toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoWhat's your entirely unimportant and inconsequential hot take?message-squaremessage-square698linkfedilinkarrow-up1250arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squaregnutrino@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41arrow-down1·4 days agoThe seventh planet from the sun should be called Caelus after the Roman sky god to match the other planets rather than using a latinized version of the name of the Greek sky god Ouranos.
minus-squaremeco03211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32·4 days agoIt’s OK. You can admit that you’re just not mature enough to say Uranus with a straight face.
minus-squareschnapsman@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoIt’s pronounced “Uranus”, not “Uranus”.
minus-squareRolivers@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·3 days agoI’m almost 40 and I still find probe Uranus jokes funny. When does that get better?
minus-squareQuetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 days ago“Really, Captain? *sigh* Probing Uranus…” - EDI, Mass Effect 2
minus-squaretroglodytis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·3 days agoIt doesn’t get better than probing Uranus
minus-squarejaygray91@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoI hope it doesn’t go away. I’m mid 30s now and I want to still laugh at Uranus jokes and other silly jokes.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoNeither am I, and I kick in at least 20 every time I hear of a new mission to Uranus. The name alone funds spaceflight
minus-squaremelsaskca@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 days ago“There are Klingons circling Caelus” just doesn’t have the same feel.
minus-squaremanuallybreathing@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoEveryone mispronouces latin words anyway, pretty big pet peeve of mine tbh
The seventh planet from the sun should be called Caelus after the Roman sky god to match the other planets rather than using a latinized version of the name of the Greek sky god Ouranos.
It’s OK. You can admit that you’re just not mature enough to say Uranus with a straight face.
It’s pronounced “Uranus”, not “Uranus”.
Wait… what did I say?
I’m almost 40 and I still find probe Uranus jokes funny. When does that get better?
“Really, Captain? *sigh* Probing Uranus…”
- EDI, Mass Effect 2
It doesn’t get better than probing Uranus
I hope it doesn’t go away. I’m mid 30s now and I want to still laugh at Uranus jokes and other silly jokes.
Neither am I, and I kick in at least 20 every time I hear of a new mission to Uranus. The name alone funds spaceflight
“There are Klingons circling Caelus” just doesn’t have the same feel.
Everyone mispronouces latin words anyway, pretty big pet peeve of mine tbh