Today I Learned...

[gen3v8]

Nurse Ratched

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by spcmafia

TIL that the Japanese national tax agency is urging younger generations to drink more.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62585809

lol.

another one, but slightly more local/real. brushing pretty close to politics, but the survey results really interest me.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/11179...npr-poll-finds


TIL that:

Republicans were also more likely to endorse rhetoric that echoes the so-called "replacement theory" — the false conspiracy theory that Jews or elites are deliberately replacing white Americans with immigrants and people of color. More than a third of all poll respondents agree that "native-born Americans are being systematically replaced by immigrants" — including more than half of Republicans.

i wasn't aware of this conspiracy theory... it's so crazy, i can't help but wonder the origins... so many questions... if people are getting replaced, where are they going?!? is someone's husband "Bill" white one day, and the next, still named "Bill" but dark skinned, speaks better spanish than english, and wears a sombrero white "Bill" never owned while mowing the lawn? do the neighbors not notice?

[Captain Snooze]

Originally Posted by gen3v8

Nurse Ratched

I thought the movie was a pretty good take on the book but I rate the book above the movie. There were descriptions in the book that couldn't be replicated on screen.

"Twists a knob and the whole floor goes to to slipping down away from him standing in the door, lowering into the building like a platform in a grain elevator.
Not a thing but the dorm floor moves, and we're sliding away from the walls and door and the windows of the ward at a hell of a clip-beds, bedstands, and all. The machinery - probably a cog-and-track affair at each corner of the shaft - is greased silent as death."

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by soundman98

lol.

another one, but slightly more local/real. brushing pretty close to politics, but the survey results really interest me.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/11179...npr-poll-finds


TIL that:


i wasn't aware of this conspiracy theory... it's so crazy, i can't help but wonder the origins... so many questions... if people are getting replaced, where are they going?!? is someone's husband "Bill" white one day, and the next, still named "Bill" but dark skinned, speaks better spanish than english, and wears a sombrero white "Bill" never owned while mowing the lawn? do the neighbors not notice?

Ask him.

[spcmafia]

Originally Posted by soundman98

lol.

another one, but slightly more local/real. brushing pretty close to politics, but the survey results really interest me.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/11179...npr-poll-finds

Soon we'll have to give back TX, CA, and FL, though it wouldn't be much of a loss.

[Wally86]

Originally Posted by spcmafia

Soon we'll have to give back TX, CA, and FL, though it wouldn't be much of a loss.

You're obviously not a universal studios fan

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by soundman98

lol.


i wasn't aware of this conspiracy theory... it's so crazy, i can't help but wonder the origins... so many questions... if people are getting replaced, where are they going?!? is someone's husband "Bill" white one day, and the next, still named "Bill" but dark skinned, speaks better spanish than english, and wears a sombrero white "Bill" never owned while mowing the lawn? do the neighbors not notice?

[spcmafia]

Originally Posted by Wally86

You're obviously not a universal studios fan

I'd be surrounded with better food and drinks if you think about it. Still wouldn't go. Im more of a beach/national park type of person.

[Wally86]

Originally Posted by spcmafia

I'd be surrounded with better food and drinks if you think about it. Still wouldn't go. Im more of a beach/national park type of person.

Hard pass on beaches and most national parks that I've been to. Different strokes. I need harry potter world and butterbeer though

[spcmafia]

Originally Posted by Wally86

Hard pass on beaches and most national parks that I've been to. Different strokes. I need harry potter world and butterbeer though

I live in NE, witches and magic are part of our history. Plus there is an official Harry Potter store in NYC which is about 2 hour train ride. That would suffice for me. Don't get to go Diagon Alley tho.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Wally86

Hard pass on beaches and most national parks that I've been to. Different strokes. I need harry potter world and butterbeer though

Why only one? The Hawk family does both. Beaches and amusement parks pretty much defines the vacation experience for us.

[Wally86]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Why only one? The Hawk family does both. Beaches and amusement parks pretty much defines the vacation experience for us.

Personal preference. I'm a family of one so I don't have to balance other weirdo beach desires

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Ask him.

the trail of tears would like a word

Originally Posted by spcmafia

Soon we'll have to give back TX, CA, and FL, though it wouldn't be much of a loss.

i thought CA was going to become an island?

TX we'd lose oil fields, but i wouldn't miss the people..

FL, well, that's just FL.

Originally Posted by Tcoat

ohh, i forgot about that movie. anyone want to put odds on it being the beginning point for this entire theory?!?

[Captain Snooze]

Originally Posted by Wally86

Different strokes.

Freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly.
Ischemic, hemorrhagic.
Left hand, right hand.