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Where order goes to die and your earbuds plot against you.
means To twist or knot things together into a confused, hard-to-separate mess — or the mess itself.
from From Middle English 'tangilen,' likely borrowed from a Scandinavian source — compare dialectal Swedish 'taggla,' to disarrange or entangle. It first meant getting caught in seaweed or loose threads before broadening to any snarled chaos, physical or social.
- physics
- Knots form spontaneously in agitated strings, proven by science
- botany
- Tangle is a real Scottish name for kelp
- math
- Knot theory is a serious field studying tangles
- odds
- Longer cords tangle exponentially more, lab-confirmed
for instance
gordian knot — alexander the great cut this knot in 333 bce rather than untangle it
great pacific garbage patch — massive tangle of microplastics covering area twice the size of texas in the ocean
spaghetti junction birmingham — brutalist highway interchange in england with 6 levels of tangled road overpasses