Random thought of the day
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Saying an actor has had an unbelievable performance is a backhanded compliment.
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
Saying an actor's has had an unbelievable performance is a backhanded compliment.
Given that "incredible" can mean "not able to be credited, i.e., be believed" that's... nicely ambiguous.
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Courtesy of a fridge that's set way too cold in some parts, here's a science fun fact.
You probably crack open eggs across the midsection when you're making an omelet or whatever. But if an egg freezes, the insides expand and crack open the shell...lengthwise.
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You keep eggs in the fridge?
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Courtesy of a fridge that's set way too cold in some parts, here's a science fun fact.
You probably crack open eggs across the midsection when you're making an omelet or whatever. But if an egg freezes, the insides expand and crack open the shell...lengthwise.
Wait, you crack your eggs so the split is around the smaller circumference?
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I mean, I'm not weird!
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@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
You keep eggs in the fridge?
Where do you keep yours, in your underwear?
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
You keep eggs in the fridge?
Where do you keep yours, in your underwear?
The tampon is supposed to help prevent that....
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
You keep eggs in the fridge?
Where do you keep yours, in your underwear?
Of course not! I keep my nuts in my underwear.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
You keep eggs in the fridge?
Where do you keep yours, in your underwear?
Eggs in the US are washed before being treated against certain diseases. This removes a protective coating, and afterwards eggs cannot safely be stored at room temperature.
In the EU, eggs are not washed, and chickens are inoculated against these diseases instead. This means the eggs retain their natural protective coating and can safely be stored at room temperature for two weeks or so.
So no, my eggs are not in the fridge. They're in a drawer next to the potatoes and the onions.
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@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
This means the eggs retain their natural protective coating and can safely be stored at room temperature for two weeks or so.
A lot of people still do store them in the fridge, even though it's not needed. The fact that a lot (most?) fridges include a small egg shelf in the door might be a factor, though a lot of people I know just stuff the carton of eggs in the fridge.
A lot of stuff that doesn't need to be stored in fridges often is (starting with most fruit & vegs), I think it's part cargo-cult ("fridges help keeping stuff for longer so I should put all the stuff in my fridge"), but also in a very large part simple convenience. You've got a large cupboard that's dedicated to food storage so... why not use it?
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Courtesy of a fridge that's set way too cold in some parts, here's a science fun fact.
You probably crack open eggs across the midsection when you're making an omelet or whatever. But if an egg freezes, the insides expand and crack open the shell...lengthwise.
Please submit a paper to the
Journal of Irreproducible Results
.
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@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
So no, my eggs are not in the fridge. They're in a drawer next to the potatoes and the onions.
I was close then. You keep your eggs in your drawers.
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Wondering how to pronounce Leicestershire.
Currents bets are on โLooshterโ.
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@topspin Less-ter-shire
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@loopback0 lame. That only drops one syllable and sounds exactly like one would expect.
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My favourite in this department is Cholmondeley. Pronounced 'Chum-lee'.
There is also Ruislip, pronounced 'Ry-slip', and Happisbrugh, pronounced 'Hays-bruh'.
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@Arantor not too far from Happisburgh is Stiffkey which is pronounced Stew-key.
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@loopback0 said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin Less-ter-shire
"Can you tell me how to pronounce 'shire'?"
"Sure."
"Well? How?"
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@loopback0 said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin Less-ter-shire
If there's Less-ter-shire, there must be More-ter-shire somewhere nearby
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
My favourite in this department is Cholmondeley. Pronounced 'Chum-lee'.
There is also Ruislip, pronounced 'Ry-slip', and Happisbrugh, pronounced 'Hays-bruh'.
Cirencester, pronounced "sister".
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@da-Doctah I always thought it was the one weird exception that was pronounced as written, i.e. si-ren-cess-ter, but it's been a while since I've been in that part of the country.
Of course, just to fuck with everyone, I give you Chichester. Chitch-ess-ter.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@loopback0 said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin Less-ter-shire
If there's Less-ter-shire, there must be More-ter-shire somewhere nearby
Enough-ter-share!
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@BernieTheBernie said in Random thought of the day:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@loopback0 said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin Less-ter-shire
If there's Less-ter-shire, there must be More-ter-shire somewhere nearby
Enough-ter-share!
Naughtushire!
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Attention please: if you feel you're being discriminated against for being a millenial, you're just proving a point.
It's spelled with two Ns, ya mollusc!
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Oh, praise be to the heavens! How delightful it is to see the name of our Lord and Savior displayed for all to see! May the tape of truth remind us of His eternal love and glory.
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Company logos from my youth that always puzzled me:
Why is a moving company named Mayflower using a profile of a parrot's head as its corporate emblem?
Doesn't look anything like any bear I've ever seen, and what does a bear have to do with wheel alignment in the first place?
Is that a...horse's head? Or what? And why so badly rendered?
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Why is a moving company named Mayflower using a profile of a parrot's head as its corporate emblem?
The logo at the back of the truck looks to me like it's trying to be an old timey sailing ship, like the one named Mayflower that sailed out of Plymouth in 1620 to the West.
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@Arantor Exactly. I can't see a parrot's head even if I try.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor Exactly. I can't see a parrot's head even if I try.
If you tilt your head and munge the lines into crude feathers...?
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Is that a...horse's head? Or what? And why so badly rendered?
I'm not sure, but I think it is helmet face guard partially in shadow. Perhaps logos aren't meant to be interpreted, but recognized.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Is that a...horse's head? Or what? And why so badly rendered?
I'm not sure, but I think it is helmet face guard partially in shadow. Perhaps logos aren't meant to be interpreted, but recognized.
I think a better rendering can be found:
So ... I'm guessing that's Mercury, winged helmet and whatnot.
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@Watson said in Random thought of the day:
winged
Yeah, IMO important distinction elements shouldn't be small like that...
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@Tsaukpaetra Smaller than you think. The logo was usually encountered in a size maybe a quarter-inch high overall on record labels, though I'm sure an enormous version could be found on their building and whatnot.
That version would otherwise flummox a person today who's the age I was when I was first bewildered by it. They'd probably ignore the brand name itself as a meaningless scrawl, it being in cursive and all.
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@TimeBandit said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
If you tilt your head
Like this?
A bit farther. You need to get to the point that the cartridge contacts are just barely touching enough to keep the signal flowing.
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Am I right in thinking that the Star Wars universe pulls the vaguely alien-sounding names for both planets and people from the same well that used to be used in DC's Silver Age Legion of Superheroes?
Surely "Mace Windu" and "Brin Londo" (Timber Wolf) share a common linguistic influence, as do "Darth Vader" and "Rond Vidar" (the son of villain Universo who becomes a good guy in the end), or "Alderaan" and "Braal".
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@da-Doctah While it would be more realistic for aliens to use sounds which the human ear cannot even distinguish, it would cause practical problems in movie use.
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MC: So what's this planet called?
OT: The local name is unpronounceable by your tongue and involves some rather unnerving ultrasonics, but translated into your tongue the name would be 'Ground'
MC: 'Ground" Huh.... The locals must not be all that bright then.
OT: They compare favorably with the species that decided to name their planet 'Earth'
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@accalia said in Random thought of the day:
MC: So what's this planet called?
OT: The local name is unpronounceable by your tongue and involves some rather unnerving ultrasonics, but translated into your tongue the name would be 'Ground'
MC: 'Ground" Huh.... The locals must not be all that bright then.
OT: They compare favorably with the species that decided to name their planet 'Earth'I recall reading a story a while back where both our world and the aliens' homeworld were consistently called Earth. I don't recall any other identifying information though.
And for those planning to point out that Earth can be called Terra:
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@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
@accalia said in Random thought of the day:
MC: So what's this planet called?
OT: The local name is unpronounceable by your tongue and involves some rather unnerving ultrasonics, but translated into your tongue the name would be 'Ground'
MC: 'Ground" Huh.... The locals must not be all that bright then.
OT: They compare favorably with the species that decided to name their planet 'Earth'I recall reading a story a while back where both our world and the aliens' homeworld were consistently called Earth. I don't recall any other identifying information though.
And for those planning to point out that Earth can be called Terra:
Calling Earth Sol-3 isn't much help either.
cause... that's just 'Star-3' or possibly 'Sun-3' depending on how you translate it. and "third rock from the sun" was a bloody good sitcom, but is a pretty stupid name for a planet. :D
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@accalia And traditional constellation-based star naming won't be any help either, since constellations are viewpoint-dependent. Which constellation the Sun is in depends on where the alien homeworld is respective to ours. And that's if the aliens use the same constellations in the first place.
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@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
And that's if the aliens use the same constellations in the first place.
which of course because they're context dependent in the first place they likely wont. hell the literal only reason the constalations have the names they do is the europeans named them a particular way and then proceeded to stomp out all the other cultures who named different constelations.
now conquest is one thing, but it even happens now where the old names are being lost due to languages and cultures dying and even simply due to the want to be able to talk about the stars to a broad audience. if i used the cambodian names, or the aboriginal names (any of the tribes from any of the places that that name could mean) or the aztec names. no one would have a clue what i was on about so i have to use the greek and roman names because those are known and if they arent' they give good google results.
or they did until SEO broke google and ChatGPT and derivitives desecrated the corpse.
anyway yeah, so if we dont' have a single name for stars here, it's folly to assume there would be any shared context with aliens with regard to star names.
"That super massive black hole at the middle of the galaxy" would probably work if er get to the level of communication. maybe combine that with the dharacteristics of a couple of pulsars that are easy to define, then use triangualtion to id a spot in space... but like even then.... whoofh.
what? i'm not going down an unnecessary rabbit hole! I'm procrastinating! that's different!
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@accalia So rather than "I live in New York" you'd say "I live in 40.723688ยฐ N, 73.9987042ยฐ W"? Doesn't really roll off the tongue.
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@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
@accalia So rather than "I live in New York" you'd say "I live in 40.723688ยฐ N, 73.9987042ยฐ W"? Doesn't really roll off the tongue.
But even then you need to establish what the zero-point reference is.
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@accalia contention: Google broke Google chasing ad revenue by modifying searches to artificially inflate shipping related searches (= more brand keywords), everything else was a consequence of the manipulations one way or another.
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@accalia contention: Google broke Google chasing ad revenue by modifying searches to artificially inflate shipping related searches (= more brand keywords), everything else was a consequence of the manipulations one way or another.
i argue that's just SEO, because google realized they could make money by having people pay for a version of SEO that actually worked and it was all downhill from there.
but i admit that argument is not the most compelling.
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I saw that discussion about british place names in this topic from a month ago and itโs nice to see how much wrong people could be. Soโฆ