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Torquemada posted:And teppanyaki is meat covered in sauce. Named for its tendency to make your carpet yucky if you drop it.
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For a long time, maps used to have the East as the top of the map, because that's where the sun rises. It's also why, when you are trying to get your bearings, you orient yourself.
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Samovar posted:For a long time, maps used to have the East as the top of the map, because that's where the sun rises. It's also why, when you are trying to get your bearings, you orient yourself. Also the direction the Holy Land is in. (Relative to Europe)
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Samovar posted:It's also why, when you are trying to get your bearings, you orient yourself. exploding-psyduck.gif
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Samovar posted:For a long time, maps used to have the East as the top of the map, because that's where the sun rises. It's also why, when you are trying to get your bearings, you orient yourself. There were a couple maps that put west on top, but that was occidental.
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The title screen for Super Cycle on the C64 doesn't feature a black man wearing cool sunglasses craning his neck surprised at the words above him.
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I put onion powder on my eggs now I'm an onion powder eggs guy
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Cage posted:The title screen for Super Cycle on the C64 doesn't feature a black man wearing cool sunglasses craning his neck surprised at the words above him. No, it features a heterochromatic, inexplicably brown Cookie Monster
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FreudianSlippers posted:Also the direction the Holy Land is in. Pretty sure it’s more this than the sun Like plenty of times there I point west bc ya know, it’s afternoon. Or if it’s not summer and is the northern hemisphere at night, I use north-south navigation bc Polaris and Orion are really easy to spot. Or even if it’s super overcast you can catch the moon, Venus and Saturn It is a useless skill in the modern age, but fun
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Samovar posted:It's also why, when you are trying to get your bearings, you orient yourself. I uh, yeah? That's what you do?
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Ironhead posted:I uh, yeah? That's what you do? "Orient" comes from Latin for "rising" (sun), not to ascertain direction like in common usage Same with the west being the occident, ie falling/setting
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Carthag Tuek posted:"Orient" comes from Latin for "rising" (sun), not to ascertain direction like in common usage Is that why it's an occident when someone falls?
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Baron von Eevl posted:There were a couple maps that put west on top, but that was occidental. 
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Calling someone naive a "sweet summer child" is apparently a thing entirely made up by George RR Martin in Game of Thrones: The couple of earlier bumps are mainly from obscure poems about the wind.
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Aw gently caress, now I have to stop using it on principle 
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I'm open to correction on this from any Southern grandmas in the chat
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Captain Hygiene posted:Aw gently caress, now I have to stop using it on principle Don't give him short shrift, authors and English idioms have always been strange bedfellows.
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rollick posted:Calling someone naive a "sweet summer child" is apparently a thing entirely made up by George RR Martin in Game of Thrones: Is that surprising? I thought the whole meaning about it was talking to children in the books that had spent their entire lives in the summertime because of the way seasons worked in the setting.
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It makes sense, it just feels like a more general phrase that's been around forever. Although, that first book has been around since the 90s, so that's effectively the same as forever in terms of me potentially seeing it used online 
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Tenebrais posted:Is that surprising? I thought the whole meaning about it was talking to children in the books that had spent their entire lives in the summertime because of the way seasons worked in the setting. I guess I assumed summers in the south are also sweet and easy, because of the Gershwin song.
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I absolutely remember when nobody ever said sweet summer child at all. Then the throne game tv show went viral and so did the phrase, which people heard on the show. I feel old or something that there are people who don't remember the tv show reference
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The amount of time from A Dance with Dragons until now is 12 years...and The Winds of Winter ain't coming out anytime soon (to say nothing of A Dream of Spring), so it'll be well over twice the wait for it that A Dance with Dragons was from A Feast for Crows, which everyone was complaining about at the time on how drat long it took to come out.
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InediblePenguin posted:I absolutely remember when nobody ever said sweet summer child at all. Then the throne game tv show went viral and so did the phrase, which people heard on the show. I feel old or something that there are people who don't remember the tv show reference I do too, but I guess it's one of those things like 'bucket list'. Someone posted in here earlier saying that that term was invented by the guy who wrote the movie The Bucket List, and it only entered common use when he was shopping around his script in like the 90s. But it still feels like a term that's been around forever.
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Sweet summer child and bucket list were coined contemporary with Shakespeare and there's no proof you can offer to make me think otherwise.
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The phrase "double down" was created by Kentucky Fried Chicken 2010, and by 2021 uttering that phrase had officially replaced baseball as the national pass time. If you think it was originally a blackjack term that's just the Mandela effect.
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The Moon Monster posted:The phrase "double down" was created by Kentucky Fried Chicken 2010, and by 2021 uttering that phrase had officially replaced baseball as the national pass time. If you think it was originally a blackjack term that's just the Mandela effect. hosed up if true
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Didn't it take off after being used by a presidential candidate a few years ago? (I want to say Romney)
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The "mab" suffix on so many drugs that are advertised on American TV right now indicates that the substance is a Monoclonal AntiBody.
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Phy posted:The "mab" suffix on so many drugs that are advertised on American TV right now indicates that the substance is a Monoclonal AntiBody. There's a whole long list of those standardized drug name segments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_nomenclature#List_of_stems_and_affixes
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I'm still not over "I see you" as used on Twitter being from Avatar. why would you adopt a stupid phrase from a stupid movie?!?!?...
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rollick posted:I'm open to correction on this from any Southern grandmas in the chat Nobody likes summer in the south, you're golden
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rollick posted:I guess I assumed summers in the south are also sweet and easy, because of the Gershwin song. They’re not it’s hot as balls here send help
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Petition to rename the above poster Joey Swampwater.
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Captain Monkey posted:Petition to rename the above poster Joey Swampwater. Joey Asswater
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Falcons aren't part of the hawk/eagle family at all and aren't even closely related. They're much more closely related to parrots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falconiformes
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credburn posted:Is that why it's an occident when someone falls? *very toulousainishly* oc ! Also, sorry to return to Harry Styles chat, learned Sansa Stark is NOT married to Harry, she’s married to a Jonas brother Milo and POTUS posted:Nobody likes summer in the south, you're golden Seriously I haven’t been dry since like April and I don’t mean that in a horny lady kinda way God bless the south but In winter only E: the U.S. south, but I also once lived in the french south, which is also an horrifying bog of stench and tourists in the summer but not enough that I beg the sun to just finish the job and engulf earth Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 01:48 on Aug 17, 2023 |
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The Vista Cruiser was an actual car and not just made up for Red Foreman to drive in That 70s Show
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Phy posted:The Vista Cruiser was an actual car and not just made up for Red Foreman to drive in That 70s Show The Wagon Queen Family Truckster from National Lampoon's Family Vacation was an obviously fictional vehicle but the car they modified for it was a 1979 Ford LTD Country Squire wagon (several of them, actually) which wasn't all that different from the Family Truckster. They took a lovely ugly station wagon and just uglied it up a little more   My dad drove a similar model Ford station wagon in the late 80s which was was a little cleaner in its lines and didn't have the fake wood paneling 
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