Learn Something Random Every Day Thoughts

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 1:40 pm

Jerloma wrote:Sure, it was disgusting, but not illegal and as long as the legal dominoes continue to fall, and they're falling quickly, the videos of those rallies at CFA are going to eventually be looked at the same way everyone looks at the anti-black rallies of the 50s.

And there you'd be, at the counter chatting up the virulently racist owner and later explaining "I don't think he's an asshole, just a southerner. This is how he was raised."

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 1:45 pm

Oddly enough, I shared a post on Facebook today about Boston Market and Chik-Fil-As being built on military installations. I want to eat this chicken on Sunday so bad.

http://www.militarytimes.com/story/mili ... /18921851/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 1:50 pm

mister d wrote:
Jerloma wrote:Sure, it was disgusting, but not illegal and as long as the legal dominoes continue to fall, and they're falling quickly, the videos of those rallies at CFA are going to eventually be looked at the same way everyone looks at the anti-black rallies of the 50s.
And there you'd be, at the counter chatting up the virulently racist owner and later explaining "I don't think he's an asshole, just a southerner. This is how he was raised."

Hey man, I live in like the most woppy area of the Northeast. No shortage of racists here. Yes, I think that it's taught and I don't begrudge them for it and I think that they have to think themselves out of it and so I try to get them to do that. Still don't have a problem calling them a friend as long as they're not harming anyone.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 1:51 pm

And my argument is publicly denouncing gay rights and funding anti-gay marriage organizations constitutes active harm.

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 2:05 pm

This line wins the swamp today:

Jerloma wrote:I think you guys (except Rass) all might need a little lesson in religious tolerance.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 2:08 pm

mister d wrote:And my argument is publicly denouncing gay rights and funding anti-gay marriage organizations constitutes active harm.

I'm with you on this one. I understand the slippery slope argument but if you really care about these things, Chick-Fil-A is out there. Corporations donate to the GOP because they (presumably) want the (presumable) tax breaks and no regulations and shit that the GOP talks about but doesn't actually do. Chick-Fil-A just wants gays to stop existing.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 2:15 pm

howard wrote:This line wins the swamp today:

Jerloma wrote:I think you guys (except Rass) all might need a little lesson in religious tolerance.

I guess that's some consolation for getting run down in Swampcrash.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 2:16 pm

You should burn down Daytona

rass · Post by **rass** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 2:05 pm

The cardinal is the State Bird of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia.

Thanks Geico, and sorry for thinking you were lazy.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 8:25 am

rass wrote:The cardinal is the State Bird of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia.

Thanks Geico, and sorry for thinking you were lazy.

But not Missouri.

Irony!

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 1:34 pm

Mike Bloomberg has finally recognized my work!

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A_B · Post by **A_B** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 1:36 pm

I assume we all have access to Pruitt's mail library.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 1:37 pm

AB_skin_test wrote:I assume we all have access to Pruitt's mail library.

Sorry, can't paste the notice that I received. Mike Bloomberg - on behalf of the UN has awarded me $850,000 for my work on climate change.

To celebrate, I'm taking the rest of the week off.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 1:49 pm

Seroiusly, can we start a new Random Thoughts thread, like I started that secondary Learn Something New Every Day Thread? I hate the fact that I have to see that colostomy bag's name every time this thread gets bumped because he started it.

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 1:51 pm

L-Jam3 wrote:Seroiusly, can we start a new Random Thoughts thread, like I started that secondary Learn Something New Every Day Thread? I hate the fact that I have to see that colostomy bag's name every time this thread gets bumped because he started it.

Got you covered.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue May 10, 2016 7:48 am

The Sybian wrote:
sancarlos wrote:
The Sybian wrote:...Otherwise I'd think he was going to compete with Shawn Kemp and Antonio Cromartie.
Travis Henry feels disrespected.

Ha, forgot about him.

Cromartie with #11 and #12

howard · Post by **howard** » Tue May 10, 2016 8:50 am

For his next trick, Cromartie will father twins, from two different women.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Tue May 10, 2016 9:04 am

Who knew my running route took me past the Alaskan Assassin?
http://www.rhlarlington.com/2016/05/lyo ... -milllion/

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue May 10, 2016 9:08 am

I recently learned that a woman I've known for decades has a daughter married to an NBA player. The player is Channing Frye of the Cavs.

Joe K · Post by **Joe K** » Sat May 21, 2016 3:10 pm

ESPN's Rachel Nichols is the daughter-in-law of Mike Nichols of The Graduate fame.

howard · Post by **howard** » Sat May 21, 2016 4:27 pm

Yeah, I knew Max when he started dating Rachael. Not well enough to be invited to the wedding (Max was the friend of a girlfriend of mine. But I did meet Mike and Diane once.)

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Sun May 22, 2016 5:22 pm

Joining the pool I used to work at for the summer. Downloaded the files that were on the website, filled them out and emailed them to the person whose email address was on the site.

Got a response back that they need the hard copies for the "originals" of all the documents. OK then.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sun May 22, 2016 8:18 pm

I've lived that garbage logic as a security manager in Germany. Whenever you need to update the access list for unescorted entry into a secure area, it requires an entry authorization list (EAL).

Well, the routing process for getting my commander's signature is already a multi day boondoggle because it had to go through the flight, section, superintendent, and commander's secretary for spelling and corrections, but when you finally get that back you have to drive the original "wet signature" copy to the law enforcement section that files these and then stamps it and sends you a copy days later. The problem is my squadron was on the other side of base and it's a 20 minute drive.

And then the next week a person who ABSOLUTELY RIGHT NOTE needs unescorted access arrives brand new to the squadron and the process starts over. If you don't jump on that immediately you're a piece of shit with no initiative.

Sorry to one up you, but I feel your pain.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon May 23, 2016 5:45 am

The internet is a minefield for the poor dude who skipped Game of Thrones to watch his favorite hockey shit the ice.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Wed May 25, 2016 2:40 pm

KUHT, Houston's PBS channel, was the first public television station in the US.

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed May 25, 2016 4:55 pm

K - University of Houston Television?

Post by **Shirley** » Thu Jun 09, 2016 4:40 pm

The Dancing Plague (or Dance Epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) in July 1518. Around 400 people took to dancing for days without rest, and, over the period of about one month, some of those affected died of heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.

Events
The outbreak began in July 1518, when a woman, Mrs. Troffea, began to dance fervently in a street in Strasbourg.[1] This lasted somewhere between four to six days. Within a week, 34 others had joined, and within a month, there were around 400 dancers, predominantly female. Some of these people eventually died from heart attacks, strokes, or exhaustion.[1] One report indicates that for a period the plague killed around fifteen people per day.[2]

Historical documents, including "physician notes, cathedral sermons, local and regional chronicles, and even notes issued by the Strasbourg city council" are clear that the victims danced.[1] It is not known why these people danced, some even to their deaths.

As the dancing plague worsened, concerned nobles sought the advice of local physicians, who ruled out astrological and supernatural causes, instead announcing that the plague was a "natural disease" caused by "hot blood". However, instead of prescribing bleeding, authorities encouraged more dancing, in part by opening two guildhalls and a grain market, and even constructing a wooden stage. The authorities did this because they believed that the dancers would recover only if they danced continuously night and day. To increase the effectiveness of the cure, authorities even paid for musicians to keep the afflicted moving.[3]

Historian John Waller stated that a marathon runner could not have lasted the intense workout that the men and women died from hundreds of years ago.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Thu Jun 09, 2016 4:53 pm

Then Martha Reeves was burned at the stake.

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Jun 10, 2016 5:47 am

Johnny Carwash wrote:Then Martha Reeves was burned at the stake.

Or Lou Gramm.

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Jun 10, 2016 7:26 pm

Matthew McConaughey's father was drafted by the Green Bay Packers. Training camp, cut before regular season started.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 11:35 am

Did you guys know that Spider Man doesn't produce his own webs? I knew he invented the web shooter but I thought that it was connected into his veins where he could biologically spin silk.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 11:39 am

Pretty ironic.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 11:45 am

Jerloma wrote:Did you guys know that Spider Man doesn't produce his own webs? I knew he invented the web shooter but I thought that it was connected into his veins where he could biologically spin silk.

Yes. The mid-2000's Tobey Maguire movies made a change from the standard comic setup and had the webbing come from Spidey's body instead of being mechanical. It was sort of a nerdy big deal at the time. I don't know what the last set of movies (with Andrew Garfield) did. The new Spidey that showed up in the last Captain America movie is back to mechanical webbing.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 11:48 am

So, it's finite then? Does he ever run out of webbing?

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 11:51 am

Jerloma wrote:So, it's finite then? Does he ever run out of webbing?

I think it was one of those things they would occasionally use as a plot contrivance when they felt like it and then ignored any other time.

Post by **Shirley** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 1:22 pm

rass wrote:
Jerloma wrote:Did you guys know that Spider Man doesn't produce his own webs? I knew he invented the web shooter but I thought that it was connected into his veins where he could biologically spin silk.
Yes. The mid-2000's Tobey Maguire movies made a change from the standard comic setup and had the webbing come from Spidey's body instead of being mechanical. It was sort of a nerdy big deal at the time. I don't know what the last set of movies (with Andrew Garfield) did. The new Spidey that showed up in the last Captain America movie is back to mechanical webbing.

Pretty sure it's a longstanding split in the Spiderman universe. Some storylines have mechanical webs and others have biological.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 1:39 pm

Shirley wrote:
rass wrote:
Jerloma wrote:Did you guys know that Spider Man doesn't produce his own webs? I knew he invented the web shooter but I thought that it was connected into his veins where he could biologically spin silk.
Yes. The mid-2000's Tobey Maguire movies made a change from the standard comic setup and had the webbing come from Spidey's body instead of being mechanical. It was sort of a nerdy big deal at the time. I don't know what the last set of movies (with Andrew Garfield) did. The new Spidey that showed up in the last Captain America movie is back to mechanical webbing.
Pretty sure it's a longstanding split in the Spiderman universe. Some storylines have mechanical webs and others have biological.

MOst of them have mechanical webbing in my experience. The tobey maguire stuff really pissed of the purists, like rass said.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 1:44 pm

A_B wrote:
Shirley wrote:
rass wrote:
Jerloma wrote:Did you guys know that Spider Man doesn't produce his own webs? I knew he invented the web shooter but I thought that it was connected into his veins where he could biologically spin silk.
Yes. The mid-2000's Tobey Maguire movies made a change from the standard comic setup and had the webbing come from Spidey's body instead of being mechanical. It was sort of a nerdy big deal at the time. I don't know what the last set of movies (with Andrew Garfield) did. The new Spidey that showed up in the last Captain America movie is back to mechanical webbing.
Pretty sure it's a longstanding split in the Spiderman universe. Some storylines have mechanical webs and others have biological.
MOst of them have mechanical webbing in my experience. The tobey maguire stuff really pissed of the purists, like rass said.

Shit. The Tobey M movies came out almost 15 years ago, so that might qualify as long-standing!

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 2:10 pm

Shirley wrote:instead announcing that the plague was a "natural disease" caused by "hot blood". However, instead of prescribing bleeding, authorities encouraged more dancing, in part by opening two guildhalls and a grain market, and even constructing a wooden stage. The authorities did this because they believed that the dancers would recover only if they danced continuously night and day. To increase the effectiveness of the cure, authorities even paid for musicians to keep the afflicted moving.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518[/quote]

Kind of like prescribing more guns as the answer to stopping the mass shooting epidemic.

Post by **Shirley** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 4:46 pm

A_B wrote:
Shirley wrote:
rass wrote:
Jerloma wrote:Did you guys know that Spider Man doesn't produce his own webs? I knew he invented the web shooter but I thought that it was connected into his veins where he could biologically spin silk.
Yes. The mid-2000's Tobey Maguire movies made a change from the standard comic setup and had the webbing come from Spidey's body instead of being mechanical. It was sort of a nerdy big deal at the time. I don't know what the last set of movies (with Andrew Garfield) did. The new Spidey that showed up in the last Captain America movie is back to mechanical webbing.
Pretty sure it's a longstanding split in the Spiderman universe. Some storylines have mechanical webs and others have biological.
MOst of them have mechanical webbing in my experience. The tobey maguire stuff really pissed of the purists, like rass said.

The Googles say you're right. I thought I remembered that it was mainly mechanical, but sometime biological even in the old comics. Looks like that's a fairly recent thing.