Thanks, I was already wondering about the first (Latin) part of the name. The literal translation of dwerg-oor-uil is dwarf eared owl. Is that the same as scops Owl? Maybe the Ponderosa part doesn’t refer to the trees either, but to Flammy’s fanbase right now; it’s getting quite large now!
If you’re still not sure who to vote for, you should know that Flammy’s Dutch name is absolute fire: Ponderosadwergooruil!
At least there is still 1 BFO left for the next round. Meanwhile, I’m definitely on #teamFlammy!
A BFO vs BFO final would be so epic!
BFO stands for everything good, so for Big F’n Owl too. Also, they are goong to rename him soon, so maybe Big F’n Owl will be the official name soon (probably not though).
Screech Owl is such a great owl, but I’m fully committed to BFO’s cause by now. They’re just so glorious and perfect as the representative of the Superbowl community. Go BFO!
(Image from a video geniously called “Blakiston’s Fish Owl” by Ray H)
Oof! SEO definitely needs some propaganda! They need to overcome a 20 point gap right now! But who knows, the day is still long. Thanks for helping the OOP in getting some well-deserved attention, to stop the hegemony of the Snowy Owl.
I must say I expected to read some bad stuff about Verreaux, but digging up a corpse and sending it to another country is on another level of “not okay”. I appreciate that you try to keep out politics. I follow politics quite well, but sometimes it’s nice to have something apolitical as well.
You made a post about this a while ago, didn’t you? I completely forgot about these renamings! I’m also curious what will happen to the names in other languages. In Dutch, my native language, they translated the name from English: I think they’ll rename that too, but I don’t know for sure. Also, that Audubon guy doesn’t seem to deserve the organization being named after him. Ironic indeed!
Cover from The BFG, which was inspired by the cover of The BFO
I wasn’t expecting this either! But we have already seen some surprises this tournament, with the early elimination of the Eurasian Eagle Owl (that one still hurts me) for example. Maybe people are more likely to vote for the underdog in this tournament?
This may be the closest one so far! Great matchup and great tournament!
An Owlthentic meme template! Hoo-ray!
Oh, I didn’t even see it on there. But yeah, that’s a lot of growth. Maybe some people were only subscribed to the .ml one and suddenly realised this one existed too? Anyway, it’s nice to see it growing
In this post there is a bit about catching them with nets. I think this is the same project, but I might be mistaken
It doesn’t seem like anything happened to it to me: I can still see the community with posts and all. Maybe it has something to do with your instance?
That sounds like a fun job! I personally don’t particularly dislike commuting, but that’s probably because I have short commutes by bike; I can understand it may be a significant downgrade if you have to sit in traffic for an hour a day now. Anyway, I hope you’ll meet some nice coworkers and I hope to see you back with another post soon!
Great post as always and good luck on your new job!
This may be true, but I am not convinced that it is any better than nuclear. To start up regeneration quick the gas winning needs to be on a pilot light (dutch source: https://nos.nl/l/2485108). In Groningen there are (according to the same source) 5 places on pilot light that together must produce at least 2.8 billion cubic metres of gas a year. This is quite a lot of fossil fuels, so I would rather have a nuclear power plant than this gas winning (which comes with other disadvantages as well).
Thank you so much!