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Helith posted:South Australia uses a .30 timezone instead of a full hour because Adelaide is on the eastern edge of their timezone. Also Broken Hill which is in NSW but is close to the SA border uses SA time. Because Australia's cartographers are poo poo at their job the western borders of NSW and Victoria don't match up properly and are a few hundred metres off:   https://www.google.com/maps/place/M...8!4d141.0029541 ... so there's some farms up in the very NW tip of Victoria where if they move 500m west they'll be in SA which is a different time zone, and if they move 500m east from their starting position they'll be in SA and the SA time zone again, but if they go a further 500m east they'll be back in their original time zone but in NSW.
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Aphrodite posted:Keep the one that makes it so it's not dark when I finish work at 4 in the winters. That’s always so miserable. I worked nights for an entire winter once and by the end I was on the verge of snapping completely. I would wake up just as the sun was going down and go to bed before it came up. If it had been pushed to 5pm I probably would have actually gotten to see some sun once in a while. Also that first jump when the clocks go back is so depressing.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:That’s always so miserable. Working nights is the only possible reason to like dst I’ll grant you
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Sep 24, 2020 03:46
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The song Georgy Girl isn't about a trans woman.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Because Australia's cartographers are poo poo at their job the western borders of NSW and Victoria don't match up properly and are a few hundred metres off: That is amazing, I didn’t know that. Bet they’re having fun with the border closures. Continuing chat about time zones https://twitter.com/guardianaus/status/1309019550621540359?s=21
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I saw a documentary about that. A polar bear comes out of nowhere.
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A thing I just learned: The musk-ox is more closely related to goats and sheep than it is to cattle and bison. Effectively it's a huge goat in a warm coat rather than a smallish buffalo.
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Phy posted:A thing I just learned: The musk-ox is more closely related to goats and sheep than it is to cattle and bison. Effectively it's a huge goat in a warm coat rather than a smallish buffalo. what the gently caress
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Phy posted:A thing I just learned: The musk-ox is more closely related to goats and sheep than it is to cattle and bison. Effectively it's a huge goat in a warm coat rather than a smallish buffalo. Oh poo poo that makes sense. I can goatally see it now.
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Sep 25, 2020 11:08
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Also hyenas are more closely related to meerkats, mongooses and cats than to dogs
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I knew that killer whales were actually dolphins, but I only learned the other night that dolphins and porpoises are part of the “toothed whales” order. Whoever was in charge of common names for cetaceans hosed up big time.
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Sep 25, 2020 14:02
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Cladistry is pretty hosed, yes. Mountain goats aren't goats!
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Sep 25, 2020 14:26
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The virgin taxonomy vs. chadistry
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Sep 25, 2020 14:34
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Along these lines I learned yesterday that hermit crabs, my lovable entry into the crab world, aren't actually crabs
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Captain Hygiene posted:Along these lines I learned yesterday that hermit crabs, my lovable entry into the crab world, aren't actually crabs the ultimate shape of any animal is that of the crab  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
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I agree but also, big missed opportunity to call it "clawvolution"
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The guy that plays Baltar on BSG is not the same guy who plays the doctor on DS9. Edit: they look similar and have similar accents to my American ears, but the Comet channel has been showing reruns of both shows back to back every weeknight and my brain finally went "wait a second..." JacquelineDempsey has a new favorite as of 15:58 on Sep 25, 2020 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Also hyenas are more closely related to meerkats, mongooses and cats than to dogs Which is why I get super mad when I loot their corpse and get canine leather Smh
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Sep 25, 2020 16:23
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Rich, caninthian leather
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Memento posted:Cladistry is pretty hosed, yes. However, bighorn sheep ARE sheep. (Muskox, like mountain goats, get their own genus. Despite my rhyme earlier, they're neither true sheep nor true goats. Their genus is Ovibos, which of course means sheepcow.)
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It took us a while (and reading the credits) to work out that This guy is not a fat Matt Damon. We still call him fat Matt Damon whenever we see him in something though.
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Helith posted:It took us a while (and reading the credits) to work out that This guy is not a fat Matt Damon. People (me) have been calling him Meth Damon ever since his appearance in Breaking Bad. We never watched Friday Night Lights which he was apparently in before that and now are of the belief he's slowly turning in to Phillip Seymour Hoffman (not a bad thing)
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It's "fat Damon"
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Jesse Plemons looked like Matt Damon for five minutes but everyone latched onto that name. Spiritually he is the new John C. Reilly.
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We make fun of Jesse Plemons for getting fat, but he’s married to Kirsten Dunst so
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He’s budget Matt Damon. Just like the guy from The Boys is budget Bill Hader. And the Hemsworth from Westworld.
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Poor Luke Hemsworth. He's the "short" one (only six foot even as opposed to 6'2" and 6'3" for his brothers) and the "ugly" one (only conventionally attractive as opposed to a golden god and a chiseled adonis).
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I enjoyed a description of Westworld when it first came out that said "It stars a Hemsworth. No, not that one. No, not that one either."
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Larry?
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Helith posted:It took us a while (and reading the credits) to work out that This guy is not a fat Matt Damon. Cool, alternate lyrics for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbHdxgymrGg!
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rydiafan posted:I enjoyed a description of Westworld when it first came out that said "It stars a Hemsworth. No, not that one. No, not that one either." Memento posted:Larry? Shemp Hemsworth
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:We make fun of Jesse Plemons for getting fat, but he’s married to Kirsten Dunst so Hell yeah that means Fargo is real life
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Sep 26, 2020 05:12
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Looks like I just found out Matt Damon wasn't in Fargo.
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Sep 26, 2020 05:36
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It was set in Boston
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Phy posted:a huge goat in a warm coat MODS?!
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Captain Hygiene posted:Rich, caninthian leather Oh, you reminded me of when I found out Corinthian leather is just loving made up!
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Carthag Tuek posted:the ultimate shape of any animal is that of the crab yeah this is why i think its pretty clear that if theres alien life on some exoplanet, it's going to basically look and behave like earth life as long as the environment is similar. they will probably have crabs
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Shibawanko posted:yeah this is why i think its pretty clear that if theres alien life on some exoplanet, it's going to basically look and behave like earth life as long as the environment is similar. they will probably have crabs Oh. Bummer. No sex with the aliens then.
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Roblo posted:Oh. Bummer. No sex with the aliens then. Not for you! 
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