The thread of learning something new every day
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@booboo said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Bones have to trust Facebook.
There's enough in there that are recognisable that the rest are believable.
The internet is never wrong and mn5's memes are a beautiful combination of hilarious and original.
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Very interesting watch
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@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
No idea if any of this is true, but interesting if so. Had no idea that smell has a name.
40 English Words You Never Thought Existed
- Petrichor | The pleasant smell after rain on dry earth.
- Agelast | A person who never laughs.
- Snollygoster | A clever, unscrupulous person (especially in politics).
- Zugzwang | A situation where any move worsens your position (from chess).
- Absquatulate | To leave suddenly or hurriedly.
- Wamble | The stomach rumbling or a feeling of nausea.
- Callipygian | Having well-shaped buttocks.
- Erf | A plot of land, especially in South Africa.
- Limerence | The state of being obsessively infatuated with someone.
- Quire | Two dozen sheets of paper.
- Defenestration | The act of throwing someone out of a window.
- Gardyloo | A warning cry before throwing waste from above (historical, Scottish).
- Cacodemonomania | The belief that one is possessed by an evil spirit.
- Jargogle | To confuse or muddle something up.
- Tittynope | A small quantity of leftovers.
- Crapulence | Sickness from excessive eating or drinking.
- Collywobbles | Butterflies in the stomach.
- Ultracrepidarian | Someone who gives opinions beyond their knowledge.
- Flummox | To bewilder or confuse someone.
- Griffonage | Illegible handwriting.
- Hoddy-noddy | A foolish person.
- Kerfuffle | A commotion or fuss.
- Pogonotrophy | The act of growing a beard.
- Bloviate | To speak pompously or boastfully.
- Gobbledygook | Language that is meaningless or hard to understand.
- Mumpsimus | A stubborn person who insists on an incorrect idea.
- Fudgel | Pretending to work while actually doing nothing.
- Bumfuzzle | To confuse or fluster.
- Nibling | A gender-neutral term for a niece or nephew.
- Nudiustertian | Pertaining to the day before yesterday.
- Ratoon | A shoot growing from the root of a plant (like sugarcane).
- Xertz | To gulp something down quickly.
- Yarborough | A hand of cards with no card above a nine.
- Cromulent | A made-up word from The Simpsons, now used to mean "acceptable".
- Bibliopole | A person who buys and sells rare books.
- Triskaidekaphobia | Fear of the number 13.
- Apricity | The warmth of the sun in winter.
- Fipple | The mouthpiece of a recorder or similar instrument.
- Nincompoop | A foolish or stupid person (yes, it's real!).
- Gubbins | Bits and pieces; odds and ends.
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=729264876511387&id=100082836429460
Number 36 on your list was/is Brian O Driscolls twitter handle.
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@Jet said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
No idea if any of this is true, but interesting if so. Had no idea that smell has a name.
40 English Words You Never Thought Existed
- Petrichor | The pleasant smell after rain on dry earth.
- Agelast | A person who never laughs.
- Snollygoster | A clever, unscrupulous person (especially in politics).
- Zugzwang | A situation where any move worsens your position (from chess).
- Absquatulate | To leave suddenly or hurriedly.
- Wamble | The stomach rumbling or a feeling of nausea.
- Callipygian | Having well-shaped buttocks.
- Erf | A plot of land, especially in South Africa.
- Limerence | The state of being obsessively infatuated with someone.
- Quire | Two dozen sheets of paper.
- Defenestration | The act of throwing someone out of a window.
- Gardyloo | A warning cry before throwing waste from above (historical, Scottish).
- Cacodemonomania | The belief that one is possessed by an evil spirit.
- Jargogle | To confuse or muddle something up.
- Tittynope | A small quantity of leftovers.
- Crapulence | Sickness from excessive eating or drinking.
- Collywobbles | Butterflies in the stomach.
- Ultracrepidarian | Someone who gives opinions beyond their knowledge.
- Flummox | To bewilder or confuse someone.
- Griffonage | Illegible handwriting.
- Hoddy-noddy | A foolish person.
- Kerfuffle | A commotion or fuss.
- Pogonotrophy | The act of growing a beard.
- Bloviate | To speak pompously or boastfully.
- Gobbledygook | Language that is meaningless or hard to understand.
- Mumpsimus | A stubborn person who insists on an incorrect idea.
- Fudgel | Pretending to work while actually doing nothing.
- Bumfuzzle | To confuse or fluster.
- Nibling | A gender-neutral term for a niece or nephew.
- Nudiustertian | Pertaining to the day before yesterday.
- Ratoon | A shoot growing from the root of a plant (like sugarcane).
- Xertz | To gulp something down quickly.
- Yarborough | A hand of cards with no card above a nine.
- Cromulent | A made-up word from The Simpsons, now used to mean "acceptable".
- Bibliopole | A person who buys and sells rare books.
- Triskaidekaphobia | Fear of the number 13.
- Apricity | The warmth of the sun in winter.
- Fipple | The mouthpiece of a recorder or similar instrument.
- Nincompoop | A foolish or stupid person (yes, it's real!).
- Gubbins | Bits and pieces; odds and ends.
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=729264876511387&id=100082836429460
Number 36 on your list was/is Brian O Driscolls twitter handle.
- Fern poster.
Nice list by the way but I'd have thought 11, 16, 19, 22 and 39 were well-known.
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@Bones said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:
psytrance
Psychedelic trance, psytrance, or psy is a subgenre of trance music characterized by arrangements of rhythms and layered melodies created by high tempo riffs.[2][4] The genre offers variety in terms of mood, tempo, and style. Some examples include full on, darkpsy, forest, minimal (Zenonesque), hitech psy, progressive, suomi, psy-chill, psycore (fusion of psychedelic trance and hardcore), psybient (fusion of psychedelic trance and ambient), psybreaks, or "adapted" tracks from other music genres. Goa trance preceded psytrance; when digital media became more commonly used, psytrance evolved. Goa continues to develop alongside the other genres.[2]
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I learnt that in 19th Century NZ, NZ government had Chief Rabbit Inspector, Benjamin Bayly.
