The More You Know ★
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- Krassy19
- fuuuuuuckpedromendez
- all these years... battling with trying to hang shitpedromendez
- Obviously reversed!nbq
- Nice!!OBBTKN
- https://www.youtube.…utopian
- so much art... so little forkscaterpus
- Why isn't this taught in schools?webazoot
- +milfhunter
- omg! It took me 15 min to try to hang something last month! NOW I KNOW!!Bennn
- witchcraft!misterhow
- https://i.imgur.com/…Continuity
- My life was heading this way before this. Now my lifes' going this way. #lifechangingBennn
- What the....fyoucher1
- even the cat is watching the fork in 'whut'Bennn
- disclosure is real...lots of advanced technology posted online lately...liberation is coming.uan
- Wait!
No "what the fork?!" comment?
QBN, I am disappoint.Krassy - USEFUL THREAD https://www.qbn.com/…api
- Krassy16
- Fun Post Krassy!utopian
- Ui vs UX
https://i.imgur.com/…utopian - awesomedkoblesky
- ^^
I wish the sink just had one faucet mounted at an angle so it flowed into whichever sink was belowakiersky - https://www.youtube.…imbecile
- @imbecile tnxKrassy
- Do they lower the anchor with dental floss?CyBrainX
- Opperation Hennesee's sea lab?GuyFawkes
- "Sinks for a Cause"sted
- philips sonicareAQUTE
- Godzilla’s toothbrush.maquito
- +1renderedred
- "they needed a more quiet and stable place than a research ship to study how sound waves behave under water. Ships were unsuitable as they bob up and down"Chimp
- This is really wild.Continuity
- Gardener9
- by cutting the cheeseutopian
- good to know!renderedred
- https://image.shutte…Ramanisky2
- Women are so easily fascinated.cherub
- It will not workBabaVanga
- https://media4.giphy…scarabin
- Frenchmen secret trick finally revealed !gonzalle
- Wensleydale?PeterPancake
- I'm sure they would actually be fascinated.jagara
- "Here" *leaves*jagara
- Sure, if they’re hungry, trying to “maintain their figure”, A bit of protein and and a boost to old blood sugar would help anyone’s mood.jtb26
- I need this bookmisterhow
- May. Also, may not.NonEntity
- simple things, it's always the simple things.sted
- Captures my heart every time.mapleT
- bill cosby disagrees i guessneverscared
- everything not being pointed at is disturbingimbecile
- I want to know the sweating trick.garbage
- What is 'rue'?Akagiyama
- _niko13
The iconic angostura bitters bottle sold since the 1800 in Trinidad, was the result of a printing error, where the labels were printed larger than the bottle, but the ran with it out of necessity and the rest is history.
- great showcase to show to clients on why mistake can be your ups and used to your advantage.shapesalad
- yup. there are no mistakes, just happy accidents as Bob Ross would say lol_niko
- i always wondered what that was all about. very interestingSteveJobs
- ha, how odd - I happened upon a bottle of this in the studios the other day and wondered at it.
Still tastes gash tho.Nairn - You gotta try it in a Pisco Sour.palimpsest
- and now you know... the rest of the story.fooler
- haha fooler, thinking the same, used to love those spots._niko
- @_niko it always reminds me of driving in the car with my dad.fooler
- lol fooler. I usually take all of my drinks neat, but this is a must for whiskey sour or a long vodka.garbage
- I make bourbon old fashions with it but twisted the label up like a Lea & Perrins Worcestershire label.fooler
- An Old Fashioned is *the* perfect use of bitters.Continuity
- lol, an old roommate of mine was a bartender and she would get pissed if you gave it the Worcestershire twist.garbage
- Thats inspired my Friday Old Fashioned !DaveO
- great Roll-Your-Own Ginger Ale as well.keewee
- @garbage I allegorize but it's going to take years if not decades to buy another bottle but I'll try not to twist it.fooler
- never tried it, always liked the packaging and logo. thought it was fun. so bad its good.AQUTE
- @fooler It's too tempting not to do.garbage
- Krassy14
- +1utopian
- the Bobbinsted
- I never knew this, and I did wonder.monospaced
- Yeah always bugged me now I know! Thanks QBN!_niko
- Most useful thing I've seen in ages...see_thru
- always wondered how this worked.dbloc
- So the bobbin assembly has to be floating in order for the loop pass around it. Now I'm going to half to take the sewing machine apart.Turboslacker
- very interesting! krassy, you nailed it this time! :)api
- Turboslacker no, nope its fixed tricky little fucker :) i watched my mother replacing this hundreds of times when was a kid until I got how it works :)sted
- chukkaphob10
- lolGuyFawkes
- LOLKrassy
- https://i.imgur.com/…Squiddy
- ^ fuuuuuuck!chukkaphob
- 3 is wrong! Shark fin is on top of your head.
I used to do this to students on their first open water dives when I worked in OZ.mugwart - that gif, jeeeesus...I would have shat myself in my wet suit!mrAtor
- 1 & 2 should be swappedchukkaphob
- Hey mug, I'm an Advanced Open Water PADI holder... we should go diving and hold hands underwater like real friends docanoe
- ^^ defo. Only if we hold hands and skip into the water together!mugwart
- Where have you been my entire life? QBN is so underrated when it comes to people who can't wait to skip, skip, skip!canoe
- skip skip into the sea!
You a sun rise or sun set kind-a-guy? !mugwart - The '2X' detail for the 'fucking' hand signal is a nice touch.shapesalad
- Akagiyama8
- Aka zz top grass_niko
- Shezz gotzz legzzutopian
- I heard from internetz in 80 years most of our soil will be deadGuyFawkes
- don't worry the vegans have it sortedMrT
- "Comic Sans always helps to make a point."
- No one ever.Longcopylover - Seems to me that with smarter, tech'd up agricultural 'harvester' machines we could create mixed up matrices of different plant types - best of all worlds.Nairn
- I don’t think it’s that’s the soil will be dead, but topsoil will be used up of all its nutrients or something like thathardhat
- Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation Continues
https://www.scientif…utopian - New Evidence Shows Fertile Soil Gone From Midwestern Farms
https://www.npr.org/…utopian - @hardhat - I think it's that deep roots help prevent Dustbowl-like diminishment of the top layers through wind loss.Nairn
- I'm actually quite positive about soil depletion - i believe it's a resolveable situation. Just takes effort and a bit of tech.Nairn
- Some believe that much of the Amazon's Bio-Vitality comes from Terra Preta, which was a human-formed resource, made over many hundreds of years.Nairn
- Humans are like hyper-ants - we process So Much Fucking Resource. All the outputs aimed right, we can make the whole world green. If we choose.Nairn
- Stop agriculture NOW !gonzalle
- scarabin17
- Akagiyama1
- where's Tesla?derdennis
- Tesla's not owned by another car company, nor owns any sub marques. Also, <this is incorrect - GM's & FCA's marques are all muddled up.Nairn
- Also, I'm pretty sure that Samsung isn't owned by Renault, lol, whilst TATA isn't a car company as such. Basically, this thing's a mess.Nairn
- Renault - Samsung wtfBeeswax
- yeaaaah https://en.wikipedia…nb
- Toyota owns Toyota! *mindblownnb
- then if I'm not mistaken, off the top of my head, the only pure, undiluted car company out there is Subaru?_niko
- Toyota has a minority stake in Subaru.garbage
- you're right, thanks Garbage_niko
- And Nestlé owns them all.NBQ00
- I thought Ford had a piece of Jaguar.monospaced
- I also thought Daimler and Chrysler were combined at some level at some point.monospaced
- Samsung car??shapesalad
- show me your tata'sHayoth
- lol @ nestleAkagiyama
- where are the Zhiguli, Yugo, Lada, Volga, Škoda, Moskvitch?Krassy
- What about Mazda? And long live the Saab!shapesalad
- So if you drive a Volvo it’s pretty much a London taxi. And a Skoda may as well be a Porsche, Lamborghini or Bugatti.shapesalad
- One thing all these cars have in common: 4 wheels, seats, dash boards, headlamps, and a steering wheel. You pay for logo.shapesalad
- that isn’t true shapemonospaced
- VW owns Audi, Porsche, Seat, Skoda, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghinisandpipe
- ^ Your reading is coming along really well.Hayzilla
- Krassy5
What you see is a myosin protein dragging an endorphin along a filament to the inner part of the brain’s parietal cortex which creates happiness. Happiness. You’re looking at happiness.
- reversed.nbq
- It’s a vis of protein movement in a white blood cellGnash
- That green thing its carrying is a weed moleculeGuyFawkes
- lolKrassy
- https://www.youtube.…utopian
- That's transport *within* a cell, along a microtubule. Not even a brain cell: any cell, in any animal, plant or fungi. Nothing to do with endorphins.NonEntity
- And it can strut like a muthaNonEntity
- Haters gonna hateNBQ00
- Amazing....think about it....dkoblesky
- when u vape...neverscared
- Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin alivejagara
- scarabin6
- Look at the size of that hectocotylus! Her siphon stands no chance.ideaist
- aliensrenderedred
- Wait, so every time we eat octopus there’s a 1 in 8 chance that we’re actually eating penis?_niko
- Next Level Skull Fuckutopian
- @niko ok so I actually know this one without googling it. The sexy arm is called the spermatophore, and it's literally "just the tip".garbage
- All the sea-jizz is right on the end, and it is cut off and discarded before going to market. But also this entire process seen here? Takes about 4 hours.garbage
- They have a dedicated fucking arm, and a dedicated submission arm. It's yeesh, but they are still delicious ocean aliens.garbage
- I have a dedicate fucking arm too.monospaced
- What a head fuckChimp
- OctopussyNonEntity
- well hungKrassy
- chukkaphob8
- Crowd goes nuts...utopian
- awesomeomg
- I still cant do this.sureshot
- should be on the front pagesureshot
- *orders some 10ft yellow polesFax_Benson
- Got that pango?monospaced
- omg monobklyndroobeki
- that's a huge space though. definitely not nyc.bklyndroobeki
- Lol mono!HijoDMaite
- lol mono!moldero
- mort_5
- *furiously writes in notebookAkagiyama
- I tried this with soup today, it was a fail, how can the inventor of forks sleep well at night?!grafician
- CAPITALISMscarabin
- This got a downvote when I posted it. I guess some smarty pants know-it-all already had this fine knowledge..mort_
- i've been upvoting a pile of dvs today someone here has coke slots for brainskingsteven
- QBN thanks you.mort_
- "Vegas has lots of slots!"GuyFawkes
- lol scarabincolin_s
- Stealing "coke slots for brains", and nobody will ever know what I'm talking about.garbage
- Who do we blame, here? The Coca-Cola Company, or the inventor of forks? Either way, someone has a lot to answer for.Continuity
- sted10
The Space Shuttle and the Horse's Rear End
Say friend, did you know that the US Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches.
That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used?
Because that's the way they built them in England, and the US railroads were built by English expatriates.
I see, but why did the English build them like that?
Because the first railway lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
Well, why did they use that gauge in England?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Okay! Why did their wagons use that odd wheel spacing?
Because, if they tried to use any other spacing the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads. Because that's the spacing of the old wheel ruts.
So who built these old rutted roads?
The first long distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the benefit of their legions. The Roman roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts?
The original ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagons, were first made by the wheels of Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made for or by Imperial Rome they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
Thus, we have the answer to the original question. The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman army war chariot.
And the motto of the story is Specifications and bureaucracies live forever.
So, the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you may be exactly right. Because the Imperial Roman chariots were made to be just wide enough to accommodate the back-ends of two war-horses.
So, just what does this have to do with the exploration of space?
Well, there's an interesting extension of the story about railroad gauge and horses' behinds. When we see a Space Shuttle sitting on the launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are the solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at a factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site.
The railroad from the factory runs through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than a railroad track, and the railroad track is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
So a major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was originally determined by the width of a horse's ass.
- https://encrypted-tb…_niko
- They could have moved the factory.calculator
- Thanks, that was fun!Green_Pork
- fun read but a myth. https://magazine.eng…Beeswax
- @Beeswax “Mind your own!” Lol... Sorry, couldn’t resist.Green_Pork
- kingsteven10
- For the children.face_melter
- nice!moldero
- Wit to until their golden child starts listening to some of the lyrics.utopian
- gi gi gi giver her the knife!moldero
- We will remember the Wu-Tang Clan when the sun envelopes the earth in 4 billion years. That's how important they are.jagara
- renderedred10
- Amerikkka is Fucked Threadutopian
- i lol’ed way too harddasohr
- He's Captain Texas which is way betterTurboslacker
- so he works for the IRS?son_dey
- 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
- 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
