is pooping what eventually kills the face mites?
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link
As KQED points out in the video, face mites have no anus, instead storing their poop in their bodies for the full duration of their brief lives.
― visiting, Tuesday, July 27, 2021 1:33 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
jair bolsonaro is a face mite
― criminally negligible (harbl), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 13:26 (two years ago) link
if you're very quiet can you hear the skin mites exploding?
― StanM, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
Popping is what kills the face mites.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
Private jets fly at a higher altitude than commercial jets. Typically 6,000 - 8,000 feet higher, sometimes more.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
That's a pretty cool fact! Never knew.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
There seem to be a few reasons for it but at the center of it is the fact that they *can* fly higher (mechanically it's possible) and that they *choose* to fly higher to get out of the way of commercial traffic.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
Not so much choosing as being directed to do so by air traffic control rules.
― nickn, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
Nah. It's just really important for rich people to stay far above the riff-raff. It was mostly figurative for a long time, now they want it to be literal.
At some point, all the rich people will just be in permanent low-earth orbit in their sky-yachts while the surface-dwellers cling to piles of burning trash amid rising oceans
― trial by wombat (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
Huh. We see literally dozens of planes flying to and from O'Hare through our enormous windows on any given day but I guess it is always commercial aircraft (and they're often close enough to tell).
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
interesting way to disclose you live on a sky-yacht with enormous windows
― rob, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link
The enormous windows are actually in the mansion which hangs from our sky-yacht by ropes of gold and the finest of silks.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link
My favorite flight tracker
― Modernanist (doo dah), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
"You Get What You Give" is not a World Party song
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 30 July 2021 12:51 (two years ago) link
lol
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 July 2021 12:57 (two years ago) link
Just this moment made the connection between 'count' (as in the title) and 'county'.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link
how to pronounce- chutzpah- imbroglio- Tucson- Thomas
― in a bar, under the (seandalai), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 12:28 (two years ago) link
How were you pronouncing Thomas?
― Soundtracked by an eco jazz mixtape. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 12:39 (two years ago) link
Not really a shocking epiphany, but yesterday I discovered that "Mr. Hughes" in the song "Garden Party" referred to George Harrison. I always thought it was Howard Hughes.
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 12:47 (two years ago) link
Even though he was only 27 when he died, Brian Jones had five kids. And his Mum was Australian.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 12:56 (two years ago) link
All by different women, it seems. Wear a bloody condom, Brian!
― Alba, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link
Found out this week that he was into non-consentual sadistic sex, even to the disgust of noted mysoginists Jagger & Richards, so must have been pretty bad.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 13:02 (two years ago) link
I just read yesterday that Oswald Mosley was married in a secret ceremony in Goebbels' drawing room and Hitler was one of the 6 guests. And when he was imprisoned during the war it was in a small house in Holloway prison and he was permitted to take on other prisoners as servants!
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 13:20 (two years ago) link
xps MIck Jagger's mum was Australian too
― Josefa, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 13:27 (two years ago) link
It's why his accent is so good in the Ned Kelly movie.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
Also on Brian Jones, the house where he drowned (Cotchford Farm in Sussex) is the same house where A.A. Milne wrote the Winnie-the-Pooh books.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 15:37 (two years ago) link
More like Winded in-the-Pool
― pplains, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link
Too soon
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 August 2021 16:52 (two years ago) link
Tuomas
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 5 August 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
I had no idea that the theme music to Curb Your Enthusiasm is adapted from a piece by Italian soundtrack composer Luciano Michelini, and originally appeared in a rare non-exploitation flick by trash maestro Sergio Martino - director of Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, The Mountain of the Cannibal God and So Sweet... So Perverse among others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOnpPK21ofw
― the people of dorchester are marching upon us (Matt #2), Saturday, 7 August 2021 21:00 (two years ago) link
ha! me neither
― kinder, Saturday, 7 August 2021 22:03 (two years ago) link
JUst saw a reference to netflix being around in 2004 that surprised me. Hadn't realised it was around quite taht early. THough maybe it hadn't quite as much coverage of territory as it does now.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 8 August 2021 09:19 (two years ago) link
It's been around since the 90s but it was originally a DVD by mail service
― Number None, Sunday, 8 August 2021 10:30 (two years ago) link
Oh man, I loved those little envelopes showing up in the mailbox.
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 8 August 2021 11:11 (two years ago) link
Someone like Eric posted a link recently about how DVD-only era Netflix really did seem to have everything in one place and that kind of thing is not likely to happen again.
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 August 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link
I still get DVD from Netflix
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Sunday, 8 August 2021 20:58 (two years ago) link
Fair enough, but I believe their catalog is not nearly as deep as it once was.
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 August 2021 21:29 (two years ago) link
discrete means "separate," while discreet means "unobtrusive
― micah, Sunday, 8 August 2021 22:25 (two years ago) link
the 't' in discrete breaks up the 'e's into two separate letters.
― kinder, Sunday, 8 August 2021 22:59 (two years ago) link
Exactly
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 August 2021 23:03 (two years ago) link
TIL there are at least two discrete guitars playing the intro to “California Dreamin’.” At least that’s what I am hearing now. Maybe the same guy double-tracked, P. F. Sloan.
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 August 2021 23:11 (two years ago) link
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 August 2021 00:28 (two years ago) link
I would assume, just cause he's credited on the album, the first guitar playing the straight arpeggios is John Phillips.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 9 August 2021 01:34 (two years ago) link
What a mustang is, other than a Ford and part of an annoying song.
― Alba, Monday, 9 August 2021 13:59 (two years ago) link
Also, that 'mute site' on a Chrome tab mutes that site completely till you unmute it, even in fresh tabs. Very useful for stupid news sites that insist on autoplaying video after a few seconds, leaving you in a hunt for the offending tab.
― Alba, Monday, 9 August 2021 14:07 (two years ago) link
Today I learned two things which have gently disconcerted me:- 'Care of Cell 44' by the Zombies was originally called 'Care of Cell 69' but their American publisher told them they couldn't call it that.- Gabriel Clarke, ITV football's rakish half-time roving reporter, is the son of film director Alan Clarke.
― Piedie Gimbel, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 06:55 (two years ago) link
Talking of ITV football, I was shockingly old when I learned that Tom Rosenthal, of Friday Night Dinner fame, is Jim Rosenthal's son.
― Soundtracked by an ecojazz mixtape (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 07:12 (two years ago) link
Funny story is that Jamaica, Queens is named for the Lenape word for "beaver" (yameco) and evolved from Dutch to English. Jamaica the country is named for the Arawak word for the island (Xaymaca) and evolved from Spanish to English. Totally unrelated! https://t.co/5jfFl8fw6k— Jordan Fraade (@schadenfraade) August 9, 2021
― rob, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link