Taniwha420

Yeah, in between the gold rush in San Fransisco, and the gold rush in British Columbia.

Fossicking and skerrig are related to mining activities, so may be more localized to areas were the gold rush was big. I confirmed they're actual words.

My parents emigrated from Aus/NZ just before I was born, so I inherited a bunch of weird down-under, outdated vocabulary.

"What are you fossicking around in the pantry for?" "Did you find a few skerrigs of chocolate?" "I need to use the dunny." "That guy in car dealership was apoplectic."

Lots of other turns of phrase, but - with the possible exception of "dunny" are legit words.

EDIT: OK. A few others, I still use 'blasted' as an adjective. If my kids do something ridiculous, "Jesus wept, child," sometimes comes out of my mouth. Then a bunch of, "running around like a sprayed blowfly," or, "wandering around like a lost soul."

Nosing (instead of reversing) into a parking spot. You always pick the conditions of your arrival, but not always your departure. Also, reversing into traffic is ridiculous and illegal in some places. Parking nose-first is dangerous and lazy.

EDIT: Love how you're all justifying your bad driving habits. Camera? Still can't scan for incoming traffic. Bad weather only on occasion? It's more than bad weather that can make reversing out of a door dangerous.

... and I HATE angle parking.

I'm totally struggling with the mixed units here: potential energy being compared to power. "How much hp does your car have?" "A tank of gas." Wut?

This line right here: "battery storage equivalent to the output of 20 nuclear reactors." I suspect the author has considered GW with GW/hr..

I've had members of the Métis community tell me to use "indigenous" with a mixed group because in Canada the Métis and the Inuit don't fall under the Indian Act.

Never trust a Campbell.

"Had a relationship with ..."

Sex with a minor. Hmm ... sex with a minor. I could swear we had a word for that.

I often cringe a bit at the rhetoric coming out of the men's rights corner, but the gender bias around sex with minors in so consistent.

Mollusks and arthropods ruled the oceans at this time. The first land plants appeared on land.

I don't understand how the distance to see ground in the tank is longer than those of the Dodge and Chevy, but the distance to see children is shorter.

That is such an overly simplistic and reductionist take. I'm not even sure the most control and fear oriented, "OT" Christians would accept that interpretation. I'm not even sure that there are any hardcore Jews that would accept that interpretation.

From a Christian perspective, Jesus is evidently non-violent and encourages non-violence ("those who live by the sword, die by the sword," "let he who is without sin cast the first stone," and his refusal to start a riot in Jerusalem when he's being tried.)

Also, I'd take your Matthew quote as Jesus seeing himself as in conversation with the Jewish corpus of teachings, not divorcing himself from it. He's evidently NOT ok with the blind implementation of OT teaching. Anyway, I've got to clarify that the translation of Torah as "law" misses a lot of nuance. "Teachings" might be a better translation. "The Law and the Prophets" is basically shorthand for what Christians would call the "Old Testament".

He obviously interpreted and prioritised Old Testament teachings to place love, mercy, and redemption at the heart of interpretation, so to say that, "Jesus wants you to kill your non-Christian family," is absolutely disingenuous.

They used a drone to spy on the New Zealand women's team. That violated fair play. The article mentions the coach (?) saying that drone use was not limited to the women's team or soccer. I wonder what else will come out?

EDIT: I got a couple things wrong. Here's the actual quote: The head of Canada soccer has acknowledged the drone use was not limited to the women's team or to Paris.