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[WWGD]

Met this guy I hadn't seen in a few months. His hair , during this time, went from being dark to being almost fully white. I knd of gasped, but had no idea if I should ask him about it. He acted as if it was normal, as if nothing had happened. Then again, there was this other guy I knew who would fart in front of me and say nothing, as if this was a normal thing. Maybe I should review the company I keep.

 

[fresh_42]

A bit more refreshing. "Refreshinger"?

Nope. Re-moving. Not, removing.

 

[WWGD]

Volunteers in the street: "Sir, would you like to change the world". Reply:"What, you mean in exchange for a new one?".
Volunteers:"...??!"

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

It is interesting hearing tourists identify beaches as the ones with “pretty people”, “uglier people”, “stereotypical people”, and “industrial people”.

They were from Germany

 

[WWGD]

Another weirdly-phrased question: " How do I turn 75 minutes into days?"

Wait at least 22 hrs and 45 minutes?

 

[WWGD]

It is interesting hearing tourists identify beaches as the ones with “pretty people”, “uglier people”, “stereotypical people”, and “industrial people”.

They were from Germany

Pretty sure they had a 47+ word for each of those? Unterstrandenfahrvernugengegeiserschaften? ( The "Ubercalifragilistikenexpialisheizer" is silent.)

 

[fresh_42]

Another weirdly-phrased question: " How do I turn 75 minutes into days?"

Wait at least 22 hrs and 45 minutes?

I know people who can turn far less into days if you have to listen to them.

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

Pretty sure they had a 47+ word for each of those? Unterstrandenfahrvernugengegeiserschaften? ( The "Ubercalifragilistikenexpialisheizer" is silent.)

Oh indeed it was poetic

 

[WWGD]

I know people who can turn far less into days if you have to listen to them.

Ouch! I hadn't been told that in a while ( by my students, who recorded my classes and then listened to them to put themselves to sleep.)

 

[WWGD]

I know people who can turn far less into days if you have to listen to them.

But I think the question meant was that of what fraction of a day is 75 minutes. So you divide 75 by 24*60.

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

Ouch! I hadn't been told that in a while ( by my students, who recorded my classes and then listened to them to put themselves to sleep.)

That sounds lovely, you should upload your lectures on Spotify as ASMR

 

[WWGD]

That sounds lovely, you should upload your lectures on Spotify as ASMR

That was from a while back when I taught.

 

[Klystron]

Somewhat surprised to see Combinatorics reported here in the New York Times newspaper this fine Sunday morning. Does this imply that combinatorics is now "dead", in the sense that exposure on public media is the "kiss of death" for STEM ideas?

 

[dlgoff]

Red skies in the evening with a few rain drops, ...

 

[DennisN]

A fun Tron light cycle game on a rotating 3D blob:
http://cycleblob.com/

 

[nuuskur]

Spoiler

Red skies in the evening with a few rain drops, ...
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I was about to suggest stars are much closer to wherever it is you're from :D

 

[fresh_42]

I was about to suggest stars are much closer to wherever it is you're from :D

My guess is Betelgeuse. Maybe we should call him Mr. President.

 

[dlgoff]

My guess is Betelgeuse. Maybe we should call him Mr. President.

Dang. What were the chances of that?

part of the image compliments of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Orion_3008_huge.jpg

 

[WWGD]

Interesting rule of thumb I heard recently: In civil service exams*, the longest answer is usually the correct one.

*Multiple choice exams.

 

[WWGD]

Seeing the anti-terrorist task force policeman drinking fruity-green Starbucks drinks doesn't make me feel particularly safer.

 

[fresh_42]

Seeing the anti-terrorist task force policeman drinking fruity-green Starbucks drinks doesn't make me feel particularly safer.

Just read today that Boris Becker (51, and unfortunately co-moderator at the Open) failed to by a beer. Strange country this is.

 

[fresh_42]

Just tuned in the evening news. Little Climate Gretel is arriving in NYC and they cover it like the moon landing. Ridiculous.

 

[WWGD]

Thunberg? Maybe she can buy Boris a beer.

 

[WWGD]

Dangers of over-zealousness: I had a friend help me repair my PC. We had to remove many programs, as he said it was necessary. Later on I went to reinstall the removed programs...only to eventually find out he had reinstalled many himself when I was gone. Now I have duplicate files for most programs which I think ( hope, since I can't find an explanation) explain a lot of the cryptic error messages.

 

[fresh_42]

I zapped through the channels without sound and as I saw someone in a talk show I instantaneously and disgusted switched away. Now an hour later I met him again, this time with sound. Result: I can identify politicians even if I can't hear them and don't know them, because they are from another country within a tenth of a second. Plus I was right that it wasn't worth listening.

 

[Ibix]

Result: I can identify politicians even if I can't hear them and don't know them, because they are from another country within a tenth of a second.

It's the way their noses keep growing that's a dead giveaway.

 

[Bystander]

in a talk show

dead giveaway.

Habitat, perhaps?

 

[Klystron]

Habitat sans humanity?

 

[Torbert]

Very wide ranging news sources from all viewpoints. Reading conflicting captions without clicking the whole report, I find I can determine for myself which are reality. Often this is opposite of my mother in law's reaction.
Early learning is important to all sides.

 

[fresh_42]

Has anybody recognized that the guitars went from breast to hips between the 60's and nowadays?