Facts that will ruin your life

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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby Delta Jim » Tue Mar 21, 2017 7:48 pm

RaceProUK wrote:
Bromo wrote:The longest word in English is 189,819 letters long.

To be fair, it's not really a word as such, more a verbal formula. The longest true word (as in defined in a reference dictionary) is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.


Which is a purposely long word for silicosis. So it's the longest word, but it's the longest word for something that already had a shorter word for it.

The longest English word that is neither a technical term nor purposely long for the sake of being long is floccinaucinihilipilification.
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby IamNotCreepy » Wed Mar 22, 2017 3:26 pm

Delta Jim wrote:
RaceProUK wrote:
Bromo wrote:The longest word in English is 189,819 letters long.

To be fair, it's not really a word as such, more a verbal formula. The longest true word (as in defined in a reference dictionary) is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.


Which is a purposely long word for silicosis. So it's the longest word, but it's the longest word for something that already had a shorter word for it.

The longest English word that is neither a technical term nor purposely long for the sake of being long is floccinaucinihilipilification.


Yeah, but that word was created as a joke. The longest non-technical, non-coined word is antidisestablishmentarianism.
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby CarrieVS » Wed Mar 22, 2017 3:38 pm

IamNotCreepy wrote:
Delta Jim wrote:The longest English word that is neither a technical term nor purposely long for the sake of being long is floccinaucinihilipilification.


Yeah, but that word was created as a joke. The longest non-technical, non-coined word is antidisestablishmentarianism.


Additionally, in a typical proportional font,
antidisestablishmentarianism
is longer than
floccinaucinihilipilification
in one sense. (Presumably also why antidisestablishmentarianism takes the gold over antidisestablishmentarianist?)
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby Paradox » Wed Mar 22, 2017 4:44 pm

The longest word in the Portuguese language that's actually been used in a context other than "the longest word in X language" is "inconstitucionalissimamente".

Means "very unconstitutionally".
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby iMURDAu » Thu Mar 23, 2017 3:50 pm

Sorry folks. None of those word facts are causing me to steal from dumpsters to fuel my stolen recently found newborn's meth addiction.

There's a species of jellyfish that is kind of immortal. So the rising sea levels are something to worry about.

Oh and if you're ever concerned about your residence being broken into to:

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And some visual nightmare fuel:

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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby IamNotCreepy » Thu Mar 23, 2017 5:12 pm

iMURDAu wrote:Sorry folks. None of those word facts are causing me to steal from dumpsters to fuel my stolen recently found newborn's meth addiction.

There's a species of jellyfish that is kind of immortal. So the rising sea levels are something to worry about.

Oh and if you're ever concerned about your residence being broken into to:

Spoiler: show
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And some visual nightmare fuel:

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Wow. So, he worked ADT, where I used to work. How did I not know this?
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby NathanLoiselle » Thu Mar 23, 2017 9:49 pm

So far my life remains unruined. Work harder people!
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby Malfeasinator » Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:43 am

Pretty much every time I see a thing on Facebook like "X pop culture thing is now Y years old!" I feel this massive gut punch.

"Holy shit, 25 years? What the fuck have I been doing with my life? Holy Christ. 25 fucking years, man. I haven't accomplished shit. Before I know it, 25 more years will go by and I'll be like 'Where the fuck did they go?'"

And then Facebook has to make it even worse with the whole "hey, you posted something some amount of time ago" and it's the same shit all over again. "7 years? Fuuuuck. I thought I'd be a lot further along in my life by now."

No, I'm not sharing that shit, Facebook. I wasn't in a good place in my life then and I'm not happy with my lack of progress since then. Thanks for fucking my whole day up, assholes.
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby Bromo » Tue Mar 28, 2017 4:13 pm

Life is an illusion and none of what you see or think you know is real.
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby Malfeasinator » Tue Mar 28, 2017 5:57 pm

Bromo wrote:Life is an illusion and none of what you see or think you know is real.


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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby Krashlia » Tue Mar 28, 2017 6:14 pm

Cuckoldry happens way more often than you think.
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby Australia » Tue Mar 28, 2017 6:59 pm

But I'm always thinking. Does that mean at literally every moment in time, adultery is happening? Or was that an insult at my intelligence? If you'll excuse me, I have to pick my wife up from her personal trainer's house.
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby D-LOGAN » Tue Mar 28, 2017 8:34 pm

Bromo wrote:Life is an illusion and none of what you see or think you know is real.


Thank Christ for that!!! I done some shit in my time, that's actually a load off.
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby Krashlia » Tue Mar 28, 2017 11:14 pm

D-Logan is Austrailia's wife's Personal Trainer.
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Re: Facts that will ruin your life

Postby Piter Lauchy » Sun Apr 02, 2017 12:56 pm

Let's get real, people! And by real, I mean fictional.

Firefly was canceled and there will never be anything with the exact same amazing feel to it.

Jason Statham will probably never be in the MCU.

The FFVII remake has a high probability of sucking.
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