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Aussie Crispmas (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by LemmysMum@lemmy.world to c/australia@aussie.zone

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It's that time of year again where Santa brings the gifts of Summer to our blessed shores. Stay safe, stay hydrated.

This is an AI generated art piece, if you'd like to see more Aussie themed AI art let me know below, if you'd like to see more of my work you can find me over on the main lemmy AIgen communities or via the links below,

See more: https://civitai.com/user/lorom
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[+] Treevan@aussie.zone 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Joke killer:

Flame - fire.
Flammable - has the potential to be set on fire. (eg. burn, ember, catch)

Inflame - to burst into fire.
Inflammable - has the potential to burst into fire. (eg. explode, detonate, erupt)

Non-flammable - cannot result in flame.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Blame the Ancient Greeks for this wonderful bit of English.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Inflame - to burst into fire

Oh, so that's why the doctors had to remove my appendix!

But going back to being serious. My understanding is that the use of the term "flammable" basically only arose as an attempt to remove the ambiguity caused by the "in" prefix in "inflammable". Many organisations now prefer to avoid the term inflammable in favour of flammable for precisely that reason.

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[–] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's a 400 year time period, you could make just about any valid excuse for the use of either, both have been used together for 200 years, and inflame is older than inflammable by 200 years.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Inflammable means flammable? What a country!

[–] thesorehead@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

From this angle the costume looks kind of like firefighting gear.

[–] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah the AI definitely picked up on some firefighter influence, this was one that came up that almost had a helmet and jacket, maybe even some Canadian mountie,

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

AI: now what do I know about Australia... Oh it's always fucking burning down!

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I'd like to have summer back over here, 30 degrees and sunshine is way more comfortable than single digits and not even snow, just rain

[–] wscholermann@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago

Does this movie come out Christmas Eve?