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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Kinda like “chai tea” is often said in English too!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Also Turkey (the bird) has to be the most hilariously named bird. Different languages attribute the bird to a different location.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/11/turkey-in-turkish-and-other-geographically-implausible-names-for-this-bird.html

Snippet:

But English, Turkish, Hindi, and French aren’t the only languages with geographical confusion over the origin of this gobbling bird. Irish and Welsh call it after Turkey, but that’s probably just borrowing via English. Armenian, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, and Russian also refer to it as some sort of Indian bird, while Dutch, Indonesian, Icelandic, and Lithuanian get slightly more specific with their inaccurate Indian geographical references and call it a bird of Calicut. Khmer and Scottish Gaelic, on the other hand, call it a French chicken, Malay calls it a Dutch chicken, and various dialects of Arabic refer to it as a Roman, Greek, or Ethiopian chicken. The most sensible of the geographically confused names are the languages that name it after Peru, including Croatian, Hawaiian, and Portuguese. I mean, at least Peru is on the right continental landmass, even if it’s home to the Incas while it was the Aztecs who domesticated the turkey.

Fun!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I viewed it as “play more versus sitting at a desk at work” sort of thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Idk, I think it depends on the type of show maybe? Or the presumed prestige of it. I feel like a lot of procedurals I’ve watched get better once they get their legs under them. They not bad in the beginning but once the characters have been established and the writers get the hang of doing crime/mysteries they get more fluid.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Additionally, I’m not flipping light switches while controlling a giant machine capable of killing people. Not sure why they compared the two.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Don’t forget jeggings and jean skirts 😌

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Native in the US has had candy body washes (gummy bears, candy hearts etc), cupcake scented one partnered with Cupcakes by Melissa, and currently has Girl Scouts body wash

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

the size difference helps in Norways favor too I imagine (and probably shape too!)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

There are huge swaths of the US not covered. You could be driving between two cities less than an hour apart and hit dead zones.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Watermark says tapas.io/SLKuhns

But that doesn’t seem to work for me

Edit:

https://www.deviantart.com/slkuhns/art/Sexy-BananaMan-Ep-1-680144476

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

A shocking amount of people do seem to think all chicken eggs could turn into chicks/are fertilized. On more than one occasion I’ve explained that your run-of-the mill carton of eggs at the grocery store is just chicken menstruation, not viable fertilized eggs.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago

GSRM

“Gender, Sexual and Romantic Minorities“ for those like me who didn’t know the acronym.

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