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What is the correct cereal/milk ratio? in c/[email protected]
[–] jxk 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Why not?

What is your favourite fact? in c/[email protected]
[–] jxk 4 points 5 days ago

After looking it up I have to correct myself, the Germanic plural - s also come from the accusative plural

What is your favourite fact? in c/[email protected]
[–] jxk 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My favourite false cognate is the plural ending -s in French and English. The English one has Germanic roots, while the French one come from Latin accusative plural -as/-os. They are unrelated etymologically.

Pompeii was a 16th century resort town and the Greeks and Romans never existed! (So much more crazy in the body.) in c/[email protected]
[–] jxk 8 points 5 days ago

You have to give credit to them, they start the whole thing with "Funny!!!".

It sure is

ich🐒iel in c/[email protected]
[–] jxk 7 points 6 days ago

Affen zusammen Spass!

WINNER: Great Horned 49-44 - Owl of the Year Round 21 - Burrowing vs Great Horned in c/[email protected]
[–] jxk 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As always, I will continue using my strategy of voting for the owl with the biggest ears

westerners, how do you pronounce the letter "w" do you say dablu or double you or just dub or double v? in c/[email protected]
[–] jxk 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Aber "fau" macht Sinn ja?

Record Breaking Rescue in c/[email protected]
[–] jxk 2 points 1 week ago

If it's male, call him Emlix for the same reason

Red ring of rule in c/[email protected]
[–] jxk 5 points 1 week ago

Looks nervously to both sides in xz

Name something the Germans invented without googling in c/whitepeopletwitter
[–] jxk 1 points 1 week ago

This contradicts Der Hauptmann von Kõpenick

ich1iel in c/[email protected]
[–] jxk 10 points 1 week ago

Nimm m1 Hochwähli und hau ab

My computer build now includes a piece of structural 8.5x11 printer paper. in c/[email protected]
[–] jxk 12 points 1 week ago

Literally Fahrenheit 451

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In this shot from the TV series "Manifest", you can see two of the same cars in the same parking spots as in Google Street View (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 weeks ago by jxk to c/[email protected]
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Link to Google Maps: https://www.google.be/maps/@40.747266,-73.7835991,3a,58.3y,324.02h,100.58t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sEnmYWlPQY5u4GQxYwMfvXg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-10.577169572137095%26panoid%3DEnmYWlPQY5u4GQxYwMfvXg%26yaw%3D324.0208751825494!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTEyNC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D This is Season 3, Episode 7 "Precious Cargo"

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Bibendum arriving in the streets of Berlin, 1931 (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago by jxk to c/[email protected]
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A tagliatelle made from gold that defines the official size of a tagliatelle, at the Palazzo della Mercanzia in Bologna (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago by jxk to c/[email protected]
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Image source: https://facciamoungiroincentro.blogspot.com/2016/07/palazzo-della-mercanzia.html

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Sprouting cashew nuts look like little bananas (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago by jxk to c/[email protected]
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Picture from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cashew_-_sprout.jpg

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Christmas in October? Venezuela's leader moves holiday to boost support after disputed election (www.nbcnews.com)
submitted 3 months ago by jxk to c/[email protected]
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“It’s September, and it already smells like Christmas,” Nicolás Maduro said Monday night during his weekly television show.

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Read it until the end rule (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 months ago by jxk to c/[email protected]
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Did you know that many scenes in Star Wars were filmed on location? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 7 months ago by jxk to c/[email protected]
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Train at Myingyan Railway Station, Myanmar (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago by jxk to c/[email protected]
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Myingyan_Railway_Station_2.jpg

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Public kitten (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by jxk to c/cats
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A mountain over Turkey (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by jxk to c/[email protected]
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I'm not 100% sure that it was in Turkey because my phone was in airplane mode.

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Frankfurt airport (sh.itjust.works)
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My hotel has both congee and rice crispies, and I couldn't resist (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by jxk to c/[email protected]
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