Taniwha420 @ Taniwha420 @lemmy.world

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Actually, I blame the Franks.

In Viking's defense: of all the Romance languages French is the most like Latin being spoken and written by a drunk hick with no formal education.

Here's my man with the real goods. Linguistically these categories explain so many 'weird' spelling shifts between cognates.

Ooh ... The Rude Dick! (That whole genus has the most hilarious names when translated. Dog Dick ranks up there too.)

I figured. With a shape like that they could only be Phalloides.

I asked my 8 year old what he thought of this recipe and he replied, "That's disgusting and whoever invented it should be executed immediately."

He's got the same pouty face as Lauren Boebert

Theology isn't limited to Christianity. But hey, if you like your villains cartoony, go with the dualism!

This is the classic theological definition of evil. Evil isn't the anti-good, it's the absence of good. Good is typically regarded as some kind of selflessness or care for other, so evil is basically selfishness. There's nuance, but I wanted to support the challenge to dualistic world view.

Another EGG?! Where the FUCK do these keep coming from?

I'm a poultrologist, and you should all be aware that this kills the chicken.

How about hands in pockets? IIRC Anzac slang for pockets was "Yankee gloves".

A reference to Habbakuk 3:11 in the Bible, which Jesus alludes to in his triumphal entrance into Jerusalem (see Luke 19:40). Habbakuk is prophesying against the people of God and saying they've become such a bunch of self-serving hypocrites that even the stones and timbers of their house (figurative or literal) cry out against them.

If you want more explanation, I'm happy to unpack it more, but that's where it comes from.

As to why someone felt it made a good message for a rock wall? I don't know. Often Christians interpret it as the stones are crying out in joy at Jesus' arrival, but that misses the Habakkuk allusion, the political reality of Jesus' conflict with the Jerusalem temple authorities, and the context in which "hosanna" historically gets used.

More like the moment you realised that a paddle board really is not a sea-worthy vessel, and contrary to what you told Noah, you are NOT, going to be, "just fine."

Your Dad: Mr. Zealand. Mr. New Zealand.

Same thing happened with Blundtstone. Production moved from Tasmania to Vietnam. They swear everything is the same, but I'm looking at these two different pairs of boots ...

I will, when I run out of weed and need to buy more. Until then: I'm way too high, buddy.

So who is she? Because she looks fun.

You know, it's kind of like this with land. Laws around Adverse Possession (Squatter's Rights) are basically the legal framework for taking possession of land when someone has so much land or are so absentee that you can use it without them noticing. Generally, if you you can use their land openly and they don't challenge you, after a set period it's yours.

Don't know how this would work with money, but it's interesting that you can legally take someone's property if they have too much to manage it properly and you need it.

I would also like entomologists to pronounce the insect orders properly. That 'p'? It belongs to the '-ter'. It's 'pter', for wing. As in 'coleo-ptera', the 'shield wing', not 'col-e-OP-tera'. Or 'neuro-ptera', the 'lace-wing', not 'neur-OP-tera'.

We actually put the accent on a syllable THAT DOESN'T FUCKING EXIST in the Greek.

Fucking nonsense.