purple death ray posted:

Unless it comes from the hidden valley region, it's just sparkling mayonnaise

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

This is a good post, I'm going to go back to this point in the conversation and see where it goes!


Edit: eh, it turned lovely after only three posts

rydiafan posted:

Five minutes ago I learned that a "labyrinth" and a "maze" are actually very different things, and also that the thing in Labyrinth was a maze.

You can't even get lost in a labyrinth.

pik_d posted:

I really annoying one, yeah

wizzardstaff posted:

It hit me today after dozens of readings that in the book Richard Scarry's Cars & Trucks From A to Z (Random House Chunky Shape Books, 1990) the line "look out for the lemon car" is not just a literal reference to an animal driving a lemon-shaped car, but is in fact a play on words.

rydiafan posted:

So while neither of them are exactly what you are asking for, I would recommend the YouTube channel TierZoo, and the Twitter handle The Strange Log.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Polka hair is called a bob cut in English.

Beachcomber posted:

Platystemon posted:

rydiafan posted:

What?

christmas boots posted:

It does a little bit. The white marks indicating the noise are red on a computer and are angled in a way that I could see parsing as the crest and tail. Looking at it again on my smartphone those elements are totally different

christmas boots posted:

They're white and Top Left/Top Right instead of Bottom Left/Top Right

Platystemon posted:

Why would they all be the same?

There are a many thousands of variations of letterforms.

TK-42-1 posted:

lol did y’all never play sports? clapping it out is a high school coach basic technique

3D Megadoodoo posted:

This was meant to be the ESCAPE key:

Dip Viscous posted:

That's a Commodore 64 keyboard, I think they used the same layout worldwide.

christmas boots posted:

I'm doing my part to prevent this

Baron von Eevl posted:

My understanding is with the two-shot vaccines if you do have a bad reaction it may be due to the vaccine interacting with antibodies you already have, so if you feel sick after the second dose it's the antibodies you've built up from the first dose, but if you feel sick after the first dose it's because you already had COVID and developed antibodies.

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.

Carthag Tuek posted:

he was clearly 440 years old, since the julian calendar went out of use in 1582 duh

Carthag Tuek posted:

(also he wasnt english)

Helith posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B13:00

A few islands use it all the time or in winter or for daylight savings.
It’s only used in the Southern Hemisphere

Fatty Crabcakes posted:

It's not a gimmick, he's just Finnish

Fatty Crabcakes posted:

Oh if only. He's only getting startt

Phosphine posted:

Hope the diagnosis brings positive change for you!

beats for junkies posted:

My favorite version of that song is Ella Fitzgerald in Berlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vXAtVbZbkI She even starts by saying "I hope I can remember all the words," and of course, she doesn't.

"Oh what's the next chorus / to this song now / this is the one now / I don't know" is just part of the song for me now.

Also, she does a pretty great Louis Armstrong impression in that one.

Phy posted:

There are a couple of spots off the coast of Peru where, if you swam straight to the bottom of the sea, and then tunneled right through the core of the Earth, you'd still end up in the Pacific Ocean

credburn posted:

I had an autistic diagnosis a few years ago and another neurodivergent friend told me that she could tell right away, before my diagnosis, just based on the way I text. She says I have no understanding of "polite texting" as she called it. "For instance," she says. "You always end your texts with a period*."

So what? I says to her. That's not polite?

She says there's a subtext to it, that I clearly don't read, but others do. Which is why nobody else ends their texts or instant messages with a period.

And I said, What? What the gently caress are you talking about? Of course everyone ends their texts with periods. Otherwise there would be chaos and anarchy.

But then I checked and motherfuck my world is blown away. I am the only one out of like a dozen people I message that actually ends messages with a period. If there are multiple sentences in a text, they use punctuation, all but the last period. People think I'm autistic because I'm consistent with punctuation? How did I not even notice people do this? This is polite texting?!

*the big reveal here is that people will use punctuation if it's a question, or if they want to add exclamation points, but if it's a period, everyone just leaves the sentence to hang!!!

Ellie Trashcakes posted:

Or maybe you don't read enough into things.

The Maestro posted:

What about “the” or “Caribbean”

sebmojo posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk

A classic of the Old Internet