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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting: We have a less picturesque version of that, burning since you were in middle school. Have you been there? I have. Probably the closest you can get to what Hell smells like. When I was there, there was a decent layer of snow on the ground. ...Except for the patches where the sulfur was heating up the ground, which was about half the town. That was bare. 
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Of the top 20 cities by population I have only been to NY. And for some reason I don't care if I never see the other 19. Cairo or Istanbul might be interesting. That makes me wonder how many of the 20 have been featured in a James Bond film. 
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting: We have a less picturesque version of that, burning since you were in middle school. Have you been there? I have. Probably the closest you can get to what Hell smells like. When I was there, there was a decent layer of snow on the ground. ...Except for the patches where the sulfur was heating up the ground, which was about half the town. That was bare. @Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting: @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting: We have a less picturesque version of that, burning since you were in middle school. Have you been there? I have. Probably the closest you can get to what Hell smells like. You should try visiting Widnes. 
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Idiot, imbecile, and moron were, not so long ago, used in a psychological classification system, and each one was assigned to a fairly specific range of abilities. Idiots. —Those so defective that the mental development never exceeds that or a normal child of about two years. 
 Imbeciles. —Those whose development is higher than that of an idiot, but whose intelligence does not exceed that of a normal child of about seven years.
 Morons. —Those whose mental development is above that of an imbecile, but does not exceed that of a normal child of about twelve years.
 — Edmund Burke Huey, Backward and Feeble-Minded Children, 1912@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting: Idiot, imbecile, and moron were, not so long ago, used in a psychological classification system, and each one was assigned to a fairly specific range of abilities. Idiots. —Those so defective that the mental development never exceeds that or a normal child of about two years. 
 Imbeciles. —Those whose development is higher than that of an idiot, but whose intelligence does not exceed that of a normal child of about seven years.
 Morons. —Those whose mental development is above that of an imbecile, but does not exceed that of a normal child of about twelve years.
 — Edmund Burke Huey, Backward and Feeble-Minded Children, 1912If only Larry were alive to make a comment about liberals... 
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After the Big Bang there were all these hydrogen atoms everywhere and 13.8 billion years later some of them are majestic nebulas and others have turned into Cheez-Its. 
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After the Big Bang there were all these hydrogen atoms everywhere and 13.8 billion years later some of them are majestic nebulas and others have turned into Cheez-Its. @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting: After the Big Bang there were all these hydrogen atoms everywhere and 13.8 billion years later some of them are majestic nebulas and others have turned into Cheez-Its. If you don't think Cheez-Its are magnificent then I can't help you with anything. 
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 Elusive glass octopus spotted in the remote Pacific Ocean Only its eyes, optic nerve and digestive tract are opaque. This rarely seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean. More details/photos https://bit.ly/3C0rFdc 
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 Elusive glass octopus spotted in the remote Pacific Ocean Only its eyes, optic nerve and digestive tract are opaque. This rarely seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean. More details/photos https://bit.ly/3C0rFdc 
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting: After the Big Bang there were all these hydrogen atoms everywhere and 13.8 billion years later some of them are majestic nebulas and others have turned into Cheez-Its. If you don't think Cheez-Its are magnificent then I can't help you with anything. @Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting: If you don't think Cheez-Its are magnificent then I can't help you with anything. And to prove that Cheez-Its have elusive mystical power over all of us that defies understanding, at the very moment I was reading Jon's post, I was eating -- yes! Cheez-Its. From a box I'd only opened when I opened this thread. 










