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  1. Yup drip coffee. It was on the menu and they had the machine. However, they had no intention of ever using it. Oh, I'm sure they talked shit about me, and that's ok.
  2. Tried to order filter coffee at 8am, which was on the menu at the Autogrill. The machine was sitting there unused behind the counter. They just looked so sad and disappointed, then mentioned it was a pain to clean. Then asked me if I wanted anything else because they weren't going to make the coffee. /csb
  3. Tutankhamun's knife was 'made from meteorite iron' A dagger entombed alongside the mummy of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun was made with iron that came from a meteorite, researchers say. The weapon was one of a pair of daggers discovered by British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1925 within the burial wrappings of the teenaged king. The origin of its unrusted iron blade has baffled scientists because such metalwork was rare in ancient Egypt. Tutankhamun was mummified more than 3,300 years ago. Italian and Egyptian researchers used "a non-invasive X-ray technique" to confirm the composition of the iron without damaging it, according to a study published in the journal of Meteoritics and Planetary Science. "Meteoritic iron is clearly indicated by the presence of a high percentage of nickel," the study's main author, Daniela Comelli, said. The researchers say the presence of iron - along with levels of nickel and cobalt - "strongly suggests an extraterrestrial origin". They compared the composition of the dagger to known meteorites within 2,000km around the Red Sea coast of Egypt, and found that one in particular - which landed 150 miles (240km) west of Alexandria - contained similar levels of nickel and cobalt. Ancient Egyptians attached great significance to meteoritic iron for the production of fine ornamental or ceremonial objects, the researchers say. "They were aware that these rare chunks of iron fell from the sky already in the 13th [Century] BCE, anticipating Western culture by more than two millennia," they write in their findings. The high manufacturing quality of the blade in comparison with other simple-shaped meteoritic iron artefacts "suggests a significant mastery of ironworking in Tutankhamun's time", they say. The dagger - which features a decorated gold handle and a gold sheath with a floral lily motif on one side and a feather pattern on the other - is now on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
  4. Judge called his bluff. Nobody is madder about this than Trump, except possibly Barron. (what a fucking stupid name)
  5. I read something about that guy somewhere...
  6. locodos

    Pearl Jam

    I can assure you, very few people in '93 thought Pearl Jam was "uncool" Also punk kids <> grunge kids
  7. It doesn't hold up... but this is still on of my favs. You must fight the bear
  8. Unless you're in hurry I'd give it another year or so. Never buy first year production. What's the old saying the pioneers get the arrows. That combined with a collapsing car market, you could end up with a better ride and a much better deal. Just my .02
  9. Settle down there Henry VIII The Breed of Horses Act 1535 and the Horses Act 1540 The Breed of Horses Act 1535 (27 Hen. 8. c. 6) mentions a marked decay in the quality of the breed, the cause it is claimed that "in most places of this Realme little horsis and naggis of small stature and valeu be suffered to depasture and also to covour marys and felys of very small stature".[1] The statute thus required each owner of enclosed deer-parks to possess a minimum of two mares whose height was to be above thirteen hands high in order for them to be bred with horses of no shorter than fourteen hands high. The Horses Act 1540 (32 Hen. 8. c. 13) ordered that no stallion under 15 hands (60 inches, 152 cm) and no mare under 13 hands (52 inches, 132 cm) was permitted to run out on common land, or to run wild, and no two-year-old colt under 11.2 hands (46 inches, 117 cm) was allowed to run out in any area with mares. Annual round-ups of the commons were enforced, and any stallion under the height limit was ordered to be destroyed, along with "all unlikely tits whether mares or foals."[2]
  10. Their religious what now? I looked up ethnicity and, sure enough, although that is a strange and alarming turn of phrase, by definition it's correct. Of course, the most troubling aspect of this is that now, I am perhaps ethnically Surly. I don't know how I feel about that.
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