checks out
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 12 January 2018 13:19 (six years ago) link
this is why I'm confused when gruff American men in movies tell their fierce dogs to sic somebody
― coombespair gaz prices (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 January 2018 13:23 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2cnRCCHR1k
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Friday, 12 January 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link
I had always presumed it was a British turn of phrase!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RALZY9-TJE
― how's life, Friday, 12 January 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
(at 2:36)
― how's life, Friday, 12 January 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
sic is normally used to indicate a direct reproduction of something previously written that the writer/editor can't believe was written that way. Or would expect the reader to look at and accept straight off. So it has been used to demonstrate bad spelling, bad grammar and gross inaccuracy.
― Stevolende, Friday, 12 January 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
and big dogs
― coombespair gaz prices (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 January 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
and doctor who knowledge
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 January 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
and balls
― pplains, Friday, 12 January 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
i just learned that phil hartman designed the aja cover
― dynamicinterface, Saturday, 13 January 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
I learned that Bruce Springsteen had a trainer named Phil Dunphy
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 January 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
I'd read a few books by Flannery O'Connor but didn't realise she was a woman until I checked her wikipedia article.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 14 January 2018 11:04 (six years ago) link
That the reason why a number squared or a number cubed is called that is coz if you have a square (or cube) with that number of little squares per side on it and you add them all up then.....
― Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 14 January 2018 11:07 (six years ago) link
Also, that there wasn't a really prolific writer called Franklin W. Dixon who wrote all the Hardy Boys books, but also a big team of people writing under a pseudonym.
― Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 14 January 2018 11:09 (six years ago) link
You call 101 for minor police issues, not 999 - just now lol
― #TeamHailing (imago), Sunday, 14 January 2018 12:01 (six years ago) link
I knew 112, but not 101... And, apparently, there's a 4th
http://chandlersfordtoday.co.uk/emergency/
― koogs, Sunday, 14 January 2018 12:23 (six years ago) link
Oops, I thought 112 was the non-emergency number. In fact I think I once rang it for a non-emergency. Which turned out while I was on the phone to be a total non-event anyway.
(hangs head for accidentally wasting emergency service time)
Will try to remember 101 for next time.
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 14 January 2018 12:46 (six years ago) link
I'm listening to "The Visitors" for the first time today
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:44 (six years ago) link
You just made me doubt my own (limited) math abilities.
I was all, but there are only six sides on a cube? Everything squared would then be the number x 6?
But now I get it.
― pplains, Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
xp haha wow I did that on NYE! That opening track eh?
― #TeamHailing (imago), Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
this is an oft-repeated fact that doesn't seem to be true.
― new noise, Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link
haha wow I did that on NYE! That opening track eh?
Anni-Frid sounds like Liz Fraser like so much on it
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
omg you're right!
aside from the entirety of odessey and oracle (yeah, file that one under this thread lol ffs), the two old-timey songs to blow me away recently were 'the visitors' and 'fotzepolitic', there's something about that wild psychedelic hyper-pop sound that just pins me to the spot
― #TeamHailing (imago), Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
You're never too old to learn how amazing those two songs are, as long as you learn it eventually.
― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Sunday, 14 January 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
It's a fucking amazing album
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 14 January 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
That the reason why a number squared or a number cubed is called that is coz if you have a square (or cube) with that number of little squares per side on it and you add them all up then.....You just made me doubt my own (limited) math abilities.I was all, but there are only six sides on a cube? Everything squared would then be the number x 6?But now I get it.
I think this is incorrect, the way it was originally written, unless I'm misunderstanding? x^3 is the volume of a cube with sides of length x, not 6x?
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 14 January 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
(Also, I don't think you can have e.g. a cube with only two squares on each side.)
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 14 January 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
i think the post is trying to describe volume, in terms of a cube made up of smaller 1x1x1 cubes.
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 14 January 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
Ah
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 14 January 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
That Sturgeon’s Law also applies to recipes.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 14 January 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
isn't the square/cube thing about dimensions?
― StanM, Sunday, 14 January 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
Something squared is 1x1, 2x2, 3x3, etc.? Chess board is a square, so this fits. (8x8= 64)
But something cubed? That's 1x1x1, 2x2x2, 3x3x3, etc.
3-cubed is 27. So how do you divide that into 6?
― pplains, Sunday, 14 January 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
Also, I'm old and stupid, let's keep that in mind.
― pplains, Sunday, 14 January 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
a 3x3x3 Rubik's cube can be divided into 27 cubes of equal volume, i.e.
https://i.imgur.com/7k38Yel.jpg
― jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Sunday, 14 January 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
when i was a kid I thought a condom was something you wore 24/7
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 14 January 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh xp
― pplains, Sunday, 14 January 2018 21:03 (six years ago) link
xp uh oh maybe I've been doing this wrong
― mh, Sunday, 14 January 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
lol take a line of fixed distance (x)to find out how much space is in a square made out of lines that length, you multiply x by itself; you are turning the line into a square; you are "squaring" it to find out how much space is in a CUBE with edges that length, the operation required is the familiar one above; you are turning that line into a cube; you are "cubing" itthus verbing is not the modern American phenomenon everyone saysgleaming the cube is in a more advanced module iirc
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 14 January 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
What is the diff between gleaming the cube and romancing the stone
― The Bridge of Ban Louis J (silby), Sunday, 14 January 2018 22:20 (six years ago) link
danny devito
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 14 January 2018 22:22 (six years ago) link
Calling Fotzepolitic a "old timey" song ;_;
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 14 January 2018 23:37 (six years ago) link
As your bra gets older, graduate towards the inner hooks.
― Yerac, Sunday, 14 January 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link
...that the literal/original meaning of the expression "no holds barred" is "with no restrictions on the manner in which you may grasp your wrestling opponent", not "with none of the storage rooms on the ship having been secured against opening".
Its metaphorical usage makes more sense to me now!
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 18 January 2018 23:03 (six years ago) link
Yeah I'd never given that saying any thought either (re the other thread) and I had no idea it had anything to do with wrestling! Here its just used to mean "no limits".
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 18 January 2018 23:27 (six years ago) link
So I wasn't being entirely ridiculous about that expression usage making me laugh.
― Yerac, Friday, 19 January 2018 00:55 (six years ago) link
What did ye think the Hulk Hogan movie was about like
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 19 January 2018 01:00 (six years ago) link
freightage
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 19 January 2018 01:07 (six years ago) link
on a wharf-bound hulk which is nevertheless incredible
That the Los Angeles Lakers didn't change their colors to purple and gold until after they left Minneapolis – which is still home to the purple-and-gold Minnesota Vikings.
― pplains, Friday, 19 January 2018 01:43 (six years ago) link
And – irony of ironies – those colors really should belong to New Orleans anyway.
― pplains, Friday, 19 January 2018 01:45 (six years ago) link