Mod parent up. If you're lucid while throwing up, then it just means you are a goddamn pantywaist pussweed hippy who can't hold his liquor. Like Edison.
-- If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Re:Lightweight!
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h3llfish
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· Score: 2, Informative
That is incorrect. It's certainly a highly potent alcoholic spirit, but it has no hallucinogenic drugs in it. That part is pretty much made up. It's basically just regular booze. It's certainly nothing like Psilocybin mushrooms.
Re:Lightweight!
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TheTurtlesMoves
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· Score: 2, Informative
If made the proper way, even back then i didn't have any real "hallucigenic" in it. The heat breaks it down.
-- The Grey Goo disaster happened 3 billion years ago. This rock is covered in self replicating machines!
Nothing More Inspiring
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eldavojohn
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Than watching a grown man laying in a bathroom about to throw up saying "Tesla... was the Electric Jesus... I can't breath." Well done, good sir. I only hope this weekend has in store for me the same beauty that you have gifted to the internet.
-- My work here is dung.
Idle can please die.
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Elgonn
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· Score: 5, Insightful
What setting am I missing that blocks idle from appearing on the main page?
Re:Idle can please die.
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eldavojohn
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· Score: 4, Informative
Upper right of the page you're viewing has a "Help & Account" link. Click it or open it into a new tab. If you are using the dynamic index like most, click "Exclusions" under that heading. Enter "Idle" into the text box and hit save. While you will probably miss stories like "Bill Gates Sits Idle as World Burns" you will not see any Idle: stories on your front page. In the classic index, you can select sections and remove Idle. I don't know why the dynamic index doesn't have this granularity of exact control yet. I'd give you links but they're javascripty popups so take care if you have javascripty blocking mechanisms.
How in the name of Shub Internet did this make front page? Bad slashdot editors. Bad! No cookie for you.
Because it's funny. Front page funny. And it mixes comedy with an often overlooked icon in our world. I've read books on Tesla and I've read his patents and he truly was a remarkably gifted man. Yet I didn't hear about him until college.
Why? Probably because Edison was a pompous jerk. Probably because Tesla was an immigrant. Probably because he expressed too many alternative ideas... some of which had serious merit and continue to influence us in new ways until this very day.
And yet one of the few routes we have to raise public awareness about him is very well filmed and choreographed internet videos... because tesla wasn't The American Inventor Thomas Edison that every American School child Must learn about.
I disagree with your hard line "no cookie" stance and instead offer the Slashdot Editor trapped in my basement a full cookie and the ability to rub his eyeball on my shoe. I thoroughly enjoyed the throwing up of absinthe mixed with pineapple as well as the "Tesla was the Electric Jesus" statement.
All you have to do, girlintraining is filter Idle so that it doesn't appear on your front page. It's in your preferences.
*whoosh*:P she wasn't talking about the video at that point dude, she was employing some kind of "non sequitur humour"ous device.
-- which is totally what she said
Re:Pretty weak constitution
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BKX
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· Score: 3, Informative
Uh, no. A fifth is 18 shots (a pint of liquor is 250 mL vs 750 mL for a fifth (yes, I know is seems wrong, but the names for those sized bottles no longer match their volumes, not even in the US)). Therefore a pint, being exactly one third of a fifth, is 6 shots. I define a shot as 42 mL, which is strikingly close to the US government's definition of 44 mL (1.5 fl oz).
And don't start claiming that is shot is some other size like 1 fl oz or 30 mL or some bullshit. It's slightly less than 1.5 fl oz, dammit. In fact, there MUST be 18 shots in a fifth. That way I can finish my bottle of whisky just as I start the 18th hole. (And now you know why there are 18 holes in a full round of golf.)
Re:Pretty weak constitution
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adolf
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I thought the discussion was about liquor, not beer.
I usually buy my liquor in handles. These traditionally contained half a gallon, but have been abbreviated to 1.75 liters.
Meanwhile, actually in actuality, the fifths sold here in Ohio are 750ml, not 757.082357ml. Canada is no different -- your 26'er, at 25.360517 fluid ounces, is a lot closer to being a 25'er than its name would imply.
There are also 1-liter bottles available (often referred to as a quart, even though that's also wrong).
A 375 ml bottle of liquor in the US and the Canadian maritime provinces is sometimes referred to as a "pint" and a 200 ml bottle is called a "half-pint," harking back to the days when liquor came in actual US pints, quarts, and half-gallons.
Besides, everyone knows that a pint of beer is either 16 or 20 ounces in this hemisphere, though nobody can agree on which ounces to use. Except in Canada, where a pint of beer might be 500ml, or might be 20 imperial ounces.
(Just because it's true, doesn't mean it has to make sense. I, for one, was simply satisfied to finally understand that the reason there are 18 shots in a fifth is only because there's 18 holes on a golf course -- the logic seemed so infallible. And then you had to show up and make a scene of things...sigh.)
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6 American beers and half an absinthe? Come back when you've downed the best part of a bottle of whisky and a handfull of shrooms, and we can talk.
Than watching a grown man laying in a bathroom about to throw up saying "Tesla ... was the Electric Jesus ... I can't breath." Well done, good sir. I only hope this weekend has in store for me the same beauty that you have gifted to the internet.
My work here is dung.
What setting am I missing that blocks idle from appearing on the main page?
I don't care how it made it on the front, because it was so funny that I not only literally lol'd, but nearly literally peed my pants. Awesome!
How in the name of Shub Internet did this make front page? Bad slashdot editors. Bad! No cookie for you.
Because it's funny. Front page funny. And it mixes comedy with an often overlooked icon in our world. I've read books on Tesla and I've read his patents and he truly was a remarkably gifted man. Yet I didn't hear about him until college.
... some of which had serious merit and continue to influence us in new ways until this very day.
... because tesla wasn't The American Inventor Thomas Edison that every American School child Must learn about.
Why? Probably because Edison was a pompous jerk. Probably because Tesla was an immigrant. Probably because he expressed too many alternative ideas
And yet one of the few routes we have to raise public awareness about him is very well filmed and choreographed internet videos
I disagree with your hard line "no cookie" stance and instead offer the Slashdot Editor trapped in my basement a full cookie and the ability to rub his eyeball on my shoe. I thoroughly enjoyed the throwing up of absinthe mixed with pineapple as well as the "Tesla was the Electric Jesus" statement.
All you have to do, girlintraining is filter Idle so that it doesn't appear on your front page. It's in your preferences.
My work here is dung.
*whoosh* :P she wasn't talking about the video at that point dude, she was employing some kind of "non sequitur humour"ous device.
which is totally what she said
Uh, no. A fifth is 18 shots (a pint of liquor is 250 mL vs 750 mL for a fifth (yes, I know is seems wrong, but the names for those sized bottles no longer match their volumes, not even in the US)). Therefore a pint, being exactly one third of a fifth, is 6 shots. I define a shot as 42 mL, which is strikingly close to the US government's definition of 44 mL (1.5 fl oz).
And don't start claiming that is shot is some other size like 1 fl oz or 30 mL or some bullshit. It's slightly less than 1.5 fl oz, dammit. In fact, there MUST be 18 shots in a fifth. That way I can finish my bottle of whisky just as I start the 18th hole. (And now you know why there are 18 holes in a full round of golf.)
I take it you never went out on a late night bender and ended up in the company of Tesla and Poe. Now that my friends is worth the three day hangover.
Pineapple on pizza is precisely twelve types of wonderful, and I will electrocute sheep if you disagree with me!
And while I somewhat enjoyed the video, not once did I approach laughter. I'm not sure why people thought this was outrageously funny.
So I've decided to electrocute cows if you disagree with me!
http://blindscribblings.com - Tasty pop-culture in conceptual fashion.
Yeah. Apparently someone uploaded teh video to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FFazanaWQY
I thought the discussion was about liquor, not beer.
I usually buy my liquor in handles. These traditionally contained half a gallon, but have been abbreviated to 1.75 liters.
Meanwhile, actually in actuality, the fifths sold here in Ohio are 750ml, not 757.082357ml. Canada is no different -- your 26'er, at 25.360517 fluid ounces, is a lot closer to being a 25'er than its name would imply.
There are also 1-liter bottles available (often referred to as a quart, even though that's also wrong).
Further, from Wikipedia:
A 375 ml bottle of liquor in the US and the Canadian maritime provinces is sometimes referred to as a "pint" and a 200 ml bottle is called a "half-pint," harking back to the days when liquor came in actual US pints, quarts, and half-gallons.
Besides, everyone knows that a pint of beer is either 16 or 20 ounces in this hemisphere, though nobody can agree on which ounces to use. Except in Canada, where a pint of beer might be 500ml, or might be 20 imperial ounces.
(Just because it's true, doesn't mean it has to make sense. I, for one, was simply satisfied to finally understand that the reason there are 18 shots in a fifth is only because there's 18 holes on a golf course -- the logic seemed so infallible. And then you had to show up and make a scene of things...sigh.)
Kid-proof tablet..