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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 19, 2021 at 4:54 pm
(October 18, 2021 at 2:34 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: General Colin Powell once visited the Star Trek TNG set and took the captain's chair on the Enterprise-D bridge.
Stephen Hawking, while visiting the TNG sets, casually pointed toward the warp core and stated, "I'm working on that!"
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 19, 2021 at 5:05 pm
Today I learned that I finally made a thread that reached 100 pages.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 19, 2021 at 11:43 pm
I could have left behind camping gear that we really didn't need and brought a third guitar -and- a speaker cabinet instead.
I'm really getting too old to sleep on the ground for more than three nights in a row.
This fleabag motel is the goddamnedTaj Majal.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 19, 2021 at 11:50 pm
(October 19, 2021 at 11:43 pm)Jackalope Wrote: I could have left behind camping gear that we really didn't need and brought a third guitar -and- a speaker cabinet instead.
I'm really getting too old to sleep on the ground for more than three nights in a row.
This fleabag motel is the goddamnedTaj Majal.
Back when I volunteered for the BSA, I got a Thermarest sleeping pad. If you are going to spend a lot of time on the ground henceforth, I highly recommend the 1-1/4" thick version. Best sleep I ever got on the ground on a back packing trip. The 3/4" version just doesn't cut it.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 20, 2021 at 10:53 am
Rare steak is not as dangerous to eat as other kinds of raw meat because the bacteria remains on the surface of the meat.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 20, 2021 at 1:04 pm
(October 20, 2021 at 10:53 am)Angrboda Wrote: Rare steak is not as dangerous to eat as other kinds of raw meat because the bacteria remains on the surface of the meat.
This is canard. It goes like this:
RARE: Barely warm on the outside. The inside is swarming with bacteria.
MEDIUM RARE: Hot and brown on the outside, and a little bit on the inside. All bacteria still alive and kicking.
MEDIUM: Very brown on the outside and most of the inside. The bacteria have retreated to the very centre of the meat and are getting tired of this shit.
MEDIUM WELL: Brownish-black on the outside, grey throughout. The weakest bacteria have been killed, the rest are becoming organized.
WELL DONE: The outside no longer qualifies as ‘food’, but can be removed and used for asphalt repair and patching car tires. Only the strongest bacteria are left and have sworn to avenge their fallen brethren.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 21, 2021 at 3:41 pm
‘Shrimp scampi’ is redundant.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 21, 2021 at 3:52 pm
(October 19, 2021 at 8:03 am)brewer Wrote: (October 18, 2021 at 1:23 pm)Mermaid Wrote: That I am basically completely unprotected against COVID because I had the J&J shot in March.
But seriously, they're discussing circulating antibodies and not considering memory cell production/response. Not completely unprotected.
Yeah. I am trying not to panic about it. My husband was exposed at work by a rabid anti-vaccine guy, so I am especially unhappy about all of it.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 21, 2021 at 4:51 pm
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(October 19, 2021 at 4:48 pm)Angrboda Wrote: That Jamie Lee Curtis is Tony Curtis' daughter.
Wait till you learn who her mom was.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"