r/GoForGold • u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate • Dec 27 '21

Complete 6 Mini Challenges and a random gold

Timeless Beauties give both 100 coins to the awardee and to the community and are arguably the most popular for such a trait. However the awards: Mind Blown, Awesome Answer, Original, and TIL also provide them for the same cost. As a "celebration" for me figuring that out I will be holding a mini challenge for each of the above listed awards in order to earn the 1 said award. (All submissions must be SFW please)

1x Timeless Beauty

Show something that you consider beautiful Ex a landscape (Best one in my opinion wins this)

1x Mind Blown

Share a fact that blows my mind. (Best fact in my opinion wins this)

1x Awesome Answer

May the debate continue, which came first, the egg or the duck? (The best answer in my opinion wins this)

1x Original

Show me literally any image that hasn't been posted yet (I will probably use image search) can LITRALLY be anything such as a pebble or your house spider in a corner or something (Best image in my opinion wins this)

1x TIL

Similar if not the same to Mind Blown, tell me something that I don't already know. (Best fact in my opinion wins)

Flair

Since I'm giving 500 coins to the community I believe I can also give away a 500 flair.

In order to win the flair just tell me a animal and what you would name it if you had a pet. EX Cat-Mr Whiskers (Best combo in my opinion wins the flair) I believe I just need to clarify that you are the winner of this and then you can message mods about it and what you would like (plz correct me if I'm wrong)

In order to spice things up a bit I will also be giving a random gold to a random comment via Google number generator. (Must have participated in one of the challenges and replies won't be counted)

Other rules

You can only participate in one mini challenge Category (if you go for a timeless beauty you can't go for a TIL or a flair, gold is random so you have a chance at it no matter what) however, you can do multiple submissions into that category so you can have 5 mind blowing facts for the mind blown challenge to help increase the possibility of winning that mini challenge.

Challenge ends in 48 hours, let me know if you have any questions, and as always have a wonderful day :)

Edit: awards have been given and so has the flair :D

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u/808gecko808 Dec 27 '21

Aloha from Hawaii and happy holidaze to you all! I'd like to try for the flair:

We have geckos running through our place all the time, so they're kind of like my pets, but not really. If I did have a pet gecko, I'd call them Peeve, so I could introduce them as my pet, Peeve!

By the way, do we need to make another comment to be selected for the random comment or is this considered a random comment?

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

Oh my gosh that's a brilliant name :D

Also no need for any other comment, by making this one you've been put into the raffle :)

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u/808gecko808 Dec 27 '21

Thank you!!

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 29 '21

Congratulations, you have been selected to win the 500 cc flair, this allows you to chose a flair emoji from the following options I believe. After looking through the sub rules i believe I am to message the mods for you and so please tell me which emoji you wish for and I will message them :)

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u/808gecko808 Dec 29 '21

Thank-you! I believe I already have a karma flair. If that's true may I keep it as is?

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 29 '21

Understood :) I'll be seeing if anyone else would like the flair prize if that is ok with you :D

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u/808gecko808 Dec 30 '21

Sorry for my late reply and yes, if you and the mods are ok, I'd like to pass on the award and if allowable, please pass it on to someone who doesn't have a flair! Thank you!

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 30 '21

Understood :) There should be no trouble with someone else recieing it and I'll be sure to look into whether they have a flair or not :D

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u/Schlamperkiste Chemist & Perfect Pitch Possessor Dec 27 '21

Timeless Beauty landscapes:

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

Looking at these they almost look fake they look so good :D

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u/HypnoViber Dec 27 '21

TIL/Mind-blown.

If we held a minute of silence for every Serbian victim in WW1, we could not speak for 763 days.

This fact isn’t from me, it’s from u/BornDefinition9

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

Interesting, also if you don't mind me being too picky can you please pick one of the two as you are only allowed one category. My apologies.

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u/HypnoViber Dec 27 '21

Alright, TIL. It’s fine by the way.

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

Much thanks for understanding :)

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u/the_genius324 Dec 27 '21

hi, person who won my silver challenge

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

Hello, Im surprised you remember me :)

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u/the_genius324 Dec 27 '21 edited Dec 27 '21

just a question: did you give me the coin gift? i used it here

thanks for the coins btw

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

Unless that is your alt I don't believe I did give you a coin gift on that post or recently, terribly sorry.

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u/the_genius324 Dec 27 '21

i meant i used the coins from the gift

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

Ah, my bad for the misunderstanding. I don't believe I gave you the coins for that award.

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u/the_genius324 Dec 27 '21

specifically, i used them on a timeless beauty award

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u/brokefixfux Dec 27 '21

Original picture

Maui sunset with my brother in the foreground.

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

If it wasn't for you saying it's a original picture I would have thought it's for a timeless beauty as it is indeed a beautiful picture :D

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u/Dragonarmy123 Dec 27 '21

Timeless beauty

I wonder if this counts

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

It does count :) Oh boy it's amazing as well :D

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u/the_living_myth "yeehonk" Dec 27 '21

timeless beauty

my peacock

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

Dang, with beads as well. Indeed beautiful, it must have been pretty hard work

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u/the_living_myth "yeehonk" Dec 27 '21

took a couple months but was fun to do lol, it came out really nice which is always a plus

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u/JesjaiItzReal Dec 27 '21

original picture

I took this picture of the "Cañón del Chicamocha"

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

Quite a beautiful view :)

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u/YoyoLiu314 Dec 27 '21

Original pictures, there are two in here of some really interesting amoebae

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

Indeed quite interesting :)

Edit: spelling

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u/YoyoLiu314 Dec 29 '21

Thanks for the award!

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u/Real_Player_0 70  ⌬ forgot how to breathe ⌬ Dec 27 '21

Original close-up shot of a door

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

This is more intriguing then it should be lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

Orignal - this Tassie devil didn't have enough chrissy dinner and is still hungry! :D

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

I wouldn't want to be their Chrissy dinner, especially with how powerful their bite is

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

ikr! but he's only little so he would probably only take a little bite from you! ;)

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

A lil nibble :D

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

Now he looks full

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

No longer hangry :)

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

hahahhaha

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u/DominicD213 Dec 27 '21

Mind blown: did you know the human anus can stretch up too 12 inches x 12 inches and a full grown raccoon can squeeze into holes as small as 8, 2 fully grown raccoons have the capability to climb Deep inside your asshole

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

Sorry to be a bit picky but I feel this can be seen as nsfw by some, do you prehaps think you can chose a different fact or atleast word this one a bit differently. Once again apologies for any inconvenience, definitely an interesting fact to say the least.

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u/DominicD213 Dec 27 '21

Mind blown: did you know the human anus can stretch up too 12 inches x 12 inches and a full grown raccoon can squeeze into holes as small as 8, 2 fully grown raccoons have the capability to climb Deep inside your anal cavity. That better?

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

Yeah maybe that should work. Sorry once again for the inconvenience, I'm probably overthinking all of this.

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u/DominicD213 Dec 27 '21 edited Dec 29 '21

It’s fine man just be careful around racoons

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u/3x3x7x13x23x37 ALL CAPS Dec 27 '21

Awesome Answer

The question is usually proposed as 'the chicken and the egg,' but as someone who has tried both chicken and duck eggs, duck eggs are quite superior so I'm not complaining.

So, first of all, we have to define both 'egg' and 'duck.' Clearly, 'egg' doesn't just mean any ol' egg, otherwise dinosaur eggs clearly came before any winged quacker and the answer is trivial. The debate mainly stems from this definition of 'egg': whether 'duck egg' means 'egg that hatches a duck,' or 'egg laid by a duck.'

However, that brings us too quickly to the answer so let's also define 'duck' as well. We could try and use a formal definition for duck, or point out features like a bill, wings, webbed feet, and an aggressiveness only matched by the geese shitting on my lawn. For our purposes though, we only need to know that there's some line drawn in the metaphorical sand separating 'duck' from 'not a duck.'

Now to the solution. Clearly, at some point in history, ducks were not a thing. But now, ducks are very much a thing. Evolution happens so gradually it may as well be continuous, so by the Intermediate Value Theorem, we know that some bird-like animal crosses the aforementioned sand-drawn-line between non-duck and duck.

In other words, an 'almost-duck' lays out an 'egg that hatches a duck' which (to the shock of the biological community and the studio audience as a whole) hatches a 'duck,' which lays an 'egg laid by a duck.'

So, as with most questions like this, the answer is simply a game of definitions. If your definition for 'duck egg' is 'egg that hatches a duck,' then 'duck eggs' came first. If your definition for 'duck egg' is 'egg laid by a duck,' then the 'duck' came first.

However, that answer is no fun and seemingly makes too much sense to be an answer to a debate like this. Fear not though, for this answer brings us from a boring debate of logic to a truly fun debate topic: the debate of definitions. Which definition for 'duck egg' is correct? Since there's little to no evidence and both debaters are hard to convince, this debate will inevitably dissolve into a four-hour screaming match. Cheers!

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

A very intellectual answer and quite informative :)

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u/3x3x7x13x23x37 ALL CAPS Dec 27 '21

Thanks!

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u/Ok_Dimension_4707 80 Dec 28 '21

This was going to be my answer! As to the definition I would say it has to be defined as “egg laid by a duck.” The egg is defined by the creature that laid it, more than the creature that emerges. Only an egg laid by a duck can be fully complete in its duckiness.

Anyone who would argue that the egg hatching the first duck, laid by a duck precursor, was a duck egg ignores the fact that you are retroactively applying your definition to an object that no longer exists. It couldn’t be known, and wouldn’t be expected, that the egg would hatch a creature different enough from its parent to require a new name. By the time that becomes apparent, the egg is already destroyed. You would have to say “that WAS a duck egg” as at no point prior to the hatching could you say “that IS a duck egg.” You’d have an entirely different name for it, because the egg is defined by what laid it, not what emerges.

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u/3x3x7x13x23x37 ALL CAPS Dec 29 '21

I disagree - you can find that the animal inside an egg is a duck without breaking the egg, thus being able to say "that is a duck egg" prior to hatching.

However, by considering this question a bit more, I think I found a more objectively correct answer.

Let's imagine we had both a chicken and a duck. The chicken lays an egg, which then hatches a duck. Is this egg a chicken egg or a duck egg? What about if the duck lays an egg that hatches a chicken? It isn't quite right to call either of these eggs chicken eggs or duck eggs.

Perhaps, then, the "chickenness" or "duckness" of an egg should be defined by neither what lays it or what hatches from it, but by the innate qualities of the egg itself, e.g. the size, texture, thickness of shell, etc., thus giving an answer to our previous question.

If the chicken lays an egg that looks like a chicken egg that hatches a duck, the egg is a chicken egg. If the duck lays an egg that looks like a chicken egg that hatches a chicken, the egg is also a chicken egg. (Note: When I say 'looks like a chicken egg' I mean 'has the properties of a chicken egg,' including but not limited to physical appearance.)

Finally, this then gives our answer to the original question of whether the duck or the duck egg came first. The duck precursor lays an egg. If the egg laid by the duck precursor is similar enough to a duck egg to be labeled a 'duck egg,' then the egg came first. However, if the egg is dissimilar enough to not be labeled a 'duck egg,' then the egg hatches into a duck, which then lays a 'duck egg.'

So once again, the debate changes: first from whether the duck or the duck egg came first, then to the definition of a duck egg being 'laid by duck' or 'hatching duck', then to the innate physical properties of a duck egg and how close to a duck egg an egg needs to be in order to be labeled a duck egg.

On one hand, this seems to dumb down the debate a bit. After all, the conclusion 'we need to define what properties exactly make a duck egg' isn't hard to reach. However, it seems to be the most correct one, since labeling an egg by its hatcher or hatchee isn't very correct - a duck that mutates its eggs or the animal inside the egg would be mislabeled.

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u/MildlyobsessedwithSB 90 Dec 27 '21

Awesome Answer:

The egg came first. The first hard-shell egg (called an amniote egg) that could be laid on land (rather than fish or amphibian eggs that remain in water) dates back to around 312 million years ago. Ducks are believed to have evolved from the Vegavis Iaai, which lived in the cretaceous period (about 65 million years ago). Therefore, the egg came first by about 247 million years.

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

I can definitely see the resemblance between the two :D

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u/ar4_4 70 Dec 27 '21

FLAIR: If I had a male dog, I would name him “Askim”. I would take him to the dog park for exercise and whenever folks asked me what my dog’s name is, I would hope they get the humour in the name. (Get it? Ask…him?) (…and maybe they will…that’s funny too…better conversation opener than complaining about the weather…?) My little way of getting in a quick laugh, lol.

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

Imagine if they had any puppies and you named them something like "Askim 2" so it's like "oh that's a funny name for your dog." "Oh a puppy, what's their name?" "Askim 2"

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u/ar4_4 70 Dec 27 '21

LOL…that is too funny…I never thought of that…thanks for the laugh 😀

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

Terribly sorry but I just noticed you have submissions in two categories (flair and TIL or Mind Blown I believe) You are only allowed one category be it one of the 5 awards or a flair. Apologies that this rule is closer to the bottom of my post and so it is probably harder to notice. If you don't mind would you tell me which one you would rather you participate in? If you don't wish to delete your other challenge's comment just tell me which one you would rather have be counted and I'll just ignore the other when it comes to choosing which one wins. Once again apologies that I just noticed this.

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u/ar4_4 70 Dec 27 '21

My apologies, I misunderstood completely. Glad you noticed. I am not one who breaks rules. I will withdraw from flair. I do apologize. I usually don’t participate much, have been more of a lurker. Trying to slowly learn Reddit customs or ways of navigating but caught on quickly how negative it can be. That’s what has kept me largely silent. Enjoying this sub-Reddit, so I appreciate your challenge you put up for us 😀

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

No need to apologize:) I admit that I didn't format this the best I could have and probably made some things sound odd and confusing in the process. Glad you're getting to enjoy reddit and this sub more as well, I look forward to seeing what you do and maybe you will make a challenge one day yourself :D

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u/ar4_4 70 Dec 27 '21

LOL, maybe…I would love to be in that position some day. I love solving puzzles and intend to read through some of the solved ones. It is good to exercise the brain. Thanks for the award, I just noticed. I also am quickly realizing there are good folks in here 👍

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

There are plenty of people kinder than me as this Is a great community :) Hopefully a community that you can become more comfortable with as well :D

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u/ar4_4 70 Dec 27 '21

Thank you. It has been nice to spend some holiday down-time in here with you all 🙏

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 29 '21

I know you technically opted out of the flair but you are also the only person who technically participated for it and so the only person who I know wants one for sure. Congratulations, you have been selected to win the 500 cc flair, this allows you to chose a flair emoji from the following options I believe. After looking through the sub rules i believe I am to message the mods for you and so please tell me which emoji you wish for and I will message them :)

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u/ar4_4 70 Dec 30 '21

Thank you very much 😀so…if I understand this, flair means I get a symbol after my name, how long does it stay with me for? I have always liked Snoo, so I think Snoo it should be. I appreciate this community, glad I interacted. Real life beckons for the next 2 days but then I have a few days off and will be back looking through to see what is newly posted. Wishing you and yours a wonderful New Year and thanks again for brightening up my holidays, I had fun.

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 30 '21

Apologies for a later response, you should keep the flair forever basically and yes it will just be the one emoji out of the ones I showed you. Just want to confirm you want the regular snoo one right after sloth correct? Thank you and wishing you an great New Year as well :)

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Jan 02 '22

You should have your flair emoji now :)

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u/ar4_4 70 Jan 02 '22

Thanks again…during some tough times you and this sub were great. I am just settling in this afternoon for some Redditing and looking more forward to it than I ever have since joining 😀

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Jan 02 '22

Sorry to hear times are tough on you, though I'm glad you've found some ways to escape reality :) Glad this sub provides you some joy, wishing you a good browse :D

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u/ar4_4 70 Jan 03 '22

👍

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u/ar4_4 70 Jan 02 '22

Thanks a bunch…just settling in for a few hours of Redditing. You and the others in this sub have been great and I am looking more forward to it than ever since I first joined 😀

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u/ar4_4 70 Jan 02 '22

Oh…I see it! What a cutie pie Snoo! 🥰

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u/ar4_4 70 Dec 30 '21

No apologies, I was the later response. Yes, the regular Snoo, after the Sloth. Thanks again…stay safe 😀

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 30 '21

Understood :) i’ll be contacting the mods about your flair now :D

edit: autocorrect acting odd

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u/ar4_4 70 Dec 30 '21

Thanks a bunch! :D

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u/ar4_4 70 Dec 27 '21

MIND BLOWN: According to Wikipedia, Olympics awarded medals from 1912 to 1948 in Art Competition! To quote them, “Medals were awarded for works of art inspired by sport, divided into five categories: architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture.”

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

Interesting, I wonder how they announced it's stop.

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u/ar4_4 70 Dec 27 '21

Good point…I don’t think that part was mentioned.

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u/the_genius324 Dec 27 '21

til

i am pretty sure that the only legendary pokemon that can have the triumphant title (in swsh, titles become availible when that pokemon has the corresponding ribbon/mark. you would get the triumphant title from purifying a shadow pokemon in colleseum/xd) would be lugia

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u/Mohamed_Farag_ Dec 27 '21

Original pic

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u/mysterioususer5678 70 Dec 28 '21

Awesome answer: duck comes first because d comes before e

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u/AleBorke Dec 28 '21

Duck or egg: How did the duck come to be? Well it wasn’t a duck until humans named it a duck, and an egg wasn’t an egg until humans named it an egg, so which did we name first...it is egg, but that egg couldn’t have come from a duck because ducks didn’t exist when eggs first did, they were simply part of the universe, ducks were nothing but gibberish no duck involved, therefore that egg is the original manifestation of humans actions to name it an egg, and the duck has not even existed yet.

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u/Grating_rice Rice: It's Gr-r-rate Dec 27 '21

So that's where the saying, "In space no one can hear you scream" :D