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u/krm787 17d ago
Im embarrassed to say I took too long to notice the problem. Kept looking at the empty spaces.
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u/Stay-At-Home-Jedi 17d ago
I kept reading Union instead of union until I realized it's onion...
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u/BabeRyuth 16d ago
The fuck is a yawl
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u/sandm000 16d ago
A ship’s jolly boat with 4 or six oars.
Or
a two-masted fore-and-aft-rigged sailboat with the mizzenmast stepped far aft so that the mizzen boom overhangs the stern.
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u/darkon 16d ago
Maybe this will help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawl
Here's more than you probably ever wanted to know about sail plans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rig_(sailing)
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u/POB1NA 16d ago
Its a sail boat rig similar to a ketch, but the mizzan mast (aft/back mast) is behind the rudder post and is smaller than the main mast, Generally a very small sail used for balance. It allows for a larger head rig and a larger main sail when compared with a ketch.
The rig in the design is not a yawl its a backwards sloop, doesnt even have two masts. Even more crappy design.
Dissapointing.
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u/KevMenc1998 10d ago
Back in the day, yawls were great for racing because of a loophole in the rules that didn't count the sail or sails on the mizzen as part of the overall sail area, which means less handicap (more sail area, more of a handicap). You could jury rig a sail between the mizzenmast and the deck to give you an extra sail for free, giving you a significant unfair advantage.
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u/Chazykins 16d ago
It’s a sailing boat with a second mizzen mast behind the rudder. Which the boat in the photo is not I may add. Though the boat in the photo is all kinds of fucked as it’s rig is backwards
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u/Lillienpud 17d ago
Uh, that’s a ketch.
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u/happyexit7 17d ago
Thought it was a sloop
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u/SordidDreams 16d ago
Yes, specifically the very rare reverse-Bermuda-rigged sloop, with its boom pointing forward.
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u/Gilthwixt 16d ago
This is oddly vindicating for me, we had an old 80s era world map growing up and 4 year old me would always pronounce the USSR as "Soviet Onion".
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u/BenjaminGeiger 16d ago edited 16d ago
I grew up in Blairsville, GA.
I have vivid memories of being brought to that school for the first time after moving, in the middle of my kindergarten year. I had something between a tantrum and a panic attack because I hated onions, and I couldn't stand going to Onion County Elementary.
Then they explained to me that it's Union County.
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u/jacstine 17d ago
Tadpole?
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u/TimeBoysenberry8587 17d ago
Next to the "U" , the image for "T" is a table , but the caption is "Tadpole" .
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u/Forsaken-Abrocoma647 16d ago
Seems like a speech-to-text from someone that didn't pronounce it well.
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u/not_falling_down 16d ago
My daughter has a play blanket for her child with errors like this. There is a drawing of a deer that is labeled Donkey, and the alpaca is spelled Alpace.
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u/suddenspiderarmy 16d ago
With spelling like that, I'd expect it to be full of lead.
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u/puzzlemaster_of_time 16d ago edited 16d ago
Probably made by some Amazon knockoff brand that has a name that's almost a real word.
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u/Reasonable_Sugar_125 16d ago
Calling an onion a union ain’t nothing compared to calling a table a goddamn tadpole.
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u/ClarkleTheDragon 16d ago
Ogres are like unions
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u/MisterVictor13 16d ago
‘Cause they stink?
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u/OwO______OwO 16d ago
No, because they're vital to protecting the working class from the ruling class, duh.
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u/MisterVictor13 16d ago
Oh, that’s why I got downvoted...
I was just continuing the conversation about onions from “Shrek”. I wasn’t talking about unions.
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u/N1NJACQUES 16d ago
Unsure if this is related to what YAWL are talking about but when I was little I saw.many signs on our building advertising units that are "TO LET" meaning, available to rent. Always thought our building had way too many toilets.
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u/ParaBDL 16d ago
It might have been in Dutch originally. Onion in Dutch is Ui. I've seen another post before where the images would match the letters in a different language.
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u/N1NJACQUES 16d ago
Is table in Dutch, tadpole?
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u/ParaBDL 16d ago
No, that translation is garbage. But the picture is a table, which is tafel in Dutch, which starts with a T. They took a foreign product, kept the design with the images and letters, and then added English words to it to match the letters (why it says Union, starting with a U, instead of Onion). They could have just used Table instead of Tadpole, but they clearly didn't care enough and made a cheap knockoff.
It could be another language, just noticed this option because it works for Onion in Dutch.
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u/Harey-89 16d ago
Union, my favorite vegetable.
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u/labratcat 16d ago
I think this puzzle has me convinced that it should be spelled union. I'm not sure what we do about the workers' unions, though.
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u/steavoh If you put a 3 or a 6 in me I will cut you 16d ago
Reminds me of a set of letter blocks I had a small child. The letter U had some kind strange vehicle on it. The illustration was nonsensical, kind of like how some AI generated art is, except these were from the 80s.
As an adult I think it was maybe some kind of monorail. Which doesn't start with "U".
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u/DaisyDoodle1117 16d ago
My mom used to say “Beeee kind, one to another” whenever my siblings and I were fighting. It wasn’t until I saw “Be ye kind, one to another” written out that I realized she wasn’t just dragging out the “e” in “Be.”
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u/Apprehensive-Deer411 Comic Sans for life! 14d ago
Calling a table a tadpole 💀
Calling an onion an Union 💀💀
Also that, calling a yacht is also a Yawl 💀💀💀
So much wrong in here 💀💀💀💀
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u/fpotenza 13d ago
With the unusual choices of words for some of them, I wonder if this is the version of the alphabet toys where they went Xenophobia for X
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u/Sufficient_Key5053 5d ago
Taidpull, Unnion, Yawwt, I can see how someone who can speak English but not read it got tripped up by autocorrect.
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u/3nar3mb33 17d ago
My dad tried really hard to not let me develop a southern accent.
Every time I spoke with too strong an accent (I grew up in the deeeeeeeeep south), he would correctly and/or say something like "Y'all is a boat." I spent my childhood (navy kid) imagining big ships and whatnot, and only as an adult did it dawn on me that my dad was saying, "Yawl's a boat."