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  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    edited January 29
    "They always look for genitalia," Leto thought. "Perhaps I should have something made, a gross protuberance to shock them."

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Ol’ Sandtrout Dong they used to call him

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Grossly Protuberant Sandtrout shrugs at the camera. "Eh. It's a living."

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    *Animal Crossing fish catch celebratory noise*

  • XenaLenaXenaLena Bumflum IndianaRegistered User regular
    edited February 3
    So my swiffer jet mop hasn't been shooting out the solution correctly for a few weeks. No big deal, it's broken, I'll grab another one.

    Today, I learned that swiffer jet mops need batteries. I know this because, thinking my orginal one was broken, I bought a new one. After it was assembled I noticed it came with batteries, and that sparked an idea to check the orginal swiffer jet mop. Yup, not broken, just low on batteries. Bright note, I have a back up mop now.

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  • ProlegomenaProlegomena Frictionless Spinning The VoidRegistered User regular
    furlion wrote: »
    Do you think Leto II's dong was also covered by the sandtrout? Like a permanent condom?

    fucksake I'm going to have to reset my "it is X days since you thought of the word 'beefswelling'" counter again

  • furlionfurlion Riskbreaker Lea MondeRegistered User regular
    Well i meant before he became full on sandworm. Like at the end of children he is basically wearing them like a suit by modifying his blood chemistry to get them to stick to him. They can cover his face like a stilsuit but can be peeled back so he can still speak. Admittedly at that point he is physically only like 12 or 13 i think, but he has already become a gestalt of many of his ancestors as a way to stave off the madness of prebirth awareness. So he would already have many lifetimes of memories of boning down (on both sides of the equation). So did he keep the sandworm on his dick like the rest of his body and just peel it back like the world's biggest foreskin when it was time to bone down? (I think canonically he never actually bones down)

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  • furlionfurlion Riskbreaker Lea MondeRegistered User regular
    Damn i was so focused on talking about the penis of a tween boy i forgot why i came in here. I just learned there is an exit on interest 75, exit 69, that goes to Big Beaver Road. Hell of a coincidence.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    I just learned about the existence of Subway footlong cookies and I am... vexed for the future of mankind.

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    furlion wrote: »
    Damn i was so focused on talking about the penis of a tween boy i forgot why i came in here. I just learned there is an exit on interest 75, exit 69, that goes to Big Beaver Road. Hell of a coincidence.

    How many times has that sign been stolen?

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    edited February 5
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    I just learned about the existence of Subway footlong cookies and I am... vexed for the future of mankind.

    if it's like everything else at subway it costs 3x as much for 1/2 the ingredients and 1/10th the flavor

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  • furlionfurlion Riskbreaker Lea MondeRegistered User regular
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    furlion wrote: »
    Damn i was so focused on talking about the penis of a tween boy i forgot why i came in here. I just learned there is an exit on interest 75, exit 69, that goes to Big Beaver Road. Hell of a coincidence.

    How many times has that sign been stolen?

    The only sign i saw was the really really big ones they have on the interstate. I think you would need an actual crane to steal it so i doubt it has been stolen. Now every other sign mentioning big beaver road? Probably daily.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I know Dugger, IN has a Batman St and that sign was stolen a lot

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Mile marker 420 in Colorado got stolen so much they had to move it to 419.9.

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  • hemmelighthemmelight Registered User regular
    Melbourne, Australia has a "Batman" street named after John Batman, the "founder" of the city / a settler.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    hemmelight wrote: »
    Melbourne, Australia has a "Batman" street named after John Batman, the "founder" of the city / a settler.

    I heard Batman St is the drop bear capital of the world

  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    edited February 7
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Mile marker 420 in Colorado got stolen so much they had to move it to 419.9.

    I'd be much more likely to steal Mile Marker 419.9, because this story makes it much funnier to me.

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  • discriderdiscrider Registered User regular
    hemmelight wrote: »
    Melbourne, Australia has a "Batman" street named after John Batman, the "founder" of the city / a settler.

    I heard Batman St is the drop bear capital of the world

    Good thing it's in between the main train station and PAX then.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Today I learned about The Palingoproer.

    Whats that?

    Well it’s also know as the Eel Riot of 1886. The riots started because police tried to stop people from playing the forbidden game of “eel pulling”

    26 people died!

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    And for those who don’t already know

    Palingtrekken, meaning eel pulling or eel drawing, was an old Amsterdam game. A rope was stretched over a canal, and a live eel was hung from it. The players had to sail underneath in boats and try to grab the slippery eel, with the risk of ending up in the water. Eel pulling was banned by the government as "cruel public entertainment".

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    okay so was the eel like, tied to the rope, or just hung over it?

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    okay so was the eel like, tied to the rope, or just hung over it?

    I imagine it had to be tied to it in some way or it would just slip off the rope.

    Why they couldn’t use say…a handkerchief or something I do not know

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Handkerchiefs do not come with their own built-in slimy mucus generation, and I think attempts to make up the shortfall via human input would be seen as pretty disgusting even by 19th century standards.

  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    People constantly underestimate the presence of eels throughout history, eels are very important

    Eel poaching and smuggling is a massive business to this day

  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    Straightzi wrote: »
    People constantly underestimate the presence of eels throughout history, eels are very important

    Eel poaching and smuggling is a massive business to this day

    This only sounds like a euphemism right

  • furlionfurlion Riskbreaker Lea MondeRegistered User regular
    Straightzi wrote: »
    People constantly underestimate the presence of eels throughout history, eels are very important

    Eel poaching and smuggling is a massive business to this day

    Actual eels or hagfish, which are very eel like?

    I learned that the 5 stages of grief are not sequential or supposed to occur in a certain order. Don't know why i thought differently.

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  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
  • furlionfurlion Riskbreaker Lea MondeRegistered User regular
    Straightzi wrote: »

    Humanity never fails to disappoint.

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  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    If you want some more historic eel content, John Wyatt Greenlee is a medievalist who has made it his semi-specialty (at least on Twitter)

    https://twitter.com/greenleejw

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    edited February 7
    I watched a Time Team where they skinned an eel as a demonstration it was very gross.

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  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    what if snake, but fish?

    go home, gaia, you're drunk

  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Eel smugglers have to resort to some unusual strategies, too

    https://youtu.be/0AckvdGbk4w

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Sigmund Freud spent a solid month of his undergrad dissecting hundreds of eels trying to find one with testicles.

    It turns out that the majority of freshwater eels spend most of their adult life without developed gonads. A fraction of the population appears to be pretty firmly female starting from some time in the larva stage, but most of them appear to develop either ovaries or testes based on environmental signals as they approach their breeding grounds in the Sargasso Sea right at the end of their lives.

    Freud didn't discover this, he just had a really miserable month groping dead fish until finally finding one that appeared to have nards, which was either a genetic fluke or a mistake on his part. And that's when he decided that maybe sitting in a nice clean room thinking about sexual organs might be a more promising career.

    For more startling facts about eels, read The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson. His dad was a Swedish eel fisherman, so there's a lot of stuff about his dad that you can skim over if you're only here for the actual eels.

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  • MalReynoldsMalReynolds The Hunter S Thompson of incredibly mild medicines Registered User regular
    After having not been to a doctor in a few years and waiting patiently for my dental cards to arrive [I have been bad about visits] I learned today that my cards are *digital* and I could have had this tooth looked at like last fuckin week

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    "Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
    My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    furlion wrote: »
    Straightzi wrote: »
    People constantly underestimate the presence of eels throughout history, eels are very important

    Eel poaching and smuggling is a massive business to this day

    Actual eels or hagfish, which are very eel like?

    I learned that the 5 stages of grief are not sequential or supposed to occur in a certain order. Don't know why i thought differently.

    They're also not even really a universal thing, it's just pop psych.

  • ProlegomenaProlegomena Frictionless Spinning The VoidRegistered User regular
    furlion wrote: »
    I learned that the 5 stages of grief are not sequential or supposed to occur in a certain order. Don't know why i thought differently.

    no you fucking didn't...I'll give anything...this is such a bummer

    eh, I guess it's fine

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Straightzi wrote: »
    People constantly underestimate the presence of eels throughout history, eels are very important

    Eel poaching and smuggling is a massive business to this day

    Ely in Cambridgeshire (possibly named after eels, but it's disputed) has an annual Eel Day

    I used to go when I lived in Cambridge, and enjoy eel quiche, smoked eels, and eel-based arts and crafts

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    I take my eels dipped in sauce, grilled, on a bed of white race, topped with green onions and wasabi, and submerged in tea.

    I'm a simple man.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Eel sauce or whatever other names it goes by is fucking delicious.

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