drolex

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[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Couscous with blueberries sounds quite weird

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 102 points 6 days ago (11 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_edible_dormouse

Etymology

The word dormouse comes from Middle English dormous, of uncertain origin, possibly from a dialectal *dor-, from Old Norse dár 'benumbed' and Middle English mous 'mouse'.

The word is sometimes conjectured to come from an Anglo-Norman derivative of dormir 'to sleep', with the second element mistaken for mouse, but no such Anglo-Norman term is known to have existed.[4]

The Latin word glis, which is the origin of the scientific name, is from the Proto-Indo-European root *gl̥h₁éys 'weasel, mouse', related to Sanskrit गिरि girí 'mouse' and Ancient Greek γαλέη galéē 'weasel'.

The Wikipedia article slides over the word 'edible' like it's a complete non-problem

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

It's dominant??? Noooooo.

I'm always making fun of my wife and call her a sneezy vampire but now I might have to turn on my daughters as well?

Actually I can do this.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Then try to explain why I have not heard 'sk8ter boi' on the radio for at least 10 years?

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 34 points 1 week ago

Street urchins aka boulevard hedgehogs

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

a thin slice of toast, which may be buttered

Indulgence bordering on gluttony.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Anyone got links to these particular species, especially the wasp one?

Don't give a f🦆k about the children either, carcinization is expected I thought.

ETA: guess what I duckduckgo'd "wasp beetle" and found it. I feel like a genius https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clytus_arietis

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 weeks ago

Students in Utah universities?

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Maybe it's the flag of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath party? Maybe that cartoon was openly defending the right for Iraq to get WMDs?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba%27ath_Party_%E2%80%93_Iraq_Region

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago

Take that, kangaroos.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 45 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Predating dinosaurs: as in 'predators' or 'pre-dating'?

I'm scared.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 month ago

Sorry I can't help with additional info, as you said there's little to find. It's referenced on DW at least, but not much more is given there

A bloody discord FFS, I'm not going there.

But then I guess it's not open source, if we can't find the source.

I don't see myself installing a distro for which you can't even find the license? How do you even know you have the right to install or use it?

 

I'm trying to find the author and the title of a painting that I vaguely remember.

The painting shows a man painting a woman. It looks like an ordinary self portrait but if you look closer you will see that the painted woman has an arm going out of the picture and is directing the arm of the painter.

I think the painted woman was the master of the male painter?

I think it's from Italy, 17th century (very vague reminiscence here)?

I keep thinking about Artemisia Gentileschi but can't find any link to something similar

Any help would be appreciated, it's driving me crazy

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