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What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf? (feddit.uk)

submitted 2 weeks ago by manicdave@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, Britain's national mapping organisation's brand is associated in our national consciousness with going to a small shop in a quaint village to get a map showing how to walk up a mountain. It's called Ordnance Survey. If that sounds like Artillery Research to you, that's because the project started because the king wanted to know how to accurately bomb Scotland.

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[-] pebbles@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah dude the more I think of milk as sexual assault the stranger it feels.

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

In the staff fridge at work someone used to label their milk as "breast milk" and people would go eeeww. Like it was snot or something. But from a cow's breasts? Fine! So weird.

[-] embed_me@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago

Well humans do be gross

[-] mukt@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah dude the more I think of milk as sexual assault the stranger it feels.

Meat is outright murder and cannsbilism, and don't get me started on eggs.

[-] dave@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago

cannsbilism

I'm guessing cannibalism. But where are you shopping?

this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025

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