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today on felthry learns things it didn't know were different are different: apparently american pancakes are very different from british ones

why are bananas curved anyway

consider: straight bananas

if you think about it, a bridge over a river is just a very short pipe that people can go over the top of.

I kind of want to know whether the lyrics of this one piece of music are actually japanese like I suspect or some other language or just vocalization that isn't in any language

but i don't know anyone fluent in japanese, at least not closely enough to be comfortable just asking them to do a favor even as minor as this

which fits with its usage in AmE, it's just weird seeing it applied to something that isn't a person

another thing I am learning about british english: apparently "butch" is more than just a type of lesbian presentation in BrE and it means... "tough"? "strong"? something along those lines

i still don't understand why we call deutschland germany and call people from the netherlands dutch instead

for some reason i'm watching youtube videos of a british person reviewing kitchen gadgets and i have learned so many things that have different names in this person's dialect of english

apparently zucchini are "courgiettes" which I guess is borrowed from french

also they pronounce taco as /tækoʊ/ instead of the american pronunciation /tɐkoʊ/, which is weird because generally the american pronunciation has the more front vowel when it comes to /æ/ or /ɐ/ or /ɑ/ sounds (like in "bath")

"This is apparently called a ballpoint pen, and they claim it works like a fountain pen that you almost never need to refill."

"See, you take this 'soap' and rub it onto a bit of cloth called a 'washrag' and apparently it magically makes the cloth work like a strigil? I've heard it's really good, though, so I'll give it a try at least."

I wonder if anyone's ever done a series of youtube videos where they review ordinary things as though they were some new technology

"So this thing, they call it a fork, is apparently for poking into food and bringing it up to your mouth? I don't know about you, but I tend to use my hands for that, or a knife if it's something messy. Don't have high hopes for this one."

I seem to have ended up watching a lot of youtube videos by british people lately and I keep learning little minor differences in things we've taken for granted and being very surprised; for example, apparently they don't have sticks of butter over there

Induction motors, or Transformers That Spin

the word "quincunx" sounds kind of lewd somehow

randomly wondering: why do people age wine for decades but beer only for a few weeks max?

well, that's a negative for that first mediterranean place

food's okay, but they committed the cardinal sin of not having gyros

although they claimed to have gyros, all they actually had were "chicken gyro" and "beef tender gyro" and "turkey club gyro" and stuff... no actual gyros-as-in-the-specific-spiced-meat-thing

probably going to try the authentic-looking place sometime in the next few weeks

apparently, welsh rabbit is just grilled cheese with a fancy name

we'd known for a while that it didn't have any actual meat in it but it's literally like. just grilled cheese, sometimes with a fried egg

ooh, but if I go a little further there's one that sounds really authenticky and stuff, they actually have a mediterranean grocery store attached and stuff

maybe we'll try the close one first though, don't want to drive all the wa y down there where it's all trafficky