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- Morning_star2
After watching eight seasons of The Curse of Oak Island are they ever gonna find any treasure or is the best we’re gonna get ‘a British ox shoe from the eigh’een ‘undreds’
- Awsome, didnt know they made a show about it. I heard about this years ago, I thought they will never find treasure. It's a lost cause.Sellies
- I sometimes flip over to it late at night, but it makes no sense. It's like a bad Egypt documentary stretched over multiple seasons. So no, I doubt it. :-)PhanLo
- Read about Oak Island as a kid in a Readers Digest magazine. Always loved a mystery. It’s a fascinating show.Morning_star
- I heard about it from leonard nimoy’s “in search of...”scarabin
- lol, I have watched them all also. They have spent millions and found v.little! Crazy place though, they may find something one day hopefully.fadein11
- I always wonder what would happen if they finally found it in the 1st episode of a season... ha, the show would be over.fadein11
- I don't think there's any question that there is/was some treasure there. The evidence of the vaults and tunnels etc is overwhelming. The maps and markers...Morning_star
- ...and templars and sacred artefacts maybe a little too far fetched. I'll still keep watching though. Lets hope they can ramp it up next season after Covid.Morning_star
- It would be cool if they did find stuff, it's like ultimate adventure tv. But the US ad cliffhanger format is quite draining. So much money they've spent there.PhanLo
- I often wonder how much income a series like that would get for the participants. Same with Gold Rush and the like, does their income from the show matter?Morning_star
- they get a lot from what I have seen. But the Lagina's are loaded anyway hence all that time spent looking for treasure. Well Marty is, that's why he spends afadein11
- lot of time on Zoom calls rather than being there. Both millionaires... Such entertaining TV like gold rush etc... It helps me relax.fadein11
- that cross was an insane find from a while backfadein11
- sted0
That "vibration" around the objects you see (when you're on LSD) is just your eye-moving muscles begin to lose their strength, and start shaking like the muscles in your arm under load.
- True? I always thought is was some kind of signal latency between observation and comprehensionGnash
- I always figured it was the fracturing of the interpolating wetware, resonating against whatever interstitial stage there is between sense and conscious.Nairn
- I’m with Nairn on this onesausages
- Ya, sounds like nairn nailed itGnash
- I have to rethink this theorysted
- I don't know about vibration, but tracers(trails) on lsd are likely caused by conciousness slowing down so much that you become aware of the synapses popping/cherub
- turning on and off, producing a strobe effect- thus the trails following moving objects.cherub
- What we experience as fluid motion, on the cellular level isn't during that interval when info is passing from one brain cell to another over a synapse.cherub
- They're always there, we can only see them under altered conscienceness.lemmy_k
- I dunno, ever do 2-CB and see everything turn holographic? Or do DMT? I’m not convinced these aberrations are purely mechanical in naturescarabin
- ah yeah on drugs not purely. easiest way to see this is just try to focus on an object for a few mins. you do the same thing on lsd just don't notice, whilested
- the drug does its job and adjusts the communication between your senses and brain :)sted
- tried DMT didn't took over as i expected, i think it wasn't a good time to try. but i love to experience this on lsd :)) 2-CB no, scared of the consequences.sted
- 2-CB will feel familiar if you’ve ever done high doses of acid. It’s DMT that still scares me. The only thing that ever truly kicked my ass into pure humilityscarabin
- Ever get “the eye wiggles” on MDMA? That’s pretty mechanicalscarabin
- nah, but first time I saw it on my girl she made me dead laughsted
- ^^Yes, I have. Nystagmus. Supposedly the eye check the cops do during a sobriety check can reveal nystagmus as you follow his pen.cherub
- jagara2
If a burrito isn't enough food, is it possible to order a burro?
- Continuity2
I've thought idly lately about what would happen if someone went back in time to the early '00s armed with some memes from the 2020s, and started posting them on all the old forums everywhere.
Would they resonate then as they do now?
Would they be so popular as to easily overtake Nyan Cat, Imma Chargin Mah Lazer/Shoop Da Woop, Objection, You're the Man Now Dog, and All Your Base?
Or would they absolutely tank?
I think 'WOULD' would have what it takes, even back then. Not sure about anything else from the last few years, though.
- Quiznos commercials were animated memes of the nineties and early oughts. No one understood.imbecile
- Mr T ate my ballsi_monk
- Oh, damn, I'd forgotten that one. Seems to me, we had a lot more surreal and absurdist humour in our memes, compared to now.Continuity
- (re: Mr T ate my balls)Continuity
- Would the dancing baby count then? Or Numa numa?imbecile
- Most memes today seem to be from specific subcultures that wouldn't exist online 20+ years ago.i_monk
- "I said .... What, what, in the Butt?!"microkorg
- jagara4
*switches on Dictaphone*
A bar like Hooters, but with obscene breast sizes, named Udders®- Mascot: a cow named Uddiejagara
- I'm giving you pearls here!jagara
- It’s called high school here
https://www.blogto.c…Gnash
- jagara2
Is it possible to be a flaming hetero?
- ...without being homophobic in any way?jagara
- Ever seen jojo’s bizarre adventure?scarabin
- Only closet gays are homophobicdrgs
- @drgs I think that's a gross oversimplification (albeit containing truth).jagara
- Aren't closeted gays heterophobic?
(I'm not saying they're not justified.)CyBrainX - Hmm... maybe? Closeted gays are usually acting homophobic, to insure the world that they're not gay?jagara
- Nairn1
So, we can all agree that bitcoin was bad for the environment.
So many wasted computational cycles.
We've not seen anything yet. This world will burn as we consume its worth generating absolute bullshit, via complex ML / pseudo-AI constructs.
Disreality will become; Swamped awash with high carbon cost fuckallitudes of every and any utterly nonsensical type.
CyBrainX - if you don't like emoji, you ain't seen nothing yet.
- < This post cost 230g CO2 emissionsNairn
- I think there are worse things that bitcoin for the environment, bitcoin is an easy target "ponzi, tulips, bad for environment"shapesalad
- Bitcoin by it's nature, encourages sustainable sources of energy, wasted energy etc, as that's economically encouraged.shapesalad
- If you can capture wasted energy, or free eco source energy, capture into a form of value - you'd seek it out.shapesalad
- For someone that shits on cannabis, you sure sound like a teenager who's half way through his first 1/4 of soap bar.Nairn
- Mind you, me too probably. lolNairn
- note he's not saying bitcoin is not bad for the environment.kingsteven
- and not really trying very hard to explain it or he'll realise he's talking absolute pretentious nonsense...kingsteven
- love that "Bitcoin by it's nature" which just means "Bitcoin uses lots of energy, all the time" :Dkingsteven
- the fanciful definition 'wasted energy' - which usually means dissipation. here somewhere between 'excess' and ' yet to be harnessed'... wildkingsteven
- over 60% of generated energy dissipates in to heat through the grid and power transformers before it reaches a mining rig (that turns the rest in to heat)kingsteven
- believing in bitcoin is a prerequisite to the very belief renewable energy can be wasted (in the way shape portrays). gateway drug indeedkingsteven
- Optoelectronics will helpdrgs
- As much as I hate emojis, they might be the least horrible thing on your list.
Maybe.CyBrainX
- Continuity2
I figured that I'd do nairn a solid, and try to find *something* Brits could beat the French at.
The news is grim, I'm afraid.
'Average penis size by country: worldwide comparison'
https://www.worlddata.info/avera…France (erect size): 15.74 cm
UK (erect size): 13.13 cmSorry. I tried.
- The Yanks beat you there, too. They have 13.58 cm willies.Continuity
- Germans, too. They've got 14.52 cm dongs. Sorry again.Continuity
- Hmm, like anyone would believe a Frenchman's report of the size of his petit saucisson.Nairn
- And India is infamous for having ickle willies, so I suspect there's some mis-reporting going on over there too.Nairn
- LOL!!
Oh, Nairn.Continuity - Bolivia 16cm+ ?! Ha ha.. are you serious! The entire population is under 165cm in height, how is that possible!?shapesalad
- You guys know that shape of a cock, at the tip, is designed to push out other mens sperm in the vag. Gangbangs were a thing 5000+ years ago.shapesalad
- now wonder they invented baguettes.neverscared
- nb2
the “mens boobs” thread has at least 13 posts
- I wonder what’s in therenb
- I guess pics of male chests and discussions on the subject.nb
- Oh? I figured it was pics of men making mistakes. Like cutting wood the incorrect length. Buying trousers a size too small. Trying to board a plane a day late...hardhat
- I'm guessing a post or two about Robert Paulson?kaiyohtee
- Now I'm curiousYakuZoku
- Morning_star4
As the demographic of this place is probably old enough to remember and experience the nuclear paranoia of the 80s cold war shenanigans, do you think we're overly sensitive and fearful of the consequences of the current 'events' surrounding the Ukraine.
- Overly sensitive? No.
Adequately sensitive? Yes.
Poost Gen-X, MAD stopped being a thing, and I'm guessing there's a complacency in the subsequent generationsContinuity - ... that could become a real problem.
I'm not saying we should have monthly nuclear drills in primary school again, but we need to heighten sensitivity inContinuity - .. gens Y and Z.
Oh, look. You posted this 2 months ago, I just noticed. Carry on, sir.Continuity - Fuck me. It's been two months, already.Continuity
- Time flies when your in a bunker :)Morning_star
- Overly sensitive? No.
- Nairn0
Apparently Manchester has a larger general population catchment than Birmingham.
Birmingham really doesn't figure on my radar generally.
Is Manchester Britain's second city?
- YupAQUTE
- It is known.i_monk
- It's really whether you're a Duran Duran or a Stone Rose.MrT
- What's a 'general population' Brum has more than twice the population of Manchester.Morning_star
- Birmingham just seems like a nothing. It's giant but completely soulless. Had some fun nights out there. Manchesters betterPhanLo
- I'd read that the catchment population was bigger in Mancs than Brums, but apparently this was wrong..Nairn
- https://en.wikipedia…Nairn
- I know that Brum as a city has a larger population than Mancs - I have done ever since I learnt the top ten biggest cities in the UK as a kidNairn
- Nairn1
Is it 'pestle and mortar' or 'mortar and pestle'?
- aBaskerviIle
- You'd think, right? Yet..
https://www.spicemou…
https://en.wikipedia…Nairn - P & M all the way.shapesalad
- Bduckseason
- huh. a new fighter enters the game.Nairn
- How the fuck did this garner 3 downvotes?! wtf's wrong with some of you people?Nairn
- A.
Who actually uses theirs?MrT - I do - will be this evening - for peppercorns and szechuan pepper, pretty much exclusively.Nairn
- Nairn2
I wonder how much binmen make.
I'm at a regular career-change point in life (actually, beyond).
I think I could make a good binman. person. a bin person. a very bin person. or not.
- £31,218, apparently.
hrm.Nairn - like, if i had gov't assisted housing and that wage, that could be ok. Get up early, clock on, clean the fucking city, clock off, family time. bumph.Nairn
- Fuck, could I part-time as a person of the bin? just take loads of speed after a shift and carry on with the rest of my life 'as normal'? Worked for the NazisNairn
- ...For a while.Nairn
- do it! my friend became a ferryboat captain and he loves it. talk about a job you can leave "at the office"sarahfailin
- the recycling lads round my way seem to have an easier lime of it and a better standard of conversation, always wonder if its linked or if they match yourkingsteven
- personality to a waste type in the interviewkingsteven
- 'lime' being rhyming slang for 'time' because im a rag n' bone man. limes (the fruit) go in the brown binkingsteven
- My mates father in law is a binman. Ironically he used to be in the graffiti clean up squad too. They always finish early council style. Seems happyPhanLo
- Lorry drivers make an average of £32k a year here in the UK, apparently. Seems like a better - and currently much more needed - option.Nairn
- Not sure I could sit on my arse all day long, staring at an animated rectangle thou.. oh.
Wait.Nairn
- £31,218, apparently.
- Nairn1
I wonder what the very last thing that will be posted on here will be.
And when.
- Not now.Nairn
- Not now.Nairn
- Not now.Nairn
- Not now.Nairn
- Not now.Nairn
- Now?Nairn
- Not now.Nairn
- AND WHO.
WHO WILL IT BE?Nairn - probably PhanLo.uan
- drgs. Hes lived to 176 and has kept a QBN mirror running off solar in the international zone of spitzbergen, where the last holdouts of humanity huddle.Nairn
- Unfortunately, PhanLo is Scottish, so will die at the age of 36.Nairn
- cowering by the fading warmth of the ever-slowly glimmering remnants of a candle, drgs posts a lonely exeunt, to an audience of one, and at that, no more.Nairn
- HEY I'M BACK
-SHULA
that will be the last onehydro74 - CatPower updating his thread will be the last ... with no-one here to read it.Continuity
- Nairn3
Future me really hates present me.
- What´s your past self´s opinion in this?islandbridge
- He was right, the smug prick.Nairn
- Nairn2
. o O ( typos and generally poor, slightly chaotic typing are a potential defence against future ai replicability of online persona. If you're a shit typer, start writing better where publically-viewable so that your respondants know it's you ( *wink ) amd if you're a generally-coherent typist, pepper your online meanderings wit h tiPos and Mspellllngs. MAGA )
- Nairn0
If you murder someone in space, is it illegal?
- Yes.
The argument "what happens in space stays in space" will not hold in a court of law.palimpsest - Hmm, what about if you eject a someone alive on a ballilstic trajectory, so they die above Las Vegas, killed by space?Nairn
- all airspace crimes; passenger aircraft to space are considered federal. criminals face charges in their home countiesimbecile
- *countries evenimbecile
- so someone can't just slit Elon's throat on his first trip and totally get away with it?Nairn
- Sadly, no unless someone convinces a cop that Elon is blackimbecile
- everything is in space. the entire planet is IN space.sarahfailin
- MIND = BLOWN. EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL = EXTRA JURISPRUDENCE. I AM FREE TO MURDER WHO I WANT, RIGHT HERE ON EARTH! Thanks sarah xNairn
- according to sarah, being inside a building is still outside because the building is outsideimbecile
- This wasn't the case when Jack the Ripper framed Scotty in Star Trek.CyBrainX
- Yes.