2026-05-10 03:36 UTC
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@dan@discuss.systems 2026-05-10 03:43
@norootcause@hachyderm.io the British maritime patrol aircraft derived from the de Havilland comet, thanks to a childhood anxiety over Cold War submarine tactics in the North Atlantic. of course.
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@michaelgemar@cosocial.ca 2026-05-10 03:45
@norootcause@hachyderm.io https://www.youtube.com/shorts/22ty15enpNk?app=desktop
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@nieuemma@mastodon.de 2026-05-10 03:49
@norootcause@hachyderm.io Nimrod only makes me think of Green Day
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@wollman@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 03:49
@norootcause@hachyderm.io Noel Chiappa is the only reference I have but I couldn't explain why.
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@edgeworth@sfba.social 2026-05-10 03:51
@norootcause@hachyderm.io Also a Marvel Comics character: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_(comics)
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@nf3xn@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 03:56
@norootcause@hachyderm.io how to say you are not British lol
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@AndyHat@anti-social.online 2026-05-10 04:17
@norootcause@hachyderm.io https://youtu.be/sUgoBb8m1eE?si=Gh4kvfFh5qOe_mUZ
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@zazzoo@mstdn.ca 2026-05-10 04:17
@norootcause@hachyderm.io Other, in order: 1) An insult old people would use when I was kid - 'nimrod!' 'ninny!' 2) Later, an album by Green Day, who are using it as the insult described above. 3) Oh, it's from the bible? 🤷♂️
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@Mage_of_Chaos@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 04:26
@norootcause@hachyderm.io uhhhhh.... I don't remember honestly
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@coolandnormal@aus.social 2026-05-10 04:30
@norootcause@hachyderm.io +1 aircraft
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@morton@kolektiva.social 2026-05-10 05:10
@norootcause@hachyderm.io https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmlP2sx6IQk
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@igb@mastodon.hccp.org 2026-05-10 05:33
@norootcause@hachyderm.io https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_(comics)
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@xgebi@hachyderm.io 2026-05-10 05:45
@norootcause@hachyderm.io in some languages “nimrod” is a general term for a hunter
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@njonsson@hachyderm.io 2026-05-10 05:54
@norootcause@hachyderm.io, for me, it’s the ninth Enigma Variation of Edward Elgar, Adagio
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@retrosponge@kind.social 2026-05-10 05:59
@norootcause@hachyderm.io The plane that is known as the Nimrod.
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@krono@toot.berlin 2026-05-10 06:21
@norootcause@hachyderm.io Neither, just Elgar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUgoBb8m1eE
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@Ra@mstdn.social 2026-05-10 06:35
Pixies
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@Annaspanner@bookstodon.com 2026-05-10 06:49
@norootcause@hachyderm.io Shackleton’s (slightly) less disastrous Antarctic expedition, where he got a party within 90 miles of the South Pole but turned back because he knew they didn’t have enough food and would die, was known as the Nimrod expedition after the ship that took them to Antarctica. There are similarities with Capt. Ahab’s ship Pequod, probably to be expected given the nature of sailing at that time. Nimrod was also a whaler/sealer, and also later sank with the loss of all hands.
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@lukyan@lukyan.eu 2026-05-10 06:56
@norootcause@hachyderm.io The 1990s X-Men animated series, but of these later Looney Tunes. I wasn't then aware of Elmer Fudd being ironically compared to the powerful mutant-hunter.
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@nemo@camp.crates.im 2026-05-10 07:05
@norootcause@hachyderm.io this song!
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@gnarf@hachyderm.io 2026-05-10 07:43
@norootcause@hachyderm.io neither, up until now I've only known the giant Nimrod from Dante's Divine Comedy. Didn't know it was a character from the bible
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@edwiebe@scribili.masto.host 2026-05-10 14:06
@norootcause@hachyderm.io I learned it as a slur for a person deemed stupid when and where I was a child.
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@idoclosecuts@mstdn.ca 2026-05-11 12:03
@norootcause@hachyderm.io I would have answered Greenday;
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@blabaere@mastodon.social 2026-05-25 10:25
@norootcause@hachyderm.io Because of the programming language, why is it not even in the list ? Just to be sure: it's called "Nim" nowadays.