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[itisnotlogical]

I grow the nails out on my right hand to play guitar. Playing the nylon strings sounds great, but whenever I play the steel strings with a finger other than my thumb, the nails scrape across the string and make a horrific squeaking sound. What can I do to mitigate this?

[Neonivek]

Hey what is the difference between...

The Boarder
and
The Border

[Avis-Mergulus]

Hey what is the difference between...

The Boarder
and
The Border

Well, the former is a person participating in a boarding action (that is, taking over a ship by force), and the latter is a delimitation of some sort. Was that what you meant?

[hops]

Mexicans cross the latter.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalěs]

And PIRATES are the first!

[Yoink]

What does a five-pronged swastika mean?

[Baffler]

What does a five-pronged swastika mean?

Do you mean this thing? I can't really find anything else like that.

[Yoink]

Nope. It was like a regular swastika, just rotated slightly counterclockwise (from the "plus sign" position) with an extra arm added between the upper two, like the top point on a star.

Saw this spray painted on a construction barricade on my way from work. Weird.
Maybe the artist just didn't know what a swastika looked like.

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

What does a five-pronged swastika mean?

Image?

Does it resemble this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinwheel_Galaxy

[TD1]

Nope. It was like a regular swastika, just rotated slightly counterclockwise (from the "plus sign" position) with an extra arm added between the upper two, like the top point on a star.

Saw this spray painted on a construction barricade on my way from work. Weird.
Maybe the artist just didn't know what a swastika looked like.

If you ask me, they just wanted to make it a bigger symbol. How do you do that? Add extra arms. More is better, right?

Doubt if it is an actual widely accepted symbol - more arms just makes it more emphatic! Rar!

[Frumple]

Well, having now dug far deeper into the internet than I probably should, and pinging my IP off a lot of stuff I probably shouldn't have, I think I can state pretty comfortably that that was either a simple artist variation/flare, something local, or incredibly obscure.

Also, I've learned that unenclosed five point symbols are kinda' freakishly uncommon. Stars are one thing, but stuff like a five point hooked cross? Not so much. It shows up very, very rarely (as in, out of the couple dozen sites and several hundred images spread out over probably twenty different searches, I saw two, and neither had a unique name for the variation or anything), though it does show up.

That said, buers probably look a lot like that symbol. Couldn't find some kind of stick figure buer type thing, though.

[Baffler]

Nope. It was like a regular swastika, just rotated slightly counterclockwise (from the "plus sign" position) with an extra arm added between the upper two, like the top point on a star.

Saw this spray painted on a construction barricade on my way from work. Weird.
Maybe the artist just didn't know what a swastika looked like.

That sounds kinda like a Chi Rho drawn a bit funny. Maybe. If thqt isn't it I don't know what it could be.

[Yoink]

Well, thanks for the ideas, guys. Maybe I'll take my camera down there at some point and get a photo of it, but that seems like a lot of effort to go to over what is most likely just some uneducated/severely intoxicated twerp's attempt at painting a historical symbol with a habit of causing offence onto a wall.

That or there's some sort of secret cult in my area. That'd be pretty cool, even if they clearly struggled to come up with a unique symbol.

[Sheb]

I'm surprised the five-pointed version isn't a thing, since the three-pointed one clearly is. (It's that South African neo-nazi thing)

[Frumple]

Man, the weird thing is that unenclosed five point symbols (i.e. not stars) in general seem to be almost freakishly uncommon. Two, three, four, six, more, yes. Five is just... not there, unless it's a star or something of similar nature. For whatever reason we appear to be very avoidant of that particular configuration.