The More You Know ★
The More You Know ★
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- _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.
- utopian4
How Much Oil Does It Take To Make One Car Tire?
According to the Rubber Manufacturer’s Association (RMA), it takes about seven gallons of oil to create a standard car tire.
More Oil Facts
One barrel of oil (42 gal) can make approx. 19 gallons of gasoline.
If our rate of consumption remained the same, the oil below our earth’s surface would last for approximately 53 more years before running out.
The world uses approx. 85 million barrels of oil each day. The US uses approx 19.8 million barrels each day.
- lol what an obscure and high-budget video.sarahfailin
- "if our rate of consumption remained the same" for 53 more years? doubt itdrgs
- Oil isn't an infinite resource, closer we get to the end of it the more real it's going to get. Expect WAR. https://www.youtube.…shapesalad
- no one knows how much oil lies beneath but two facts: 1. Saudia Arabia alone can provide 200 years of oil at standard consumptionhotroddy
- Our civilization will die long before we run out of oil.hotroddy
- not sure what you mean by standard consumption given that world population follows exponential growth.dorf
- i meant to say current consumption, regardless, but there is still enough oil for next 1000 yearshotroddy
- @dorf: it's not exponential growth, it's linear and it will stop at 11billionuan
- Drill Baby Drillutopian
- Oil and the what the petro-chemical industry can achieve is awe-inspiring. Burning it for fuel is the retarded bit.detritus
- Cool vid! Apparently that one they're making there retails for around £1700detritus
