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RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - Norgarth - 02-01-2020 RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - Star Ranger4 - 02-01-2020 confound it, Norgarth! THESE are why I cant read this topic at this hour of night. its really bad for my nostrils, for one... RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - hazard - 02-01-2020 Ranger, just put whatever you are drinking away when you open up the thread. Or drink less fizzy/alcoholic drinks. RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - Norgarth - 02-01-2020 RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - Norgarth - 02-02-2020 RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - robkelk - 02-02-2020 That last one reminds me of a line I once heard: "Doctors have a name for herbal remedies that actually work: 'medicine'." RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - Norgarth - 02-03-2020 RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - Star Ranger4 - 02-04-2020 Confound it Norgarth. I wasn't drinking anything and I STILL SNERKED so hard my nasal passages hurt from that batch! RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - Norgarth - 02-04-2020 RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - LilFluff - 02-06-2020 So a while back there was a series of posts over on the fediverse regarding the insanity that is the history of our calendar. A subject that often starts with, "Why isn't DECember the tenth month?" I'm sure you've seen, "Why is the calendar weird this way?" posts before, but I have rarely seen any that went into this much detail. I screen captured the posts and got approval to bash them together into a single image or two, only the poster has gone ahead and compiled the whole thing and a little more into a gist over on github under the title, Why isn't the New Year on the Winter Solstice? So I'll just paste that here... Why isn't the New Year on Winter Solstice? Quote:“Why isn’t the new year on winter solstice?” RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - ECSNorway - 02-06-2020 The whole argument flashes me back to the stupid prophecy in Harry Potter. "Born as the Seventh Month dies..." Hermione was born near the end of September, was she not? RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - Bob Schroeck - 02-06-2020 The 19th, actually. Talk Like a Pirate Day. RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - Star Ranger4 - 02-06-2020 Actually, LilFluff, you can blame the roman catholic church for most of that, not the Romans themselves. RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - Norgarth - 02-06-2020 RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - Labster - 02-07-2020 (02-06-2020, 04:22 PM)LilFluff Wrote: So a while back there was a series of posts over on the fediverse regarding the insanity that is the history of our calendar. A subject that often starts with, "Why isn't DECember the tenth month?" I'm sure you've seen, "Why is the calendar weird this way?" posts before, but I have rarely seen any that went into this much detail. I screen captured the posts and got approval to bash them together into a single image or two, only the poster has gone ahead and compiled the whole thing and a little more into a gist over on github under the title, Why isn't the New Year on the Winter Solstice? So I'll just paste that here... The one thing not mentioned there is that the current pontifex maximus got to determine when, and how long, the intercalary month of Mercedonius would be. You know, because the chief bridge builder would be best at astronomy. But what really happened is that if a guy he liked was in office as consul, add a month, otherwise, don't. This meant that out in the colonies, they would literally not know what day it was until a ship from Rome came in and told them whether a month was added or not. Since the various days of the months, and the ides affected when taxes were collected, this got to be more and more annoying as the empire grew. It's not much of a wonder that as soon as the the political power of the republic was cut that Rome moved to something more sane pretty much immediately. (Incidentally the title pontifex maximus went to the Emperors of Rome, but was lost when the Western Empire fell. Popes picked it up later because they liked the symbolism of building bridges.) (01-20-2020, 07:18 PM)robkelk Wrote: When that comic was the newest xkcd, I was basically implementing this very comic at work -- a way to show different messages to people as they left, based on their personal information. Hopefully, we get to use all five. Quote:Doesn't even need the second image, "Star Wars" and "Cats" being "New This Week" is a big enough joke. RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - Norgarth - 02-08-2020 RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - robkelk - 02-08-2020 Anybody want to play Acceptance Speech Bingo? RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - Star Ranger4 - 02-08-2020 would so hate you if every checkbox in that was not 100% true, Rob. *sighs* RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - Norgarth - 02-08-2020 RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - Black Aeronaut - 02-11-2020 (02-08-2020, 05:13 PM)Norgarth Wrote: 1. I WANT THAT STOVE. 2. .... But what if you migrate between different methodologies? I tend to gravitate towards the True Neutral option, but I've been known to do a little of all of the above. Yes, even the Chaotic Evil option because a lot of copies of Jonathan Livingston Seagull had a horrible tendency to fall apart at the bindings. 3. PFFFFFTTT-HAAAHHHH!!! 4. *Ahem* https://topatoco.com/products/qc-scienceverb "Pay no attention to the cat sciencing through space. She was sciencing where she wasn't supposed to science and it is our hope that in the end her sciencing will help further the cause of science." RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - Norgarth - 02-11-2020 RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - hazard - 02-11-2020 Yeah, when there's water coming out of your electrical sockets... you've got a problem. One of which is that part of your electrical net is permanently shorted out until you can plug the leak and let it dry. Another part of it is that you've got a leak in either your water pipes or in the construction's water barriers. RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - DHBirr - 02-11-2020 (02-11-2020, 04:08 PM)Norgarth Wrote:Once when I was in the Army, I was one of two sergeants who had to clean up our office latrine (restroom for you civilian pukes) one day. (There were almost no lower enlisted at our teaching-oriented unit.) Toilet paper was mounted on a peculiar arrangement; I can't recall the design well enough to describe it, but removing the cardboard tube at the center once the roll was fully expended couldn't, as far as I could figure out, be done without tearing the tube apart. It went onto the roller just fine, by squeezing a part of the mechanism, but then the roll blocked access to that mechanism when it came time to remove it. So this particular day, the other guy had never had latrine duty at this unit before, and he asked me how to take a used-up roll off the roller. I didn't choose my words well: "Just rip it off." A horrible screech of tearing light metal followed, as he pulled the roller and its brackets completely off the toilet-stall partition. ----- Up, lad, up! We've villages to pillage, maidens to slay, and dragons to rescue! RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - Norgarth - 02-12-2020 RE: Images: This one goes to ELEVEN - Norgarth - 02-13-2020 |