Random thought of the day
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
Charles Stross's Laundry Files
*checks Wikipedia*
The Laundry Files is a series of novels by British writer Charles Stross. They mix the genres of Lovecraftian horror, spy thriller, science fiction, and workplace humour. Their main character for the first five novels is "Bob Howard" (a pseudonym taken for security purposes), a one-time I.T. consultant turned occult field agent.
Oooh. Sounds interesting!
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
You would like Charles Stross's Laundry Files series.
While reading this thread I was trying to remember the name, but yeah, I was thinking about that. Magic is like programming, it can have bugs and experts can debug it etc.
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
You would like Charles Stross's Laundry Files series.
If you like series about laundries, you may also like The Woman In the Wall.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
You would like Charles Stross's Laundry Files series.
If you like series about laundries, you may also like The Woman In the Wall.
The actual laundry was downstairs as a front.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
If you like series about laundries, you may also like
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@Zerosquare Search does not seem to provide the capability of searching in the Lounge, so I'll have to take your word for it on this.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
If you like
series aboutlaundriesNO!
Are you opposed to washing clothes, laundries in particular, or specifically Magdalene laundries?
If the latter, probably not best discussed in this topic.
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Turning 35 years old this year (i.e. begain in 1989);
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the world-wide web
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The Simpsons
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Turning 35 years old this year (i.e. begain in 1989);
- The Simpsons
Why have you not brought us celebratory donuts?
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Turning 35 years old this year (i.e. begain in 1989);
- the world-wide web
I was not an early adopter. It wasn't until maybe 1994 or 1995, when I got access at work, that I switched from text protocols like Usenet to newfangled Web stuff. I didn't think it was useful until I tried it.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
I was not an early adopter. It wasn't until maybe 1994 or 1995
Yeah, by that time everyone and their dog was on the Web
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Turning 35 years old this year (i.e. begain in 1989);
- the world-wide web
I was not an early adopter. It wasn't until maybe 1994 or 1995, when I got access at work, that I switched from text protocols like Usenet to newfangled Web stuff. I didn't think it was useful until I tried it.
I started using it probably about 1993 (initially as a prettier gopher replacement). It was horribly slow to start with; fetching pages from the US took ages, and NCSA Mosaic couldn't show anything until everything was downloaded. In 1994, the transatlantic network capacity got upgraded, which helped a lot. I forget when Netscape turned up, but that had a star trick (loading images progressively) that made things a lot better.
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Pikachu may be surprised occasionally, but never truly shocked.
Because Pikachu is an electric type.
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Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse have the same last name.
While it's certainly possible for this to be the case even without them actually being related, you'd expect them to have a quick explanation worked out to offer anyone who assumes them to be engaging in an incestuous relationship.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse have the same last name.
While it's certainly possible for this to be the case even without them actually being related, you'd expect them to have a quick explanation worked out to offer anyone who assumes them to be engaging in an incestuous relationship.
It’s been canonical since 1933 that they’re married (and the implication is that they were married before this point) though apparently divorce is on the table.
That said, the core Disneyverse does have two unrelated Mouse families, with also two unrelated Duck families (plus the McDuck clan), and the Goof family at one point originally being the Dawg family.
It looks like they went full on for “last name is species” so not technically a drama.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
anyone who assumes them to be engaging in an incestuous relationship.
How do you know they're not?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
anyone who assumes them to be engaging in an incestuous relationship.
How do you know they're not?
One may, if one wishes, interpose the words "correctly or not" after "them" in the above.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
anyone who assumes them to be engaging in an incestuous relationship.
How do you know they're not?
Because canonically they’re two different families that happen to have the same last name which isn’t always a sign of being a relative.
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random poll: say you are a heathen that drinks a bowl of arbitrary liquid by lifting the bowl to the lips and tilting the bowl up.
Do you drink with your eyes open or closed?
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@Tsaukpaetra Did you just call Yoda a heathen?
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra Did you just call Yoda a heathen?
Absolutely!
However, I was more talking about heathens who happen to execute a particular action.
I don't care about the non-heathens who drink a bowl of liquid by lifting the bowl to the lips and tilting the bowl up.
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@Tsaukpaetra am I a heathen though? (I have my eyes open so I can see when I’m done with the contents of the bowl.)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Do you drink with your eyes open or closed?
How much steam (or other vapour or aromatic aerosol) is coming off the liquid?
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@dkf if I’m drinking out the bowl, one assumes there can’t be too much of that because that would imply it was possibly too hot to drink.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse have the same last name.
While it's certainly possible for this to be the case even without them actually being related, you'd expect them to have a quick explanation worked out to offer anyone who assumes them to be engaging in an incestuous relationship.
In Tony Toon Adventures, whenever Buster and Babs (Bunny, both) introduced themselves together they would quickly point out "no relation"
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse have the same last name.
While it's certainly possible for this to be the case even without them actually being related, you'd expect them to have a quick explanation worked out to offer anyone who assumes them to be engaging in an incestuous relationship.
In Tony Toon Adventures, whenever Buster and Babs (Bunny, both) introduced themselves together they would quickly point out "no relation"
Which only fueled the shippers
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
Tony Toon Adventures
Now I'm imagining a cartoon Tony Danza with bunny ears, so thanks for that.
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse have the same last name.
While it's certainly possible for this to be the case even without them actually being related, you'd expect them to have a quick explanation worked out to offer anyone who assumes them to be engaging in an incestuous relationship.
In Tony Toon Adventures, whenever Buster and Babs (Bunny, both) introduced themselves together they would quickly point out "no relation"
That wouldn't have been the reason though, since unlike Mickey and Minnie, they weren't presented as a couple, so it would have made perfect sense to just assume they were brother and sister.
Yakko, Wacko and Dot were explicitly put forth as siblings, although Dot Warner insisted that her full name was Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banna-Fana Bo-Besca the Third, suggesting that she must have changed her name from "Warner" at some point.
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I now want to see a charity Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing competitive event. The event could be titled “Give Cancer the Finger”
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@izzion said in Random thought of the day:
I now want to see a charity Mavis Beacon Teaches Tuping competitive event. The event could be titled “Give Cancer the Finger”
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@loopback0 said in Random thought of the day:
@izzion said in Random thought of the day:
I now want to see a charity Mavis Beacon Teaches Tuping competitive event. The event could be titled “Give Cancer the Finger”
The spelling event can be a follow-up
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@boomzilla the Religious Challenges thread is !
hoc est corpus meum
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Considering the size of the earth, and the vastness of the universe, I'm not really eating that much cheese.
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@Gern_Blaanston space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in Random thought of the day:
Considering the size of the earth, and the vastness of the universe, I'm not really eating that much cheese.
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@topspin
fucking weebs
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@topspin well, yes, in the aftermath of the Universe being created, a lot of people are very angry and the whole thing has been widely regarded as a bad move.
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@Arantor should've never left the oceans.
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@topspin would have saved coming down out of the trees too, incarnate.
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"Boneless buffalo wings" don't come from buffalo (nor from Buffalo). And they're not wings.
So why on earth should I believe you when you say they're boneless?
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor should've never left the oceans.
I think the advent of having separate peeing and eating places was one of the silver linings.
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@Tsaukpaetra not sure if
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The difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius is whether 69 degrees is a nice temperature to hang out in or a temperature that means your chicken is nearly done cooking.
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@izzion said in Random thought of the day:
The difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius is whether 69 degrees is a nice temperature to hang out in or a temperature that means your chicken is nearly done cooking.
It's Excellent either way!
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One of the best quick tests for the geniuneness of what is supposed to be gold is to simply pick it up in your hand. Pure gold has a density of 19.3 g/cm³. Fool's gold (iron pyrite) is approximately 5 g/cm³, a bit over a quarter that of the real deal, and you don't need a precision scale to detect a difference like that.
Another metallic looking material with a yellowish cast is galena (lead sulfide), which still is only about 7.6 g/cm³, half again that of pyrite, but still only about a third of gold.
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It makes for a weird reading experience of a news article if the main rebel group involved is called the MILF.