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Tova:
Meet the unknown female mathematician whose calculations helped discover Pluto
LeeC:
TIL that if a Pelican overheats it can pull its spine through its mouth to cool down.
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Tova:
So I remembered somewhat randomly today that at school, there was a yearly event where you could wear whatever you wanted instead of the uniform. And I always wondered why the heck it was called mufti day.
And thanks to the Intertubes, now I know.
Akima:
Ah... Thanks. I knew what "mufti" meant (Australia was part of the Empah, after all), but not the origin of the term.
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--- Quote from: Tova on 02 Jul 2020, 04:15 ---So I remembered somewhat randomly today that at school, there was a yearly event where you could wear whatever you wanted instead of the uniform. And I always wondered why the heck it was called mufti day.
And thanks to the Intertubes, now I know.
--- End quote ---
Huh?
An identical term in colloquial German is sometimes used to express discontent towards a person viewed as claiming authority or status beyond their actual real-life importance - essentially assigning a 'fantasy' official title to a pompous twat in order to encourage them to be less of a pompous twat ('fantasy' bcs the office of mufti doesn't exist in German culture).
Afaics, it's derived from the actual historic office of mufti in Islamic Law rather than any references to school-uniforms (Germany doesn't have those anyhow, but has had a close relationship with Turkey for a long time).
Usage is always sarcastic - sometimes enhanced by adding modifiers like e.g. 'Gross-Mufti von Klein-Kleckersdorf' (roughly "Grandmufti of Bumfuck, AZ") - and usually ethnicity-agnostic (i.e. most people mocked as 'Mufti of whatever' are lily-white indigenes).
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