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Tell Me Something You Learned Today

Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
edited December 2023 in Social Entropy++
Maybe it’s dumb, maybe it’s something everyone else already knew, or maybe it’s something extremely technical that only you and your colleagues will understand.

Today I learned

The difference between a cemetery and a graveyard.

Cemeteries are attached to churches. I had always thought the words were interchangeable.


Your turn!

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  • LucedesLucedes Registered User regular
    A Grung is a frog person. A little amphibian man.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Lucedes wrote: »
    A Grung is a frog person. A little amphibian man.

    Does he wear a bow tie?

  • MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    edited December 2023
    Well systems can get 'waterlogged' which apparently means there is a leak somewhere in the tank that allows air in as water is pumped through the service line. This air pressure prevents the tank from refilling from the pump and cuts off water service to your house and three of your neighbors.

    I will learn in the next few days if the fix was a worn out valve or if there's a hole in the tank.

    MegaMan001 on
    I am in the business of saving lives.
  • LucedesLucedes Registered User regular
    Lucedes wrote: »
    A Grung is a frog person. A little amphibian man.

    Does he wear a bow tie?

    i'm not sure if there are bow ties in the Forgotten Realms, but there ought to be.

  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    I learned about the patent for an invention where a pregnant woman would be spun fast enough for centrifugal force to shoot the baby out.

    https://www.inventricity.com/blonsky-birthing-table

    "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
    Real strong, facetious.

    Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    facetious wrote: »
    I learned about the patent for an invention where a pregnant woman would be spun fast enough for centrifugal force to shoot the baby out.

    https://www.inventricity.com/blonsky-birthing-table

    First thing that popped in my head was the centrifuge(?) scene from The Pest and now I can't stop laughing.

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  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    I learned in another thread that Tom Nook is named that because he's a tanuki and honestly I'm going to be shook for at least the rest of the day.

  • sponospono Mining for Nose Diamonds Booger CoveRegistered User regular
    I learned that in certain parts of town, one dollar sign on Yelp equates to a $20 burger and fries

    One dollar sign my ass

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  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    Maybe it’s dumb, maybe it’s something everyone else already knew, or maybe it’s something extremely technical that only you and your colleagues will understand.

    Today I learned

    The difference between a cemetery and a graveyard.

    Cemeteries are attached to churches. I had always thought the words were interchangeable.


    Your turn!

    Graveyards are the attached one. Cemeteries don't require a church.

    Now you learned two things!

  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    The double decker taco is back for like two weeks.

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    today I learned that today was gonna be the day

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    3cl1ps3 wrote: »
    Maybe it’s dumb, maybe it’s something everyone else already knew, or maybe it’s something extremely technical that only you and your colleagues will understand.

    Today I learned

    The difference between a cemetery and a graveyard.

    Cemeteries are attached to churches. I had always thought the words were interchangeable.


    Your turn!

    Graveyards are the attached one. Cemeteries don't require a church.

    Now you learned two things!

    I do everything backwards. To keep people on their toes

  • IronKnuckle's GhostIronKnuckle's Ghost This is also my fault Registered User regular
    A good way to cause my blood pressure to spike is to try Armored Core 6's Balteus and then get so incredibly mad.

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Peen wrote: »
    I learned in another thread that Tom Nook is named that because he's a tanuki and honestly I'm going to be shook for at least the rest of the day.

    The Isabelle one threw me.

  • AlexandierAlexandier Registered User regular
    Today I learned my weather stripping on the door to the garage from the mudroom is leaking cold air in at a very steady clip and also that there's a little slit in your doorframe for jamming it in there.

    Tomorrow i hope to learn that I can successfully replace that stuff.

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I learned I fucked up the dates on a very important document and I'm not sure I can make a correction

  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    https://youtube.com/watch?v=grAUqRDTWkA

    i learned from the comments that when you're releasing a larger fish into the water, doing the fish-swish maneuver helps dislodge air bubbles in the gills and get water flowing through them again

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  • Quantum TigerQuantum Tiger Registered User regular
    I learnt that platypus fur glows under UV light from this dumb short

    https://youtu.be/Zxf2MgYCOm0

  • KelorKelor Registered User regular
    I learned that Joan of Arc in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure is also the woman who sings the telegram in Clue, is a successful musician in her own right and apparently wore bondage pants on Jeopardy.

    (Jane Wiedlin)

  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    Peen wrote: »
    I learned in another thread that Tom Nook is named that because he's a tanuki and honestly I'm going to be shook for at least the rest of the day.

    Yeah that one dawned on me as I was making a shitpost about what the plural of tanuki is and started saying my dumb variations out loud and one sounded like “Tom nook”

    I swore so loud at home

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    Kelor wrote: »
    I learned that Joan of Arc in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure is also the woman who sings the telegram in Clue, is a successful musician in her own right and apparently wore bondage pants on Jeopardy.

    (Jane Wiedlin)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-i4N6ty31w

  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    Today I have learned that maybe I have progressed to the final stage of the hiring process for the job that I applied to, which I actually want.

    Steam: evilumpire Battle.net: T0NKKA#1588 PS4: T_0_N_N_K_A Twitter Shirts and such HELP!
  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited December 2023
    i learned something very important today, re: one of ashley judd's prison pals in double jeopardy

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    roma maffia: not actually italian


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  • LegacyLegacy Stuck Somewhere In Cyberspace The Grid(Seattle)Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Voldemorts middle name in french is Elvis.

    Can we get the chemicals in. 'Cause anything's better than this.
  • PsykomaPsykoma Registered User regular
    edited December 2023
    My learning today was I spent too long reading tedious accounting standards, to see what regulations there are for accounting for cloud software licenses, whether they can be capitalized or have to be fully expensed.
    The most recent standards update, which came around in large part because people kept asking for standards for cloud computing, there was - after way too many damn words - a single paragraph saying "We know people have been asking for this, we'll examine it at a later time, I guess keep expensing it for now".

    -_-

    Psykoma on
  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    edited December 2023
    First I learned a lot because after watching hbomberguy’s latest video last night I watched his 2021 and 2022 opuses (Andrew Wakefield and Tommy Tallarico) today so I learned a lot about some really big con artist shitbags

    And then when I picked my youngest daughter up from school I finally learned how they inform the parents of kids who bite and scratch that their kids bite and scratch (……)

    Captain Inertia on
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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    Tonkka wrote: »
    Today I have learned that maybe I have progressed to the final stage of the hiring process for the job that I applied to, which I actually want.

    the kitten petting factory???

  • Fig-DFig-D SoCalRegistered User regular
    Alexandier wrote: »
    Today I learned my weather stripping on the door to the garage from the mudroom is leaking cold air in at a very steady clip and also that there's a little slit in your doorframe for jamming it in there.

    Tomorrow i hope to learn that I can successfully replace that stuff.

    Honestly pretty easy. That slit is called a "kerf" and you can pull the stuff that's in there right out (hopefully in as few pieces as possible, weather can cause it to crumble as the stuff loses elasticity).

    Kerf mounted weather strip has a flange with rubber channels that compress into the kerf and hold it in place without fasteners.

    SteamID - Fig-D :: PSN - Fig-D
  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    Today I learned that there are more lightbulb screw sizes than just large and small. :(

    "Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
  • Fig-DFig-D SoCalRegistered User regular
    There are too many. I had a chart printed out at my last job because for reasons beyond my understanding Lowe's decided not to post one on the lightbulb aisle themselves. And then they got rid of the fashion lighting desk and threw my chart out.

    SteamID - Fig-D :: PSN - Fig-D
  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    edited December 2023
    Today I learned that asking co-workers to continue your work while you take afternoon off to go to the DMV is futile.

    I also learned that I'm fairly fucked tomorrow.

    I may have already known these things.

    Edit - I actually did learn something new. It costs $70;for a new driver's license in Oregon.

    chromdom on
  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Today I learned three ways not to unclog a particular bathroom sink.

    Tomorrow I expect I will learn a few more.

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  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    edited December 2023
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Tonkka wrote: »
    Today I have learned that maybe I have progressed to the final stage of the hiring process for the job that I applied to, which I actually want.

    the kitten petting factory???

    Oh fuck if only.

    EDIT: Working for the county as a "Customer Information Specialist" basically telling people how to use transit which I have done for free at bus stops all over the city already for free. My favorite so far was when I was getting coffee and a dude walked up and asked how to get to Pine street and i gestures west and said "well you got that way" and then gestured east and said "or go that way" because we were on Pine street. I am very helpful.

    Tonkka on
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  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    Today in things I already knew about astrological signs:
    The symbol of Gemini is the Twins
    Taurus is the Bull
    Cancer is the Crab
    Libra is the Scales

    The thing I learned today:
    The symbol of Virgo is the Virgin

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    That's dumb! Astrology is dumb!

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Astrology is legit science!

    I have proof!!

    I just…can’t show you

  • PwnanObrienPwnanObrien He's right, life sucks. Registered User regular
    For weeks I've been learning Blender which is great because it's open-source and in a lot of ways it's built by the people who use it for the things you would want to use it for.

    ...it's also awful because it's open-source software documented by the kind of people who make open-source software. So I've been trying to find out what somebody on a forum post a few years ago meant by "profile curves" then later this year "control curves with profiles assigned." There are no "control curves" in Blender. You can create Bezier, NURBS and Path curves which are a type of NURBS curve. What they meant to say is that they use the Profile bevel in the Geometry section of the Data tab of a curve's outliner window. It pops open a little line graph you can tweak after giving the curve some depth to bevel out a shape to whatever tube thing you're making. The thing that actually cracked this code for me is a video of somebody making an abstract deer.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWllWoclaqY

    ...which has nothing to do with making hair like I was trying to.

    So basically learning things is a frustrating and borderline pointless experience. I don't recommend it. I would say know things if you can do that instead. Seems like it's a lot easier to be productive when you don't have to pick through a bunch of antisocial nerds with poor communication skills trying to describe a deeply complex piece of software mostly using terms from other software.

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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Today I learned that bato is an obscure Latin word for yawn, which only seems to be in one glossary translating Old English in the 8th century (most dictionaries seen to translate yawn to oscito)

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    Ringo wrote: »
    Today in things I already knew about astrological signs:
    The symbol of Gemini is the Twins
    Taurus is the Bull
    Cancer is the Crab
    Libra is the Scales

    The thing I learned today:
    The symbol of Virgo is the Virgin

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    That's dumb! Astrology is dumb!

    Scorpio!

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  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    The double decker taco is back for like two weeks.

    The double decker taco never left! You can order one and they ring up a regular taco and add beans and a tortilla for an upcharge

  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    today i learned wolffish are awesome and can bite through a full soda can

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