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22 Jul 2018, 8:05 am

Because they can.

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22 Jul 2018, 8:51 am

https://youtu.be/T59EDTqqW0A
https://youtu.be/57qy7MCzLXA

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Because they can.

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22 Jul 2018, 7:32 pm

The Can Can started out as a men's quadrille dance in early 1800's, then a partner dance before becoming the scandalous thing we now think of like in the video in later 1800's.

Another dance one, Tarantella is derived from folk belief that the high energy dancing will cure a wolf spider bite.

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22 Jul 2018, 9:19 pm

As of the time of this posting, President Donald J. Trump has less than 2 YEARS, 5 MONTHS, 29 DAYS, 19 HOURS, 13 MINUTES, and 27 SECONDS until he leaves office. This seems wrong ... it should be much less.

TRE45ON!

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23 Jul 2018, 12:49 am

Fnord wrote:

Countdown to the end of President Trump’s second term
That I find the possibility of a second term plausible

1. Is Depressing

2. Is Frustrating

3. Shows my utter lack of faith in the Democrats

4. Means I think differently them most people on this matter

5. Means I can be quite the pessimist

6. But not so pessimistic that I assume Trump will destroy the world in a nuclear war because his frigile ego got hurt and he threw a tantrum although I find that scenario plausable.

It doesn’t seem right that we are in a situation where the words “it doesn’t seem right” seems wholly inadequate.

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23 Jul 2018, 4:29 am

that the same electoral college bug will lead to a similar result for the orangatrump.

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23 Jul 2018, 7:02 am

It's not treason when a bully does it.

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23 Jul 2018, 3:42 pm

that the orangatrump will get away with everything, that he will pack the courts with borkian [or worse, re; Cavanaugh] troglodytes who will block all progress and set back America by a century or more, for generations.

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23 Jul 2018, 4:01 pm

Don't worry—you can only set a country back for so long before it's conquered by a less backward one.

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23 Jul 2018, 4:43 pm

I hope that country is like Sweden or Canada or something like that. but likely it'll be China or Russia.

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23 Jul 2018, 5:34 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

The matter that makes up the solar system: 99 percent of it is one single object: the Sun.

Of that remaining one percent of the matter in our solar system that is ...not the Sun....99 percent of THAT is one single object: the planet Jupiter.

The remaining residue of matter that is not either the Sun nor Jupiter, the remaining one part in ten thousand of the mass of the solar sytem, is everything else.

All of the asteroids, all of the comets, all of the dwarf planets, and transneptunian objects (like Pluto), all of the moons of the planets, all of the rocky terrestrial planets (mercury, Mars, Venus, and our own Earth), and each of the remaining gas giants (Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune), together constitute only one percent OF one percent of the mass of the Solar System.

The composition of Jupiter (and Saturn for that matter) is pretty much the same as the sun: mostly hydrogen and helium. They just lack the mass needed to allow nuclear fusion to occur.

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18 Sep 2025, 9:42 pm

That teddy bears did not exist before 1902.

(Sorry to bump but this seems one of those timeless threads and I quite enjoy reading it).

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19 Sep 2025, 2:56 am

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Imagine going to sleep in 1875 in New York City and waking up thirty years later. As you shut your eyes, there is no electric lighting, Coca-Cola, basketball, or aspirin. There are no cars or “sneakers.” The tallest building in Manhattan is a church.

When you wake up in 1905, the city has been remade with towering steel-skeleton buildings called “skyscrapers.” The streets are filled with novelty: automobiles powered by new internal combustion engines, people riding bicycles in rubber-soled shoes—all recent innovations. The Sears catalog, the cardboard box, and aspirin are new arrivals. People have enjoyed their first sip of Coca-Cola and their first bite of what we now call an American hamburger. The Wright brothers have flown the first airplane. When you passed into slumber, nobody had taken a picture with a Kodak camera or used a machine that made motion pictures, or bought a device to play recorded music. By 1905, we have the first commercial versions of all three—the simple box camera, the cinematograph, and the phonograph.

Source here.

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25 Sep 2025, 12:41 pm

Apparently Mark Savage, the boy who played Gripper in Grange Hill, got treated awfully by random people in the street because of his excellent acting as a threatening bully in the show. I find this fact so hard to believe, because I thought the more convincing an actor is in the show the more impressed viewers are, and we're all aware that it's all acting. He wasn't actually bullying anybody, it was just acting. Can't people see that?

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27 Sep 2025, 6:53 pm

That eclipses only last like a few seconds. I thought they'd last hours, days even, because everything is so large everything takes ages to finish happening. For example if an asteroid was heading towards Earth it'll take years, centuries, millenniums, to hit us. Or the Earth spins over a thousand miles per hour yet it takes 24 hours for it to make a complete rotation. So, hopefully you know what I mean about something solar-y like an eclipse taking only a few measley seconds to come and go.

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28 Sep 2025, 6:56 pm

What a let-down - only a few seconds. Fun fact: vast numbers of humanity, who still have a medieval-style mindset, still believe to this day that the deity Rahu swallows the sun deity Chandima - that's what the solar eclipse is to them, as traditionally explained by their ancient religion. Rahu spits out the sun again. Firing rifles at the sky can accelerate this process of vomiting the sun back out, in certain backwater rural areas.

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