Fun fact:
The shitty Kars4Kids jingle TV commercial will be off the air for a little while, at least in California. The company got sued for not disclosing the received funds 'do not' benefit local communities, but rather mostly overseas communities.
ht tps://ww w.newser.co m/story/389238/judge-bans-kars4kids-ads-in-california.html
Somewhat related:
Macaco Tião ("Tião the Monkey") "ran" for mayor of Rio de Janeiro in 1988. 400,000 people wrote him onto the ballot. This was 12% of the votes and placed him third.
The slogan for the campaign (organized as a protest) was "Vote Monkey, Get Monkey". As opposed to our current system, which is usually "vote (whatever), get monkey".
Fun fact:
A pencil could win popular vote for Governor of Oregon.
ht tps://ww w.newser.co m/story/388902/a-real-candidate-to-write-in-about-a-pencil-runs-for-gov.html
Fun Fact:
This is a real website, although no new posts in 12 years.
catsthatlooklikehitler. com
Fun fact:
Even the bowling industry is not immune to class action suits.
ht tps://ww w.newser.co m/story/388713/bowlero-hit-with-suit-over-alleged-monopoly.html
[quote=Goodenuff][quote=windowShopping7][quote=Goodenuff]"Similar skirmishes happened in the U. S. Civil War, after that was formally ended in 1865."
FF: Thanks to the SLS "Reply to" button, skirmishes still occur in the Forum between SLS members who blocked other members.[/quote]Guilty as charged.[/quote]Most Forum participants are guilty. I know a punishment that will help alleviate your guilty feelings...
...assume the position.[/quote]You first ; )
[quote=windowShopping7][quote=Goodenuff]"Similar skirmishes happened in the U. S. Civil War, after that was formally ended in 1865."
FF: Thanks to the SLS "Reply to" button, skirmishes still occur in the Forum between SLS members who blocked other members.[/quote]Guilty as charged.[/quote]Most Forum participants are guilty. I know a punishment that will help alleviate your guilty feelings...
...assume the position.
[quote=Goodenuff]"Similar skirmishes happened in the U. S. Civil War, after that was formally ended in 1865."
FF: Thanks to the SLS "Reply to" button, skirmishes still occur in the Forum between SLS members who blocked other members.[/quote]Guilty as charged.
"Similar skirmishes happened in the U. S. Civil War, after that was formally ended in 1865."
FF: Thanks to the SLS "Reply to" button, skirmishes still occur in the Forum between SLS members who blocked other members.
[quote=vabeachcouple33]Fun Fact:
While World War 2 is generally accepted as ending with the formal surrender of Japan in August 1945, this wasn't the end of all of the sub-conflicts that World War 2 was composed of.
While most of these remained "wars" only on paper until formally ended through a treaty, one remains in place. Greece declared war on Albania in 1940 due to Italy's use of Albania to stage an invasion. While Albania formally ended their state of war with Greece in 1987, Greece never ended theirs, and to this day legally remains at war with Albania.[/quote]Similar skirmishes happened in the U. S. Civil War, after that was formally ended in 1865.
Fun Fact:
While World War 2 is generally accepted as ending with the formal surrender of Japan in August 1945, this wasn't the end of all of the sub-conflicts that World War 2 was composed of.
While most of these remained "wars" only on paper until formally ended through a treaty, one remains in place. Greece declared war on Albania in 1940 due to Italy's use of Albania to stage an invasion. While Albania formally ended their state of war with Greece in 1987, Greece never ended theirs, and to this day legally remains at war with Albania.
[quote=calcanfun2]Give him a Trump Camp response.
"This is an Open Forum. A beautiful forum. Here we talk about anything. Everything. Even the Civil War. Which was a beautiful war. And Congress. It's my Congress and they do good things. For me. Buttfucking. Some people like buttfucking. I don't. But some people do, and that's ok. I don't agree with buttfucking but I'm not opposed to the people who like the buttfucking. I only buttfuck Democrats. In a consensual way. You're gonna love it. Buttfucking is a beautiful thing. Just give it two weeks. They will be ready."[/quote]That is the funniest shit I've read all week.
"Trump might be diztantly"
What a crazy typo.
[quote=vabeachcouple33]Some may have heard this recent story that, depending on how one interprets some records, Trump might be diztantly related to King Charles. And when I say "distantly", we're talking 15 generations.
But the Fun Fact is: almost everyone of similar ethnicity (i.e. "European" or "African"). Is 15th cousin or better.
15 generations is 65,534 ancestors, assuming nobody enters the family tree more than once (there is one known instance of that in my family).
What are the chances that just any random white person shares at least one of my 65k ancestors? Truly excellent. Almost everyone here who isn't purely of a non-white ancestry is likely Charles' - and Trump's - and my - 15th cousin or better.
My maternal grandmother had some distant family connection to Mary of Teck (George VI's mother, Charles' great grandmother), which probably puts me somewhere also jn 15th cohsin land.
Buckingham Palace here I come.[/quote]You’d be another “Dirty Bertie.”
; )
Fun fact:
May 6th is National Nurse's Day.
So, if you are a nurse that reads this forum topic, thank you for what you do. For those that know a nurse, thank them for what they do.
[quote=mayhem8][quote=MelvinBoinkster]Fun fact... At one point or another, all of us have thought about this idea. Now, it is a reality. It could be in service within the next year. An air taxi!
htt ps://ww w.youtube.co m/watch?v=A5XiW551AsE[/quote]Dubai is very close to this already and China is already beyond the rollout stage.[/quote]I am thinking manual driven cars will be phased out over the coming decades and we will have only autonomous vehicles. The Tesla Cybercab just started production at Gigafactory Texas. It is radically different in many ways. This isn't just a new car. It's a new way of building cars.
• No steering wheel. No pedals. No side mirrors. Designed from scratch purely for autonomy — not retrofitted like every other "self-driving" car out there
• Built using Tesla's new "Unboxed Process" — front, rear, battery, and interior are all assembled simultaneously by robots, then snapped together. One car every 10 seconds at scale. Model Y takes 34 seconds. Let that sink in.
• Body uses 60% fewer parts than a Model Y. Smaller factory, lower cost, faster build. This is consumer electronics-style manufacturing applied to a car.
• Two Gigacastings — front and rear — replace hundreds of welded parts. Less weight, more strength, less complexity.
• Target price: around $25,000. For a fully autonomous vehicle.
• No paint shop needed. Color is injected directly into the plastic panels during molding. Lighter, cheaper, and easier to repair.
• Robotaxi service already running in Austin and now expanding to Dallas, Houston, Miami, Phoenix and Las Vegas in 2026.
Is it perfect yet? No. The software still has a long way to go and Waymo is ahead on actual autonomy miles. But the hardware and manufacturing story here is genuinely unlike anything the auto industry has done before.
[quote=MelvinBoinkster]Fun fact... At one point or another, all of us have thought about this idea. Now, it is a reality. It could be in service within the next year. An air taxi!
htt ps://ww w.youtube.co m/watch?v=A5XiW551AsE[/quote]Dubai is very close to this already and China is already beyond the rollout stage.
Some may have heard this recent story that, depending on how one interprets some records, Trump might be diztantly related to King Charles. And when I say "distantly", we're talking 15 generations.
But the Fun Fact is: almost everyone of similar ethnicity (i.e. "European" or "African"). Is 15th cousin or better.
15 generations is 65,534 ancestors, assuming nobody enters the family tree more than once (there is one known instance of that in my family).
What are the chances that just any random white person shares at least one of my 65k ancestors? Truly excellent. Almost everyone here who isn't purely of a non-white ancestry is likely Charles' - and Trump's - and my - 15th cousin or better.
My maternal grandmother had some distant family connection to Mary of Teck (George VI's mother, Charles' great grandmother), which probably puts me somewhere also jn 15th cohsin land.
Buckingham Palace here I come.
Fun fact... At one point or another, all of us have thought about this idea. Now, it is a reality. It could be in service within the next year. An air taxi!
htt ps://ww w.youtube.co m/watch?v=A5XiW551AsE
"Myrtle the Parachick... ...KIA at the Battle of Arnhem during Market Garden and given a military funeral on the battlefield"
I'll bet there was a discussion about BBQ'd or fried before the funeral.
Give him a Trump Camp response.
"This is an Open Forum. A beautiful forum. Here we talk about anything. Everything. Even the Civil War. Which was a beautiful war. And Congress. It's my Congress and they do good things. For me. Buttfucking. Some people like buttfucking. I don't. But some people do, and that's ok. I don't agree with buttfucking but I'm not opposed to the people who like the buttfucking. I only buttfuck Democrats. In a consensual way. You're gonna love it. Buttfucking is a beautiful thing. Just give it two weeks. They will be ready."
We might have to chat about history stuff sometime, bore the crap out of most of the fora folks. >:)
"I came here to talk about buttfucking and you two are discussing some Civil War general who was also a Congressman, pimp and an Ambassador who claimed to have banged Queen Isabella of Spain???? What the hell is wrong with you people?????"
[quote=sorillo1000]Thanks. I have an affinity for stories about heroes in history, and that includes the furry and feathered ones.
Myrtle the Parachick is probably where that started. I read Cornelius Ryan's book A Bridge Too Far the first time when I was about 16, and Myrtle was about a half of a page, if I remember correctly. I don't recall if Myrtle was in the movie though.[/quote]I have the same affinity. Also a deep desire to understand our path, past to present, lessons learned, in hopes of gaining necessary perspective in being a steward of my children's future.
A man after my own history nerd heart, buddy. And I know of a few other regulars on here who appreciate it just as much.
Keep it up. Good stuff.
Thanks. I have an affinity for stories about heroes in history, and that includes the furry and feathered ones.
Myrtle the Parachick is probably where that started. I read Cornelius Ryan's book A Bridge Too Far the first time when I was about 16, and Myrtle was about a half of a page, if I remember correctly. I don't recall if Myrtle was in the movie though.
"Military dogs and pets go back hundreds of years, not just in the US but worldwide.
Royal Navy Admiral Lord Charles Bereford's bulldog Gloria, pre-WWI Polish Army bear Private Wojtek in WWII (Promoted to Corporal after meritorious service at Monte Cassino) Willie, General Patton's bull terrier Chesty, the official USMC bulldog mascot starting in the mid 1950s, succeeded by other bulldogs named Chesty to this day. Filling the post undertaken by other Marine bulldogs going back to the original mascot Jiggs from WWI Myrtle the Parachick, British 1st Airborne chicken during WWII, made the required six jumps with her owner, a Lieutenant with 1st Airborne Division, KIA at the Battle of Arnhem during Market Garden and given a military funeral on the battlefield
Just a small sampling..."
Excellent post.
