THought it really weird, was expecting to see the earthen sides of a grave and there's these white tiles going down 6 feet or whatever.Maybe the soil is wrong to be planted straight into it or at least in a coffin. But it was white tiled like a shower room or something.I thought poart of the ceremony was normally to thrown the first handful of earth on top of the coffin or at least if you were the spouse or closest kin. Wondered why that wasn't happening.― Stevolende, Wednesday, April 8, 2020 1:02 PM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglinkCould it be that those are temporary panels for holding the dirt back so the hole maintains its shape, and they are lifted out before the hole is finally filled?― nickn, Wednesday, April 8, 2020 1:16 PM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglinkI vaguely understood that most USian burials take place in a concrete vault - there is no dirt-to-casket contact. the casket is lowered into the concrete box, a concrete lid goes on top of that, the dirt is filled in around said vault. Surely practices vary by location and region and funereal industry practice― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, April 8, 2020 1:55 PM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Stevolende, Wednesday, April 8, 2020 1:02 PM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Could it be that those are temporary panels for holding the dirt back so the hole maintains its shape, and they are lifted out before the hole is finally filled?
― nickn, Wednesday, April 8, 2020 1:16 PM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I vaguely understood that most USian burials take place in a concrete vault - there is no dirt-to-casket contact. the casket is lowered into the concrete box, a concrete lid goes on top of that, the dirt is filled in around said vault. Surely practices vary by location and region and funereal industry practice
― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, April 8, 2020 1:55 PM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink
As a former gravedigger, I can tell you that in the vast majority of cases of in-ground burials in the US, either a tile or concrete vault is made after the initial hole is dug. This is mostly to avoid collapsed grave walls.
What are being sold as "green burials" and also the traditional Muslim burial rites do not include such concrete vaults, and in many cases, the graves are dug by hand rather than machine because wall collapse is much less prevalent in hand-dug graves.
Anyway, I loved digging graves, tbh, and it paid quite well. Sad I can't do it anymore because of my stoma and the threat of hernia.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 23 October 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link
Months ~feel~ either "short" or "long" to me. Like wrapped up in their name is the essence of their length.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 23 October 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
Sure, you can figure it out by counting knuckles or reciting a rhyme
Or you could take out yr phone and look at a frickin calendar
― fretless porpentine (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 23 October 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
What the hell is a colander?
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 October 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
after the colander was invented, humans no longer had to pour boiling water through their fingers to sift out the pasta
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 October 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
pre-colander hands:
https://i.imgur.com/qnLJWmU.jpg
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 October 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
Where are all my pastafarians at?
― pomenitul, Friday, 23 October 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
Just imagine what his other extremities look like.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 23 October 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
god i feel sorry for band-aids
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 October 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
he better do a quick dick check
― Neanderthal, Friday, 23 October 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
i'm sure he's got that thing wrapped up in a diaper down there
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 October 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
y'all on fire in this thread
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 23 October 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link
Apparently, so was that guy.
― pplains, Friday, 23 October 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
not exactly shocking since I'm not british, but I just learned about fagging todayhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagging
― mizzell, Friday, 23 October 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
Yet another great innovation of the British upper classes
― logout option: disabled (Matt #2), Friday, 23 October 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
Great wouldn't be the word I'd use
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 23 October 2020 23:28 (three years ago) link
Try the knuckle trick: press two fists together such that yr thumbs are touching, the knuckles are months containing 31 days, the valleys between are months containing >31 days (the space between your two index knucks do not count as a valley).
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 October 2020 05:02 (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
I've read this three times and stared at my hands and I honestly haven't a clue what this means. How am I converting knucklesand valleys to months? Which knuckles? Where is February? How does this add up to 12?
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
Anyway I came here to post that I was shockingly old to discover that the French were still executing people by guillotine as late as 1977.
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
The Spanish were still using the garrote in 1974.
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
Andorra only abolished its use in 1990.
xxxpost Someone noted upthread that fingers work just as well. Look at your hands, palms down. Pinky finger of yr left hand is January (31 days). Space between pinky and ring is February (less than 31 days). Ring finger is March (31 days). Treat your thumbs as if they were one contiguous finger with no space between (September and October, both 31 days). Continue until you run out of months.
This is one of those things that would take like four seconds to demonstrate irl but is a huge PITA to describe with words.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
If you don't mind I'll stick to the rhyme.
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
I do mind, very much so.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link
Maybe I should compose a rhyme for my trick to help with its popularity.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
September and October, both 31 days
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
The rhyme wins out.
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
but August has 31 days and September has 30
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
xp
30 days have September, April June and NovemberAll the rest have 31So put away your knuckles sonOh yeah, there's February tooFigure it out - I ain't spoonfeeding you
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Tuesday, October 27, 2020 10:39 AM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
they should bring this back
― glengarry gary beers (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/16/84/1996671609-messed_up.gif
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:04 (three years ago) link
If nothing else, I've demonstrated today why I need a mnemonic to remember the number of days in a given month.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
The term "alley-oop" was used in football before it was used in basketball.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
i'm sorry that i messed things upand I'm sorry that sorry is never enough-Richard Marx
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
lol
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
30 days have September, April, June, and NovemberAll the rest are too hard to remember,Eeny meanie miney mo,January has 20 and March also,if they holler give them more days,subtracting them from February's 38my mother told me to distribute the rest of the days evenlyso May and July and August and December each get 31
― just another 3-pinnochio post by (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
I use the knuckle thing still!
@chonnye I use this knuckle counting trick if I'm unsure! Months on knuckles are 31 and ones between are 30. Or Feb. pic.twitter.com/aO5gst9fZb— @DerekTheDuck (@DerekTheDuck) March 31, 2016
― kinder, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
reminds me of teh time when I was in a church musical called THE BACKYARD GANG and the cast was struggling with singing the lyric, which was "la-di-da-di-da-di-da-di-da-di-di", and so instead of telling the one or two dumb people "it's literally just la-di-da-di over and over, with two dis" at the end, the idiot changed it to "la-di-di-di-da-di-di-di-da-di-da" and not only was that harder to remember, but now it no longer rhymed with the next bar, which ended in "Happily".
burned her house down *emotionally*
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
Here's my mnemonic for how many days in a month: OSJJLAAFCTIPOIYP
o
sweet
jeebus
just
look
at
a
fucking
calendar.
there
is
probably
one
in
your
pocket
― Fjord Explorer (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
i'm wearing fuckin cargo pants i can't fit the 1990 SI swimsuit calendar in my fuckin pocket
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
i think the benefit of the rhyme is you don't have to stare at your upraised knuckles like a crazy person
― Number None, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
my knuckles say LOVE
well, LOEV...my tattoo artist was an idiot
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
my arms say LUVTHEM
― just another 3-pinnochio post by (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
My knuckles say EARL GREY... not super tough, I know.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
Thank u YMP, this is helpful, particularly since you managed to create a mnemonic using a Sigur Rós song title.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
Monthly mnemonic
January febuary march april may june jason derulo pic.twitter.com/VXpds5Uftb— 𝐜𝐡𝐮—추🌻| (@TAECHURRY) September 29, 2020
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
I have no fucking idea how people find the knuckle or finger thing useful but ironically it can never remember what 'index finger' is and have to go through a process of elimination is because I know where a ring is worn and I know what a middle is.
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
it’s the one that indicates
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
https://youtu.be/w8Oxg9zPUBE
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
Great url
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link