Random thought of the day
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@Applied-Mediocrity I'm old and tired. I'd rather not walk a mile in my own shoes if I don't have to, much less someone else's.
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
How many of you will shift in their seats if I say the word "posture"?
If the question is whether my posture is shit: yes.
If the question is whether I'll adjust it when you remind me: no.
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@HardwareGeek Before you criticize someone, first walk a mile in they're shoes. That way, if you do criticise them, your a mile away and you have they're shoes.
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@HardwareGeek Take a seat in a swivel chair. Roll with it.
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@Vault_Dweller said in Random thought of the day:
@HardwareGeek Before you criticize someone, first walk a mile in they're shoes. That way, if you do criticise them, your a mile away and you have they're shoes.
I see what you did there.jpg
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Applied-Mediocrity I'm old and tired. I'd rather not walk a mile in my own shoes if I don't have to, much less someone else's.
Sorry, Joe South, but that's always been a little disgusting. Anybody who would put on someone else's shoes probably wouldn't hesitate to use their toothbrush.
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I think @dcon meant in Random thought of the day:
I see what you did their.jpg
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
I think @dcon meant in Random thought of the day:
I see what you did their.jpg
Damn, your write. I have a good excuse. Was still on my first cup of coffee while looking at the Pacific ocean that's only 20 feet away. (And thinking of the turtles that we were going to be swimming with shortly thereafter...)
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The "Taunting members who aren't on vacation" thread is
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
The "Taunting members who aren't on vacation" thread is
Oh right, it's been a few days since i've done that, thanks for reminding me.
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If you write write right, you write write with a W. It's not right to write right when you mean write. All right?
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@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
If you write write right, you write write with a W. It's not right to write right when you mean write. All right?
Rite.
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@PleegWat And beyond
rite
, you forgot those guys calledWright
. And alsoride
may be pronounced that way.
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And what about wights, while we’re at it? Or, for that matter, Jonathan “Wossy” Ross?
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Regex quine: a regular expression which only matches itself.
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I want to see a chat show where Ozzy Osbourne interviews Keith Richards.
With no closed-captioning.
So not one person will have the slightest idea what either of them are mumbling about.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
So not one person will have the slightest idea what either of them are mumbling about.
Including themselves.
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In 1971, Burt Reynolds and Dinah Shore began dating very publicly despite a roughly twenty-year age difference, and were together for over five years before both moved on to other interests.
Burt was 35 when the relationship began, while Dinah had not yet had her 14th birthday.
That happened the following year.
On February 29th.
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Status: Is a laptop with a GTX 960m even worth keeping anymore?
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@Tsaukpaetra Fairly sure that's plenty computing power for folks who aren't gamers.
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The words "ax" and "axis" are completely different words that have identical plurals. Likewise "base" and "basis".
I welcome additions to the list.
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@da-Doctah no additions, but fun fact: both base and basis can translate to Basis in German. Which makes translating back fun for the unaware.
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@topspin Not the same pattern, but in Spanish, the singular of "tamales" is "tamal" (a lot of people also get the singulars of such words as "nopales" and "colores" wrong as well).
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@da-Doctah I thought of
Stadium
andStadion
first, but then I had to find out that English translates those two different German words withstadium
...
I.e. exactly the other way round to @topspin 's example.
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Ever notice that every version of Dracula starts off with him coming out of hiding or exile by placing some poor slob under his hypnotic thrall to do his bidding, rather than either turning them into another vampire or killing them to drink their blood?
It's because he needs someone who can go out in the daytime and get a driver's license. Drac can't get one of his own because the DMV where you have to take the test is always closed before the sun goes down.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Drac can't get one of his own because the DMV where you have to take the test is always closed before the sun goes down.
He should move to Alaska. Sun stays down for plenty of time each "day" in the winter, and vampires on snowmobiles would be awesome.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Ever notice that every version of Dracula starts off with him coming out of hiding or exile by placing some poor slob under his hypnotic thrall to do his bidding, rather than either turning them into another vampire or killing them to drink their blood?
It's because he needs someone who can go out in the daytime and get a driver's license. Drac can't get one of his own because the DMV where you have to take the test is always closed before the sun goes down.
Bah. You should read Stoker's original.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Ever notice that every version of Dracula starts off with him coming out of hiding or exile by placing some poor slob under his hypnotic thrall to do his bidding, rather than either turning them into another vampire or killing them to drink their blood?
It's because he needs someone who can go out in the daytime and get a driver's license. Drac can't get one of his own because the DMV where you have to take the test is always closed before the sun goes down.
Bah. You should read Stoker's original.
Does the DMV have different opening hours in the original?
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@loopback0 DMV didn't exist at the time of Stoker's original.
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@loopback0 DMV didn't exist at the time of Stoker's original.
And yet Stoker managed to imagine a creature able to suck the life out of others.
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@Zecc I rather credit Dante Alighieri for the creation of the DMV rather than Stoker. Specifically, I’m thinking of the second part of the Divine Comedy: Purgatory. The waiting is not unlike travelling between the circles.
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc I rather credit Dante Alighieri for the creation of the DMV rather than Stoker.
I find the term Delmarva less ambiguous.
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Wondering if @Polygeekery is on vacation here
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Mimi Rogers, born January 27, 1956...2349 days older than Tom Cruise.
Nicole Kidman, born June 20, 1967...1813 days younger than Cruise.
Katie Holmes, born December 18, 1978...6012 days younger than Cruise.
Tom Cruise's wives ages form a nearly steady sequence where each is roughly 4175 days younger than her predecessor.. Actresses born around the right time to maintain the sequence by becoming the fourth Mrs Tom Cruise include Margot Robbie, Emma Watson, Jennifer Lawrence, Kristin Stewart, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Kay Panabaker, and Jon-Benet Ramsey (no longer on the market).
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@da-Doctah The fact the little kid from Harry Potter is the same age (in fact, a little older) than the chick of The Wolf of Wall Street and the Suicide Squad almost blows my mind.
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When Arizona has wildfires, Arizona gets clouds of pollution.
When California has wildfires, California gets clouds of pollution.
How come when Canada has wildfires, it's New York State that gets the clouds of pollution?
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
When Arizona has wildfires, Arizona gets clouds of pollution.
When California has wildfires, California gets clouds of pollution.
How come when Canada has wildfires, it's New York State that gets the clouds of pollution?
When California burns, Oregon and Idaho also get smoke. At least northern California. The wind patterns are determined in large part by the local topography. In the current fires, the high altitude wind goes ESE. The sierras in California block most of it directly east, so it goes north and then leaks east. Similarly, the Arizona fires tend to not get caught in the big winds (I think?).
But also, Canada is getting the smoke too. But no one lives there, so the news doesn't care.
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@da-Doctah Canada is sufficiently polite that it is sharing, eh.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
How come when Canada has wildfires, it's New York State that gets the clouds of pollution?
The smoke leaves Canada and move south to stay hot
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
The fact the little kid from Harry Potter is 33 years old
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Rewatching Young Justice in between start and stop tasks (like laundry, dishes, etc). Currently nearing the end of season two. I love how the Light (roughly their version of the Legion of Doom) basically manipulates everybody, even villains on other planets, to achieve their goals. This season, the Reach had no idea what hit them.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
But also, Canada is getting the smoke too. But no one lives there, so the news doesn't care.
They're not even a real country anyway!
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@Zenith said in Random thought of the day:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
But also, Canada is getting the smoke too. But no one lives there, so the news doesn't care.
They're not even a real country anyway!
Correct, it is called Canadia as per The Stick of Truth.
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The more they pay me, the more ambiguous is what they want from me.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
The more they pay me, the more ambiguous what they want from me.
This was the justification for my policy of "no matter what they say, don't do anything at all for twenty-four hours". At best, you save 24 hours of wasted effort. At less than best, you save that plus all the time and effort it takes to clean up what they thought they wanted before you can give them what they actually wanted in the first place.
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Everything written by Oracle should be either in Delphi or Python.