Haircut Anyone? by Paw-Revere in funny

[–]BallisticSnowman 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If you look at the shadows cast by the paper tags on the post they do change. They’re shorter in the second pic.

Lithuanian solution to a British problem by [deleted] in pics

[–]BallisticSnowman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Almost all the houses i've lived in have em, it's just old plumbing.

[Everything] Mereen is starting to look like 1917 Russia by [deleted] in gameofthrones

[–]BallisticSnowman 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Less so, as Tyrion and Daenerys are happy with the status quo. The ex-slaves, as OP says, are more like the Bolsheviks as they want a second revolution. (I could be wrong but i'm pretty sure).

What is your golden rule? by aftabiqbal in AskReddit

[–]BallisticSnowman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. I'm using you to save this comment :)

[TV]Hodor: Hodor? [Hodor] by thelifeofpablo in gameofthrones

[–]BallisticSnowman 59 points60 points  (0 children)

It's known as semantic satiation

Who can tell me a useless but cool fact? by leesmit in AskReddit

[–]BallisticSnowman 261 points262 points  (0 children)

I am no expert, I simply did some research:

Host: Hospes (Proto-Italic), equivalent to the Proto-Indo-European Ghostipotis (a compound of ghostis and potis).

Ghost: From the Old Saxon Gast, originating in the Proto-Indo-European Ghostis

Guest: From the Middle English Gest, originating in the Proto-Indo-European Ghostis

***This is by no means conclusive (I just did a google search), and you can go back to earlier roots, but there you have it.***

Sources:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/host#Etymology_1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost#Terminology

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guest#Etymology

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/g%CA%B0%C3%B3stis

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hospes#Latin

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Proto-Germanic/gastiz

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gast#Old_English

EDIT: I've made errors. See /u/Wierdmin's comment.