THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@boomzilla The movie is not the bad idea, the creepy character design is. It pretty much defines "uncanny valley". And after all the CGI and fur, the actual people in costumes still looked more cat-like than these.
Edit: a plausible theory is that someone actually made good cat-person designs, but then some executive went "No! We spent 50 million getting all these celebrities, they have to be recognizable! Give them back their faces".
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@anonymous234 Not to mention that the musical is a bit light on the plot. And, since it's supposed to be a movie and not a musical...
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I have a coffee mug that the handle gets hotter than it's body and contents when I heat it in the microwave.
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@Rhywden said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@anonymous234 Not to mention that the musical is a bit light on the plot. And, since it's supposed to be a movie and not a musical...
I keep thinking about all the years we kept begging for a movie version of "The Fantasticks".
And the train wreck we got when they finally did it.
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@sockpuppet7 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I have a coffee mug that the handle gets hotter than it
's body and contents when I heat it in the microwave.We have a complete set of plates that do this!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@sockpuppet7 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I have a coffee mug that the handle gets hotter than it
's body and contents when I heat it in the microwave.We have a complete set of plates that do this!
(apparently it's a thing that exists)
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@sockpuppet7 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I have a coffee mug that the handle gets hotter than it's body and contents when I heat it in the microwave.
@Tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
We have a complete set of plates that do this!
The items have got (micro)fractures. Water is then wicking in whenever you wash them and that's what is heating up.
Handles heating up is a really common problem with stoneware if you don't vitrify hard enough (or your clay body is one cone and you fire to another and make a porous thing).
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@sockpuppet7 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I have a coffee mug that the handle gets hotter than it's body and contents when I heat it in the microwave.
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@Cursorkeys said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The items have got (micro)fractures
Every single one? Doubtful. They were like that from day zero, so that can't be the only explanation.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Every single one? Doubtful. They were like that from day zero, so that can't be the only explanation.
Doesn't sound like it then, maybe it is actually porosity? A quick Google says that some glazes can turn out quite porous.
I found one guy claiming it's the metal content, but I find that hard to believe unless it's a lustre or something. Even in heavily coloured glazes there's only maybe 5-10% of colourant in there.Edit: I have two chunky soup-plates where it was actually fractures causing them to become red-hot. They've got so bad you can see the crack when they get hot, I'm still using them until they fall in half though.
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@Rhywden said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
We actually have that ability over here in Germany.
What? How? How does that work?!?
I'm going to report them all!:parking_nazi_joke.png:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
They were like that from day zero
Your plates are 2019 years old?
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@TimeBandit said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
They were like that from day zero
Your plates are 2019 years old?
In a matter of speaking, they're much older....
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@topspin said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Rhywden said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
We actually have that ability over here in Germany.
What? How? How does that work?!?
I'm going to report them all!:parking_nazi_joke.png:
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@hungrier said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@kazitor The bits should be more easily distinguishable:
0=, 1=
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This lovely character would have to wait for the sequel of the reboot: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104431/characters/nm0874339
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Ignore the "original Mac team" bravado, focus on the "ear rings" design instead:
EDIT: Also, the rationale given by the design team:
“In the future, voice assistants will become so ubiquitous that the constant connection to our personal headphones will be too isolating of a social experience,” a Frog Design spokesperson told Digital Trends. “Consumers will need headphones that support long augmented audio experiences without disrupting their real-world communications.”
With its open ring design, the Unum can channel sound into your ear while still leaving your ears exposed. Part of the reason for doing so is because it “signals a new social etiquette for the future,” says Frog Design. As the firm notes, having headphones in can sometimes be construed as a non-verbal cue for people to not speak to you. The design of the Unum is intended to eliminate this communication barrier.
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@JBert said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
, having headphones in can sometimes be construed as a non-verbal cue for people to not speak to you
Any programmer will tell you
that's a liethe cue might be there but it will be ignored.
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I would totally do this though.
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But did he use the "stay on" lever on the pump?
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@boomzilla said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
weld
Based on the pattern and volume of sparks, I believe he is cutting, not welding.
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@JBert aha, an excuse to post this:
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@JBert I've fallen asleep with my eyes open a couple times in my life. I remember experiencing dreams where I was somehow interpreting the same static image in different ways (and irritated, dry eyes when I awoke).
I wonder if that would qualify for the world record.
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@error Happens to me fairly often, though it's more that I sometimes open my eyes while dreaming. The clue is there's always a ceiling fan and an HVAC vent in the center of the dream scenery. Sometimes the dream will continue but I'll only see the ceiling in my bedroom and nothing from the dream, and I end up in this weird situation where I can feel and hear myself moving around in the dream environment but the visual won't change at all. That's really disconcerting when it happens.
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The last time I remember, it was in a hotel room and there was some really bizarre painting on the wall (not quite Hieronymus Bosch, but in that vein), and my dream went nuts with it.
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@boomzilla said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Doctors are warning women not to put
toothpasteanything in their vaginas
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@Rhywden said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@PleegWat I'm not quite following.
5monthslater.....Guy leaves early to have time to bike to work. Neighbor leaves for work later, since he's driving. Neighbor arrives home earlier because he's driving.
Bikerbicyclist arrives home later, sees car in same spot, and complains that it never gets used.You're welcome!
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@sockpuppet7 The worst I've done is to use vomit references within a single function. Of course, it was a filter for printing out the stacktrace for Java exception logging, so...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@boomzilla said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Doctors are warning women not to put
toothpasteanything in their vaginas
Yes, that includes wrenches.
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@djls45 I dare say that the complaint: "This car is never used!" is more likely to come from very obvious signs: A massive amount of leaves all over the car's body, dusty windows, flat tires and similar signs that noone actually drives that thing.
We had one of those in our street - at some point grass began to grow in the groove between the hood and the front window.
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@Rhywden said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@djls45 I dare say that the complaint: "This car is never used!" is more likely to come from very obvious signs: A massive amount of leaves all over the car's body, dusty windows, flat tires and similar signs that noone actually drives that thing.
We had one of those in our street - at some point grass began to grow in the groove between the hood and the front window.
You get those effects when a car isn't used for a few months at least. As I recall, this complaint was described as being after less than a week.
These things happen when neighbourhoods are built with 0.6 local parking spots per house (to encourage bike use) while actual ownership of frequently used cars is closer to 1.2 per house.
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@boomzilla said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
This is really going to attract the shot-drinking crowd. And then the bar will discover that the only way to make a profit is to slow down the drink delivery – probably by understaffing the bar. Or, I suppose, no longer offering shots, cocktails, and other normally-expensive drinks. Maybe the local frats will get into beer-pitcher-guzzling contents.
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@PotatoEngineer Either way that will only encourage unhealthy drinking habits and unscrupulous business tactics (the clock's about to tick over to the next hour and the customer wants to go? pretend there was computer glitch or that your manager stopped to talk to you before you could stop the clock).
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@PotatoEngineer said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@boomzilla said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
This is really going to attract the shot-drinking crowd. And then the bar will discover that the only way to make a profit is to slow down the drink delivery – probably by understaffing the bar. Or, I suppose, no longer offering shots, cocktails, and other normally-expensive drinks. Maybe the local frats will get into beer-pitcher-guzzling contents.
YMBNH - at least to this thread. We post Bad Ideas here.
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@Rhywden said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@djls45 I dare say that the complaint: "This car is never used!" is more likely to come from very obvious signs: A massive amount of leaves all over the car's body, dusty windows, flat tires and similar signs that noone actually drives that thing.
We had one of those in our street - at some point grass began to grow in the groove between the hood and the front window.
There's a car in my apartment lot that very much looks unused because it has three flat tires. But it's in a different parking spot every day so clearly someone's driving it around like that!
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@mott555 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
There's a car in my apartment lot that very much looks unused because it has three flat tires. But it's in a different parking spot every day so clearly someone's driving it around like that!
Are you sure it's the same car? Maybe someone's just swapping the tires around to different vehicles.
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@da-Doctah Evil Ideas Thread is
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@mott555 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Rhywden said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@djls45 I dare say that the complaint: "This car is never used!" is more likely to come from very obvious signs: A massive amount of leaves all over the car's body, dusty windows, flat tires and similar signs that noone actually drives that thing.
We had one of those in our street - at some point grass began to grow in the groove between the hood and the front window.
There's a car in my apartment lot that very much looks unused because it has three flat tires. But it's in a different parking spot every day so clearly someone's driving it around like that!
Maybe they just like using dollies to fuck with people or skirt around some HOA rule that you can't "permanently occupy a parking spot"?
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@mott555 Yeah, that car would have to clean up after two years at the latest - because the mandatory inspections for roadworthiness are every two years over here.
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https://i.imgur.com/8rtWKKZ.gifv
This reminds me, I should practice my self-Heimlich maneuver.
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Apparently they rented a room with an underwater view, so the man dove down on the outside to hold up a paper with his engagement proposal and an engagement ring. He must have run out of air...
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@JBert The in me wants to yell at CNN that you can drown without dying, and that the article only uses it to imply death by drowning.