awful.systems
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
The Picard Maneuver to Funny@sh.itjust.works • 1 year ago

"Avon"

lemmy.world

message-square
46
fedilink
416

"Avon"

lemmy.world

The Picard Maneuver to Funny@sh.itjust.works • 1 year ago
message-square
46
fedilink
  • Zagorath
    link
    fedilink
    English
    78•1 year ago

    Wait until you learn about Torpenhow Hill.

    • Tor, from Old English torr, meaning hill.
    • Pen, from Celtic *penn, meaning hill.
    • How, from Danish hoh, meaning hill.
    • Hill, from English hill, meaning hill.

    Unfortunately, it’s not actually a real official name for a hill, though it could be…

    • FreshLight
      link
      fedilink
      29•1 year ago

      Hill, from English hill, meaning hill.

      Fucking love it.

    • @Dasnap@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      15•1 year ago

      Hill4

    • @readthemessage@lemmy.eco.br
      link
      fedilink
      10•1 year ago

      There is a neighborhood in Cartagena, Spain, that is called Nueva Cartagena, which basically means new new new city

      • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        6•1 year ago

        Naming cities like boomers name their documents

    • @onion@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      8•
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      You gotta remove the ^ behind each word

      ^unfortunately vs unfortunately

      Edit nvm it’s Infinity’s fault apparently

      • Zagorath
        link
        fedilink
        English
        9•1 year ago

        I don’t know what client you’re using, but this displays correctly on lemmy-ui and Jerboa, and it matches the Lemmy markdown syntaxt as documented. I’d suggest requesting your client fix its renderer.

      • @Dasnap@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        3•1 year ago

        Clients seem to interpret the markdown differently. It displays correctly on the main desktop site.

    • @psud@aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      2•1 year ago

      They asked several people what it was and wrote down all the answers

      • Zagorath
        link
        fedilink
        2•1 year ago

        That basically is exactly how this sort of thing comes about, only spread out over time.

Funny@sh.itjust.works

!funny@sh.itjust.works

remote_follow_modal_title

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !funny@sh.itjust.works

General rules:

  • Be kind.
  • All posts must make an attempt to be funny.
  • Obey the general sh.itjust.works instance rules.
  • No politics or political figures. There are plenty of other politics communities to choose from.
  • Don’t post anything grotesque or potentially illegal. Examples include pornography, gore, animal cruelty, inappropriate jokes involving kids, etc.

Exceptions may be made at the discretion of the mods.

  • 1.24K users / day
  • 3.9K users / week
  • 7.17K users / month
  • 15K users / 6 months
  • 10.2K subscribers
  • 1.56K Posts
  • 25.9K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • @TheDude@sh.itjust.works
  • kersploosh
  • @example@reddthat.com
  • @VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works
  • BE: 0.19.3
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org