Topic: What I learned today! (Read 194784 times)

Healy · « **Reply #2620 on:** July 05, 2013, 12:49:58 AM »

Whenever I would look up Genesis songs on Youtube or whatever the auto-search would bring up something called Rodriguez. I hadn't dug into their discography very much, so I just assumed they released some song called Rodriguez. Until today, that is, when I thought to actually look it up. Turns out she's an actress.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #2621 on:** July 09, 2013, 12:51:47 PM »

Spicy Sushi Mayo is just Sriracha and Mayo.

FUCKING MAGIC

Mazian · « **Reply #2622 on:** July 17, 2013, 12:22:10 PM »

Portugal and the U.K. signed a treaty of friendship and alliance in 1373 that is still active.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2623 on:** July 17, 2013, 12:36:33 PM »

Oooooh, now that is cool!

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #2624 on:** July 20, 2013, 07:36:52 AM »

Today I discovered, inside the Houston Galleria, on the third floor next to the Nemen Marcus, a place called "Pepper Palace", where they sell various hot sauces and salsas. They also sell lollipops with actual scorpions in them.

I regret not buying one.

Niku · « **Reply #2625 on:** July 20, 2013, 08:38:09 AM »

Man, used to be you couldn't throw a rock without hitting scorpion pops around here. Now scorpion pops have gotten all commerical.

Esperath · « **Reply #2626 on:** July 20, 2013, 10:20:41 AM »

scorpion lollipop hipster

Ziiro · « **Reply #2627 on:** July 20, 2013, 06:50:46 PM »

are the scorpions free range and organic

TA · « **Reply #2628 on:** July 24, 2013, 05:48:24 AM »

In 1859, Arkansas passed a law making it illegal to be free and black. The punishment for violating this law was to be sold into slavery.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2629 on:** July 25, 2013, 01:27:58 AM »

In 226 years, no one ever figured out who it is in the American government that officially recognises sovereign foreign countries

Brentai · « **Reply #2630 on:** July 27, 2013, 07:02:58 AM »

Not something I've learned today, but a general bit of wisdom I've picked up: Never suggest to a service representative (manager, repairman, whatever) how you would like an issue resolved. Just tell them the issue and let them do whatever they're going to do. Human instinct tends to lean toward resistance to any demand or request, no matter how polite or reasonable, and toward overcompensation in the absence of any other suggestion, simply to make the perceived problem go away.

Smiler · « **Reply #2631 on:** July 27, 2013, 09:28:01 AM »

The problem with that is when you get tier 1 support for your cable/internet provider and they give you sweet, sweet tips like "Check to see if everything is plugged in" when you ask them to please send someone over to fix the piece of shit rat's nest the endless procession of technicians keep adding to whenever your service goes out. Every fucking time it's "Oh I don't know what the last guy did, but I fixed up all the wiring so it isn't such a mess anymore." I'm afraid to switch to another company because I'm afraid that somewhere down the line someone installed Shodan into my house's wiring or some shit and she will be unleashed if I ever try to undo anything AT&T has done over the years.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2632 on:** July 27, 2013, 11:49:48 AM »

In my experience "Pray nobody fucks thing up even worse" is the primary operating principle when dealing with any sort of telecom provider.

Joxam · « **Reply #2633 on:** July 27, 2013, 04:39:55 PM »

I have Dishnetwork tv mostly for my mom. When charter put in my cable internet service the straight up cut the dish cable from the back of my dish that was wired into my room, wired that into my cable access point to give me internet, and left a cut cable sticking out of my dish. I never watch tv and mom's tv receiver is on another cable so it took me like three months to figure this out.

Brentai · « **Reply #2634 on:** July 28, 2013, 07:29:56 AM »

For the past couple years I've been perfectly happy with my computer desk, save for the fact that I really, really wished the keyboard tray came out more. I had to type pretty much under the desk all the time.

Today I got a little tired of it and decided to just YANK on the thing out of, I dunno, spite.

Turns out it had only been a little stuck.

R^2 · « **Reply #2635 on:** July 28, 2013, 08:05:56 AM »

Your new Deptford-forged avatar really makes that post magical.

François · « **Reply #2636 on:** July 28, 2013, 11:07:12 AM »

My grandmother hated my mother's first boyfriend, so she threatened him into disappearing (somehow) and told her that he had got his head crushed in a freak industrial accident, so she wouldn't try to look for him. My mom only learned yesterday that he has been alive all this time, by looking him up on Facebook on a whim.

So, another reason in the "don't want to see that part of the family again" pile!

edit: seriously who does that

jesus christ

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #2637 on:** July 28, 2013, 12:01:25 PM »

Quote from: François on July 28, 2013, 11:07:12 AM

My grandmother hated my mother's first boyfriend, so she threatened him into disappearing (somehow)

Maybe she threatened to have his head crushed in a freak industrial accident

Mongrel · « **Reply #2638 on:** July 31, 2013, 12:20:46 PM »

The term Yankee was actually derived from combining the two Dutch names Jan and Kees, when the New York area was still called Nieuw Amsterdam.

Apparently it was a derogative around New England for the Dutch colonists, who all seemed to called Jan or Kees.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2639 on:** August 09, 2013, 01:23:08 PM »

Nixon managed to commit high treason before he was even president

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