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So I heard the other day that horses legs aren’t really legs. There’s no enough meat and muscle. It’s all sinew and bone, like fingers. Makes sense as to why they have one big fuckoff finger nail at the end. They walk about on four fingers.
It’s fucked me up a bit has that.
Lidz lidz lidz
Yugoslav map of Britain & Ireland from the 1980s, with English place names amusingly rendered phonetically to reflect their pronunciation.
Credit: Reddit user TheKingMonkey who explains the maps origins:
"From a display on the wall of the ‘Museum of the 80s’ in Sarajevo, Bosnia. I’m not sure why I like the Serbo-Croat (or at least that’s what I assume it is) names for the cities as they look like they are almost phonetic attempts at English language pronunciations."
Also see 20 Similarities & Differences Between The Countries Of The Former Yugoslavia: brilliantmaps.com/former-yug…
This is incredible 😂😂😂
As a connoisseur of racism, I have found no greater joy than discovering other language realms on X where they are truly light years ahead.
Behold the great meme war between the Turks 🇹🇷 and Chinese 🇨🇳 which has been brewing now for 3 days!
It began with a small Turkish account posting a meme of a cat wearing a straw hat + slitty eyes + wispy moustache. A Chinese user then replied with a meme of Patrick Star from SpongeBob parachuting next to the Turkish flag, with a caption along the lines of “I heard the Turkish flag was designed like this, is that true? Both were from small anonymous accounts but now has been viewed by several millions.
Turks took it as mockery of a national symbol and all hell breaks lose.
The broader historical and cultural pile-on on both sides were equally impressive in its deep knowledge of Ottoman / Chinese history, along with very creative vulgarity. I read one Chinese tweet calling Turkey the fleshlight of the entire world. Both sides insulted each other as “might as well be Indians.” Then it got super testy when it ventured into Turkestan/Xinjiang/Uyghur territory, and soon out came digs about the Turkish lira, China virus and other general nationalist trash talk.
The next stage was the free speech Olympics. Turks started posting images of Xi Jinping and daring Chinese users to criticize him to prove that China is “free.” Chinese replies often flipped it to “you criticize Xi but none of you dare criticize Muhammad.” When no Chinese account could criticize Xi, the Turks concluded they were all bots.
The latest stage has been the international expansion.
Japan + Taiwan + Azerbaijan + Spain lined up with Turks against China.
Japanese accounts were the most visible contingent. Taiwan joined the Turkish side for obvious reasons. Azerbaijan was in Turkic solidarity mode. South Korea and Spain too for reasons which are not clear to me.
Iran + Greece + India + Egypt joined up with the Chinese against Turkey.
I saw an Iranian account openly telling the Chinese to keep going and “discipline the Turks” because the Ottoman/Persian rivalry runs deep still. Greece obviously went against the Turks and as for India, who knows. Could’ve gone either way but they chose the Chinese.
The whole thing, while viscous and passionate at times, has strangely left me with the warm fuzzies. Imagine how much more boring life would’ve been without @X’s auto-translate feature
That’s absolutely disgusting. A someone that’s had knee reconstructions I watch that and think he needs to do time for it. Ban him from all sport for life, too, but that’s plain, brutal, cowardly assault.
That’s on a level with anything Tyrone Mings has done.
CERDYN COCH 🟥
Cerdyn coch i Curtis Gregory am chwarae brwnt.
Ebbw Vale are down to 14 players for the rest of the game.
@llandoveryrfc @evrfc
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Sharks predate the North Star.
The f*cking North Star!
Polaris is ‘only’ 70 million years old. Sharks have been around almost 400 million years longer than one of the brightest (three, as the North Star is actually a cluster) stars in our night sky!
And yes, they predate trees.
Trees are younger than 400 million years old. The biggest plants before that were prototaxites which are fungus type things. So sharks do beat them too.
Sharks predate saturns rings.
They don’t just predate these, saturns rings are about 100 million years old, so sharks were ancient by the time they appeared.
Sharks predate fire.
Fire needs a minimum 16% oxygen to burn. It’s estimated the earth only achieved that around 350 million years ago.
