TIL: post things you learned today.

[PL 001]

TIL that World of Warcraft used to offer a Maine Coon as an animal companion to one of their classes (Hunter or Druid) but it was taken out because a bunch of idiots saw the word 'coon' and associated it with racism.

 

[Guts Gets Some]

That the rest of my year is probably going to be unbearable and tedious because of one dumb mistake a couple weeks ago.
I must try and rectify this; I won't just be passive about this.

 

[JosephStalin]

I learned that it's easy to change windshield wiper blades on a Hyundai Sonata. Got some nice, American-made, Trico blades.

Keep an eye on your windshield wiper blades. In normal use, they last about two years or so. Noticed today that one blade had started to come apart. Have had the car about 2 and a half years.

 

[Trilby]

TIL that World of Warcraft used to offer a Maine Coon as an animal companion to one of their classes (Hunter or Druid) but it was taken out because a bunch of idiots saw the word 'coon' and associated it with racism.

Pretty sad, Maine coons kick ass.

 

[PT 940]

TIL my Xbox360 no longer works Glad I can still find them used though!

 

[PT 940]

TIL that @Piss is pretty cool to hang out with.

Where's my participation trophy for hanging out with another Kiwi?

 

[JM 590]

TIL that @Piss is pretty cool to hang out with.

Where's my participation trophy for hanging out with another Kiwi?

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

Sidney Poitier is still alive.

 

[PT 940]

TIL that my neighbor would rather lie to the police about her dog attacking someone than take responsibility for it. Unfortunately for her I saw it happen.

 

[edibleBulimia]

TIL that my neighbor would rather lie to the police about her dog attacking someone than take responsibility for it. Unfortunately for her I saw it happen.

Damn, that’s horrible. Are you going to tell on her?


As for me, I found out someone I know probably has a crush on me. I don’t know what to do but it feels nice to know that I’m a decent person to know, I guess.

 

[PT 940]

Damn, that’s horrible. Are you going to tell on her?


As for me, I found out someone I know probably has a crush on me. I don’t know what to do but it feels nice to know that I’m a decent person to know, I guess.

I stuck around outside and talked to one of the cops but they didn't take a statement from me. I think it was moot point because they saw the guy's dog bite and that's that. Her arguments kind of fell flat anyway and she was acting like an idiot, called her boyfriend and he came over and made things worse. She was trashy and uncooperative. I did give my number to the company reading the meters though.

 

[MAPK phosphatase]

I learned how to create a multi-bit binary adder/subtracter using logic gates.

 

[democon]

TIL that overtones are the secondary higher sound frequency that plays simultaneously with the lower main frequency while singing or playing an instrument

 

[BScCollateral]

Ancient Egyptian writing did not have vowels, so the spelling of most Egyptian names and places is a matter of convention.

Weirdly, an old radio horror anthology got this right when they had a cult worshiping the lion-headed goddess "Sakumatu", which in the show was the correct pronunciation of "Sekhmet."

 

[Beluga]

Ancient Egyptian writing did not have vowels, so the spelling of most Egyptian names and places is a matter of convention.

So like Arabic and Hebrew? Wonder if they derive in some way from ancient Egyptian now...

 

[Kaiser Wilhelm's Ghost]

TIL that all bicycle mechanics are high functioning autistics.

 

[BScCollateral]

Soviet cosmonauts and recovery teams used code words for emergencies to delay their becoming public knowledge before they could come up with the right spin. In one case the code for an emergency mission abort was "Lightning." The cosmonaut, who frankly had too much on his mind to fret over code words, reported seeing a thunderstorm from space, and had to frantically retract the misunderstanding.

Better, they used a "One level better than reality" code, with "Excellent" meaning "Nominal," "Nominal" meaning "Uh-oh," and "Uh-Oh" meaning "Farewell, Motherland!" When the crew of Soyuz 11 died during re-entry, the recovery team broadcast that the cosmonauts were "sick." Nobody could figure out what that meant, or perhaps more likely, everyone knew but nobody wanted to know, and I don't blame them.

As far as I know, the Americans never used code words in any of their in-flight emergencies. It's "Houston, we had a problem," not "The cow moos twice."

 

[PT 940]

TIL I may have to unsub from a youtuber I really liked at one point for saying people shouldn't take medication that affect their brain but says it's fine for her to smoke weed because she has a "spiritual connection" with it. She also quoted Contrapoints at the beginning by saying "Words are just sounds that come out of our mouths" and that it's our actions that have meaning. So I left her a comment asking if that means she doesn't believe in hate speech. This means I can call her a c*nt or say her kid should be taken away from her for doing something illegal and she shouldn't be upset but if she agrees that there is no hate speech it will upset her leftist audience so I'm waiting for her to answer me. And if she doesn't, I can always just comment about how she never answers anyone unless they are paying her (which is generally true) and people never like that pointed out.

 

[Trilby]

TIL I may have to unsub from a youtuber I really liked at one point for saying people shouldn't take medication that affect their brain but says it's fine for her to smoke weed because she has a "spiritual connection" with it. She also quoted Contrapoints at the beginning by saying "Words are just sounds that come out of our mouths" and that it's our actions that have meaning. So I left her a comment asking if that means she doesn't believe in hate speech. This means I can call her a c*nt or say her kid should be taken away from her for doing something illegal and she shouldn't be upset but if she agrees that there is no hate speech it will upset her leftist audience so I'm waiting for her to answer me. And if she doesn't, I can always just comment about how she never answers anyone unless they are paying her (which is generally true) and people never like that pointed out.

What a cunt, anyway.

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

Ancient Egyptian writing did not have vowels, so the spelling of most Egyptian names and places is a matter of convention.

Weirdly, an old radio horror anthology got this right when they had a cult worshiping the lion-headed goddess "Sakumatu", which in the show was the correct pronunciation of "Sekhmet."

Which radio show? I've an interest in old time radio, especially horror and SF.