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You might have heard the phrase "What's in a name?" But when it comes to everyday things, names can play a surprisingly significant role in shaping our perceptions. Can you imagine picking up a product only to discover that its name has led you completely astray? For instance, take "head cheese." You might think it’s some gourmet delicacy, but it’s a meat jelly made from the head of a pig.
So, when someone online asked, "What’s something that has a dangerously misleading name?" People quickly chimed in with some intriguing examples. Keep reading to discover more surprising names that might just leave you scratching your head, Pandas!
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#1
Pro-life. Should just be called pro-birth, they don’t care what happens after.
WindySwede 1 year ago
But you can kamala-vote one time in upcoming election! 👍
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I've been screaming this from the mountain top for decades when the radical christians freaked out back in 1973. If these people actually cared about children, they would help pass restrictive gun laws, ensure every child had a full belly, a place to live, health care, and an education. But they don't. They only care about eggs (not wasted sperm, mind you, just the wasted eggs) and fetuses. They are not Christians. They are fascists.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago (edited)
Those who call themselves "pro-life" cause deaths by denying women abortions when medically necessary for survival; a scandal along those lines is partly why Ireland voted to end (at least one...) restriction on abortion. A better term would be "forced pregnancy" - the anti-abortion lobby don't care about life. https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2022/10/22/savita-halappanavar-10-years-after-her-death-will-irish-abortion-laws-be-reformed-further/
Alexia 1 year ago
"Children of the Decree" - every so-called pro-lifer should watch this mini-documentary (it's in English). It's about the experiment done by communist dictator Ceausescu and his law prohibiting abortion, contraception, and sexual education on the matter, and the effects in society. Trigger warning: it's horrifying.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
"Pro-life only care about life from conception to birth, and then until you are old enough to join the military"
Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago
They're pro-pregnancy. They don't give two flying f***s if the mother or the child die as long as they make it to labour.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago (edited)
They don't even care about that. If they did care about pregnant women, they'd support universal affordable access to healthcare for pregnant women. It really does boil down to forcing women through pregnancies whatever the consequences, including pregnancies which kill both mother and unborn child. Anti-abortion activists are basically women-haters trying to pretend that they care... Here's some information: apparently 60% of human conceptions result in the disintegration of the embryo before the woman knows she is pregnant, and a futher 10% end in miscarriage after the person knows they're pregnant. Left to its own devices, nature discards 70% of human embryos: a fertilized human ovum is nothing special. The anti-abortion people are always silent on this side of things. https://theconversation.com/most-human-embryos-naturally-die-after-conception-restrictive-abortion-laws-fail-to-take-this-embryo-loss-into-account-187904
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#2
Flushable wipes
Ask elbow-deep-in-sewage fixing-the-pump self how I know they aren't flushable...
Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
They have become a real problem in many places. Cities are having to spend our tax dollars removing "fatbergs" from their sewer systems. Too many people are pitching all kinds of things down the drain. Apparently the worst culprits are wipes, disposable diapers (!), and grease, that then congeal together making a fatberg that plugs up the system. People, please just toss you trash in the bin! Toilet tissue is the ONLY THING specifically made to dissolve so it doesn't cause problems.
Mrx Mrx 1 year ago
I recently learned that the worst thing you can flush are nylon pantyhose (don't ask me why you even would do that). A sewer worker told me that they regularly have to manually remove huge feces anacondas which don't decompose and quickly form a blockage.
Danesy 1 year ago
I could’ve gone my whole life without having read the phrase “feces anaconda” but here we are
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Leigh James 1 year ago (edited)
I foresee a Class Action Lawsuit against the "flushable" wipes makers. Let them pay for the damages their products have caused/will cause; let them wallow in their own bullShite! We've had enough and we're not going to take it anymore!
Regina Holt 1 year ago
During Covid, while the great TP situation was raging, I did some googling. I'm so glad I did. Kleenex (and other brands) are soooo bad to flush. They do not disolve like toilet paper.
Korok 1 year ago
The flushable ones are still a problem, as you say they do dissolve but take longer, however they do cause blockages, therefore causing sewage spills that shouldn’t be happening, from someone who works in sewage
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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Cecilie Hammershøy 1 year ago
It's almost a rule if there's democratic in the name of a country, there's no democracy in the country
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
The more positive-sounding words the name of a country or organization has in its name, the less it is like any of those words.
When you look around, you might be surprised how many things have names that can really mislead you. Take guinea pigs, for example. Those adorable little creatures have nothing to do with pigs, and they’re not from Guinea either! They’re actually small rodents from South America.
Here’s the thing: names have a way of shaping our expectations. So, when we hear a particular name, we create a clear picture in our minds of what that thing should be.
For instance, when you hear "French fries," you might instantly think of a tasty side dish from France. But surprise—they’re not actually French! They likely originated in Belgium. This goes on to show names can mislead us, painting a picture that doesn’t quite match reality.
#4
Air fryer.
Not a fryer. Has no oil.
It is a convection oven.
Jaya 1 year ago
Yeah, but it conveys the idea perfectly: it's like frying, but in air instead of in oil. If we'd simply call it convection oven, it wouldn't have become such a success, because that implies it's just a small oven, that doesn't convey that it's an alternative to a fryer.
Nikole 1 year ago (edited)
Agreed. My toaster oven works just fine, plus I can bake, broil, or toast! I don’t get the hype over air fryers. Obviously it’s just marketing, like you said.
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XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago (edited)
And pizza! I'm a fan of cold pizza & never bothered reheating until we got one of those 500-in-1 air fryer/rotisserie/dehydrator/ cheesemaker/shoe polisher/bookbinder lol j/k but it does reheat fries & pizza pretty darn good!
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ANN VALERYEVNA Sokolovskaya 1 year ago
But amazing marketing. I've has to talk my boyfriend several times out of getting an air fryer because he already has an amazing convection oven and also that it's not full of oil (i think he thinks you can just put raw battered chicken in it and have a KFC result)
Roxy222uk 1 year ago
The reason we got an air fryer was after a programme on the BBC radio 4 called 'Sliced Bread' (really recommend it, it's on BBC Sounds) investigated them and found that to run for the same amount of time at the same temperature one would use half as much energy as a normal oven.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Yes, and you can heat up things like pizza and chips (fries) so they don't get soggy. I love my air fryer!
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Dogcat vet (retired) 1 year ago
Big Boss Fryer: large glass container big enough to cook a small turkey (with extension) or a large chicken. I use it pretty much daily. https://www.amazon.com/Big-Boss-Oil-less-Fryer-Silver/dp/B007P6SAZ4
#5
I recently learned by speaking with my 5-YO nephew that it can be incredibly distressing to little kids that we use the same phrase (“put to sleep”) for both “human general anesthesia” and “family pet euthanasia.” Buddy boy only knew the dog context and then someone mentioned the doctors would “put grandma to sleep so she wouldn’t feel them cutting her for surgery.” 💀💀💀.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Growing up on a farm, life held no secrets. When we dispatched an animal, we referred to the act as putting the animal down. But even as kids, we knew it meant death. I think suburban kids lag behind rural and city kids who see various shades of life on the daily.
glowworm2 1 year ago (edited)
My late mother once explained to me when I asked what sedated meant as a kid (After hearing The Ramones song, "I Wanna Be Sedated") that it meant being put to sleep. My immediate thought was the same thing as putting a pet to sleep as in the guy wanted to be dead. I mean, it WAS the Ramones.
Biofish23 1 year ago
We sadly had to euthanize an elderly dog when two of my children were little and I deliberately decided against using this phase with my kids. I knew that it would only end up scaring and confusing them more.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
May I ask how you phrased it when you told your kids about your elderly pup?
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Panda McPandaface 1 year ago
How about 'put to sleep' for pets and 'knock them unconscious' for surgery?
Alexandra Nara 1 year ago
Isn't it the same? at both times they use anesthesia ,so the patient isn't aware what happens next.. but we don't finish the sentence if it cones to euthanisia, cause we don't want to explain exactly that we kill the animal ( for the best reason)
#6
Trickle down economics.
Nimitz 1 year ago
There's a reason why Reagan's son loudly and proudly denounces everything about his parent's toxic legacy. Always remember that when pulled in front of Joe McCarthy Reagan didn't hesitate to name names of everyone who wasn't an evangelical Christian conservative. He was a toxic little sellout who read speeches and didn't know f**k all about what he was doing. Him and his "just say no" wife are responsible for so many evils perpetuated in America. What a piece of s**t
David 1 year ago (edited)
you mean the son who didnt talk to his father for years, had no relationship with? the one who was even called a liar by people like Nancy Pelosi on things he claimed about his father
Load More Replies... Chich 1 year ago
Doing it the wrong way. Knock off the rich guys, their money trickles down to their heirs, knock them off and keep going until it reaches you. Simple, no?
Jenn Olges 1 year ago
It trickles down, it's just the bad stuff trickles a lot faster than the good!
Jilly 1 year ago (edited)
I'd like to add the idea that cooperations should not pay or pay less in taxes bc they are "job creators". Excuse me but anyone living on this earth is a job creator. I create jobs for people everyday-,grocers,hair stylist, cab drivers,plumbers,electricians,local handyman, pet groomers...And that's just today!
Sand Ers 1 year ago
In a consumption driven economy, the “job creators” are the people who buy things.
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Paulina 1 year ago
Well, we shouldn't use it as it's a false theory. But it can be named that - this theory assumes that wealth will self-distribute to lower classes. It's just that the assumption is false and economy doesn't work that way. At this point, we all know that and should stop using that theory, not rename it and still hope for the best ;)
Whether it’s a product name that sounds fancy but turns out to be something completely ordinary, or a term that seems straightforward but leaves you scratching your head, names can definitely play tricks on us.
Like the flight recorder in airplanes—it’s called a "black box," but it’s not even black. It’s actually bright orange, so it’s easier to find after a crash. Makes you wonder, why isn’t it just called the “orange box”?
#7
Ringworm. It's actually a fungus.
Debby Keir 1 year ago
Yes, that looks like ringworm, so I don't understand the furore *https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/ringworm/ *
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
Probably because it is caused by a fungus and has absolutely nothing to do with a worm?
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Karina 1 year ago
Haha, I had this as a kid after we took in a Stray cat. Our doctor didnt know what it was, but my mother educated him once we sorted out that the cat had similair marks and took him too the vet. He sent her back to the vet for advice on treatment, and the wet just prescribed her some cream, as it is the same one😂
ANN VALERYEVNA Sokolovskaya 1 year ago
Hah omg yes. I breed pet rats and I always tell folks that if THEY get ringworm they need to not touch their pet rat until it's fully gone or they can pass it onto their pet rat (and pet rats aren't easy to apply antifungal ointment to). And inevitably I have to tell the people that ringworm isn't a worm but a fungus infection.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
Wow, for those in the comments stating that Ringworm is a completely different condition or that Ringworm and athlete's foot are not one in the same, PLEASE EDUCATE YOURSELF before making such sweeping statements! The medical term for ringworm is tinea, there are different types of ringworm that are named by which part of the body is affected. Like tinea pedis, commonly known as athletes foot or tinea cruris aka jock itch. They're all fungal infections caused by common mold-like parasites that live on the cells in your outer layer of skin.
Ace 1 year ago
These are indeed fungal infections, but not the same as ringworm.
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Barenaked Ladies were a huge letdown for teenage me.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
"If I had a Million Dollars" was a decent bar song. Not sure I'd recognize any of their other songs.
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Joe DeVylder 1 year ago
They used to be called Free Beer. But the small joints and dive bars made them change it because when they put “Tonight Free Beer” on the marquis it caused problems. So they changed it to BNL to spite them.
Evagating Beewolf (she/they) 1 year ago
Once, as a child, I was at my grandparents and they put on If I had a million dollars. It was somewhat odd hearing them discuss Barenaked ladies. By the way, apparently the song should be called "If I had $2,000,000" today, AT LEAST (see https://measuringworth.com/dollarvaluetoday/?amount=1000000&from=1996)
#9
Long Island Iced Tea does not contain any tea at all. And can be very dangerous as it is very easy to drink.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
And isn't as fun as it sounds - sand everywhere!
Load More Replies... glowworm2 1 year ago
I never understood that name myself. Even as a kid when reading cocktail menus at restaurants while waiting for my food, it never made sense to me. You'd think it was an alcoholic iced tea, but no.
Auntriarch 1 year ago (edited)
Possibly it harks back to the time of old ladies with teapots that did not contain tea ... Maybe prohibition, maybe just "oh heavens to betsey dear of course I don't take strong drink"
Load More Replies... Justin Tyme 1 year ago (edited)
I stopped drinking alcohol many years ago. But you just gave me a flashback to a time when I drank a couple of these in a club and ended up falling down a flight of stairs. And then I got sick in the taxi going home with a couple friends and got banned by the taxi company.
Toothless Feline 1 year ago
I don’t think it tastes much like tea, either. It’s more like something almost, but not entirely, unlike tea.
The Other Guest 1 year ago
Gin, rum, vodka, tequila, triple sec, cola, lemon, and ice.
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If you've ever ordered Chilean sea bass, you might’ve thought it was some fancy fish from the waters of Chile, right? Well, not exactly; it’s actually a rebranded name for Patagonian toothfish. They gave it a makeover to make it sound more appealing on menus!
#10
Mothers for Liberty.
Ace 1 year ago
Only came across this name a couple of days ago. It's apparently an ultra-right anti-abortion, anti-LGBT, pro-guns organisation in the US.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
They should re-brand themselves: "Mothers for death by shooting"
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RagDollLali 1 year ago
Well, if you take into account that they are all for liberty if you're a cis, white, christian american, then it's a somewhat accurate group name
Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
Mothers for "I will decide what's right for your children."
Load More Replies... Nimitz 1 year ago
Or anyone who screams about free speech like Musky. The dude wants to be able to say and libel whoever he wants without consequence, but anyone who disagrees with him should be silenced. He's happy to ban accounts that conservative leaders like Viktor Orban ask him to ban, but if there's an account outright lying in support of a cause Musky supports, he'll go to war with an entire country like Brazil, until he quietly loses. You can shout hatespeech to the moon on Twitter right now, but make a post with the word CIS in it and you will be automatically limited. Just the worst kind of people.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Yeah - did you notice, Elon Musk got a German comedian sacked from his radio job in Germany because he made a joke about the Trump assassination attempt, but Musk then went on to make jokes about murdering Kamala Harris. That's the thing about authoritarians: they can dish it out, but they can't take it.
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Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago (edited)
The term "feminazi" was coined in response to a very particular subset of (supposed) feminists. The idea was that if you took a piece of supposedly feminist writing and replaced all mentions of "men" with mentions of "Jews" and asked someone who wrote it, if the answer was "Hitler", you had identified a feminazi. There are hardly any feminist writers who hate men enough to pass (fail?) that test - they exist, but there are very, very few of them.
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Waterboarding in Guantanamo Bay sounds like a fun time!!
Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
To me, a waterboard should be what we used to call a kickboard, used during beginner swimming lessons. Or any kind of board used in water - surfboard, boogie board, etc.
Schmebulock 1 year ago
It should definitely be higher on vacation sites as a must do excursion.
#12
A water moccasin isn't a comfortable aquatic shoe.
DudeFortitude (He/Him) 1 year ago
"Yeah I'll be there in a sec, gotta put on my moccasins to go to the beach - OW F**K OW WHAT THE HELL HOW THE HELL DID THAT GET THERE OW OW OW also how did I not see that it was a snake OW OW S**T OW OW OW" - Someone, probably
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
And a ladybird is not a bird, and not necessarily female...
Maryland 1 year ago
Is a water moccasin also a cotton mouth? Because I am pretty sure the bite doesn't feel like cotton.
Mike F 1 year ago
My mother used the terms interchangeably and she lived in cotton mouth country (N Georgia mountains). And they are feisty, not timid at all.
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Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
Because the inside of their mouths are white... like cotton.
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You might have heard someone say they have tennis elbow, and it sounds like an injury you'd get from playing too much tennis. But it actually has nothing to do with the sport at all. Tennis elbow refers to a painful condition caused by overuse of the forearm muscles, which can happen to anyone, whether they play tennis or not.
#13
Bear spray. I worked in the tourist industry and every year we hear stories of some idiot who think it’s like mosquito spray and spray it on their children and selves.
Science Nerd 1 year ago
I think it might be one of these the poor soul attracted. https://www.cnn.com/travel/fat-bear-week-2024-katmai-winner/index.html
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Nimitz 1 year ago
I remember my sister working the reception desk at the Prince of Wales hotel in Waterton AB, Canada. American tourist would come down at the end of their week and slap down a bearbell and demand a refund because they didn't see any bears the entire time. Or even dumber things like asking what time the animals were let out. I know it's a stereotype but it really did happen quite a lot
SolitaryIntrovert 1 year ago
I thought it was like a deodorant for Bears to spray their pits with. 🙄🙄🤣🤣
#14
Sweetbread is not a pastry.
BrunoVI 1 year ago
Spotted d**k, on the other hand, is, misleading or not, a bad name for a type of pudding (which isn't what America thinks of as pudding, either.)
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 1 year ago
It's a term dating back a few hundred years to describe thymus and pancreas. Thymus is sweet when compared to muscle, but it could also mean tender and delicate. Bread is from brede, a Middle English word that means "roast meat".
TribbleThinking 1 year ago
Thank you. How on earth did that evolve in flour and yeast with absolutely no meat?
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UKGrandad 1 year ago
They kind of do; proper mincemeat contains beef suet.
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Debby Keir 1 year ago
You just can't by them in the UK any more (since CJD they've completely disappeared)
glowworm2 1 year ago
Doesn't help that it's used in Voltaire's song "Brains" in an episode of the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. "Pick me up a cruller and a cupful of tea and any other sweetbreads you happen to see." The entire episode is about a brain eating meteor asking Billy to get him some brains--in song form. Doesn't make it any less catchy or brilliant though.
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#15
“Right to Work” is one. “Pro-life” is another one.
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
"Right to work" means "right of employers to bust unions and pay their employees starvation wages."
Red Skye 1 year ago
the thing with starvation wages, is you don't need a union to end it, you just need to convince enough people to say screw your job and refuse to work for those who do NOT pay a living wage, Hell even slaves got accommodation and food, in exchange for their labor, if a person who works hard can NOT afford EITHER or BOTH food and accommodation, why the hell do you accept the job? the more people who say to hell with your less than slave level remuneration, and refuse to work for an employer, the better, it will FORCE THEM to raise their wages.
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago (edited)
The UK form of right to work is different: "Do you have the legal right to undertake employment in the UK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Work_laws_in_the_UK. Also, a human right backed by the UN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_work and various campaigns by left-wing groups basically protesting about mass unemployment. E.g., https://libcom.org/article/right-work-or-right-fight-live-martin-wright
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago (edited)
The US business lobby will fight hard against the UN concept of Right to Work, because it involves: "Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment." See the bit where it says "JUST AND FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS OF WORK AND PROTECTION AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_work
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Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Right to work is a perfectly correct description, because it gives you a right to work without being forced to join a union. That there are very good reasons to join the union doesn't change the fact that without a right to work law you're forced to join a union in order to work some jobs.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago (edited)
The 1947 Taft-Hartley act stopped the business of forcing workers to join a union. More recent US "right to work" laws are all about denying workers their rights by suppressing unions, under the guise of the "right to work" banner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft-Hartley_Act
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Inflammable does not mean not flammable. It means it is flammable.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
"Inflammable" came first and makes sense, and I quote: 'we get inflammable from the Latin verb inflammare, which combines flammare ("to catch fire") with a Latin prefix in- (more commonly seen as en- in English, as in enfold) meaning "to cause to be." ' More here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/flammable-or-inflammable
Alexia 1 year ago (edited)
One of the instances when the Latin I studied in school proves to be useful. Also, very helpful in learning medical/ biology terms or Romanic languages.
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Toothless Feline 1 year ago
“Flammable” means it will burn. “Inflammable” means it will violently burst into flames. They do not mean the same thing. As for the sign, all three just say “flammable”, in English, Spanish, and French, respectively. Score another point for BP’s picture-matching!
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
I'm not sure that there is that distinction between the words in normal use. But there does seem to be such a distiction drawn in the field of fire safety. However, different sources say different things: https://www.uksafetystore.com/resource-hub/hazard-safety/types-of-flammable-hazards https://www.hseblog.com/flammable-vs-combustible/
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Pyla 1 year ago
They had to change inflammable to flammable because Americans are pretty stupid.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
The word "flammable" was created because "inflammable" caused confusion, which is a Bad Thing where fire safety is concerned. It's not a problem specific to Americans. The basic problem is that the English language is crazy. Various international organizations which use English have adopted/created dialects which, to my English ears, are rather ugly - but which also get round lots of problems, like ambiguity and difficulty of pronunciation (if you're expecting everyone to speak it, try to avoid "th", for example. Greeks and Spaniards are happy with that sound; French and Germans, less so.).
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Debby Keir 1 year ago
They changed it from 'Inflammable' in English, because some morons thought it would put out fires, so they had to us 'Flammable' instead. Flammable is a 'made up' word.
When you "hit your funny bone," you might expect a chuckle or a lighthearted moment. However, it’s neither a bone nor a joke when you bump it. What you're actually striking is the ulnar nerve, which runs along the inside of your elbow.
When this nerve gets knocked, it sends a jolt of sharp discomfort through your arm, and it’s definitely no laughing matter!
#17
Friendly-Fire.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago (edited)
What about the term "Civil War": "Could you mind terribly to rise up, my good man? [BANG] Thank you, much obliged!"
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
And collateral damage means civilian casualties which means innocents were killed. These terms were popularized when the Vietnam War was broadcast in every American home because the government didn't want to upset civilians.
Pernille 1 year ago
Unless they are rugby matches...our village played a friendly against a northern team, best party I've ever been to, rugby men know how to party.
Load More Replies... Janissary35680 1 year ago
And usually (but not always) mistaken. It's caused by the "Fog of War".
Load More Replies... Jenn Olges 1 year ago
The only "friendly fire" I know is a good campfire and a bag of marshmallows!
Debby Keir 1 year ago
It's just a way of pointing out that it wasn't enemy fire rather than an own goal.
#18
I’ve been waiting for a question like this!! My answer: the phrase “the jury was hung” meaning they all couldn’t decide on one verdict together. The first thing my mind goes to is “wow! They hung the whole jury by their necks!!”
EDIT: YES I’m aware the correct terminology is HANGED I live down the street from Salem where the witches got HANGED I just immediately think HUNG when people say HUNG JURY I know it’s incorrect it’s just what comes to mind thanks reddit folk.
The Other Guest 1 year ago
Also, probably not witches but "innocent people, most of whome were women, falsely accused and convicted of witchcraft." But I get it, "witches" is a lot faster to say.
#19
Truth Social.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
The funny thing is, from what I've read, the terms and conditions you sign up to require everything you post on Trump's anti-social network to be true, which means (all of?) Trump's posts violate his own terms and conditions...
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Amanda Fondaumiere 1 year ago
He touched my oval office. I will never be the same.
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The Patriot Act.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
The Total Government Control Over Every Part of Your Life and Denial of Constitutional Rights Act
UKGrandad 1 year ago
It wasn't called The Patriot Act, it was the USA PATRIOT Act, capitalised because it's an acronym. It means 'Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act'. Full marks to whichever cynical genius managed to make the name of the wholesale stripping of civil liberties into something to which no US politician dare vote against for fear of being accused of being unpatriotic.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
As a reminder, the group that executed almost 17,000 during the Reign of Terror in Revolutionary France was called the Committee of Public Salvation (Committe de Salut Publique)
Janissary35680 1 year ago
Historically that's been rendered as "Committee of Public Safety" in English. Typical fascist-state double-speak.
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 1 year ago
I still remember how outraged people were when that thing was first proposed.
#21
Perusing Door Dash earlier, trying to figure out what I wanted. Came across a place called Hello Cake. Thinking we had a new bakery in town, I clicked. They do not, in fact, sell cake. They sell butt plugs and other assorted sex toys. 😐.
Sky Render 1 year ago
Sometimes you need help in the bedroom with your burgers. Don't judge!
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
We in Germany have "Eis.de" (Ice/Ice cream. de) ... they indeed don't sell frozen goods
Trophy Husband 1 year ago
I wonder if the name is so that on your credit card it doesn't say mistress X's sex emporium.
Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
I have gone to a site for what I assume is this and I cannot find any of the fun bits, just weird libido-boosting things. Deeply disappointed.
Even koalas aren’t quite what they seem at first glance. We often affectionately refer to them as "koala bears," but they’re not bears at all. Instead, koalas are marsupials, belonging to the same unique family as kangaroos and opossums.
This means that, like their larger relatives, female koalas carry their young in pouches, nurturing them until they’re ready to face the world.
#22
Greenland.
Max Fox 1 year ago
Greenland was a lot greener when it was settled by the norse than it is now, but it was also marketing.
Debby Keir 1 year ago
World's first misleading advert - Eric the Red called it that to encourage more settlers.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
I assumed it was a mapmaker's error, like Round Island and Snake Island in the Indian ocean (Round Island is flat and has snakes, Snake Island is round and snakeless )
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Liliauna Whitlock [STUDENT] 1 year ago
this has always confused me because Greenland is icy but Iceland is greeny
Rebecca McManus 1 year ago
It was named that to make it attractive to potential settlers, an early form of false advertising
#23
Ectopic pregnancy. Tissue growing outside the uterus in an almost malignant fashion that has no chance of viability and will probably k*ll the afflicted person is not in any sense a “pregnancy”. The name needs to be changed to reflect the medical condition that it is.
Dorothea Stovall 1 year ago
It's a "pregnancy" because it's a fertilized ovum. It's ectopic because it's "out of place."
Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
We women know that, but ignorant people focus on the "pregnancy" part of it and ignore the rest of it; that the egg is not where it's supposed to be. Some people believe the egg "can be moved" to where it should be. 🙄
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Since 2022, this is a death sentence in several US states. Way to go, boys. Idiots fail to understand that dead women can't bear children.
Sand Ers 1 year ago
Killing women is part of the intent. It is not and never has been about “protecting life”. It’s about forcing women and girls back into chattel status. Killing off a few is an effective reminder that they aren’t entitled to see themselves as equals.
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Dave In MD 1 year ago
Problem is all the "Pro Birth" idiots will want to criminalize any procedure to get rid of it. Because you know their sky pilot supposedly said that life begins at fertilization.
Anne Jones 1 year ago
Ectopic pregnancy means a fertilised egg that grows inside the Fallopian tube which is life threatening because it grows and bursts the tube, causing internal bleeding. Fatal if not dealt with by surgery but a definite type of failed pregnancy. When the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus it’s called Endometriosis.
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
Not just in the Fallopian tubes. On the cervix or outside of the uterus entirely are also classified as Ectopic pregnancies.
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Cydney Golden 1 year ago
In some states can't be treated bc of anti abortion laws. So pro life??
#24
**Rocky Mountain Oysters**—they're not oysters at all! They're actually bull testicles, and the name can really throw people off.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
Freddie Starr: a man in a Spanish restaurant orders bull testicles, and really likes them. He returns and orders them for the next few nights, then one night, they're significantly smaller than before. He queries it with the waiter, who replies: "Sometimes, the matador, he loses...."
Brian Droste 1 year ago
That is probably why they are called Rocky mountain oysters otherwise if they just called them bull testicle, who would eat them?
Nikki Gross 1 year ago
Yes, if you live anywhere in the South then at some point you will see a restaurant with Rocky Mountain Oysters or Lamb Fries on the menu. Not something I care for, but to each their own.
Timbob 1 year ago
What about, “ You’ll love the way my mom makes Liver and onions. You can’t even taste the Liver.”
Now, here’s one for the peanut lovers. If you think you’re avoiding legumes, think again. Peanuts aren't nuts; they're actually legumes, like beans and lentils.
Also, have you ever wondered about "dry cleaning"? It sounds like a process that doesn’t involve water, but in reality, your clothes do get wet—just not with water. Instead, they’re cleaned with special chemicals.
#25
Citizens United.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Their mission almost sounds reasonable until you realize it a bunch of Conservative jackoffs who want to indoctrinate people towards their skewed way of visualizing the US.
Debby Keir 1 year ago
and they are united in the desire to do so....but 'citizens' they ain't.
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Nimitz 1 year ago
Funded almost entirely by the Koch brothers. It's insane that anyone with a few billion is basically able to buy any change they want in the most powerful country in the world. Or any country really. This is why so many countries are shifting radically to the right. The wealthy have all realized they can buy every country for cheap. All it takes is a troll farm or two and some bribes to the judiciary and they can do whatever they want
keyboardtek 1 year ago
The results of their propaganda is the opposite of uniting our citizens.
Heras buddy 1 year ago
Christian conservatives. Definitely don't know what Christ was teaching.
tameson 1 year ago
Citizens United is not a group, conservative or otherwise. It is a Supreme Court decision that ruled that corporations have a right to freedom of speech, and can donate unlimited funds to election campaigns. Perhaps the most damaging thing that has ever happened to the US system of government.
Sand Ers 1 year ago
Seriously? How do you think that name got attached to that case?
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I once met a girl named, I kid you not, Sweet Princess Smith (last name changed for privacy). She was a huge b***h. Nothing sweet or princess-like about her.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Of course she wasn't being stuck with such a moronic name. She must have been relentlessly teased because her parents were idiots for giving her that name.
Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
I'll never understand why parents give their children names like this. Fine, if you like such a name, use it as a nickname and give your child a more reasonable name. We probably all know at least one such kid from our school days who was teased or even worse, bullied, because of their name.
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For those outside of the US, Budweiser is the name or Brand of beer that is common and can be bought pretty much anywhere in the US. So, I used to work with a guy named Mike and his last name was Weisser. Guess what he named his Son? Yup, that poor child is named Bud Weisser and considering his wife is the epitome of White Trash, she thought it was the best idea ever and refused to give the poor kid a middle name. They didn't want to take a chance that someone would try to call him by his middle name instead.
Jenn Olges 1 year ago
This reminds me of the recent name trend of calling a daughter "Nevaeh". Do they not realize that "nevaeh" is heaven spelled backwards, making it the opposite of heaven, or he!!? Conveniently, every single Nevaeh I've known has been a spoiled girl that had meltdowns over every little everything - so the name kind of fit.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
That is like naming a guy Tiny and he ends being like 6 ft tall or taller and weigh like 200 lbs to 250 lbs.
Rachel Pelz 1 year ago
Hard not to develop a difficult character if your parents feel the need to let the whole world know that special rules should apply for you...
#27
Golytely
If you've had a colonoscopy, you know.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
I used to work in a hospital. We somewhat-jokingly called it Goheavily.
Eastendbird 1 year ago
Preparing for the colonoscopy was so much worse than the colonoscopy itself...
Boo 1 year ago
In the UK, one is known as "Movieprep" (can't remember what the other one is called) ....yeah, not a good time 🤣
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
We have Moveprep as well here in Germany - and yes, it cleans the cologne AND the stomach through the nearest openings...
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 1 year ago
This is just cruelty in advertising. There's nothing "lyte" about the preparation.
EJN 1 year ago
Drink these 5 liters or more of bad-tasting lemonade drink so that you will use the toilet very often until nothing comes out any longer and then the doctor will insert a camera on a hose to take a movie of your colon. It's a not-fun way to spend time. There is no anesthesia here in Japan either!
Names can be pretty misleading sometimes, right? These posts remind us that it’s always good to pay attention! What do you think? Do you know of any interesting names that completely mean something else?
#28
Nutty Putty Cave sounds like such a joyous good time.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
These days you could just as well call it Nutty Putty Tomb. Because that's what it is.
Lowrider 56 1 year ago
The story of the guy who got stuck in it and died is one of the worst ways to go. Look it up at your own risk.
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Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
Do NOT google his name if you are at all squeamish!
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Evelien Stijger Martens 1 year ago
In a way I am happy he died within the first day, what a horror.
Gracie Mae 1 year ago
So sad...maybe they should change the name to John Jones Memorial or something.
#29
Vitamin Water.
#30
Suffrage.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
This is what happens when educational budgets are stripped to the bare bones. Latin was required when I was in school, but one of the first subjects to be cut. Too bad. Knowing Latin assists with the understanding of English. Anyhoo, Suffrage from Medieval Latin suffragium, from Latin suffragium "support, ballot, vote cast in an assembly; right of voting; a voting tablet," from suffragari "express public support, vote for someone." Not at all misleading, really.
Tarik Dursun Zorgulen 1 year ago
I feel like this is a good post in this list, not an error. Especially when you think that some law that was designed for times where information was as fast as horses can allow just one person to ignore all votes from their area just go with whatever they feel like, or how gerrymandering can **ck up votes or how media can be used to fill people's mind with garbage misinformation. See, suffrage should be renamed it does not really mean what it should anymore.
Load More Replies... Debby Keir 1 year ago
Comes from a latin derivation of 'voting tablet' and nothing to do with suffering.
#31
Dyson Ball Cleaner.
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
I love my Dyson upright, it's the best for dog or cat hair. My old Hoover barely picked it up. Got my Dyson and gave the Hoover to a friend whose old vacuum died.
#32
The English Horn:
Not English.
Not a horn.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
In the UK, it's called the "cor anglais", ultimately coming from Middle High German "engellisches Horn" meaning "angelic horn". All very odd, really. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cor_anglais#History_and_etymology
M Calad 1 year ago
Before I read Jan Rosier comment, I was about to comment that I wonder what the person who described the sound as "angelic" had going on in their life. I mean, I don't say the English horn sounds bad, but "angelic" is not like...the most suitable adjective to describe it 😅. Anyway, it's about angles, not angels. Got it.
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Disgruntled Panda 1 year ago
And how about the recorder? Boy was I confused as to why music lessens in the UK would consist of learning how to record things
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Invented in Silesia in 1720. It is thought to be a mistranslation of anglé, the French word for curve/angle since the original shape was curved. Around 1760 Vienna, the name English Horn from anglaise (the mistranslation) was used. By 1839, the instrument was straightened.
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
The French horn is not French, btw. In the wind band world, we call all instruments played by blowing into them a “horn” as a generic term.
#33
Red delicious apples.
Janissary35680 1 year ago
Usually too mealy for me. I'm a Granny Smith fan.
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Opposite of delicious: mealy, with a thick and bitter skin. It's a wonder they're still around.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
They used to be quite tasty. But years of commercial farming has bred all the taste out of them.
JaykEFF 1 year ago
The taste was not bred out of them, every red Delicious apple, in fact, any Apple of a given variety, is a clone. Over time, the DNA degrades and the clones become worse and worse. This will eventually happen to every apple variety.
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Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
Never tried them. But golden delicious are awful. So bland and pulpy. To me they smell like dental plaque
Brian Droste 1 year ago
Yep. I had a couple of TV them. I did not iike them. They have a sour taste to them.
#34
Poop deck.
Janissary35680 1 year ago
"Family Guy" cutaway: "Well then, they shouldn't call it a 'Poop Deck'!"
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
From the French word poupe, which means stern. English is made up of Arabic, Latin, Greek, French, German, and other languages. Again, a decent education really helps to fully appreciate the English language.
Jules 1 year ago
Reminds me of the old UK kids TV series Captain Pugwash and his crew Master Bates and Seaman Staines. They knew what they were doing ..
Debby Keir 1 year ago
Oh, snigger, snigger. Poupe (French) from latin puppis means stern (not angry or cross, but rear)
Greenmantle 1 year ago
With a long frayed bit of rope left dangling off the end to be hitched up to wipe your bum after defecating. Seems sanitary since it was put back down to rinse out in the sea water... except it was... shared.
#35
Yellowcake.
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This is timely - I just took a tour of the nuclear plant my partner works at yesterday during an 'open house.' We learned about how nuclear fuel is made. Pretty fascinating.
Weaponized Beef 1 year ago
Man, I thought it was pretty dry. Guess that explains it. And my healthy glow.
#36
Sex wax sounds like something used to make certain body parts slippery. In reality, it is used to make a surfboard not so slippery.
SolitaryIntrovert 1 year ago
Isn't that what it is called when you introduce a candle into the proceedings ?
#37
Butterflies are not actually made of butter and you SHOULD NOT COOK WITH THEM.
Pernille 1 year ago
In danish they are summerbirds, it makes a little more sense to me, but is probably just as stupid.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
They were beliefed to feed on butter and got their names that way - You can find that naming in english and german (maybe other languages, too?)
#38
Literally ANY bill being introduced in American politics.
Becca not Becky 1 year ago
Yup. They thrive on catchy one-liners but have a bunch of hidden details.
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
One of the very few things the Confederacy got right was that all bills were to be single-issue only.
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Cornhole.
Cally2001 1 year ago
I went to a work event in the USA (from the UK) and they arranged to play it in the evening... I was really concerned until it was explained 😁
IamMe 1 year ago
Most of the USA, was equally confused when it first started spreading here, too. I remember my uncle, telling my brother's friend "It's not that kind of party", the first time I ever heard it suggested. Lol.
Load More Replies... Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
We always called in the "beanbag game." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But then again, we were playing it before it became quite so well-known and popular.
RabidChild 1 year ago
There was an ad in the paper that said: "Cornhole! Fun for the whole family!" I had questions....
Pferdchen 1 year ago
That would fit right into a "The Aristocrats!" joke. If you're not familiar with the tradition, it may be best to keep it that way.
Load More Replies... Susan Stead 1 year ago
I lived in Ohio for a while, where cornhole was extremely popular. Whenever I saw posters for adult cornhole tournaments, I'd giggle because I will be 12 forever.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
When I first played it in Hawaii with a neighbor, he called it Portuguese horseshoes (which I have since learned it a different game completely). I didn't know it was called cornhole till I moved back to the mainland and some friends played it.
#40
The opposite, but SUPERVISION sounds so much cooler than it actually is.
Richard Pennington 1 year ago
There's also a difference between the words OVERLOOK and OVERSEE.
#41
“Unloosen” , as in shoe laces - means the exact same thing as “loosen”. Grammatically correct but logically ridiculous. Absurd even. I might write a letter to my senator.
ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago (edited)
Who the heII says "unloosen" anyway? Unloosen should mean the same thing as "tighten".
Manana Man 1 year ago
These aren't words that don't mean what they say; these are words that people say incorrectly.
Ace 1 year ago
Yeah, no, not actually a word. Reminds me a bit of other invented words like irregardless.
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I have never heard that word - and I've had laced shoes all my life.
#42
Full self driving.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
And Elon Musk just said he would never trust a computer. He was referring to voting machines, which have no evidence of failure or fraud.
#43
The Incredibly Deadly Viper.
Pink_Mushroom 1 year ago
The Incredibly Deadly Viper is one of the least dangerous and most friendly creatures in the animal kingdom. -Dr. Montgomery Montgomery Series Of Unfortunate Events
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
Going on the design this snake isn't even venomous at all! It's clearly a python or some other non-venomous constrictor (you can tell by the shape of the snout and the placement of the eyes).
Sand Ers 1 year ago
You can tell maybe. To me they’re all danger noodles.
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Spinach artichoke dip SOUNDS healthy. It's got two vegetables right there in the name, but it ain't healthy at all.
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
Yeah the cheese, cream cheese mayo and sour cream kinda cancel the healthy part out but it tastes good. Not what is pictured though.
Roxy222uk 1 year ago
I beg to differ: people have been eating cheese, cream cheese, mayonnaise, and sour cream for a long old time. All honourable foods, as long as they're not ultraprocessed.
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#45
Euthanasia is not the young people of Asia.
CrazyKnitter 1 year ago
I actually thought this when I was a child, so not entirely out of left field...
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GrammyBeth 1 year ago
Euthanasia sounds exactly like youth in Asia, so unless you’re reading the word it would be very easy to misinterpret.
cecilia kilian 1 year ago
Kids who hear it. Same for guerilla warfare. As a child I thought large apes were being trained in combat.
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Misleading name? Salsa dancing.
MunchkinGirl 1 year ago
Me: *hiding a bad of tortilla chips* there has been a misunderstanding
#47
Airsoft is one, suprised I forgot about that
#48
Warhammer 40k
I have yet to see all 40,000 warhammers.
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 1 year ago
My late hubby played Warhammer 40K. Haven't gone through all 7 wheeled cabinets yet, but I might have half of those 40K! (Each cabinet has 8-10 shelves. Each shelf holds a plastic container with anywhere from 5 to 40 painted miniatures for the game. His brother has the 10 or so cabinets that wouldn't fit in storage.)
#49
Baby aspirin.
Dorothea Stovall 1 year ago
They were invented a long time ago and was used for children until the correlation with Reye's syndrome was found.
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They call it low-dosage aspirin nowadays. I haven't seen it labeled for kids in decades.
Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
St Joseph Aspirin for Children. Used in our house when we were very young. We never called it 'baby aspirin,' though. St-Joseph-...5a7013.jpg 
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
When I was 4 years old, I dumped a whole bottle into a cup of water and made "orange soda!" Told my mom and dad it was the best orange soda I ever had! I would up in the hospital having my stomach pumped. Later in life I tasted one... vile little things!
Load More Replies... Debby Keir 1 year ago
But also still used now as a designation of a low dose that can be helpful in preventing cardiac issues in non babies.
Mike F 1 year ago
When my lung collapsed the EMTs gave me those things by the handful thinking I was having a heart attack.
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Mineral spirits is not healthy liquor.
Science Nerd 1 year ago
What does liquor have to do with the afterlife, other than possibly help get you there more quickly?
#51
Linear Algebra.
Immortal Emperor Paradox 1 year ago
Linear algebra is called "linear" because it deals with straight-line relationships, like how a change in one thing leads to a proportional change in another. It's called "algebra" because it uses basic math rules to solve problems. For example, it helps to understand how to move or scale objects, how different factors relate to each other, or how to solve many equations at once. It's used in everyday things like computer graphics, navigation, and even in how recommendations work on streaming platforms.
#52
You can't cuddle with cuttlefish.
Ace 1 year ago
Not only spelt differently but pronounced differently in most of the world.
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Justin Tyme 1 year ago (edited)
Karate Weapons. The word "karate" means "empty hands" i.e. no weapons.
IamMe 1 year ago
When I was a kid, I begged and begged my mother to buy me grape nuts cereal. They taste nothing like grapes or nuts. They taste like salty dogfood.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
I once reversed my car into a tree, and damaged the boot. I went looking for a replacement at a car boot sale. True story.
Sky Render 1 year ago
Grey goo. Sounds like hair gel or something, is actually an AI nightmare scenario involving self-replicator nanomachines consuming everything they can reach to make more of themselves.
Lance LaRocque 1 year ago
Love triangle, it has 3 sides which should mean Jacob and Edward could end up together.
Mike F 1 year ago
Watch the movie "A Haunted House" he was hilarious in that movie.
Load More Replies... Justin Tyme 1 year ago (edited)
Karate Weapons. The word "karate" means "empty hands" i.e. no weapons.
IamMe 1 year ago
When I was a kid, I begged and begged my mother to buy me grape nuts cereal. They taste nothing like grapes or nuts. They taste like salty dogfood.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
I once reversed my car into a tree, and damaged the boot. I went looking for a replacement at a car boot sale. True story.
Sky Render 1 year ago
Grey goo. Sounds like hair gel or something, is actually an AI nightmare scenario involving self-replicator nanomachines consuming everything they can reach to make more of themselves.
Lance LaRocque 1 year ago
Love triangle, it has 3 sides which should mean Jacob and Edward could end up together.
Mike F 1 year ago
Watch the movie "A Haunted House" he was hilarious in that movie.
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