Mildly interesting
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wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 03:29 last edited by
You forgot tonic.
That was big where I grew up.
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wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 13:07 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
A good trend.
The second image should dip down well below Pittsburgh and possibly into Western Maryland. @Aqua-Letifer can answer if that’s the case.
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wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 13:10 last edited by
Sorry Boomer you lose. Grab your tiki torch and scream ‘soda will not replace pop’ all you want. Resistance is futile.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
American battleship USS Indiana (BB-58) arrives home after the war. Taken from the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Bay, on 29 September 1945.
Man, how would you like to have to pilot one of those Kingfishers? That plane catapult does not look very long… That’s 0-60 in what? 60’? That looks rougher than taking off in a fighter on a nice long 700’ runway…
I assume they landed on the water and were hoisted back onto the catapults?
wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 15:55 last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in Mildly interesting:
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
American battleship USS Indiana (BB-58) arrives home after the war. Taken from the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Bay, on 29 September 1945.
Man, how would you like to have to pilot one of those Kingfishers? That plane catapult does not look very long… That’s 0-60 in what? 60’? That looks rougher than taking off in a fighter on a nice long 700’ runway…
I assume they landed on the water and were hoisted back onto the catapults?
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1990/january/battleship-floatplanes
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@LuFins-Dad said in Mildly interesting:
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
American battleship USS Indiana (BB-58) arrives home after the war. Taken from the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Bay, on 29 September 1945.
Man, how would you like to have to pilot one of those Kingfishers? That plane catapult does not look very long… That’s 0-60 in what? 60’? That looks rougher than taking off in a fighter on a nice long 700’ runway…
I assume they landed on the water and were hoisted back onto the catapults?
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1990/january/battleship-floatplanes
wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 18:05 last edited by@bachophile said in Mildly interesting:
@LuFins-Dad said in Mildly interesting:
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
American battleship USS Indiana (BB-58) arrives home after the war. Taken from the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Bay, on 29 September 1945.
Man, how would you like to have to pilot one of those Kingfishers? That plane catapult does not look very long… That’s 0-60 in what? 60’? That looks rougher than taking off in a fighter on a nice long 700’ runway…
I assume they landed on the water and were hoisted back onto the catapults?
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1990/january/battleship-floatplanes
Thank you, @bachophile !
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wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 20:39 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
A good trend.
I’m sorry I’m being a nuisance but I don’t get it. Is the map what your preferred drink is? or what you call a fizzy drink?
Pop is a meaningless term pertaining to nothing. Soda is sparkling water. And coke is coke. I call sparkling water soda ( no I don’t call it seltzer) and I call coke coke unless for some reason I’m drinking Pepsi. I never drink just cola. No such animal. Like pop. Anyone who says pop here, go drink by yourself.
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wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 20:54 last edited by
"Soda" and "Pop" are generic terms for a carbonated (usually flavored) drink.
"Coke" is Coca-Cola.
And then there are those who say "Soda-Pop."
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wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 22:01 last edited by
Yeah, and if you don't know the vast superiority of Coke over Pepsi, well, we just can't be friends.
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Yeah, and if you don't know the vast superiority of Coke over Pepsi, well, we just can't be friends.
wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 22:34 last edited by@Mik said in Mildly interesting:
Yeah, and if you don't know the vast superiority of Coke over Pepsi, well, we just can't be friends.
Not sure about "superiority," but I do prefer Coke.
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wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 22:44 last edited by
Only Coke with real sugar please.
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wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 22:47 last edited by Mik
Zero sugar. Tastes a lot more like the REAL Coke you mention. Delicious stuff, the real thing.
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Zero sugar. Tastes a lot more like the REAL Coke you mention. Delicious stuff, the real thing.
wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 23:12 last edited by@Mik said in Mildly interesting:
Zero sugar. Tastes a lot more like the REAL Coke you mention
No sweetener?
I drink about a liter and a half of carbonated water (SodaStream) a day.
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wrote on 4 Jan 2025, 13:37 last edited by
David Attenborough: Pufferfish release a toxin when they puff out that is meant to impair the attacker, so they can safely escape. Ironically, this doesn’t work on dolphins in the same way.. it actually gets them high. So they purposely inflate them and pass them around to their dolphin friends for fun.
Here's more:
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wrote on 4 Jan 2025, 13:42 last edited by
Don’t bogart that puffer, dude…
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wrote on 4 Jan 2025, 13:44 last edited by
@Copper said in Mildly interesting:
Only Coke with real sugar please.
Mexican Coke… Made with cane sugar, and served in the traditional glass bottles that fit perfectly in the hand…
When I was younger, I was used to Pepsi and it was the favorite in our house, but these days it’s too sweet.
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wrote on 4 Jan 2025, 15:33 last edited by
I will never forgive Coca Cola or give them any money unless some social situation requires it. The cost of that is low for me as I’m not generally a soda drinker.
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I will never forgive Coca Cola or give them any money unless some social situation requires it. The cost of that is low for me as I’m not generally a soda drinker.
wrote on 4 Jan 2025, 16:47 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
I will never forgive Coca Cola or give them any money unless some social situation requires it. The cost of that is low for me as I’m not generally a soda drinker.
Forgive? Is that over the whole new Coke thing?
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
I will never forgive Coca Cola or give them any money unless some social situation requires it. The cost of that is low for me as I’m not generally a soda drinker.
Forgive? Is that over the whole new Coke thing?
wrote on 4 Jan 2025, 16:59 last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in Mildly interesting:
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
I will never forgive Coca Cola or give them any money unless some social situation requires it. The cost of that is low for me as I’m not generally a soda drinker.
Forgive? Is that over the whole new Coke thing?
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wrote on 4 Jan 2025, 17:03 last edited by
I get it. But I occasionally (like when I'm having Skyline) crave a Coke Zero or a Minute Maid Zero Sugar lemonade.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Mildly interesting:
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
I will never forgive Coca Cola or give them any money unless some social situation requires it. The cost of that is low for me as I’m not generally a soda drinker.
Forgive? Is that over the whole new Coke thing?
wrote on 4 Jan 2025, 19:43 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
@LuFins-Dad said in Mildly interesting:
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
I will never forgive Coca Cola or give them any money unless some social situation requires it. The cost of that is low for me as I’m not generally a soda drinker.
Forgive? Is that over the whole new Coke thing?
It sounds like Dismaland, except for real.