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russhas’s patrol boat is so awesome lookin. but WTF is up with the Class I PFD? They arnt in the Baltic Straight.
rainefardreamer said:
MajorMajorMajor said:
lol
goddamnit major, i had that one saved for the next image dump
Sowwrie Rainy
Love,
Major
How does it feel to be evolutionary superior? We’ll let me tell you it feels awesome. Sucks for you guys that have wisdom teeth, time to get with the program. I mean they have been pulling them from my family’s gene pool for decades. My body’s DNA said *edited* you to wisdom teeth because they just get pulled and apparently hurt like hell and I don’t need to end up like that guy.
As always; ahead of the “race”
that was a pun fyi
Love,
-Dice
ok one more
*edited*as, bet you never saw this coming
Today I found out that the idiom used for the notion of someone “getting what’s coming to them”, whether good or bad, is actually “just deserts”, not “just desserts”.
The misconception primarily stems from the fact that most people are unfamiliar with the word ‘desert’ (pronounced dizert), which more or less means the same thing as the word ‘deserve’. Instead, when they see the word ‘desert’, they think only of the word meaning something to the effect of ‘dry sandy wasteland’, which is pronounced ‘dezert’.
In fact, these two words that are spelled the same, but pronounced differently, have their origins in two different Latin words. The word ‘desert’, as in hot sandy wasteland, comes from the Latin word deserere, meaning to forsake. The word ‘desert’ as in “to get what’s coming to you”, comes from the Latin word deservire, which is also where we got the word “deserve” from.
Thus, the pronunciation of “just desert” as “just dizert’ starts to make more sense when considering the origin of this particular form of ‘desert’, being the same as the origin for the word as “deserve”. Likewise, the idiom “just desert” actually now makes complete sense, unlike “just desserts” which makes no sense whatsoever in the context that this particular idiom is usually used.
Bonus Factoids:
* The word ‘desert’, as in “to get what is coming to you”, has been used in English since around the 13th century. This word, however, has fallen out of common usage and now, outside of the idiom “just desert”, is almost never used.
* The earliest reference for the idiom “just deserts” was around the 16th century.
* This type of spelling error based on a mishearing of a word or misunderstanding of its context is commonly called an eggcorn.
good night
Derrick LeBrocq said:
Also, if they copy them, I’ll make sure they are taken down. Not the flyers, them in general.
not gonna lie, that made me lol pretty hard inside
also, the fliers look great.
Duendes said:
lol u 2. What do you actually do MP?
general rule: no discussions unless you include a related pic
aka
MasterP said:
PROlapse said:
Flakes also overlooked the deleted posts forum, however irrelevant that is.
Anyone with access to private or executive discussion should also have access to the trashcan.
Recycle bin, not trash can, or is that the archive section? BTW are the archives hidden? && dont forget about the top security section where we talk trash about the commuter lounge click
MasterP said:
When I get a real job but BEFORE a gf, I’d like to get one of these:
whats wrong with mine?
Looks great guys. Thank you for the long hours. In the last few weeks this website and Forums has become very appealing visually as well as functionally.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5I5H7EeC8k
Not gonna lie, the though if owning a porkcupine as a pet crossed my mind. just me?
MasterP said:
Phonetically Phamous (dice said:
It would be nice if this forum, like many others I troll on, will cookie the settings by pc its logged onto instead of by username.
What benefit would that give?
I dont browse the site at work much because each time I have to go in I turn off sigs/avatars/smilies/images, and skins. Just not worth the hassel i guess. But I do find myself on others sits (mainely shiddy vboards) that have this option.
Now that I think abut it i could make a NoDice_Work account to loophole my problem, but that’s kinda a hassle as well. lol
but you see what i’m sayin i think?
Inb4 troll. “i browse during my lunch break, just fyi”
i use it via pc all the time when at work.
It would be nice if this forum, like many others I troll on, will cookie the settings by pc its logged onto instead of by username.
