Wilco
@Wilco@lemm.ee
- Comment on It was all a lie, wasn't it? 3 weeks ago:
They dont even put the little mail boxes on the side.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It has to be from an endangered gorilla.
- Comment on Cheeto devouring his nation 4 weeks ago:
Agreed, it is pretty spot on. Capturing the originals vacant stare is what makes it.
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 4 weeks ago:
Agreed. I have said people ignored the books and dictionary entries, the word Aluminium and MANY others never caught on. You just keep pointing to those books.
The US literally “noped” out of the word Aluminium and refused to use it. If Im wrong, then why arent we saying it today?
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 4 weeks ago:
It is what it is. The US did not accept the THIRD name change. No one really knew about the first name. Aluminium appeared in the fucking dictionary … but the US population ignored it and stayed with the second name.
Wikipedia is just citing old books … the same old books people disregarded when they refused to use the new weird name.
Webster was an idiot and was trying to change hundreds of words and the population just wasn’t having it. “Soop” instead of “Soup” was literally forced on the public, Aluminium, Dawter … do we use those? No.
Wikipedia is simply wrong. Both spellings were never equally used. Even your post confirms this, the dudes patent said “Aluminium”, but he used Aluminum instead because he liked it. This is how it was everywhere.
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 4 weeks ago:
From the Wikipedia page you linked;
Davy suggested the metal be named alumium in 1808[30] and aluminum in 1812, thus producing the modern name.[29] Other scientists used the spelling aluminium
The name Aluminium never caught on in the US. It appeared in a few books and was in a dictionary, but so we’re words like Soop (for Soup) and greef (for grief). These did not catch on, Americans just kept using Aluminum. Webster wanted to standardize words … but nobody wanted to use dawter instead of daughter. They did stop using “Gaol” and used Jail instead.
The word history was “alumium” in 1807, then changed to “aluminum” in 1808. It was not changed to “aluminium” until 1812
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 4 weeks ago:
Welcome to ignore. Everyone else understood the discussion … you are the outlier.
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 4 weeks ago:
I explained the whole naming process. You gotta read it. The US was given the name as Aluminum and did not change it when the British changed it a third time.
- Comment on Always wanted to start a cult 4 weeks ago:
I call dibs on being “Cousin Johnny” I will only attend baptisms, weddings, funerals, and maybe the social events afterwards.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Cops and city government are more interested in giving people tickets than they are of solving crime. Implement a new theft enforcement team that takes complaints online with porch video attachments and goes after porch pirates? No … they dont have the resources.
Put in more traffic cameras to catch speeders and red light runners? Oh yeah, get those criminals.
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 4 weeks ago:
I suspect that if the US had adopted the name “Aluminium” Britain would have changed it again and they would be making fun of us for not calling it “Aluminiumium”.
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 4 weeks ago:
We say it the original correct way in the US. Other countries changed it for some reason. The guy that discovered it in 1808, Sir Humphrey Davy named it “Alumium” which based on Alumen (Latin for bitter salt)but quickly changed it to “Aluminum”. I swear I remember reading that he kept getting shit on by the science community and his friends for naming a metal “bitter salt” in Latin … but can’t find a reference.
His colleagues in Britain did mess with him and start using the name “Aluminium” … exactly because it ended in “ium” like ALL the other elements (Oxygenium, Carbonium, Ironium, Zincium, Nitrogenium, and the like). They US just kept the name the discoverer wanted instead of giving into those British asshats that just wanted to troll Sir Davy.
He also isolated Magnesium and named it “magnium”, but later changed to magnesium. The guy just couldnt settle on names. Again, in my version of reality it is because his friends kept giving him shit.
- Comment on Dear Kevin 5 weeks ago:
I hate that I have learned this factoid.
- Comment on just beat it 5 weeks ago:
If a Mars lander hits itself with a shovel and no one is around to hear it … does it make a sound?
- Comment on FROM DOWNTOWNNNNN! 🎃 5 weeks ago:
I know. They are basically inviting if not taunting.
- Comment on ...📉 1 month ago:
Nope. They got exactly what they voted for.
- Comment on Anon pitches a new game 1 month ago:
Dont forget the golden parachute they get when they piss off the consumer base with several $60 games that turn out to be incomplete garbage and get themselves fired.
- Comment on Anon pitches a new game 1 month ago:
Because money.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 1 month ago:
I want them to 3D print a neat little Star Wars starship miniature out of mine. Something obscure like a Kimogila.
- Comment on Nuclear family 1 month ago:
Dude … Vances soulless eyes and vacant stare really bother me. Oh, the kid in this image is also creepy.
- Comment on Anon reads between the lines 1 month ago:
Metal Gear is telling you to wash your dirty arse.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 month ago:
You have to use the variables given. He ate 4/6 of his pizza and the other guy ate 5/6. Saying he ate the other guys pizza would result in a tie (not more) and is not an option. The answer they wanted was “impossible”, the kid gave the only real shenanigan proof viable answer.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 month ago:
No, “Marty ate 4/6 of his pizza”
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 month ago:
I agree, the kid is correct. This is the only viable answer.
- Comment on well... 1 month ago:
He wanted an Indiana Jones hat?
Dunno, I would have wished for two so I could put one on my giant cock.
- Comment on (゜O゜; 1 month ago:
Wow. This is epic internet!
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 1 month ago:
So kids could use the phone.
- Comment on The 5 stages of Charles Manson 1 month ago:
It must be a cult uniform. That prison jumpsuit look is all the rage amongst polygamous cultists I hear.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 1 month ago:
This is kind of mind blowing.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 1 month ago:
A village would be an “unincorporated town” in the US, administered under the county. There are a few actual incorporated villages, but they are small towns that just chose to call themselves that.
The main difference is that an incorporated city/town/etc has its own municiple government … a “village” would still be run by the county.