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Today I learned that weal is actually an archaic term for happiness and prosperity, and not misery and suffering as I assumed it did when I named an antagonist in my D&D game the Wealed One.
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The reason there are so many jokes about killing lawyers isn't that people have an irrational hatred of lawyers, it's because they used to be jokes about Jews.
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May 9, 2021 16:34
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Turns out, Caspar Milquetoast was a US cartoon character in the 1930s and the name had become synonymous with "weenie". It's older even than that, milk toast was a breakfast food which the character got his name from which was considered mild and easy to digest.
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May 13, 2021 08:36
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Halloumi is drat delicious. I like to fry little cubes of it to sear them brown and then add them to pasta in tomato sauce instead of meatballs. It's also drat fine fried in strips and put in a sandwich like bacon.
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Jun 11, 2021 11:16
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AKA Pseudonym posted:I always thought that "florid language" meant angry, spiteful swearing, or maybe not necessarily swearing just very earthy. I guess I based this on the idea that florid meant something was dirty or disease causing. I've done the same. I think because florid is also often used to refer to a flushed complexion, so it makes a kind of sense that florid you would make the association "florid=angry" rather than "florid=brightly-coloured"
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Oct 20, 2021 14:51
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Beachcomber posted:A fact I knew but never clicked in the right way. Well why don't you explain what all these people are all singing about then, smart guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcSg9GxBueY
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Dec 15, 2021 11:11
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Wasabi the J posted:You don't necessarily hear thunder, it's just that all the sound of the jet stacked up till the moment the sound passes sounds like thunder. It's not even quite that. Any fluid has a natural speed at which waves travel through it. An object passing through a fluid faster than that speed creates a wake behind it as all the fluid it's displacing gets squished together, like the two single high waves you get behind a boat. In the case of supersonic planes that's a big wall of compressed air that sounds like thunder, because waves of compressed air are what sound is. Even if the jet's engines were somehow completely silent, just travelling above the speed of sound would create a sonic boom.
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Jun 23, 2022 11:13
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Uh, hmm, the Royal Africa co. was not very good otherwise as well Beginning to think these ruthless imperialist bastards might not have been the nicest people
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zedprime posted:The really really dumb thing about mathematics is that far smarter people than us agreed that the square root of -1 can't be done to save themselves the trouble of working in a mathematic that included the definition until absolute lunatics who couldn't possibly be human were like "yes, just the thing I needed to fix the broken algebra in my otherworldly domain analyses." Other way around. Large amounts of math become way, way simpler when you have a square root of -1. Imaginary numbers don't just fix a hole in algebra, they also turn out to fix holes in almost every other field.
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