aw it's ok, he made it eventually.
http://i.imgur.com/We0jA8B.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 00:31 (eight years ago) link
look, see? they even took the family on vacations to the moon.
http://i.imgur.com/V4tdJJO.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 00:34 (eight years ago) link
how "awry" is pronounced
― niels, Monday, 26 September 2016 10:21 (eight years ago) link
oh that one... yeah me too. it took me a while to understand that 'misled' was 'miss-led' not 'mizzled' or even 'mild'
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Monday, 26 September 2016 10:22 (eight years ago) link
I got clowned hard for pronouncing it "aw-ree" beck in high school.
― how's life, Monday, 26 September 2016 10:26 (eight years ago) link
feel fortunate that I came across the correct pronounciation somewhere online before goofing irl
― niels, Monday, 26 September 2016 10:36 (eight years ago) link
so is wry something other than cunning.is a-wry the semantic root of the word or something.
― Stevolende, Monday, 26 September 2016 10:59 (eight years ago) link
Since when did wry ever mean cunning?
― Bottlerockey (Tom D.), Monday, 26 September 2016 12:07 (eight years ago) link
Wry Fox
― how's life, Monday, 26 September 2016 12:11 (eight years ago) link
Merriam Webster has this as the 2nd simple definition
2 wryadjectiveSimple Definition of wry
: humorous in a clever and often ironic way
I thought that extended beyond humour which would then be close to synonymous with cunning I would think.
Looks like the etymology is more based on toward the twisted
― Stevolende, Monday, 26 September 2016 12:15 (eight years ago) link
As Laurel can probably attest to, I was well into my 30s before I found out that pickles were once cucumbers.
― UYD: Oxys, Percs, Vics, Addys, Rit-Dogs and Xannys (sunny successor), Tuesday, November 10, 2015 3:21 PM (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
<3 <3 <3 <3
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Monday, 26 September 2016 12:27 (eight years ago) link
That a Twix is Millionaire's Shortbread in chocolate coated stick form.
― here we are now entertain us (snoball), Sunday, 9 October 2016 15:03 (seven years ago) link
it took me way too long to realise that when you get into this cooking game don't struggle with a shitty little blunt knife, get a big fucking sharp knife and a blade sharpener and a mortar and pestle. Tools that make cooking easier and quicker
― calzino, Sunday, 9 October 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
Yeah my top cooking tips:Sharp knifeHOT panStop moving the food around the pan all the time
― kinder, Sunday, 9 October 2016 16:36 (seven years ago) link
HOT pans are good for searing, if that's what you're after, but high heat makes protein very tough, so it's a shitty approach to, for example, frying an egg. otoh, it can caramelize sugars, so high heat can be nice for root vegetables.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 9 October 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
pansplaining
― Har-@-Iago (wins), Sunday, 9 October 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link
I only eat steak and burnt eggs
(I do actually fry an egg from cold oil after someone tipped me off)
― kinder, Sunday, 9 October 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
I should add that my helpful tips are brought to you after far too long using shitty blunt or serrated knives and medium warm pans because I didn't want to burn stuff
― kinder, Sunday, 9 October 2016 16:51 (seven years ago) link
xp spécialité de le maison
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 9 October 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
What is this cold oil thing?
― how's life, Sunday, 9 October 2016 22:35 (seven years ago) link
It took me until after my 35th birthday to work out why the popular anti-dandruff shampoo was called "Head & Shoulders"
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 9 October 2016 22:41 (seven years ago) link
Bc when u use it, u get head, then u brush your shoulders off bc ur a player
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Sunday, 9 October 2016 22:59 (seven years ago) link
I've just this minute found out (because I looked it up) that GOP is a nickname for the Republican Party rather than some kind of government department like I thought it was.
I'm British, by the way
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Sunday, 9 October 2016 23:10 (seven years ago) link
Took me a while to realize what POTUS stood for too.
― (SNIFFING AND INDISTINCT SOBBING) (Tom D.), Sunday, 9 October 2016 23:17 (seven years ago) link
Up until a couple years ago, I pronounced "pronunciation" as "pro-noun-ci-a-shun" instead of the correct "pro-nun-ci-a-shun" - fucking English, how does it work? etc.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 10 October 2016 00:13 (seven years ago) link
He he, I see...
Is there a head and shoulders pun?
― niels, Monday, 10 October 2016 05:59 (seven years ago) link
Lord Mountbatten's dandruff?Royal family member found in pieces post explosion.
Or the naming itself. It's a dandruff shampoo i.e. For the head and preventing white flakes from covering the shoulders.Which surpasses others by standing 'head and shoulders' above them.
― Stevolende, Monday, 10 October 2016 06:49 (seven years ago) link
roger that
― niels, Monday, 10 October 2016 07:09 (seven years ago) link
that Spain isn't anywhere near Mexico
I'm serious
― punksishippies, Monday, 10 October 2016 10:23 (seven years ago) link
Me too, at first I thought it was some kind of latin term, like hippopotamus.
― Tuomas, Monday, 10 October 2016 10:33 (seven years ago) link
olives and ponies still blowing my mind.
― piscesx, Monday, 10 October 2016 10:39 (seven years ago) link
this makes sense on the level of US ethnic & racial logic but raises a lot of questions about yr previous understanding of colonialism/the atlantic ocean. v curious what sort of image of spanish history you had
― ogmor, Monday, 10 October 2016 11:17 (seven years ago) link
Presumably until the US grabbed the massive amount of the West that was Mexico as shown in the last but one Adam Ruins Everything, that territory would have been thought to have been a distant part of Spain. I don't think it had gained Independence before that.
& don't they speak Latin in Latin America?
― Stevolende, Monday, 10 October 2016 11:37 (seven years ago) link
Mexico became independent 25 years before the Mexican-American war.
― Frederik B, Monday, 10 October 2016 11:45 (seven years ago) link
Yeah just saw that. Hadn't thought it was independent that early. But 300 years as a Spanish colony is probably enough.
― Stevolende, Monday, 10 October 2016 11:48 (seven years ago) link
Which surpasses others by standing 'head and shoulders' above them.
Well this part I just caught.
― pplains, Monday, 10 October 2016 13:26 (seven years ago) link
Blimey, Heathrow Airport is massive isn't it? Just looked at the thing on Google Earth and it's just... enormous?!
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:28 (seven years ago) link
here is a treat for you:http://mentalfloss.com/article/30479/10-largest-airports-world-seen-above
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 14:23 (seven years ago) link
Seems about normal-sized for an airport.
http://i.imgur.com/WalAFzY.png
http://i.imgur.com/Xai7gU6.png
http://i.imgur.com/UvIQI4t.png
Bigger than my airport though.
http://i.imgur.com/V434GV5.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
If that Mountbatten joke from the other day wasn't as well known as it once was.It wentHow did they know that Lord Mountbatten had dandruff?Because they found his head and shoulders on the beach.
I think it was pretty widely known at one point. Not sure if it's commuted to any other explosives victim since then. Has it?
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
i first heard it re challenger explosion
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
horrible 80s jokes I have heard
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 18:14 (seven years ago) link
need another seven astronauts
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
That snowshoes don't actually look like tennis rackets - it's just a visual shorthand used in cartoons and as a joke in 70s UK sitcoms.
― darling you were wonderful you really were quite good (snoball), Sunday, 13 November 2016 12:49 (seven years ago) link
?
The "teardrop" snowshoes worn by lumberjacks are about 40 inches (1.0 m) long and broad in proportion, while the tracker's shoe is over 5 feet (1.5 m) long and very narrow. This form, the stereotypical snowshoe, resembles a tennis racquet, and indeed the French term is raquette de neige.
― Number None, Sunday, 13 November 2016 12:51 (seven years ago) link
http://www.planet-science.com/media/24073/woman%20wearing%20old%20fashioned%20snowshoes_100391027_363x242.jpg
― more fun than an Acclaimed Music poll (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 November 2016 12:52 (seven years ago) link
democracy doesn't work
― it me, Sunday, 13 November 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
snowshoeing rules
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Sunday, 13 November 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
I was well into adulthood when I realized that there was no such thing as unprepared ham. I thought ham and pork were two different cuts of pig meat, and while it seemed odd to me that I only ever saw the cured/smoked stuff in supermarkets, I figured you could buy raw cuts of ham at the butcher shop if you were so inclined.
― memories of a cruller (unregistered), Sunday, 13 November 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
I know this is a year too late but:
Also in my late teens I learned that when people were playing soccer and shouted "Aussie rules" that they weren't saying "Ozzy rules!"
Erm? who does this, what? You know Aussie Rules isnt soccer, right?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 13 November 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link