Today I Learned...

[ret5hd]

the German word "gift" translates to the English word "poison".
How did I not know that???

What did you learn today?

[Sanity Claws]

1. I learned that I should not pick recipes from the internet

Choose recipes from proven cookbooks only!

[happybird]

2. A bad word and 2 insults in Tagalog

It was a stressful day at work, our usual English and Spanish cussing just wasn’t cutting it. Our coworker from the Philippines was happy to give us a lesson.

[ret5hd]

5. Huhhh...I showed you mine, now you show me yours!

[happybird]

7. Ooh, they aren't very nice, and one is kinda an inside joke

mataba means fat (that one is the inside joke)
asong babbai (not sure of spelling) means bitch. That one is fun to say because it’s sing-songy.

We are all good friends and insult the heck out of each other, knowing we don’t really mean it.
We also learned “old man” (for my boss’ husband), but I can’t remember that one. He had to fill in for one of the cooks for a few hours today and was doing some very curmudgeonly grumbling.

ETA: the funny thing is whenever she is startled, the general exclamation phrase is “Ai, caballa!” Which means “Oh, horses!”
There are a lot a jump-out scares performed, so it is heard often.
Good gawd. Writing this all down, we sound like horrible, horrible people. I swear we are all nice, hard working folks!
It’s stress relief, familiarity, and part isolation craziness, I think.

[ret5hd]

9. I don't think it sounds horrible at all!

I worked my entire working-life in machine shops, etc. The pranks we pulled...

One of the "lighter" ones:
I was walking down a main aisle and saw a large hoist moving across the shop. The hook, way up high, was carrying a bulging trash bag full of water and I could see a string coming down from a corner of the bag. The hoist stopped after moving about 30 feet or so, then the string started jerking and jerking till the bottom of the bag ripped open...resulting in a loud howl from underneath the bag and laughter from the area around the other end of the string.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. In Norwegian, "gift" can mean either "poison" or "married."

"Jeg er gift og har gift" means "I am married and have poison." Go figure.

[wishstar]

4. How to do crosswords on USA Today's website online

After over 60 years of never working crosswords I finally started doing them to pass the time recently but today was first time I completed one online

[Doreen]

6. The Swiss name "Baggenstos" means either

grave digger or poke in the cheek ( you get to decide which cheek.) I figure the grave digger makes more sense as it describes a profession. I have actually known this for a long time but it is a useless but nifty little fact.

[handmade34]

8. so many things...

one of many...

a 'bariatric wheelchair' is a wheelchair for 'big' people