Author Topic: what I have learned today.  (Read 864091 times)

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7075 on: 29 September, 2023, 05:42:04 pm »
Although they were apparently good buddies off stage.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7076 on: 29 September, 2023, 06:22:51 pm »
That Lynyrd Skynyrd were actually from Florida. I guess they were just sufficiently with it to realize that "Sweet home Florida-da" wouldn't make a good song!

That song was in riposte to some Neil Young songs referencing Alabama and the South.

In particular “Southern Man” I believe.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7077 on: 30 September, 2023, 01:48:30 pm »
That Donald Trump actually did something good. In 2019 he passed legislation that guaranteed Federal employees furloughed without pay during government shutdowns (occasioned by the Federal budget disagreements, such as the one about to happen) would get their back pay once normal service was resumed. OK they usually had, eventually, in the past, but it was never guaranteed.
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ian

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7078 on: 30 September, 2023, 09:21:23 pm »
That Donald Trump actually did something good. In 2019 he passed legislation that guaranteed Federal employees furloughed without pay during government shutdowns (occasioned by the Federal budget disagreements, such as the one about to happen) would get their back pay once normal service was resumed. OK they usually had, eventually, in the past, but it was never guaranteed.

The rules are mad and draconian, you can’t even turn a federal government supplied computer on even if it’s in your house.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7079 on: 30 September, 2023, 09:26:42 pm »
That the OS Maps app has maps for the USA and New Zealand included

Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7080 on: 02 October, 2023, 10:48:00 pm »
That Abercrombie & Fitch is a thing, and furthermore it's not a Scottish law firm.

Pingu

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7081 on: 02 October, 2023, 11:19:37 pm »
Sounds like rhyming slang for some unpleasant ailment.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7082 on: 03 October, 2023, 09:27:54 am »
Sounds like rhyming slang for some unpleasant ailment.
;D

And as for Jack & Wills, you really don't want to get that.

(It's an offshoot of Abercrombie & Fitch, kind of A&F for students from what I see.)
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7083 on: 03 October, 2023, 11:06:13 am »
That Abercrombie & Fitch is a thing, and furthermore it's not a Scottish law firm.

You must have somehow dodged this earworm:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=70&v=NHuGG_FsC20&feature=youtu.be

Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7084 on: 03 October, 2023, 11:43:55 am »
That Abercrombie & Fitch is a thing, and furthermore it's not a Scottish law firm.

You must have somehow dodged this earworm:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=70&v=NHuGG_FsC20&feature=youtu.be

Barkata:  "What are you sodcasting?  It sounds like the Student Finance England hold music..."

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7085 on: 03 October, 2023, 03:14:29 pm »
And I've just learned why Kim has learned that Abercrombie & Fitch is A Thing. But ICBA to read it.

In fact I learned it while reading this, which is far more interesting and I'd have thought more Kim-able too.

Ed: I've just realized there are currently two A&F stories: a silly one, that I'd seen while reading the above, and a nasty one.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7086 on: 06 October, 2023, 05:42:51 pm »
That Americans, or at least Californians, call cairns "ducks". Apparently if you put a little rock on top of a big rock, making a cairn, it looks like a duck. I guess ducks are funny shapes over there.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7087 on: 09 October, 2023, 03:31:06 pm »
That the magnetic pole at the south polar region is actually a north magnetic pole (and visa versa).
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Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7088 on: 09 October, 2023, 03:53:32 pm »
That Americans, or at least Californians, call cairns "ducks". Apparently if you put a little rock on top of a big rock, making a cairn, it looks like a duck. I guess ducks are funny shapes over there.

My observation of USAnian ducks (and Horrible Gooses) suggest that many of them differ little from BRITISH ones.  Especially the Horrible Gooses:


Horrible Gooses shouting abuse at the gulls next door by Mr Larrington, on Flickr
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ian

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7089 on: 09 October, 2023, 04:11:42 pm »
That the magnetic pole at the south polar region is actually a north magnetic pole (and visa versa).

It is, though I think north and south are arbitrary definitions, the nice pictures of magnetic fields that show the lines radiating out of the north and into the south aren't entirely accurate as the force doesn't move, that really relates to the motion of charged particles relative to the field. But that can switch around with the particle charges, so the poles are in a sense arbitrary (they're consistent with special relativity), but there must always be a dipole, north cannot exist without a south and vice versa. Well, there are theoretical monopoles, but they imply significant symmetry violation.

Generally, it's a lot easier on the brain if you just accept that magnetism is just some kind of magic, like electrickery.

T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7090 on: 09 October, 2023, 04:14:34 pm »
That Americans, or at least Californians, call cairns "ducks". Apparently if you put a little rock on top of a big rock, making a cairn, it looks like a duck. I guess ducks are funny shapes over there.

My observation of USAnian ducks (and Horrible Gooses) suggest that many of them differ little from BRITISH ones.  Especially the Horrible Gooses:


Horrible Gooses shouting abuse at the gulls next door by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7091 on: 09 October, 2023, 05:49:12 pm »
Generally, it's a lot easier on the brain if you just accept that magnetism is just some kind of magic, like electrickery.

It's magic, but at right angles.

Tim Hall

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7092 on: 09 October, 2023, 08:40:31 pm »
That Americans, or at least Californians, call cairns "ducks". Apparently if you put a little rock on top of a big rock, making a cairn, it looks like a duck. I guess ducks are funny shapes over there.

My observation of USAnian ducks (and Horrible Gooses) suggest that many of them differ little from BRITISH ones.  Especially the Horrible Gooses:


Horrible Gooses shouting abuse at the gulls next door by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7093 on: 09 October, 2023, 10:49:12 pm »
That Americans, or at least Californians, call cairns "ducks". Apparently if you put a little rock on top of a big rock, making a cairn, it looks like a duck. I guess ducks are funny shapes over there.

My observation of USAnian ducks (and Horrible Gooses) suggest that many of them differ little from BRITISH ones.  Especially the Horrible Gooses:


Horrible Gooses shouting abuse at the gulls next door by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

De goosetibus non disputandum est.
Goose trifle! Nom!
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T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7094 on: 10 October, 2023, 10:25:32 am »
Generally, it's a lot easier on the brain if you just accept that magnetism is just some kind of magic, like electrickery.

It's magic, but at right angles.

 ;D

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7095 on: 11 October, 2023, 11:00:30 pm »
Canadian thanksgiving is older than American thanksgiving, and it all derived from harvest festival. Since I was a kid, harvest festival was always the festival of donating tins to the food bank to the tune of all things bright and beautiful, now they sing about fluffy cauliflowers while donating bags of dried pasta and cartons of passata.

Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7096 on: 12 October, 2023, 12:10:11 am »
I'm not sure where the tins we collected for harvest festival went.  Something about 'old people in the village'. (I suppose this makes me old enough to remember when old people weren't the ones with all the money).  Songs about Jesus and vegetables were perennial, as befits a nominally-CofE primary school.

I do remember thinking that the lack of agricultural content seemed amiss.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7097 on: 12 October, 2023, 10:11:29 am »
I remember one harvest festival when my younger son was still in junior school (so about 1996 ish) and he was the only one of two pupils who had brought in (home grown) produce; tomatoes and a pumpkin.  The visiting vicar specifically commented on the fact.

rogerzilla

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7098 on: 13 October, 2023, 01:30:37 pm »
I never knew the Isley Brothers were black :facepalm:

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7099 on: 16 October, 2023, 07:05:19 pm »
there must always be a dipole, north cannot exist without a south and vice versa. Well, there are theoretical monopoles, but they imply significant symmetry violation.

Aha! You mean Div B = 0.  Thanks Dr Gauss!