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― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 15 September 2023 00:17 (seven months ago) link
oh dammit
I did a pretty brisk business in 3rd grade... I would trace drawings of them without their makeup, and then charge kids to see what they looked like
― Alba, Friday, 15 September 2023 06:55 (seven months ago) link
I did not know until I heard him interviewed a few years ago that Geddy Lee's parents were also Holocaust survivors. They made it through Auschwitz, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 15 September 2023 20:47 (seven months ago) link
"goody two shoes" is actually the titular character's nickname in The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, a 1765 English children's novel
She's a poor orphan girl with only one shoe, but gets a new pair when her fortunes improve
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 17:23 (seven months ago) link
omg I just now realized what "Benelux" means after 40+ years
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, October 9, 2023 10:21 AM
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 9 October 2023 17:22 (six months ago) link
Liverpool as the UK representation point of the Confederacy in America. THink I'm more aware of it as a multicultural place 120 or 30 years later. But seems to have been well known historically.
― Stevo, Monday, 9 October 2023 18:26 (six months ago) link
I only just recently learned that the country code for Switzerland, "CH," stands for "Confoederatio Helvetica."
― Bruce Hornsby–Big Stick 3:15 (Eliza D.), Monday, 9 October 2023 18:50 (six months ago) link
Lol, and we do not have provinces or regions or departments, we have cantons!
― Nabozo, Monday, 9 October 2023 19:13 (six months ago) link
learned today that mules are donkey/horse hybrids and can't mate with each other
― ✖, Monday, 9 October 2023 23:46 (six months ago) link
learned yesterday that you won't actually get stuck that way if you cross your eyes too long
started believing that probably age 5 and then went 30 years never stumbling onto a situation that would cause me to rethink it
been crossing my eyes all day, lot of lost time to make up for
― ✖, Monday, 9 October 2023 23:50 (six months ago) link
don't get stuck!
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 01:16 (six months ago) link
Here's one secret advantage to being able to cross your eyes.
If you're doing one of those "Find 6 differences between these 2 picures" puzzles, cross your eyes until the images merge and the differences almost jump right out.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 05:47 (six months ago) link
that the word spelled "indicted" is the same as the word pronounced "indited", & the word spelled "epitome" is the same as the word pronounced "epitomy" - in retrospect it seems odd that it never occurred to me that, ya know, you read those words reasonably often but i'd never once heard anybody say em.
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 06:09 (six months ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 07:22 (six months ago) link
if you ever practiced doing those magic eye pictures it's easy to do
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 07:49 (six months ago) link
the guy who portrayed the "indian" in the village people was actually of native american heritage
found that out approx 10 mins ago
learning all the time huh
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 09:28 (six months ago) link
wtf
holy crap it really works
― Ste, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 10:34 (six months ago) link
Takes the fun out of those puzzles, but ok!
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 14:19 (six months ago) link
these are two entirely different pictures
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 14:29 (six months ago) link
It's how I found the right books to unlock the Ninth Gate.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 17:06 (six months ago) link
Male donkey with female horse = muleMale horse with female donkey = hinny (less common, and look different than mules)
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 17:21 (six months ago) link
I didn't realize miniature donkeys were a distinct mediterranean breed until now!
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 21:46 (six months ago) link
and can't mate with each other
tbf they can *mate*
they just don't need protection
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 00:58 (six months ago) link
speak for yourself. those things can kick
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 02:15 (six months ago) link
Sprinklers are actually timed to go a full rotation in one minute
― Heez, Thursday, 12 October 2023 16:37 (six months ago) link
tbf they can *mate*things you are shockingly old when you haven’t learned yet
― vashti funyuns (sic), Thursday, 12 October 2023 16:54 (six months ago) link
🧉
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 October 2023 18:15 (six months ago) link
Male donkey with female horse = mule
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 12 October 2023 18:37 (six months ago) link
Our gut biome is external to our body, total "wait, whut?" moment.
― Jaq, Thursday, 12 October 2023 19:10 (six months ago) link
i'm sorry...what?!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 October 2023 20:21 (six months ago) link
I know!!
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 12 October 2023 20:24 (six months ago) link
aiui if we turned ourselves inside out, all that stuff is living separately/symbiotically on the surface of our body?
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 12 October 2023 20:25 (six months ago) link
So...how does it get in there? Is it transmitted from adults to babies (via mother's milk or something)?
― read-only (unperson), Thursday, 12 October 2023 20:42 (six months ago) link
Turns out...yes!
Each person has an entirely unique network of microbiota that is originally determined by one’s DNA. A person is first exposed to microorganisms as an infant, during delivery in the birth canal and through the mother’s breast milk. Exactly which microorganisms the infant is exposed to depends solely on the species found in the mother. Later on, environmental exposures and diet can change one’s microbiome to be either beneficial to health or place one at greater risk for disease.
― read-only (unperson), Thursday, 12 October 2023 20:43 (six months ago) link
The internal/external is both counter intiuitive and logical — open your mouth wide and it’s obvious the cavity belongs to the outside world and is not a part of your body, that remains the case all down the alimentary canal and beyond
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Thursday, 12 October 2023 21:06 (six months ago) link
Very true. Also the gut and the inner lung surface is very much the largest surface area exposed to the outside world, each about the size of a tennis court if you flattened them out. The defence systems are pretty remarkable but that’s why most infections get to us via the airways or ingestion of pathogens.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 12 October 2023 21:11 (six months ago) link
Also despite being a biomed lecturer, one thing I was very late to realise is that the lungs are a pouch which grows off the gut tube during development. It’s why they have a common opening.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 12 October 2023 21:13 (six months ago) link
And of course now I'm thinking of the Terry Bisson story "They're Made Out of Meat"...
― read-only (unperson), Thursday, 12 October 2023 21:16 (six months ago) link
I love the Leonard cohen lyric about being nothing but the brief elaboration of a tube
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Thursday, 12 October 2023 21:23 (six months ago) link
also thinking of Kristeva's notion of "the abject" - from us, but not us
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 12 October 2023 21:42 (six months ago) link
This is making me think of the idea that in 3d, we'd break in half because of our digestive tube.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 13 October 2023 08:58 (six months ago) link
Ugh. In *2D* I meant.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 13 October 2023 09:01 (six months ago) link
did they ever slice up anyone vertically, or has it always been horizontally?
(am thinking of The Visible Human project where they freeze dried and then sliced up and scanned somone who'd donated their body to medical science - https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/full_color_png.html )
― koogs, Friday, 13 October 2023 09:05 (six months ago) link
(i think the digitised results were turned into full 3d model so you can spin and slice them in other axes, should you want)
― koogs, Friday, 13 October 2023 09:19 (six months ago) link
for my birthday one time a friend so-called gave me a flipbook of this (the vertical slicing) :\
― mark s, Friday, 13 October 2023 11:01 (six months ago) link
HR from Bad Brains was born in Liverpool.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 13 October 2023 13:32 (six months ago) link
Jackie Collins and Joan Collins are different people.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 08:58 (six months ago) link
aren't they sisters?
― Stevo, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 10:01 (six months ago) link
Were.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 10:04 (six months ago) link