Uncultured

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uservoid1@lemmy.world · 97 pts · 1y (10 replies)

A-G-L-E-T

ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 1y

Friendship: POSSIBLE

ultrahamster64@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I know this because of phineas and ferb

buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Justice League Unlimited, animated series from the mid aughts, for me. The Question played by Jeffrey Combs was amazing!

Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Exactly what I was thinking of. I'd still like to know what the real, sinister purpose of aglets are.

OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

They break down faster than your shoe string and spread microplastics. Just my guess.

spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

I am reminded of this term about once a year and then promptly forget because it never comes up except in internet memes.

grrgyle@slrpnk.net · -15 pts · 1y (3 replies)

It's actually an eyelet

AliasVortex@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Nah, eyelet is the hole that your lace (and aglet) goes through.

grrgyle@slrpnk.net · -3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I prefer my truth

papalonian@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

"I reject your reality, and substitute my own."

HerrVorragend@lemmy.world · 86 pts · 1y (10 replies)

Schnürsenkelendungskappe

Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de · 19 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Korrekt ist Nadel. Wenn sie aus Metall ist, kann man auch Pinke dazu sagen.

Strider@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Ich dachte es wäre immer Pinke.

expatriado@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y (2 replies)

isn't 3 am yet

HK65@sopuli.xyz · 26 pts · 1y

Nobody expects the Kommentblitzkrieg

Maeve@kbin.earth · 6 pts · 1y

My German friend loved that when I showed them.

ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y (3 replies)

friendship: TYSKA

PlexSheep@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Was?

ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Why do I have you tagged as "loves stealing" lmao

PlexSheep@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1y

I think we agreed on that. I have tagged myself that too. Not sure why anymore but tags are awesome

LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 85 pts · 1y

Shoelace foreskins.

reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 47 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Those are the ends of what are called shoelaces, friend.

ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Friendship: DENIED

reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Damn, I was joking and now I'm at -1. Should've added the /s I guess.

More seriously, aren't those called aglets? Always forget the name when I want to remember it.

Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

aglets in english

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

English in English

AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y

"Always forget the name when I want to remember it. "

Is that a problem you run into regularly?

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Are you kidding me? Has usb D dropped already??

PlexSheep@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1y

2000 ways to orient it, neat.

sunnie@sopuli.xyz · 29 pts · 1y (1 reply)

food. given how much i chew on them

glitch1985@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Are you a cat? Who chews on their shoelaces?

Etterra@discuss.online · 28 pts · 1y

Those are shoe laces. They help keep your shoes on your feet.

capt_wolf@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y (10 replies)

The Simpsons told me what an aglet is years ago.

The question is, do you know what this is?

PlaidBaron@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y (1 reply)

An awl? Am I missing something?

capt_wolf@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Home Improvement is where I learned that, hence the picture of Wilson, who's the one who brought it up.

linkinkampf19@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y

That's a Wilson.

usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 1y

Alrighty neighbour

(Awl, neighbour (Wilson) to the right)

AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFDcoX7s6rE

🎵I want it awl, I want it awl, I want it awl, and I want it now🎵

(The song that gets stuck in my head whenever I use an awl)

higgsboson@dubvee.org · 1 pts · 1y

And now it will be in mine as well. So thanks for that.

Blooper@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 1y

Icepick

Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

For specialized pokey tools, my favorite is the regulator. The only thing handier than a regulator is two regulators.

terminhell@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Augur

ksigley@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

Awl that jazz.

svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 1y

Yet another example of the US being under the thumb of big agletculture.

MITM0@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Aglets & I got to know this from Phineas & Ferb

Belgdore@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

Jimmy Neutron taught me

Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y (2 replies)

"The plastic tips at the end of shoe laces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister."

rockerface@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Their purpose is to be a component for Hermes Boots

bss03@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 1y

^ This ^ is where I learned the word "aglet" and (looked up) what they were. First time I found them in Terraria, I thought surely it was a typo for "anklet" or something, since that was back in the beta days.

noname_yet2077@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Looks like Sandstorm by Darude

ignotum@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y

Okay I'll bite,
The rude who?

alekwithak@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They're clearly words. Letters if you want to be more specific.

That's a pretty cool unrelated picture of aglets, though. Totally random lol

JiminaMann@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y

Aka if you don't watch phineas and ferb, you're not my friend

Phen@lemmy.eco.br · 18 pts · 1y

Do I get a pass if English is not my first language?

No, before now I did not know the name for it in my first language either.

PetteriSkaffari@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Telomeres, right? Then why is nobody saying telomeres?

Gustephan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Telomeres are a structure on DNA. These things, aglets, are a common metaphor used to describe the function of telomeres as aglets basically do for shoelaces what telomeres do for DNA

PetteriSkaffari@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Reverse the metaphor.

MTK@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y

Lace nipples

bodaciousFern@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I don't know the name but I can tell you how sad they make me when they break and tear off and you have to use a lighter on the now extremely frayed end(s) of your shoelace for just a few seconds, and then pinch off the flame just lightly burning your fingies while molding the shoelace end into a cohesive black carcinogen.

Source: I am cheap

Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

Aglets. Now you know.

TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 1y (1 reply)
BmeBenji@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

Thanks. This is what I was looking for

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Ah, but once you know of the aglets, do you know what you put the aglets through? Maybe you should be friends with people who don't know aglets but do know the word for the holes

tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net · 11 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Ooiiieee not my eyelet holes.

thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I'm the only one that can have eyeholes

Whack

svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y

It's worth the risk. They melt in your mouth! They're delicious!

zanyllama52@infosec.pub · 13 pts · 1y

Aglet gang, rise up

Edward@lemmy.4d2.org · 13 pts · 1y (5 replies)

I have no idea.

Dragonstaff@leminal.space · 31 pts · 1y (4 replies)

They're called aglets. If you didn't already know that, I'm going to assume you have a life and aren't a gigantic nerd, and hope you still invite me to parties despite occasionally spouting useless information.

SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y

That's a slur and I'm offended^happy that you would call us that 😏

LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

I forgot what they were called as well, I just remember someone saying that guy became a millionaire when I was a kid, and at the time I thought there was still hope for me.

LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
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ShotDonkey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Friday at 9 pm we're hangin' out, wanna join?

ianfraserkrillmaster@midwest.social · 12 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I CAN LEARN

asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

...and then forget it later

ianfraserkrillmaster@midwest.social · 3 pts · 1y

forget what?

Acidbath@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y

It don fuckin matter what its called, it better have teeth marks on it brother.

raoulduke85@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Shoelace boners.

Pnut@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

And so it was written. Well done.

PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 1y

Shoelaces

FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

5% increased movement speed

ksigley@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

A man of culture, I see.

Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 1y

I don't remember, but I know for a fact that cats are their natural predators

Pippipartner@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 1y

That's easy: they are the Tube nipples of the tube titties

Tudsamfa@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Ah, I have heard the name of those before.

Egrets, right?

fedev@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Tudsamfa@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Get that AI slop out of my face before I block you.

Leonixster@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 1y (2 replies)

How can you tell it's AI? /gen

Tudsamfa@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I can recognise the Font/lack thereof.

Pnut@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

It's a bit on the nose. Like, to have that in your back pocket and remember to use it is kind of nuts.

ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Their true purpose is sinister.

Terrapinjoe@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

GaMEChld@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (3 replies)

They are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.

klemptor@startrek.website · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Wait, what's their true purpose?

ZeffSyde@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

To slowly disperse neurotoxin when you chew on them.

GaMEChld@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Haha, sorry, just a reference to this scene: https://youtu.be/QkEBvqaXXHc?t=26s

Ansis100@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

I've spent hours looking for them so I could finally craft the Lightning boots.

Grass@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y

I called them string snibbets when I was little

Formfiller@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Thingamabobs

mtchristo@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y

I thought everyone called them shoelace condoms.

Alfaspyke@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Flugelbinder of course. Everyone who were alive in the 80s know this

frunch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Cardaço

LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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potpotato@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Ferrule

frunch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Floogelbinders

Art3sian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

You are correct. Everyone else is wrong.

kerntucky@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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frunch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

A man of culture, i see!

Sudomeapizza@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y

Whappers

erotador@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y

look nobody in my house was rich enough to afford jackets with those things

Siegfried@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Herrete

sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y

Fadenendstücke

Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Schlammer Jammers

MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y

I used to know what those were, but then I got zapped by a laser

Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y

Those are thingamabobs/whatsits. 🤓

Cano@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

PUNTALE

I didn't watch the english dub when i was little :(

hOrni@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Skuwka in Polish.

GuyFawkes@midwest.social · 3 pts · 1y

Flooglebinder!

flipflop97@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 1y

N E S T E L
Nestel
Niet vergeten

FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Johnathan?

(This lives rent free in my head: https://youtu.be/kHHyPhSLRy0)

eager_eagle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

same, brother, same

MicKet@swiss.social · 3 pts · 1y

@ObviouslyNotBanana
Pinke (Danke Phineas und Ferb)

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y

Solid matter.

dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

@ObviouslyNotBanana Aglets, BTW, are precisely the right size to go into a seat belt buckle, jam, and not come out again. That cost me a couple of hundred dollars and it turns out I'm not the only one...

ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Perfectly mildly interesting fact

ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Is it worth noting that I only know this because of the spoof horror movie Repossessed?

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 2 pts · 1y

Education takes many forms

lime@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 1y

dubb :)

NONE_dc@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I only know the name in Spanish 😔

papertowels@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
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Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y

Baby pigs 🐖 😋