Wasabi the J posted:

"Possibly" anabolics.

AzureSkys posted:

I took my cat to the vet this morning for a checkup (he was attacked by 3 coyotes a few weeks ago but is ok!).

The Bloop posted:

I assume this is a typo but lol very true

lilbeefer posted:

Whale is another meat that I don't understand all the drama about. It's kinda lovely tasting

quote:

The Japanese have whaled for centuries, but consumption of whale meat peaked after World War II. The country was devastated and food was scarce, so American occupation authorities urged the Japanese to eat more whale as a cheap source of protein. For the next decade or so, half of all protein in the Japanese diet was whale meat. Today, it’s much less: People eat only about 40 grams a year per capita, about the size of a slice of ham.

...

“In Japan, the whale-eating issue is a symbol of respect for different cultures. And many people in Japan think it's not right for people from outside to impose food culture on other places,” said Joji Morishita, who negotiated Japan’s upcoming withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission.

lilbeefer posted:

Whale is another meat that I don't understand all the drama about. It's kinda lovely tasting

Hipster_Doofus posted:

I can't figure out what it was supposed to be.

AzureSkys posted:

I took my cat to the vet this morning for a checkup (he was attacked by 3 coyotes a few weeks ago but is ok!). When I was parking, a lady in a white SUV came behind me and went to park on the other side of a few cars from me.
I was getting my cat out of my car when I heard tire screeching then a thud.


About 10 seconds later I would have been walking into that door. Shortly after the fire department showed up and were doing checks on the building. Thankfully no one was hurt and she hit that pillar after mixing up her pedals instead of going into the building where people were in the lobby. I hope the surveillance footage shows up in some compilation some day.

In 2012 a woman was killed by this same thing around the corner from where I was working. I heard all the sirens and what not.
https://patch.com/washington/renton/woman-killed-when-car-crashes-into-renton-business

I've seen plenty of videos of this but am kind of surprised at how frequently it happens if I've had it occur twice near me in my boring life.

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

Icelanders will tell you that the Murderpony is NOT a pony, and actually just a small yet fully grown horse, but this is nonsense. All small horses are, by definition, ponies. Magical ponies, of friendship and magic.

Iceland: It's Basically Equestria. (TM)

C.M. Kruger posted:

No that was just some museum that had some buckets full of uranium ore sitting around.

Story from 1913 about some hillbillies getting sick after finding a spooky cave:
https://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radoz.html

ATP_Power posted:

Reminds me of This event from 2001 where some Georgian (former USSR republic, not the US state) found some discarded RTG cores and used them as heaters while camping.

Cojawfee posted:

Rural people finding random dangerous poo poo is always hilarious. Was it posted in this thread where those people found that sea mine from one of the world wars and started disassembling it?

Cojawfee posted:

Rural people finding random dangerous poo poo is always hilarious. Was it posted in this thread where those people found that sea mine from one of the world wars and started disassembling it?

Cojawfee posted:

Was it posted in this thread where those people found that sea mine from one of the world wars and started disassembling it?

Icon Of Sin posted:

This is something like I would’ve posted, so maybe? People who don’t know what they are on the outer banks of NC using them as lawn ornaments has definitely happened. They’re still washing up from WWII, a U-boat successfully mined Chesapeake Bay and sank a few ships there. I mean, the explosive that was inside is probably gone, but I never bet against unexploded ordinance that may still want to turn into a rapidly expanding gas cloud/pressure wave.

Icon Of Sin posted:

This is something like I would’ve posted, so maybe? People who don’t know what they are on the outer banks of NC using them as lawn ornaments has definitely happened. They’re still washing up from WWII, a U-boat successfully mined Chesapeake Bay and sank a few ships there. I mean, the explosive that was inside is probably gone, but I never bet against unexploded ordinance that may still want to turn into a rapidly expanding gas cloud/pressure wave.

Cojawfee posted:

Rural people finding random dangerous poo poo is always hilarious. Was it posted in this thread where those people found that sea mine from one of the world wars and started disassembling it?

Powershift posted:

Imagined posted:

When you look up any crazy element or chemical discovered more than about 50 years ago you'll always see notes about what it tastes like. Apparently combining random poo poo and seeing how it tasted was just how chemists rolled back in the day.

Ignition! posted:

I used to take advantage of this property [the exceptional reactivity of mixed acid] when somebody came into my lab looking for a job. At an inconspicuous signal, one of my henchmen would drop the finger of an old rubber glove into a flask containing about 100 cc of mixed acid — and then stand back. The rubber would swell and squirm a moment, and then a magnificent rocket-like jet of flame would rise from the flask, with appropriate hissing noises. I could usually tell from the candidate’s demeanor whether he had the sort of nervous system desirable in a propellant chemist.

ATP_Power posted:

It's been posted a million times in this thread, but if you want a book that's all about chemists combining random poo poo and seeing how it exploded, you gotta check out Ignition! by John Drury Clark.

Memento posted:

Sorry* to interrupt horse chat, but I was just driving one of our 4wd utes to fill up with diesel, and drove past the gatehouse at the same time a delivery truck was pulling up. Driver gets out to go to the breathalyzer machine (a condition of site entry) and as the speed limit there is 20km/h, I get a good look at what he's hauling.

Cabover prime mover, two 40' trailers, 16 big bulka bags on each of them, "AMMONIUM NITRATE" printed on the side. We're ramping up blasting soon for an open pit extension, and I guess all that boom's gotta come from somewhere!

Imagined posted:

When you look up any crazy element or chemical discovered more than about 50 years ago you'll always see notes about what it tastes like. Apparently combining random poo poo and seeing how it tasted was just how chemists rolled back in the day.

ATP_Power posted:

Here's a fun story about microbiology OSHA: the dark and mostly-forgotten art of mouth pipetting

One of my old professors who turned 80 this year will still wax nostalgic about how much quicker it was than using a modern pipettor, and I've talked with folks who worked in her lab in those good old days who remember the taste of the E.coli (non-pathogenic thankfully) when they'd mess it up.

What's even wilder was that she was doing radiolabeling experiments back when her lab was still mouth pipetting - really happy I never had to suck on a pipet with tritiated thymidine when I was doing those experiments back in undergrad.

Jenny Agutter posted:

Are you Norwegian? The "drama" is that whaling is illegal in almost every country in the world

Budgie posted:

https://i.imgur.com/oMfolcB.mp4

Is this young lad covered by OSHA?

wheatpuppy posted:

Not OP but I read that as not understanding why some cultures are dramatic about wanting the right to eat whales. Not that they personally want to be able to eat whales.

wheatpuppy posted:

Not OP but I read that as not understanding why some cultures are dramatic about wanting the right to eat whales. Not that they personally want to be able to eat whales.

zedprime posted:

My fiancees ex boss, a biology professor, would look at the students and post docs in the room, loudly exclaim "Don't do this!" Then mouth pippette formaldehyde. She had a working bulb in the other room.

zedprime posted:

My fiancees ex boss, a biology professor, would look at the students and post docs in the room, loudly exclaim "Don't do this!" Then mouth pippette formaldehyde. She had a working bulb in the other room.

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

I'm Icelandic and we take great pride in serving the north atlantic's bounty of gross garbage meat to tourists but in reality just want to pound greasy beer and cold pizza.