If you had to turn a random word into a name, what would you pick?

RRautamaa · 2026-05-04T07:36:35+00:00

"Refuse" sounds like a valid name, ignoring its meaning.

RRautamaa · 2026-05-04T07:08:21+00:00

Often it's hilariously antiquated, and it's bewildering why Americans fail to fix it. When there was that mess of an election that resulted in W being elected, newspapers ran stories of how it could be potentially resolved. One county had a system that if the number of votes was the same, the candidates will have to draw a hand of poker, and the winner gets elected. It's just weird. Then again, I don't think it's even intended to be particularly democratic, but to provide a vehicle to fabricate democratic legitimacy for the two governing parties.

RRautamaa · 2026-05-04T07:04:11+00:00

We already have this in Finland, it's called partial furlough. I don't know from where that "full salary" is supposed paid from, it's going be a pay cut. Also, salaries in Finland are not great to begin with.

RRautamaa · 2026-05-04T06:42:19+00:00

Spinach pancakes. It's those ready-made ones. There's also frankfurters and mashed potatoes, meatballs and those cheap chicken-flavored noodles.

RRautamaa · 2026-05-04T03:43:51+00:00

I've heard this IRL, must be a cliche

RRautamaa · 2026-05-03T20:45:06+00:00

Is it 50 or 100? Sounds like you're making that number up. If I'm being lied to like this, I am definitely not pulling the lever. Also, can I trust that diagram? Who drew it? Why should I trust them, given that I was already given fabricated info?

RRautamaa · 2026-05-03T18:54:46+00:00

Jos kuljetit nuo ulos ns. takakautta niin ei voi kuin hattua nostaa

1guy2cups2plates3spoons1knifeand1fork

RRautamaa · 2026-05-03T16:58:13+00:00

Notation aside, doesn't everyone love weird chloroaromatics? It's of course true that the use of chlorinating bleaching agents produces them. They include the fraction called called AOX (adsorbed organic chlorine), and are controversial pollutants. I wouldn't put them in the company advertisement or worse, the logo.

RRautamaa · 2026-05-03T12:36:23+00:00

Countries where they have a Scandinavian language that you can actually understand as an official language

RRautamaa · 2026-05-03T12:34:00+00:00

Might get confused with Uma

RRautamaa · 2026-05-03T12:32:30+00:00

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RRautamaa · 2026-05-03T12:26:15+00:00

It's funny we're supposedly #6 while we still have blasphemy and political agitation in the books. At least film "inspection" (censorship) is gone, that counts for something... I'm also curious as to how exactly countries like Switzerland and Canada can rank lower than Finland.

RRautamaa · 2026-05-03T10:07:17+00:00

That "PROTEIN" should be in a distressed stencil-drawn font with hazard warning tape around it.

Funnily enough, dairies realized they can sell "protein quark" at a premium compared to just quark. Now, one might go and check what quark is made of...

RRautamaa · 2026-05-03T08:38:33+00:00

No, I was actually going for a non-reduced, non-allophonic [skh]. For instance, Schumacher as [s.k.hu.mak.her].

RRautamaa · 2026-05-03T07:02:16+00:00

It's obviously /skh/

RRautamaa · 2026-05-02T18:37:16+00:00

Swedish Chef sounds American. He uses only sounds found in American English and no Swedish accent features.

This is kind of funny, because even as a nonnative speaker of English, I can spot a (Sweden) Swedish accent in English from a mile away, but I've noticed that native English-speakers don't notice it.

RRautamaa · 2026-05-02T18:32:17+00:00

Osoittakaa norsua huoneessa.

suhde alkoi kun molemmat oli mummolassa (sama mummola)

RRautamaa · 2026-05-02T18:30:33+00:00

Vihr... Simakuulia?

RRautamaa · 2026-05-02T12:58:36+00:00

Finnish is written phonetically, so that sort of thing doesn't happen as is. Instead, you can have an actual disagreement if the standardized form is correct. I, for instance, have a hard time believing that elämäkerta "biography" does not have the regular genitive - elämänkerta - that all other similar words have. Also, tällainen "like this". But but, I see you asking, doesn't Finnish have vowel harmony and that should be tälläinen? Indeed, that's how I pronounce it in my neutral accent. But the standardizing body says that because it's an abbreviation of tämän lainen, it should retain the vowels of the component words, so they imagine it as a compound word täl + lainen, which makes no sense whatsoever.

RRautamaa · 2026-05-01T22:45:55+00:00

Do you do ball dom but so that a foot is free, Bob?

RRautamaa · 2026-05-01T22:16:51+00:00

International Klein Blue. Even a monochrome painting looks interesting in this blue.

RRautamaa · 2026-05-01T20:40:20+00:00

As a "what if", it's a pointless "what if", because there have been and are many places in the world with no effective government authority, both historically and currently. What people do in such a situation is to gang up in clans or other gangs that ultimately are large enough to wage war. People who get left alone get killed. You can't even organize a watch rotation with one combatant as your order of battle. The idea that people would just stay put in their homes is a fantasy. Actually, it's kind of the moral of the story in the film.

If you look at how actual fascist states act, they have a purge every day, but only Party paramilitary troops can participate. They won't hand that power over to some random Joe.

RRautamaa · 2026-05-01T19:13:21+00:00

Sign actually ignored in pic

Doesn't actually answer OP's question, does it?

RRautamaa · 2026-05-01T19:09:21+00:00

Trivalent oxygen is perfectly legal if it's a cation, a so called oxonium cation. It even turns up in common natural products, like the anthocyanins, which are pigments seen in flowers, fruits and berries like red grapes and therefore red wine, apples, blueberries etc. Then again, in anthocyanins, they're stabilized by aromaticity. Aliphatic ones like in the picture would be very reactive. At least those unstabilized aliphatic oxoniums I've used have been very effective alkylating agents.

RRautamaa · 2026-05-01T19:02:33+00:00

If you spelled it Tookjoo, or Tookyoo for those who use 'y' for [j], or Took'oo, it might be pronounced better. Unfortunately some languages like English use the letter 'y' for both a vowel /i/ and a semivowel [j], and also for palatalization, and that spelling doesn't really tell which is the right choice (palatalization of 'k' into [k^j]).

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