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quote:The name "Vaseline" is derived from the German word "Wasser" (water) and the Greek word "elaion" (olive oil), indicating its semisolid, water-repellent properties.
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Iceland-Shattering Kabooms? Seems appropriate.
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Hot-but-scary half naked chick with blue skin and a belt made out of human skulls? Mystique from X-Men is modeled off of the Hindu goddess Kali.
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The advertising jingle "I'd Like To Buy the World a Coke" wasn't a reworded cover of "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", it was actually the other way around. Advertising executives came up with the Coke jingle (based on the tune of an earlier song called "True Love and Apple Pie") and it became so popular that they wrote new lyrics and released it as a generic pop song
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The WB logo on the Warner Brothers water tower probably isn't actually a hatch that swings open.
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Next you’ll tell me there isn’t even a Warner Sister 
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root beer posted:Next you’ll tell me there isn’t even a Warner Sister Whaddaya mean, how could he, she's right there next to 'em. The bros and Dot.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:The bros and Dot. I believe I have just realized something (ty)
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Empty Sandwich posted:I believe I have just realized something (ty) poo poo. Me too.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Whaddaya mean, how could he, she's right there next to 'em. The bros and Dot. Empty Sandwich posted:I believe I have just realized something (ty) ... 
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Hectares are bigger than acres
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Captain Splendid posted:Hectares are bigger than acres the measurement system of the british empire sucks rear end e: sorry 9/16 of rear end and 7/16 of garbage
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Any system of measurements that requires you to use fractions is an abomination
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Fractions, fracture us. Diminishes us. Multiples... multiples makes us dance in multitude. Ergo like imperial sux my dude, gnarly metric ftw
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FreudianSlippers posted:Any system of measurements that requires you to use fractions is an abomination A 1/10th? 1/100th? All human endeavor is folly. There is only being a good dog. Woof Woof
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FreudianSlippers posted:Any system of measurements that requires you to use fractions is an abomination Yeah, just have a unique name for every single possible amount, no problem.
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We've never needed more than enough.
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"Man on the Moon" by REM, about Andy Kaufman, was not written for the film "Man on the Moon", about Andy Kaufman. The film was named after the song. "The Great Beyond", by REM, about Andy Kaufman, was written for the film "Man on the Moon", by Andy Kaufman.
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There has never been a real life NFL player named QB Bills.
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wakka wakka posted:A 1/10th? 1/100th? All human endeavor is folly. There is only being a good dog. Woof Woof what are you, from the year 405? who writes 1/10 but ok, decimals are a new invention, so check this out: you can write like 100.001 and it means ten times ten plus one less than ten times nine and nine
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Carthag Tuek posted:what are you, from the year 405? who writes 1/10 You could get 9/10 more work done if you stopped worrying about how other people use numbers
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Captain Hygiene posted:You could get 9/10 more work done if you stopped worrying about how other people use numbers i only work when i wanna and also they started it
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Captain Hygiene posted:You could get 9/10 more work done if you stopped worrying about how other people use numbers Posting is praxis, picking fight's for fun if you win
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I can control Youtube on my PS5 on my Anroid phone. (Good for queueing up songs or whatever.) Just happened to open the Youtube application on the phone while watching a video on my TV and it asked me if I want to connect.
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Carthag Tuek posted:what are you, from the year 405? who writes 1/10 perhaps these posts where a little 0.5 baked
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wakka wakka posted:perhaps these posts where a little 0.5 baked Perhaps there's no saving someone if you have to convince them to use metric
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"High noon" (midday) isn't when the sun is at it's highest point in the sky, actual solar noon very rarely falls exactly on 12:00 and during some parts of the year in some parts of the world there might be more than an hour's difference between the two. It also occurs on a slightly different time every day
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Perhaps there's no saving someone if you have to convince them to use metric there's no saving anyone on this site
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:"High noon" (midday) isn't when the sun is at it's highest point in the sky, actual solar noon very rarely falls exactly on 12:00 and during some parts of the year in some parts of the world there might be more than an hour's difference between the two. It also occurs on a slightly different time every day Is it similar to "bottom of the hour" and actually referring to where a clock's hand are pointing?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:"High noon" (midday) isn't when the sun is at it's highest point in the sky, actual solar noon very rarely falls exactly on 12:00 and during some parts of the year in some parts of the world there might be more than an hour's difference between the two. It also occurs on a slightly different time every day Not sure what you mean by "isn't when the sun is at its highest point" because that is exactly what it is. Its called "HIGH noon" because the sun is the highest and the shadows are the shortest.
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Yeah, you'd say "duel at high noon" because the clocks weren't calibrated the same, poo poo, and/or absent.
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Today I just realised that one shouldn't adjust one's glasses while walking down stairs...
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Taskmaster is just comedians doing mod challenges for tv.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:"High noon" (midday) isn't when the sun is at it's highest point in the sky, actual solar noon very rarely falls exactly on 12:00 and during some parts of the year in some parts of the world there might be more than an hour's difference between the two. It also occurs on a slightly different time every day lol
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The population of the land of the dead in Coco is kind of an odd thing to consider. The only people there either are in the memory of living people and/or still have a portrait on an ofrenda. An art piece or painted portrait also seems to count on an ofrenda same as a photo, so you could have people from like the medieval era possibly still there. The ofrenda portrait is only necessary to visit the land of the living on Dia de los Muertos. However, those no longer in the memory of anyone living vanish from the land of the dead, the Final Death. So without ofrenda portraits, that's maybe two generations of staying power before anyone who met you in life is dead themselves. So the population is basically comprised of: 1.) People with a single portrait kicking around from antiquity on, of which the identity is known and cared about. Probably wealthy families or historical figures, well-represented and beloved celebrities, artists. 2.) A disproportionate bias towards people born after the advent of photography, probably the majority of the land of the dead. A lovely little blurry pic from 1888 that says "Papa" could potentially keep some dude going in the afterlife indefinitely. It's interesting to consider that the Land of the Dead has probably grown hugely in just the past century or two, with an ever-increasing upward trend as photography and digital imagery becomes more commonplace. Instead of everyone who dies spending on average a couple living generations in the land of the dead then going on to the Final Death, suddenly nearly everyone who showed up was both there indefinitely AND had access to the land of the living via the ofrenda offering, probably necessitating the complex bureaucratic infrastructure witnessed in the film. In summation, far from being an eternal afterlife, the Land of the Dead in Coco is a crowded limbo rife with exaggerated inequity reflecting the inequity of the living world.
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Taeke posted:Taskmaster is just comedians doing mod challenges for tv. 
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500excf type r posted:Not sure what you mean by "isn't when the sun is at its highest point" because that is exactly what it is. Its called "HIGH noon" because the sun is the highest and the shadows are the shortest. It used to mean that back before we had mechanical clocks (the phrase goes back to at least 1370 according to the OED) but it hasn't actually meant that in practice for a long time now. In the 1952 movie High Noon Gary Cooper was always glancing at his pocket watch or the clock on the wall as it got closer to noon, he wasn't running outside to check a sun dial or the length of the shadows If you can find an example where they stand around measuring the shadows before they agree to start the shoot out I'll concede the point but I don't like your chances, lol
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Finishing my book on company time means I now have nothing to read on the bus, reducing me to busposting.
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That's like the worst possible example you can use, because the point of the movie is the guy coming for him is on the 12:00 train.
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"High Noon" is when the sun is at its zenith, if you mean 12PM local time then you just say "noon".
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