Is this a subtle hint that I should shut up before somebody shoots me?
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Fri 8 Jul 2011, 10:41,
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Oh well sometimes it's entertaining
Look at this old definition for the verb "to troll", for instance:
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/troll_4
Falling out of use, that definition, for some reason.
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Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:08,
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dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/troll_4
Falling out of use, that definition, for some reason.
Yeah, it's an american fishing term - a corruption of "trawl".
Internet trolling also originally came from that meaning as well - to "troll for newbs" on usenet by posting something that an experienced user would quickly disregard but new people would instantly react to.
People talk these days as though it's the ogre type troll rather than the american fishing type troll so I guess etymology is a bitch.
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Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:13,
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People talk these days as though it's the ogre type troll rather than the american fishing type troll so I guess etymology is a bitch.
Jargon from the ancient past is fun, too.
A typical cottage carder has a single large drum (the swift)
accompanied by a pair of in-feed rollers (nippers), one or more pairs
of worker and stripper rollers, a fancy, and a doffer. In-feed to the
carder is usually accomplished by hand or by conveyor belt and often
the output of the cottage carder is stored as a batt or further
processed into roving and wound into bumps with an accessory bump
winder.
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Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:12,
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accompanied by a pair of in-feed rollers (nippers), one or more pairs
of worker and stripper rollers, a fancy, and a doffer. In-feed to the
carder is usually accomplished by hand or by conveyor belt and often
the output of the cottage carder is stored as a batt or further
processed into roving and wound into bumps with an accessory bump
winder.
They can smell decay and lead you to the corpses of gun victims
if you align your mind with their insect ways.
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Fri 8 Jul 2011, 10:53,
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The interesting thing about giant insects is that if they were constructed the same way as tiny insects they wouldn't be able to stand under their own weight
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Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:02,
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Or breathe, apparently.
I think this is a volume-to-surface-area thing, since they do it passively through holes instead of pumping.
Could possibly have a really giant flat insect, like a rectangular beetle a mile wide.
In fact it wouldn't even have to be rectangular, I don't know why I said that. Just trying to keep things simple.
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Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:18,
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Could possibly have a really giant flat insect, like a rectangular beetle a mile wide.
In fact it wouldn't even have to be rectangular, I don't know why I said that. Just trying to keep things simple.
I'm sure if it became a necessity in the food chain then nature would find a way
Kind of like how Giant wetas (that red thing is a tomato) have evolved to fill a missing rodent/rabbit gap in the NZ food chain.
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Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:24,
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