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[MeMyselfAndI]

Good to know, thanks.

[ed boy]

I think it depends on the length of the thread. If the thread's really long, then people won't want to read the whole thing to know what in the discussion you're talking about.

[LordSlowpoke]

so what's the deal with people being uneasy about eating insects?

i mean some insects carry disease and other sort of shitfuck ragmuffin theater attendants or they're venomous or poisonous or made out of radioactive minerals let's leave australia out of the equation but other than outright phobias there shouldn't be anything saying "hey don't eat this animal" right?

at which point did cultural norms of the west say insects = bad food?

these are three separate questions answer them as you will

[Frumple]

Think a lot of it's just carrion-equivalent association. Folks don't like eating stuff that (they notice) (regularly) eat dead stuff, and most bugs we're familiar with kinda' do. Mind you, they eat more or less anything in a lot of cases, but eh. Also filth equivalence -- bugs are seen as a sign of uncleanliness, in general, and whereas other eat-y stuff can be sanitized to a degree (meat stripped of overt identifying factors), it's kinda' more difficult to do that with bugs. We're generally trained by osmosis and whatnot to have a fairly visceral NOPE reaction to bugs in our places of residence and especially around our food, in the west. That attitude largely precludes eating them.

Of course, there is a notable exception with shrimp/lobsters/etc., but for some reason if it's big enough and underwater people stop considering it bugs :V

[hops]

I'm fine with eating insects if they're burned and dead. And salted.

[Yoink]

Never mind, it's all good.

[LordSlowpoke]

i need a random location in the carribean on an urgent basis thanks

[Frumple]

25.0000° N, 71.0000° W

[scrdest]

I'm translating something to English, and, despite having the perfect translation a month ago, now that I'm actually doing that I completely forgot the word I need.

I'm looking for a term for a pugnacious, bellicose person who likes to raise hell and adventure. Basically a real-life DnD character. It might, and in fact preferably should, be an old-timey word.

[Levi]

I'm translating something to English, and, despite having the perfect translation a month ago, now that I'm actually doing that I completely forgot the word I need.

I'm looking for a term for a pugnacious, bellicose person who likes to raise hell and adventure. Basically a real-life DnD character. It might, and in fact preferably should, be an old-timey word.

Rambunctious?
Skookum?   

Edit:

Foolhardy?
Swashbuckling?

[scrdest]

I should have clarified - a noun, not an adjective.

[Shakerag]

I'm translating something to English, and, despite having the perfect translation a month ago, now that I'm actually doing that I completely forgot the word I need.

I'm looking for a term for a pugnacious, bellicose person who likes to raise hell and adventure. Basically a real-life DnD character. It might, and in fact preferably should, be an old-timey word.

Hooligan?

[itisnotlogical]

I'm translating something to English, and, despite having the perfect translation a month ago, now that I'm actually doing that I completely forgot the word I need.

I'm looking for a term for a pugnacious, bellicose person who likes to raise hell and adventure. Basically a real-life DnD character. It might, and in fact preferably should, be an old-timey word.

Hooligan?

Rascal or rapscallion? Rake would be good but that might be too obscure.

[scrdest]

I'm translating something to English, and, despite having the perfect translation a month ago, now that I'm actually doing that I completely forgot the word I need.

I'm looking for a term for a pugnacious, bellicose person who likes to raise hell and adventure. Basically a real-life DnD character. It might, and in fact preferably should, be an old-timey word.

Hooligan?

Rascal or rapscallion? Rake would be good but that might be too obscure.

I actually like rake, and the full form, rakehell doubly so. I'm translating for something set in the late 1790s, so it's not terribly unfitting.

[Yoink]

Not hellraiser, then? Hmm.
Probably not vagabond, although that sounds cool. Gadabout? The annoying thing is that I think I used to know the word you're looking for, I just can't recall it. Damn. Oh well.
Fakeedit: Oh, ninja'd.

My question for this morning is: why do farts smell so much stronger when in the bath/shower?