Cool Pictures VI: Viciously cool 3,14159

[Kyriakos]

Goddamn it. It is an actual delta. Thought it's a algae of some sorts.

Maybe it is, just from some other creature's point of view

 

[gay_Aleks]

Just desserts.

 

[Arakhor]

I believe that, in that usage, it’s spelt ‘deserts’.

 

[Kyriakos]

Hm, nm, but:

Etymologically does the term deserts (as in that which is deserved) have any tie to the term for the arid terrain?

 

[gay_Aleks]

No, isn't the "Just desserts" a popular phrase used for times when something is just and deserved?

 

[Arakhor]

Here’s the Snopes article on the issue.

 

[Kyriakos]

^So is there no plural for the terrain which is a desert?

 

[Arakhor]

Of course there is. It’s the same spelling (but not the same pronunciation): deserts, pronounced exactly how you’d think.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Homograph_homophone_venn_diagram.svg

 

[Kyriakos]

So there is a plural... but what if one wants to see it all as just desert?

Spoiler :

I won't quit my dayjob- once i have one that is.

 

[Takhisis]

Immigrants trying to cross into Spanish-owned Melilla in Northern Africa:

 

[Cutlass]

 

[Cutlass]

 

[gay_Aleks]

Immigrants trying to cross into Spanish-owned Melilla in Northern Africa:

Look, if this happened some 90 years ago, they'd be thrilled - the Muslims are crossing the borders on their own accord, and now we can gas them!

Now, they're like "Chauncey, bring me the NERF gun. I have illegal immigrants to shoot at!".

 

[Yoda Power]

The Spanish gassed Muslims in 1924?????

 

[Tee Kay]

The Spanish gassed Muslims in 1924?????

And not actually that far from Melilla either.

 

[Cutlass]

 

[Cutlass]

 

[Yoda Power]

And not actually that far from Melilla either.

Aha! You learn something new every day.

 

[Cutlass]

 

[Kyriakos]

^A nice end to the thread

Someone start the new one