a 3x3x3 Rubik's cube can be divided into 27 cubes of equal volume, i.e.
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― 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
Just realized this evening that beyond the fact that he was a classic Love and Rockets character, the band Speedy Ortiz probably chose the name because it sounds very similar to Sadie Dupuis.
― Moodles, Friday, 19 January 2018 03:55 (six years ago) link
The past three posts seem to me to be not very shocking, no matter at what age one learned these things. I wouldn't even be shocked if someone never learned them at all.
nb: I'm not speaking of "no holds barred". I thought everyone knew that phrase referred to wrestling.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 19 January 2018 04:16 (six years ago) link
tbh it’s got a pretty wide reach for a culture that has an inherent degredarion of wrestling as a spectator activity
― mh, Friday, 19 January 2018 04:42 (six years ago) link
no holds barred has me shook tbh
― flappy bird, Friday, 19 January 2018 04:48 (six years ago) link
um this is reaaaaaaaally dumb buti didnt realize that it the first digit of the room number at a large hotel = the floorlike“you’re in room 415”fourth floor, room 15not the 415th roomi said it out loud & mr veg was like dude wut
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 19 January 2018 06:14 (six years ago) link
That is shocking
― flappy bird, Friday, 19 January 2018 06:59 (six years ago) link
I didnt realize that it the first digit of the room number at a large hotel = the floorthis is also the case in apartment buildings
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Friday, 19 January 2018 08:52 (six years ago) link
What next, "Pulling your punches is from boxing? Woah!"
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Friday, 19 January 2018 09:23 (six years ago) link
you might consider what the title of the thread is here.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 January 2018 13:10 (six years ago) link
zing
― Yerac, Friday, 19 January 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link
picturing Veg’s vacations becoming insanely easier now that she can look at the room number to determine floor instead of making a note what floor room 415 is on :)
― mh, Friday, 19 January 2018 14:10 (six years ago) link
it’s true!!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 19 January 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
I had that same problem with house and blocks numbers when I lived in the US briefly. Like, "I live at number 2436, but there clearly aren't 2435 other houses on this street, what's going on????"
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 19 January 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
it came about watching tv: a character was looking for a guest in a tiny hotel & the manager said “hes in room 215” and I said “YEAH RIGHT. As if theres two hundred and thirty seven rooms in that teensy hotel” and Mr Veg said “Second floor. Room 15.” and i was like O_O
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 19 January 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
I've had epiphanies like that followed by a mental flashback montage, like on a tv show, of every time things would have made more sense if I had that information. It's jarring!
― mh, Friday, 19 January 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
many years ago i was with the lovely emma b and she stopped to buy a memory card for her digital camera. i was like "what happened to the old one?" and she looked at me a second too long and said "it got filled up"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 January 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
well, that's ONE approach...
― mh, Friday, 19 January 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
lol <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 19 January 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
yeah when i was a kid (in england) i was amazed that the letters in the back of american comic books seemed to imply that people lived on streets with thousands of houses on them.
― new noise, Friday, 19 January 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
OK wait. They don't? Can someone explain the numbering system to me?
― Alba, Friday, 19 January 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
as an american the last few posts have made me think of 10 Downing street, 13 Privet Drive, and 221B Baker street in an entirely new light. Like damn, baker street must be long.
― joygoat, Friday, 19 January 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
it's street number + house number. so if you live on or off, say, 53rd st., yr address might be 5312, or 5345, whatever. tbh can't say for sure what the second set of numbers denotes, assuming it's the house number but again those numbers often seem way too high for the neighborhood. damn im dumb
― flappy bird, Friday, 19 January 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_numbering#North_America
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Friday, 19 January 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
Some areas are to do with how many miles they are from something, or the first number is specific to its block or plot (I'm sure my brother lives at 2345 whatever road he's on, and there's like 50 houses on it)
― ailsa, Friday, 19 January 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
that's wrong in many cities
in mine, if you're on a north/south street, it's a numbered street and your house number is based on how many blocks north/south you are from a "union" street. So I'm on west 40th, eight blocks north of the "union" street, so my house number is 836 (these are fake numbers, you stalkers)
the houses on an east/west street north of me have numbers like 4012, meaning it's the sixth house down from 40th on the even side of the street (the sides are even/odd)
― mh, Friday, 19 January 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
sorry, that was a xp to flappy
it's street number + house number. so if you live on or off, say, 53rd st., yr address might be 5312, or 5345, whatever.
― flappy bird, Friday, January 19, 2018 10:42 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what the hell? where is this the case?
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 January 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
There's no standard US numbering system - my last three addresses have been numbered 626, 920, and 755 and there is no discernible pattern to any of them. None of these streets would possibly have this many houses, there are no cross streets with numbers as a marker, the neighboring houses might not be numbered in the exact sequence, etc.
In some places there are patterns. Portland Oregon - the city where I have the most experience with this - has sequentially numbered north-south streets starting at a river and moving east. So 3345 Belmont Street would be most likely be between 33rd street and 34th street.
― joygoat, Friday, 19 January 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
in canadian cities I've been in as far as i can tell the system used is that addresses are ordered in blocks. so for instance the start of a street (or the bit of the street that separates East Xth Street from West Xth Street) is the 000 block. So all the buildings on that block of the street have numbers from 1 to 99. The 100 block is all the houses from 100 to 199 and so forth. most of the numbers are not used: e.g. i moved from one building to the building next door and the address went from 175 to 125.
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 January 2018 18:51 (six years ago) link
Uh I dind't realize house numbers meant anything at all until just now. I guess I just thought they were arbitrary.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 19 January 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link
Bizarre. This is all new to me.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Friday, 19 January 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
canadian street numbering explained: http://spacing.ca/national/2013/03/11/ever-wonder-how-a-house-gets-an-address-number/
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 January 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link
The idea is not to denote the number of houses, but to give a relative sense of where you are on a street. But it's by no means standardized even inside a jurisdiction. Many neighborhoods change / expand quite a lot after initial planning, and generous numbering schemes give developers and planners room to grow.
There is often numerical space left in case someone puts a house or dwelling in between. Let's say my house might be 4724 Main Street; my neighbor is 4728 Main Street. That means if he puts a guest house in back, or I put in a mother-in-law apartment with a separate entrance, then it can have its own address (4726). But we're all on the "4700 block." At the next corner, the numbers will start "48" because that's the "4800 block." And so on.
Or let's say that in 1925, they built three big mansions on the first block ("unit block") of Oak Street. If they are numbered 1 Oak Street, 2 Oak Street, 3 Oak Street, etc., then what happens when 2 Oak Street is replaced by two townhouses? More sensible to name them 100, 104, 108, to allow room.
If you're on a winding street in freeform suburbia, generally, developers came up with street names and address numbers. They're subject to approval by their jurisdictions, but most towns and counties don't much care how big or small the numbers are. Some rural addresses are just ridic, but it doesn't harm me any so I don't care. At the same time, road in the US can easily be hundreds of miles long with thousands of buildings on it. Numbering them sequentially would be unworkable.
Me, I live in a jurisdiction with a complex grid system - east/west streets are numbered and north/south streets have names (but the names are ordered alphabetically, in three sequences of different numbers of syllables). So. If someone tells me their address is 1326 Adams Street, I know about where that is without ever having been there and without looking at a map. It's about 13 blocks west of the river, near where the one-syllable names leave off and the two-syllable names begin. One gets the hang of it.
― godzillas in the mist (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 19 January 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link