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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I feel like lizard and starfish should be swapped. Or can I cut a lizard in half and get two lizards?

[–] cuerdo -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought about it but, if you cut the tail of a lizard you can get a full lizard.

If you cut a starfish in half, you get two starfish, which is half as cool

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

That doesn't make any sense. A lizards tail won't generate a new lizard, and a lizard will never fully regenerate their tails.

[–] cm0002 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Damn kids and their young bones. If my kid breaks a bone it's a couple weeks and done.

If I break a bone it's going to be months, probably PT and random pain in that area for the rest of my life :/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

That's why the smart consumer breaks children's bones instead of their own!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What if, and hear me out on this, you let a kid break your bone?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Don't forget that they don't fall as far. Their little heads are maybe 1m above ground

[–] PP_BOY_ 6 points 10 months ago

This is axolotyl erasure.

[–] NiPfi 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Actually… Why is it "Lizard" but "Blizzard"? "z" sounds exactly the same as "zz"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

English: "Because fuck you, that's why."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

lesarde >> lizard (c. 700-1300 ad) - slow process over hundreds of years of evolving from a mix of languages but at this point heavily influenced by the French

unknown etymology, maybe blitzartig >> Blizzard (1870) coined overnight by a newspaper guy in the era of muck raking, yellow journalism and the birth of the tabloid.

[–] spicytuna62 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I propose we pronounce the izz in blizzard similarly to pizza.

/ˈbli.d͡zɑɹd/

For consistency. And definitely not so that we can lead into it with a mamma mia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

you say "pizza" like "pee-jarred?"

I think you mean just /ts/ not /dz/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The first "z" belong to the "bliz", so it's more like bliz-zard.

[–] Lanusensei87 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Damn, I remember a big fall from stairs I suffered as a kid, scrapped a good chunk of skin from my knee but made full recovery in a couple of weeks, nowadays the lightest bruise leaves me permanently scarred 😮‍💨

[–] Lemminary 4 points 10 months ago

I remember being a kid and falling on my face then getting up and running. Now I fall on my face and need an ambulance for a bruised rib.