the word holiday comes from "holy day"
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 4 June 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link
god forbid it was let slip
Arf.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 04:47 (six years ago) link
Just today realized that the first moon landing, Chappaquiddick, the Tate-LaBianca murders, and Woodstock all occurred within the span of a few weeks.
― This Bobo Isn't Going to Honk Itself (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 June 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
Yeah I learned about Chappaquidick & the moon landing today too
― flappy bird, Thursday, 7 June 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
That there is actually a musical instrument called jingle bells.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Saturday, 9 June 2018 10:45 (five years ago) link
Disgust and distaste are pretty much the same word, etymologically speaking.
― emotional support legume (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 9 June 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
I love how redundant and fucked up English is that way“Manufactured” just means “hand-made”!
― valorous wokelord (silby), Saturday, 9 June 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
how deadly hippos can be
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Saturday, 9 June 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
I've only realized in the last few months that with the exception of steaks, maybe, you really don't need a knife for eating.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 9 June 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
Lettuce
― Alba, Saturday, 9 June 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
peas
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 9 June 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
foetii
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 June 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
Celebrating Saturday, I see.
― This Bobo Isn't Going to Honk Itself (Old Lunch), Saturday, 9 June 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
life begins at dinner
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 June 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
the fool playing chess with Brian Glover in The Slaughtered Lamb is Rik Mayall.
― calzino, Saturday, 9 June 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
I am watching the Thor movies for the first time tonight. I am shocked. This shit takes place in space? That is a a disappointing copout.
― Yerac, Sunday, 10 June 2018 02:55 (five years ago) link
It doesn't, though? Those aren't the same stars (or if they are then someone in the art department has massively fucked up)
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 10 June 2018 06:31 (five years ago) link
everything takes place in space tbf
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Sunday, 10 June 2018 06:58 (five years ago) link
woah
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 June 2018 07:20 (five years ago) link
“Manufactured” just means “hand-made”!
and artefact means "made by craft", which leads it to have two weirdly different meanings:- a precious object made by skilled craftsmanship, e.g. a museum artefact- an unintended junk byproduct of the production process, e.g. a jpeg artefact
(it also has two valid spellings but not sure it gets any less confusing to spell the two meanings differently)
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 10 June 2018 09:24 (five years ago) link
That there’s prize money for winning the World Cup. $38 million for this year’s winner, $28million for runner up etc...
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 10 June 2018 12:00 (five years ago) link
don't think i've ever thought about it!
― the Messi inside (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 10 June 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link
Does it go to the FAs or the players? I had a quick Google and couldn’t find out, but did see that this year’s $794 million is $400 to the competitors* (everyone gets at least $8m) and the rest to the players clubs both for using their players and potential payouts if they get injured.
*again FAs ot players I don’t know.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 10 June 2018 12:27 (five years ago) link
I just found out recently that my club will earning something like $40 grand a day whilst it's Danish/Australian international are still in the competition, which likely won't be very long - but it's a nice earner if none of yr players get massacred!
― calzino, Sunday, 10 June 2018 12:36 (five years ago) link
Split between FA and players? At least in USA. X amount for the group games, another X if you get out of the group, and so on.
― let’s get real (alomar lines), Sunday, 10 June 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
i've never been clear on the meaning of the word "chauvinism" / "chauvinist" until today.
― you bet, nancy (map), Monday, 11 June 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
Huh. Having just looked it up, apparently neither was I.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 01:24 (five years ago) link
I guess its been used in the "male chauvinism" context so much the other usage has faded?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 01:25 (five years ago) link
the og French indie rock stan!↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
"..from the character Nicholas Chauvin, soldier of Napoleon's Grand Armee, notoriously attached to the Empire long after it was history, in the Cogniards' popular 1831 vaudeville "La Cocarde Tricolore "
― calzino, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link
Despite living in America for 3 years I only realised today that 'egg rolls' are spring rolls
― kinder, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 07:32 (five years ago) link
according to Wikipedia... not quite? they have 2 separate entries. Spring rolls are listed as Chinese (and they look like what we get in UK, although I expect ours are some kind of inferior abomination) while Egg rolls have their own page as a Chinese-American dish, and they look different in the pictures.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 08:37 (five years ago) link
well they're closer than what i imagined which was some kind of omelettey thing
― kinder, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 08:47 (five years ago) link
and what about California Rolls - why California? This is Japanese food non?
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 08:53 (five years ago) link
oh... so apparently it's not Japanese, it's like the Balti - invented in California and used to popularise sushi in other countries
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 08:56 (five years ago) link
Can I join your club?
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 09:36 (five years ago) link
Yeah til a while ago I thought egg rolls were some kind of reverse-sushi thing with an omlette, not just a bloody spring roll.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link
OK egg rolls seem to be deep fried. Now I'm thinking theyre more like Chiko Rolls (google it)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 12:04 (five years ago) link
my wife (Merican living in UK) says egg rolls are definitely not the same as spring rolls
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 12:23 (five years ago) link
i've been to US Chinese restaurants that had both items on the menu, so there must be a difference
― Lee626, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 12:39 (five years ago) link
I think spring rolls tend to vary in kind and substance more than egg rolls, which are almost always a big, rolled, fried wonton filled with stuff. Spring rolls are basically egg rolls on some menus but egg rolls are pretty predictably just egg rolls.
― Not with a bang but a MAGA (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 12:44 (five years ago) link
Not looking it up, I would say spring rolls are in a rice wrapping, steam/fried and egg rolls use a won ton like wrapping and are deep fried.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
I spent a lot of my childhood wrapping won tons and egg rolls.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:02 (five years ago) link
there are different kinds of spring rolls - the stuff you get from chinese restaurants are basically tiny egg rolls, but vietnamese spring rolls are totally different
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
Basically that, yes. If spring rolls are in a steam tray on a buffet line, they're probably pretty much Asian taquitos.
― Not with a bang but a MAGA (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link
Sometimes the non-fried roll in rice paper is called a summer roll or garden roll.
There is not a lot of consistency in the nomenclature; I propose we just call them all "food tubes."
― emotional support legume (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
Is a hot dog a food tube
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link
A hot dog is a food tube which is also a sandwich.
― Not with a bang but a MAGA (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link
Well, when you get right down to it, the entire exercise of eating is what digestive scientists call "bolus formation."
Everything about the shape of your digestive tract encourages tubularity in food. The more your food already resembles the shape of poop, the more smoothly everything goes on its way to your anus.
Down with angular and planar food! Food tubes (be they hot dogs or gogurt) are the way of the future.
― emotional support legume (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CourageousCloudyKatydid-max-1mb.gif
― Eliza D., Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:44 (five years ago) link
A hot dog is a food tube which is also a sandwich
A sausage is a food tube so a hot dog is a food tube tube
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link