mom didnt adopt it at all so (also he wasnt english)
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Sean Astin is not James Corden. stop lying
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Carthag Tuek posted:stop lying Oh, right, sorry. Let's try again: Legally speaking, Sean Astin is not James Corden.
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Carthag Tuek posted:(also he wasnt english) Ah, didn't realize that.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Oh, right, sorry. Let's try again: Legally speaking, Sean Astin is not James Corden. tack så mycket, min finska kompis
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EasilyConfused posted:Ah, didn't realize that. He was Greek but the Greek royal family was Danish so he was a lot of things.
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