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@George-K said in Mildly interesting:
Did you know that the white and red stripes on a windsock are not for decoration?
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British nursing home
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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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28 x 13 = 364. What do you do with the extra day (plus of course the leap year day)?
Though it does seem as though the months are kind of messed up.
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Photo from early 1980's with Arnold Schwarzenegger, looking small standing between a US pro basketball player and Pro wrestling player
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My in ground fig tree is giving one last heroic effort to ripen all of its fruits. Once they start turning purple, it’s just a few days. Almost the whole tree full just started turning purple.
I’ve gotten about 20 figs from this tree over the summer. Now I’ll get 50 in the next week. Hopefully. If you charted figs vs time, it would look like the climate change hockey stick - not a pleasant thought, what with humanity’s fast approaching extinction due to climate change.
My other trees in pots were unproductive this year, stunted and immature. Much like Palestinians. Not a pleasant thought, what with humanity’s fast approaching extinction due to them.
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@taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting:
28 x 13 = 364. What do you do with the extra day (plus of course the leap year day)?
Though it does seem as though the months are kind of messed up.
https://www.inverse.com/article/41737-28-day-calendar
“The idea is simple. Each month has four, seven-day weeks, making a total of 28 days. There are 13 months in a year, totaling 364 days, with a new month in between June and July called “Sol” to mark the summer solstice. The leftover day is a special Year Day, with two such days every four years”
"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-K said in Mildly interesting:
@taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting:
28 x 13 = 364. What do you do with the extra day (plus of course the leap year day)?
Though it does seem as though the months are kind of messed up.
https://www.inverse.com/article/41737-28-day-calendar
“The idea is simple. Each month has four, seven-day weeks, making a total of 28 days. There are 13 months in a year, totaling 364 days, with a new month in between June and July called “Sol” to mark the summer solstice. The leftover day is a special Year Day, with two such days every four years”
It makes sense. I like the idea. Probably never happen, but I like it. (Interesting that Kodak used it as a company calendar)
From the article:
It may sound like a small detail to some, but don’t forget that Microsoft never released a version 13 of Office, and data from 2015 showed 574 Manhattan condos lack a 13th floor. Don’t underestimate the power of superstition.
That is mainly US based. In north Asia, the number 4 has a similar sound to death, so many floors of buildings don't have a 4th floor. It skips from 3 to 5.
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@taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting:
Don’t underestimate the power of superstition.
When I worked downtown, one of the hospital buildings didn't have a 13th floor. Since they rebuilt, the new ones do.
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@taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting:
It makes sense.
I hate to tell you this, but the orbital speed of the Earth is slowing.
This is just like Climate Change.
It is happening with or without Daylight Saving.
A year won't have 365 days forever.
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@Copper said in Mildly interesting:
A year won't have 365 days forever.
But I don't think we have to worry about it. That will be something for our new Robot masters to concern them.
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In traveling carnivals of yore, a ‘Geek’ was a guy who bit the heads off chickens. And swallowed them.
It’s always something.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
In traveling carnivals of yore, a ‘Geek’ was a guy who bit the heads off chickens. And swallowed them.
So not much has changed
