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Snakes In The Ball Pit => Yay, I get to talk about me! => Topic started by: A Meat on June 04, 2021, 05:41:40 pm

Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on June 04, 2021, 05:41:40 pm
This thread for weird facts and trivia you learned.

I learned the music duo LMFAO are related to former US president Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter's grandfather was the half brother of Redfoo's great grandfather
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Great Joe on June 04, 2021, 06:36:06 pm
I recently learned about rivnuts, the rivets that instead of attaching two metal plates together, attach a nut to one metal plate.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on June 05, 2021, 04:15:12 am
In Where's Waldo (or Where's Wally if you're British), Waldo has an official nemesis, called Odlaw, he lives in a swamp and he looks like this

(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/waldo/images/4/45/Character.Odlaw.jpg)
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Post by: Penultimatum on June 05, 2021, 11:43:49 am
Today I learned “Who Let the Dogs Out” by the Baha Men is actually a cover. It was originally written by Anslem Douglas, a soca musician from Trinidad, in 1998 - two years before the Baha Men’s version.
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Post by: Great Joe on June 06, 2021, 11:06:21 am
Today I learned that dishwasher doors have a surprisingly large internal bottle for keeping rinse-aid.
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Post by: A Meat on June 06, 2021, 12:46:32 pm
Today I learned “Who Let the Dogs Out” by the Baha Men is actually a cover. It was originally written by Anslem Douglas, a soca musician from Trinidad, in 1998 - two years before the Baha Men’s version.
Dragon Friend, June 05, 2021, 11:43:49 am
Same thing with Bow Wow Wow's "I Want Candy", it's originally by The Strangeloves and is from 1965. The versions are very similar, but the Bow Wow Wow one doesn't have a saxophone
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Post by: moooo566 (taylor's version) on June 06, 2021, 01:23:59 pm
In Where's Waldo (or Where's Wally if you're British), Waldo has an official nemesis, called Odlaw, he lives in a swamp and he looks like this

(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/waldo/images/4/45/Character.Odlaw.jpg)
A Meat, June 05, 2021, 04:15:12 am

Today I learned that Odlaw is backwards for Waldo and not just some made up name that sounds vaguely menacing. I'd never seen them in the same sentence because I know him as Wally, so the meaning was lost.
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Post by: Achilles' Heelies on June 06, 2021, 01:47:33 pm
In Where's Waldo (or Where's Wally if you're British), Waldo has an official nemesis, called Odlaw, he lives in a swamp and he looks like this

(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/waldo/images/4/45/Character.Odlaw.jpg)
A Meat, June 05, 2021, 04:15:12 am
Yeknod, get outta my swamp!
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Post by: Blandest on June 06, 2021, 04:17:30 pm
I've never understood why Wally had a nemesis called Odlaw when it's what the American version of a British book calls the main character.

ETA: There's a good 99% invisible episode about who let the dogs out. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/whomst-among-us-let-the-dogs-out/ (https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/whomst-among-us-let-the-dogs-out/) if anyone is interested.
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Post by: Great Joe on June 06, 2021, 06:33:23 pm
My digital caliper has a brake in it that's just a strip of copper kept in place by tiny thread screws and actuated by a thumbscrew.
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Post by: A Meat on June 08, 2021, 09:54:14 am
César Cui, beyond being a prolific composer who was part of the Russian classical musical clique The Five (with Mussorgsky, Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin) and a being music critic was apparently an Engineer-General in the Imperial Russian Army, which is a full fledged general. You were supposed to address him as Your High Excellency, which is apparently impossibly long in Russian (Ваше Высокопревосходительство, or transliterated as Vashe Vysokoprevoskhoditelstvo)
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Post by: A Meat on June 09, 2021, 02:17:38 pm
I learned what the difference between a reamer and a broach is
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Post by: Seth "Slimy" Rollins on June 09, 2021, 04:31:36 pm
when Clive Barker was working to make the first Hellraiser movie, the execs said he couldn't name it The Hellbound Heart after his original novel, so he asked around the studio for ideas for a name and one older woman said 'What A Woman Won't Do For A Good Fuck'
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Post by: A Meat on June 10, 2021, 10:28:50 am
Well known idiot Malcom Gladwell apparently used to be a very high level runner, running 1500 meters in under 4 minutes
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Post by: The Killer Dynamo on June 10, 2021, 10:28:59 pm
I learned the definitional difference between "tactics" and "strategy."

(Strategy is an overall goal or plan. Tactics are the small steps in the process of reaching it.)
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Post by: Dr. Buttplug on June 11, 2021, 07:33:35 am
I learned that some birds like Cranes and Storks fly with their necks straight out, while other long neck birds, like Herons and Egrets, fly with them twisted up and it looks weird.

(https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/great-egret-flight-2-morris-finkelstein.jpg)
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Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on June 12, 2021, 04:20:12 pm
I learned that the fairly famous German TV series about a crime solving K9, "Inspector Rex", had a made-for-TV movie which chronicled the dog's origin story, called "Baby Rex - Der kleine Kommissar". The only critic review cited on IMDB comes from a blogspot site, which has this paragraph:

(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/316344081217355776/853380720915251250/unknown.png)

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Post by: Great Joe on June 12, 2021, 04:57:19 pm
I learned that there's a geothermal power plant right by Þingvallavatn, and it's somehow very well hidden from the rest of its neighbouring national park.
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Post by: Blandest on June 12, 2021, 05:11:38 pm
I learned that the fairly famous German TV series about a crime solving K9, "Inspector Rex", had a made-for-TV movie which chronicled the dog's origin story, called "Baby Rex - Der kleine Kommissar". The only critic review cited on IMDB comes from a blogspot site, which has this paragraph:

(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/316344081217355776/853380720915251250/unknown.png)
Spooks, June 12, 2021, 04:20:12 pm
Not to be not picky but I figured I'd stick to the title of the thread and learn you something new. It's actually an Austrian and Italian co production which is why a few seasons in Rex moves to Italy and I guess learns Italian?
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Post by: Frank West on June 13, 2021, 08:39:08 pm
I learned that the intro to a news story is spelled lede and not lead, because a part of the linotype machine they used to print newspapers was already called the lead, so they misspelled "lead" to not confuse people. Then I found out that lede only started to be used at the very end of the linotype's lifespan so that's probably not true.

I didn't learn anything.
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Post by: jim and the mammograms on June 13, 2021, 10:23:36 pm
I learned that fake fact you just posted, and I'm probably going to absorb it and forget it's not true, so I guess I learned negative things.
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Post by: Cheapskate on June 14, 2021, 12:45:48 pm
That song they play at hockey games is lifted wholesale from a Commodore 64 game.

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Post by: A Meat on June 15, 2021, 10:23:10 am
I learned about the Criminal Tribes Act from the 1870's, where the British effectively made a list of ethnic, social and other groups that are automatically considered criminals and had to report to authorities constantly to make sure they didn't leave the areas they were allowed in and that they weren't committing crimes. Once India gained independence they changed the name of the law to the Habitual Offenders Act, and it essentially kept carrying the same stigma and meaning. From what I can gather in 2008 they finally started affirmative action for some of these groups, but I don't know how much effect it's had in the past decade
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Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on June 15, 2021, 02:00:32 pm
TeX is a typesetting system for math formulae. I've learned this about it today:

Since version 3, TeX has used an idiosyncratic version numbering system, where updates have been indicated by adding an extra digit at the end of the decimal, so that the version number asymptotically approaches π. This is a reflection of the fact that TeX is now very stable, and only minor updates are anticipated. The current version of TeX is 3.141592653; it was last updated in 2021.[11] The design was frozen after version 3.0, and no new feature or fundamental change will be added, so all newer versions will contain only bug fixes.[12] Even though Donald Knuth himself has suggested a few areas in which TeX could have been improved, he indicated that he firmly believes that having an unchanged system that will produce the same output now and in the future is more important than introducing new features. For this reason, he has stated that the "absolutely final change (to be made after my death)" will be to change the version number to π, at which point all remaining bugs will become features.[13] Likewise, versions of Metafont after 2.0 asymptotically approach e (currently at 2.7182818), and a similar change will be applied after Knuth's death.[12]
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on June 16, 2021, 08:59:32 am
Paul Sorvino's son, Michael, voiced the main character of the video games Mafia and Mafia II
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Post by: A Meat on June 16, 2021, 01:22:52 pm
Also learned that gringo might be a distortion of griego, which is greek, as in "it's all greek to me"
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Post by: Great Joe on June 16, 2021, 03:48:58 pm
The term "avuncular", which means "uncle-like, in the manner of an uncle, pertaining to an uncle".
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Post by: Dr. Buttplug on June 19, 2021, 08:48:47 am
There are physical mechanisms built on rivers that count the total number of fish that pass through that river.
(https://environmentdata.org/sites/default/files/fishcounter.jpg)
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Post by: A Meat on June 19, 2021, 10:07:05 am
Ashoka, emperor of India around 250 BC had at least one edict in Greek and Aramaic in addition to all the ones people know of in Prakrit (in Brahmi script)
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Post by: Sauce on June 20, 2021, 04:21:37 pm
Callipygian
adj. Having shapely buttocks
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Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on June 20, 2021, 07:53:05 pm
I learned that the intro to a news story is spelled lede and not lead, because a part of the linotype machine they used to print newspapers was already called the lead, so they misspelled "lead" to not confuse people. Then I found out that lede only started to be used at the very end of the linotype's lifespan so that's probably not true.

I didn't learn anything.
Frank West, June 13, 2021, 08:39:08 pm

Linotype machines fucking rule. Printed text for a long time was set by hand, with each letter being on a single piece of lead. But if you want to print newspapers or the like, time is of the essence. So you type up your line on the linotype, drops the mold as you type, and then casts the whole line in lead right there. When you're done, you toss it right back in the pot of bubbling lead to be reused. This is why old newspapers have really rigid kerning and columns.

Printmaking rules.
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Post by: A Meat on June 21, 2021, 08:46:23 am
Callipygian
adj. Having shapely buttocks
Sauce, June 20, 2021, 04:21:37 pm
There's a famous Roman statue called Venus Callipyge of a woman admiring her own shapely ass
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Post by: EYE OF ZA on June 21, 2021, 09:37:33 am
Speaking of, all of you reading this just learned that the art archaeology term for 'has a boner' is "ithyphallic".
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Post by: ham burger on June 22, 2021, 06:03:20 am
Today I learned “Who Let the Dogs Out” by the Baha Men is actually a cover. It was originally written by Anslem Douglas, a soca musician from Trinidad, in 1998 - two years before the Baha Men’s version.
Dragon Friend, June 05, 2021, 11:43:49 am

I learned this recently, too, and then I'd like to add on that when I learned that, I also learned that the Baha Men had been a band since 1977.
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Post by: A Meat on June 23, 2021, 08:45:11 am
I learned that Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is surprisingly common for a rare disease (a figure I found is 1 in 2500 people, but I'm not sure where it's from), and that it's a peripheral nervous system neuropathy that's expressed almost entirely through symptoms in the legs (too much arch, foot drop, hammer toe and muscle atrophy in the legs).
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Post by: A Meat on June 23, 2021, 11:06:34 am
Two of the people in the demon trading shop in Shin Megami Tensei: Soul Hackers are named after Devo songs (Mr. DNA and Timing X)
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Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on June 23, 2021, 10:11:30 pm
Apparently you can make a violin similar in quality to a Stradivarius violin by treating the wood with fungus.

The fungal attack changes the cell structure of the wood, reducing its density and simultaneously increasing its homogeneity. “Compared to a conventional instrument, a violin made of wood treated with the fungus has a warmer, more rounded sound,” explains Francis Schwarze.

Another theory is that the wood sourced for the violins also were special from the Little Ice Age slowing the growth of the trees, creating very dense and even wood.
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on June 23, 2021, 11:02:22 pm
The London Clowns’ Gallery-Museum, which is where the Clown Eggs (https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/b9_wyeoQ9epT389zPxdRv-GMFe4=/fit-in/1072x0/https://public-media.si-cdn.com/filer/28/fb/28fb55da-166d-43bc-82dd-d02667a7a69d/dsc_0055_3.jpg) were, is now permanently closed.
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Post by: Cradicus on June 24, 2021, 04:24:44 pm
Weird ice cream maker Dippin' Dots developed the freezer technology that allowed the COVID vaccines to be widely distributed.
https://www.chron.com/coronavirus/article/Dippin-Dots-covid-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-15822066.php
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Post by: jim and the mammograms on June 24, 2021, 06:20:49 pm
You would need around 200 drinks to give a horse alcohol poisoning.
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Post by: chai tea latte on June 24, 2021, 10:55:09 pm
You would need around 200 drinks to give a horse alcohol poisoning.
jim and the mammograms, June 24, 2021, 06:20:49 pm
today i learned i can NOT outdrink the average horse.
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Post by: jim and the mammograms on June 24, 2021, 11:00:07 pm
You would need around 200 drinks to give a horse alcohol poisoning.
jim and the mammograms, June 24, 2021, 06:20:49 pm
today i learned i can NOT outdrink the average horse.
chai tea latte, June 24, 2021, 10:55:09 pm

The low end of the estimate was 170 drinks, so perhaps you can outdrink a lightweight horse if you believe in yourself and you have a spare liver waiting in the car.

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Post by: chai tea latte on June 24, 2021, 11:01:58 pm
You would need around 200 drinks to give a horse alcohol poisoning.
jim and the mammograms, June 24, 2021, 06:20:49 pm
today i learned i can NOT outdrink the average horse.
chai tea latte, June 24, 2021, 10:55:09 pm

The low end of the estimate was 170 drinks, so perhaps you can outdrink a lightweight horse if you believe in yourself and you have a spare liver waiting in the car.
jim and the mammograms, June 24, 2021, 11:00:07 pm
i can do that
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Post by: Seth "Slimy" Rollins on June 25, 2021, 02:15:07 pm
mammals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons
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Post by: Tipsy Almond on June 28, 2021, 01:22:59 pm
The default Windows XP background "Bliss" is an actual place in California wine country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_(image) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_(image))
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Post by: 1234GO! on July 05, 2021, 09:10:05 am
Gave myself a little research project to distract myself from a shitty work week to figure out what is the north-most mesoamerican pyramid (mississippian mounds don't count), I'm pretty sure it's the Zona Arqueoloigca El Sabinito in Tamaulipas.

(https://www.milenio.com/uploads/media/2021/05/29/el-sabinito-zona-arqueologica-de-1_0_123_960_597.jpeg)
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Post by: A Meat on July 05, 2021, 10:51:20 am
I learned that a posy (a little bouquet of flowers) is also called a nosegay (nose is nose, gay is an obsolete term for a small ornament), which is also called a tussie-mussie
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Post by: Great Joe on July 05, 2021, 12:37:33 pm
I learned that there's big money in the business of 3D printing shoes.
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Post by: A Meat on July 07, 2021, 03:19:56 am
I learned that in addition to the regular confusing biological axes of superior-inferior, anterior-posterior, rostral-caudal, ventral-dorsal, proximal-distal, oral-aboral, apical-basal, adaxial-abaxial(fuck this one) and medial-lateral, there's also introrse and extrorse, pertaining specifically to facing towards a central axis and away from a central axis (mostly about the directions of dehiscence of anthers in a flower it seems).

edit: peripheral-central is another one
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Post by: ham burger on July 07, 2021, 09:42:21 am
adaxial-abaxialA Meat, July 07, 2021, 03:19:56 am

well thank god medical communication doesn't require clarity under pressure or this might be a real fucking mess

edit before i even posted: i decided to look these words up to see what they refer to and it seems they mostly pertain to leaves, which i suppose ER doctors don't operate on much, so it's probably not that big a deal. i am leaving my stupid in the box for posterity.
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Post by: A Meat on July 07, 2021, 11:21:13 am
adaxial-abaxialA Meat, July 07, 2021, 03:19:56 am

well thank god medical communication doesn't require clarity under pressure or this might be a real fucking mess

edit before i even posted: i decided to look these words up to see what they refer to and it seems they mostly pertain to leaves, which i suppose ER doctors don't operate on much, so it's probably not that big a deal. i am leaving my stupid in the box for posterity.
ham burger, July 07, 2021, 09:42:21 am
yeah they're the top and bottom part of a leaf, but it's still absurdly bad even if it's not causing a horrific accident
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Post by: A Meat on July 09, 2021, 06:07:19 am
I learned that there's a Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool, named after Harold Holt, prime minister of Australia who disappeared while swimming in the sea. To be fair, they were already building it when he presumably drowned, and he was from the area, but it's still some prime Australian dark humor
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on July 11, 2021, 11:39:17 pm
The oldest known treatise on anatomy is an Egyptian text dating back to 1600 BC and covers topics such as surgery and gynaecology and full records of 48 cases of injury and their treatments.

It's also named the Edwin Smith Papyrus after some dickhead who bought it in the 19th century. Way to ride on the coat-tails of possibly the oldest pioneers in medical science, asshole.

EDIT: Moron didn't even translate the papyrus himself or anything. Fucking come on. He bought it, got someone else to translate it for him and the thing is still named after him. Complete bullshit.
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Post by: Dr. Buttplug on July 12, 2021, 08:34:44 am
The oldest known treatise on anatomy is an Egyptian text dating back to 1600 BC and covers topics such as surgery and gynaecology and full records of 48 cases of injury and their treatments.

It's also named the Edwin Smith Papyrus after some dickhead who bought it in the 19th century. Way to ride on the coat-tails of possibly the oldest pioneers in medical science, asshole.

EDIT: Moron didn't even translate the papyrus himself or anything. Fucking come on. He bought it, got someone else to translate it for him and the thing is still named after him. Complete bullshit.
Salubrious Rex, July 11, 2021, 11:39:17 pm

I think this is perfectly reasonable because as the big man said;

"Do not judge, or you too will be judged." Matthew 7:1 Dr. Buttplug's Bible
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Post by: Emperor Jack Chick on July 12, 2021, 05:35:43 pm
Stephen Harper has a band.
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Post by: Great Joe on July 15, 2021, 02:18:01 pm
The Sega GameGear was made from plans leaked by the LCD manufacturer Citizen, that originally came from Nintendo as a way to weasel out of a contract in order to maintain their good business relationship with Sharp, who'd made all the displays for the various Game & Watches.
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Post by: kthorjensen on July 15, 2021, 11:39:50 pm
The Sega GameGear was made from plans leaked by the LCD manufacturer Citizen, that originally came from Nintendo as a way to weasel out of a contract in order to maintain their good business relationship with Sharp, who'd made all the displays for the various Game & Watches.
Great Joe, July 15, 2021, 02:18:01 pm

want to know more about this, is there a link I can read?
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Post by: Great Joe on July 16, 2021, 06:42:13 am
The Sega GameGear was made from plans leaked by the LCD manufacturer Citizen, that originally came from Nintendo as a way to weasel out of a contract in order to maintain their good business relationship with Sharp, who'd made all the displays for the various Game & Watches.
Great Joe, July 15, 2021, 02:18:01 pm

want to know more about this, is there a link I can read?
kthorjensen, July 15, 2021, 11:39:50 pm
Sure thing, there's this video:

Which for this particular part cites this book:
History of Nintendo, Vol 4 by Florent Gorges
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Post by: RoeCocoa on July 18, 2021, 12:55:16 am
Benthic means of, relating to, or occurring at the bottom of a body of water, sometimes more specifically the bottom of the ocean.
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Post by: A Meat on July 19, 2021, 04:17:56 am
I learned that resorption is a real word and is not the name as reabsorption, and it's the deconstruction of an existent structure (usually bone tissue or volcanic rock) back into the system/area
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Post by: A Meat on July 20, 2021, 04:58:46 am
Dominica is slightly larger than Singapore by area, but Singapore has 81 times as many people
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Post by: A Meat on July 21, 2021, 04:32:31 am
Learned about the Shope Papilloma Virus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shope_papilloma_virus), a disease that turns rabbits into cryptids (specifically a jackalope or wolpertinger, al-mi'raj or any other form of horned hare)
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on July 24, 2021, 12:54:02 am
Jackfruit are freakin' massive (https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/632810272633126922/868367497764692038/unknown.png), in fact it's the largest fruit grown from a tree. It's also banned in a lot of places because it can dangerously lower blood sugar levels. It can have a meat-like texture and is often used as a vegetarian substitute for meat.
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on July 24, 2021, 03:58:32 am
the smell of jackfruit is so sickening that i skipped a train journey once rather than attend the wedding
chai tea latte, July 24, 2021, 02:29:58 am
From what I've read it has a strong sweet smell. Is it just that overpowering?
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Post by: chai tea latte on July 24, 2021, 01:00:10 pm
the smell of jackfruit is so sickening that i skipped a train journey once rather than attend the wedding
chai tea latte, July 24, 2021, 02:29:58 am
From what I've read it has a strong sweet smell. Is it just that overpowering?
Salubrious Rex, July 24, 2021, 03:58:32 am
you can not even comprehend the degree to which it is.
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Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on July 24, 2021, 01:06:12 pm
the smell of jackfruit is so sickening that i skipped a train journey once rather than attend the wedding
chai tea latte, July 24, 2021, 02:29:58 am
From what I've read it has a strong sweet smell. Is it just that overpowering?
Salubrious Rex, July 24, 2021, 03:58:32 am
you can not even comprehend the degree to which it is.
chai tea latte, July 24, 2021, 01:00:10 pm

If you were to give it a number, the given base unit being a new age shop's incense section
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Post by: Blandest on July 26, 2021, 03:21:07 pm
Jackfruit are freakin' massive (https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/632810272633126922/868367497764692038/unknown.png), in fact it's the largest fruit grown from a tree. It's also banned in a lot of places because it can dangerously lower blood sugar levels. It can have a meat-like texture and is often used as a vegetarian substitute for meat.
Salubrious Rex, July 24, 2021, 12:54:02 am
Can you elaborate on the blood sugar levels thing? My wife has been eating a lot of vegan food due to going on a no milk diet while breastfeeding and she loves this jackfruit burger at a local cafe. I'm a type 1 diabetic and I'd be worried about eating something that could mess with my bsl like that but information is vague online.
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Post by: Salubrious Rex on July 26, 2021, 10:41:13 pm
Jackfruit are freakin' massive (https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/632810272633126922/868367497764692038/unknown.png), in fact it's the largest fruit grown from a tree. It's also banned in a lot of places because it can dangerously lower blood sugar levels. It can have a meat-like texture and is often used as a vegetarian substitute for meat.
Salubrious Rex, July 24, 2021, 12:54:02 am
Can you elaborate on the blood sugar levels thing? My wife has been eating a lot of vegan food due to going on a no milk diet while breastfeeding and she loves this jackfruit burger at a local cafe. I'm a type 1 diabetic and I'd be worried about eating something that could mess with my bsl like that but information is vague online.
Blandest, July 26, 2021, 03:21:07 pm

I can't I'm afraid, everything I learned about it was from searching on the internet after our DM introduced Jackfruit in our D&D game so I've probably read more or less the same stuff as you have.
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Post by: A Meat on August 03, 2021, 12:54:06 am
Simona Halep is a Romanian of Aromanian descent, and while Romania doesn't recognize Aromanian as a distinct ethnic minority, their language is to Romanian what Sicilian is to Italian, so people don't entirely agree on whether it's a dialect of Romanian or it's a separate but closely related language
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on August 04, 2021, 05:18:49 am
It's not entirely clear why wine gums are called that, possibly it was just marketing to make people think they're fancy, another theory says that it's because you're supposed to savor them like wine. The legend about them goes that the guy who invented them was almost kicked out by his dad who was a strict Methodist teetotaler for selling a product that contained alcohol, which wine gums don't have
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on August 11, 2021, 12:49:35 pm
I learned the the fish called bogue has the scientific name of Boops boops (given to it by Linnaeus), which is sadly supposed to be pronounced bow-ops, it's it's supposedly boōps from greek or something, and means cow eye. Not gonna stop me from thinking about it as the plural of boop
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Seth "Slimy" Rollins on August 12, 2021, 03:34:35 pm
Ford's theater (where Abraham Lincoln got assassinated) is not only still in operation (https://www.fords.org/) (mostly as a museum of course) but has Lincoln's head as it's logo
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Great Joe on August 15, 2021, 08:29:51 am
You can absolutely destroy concrete with just water and a kitchen brush.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Dr. Buttplug on August 16, 2021, 11:23:04 am
Jackfruit are freakin' massive (https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/632810272633126922/868367497764692038/unknown.png), in fact it's the largest fruit grown from a tree. It's also banned in a lot of places because it can dangerously lower blood sugar levels. It can have a meat-like texture and is often used as a vegetarian substitute for meat.
Salubrious Rex, July 24, 2021, 12:54:02 am
Can you elaborate on the blood sugar levels thing? My wife has been eating a lot of vegan food due to going on a no milk diet while breastfeeding and she loves this jackfruit burger at a local cafe. I'm a type 1 diabetic and I'd be worried about eating something that could mess with my bsl like that but information is vague online.
Blandest, July 26, 2021, 03:21:07 pm

I can't I'm afraid, everything I learned about it was from searching on the internet after our DM introduced Jackfruit in our D&D game so I've probably read more or less the same stuff as you have.
Salubrious Rex, July 26, 2021, 10:41:13 pm
Could be a case of mistaken identity? Durians look a lot like Jackfruits but unlike (ripe but not spoiled) Jackfruits they are most well known for smelling like rotting corpses.
(https://fruitinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Durian-vs-Jackfruit.jpg)
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Seth "Slimy" Rollins on August 17, 2021, 07:51:15 am
literally just learned that Motorhead and Lemmy are from Britain
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on August 17, 2021, 01:07:33 pm
The creator of Scrooge McDuck was called Carl Barks
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on August 17, 2021, 03:45:33 pm
In 1948, Carl Barks’s domestic life was a mess. His second wife Clara was drinking hard, coming apart at the seams. By his account, she was increasingly violent, tearing up his comics and throwing his original artwork out the window, threatening to rip it up. In 1950 she developed cancer and surgery left her leg amputated at the knee. Barks built her a prosthesis. Having no insurance, he paid the medical bills out of the page rate he was receiving from Western Publishing for his duck comics. The alimony he would pay to her for thirteen years after their divorce the following year too.

These comics were the best of his career. Work was an escape for him: “When the dishes would stop flying, the bottles breaking, why, I could sit down and the ideas would just flow in on me,” he recalled in 1973. And indeed, his work of c. 1948–54 ranks amongst the most consistently inspired, inventive, touching, and plain fun in the history of comics.

From the opening paragraphs of this (http://www.tcj.com/reviews/donald-duck-lost-in-the-andes-2/) overly long review with 174 comments each as long as it. (I read almost none of either the first time I chanced upon it, several months back, and I don't plan on it now.)
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: EYE OF ZA on August 17, 2021, 06:55:35 pm
In Japan, it's often easier/cheaper to buy the NA/EU release of a music CD, even with international shipping, so when CDs are released in Japan, they often come with extra tracks not available in other regions to make buying the CD more appealing to Japanese music fans.

This is why music sharing sites like the JP releases of albums when available, because they'll come with bonus/demo tracks.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on August 21, 2021, 03:07:03 pm
https://twitter.com/tole_cover/status/1163580164439183360?s=20
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Sauce on August 22, 2021, 09:31:03 am
Never trust a landlord when they say a problem has been fixed.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on August 30, 2021, 06:07:25 pm
https://twitter.com/EEMemez/status/1432464513102749696

I've learned this isn't a shitpost, it's real. (http://xn--90asn.xn--80aswg/)
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Salubrious Rex on August 30, 2021, 08:01:30 pm
https://twitter.com/EEMemez/status/1432464513102749696

I've learned this isn't a shitpost, it's real. (http://xn--90asn.xn--80aswg/)
Spooks, August 30, 2021, 06:07:25 pm

You have no idea how much I wanted the RA3 Soviet March (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDQ7hXMLxGc&ab_channel=OMGClanChannel) to begin playing when I opened that website.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on August 31, 2021, 02:01:59 pm
I learned that there's a variant of Tarot deck called the Bourgeois Tarot that has 21 trump cards rather than 22 and they're all relatively mundane subjects like times of day and seasons rather than stuff like a chariot or justice or whatever
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: chai tea latte on August 31, 2021, 02:43:27 pm
I learned that if I rearrange my home screen on my phone, it cures me of my nervous icon-tapping within like 48 hours. Big ups can't believe it was this easy
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: chai tea latte on August 31, 2021, 05:49:27 pm
I learned that if I rearrange my home screen on my phone, it cures me of my nervous icon-tapping within like 48 hours. Big ups can't believe it was this easy
chai tea latte, August 31, 2021, 02:43:27 pm
i learned that I've accidentally Zeno's Paradox'd my new tapping impulse. It's half as strong for half the icons. No way out but forward
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on September 02, 2021, 09:46:53 am
There's a racehorse called Haru Urara (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haru_Urara) who lost all 113 of her races, and people used her losing bet tickets as anti-traffic accident charms because the word that means losing a bet in Japanese is also to avoid getting hit (by a car presumably)
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Seth "Slimy" Rollins on September 07, 2021, 12:49:33 am
goatse is an acronym
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Great Joe on September 07, 2021, 03:06:16 am
goatse is an acronym
Seth "Slimy" Rollins, September 07, 2021, 12:49:33 am
?
The original URL was goatse.cz. Half the joke was that whoever you tricked was clicking through to a website supposedly about goat sex.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Seth "Slimy" Rollins on September 07, 2021, 10:56:03 am
goatse is an acronym
Seth "Slimy" Rollins, September 07, 2021, 12:49:33 am
?
The original URL was goatse.cz. Half the joke was that whoever you tricked was clicking through to a website supposedly about goat sex.
Great Joe, September 07, 2021, 03:06:16 am

I took this from the book It Came From Something Awful which is a thoroughly depressing read, and upon further looking into it that fact comes from an urban dictionary definition so I doubt it's authenticity. sorry for spreading false information.

for the record, it apparently stands for guy opens (his) ass to show everyone
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Emperor Jack Chick on September 07, 2021, 11:11:15 am
goatse is an acronym
Seth "Slimy" Rollins, September 07, 2021, 12:49:33 am
?
The original URL was goatse.cz.
Great Joe, September 07, 2021, 03:06:16 am

*goatse.cx
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Antivehicular on September 07, 2021, 05:14:07 pm
Today I learned that "consecrated virgins" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consecrated_virgin) are a thing, if you want to be married to Jesus but not do the whole nun thing? It came up next to "godspousery," so this might actually be the Catholic equivalent of getting married to Loki??
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on September 07, 2021, 07:43:35 pm
I learned my landlord has 14 days to make a repair from the date of written notice.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Great Joe on September 08, 2021, 02:44:21 pm
goatse is an acronym
Seth "Slimy" Rollins, September 07, 2021, 12:49:33 am
?
The original URL was goatse.cz.
Great Joe, September 07, 2021, 03:06:16 am

*goatse.cx
Emperor Jack Chick, September 07, 2021, 11:11:15 am
Somehow I thought that was the one they moved onto but yeah, you're right.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Emperor Jack Chick on September 08, 2021, 08:40:45 pm
goatse is an acronym
Seth "Slimy" Rollins, September 07, 2021, 12:49:33 am
?
The original URL was goatse.cz.
Great Joe, September 07, 2021, 03:06:16 am

*goatse.cx
Emperor Jack Chick, September 07, 2021, 11:11:15 am
Somehow I thought that was the one they moved onto but yeah, you're right.
Great Joe, September 08, 2021, 02:44:21 pm

You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder question my knowledge of gaping assholes.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Shell Game on September 15, 2021, 02:08:05 am
I learned that I've met some of the best people I could ever know through this community.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Emperor Jack Chick on September 15, 2021, 08:53:35 am
I learned that I've met some of the best people I could ever know through this community.
Shell Game, September 15, 2021, 02:08:05 am

god, same
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Great Joe on September 16, 2021, 02:35:47 pm
In Norway, you can just go and name your kid "Wenche".
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on September 19, 2021, 11:00:10 am
Today I learned that "consecrated virgins" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consecrated_virgin) are a thing, if you want to be married to Jesus but not do the whole nun thing? It came up next to "godspousery," so this might actually be the Catholic equivalent of getting married to Loki??
Antivehicular, September 07, 2021, 05:14:07 pm
as a sequel to this, I learned that Holy Unmercenary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Unmercenaries) is an epithet a saint could get for treating the sick free of charge. One of them was someone called Sampson the Hospitable, which is a very good moniker, especially if like him you actually run a hospital.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on October 06, 2021, 09:00:41 am
Rodent taxonomy is confusing, as far as I can tell:
Most typical mice and rats belong to the family Muridae in the order Rodentia, specifically in the suborder Myomorpha(mouse-shaped). The other suborders of Rodentia are Sciurimorpha(squirrel-shaped), Castorimorpha(beaver-shaped) and Hystricomorpha(porcupine-shaped).

The problem is that rodents don't actually have names that fit their category, so you have for example:
- dormice and mountain beavers who are squirrel-shaped, but not spiny or pygmy dormice, those are mouse-shaped
- kangaroo rats/mice who are beaver-shaped
- rock rat is a name for like 6 different species, of which half are porcupine-shaped. Rock mice are mouse-shaped though
- moonrats are related to hedgehogs, who aren't rodents
- all mole-rats are porcupine-shaped, but naked mole-rats are part of a different family than all the other mole-rats, moles aren't related to them, but they are in the same order as hedgehogs
- similar deal with chinchillas and chinchilla rats, both porcupine-shaped, but different families.
- shrews aren't related, they're related to hedgehogs, but treeshrews are a sister order to the one containing lagomorphs and rodents
- bats? not related to any of the above, they're a sister clade to Eulipotyphla, who are the hedgehogs and moles and shrews I mentioned
- tenrecs, elephant shrews and golden moles aren't part of that group, they're related to elephants
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on October 06, 2021, 09:11:58 am
Less of a family tree and more a family spirograph
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on October 11, 2021, 03:29:13 am
I learned that Santiago Ramón y Cajal, one of the pioneers of neuroscience, artist whose sketches of the nervous system are still used in biology courses around the world and Nobel prize winner, also wrote a collection of five science fiction stories called Vacation Stories (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0252026551)

edit: he wrote them under the pseudonym Dr. Bacteria, I feel like this is an important fact
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Salubrious Rex on October 11, 2021, 08:26:50 am
The theme music to Iron Chef is called Show me your fire truck (https://youtu.be/eNIcK8SGcFA), composed by Hans Zimmer for the film Backdraft.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Wolley74 on October 12, 2021, 05:26:24 am
I learned when 3D printing at weird angles due to print bed size constraints, always make sure that everything has supports :(
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Great Joe on October 12, 2021, 07:13:48 am
I learned when 3D printing at weird angles due to print bed size constraints, always make sure that everything has supports :(
Wolley74, October 12, 2021, 05:26:24 am
Congrats on getting a resin printer.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Wolley74 on October 12, 2021, 08:02:53 am
Congrats on getting a resin printer.
Great Joe, October 12, 2021, 07:13:48 am

Unfortunately was standard FDM, just the thing I was trying to print wouldn't fit on the round bed it uses. would fit only on its side but the supports trashed the surface finish, going to borrow a friend's Ender 5 Plus and give that a shot, Cura says it'll fit no problems in the correct orientation so that should help out a lot.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on October 14, 2021, 06:11:53 am
The soybean plant's scientific name is Glycine max. Apparently it was named Phaseolus max, until they found out that the soybean isn't part of the same genus (Phaseolus) as regular beans, so they moved it to the correct one. Soybeans don't contain an especially high amount of glycine, and they're not sweet (glyco- being sweet), so it's a weird name
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on October 19, 2021, 01:59:11 pm
Neuro-linguistic programming was created in the 1970s by two men called John Grinder and Dick Bandler. Nominative determinism wins again.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on October 19, 2021, 04:02:42 pm
Rivers Cuomo grew up (or at least from age 5 to 10) in an ashram called Yogaville that used to be in Connecticut but is now in Virginia. They have a registered trademark for something called Integral Yoga®
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Emperor Jack Chick on October 19, 2021, 05:47:37 pm
I got to learn all about [COMPANY]'s awesome culture and how it made them #1! See they have what they call the cultural flywheel, in which culture drives growth, which in turn drives innovation, which drives business outcomes, which drives growth so its an endless virtuous cycle! This is a key component in their overall business strategy and why you need to show up every day PUMPED and ready to kill it!
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on October 19, 2021, 06:27:53 pm
I got to learn all about [COMPANY]'s awesome culture and how it made them #1! See they have what they call the cultural flywheel, in which culture drives growth, which in turn drives innovation, which drives business outcomes, which drives growth so its an endless virtuous cycle! This is a key component in their overall business strategy and why you need to show up every day PUMPED and ready to kill it!
Emperor Jack Chick, October 19, 2021, 05:47:37 pm

AAAAAAGUqelghqw;hgw;erl kjg dlk;jgqwe; lktjqw having horrible DISC assessment and onboarding flashbacks. Intense company culture like this is just the biggest red flag, right up there with "we're a family".
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: jim and the mammograms on October 19, 2021, 07:21:53 pm
I got to learn all about [COMPANY]'s awesome culture and how it made them #1! See they have what they call the cultural flywheel, in which culture drives growth, which in turn drives innovation, which drives business outcomes, which drives growth so its an endless virtuous cycle! This is a key component in their overall business strategy and why you need to show up every day PUMPED and ready to kill it!
Emperor Jack Chick, October 19, 2021, 05:47:37 pm

AAAAAAGUqelghqw;hgw;erl kjg dlk;jgqwe; lktjqw having horrible DISC assessment and onboarding flashbacks. Intense company culture like this is just the biggest red flag, right up there with "we're a family".
Blood Book, October 19, 2021, 06:27:53 pm

personally i think it's wise of a workplace to acknowledge how often i show up to work ready to kill
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Emperor Jack Chick on October 19, 2021, 10:32:35 pm
I got to learn all about [COMPANY]'s awesome culture and how it made them #1! See they have what they call the cultural flywheel, in which culture drives growth, which in turn drives innovation, which drives business outcomes, which drives growth so its an endless virtuous cycle! This is a key component in their overall business strategy and why you need to show up every day PUMPED and ready to kill it!
Emperor Jack Chick, October 19, 2021, 05:47:37 pm

AAAAAAGUqelghqw;hgw;erl kjg dlk;jgqwe; lktjqw having horrible DISC assessment and onboarding flashbacks. Intense company culture like this is just the biggest red flag, right up there with "we're a family".
Blood Book, October 19, 2021, 06:27:53 pm

See sanguinary you're not thinking of the outcomes. Imagine if [COMPANY] accomplished [MISSION STATEMENT]! Everyone in the industry we support would get to work less, as they were so much more productive. That is absolutely and definitely how capitalism works!

personally i think it's wise of a workplace to acknowledge how often i show up to work ready to kill
jim and the mammograms

Yeah but your pump is seriously lacking. We've noted it on your core competencies and this is a clear area of opportunity for you.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: chai tea latte on October 19, 2021, 11:34:05 pm
I'll pump your damn action shotgun if you give me a "meets expectations", bud
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on October 20, 2021, 03:39:36 am
I got to learn all about [COMPANY]'s awesome culture and how it made them #1! See they have what they call the cultural flywheel, in which culture drives growth, which in turn drives innovation, which drives business outcomes, which drives growth so its an endless virtuous cycle! This is a key component in their overall business strategy and why you need to show up every day PUMPED and ready to kill it!
Emperor Jack Chick, October 19, 2021, 05:47:37 pm

AAAAAAGUqelghqw;hgw;erl kjg dlk;jgqwe; lktjqw having horrible DISC assessment and onboarding flashbacks. Intense company culture like this is just the biggest red flag, right up there with "we're a family".
Blood Book, October 19, 2021, 06:27:53 pm

personally i think it's wise of a workplace to acknowledge how often i show up to work ready to kill
jim and the mammograms, October 19, 2021, 07:21:53 pm

A Quota for Murder
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Sauce on October 22, 2021, 12:20:34 pm
Guns n Roses have had two different guitarists who have named themselves after something tangentially related to chickens.

One of them is the proud owner of this guitar:
(http://www.bumblefoot.com/gear/bfoot-VigierBBF4.jpg)
(Thank you Spooks for sharing that)

The other is known for his nunchaku dances.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on October 22, 2021, 05:20:18 pm
I learned that Tuffy the dolphin delivered supplies to SEALAB II.

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/427508122198736917/901088908794798181/unknown.png)
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Great Joe on October 22, 2021, 06:01:55 pm
I learned that sometimes, mostly-rotted sealife carcasses will just, float up to beaches around the world, covered in tiny hairs and while a lot has disappeared off them, they still weigh several tonnes.

And they're called globsters.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on October 23, 2021, 02:04:07 am
I learned that some ultraorthodox jews will avoid eating certain leafy vegetables because it's impossible to guarantee there aren't any insects hiding in there and eating them would not be kosher
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Emperor Jack Chick on October 23, 2021, 11:05:56 am
I learned that some ultraorthodox jews will avoid eating certain leafy vegetables because it's impossible to guarantee there aren't any insects hiding in there and eating them would not be kosher
A Meat, October 23, 2021, 02:04:07 am

so like god created the world right? and then he was just like LOL good luck avoiding accidental sin fuckos!
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on October 23, 2021, 12:42:33 pm
I learned that some ultraorthodox jews will avoid eating certain leafy vegetables because it's impossible to guarantee there aren't any insects hiding in there and eating them would not be kosher
A Meat, October 23, 2021, 02:04:07 am

so like god created the world right? and then he was just like LOL good luck avoiding accidental sin fuckos!
Emperor Jack Chick, October 23, 2021, 11:05:56 am
Welcome to the world of overreaching jurisprudence that imposes more and more rules, I wouldn't know why. I just found out about it from a religious student asking a question in a course I'm in about mushrooms. The topic was that endosymbiotic mushrooms could be used as insect repellents in commercial crops
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on November 04, 2021, 01:31:11 am
I learned that giant puffball mushrooms exist, and they can get up to the size of a beach ball. Also if you search Google Images for giant puffball you can find lots of photos of people proudly showing off freakishly large mushrooms they've found
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on November 04, 2021, 02:23:27 am
I learned that giant puffball mushrooms exist, and they can get up to the size of a beach ball. Also if you search Google Images for giant puffball you can find lots of photos of people proudly showing off freakishly large mushrooms they've found
A Meat, November 04, 2021, 01:31:11 am

I had a bunch of these in my yard as a kid!! I liked to jump on them and then eat shit because I slipped. Good times
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on November 04, 2021, 06:28:54 am
I learned that giant puffball mushrooms exist, and they can get up to the size of a beach ball. Also if you search Google Images for giant puffball you can find lots of photos of people proudly showing off freakishly large mushrooms they've found
A Meat, November 04, 2021, 01:31:11 am
I had a bunch of these in my yard as a kid!! I liked to jump on them and then eat shit because I slipped. Good times
Blood Book, November 04, 2021, 02:23:27 am

I hope you did that while they were still white and immature, because the spore cloud from the fully mature (and frankly ugly) ones could fuck up your lungs
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on November 04, 2021, 09:47:34 am
I'm learning a lot from this intro to mycology course, including the stuff about puffballs from my previous post, but also that Beatrix Potter (before she wrote children's books) was a mycologist who wrote scientific papers on mushroom reproduction and regularly did scientific illustrations of mushrooms
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on November 04, 2021, 04:19:01 pm
I learned that giant puffball mushrooms exist, and they can get up to the size of a beach ball. Also if you search Google Images for giant puffball you can find lots of photos of people proudly showing off freakishly large mushrooms they've found
A Meat, November 04, 2021, 01:31:11 am
I had a bunch of these in my yard as a kid!! I liked to jump on them and then eat shit because I slipped. Good times
Blood Book, November 04, 2021, 02:23:27 am

I hope you did that while they were still white and immature, because the spore cloud from the fully mature (and frankly ugly) ones could fuck up your lungs
A Meat, November 04, 2021, 06:28:54 am

Looks like there are two kinds of mushrooms called puffball mushrooms. The ones I'm thinking of are white and solid all the way through. And can get enormous!

(https://i.imgur.com/PtJ4MtT_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium)
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on November 04, 2021, 04:47:40 pm
I learned that giant puffball mushrooms exist, and they can get up to the size of a beach ball. Also if you search Google Images for giant puffball you can find lots of photos of people proudly showing off freakishly large mushrooms they've found
A Meat, November 04, 2021, 01:31:11 am
I had a bunch of these in my yard as a kid!! I liked to jump on them and then eat shit because I slipped. Good times
Blood Book, November 04, 2021, 02:23:27 am

I hope you did that while they were still white and immature, because the spore cloud from the fully mature (and frankly ugly) ones could fuck up your lungs
A Meat, November 04, 2021, 06:28:54 am

Looks like there are two kinds of mushrooms called puffball mushrooms. The ones I'm thinking of are white and solid all the way through. And can get enormous!

(https://i.imgur.com/PtJ4MtT_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium)
Blood Book, November 04, 2021, 04:19:01 pm
that's what they look like when they're immature, maturation causes them to develop a shitload of spores inside and eventually look more like this
(https://www.naturallynorthidaho.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Puffballs-1.jpg)
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on November 04, 2021, 05:31:23 pm
G R O S S
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Great Joe on November 04, 2021, 05:33:07 pm
I learned that giant puffball mushrooms exist, and they can get up to the size of a beach ball. Also if you search Google Images for giant puffball you can find lots of photos of people proudly showing off freakishly large mushrooms they've found
A Meat, November 04, 2021, 01:31:11 am
I had a bunch of these in my yard as a kid!! I liked to jump on them and then eat shit because I slipped. Good times
Blood Book, November 04, 2021, 02:23:27 am

I hope you did that while they were still white and immature, because the spore cloud from the fully mature (and frankly ugly) ones could fuck up your lungs
A Meat, November 04, 2021, 06:28:54 am

Looks like there are two kinds of mushrooms called puffball mushrooms. The ones I'm thinking of are white and solid all the way through. And can get enormous!

(https://i.imgur.com/PtJ4MtT_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium)
Blood Book, November 04, 2021, 04:19:01 pm
that's what they look like when they're immature, maturation causes them to develop a shitload of spores inside and eventually look more like this
(https://www.naturallynorthidaho.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Puffballs-1.jpg)
A Meat, November 04, 2021, 04:47:40 pm
There's also an intermediate stage where they'll look white on the outside but if you cut into one it'll be mostly green on the inside. If you find one and it still hasn't developed the green stuff, it's still edible, and I hear they taste pretty good.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on November 05, 2021, 02:44:41 am
There's also an intermediate stage where they'll look white on the outside but if you cut into one it'll be mostly green on the inside. If you find one and it still hasn't developed the green stuff, it's still edible, and I hear they taste pretty good.
Great Joe, November 04, 2021, 05:33:07 pm
as far as I know you're right, but next week we have a guest lecture from an expert on mushroom foraging and edible mushrooms in general, so I'll let you know if I learn otherwise
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Great Joe on November 05, 2021, 07:27:25 am
Oh also, in Icelandic they're called gorkúlur, because that green stuff is the colour of a cow's gore.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on November 05, 2021, 09:59:04 am
Fungi: partly fascinating, mostly terrifying
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on November 08, 2021, 01:07:42 am
Michael J. Fox was born as Michael A. Fox, but he decided to have his middle initial be J. in honor of Michael J. Pollard, who played C. W. Moss in Bonnie and Clyde
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Great Joe on November 09, 2021, 06:43:20 am
Late 1800s miners loved opera.
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Post by: A Meat on November 09, 2021, 09:11:07 am
What we call in English a Danish pastry is called wienerbrød in Danish, which means Viennese bread, but in Vienna they call it Kopenhagener after the capital of Denmark
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on November 10, 2021, 05:21:00 pm
The loading animation has a technical name, and it's called a throbber. I hate it, and the inventor

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throbber
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on November 21, 2021, 04:59:43 am
Slot machine tournaments are a thing
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on November 24, 2021, 05:30:05 am
The "con" in conman is short for confidence, and cons are confidence tricks.

just never thought about it until today
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on December 03, 2021, 10:45:12 am
Before recombinant human growth hormone (rHGH) was developed in 1981, HGH was only available by extracting it from the pituitary glands of cadavers.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Great Joe on December 05, 2021, 04:22:01 pm
The orb pondering wizard art is from a trading card game themed on Lord of the Rings, and depicts Saruman using the Palantír.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Cheapskate on December 05, 2021, 07:01:46 pm
Some scholars think that “the son of man” is just a Galilean Aramaic idiom to refer to one’s self that Judeans and Greeks didn’t understand and translated literally, so Jesus might have been saying the equivalent of “For even Yours Truly did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on December 06, 2021, 12:02:22 am
Some scholars think that “the son of man” is just a Galilean Aramaic idiom to refer to one’s self that Judeans and Greeks didn’t understand and translated literally, so Jesus might have been saying the equivalent of “For even Yours Truly did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Cheapskate, December 05, 2021, 07:01:46 pm
In modern hebrew the word human is בן אדם, which is literally "son of Adam", shortened to "adam" when just referring to a man. The name Adam comes from the Hebrew root א-ד-מ ('-d-m), which is the root for the word for earth as well as the one for the color red
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: moooo566 (taylor's version) on December 06, 2021, 01:42:17 pm
There is no dog menopause.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Great Joe on December 06, 2021, 07:52:45 pm
The center punch, the prick punch, the drift pin and the scratch awl are all tools that basically just boil down to "pointy metal with a handle for drilling right"
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: thelizzerd on December 07, 2021, 09:58:15 am
I learned that only 27 states have personal property tax on vehicles and that Virginia has the highest personal property tax on vehicles. I thought that everywhere had personal property tax on cars before today.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on December 09, 2021, 09:47:24 am
Apparently when the FDA told companies to phase out Bisphenol A out of thermal paper a lot of companies switched to Bisphenol S which has similar effects on the body and degrades slower, and there aren't any labeling regulations on it
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: organburner on December 10, 2021, 04:20:02 pm
If you have dry skin that's prone to cracking in the winter: Do not stick your hand in the pickle jar to fish up the last slices. The brine will hurt you.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on December 10, 2021, 09:33:50 pm
If you have dry skin that's prone to cracking in the winter: Do not stick your hand in the pickle jar to fish up the last slices. The brine will hurt you.
organburner, December 10, 2021, 04:20:02 pm

Ignore this poster, embrace the Dill Bathroy you were meant to be and bathe your whole body in pickle juice
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: jim and the mammograms on December 11, 2021, 12:51:06 am
If you have dry skin that's prone to cracking in the winter: Do not stick your hand in the pickle jar to fish up the last slices. The brine will hurt you.
organburner, December 10, 2021, 04:20:02 pm

Ignore this poster, embrace the Dill Bathroy you were meant to be and bathe your whole body in pickle juice
Macho Masc Sangy Savage, December 10, 2021, 09:33:50 pm

Only way to find out if you have dry skin that's prone to cracking in the winter.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: thelizzerd on December 15, 2021, 10:34:40 pm
I was watching a youtube video by an animator where he talked about having Aphantasia and how it effected his art. Was like wtf is Aphantasia. Looked it up. Today I learned, Aphantasia is a phenomenon in which people are unable to visualize imagery. About 2% of the population has it.
Here's a summary about it. (https://www.healthline.com/health/aphantasia-cure#summary)


Also, I'm pretty sure I have it. I just thought that when people said visualize they meant just think about the concept of the object lmao.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on December 27, 2021, 09:37:43 pm
The modern vaginal speculum was developed by J. Marion Sims, a plantation doctor in Lancaster County, South Carolina. Between 1845 and 1849, Sims performed dozens of surgeries, without anesthesia, on at least 12 enslaved women. In these experiments, Sims developed a technique to repair fistula and in the process invented the duckbill speculum. These experiments, and the development of the modern specula, led some to regard Sims as the "father of modern gynaecology."

Was just trying to figure out how long we've been using the current vaginal speculum and suddenly a whoooole lot of things make sense
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Post by: chai tea latte on December 27, 2021, 11:15:11 pm
Jeeeeeeeeeeeeesus
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Post by: A Meat on December 28, 2021, 12:13:58 am
It was a couple days ago, but I learned that William Shockley, who received the Nobel Prize in physics in the 50's for inventing the first transistors, became a crazy racist eugenicist and was the only guy who publicly supported the idea of a sperm bank for Nobel Prize winners and other smart people only.

He shot his own reputation so bad that even when he won a defamation case against him, he was awarded only one dollar in damages, his reputation was literally worth 1 dollar in the end.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on December 31, 2021, 05:10:51 am
Toxins are by definition toxic substances naturally produced by an organism, so there's no such thing as an unnatural toxin, and all those toxin cleanses won't do shit for all the lead, mercury, and arsenic you've accumulated, let alone any of the pesticides and asbestos you've been breathing. You want a toxicant cleanse for that
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on January 19, 2022, 07:24:52 am
Quarantine means forty days
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Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on January 24, 2022, 07:09:59 am
Azertyuiop was a French-bred National Hunt racehorse, who specialised in two-mile steeplechases. He won the Arkle Challenge Trophy at the 2003 Cheltenham Festival, going on to win the Queen Mother Champion Chase the following year,[1] and then coming home third in the same race in 2005. He was trained by Paul Nicholls and was ridden by Ruby Walsh in every chase bar one. He is owned by John Hales who also owned One Man, who won the 1998 Queen Mother Champion Chase and the 1995 and 1996 King George VI Chase. His name derives from the top row of letters on the French keyboard layout.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on January 28, 2022, 06:15:43 pm
Yusuf Islam (also known as Cat Stevens, or mononymously as Yusuf) nearly died from tuberculosis in 1969
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Post by: A Meat on February 07, 2022, 11:06:44 am
Richard Ayoade directed the music video for Arctic Monkeys' Fluorescent Adolescent
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Post by: A Meat on February 27, 2022, 05:10:06 am
The Ge'ez script (originally for the Ge'ez language, the Ethiopian liturgical language, but later also for other Ethiopian languages), was originally an abjad written right to left like other semitic scripts, but around the 4th century it became an abugida written from left to right.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on March 01, 2022, 03:00:22 am
ecology is the study of houses (eco- comes from the greek oikos, which means house)
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: ikaribattousai on March 01, 2022, 10:29:59 am
ecology is the study of houses (eco- comes from the greek oikos, which means house)
A Meat, March 01, 2022, 03:00:22 am

And here I thought oikos meant yogurt.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: chai tea latte on March 01, 2022, 12:32:01 pm
ecology is the study of houses (eco- comes from the greek oikos, which means house)
A Meat, March 01, 2022, 03:00:22 am
mycology is the study of my house
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Post by: A Meat on March 15, 2022, 10:59:43 am
Spa is an actual city in Belgium, after which spas are named
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Post by: Great Joe on March 15, 2022, 05:43:02 pm
Iceland moved to permanent summer time in 1968, thus ending Daylight Savings Time.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on March 19, 2022, 02:51:58 pm
In PHP, the scope resolution operator is also called Paamayim Nekudotayim (Hebrew: פעמיים נקודותיים, pronounced [paʔaˈmajim nekudoˈtajim], the second word a colloquial corruption of נקודתיים, pronounced [nekudaˈtajim]), which means “double colon” in Hebrew.

The name "Paamayim Nekudotayim" was introduced in the Israeli-developed[1] Zend Engine 0.5 used in PHP 3. Although it has been confusing to many developers who do not speak Hebrew, it is still being used in PHP 7, as in this sample error message:

$ php -r ::
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: thelizzerd on March 19, 2022, 08:07:24 pm
I learned you can get sun burnt driving a car.  Never thought about it before today and drove quite a while with my windows down.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on March 20, 2022, 01:20:28 am
In PHP, the scope resolution operator is also called Paamayim Nekudotayim (Hebrew: פעמיים נקודותיים, pronounced [paʔaˈmajim nekudoˈtajim], the second word a colloquial corruption of נקודתיים, pronounced [nekudaˈtajim]), which means “double colon” in Hebrew.

The name "Paamayim Nekudotayim" was introduced in the Israeli-developed[1] Zend Engine 0.5 used in PHP 3. Although it has been confusing to many developers who do not speak Hebrew, it is still being used in PHP 7, as in this sample error message:

$ php -r ::
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM
Spooks, March 19, 2022, 02:51:58 pm
'nekudatayim' is also the fairly rare dual (as opposed to singular and plural) noun form that Hebrew mostly got rid of, so it's literally dot+dual suffix, while the colloquial version is actually an incorrect addition of the suffix to the plural, being equivalent to dots+dual suffix. paamayim is also a dual, but it's correctly applied to the singular 'paam', which means once, making it twice.

this has been A Meat with your regularly scheduled dose of Hebrew's confusing and antiquated grammar rules
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on April 01, 2022, 04:52:00 pm
Canada minted a set of six gold bullion coins weighing 100 kg each called the Big Maple Leaf. Canada sold 5 of them to collectors and in 2017 one of them was stolen from a museum in Germany, and presumably melted down.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: krytton on April 02, 2022, 01:41:55 am
dehydration makes you super tired

apparently this is common knowledge
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Post by: organburner on April 02, 2022, 01:52:00 pm
dehydration makes you super tired

apparently this is common knowledge
krytton, April 02, 2022, 01:41:55 am

Fun fact: You can be over and underhydrated at the same time in some circumstances, like if you're me and it's summer!
Have fun with the overhydration shits while suffering the dehydration headaches!
(Or just get some electrolytes in you)
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on April 16, 2022, 01:58:29 pm
Volkswagen manufactures currywurst in their car factory in Wolfsburg
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Salubrious Rex on April 22, 2022, 01:55:05 am
Other than the myth that they commit ritual suicide, there was another myth regarding lemmings that they would explode when they got too darn angry.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Great Joe on April 23, 2022, 06:41:27 am
Turkish soap operas are surprisingly popular.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on April 25, 2022, 12:26:10 pm
UKIP is mad about fish
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on April 26, 2022, 06:48:02 pm
Fela Kuti, renowned afrobeat pioneer, and Wole Soyinka, Literature Nobel prize winner, are part of the same Nigerian lower aristocratic family
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Dr. Buttplug on May 03, 2022, 12:53:44 pm
A Dingo is just a kind of dog. A breed that has been been roaming Australia feral for over three thousand years, but basically just a kind of dog.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on May 03, 2022, 06:06:45 pm
the names for the days of the week are functionally identical in Latin and Sanskrit
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on May 05, 2022, 01:10:20 pm
Tommy Chong is Canadian
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on May 30, 2022, 08:59:25 am
I learned that adrenochrome is real and the global elite are using it to stay young forever but it's not human children they're extracting it from.

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/442026191277260822/980389170029678592/IMG_0188.png)
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on May 31, 2022, 01:46:27 am
There's an internet hall of fame by the internet society, Al Gore is in there
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on June 12, 2022, 06:25:57 am
Sylvester the Cat's full name is Sylvester James Pussycat Sr.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: organburner on June 30, 2022, 08:47:11 am
I have learned that bonesmashing is a thing where you do light smashes of your facial bones in an attempt to restructure it and also there is a forum called looksmaxxing.com and I do not wish to investigate this further, thank you.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on July 10, 2022, 01:53:06 am
Mungo Jerry, the British band known for "In the Summertime", was named after a character from one of T. S. Elliot Jellicle Cat poems. Worth noting that this is all before Andrew Lloyd Webber further popularized them with his musical Cats
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: eldritchhat on July 10, 2022, 09:47:44 am
Mungo Jerry, the British band known for "In the Summertime", was named after a character from one of T. S. Elliot Jellicle Cat poems. Worth noting that this is all before Andrew Lloyd Webber further popularized them with his musical Cats
A Meat, July 10, 2022, 01:53:06 am

Ah, so that explains the facial hair.
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Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on August 18, 2022, 03:06:36 am
I learned that
Naked figures with breasts and hollow backs might be related to elves (fairies).

In medieval folklore, elven women are connected to lakes, streams and bogs. They are beautiful but dangerous creatures. They can enchant people, and sexual intercourse with an elf leads to losing one's soul.

The elven woman Slattenlangpat (directly translates to 'saggy-long-tit') is described with her breasts hanging below her waist. Her long breasts symbolise fertility, and with them, she feeds her fish children by laying down on a rock or bridge by the river and tossing her tits out into the water.

Every night she is hunted and caught by the Nightrider, a figure with solid connotations to Odinn. Followed by dogs, he flies away with her splayed across his horse. The next night, she comes back to life, and the hunt starts over.

Thus a tiny elven woman in gold might have been a suitable sacrifice to Odinn, as this was what he put down on his nocturnal hunts.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Salubrious Rex on August 29, 2022, 07:29:15 pm
I learned that there's a person in English history called fucking Willikin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Cassingham). What a fake and cursed island.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on August 31, 2022, 10:33:10 am
Technically a tombstone is a stele, it's a piece of stone that stands in the open and has writing on it, but we rarely think of them as such.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on October 03, 2022, 12:53:38 pm
Stanley Williams, the guy who co-founded the Crips went on The Gong Show as a bodybuilder
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Salubrious Rex on October 07, 2022, 02:02:30 am
'Esquire' is a title used for a person who lacks any other formal titles.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on October 16, 2022, 03:01:43 am
Peng Liyuan (Xi Jinping's wife if you don't know), in addition to being a traditional Chinese folk singer, also holds (held?) the rank of Major General, and used to be the dean and teach music at the Chinese armed forces' university
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on October 16, 2022, 04:40:16 am
Jin Shangyi, a masterwork chinese painter, did her portrait when she was a nobody and incorporated an old landscape painting into it that makes the whole thing reminiscent of a Vermeer piece except with, you know, the future first lady on it. A favorite painting of mine with a crazy story to boot.

In 1984, Peng Liyuan was still studying at the China Conservatory of Music. Her teacher Jin Tielin and painter Jin Shangyi were neighbors. Jin Shangyi needed a few models. Mr. Jin introduced three students from China Conservatory of Music. Among them was Peng Liyuan. This painting was painted in the home of the painter Sanlitun. It took five and a half days to paint from life, more than three hours a day, and then processed it. During this period, the painter saw the Northern Song Dynasty painter Fan Kuan's work "Snow Scenery and Cold Forest". He liked the Northern Song Dynasty. The landscape is rigorous and classical, so he tried to express the sense of volume in the ordinary, and created the painting.

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/38/60/ea/3860eaa6e264e1ab1e7c79b9fed53332.jpg)
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on October 28, 2022, 04:35:33 am
The most chaotropic (i.e. reduces the hydrophobic quality of a solution) food additive is vanillin. While the most kosmotropic (the opposite of chaotropic), is sodium citrate (E331)

this allows us to create a chaos-order alignment axis for additives, with vanilla being chaotic and sodium citrate being ordered
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: thelizzerd on January 06, 2023, 02:22:31 pm
Today I learned, flimflam is an actual word meaning nonsensical talk. My relative I've heard called "flimflam" my whole life that isn't his actual name.  People are just making fun of him behind his back and I thought that was his name.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Dr. Buttplug on January 09, 2023, 11:18:32 am
Today I learned, flimflam is an actual word meaning nonsensical talk. My relative I've heard called "flimflam" my whole life that isn't his actual name.  People are just making fun of him behind his back and I thought that was his name.
thelizzerd, January 06, 2023, 02:22:31 pm

Sounds like uncle Flimflam got owned by a kid. Nice.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on January 10, 2023, 02:27:32 am
There's a Czech research station in Antarctica called Mendel Polar Station. Not quite related but, Czechia's international telephone code is +420, so if you receive a phone call from an unknown number that starts with +420, it probably isn't, but it might be from Antarctica
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on January 17, 2023, 01:00:14 pm
The word calque is a loanword from French, but loanword is a calque from German
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on January 26, 2023, 02:03:30 pm
One of the union territories of India (federally administered areas of India that aren't states) is simply called "Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu"
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on March 31, 2023, 03:21:25 pm
Buckaroo is just a mangling of vaquero
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on March 03, 2024, 12:38:55 pm
A shit fungus (https://blogs.bu.edu/biolocomotion/2011/12/10/rockets-in-horse-poop/) is one of the fastest accelerating organisms on the planet, propelling its spores from 0 to 25 km/h in 2 μs.
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: Salubrious Rex on March 17, 2024, 11:05:29 pm
I will never, ever, ever be able to keep straight the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on March 18, 2024, 01:59:57 am
Mummichogs were the first fish in space
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: DykeDastardly on March 18, 2024, 12:17:17 pm
Mummichogs were the first fish in space
A Meat, Today at 01:59:57 am

that we know of...
Title: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?
Post by: A Meat on March 18, 2024, 01:25:27 pm
Mummichogs were the first fish in space
A Meat, Today at 01:59:57 am

that we know of...
DykeDastardly, Today at 12:17:17 pm
they're the first fish humans sent to space