Fair enough about honey, but with jellyfish I think it starts to get into the idea that the distinction between plants and animals isn’t as clear cut as people imagine.

Jellyfish are classified animals, in the same phylum as coral, sea anenomes, and a parasite that lives inside the cells of fish.

Obviously we need to classify them somewhere, but in terms of the ethics of eating them for food they seem closer to plants than mammals to me. After all plants can also communicate, and respond to stimuli including sending out warning signals when they’re being eaten (are they suffering? No way of knowing, consciousnessis not well defined).

My personal one of these is just saying “I’ll” as a response to questions like “Will you …?” or “Who will …?”.

If it’s a contraction of “I will”, it should work, but somehow it sounds weird, like it disrupts the expected pattern of emphasis.

What about honey?

What about jellyfish?

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Do you call trousers pants in Geordieland?

Knowing what the strange quirk is would add a lot to this anecdote. And maybe a clue as to your cultural milieu?

Otherwise we’re all just thinking about every (self-percevied) quirk that we try to tell ourselves nobody else notices lol.

This time round they’re coming from the west!

My sibling in autism, in the English phrasiology “You’re as _ as the day I _ you”, the adjective is to be understood as applying to the subject both times (i.e. “You’re as _ as (you were on) the day I _ you”).

And what’s that?

What’s the answer then, smartypants?

Genuine question: would you think this about any post that showed a company in a positive light? Or are there specific things about this post that tell you it’s an ad?

Apparently the whole “quirky unique collective nouns for different things” thing was a victorian meme. People 150 yes ago just made them up to be funny, and now they’re solemnly repeated as mystical English dictionary words from the dawn of language.

I think I’ve been in this boat without necessarily realising. Last film i saw at the cinema was the hobbit. I had no idea they’d decided to split the story from that short children’s book up into multiple films, so I was very confused and disappointed by the end.

You must have a far nicer garden hose than me.

My pet peeve is this but for signage in general. Workers put out a temporary flood or road narrows sign, but forget to remove it again, the net effect is just people learn to not notice signs as much, and works against safety.

Still regularly see signs about masks obligatory, keep 2 m distance, and one-way systems from covid. They’re just part of the background now, people don’t even see them. And next time they’ll be that much less effective.

I’ve heard their wings can break your arm, so it might not be just as simple as that. Still probably a good first step. But if this happened when he’s out swimming where he can’t stand, that would be an advantage for the swan.

I can’t remember the details, and too lazy to search it up right now, but I think it was like Greta and him were having a Twitter argument, and he maybe posted a photo with a background that accidentally disclosed his location, so authorities who were already looking to arrest him were able to act on it.

2 units (in this case houses) down and 2 across (a perhaps intentional misinterpretation of the original slightly ambiguous statement). Reasonable to assume down and across are perpendicular directions. Let’s pretend space-time is Euclidean. How far away is the listener from the sneeze? Pythagoras, our faithful companion, guides our understanding…√(2²+2²)=√8=2√2

I think when you read that article it’s important to think critically about how it’s composed. I am as anti-trump as the next European “centrist dad”, but nothing I read there made me think he went out of his way to tell that story unprompted. I imagine he was interviewed, said a bunch of stuff, and then someone cherry-picked the quotes they needed to support the narrative of the article… You can’t just take it at face value!?