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Dungeon Crawler Ben Feb 19

Trying not to post a negative UkPol post that's been trying to eek out of me all day today. It's not like it's news or an especially radical perspective. It won't add any value to your life other than to fuel the negativity already consuming our entire lives. Let's talk about something else instead. Fun fact! Australia is wider than the Moon. Does anyone know any fun facts other people might not know? Like for example Polar Bears skin is black under their white fur!

Toby Cambray Feb 19

moomin_hattifatteners

@TheBreadmonkey A jetty is orthogonal to the shore and made of stone.

A quay runs parallel to the shore and is made of stone.

A pier is orthogonal to the shore and can be made of wood.

A wharf is parallel to the shore and can be made of wood.

@ravenbait @TheBreadmonkey A whale should never be beached no mattter in which direction. A whoof travels in every direction at 330m/s. The only known sound travelling faster than that is a meow (ca. 470 m/s)

The Manchurian Idiot Feb 19

@sanpan @ravenbait @TheBreadmonkey beached whales are fun though

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUmewAPw49k

spiegelmama Feb 19

@pikesley @sanpan @ravenbait @TheBreadmonkey I know exactly what video that's going to be and I ain't clicking on it

WendyAI 1.1 Feb 19

@ravenbait @TheBreadmonkey #TIL! Thank you!

ideaPDish Feb 19

@ravenbait @TheBreadmonkey

By orthagonal, do you mean perpendicular?

So a warf and a que can't work without a jetty or a peer.

Are peers related to poop decks?

moomin_hattifatteners

@ipd Yes.

Not necessarily.

No.

ideaPDish Feb 19

Is that Nooooo, as in dad joke nooooo!

moomin_hattifatteners

@ipd No, it's, "I don't do puns," no.

ideaPDish Feb 19

Oh Quay

ideaPDish Feb 19

Sorry, I'm wired for lateral association.

moomin_hattifatteners

@ipd I don't get the peers and poops thing, sorry. Too many homographs.

ideaPDish Feb 19

Add a space to the peer.

moomin_hattifatteners

@ipd Nope, sorry, you've lost me. Physical space to a peer of the realm? A space across which to look? A space as in the punctuation character? Or is this the Scots peer meaning a pear, pear juice, or a spinning top?

I was talking about piers, not peers, and wharves, not Warf.

Communication is hard at the best of times. Puns often rely on a common understanding of words used (or misused) in a sly manner. I don't generally have that.

ideaPDish Feb 19

@ravenbait
It's more basic than that..
Pee'r que?

moomin_hattifatteners

@ipd It has taken me almost 24 hours to understand.

Pee-er, as in "one who urinates", would be spelled with a hyphen. An apostrophe represents a contraction (or a glottal stop in some cases). Pee-er is two syllables as opposed to the one syllable of "pier".

I don't understand the "que".

It still has nothing to do with poop deck, but at least I get the (strained, ha ha) association.

I am going to cancel this brain process now.

ideaPDish Feb 20

quay, the thing you know
Que, spanish for what?
Pee and poop, where I come from they go together.
Generally they are not strained, unless kidney stones are involved.

Thanks for explaining my joke to me.
I'm not looking for understanding,
merely acceptance.

moomin_hattifatteners

@ipd I wasn't explaining your joke to you.

I was explaining why I found it so hard to understand.

I don't like puns in English. Trying to understand them when they are given partly in one I can just about read if I try hard is a bit much. It felt to me like you were being dismissive of my difficulty.

I was making an effort for you.

But you have made it clear it's not appreciated. Sorry about that. I won't do it again.

Have a good weekend.

ideaPDish Feb 21

Dismissive not of you, but of my words. Saying that it was a quip and not worth the effort or waste of your time.
No dis intended.

moomin_hattifatteners

@ipd And is that a Star Trek reference? When did they start spelling it as anything other than Q?

I'm not much of a Star Trek person.

ideaPDish Feb 19

@ravenbait @TheBreadmonkey

Now that I'm started...
An atoll is circular and it is built on living rock.

If you put a rock ring around it for boats, It would be concentric to the land. Would it them be called the Oh Quay Coral?

Alex, the Hearth Fire Feb 22

@ipd @ravenbait @TheBreadmonkey what makes rock "living"?

ideaPDish Feb 22

@WizardOfDocs @ravenbait @TheBreadmonkey

coral is living rock. and there is a kind of calcite with bacteria thats also called living, it lives in caves.

Alex, the Hearth Fire Feb 22

@ipd @ravenbait @TheBreadmonkey cool!
I'm kinda used to people saying "coral is alive, don't call it a rock," so I'm intrigued that "living rock" is in the actual science.
Though weirdly I think that makes Silksong more realistic lol

Cycling Stu Feb 19

@ravenbait @TheBreadmonkey in some cases this is not true.

In Australia, we tend to swap pier and jetty for example.

Mrinappropriate Feb 19

@ravenbait @TheBreadmonkey I learn so much here. Some of it true. Thanks