Yeah. Except Tasmanian Tiger is its colloquial name used by millions, and Tasmanian Wolf is used by... No one :)Better tell these guys, and these, and so on, and correct the dictionaries and encyclopedias while you're at it.Ok, not no one... But I think you'll find that Tasmanian tiger is still used far more often than wolf - by every single Australian for example.
I'd liken this little revelation (i.e. that anyone at all calls it a Tasmanian wolf) to a hypothetical situation where you discovered that some people outside of the US called a bald eagle a bald hawk...
It's a Tasmanian tiger :P Please don't tell us what our (admittedly extinct) animal is called!
Why would it bother me if people outside the US don't differentiate between eagles and hawks?
Why would it bother me if people outside the US don't differentiate between eagles and hawks?Yeah. Except Tasmanian Tiger is its colloquial name used by millions, and Tasmanian Wolf is used by... No one :)Better tell these guys, and these, and so on, and correct the dictionaries and encyclopedias while you're at it.Ok, not no one... But I think you'll find that Tasmanian tiger is still used far more often than wolf - by every single Australian for example.
I'd liken this little revelation (i.e. that anyone at all calls it a Tasmanian wolf) to a hypothetical situation where you discovered that some people outside of the US called a bald eagle a bald hawk...
It's a Tasmanian tiger :P Please don't tell us what our (admittedly extinct) animal is called!
I don't know... Did someone say it would bother you?
My point was that I'm surprised to hear it called a wolf instead of a tiger. Any apparent bother from me was a (seemingly opaque) attempt at humour...
I've honestly never heard it referred to as a wolf. Calling it such in Australia would give rise to much confusion, followed by laughter and good-natured mockery once everyone realised what was meant :)
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Please don't tell us what our (admittedly extinct) animal is called!
Apples, mate. You galahs killed the lot, so I reckon you get to name 'em -- fair suck of the sauce bottle. I'll change that use flat out like a lizard drinking.
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Did you know....we've beaten an extinct marsupial to death now. I think everyone's points have been offered and debated. Let's move on to something else trivial to fuss about.
Please don't tell us what our (admittedly extinct) animal is called!Apples, mate. You galahs killed the lot, so I reckon you get to name 'em -- fair suck of the sauce bottle. I'll change that use flat out like a lizard drinking.
Nice!
Did you know....we've beaten an extinct marsupial to death now. I think everyone's points have been offered and debated. Let's move on to something else trivial to fuss about.
You mean, like potatoes?
You mean, like potatoes?
You mean, that they're practically synonymous with traditional Irish food, but are native to the New World? Much like paprika, the trademark of Hungarian cuisine, is actually just the South American red chili pepper, relatively recently transplanted to Europe.
You mean, like potatoes?You mean, that they're practically synonymous with traditional Irish food, but are native to the New World? Much like paprika, the trademark of Hungarian cuisine, which is actually just the South American red chili pepper, relatively recently transplanted to Europe.
Down under, we call 'em "spuds"...
You mean, like potatoes?You mean, that they're practically synonymous with traditional Irish food, but are native to the New World? Much like paprika, the trademark of Hungarian cuisine, is actually just the South American red chili pepper, relatively recently transplanted to Europe.
Incidentally, if you go to the Sichuan province in China, you can easily find people who will swear that the local cuisine has always included chili peppers.
Incidentally, if you go to the Sichuan province in China, you can easily find people who will swear that the local cuisine has always included chili peppers.
I love Hungarian food, and I LOOOOOOOOOVE Sichuan (Szechuan?) cuisine. Therefore I love South America!
Incidentally, if you go to the Sichuan province in China, you can easily find people who will swear that the local cuisine has always included chili peppers.I love Hungarian food, and I LOOOOOOOOOVE Sichuan (Szechuan?) cuisine. Therefore I love South America!
Yeah, I've never gotten my head around English transcribing of Chinese words. (Or Russian, for that matter. If it's pronounced Yelena, why do you keep spelling it Elena?)
I love potatoes!
And potatoes love you too. Potatoes love us all.
The ancient city of Jericho may have been founded over 10,000 years ago, and the earliest inhabitants averaged 150 cm or 59 inches in height.
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Roughly 50-60% of your height is determined by genetics.
The rest is determined by 2d10...
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Incidentally, if you go to the Sichuan province in China, you can easily find people who will swear that the local cuisine has always included chili peppers.You mean, like potatoes?You mean, that they're practically synonymous with traditional Irish food, but are native to the New World? Much like paprika, the trademark of Hungarian cuisine, is actually just the South American red chili pepper, relatively recently transplanted to Europe.
While Chinese people do believe some very silly things, there might be an explanation for why people say this in particular.
Sichaun food is not only spicy but also has a "numb" flavor, making it "numb and spicy" (mala in Chinese), which destinguishes the food in Sichuan from the food in, for example, Hunan which is just spicy. The spice responsible for the ma part of the flavor is Sichuan peppercorns. While these are not actual peppers, they are called peppers in Chinese. The word for them is huajiao. Compare this to lajiao for a chilli pepper (jiao means pepper. So in Chinese they have technically always been using pepper and it just sounds wrong in English.
That or they are just saying stupid things.
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Sylvan Richardson, masseur for Liverpool FC and British olympic cycle-medalist Sir Chris Hoy played the guitar in Simply Red between 1985 and 1987.
In 1958, the male half of the winning couple in the Hong Kong Cha-cha Championship was a local eighteen-year-old martial arts student named Bruce Lee.
Today is the 59th birthday of Alexander Lukashenko, dictator of Belarus since 1996 (when he used his then popular support to push through a number of changes to the constitution).
Flamingos can only eat when their heads are upside down.
To take this statement out of a vacuum, if I understand it correctly, they take in mouthfuls of mud that contain brine shrimp or whatever it is that flamingoes eat, and squirt the mud and water out through their slotted beaks, leaving the noms in the flamingoes' mouths. It's not that they can't eat except in that position; it's that their method of feeding works better if they keep their heads positioned to allow them to scoop mouthfuls in, but then turn a bit back and forth to keep the food in but squirt the waste out.
The cool thing is that their mouths contain actual erectile tissue that fills with blood and stiffens, supporting their tongues in squirting out the mud and water.
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Flamingos can only eat when their heads are upside down.To take this statement out of a vacuum, if I understand it correctly, they take in mouthfuls of mud that contain brine shrimp or whatever it is that flamingoes eat, and squirt the mud and water out through their slotted beaks, leaving the noms in the flamingoes' mouths. It's not that they can't eat except in that position; it's that their method of feeding works better if they keep their heads positioned to allow them to scoop mouthfuls in, but then turn a bit back and forth to keep the food in but squirt the waste out. ** spoiler omitted **
The cool thing is that their mouths contain actual erectile tissue that fills with blood and stiffens, supporting their tongues in squirting out the mud and water.
Bah, how can you trust the word of a flamingo? They pee on themselves on purpose, supposedly to "stay cool."
This factoid provided by the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Warranty for truthiness is neither granted nor implied.
The Danish football club FC København (FC Copenhagen) has annulled all purchases of tickets in the home-crowd section of their arena by people with a non-Danish sounding name.
Only comment I'll make about that is: "Heja Brøndby!"
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The above post was my 6666th post on these boards.
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Flamingos can only eat when their heads are upside down.To take this statement out of a vacuum, if I understand it correctly, they take in mouthfuls of mud that contain brine shrimp or whatever it is that flamingoes eat, and squirt the mud and water out through their slotted beaks, leaving the noms in the flamingoes' mouths. It's not that they can't eat except in that position; it's that their method of feeding works better if they keep their heads positioned to allow them to scoop mouthfuls in, but then turn a bit back and forth to keep the food in but squirt the waste out. ** spoiler omitted **
The cool thing is that their mouths contain actual erectile tissue that fills with blood and stiffens, supporting their tongues in squirting out the mud and water.
tongue......erectile tissue.....O_o
Oh my.
The above post was my 6666th post on these boards.
Damn
The Danish football club FC København (FC Copenhagen) has annulled all purchases of tickets in the home-crowd section of their arena by people with a non-Danish sounding name.
Only comment I'll make about that is: "Heja Brøndby!"
What does "annulled all purchases of tickets" mean?
Means that if you've bought a season-ticket (or a single-game ticket for an upcoming match) they've cancelled the purchase.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "twerp" may have been coined by JRR Tolkien.
(The Dictionary of American Slang disagrees, though.)
The last time Liverpool started their league season with three straight 1-0 wins was in 1912.
Time travel is banned in Chinese movies.
Time travel is banned in Chinese movies.
that's weird.
Time travel is banned in Chinese movies.that's weird.
Just guessing, but maybe it's because they don't want anything portrayed that might show a change in the way history unfolded after the revolution.
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Maybe they saw the end of the first Christopher Reeve Superman movie, and realized just how outrageously stoo00oopid movie time travel can be. (Although the loss of the Back to the Future franchise is too great a down side to make up for the benefits.)
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They're probably afraid of stuff like this.
Twelve years ago today I was working in the machinery space onboard USS BARRY. I heard some sailors talking.........
I was at work. Much like today.
Yep, me too. Different job, but still.
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Flamingos can only eat when their heads are upside down.To take this statement out of a vacuum, if I understand it correctly, they take in mouthfuls of mud that contain brine shrimp or whatever it is that flamingoes eat, and squirt the mud and water out through their slotted beaks, leaving the noms in the flamingoes' mouths. It's not that they can't eat except in that position; it's that their method of feeding works better if they keep their heads positioned to allow them to scoop mouthfuls in, but then turn a bit back and forth to keep the food in but squirt the waste out. ** spoiler omitted **
The cool thing is that their mouths contain actual erectile tissue that fills with blood and stiffens, supporting their tongues in squirting out the mud and water.
tongue......erectile tissue.....O_o
Oh my.
I have also heard that Flamingo feathers obtain their "wonderful rosy pink color" from pigments in the organisms they eat, including algae.
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Yep. Feed 'em other stuff and they turn white/gray.
Interestingly, fossil pterodactyls have been found with the preserved remains of similar shellfish, etc. in their stomachs, implying that these creatures, too, may have been pink. PINK PTERODACTYLS!
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Yep. Feed 'em other stuff and they turn white/gray.
Interestingly, fossil pterodactyls have been found with the preserved remains of similar shellfish, etc. in their stomachs, implying that these creatures, too, may have been pink. PINK PTERODACTYLS!
That would be, interesting.