I threw away my children's piggy banks a decade ago and no one noticed
I think I get what you're saying, but to me it reads like "... and they still haven't noticed!"
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 10:11 (one year ago) link
Anne Actor
― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 10:48 (one year ago) link
India Standard Time is a half-hour time zone.
― Wile E. Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 23:58 (one year ago) link
James, that one is absolutely on point once you research australia time zonesI could figure out india time in my head the last year and it seemed slightly off, once I found out the reasons why and how weird other places did it…. india otm(happened before modi, india less otm since)
― mh, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 02:49 (one year ago) link
Nepal (and a tiny sliver of Western Australia) use a quarter hour offset - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B05:45
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 02:58 (one year ago) link
Wow. Did wonder if anybody did that. Always thought it was just the hour designated that did. So like the first digit.So somebody had to have the basic time everyone else was based around and was plus or minus to. Like GMT cos of British Empire etc. Does seem weird to be a fraction of an hour out though.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 04:40 (one year ago) link
Looking at the Wikipedia pages there were time zones that were e.g. 39m 12s off the hour - presumably referenced to local noon - but that most of them were regularised in the early 20th century,
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 05:51 (one year ago) link
pre-gmt Bristol was 10 minutes behind London, the clock at the railway station had two minute hands
― koogs, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 06:34 (one year ago) link
I thought it was the railways that standardised time, and before that every town had its own time based on local noon.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 06:51 (one year ago) link
Because of the half hour thing, if you fly from England to India, you don't have to reset your watch--just turn it upside down. Like, if it's noon in the UK, it's 6:30 in India.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 06:55 (one year ago) link
Japan dropped (incredibly ineffective) bombs on continental North America via balloon during WWII.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 07:50 (one year ago) link
"The deaths occurred when the victims decided to touch the balloon, thus causing it to explode."
such crap weapons of terror that it took some fools deciding to play with a bomb to get any results!
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 08:11 (one year ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_time
clock was on the corn exchange, not the railway station. seems like an effort to resist london's imposed time, at least for 5 years or so.
(that said, there are other pictures showing up with a GWR-branded version)
― koogs, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 08:14 (one year ago) link
All calico cats are female.
― Wile E. Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 12:14 (one year ago) link
Wow at Australian Time Zones.
― Wile E. Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 12:15 (one year ago) link
― gyac, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 12:21 (one year ago) link
Similarly, 80% of orange cats are male.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 12:41 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
I remember them being called emoticons long before they became emoji.
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 6 May 2022 00:54 (one year ago) link
Ah, my bad
Emoticons were the precursors to modern emojis
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 6 May 2022 00:56 (one year ago) link
the resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental.[4]
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 6 May 2022 00:57 (one year ago) link
emoticons: :) ;) XD
emoji: 🙂 😉 😆
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Friday, 6 May 2022 01:28 (one year ago) link
Emoticons 4evah ;-)
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Friday, 6 May 2022 18:29 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
Antoin and Warren Gé had to regulusssss
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 May 2022 19:08 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
mater indicavit mihi reddere nescis
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Friday, 6 May 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
The guy who wrote Poldark also wrote Marnie.
― Johnny Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 May 2022 12:08 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
Ha, no. Because of the opera Marnie.
― Johnny Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 May 2022 13:12 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
bullshit
― adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 8 May 2022 00:15 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
I guess Korean babies are shockingly old at birth
― Josefa, Monday, 9 May 2022 20:01 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
Lol, good one.
― Don't Renege On (Our Dub) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 May 2022 19:41 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ4mxOluXY4
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Friday, 13 May 2022 19:51 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link