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Nah, that's the subdomain, it could be the start of any company's email address -- you could happily own and send from hello@us.reygle.com, for example.

"Regurgitate trite aphorisms instead of saying anything meaningful"? I think it was that.

You're not alone. I went in expecting it to be high-quality based on comments similar to the above, then adjusted my sights for trite but entertaining, then realized I was only even entertained when John Noble was on screen (and to be fair, his performance was very fun).

I do recognize that it broke new ground and wasn't as cliché when it originally aired, but it's hard to imagine that it wasn't just as hammy.

'al' is the definite article

As seen in a bunch of loanwords from Arabic -- notably albatross, alcohol, alcove, algebra, alkali, alfalfa, alembic.

• Jean-Baptiste Edouard Detaille, Barricades in Rue de la Mortellerie, depicting the July Revolution of 1830.
• Alphonse Hector Colomb, La barricade de la place Blanche défendue par des Femmes, depicting the 1871 Paris Commune.
• Horace Vernet, Barricade dans la rue de Soufflot, depicting the 1848 June Days uprising (les journées de Juin).

Oh, I was just making a cheap joke. I used Telegram for a while for a specific group, and in that time I was inundated with catfishing bot messages. The joke was that that's the purpose of Telegram and if you're doing any else on it, you're misusing it.

It was a very funny joke.

They've done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app.

This is a play on people's naivety. It is an encrypted messaging app in as much as regular messages are encrypted between the client and the server. It's just that this achieves nothing for the user in terms of privacy unless you can both completely trust the provider (you shouldn't) and be confident that the back-end can't be compromised (you can't).

They do also have "secret chats" that are apparently E2E encrypted, but you'd be mad at this point to give them the benefit of the doubt without at least looking at independent security audits of the client.

Were you using it to catfish strangers via DM? If you weren't, maybe they banned you for misuse of the platform.

Our best guess at the meaning of peacock / peahen is "chicken that goes PAWA!", which, if you've ever spent a night in a place that keeps them, is also very fitting.

When Lucas first sketched one out to give early collaborators a sense of what he wanted to make, he wrote "TIE" next to it without knowing what it would stand for (or so the story goes). Crew speculated that he'd already thought it looked a little like a bow tie and he hadn't found the right backronym yet; apparently concept artist Joe Johnston proposed "twin ion engine".

In what way do you feel you're helping or being constructive with this comment? Who's it targeted at, and for what effect?

came from humbul-be and merged with Middle English bombeln

As you've said, in both senses it's related to the sound they make. "Bumble" on its own, in the sense of clumsy, meandering movement, is probably unrelated but I guess it's plausible that it also had an influence on the mutation of "humbul" to "bumble" even if the latter was primarily about the noise.