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Did you know that taxonomically there is no such thing as a video game?

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she can sits with her little paws over it

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He who smeltarune, deltarune.

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Folks I think I have a real hit of a post on my hands...

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"The word pandemonium was coined by John Milton as the name for the Parliament of Hell" is an all-timer etymology. Oh yeah did you hear that Mrs Higgins's dogs got loose at the village fête? It was like a vast golden edifice in which fallen angels debate their strategies for vengeance against god, yeah.

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If I were a prolific professional artist I think I'd do maybe half a dozen forgeries of my own work. Just for fun, you know?

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Uh oh! Turns out one of my original posts on here is a forgery. Help me out and find it!

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human tools

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looms and 3d printers are similar in that they take the one dimensional and turn it into higher dimensions.

looms take a line and turn them into an area and 3d printers take a line and turn it into a volume, cant wait until we invent something that turns a line into a tesseract

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So when you're in witness protection and you're given a new identity for your safety the cliché is that you get a new name and you're relocated. Those seem pretty straightforward, but do you get a new date of birth? I mean it's a long shot but you could use a DOB if not to track someone down, at least as evidence they might be the person you're looking for, it is used as identifying security info in a lot of places after all. So to be extra safe you probably should get a new DOB alongside your new identity. But that causes a problem: your date of birth has actual legal implications, e.g. voting, renting a car, receiving state pension, so do you get a new birthday that makes you younger or older? Younger seems like it would be a violation of your rights as a citizen, because depending on how the dates lined up it could strip you of e.g. the right to vote, despite the fact you are old enough. But older's not entirely fair either, you could claim a pension despite being too young. I don't know, I'm interested what the actual solution is here.

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TV show had a plot point where a character was caught not saying uno and retroactively lost the game, but the challenge came from a player outside the game and too late. Honestly it's a miracle anything gets done properly in this world!!

Possibly one of my most pedantic opinions is that I don't like the uno reverse card being a symbol online for "no you". It doesn't do anything like that in the game. It just reverses the order of play. If anything it's good for the person who just acted because it gives them another chance to play a card and empty their hand faster. It's only bad for them if they don't have a card that can follow your reverse, or if it goes all around the circle without another reverse being played and you had a draw 2 or 4.

Between this and the stacking of draw cards to pass it on, I'm starting to think people don't havw the level of respect that I'd expect for the rules of uno.

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sorry for the random question but what's your opinion on transmasc people?

They should install Firefox with UBlock Origin and start using a password manager (I recommend bitwarden)

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As a general rule, most words are not formed as acronyms. There are lots of popular but false claims out there that various words (golf, posh) are acronyms, and usually they're just wrong. Which is why it's so fucking irritating that one of the most plausible origins of "okay" has it being short for "oll korrect".

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Tom Lehrer has passed away, and in honour of his influence on my own sense of humour I'd like to share this absolutely wonderful patter from one of his live albums.

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(Misremembering a flirtatious move I saw on TV) *spits at you* Hey. Hey your clothes are wet.

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