So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?

[Great Joe]

There's a building in the City of London affectionately called the Walkie Talkie, which melted someone's brand new Jaguar.

[CozyJosie]

There's a building in the City of London affectionately called the Walkie Talkie, which melted someone's brand new Jaguar.

I see you also watch Plainly Difficult

[Great Joe]

There's a building in the City of London affectionately called the Walkie Talkie, which melted someone's brand new Jaguar.

I see you also watch Plainly Difficult

No, I listen to TRASHFUTURE

[Sherlockian]

[A Meat]

There's different kinds of wave-dissipating concrete blocks, they're not all tetrapods

[Great Joe]

Crank That by Soulja Boy made it to Rwanda, and got played in high school parties there.

[xX_sp00ks_Xx]

Tarmac is actually tarmacadam which is tar + macadam, which is a kind of road only without the tar part of the tarmac. This is how they used to insure the quality of macadam:

Size of stones was central to McAdam's road building theory. The lower 8 in (20 cm) road thickness was restricted to stones no larger than 3 inches (7.5 cm). The upper 2-inch-thick (5 cm) layer of stones was limited to stones 2 centimetres (3⁄4 in) in diameter; these were checked by supervisors who carried scales. A workman could check the stone size himself by seeing if the stone would fit into his mouth.

Also macam roads are named like that because McAdam invented them.

[Salubrious Rex]

Tarmac is actually tarmacadam which is tar + macadam, which is a kind of road only without the tar part of the tarmac. This is how they used to insure the quality of macadam:

Size of stones was central to McAdam's road building theory. The lower 8 in (20 cm) road thickness was restricted to stones no larger than 3 inches (7.5 cm). The upper 2-inch-thick (5 cm) layer of stones was limited to stones 2 centimetres (3⁄4 in) in diameter; these were checked by supervisors who carried scales. A workman could check the stone size himself by seeing if the stone would fit into his mouth.

Also macam roads are named like that because McAdam invented them.

The naming of Macadamia nuts have nothing to do with this, but were named after John Macadam, an Australian chemist.

[A Meat]

There was a guy called Wilhelm Killing who was an important mathematician who did stuff related to Lie groups so there's a bunch of stuff named after him like the Killing form, Killing field and Killing horizon

[Salubrious Rex]

Mark Wahlberg has a history of violent, racially motivated hate crimes!

[moooo566 (taylor's version)]

Smurfette is merely an imitation, not a true smurf.

[FinchChunk]

Tarmac is actually tarmacadam which is tar + macadam, which is a kind of road only without the tar part of the tarmac. This is how they used to insure the quality of macadam:

Size of stones was central to McAdam's road building theory. The lower 8 in (20 cm) road thickness was restricted to stones no larger than 3 inches (7.5 cm). The upper 2-inch-thick (5 cm) layer of stones was limited to stones 2 centimetres (3⁄4 in) in diameter; these were checked by supervisors who carried scales. A workman could check the stone size himself by seeing if the stone would fit into his mouth.

Also macam roads are named like that because McAdam invented them.

The naming of Macadamia nuts have nothing to do with this, but were named after John Macadam, an Australian chemist.

And older Queenslanders, including my Dad will sometimes insist on calling them Queensland nuts or Bauple nuts. Turns out they named the plant first but the first European who figured out you could eat the nut lived in Bauple.

[xX_sp00ks_Xx]

This via some stupid, faux-inspirational Tumblr post with too many notes that footnotes the above two images with the text "there are parts of your future self in you waiting emerge but you have to become unrecognizable slime first" [sic] and I parenthetically add that there is a connection here far more weird and unnerving to be made about a process of complete dissolution and reconstruction of an object's, a living being's, metaphysical identity, something so alien to the usual human experience, a real life biological process that must produce a sense of vertigo, of dread, if one bothers to think through and recreate it in one's mind, but such an observation is glossed over in lieu of some dumb self-actualization one-liner bullshit that appeals to the sickeningly teenage (mentally if not biologically) demographic of that website, so that, in fact, I am left with two additional things that I have learned: number one, I fucking love run-on sentences, and number two, I'll never stop being an arrogant hater that looks down on others in order to make himself feel better and it feels awesome to know I'm totally right in maintaining that mindset basically forever until I die.

[A Meat]

This via some stupid, faux-inspirational Tumblr post with too many notes that footnotes the above two images with the text "there are parts of your future self in you waiting emerge but you have to become unrecognizable slime first" [sic] and I parenthetically add that there is a connection here far more weird and unnerving to be made about a process of complete dissolution and reconstruction of an object's, a living being's, metaphysical identity, something so alien to the usual human experience, a real life biological process that must produce a sense of vertigo, of dread, if one bothers to think through and recreate it in one's mind, but such an observation is glossed over in lieu of some dumb self-actualization one-liner bullshit that appeals to the sickeningly teenage (mentally if not biologically) demographic of that website, so that, in fact, I am left with two additional things that I have learned: number one, I fucking love run-on sentences, and number two, I'll never stop being an arrogant hater that looks down on others in order to make himself feel better and it feels awesome to know I'm totally right in maintaining that mindset basically forever until I die.

my favorite part about that is that the sentence is implicitly calling everybody children because if there's parts of you that haven't formed yet and you still have another metamorphic stage to go through, you're not the imago form yet, and are sexually immature by definition

[CozyJosie]

my favorite part about that is that the sentence is implicitly calling everybody children because if there's parts of you that haven't formed yet and you still have another metamorphic stage to go through, you're not the imago form yet, and are sexually immature by definition

who up imago'ing they form