LeFrog
@LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on One mothst handy philosophical metaphor 6 days ago:
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 1 week ago:
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges, begging on the streets and stealing bread.
Anatole France, 1894
- Comment on Apparently his crew is big 1 week ago:
He wanna take a ride on your disco stick.
- Comment on The solution to many problems 3 weeks ago:
So no banana then, huh?
- Comment on Been a long century 4 weeks ago:
DO NOT LET THIS SINK IN!
- Comment on Rhubarb 4 weeks ago:
Its basically the same in German: Rhabarberbarbar. Or did you just forgot the h after the r? If so, then its identical to German :D
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- Comment on Grieve with me 5 weeks ago:
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 :(
- Comment on Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords. 5 weeks ago:
That was an explanation that even I understood. Thank you very much
- Comment on Android updates: thanks I hate it. 1 month ago:
LineageOS 22.2 (Android 15)
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- Comment on Search GTA 6 Requirements 1 month ago:
devs
More like managers
- Comment on Very gently, I’m sure 1 month ago:
- Comment on What a gentleman 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
It works at least in German: Stuhl is both the furniture and the term doctors use to describe poop.
- Comment on Your majesty 1 month 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 1 month 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! 1 month ago:
- Comment on I don't mind! 2 months ago:
Oh, TIL about Phoebe’s stinky pussy
- Comment on Smh being fired for police work 2 months ago:
- Comment on Spider mech!! 2 months ago:
You can add two spaces at the end of each line to achieve line breaks
- Comment on My Easter decorations include a self portrait (oc) 2 months ago:
Harald Glööckler, this you?
- Comment on I was supposed to pick him up from preschool today? Whoops. 2 months ago:
I habe no idea if this site is reliable but they say like $ 60
- Comment on Found at work. Send help. 3 months ago:
What is even happening here? There is a sum of like every 13th cell?
- Comment on see the joke is that someone else does the work 3 months ago:
Well, you have a point here.
- Comment on see the joke is that someone else does the work 3 months ago:
IIRC it depends on the frame of reference. Relative to a magnetic field, the only thing a magnetic force does is changing the velocity direction of affected objects. All work regarding the absolute magnitude of the velocity is zero (no lateral acceleration).
- Comment on Book now for 2025's most on-theme cruise destination 3 months ago:
Jet fuel cannot melt water
