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4mo ago

Uncultured

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A-G-L-E-T
- Friendship: POSSIBLE
- I know this because of phineas and ferb
  
  Justice League Unlimited, animated series from the mid aughts, for me. The Question played by Jeffrey Combs was amazing!
- I am reminded of this term about once a year and then promptly forget because it never comes up except in internet memes.
- It's actually an eyelet
  
  Nah, eyelet is the hole that your lace (and aglet) goes through.

Schnürsenkelendungskappe
- Korrekt ist Nadel. Wenn sie aus Metall ist, kann man auch Pinke dazu sagen.
  
  Ich dachte es wäre immer Pinke.
- isn't 3 am yet
  
  Nobody expects the Kommentblitzkrieg
  
  My German friend loved that when I showed them.
- friendship: TYSKA
  
  Was?
- Senkelblech

Shoelace foreskins.

Those are the ends of what are called shoelaces, friend.
- Friendship: DENIED
  
  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.

Are you kidding me? Has usb D dropped already??
- 2000 ways to orient it, neat.

food. given how much i chew on them
- Are you a cat? Who chews on their shoelaces?

The Simpsons told me what an aglet is years ago.
The question is, do you know what this is?
- An awl? Am I missing something?
  
  Home Improvement is where I learned that, hence the picture of Wilson, who's the one who brought it up.
- That's a Wilson.
- Alrighty neighbour
  (Awl, neighbour (Wilson) to the right)
- Icepick
- 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)
  
  And now it will be in mine as well. So thanks for that.
- Awl that jazz.
- For specialized pokey tools, my favorite is the regulator. The only thing handier than a regulator is two regulators.
- Augur

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

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

Aglets & I got to know this from Phineas & Ferb
- Jimmy Neutron taught me

"The plastic tips at the end of shoe laces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister."
- Their purpose is to be a component for Hermes Boots
  
  ^ 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.

Looks like Sandstorm by Darude
- Okay I'll bite,
  The rude who?

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

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.

Telomeres, right? Then why is nobody saying telomeres?
- 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
  
  Reverse the metaphor.

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

Lace nipples

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
- Aglets. Now you know.

Really?! No one posted it?
- Thanks. This is what I was looking for

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
- Ooiiieee not my eyelet holes.
  
  I'm the only one that can have eyeholes
  Whack

Aglet gang, rise up

I CAN LEARN
- ...and then forget it later
  
  forget what?

I have no idea.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  That's a slur and I'm offended^~~happy~~ that you would call us that 😏
  
  Now kiss
  
  Friday at 9 pm we're hangin' out, wanna join?

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

Shoelaces

Shoelace boners.
- And so it was written. Well done.

5% increased movement speed
- A man of culture, I see.

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

Ah, I have heard the name of those before.
Egrets, right?
- Get that AI slop out of my face before I block you.

They are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.
- Wait, what's their true purpose?
  
  To slowly disperse neurotoxin when you chew on them.
  
  Haha, sorry, just a reference to this scene: https://youtu.be/QkEBvqaXXHc?t=26s

Their true purpose is sinister.

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

Thingamabobs

I called them string snibbets when I was little

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

I thought everyone called them shoelace condoms.

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

Floogelbinders
- Cocktail!
  
  A man of culture, i see!
- You are correct. Everyone else is wrong.

Cardaço
- Steel card

Schlammer Jammers

Ferrule

Fadenendstücke

Whappers

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

Those are thingamabobs/whatsits. 🤓

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

Solid matter.

Skuwka in Polish.

Johnathan?
(This lives rent free in my head: https://youtu.be/kHHyPhSLRy0)
- same, brother, same

Flooglebinder!

Herrete

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