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stimpy · Post by **stimpy** » Fri Jun 17, 2022 11:53 am

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 10:50 am It's because of the Albatross.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:25 pm

Does anyone else refer to the movie Splendor In the Grass as Splinter in Your Ass?....its just so easy.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Sun Jun 19, 2022 8:04 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:25 pm Does anyone else refer to the movie Splendor In the Grass as Splinter in Your Ass?....its just so easy.

No, but around here we refer to Frozen as FRO-zin.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Jun 19, 2022 9:35 pm

Sho'nuf

Hrothgar · Post by **Hrothgar** » Sun Jun 19, 2022 11:57 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Jun 19, 2022 9:35 pmSho'nuf

No, that was The Last Dragon.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Jun 20, 2022 9:57 am

Hey you got that. Not many do now days,

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Mon Jun 20, 2022 2:37 pm

Why do I hear people pronounce "Celts" as Kelts (sounds like K in Kilt) but it's the Boston SELL-tics?

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Jun 20, 2022 2:47 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 2:37 pm Why do I hear people pronounce "Celts" as Kelts (sounds like K in Kilt) but it's the Boston SELL-tics?

Because 'Merica. And that is just skipping around the fact that their name is a pluralized adjective.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Jun 20, 2022 4:15 pm

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 2:47 pm
Jaymann wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 2:37 pm Why do I hear people pronounce "Celts" as Kelts (sounds like K in Kilt) but it's the Boston SELL-tics?
Because 'Merica. And that is just skipping around the fact that their name is a pluralized adjective.

According to Merriam's:

\SELT\ has been heard for many centuries; \KELT\, just a few.

Celtic refers to Irish culture and heritage, along with the historical people who migrated from the British Isles throughout much of Europe. While the early pronunciation was with an /s/ sound, reflecting its nearest origin in French, the modern standard is a hard "c" sound like /k/. This is because language historians desired the word to better reflect its Greek and Classical Latin origins. The soft "c" sound is usually reserved for sports teams now, like the Boston Celtics.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Jun 20, 2022 5:33 pm

So, the original words it derived from were 'K', and the modern pronunciation is 'Keltic'. And sports teams are the exceptions because reasons.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Jun 21, 2022 11:41 am

I watched Shanghai Noon yesterday and ruined my memories of it. I remembered it as a funny good movie. Of course I was 31 or so and in the middle of my Jackie Chan fanaticism. Yesterday I saw it through Amazon Prime at 53 years old and with a strong dmx buzz on. It was not funny, Owen kept talking too quietly. And the scenes just seemed to be stitched together with no reason to them. Its like ok Im watching them here and now here and now they are here in this scene.

The only thing that stayed the same for me and my memories was the ending church stuff and Lucy Liu.

Awful movie.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Tue Jun 21, 2022 2:48 pm

streamed one of the latter-day 'post-retirement' Jackie Chan films when it came out a few years ago (i think english title was Kung-Fu Yoga) - omg cringebad

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Tue Jun 21, 2022 4:39 pm

Stupid cottonwood seed. Not a week after I cleaned my AC of debris, it burns out last night because the radiator(?) was caked in cottonwood seeds. I figured it was a fuse because the house and unit are too old to have a circuit breaker go off when something like that is working too hard and overheats but I'm not smart enough to know it's a fuse or if it's something and a fuse... I am glad I got someone out today but, oi, $250 to replace a fuse in the unit.

I need to get smart enough to do this stuff myself. Things ain't gonna get cheaper.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Jun 22, 2022 9:13 am

Anyone else ever have a pill they are swallowing get stuck on the very back of their tongue down in your throat? I take my meds when I first get up in the mornings and my blood pressure and thyroid pills are tiny. I dont know if my tongue is extra soft and spongy back down there or if theres some mucus that builds up there while I sleep during the night but a lot of times Ill have a pill just stick there while the rest go down. Then its a race to eat something quick or drink and drink until it goes on down before I inhale the thing.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Wed Jun 22, 2022 9:40 am

About one in three, ever since my surgery/radiation. I seem to have a little 'pocket' back there now that likes to catch everything. You should see me try to eat peanuts - I end up coughing and choking every time.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Wed Jun 22, 2022 6:54 pm

if you have any Raspberry Pi boards sitting around unused, you can resell them now on eBay/craigslist for a pretty good markup if you wanted (and this goes for any of the models, but especially the 4)

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 12:25 pm

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 3:45 pm

Ever wonder why we dont have 2 thumbs? ...on each hand. I mean its a pretty important digit the thumb. Why did evolution leave us with just one? What if something happens to your thumb? It could break off or fail. How would we cling to each other or the trees or hold a tool? Why dont we have a backup? We got 4 fingers but only 1 opposable thumb.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 3:46 pm

Why do you think evolution has left us?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:00 pm

Science Alert

Using digital imaging techniques - whereby a 3D digital scan of an animal's body part can be studied in detail without destroying said body part - the researchers studied the hands of six aye-ayes, male and female, across a range of ages, from juvenile to adult.

They found the digit, which they identified as a pseudothumb, on both hands of all six animals.
...
The digit is not without precedent, even though it marks a unique discovery for primates. Most famously, the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) has just such a pseudothumb structure sticking out of its own wrist, which it uses specifically for gripping the bamboo it eats.

Digging moles also grow a second thumb out of their wrists. It's not for gripping in this case; the pseudothumb widens the animals' pawspan, presumably to make them more efficient spades. And some frogs have pseudothumbs too, increasing their digit count to five from the usual four we see in frogs.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:06 pm

More than you could possibly ever want to know about why we have five fingers.

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 5:16 pm

Let me rewrite the blurb for entertainment:

An innocent kidnap victim was hunted down by police using high-tech means and surveillance footage, then executed, after an informant spotted the victim in public. Its only crime: having being kidnapped.

Spoiler:

EDIT: I had to do some digging, but it appears that something invented and publicized by FDA in 2018, were still very UNpopular in 2022...

Spoiler:

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 5:29 pm

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:06 pm More than you could possibly ever want to know about why we have five fingers.

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body is a similar read published a few years earlier.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 5:31 pm

Thats fucking stupid. Idiots.

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 5:31 pm

We have failed as a species and deserve every bad thing to happen to us.
Nothing else can explain this:

Ketchup Popsicles

Velveeta Nail Polish

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 6:51 pm

The smart man knows...

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:12 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 6:51 pm The smart man knows...

What? To put tomatoes in a fruit salad?

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:13 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 5:31 pm Thats fucking stupid. Idiots.

Can we try to not attack people, and instead attack their ideas?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:14 pm

That’s a stupid fucking idea!

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:20 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:14 pm That’s a stupid fucking idea!

Idiot

Spoiler:

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:53 pm

My post was about the way they handled the racoon but more posts snuck in while I was typing.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 10:16 pm

Okay. What type of racoon was it?

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 10:57 pm

A stupid fucking raccoon?

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:27 am

Was it an African or European raccoon?

stimpy · Post by **stimpy** » Fri Jun 24, 2022 9:52 am

Article title of the year:

Breastfeeding mom fights off bald eagle to save pet goose

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Jun 24, 2022 10:56 am

Pics of the breastfeeding in the underwear or it didn't happen.

stimpy · Post by **stimpy** » Fri Jun 24, 2022 11:11 am

NSFG

Spoiler:

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Jun 24, 2022 1:52 pm

Ok it happened. Dayem. Poor widdle duckie

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Jun 24, 2022 2:32 pm

I once saw an owl take a cat in our backyard. Nobody came to it's rescue tho.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Jun 24, 2022 4:19 pm

Theres some big birds around these parts..and coyotes. I always go out with my little dog on the porch if he wants to go out.Im right there. Here is only 3 lbs. Tiny. Could be gone in an instant. He thinks he is a German Shepard.