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wizzardstaff posted:And that's definitely not the original source either. This is like a decades-old email forward which was copy-pasted without even bothering to adjust the flow for tweet format. I'm pretty sure I saw this on a fax from the time before office emails. wizzardstaff posted:Which is a shame because it is a cool story. And while this one is not completely true, I am sure there are plenty of other standards that have similar origins.
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Train rails are a specific distance apart to maximize the efficiency of changing tracks once a lever is pulled, presumably in the face of a choice during dire circumstances.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Yeah, did you even bother looking into the replies at all?
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Yeah, did you even bother looking into the replies at all? To be fair, it's partly true. Early English gauges really were based on wagon rut widths to allow for commonality of parts and that gauge ended up becoming the standard in the US due to the North winning the Civil War and being able to standardize everything. It's just not the perfectly unbroken chain the humorous version uses.
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Well what size gauges did Roman trains run on https://twitter.com/MasalaBai/status/1196641141153763328 I'm proud of him zoux has a new favorite as of 16:17 on Nov 19, 2019 |
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zoux posted:Well what size gauges did Roman trains run on Ah, a fellow Analog reader, I see.
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chitoryu12 posted:To be fair, it's partly true. Early English gauges really were based on wagon rut widths to allow for commonality of parts and that gauge ended up becoming the standard in the US due to the North winning the Civil War and being able to standardize everything. It's just not the perfectly unbroken chain the humorous version uses. Were union horse butts considered the standardized horse butt?
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“The infamous "bloody orgy" video was also longer. Parts which are still in the scene, like one of the crew members sticking his fingers deep into other one's eyes, and a female crew member sodomizing male crew member with iron pipe, were even more violent in original version of the scene. There were also lot more shots of Event Horizon crew naked and covered in blood having violent sex and raping and eating each other, more graphic version of the scene where man pulls his intestines out of his mouth, one crew member is held and stabbed in back of the head with spike and part of his mouth and teeth drops out, other crew member is crawling on floor while others are hitting his legs with steel bars smashing them to pieces as he screams and is crawling away leaving pieces of his legs behind, one girl has screws drilled into her teeth, other girl is held while her arm is broken with hunk of metal, one more girl has her breasts mauled and then ripped off by another crew member, some other parts of the scene were also cut. The reason why this scene disturbed the test audience was because the filmmakers, in order to make the scene look more realistic and therefore a lot more violent, hired real-life amputees for special effects scenes where Event Horizon crew members had their body parts damaged in many ways, and porn actors were hired to make the sex and rape scenes more graphic. According to producer Jeremy Bolt and director Paul W.S. Anderson, during the screening of a rough cut of the movie, some audience members started fainting while watching this scene.” Event Horizòn, or the 120 Days of Sodom
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Mierenneuker posted:The reason why this scene disturbed the test audience was because You know what, I think I can probably solve this one by myself.
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What else do they store in Transylvanian salt mines besides I assume, heaps of desiccated and impaled Ottoman Turk corpses
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zoux posted:Well what size gauges did Roman trains run on ROME DID NOT HAVE
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Mister Mind posted:ROME DID NOT HAVE Pfffffhehehehehe
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Apparently it’s not super unusual for stuff like that to be stored in salt mines on account of the low humidity. Of course then you run the risk of the salt ruining everything instead
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Mister Mind posted:ROME DID NOT HAVE "Ralph, Jesus did not have wheels."
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I'm pretty sure to be a ghost you need to have had a soul.
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Pththya-lyi posted:Speaking of literature: mmm mmm, oh ya thats good
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Not just any porn. Barely legal incest threesome porn.
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Platystemon posted:Not just any porn. Thanks for this, up until now I just remembered it as a sexy librarian type of tweet that he liked. 
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https://twitter.com/thomas_violence/status/1197000176130392066?s=19 Edit: is it a sign I'm too much online that I kinda want to steal this? https://twitter.com/amandamull/status/1196968317375930369?s=19 Air Skwirl has a new favorite as of 07:53 on Nov 20, 2019 |
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Platystemon posted:Not just any porn. Say, doesn't ted cruz have two young daughters?
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