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Lady Malchav    Topic opened April 26, 2006, 07:03:49 PM
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What have YOU learned today?

Mine:

Toast + butter + garlic salt != Garlic bread    :-X
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Symmetry Reply #1 in Re: Daily Revelations — Posted April 26, 2006, 08:09:35 PM
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Its really easy to get your entire party killled in Earthdawn.
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'Because ten billion years' time is so fragile, so ephemeral... it arouses such a bittersweet, almost heartbreaking fondness.'
Vel Reply #2 in Re: Daily Revelations — Posted April 26, 2006, 08:11:31 PM
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A "bear-walk" stance (lumbering on your hands and feet) is sturdy enough to transform you into a beast of burden.
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"When I was around her, I felt like a goblin made entirely out of wicked genitals."
Breakneck, speed demon.
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toranoraneko Reply #3 in Re: Daily Revelations — Posted April 26, 2006, 08:15:28 PM
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A lonely chord, without a song.
I just discovered we get History International, and Napoleon was a bastard.
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Anumati Reply #4 in Re: Daily Revelations — Posted April 27, 2006, 01:20:21 AM
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This is where I say something clever.
I found out that when a howler monkey decides to give a momma sloth a hard time, the sloth will win.

Also, I learned some creepy stuff about the Chernobyl disaster that I didn't know before, mostly on account of being 11 when Chernobyl's #4 reactor blew up.
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Pixie Reply #5 in Re: Daily Revelations — Posted April 27, 2006, 02:33:01 AM
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I was born that year. ^_^

(Edit: And anyone saying things such as "That says a lot about you" will be kicked in the face. Wink )

What creepy things were they?
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lil_poiple_ash Reply #6 in Re: Daily Revelations — Posted April 27, 2006, 02:47:43 AM
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Boobbah is watching you
Hot chocolate is good.

Cleaning is bad

Babies look funny if you run up to vaccume cleaners with them.
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Sean Reply #7 in Re: Daily Revelations — Posted April 27, 2006, 04:14:52 AM
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Babies look funny if you run them over with vaccum cleaners.
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Anumati Reply #8 in Re: Daily Revelations — Posted April 27, 2006, 04:45:15 AM
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This is where I say something clever.
Quote from: Beldaran on April 27, 2006, 02:33:01 AM
What creepy things were they?

Stuff like they sent in firemen to contain the fire and didn't tell them about the massive dose of radioactivity they were getting. Most of them died within a couple weeks of radiation exposure.

The roof got covered in radioactive waste. Pieces of the graphite tips of the control rods from inside the reactor core were thrown up there by the explosion. They tried to use remote control machines to clear it but the radiation screwed up the electronics. So they sent soldiers in to clean it up, in lead lined armor. Each guy was only allowed to be up there for a minute or so, it was that radioactive. One of them took some photos. You can see fogging on the pictures, from the radiation affecting the film.

The first hint the outside world got that there had been an accident was when standard testing at a reactor in Sweden found radioactive particles. They checked and it turned out it wasn't their power plant leaking. The plume of radioactive dust/smoke that went up into the air at Chernobyl went over more than a dozen countries. There are still restrictions in place on some foods in some of those countries, because of the contamination.

The actual disaster was caused at least in part by bad design of the reactor, but also by people ignoring/turning off safety procedures.

Oh yeah, and the big concrete building they put up over it to contain the radiation is disintigrating. There were holes in the roof of it, and there's water leaking in and possibly back out. The water leaking in is eroding the concrete. If the containment building collapses a new plume of radioactive dust could go up into the atmosphere.

There's more, but I don't feel like typing it all.

Like I said, creepy.
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phobos Reply #9 in Re: Daily Revelations — Posted April 27, 2006, 05:01:00 AM
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Quote from: Beldaran on April 27, 2006, 02:33:01 AM
(Edit: And anyone saying things such as "That says a lot about you" will be kicked in the face. Wink )

Don't make her angry. You won't like her when she's angry.
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Vel Reply #10 in Re: Daily Revelations — Posted April 27, 2006, 01:03:10 PM
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Shopgirl is so awkward it makes me want to cut someone.
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SteelAngelJohn Reply #11 in Re: Daily Revelations — Posted April 27, 2006, 02:52:31 PM
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We know it's full of PRECIOUS BOOTY.
Politicians really are that bad.
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"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" - Mario Savio
machiavelli33 Reply #12 in Re: Daily Revelations — Posted April 27, 2006, 03:04:38 PM
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The music from Samurai Jack is really

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Sean Reply #13 in Re: Daily Revelations — Posted April 27, 2006, 03:05:36 PM
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I've realized I'm turning into a crotchety old man.

*grump*
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I am both much more foolish and a great deal less absurd than I am likely to seem.
Peebs Reply #14 in Re: Daily Revelations — Posted April 27, 2006, 03:13:26 PM
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I'm taking a philosophy class on connections between good and beauty, ugliness and evil in art and literature.  Today, I realised that during discussions, I almost always stick up for evil.  Should I be concerned?
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Sparky Reply #15 in Re: Daily Revelations — Posted April 27, 2006, 03:14:12 PM
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Holy hell... I just graduated.  I have an undergrad.  I have a Bachelors of Arts. 

...I'm out of smokes.  It's very sad that *that* is the thing that has been effecting me most today.
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Sparky Reply #16 in Re: Daily Revelations — Posted April 27, 2006, 03:15:21 PM
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Quote from: Peebs on April 27, 2006, 03:13:26 PM
I'm taking a philosophy class on connections between good and beauty, ugliness and evil in art and literature. Today, I realised that during discussions, I almost always stick up for evil. Should I be concerned?

Don't worry, hun.  In philosophy of Sex and Love, I argued that rape is still sex, just with more force.  Why?  Cause playing the devil's advocate felt like fun that day.
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TGU Reply #17 in Re: Daily Revelations — Posted April 27, 2006, 03:48:00 PM
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I learned that people are willing to buy a tree in a bag on a whim.

I also learned that David Reinhard is even dumber than I previously thought.  And I used to put him around the same dumbness level as good ol' Shrub-for-brains.
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ScarredNSexy Reply #18 in Re: Daily Revelations — Posted April 28, 2006, 12:21:46 AM
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Being nostalgic can be cathartic sometimes....



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Samsally Reply #19 in Re: Daily Revelations — Posted April 30, 2006, 12:15:49 PM
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Doing favors doesn't always give you that fuzzy self-satisfied feeling.  Sometimes it just makes you hate everything.
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