Oh forget it, can you hand me a snack?

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[–] 16 points 21 hours ago

I broke my foot pretty badly and was writhing on the floor in pain and making all kinds of noise.

Wife and friend are helping me hop to the car and my son, 5, squeezes between us and the door and says "Dad can I have ice cream?"

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  • [+] -23 points 20 hours ago (10 children)

    A hydroplane is a very specialised speedboat. The word they were unsuccessfully grasping for was aquaplaning

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  • [–] 12 points 19 hours ago

    One the one hand, "hydroplaning" is another word for "aquaplaning" so you were wrong to correct OP.

    But, on the other hand, the message being conveyed was clear enough that you knew what they were saying, so you were wrong to correct OP.

    But, that said, on the other, other hand your tone is just gratingly smug and, even if your actual point was valid (to reiterate: it wasn't), based only on your condescending manner you were wrong to correct OP.

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  • [–] 4 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

    The proper term for the boat you're looking for is "hydrofoil"

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  • [–] 0 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

    A hydrofoil uses a wing under the waterline to create lift, while a hydroplane generates lift from the hydrodynamic qualities of the hull itself.

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  • [–] 1 point 15 hours ago (4 children)

    So when a car's tires generate lift from their own hydrodynamic qualities and send the vehicle careening out of control we can also call that hydroplaning

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  • [–] -1 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

    Not even Musk could design a car so shit it disregards the laws of physics.

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