In other news today...
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Finally, a nice news story about incredible success against adversity:
Of course, the world is just full of gits so that didn't last long:
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Just look at how happy he seems on the first picture.
And how sad he looks on the second picture.
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@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
14-carat gold medal
car·at
ˈkerət
noun- a unit of weight for precious stones and pearls, now equivalent to 200 milligrams.
"a half-carat diamond ring" - chiefly British misspelling of karat.
- a unit of weight for precious stones and pearls, now equivalent to 200 milligrams.
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Name checks out...
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@Boner huh, I didn't find this in any way remarkable on first reading.
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@Boner The owner was inside the street?
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My grandfather was in the team that went to rescue Hemingway after he crashed his plane near Kampala. It was a rough journey and it turned out he'd rescued himself to a nearby village and started drinking. Grandpa's view was: 'he was a terrible man, a rude drunken idiot'...possibly your view is dimmer if you've slogged for two days to find it was all for naught!
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@anotherusername Hey, they weren't always even single-use. .
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@Gribnit Most of the ones I bought were zero-use.
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@anotherusername A man-from-stereotypically-avaricious-background walks into a chemist and puts a very used rubber on the counter, asking "can you repair this?".
The chemist is understandably alarmed and explains that no, he can't "repair" a condom and that the man should buy new ones instead, they're not that expensive and so on. The man looks at the prices, then walks out.
He comes back the next day, puts some money out and says "I've talked with the lads, we all agree that we should buy a new one".
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@remi said in In other news today...:
The man looks at the prices, then walks out.
:/ This sentence totally jacked up the setup for me. From this point I have no idea what is going on...
Edit: Or, I'm misinterpreting what "a chemist" means...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Edit: Or, I'm misinterpreting what "a chemist" means...
Pharmacist. A shop that items like sells medicine etc.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Edit: Or, I'm misinterpreting what "a chemist" means...
Pharmacist. A shop that items like sells medicine etc.
See! I knew there was something I was missing! Why use Chemist if you meant Pharmacy? Is this another one of those "Other pondian" things?
Now to figure out the joke now that I have better context...
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Edit: Or, I'm misinterpreting what "a chemist" means...
Pharmacist. A shop that items like sells medicine etc.
And other sundries such as you'd find in an American drug store. My (ex-) wife and I honeymooned in London. In an American hotel, you'd expect to be provided with bath towels, hand towels, and wash cloths (small towels ~30 cm square and used, as the name suggests, for washing rather than drying). The bed-and-breakfast had bath and hand towels, but no wash cloths. When asked about the lack of the latter, the proprietor told us that they didn't provide them, and we should pop round to the chemist and buy some face flannels. Two peoples separated by a common language.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
we should pop round to the chemist and buy some face flannels
Honestly I would have just bust out laughing if I heard that straight up.
Flannels indeed!
I'm just imagining flannel ski masks!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Is this another one of those "Other pondian" things?
Basically. Think like a CVS/Walgreens.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
That isn't even 8 characters!! ?
Un1gg3rs! is 9. :P
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
That isn't even 8 characters!! ?
Un1gg3rs! is 9. :P
Which makes it a better password.
INB4: The stupid passords thread is
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@Karla It's the best password, because dictionary attacks and brute-force generators screen out offensive words and their permutations.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
See! I knew there was something I was missing! Why use Chemist if you meant Pharmacy? Is this another one of those "Other pondian" things?
Back in the sixties, I used to buy all my comic books (lots of Legion of Super-Heroes and The Flash, for instance) at the Rexall Drugs in my little town of Newhall, California. I had occasion to check out the old stomping grounds a few years ago on Google Street View, and discovered that the building was now occupied by a farm equipment and tool company instead. And the big sign in the front window when the GSV truck drove by announced their then-current sale on "BOOTS".
I made a point of letting all my British friends know about it, that the drugstore of my childhood now had a big "BOOTS" sign on it, despite no longer being a drugstore.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
I made a point of letting all my British friends know about it, that the drugstore of my childhood now had a big "BOOTS" sign on it, despite no longer being a drugstore.
Is there a British meaning of "boot" that I am unaware of? I know they call the luggage compartment of a car the "boot" rather than the "trunk," but that has no connection to drug stores. I'm guessing it might be that the use of "boot" in the sense of a flexible rubber covering to protect a mechanical part might have given rise to slang for a different sort of rubber flexible covering, but I haven't found any evidence to support that conjecture.
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
my little town of Newhall, California.
I grew up just south of there in the northern San Fernando Valley. My Boy Scout troop used to camp occasionally at Hart Park.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Why use Chemist if you meant Pharmacy?
They're also called chemists
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Is there a British meaning of "boot" that I am unaware of? I know they call the luggage compartment of a car the "boot" rather than the "trunk," but that has no connection to drug stores.
Boots the pharmacist.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
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@pie_flavor Back in the day when Google's captchas were actually solvable without spending 7 minutes clicking on stupid images.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
New study finds it’s harder to turn off a robot when it’s begging for its life
Daisy, Daisy...
'd by the time I got to the bottom of the page, natch.
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The singularity is imminent!
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@hungrier Yes, of course they do.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
What happens if it sings "Daisy"?
Did they measure user satisfaction with the overall experience, though?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
The singularity is imminent!
The reviews are, as usual, hilarious.
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@pie_flavor If this wasn't done by coked-up Robin Williams it isn't funny.
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@Tsaukpaetra Maybe not on your calendar...
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Irony, thy name is Florida....
(Disney World had better watch its back.)
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@da-Doctah
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@Gribnit Spelling it out for the slow-of-getting: gee, why would there be a rodent at a Chuck E Cheese place? And for the followup, why might there also be a rodent at Walt Disney World?
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@da-Doctah I hope they see this, it will help.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Accept cookies or no access. , HuffPo.
I mean, they could also just go the route that some other sites have taken, and geo-ban IP addresses from GDPR-encumbered regions.
filed under: the ideal solution
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Accept cookies or no access. , HuffPo.
I mean, they could also just go the route that some other sites have taken, and geo-ban IP addresses from GDPR-encumbered regions.
filed under: the ideal solution
I hope that you're not under the impression that I'm opposed to that solution.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Accept cookies or no access. , HuffPo.
I mean, they could also just go the route that some other sites have taken, and geo-ban IP addresses from GDPR-encumbered regions.
filed under: the ideal solution
I hope that you're not under the impression that I'm opposed to that solution.
Can't tell, we aren't allowed to record your impression.