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The discussion revolves around a variety of topics, beginning with the reopening of a thread on the Physics Forums. Participants express relief at the continuation of the conversation and share light-hearted banter about past threads. There are inquiries about quoting from previous threads and discussions about job opportunities for friends. The conversation shifts to humorous takes on mathematics, particularly the concept of "Killing vector fields," which one participant humorously critiques as dangerous. Participants also share personal anecdotes, including experiences with power outages and thoughts on teaching at university. The tone remains casual and playful, with discussions about the challenges of winter, the joys of friendship, and even a few jokes about life experiences. The thread captures a blend of humor, personal stories, and light philosophical musings, all while maintaining a sense of community among the forum members.
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Just in time to see mentors change their avatars to Justin. I'm not a fan of his music.
 
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Silicon Waffle said:
Just in time to see mentors change their avatars to Justin. I'm not a fan of his music.
We can safely conclude you are not a teenage girl.
 
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lisab said:
I had the same thought! I mean, there are plenty of things about North Korea that are creepy as hell. But cute kids playing guitars?! Didn't even score a "1" on my 1-to-10 creep scale. They are adorable!
Maybe he couldn't think clearly after listening to some Bieber music --if you can stretch the word music. With all the dogs barking (maybe puking) when listening to it.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
Did you ever watch the Russian Sherlock Holmes's on YouTube? There are two different ones. They're a trip.
I have tried a few of Livanov's episodes but none of the other ones. Livanov was surprisingly good at the role but the language barrier turned me off after a two or three episodes.
 
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Watching Silicon Waffle Avatar reminds me of an incident when I was small.

A monkey came in our home as the door was opened. I and my brother being frightened hid behind a room's door.

The monkey was freely roaming in the hall. We called for the apartment's watchman by phone and locked our room in frightment.

When someone knocked our room's door, we thought it was monkey , but by voice recognized it was the watchmen. He said the monkey was nowhere.

When we opened the door, an almond's jar was missing. The next day we found the jar empty lying on a floor above us.:smile:
 
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Enigman said:
I have tried a few of Livanov's episodes but none of the other ones. Livanov was surprisingly good at the role but the language barrier turned me off after a two or three episodes.
I agree. I couldn't watch for very long because of the language thing, but it's extremely interesting to see the attempt to portray the British characters and culture by Russians.
 
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Expedition Unknown

This is a show on the Travel Channel where the host travels all over the world in search of Interesting artifacts whose story has come down through history but whose current whereabouts are unknown. He's tackled Amelia Ehrhart's plane, and a samurai sword considered the best ever made which disappeared after WWII, among other things. Tonight is the season I finale, but they rerun all the episodes in mini-marathons a couple times a week.
 
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas woman who became the world's oldest person Wednesday wants President Barack Obama to attend her 117th birthday party this Fourth of July.
http://news.yahoo.com/arkansas-woman-now-worlds-oldest-person-wants-obama-225358176.html
 
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Just saw someone whose face looks like a cartoon. Not like a human version of a cartoon, but like an actual cartoon. Pretty surreal, and I was not on anything, not even cold medication.

I wonder if the whole Bieber thing here had to see with the roast he received in comedy central.
 
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Imagination doesn't take me anywhere in real life at all. I recognize it via face-to-face and email chats with my arseholes.
Even after my house owner changes the roof, I am still a cleaner. It's a scientific truth :oldbiggrin:.
Until the roof is totally changed, I really wish to beg people to stop talking about what is what in the future.
I love this house and want to clean up the mess as a hired cleaner.
I am not thinking about leaving. :oldsmile:
 
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Raghav Gupta said:
Watching Silicon Waffle Avatar reminds me of an incident when I was small...A monkey ...missing. The next day we found the jar empty lying on a floor above us.:smile:
:oldsmile: Except this random thread, I don't have any idea that I think is best fitted anywhere. So I can't post so much to intensify people's emotions and eyestrain while reading my blah blah.
I am glad you didn't get injured by the monkey. :oldwink:
 
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Lo and behold, ad bots have come out of hibernation.
 
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And so have telemarketers. You would think that the "Do Not Call" list would mean something (this was something implemented in the USA), but it seems to be ignored lately. I get telemarketing calls every day now. <Explicative derogatory and hostile term here>.
 
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Retired Japanese Fighter Pilot Sees an Old Danger on the Horizon
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/04/w...-pilot-sees-an-old-danger-on-the-horizon.html

Kaname Harada - “I realized the war had turned me into a killer of men, and that was not the kind of person I wanted to be.”

He said the nightmares finally ended when he found a new calling by opening a kindergarten in Nagano in 1965. He said he was able to alleviate the pangs of guilt by dedicating himself to teaching young children the value of peace. While he has now retired, he said he still visits the school every day he can to see the children’s smiling faces.
 
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Paper is not dead yet...
 
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The other day, while watching a TV show from 1957, I discovered the evolutionary trigger to human speech.
A man was serving his wife some coffee in bed, and she asked; "I wonder what people did before coffee".
And her husband responded; "They probably didn't speak".
:biggrin:

The wife later killed her husband. It was an episode of "Alfred HItchcock Presents". Season 2, episode 34.
 
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River Monsters
S7|Ep 1
Reports of a 20-foot beast in a Canadian lake are investigated in the Season 7 premiere.


Tonight on Animal Planet

(I'm pretty sure that means the beast measures 20 feet in length rather than that it has 20 feet.)
 
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zoobyshoe said:
River Monsters
S7|Ep 1
Reports of a 20-foot beast in a Canadian lake are investigated in the Season 7 premiere.


Tonight on Animal Planet

(I'm pretty sure that means the beast measures 20 feet in length rather than that it has 20 feet.)

One of your lost (avatar?) relatives?
 
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Yikes: I realized when I returned from a walk that I had left the stove on. I was not cooking anything, so
I think I may have accidentally turned on the knob while hanging out in the kitchen, which is around 4.5' x 4.5'
luckily I paid enough attention to see the light on and to notice the extra heat in the kitchen.
.
 
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WWGD said:
One of your lost (avatar?) relatives?
No. Not to spoil it, but, spoiling it, it turns out Jeremy thinks the beast was a misidentification of some muskies swimming in a group. Muskies are large fish, Jeremy caught a four-footer himself, and they are known to bite people now and then.

Back in the 1980's a girlfriend I had took me to her parents summer home on a lake in rural Minnesota. She pretty much ruined my swimming enjoyment with tales of people getting bitten by muskies.
WWGD said:
Yikes: I realized when I returned from a walk that I had left the stove on. I was not cooking anything, so
I think I may have accidentally turned on the knob while hanging out in the kitchen, which is around 4.5' x 4.5'
luckily I paid enough attention to see the light on and to notice the extra heat in the kitchen.
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You have an electric stove? Mine is gas and you can't turn it on without producing a repeating clicking noise.
 
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I can't avoid feeling annoyed by the title of the show " Unsolved Mysteries" ( and the content is mostly garbage) .If it is solved, it is definitely not a mistery any more, so it must be unsolved. But I can't find a better name: Mysteries?
 
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WWGD said:
If it is solved, it is definitely not a mistery any more...
But if it once was a mystery, can we not communicate that fact by calling it a "solved mystery?" I think we can. And by that logic, we can communicate that a mystery still remains a mystery at the current time by calling it an "unsolved mystery."
 
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I am reminded of a schoolmate who insisted that there was no such thing as a UFO because once you had realized that you couldn't identify it then you had identified it as a UFO and it was no longer Unidentified...
 
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"Former mysteries that got solved a while back" has a nice ring to it.
As an extra it will the confuse the *** out of some people.
 
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Or for the unsolved ones, how about the title of, "Things Which Might One Day Be Called 'Former Mysteries' But Are Not Called That Just Yet."
 
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collinsmark said:
Or for the unsolved ones, how about the title of, "Things Which Might One Day Be Called 'Former Mysteries' But Are Not Called That Just Yet."

Perfect! Just rolls directly of your tongue.
 
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Ex-Mysteries for the solved ones and X-Mysteries for the unsolved ones?
 

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