Friday, October 16, 2020

Adam Savage Destigmatizing Hearing Loss


Awesome to see someone on Adam Savage's stature proactively work to destigmatize hearing loss. Way too many people out there resist getting the help they need because of the dang negative stereotype. 

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Kid Sound Effects His Mom Around The House


This actually seems like it'd make doing chores around the house way more fun, for everyone involved. 

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Kid Absolutely Shreds At Talent Show


Now that's a tough act to follow up. Perhaps the best part about this wildly impressive performance is he's just busy shredding, and all of his classmates express no appreciation for the godly performance in front of them. If only they knew. 

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Husband Secretly Invites Entire Family to Anniversary


As far as relationship blunders go, arranging your mother and family to be at your wedding anniversary behind your wife's back sounds like a big one. Not sure what was going through the guy's mind when he decided to covertly get his mom into the mix, but the wife is understandably peeved. For another interesting one, here's a girlfriend who beat her upset boyfriend at a steak eating challenge.

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Tumblr Post: Humans Get Curiosity Rover To Sing Happy Birthday


It's quick Tumblr posts like this that manage to remind us that humans can be ridiculously awesome sometimes. Just picturing all these brilliant minds gathered around celebrating the moment that they successfully got the Mars Curiosity Rover to sing "Happy Birthday!" to itself is enough to get the good feels rolling. 

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Text - Sandra Tayler @SandraTayler Sometimes when I forget that humans are amazing, I think of curiosity singing Happy Birthday on Mars, and this response:

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Text - thebaconsandwichofregret No guys you don't understand. The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself. So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made

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Text - a cake on Curiosity's birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non- autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars", which was Happy Birthday. This isn't a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore plac

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Choosing Beggar Thinks Free Shower Should Last A Lifetime


Well played by the plumber. This choosing beggar is giving every impression that they'd never have actually paid up. The sheer audacity of this person and their pompous entitlement is beyond comprehension. Check out some more delusional choosing beggars in action over here.

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Text - 3 СВ Crazy > Text Message Today 16:42 Hello, I have a problem with a shower you fitted, its either too hot or cold, can you come and sort it? Good afternoon, unfortunately your number isn't coming up as recognised, however, I don't really fit many showers, could you remind me who this is? Thanks. lain.

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Text - This is Mrs Your poor record keeping doesn't inspire me with much hope in your after care. I'm sorry, but I haven't fit any showers in maesteg, I think you may have me confused with someone else. Thanks, lain. Also, if you don't mind me asking, this is my personal number, not my business phone, how did you get

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Text - this number? How did I get your number! Because you fitted my shower perhaps? I can assure you I didn't fit your shower, but I would be happy to quote to repair or replace it This is becoming tiresome, I can assure you, you did.

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Text - Quote? You misunderstand me. You fitted it, it doesn't work, its your responsibility to sort it. I am trying to be civil with you, I expect you to uphold your obligations. | Honestly, I have no record of you and I 100% do not remember ever fitting a shower in maesteg, if this is something I may have fitted sub contracting, I'm afraid you will have to take it up with the site agent or building manager.

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Text - No, you worked for me direct, you came to my house to fix a leak on my hot water boiler in my airing cupboard and while you were here I asked you about my shower which you then replaced, you said any problems to give you a call, and you gave me your number. I now have a problem, I don't think I'm being unreasonable in asking you to fix your workmanship.

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Text - Ok, I've looked up your address, I see you are across the road from what used to be Celtic Tyres, if I'm not mistaken, I may have fitted your shower, but that was nearly a decade ago. August 2009. I was quite happy with your service at the time but now l'm having my doubts, now we have established you fitted it, can you now please come and fix it! Preferably tomorrow evening after 6pm

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Text - In fairness, a lot has happened in 11 years, I don't exactly keep records as I was trading under another name then. So let me get this straight, you want me to come to your house tomorrow evening to fix an £80 shower that I fitted 11 years ago for free? Do you honestly think that's a reasonable request? This is not a request! Just to be clear. Its a shower. It shouldn't break so easily, you've clearly installed it wrong or used a substandard part.

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Text - A thermostatic shower has a rather complicated cartridge inside it that regulates the output temperature to keep it at 41° despite any fluctuations in the hot and cold, like any other piece of equipment it's subject to wear and tear and requires eventual replacement. Frankly, if you have got 11 years out of it you're doing pretty well.

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Text - I know my rights, under consumer law you need to provide a product thats fit for purpose, your shower clearly isn't! I'm also pretty sure taking money for something that isn't then appropriately delivered apon is fraud. Are you going to sort your mess out or do I have to take it further?

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Text - When your last car was 11 years old with 100k on the clock and started developing rust and faults, did you take it back to the dealership and demand they repair or replace it because it wasn't fit for purpose? Or when your 2 year old shoes started wearing and cracking? Did you demand new ones free? I don't think so. Shower is exactly the same. It's given you 11 good years, it's time to replace it, it certainly isn't anything I have done to it. Seriously, I'm struggling to understand how y

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Text - wear out over time. What sort of cowboy business are you running? A successful one thank you very much! I suggest you get another plumber in and ask him if your 11 year old shower is the installers responsibility. This conversation is over. Goodbye.

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Text - Assuming i dont report you to corgi and other institutions, how much will it cost to replace? Payment on completion. Ok, report me to corgi??? you're taking the piss now! You report me to whoever the hell you like! They'l|l find it as ridiculous as I have! As for replacing your shower, not a chance love! I'm no idiot either and I'm pretty confident your insane sense of pompous entitlement will lead to me chasing the payment. Let's cut out you calling me a cowboy and me taking you to small

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Tumblr Thread: Closest Things Earth Has To Eldritch Abomination Gods


Uh, let's not forget about this Eldritch abomination from that recent story about a good old fashioned livestock drama. Alright, that being said the Sun really is a deadly laser. Yikes. Fear the old gods, indeed. 

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Text - gayarsonist Follow the closest things on earth we have to old eldritch abomination gods are the sun, the ocean and nuclear radiation @ michaelshelleys the sun: unfathomably ancient, here before all of us and will outlive us all by billions of years its light is so strong that prolonged exposure can burn or blind you even from millions of miles away once worshipped as a god by various religions and cults who made sacrifices to appease it will eventually expand as it burns out and dies and

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Text - the ocean: an enormous, singular mass that's constantly heaving and tossing its bulk against the land we build our homes on and gradually 'eating away' at it also extremely old and likely to outlast any of our lifespans countless people, ships and even entire landmasses have vanished into its depths, never to be seen or heard from again so vast and dangerous that it's still mostly uncharted, and less is known about its deepest areas to us than our solar system full of teeth and tentacles

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Text - also worshipped as a god in the past and often characterized in myths and legends as an vengeful, merciless entity those who sail on it tend to be deeply superstitious and respect its power with a reverence bordering on awe a single strike from the superstorms it brews on a regular basis can devastate vast areas of civilization will eventually rise and consume us nuclear radiation: emits invisible rays of energy can rip straight through your body with zero resistance, causing long-term an

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Text - cannot be completely blocked out, only 'shielded' by thick barriers of lead and concrete radioactive waste is so toxic that it's buried deep underground and/or entombed within a 'sarcophagus' of multiple layers of shielding to prevent it from escaping and infecting the ground we grow and raise our food on, the water we drink and the air we breathe areas where it has escaped or been set loose and leaked into its surroundings are evacuated and abandoned for hundreds of miles, and anything t

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Text - also capable of outlasting us by many centuries, to the point that people have considered setting up intimidating architecture and writing unsettling cryptic messages to warn future generations not to seek out or disturb it in areas it is concentrated in that sound like biblical accounts of our smiting at the hands of a malevolent god volatile and unpredictable, most accidents that have occurred while handling it are a result of a combination of our lack of knowledge about its abilities a

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Text - made out of a cataclysmic wound to our home planet remembers all the secrets Earth itself has forgotten half of it is completely hidden from Earth. No human being saw the dark side of the moon till 1959. No one saw it in person till 1968. fourteen days of night way bigger than it should be hosts the (current) largest confirmed crater in the entire solar system one time we went there and danced around on it and it did not eat us which was very nice of it thank you moon 23,598 notes

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Stuff That's Way Older Than People Think


Some inventions like escalators and seltzer have been around for hundreds of years longer than most people think. And other stuff, like sharks, are older than entire species. for more interesting history stuff, here's a thread about how mundane people are important to history as well as some history memes to feel smart about.

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Text - VanillaIceCinnaMon 1.1k points · 22 hours ago Commercial aircraft. Most are 10 - 15 years old yet a lot of people think they get replaced like cars. They are still very safe though despite their age.

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Text - steveguyhi1243 46.6k points - 1 day ago A 2 O 2 e S & 3 More Flushing toilets date all the way back to the Indus River Valley civilization, back in 2000 ВС

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Text - jazzman0116 40.8k points · 1 day ago The ancient Romans (well, the wealthy ones) had central heating in their homes. You can actually still see the pipes in some of the buildings at Herculaneum!

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Text - PmMeUrBoobsPorFavor 35.2k points · 23 hours ago 2 & 12 More edited 11 hours ago Sharks. Sharks as a family are older than trees

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Text - KidHarvey 35.1k points · 1 day ago Escalators have been around since 1859, though they were called rotating stairs.

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Text - BeaneathTheTrees 31.4k points · 1 day ago The name Tiffany. It dates back to the 12th century, and has actually led to a thing in writing called "the Tiffany problem," because you can have a well-researched historical novel that people just don't buy into, because you named your 12th century peasant Tiffany. It just sounds laughably anachronistic.

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Text - Darpyface 25.7k points · 1 day ago edited 22 hours ago 34 E Fax Machines. They were invented in 1843. Before the telephone. https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the- fax-machine-1991379 TheNerd669 15.5k points · 21 hours ago A samurai could have used a fax machine

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Text - trespuntoslikespider 23.3k points · 1 day ago Ancient Egyptians who built the pyramids. The Ancient Egyptians were as old to the Ancient Romans as the Ancient Romans are to us.

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Text - Buwaro 23.2k points · 1 day ago The electric car. What is likely the first human-carrying electric vehicle with its own power source was tested along a Paris street in April 1881 by French inventor Gustave Trouvé. The first crude electric car was built in the 1830s but it was essentially a semi-functioning model. The electric car was a direct competitor to gasoline powered vehicles until the 1920s when roads got better, people started driving further than the range of an electric car, and

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Text - Gyroklovn 22.0k points · 23 hours ago 2 The fact that the lighter is older than the match shook my head as a kid. It also gave me the curiosity to question things that seems obvious.

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Text - saymynamebastien 20.7k points · 23 hours ago edited 21 hours ago I don't know if this counts but Dinosaurs lived on the earth a lot longer than most people think. When you think of dinosaurs, you think of their extinction but they roamed the earth for 165 million years. Compare that to our 6 million and it's almost mind boggling, at least imo.

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Text - princess_mothership 19.7k points · 22 hours ago 33 3 I was really surprised to discover when Oxford university was founded. They don't know the year for sure, but they know there was definitely teaching going on there in 1096.

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Text - 4dseeall 19.6k points · 22 hours ago 3 Beer is thought to be older than bread. It's much easier to fill a jar with wheat and water, let it ferment, and brew beer than it is to grind grain, mix it, and bake it.

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Text - Andramalot 19.3k points · 23 hours ago Nintendo. This company was actually created in 1889.

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Text - TheSilentShane 16.8k points · 22 hours ago Oreos. I was shocked to learn that Oreos predate chocolate chip cookies, sliced bread, and my 100 year old Great Grandmother.

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Text - Darkie109 12.8k points · 23 hours ago Brain Surgery In 1997, archaeologists discovered an ancient tomb in the French village of Ensisheim from 5,000 BC, which contained the decomposing body of a 50- year-old man with holes in his skull. After a thorough examination, it was determined that the holes, located near the frontal lobe, were caused by a type of surgery, not by forced trauma, and the operation appears to have been successful because the wounds healed before the patient's death. T

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Text - -EDGAR- 12.3k points · 1 day ago · edited 23 hours ago Contact lenses. Leonardo da Vinci had the idea of contact lenses in 1508 and the first successful contact lenses were made in 1888.

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Text - helpicantfindanamehe 11.7k points · 1 day ago E 2 e2 S 2 & 2 More Paul Rudd

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Text - given2fly_ 9.5k points · 22 hours ago 3 S The Aux connector that we still use for headphones and speakers was invented in 1877. There have been improvements since, but the basics of it are pretty much the same.

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Text - VictorBlimpmuscle 7.4k points · 1 day ago - edited 1 day ago Social media - wealthy ancient Romans had a system where they used slaves as scribes and messengers in order to share gossip and art/poetry and news updates with friends in their social circle.

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Text - CountPeter 6.8k points · 22 hours ago · edited 17 hours ago 2 The sentiment that modern society is degenerate and that the youth are to blame is, iirc, one of the oldest things we have written down. That I can remember off the top of my head, Cato the Elder complained that the younger generations were becoming too greek, and Socrates used to complain that the younger generations were ruining their brains by writing instead of memorising information. There are far more older examples, but

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Text - iceburg-simpson 6.4k points · 23 hours ago The year 1990... we are as close to it as we are the year 2050.

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Text - bonster85 5.7k points · 1 day ago S The food at the back of your cupboard. LaserBeamsCattleProd 3.5k points · 23 hours ago I have a bottle of Worcestershire sauce that expired 4/28/2009 in my fridge. That means that bottle: A) made the trip from NJ to Florida with me in 2010. B) is the lone survivor from my bachelor pad fridge from 2012-2014. C) made it into my fridge when my wife and I bought a house in 2014. It's been sitting there ever since.

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Text - Thanos_AnusDestroyer 5.4k points · 1 day ago S Netflix! i feel like it is only a few years old but it was invented in 1997

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Text - DanBeecherArt 2.2k points · 22 hours ago · edited 20 hours ago S 2 The use of concrete. It's use goes as far back as the Mayans, but more notably in Egyptian construction as well as in Rome. The Romans had an arguably greater concrete mix than we currently have, but that was never passed down. Eventually the use of concrete fell out of popularity for centuries as we seemingly lost the information needed to create it, as if the recipe was thrown out and nobody wrote it down. Also Samuel L

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Text - DarkSyrupp 2.1k points · 21 hours ago 2 The first carbonated drink to be sold to the public was invented by Swiss watchmaker and amateur scientist J. J. Schweppe in 1783, who sold his delicious "sparkling water" to thirsty customers in Geneva. In just seven years, he was doing business so fast that he moved the factory to London and introduced a new flavor, sparkling lemon, to stand out from competitors who were trying to imitate his drink.

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