StrandedonEarth Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 (edited) Streaming Watermelons… (would that be a good name for a Smashing Pumpkins tribute band?) Spoiler Edited October 19, 2022 by StrandedonEarth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuke Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 1 hour ago, StrandedonEarth said: Streaming Watermelons… (would that be a good name for a Smashing Pumpkins tribute band?) Hide contents lol, people doing minecraft things irl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuessingEveryDay Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 @Melontime! Your brothers have a waterslide! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 Production flow *ba-dum-ts* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 On 10/19/2022 at 10:14 PM, Nuke said: lol, people doing minecraft things irl. Stuff like this was much more common earlier before tractors and trucks. Using water to move logs is old, even water slides for moving them was an thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 12 800 years ago "we" survived not just Global Ice Melting but also a mass bombardment. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/695703 Spoiler The Great Pyramid Builders' World War, I guess. Interesting, were they angry at humans, or it's just collateral damage and casualties. *** Idk, what's the connection between Canada and Belize, but 800 000 years ago both of them had attracted a trouble, too. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016703716300059 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Predicate 1: UzAuto is a major car factory run by General Motors Predicate 2: Uzbekistan is sunny Result: "Your driver will be in a white Chevy" "Uhm... thanks?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 17 hours ago, kerbiloid said: 12 800 years ago "we" survived not just Global Ice Melting but also a mass bombardment. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/695703 Hide contents The Great Pyramid Builders' World War, I guess. Interesting, were they angry at humans, or it's just collateral damage and casualties. *** Idk, what's the connection between Canada and Belize, but 800 000 years ago both of them had attracted a trouble, too. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016703716300059 The beginning of "Fear God" ...okay, 'the gods'... whatever. Appease them! Find a volcano and a virgin, whatever it takes. Yes, Priest, you can have political power, just make it stop! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 52 minutes ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said: ..okay, 'the gods'... whatever. Appease them! Find a volcano and a virgin, whatever it takes. Yes, Priest, you can have political power, just make it stop! If it was that simple... They probably have captured enough pet humans to populate every inhabitable planet in the Milky Way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maria Sirona Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 In finnish, the word for translating something into finnish language is "suomentaa". Since "finlandize" is firstly something completely else and this is the language we're talking about, i guess that when you translate something into finnish, you "finnish" it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muonium The correct name of muonium is muium. P.S. It's a palindrome, btw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 Years ago I told my kids that zombies lived in the sewers (we had a large drain on the street we used to live on). Purpose was to keep them from messing around and falling in - and it was way before Pennywise. My son (who was 4) asked if the zombies could ever get out. I told him that they came out after midnight on Halloween (misperceptions of Dia de los Muertos played into this) and would grab kids who were out too late. My kids are teens now. They joke about how mean I was. However... Every Halloween... They're both inside before midnight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 Follow on Fun Fact: "Battle Royale" describes the interaction between my wife and the kids once they get home with their candy. LAST MOM STANDING! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 1 hour ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said: Follow on Fun Fact: "Battle Royale" describes the interaction between my wife and the kids once they get home with their candy. LAST MOM STANDING! My wife would always tell the kids “YOU DIDNT GET ENOUGH! GET BACK OUT THERE!!!” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 (edited) Last in this series: Sitting together and drinking coffee while eating purloined chocolate goodness... I realized I'm mildly disturbed by my spouse's complete lack of interest in SpaceX's side by side booster landing this morning. I showed her the video, and she was like, 'huh... cool.' Of course that's the exact reaction I give her when she shows me a 15 second video of a chinchilla in a hat holding a sign. Edited November 1, 2022 by JoeSchmuckatelli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjBrrvGyo37AhU-jIkEHd3OCI0QxfQBKAB6BAgOEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencenews.org%2Farticle%2Fmom-voice-kid-brain-teen-neuroscience&usg=AOvVaw3-o-SY8-68x-D65xA2Wscw ...and somewhat related science news: appropriately 'fun' fact: In these same brain regions in teens, unfamiliar voices elicited greater responses than the voices of their own dear mothers. The shift from mother to other seems to happen between ages 13 and 14. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 6 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjBrrvGyo37AhU-jIkEHd3OCI0QxfQBKAB6BAgOEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencenews.org%2Farticle%2Fmom-voice-kid-brain-teen-neuroscience&usg=AOvVaw3-o-SY8-68x-D65xA2Wscw ...and somewhat related science news: appropriately 'fun' fact: In these same brain regions in teens, unfamiliar voices elicited greater responses than the voices of their own dear mothers. The shift from mother to other seems to happen between ages 13 and 14. Notice my complete lack of surprise at this revelation... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 From my experience of studying in the UK and thinking carefully about my travels in France and Central and Eastern Europe, there doesn't seem to be anyway to argue with that. That's London you've painted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maria Sirona Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 36 minutes ago, steve9728 said: From my experience of studying in the UK and thinking carefully about my travels in France and Central and Eastern Europe, there doesn't seem to be anyway to argue with that. That's London you've painted! Tampere is mostly like that, except that the body of water going through it is a rapid, and its name, Tammerkoski, has four syllables. And also, there are a lot more museums. Like A LOT. And one final thing, half of Tampere is actually forest. Yes, legit. It's in Finland, what did you except? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codraroll Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 They made one for US cities as well: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 1 hour ago, Codraroll said: They made one for US cities as well: Houston! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 15 hours ago, Codraroll said: They made one for US cities as well: We don't have any skyscrapers. Otherwise, yeah, pretty much nailed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 Nikolai Kamov (fifth from right) and Michail Mil (third from right) in front of the humble beginnings of the Soviet rotary-fight combat aviation, one of five Kamov A-7 observation autogyros, some time in 1941. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 The Objective Individual Combat Weapon was a semi-auto grenade launcher with a regular rifle bolted to it; when the launchers proved troublesome, H&K offered the rifle as a separate system that would become the XM-8. According to Ian McCollum, the official feedback for the first iteration was, I kid you not, "Can you make it more Starship Troopers?" Spoiler This lead to this iteration: By the way, the Starship Troopers movie is 25 today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben J. Kerman Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 On 11/6/2022 at 5:32 PM, DDE said: Nikolai Kamov (fifth from right) and Michail Mil (third from right) in front of the humble beginnings of the Soviet rotary-fight combat aviation, one of five Kamov A-7 observation autogyros, some time in 1941 Kamov and Mil? Dang, humble beginnings indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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