Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

[fireproof78]

Smoking has been banned on commercial airline flights for a fair whack of time. Everybody knows that.

So why do planes still have 'no smoking' lights?

Because people don't follow the rules.

Smoking is banned within so many feet of entrances in my state. People still do it.

Common knowledge does not mean common compliance.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Because people don't follow the rules.

Smoking is banned within so many feet of entrances in my state. People still do it.

Common knowledge does not mean common compliance.

Also people. People like to be dicks and do whatever the hell it is that they want

 

[Velocity]

I burned 3 fingers on my left hand on my iron while being really stupid. That hurt like holy hell, but the worst part is that those are the fingers I prick to test my blood sugar. Now, I can only use the thumb and pinky fingers to draw blood. That got old really quick, too, I'm tellin' ya.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'm not necessarily ruling out street executions for whoever wrote the 1-800-Kars-for-Kids ad.

 

[JD]

That's a national thing? I had just assumed it was a cheap local ad.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

It's no less insidious than an Isis plot, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[JD]

It's a good cause, but it is pretty damn annoying.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

So does a piece of buttered toast always land butter side up?

 

[Avro Arrow]

So does a piece of buttered toast always land butter side up?

Butter side down. Always down. It's a law of physics, and the basis for the buttered cat paradox.

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[Gingerbread Demon]

Butter side down. Always down. It's a law of physics, and the basis for the buttered cat paradox.

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That's brilliant cat physics

 

[Fantasy Lover]

Last night a my neighbour from a doors away knocked on my door to ask me to borrow my cell phone. She was hit by her partner and wanted to call the police, I gave my phone and she called the police. She called the police, they came to gather het statement and threw her partner in the cell for a day. Her partner is back home now, I hope she's safe but I doubt it

Her partner is in jail!

 

[JD]

So does a piece of buttered toast always land butter side up?

The MythBusters actually tested this, and I couldn't find the segment on YouTube, but I did find the results of Wikipedia.

Status: Busted

n an extensive and highly objective test, the toast showed no statistical preference for landing buttered-side down or up when dropped. It was an even 50–50 split when the final results were compared. However, when pushed off the side of a table, toast showed a tendency to flip once and land buttered-side down, which is likely the source of the myth. Adam also remarked that the results of this test were, by observation, less dependent on the actual butter itself, and were inherent from the process of buttering the toast instead; compressing the toast by applying the butter to the side of a piece of toast causes that side to become concave and encounter more air friction on that side, thus, much like a leaf, causing it to flip and land buttered-side up.

 

[fireproof78]

It's a good cause, but it is pretty damn annoying.

It's memorable.

And hardly the worst ad out there.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'm having a great morning watching interesting random stuff

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Oh and a neat video about Tardigrades, no not the disco ones, the real thing

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[auntiehill]

Anything can be a conspiracy when you're not smart enough to understand how anything works.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Anything can be a conspiracy when you're not smart enough to understand how anything works.

What made you think of that?

 

[auntiehill]

What made you think of that?

the news

 

[Aragorn]

I signed up for the Disney/Hulu/Max package, and when I signed into my Max account it took me to someone else's account! My account wasn't hacked. I signed in and Max put me in someone else's account! I went through it to make sure I was seeing things correctly and yup, it's just some random account I was now in. I signed out and signed back in and this time I was in my account.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I signed up for the Disney/Hulu/Max package, and when I signed into my Max account it took me to someone else's account! My account wasn't hacked. I signed in and Max put me in someone else's account! I went through it to make sure I was seeing things correctly and yup, it's just some random account I was now in. I signed out and signed back in and this time I was in my account.

Not you but I bet dollars to donuts their system has been fucked over..... I'd report that.


@auntiehill I am very curious what news story you were thinking of sorry to ask again

 

[Qonundrum]

Dating sites stink. Either one gets fake responses or the site doesn't match up your orientation, leading to a bunch of (not like you folks) getting upset because they think you're trying to chat them up. And while many of them do have those precious little tickboxes reading "casual", "dating", "seeking LTR", etc, they seem pointless too. Never mind how rules say "nothing directly x-rated for your 'about you' essay questions" and yet some of the profile names, if nothing else, give us a hint at what generally happens after a few dates or vows exchange or that very night or whatever. Ditto for pictures, it'd otherwise be funny except for:

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(not the irritating yet increasingly-catchy 70s disco-style music, the statistics...)