Romans832 Posted February 4, 2019 Report Share Posted February 4, 2019 Wow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ish Posted February 4, 2019 Report Share Posted February 4, 2019 24 minutes ago, Sgt. Rock said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing?fbclid=IwAR1mbWGaysEaX0MCc7VKJ2uxTLu7iycBh3yPPgHjTHL8MHSGt1DTkL6BcIw Chessboxing. Apparently this is a thing that exists? I'm not entirely certain what to think about this. Ton of fun to watch, actually. Hell, the Wu-Tang Clan has a song about it: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 4, 2019 Report Share Posted March 4, 2019 On 2/4/2019 at 2:40 PM, Sgt. Rock said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing?fbclid=IwAR1mbWGaysEaX0MCc7VKJ2uxTLu7iycBh3yPPgHjTHL8MHSGt1DTkL6BcIw Chessboxing. Apparently this is a thing that exists? I'm not entirely certain what to think about this. Pretty sure I posted a thread on this a number of years ago (maybe on the old ordo). Watched a weird sci-fi film which is based on a comic, and that comic is the basis for chess boxing (though chess boxing is not in the film). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortal_(2004_film) is based on: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Foire_aux_immortels who's third comic in the series is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froid_Équateur Which brings it back to chessboxing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yarbicus Posted March 4, 2019 Report Share Posted March 4, 2019 Just rewatched Bohemian Rhapsody and decided to read up on Live Aid. My favorite band is Rush and drummer Neil Peart had this to say: "Geddy was involved with the Northern Lights charity record here in Canada, although Rush weren't invited to participate in the Live Aid event – mainly because if you look at the guest list, it was very much an 'in-crowd' situation. We were 'out' by then. We didn't refuse to take part because of any principles. Mind you, I wouldn't have been happy being part of this scenario. Those stars should have shut up and just given over their money if they were genuine. I recall that Tears For Fears, who made a musical and artistic decision to pull out of the concert, were subsequently accused by Geldof of killing children in Africa – what a shockingly irresponsible and stupid attitude to take. But I have nothing bad whatsoever to say about Bob Geldof; he sacrificed his health, his career, everything for something he believed in. But others around him got involved for their own reasons. Some of those involved in Northern Lights were actually quoted as saying that their managers told them to get down to the recording sessions because it would be a good career move!" 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 19, 2019 Report Share Posted May 19, 2019 1: Cave found in Romania with 48 unique species in it which all use Chemosynthesis instead of Photosynthesis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movile_Cave 2: Naturally occurring boiling river: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanay-Timpishka Both links make me think they'd be good D&D encounters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted May 20, 2019 Report Share Posted May 20, 2019 18 hours ago, paxmiles said: 1: Cave found in Romania with 48 unique species in it which all use Chemosynthesis instead of Photosynthesis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movile_Cave 2: Naturally occurring boiling river: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanay-Timpishka Both links make me think they'd be good D&D encounters. Just got around to reading these. Really cool stuff, thanks for sharing! "The most recent animal recorded is the cave's only snail, which has inhabited the cave for slightly more than 2 million years." I like to deliberately misread this as referring to a single snail, rather than a species 😄 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yarbicus Posted May 20, 2019 Report Share Posted May 20, 2019 11 minutes ago, WestRider said: Just got around to reading these. Really cool stuff, thanks for sharing! "The most recent animal recorded is the cave's only snail, which has inhabited the cave for slightly more than 2 million years." I like to deliberately misread this as referring to a single snail, rather than a species 😄 When I was in Elementary school, I used to check out a book that was a collection of short horror stories that were somehow connected to Hitchock (I don't remember if he wrote them or whatnot). The only one that sticks with me was about man menaced by a giant snail. He hid in a tight crevice and the snail slowly crawled up the rocks, sealing him inside. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted May 20, 2019 Report Share Posted May 20, 2019 1 hour ago, Yarbicus said: When I was in Elementary school, I used to check out a book that was a collection of short horror stories that were somehow connected to Hitchock (I don't remember if he wrote them or whatnot). The only one that sticks with me was about man menaced by a giant snail. He hid in a tight crevice and the snail slowly crawled up the rocks, sealing him inside. I know exactly the story you're talking about. The Quest for the ‘Blank Claveringi’, by Patricia Highsmith. Hitchcock edited the collection. That one really stuck with me, too. I still feel a bit uncomfortable about snails to this day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 20, 2019 Report Share Posted May 20, 2019 40 minutes ago, WestRider said: I know exactly the story you're talking about. The Quest for the ‘Blank Claveringi’, by Patricia Highsmith. Hitchcock edited the collection. That one really stuck with me, too. I still feel a bit uncomfortable about snails to this day. Lol. I love snails and slugs. They just strike me as very innocent. Granted, I'm not a farmer.... I also feel that if slugs or snails were giant, my perspective on them would change drasitically. They'd be horrifying I were an ant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewgeddon Posted May 20, 2019 Report Share Posted May 20, 2019 On 3/4/2019 at 1:34 PM, Yarbicus said: Just rewatched Bohemian Rhapsody and decided to read up on Live Aid. My favorite band is Rush and drummer Neil Peart had this to say: "Geddy was involved with the Northern Lights charity record here in Canada, although Rush weren't invited to participate in the Live Aid event – mainly because if you look at the guest list, it was very much an 'in-crowd' situation. We were 'out' by then. We didn't refuse to take part because of any principles. Mind you, I wouldn't have been happy being part of this scenario. Those stars should have shut up and just given over their money if they were genuine. I recall that Tears For Fears, who made a musical and artistic decision to pull out of the concert, were subsequently accused by Geldof of killing children in Africa – what a shockingly irresponsible and stupid attitude to take. But I have nothing bad whatsoever to say about Bob Geldof; he sacrificed his health, his career, everything for something he believed in. But others around him got involved for their own reasons. Some of those involved in Northern Lights were actually quoted as saying that their managers told them to get down to the recording sessions because it would be a good career move!" Related to the various famine relief music projects that happened in the 80s, "Hear 'N Aid" was:"a heavy metal charitable musical project envisioned by Ronnie James Dio and fellow Dio band mates Jimmy Bain and Vivian Campbell with the purpose of raising money for famine relief in Africa." It's amazing.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear_%27n_Aid#Track_1_Hear_'N_Aid_%22Stars%22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yarbicus Posted May 20, 2019 Report Share Posted May 20, 2019 2 hours ago, WestRider said: I know exactly the story you're talking about. The Quest for the ‘Blank Claveringi’, by Patricia Highsmith. Hitchcock edited the collection. That one really stuck with me, too. I still feel a bit uncomfortable about snails to this day. That one seriously random connection! Now I need to look up that story. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yarbicus Posted May 20, 2019 Report Share Posted May 20, 2019 51 minutes ago, Andrewgeddon said: Related to the various famine relief music projects that happened in the 80s, "Hear 'N Aid" was:"a heavy metal charitable musical project envisioned by Ronnie James Dio and fellow Dio band mates Jimmy Bain and Vivian Campbell with the purpose of raising money for famine relief in Africa." It's amazing.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear_%27n_Aid#Track_1_Hear_'N_Aid_%22Stars%22 The song is not that great but it came at a time when I was really into Dio and the other bands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted May 21, 2019 Report Share Posted May 21, 2019 3 hours ago, Yarbicus said: That one seriously random connection! Now I need to look up that story. It stuck with a lot of people, but the title is kind of hard to remember, so there are an amusingly large number of results from even a very loose description of it on Googls 😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewgeddon Posted May 21, 2019 Report Share Posted May 21, 2019 4 hours ago, Yarbicus said: The song is not that great but it came at a time when I was really into Dio and the other bands. I love the song, personally. But I have a soft spot for cheesy 80s metal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yarbicus Posted May 21, 2019 Report Share Posted May 21, 2019 1 hour ago, Andrewgeddon said: I love the song, personally. But I have a soft spot for cheesy 80s metal. It is saved by some truly over the top guitar solos and Dio singing, "magic in the night." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfestedKerrigan Posted July 4, 2019 Report Share Posted July 4, 2019 Half the Northridge Earthquake deaths were people scared to death. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted July 4, 2019 Report Share Posted July 4, 2019 Swashbucklers don't buckle swashes, they swash bucklers. Even tho most of the imagery we associate with them doesn't include bucklers, the term persisted for whatever reason. It was also originally a derogatory term. Meant someone who waves their sword around impressively, but never hits anything other than their opponent's shield. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PumpkinHead Posted July 11, 2019 Report Share Posted July 11, 2019 SNAFU originally stood for Status Nominal: All F** Up 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckman Posted July 11, 2019 Report Share Posted July 11, 2019 It doesn't still? I don't know if this was originally military jargon or not but it became commonplace during world war II if not before. I always heard it as "Situation Normal" (not "Status Nominal"). I'm curious what your reference for that is. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PumpkinHead Posted July 12, 2019 Report Share Posted July 12, 2019 The marines used it in WWII, it was originally status nominal, but has since been altered to situation normal. My source: Old dude down the street, so I googled it when I got home. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAFU 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckman Posted July 12, 2019 Report Share Posted July 12, 2019 As is typical with Wikipedia links, that one is horrible. Check their sources. There's nothing that points to "Status Nominal". In fact the sentence that makes that claim is a link to something that actually references "Situation Normal". That said, I don't have anything more authoritative to say that situation normal is the original phrase either. It's just the one I am familiar with. It's possible that one of the later references (most likely the Rick Atkinson title) includes that history but then it should be the footnote for that line, not the reference to Private Snafu... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 29, 2019 Report Share Posted October 29, 2019 Apparently, this friendly looking symbol on your food products means that they got a treatment of radiation...Symbol itself is called the Radura Symbol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckman Posted October 29, 2019 Report Share Posted October 29, 2019 God, I hate food labeling. Any plant product except a mushroom has gotten a healthy does of radiation. Without being more specific that is about as useless as it is possible to be. Even ignoring sunlight, you'd have to apply this to anything which was x-rayed, anything which was microwaved, anything which was actually irradiated for health reasons and probably a dozen other applications that I am not thinking of at the moment. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 29, 2019 Report Share Posted October 29, 2019 15 minutes ago, Duckman said: God, I hate food labeling. Any plant product except a mushroom has gotten a healthy does of radiation. Without being more specific that is about as useless as it is possible to be. Even ignoring sunlight, you'd have to apply this to anything which was x-rayed, anything which was microwaved, anything which was actually irradiated for health reasons and probably a dozen other applications that I am not thinking of at the moment. I just find the symbol really happy looking for what is basically a label for Mr. Burns brand food products. A 3-eyed fish would be much better. Or a Roach with a smile. Regarding the label, it's more practical than I make it out to be. Just think the symbol is really rather smart, because just looking at it, never would have concluded that that symbol had anything to do with radiation. And Radiation really scares people, possibly more than it deserves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ish Posted October 29, 2019 Report Share Posted October 29, 2019 You should hear some of the conspiracy theories floating around out there about this symbol: Ⓤ That’s what’s known as a a hechsher ( הכשר ) which roughly translates as “seal of approval.” Jewish dietary laws require various, packaged foods, beverages, and whatnot that are sold commercially to be certified as kosher by a rabbi. The Ⓤ symbol is the mark of the Orthodox Union, the largest certification group in the US. Go ahead and grab nearly any food packaging you have handy, if you look in the corners or in the “fine print” you’ll probably find a Ⓤ somewhere. Maybe even a ⓊD or ⓊP. Needless to say, when a certain sort of person learns about “secret symbols” being used by “the Jews” in cooperation with “big corporations” then all sorts of kookiness results. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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