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4d ago

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@ObviouslyNotBanana Aglets, BTW, are precisely the right size to go into a seat belt buckle, jam, and not come out again. That cost me a couple of hundred dollars and it turns out I'm not the only one...
- Perfectly mildly interesting fact

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.

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

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.

Shoelace foreskins.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.
  
  That's a slur and I'm offended^~~happy~~ that you would call us that 😏
  
  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.
  
  Now kiss
  
  Friday at 9 pm we're hangin' out, wanna join?

Lace nipples

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.

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

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

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

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.

"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.

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

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.
- Awl that jazz.
- Alrighty neighbour
  (Awl, neighbour (Wilson) to the right)
- 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.
- Icepick
- For specialized pokey tools, my favorite is the regulator. The only thing handier than a regulator is two regulators.
- Augur

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

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

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

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

Whappers

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

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

Aglet gang, rise up

Fadenendstücke

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

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

Shoelaces

@ObviouslyNotBanana
Pinke (Danke Phineas und Ferb)

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

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

Thingamabobs

I called them string snibbets when I was little

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

Their true purpose is sinister.

Ferrule

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

I thought everyone called them shoelace condoms.

Cardaço
- Steel card

Herrete

Schlammer Jammers

I used to know what those were, but then I got zapped by a laser

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

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

Is it worth noting that I only know this because of the spoof horror movie Repossessed?
- Education takes many forms

Flooglebinder!

Baby pigs 🐖 😋

N E S T E L
Nestel
Niet vergeten

Skuwka in Polish.

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