Some Random Facts

May 6, 2017 10:52 PM

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That is a GREAT price given the history behind that horse

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I had a pxl 2000. It required metal particle tapes. It worked ok but sucked batteries and was grainy. Still fun though.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Hear that guys!? He was hit by "a lightning"

9 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed that lol

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#1 what is Italy doing with 1.1 million gallons of US water?

9 years ago | Likes 269 Dislikes 4

It's practice for deep sea diving. Also used to test water pressure hypothesis I think.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

prob stole it from california i bet

9 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

God damn Italians, stealing all our water!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

To be fair, all water in Italy is pasta sauce

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Having some deep joy

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Seriously, why don't they use their own water?

9 years ago | Likes 48 Dislikes 1

Detecting patriotic neutrinos

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

*OUR water

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Why is Butzi Porsche holding a model of what appears to be Ford GT? Inspiration?

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

That's a 904 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_904

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Gotcha, thanks for clearing that up. I'm not very familiar with Porsche models

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I'm pretty sure that swimming pool contains Italian litres, not US gallons.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I don't know if there's any validity to any of this. They cited themselves as the source.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#3 my dad recalls speaking with wozniak in the mid 80s to resolve tech issues

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The made in Ger is only partially correct. They had shitty stuff in the beginning and only after years of improvement thru DIN it was good

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

TIL I have cherophobia.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Same. I didn't know there was a world for it.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I thought "Deep" Joy was OPs mums name? That's what she told me anyway.

9 years ago | Likes 57 Dislikes 3

I call BS on the apple thing. For 1.7 Million U$ you can afford excluding that lot from your datacenter.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

But did he win?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I wanted that video camera so much but it was always sold out.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I don't understand it's significance, could you explain it to me?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Precision German engineering

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The Disneyland one actually says "I don't want to return to Mickey's house."

9 years ago | Likes 59 Dislikes 1

We got a linguist over here

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's the literal translation. It could also mean "I don't want to go back to Mickey's company".

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

You're right, I had never seen chez used that way before.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's what I was thinking!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hit by a lightning. After he survived he probably had the sex too

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

In reality that horse is such a beautiful dude he could probably get all the horse pussy he wanted without the owners help.

9 years ago | Likes 87 Dislikes 2

dude, what?

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I heard that sometimes 'Teaser' horses are required, but I do not know the veracity of the claim. I shall look it up.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sounds plausible. Horses are contentious with stuff like that. On a ranch with many horses, female horses will attempt to obscure the father

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They are indeed real.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I feel obligated to tag @elbowdeepinahorse here

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Help Jack off a horse?

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

I've got a friend named Jack. He's been stuck on this horse all day. No one wants to help Jack off a horse.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I would help jack off a horse happily

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The owner is making millions from the horse having to have sex three times a day?!?! Clear case of sexploitation if I ever saw one.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I'd be reaaaallllyyyy surprised if he is actually available for that much live cover. It's less efficient and more risky than the usual AI

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

It's per impregnation though, not per.. session.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Most high-quality reliable brood mares catch in 1 go. But even if they didn't, that many 'sessions' (fee aside) isn't the usual route.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I looked up his stud paperwork and it's apparently the jockey club only allowing live cover. TIL. Seems crazy, but 'crazy tradition' *c*

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

*c* kinda sums up the JC and racing in general at times.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How did they get all the water from the US to Italy?

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

The collected sweat of American tourists visiting Rome and Florence in the summer.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Rain clouds

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I'm a part of the engineer without borders at my college. This past year we went to Ecuador to install water purifiers and fix pumps.

9 years ago | Likes 163 Dislikes 2

Any chance we can get you out to Flint?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

At this point it's a political struggle more than anything. Weird how were allowed to go to different continents but not help our own

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As someone who went to Ecuador a few years ago and saw literal shit running through the streets of Guayaquil. You're doing great things.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Genuinely curious on your thoughts/ideas about Flint Michigan..?

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

The situation is terrible, but as of now (and a long time ago) is more of a political and ethical fault than anything else

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

You're doing meaningful work. Few get to experience that level of helpfulness. Treasure this time.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Are you at the uw? My brother Andy went a few months ago with their contingent

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Uw?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

University of wisconsin in madison. Just curious.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nope I'm on the east coast

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#15 actually that translates to "I don't want to go back to Micky's place"

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Thank you. I'm like they're dumb.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Magnetars do not "Warp your atoms" that's not a thing. They do however produced concentrated gamma bursts more potent than a quasar. 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Essentially make them rotating death rays which have literally blown up satellites on earth from tens of thousands of light years away. 2/2

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

#3 "Have you tried turning it off and on again" ~ William

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

#16 Where's the smart watch part of that watch? Does it run apps? Have bluetooth or wifi? If not then that's just an unusual regular watch.

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

Could vibrate for notifications and have fitness tracking. There are several analog smartwatches currently available.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My thought. If it only displays the time, it's just a watch. No need to give call it a smartwatch just because it seems more modern and cool

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hold your horses! Did you say 3x A DAY?

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Someone's not holding their horses.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

100,000 miles is only 0.001 AU, probably shouldn't be that close anyway.

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I was about to comment... The earth is ~93 million miles from the sun anyway. 100K doesn't do much in the grand scheme of things.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Thank God someone pointed this out

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's a third the distance to the moon. I was like no shit Sherlock. Credit cards would be the least of our problems

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Right!? I don't think you should be that close to the sun either...

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The only reason it's worth mentioning is that a magnetar is only like 7 miles in diameter, or less than 1/100,000th the size of the sun

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Video on audio cassettes is brilliant.

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Brilliant for its time just like our phones 15 years ago!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My younger sister had one, the video quality was terrible.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It was featured in Hamlet (2000), used by the protagonist to record his soliliquies.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Not really. The quality is worse than youtube 144p (120x90), black and white and only 15 frames per second. And only 5-10 minutes per tape.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

cassettes are terrible at holding video but numerical data, its the absolute best, why am i posting on a 3 year old thing? corona virus

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

i'm tired of hearing about corona

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's why it's a toy. Still, for the 80's? That is a neat hack.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This music video was shot on one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TZrQvjSwOM

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's really cool!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Some of these are, in fact, unbelievable. #8 for example, dude probably just took a close-up picture of a random corn field.

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Probably, but I remember a theft happening in Dallas some years back where the thieves spent three months dismantling and taking a house.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That sounds like the sort of thing that'd make it into the news, or at least publicly-available police records. Mind sending a link?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Let me do some googling. It was on the tv when my grandma was still alive so at least three years ago.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thanks. If you say you saw it, I believe you, I just want to see it myself.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Why not just fill Deep Joy with Italian gallons of water?

9 years ago | Likes 528 Dislikes 5

Say Italian Gallons 5x fast!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Scrolled down after reading the first caption just to make sure someone said this.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

1.1 million Italian gallons wouldn't fit

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You mean grappa?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The water from Flint was on sale.

9 years ago | Likes 137 Dislikes 3

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

My thoughts exactly.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

There are no Italian gallons, and they have to get them from somewhere. Presumably, the US gallons were cheaper than the UK ones.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fill it with dolmio

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

its in reference to america's inability to follow anyone else's measurement standards. 1 Imperial (UK) gallon is 1.2 US gallons

9 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 10

The imperial gallon is five quarts. Five quarters of a gallon.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 4

Oh we're able, we just don't wanna

9 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 3

...in the end, it's the same.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

WTF is a gallon. Use Litres people it makes sense

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

1 Litre of water weighs exactly 1 kilogram (not everyone knows that). It's incredible how units can make sense when properly designed.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Only at 20 degrees Celsius at 1 atmosphere on sea level.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Depends on the temperature. 1L of water can be anywhere from 971-1000 g. The definition of the unit has changed. Get off your high horse.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

So saying the Imperial system is straight up retarded is being on a high horse? Please tell me the logic of the imperial system, please!!!!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1