TIL that this board only starts to liven up when it's way past what I ought to consider my bedtime. I see a hell of a lot of dawns.

(August 10, 2012 at 5:40 pm)Stimbo Wrote: It wasn't today and I swear it wasn't me directly, but I learned the importance of keeping pile ointment and Deep Heat Rub well separated in the bathroom cabinet.

Indeed.

I keep 'Tiger Balm' for muscle pain and 'Hemocane' (with lignocaine) for me piles.


Yes, they are indeed kept far apart,ever since that unfortunate incident with Vick's Vapour Rub when I was 14 . (the jar looks a bit like a Vaseline jar---)

TIL how to use a barrel grill. Delicious animal flesh was had by all!

TIL of the surprising things people put in their bottoms!

Wait... Doesn't everyone?!?!

TIL how to hang a net *really* fast. -_-

"I ain't got time enough to meme!"


I learned that I'm not on the fringe in my views about the intersection between cognitive science and the religious mind, there's actually a fairly healthy mainstream that I lucked into. (And the lecturer who introduced me to this fact distributed 200 MB of such info he developed for presentations to those with a flash drive handy. Win!)

I also learned that my sister city, St. Paul, basically shuts down on Saturday. I had to walk over 1/2 a mile just to find a Quickie mart where I paid $8 for a ham sandwich, potato chips, and two pops. I mean literally everything was closed. McDonald's. Jimmy John's. Subway. Everything! I had to walk 3 blocks just to find an exit down from the skyway system to the street level. Everything, and I mean everything, was closed.

TIL the police in India get paid more per year if they have a mustache.

TIL about the Fallout 3 meme. Well, it was yesterday, but whatever...

http://memegenerator.net/Fallout-3

TIL how long a piece of string is.