Mischief

[AleisterCrowley]

Going way off topic (was there a topic?) what really annoys me is fridge controls.
You have a domestic fridge, designed to keep food at between 1C and 6C
There's a dial inside marked 1-6.
6 is normally the coldest setting , ~1C

[mswjr]

Spinning further away, surely 'a fully transparent process' implies one you can't see?

[AleisterCrowley]

also '360 degree feedback?' Is that talking to yourself?

[swill453]

Also "24x7x365". That amounts to 7 years, doesn't it?

Scott.

[AleisterCrowley]

24 x 365.2422 works for me

[swill453]

24 x 365.2422 works for me

24x7x52 would be fine.

Scott.

[AleisterCrowley]

Or even "We Never Close"! (I'm not going to point out that its 52 and a bit )

[DiamondEcho]

Are you sure? The argument I was always told was that if you were driving your cart down a narrow road and ran into an ambush, you'd have only a second or two to get your sword arm (or gun) organised. Which being the case, an attack from the left was always more dangerous because you'd have to turn your body round to deal with it. Whereas an attack from the right could be repelled much more quickly because your right arm was in the right place. Thus, you were better off keeping to the right of the road, so as to give yourself the maximum time for fending off an attack from the left.

Yes that's correct, per my understanding. Brits rode horses on the left of a path, [and drive carts/wagons/cars similarly]. Since most people encountering a foe would wish to draw a sword or a gun with their right hand. You see the reverse in medieval jousting, you approach on the right of your opponent so you/your weapons weight has momentum into your target, rather than pinging you straight back off your horse, ie if you approached from the left.
But Bonaparte being [arguably!] a bit of a proto 'Little Hitler' was left-handed, and so the protocol within the jurisdictions he oversaw was the reverse. The world's driving laws re: left vs right is still largely as a result of 19th century and various European colonial histories.


[quote="BJ'] Aaah, but wasn't that the British autopsy report, after he'd spent years being slowly cross-gendered by the [expletive deleted] that leaked out of the wallpaper in his exile home? (I notice we still called him Boney, though. )
O/T, but I'm also told that a silverback mountain gorilla's member is only 3-4 centimetres long. Nobody ever seems to give him any trouble on that account. [/quote]

Hehe, well you're going beyond my knowledge now, but if I hadn't enough reason to generally dislike already wall-paper you've just sealed it's fate for me

[Leothebear]

They did admit the US data format mm/dd/yy is a bit...odd

A bit odd? https://ifunny.co/fun/qXzK0Yuu1 Show them this map

The US + Belize*, hehehe. There is a parallel with their income tax system, and how they're liable for taxation on global income irrespective of which country it arises in. IIRC the only other country that imposes a similar system is Djibouti.


*Belize a British colony, the US a former one - hmmm


ps. Sometimes these kind of differences come about for odd reasons. The Continent travel [horse/bike/car etc] on the right side of the road because Napolean was left-handed. That was thus also adopted in the 'French states', and later all states, in the now USA. Next time any Lemon's hear an American suggest we drive on the wrong side of the road they can spring that little factual nugget on them. And then as a coup de grace ask them why they followed the example of a man with a 1" penis

A one each penis ha I'm triple that!

[AleisterCrowley]

You have three? 50% better than a very chuffed dog.