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What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

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What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 24, 2023 at 6:16 pm (This post was last modified: December 24, 2023 at 6:37 pm by Angrboda.)
In the Middle Ages, they tried animals as well as humans for breaking the law. In ecclesiastic courts, the animals were even provided lawyers and one pig got off thanks to testimony about its virtuous behavior.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 24, 2023 at 7:02 pm
(December 24, 2023 at 6:16 pm)Angrboda Wrote: In the Middle Ages, they tried animals as well as humans for breaking the law.  In ecclesiastic courts, the animals were even provided lawyers and one pig got off thanks to testimony about its virtuous behavior.

If you treat humans like animals,  why should animals not expect to be treated like humans?
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 24, 2023 at 7:38 pm
Apparently, the waiters from that notorious scene from A Christmas Story were almost certainly doing it on purpose:





Aside from the boss being able to say his "R"s properly, Chinese phonology doesn't work that way. If anything (at least if they were originally Cantonese speakers), it'd be the other way around. Maybe if they originally spoke some other dialect, but those are rare among Chinese-Americans, especially in the 1940s.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 29, 2023 at 2:58 pm
I did not know that Taylor Swift had a brother. And he is cute.

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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 29, 2023 at 3:20 pm
(December 24, 2023 at 7:02 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(December 24, 2023 at 6:16 pm)Angrboda Wrote: In the Middle Ages, they tried animals as well as humans for breaking the law.  In ecclesiastic courts, the animals were even provided lawyers and one pig got off thanks to testimony about its virtuous behavior.

If you treat humans like animals,  why should animals not expect to be treated like humans?

I would never treat an animals the way I treat humans. What a ghastly notion - I like animals.

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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 29, 2023 at 5:11 pm
(December 29, 2023 at 2:58 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: I did not know that Taylor Swift had a brother. And he is cute.

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Are you sure that’s her brother, and not her between hormone injections?

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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 30, 2023 at 6:28 am
Adding cold cream to coffee (or cold milk to tea) keeps the beverage warmer longer, partly because the slightly cooler drink now loses heat less quickly and partly because the denser drink evaporates more slowly.

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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 30, 2023 at 4:03 pm
(December 30, 2023 at 6:28 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Adding cold cream to coffee (or cold milk to tea) keeps the beverage warmer longer, partly because the slightly cooler drink now loses heat less quickly and partly because the denser drink evaporates more slowly.

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But who the hell would want to drink it?

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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 30, 2023 at 4:27 pm
(December 30, 2023 at 4:03 pm)brewer Wrote:
(December 30, 2023 at 6:28 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Adding cold cream to coffee (or cold milk to tea) keeps the beverage warmer longer, partly because the slightly cooler drink now loses heat less quickly and partly because the denser drink evaporates more slowly.

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But who the hell would want to drink it?

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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 30, 2023 at 5:08 pm
(December 29, 2023 at 3:20 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(December 24, 2023 at 7:02 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: If you treat humans like animals,  why should animals not expect to be treated like humans?

I would never treat an animals the way I treat humans. What a ghastly notion - I like animals.

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