it's legit
― mh, Friday, 2 March 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
“foie gras”
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 2 March 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
sometimes foyer pronunciation depends upon for whom i'm code switching tbh
― andrew m., Friday, 2 March 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
foy-er. "aunt" = ant. robot = robutt
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 March 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link
ok i'm still in 2008, but i've learnt more from this thread than the last year of life, thanks ilx. i still don't know who the fuck sandy shaw is but at least i get the pun.
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 3 March 2018 03:39 (six years ago) link
courtney act is meant to sound like “caught in the act”, apparently everyone knew that except me
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 3 March 2018 03:48 (six years ago) link
Caught in barn innit
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 3 March 2018 06:16 (six years ago) link
Caught in the barn innit
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 3 March 2018 06:21 (six years ago) link
may i reiterate that hawaii is a SIX HOURS away from california
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 March 2018 06:39 (six years ago) link
Idgi how far did you think it was
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Saturday, 3 March 2018 06:43 (six years ago) link
it's a me, six hours away from California
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Saturday, 3 March 2018 06:47 (six years ago) link
idk like an hour or two? im not from california
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 March 2018 07:14 (six years ago) link
If you said "foy-yay" instead of "foy-er" in Australia you'd get serious side-eye.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 3 March 2018 07:35 (six years ago) link
xp i thought the distance to hawaii was something like that until i had the chance to visit and discovered just how long it would take.
― new noise, Saturday, 3 March 2018 07:46 (six years ago) link
*to get there.
It's been a long time since i flew to the States but I thought Heathrow to JFK was ab0out 6 hours in the 70s & 80s. So the same duration does seem long for what presumably gets counted as an internal flight.Maybe it bolsters the idea that Hawaii should be an independent state not part of the U.S. heard taht the move away from Independence wasn't 100% liked by natives.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 3 March 2018 10:58 (six years ago) link
Its probably more about the distance
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Saturday, 3 March 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link
Hawaii should build a wall, and send Dog The Bounty Hunter back!
― calzino, Saturday, 3 March 2018 12:05 (six years ago) link
Alaska is five hours from California by air. Don’t get me started on Guam.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 3 March 2018 12:38 (six years ago) link
the move away from Independence wasn't 100% liked by natives.
Understatement
― Wyld Scalyns (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 3 March 2018 12:44 (six years ago) link
The German dude who worked with us definitely had a killer deadpan, which he laid the groundwork for by being very serious the rest of the time.
Also he did the thing where having a very good sense of humour doesn't mean that you're actually funny a lot of the time - it means you hit your mark when you try, in contrast to EG one of our other colleague who would bound in like a setter in the brush in the sense that there was a joke somewhere in there, when a lot of the times the joke was just "that sounded a bit gay".
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 5 March 2018 12:46 (six years ago) link
That's a great depiction of contrast, right there
― mh, Monday, 5 March 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
Was slightly mindblown when I discovered this.The two parts to the word “helicopter” are not “heli” and “copter”, but “helico” meaning spiral, and “pter” meaning one with wings, like pterodactyl.— Karthik Balakrishnan (@karthikb351) March 5, 2018
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 01:15 (six years ago) link
Shit
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 01:16 (six years ago) link
a spiral with wings
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 01:20 (six years ago) link
beautiful
helicoter
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 02:20 (six years ago) link
nice - I still get weird looks from fellow biomed research people when I refer to "apo-tosis". The Aussie default is "ay-POP-tosis"
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 02:33 (six years ago) link
morphology ftw!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 05:09 (six years ago) link
Stonehenge, the Alamo, the Amityville House... I discovered today that the railroad trestle on the Murmur album cover isn't exactly in downtown Athens, but it's not exactly out in the middle of nowhere either.
https://i.imgur.com/CIKp3b9.jpg
Granted, that area probably looks a little more populated today than it did in 1980, but still. I always imagined that you'd have to ~~ walk, through the woods ~~ to get there.
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:05 (six years ago) link
it's walking distance from the old church where they were living for a while ... that area is close to downtown, but most of what you see in the photo was undeveloped land in 1980
the trestle itself is half torn down now
― Brad C., Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
When I was there in '94 it still basically looked like the cover but more kudzu. I think there was another (steel) trestle around Athens with "So Central" written on it.
― Liquid Plejades, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link
I am 36 and I only learned last week that Tupac Shakur was born and raised in NYC and Baltimore, and didn’t move to Cali til he was almost done with high school. Also he was friends with Biggie up until he made Hit Em Up, which apparently he did just to sell records. It’s kind of blowing my mind to think the California Love guy was actually an East Coaster, and the whole East Coast/West Coast beef started just from dude being a shitty friend
― davey, Thursday, 8 March 2018 04:17 (six years ago) link
he was also an art school kid
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 8 March 2018 04:18 (six years ago) link
This I had heard, but man it does fit in perfectly with the rest of all that bullshit, huh
― davey, Thursday, 8 March 2018 04:22 (six years ago) link
a friend of mine had his locker
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 March 2018 05:24 (six years ago) link
in his house?
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 8 March 2018 05:27 (six years ago) link
at the art school he went to
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 March 2018 05:40 (six years ago) link
the California Love guy California Love was a Dr Dre solo single that Suge had Pac put a verse on after the fact
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Thursday, 8 March 2018 07:19 (six years ago) link
I didn’t know that. That was some brilliant marketing.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 8 March 2018 12:28 (six years ago) link
I've been learning much these last couple weeks, heh
― davey, Thursday, 8 March 2018 13:49 (six years ago) link
that Americans drop the first "i" in their pronunciation of aluminium. I thought it was just Trump fucking up the English language again until I looked it up. It was an accident that began with an advertising literature typo in 1892.
― calzino, Saturday, 10 March 2018 11:46 (six years ago) link
An American Thing.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 March 2018 11:49 (six years ago) link
TIL that the original Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy theme tune is an Eagles song!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 10 March 2018 11:57 (six years ago) link
t was an accident that began with an advertising literature typo in 1892.Not quite true to say it began that way, as aluminum is the original name
― scotti pruitti (wins), Saturday, 10 March 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
we're not dropping the i, we don't have one to drop
the etymology is consistent w/ suffixes for other elements—you wouldn't call it "platinium"!
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 10 March 2018 14:41 (six years ago) link
You wouldn't call it chromum either.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 March 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link
Sodum just wouldn't work at all tbh.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 March 2018 14:44 (six years ago) link
cadmum
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 March 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
Scandum and titanum
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Saturday, 10 March 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link