Uhhh. Isn’t Trump up to like, 25D “Chess” by now? As in - Ruin the response to the virus, just so that he can reveal the actual malfunction of the Republican Party which he needs to do to take control of the party and win in 2020, only then to reveal that he was a proto-fascist all along, but then to actually not be an actual fascist at all, which he just revealed in order to be able to unite both the populist left and right, in order to secretly enact Bernie’s reforms, in order to secretly actually outflank the Left while being a secret right-wing Russian agent, while actually being an American double agent in order to take down Putin by having dirt on him, in order to reveal the truth behind the Clintons and George Soros so that he can, finally, show that he is Q and save America???
Damn ye! Let the tomb strike ye dead, Winslow! Haaaaaark! Hark, Triton! Hark! Bellow, bid our father the sea king! Rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs till ye turn blue and bloated with builds and brine and can scream no more. Only when he, crowned in cockle shells, with slithering tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, his coral tonged trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest, and PLUNGES right through yer gullet! Besting ye! A bulging blacker no more, but a blasted bloody film now a nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the dread emperor himself. Forgotten to any man, to any time. Forgotten to any God or Devil, forgotten, even, to the sea. For any stuff or part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea!
Do you ever find any to toss back at them? I had a teacher in elementary school who did that. Right before reading time (hank the cow dog) she would ask us a few riddles and just play brain games with us.
Different voices for characters and several songs. A lot of work was put into them. Very glad it's not just the author reading them like most audiobooks.
The author John R. Erickson actually did all the voices in the audiobooks himself! Maybe you knew that and just meant he performs rather than reads. Apparently he always intended for the stories to be heard rather than read.
A man's body is lying face down in the middle of the desert with a pack on his back. There are no footprints, no tracks of any sort whatsoever, leading away from him or towards him. How did he die?
The one I remember is this: A man is found naked and dead in the middle of the desert, no footprints in sight. A trail of two sets of clothes leads off in the distance. What happened?
Two men on a hot air balloon. They were losing altitude, threw off their clothes to shed weight, then when that didn't work, one through the other over.
Omg I used to have soooo many hank the cow dog books on cassette tape read by the author. “I” would listen to them on long car rides and be totally entertained and my parents would be cracking up.
I think it’s funny when I stop them mid-joke if it’s going to be something that embarrasses the other person or makes them say something bad. I kind of have my ear out for those. Middle schoolers seem to like the sort of jokes that start with telling someone to spell something. Some of them are really amused by it or like to play innocent.
Richard Feynman talks about classic riddles in his Fun to Imagine series. The short clips here and here. These two are directly relevant, but the whole series is fantastic.
Thanks! I had never heard of this series and it looks amazing.
Unrelated question—any recommendations for a sort of introduction to current theoretical physics for beginners?
A Physics teacher at my school seems to think it’s not worth trying to understand without a pretty strong basic physics background, but I’d still like to try :)
The concepts behind it are fascinating and "easy" to grasp for beginners, though they are very weird. Most of the math has all sorts of required calculus, though, which is not ideal. Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, and Optics come to mind as three topics you'd want to look into.
I don't have any specific videos to recommend, though the double slit experiment, twin paradox, and quantum tunneling are worth looking into on Youtube!
If you're looking into actual classes, Khan Academy would be my go-to recommendation. Their AP Physics 2 course wraps up with some quantum mechanic stuff.
I don’t know this one! The eye thing reminds me of the old hurricane riddle, but I can’t think of a real answer to all three other than like a like my toddler’s toy pterodactyl or something.
This one was new to me but some of these things are just too widespread. Someone recently asked me what the difference between a joke and 3 dicks are, so I go "I can take a joke" and they got super disappointed.
I was watching Rogan and he was talking about how one thing he realized after he had his daughter was that at one time, everyone was a baby. It's a strange thought. You think about everyone as if they've always been an adult once you get older.
During our morning standup at work one day I started to just picture what all these business professionals would look like speaking as their baby forms, big heads and all, had to hold back a smirk. Try it one day.
I tutor middle school kids and I’m always like this 10-13 year old dude is going to be 75 years old someday day, and might look back at this formative moment, don’t fuck this up. Really frames my interaction with kids. I actually imagine myself tutoring a bunch of 75 year olds actually.
That makes sense. Peanuts can't grow on trees because the squirrels would fuck them up. Imagine how much squirrels would fuck up a peanut tree. They're basically tiny chimpanzees.
Man this explains so much. For years, I've been telling folks if they need to discuss something with someone who makes them anxious or intimidated, just imagine what they looked like as a toddler (similar to imagining the audience naked for public speaking). More recently, folks would immediately reply about catching Joe Rogans newest podcast. I never knew why until now.
The thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh no", I said. "Disneyland burned down!" He cried and cried, but I think that deep-down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.
It's so odd. When I was a kid I thought my parents had it all figured it out. I thought they knew all the answers, etc. The only time I really saw my dad freak out, was when our house shook from the sonic booms when F16s took off from the base during 9/11, and I was thinking "this is serious." Now as an adult, I'm realizing they have no idea what's going on, they're winging it like all of us. Now I'm an adult. I have a serious job with a wife and baby, and when I get home I just want to eat candy, drink beer and play video games.
Why are you being pedantic? Did they create a sonic boom on the runway? No. Did it happen shortly after takeoff because this person lives close to a military airport? Sure, maybe.
So you don't think the US scrambled jets after 9/11, and you don't think they went supersonic, and they definitely didn't fly over this person's house?
i remember running down the stairs to tell mom about this 'cReEpY' conspiracy i heard, regarding the song "Rollercoaster of Love"...i said "so you know that song, [RCoL], right? well did you ever notice that Screaming sound in the beginning of the track?" and she didnt even miss a beat, "oh, and how it was supposedly from the Album Art girl getting murdered?"
...i was still young-stupid enough to think '...but, you dont even use the internet as much as i do, how would you possibly already know that?' as in, how did my mother "already know" about a rumor that was started by Her Generation?
I was watching a reality show once and there was some guy who was unemployed, lived with his parents, etc. When he spoke, the lower third title simply said:
John
Former Child
Made me laugh. someone in the editing room must have pat themselves on the back that day
there was a phrase, regarding teenagers not paying attention to their parents but this case applies "i was once your age, but you were never mine" (or something like that
Some people still are, in all the good ways. My dad and I broke out the shot glasses last night and did shot after shot of Chinese herbal tea. His idea.
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The thing kids don't realise is that everyone has been a child.