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[–] Deebster@lemmy.ml 64 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Slapping palms as a form of greeting a friend and then holding their hand as you pull your fingers back until it makes a snapping sound.

Thank you, Urban Dictionary!

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've been doing that probably since before OP was born and never heard that phrasing for it

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My God, they made new slang words

[–] cheddar@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

They must stop, okay? I'm getting older, I don't want to learn new English words anymore.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What the hell does "dapped up" mean?

[–] wieson 8 points 3 months ago

Gave a cool handshake

[–] higgsboson@dubvee.org 2 points 3 months ago

A fist bump is a kind of dap, for example...

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wish they'd put a cover over the locomotive. I hate seeing locos on static display just left to rot in the elements instead of being given the care they deserve.

[–] Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I’m fairly certain I know this particular train and it’s very well taken care of as a vital part of a playground. Kids play all over it, and I believe it’s covered in weather-resistant coating.

‘S a cool park.

Edit: here’s a link to the official park website; wanted to make sure I wasn’t telling tales Corvallis’s Avery Park

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

Well, I'm glad to hear it's taken care of! Wish more places cared as much.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 months ago

That looks like a Janney type coupler, a semi automatic train coupler.

Exactly which of the types of Janney coupler it is I can't say.

The USSR/Russia uses a similar design called the SA3 coupler.

Tye SA3 coupler is in use by the Swedish iron company LKAB where they pull massive trains with among the world's most powerful locomotives, currently the Iore, but in the past the Dm3.

This has been your semi related train fact comment of the day.

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com -1 points 3 months ago