Topic: What I learned today! (Read 194916 times)

JDigital · « **Reply #1980 on:** November 09, 2011, 03:25:58 PM »

I don't know if that is a real photo

Lottel · « **Reply #1981 on:** November 09, 2011, 04:39:37 PM »

Quote from: Friday on November 09, 2011, 03:06:18 PM

literally spit chips and salsa all over myself

A² · « **Reply #1982 on:** November 10, 2011, 01:34:50 AM »

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/winningest

That our culture has really, really retarded words.

fullmooninu · « **Reply #1983 on:** November 10, 2011, 06:01:29 AM »

Quote from: Demosprite on November 10, 2011, 01:34:50 AM

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/winningest

That our culture has really, really retarded words.

Dont feel bad for using the popular noob language. That's just another germanic attempt at imitating latin capabilities. http://www.conjuga-me.net/verbo-vencer

Or better: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/13036

Anyway, today i learned that photocromatic glasses keep people from recognizing you, a lot more than both normal and sun glasses. This is the stuff clark kent should really use.

Brentai · « **Reply #1984 on:** November 10, 2011, 03:16:20 PM »

When written in Chinese, my last name seems to translate to "Condom of Very Fine Silk".

Büge · « **Reply #1985 on:** November 10, 2011, 04:20:00 PM »

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #1986 on:** November 10, 2011, 05:06:40 PM »

My last name in Spanish is literally derogatory slang for "Peeing Man," or "Pisser".

I've known that for a while, but I wanted to let Brentei know that he isn't alone.

François · « **Reply #1987 on:** November 10, 2011, 05:17:08 PM »

wait

do spaniards look down on people who urinate

because

you know

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #1988 on:** November 10, 2011, 05:26:04 PM »

do engliards look down on people who fuck

it's slang dude c'mon

François · « **Reply #1989 on:** November 10, 2011, 06:15:06 PM »

that is weird too

Mongrel · « **Reply #1990 on:** November 10, 2011, 07:19:38 PM »

It's okay. French folks just blaspheme.

Brentai · « **Reply #1991 on:** November 10, 2011, 07:29:32 PM »

Well, it's a lot better than looking up at people who urinate.

Joxam · « **Reply #1992 on:** November 10, 2011, 09:11:49 PM »

Hey man, don't judge. Sometimes people are into some weird shit.

Lottel · « **Reply #1993 on:** November 10, 2011, 10:15:28 PM »

Joxam, that matched up with your avatar perfectly, you sick weirdo.

(for future posterity)

Brentai · « **Reply #1994 on:** November 10, 2011, 11:29:15 PM »

It matched up better with his previous avatar.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1995 on:** November 12, 2011, 11:48:37 AM »

That when Colonel Sanders sold his original ownership in KFC, he kept the Canadian operations and moved to Canada, living in Mississauga (a city next door to Toronto) for a several years and that the charitable foundations he set up with his money are all still based in Canada.

Man, if you'd've asked me on the street, I would have guessed the guy never left his home state.

Büge · « **Reply #1996 on:** November 13, 2011, 11:39:30 AM »

That Saddam Hussein had copy of the Qur'an commissioned. It was inked in his own blood.

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Said Ali Alwaah, a Shia cleric who was imprisoned under Saddam, describes the Blood Qur'an as "Saddam's black magic. The Qur'an is about gold and silver – not something as impure as blood. [The Blood Qur'an] can be burnt or it can be thrown in the river. I would throw it in the river." On the other hand, it is also forbidden to defile or deface copies of the Qur'an. As one Iraqi summarised the dilemma, "It is forbidden to write the Qur'an in blood, but how could we destroy the holy book from God?"

Brentai · « **Reply #1997 on:** November 13, 2011, 11:49:42 AM »

Closest thing we've got to an actual Necronomicon. That alone is worth keeping.

Thad · « **Reply #1998 on:** November 19, 2011, 06:55:26 PM »

Quote from: Thad on November 08, 2011, 04:42:31 PM

NTFS -- at least, the version in Win7 -- lets you mount a hard drive as a subdirectory on another hard drive!

Boy, this is going to make it a LOT easier to move my TV shows over to my new hard drive.

So thanks, Microsoft, for...having a feature that Unix-likes have had for literally decades.

Now do you think you could maybe do something about your fucking shortcuts?

...holy crap, Vista/7 DOES have symlinks. It's mklink.

Of course, you have to specifically grant your account access to make them. So either that's just one of those stupid, overly-fiddly Vista/7 permission things, or somehow there IS a potential security problem somewhere in the NTFS symlink implemenation.

And it's also fiddlier than the *nix version; it requires you to specify whether you're linking to a file or a directory, and doesn't assume that you want to use the same name for the link as the original file (meaning that most times, you have to type the same damn name twice).

Still, definite progress!

Büge · « **Reply #1999 on:** November 20, 2011, 08:46:37 PM »

I learned about Figwit.

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