The More You Know ★
The More You Know ★
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- Bluejam8
- I'll bring this up with the architects next time I'm working on a new project.
'...the climate stuff is neat an' all but have you considered ghost traffic?'face_melter - Ha, I know where this is from - as do many of us, I imagine :)
https://images-na.ss…Nairn - For a sec I thought diagram on the right showed path taken by a ghost coming out of a toilet u-bendNonEntity
- What's funny is that most of us will laugh at flat earthers, anti-vaxxers and Pillow Guy but probably a third of the people in the US believes in ghosts.CyBrainX
- Bill Burr does a funny bit about ghosts, "Why would you spend eternity in a basement when you can fly to D.C. and sit in on some CIA meetings?"toemaas
- I'll bring this up with the architects next time I'm working on a new project.
- SimonFFM2
Did you know houses in Sweden have a built-in vacuum cleaning system? They don't use vacuum clears like in other countries. You have a socket in each room and only attach the tube to it.
- Pretty standard here, tooGnash
- That's nothing, I have programmed a swarm of drones to 'fan' up dust particles and collect them in an old sock.shapesalad
- These are pretty common in the US and Canada as well.zarkonite
- we had a house that sucks when I was a teenager in Australia toosausages
- ive only seen one house in the US that has this. A custom made house of a friends parents in the 80's.fooler
- My house has one, I rerouted one line to a kickplate under a kitchen cabinet, sweep and go https://bit.ly/3qgK9…whatthefunk
- Amazing, guys. For me this was all new.SimonFFM
- Doesn't suction go down the longer a tube is?Nairn
- ^ ya, but most of that loss is through friction. The internal tubes are smooth bore, vs the corrugated hoses on the biz endGnash
- Dyson hates them.ideaist
- houses in the 50's were built with these systems in the US.sarahfailin
- Ever home that I ever been it that has one of these...they all blow ass and barely work, regardless of how many sockets they have around the house.utopian
- Fax_Benson8
- i still have all mine, loved getting themGnash
- Golden age of the internet. Give us your postal address and we'll mail you lovingly crafted, beautifully printed type specimens, for free.Fax_Benson
- Fontsmith's were lovely, too.Fax_Benson
- Have some from FontShop cca 2008 I believegrafician
- and this Fontbook https://typographica…grafician
- I have that issue, it’s a beautiful book. I used to have some mags but I think I lost them... bummer, since the only remaining ones cost $75maquito
- I had a big crush with Rudy Vanderlans’ work back in the day. I still have some font specimens somewhere. Amazing layouts. Used to steal his grids.maquito
- Remember Poppi? https://www.bruil.in…maquito
- It’s remarkable that those icons are almost 20 years old and yet look so contemporary.maquito
- Cool! There is a great interview on p22 of this edition https://www.emigre.c…Daithi
- ...between Vanderlans and Peter Bilak of Typotheque / Fontstand. Always remembered it as a good one, and just got to revisit. Thanks!Daithi
- _niko8
Drove down to Pittsburgh last weekend and was so weirded out by helmet-less motorcyclists.
One dude was riding next to us on the highway doing 120 in an absolute downpour, I couldn’t see in front of me and he was pulling up next to truck’s rain wake and wasn’t even flinching. Oh and he also had a cigarette in his mouth. The most American thing ever, brought a tear to the eye.
- Must of been Gary Busey
https://i.ibb.co/cYq…Ramanisky2 - lol yeah something like that_niko
- those "brain bucket" style helmets that harley riders love to wear are effectively helmet-less. If you don't wear a full-face, you're nuts.section_014
- Don't you lose an inch of flesh per metre if you fall off a bike? Must turn your brain to jelly too.PhanLo
- Must of been Gary Busey
- utopian4
- From shit I've seen across the internetosphere, it looks like it's left to Generation Now™ to drive the change necessary in your countryNairn
- The young'uns are fed up and have nowt to lose (other than their lives, I suppose, samse as it ever was).Nairn
- I see why they left *Trans off the listGnash
- Shouldn't David just be canceled? dude murdered that poor giant... stomped countless native tribes into submission... then cheats on his wife to boot.PonyBoy
- If some books have hateful messages that cause deaths, should all books be banned? Or just require special training/license to read those books responsibly?BabySnakes
- "Books weren't made to kill!" yes, but a book written to help identify poisonous plants for the aid in preventing deaths could be misused to aid in killing.BabySnakes
- gnash has updated his QBN Gender Post Warning Alarm to scan images for text now.face_melter
- Just plain reading works fineGnash
- it's all a lie.sted
- just what we needed, more US-centred culture-war storm-in-a-teacup noise in an unrelated thread, keep up the good workNonEntity
- what about things that'll cut your dick or tits off?hotroddy
- Gardener3
- Not a single digit on any coin. Difficult for non English speakers.faxion
- on the other side is the digitsshapesalad
- This is actually pretty fucking stupidcrazyprick
- Monarch's profile on t'other sidefaxion
- kinda of coolutopian
- I liked this when they came out, and still doGnash
- very cool!Krassy
- ha :) interestingsted
- Didn’t know that!dee-dubs
- I remember thinking how idiotic this design was when they first came out. Truly a sign of the times.Rendle
- palimpsest3
- Berluti Knot
Don't be a chump.palimpsest - One can always tell a berulti manGnash
- The Few, The Proud.palimpsest
- 10 minutes to tie your shoes...LOLutopian
- @utopian
If you're retarded.palimpsest - I'm going to choose to believe this is the older brother of that psychotic Report of the Week kid.garbage
- Live your truth!palimpsest
- This is what I imagine young American psychos in training do at boarding school... just before the circle jerk commences._niko
- So did anyone try this? LOL, I wear a pair of Adidas around the house and the laces always come undone even double-knotting them...mg33
- Just tied one of them this way and gonna see how long it lasts compared to the normal method on the right shoe.mg33
- I've been doing this for a couple of years.
It's da bess (if you're not retarded).palimpsest - Disclaimer:
If if takes you 10' to tie this knot or tying it makes it want to drown your family pet or tug on your colleague's weiner: dis is not the knot 4 u!palimpsest - Why does he look like he tortures cats in his spare timescarabin
- meh, as long as your laces are waxed, this is completely unnecessary. I used to wear leather dress shoes every day, and never had issues coming untied.section_014
- Velcro is also a good alternative.palimpsest
- GameAQUTE
- @mg33
Give us an update.palimpsest
- Berluti Knot
- Nairn7
I was Today Years Old when I learnt that the Irish flag essentially symbolises peace (the white band) between Protestants (orange) and Catholics (green).
https://www.gov.ie/en/publicatio…
https://www.irishcentral.com/roo…It's kind of cool.. but also a bit saddening. I feel.
- 'Saddening' as in all the flags in our little archipelago are all based on Christianity in one form or another.Nairn
- I feel.
lol
there should've been a preceding commaNairn - Not just in your archipelago, most of Europe I think_niko
- Not really. Just the vaguely Calvinist northern bits, weirdly.Nairn
- Maybe but there’s also Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovakia, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Malta, Georgia, San Marino, etc that have Christian symbols as well_niko
- Hrm, I figured Spain and Portugal had more heraldic motifs, but you're right I suppose. Lol, yes, Greece and Switzerland, latter still CalvinistishNairn
- Never knew that. Now that I do, it looks like it represents peace as long as we keep them away from each other, which sounds about right. :Pmort_
- So true mort!microkorg
- heh, try to tell the twats up here that the tricolour is representational. or that the national colour of ireland is blue not green. unfortunately appeasingkingsteven
- folks hoodwinked by religion, unionism or nationalism in ireland occupies so much of public and political discourse it doesn't seem like anything to celebratekingsteven
- The blue was introduced during King Henry VIII's reign? I'll stick with green thanks ;)mort_
- hah, henry the 8th was a catholic and green became associated with catholics in ireland during the english reformation (long after his reign)kingsteven
- when catholic land was seized and well, 200 years of revolution later some dolt at the GPO shat out the tricolour. there's not much more to it than that...kingsteven
- and in irish folklore green is unlucky. green and orange just represent two sides in a dispute between european royalty where ireland wasn't even importantkingsteven
- Ashamed of my lack of history knowledge about this wee island we live on. I shan't question you again, King Steven VIII. :Dmort_
- 'sfunny, I expected to be slightly ribbed by you lot across the water for not knowing anything about this :)Nairn
- Krassy5
- cool, apart from the unnecessary genitals.Fax_Benson
- i'm sure people feel the same way about you.imbecile
- This is great!SunSunSun_
- Safe space violated by genitals. How dare you!Hayoth
- really Fax? why you lookin at dog dick? I didn't even notice it would be there is it was video lolshellie
- dogs are castrated for a reason - my
fragile sensibilitiesFax_Benson - lol, I didn't notice until I saw your comment.dbloc
- Where da bitches atbezoar
- lol the nuts especially are really unnecessarysarahfailin
- scarabin8
- it's a stretch, more likely they are talking about the 1972 Champions league final where Cruyff's mighty Ajax defeated Panathinaikos of Greece :)_niko
- doubtful. ajax was invented in 1947imbecile
- Ajax was invented in 1999i_was
- you might want to check your misinformation. Ajax is one of Colgate-Palmolive's main products, launched in 1947.imbecile
- https://en.wikipedia…)i_was
- I ... uh ... oh fuck me, I didn't know why this was called Ajax.
Well, don't I feel like a right plonker, now.Continuity - And now that I know, that's actually a killer slogan. Too bad one needs minimum a BA in Classical Studies to get it without help.Continuity
- Nairn1
OK, here's one for you.
Please answer honestly in the side notes if you up until now didn't realise that The White House has two main aspects.
- Hi, I'm Nairn - early 40s, I never realised this. Slightly worried that my brain never questioned the clear distinction.
All these years.Nairn - I never realised this either...38.
Went there years back, still never questioned it.BaskerviIle - DUDE! There's also an entire extra "wing" on the west side of the building. It's got an office that's oval, mind blowing stuff ;)zarkonite
- If there's two fronts, where do they put the bins?Fax_Benson
- @Fax_Benson – The inside is full of trash right nowBaskerviIle
- Of all the people on here - and especially considering you actually visited the place (!) - I'm super glad it was you who admitted as much, Baskerville. xNairn
- @zark - a friend who i asked about this said as much about the Oval Office. For me, the bottom one here IS the WH.
But then, so is the top one :\Nairn - Fake news...45 years oldoey_oey
- Yes I knew that. That's why I found it funny when comparing the front and back facades as if they were the same.monospaced
- @nairn: I was just being facetious but I agree, the rounded balcony one is what I picture in my head.zarkonite
- Wait, which one blew up in Independence Day?Akagiyama
- Clearly, the bottom one, Akagiyama..
..that said, I had to check, 'cos I dont trust nuttin' no moahNairn - @mono - i genuinely didn't.
As a presumably thoughftful and aware American, I'd hope you'd noticed! :)Nairn - i have been to DC, so yes.sarahfailin
- how many bunkers?Krassy
- The second one is what we normally see?drgs
- Top photo is the front/main facadeKrassy
- I noticed but it was only a few years ago. I’ve never been therescarabin
- Hi, I'm Nairn - early 40s, I never realised this. Slightly worried that my brain never questioned the clear distinction.
- Krassy4
- parabolic?sarahfailin
- I knew about the top and middle from the science centre but would have thought the bottom would have been fastest. The more you know™_niko
- The middle one would be basically optimal FTL through "subspace"grafician
- _niko the bottom one is median speed between middle+topgrafician
- Fake News™Nairn
- So the more horizontal the slope along its curve, the less impact gravity has on the ball and thus its velocity (an interesting variable on the 3rd slope)SteveJobs
- Which is the longest path?misterhow
- bottom one is the longest, top one is the shortestKrassy
- Flatten the curve!nbq
- Trebuchet the sick!Nairn
- Krassy5
- deepNBQ00
- pff.. easyHAL9001
- I am sure someone working from a coffeeshop in Bali has this as a tattoo.Longcopylover
- eh well, almost. this winter's top destination is Thailand :)sted
- ^ Same same but different. :)Longcopylover
- wow that's deep manpango
- taoism explained minus the taoism.sarahfailin
- wowpango
- Nairn5
I've finally found evidence that I'm not a total moron. At least, ..ok, notsomuch. Anyway,
I've always said "tret" instead of "treated" and was called out upon it in my twenties and totally blue-screened, realising that I had no idea why i said it that way.
> Tret
> (Northern England, Bristol, colloquial) simple past and past participle of treat, i.e. treated.https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/t…
Fuck you, Rich.
- My cousins would say ‘bet’ as the past tense of ‘beat’ — “I bet him up”
Not sure where it came fromGnash - Ooh, i like that too! Why not?Nairn
- Similarly, I've heard people use ‘et’ as the past tense of ‘eat’.Continuity
- Yeah, I grew up in Northern England and although I've lived away from there for over 20 years, I still say 'tret' and 'et'Wolfboy
- Here's a short play:
"Aye lad, your mother tret me well... are you alright?"
"No, I et some bad chicken"
annnd scene.Wolfboy - Yeah RICH, SUCK IT!stoplying
- like "he pleaded guilty" like nah it's "he PLED guilty"doesnotexist
- Pled, is a word thoughGnash
- My cousins would say ‘bet’ as the past tense of ‘beat’ — “I bet him up”
- palimpsest1
- I wish I could conjur this level of certainty for some of the nonsense that goes through my head.Nairn
- WTF is that?jmckinno
- lol at the cement section: "And that's why the 9 year old girl was actually 27 years old, officer"_niko
- *dies at 35*scarabin
- Don't you mean 105?palimpsest
- Today I was extra hungry for lunch. I cut my sandwich in half and had two meals instead of one.
I'm not crazy, you're crazy.palimpsest - This guy is a wizard. He's tricked us into believing he divides his day in 3 when he's actually dividing it in 4.
*Mind blown.palimpsest - i was listening to this guy last week and thought fuck that. You can kick my ass all day long but you'll never be a fucked up creative like me!Ianbolton
- can't arrive to an appointment on time, no idea what day the rest of us are on.imbecile
- What calendar is he followingdrgs
- Is this crack or bath salts?Akagiyama
- Tiger Balm for your eyes.sted
- sted6
- stewardesses is the longest word you can write with just one hand. it's fun to type.sarahfailin
- stewardess is a microagression, educate yourself *gets punched*jagara
- What's the longest word I can type with one finger? and how long would it take?robthelad
- Actually,
Pneumonoultramicrosc...
is the longest word you can WRITE with one hand.palimpsest - https://www.merriam-…palimpsest
- If you're using two hands to write you've got problems.palimpsest
- looks like I have to make an other one on this topic ahahha that's is why friend is saying TYPE...sted
- detritus7
This post by HijoDMaite : http://www.qbn.com/reply/3895819… reminded me of how surprised I was at the journey Hawaii has taken. I knew it was the result of some massive lava bubble that's moving Eastwards/South across the Pacific, but until recently I had no idea how far it had come. I tried the other week following its path backwards, but got a bit lost around Kamchatka somewhere.
I was trying to work out if it might've been the cause of the Siberian Traps lava plain (exciting little man that I am, this is how I fill my free-time...).
Anyway, it's interesting to see the path its taken over the eons..
- i find the little curl right of the ? arrow interesting, as if the plume met plates millions of years ago and melted it in before the plates moved on.detritus
- what makes you think it starts at the top?uan
- Kamchatka will forever in my mind be associated with
https://c1.staticfli…detritus - wow! the more you know in deed.renderedred
- @uan - not sure what you mean? The recent lava flows are all eastwards of Hawaii and it's 'known' that the lava plume is heading that way.detritus
- I've just followed the line of sub sea mounts back. i 'knew' the went about as far as the middle arrow, but was surprised to see it go so far North.detritus
- makes sense. I was just looking at the tectonic plates map and it's weird hawaii isn't at the edge of one but right in the middle of the pacific plate.uan
- Yeah, it's 'anomolous' in the context of plate tectonics. My belief is this is the same mechanic that created the Deccan and Siberian Traps...detritus
- ..but because of the weight and cooling of Pacific water, it's not been able to break out and cause millions of years of lava outpouring.detritus
- *shrug* but wtf do i know?detritus
- The islands were created by a "hot spot" in the earth's mantle. Essentially it's an area where magma flows upwards, so the tectonic plate is actually movingzarkonite
- towards the northwest, giving the illusion that the islands are moving south east.zarkonite
- @detritus & zarkonite, you guys are on the right track. better explanation -> https://www.youtube.…dorf
- Nairn2
Apparently Canadians call full fat milk 'homo milk'? flol.
And it comes in bags, so to speak.
- All true.
Technically, it's called 'homogenised', and comes in at 3.25% fat.
And yeah. The bags. It's weird.Continuity - Actually, no-one I know ever called it 'homo milk', except ironically and to make the obvious joke.Continuity
- Come to think of it, calling full fat milk 'homogenised', anyway, is breathtakingly stupid. Yay, Canada.Continuity
- UK, Graham's Gold Jersey Cow Milk, 5% is best https://www.grahamsf…shapesalad
- Higher fat = better. High fat, high protein, high fibre, low carb, low sugar diet for the win.shapesalad
- Gotta have that protein, from the milk bags.palimpsest
- It’s only an eastern Canada thing. I’ve never seen a bag of milk in the west.monNom
- ya it's a east thing.
bunch of weirdospango - Moo Moo Buckarooutopian
- Maritimers. Salt of the earth, but ... dim.Continuity
- I’ve just emptied my bag of milk into some dudes assIanbolton
- Are you guys making cheese?Nairn
- Stirring Mac & Cheese, even.palimpsest
- Kraft Dinner, not "mac and cheese"i_monk
- I like to take my time.palimpsest
- All true.
