Useless Facts

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  1. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    I've allowed Bixby to keep his pedometer, but only because (I suspect) Samsung doesn't seem to allow third party pedometers to work.

    Otherwise?

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    I just feel weird talking to inanimate objects...
    I won’t do it if there’s other people around me.
     
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    Get a bluetooth ear-piece then you can talk to yourself and people will think
    you are on the phone with someone.
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    Oh, I talk to inanimate objects all the the time. It's when they talk back that i get wary.
     
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    I say please and thank you when I give my phone voice commands. Gettin' points in there early for upload instead of destruction when the AI takes over.
     
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    WRONG... DO IT AGAIN.... YOU.... YOU ... CLASS TIME LADDIE.
     
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    Same here,
    "Work you Fucking Piece of Shit".... "YOu fucking did that on purpose you Piece of Shit Door".... "Fuck you, New 3DS XL, for my sucking"
     
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    Shenanigator Has the Vocabulary of a Well-Educated Sailor. Contributor

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    Siri and Alexa sound similar, so to keep them straight my Siri is an English guy. He's really cheeky when I ask him to set a timer. Yesterday he said sarcastically, "Your timer is set for ten minutes. And the suspense is killing me." :rolleyes:

    ETA: I tend to talk to things when I'm cooking: "OK, you're roasting nicely...Now what about you? Are you steaming yet?" o_O So far no one's replied.

    ETA: Oh, and the printer. Yesterday there was a paper jam. It wasn't pretty.
     
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  9. Homer Potvin

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    Yeah, I'm all set with that. Shut up and be inanimate is my attitude.
     
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    He was saying "caulk." Which is the solution to all the world's troubles.
     
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    When applied to the proper orifice, it is.
     
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    Really, which one? I mean, everyone knows the fine arts dorm on Daisy Hill is the center of the universe . . . So I just checked.

    No, alas! The geographic center of the contiguous United States is just outside little Lebanon, Kansas, around 230 miles to the west northwest of Lawrence.

    Now, if somebody can tell me that a centroid is different from the center and explain why, that would indeed be a useless fact worth knowing. :bigcool:
     
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    On the seashore in Zadar, Croatia, is a 230 foot long concrete "organ" played by the ebbing and flowing of the waves.

     
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    Cool, although I don't know that I'd want to live next to it. I think there was something like that in The Crow Road, although it might have been wind rather than tide powered.
     
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    Elijah wood- AKA Frodo- has a bit part in Back To The Future II. (Can you find him without checking the credits first?)
     
  16. Iain Aschendale

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    The kids fitzing with the wild gunman game in the Cafe 80s... hes the one with the spatula on his head.
     
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  18. Iain Aschendale

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    AAAHHHHH!!!!

    Where's the spoiler tag!?!?!?! Some people might still be catching up on their 1985 movie releases :D
     
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    "You mean you have to use your hands? That's for babies"
     
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    Huh?

    [​IMG]
     
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    That's for engineers. I'm talking Architecture. :supertongue:
     
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    If it fits, it sits.
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    That one has to be a bitch to paint.
     
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    One does not paint Brutalist architecture. It's called Brutalist for a reason.

    It's from the French béton brut. Meaning raw concrete.
     
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    Habitat 67, Montreal. Despite how it looks, it's very Safdie. Moshely.
     
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