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What does the expression "That's a wash!" mean?
Borachio
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Good question!
If you're American it may mean that the negative and positive aspects of something cancel each other out.
If you're British you'd likely take it for "It's a wash out" meaning it's a complete waste.
Apocryphally, the origin of "It's a wash" dates back to King John losing all the Crown Jewels in the Wash. But I strongly suspect this is a myth.
If you're American it may mean that the negative and positive aspects of something cancel each other out.
If you're British you'd likely take it for "It's a wash out" meaning it's a complete waste.
Apocryphally, the origin of "It's a wash" dates back to King John losing all the Crown Jewels in the Wash. But I strongly suspect this is a myth.
madviking
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i use what you classify the british definition but i'm not sure how the definitions are truly different.
Ha! That rated an entire 250+ post thread less than a 1.5 months ago. Enjoy reading 
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=511639
FWIW, here is Winner's first post in the thread, given that he is our resident, er... Czechian? Czech Republican? whatever!
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=12831810&postcount=30
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=511639
FWIW, here is Winner's first post in the thread, given that he is our resident, er... Czechian? Czech Republican? whatever!
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=12831810&postcount=30
Mise
isle of lucy
I do know that their currency is called the "Czech". At least, that's what I called them when I was there.
Wordsworth dictionary of Obscenity and Taboo says it probably comes from "Jakes", which was a British word for toilet, and which the puritans held as improper. Early version of it is "cuzjohn" = cousin John. (ODE, Harvard dormitory rules 1735).
For the British meaning, penis, it is explained to be just a male name, and those tend to become names of male body parts.
Grendeldef
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While I was growing up in the 70s/80s (West-)Germany was often used as a prime example of how legality & illegality worked in different countries. While in Finland (and in Sweden, Norway & Denmark as far as I know) everything is legal unless specifically forbidden (broadly speaking) the law in Germany was supposedly acting the other way around ie by default, (most) everything is forbidden unless specifically allowed or made legal.
Most likely it's not nowhere near this B&W but any truth in this or just another urban myth ?
Most likely it's not nowhere near this B&W but any truth in this or just another urban myth ?
Grendeldef
Trancerelic & coffeeholic
Perhaps more than anything else using WG as an example was about national stereotypes - Germans were seen as the (almost) only ones actually capable of enforcing any adopted system to the letter.
Shouldn't take the part about Germany literally, but it's a good guideline.
Every tiny crap is regulated, means it's likely that you might do something wrong if you don't know about it.
PlutonianEmpire
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The magnitude and luminosity calculator here does not give me, a thick-headed brain-dead, a good way to compare luminosity units. All the other units available in the luminosity drop down list are useless to me. How am I supposed to know what Apparent Magnitude -16.5811 is supposed to look like from 1 astronomical unit away other than 0.0000862192 Solar luminosities? Are there any other sites/calculators that can give me something I can actually compare it to? Such as the moon, a star, or an Earth-based light source at x distance away?
Spoiler :
hobbsyoyo
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Is the solar luminosity a measurement taken from Earth being = 1 ?
If so, you can look up the solar flux and use that to possibly convert whatever units a solar luminosity measures (photons I guess?) to something usable? I don't know....I guess the trick would be to figure out what the solar flux is in photons, (I've only seen it given in watts) and then figure out how to relate photons to brightness as perceived by the eye.
If so, you can look up the solar flux and use that to possibly convert whatever units a solar luminosity measures (photons I guess?) to something usable? I don't know....I guess the trick would be to figure out what the solar flux is in photons, (I've only seen it given in watts) and then figure out how to relate photons to brightness as perceived by the eye.
Grendeldef
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Thanks, this actually makes a lot of sense and it's always nice to know that what one learned as a kid wasn't completely false.
Indeed. Though sometimes it's not really the idyllic sugar coated version you learn as a child...
Grendeldef
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Sadly, yes but as seen in the pic Joulupukki (Santa Claus or whatever alias he uses abroad) luckily is very much alive & kicking.
hobbsyoyo
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Indeed. Though sometimes it's not really the idyllic sugar coated version you learn as a child...
Well we have a way to deal with evil Easter Bunnies.
Unfortunately, there isn't any equivalent countermeasures for Evil Santa. Flak cannons, perhaps?
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