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pooberbee@lemmy.ml · 39 pts · 91d (8 replies)

Earthmelon is a potato

grte@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 91d (5 replies)

No a potato is an apple of the earth.

merc@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 91d (2 replies)

French is weird.

usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 91d

I have four-twenties and nineteen reasons why

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 91d

French give me your drugs

Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 90d (1 reply)

In Dutch it's literally earth apple. Aardappel.

lugal@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 90d

In parts of Germany, it's the same (Erdapfel), others say ground pear (Grundbirne) but don't compare apples with pears (it's our equivalent to apples and oranges)

Rusty@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 90d

Firemelon is a chilli pepper.

justmercury@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 90d

firemelon is a chile, too

RandomStickman@fedia.io · 34 pts · 91d (6 replies)

In Chinese watermelon is called 西瓜(west melon) and wintermelon is 冬瓜 (winter melon) but the first word sounds like 東 (east). Pumpkins are called 南瓜 (south melon) and in some places a certain squash is called 北瓜 (north melon)

toynbee@piefed.social · 13 pts · 91d (3 replies)

When I was a kid, I used to live near places called Sussex and Essex.

I never encountered Nussex nor Wessex and that troubles me.

titanicx@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 91d (2 replies)

Wessex was a kingdom in Britain. And it's an area of London. There is also Middlesex as well. But I can't find a norssex.

toynbee@piefed.social · 5 pts · 90d

Sure, I get all that, but I didn't grow up in that area. I grew up near other direction-sexes.

South doesn't start with "Su," so I assume North-sex (in this context) wouldn't start with "Nor." In fact, I looked this up and found this interesting article, which is perhaps not academically correct (I don't know) but shows that my reasoning is not isolated.

wabasso@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 90d

Also requesting there be a Xessex and Unessex

wabasso@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 90d (1 reply)

Is the Winter and East thing a forced coincidence in search of the quadfecta, or is there actually colder climate in eastern China(?) ?

RandomStickman@fedia.io · 2 pts · 90d

It's not forced, just a coincidence. There are loads of homophones in Chinese so it's easy to make puns like that.

CelloMike@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 91d (6 replies)

Cmon guys, "melements" is right there

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 91d (3 replies)

Right. The elemelonments

portuga@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 91d (2 replies)

Now you ruined it

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 90d

troglodytis@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 91d

Perfect !

moakley@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 90d

I'd have called them Melonments.

Karjalan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 89d

Yes, I think this meme is DoA with their decision to not use Melements.

TaterTot@piefed.social · 17 pts · 91d (2 replies)

Watermelon. Earthmelon. Firemelon. Airmelon.

Long ago, the four elemelons lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Watermelon attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elemelons, could stop them, but when the world needed it most, it vanished.

SourDrink@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 91d (1 reply)

Watermelon. Earthmelon. Firemelon. Airmelon.

Long ago, the four elemelons lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Watermelon attacked. Only the AvatarMelon Lord, master of all four elemelons, could stop them, but when the world needed it most, it vanished.

FTFY

No_Eponym@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 90d

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 12 pts · 91d (2 replies)

sad Heartmelon noises

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 91d

The show isn't going to be like I remember if Captain Planet doesn't have his heart on! :(

CannedYeet@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 90d

The quintessential melon

grte@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 91d (1 reply)

Excuse me? Where is heartmelon?

Jimbabwe@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 91d

With Our Melons Combined.. we form.. Captain Porno!!

orenj@leminal.space · 8 pts · 91d (1 reply)

This is woodmelon and metalmelon erasure

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 91d

grubberneonbelly@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 91d (2 replies)

I prefer Elemenopee

homes@piefed.world · 4 pts · 91d (1 reply)

Some of us just call it lemonade

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 91d

elemenonade

EDIT

Eagerly Emulsifying Melonie's Elemenonade.

There, try that 5 times fast.

I can't even do it once, haha!

Jimbabwe@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 91d (1 reply)

Whatabout when you cut a hole in it and force a bunch of vodka in there?? I did it at work once..

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 91d

Okay now do it to a ham and make them fight

SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 90d

Elemenop

merc@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 91d

Stupid English. I read "windmelon" as wind(1), not wind(2). I couldn't figure out how you could wind a melon.

  1. as in turning and twisting
  2. as in moving air
peopleproblems@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 91d

Im not high enough for this

ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 4 pts · 90d

Good ol' rage comic memes making a come back!

lime@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 91d

windmelon is just a watermelon that has been sitting too long before you eat it

Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 91d (3 replies)

I can see something spicy as firemelon. Like ginger or something something bright like Tiger Melon.. Earthmelon makes me think of squash. Its windmelon that doesn't really conjure anything. I just see apples in my mind cause they falling apples and gravity.

skulblaka@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 91d (2 replies)

Tumbleweed is a wind melon

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 91d

Locusts are windmelon. Or windmills.

Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 91d

Oooh that's a fun one. I mean they probably are technically edible but thats a brave individual to try haha

Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 90d (1 reply)

"Watermelon. Earthmelon. Firemelon. Airmelon. My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace when the Avamelon kept balance between the melon tribes. But that all changed when the Firemelons attacked.

No_Eponym@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 90d

toynbee@piefed.social · 3 pts · 91d

Flame-o, hotmelon.

Hupf@feddit.org · 2 pts · 89d

Back in the day, we'd sit outside by the campfire, eating melons and look at this meme (printed out, smart phones weren't a thing yet).

boogiebored@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 90d

instead only lulumelons

Cliff@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 90d

There are a lot of foods that causes wind when i eat them.

LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 90d
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