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Old thread is here. All the threads are getting gritty reboots these days. Here's common stuff from the last thread and the one before it. Don't post these. m2pt5 posted:The FedEx Arrow: If something's not in the above quote, and you think it needs to be, suggest it, by all means. Also, per Eggplant Wizard: Yes, it's a brand new thread all empty of posts. That does not mean you need to feverishly repost "classics" from other threads in days gone by. Simply continue on with new content. For new content, then: I just noticed there are two ATTENTION tags, only one of which, apparently, gets you banned.
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Chinos are normal pants. I think what happened was I knew about khakis and then I heard about chinos and assumed they had to be widely different. In my mind's eye they were boxy and had a lot of creases, basically cardboard pants. I couldn't figure out why people would recommend them and finally decided to google them up today. Also, I think I was 13 or 14 when I realized the London Blitz didn't happen in America. My teacher used ambiguous language, okay? 
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Mar 12, 2013 06:54
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That when people from the UK and the US think of bacon they tend to think of different types. UK bacon. Also known as back bacon.  US bacon. Called streaky bacon in the UK. 
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Mar 12, 2013 10:35
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Geokinesis posted:UK bacon. Also known as back bacon. Known in parts of the US as "Canadian bacon." The OP covers some of the corporate logos, and one that surprised me was the Saturn automotive logo, which is a stylized drawing of the planet Saturn and not just meaningless curved lines:
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Mar 12, 2013 12:58
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I've seen the Avengers a few times and never really got why they had the random cameo by Harry Dean Stanton until it hit me yesterday. Harry Dean Stanton is the guy that yells out "Avenge Me" in the original version of Red Dawn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_S1F1Zha_k Ordinarily I think this would be a bit of a stretch, but it was a Joss Whedon movie.
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Mar 12, 2013 15:02
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This might be better in GWS, but I just figured out that sun tea is tea brewed using the power of the sun  ! My stove is broken so I've been unable to boil water for a proper cup of tea. I'd heard of sun tea previously, but I just assumed it was a brand. I'm so excited, I've got a couple bags of lipton's brewing in the window. A little later today, I'll be able to add some sugar and I'll finally have real tea.The water gets warm. I could probably use it to cook something like ramen noodles.
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Mar 12, 2013 16:18
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Shbobdb posted:This might be better in GWS, but I just figured out that sun tea is tea brewed using the power of the sun Sun tea is fun but there are some risks associated with it: http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/suntea.asp.
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Mar 12, 2013 16:32
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quote:I'll be able to add some sugar and I'll finally have real tea. This sentence is basically the way to make a true Englishman swear vengeance.
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Mar 12, 2013 16:35
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rodbeard posted:I've seen the Avengers a few times and never really got why they had the random cameo by Harry Dean Stanton until it hit me yesterday. Harry Dean Stanton is the guy that yells out "Avenge Me" in the original version of Red Dawn: That is a pretty big stretch and a very interesting one. I don't know if that particular scene had any influence of Josh Whedon's choice to cast him in a cameo role. However, Henry Dean Stanton does have a long list of credits in a lot of good films, and he just happened to be subject of a documentary being shot by Avenger's director of photography Seamus McGarvey. Not discrediting your opinion, but I think reputation and relationship was more of a direct factor. Source: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/rorschachsrants/news/?a=59032 I'm also glad you posted this because it is really neat to pick up another "obscure" famous actor whose been in a lot of great movies that probably most people don't know about.
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Mar 12, 2013 17:01
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I was a teenager before I figured out that reindeer are real animals. I always figured since they went with Santa, they were imaginary. Yes, I know that makes me sound hopelessly stupid.
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Mar 12, 2013 19:35
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The office is called "President" because the one who holds it presides. Oh my god.
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Mar 12, 2013 21:21
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I had a minor fit when I, just this year, realized my digitally remastered Star Wars DVDs featured the original movie poster art on the back, and a pretty terrible photoshop mockup of the exact same thing on the front:  No, I'm still kind of mad. Some rear end in a top hat got paid good money for this totally redundant and overall kind of amateur work. Then they show the original on the back. It's like they're saying "Hey remember this cool thing from your childhood? Well we're gonna redo it with computers, without giving a gently caress to the cohesion of the overall design, and pretend it's better!" ...In other words, it's like the digitally remastered Star Wars DVD.
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Mar 12, 2013 21:24
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Australia's nickname is the first syllable of Australia. Its not some weird appropriation of The Wizard of Oz. I think it took me so long to figure this out because words are very important to me, and the short form of Australia should be Aus 
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Mar 12, 2013 21:26
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Learning French, when I saw that "mille" means "thousand," suddenly other words made sense: "mile" = a thousand paces; "million" = a thousand thousands; "millennium" = a thousand years, and so on.
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Mar 12, 2013 21:34
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AlistairCookie posted:I was a teenager before I figured out that reindeer are real animals. I always figured since they went with Santa, they were imaginary. You'll be more surprised to learn that they are completely and utterly loving delicious. Eat a reindeer ASAP.
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Mar 12, 2013 22:51
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Brother Jonathan posted:Learning French, when I saw that "mille" means "thousand," suddenly other words made sense: "mile" = a thousand paces; "million" = a thousand thousands; "millennium" = a thousand years, and so on. Fun fact: in French, a million is a "milliard" and a billion is a million.
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Mar 13, 2013 00:08
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Shbobdb posted:add some sugar and I'll finally have real tea
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Mar 13, 2013 00:46
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razorrozar posted:Fun fact: in French, a million is a "milliard" and a billion is a million. Really? In Spanish it's "millon" and "billon" respective, thousand being "mil" to keep on track. That's strange.
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Mar 13, 2013 00:57
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razorrozar posted:Fun fact: in French, a million is a "milliard" and a billion is a million. You got that mixed up. They simply use long scale. As an example, a long scale billion is a trillion in short scale.
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Mar 13, 2013 01:03
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e: ^^ I fixed it  GreenCard78 posted:Really? In Spanish it's "millon" and "billon" respective, thousand being "mil" to keep on track. That's strange. Upon looking on Wikipedia, I was backwards; million is million and billion is milliard. I learned this fact from a Bathroom Reader.
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Mar 13, 2013 01:04
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The first chapter of The Hobbit is "An Unexpected Party", because a bunch of dwarves just suddenly show up at Bilbo's home, completely out of the blue, and basically throw a dinner party. The first chapter of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is called "A Long-Expected Party", because Bilbo's going to turn eleventy-one and is throwing a big birthday party and inviting everyone, and everyone has been anticipating it for weeks. "An Unexpected Party" "A Long-Expected Party" Me:  It also took me an embarrasingly long time to realize that bats are real, and not just make-believe Halloween monsters like ghosts and witches and Dracula. Well maybe not THAT embarrassing, since I was only about 5 years old when I realized my error, but still it was like  bats are real?!
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Mar 13, 2013 02:48
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Dudley posted:This sentence is basically the way to make a true Englishman swear vengeance. I'm American and didn't figure out what "sweet tea" is until about a year ago. I always assumed that it was tea with some sort of vaguely sweet-tasting herb added or something, when it is actually Lipton Yellow Label with a shitload of sugar dumped in.
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Mar 13, 2013 04:22
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Blue Star posted:The first chapter of The Hobbit is "An Unexpected Party", because a bunch of dwarves just suddenly show up at Bilbo's home, completely out of the blue, and basically throw a dinner party. That was my reaction when I figured it out too. Here's another thing: both journeys truly begin after the travelers visit Rivendell and speak with Elrond.
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Mar 13, 2013 04:27
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Maybe not so blatant but it blew my ~8 year old mind at the time. The word is not "backround" it is "background", I remember hearing my mom say backGround one day and it hit me that the this is the ground of the back of what I was looking at.
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Mar 13, 2013 05:24
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Lipton, my rear end.
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Mar 13, 2013 05:45
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AlistairCookie posted:I was a teenager before I figured out that reindeer are real animals. I always figured since they went with Santa, they were imaginary. I've possibly mentioned this in previous threads, but along with reindeer and Santa I also thought that Lapland was also made up. I only discovered it was real when I met someone who was actually from Finnish Lapland (the region stretches between Finland and Sweden). Funnily enough, everyone from Lapland seems to think Santa's real.
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Mar 13, 2013 10:54
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Creature posted:I've possibly mentioned this in previous threads, but along with reindeer and Santa I also thought that Lapland was also made up. I only discovered it was real when I met someone who was actually from Finnish Lapland (the region stretches between Finland and Sweden). Funnily enough, everyone from Lapland seems to think Santa's real.
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Mar 13, 2013 23:40
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/\/\ Me too! Although that felt less shameful to me than not knowing about reindeer. It's a region, not an obviously labeled country on every map, so it's easier to overlook/not know about. That's what I tell myself anyway.Aggro, I am a serious carnivore. I will put reindeer on the list of things to watch out for. I figure they'd be similar to elk (delicious) and hopefully not similar to moose (not so delicious).
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Gonna just toss the Online Etymology Dictionary out there. Etymology is the study of word origins. The last thread had a bunch of people claiming they can't believe they figured out that [word] came from [something it didn't actually come from and which is probably made up]. Something that I just found out, rather than figuring it out, is that not only are Tamagotchis still around, there's a goddamn Android app for them. The interface is, sadly, terrible. It just mimics the physical Tamagotchi device on a touchscreen.
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Mar 15, 2013 00:47
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Gonna just toss the Online Etymology Dictionary out there. Etymology is the study of word origins. The last thread had a bunch of people claiming they can't believe they figured out that [word] came from [something it didn't actually come from and which is probably made up]. The only problem with that OTD is that is is very US centric and so useless if you are looking about words that are more recent and not in US english.
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Mar 15, 2013 00:52
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For years growing up my parents would frequently reference "Going out for an 'aren'", as in going out to do some small task like picking up groceries or whatever. What confused me was that I literally never saw this word 'aren' used anywhere except when my parents said it. I was at least a teenager when I realized the word they were saying was "Errand". Growing up in New Jersey may have been the cause of this.
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Geokinesis posted:The only problem with that OTD is that is is very US centric and so useless if you are looking about words that are more recent and not in US english. In my experience, Wiktionary usually does a pretty good job with their etymology. It's at least a place to check before posting something like "I just figured out that 'eggplant' comes from an obscure, obsolete Basque word, 'egpla', that means 'purple'!".
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President Ark posted:For years growing up my parents would frequently reference "Going out for an 'aren'", as in going out to do some small task like picking up groceries or whatever. What confused me was that I literally never saw this word 'aren' used anywhere except when my parents said it. I grew up outside of Philly, and my mom is from Jersey. I always thought my mom was saying she had to run some "erins," which I basically thought meant "boring grown up poo poo." I was probably a teenager when I figured that out, too. loving Philly/NJ accents. 
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President Ark posted:For years growing up my parents would frequently reference "Going out for an 'aren'", as in going out to do some small task like picking up groceries or whatever. What confused me was that I literally never saw this word 'aren' used anywhere except when my parents said it. My girlfriend is Puerto Rican, and thus so is her daughter. They're both bilingual. The daughter is only 7 though, so it's funny when I try to speak a little Spanish to her. If you listen to native Spanish speakers, they like to make the letter S silent when they speak. Well this is apparent when speaking to the daughter because she corrects me by omitting the letter S from whatever word I say. For example, she said "do you know what ecuela means?" and I said "No I don't" because I didn't understand it without the S. She said "School!" and I was like "Oh, you mean escuela" and she tried to correct me again. I explained to her how Spanish speakers usually make s's silent, but she's only 7 so it probably didn't make any sense. Either way, just goes to show kids base their language on how they hear it said by those around them. v  v
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Learned something from the image macros thread That's not Zach Galifianakis and it's not even from a comedy. It's Robert Redford in Jeremiah Johnson.
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Obscurity posted:My girlfriend is Puerto Rican, and thus so is her daughter. They're both bilingual. The daughter is only 7 though, so it's funny when I try to speak a little Spanish to her. If you listen to native Spanish speakers, they like to make the letter S silent when they speak. Well this is apparent when speaking to the daughter because she corrects me by omitting the letter S from whatever word I say. For example, she said "do you know what ecuela means?" and I said "No I don't" because I didn't understand it without the S. She said "School!" and I was like "Oh, you mean escuela" and she tried to correct me again. I explained to her how Spanish speakers usually make s's silent, but she's only 7 so it probably didn't make any sense. Either way, just goes to show kids base their language on how they hear it said by those around them. v You told her that native speakers DO make their S's silent (which I've never noticed, though I'm not fluent enough in spanish as to make a general statement), she (incorrectly) made the S silent, then you explained to her that she was saying it wrong (which was correct) by telling her that real Spanish speakers would make it silent (which is wrong).  Best I can figure out, your girlfriend pronounces it wrong, which is how her daughter learned to pronounce it wrong, and you're trying to tell the daughter that she's pronouncing it wrong because your girlfriend pronounces it wrong and is apparently representative of all or most native Spanish speakers. I know that puerto ricans have a different accent, is it so great a different to be considered a different dialect, as well? None of the Puerto Ricans I've known have dropped their S's, for what it's worth. Krakkles has a new favorite as of 17:02 on Mar 15, 2013 |
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Krakkles posted:I don't think I follow this. The correct pronunciation of "escuela" as I've heard it from multiple native speakers most certainly does not have a silent S. I found this interesting and wondered if it might have to do with the Castilian "th" sound. Wiki says in regards to Puerto Rican Spanish: "Aspiration or elimination of the /s/ This usually occurs before a consonant or at the end of a word, /s/ is debuccalized to [h] or eliminated altogether. Examples include [lah ˈrosah] instead of [las ˈrosas] (las rosas, 'the roses') [loh ðoh] instead of [los ðos] (los dos, 'the two'). This is also common in other Caribbean basin Spanish-speaking countries. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_Spanish#Accent
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Krakkles posted:I don't think I follow this. The correct pronunciation of "escuela" as I've heard it from multiple native speakers most certainly does not have a silent S. Going off of: Elim Garak posted:I found this interesting and wondered if it might have to do with the Castilian "th" sound. Wiki says in regards to Puerto Rican Spanish: It must be Puerto Ricans only then. Everyone I know is Puerto Rican so I guess I didn't put it together that it was a dialect thing not a universal thing. But yeah, I notice all of them omitting S's from words, so that's why I told her the correct way to say it was "escuela" even though technically, from a dialect perspective, "ecuela" is correct. The point I was making is she corrected ME because I didn't say it in the right dialect as if the word never had an S to begin with, so I was making her aware that it indeed did. Edit: After reading that wiki link some more, I notice a lot of those changes in dialect with all the PR people I know. Interesting! Zaekkor has a new favorite as of 17:22 on Mar 15, 2013 |
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There's a little notch on the inside of your gas door to hang your gas cap so that it's either not dangling and hitting your paint, or if it's aftermarket or doesn't have the strap, a place to put it so it doesn't disappear on you. I found this out about a year or so ago and every time I get gas I am amazed that someone thought of this.
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Obscurity posted:Going off of:
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