Random Thoughts 7

[fresh_42]

Congratulations, Shaun!

(Shaun shot a max at the shoot-out.)

 

[WWGD]

Congratulations, Shaun!

(Shaun shot a max at the shoot-out.)

A max? Hope it wasn't neither the sheriff nor the deputy.

 

[Ibix]

Going to visit family on the train. It's three trains each way - one long range one and a short commuter service at each end.

I've just picked up the tickets, which are thin cardboard the size of a credit card with a magstripe. For three people, I have:

• 3× outbound tickets valid on any service that day
• 3× return tickets valid on any service in the following month
• 3× seat reservations on a specific train for the long range leg of the outbound journey
• 3× seat reservations on a specific train for the long range leg of the return journey
• 3× seat reservations on a specific train for the first leg of the return journey informing me that there are no seat reservations on that service
• 3× seat reservations on the a specific train for the last leg of the return journey informing me that there are no seat reservations on that service
• 1× coupon telling me that I've collected 19 tickets

Confusingly, I have no tickets telling me that there they don't reserve seats on the outbound commuter services.

Why it takes 12 pieces of card to tell me I have six seats on two train services, I do not know.

 

[WWGD]

I wonder what type of English language non-natives will learn from hearing Queen songs, with lines like :
" Tatterde malion and a yanketer.."
Or
" Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango"

They will believe Galileo was just a poor boy from a poor family.

 

[WWGD]

I guess MS Word's editor isn't much better than auto (in)correct. Seems a letter to Prof. Escalera, got mangled into a letter to " Stair Master".

 

[WWGD]

Going to visit family on the train. It's three trains each way - one long range one and a short commuter service at each end.

I've just picked up the tickets, which are thin cardboard the size of a credit card with a magstripe. For three people, I have:

• 3× outbound tickets valid on any service that day
• 3× return tickets valid on any service in the following month
• 3× seat reservations on a specific train for the long range leg of the outbound journey
• 3× seat reservations on a specific train for the long range leg of the return journey
• 3× seat reservations on a specific train for the first leg of the return journey informing me that there are no seat reservations on that service
• 3× seat reservations on the a specific train for the last leg of the return journey informing me that there are no seat reservations on that service
• 1× coupon telling me that I've collected 19 tickets

Confusingly, I have no tickets telling me that there they don't reserve seats on the outbound commuter services.

Why it takes 12 pieces of card to tell me I have six seats on two train services, I do not know.

Wow, multiply that by, what a billion yearly riders. Imagine the savings when rationalizing the system.

 

[Tom.G]

Can you IMAGINE the confusion/complexity if the boarding passes had to be read for all possible trip combinations to see if you were allowed on a particular trip??

Seems like the possible combinations is a factorial of the number of stations.

 

[WWGD]

New rule:
If someone is doing a blackboard presentation and uses simultaneously letters u and v or
n and m or i and j, its legal to shoot them.

 

[WWGD]

I can understand names like April, May, June. But I've recently seen women with first name ' January '. I have trouble seeing how it would elicit cozy feelings.

 

[Tom.G]

Brrr...
(or maybe her parents were trying to warm up after a hard harsh Winter.)

 

[Mayhem]

Old people need to stop giving advice on how to get jobs. I was told to hand out printed resumes and applications and each time they looked at me like I was stupid and reffered me to their online application portal.

 

[BillTre]

Old people need to stop giving advice on how to get jobs.

They ain't gonna stop, but you don't have to listen to them.

 

[Astronuc]

Villagers Collected 'Sacred 'Stones' for Generations, They Turned Out to Be Fossilized Dinosaur Eggs: Report​

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...e-fossilized-dinosaur-eggs-report/ar-AA1lLzUg

The people of Padlya in Madhya Pradesh have been digging up the palm-sized balls for generations, regarding them as sacred stones. Scientists determined that the objects were actually fossilized eggs laid by titanosaurs, a large long-necked dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous period, between 145 to 66 million years ago. Research has revealed that the area's Narmada Valley may have been a breeding ground of the dinosaur based on 256 fossilized titanosaur eggs across 92 nesting sites.

New Late Cretaceous titanosaur sauropod dinosaur egg clutches from lower Narmada valley, India: Palaeobiology and taphonomy​

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278242

 

[DennisN]

Neil deGrasse Tyson is making his cases just excellently.. (and Charles Barkley is very funny )

Neil deGrasse Tyson on aliens, UFOs and exploring space (CNN today, 1 hour ago)


(and, by the way, I have exactly the same view on these things as Tyson)

 

[DaveC426913]

For the longest time I touted that "December 21st is the shortest day of the year. The days only get longer from here!"

Until a buddy pointed out: "False. All days are the same length."

And now I just can't ever say that anymore.

"December 21 has the shortest sunrise-sunset duration of the year." or
"December 21 has the shortest daylight duration of the year." just don't have the same ring.

 

[Tom.G]

For the longest time I touted that "December 21st is the shortest day of the year. The days only get longer from here!"ry rephrasing as:

December 21st
has the shortest daylight time
has the fewest daylight hours
of the year.

 

[Ibix]

The opposite solstice, but my dad went into work on June 22nd, put on his best broad Yorkshire accent, and observed "evenin's are drawin' in".

 

[Rive]

Got this one yesterday:

It's Christmas, not an FDA inspection! Stop cleaning!

Big truth

 

[pinball1970]

Have good day all.

 

[pinball1970]

I went to the pub the other week and I was wet through as it had been raining.

Whilst ordering beer at my local, a Scottish man at the bar who I did not know looked at me and said that he was from Glasgow and some other things I could not quite understand.

What I did manage to decipher was this:

“I live in Glasgow and its always raining there, you want to try living in my world….”

Ok….Right.

If you want sympathy for being rained on all the time, Manchester really is not the place to come and find it.

(To put this in context, Manchester is known as the “Rainy City,” the reason is not straightforward or accurate and may be something to do with the industrial revolution rather than rain/rain days.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/britain-s-rainiest-cities-revealed-good-news-for-londoners- )

 

[DaveC426913]

Ah Manchester! A city I've driven past. Twice.

 

[pinball1970]

Ah Manchester! A city I've driven past. Twice.

I never said it was worth visiting, I said it was wet, not as wet as Cardiff wet but definitely moist.

 

[Swamp Thing]

Searching on Amazon for "balun, 1 to 9" ... Some results I got:

 

[DaveC426913]

I never said it was worth visiting...

In its defense, it wasn't for lack of wanting. Both times I was on my way from London to Scotland with no time for side-quests.

But I always sing the song..

Manchester England England
Across the Atlantic Sea
And I'm a genius genius
Cuz I believe in Claude
And I believe that Claude believes in God
But that's me (that's me)
That's me

 

[pinball1970]

Manchester England England
Across the Atlantic Sea
And I'm a genius genius
Cuz I believe in Claude
And I believe that Claude believes in God
But that's me (that's me)
That's me

Yes kind of strange lyrics but we get a mention! "Good morning star shine" and "Aquarius" still great songs today. They aged well

 

[DaveC426913]

Yes kind of strange lyrics but we get a mention! "Good morning star shine" and "Aquarius" still great songs today. They aged well

Gliddy glub gloopy
nibby nabby noopy
la la la lo lo!

Because that's just how we roll.

 

[WWGD]

Villagers Collected 'Sacred 'Stones' for Generations, They Turned Out to Be Fossilized Dinosaur Eggs: Report​

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...e-fossilized-dinosaur-eggs-report/ar-AA1lLzUg

The people of Padlya in Madhya Pradesh have been digging up the palm-sized balls for generations, regarding them as sacred stones. Scientists determined that the objects were actually fossilized eggs laid by titanosaurs, a large long-necked dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous period, between 145 to 66 million years ago. Research has revealed that the area's Narmada Valley may have been a breeding ground of the dinosaur based on 256 fossilized titanosaur eggs across 92 nesting sites.

New Late Cretaceous titanosaur sauropod dinosaur egg clutches from lower Narmada valley, India: Palaeobiology and taphonomy​

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278242

Wonder what that ommelette would taste like.

 

[WWGD]

Well happy new year to all. A few hours from now, it will be so for everyone worldwide.

 

[BillTre]

Wonder what that ommelette would taste like.

Chicken eggs.

 

[WWGD]

Chicken eggs.

That's so next year(2024)