There’s nitpickers, and then there’s nitpickers.
I’m a nitpicker. Well, sometimes.
I’m also a little nerdy sometimes. But, I’m not a super nerd, because I didn’t catch all of these then I saw the movies.
Now that’s your nerd pump is primed — that doesn’t mean what some of you think it means — it’s your turn to go full blown nerd. Or smartass. Or nice friendly person sharing words of inspiration.
Probably smartass, knowing some of you. Anyway, it’s Wednesday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
Sure do hate to see you this way Mr. Basil. How ’bout if me and the boys was to prank that smartass co-worker and drive him insane would that pep ya up a bit?
https://9gag.com/gag/ad9Nr12
Harvey asks for patience until he returns full-time on July 5th.
NY Times: “Harvey Pleads Fifth!”
Washington Post: “Rehab Friends Worry: Is Harvey ‘Back on the Fifth’? — Anonymous Source”
USA Today: “Fewer Staff Members at Conservative Blogs in the Age of Trump”
Tabloid Headline Bacon to you, sir!
Nailed it! A whole side of bacon for this one.
CNN: “Undisclosed source reveals that Harvey is a Fifth Columnist.” (This is a Somethingburger, we swear! Um, not under oath or anything . . .)
Time: “Collusion? Putin’s, Harvey’s Schedules Over Next Few Days Mired in Obscurity. Kremlin Refuses Comment.”
Variety: “IMAO Fave Harvey Greenlit to Reup as Frank J. Affil July 5 Ayem, Penning Boffo Items Expected to Draw Heavy Mitting from Fans and Crix Alike.”
Trump: “Obama and Harvey AWOL, leaving others to do the work. Sad! “
Everywhere are…freaks and hairies, dykes and fairies…tell me where is the sanity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crX8Zzr7tyU
Well, having been an electrician once upon a time…the statement in this video that “one cannot be electrocuted unless one is in contact with the ground” is false. You can also receive an electrical shock if you are touching two phases, or a “hot leg” and a “common” (those are two different things, but same result).
In this scene from Jurassic Park, the kid is clearly standing on one cable of this fence and grabbing another above it. I personally don’t know much about electric fences designed for containing dinosaurs, but if each cable was a different electrical phase (assuming it is AC and not DC), then the kid would get lit up, since there is always a voltage difference between two phases…which is what is necessary for current flow.
If I were to design an electric fence for bloodthirsty creatures that can jump and climb, I would probably use different phases on my electric fence, so it’s possible that was the case here. Mer. Mer. Mer.
Also the word “electrocuted” is related to the word “executed”. As in dead. One can receive an electric shock, and survive. If one is electrocuted, they are dead. Some dictionaries actually get this wrong now, because so many people say they were electrocuted when they get shocked, but that actual meaning of the word means “death by electricity”.
I can be as pedantic as the best of them folks, believe me.
George Washington Goethals, the man who built the Panama Canal (well, he did have some help), was born June 29, 1858. A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!
…And just think, he built it without filing one single environmental impact statement.
Impacting the environment was the whole point.
Some environments need impacting.
Seems someone got an entire installation named for themselves for that.
I guess I shouldn’t expect someone who by his accent is British to get gun stuff right, but if he’d seen the film (or clips even), he would have heard Harry Callahan say, “This is a .44 magnum, the world’s most powerful handgun, and it will blow your head clean off….”
Bonus fact: Naval gun calibers are given in ratios of barrel length to barrel diameter. For example, some US ships in WWII were fitted with 5-inch/38 caliber guns (see https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/art/exhibits/conflicts-and-operations/wwii/the-art-of-mcclelland-barclay/gun-crew-loading-a-5-inch-38-caliber-gun.html) and some were fitted with 5-inch/55 caliber guns.
I couldn’t find 5-inch/55 caliber guns so I might be wrong; here’s a 16-inch, 50 caliber to make it up to you: https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-navy-ships/battleships/massachusetts-bb-54/NH-81481.html.
“nerd” must be a synonym for “democrat”. They both talk about guns without knowing what the hell they’re talking about.
But, if you’re a gun nerd … ???