LeFrog
@LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de
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But be careful: do not press hard on the toothstick. It will splinter and then you will have a related problem getting the port clean. Source: my phone port :(
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LineageOS 22.2 (Android 15)
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devs
More like managers
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- Comment on What a gentleman 2 weeks ago:
So this meme would only make sense in Old High German.
Maybe I put it wrong, but it works even better in modern Germany: “Stuhl” means chair in modern German. The joke/pun is well-known in German: “Darf ich Ihnen den Stuhl zurückschieben?” So unlike in the English version, “Stuhl” literally both means “chair” and “poop”.
- Comment on What a gentleman 2 weeks ago:
No no, it works even better: “Stuhl” means chair in modern German. The joke/pun is well-known in German: “Darf ich Ihnen den Stuhl zurückschieben?” So unlike in the English version, “Stuhl” literally both means “chair” and “poop”.
- Comment on What a gentleman 2 weeks ago:
Great to see a fellow frog in the wild!
I am guessing this comes directly from German
The German and English wikipedia have interesting information about the etymology of the English chair and the German Stuhl:
Chair:
Chair comes from the early 13th-century English word chaere, from Old French chaiere (“chair, seat, throne”), from Latin cathedra (“seat”).
Stuhl:
[…] althochdeutsch stuol ‚Sitz, Thron‘ […]
(Old high German stuol meaning ‘seat’ or ‘throne’
Das Wort Stuhl […] ist mit l-Suffix zur indoeuropäischen Wurzel *stā-, *stǝ- ‚stehen, stellen‘ gebildet.
(The word Stuhl is built from the proto-indo-european language by adding the suffix ‘l’ to the root ‘*stā’ or ‘*stǝ’ which means ‘to stand’)
So both means seat/seating or throne but chair is more a throne-like furniture (by having arm rests and/or back rest) whereas Stuhl was more like a simple stool (a small foot rest or seating without any back rest or arm rests). In German we use “Schemel” or “Hocker” to describe such a stool. “Schemel” seems to come from “scamilla”, Latin for small bench.
I have no idea how all this information helps us, but it’s interesting :D
- Comment on What a gentleman 2 weeks ago:
It works at least in German: Stuhl is both the furniture and the term doctors use to describe poop.
- Comment on Your majesty 2 weeks ago:
hypomyces
So these are parasitic mushrooms, okay. Are there any mushrooms that live as parasites on hypomyces? So basically a mushroom human centipede?
- Comment on Mr Burn 2 weeks ago:
Aaaaaactually the vehicle they used to fly also bestrides some space in itself
- Comment on Man, I hate it when my cat steals my penis! 3 weeks ago:
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Oh, TIL about Phoebe’s stinky pussy
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Harald Glööckler, this you?
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Seems to be this one:
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I habe no idea if this site is reliable but they say like $ 60
- Comment on Spent half an hour on it. Felt good. 2 months ago:
It is more like
SELECT users.id FROM users
or
select users.id from users
- Comment on Hate crimes 2 months ago:
Aaaaah thank you very mich. That helped
- Comment on Hate crimes 2 months ago:
ELI5
- Comment on Meow 2 months ago:
Yeah that seems really far fetched. Humans are generally bad at communicating with mostly body posture and scent. We have no tail to wiggle, no easily movable ears and no chance to use cat pheromones.
So naturally the cat has the best chance to get a response by using vocalication/sounds. It is just coincidence that their kittens do also mostly respond to sounds in their first weeks.
- Comment on Programmer gets a NES to emulate a PC, and it's as ridiculous as it sounds 2 months ago:
So basically
Physical PC |__GameCube Emulator |__Animal Crossing NES Emulator |__Emulated IBM in NES
?
Holy fuck
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 2 months ago:
I think you got this wrong. If you sit 0.3 m away, more than 4k is worth it.
- Comment on Should've got it from the Dwarves... 6 months ago:
Always glad to help tearing down ad-ridden networks
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Plesse do not link to wikiwand.
- Comment on Probably 6 months ago:
There are no innocent cats, that is the reason why there are no catties
- Comment on Probably 6 months ago:
I just updated my answer with more examples but I think you are right with the nickname thing
- Comment on Probably 6 months ago:
I mean it only works with nouns that are not ending on vowels. But I heard this from people all over Germany. Mostly in a mocking way, like someone was eating too much and complaining about stomach pain:
“Oh, tut dir der Bauchi weh?” - Comment on Probably 6 months ago:
In German this literally translates to something like “cute sand man”. Because in German you can just add an " I" at the end of any noun to make it sound cute and small. So “Sandi” can be thought of as a kind of diminutive of the noun “Sand”, similar to “Bauchi” from “Bauch” which is stomach. The correct dimunitve of “Bauch” would be “Bäuchlein” but this refers more to the perceived size of the object.
