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  1. 1 hour ago, texasdago said:

     My wife learned the hard way in the late 90s to not order a cappuccino in the evening.  At a minimum, you're getting a very dirty look.

    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

  2. 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.

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  3. Just now, Red Five said:

    It’s going to be hilarious when he doesn’t go to that.

    Judge called his bluff.  Nobody is madder about this than Trump, except possibly Barron. (what a fucking stupid name)

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  4. 9 hours ago, Born to Run said:

    It's crazy all the career ending shit that Trump just stumbles through and it's considered NBD. Gary Hart, Howard Dean, Al Fraken, comedian, with an I'll advised tittie honk. Toast; career over. Trump- polls improve . Nutso.

    I read something about that guy somewhere...

    Spoiler

    RIP  Compleat Angler 

    also nsfw

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  5. 14 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Pearl Jam's staying power, IMO, is how much they embraced classic rock.  It might have made them uncool to the punk kids in '93, but there's enduring qualities to that music that spans generations.

    I can assure you, very few people in '93 thought Pearl Jam was "uncool"

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    Vs. was released on October 19, 1993.[1] The album sold 950,378 copies in its first five days of release, which set a record for the most copies of an album sold in its first week of release since SoundScan began tracking sales data in 1991, surpassing the record held by Use Your Illusion II by Guns N' Roses in 1991, and outperformed all other entries in the Billboard top ten that week combined.[1][23][24] Vs. held this record for five years before it was broken by Garth Brooks' 1998 album, Double Live. While Double Live officially beat Vs. in first week sales, Vs. still holds an unbreakable record in that SoundScan only counted the first five days of an album's release in its first week sales until 1998.[25] The album has been certified 7× platinum by the RIAA,[26] and, as of July 2013, has sold 7,400,000 copies in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan.[27]

     

    Also punk kids <> grunge kids

  6. 15 minutes ago, RPM said:

    You might try resting your foot on a golf ball frozen water bottle and rolling on it for as long as you can stand. Hurts like hell but stretches the tendon out and eventual relief after a few days.

     

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  7. 2 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    Already hearing reports of $25K dealer markup on new LCs. 

    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

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  8. 14 hours ago, Kennythetiger said:

    Our Shetland pony was a prick too. 

    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]

     

     

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  9. 7 hours ago, bolverk said:

    And they will continue to try to gaslight us about the nature of the protest.

     

    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.

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    1. the quality or fact of belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent.

    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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  10. 4 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

    but he doesn't and we know that dream sequence is just a hallucination b/c he sends mariko's rosary to the bottom of the lake with fuji. 

    Wondered about that...

    1 minute ago, F250 said:

    Nope, that was just a dream. He is never going to leave Japan.

    Really?  It's been a long long time since I read the book.

  11. 18 hours ago, gsoda3 said:
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    except for the dream sequence where he's with his grandkids.  i don't get what they were going for.  

     

    9 hours ago, F250 said:

    Yeah, I got that hence the WTF reaction. Up until that point all of his pawn sacrifices were wrapped up in Japanes duty and fate bullshit. It wasn't until that scene that he revealed he did it for the lulz.

    Toranaga: "I'm going to start chopping heads off to test Anjin. Also, Anjin doesn't serve any value but I find him amusing." Fucking psycho.

    It shows the audience that he in fact does leave Japan and Toranaga's velvet cage.

  12. 10 hours ago, naija said:

    that Death Poem wasn't winning many awards. lol.

     

    9 hours ago, Speedtrucker said:


    My wife and I had to pause it we busted out laughing so hard

    That was his best work yet!

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  13. 45 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    It should be pointed out that Pecker’s testimony isn’t just damaging to Trump. He is, in effect, laying waste to his own professional career by going through headline after headline and suggesting he attacked Trump’s rivals to aid Trump.

     

    Pffft ... Tabloid exec?  

    I have more respect for McDonald's Fry cooks.

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