What's that word?

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• Ilikeblankets@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Defenestration

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  • Patrikvo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Which has a very bad reputation. Yet 99.9% of it involves fresh air, great views, a sense of freedom only birds know and people still only focus on that 0.1% at the end.

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    • ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Falling/getting thrown out of the window doesn’t suck. Stopping and landing does

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    • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Right? And you know it must be fun because all the Russian Oligarchs seem to die from it whenever Putin needs money!

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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For some reason I seem to recall it being associated with ending rich people.

      Probably why it gets a bad rep

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  • stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    correct! extra point if you didn’t look that up

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  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wikipedia has an article with some historical examples

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration

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  • wolfrasin@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When emperors embrace tradition

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• unknown1234_5@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  defenestration

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Always thought it was weird that English has a word specifically for throwing someone out of a window.

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    • NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      According to Wikipedia, the term was in use in other languages before it was taken in English

      Defenestrations of Prague

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    • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s because it’s French

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  • stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yep

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    that’s only when it happens in czechia

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sudden Russian Death Syndrome.

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  • stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    wait really

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, these are pretty specific to Russian journalists being killed by the state, but yeah.

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• Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image

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  • khanh@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well that’s random.

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  • stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I needed that information actually

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• Sabin10@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  2nd floor, serious injury is more likely than death if you have an ok landing. It’s the bullet holes in the head that are the likely cause of death.

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  • stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    M2 Browning .50 Caliber machine gun is the most accurate and lethal if you want to deal serious blows.

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• belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Defecation

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• SingularEye@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  going peter thiel mode

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• WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m 99% sure the word sounds like the word where you’re removing woods

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  • stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    deforestation

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  • mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Defloration?

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• hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  DeForest?
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• whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thunderbird

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  defecestration

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