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  • George KG Offline
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    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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      • MikM Away
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        On FB today someone childishly insulted my favorite Italian restaurant. In my pique I looked for how to say asshole in Italian. Lo and behold, I found a cornucopia of Italian swear phrases!

        https://talkinitalian.com/italian-curse-words/

        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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        • MikM Mik

          On FB today someone childishly insulted my favorite Italian restaurant. In my pique I looked for how to say asshole in Italian. Lo and behold, I found a cornucopia of Italian swear phrases!

          https://talkinitalian.com/italian-curse-words/

          George KG Offline
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          @Mik said in Mildly interesting:

          On FB today someone childishly insulted my favorite Italian restaurant. In my pique I looked for how to say asshole in Italian. Lo and behold, I found a cornucopia of Italian swear phrases!

          https://talkinitalian.com/italian-curse-words/

          When I left the U, one of the CRNAs gave me a book on how to swear in almost any language. I found it useful when I started working with more surgeons who were trained overseas.

          Screenshot 2025-01-23 at 6.32.54 PM.png

          Bin Sharmuta!

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          • George KG George K

            @Mik said in Mildly interesting:

            On FB today someone childishly insulted my favorite Italian restaurant. In my pique I looked for how to say asshole in Italian. Lo and behold, I found a cornucopia of Italian swear phrases!

            https://talkinitalian.com/italian-curse-words/

            When I left the U, one of the CRNAs gave me a book on how to swear in almost any language. I found it useful when I started working with more surgeons who were trained overseas.

            Screenshot 2025-01-23 at 6.32.54 PM.png

            Bin Sharmuta!

            MikM Away
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            Mik
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            @George-K 😆😆😆

            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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              This Is Believed To Be The Earliest Photograph Of NYC. Taken At Broadway Between Franklin And Leonard Streets, May 1850 ( NY Archives)

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              Only non-witches get due process.

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                Kareem Abdul Jabbar at 16.

                It doesn’t say but he looks like he’s already 6’7”.

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                Only non-witches get due process.

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                  This Is Believed To Be The Earliest Photograph Of NYC. Taken At Broadway Between Franklin And Leonard Streets, May 1850 ( NY Archives)

                  IMG_2547.jpeg

                  George KG Offline
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                  @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                  This Is Believed To Be The Earliest Photograph Of NYC. Taken At Broadway Between Franklin And Leonard Streets, May 1850 ( NY Archives)

                  Notice there are no or few people?

                  I remember reading an article about an old photo in Paris. In midday, there was not a person to be seen.

                  The explanation was that the exposure time on the photograph was so long that when people moved in the street, they essentially disappeared and were not captured on the plate.

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                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                    From a Nate Silver newsletter.

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                    Somewhat surprised by the magnitude of the blip around the Rodney King incident and subsequent riots. But then again I was living in Mexico and the internet wasn’t really part of our lives back then.

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                    @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                    From a Nate Silver newsletter.

                    IMG_2461.png

                    Somewhat surprised by the magnitude of the blip around the Rodney King incident and subsequent riots. But then again I was living in Mexico and the internet wasn’t really part of our lives back then.

                    The OJ case compounded it.

                    The Brad

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                    • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                      This Is Believed To Be The Earliest Photograph Of NYC. Taken At Broadway Between Franklin And Leonard Streets, May 1850 ( NY Archives)

                      IMG_2547.jpeg

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                      @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                      This Is Believed To Be The Earliest Photograph Of NYC. Taken At Broadway Between Franklin And Leonard Streets, May 1850 ( NY Archives)

                      IMG_2547.jpeg

                      While we were in NY for the few days, I was really astonished at thinking about how much of it grew in such an unbelievably short time (just a few decades, really). I spent as much time looking at the older buildings as I did the modern skyscrapers. You could really see where they realized they couldn’t expand horizontally, and started going up…. I even loved the smaller shops and places on 36th where the stores were thin little retail shops with lofts…

                      The Brad

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                        @jon-nyc @George-K @LuFins-Dad

                        I love old photographs like that. I have this romantic notion of walking the streets of a town back then, but I am sure that the reality would be that the streets were dirty, dusty, stinky smelly, etc.

                        (As an aside, a movie I liked by Woody Allen was called Midnight in Paris,

                        "It's about a young man's great love for a city, Paris, and the illusion people have that a life different (and in an earlier time) from theirs would be much better."

                        Link to video

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                          There has never been a US president that has been an only child.

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                            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                              B2 Spirit and Peregrine Falcon.

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                              Only non-witches get due process.

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                                This is really cool.

                                Only non-witches get due process.

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                                  Mad skillz

                                  Only non-witches get due process.

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                                    I don’t know… Need @Aqua-Letifer s take…

                                    The Brad

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                                      "Nice shootin', Tex."

                                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                        Mik
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                                        Explains how humans got to Australia.

                                        https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/lost-continent-unlike-anything-found-today-discovered-off-the-coast-of-australia/ar-AA1y00nM

                                        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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