u/Kraknaps

Thinking about kidspeak/slang the other day, I remembered "scoff". When I was younger (late 60s early 70s) this was a very common word for steal. "Someone scoffed my bike while I was in the store"! I can't find that meaning anywhere. The only definitions listed are to deride something or eat greedily (eat greedily was scarf or scorf, to us) I wonder if this was a Canadian thing or maybe a BC thing? Could have been so localized that it was just my school/neighborhood. Hell, maybe my friends and I made it up... thoughts?

It would seem that fighting skills are quite easy to aquire. THings like martial arts. sword fighting, shooting, etc can easily be mastered with the help of a grizzled old veteran and a couple of lessons. It occurs even quicker if shown in a choppy montage of a few different sessions acompanied by a rousing musical score.

"Everyone in the room was just astounded at his total lack of disregard for the situation".

Watching this whole Trump/Natalie drama, I see that some people are now calling her Trump's "Binky". Never heard of the term before and thought maybe it was an American term for "blankie" (A baby's security blanket). After hearing Binky all week I finally looked it up. It is a brand name for a baby pacifer that became generacized. AM I the only one who has never heard of a binky. As a west coast Canadian we always called it a soother . What were they called where you came from? We lived in Scotland for a few years when I was a child and we called it a puppa but that may have been a family thing

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Two people are trying to solve a problem and can't, for the life of them, figure it out. They may be cops solving a murder, prisoners devising an escape plan, or scientists battling an alien invasion. They have been at it for a long time, pouring over dusty old books, looking at photographs writing formulas on the chalk board and time is ticking down. One of them says "I'l be right back. Gotta take a leak." "What did you say?!?" "I gotta piss" "Thats it's it!!! The answer was staring us right in the face!" As it turns out, the murderer snuck up behing the victim and stabbed him while he stood at the urinal or the prisoners can tunnel through the wall and escape and through the sewer pipes or human urine was extremely poisonous to the aliens and they could kill them by pissing on them.

Someone is cleaning a wound on another character. It could be a cut, a scrape, a bullet hole. They takke a cloth or a gauze pad and gently wipe away the blood that is around the injury, being very careful not to get anywhere near the actual wound site. Can't actually wipe that part (like you do in the real world) because you will reveal that there is no real injury.

This isn't actually a trope...more of an observation and I'd bet that most people who have never smoked cigarettes probably wouldn't notice it. When a role in a movie calls for an actor to smoke a cigarette, you can tell immediately whether they are really smokers or not. I'm not talking about them not inhaling. It is more the way they hold it or take a drag. It just looks, well, wrong. They seem so uncomfortable holding it while a person who smokes does it so casually, so naturally it is like an extension of their hand. It is hard to explain but I can see it a mile away. I often wonder why they bother to even put it in the movie if it's not really important to the story. It just looks so fake.

I realize it is a timing thing and they can't have 60 seconds of dead air in a movie or tv show but it seems a little odd that if someone doesn't answer the door in 5 seconds they are knocking again. Sometimes the door does get answered in a couple of seconds as if the home owner it just standing there waiting for someone to come knocking.

Getting cracked over the head with a big rock, a lead pipe, or the butt of a pistol results in nothing but a 5-10 minute nap and a minor wound. I swear Joe Mannix musta been knocked out about 50 times… not to mention being shot in the shoulder every second or third episode.

So yesterday I cleaned up a bunch of photos in Gemini. I uploaded a pix and used the prompt. "sharpen image and adjust lighting". It worked like a charm...way better and easier than doing it myself in a photo editor. Today I tried to do a few more but it keeps turning the photo into a whole different image with random people. I kept refining my prompts to no avail. The last one was "Enhance this image by sharpening fine details, reducing noise, and improving overall clarity across the entire image. Maintain the original aspect ratio, poses, and background exactly as they are. The output should be a crisp, high-quality version of the exact same photo, not a new generation." Nice pictures of people I've never met, wearing clothes that belong to my missing friends! What is going wrong here?

Hey Henchmen. How about you all gang up and attack our hero at one time instead of lining up like your buying concert tickets. Next!

Whenever I read a post, I am never quite sure if the pieces of chicken being referred to are the same pieces I am thinking of. I worked for many years in a poutry processing plant and also have a decent understading of other animal butchery. The leg consists of the drum stick and the thigh...attached. It is one piece. When you seperate the pieces you have a drum (the lower portion excluding the foot) and a thigh (the upper portion that attaches to the body). If you have an entire leg that still has a portion of the back on it, it is a back-attached leg or a dark meat quarter (sometimes called a Henry VIII leg) . Wings also cause some confusion. A wing has three sections...a drumette/drumlet, a wingette/winglet/bar/flat and a tip/3rd flight. All three pieces still attached is a wing. If there is only two pieces attached you have a tip-removed wing. If you have tip removed wings that have been cut into two sections you have split wings. If split wings are sorted and sold as individual types of pieces they are drumettes or wingettes.