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    Random and useless thoughts and facts

    Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by big soft moose, Sep 24, 2021.

    The average person can have up to 60,000 thoughts per day, one of mine was that many server errors can be tracked back to just a few really large threads. Another thought was that the content of Useless facts and Random Thoughts had become practical interchangeable.

    Therefore a new place to share those random factoids that dribble through the grey matter at 3am before otherwise disappearing into the black ether of the subconcious
     
  2. Catriona Grace

    Catriona Grace Mind the thorns Contributor Contest Winner 2022

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    Dribbling gray matter. That happens to me a lot since I passed 65.
     
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    Why is it the yoofs of this world can keep a knapsack/backpack slung over their shoulder like it’s bloody glued in place, while they go about their business, skating, kicking old lady’s heads in, etc, while I, who I might add, has fairly broad shoulders (literally but most definitely not metaphorically speaking) can’t stop the thing sliding down and off my shoulder as though it were a ski ramp?
     
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    J.T. Woody Book Witch Contributor

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    Evolution.
    They're a whole new breed:p
     
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    Catriona Grace Mind the thorns Contributor Contest Winner 2022

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    Only bag I've ever had to stay on my sloping shoulders is Ameribag's back healthy version. I'm on my fourth... or is it fifth?
     
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    The year before the current pandemic began, an old interview about the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic appeared on YouTube (without searching for it). I watched it, which brought me to more interviews and documentaries about that old pandemic. These videos were uploaded years earlier. The interviewees remembered the events of 1918, and the interviews were done during the 1990s. These were uploaded later on YouTube. The documentaries were made later than the 1990s.
     
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  7. J.T. Woody

    J.T. Woody Book Witch Contributor

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    Zucchini, pumpkins, and eggplants are fruits.

    Bananas are not.
     
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    Banana’s not a fruit? What is it then?
     
  9. J.T. Woody

    J.T. Woody Book Witch Contributor

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    "While the banana plant is colloquially called a banana tree, it's actually an herb distantly related to ginger, since the plant has a succulent tree stem, instead of a wood one"
     
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    A similar discussion ensued when my chef and I were reviewing our master inventory sheets. Scallions, for example, are not an herb... they are an onion. However, every distributor in the universe lists them under herbs and titles the SKU "Herbs, Scallions." And we store them with the rest of the herbs, so we list it on our sheet as "Herb, Scallion." I suppose the category should be called "small green things," but that's not very scientific. So we got into a theoretical discussion of how we would arrange the walk-in if everyone's home was it's true scientific category. She's going to shit a brick when I tell her to store the bananas with the rest of the herbs.
     
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    @Homer Potvin While you're at it, be sure to keep your drupes, pomes, berries, and hesperidiums properly organized.
     
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    Nope. I got six fruits: bananas, apples, raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, and blueberries. And two of them live in Dry Storage, which is page five.

    You know you've been working too much when you can rattle off all 643 SKUs more or less in order.
     
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    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    I don't know if you italicize Youtube channel names or not.
     
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    Get ready for a glut of outbreak/pandemic themed fiction to hit the market in the next couple months.
     
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    I will be reading none of those. Already lived it. Seriously, not sure what could possibly added, reinterpreted, or elucidated at this point, no matter how poignant, ironic, or clever.
     
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    Its been rampant since earlier this year :D
     
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    Random/Useless fact:

    If anyone has started watching Star Wars: Visions yet.... The first short has a novel version that comes out on October 12th

    (On an unrelated note.... Its title annoys me: "Star Wars Visions: Ronin: A Visions Novel")
     
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    Star Wars became Star Bores many movies ago.
     
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    An octopus has three hearts and a mini brain within every tentacle.
     
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    This short was really good, though. It was about 15mins long and is the best one (imo) out of the 7 shorts in the anthology.
     
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    Is all unhappiness rooted in expectations?
     
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    No, but disappointment surely is.
     
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    Scallops are not fruit.
     
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    It’s gonna get worse.
     
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    Yip yip yip

    How anyone in my workplace hadn't died yet is a damn miracle.
     

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