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
The drink WKD is pronounced Wicked not WKD
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 10:11 (six months ago) link
I was in the bandvan when HR popped out to collect a souvenir from the Liverpool hospital he was born in as Paul Hudson. Trying to think what he came back with a bit of a sign or something.Solo tour with brother Earl, Kenny Dread on guitar and a bassist who came from Leytonstone who was known as Englishman.
Wound up staying on their hotel room floor after they played Manchester. & got a lift to Liverpool with them.
Now surprised if that was the first time he'd been back to the town. I know Id seen the Bad Brains in 86 and think they'd been over at least once before that.
― Stevo, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 14:09 (six months ago) link
Was the bassist this guy?
https://www.discogs.com/artist/465496-Englishman
― ash ra pimple (Matt #2), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 14:18 (six months ago) link
Cool!
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 14:19 (six months ago) link
Just found a story linking him to HE so yeah would seem to behttps://legendaryreggae.com/2014/06/19/the-mighty-roots-of-englishman/
― Stevo, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 14:58 (six months ago) link
mis-pronouncement of words when younger redux: portakabin as por-taka-bin
(there's a lot of it in the book I'm currently reading and every single one is still por-taka-bin even though i know it's wrong)
― koogs, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 04:41 (six months ago) link
That Marc Andreessen comes from Iowa and not, as I had imagined, Norway or something.
― Alba, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 05:37 (six months ago) link
yeah, the public sphere software he nebulously contributed to and commercialized into Netscape was developed at the University of Illinois of all places
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 13:04 (six months ago) link
H. G. Wells was part of the Bromley Contingent.
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 October 2023 20:58 (six months ago) link
I thought they the piggie was going to market to buy groceries until about 2 months ago. I'm 45.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 21 October 2023 21:19 (six months ago) link
He is still going shopping as far as I'm concerned.
Ha yeah. I was about 45 when the horrible truth was revealed to me.
― Alba, Saturday, 21 October 2023 21:22 (six months ago) link
nah he's a shoplifter.or he's the man, man.
― Stevo, Saturday, 21 October 2023 21:29 (six months ago) link
I was so shocked. It never occured to me tha the was going anything other than picking up some bits for dinner. I wil never get over this.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 21 October 2023 21:32 (six months ago) link
Quiie how late Jim Crow was imposed in the United States. Or at least just sinking in this morning from reading teh Meier and Rudwick history. It has it as around the turn of the century which is like 35 years after teh end of the civil war.Like Andrew Johnson sunk the Reconstruction much earlier but the laws leading to Jim Crow are all right around the turn of the century
― Stevo, Saturday, 21 October 2023 21:33 (six months ago) link
I remember how popular bacon became as an ingredient in sweet stuff a decade and a half ago. accoutrement for cakes and buns and things.Do believe it has been part of a financial transaction for quite a while longer like
― Stevo, Saturday, 21 October 2023 21:36 (six months ago) link
Okay, just realized that the piggy was not shopping.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 21 October 2023 21:38 (six months ago) link
I'm so sorry.
At least we're not alone.
Poor piggy.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 21 October 2023 21:53 (six months ago) link
https://www.artnet.com/WebServices/images/ll00161lldOj0GFgVeECfDrCWvaHBOc7nnD/beatrix-potter-this-pig-went-to-the-market;-this-pig-staid-at-home-(+-3-others;-4-works-from-this-pig-went-to.jpg
― visiting, Saturday, 21 October 2023 22:42 (six months ago) link
oh no
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 21 October 2023 22:46 (six months ago) link
How does the one who eats roast beef get his beef if not from the one who shops?
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Saturday, 21 October 2023 23:13 (six months ago) link
there's no reason to believe the piggy wasn't going to the market to shop. the alternative is just an edgy interpretation that people on social media decided was canon apparently. not every old children's thing is secretly violent!
― ✖, Sunday, 22 October 2023 05:10 (six months ago) link
years and years ago there was a popular tumblr post that was like "i just realized the meaning behind why did the chicken cross the road. crossing the road means death. the chicken committed suicide." this post had about a zillion likes and reblogs. i still see people repeating it today.
― ✖, Sunday, 22 October 2023 05:11 (six months ago) link
hitler had false teeth
learned that today
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Sunday, 22 October 2023 07:02 (six months ago) link
Literally only just discovered that Fats Domino was singing ‘I’ve found my thrill on blueberry hill’, not ‘I’ve found my freedom on blueberry hill’.
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Sunday, 22 October 2023 07:23 (six months ago) link