All calico cats are female.
― Wile E. Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 12:14 (two years ago) link
Wow at Australian Time Zones.
― Wile E. Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 12:15 (two years ago) link
― gyac, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 12:21 (two years ago) link
Similarly, 80% of orange cats are male.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 12:41 (two years ago) link
i was looking for a cat earlier in the year and did run across a male calico, was wondering if they come with other genetic issues but forgot to look into it. i ended up adopting an orange female. she is very special indeed.
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 12:44 (two years ago) link
seems like this is what causes male calico/tortoiseshell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 12:49 (two years ago) link
[Spock voice]: Human females have the same underlying invisible pattern on their skin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6h-wDj7bw
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 13:32 (two years ago) link
Today I learned that "emoji" is from the Japanese words for picture and letter, "e" and "moji". Not a shortening of "emotion" as I had thought.
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 5 May 2022 14:21 (two years ago) link
I've been a bit sceptical that that's the entire story: given that "ji" (字) means "character", it seems that "emo-" + "ji" might have played at least a supporting role in the etymology, or at least in making it stick? I'm not by any stretch a scholar of Japanese, though, and could be entirely wrong.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 5 May 2022 23:25 (two years ago) link
I remember them being called emoticons long before they became emoji.
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 6 May 2022 00:54 (two years ago) link
Ah, my bad
Emoticons were the precursors to modern emojis
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 6 May 2022 00:56 (two years ago) link
the resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental.[4]
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 6 May 2022 00:57 (two years ago) link
emoticons: :) ;) XD
emoji: 🙂 😉 😆
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Friday, 6 May 2022 01:28 (two years ago) link
Emoticons 4evah ;-)
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Friday, 6 May 2022 18:29 (two years ago) link
THere's a Latin translation of Antoin De Sainte Exupery's The Little Prince called Regulus.I found it in a charity shop earlier. But didn't buy it cos i was too broke this week
― Stevolende, Friday, 6 May 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
Antoin and Warren Gé had to regulusssss
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 May 2022 19:08 (two years ago) link
…but Didier Jazzy Geoffroy & the Fresh Little Prince said Mama Said Knock You Out
― middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Friday, 6 May 2022 19:22 (two years ago) link
mater indicavit mihi reddere nescis
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Friday, 6 May 2022 19:26 (two years ago) link
The guy who wrote Poldark also wrote Marnie.
― Johnny Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 May 2022 12:08 (two years ago) link
a search after Jeopardy yesterday? Poldark got a mention -- I hadn't heard of it before.
― adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 7 May 2022 12:58 (two years ago) link
Ha, no. Because of the opera Marnie.
― Johnny Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 May 2022 13:12 (two years ago) link
popular bodice ripper about a rogue Cornish hero coming back to reestablish himself in his old home after years away soldiering i think. Has been made a few times for British tv, most recently with Aidan Turner as the titular hunk.I remember it from the late 70s in a previous make. Used to be on Sunday nights i think.Hero sets up a mine in his inherited holding.
Diversity of subject matter covered by Author reminded me of Walter Tevis who wrote man Who fell To Earth, The Hustler and Queen's Gambit among others
― Stevolende, Saturday, 7 May 2022 13:16 (two years ago) link
Patrick Dennis was not merely a pseudonym, it was one of several pseudonyms used by a decidedly mercurial gay man who used to be Ray Kroc's butler
― may the florist be with you (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 7 May 2022 23:01 (two years ago) link
The robotic spider that crawls over Julien Temple's face in the Vienna video is the same one from You Only Live Twice
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Saturday, 7 May 2022 23:22 (two years ago) link
bullshit
― adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 8 May 2022 00:15 (two years ago) link
Korean Age
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/20/everyone-in-south-korea-could-soon-be-getting-younger
― Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Monday, 9 May 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
...see also racehorses
something from about 6 months ago which i was reminded of watching TV earlier: pole dancing poles rotate
― koogs, Monday, 9 May 2022 19:47 (two years ago) link
I guess Korean babies are shockingly old at birth
― Josefa, Monday, 9 May 2022 20:01 (two years ago) link
There was a thing not long ago about Koreans' drinking age. Every 20-year-old becomes of age at midnight on December 31, but a COVID curfew meant they had to wait.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/31/korean-new-year-covid-pandemic/
― may the florist be with you (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 03:05 (two years ago) link
After misreading a timeline in my 4th or 5th grade history textbook as "King John sings the Magna Carta" (dyslexics untie!), it was quite a few years before I found out the Magna Carta was a document and not an opera or something.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Friday, 13 May 2022 19:23 (two years ago) link
Lol, good one.
― Don't Renege On (Our Dub) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 May 2022 19:41 (two years ago) link
Speaking of which, this exists: http://magnacartatrails.com/events/the-great-charter-magna-carta-community-opera/
― greyfriars boaby (Matt #2), Friday, 13 May 2022 19:50 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ4mxOluXY4
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Friday, 13 May 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link
I remember reading that in the Russian Revolution era some of the poor agrarian classes didn't know that The Internationale was some popular verse that people sung as a political anthem and thought it might be some kind of supernatural creature.
― calzino, Friday, 13 May 2022 20:09 (two years ago) link
That Bridgerton is an adaptation of a series of novels written about 20 years ago, and not, as I assumed, something invented by Netflix to cash in on the success of Downtown Abbey.
― Alba, Monday, 30 May 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link
I saw one of the books a few days ago but assumed it was a tv tie in and didn't look further.
― Stevolende, Monday, 30 May 2022 16:06 (two years ago) link
I guess i’m astonishing old to learn bridgerton is a thing of any kind
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 01:16 (two years ago) link
John Peel's first wife was only 15 when they married (in Texas, where that was legal at the time). She later committed suicide.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 03:26 (two years ago) link
Coincidentally and apropos of nothing I learned tonight that Leo Gorcey of the Bowery Boys's first wife was 15, and that after they divorced she married the 54-year-old Groucho Marx when she was 21.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 05:44 (two years ago) link
Teenage Kicks
― pplains, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 13:11 (two years ago) link
That people still really care about the Cure
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 13:29 (two years ago) link
"Downtown Abbey" sounds like an "In Living Color" parody.
― THE VEIVET UIUERABOUIU (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 14:03 (two years ago) link
Do that which you would like to doin Downton Abbey
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 14:11 (two years ago) link
I nearly corrected myself with a Billy Joel themed joke but decided it wasn’t really working.
― Alba, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 14:40 (two years ago) link
I'm a woman.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 14:51 (two years ago) link
It's esoteric, but I recently bought one of those old rackmount Akai samplers from the 1990s - a big beige box with a jogwheel on the front and 32mb of memory. While looking at old sample libraries I realised that 90% of the non-licensed soundtrack for the first WipeOut game came from a single sample CD, Zero-g Datafile One. In this video the uploader has even used the samples to make a WipeOut-style tune:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msqrVjc-bZQ
And! The backing vocals from Haddaway's "What is Love" come from the same sample CD:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJSHAsmeZBY
The producer didn't even hire a backing vocalist. But of course it would have been nothing without Haddaway's anguished vocal performance. It haunts me still. As a kid I assumed the musicians made those sounds themselves, or scoured their record collections, but they just bought Zero-G Datafile One and Two instead. They still had to go through those discs and find the best samples and use them musically, but it was a lot easier than I expected.
If you listen to the second volume it's like a snapshop of 1990s video game music, particularly Jet Set Radio and Sonic CD:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_68RD0tkQM
It makes sense given that the musicians had a tight deadline to make hours of video game music with a budget of nothing. It's just striking that they all seemed to have the exact same sample CD.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 18:37 (two years ago) link
same thing happens when you fire up any classic digital synth and go through the presets, you'll be saying "hey wait a minute, that's ..." a lot. I imagine the same is true with whatever the hot new VST is these days.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:50 (two years ago) link
just remembered when I first got Ableton in the early 2000s and all the presets on the synths were the same as those used on the Morr records I was into at the time.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:53 (two years ago) link
Mr. Hooper was a communist.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 11 June 2022 23:37 (two years ago) link
Women were not allowed to run in the Boston marathon until 1972, and for that matter, before the 1980s, there were no women's distance races in the Olympics at all. The women's marathon was introduced at the 1984 Summer Olympics
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 12:37 (two years ago) link