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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 18, 2019 11:53:27 GMT -6
*dj scratch noises* do you enjoy falling in a wikipedia hole? did you learn something interesting while looking up why its called "dream of the blue turtles?" wikipedia is one of the best time-killers so i invite you to share articles that made you go "huh!" Red rain in Kerala in 2001 was a really interesting read this morning - the hypotheses all fascinate me. I also did not realize plant arithmetic was a thing, stemming from plant cognition which is cool all on its own. But plants counting freaks me out. And finally, the actor who could " fart on command" but actually was just breathing with his asshole. |
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Post by thebosma on Nov 18, 2019 11:55:00 GMT -6
I too had drugs for breakfast.
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Post by neader on Nov 18, 2019 11:55:19 GMT -6
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Post by thebosma on Nov 18, 2019 11:58:23 GMT -6
I’m going back on my previous statement this thread rules
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 18, 2019 11:59:28 GMT -6
 this is what im here for |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 18, 2019 12:08:34 GMT -6
I had to dig through a lot of revisions/edits to find this, but for years the article for "The Boys are Back in Town" had a full plot description. It was edited out in 2015, but I found it in college sometime 2010-2011.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2019 12:16:08 GMT -6
I read through a list of bear attacks in North America the other night, and some of the stories are pretty bonkers: Uptain, a guide for Martin Outfitters, was cleaning an elk that he and his client Corey Chubon had shot when the bear attacked. The bear was a sow with a 1½-year-old male cub.[26] The hunter and his guide were dressing an elk carcass and had left a canister of bear spray and a Glock 20 pistol out of reach. As the bear attacked, Chubon unfamiliar with the operation of a Glock pistol was unable to fire and attempted to throw it at Uptain who failed to catch it. The bear turned on Uptain. Chubon fled with injuries as the bear attacked Uptain. After staggering 50 yards (46 m) uphill from the dead elk, Uptain was killed by the mother and possibly by the cub as well. The bears were shot and killed by Wyoming Fish and Game officials.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_bear_attacks_in_North_AmericaThere was also at least one guy who was mountain biking down a trail and ran head on into a bear which then mauled him to death. Fun! |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 18, 2019 12:26:09 GMT -6
They made this into a movie in 1990 which I am very intrigued to find and watch, mostly for what I've learned is "a man in a bear suit"   |
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Post by neader on Nov 18, 2019 12:39:28 GMT -6
xam can we rename this the bear attack thread?
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Post by neader on Nov 18, 2019 12:53:19 GMT -6
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Post by Tweet on Nov 18, 2019 12:55:37 GMT -6
Previously, she was married to Big Thief co-founder Buck Meek.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 18, 2019 13:31:23 GMT -6
Previously, she was married to Big Thief co-founder Buck Meek. THIS IS NOT A SYMB THREAD |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jan 8, 2020 11:05:36 GMT -6
"Bang the Drum All Day" is a 1983 song by Todd Rundgren. The lyrics describe, in the first person, the singer's drive to "bang on the drum all day" to the exclusion of everything else
Rundgren would re-record the song live for subscribers to his Patronet service. The new version was retitled "Bang the Ukulele Daily", referring to Rundgren's decision to perform it in a Hawaiian style, accompanied only by a ukulele.
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Post by Tweet on Jan 8, 2020 11:36:53 GMT -6
Previously, she was married to Big Thief co-founder Buck Meek. THIS IS NOT A SYMB THREAD |
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Post by Xamnam on Jan 8, 2020 11:39:18 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2020 11:42:33 GMT -6
Occasionally, even experienced Wikipedians lose their heads and devote every waking moment to edit warring over the most trivial thing, wasting time debating topics of no practical value, or wrestling over questions whose answers hold no practical consequence
i know we could say that this statement extends to every facet of the internet, but really, has anything EVER felt so poignantly TheBoardDotian?
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jan 8, 2020 11:50:23 GMT -6
THIS IS NOT A SYMB THREAD what part of mine was difficult to understand without a google? |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jan 13, 2020 14:55:22 GMT -6
Thought this was worth mentioning, I had no idea. For local people that are still binging Rush. I know it only amounts to a couple songs but I was still interested.
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Post by thebosma on Jan 13, 2020 15:15:31 GMT -6
They re-released it at some point with a pretty sick bonus disk as well. I think those bonus recordings were from the Vapor Trails era but I could be wrong on that one.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jan 13, 2020 15:58:06 GMT -6
They re-released it at some point with a pretty sick bonus disk as well. I think those bonus recordings were from the Vapor Trails era but I could be wrong on that one. It's actually a show from '78! |
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Post by thebosma on Jan 13, 2020 16:08:51 GMT -6
They re-released it at some point with a pretty sick bonus disk as well. I think those bonus recordings were from the Vapor Trails era but I could be wrong on that one. It's actually a show from '78! Oh that’s even cooler |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jan 29, 2020 16:40:29 GMT -6
The practice of blessing someone who sneezes dates as far back as at least AD 77, although it is far older than most specific explanations can account for. Some have offered an explanation suggesting that people once held the folk belief that a person's soul could be thrown from their body when they sneezed, that sneezing otherwise opened the body to invasion by the Devil or evil spirits, or that sneezing was the body's effort to force out an invading evil presence. In these cases, "God bless you" or "bless you" is used as a sort of shield against evil.
will "bless you" ever die off? it is some real archaic shit i dont think we need.
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Post by kb on Jan 29, 2020 16:46:54 GMT -6
you are sooo good-lookin'.
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Post by andrewvb on Jan 29, 2020 16:56:50 GMT -6
The practice of blessing someone who sneezes dates as far back as at least AD 77, although it is far older than most specific explanations can account for. Some have offered an explanation suggesting that people once held the folk belief that a person's soul could be thrown from their body when they sneezed, that sneezing otherwise opened the body to invasion by the Devil or evil spirits, or that sneezing was the body's effort to force out an invading evil presence. In these cases, "God bless you" or "bless you" is used as a sort of shield against evil.will "bless you" ever die off? it is some real archaic shit i dont think we need. one of the few nice things left that normal people do and you want to end it? smh |
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Post by thebosma on Jan 29, 2020 16:59:09 GMT -6
As a man of the cloth, my blessings mean just a touch extra, so I give them out carefully.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jan 29, 2020 17:02:45 GMT -6
The practice of blessing someone who sneezes dates as far back as at least AD 77, although it is far older than most specific explanations can account for. Some have offered an explanation suggesting that people once held the folk belief that a person's soul could be thrown from their body when they sneezed, that sneezing otherwise opened the body to invasion by the Devil or evil spirits, or that sneezing was the body's effort to force out an invading evil presence. In these cases, "God bless you" or "bless you" is used as a sort of shield against evil.will "bless you" ever die off? it is some real archaic shit i dont think we need. one of the few nice things left that normal people do and you want to end it? smh nah we should just switch it to be for something else that we know is eternally soul-sucking, like when someone says "i have to go to the doctor" or "i am going to all four days of lollapalooza" |
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Post by Xamnam on Jan 29, 2020 17:52:54 GMT -6
bless you:
religious in origin
outdated
potential to offend
soul, depart not:
mysterious
universally applicable
can pointedly not say to your enemies
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Post by neader on Mar 12, 2020 18:29:20 GMT -6
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Post by kb on Mar 13, 2020 7:43:54 GMT -6
covid-19 wikipedia is v informative.
The process of naming the disease has been called "chaotic".
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2020 11:51:21 GMT -6
I was also reading about covid on Wiki and then ended up reading the history of Hubei Province and then about Mongolia.  |
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