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Le Faye Morgaine posted:they are called HVAC systems because they vacuum up hydrogen. Hydrogen Vacuums. HVAC. Huh. I've never heard anyone call Vulcans HVAC systems 
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Le Faye Morgaine posted:they are called HVAC systems because they vacuum up hydrogen. Hydrogen Vacuums. HVAC. Huh. I thought it was heating, ventilation, air conditioning
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Aug 15, 2022 12:21
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Len posted:I thought it was heating, ventilation, air conditioning This is correct
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Le Faye Morgaine posted:they are called HVAC systems because they vacuum up hydrogen. Hydrogen Vacuums. HVAC. Huh. Do you think it's funny yeah? To come into the thread and lie?
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Len posted:I thought it was heating, ventilation, air conditioning i actually didn't know this because i just assumed it was high volume air circulation and never looked it up
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Although I would appreciate if my home had a system to vacuum up any floating clouds of hydrogen before they detonate or suffocate me
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Failed Imagineer posted:Although I would appreciate if my home had a system to vacuum up any floating clouds of hydrogen before they detonate or suffocate me  
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hey, cunninghams law worked and got myself pleasantly owned. the delicate dance of the universe continues on! thanks for the info haha
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Captain Splendid posted:Vulcans are just elves in space No, that's the Eldar
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Failed Imagineer posted:Do you think it's funny yeah? To come into the thread and lie? Wait are we supposed to be telling the truth?
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That's what I prefer but I'm not a thread czar or anything. It's also just frankly harder to make an insightful post about a misconception. Content: Until it came up in the online game framed, I had always thought Moulin Rouge took place in China and was "Mulan" Rouge. I'd never seen the movie, never seen it spelled, and just sort of had this stupid assumption lurking in my general pop culture knowledge.
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Hola Vaquero, All Cool.
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Chupacabra was made up in Puerto Rico in the mid 90s after some lady had a nightmare after watching Species.
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When I was a child I learned that the Gillette safety razor was invented by someone called King Gillette. I guess I naturally assumed he was an actual king, maybe of a small European country. Not just some American businessman whose parents named him "King".
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Jack B Nimble posted:That's what I prefer but I'm not a thread czar or anything. It's also just frankly harder to make an insightful post about a misconception. When I was in college doing an internship at an audio post house there was a session with about a dozen producers that wouldn't usually be in for sessions, I think this was maybe the final pass or a celebrity was doing voiceover or something. Anyway I'm taking coffee orders for a bunch of people that aren't the regulars, and one of them requested "café olé."
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Captain Splendid posted:Vulcans are just elves in space Klingons were space orcs, Ferengi were space goblins
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Vulkans are space ancient greeks. They're a whole race of stoic philosophers who live on a planet covered in white marble columns. Guess who the Romulans are based on Most star trek aliens are based on some earth culture or another, but it's kind of nebulous. Klingons are just "asian." They were very obviously Chinese in the original series, then Russian in the movies, and then in TNG they became a race of japanese samurai Rick Berman straight up said in interviews that the borg represent America. An expansionist, resource gobbling juggernaut that takes in anybody they can exploit, but you better leave your culture behind and assimilate The cardassians and bajorans are israel and palestine, though which is which depends on the political views of whoever is writing the episode We don't need to talk about the ferengi
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Jack B Nimble posted:That's what I prefer but I'm not a thread czar or anything. It's also just frankly harder to make an insightful post about a misconception. This is wonderful. The movie is loosely based on the actual place, a famous cabaret in Paris. They invented the cancan. It's a tourist attraction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulin_Rouge
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rollick posted:When I was a child I learned that the Gillette safety razor was invented by someone called King Gillette. His middle name was “Camp”. He was also a utopian novelist with a plan for a bizarre porcelain city in the vicinity of Niagara Falls, operated as a company town of sixty million people. Weird guy. 
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Titty City
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Take me down to the paradise city Where the grass is green and the apartments are titties Oh won't you please take me home
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And nobody ever called them "flats" again
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Here's a thread full of people that make us all look like geniuses https://twitter.com/kathbarbadoro/status/1559587676352925696?t=PQLzzn2tmEJaIFftW5tokQ&s=19
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https://twitter.com/pixelsbyprince/status/1559615566566293504 What's with all the masks, is this some kinda burglar convention??
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I had always thought Dancing With Myself was by Billy Idol, then Spotify tells me its by a band called Generation X, and I think "huh maybe this singer just sounds a lot like Billy Idol, interesting I think I'll check out more about this band." Then I find out the singer of Generation X was goddamn Billy Idol, and he shortly after released his own version of Dancing With Myself credited to just him that sounded exactly the loving same to me over FM radio.
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Dip Viscous posted:I have a relative that was completely willing to wear a mask but thought that it was just for hiding his identity rather than breathing through until I explained it to him. So he was wearing it covering his nose but only partially covering his mouth.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Here's a thread full of people that make us all look like geniuses That's an absolute goldmine. Nice find!
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I once observed a woman in her fifties finally learning that the sun was a star. Because her colleague had read about it the day before. "But it's out during the day!", she replied.
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Captain Splendid posted:I once observed a woman in her fifties finally learning that the sun was a star. One of these days I'd love to find out what this specific kind of person would put on a list named "interesting things I'd enjoy thinking about" and what they put in the "boring crap that is pointless to think about" garbage bin and most of all, why Your ignorance is bliss for you, but it can be a curse for everyone else (cf. climate change) ThisIsJohnWayne has a new favorite as of 00:21 on Aug 18, 2022 |
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20% of people don't think.
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I remember consciously realizing the sun was a star as a kid. I mean, I was pretty dumb, but I knew it was also a big burny thing out in space, it was more the contextual realization that I'd never really thought of it in the same way because it's close enough to feel like a completely different thing than the ones you see at night. I like to think I'm canny enough as an adult to hide my reaction if I finally realize something very simple like that nowadays though.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:One of these days I'd love to find out what this specific kind of person would put on a list named "interesting things I'd enjoy thinking about" and what they put in the "boring crap that is pointless to think about" garbage bin and most of all, why They're in the public domain, dude, feel free to read as many Holmes novels as you want.
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I remember that as a child my grandma didn't believe me that Venus is a planet, not a star. She said "but it's called the 'Evening Star'!" So fair enough. And, as it happens, the root of the word "planet" is literally "wandering star", because they move around in the night sky relative to the "fixed" stars. I read a lot about space as a kid, and I guess my grandma didn't 
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Well if scientists discovered a term wasn't accurate, we'd all stop saying it, wouldn't we?
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When non-goons mention Johnny 5 they're not talking about Johnny Five Aces 
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Captain Hygiene posted:I remember consciously realizing the sun was a star as a kid. I mean, I was pretty dumb, but I knew it was also a big burny thing out in space, it was more the contextual realization that I'd never really thought of it in the same way because it's close enough to feel like a completely different thing than the ones you see at night. I like to think I'm canny enough as an adult to hide my reaction if I finally realize something very simple like that nowadays though.
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I always figured wishes traveled through subspace or something and were not bound by the speed of light, that's good to know
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