PYF Thing You Just Realized: Everyday someone on Earth takes the world's biggest shit

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Tree Bucket: Apr 1, 2016; R.I.P.idura leucophrys

hawowanlawow posted:

parts of the congo river are 720 feet deep. that's nuts

I bet there's hecka cryptids down there.

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Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Tree Bucket posted:

I bet there's hecka cryptids down there.

Mokole Mbembe

# ? Mar 25, 2023 01:05

Sir Lemming: Jan 27, 2009; It's a piece of JUNK!

More often than not, when you hear a vocal harmony in a Nirvana song, it's Dave Grohl.

# ? Mar 25, 2023 17:48

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010; Can't post for 6 hours!

Sir Lemming posted:

More often than not, when you hear a vocal harmony in a Nirvana song, it's Dave Grohl.

If you hear a naff voice in the backing vocals of anything from Immediate! Records, it's probably Mick Jagger.

# ? Mar 25, 2023 17:51

Analytic Engine: May 18, 2009; not the analytical engine

Tree Bucket posted:

I bet there's hecka cryptids down there.

the perfect thread for cryptid postulation

# ? Mar 25, 2023 18:16

Creature: Mar 9, 2009; We've already seen a dead horse

Captain Hygiene posted:

The recovery time on those things is also insane, if things go well. My mom had one put in last year and I think she went home the day after, way different than I was expecting for anything to do with getting into the arteries. Hope things go well with your cousin's recovery.

My father in law had one put in a few months back. He was out of hospital the day after, and out doing his normal 20km walks by the end of the week. It�s incredible what medical science is capable of.

# ? Mar 26, 2023 14:13

Grassy Knowles: Apr 4, 2003; "The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Tree Bucket posted:

It's great how "chameleon" translates as "ground lion." You've got an animal that dwells in trees, can change colour, and can shoot out a long sticky tongue, and you think, "ah it's just like a lion, only on the ground"

# ? Mar 27, 2023 12:00

Captain Splendid: Jan 7, 2009; Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

Fokker does, actually, etymologically translate to "fucker"

# ? Mar 27, 2023 21:24

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Captain Splendid posted:

Fokker does, actually, etymologically translate to "fucker"

I loved playing this game and announcing very loudly, "Mom! Dad! I'm playing Fokker, okay? Is it okay if I play Fokker? I'm going to play Fokker for a while, okay?"

# ? Mar 27, 2023 22:20

Hyperlynx: Sep 13, 2015

I recently found out that video cameras never used film. In fact, that was the whole point! They used to have things like CRTs in them, to convert images into electrical signals.

I always thought they used film, just a crappy kind of film compared to cinema-quality stuff. I figured maybe I had this impression from VHS tapes, which had reels of stuff in them

...which I *also* just found out weren't film either, but magnetic digital storage.

In fact, it turns out (also new knowledge to me) that the word "video" itself means "electronically recorded moving images". I had thought it simply meant "recorded moving images", including both electronic and film.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 03:15

Baron von Eevl: Jan 24, 2005; WHITE NOISE
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There were handheld consumer-grade film cameras, most commonly 8mm.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 03:27

Hyperlynx: Sep 13, 2015

Baron von Eevl posted:

There were handheld consumer-grade film cameras, most commonly 8mm.

I even saw some the other day at https://www.acmi.net.au/ !

I even work for a company that makes digital movie cameras and related equipment! :psyduck:

# ? Mar 28, 2023 03:32

Foxfire_: Nov 8, 2010

Pookah posted:

I have a tiny hole in the roof of my mouth, I mentioned it to a doctor once, but they brushed over it.
I can only assume I was close to having a cleft palate, and the only actual event was this tiny hole.
It's really dinky, like the size of a grain of rice.

Can you use a straw without also sucking air in your nose?

# ? Mar 28, 2023 05:13

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010; Can't post for 6 hours!

Hyperlynx posted:

I recently found out that video cameras never used film. In fact, that was the whole point! They used to have things like CRTs in them, to convert images into electrical signals.

I always thought they used film, just a crappy kind of film compared to cinema-quality stuff. I figured maybe I had this impression from VHS tapes, which had reels of stuff in them

...which I *also* just found out weren't film either, but magnetic digital storage.

In fact, it turns out (also new knowledge to me) that the word "video" itself means "electronically recorded moving images". I had thought it simply meant "recorded moving images", including both electronic and film.

Actually it just means "I see", just like Volvo means "I spin". (Remember, kids; o s t mus tis nt). And the o is long, just like in veto.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 05:27

Hyperlynx: Sep 13, 2015

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Actually it just means "I see", just like Volvo means "I spin". (Remember, kids; o s t mus tis nt). And the o is long, just like in veto.

Ah, video.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 05:30

Creature: Mar 9, 2009; We've already seen a dead horse

The hit 1985 single by Til Tuesday doesn�t go �Hush hush, keep it down now, this is scary�. It�s �Hush hush, keep it down now, voices carry�

You know, as in the loving title of the song. :doh:

# ? Mar 28, 2023 06:31

doctorfrog: Mar 14, 2007; Great.

Creature posted:

The hit 1985 single by Til Tuesday doesn�t go �Hush hush, keep it down now, this is scary�. It�s �Hush hush, keep it down now, voices carry�

You know, as in the loving title of the song.

(first time i heard it, i thought it said "this is gary," and assumed gary was a ghost or something trying to speak, so be quiet)

# ? Mar 28, 2023 07:46

Creature: Mar 9, 2009; We've already seen a dead horse

doctorfrog posted:

(first time i heard it, i thought it said "this is gary," and assumed gary was a ghost or something trying to speak, so be quiet)

I actually prefer your version

# ? Mar 28, 2023 08:09

veni veni veni: Jun 5, 2005

Creature posted:

The hit 1985 single by Til Tuesday doesn�t go �Hush hush, keep it down now, this is scary�. It�s �Hush hush, keep it down now, voices carry�

You know, as in the loving title of the song.

I always thought it was "this is scary" and then she rhymed it with "voices carry" in the next line. But no, it's just "voices carry" the whole time.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 08:13

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Hyperlynx posted:

I recently found out that video cameras never used film. In fact, that was the whole point! They used to have things like CRTs in them, to convert images into electrical signals.

I always thought they used film, just a crappy kind of film compared to cinema-quality stuff. I figured maybe I had this impression from VHS tapes, which had reels of stuff in them

...which I *also* just found out weren't film either, but magnetic digital storage.

In fact, it turns out (also new knowledge to me) that the word "video" itself means "electronically recorded moving images". I had thought it simply meant "recorded moving images", including both electronic and film.

The one that blows every young person�s mind is that there was a time when videotape didn�t exist but the television camera did.

Every television broadcast was live. Actors would repeat their performances for western time zones.

If something absolutely had to be recorded, it had to be done on motion picture film. This was expensive, more expensive than paying the cast and crew twice, and it left artefacts such that it didn�t look the same as an normal TV broadcast with a TV camera.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 11:27

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010; Can't post for 6 hours!

I didn't just find this out but I remember reading a science book from the 1910s talking about telefacsimiles (at some point later shortened to telefaxes) as an old and mature technology. Pretty mind-blowing!

e: I say science book but it had a decidedly technological bias. Like fifty plates of different electricity generators etc.

3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 11:37 on Mar 28, 2023

# ? Mar 28, 2023 11:35

Hyperlynx: Sep 13, 2015

Platystemon posted:

The one that blows every young person�s mind is that there was a time when videotape didn�t exist but the television camera did.

Every television broadcast was live. Actors would repeat their performances for western time zones.

If something absolutely had to be recorded, it had to be done on motion picture film. This was expensive, more expensive than paying the cast and crew twice, and it left artefacts such that it didn�t look the same as an normal TV broadcast with a TV camera.

I didn't realise I qualified as a young person, because holy poo poo!!

# ? Mar 28, 2023 11:44

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010; Can't post for 6 hours!

Radio also predates magnetophones.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 11:45

Snowglobe of Doom: Mar 30, 2012; sucks to be right

Microwave ovens first became commercially available in the 1940s, domestically available in the 1950s and by the late 1960s companies like Sharp and Raytheon were selling benchtop home units

# ? Mar 28, 2023 12:21

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010; Can't post for 6 hours!

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Microwave ovens first became commercially available in the 1940s, domestically available in the 1950s and by the late 1960s companies like Sharp and Raytheon were selling benchtop home units

I'm the Marimekko knock-off mugs.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 12:22

flavor.flv: Apr 18, 2008; I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches

Radarange is an awesome name and I wish it stuck and became the genericised term

# ? Mar 28, 2023 14:49

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010; Can't post for 6 hours!

flavor.flv posted:

Radarange is an awesome name and I wish it stuck and became the genericised term

"Why does your voice keep fading in and out?"
"AMANA RADARANGE!"

Now with rotating platter!

# ? Mar 28, 2023 14:52

Lincoln: May 12, 2007; Ladies.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Microwave ovens first became commercially available in the 1940s, domestically available in the 1950s and by the late 1960s companies like Sharp and Raytheon were selling benchtop home units

I turned 6 in 1976, and our new home had a large, dedicated space for a microwave. This was unusual at the time. Two big dials, one for power and one for time. I had an old babysitter (like, 60 or 70 years old) who refused to use the microwave. I thought she was a loon, and told her so. She didn�t like me.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 15:36

ishikabibble: Jan 21, 2012

Platystemon posted:

The one that blows every young person’s mind is that there was a time when videotape didn’t exist but the television camera did.

Every television broadcast was live. Actors would repeat their performances for western time zones.

If something absolutely had to be recorded, it had to be done on motion picture film. This was expensive, more expensive than paying the cast and crew twice, and it left artefacts such that it didn’t look the same as an normal TV broadcast with a TV camera.

I think the repeat performance thing was more something from the radio days. By the time national TV broadcasts were widespread you had stuff like Kinescopes and Telecines which were literally 'a 35mm movie camera pointed at a CRT' and 'a broadcast camera pointed at a projection screen' respectively.
That's how a lot of old TV shows survived. The early seasons of I Love Lucy were all recorded this way, before they started just shooting on film directly.

The artefacts it left were mostly just lower quality from being a lower resolution copy. Afaik kinescopes were still filmed at the normal NTSC/PAL framerates and not 24 FPS like with cinema stuff, so you didn't get weird errors like 2-3 pulldown.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 18:03

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

The phrase is actually "just deserts" and not "just desserts." I'm still gonna keep writing desserts, though.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 19:23

Baron von Eevl: Jan 24, 2005; WHITE NOISE
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Yes, "deserts" pronounced "desserts" but meaning neither the hot dry place nor the yummy thing.

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Captain Hygiene: Sep 17, 2007; Can't post for 6 hours!

Well that's dumb. Who would come up with a dumb saying like that?

# ? Mar 28, 2023 19:34

veni veni veni: Jun 5, 2005

Regardless of what it is, wtf does that phrase even mean? I've never eve thought about it before. Deserts makes even less sense.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 19:41

Tenebrais: Sep 2, 2011

veni veni veni posted:

Regardless of what it is, wtf does that phrase even mean? I've never eve thought about it before. Deserts makes even less sense.

A "desert" meaning a thing you deserve. The word has fallen out of use outside that phrase.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 19:44

Snowglobe of Doom: Mar 30, 2012; sucks to be right

Tenebrais posted:

A "desert" meaning a thing you deserve. The word has fallen out of use outside that phrase.

It's a "fossil word", an archaic word thast has fallen out of general use but survives as part of a popular idiom. Other examples are "champing at the bit", "kith and kin", "hither and yon", "bated breath", etc etc

# ? Mar 28, 2023 20:57

run on sentience: Mar 22, 2022

I always thought it was just desserts too. I never really thought about it much but I think I was picturing bad people getting a stale old dry cake or a turd in a pie pan.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 21:58

Splint Chesthair: Dec 27, 2004

flavor.flv posted:

Radarange is an awesome name and I wish it stuck and became the genericised term

The only thing I remember about the movie American Hustle is Jennifer Lawrence insisting on calling her microwave the "science oven." That would have been an acceptable substitute, as well.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 22:38

Captain Hygiene: Sep 17, 2007; Can't post for 6 hours!

Honestly, I just like to go back to basics and call it The Magnetron.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 22:39

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

It's a "fossil word", an archaic word thast has fallen out of general use but survives as part of a popular idiom. Other examples are "champing at the bit", "kith and kin", "hither and yon", "bated breath", etc etc

�Beck and call� frequently becomes �beckon call� because no one recognizes �beck� as its own word.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 22:46

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zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

Beck isn't a fossil. Mellow Gold came out like 5 years ago.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 22:55

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