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False friend (bilingual homophones with very different meanings)

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Sidral Mundet

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Treehouse of Horror

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Ship's cat

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Pounamu

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Goblin Market (smutty poem from 1862)

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Patsy Cline (American singer)

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Fulgurite (fossilized lightning)

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Operation Vegetarian (unused WWII biowarfare program)

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Night of the Radishes

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Grey alien (Zeta Reticulans)

  • They have a very dense sponge texture, and they're sold by the pound with other Italian cookies at the market, so it skirts the line between cookie and tiny cake.

    Is there a category for tray bake sweets? A fluid zone between lemon bars, brownies, and cookies.

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    Dark ride (amusement park attraction)

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    Ophiuchus (astrology)

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    Birds Aren't Real

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    List of animals with humps

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    Darwin among the Machines

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    Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye (viking)

  • ESCALATORGATE.

    THE SECRET SERVICE DOESN'T KNOW ENOUGH TO NOT HIT THE RED SHINY 'STOP' BUTTON, AND NOW WE HAVE ESCALATORGATE.

    PLEASE SEND HELP AT ONCE. WE ARE NOT DOING WELL AS A NATION.

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    Presque-isle (landform)

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    Monstrance (religious vessel)

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    Tsukimi (harvest moon festivals in Japan)

  • Bad Graph says: 0.75% of 8 year olds were diagnosed in 2000 versus 3.2% in 2020.

    Correlation =/= causation.

    How have the diagnostic criteria changed in 20 years? Autism was a stigma when I was in high school in 2000, now it's a spectrum. Are there routine screenings at pediatricians now?

    Number go up, but what else go up simultaneously?

    I hate it here.

  • ....................... did they adjust the data points to go from lowest to highest

    ......so the chart go up?

    .....

    *I wrote down the data on a napkin and it makes more sense. These fuckers made a Bad Graph.

  • I am an unusually shaped plum, it so happens.

  • Felt like this one was relevant again.... given the current state of things.

  • *Disney hemorrhaged shareholder value and was told by their owners to reverse course.

  • Huh. Ew.

    Jelly Ear is much nicer, all around.

  • There's a whole myth thing about the wandering jew that pops up a lot in media....

    But "inch plant" is the preferred nomenclature for tradescandia.

  • Depends on the fandom

  • Dollar store spices will help you thrive.