What have you learned today?

[TheMysteriousGX]

If you can't see while you are driving, you can stick your head out the window and listen for the sound of your tyres scraping against the curbs to steer.

Or so I am told.

When running deliveries in the snow one morning I was trying to pass a semi, which was causing white out conditions. No joke, I navigated using the driver side wheels and the rumble strip on the side of the interstate at 70 mph

Absolutely clear vision once I got around it

 

[Absent]

False canopies.

(https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/false-canopies-on-fighters-work-one-almost-killed-me)

 

[Chimpzy]

Now this is propaganda I can get behind

You Think You Understand Thai Culture Because You Eat at Thai Restaurants? Think Again

Have you ever wondered why are there so many Thai restaurants and why so many of them have the same dishes on the menus? Thai restaurants and Thai food were made popular in America through a government campaign of gastrodiplomacy, but here's why Pad Thai isn't really a Thai dish and actual Thai...

www.foodandwine.com

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Now this is propaganda I can get behind

You Think You Understand Thai Culture Because You Eat at Thai Restaurants? Think Again

Have you ever wondered why are there so many Thai restaurants and why so many of them have the same dishes on the menus? Thai restaurants and Thai food were made popular in America through a government campaign of gastrodiplomacy, but here's why Pad Thai isn't really a Thai dish and actual Thai...

www.foodandwine.com

Well, I mean, we Americans only learn about other cultures in two ways: Simplistic, heavily-substituted, fattening versions of traditional cuisine, or military intervention. (Cinco de Mayo and St. Patrick's Day are exceptions, as we use them as justification for getting blind drunk outside of "my sports team won", "my sports team lost", or "this day of the week ends with a Y".)

 

[Absent]

Apparently, 900'000 years ago, we were 1'280 on Earth ?

Haven't read in detail yet, but that sounds weirdly precise...

https://www.science.org/content/article/human-ancestors-may-have-survived-brush-extinction-900-000-years-ago

 

[Thaluikhain]

Apparently, 900'000 years ago, we were 1'280 on Earth ?

Haven't read in detail yet, but that sounds weirdly precise...

https://www.science.org/content/article/human-ancestors-may-have-survived-brush-extinction-900-000-years-ago

I saw that article on FB the other day. Though, not exactly news, people have been broadly aware of this for some time, though maybe not as many of the details.

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

Comment -

joesephcorey 3 days ago
I was stop-lossed into deploying there in April, 2003. My unit provided security for Bremer and his fellow "Ambassadors" in and around Baghdad. It was such an unorganized, chaotic environment. No one knew what was going on. Too many men and women died there for no reason. This deployment was only 6 months for me but it convinced me to not reenlist. This video is spot on.

History; gotta love it.

 

[Gordon_4]

That Cherami Leigh - recently V of Cyberpunk 2077 fame - has had a very considerable career prior to becoming my favourite genre protagonist that isn’t my own tabletop fuck up artist that walks like a man.

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

Don't date any police, holy fuck.

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

Goat sacrifice politics is a thing.

 

[Xprimentyl]

Today, I learned what the Union Jack actually is. If I'm wrong, my UK friends please, correct me, because I'm spreading this information like wildfire. No one I've shown this to had any idea.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Today, I learned what the Union Jack actually is. If I'm wrong, my UK friends please, correct me, because I'm spreading this information like wildfire. No one I've shown this to had any idea.

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Well, there are 4 countries in the UK, but Wales isn't represented in the flag, because it was joined with England long before that sort of flag was a thing. But combining different symbols is an old tradition:

Spoiler

The English flag, at a time when England also had lots of little bits and pieces around the place that had their own flag, and they decided to patchwork quilt the thing

Also, the two crowns of Egypt come to mind. They used to have two kingdoms with two different crowns, one red and one white, but when they ended up as one kingdom:

 

[gorfias]

In the 1982 movie, The Thing, Running dog-Thing was played by Jed, a half wolf that neither growled nor barked. Richard Masur, who played the station dog handler, remembers how Jed would just give you “that look” when he grew uncomfortable on the set.

Being 1/2 wolf made the critter act differently than one would expect, making him appear all the more unworldly.
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I found this out the hard way this AM.

Though insect repellent may not have a listed expiration date, the summer staple does lose its effectiveness over time

 

[Absent]

In the 1982 movie, The Thing, Running dog-Thing was played by Jed, a half wolf that neither growled nor barked. Richard Masur, who played the station dog handler, remembers how Jed would just give you “that look” when he grew uncomfortable on the set.

Yeah, I was very impressed by that dog, one of the coolest (and creepiest) actors in that film. And I had memorized the name of the dog owner/trainer from the end titles, but didn't have the dog's name.

Anyway. Today I learnt that I am mixing up Rebecca Ferguson and Ruth Wilson for a reason that eludes me completely.

 

[Xprimentyl]

Anyway. Today I learnt that I am mixing up Rebecca Ferguson and Ruth Wilson for a reason that eludes me completely.

I had a similar conundrum with Lauren Holly and Leslie Mann. I think it's a case of them looking just similar enough that remote or infrequent exposure to them allows the brain to blend them into a bland "hey, I recognize that actress" soup that I ultimately push to the back of my mental fridge only to occasionally peek at it to remember that it's there, but can't be bother to deal with it.

My gf hates it, because I'm constantly pointing out people who look like other people, but find myself unable to name who "they" look like, and then struggle to even recall where I saw "them." Probably twice a day, I'll point at someone on the screen and say, "oh, that's the guy from that one movie we watched 6 months ago!" She rolls her eyes, and I end up Googling obscure references in my phone. I know it's annoying, but damned if it's not satisfying when the mystery is solved.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Probably twice a day, I'll point at someone on the screen and say, "oh, that's the guy from that one movie we watched 6 months ago!" She rolls her eyes, and I end up Googling obscure references in my phone. I know it's annoying, but damned if it's not satisfying when the mystery is solved.

You mean the person you are talking to rolls her eyes, not the person on the screen, right?

But yeah, I think everyone does the pointing and trying to remember-ing.

 

[Xprimentyl]

You mean the person you are talking to rolls her eyes, not the person on the screen, right?

My gf, yes.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

The French word for portmanteau isn't, hilariously, portmanteau. But I already forgot what it was instead.

EDIT: It's mot-valise.

 

[gorfias]

Yeah, I was very impressed by that dog, one of the coolest (and creepiest) actors in that film. And I had memorized the name of the dog owner/trainer from the end titles, but didn't have the dog's name.

Anyway. Today I learnt that I am mixing up Rebecca Ferguson and Ruth Wilson for a reason that eludes me completely.

I can see the resemblance.

 

[Absent]

I can see the resemblance.

I suspect it's also a resemblance of acting/attitude/demeanor/hardassery between Mission Impossible's Ilsa Faust and Luther's Alice Morgan.