Thursday, November 5, 2020

Tumblr Post: House Guest Discovers Secret Staircase


There's something just plain old spooky about discovering a hidden staircase or suspect deadbolt that someone at some point in history went out of their way to hide from everyone. In this case, we're encouraged by the fact that those scratch marks apparently indicate this was likely some tomfoolery. For some more gold from the world of Tumblr, check out this Tumblr post about how spiders rule the world's cranberry bogs.

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Text - O stephrc79 So l'm staying at a friend's house in Boston And in their guest room is a door.

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Property - And my first thought was closet. Just an ordinary, tiny, New England closet. But no!

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Black - There are STAIRS in that closet! Now where do those stairs go, you may ask?

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Stairs - Up to the blaek void attic of course. But you know, it doesn't seem to end there.

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Dead bolt - Because for reasons no one seems to know, this door deadbolts from inside. There's nothing but-a-blaek void up there. Why must it lock on that side of it??? Of course, it was then that I spotted something else.

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Door handle - Why yes, those ARE scratch marks on the inside of the door. Which, one might think dog because they're so low on the door (only a third of the way up).

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Technology - But you know, this wouldn't be fun if that was all there was. That deadbolt has scratches all around it too.

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Property - Funzies! Because guess what.

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Text - That deadbolt is five feet off the ground. And there is no dog in this house tall enough to reach it. Pretty sure I just entered a horror film. teratomarty Gotta love Boston architecture. Source: stephrc79

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Patient Physics Professor Calmly Dismantles Flat Earthers


The flat earthers really have their work cut out for them on this one. Sometimes you've got to meet the irrationality of this world with a hearty serving of cold, hard facts. This physics professor certainly brought his A game. 

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Text - Let's say I don't believe the world is round. How can one prove the world is round to me? Pedro Teles, PhD Physics, University of Porto (2007) Updated Wed Buy a ticket to Paris. Say you arrive at Charles de Gaulle airport. Take the RER B to Gare du Nord. At Gare du Nord, switch from the RER to the metro and take line 4, direction Mairie de Montrouge. Get off at the station Réaumur- Sébastopol. You’ll now be on Boulevard Sébastopol, take a left (or a right, depending on where you exit) to

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Text - 自 LTE 29% 9:36 And... congratulations!! You've just arrived at the Musée des Arts et Métiers 2. Go inside (don't be afraid now), go to accueil, and buy yourself a ticket (8 euros). Ask the receptionist to tell you where the Foucault's pendulum z is - it's not the original one, that one is inside the Pantheón, but this way you’ll get the chance to visit the rest of the museum, which is great! 关

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Text - Now, how does this help? Because this pendulum was designed and built by Léon Foucault in 1851 precisely as an easy-to-build proof of Earth's rotation along its axis! It's a basic concept - the pendulum is long enough to observe the Earth's rotation along its axis 2, and the Coriolis effect z. So go there, sit, and observe the pendulum as it swings back and forth. After a few minutes you will notice that the swing of the pendulum has rotated clockwise!!!! (yep! You upvoted this Upvote 1.9

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Text - pendulum has rotated clockwise!!!! (yep! Notice the marks on the floor around it!). If you wait long enough, and if the security guards allow you to do it, stay there for a bit longer than one day (around 1 day and 7 hours, as Paris is at a latitude of about 49 degrees north of the equator (see below), and you'll see the pendulum undergo a full rotation (360 degrees). While you're waiting, make sure to read the above links, and try to understand what is at stake.. Was this enough??

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Text - Ok, ok, so maybe you're still sceptical. Everything is rigged and it's all a conspiracy... ok then, do this - go back to your hotel, and get some well-deserved sleep. Before you fall asleep though, make sure you book a flight to Oslo, Norway. From there contact this company 2. They will take you to the North pole. On the North pole you will need to reproduce the same experiment as the one You upvoted this Upvote 1.9k 00

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Text - company 2. They will take you to the North pole. On the North pole you will need to reproduce the same experiment as the one you've just seen in Paris, so warn the organizers that you need to do just that. It won’t be easy of course, but it’s not impossible either! You want your proof so you have to work a bit to have it, right? So, mount your experiment, and after you do so, observe the pendulum again rotating clockwise on and on about its axis. Measure the time it takes for it to underg

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Text - But don't lose your stamina because we are not done yet. Get a good night sleep again, but before that remember to book yet another flight, this time to São Tomé and Principe, an archipelago near the Equator. O You upvoted this

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Text - flight, this time to São Tomé and Principe, an archipelago near the Equator. Arrive in São Tomé, and ask someone to take you to where the Equator line goes through. Again find a way to reproduce Foucault's experiment. this will probably prove to be the most difficult part of this whole experiment, but hey, you're the one asking for proof!! Now after you finish installing your Foucault's pendulum in São Tomé, observe the pendulum again. This time, the pendulum will not rotate along its swi

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Text - How is this possible??????? What have we observed here? In fact, because we live in a spheroid which is rotating along an axis, the Coriolis force will affect the movement of the pendulum, and is responsible for the rotations you’ve just

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Text - witnessed. This force is dependent on latitude, and so the angular speed at which you will observe the rotation obeys the following law: w = 360° * sin($)/1day where that angle there () is latitude. This explains why full rotation of Foucault's pendulum you observed in Paris took longer than a day, exactly one day at the North pole, and zero at the equator.

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Text - Now there - you've just witnessed in full, the effect of the Earth's rotation about its axis, and proved that the Earth is round (spheroid) and that we dwell on its surface! Congrats! PS: For extra-credits, ask yourself the question: what happens in the South pole? You upvoted this Upvote 1.9k 00

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People's Most Intense Petty Grudges


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about people's most intense petty grudges. We've all crossed paths with someone at one point or another that just managed to get under our skin like none other. Even reading through these is enough to get some secondhand frustration going. 

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Text - I hadn't been home all day, just got off work and was just burnt out. My roommate invited two friends over to hang out and drink some wine in the kitchen which was in the same area as the living room (open floor plan). I didn't wanna join so said I was just gonna relax with my dinner and watch my show - we are both fine with this plan. Anyways, I'm sitting there watching my show (at a normal volume) minding my own business and one of her friends starts complaining about "the atmosphere no

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Text - InannasPocket • 1d In 8th grade, Ashley stole my really nice lipstick that l'd saved up for. And the color didn't even look good on her. I'm 36 and it still pisses me off. Reply 1.3k ...

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Text - Mahershalalhashbazz • 1d One of my school principals told a pupil in my class to write down everything questionable that I said/did over the course of a month and submit it to her without my knowledge. The snitch submitted her letter and the teacher straight away mailed it to my mom and dad. Thankfully they saw the absurdity of what she was doing and WENT TO TOWN on the school for bullying pupils. Still makes me boil thinking about it to this day. Reply 1 675

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Text - GorillaSOup • 1d While buying a new mattress I got convinced by the salesman to also get a tempur-pedic pillow for $100. I want my $100 back. Reply 290 ...

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Text - FriendlySlytherin • 1d The fucking Mexican restaurant that gave me sliced avocados on cinco de mayo and called it guacamole. I brought it back (it was a to go order) and they just gave it a few smashes with a fork or something and gave it back. No tomatoes, onions, cilantro, salt, nothing. I just got half-assed mashed avocados and chips and they charged me like $8. This was six months ago and l'm still mad. Reply 351 ...

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Text - TheChosenOne_72 • 1d That one of my favorite characters in a book died. Didn't even finish the series. Just set it down and walked away forever. Reply 328 ...

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Text - ChxXxrliee • 1d When I was 10 years old doing homework, I wanted to look something up on my laptop but it fucken froze, so I closed it and for some shiddy reason my mom came in exactly at that moment, as if she was listening through my door. She thought I was hiding that I am playing games or sum. I kept telling her it was for homework, even showed her I was almost done. She wouldn't believe me. Reply 97 ...

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Text - Cilveus • 1d Raised my hand in class, teacher says "oh l've heard about you ". She basically told me that all the teachers talk about me on their break. 17 year old me was pissed about the immaturity of my teachers. Reply 394 ...

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Text - HerbertKroopen • 1d 1 Award In line at a wedding dinner. Lady in front of me was talking to the lady behind me in line. After 3 minutes of being awkward guy in between them, I said "here, l'll just trade you spots" and let the lady behind me go in front. That bitch took the last deviled egg. This was in 1987. Reply 681 ...

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Text - pleenis • 1d My cat got out and "ran away". During a fight with my ex he said it was because I was a shitty catmom. Lmao that was years ago but I sill wish him misfortune for saying such a stupid thing. Reply 193 ...

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Text - retro_rockets • 1d When I was 9 we had swim class and I was a very good swimmer for my age. To pass the final test we had to do some swimming underwater. I misheard what we had to do and did it wrong, I also went first so no one to compare it too. The swim teacher fails me and does not let me do it again. However the poor swimmers who were physically unable to do it got to retake it. I should mention that the swim teacher was a woman and everyone who was allowed more than one try was a gi

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Text - romantanon • 1d 1 Award In high school I had a prom Limo set up with people I considered good friends. They kicked me out because i was adamantly against drinking (still am). I didnt care if they drank, I just didnt want to.I didnt go to prom at all after they silently started ghosting me. Reply 191 ...

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Text - ShiroYuiZero • 1d I lent my copy or Street Fighter 2 on Gameboy to this dude in exchange for Pokémon Red, he lost SF2 so I kept his game but it still pisses me off. Reply 51 ...

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Text - Chummycunt • 1d 16 years ago they replaced the rapeseed oil with olive oil in my favorite brand of butter. I haven't bought it since and it still pisses me off! Reply 86 ...

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Text - Layless_the_elf • 1d Someone told me they thought I was attractive because I look like Ed Sheeran. A second someone told me Ed Sheeran was better looking than me. Now, I don't think I'm God's gift to your retinas, but I neither look like that butt gnome, nor look worse than that butt gnome. I look like Rupert Grint's and Matt Mercer's love child not Ed pubic beard Sheeran. Reply 204 ...

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Text - 2021dontsuckpls • 1d When I was in elementary school I was a super calm person so the teacher who fun fact was the father's ex of my sis put me next to one of the most turbulent boys...i already knew he was annoying but for the next 6 months this guy was degrading me every freaking second with mean comments and people around were encouraging him (even some of my « friends ») yuckk like one time he showed the cover of a book he was reading which was like a siren and told me I would never b

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Text - DarthMurdok • 1d I lost Judys phone number in college. I still think about Judy and what would have happened if I called her. Judy if you're out there I honestly lost your number because l'm dumb. Reply 326 ...

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Text - mintyyapi • 1d 6 years ago my dad gave away my xbox to a random relative we weren't even close to. He said my brother and I have 2 xboxes and we can learn how to share. Eventhough we bought each one with our own money and he had xbox 1 and I xbox 360. (My dad is a really good guy, but this still pisses me off)

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Diver Has Crazy Encounter With Huge Anaconda


The snake literally didn't care. Completely unfazed. 

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Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Blind Comedian Tells Story Of Time He Thought Neighbor Ignored Him


What a hilarious tale from start to finish. 

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Kayakers Briefly Swallowed By Whale


Now that's a once in a lifetime kind of experience right there. Yikes. Can't even imagine what must've been going through those poor kayakers' heads when they were momentarily chilling in the whale's mouth. 

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The Time a Florida University Developed a $430,000 Abstinence Game


The year was 2010. Motion capture technology was all the rage, and someone at the The Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida had a great idea. Why not use rapidly obsolete-looking technology to design a simulation-style game for middle-school girls? And the goal of that game? To promote abstinence, baby. It's hard to find anything about it, so the project may easily have been scraped, but we wish there was a playable copy somewhere. Honestly it's really hard to tell if times ever change or everything is the same forever.

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Manager Tries To Embarrass Employee, Proceeds To Self Destruct


The fact that this manager ended up quitting after unsuccessfully trying to humiliate an employee, is the real icing on the cake. It's a true mystery how some of these incompetent managers end up being in the positions of power that they are. At least this particular manager was ultimately defeated. 

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Text - r/ProRevenge + JOIN u/Darigone • 5h Total Humiliation Was told I should post this here [TL:DR] Manager used my report in a meeting to' set an example." Only for the manager to be humiliated by the same report. I work in security and have been for years. A common practice is to complete a report of what happened during your time. I specifically work in patrols. Basically you go from location to location checking on each site.

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Text - After each site you write what you did at the location. I have 40 sites to watch over every night. For this reason things tend to get very copy paste. Most locations require the same thing. Check exterior, checking stairs doors damage, you get the point. I got a new manager who is disconnected with how patrols work. He want us to make unique entries into every single log.

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Text - When I mean unique I mean none can be close to similar. So if I state I patrolled the exterior of the building. I can't use that phrase for any of the other logs. You can see how that could cause me a lot of problems, and is a massive time waster. After about a week of being borderline harassed, and threatened to make each log 100% unique or else. Let's see about that.

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Text - We have so much to look after we have thick binders giving detailed information for each site, and what's required of you. “Site orders." Every time I would complete a site I just copy pasted all the information into the log. Each log has a small window that you could put 50 words into before it becomes overwhelming to read. Each log I posted had no less than 500 words directly from the “Site Orders." After my first day doing this. I expected to walk in, and get yelled at. However nothing

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Text - 2 months latter, and still no one says anything not a word. We have quarterly meetings to talk about accidents how the patrol group is doing. What's going wrong and what's good. Que the manager the first thing he brings up is the logs, and how almost everyone is failing. How we all should know better. “Your not kids I shouldn't be holding your hands, the only adult in here besides me is OP."

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Text - I look up at him, and his smile was almost disturbing. He then shows a log I wrote up. He begins to talk about how everyone should be like me. How no one deserved to work here but me. The looks I was getting from everyone was brutal. He talked for about 20 min constantly using my name. He would of kept going, but I interrupted him. I asked why he called me out, and how inappropriate it was for him to do so. He looked at me and said “Only children interrupt someone when they are talking."

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Text - I then turned to the group. Telling them that T have been copy pasting my report for the last 2 months. I told them that I just copy pasted the "Site orders." Over and over again, The managers face started getting real red. He after all wanted us to make unique logs. He started to scramble a bit as he pulled up other logs of mine. Only to show that everything I said was true. After that the whole group jumped on him. Many had been screamed at for the exact thing I had been doing. It was b

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Tumblr Thread: Spiders Rule The Cranberry Bogs


Just in case you were considering starting up with a gig at a cranberry bog, this post might make you reconsider that particular life route. Or, maybe you're one of those people who aren't scared one bit by the prospect of wading around cranberry bogs with armies of wolf spiders encircling you. 

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Text - dombinic why do they always show cranberries in thos big pits n its implied its wet and possibly swimmable. do cranberries really grow like that. wh thetaobella You've never heard of The Bog? heartachedreamboy th the what heartachedreamboy #i forget some people dont understand massachusetts

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Water - EACH ADDITION TO THIS POST MAKES MY BLOOD RUN COLD punkrorschach This is a cranberry bog (unflooded) it's how cranberries grow. Once they're ripe, the blog is flooded and the cranberries harvested.

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Water resources - Basically by using big floaty things to round them all up and then scooping them out of the water. heartachedreamboy thank u. i hate it a little less but the horrible little man in my head is still screaming "BOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODY", but i appreciate the education,

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Text - bomberqueen17 oh here is a fun lil perspective on cranberry harvesting i never heard about anywhere else. the guy who owns the restaurant right down the road from the farm, who fries our chickens sometimes, is from Boston, with the strongest Boston accent ever, and in a former life before he started slinging reasonably priced barbeque and occasional organic chicken, he was a cranberry farmer. His farm was on the leading edge of kinda using organic/sustainable pest control methods, and one

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Text - Well when you're in the bog in hip waders, that makes you the tallest thing. Wolf spiders can swim a bit, but they don't like it, so they're, quite understandably, looking to climb out of the water onto a tall thing. So yeah the first interview question he always asked potential cranberry bog harvester hires was "are you cool with spiders?" "You'd be amazed," he said to us, shaking his head a little, "how many guys would just straight lie. Like, you think I'm asking you that question to b

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