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― like ed balls fans know what a gif is (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 12:10 (eleven years ago) link
now we've got no phones and no Richard Briers
― my neighbour Turturro (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 12:16 (eleven years ago) link
Before what exactly?
― Moodles, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 12:16 (eleven years ago) link
i miss the old days of sterile teens with cell phones
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
That abortion looks a lot like a cellphone.
― No, not sinister (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, I see, Black Ops is the name of his game.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
First commercial mobile phones - 1990s. 2008, according to wikipedia on teen pregnancies - despite much media attention and public anger over the UK's high amount of teenage mothers, the rate of births to teenagers is actually at its lowest level since the mid 1950s.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
― No, not sinister (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, April 2, 2013 8:12 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
(thumbs up)
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
yeah was going to say the pictures should be reversed xp
― bananas are my preference (seandalai), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
Guys, don't get jealous, but I'm about to win this thread:
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They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & Sold to the tannery.......if you had to do thi...s to survive you were "Piss Poor"
But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot......they "didn't have a pot to piss in" & were the lowest of the low
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June.. However, since they were starting to smell . ...... . Brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting Married.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!"
Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof... Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh hold.
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old. Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat.
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would Sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive... So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.
And that's the truth....Now, whoever said History was boring
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
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― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/1500.asp
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
that's pretty clever really
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
for a late 90s chain letter
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
the person who posted it is a very sweet and slightly sad person I know from college who seems to fall for pretty much anything
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
Someone I used to work with posted that recently, really smart guy so I was a bit disappointed. I just posted "is the challenge to work out which of these isn't complete bullshit?" and he deleted the post silently.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
I usually don't comment. The one exception was when she posted press tv (iran state media)'s story about how newtown was secretly perpetrated by "israeli death squads"
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
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no no nope
― ampersand cooper black (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
for someone who "fucking loves science" you sure like making grand assertions that don't even pass the smell test
― ampersand cooper black (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
that's basically a more elaborate "monkeys would eventually type shakespeare" no?
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
pi knows the manner of your death.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
well it's not *wrong*. it's just not even wrong.
― caek, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
it's basically the "infinite monkeys" thought experiment, yeah, but it's basically turning an unprovable mathematical statement into a quasi-religious atheist tenet
― ampersand cooper black (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
basically
― ampersand cooper black (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
lol Neil S
― andrew m., Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/58033_442768779143059_155773623_n.jpg"heh, the guy's got a point" NO HE DOESN'T!!
― ehkarl, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
helpful highlighting though, kept me on track
Suspect this d00d was not really all that surprised.
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
Who has ever said that spoons make people fat?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
Pi poster makes me wonder how terrible Aronofsky's film would seem today
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
I think the Aronofsky film worked because it's not really about "the mysteries of Pi" but about the intensity of the kind of person who gets obsessed with "the mysteries of Pi"
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
its a film that fucking loves science
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
if you were to interpret the constant pi as encoded video, eventually you would see the entire series of Faces of Death, in all digital video formats that have ever existed or will exist
truly the devil's constant
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
― ampersand cooper black (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, April 2, 2013 3:38 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's provable in the mathematical sense tbf, but not empirically, which is i guess what you mean. and "it" (pi contains *everything*) is true of every irrational number. there an infinite number of these. there is nothing special about pi.
― caek, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
Infinite non-repeating doesn't necessarily equal "every possible number combination" though, does it? I mean you could have an infinite non-repeating decimal that just went like this: 1.121122111222111122221111122222111111222222 etc.
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
infinity contains everything except infinity is a limit, not a number
― my neighbour Turturro (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
yea, i suppose that's what i was trying to get at -- you can assert that your dog's DNA is somehow encoded into the digits of pi but good luck trying to prove it. xps
― ampersand cooper black (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.angio.net/pi/piquery
Pi search engine
― my neighbour Turturro (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
Dawkins is right tho, there's no place for magical thinking in the man's world of fucking loving science
― my neighbour Turturro (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
http://static.quickmeme.com/media/social/qm.gif
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
no but it's really not necessarily true that it contains every possible number sequence just because it's infinite and non-repeating
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
much in the same way that there's no reason to believe monkeys would eventually type shakespear. They could just wind up typing "kkkkkkkkk" forever.
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
racist monkeys
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3tn5wj/
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
however, it does apparently contain the famous "boobies" number sequence (55319009)
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
nah i think infinity implies that everything that can happen would happen, every possible member of a set would appear in an infinitely sized set. you could have a set of less than 10 digits which was infinite i guess but if there's an infinitely big set which can contain all 10 digits then logically it would contain every possible combination of those digits. except "contain" becomes kind of meaningless in that context, i think because as i say you can't really treat infinity as a number
― my neighbour Turturro (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
xp uh that says "googiess"
― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
damn, my pin for my debit card is in the first 20 million digits of pi, time to change it
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
xp rong flip it upside down
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
here's the rub: so ANY given string of digits MIGHT appear in an infinite non-repeating sequence, but so what? there's the fallacious, superstitious conclusion that this MEANS anything -- that it proves that the world is full of connection and meaning (and that math is awesome and way better than religion, obvs).
it would be an equally compelling piece of evidence that NOTHING is meaningful if you framed it a different way.
― ampersand cooper black (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago) link