Random thought of the day
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
(of course it's also slang for testicles, but I don't think most people immediately think of it that way).
You were born before yesterday, right?
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
"Balls" means literally game balls, or any spherical/circular shapes, and it's a pretty popular family-friendly curse. (of course it's also slang for testicles, but I don't think most people immediately think of it that way).
In Britain at least, "Oh balls" is the family-friendly version of "Oh bollocks".
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@loopback0 especially during that one season of Strictly Come Dancing, and every 28th April.
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@izzion said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
(of course it's also slang for testicles, but I don't think most people immediately think of it that way).
You were born before yesterday, right?
What I mean is this: unlike in English where "balls" is also used by adults as slang for testicles, over here "balls" is most frequently just used as the equivalent of "oh snap".
Sure, if one was to say they were "kicked in the balls" everyone would understand from context, but it's more idiomatic to say they were "kicked in the tomatoes".
So "balls <-> testicles" isn't as ingrained as in English.
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But don't take my word for it. Maybe people do associate "bolas" with testicles more than I think.
I haven't gone around asking. Nor do I intend to.
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@Zecc I associate "bolas" with
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
Strictly Come Dancing
With my ex-wife, dancing often led to sex, but I can't recall ever coming strictly while dancing.
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@HardwareGeek something something "horizontal mambo"
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Guys, the NSFW threads are right where you left them.
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@Zerosquare I'm sort of new here, kindly direct me in their direction please?
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You may start with this one:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/22326/nsfw-thread/
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@Zerosquare oh god no. Not that one. That's a story for another time though.
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Why doesn't swatting a fly, or any bug suspended in mid air, seem to have any effect on it? Relatively speaking, wouldn't the impact be like a person getting hit by a dump truck at 50mph? Or is this like how drunks are more likely to survive car crashes because they're more relaxed?
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Zerosquare oh god no. Not that one.
Picky asshole. Here you are:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/26904/the-nsfw-thread-non-fur-edition
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@Zenith said in Random thought of the day:
Why doesn't swatting a fly, or any bug suspended in mid air, seem to have any effect on it? Relatively speaking, wouldn't the impact be like a person getting hit by a dump truck at 50mph? Or is this like how drunks are more likely to survive car crashes because they're more relaxed?
I've had great success swatting flies mid-air. When I can hit them at all, that is; some bugs are just too agile. Having a proper flyswatter, rather than whatever bludgeon is at hand, seems to help significantly.
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@Zenith said in Random thought of the day:
Why doesn't swatting a fly, or any bug suspended in mid air, seem to have any effect on it? Relatively speaking, wouldn't the impact be like a person getting hit by a dump truck at 50mph? Or is this like how drunks are more likely to survive car crashes because they're more relaxed?
Bugs are highly elastic.
Actually, people working in IT business should know that.
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@BernieTheBernie how does elastic.co feel about this, I wonder?
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@Arantor elastic.co? Aren't there bugs, too?
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@BernieTheBernie Sure, but I figured they might not appreciate the association.
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@Zenith said in Random thought of the day:
Relatively speaking, wouldn't the impact be like a person getting hit by a dump truck at 50mph?
No, because something something relative blah blah why can an ant lift thousands of multiples of its own weight yadda yadda.
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The record for the number of times another performer replaced the Beatles (or a solo Beatle) at the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 is four, held by Diana Ross and/or the Supremes:
"Come See About Me" replaced "I Feel Fine"
"Stop! In the Name of Love" replaced "Eight Days a Week"
"Love Child" replaced "Hey Jude"
"Love Hangover" replaced "Silly Love Songs" (temporarily ; Wings returned to number one before being replaced again by "Afternoon Delight")The runner-up is Michael Jackson with or without his brothers:
"ABC" replaced "Let It Be"
"The Love You Save" replaced the double-A-side "The Long and Winding Road"/"For You Blue"
"The Way You Make Me Feel" replaced "Got My Mind Set On You"Only once did one ex-Beatle replace another, when George's "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth" took the top spot from Paul's "My Love" (another example of a Wings record returning to its previous number one position; it was later replaced by "Will It Go Round in Curcles" by Billy Preston, earlier the only guest performer ever credited on a Beatles record).
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
kindly direct me in their direction please?
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
"Come See About Me" replaced "I Feel Fine"
"Stop! In the Name of Love" replaced "Eight Days a Week"
"Love Child" replaced "Hey Jude"
"Love Hangover" replaced "Silly Love Songs" (temporarily ; Wings returned to number one before being replaced again by "Afternoon Delight")
The runner-up is Michael Jackson with or without his brothers:
"ABC" replaced "Let It Be"
"The Love You Save" replaced the double-A-side "The Long and Winding Road"/"For You Blue"
"The Way You Make Me Feel" replaced "Got My Mind Set On You"I know only two of these songs.
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@Gąska Beatles or other?
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@hungrier two Beatles (one not even "the Beatles") and zero other.
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@Gąska My guesses are "Let It Be" and "Got My Mind Set On You"
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
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Let It BeHey Jude" and "Got My Mind Set On You"But the only reason I know Hey Jude is because it was adapted for a chant for my local sportsball team. The latter actually plays on radio every so often.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Let It BeHey Jude"It was pretty much a coin flip between those two
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Random Thought of the Day: km/h is a valid (if not very practical) unit of rainfall intensity.
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@ixvedeusi Yes. 1 liter per square meter and hour is just one micro km/h.
Or do you prefer the other way round: One km/h is one mega liter per square meter and hour.
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@BernieTheBernie Rain collectors here are commonly marked in millimeters, which is equivalent to liters per square meter.
These marks are usually more than 1mm apart, since the collection area is larger than the cross-section of the beaker.
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@PleegWat That's how I could calculate the conversions so easily...
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@Zenith said in Random thought of the day:
Why doesn't swatting a fly, or any bug suspended in mid air, seem to have any effect on it? Relatively speaking, wouldn't the impact be like a person getting hit by a dump truck at 50mph? Or is this like how drunks are more likely to survive car crashes because they're more relaxed?
Some bugs might be fast enough that you don't actually hit them, they fly away at the very last moment. If they fly away from the object, it might look as though you'd hit them, but you haven't.
It might also be that, being so light, they're displaced by the movement of the air (pushed in front of whatever you're hitting them with) a fraction of second before you hit them, so the acceleration (and jerk) isn't as strong as you'd think.
Also, being smaller doesn't necessarily change the effect of speed (i.e. it might be like them being hit by a dump truck at 5 mph, not 50).
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@ixvedeusi said in Random thought of the day:
Random Thought of the Day: km/h is a valid (if not very practical) unit of rainfall intensity.
xkcd once pointed out that fuel consumption (L/100 km or mpg) is an area (or the inverse of one, for mpg). For example 10 L/100 km (=23.5 mpg) = 0.1 m^2.
They even gave a physical meaning to it. Lay a tube alongside the road travelled by the vehicle, with a cross-section of the same area as the consumption (e.g. 10 L/100 km = 0.1 m^2 = radius of 1.8 cm), and filled with fuel. This is the fuel that the vehicle will consume as it goes along that road.
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@remi the cool thing about this illustration is that it works for instantaneous fuel consumption too, not just averages. The tube goes wider where there's more consumption and thinner when there's less. It's basically equivalent to leaving a gasoline trail behind the car.
Miles per gallon are much trickier.
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
It might also be that, being so light, they're displaced by the movement of the air (pushed in front of whatever you're hitting them with) a fraction of second before you hit them, so the acceleration (and jerk) isn't as strong as you'd think.
I think it's mostly because of their low mass and thus low inertia. AIUI the damage a human suffers when hit by a truck occurs mostly because one of the sides of the body suddenly starts moving quickly towards the other side, but the inertia of that other side prevents it from getting out of the way.
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@ixvedeusi Something similar to how a dropped glass will shatter, but a fragment of glass dropped from the same height will just bounce. Makes sense.
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
It might also be that, being so light, they're displaced by the movement of the air (pushed in front of whatever you're hitting them with) a fraction of second before you hit them
This is one reason a real flyswatter tends to be more effective than the random object that happens to be at hand. Flyswatters are made of wire mesh (old) or perforated plastic (new), which greatly reduces the amount of air they push. Also, they are fairly broad (so they're less likely to miss an agile insect that is attempting to evade) and flat (the impact is less likely to be glancing), which further improves effectiveness.
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And also, due to the length and elasticity of the handle, they can reach significantly higher speeds than a hand.
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Things that never happen: you take your car into the shop to get something fixed, and they fix it, and manage not to break something else even more expensive in the process.
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You really shouldn't go to a car shop whose motto is Go fast and break things.
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
You really shouldn't go to a car shop whose motto is Go fast and break things.
Do Facebook have a car division now?
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@Arantor probably. Google does and they steal everything from each other.
But maybe their cars only exist in the betaverse.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
betaverse.
I keep seeing this stupid name and thinking to myself "a whole new internet for cucks? That's a bit much".
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When exactly did people stop fearing ghosts?
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
When exactly did people stop fearing ghosts?
Sometime in the mid-nineties when people realised that scooby doo wasn't a documentary.
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@DogsB feels like it must've been a few decades earlier. But not too much earlier. But then, I'm a 90s kid, so everything before 1991 is equally old to me.
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@Gąska when a pop song for a comedy film came out in 1984.