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What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
In 1184, a number of nobles from all across the Holy Roman Empire were meeting at The Church Of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Duchy of Thuringia. Their combined weight caused the floor beneath them to collapse into the latrine beneath them. At least sixty people drowned in liquid excrement. The incident is known as 'the Erfurt latrine disaster'.

What a shitty way to die.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
(May 21, 2021 at 6:40 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: In 1184, a number of nobles from all across the Holy Roman Empire were meeting at The Church Of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Duchy of Thuringia. Their combined weight caused the floor beneath them to collapse into the latrine beneath them. At least sixty people drowned in liquid excrement. The incident is known as 'the Erfurt latrine disaster'.

What a shitty way to die.

Boru

And yet, somehow fitting.
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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
(May 21, 2021 at 1:39 pm)polymath257 Wrote:
(May 21, 2021 at 6:40 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: In 1184, a number of nobles from all across the Holy Roman Empire were meeting at The Church Of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Duchy of Thuringia. Their combined weight caused the floor beneath them to collapse into the latrine beneath them. At least sixty people drowned in liquid excrement. The incident is known as 'the Erfurt latrine disaster'.

What a shitty way to die.

Boru

And yet, somehow fitting.

Listen, pal - if it weren’t for European nobility, you would even know what inbred, time wasting, incompetence WAS.

So there.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
You haven't truly lived until you've moved your household in a taxi

Edit: lived
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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
Loved? I had to leave all my belongings in an open-top trailer overnight once because someone didn't show up with the keys to my new place.
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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
Apeirophobia is the irrational and excessive fear of infinity and the uncountable, causing discomfort and sometimes panic attacks from intrusive thoughts of the infinity. It normally starts in adolescence, but in some rare cases, it can start before then. From Greek άπειρος (ápeiros) "infinite, boundless" and φόβος (phóbos) "fear". It may be caused by existential dread about eternal life after death. This fear is often connected with thanatophobia (fear of dying) since many sufferers would believe that eternity follows life, especially learning that afterlife would never end.
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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
Safflower oil has a smoke point of 510°F. I've started working on my steak cooking skills. I used canola oil last time for searing, but there was some limited smoking.
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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
(May 21, 2021 at 3:51 pm)Jackalope Wrote: You haven't truly lived until you've moved your household in a taxi

Edit: lived


A Taxi?    My tools wouldn’t fit all in a taxi, let along household knickknacks.   And the tools are purely discretionary for voluntary handyman style work.

(May 22, 2021 at 11:56 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Safflower oil has a smoke point of 510°F.  I've started working on my steak cooking skills.  I used canola oil last time for searing, but there was some limited smoking.

Avocado oil beats it by 10 degrees.
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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
(May 23, 2021 at 12:08 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(May 21, 2021 at 3:51 pm)Jackalope Wrote: You haven't truly lived until you've moved your household in a taxi

Edit: lived


A Taxi?    My tools wouldn’t fit all in a taxi, let along household knickknacks.   And the tools are purely discretionary for voluntary handyman style work

Four round trips In a taxi. Our last move in the USA required a large moving truck. Point is - we are often anchored by our possessions.

Point is - next time I need to move to another city, I might just take everything that won't fit in a pickup truck and put it in the middle of the street and set it on fire.
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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
In one of the more exquisite collections of English words, Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada is home to a UNESCO World Heritage Site named - I kid you not - ‘Head-Smashed-In Buffalo-Jump’. The name is based on a Blackfoot legend that a young brave wanted to see what a buffalo jump looked like from the base of the cliff, with predictable results. They have a museum and everything.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-Sma...ffalo_Jump

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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