I could see am overlap between build and grow being possible. Think it turns up in other languages too doesn't it?
― Stevolende, Saturday, 8 February 2020 15:07 (four years ago) link
Neighbour
Old English nēahgebūr, from nēah ‘nigh, near’ + gebūr ‘inhabitant, peasant, farmer’ (compare with boor).
― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Saturday, 8 February 2020 15:12 (four years ago) link
The bours who say neigh
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 8 February 2020 15:17 (four years ago) link
present-day Dutch: verbouwen = grow (crops)
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 8 February 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
Recently learned that both 'guest' and 'host' derive from the same (reconstructed) proto-Indo European word '*ghosti-' which was more of a catch-all term for hospitality.
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Saturday, 8 February 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
Gives an extra layer to the punchline of Idris Elba’s verse in Boasty
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Saturday, 8 February 2020 19:57 (four years ago) link
that the original recording of 'The Sun Has Got His Hat On' has these lyrics:"He's been tanning n*****s out in TimbuktuNow he's coming back to do the same to you"
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 8 February 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
Mr. Koch (pronounced coke)
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 13 February 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
The Deftones are not a Brit guitar band with Paul Weller haircuts.
― fetter, Friday, 14 February 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
that some earthworms in optimum conditions can live up to 8 years old. So if your wee nipper is in the garden eating the wirrums, tell them to have some respect for their elders!
― calzino, Friday, 14 February 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
When I was a little kid, and I would act hyper or fidgety or just over-energetic, my mother would say that I was acting like what to my tender ears sounded like "a greeny stickumcap." I always assumed it was some quaint West Virginia-ism that she had picked up from her mother, maybe a colloquialism referring to some jumping insect or the like.
I was in my 30s before I discovered she was talking about these: Mattel(TM) Greenie Stick'em Caps, peel-and-stick caps designed to be stuck on the back of realistic looking "bullets" used in their cap pistols. I really honestly just assumed it was some made-up mom thing.
https://vintagetoycapguns.com/images/mattel-5.jpg
https://www.toytent.com/Special/pics/8714-1.jpg
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link
SAFE!
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
huh wow, never knew that any type of cap gun existed besides the little red plastic ring of dots. the wikipedia entry is obviously written by a toy enthusiast and is kinda messy but helpful.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
There were (and surprisingly still are) also the paper rolls
https://www.tintoyarcade.com/image/cache/data/product/Images_3401_3600/TTA3511-Super-Bang-Roll-Caps-1800-Shots-1000x1000.jpg
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
Used to love going at those things with a hammer and completely ruining our driveway.
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
scraping a 2p coin quickly across a strip of those was always fun
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link
BRB, going to revert to age eight real quick and add this sadly-absent experience to my childhood memory bank.
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:07 (four years ago) link
i can smell those right now
― joygoat, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
Srsly, Marcel's madelines ain't got nothing on a cap gun.
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
otm, i also got a momentary wave of cap gun smell memories earlier. much clearer than any memory of the sound or the appearance of the smoke (was it a faint wisp? a legible trail? a billowing cloud?).
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
blue wisp
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
Just been pointed out to me that all of Portugal coast is Atlantic while a lot of Spain is Mediterranean. & the Portuguese guy who was saying that said the sea temperature difference was pretty significant and reflected in the way people behaved accordingly.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 22:58 (four years ago) link
Spain's Atlantic coast is longer but then Spain is a lot bigger.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link
Actually, wiki says Portugal's is longer but, looking at a map, I don't see how that's possible - damn Mercator crap.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 23:09 (four years ago) link
Maybe if you included Brazil.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 February 2020 01:02 (four years ago) link
i think you are only looking at Spain's mediterranean coastline and not all its coastlines?
― Yerac, Thursday, 20 February 2020 01:14 (four years ago) link
oh wait you are talking only about the atlantic.
― Yerac, Thursday, 20 February 2020 01:15 (four years ago) link
North coast of Spain on Bay of Biscay, plus the coastline west of Gibraltar prior to Portugal border. All on the Atlantic.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 20 February 2020 01:35 (four years ago) link
But not as long as Portugal's coastline, which is all Atlantic.
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 February 2020 02:00 (four years ago) link
So Maine has a longer coast than California.
And Chimborazo is the highest mountain in the world, yeah yeah yeah.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 February 2020 02:32 (four years ago) link
Coastline measurement is a notoriously difficult definitional problem.
― Natalie Wouldn't (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 20 February 2020 03:04 (four years ago) link
^ Was going to say.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 20 February 2020 03:06 (four years ago) link
Mauna loa is the highest mountain in the world!
If you measure from the sea floor
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 20 February 2020 03:06 (four years ago) link
Tallest don't mean highest though!
― pplains, Thursday, 20 February 2020 03:22 (four years ago) link
― Natalie Wouldn't (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, February 19, 2020 7:04 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Nah man you just walk along the beach with one of those sticks with a wheel on the end
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 February 2020 06:44 (four years ago) link
One thing I remember from James Gleick's book Chaos is that coastlines are kind of like Mandelbrot sets: the closer you look, the more intricate they become. Measuring them accurately is close to impossible.
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Thursday, 20 February 2020 11:19 (four years ago) link
My embarrassing geography-related example is that Denmark isn't, and has never been, an island. I can't even really remember why I thought it.
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Thursday, 20 February 2020 11:21 (four years ago) link
Looking at a map, Spain's Atlantic coastline does seem longer than Portugal's (and not even counting the Canarias).
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 20 February 2020 12:49 (four years ago) link
For whatever reason, I have a serious block in my brain when it comes to geography. Like I may have read multiple books about the history of a particular region, all festooned with maps I've pored over extensively, and I will still find myself regularly surprised to (re-)learn, oh, that place is next to that place! Huh!
I mean I have difficulty visualizing the layout of even just the states that circle my own. It's kinda ridiculous.
― Hot, Now, and Oh-So-Very Wow! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:03 (four years ago) link
I'd've done all right generalizing the location of Ukraine, though, fwiw.
― Hot, Now, and Oh-So-Very Wow! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
Once I had a friendWho had the knack of tossingHis mind around geographyBoy, you think, you have problems
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 20 February 2020 12:49 (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
mandelbrot: LOOK CLOSER LOL
― mark s, Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link
Eheh, I4ve just "measured" VERY roughly with a tape measure on a map and Spain's Atlantic coastline IS longer than Portugal's !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
(my method may make a geographer want to die, though)
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:51 (four years ago) link
Joke for science nerds:
In the name Benoit B. Mandelbrot, what does the 'B' stand for?
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:52 (four years ago) link
XpIs some of it technically in the Bay of Biscay or something like that?
― calzino, Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:52 (four years ago) link
Oh it's the old mercantor projecter thingy again.
― calzino, Thursday, 20 February 2020 13:56 (four years ago) link
mercantor projecter
Let's call the whole thing off.
― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:01 (four years ago) link
Wait, the Bay of Biscay IS part of the Atlantic !So after checking some figures : the total coastline of Spain is 4872km with 2058km on the Mediterranean which leaves 2814km on the Atlantic.Portugal's coastline is 1793km.So Spain's Atlantic coastline is more than 1000km longer than Portugal's !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:01 (four years ago) link
XpI'm on my phone rn!
― calzino, Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:03 (four years ago) link