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Redefining Irony

@thelastofthenumenoreans

I guess I got back into minecraft. Oh, and Arcane is the best thing I've seen this year, if not ever. Certainly in the top ten of all time. He/Him.

house md 2023 and the team has to treat a true crime podcaster. house starts a betting pool saying he can solve the patients case AND the cold case the podcaster was recording before falling ill. cameron questions the morality of making entertainment out of other people’s suffering. wilson bets against house. chase tells foreman and cameron that they should start their own podcast about their weekly cases

great work everybody! 🫡

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The "Zepotha" trend on tiktok makes me SICK as an indie slasher fan. Why did they choose the name "Zepotha?" Name one fucking indie slasher from the 80's that isn't called something like House of Guts. "Zepotha" would be the name of an arthouse horror from the 70's created by a giallo-obsessed Johnny-come-lately director from New Jersey. Zepotha would be brought up in every other "obscure horror recs" thread on reddit until it became a circlejerk meme to even mention it.

"Oh you sound so mad, you sound like you just want to gatekeep--" I DO! I'M GATEKEEPING! None of these people even like slashers! They can barely make it through Fear Street, and then they still make fun of effects that aren't Marvel-sweatshop-grade CGI! You expect them to be able to create a fictional slasher movie with the conviction that this site had when it created Goncharov? Get! Off! Of! My! Lawn!

Once you get to a certain level of advanced maths, you basically become a wizard.

this is what a page of my wizards spellbook looks like

Sounds like something a wizard mocking another wizard for their poorly written spellbook would say

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I fully understand that most sex-related studies are for obvious reasons probably not using a double blind protocol, but I have to confess that every time I see a journal headline about, say, the health benefits of oral sex or whatnot, the first question that pops into my mind is "how do you administer a placebo blowjob?"

The comments on this one...

As always, Relevant XKCD

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If Taylor Swift used her power for good she would be such a great stochastic terrorist. She would post on Instagram "Hey guys, Tay here. Just wanted to say that whoever delivers me the head of Ron DeSantis on a platter will get free Eras Tour tickets. #ShadeNeverMadeAnybodyLessGay." It would be at her doorstep in two hours.

I really appreciated your butterfly post and was wondering what ladybugs are called in Welsh. The reason I'm asking is that they have my favorite insect name in Yiddish, moyshe rabeynu's kiele (moses little calf) after the red heifer. Thanks!

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I'm enjoying these so I can't help myself I'mma do another

One is wrong! The rest are real

(Apologies to ari-snail, I realise this means you will not get your answer for one working day)

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Damn, this one's a sweep

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Welsh learner here - your butterfly ask was interesting because I have heard both pili pala and glöyn byw before, but not the others! Very cool!

I have not seen ö in any other Welsh words so far... is it telling me there used to be two words? Like "glo yn byw" becomes "glöyn byw"?

I'm not sure what the contraction is, but your instinct is spot on - we use umlauts in Welsh when a vowel is pulling double duty, as it were. The best example is probably sgïo (to ski). The contraction is 'sgi' (noun) and '-io' (verb), which puts two i's together that are providing different sounds, since one is being a vowel and the other is pretending to be a consonant ( an i before a vowel produces a 'y' sound. So -io is basically -yo.)

So, to show that you need to still pronounce one i but both ways, the umlaut sits there and goes 'HEY there are TWO DOTS! Say me TWO WAYS! :D'

Same here. Although in glöyn byw it's very subtle in pronunciation, and to the uninitiated will just sound like 'gloin', probably

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that post about phones reminded me, we were re-watching the first season of Sherlock the other day n had to explain to a younger friend in the group that no really, there was a time when A-Z maps were fully ubiquitous