Random Thoughts 3: A Little Bit of This, and a Little Bit of That...

[Arakhor]

What happened to topically applying water to your toothbrush via the tap?

 

[MaryKB]

I always use a cup when I'm brushing my teeth, and I do hold it in my left hand. I do feel I need to rinse after brushing, it'd totally feel weird to me not to. But maybe I should really talk to my dentist next time I go in just to make sure, I never even would've thought it'd be a bad idea.

And especially after flossing, my mouth just wouldn't feel right. I'm thinking more about it, and whenever I'm getting cleaned at my dentist office they always use a water rinse, so I can't imagine it'd be harmful really, right?

An ex-girlfriend somehow got my email and wants to "catch up".

I thought maybe it was a spam email because it had a phone number in it and it was from Buffalo. But turns out she moved to Buffalo last year based on a quick Facebook sleuthing.

Not sure I want to bother with this.

Oh dear, I hope everything's going to be okay for you. A couple Saturdays ago I was called by my ex from Canada (he moved back after we broke up) and he said he'd changed and wanted to get back together. He was abusive, and so even if I wasn't engaged I never want to see him again, but when I told him I'm getting married he called me a liar (and other worse names), so yes I don't think he's really changed, he's probably just out of money and feeling desperate.

 

[Zkribbler]

Verbally abusing an ex-girlfriend is probably not the best way to convince her that you're no longer abusive.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

A decent person would have congratulated you, maybe chatted a little more and hung up. It sounds like it's a good thing you broke up with this guy.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

An ex-girlfriend somehow got my email and wants to "catch up".

I thought maybe it was a spam email because it had a phone number in it and it was from Buffalo. But turns out she moved to Buffalo last year based on a quick Facebook sleuthing.

Not sure I want to bother with this.

In my experience when an ex hits you up years later out of the blue it means they just had a bad breakup and don't have any easy options for a rebound so they turn to a chapter from their own history.

 

[BenitoChavez]

It is amazing how many people get lost when they are driving. My office building is at the end of a dead end street. Everyday I see people driving down the street, come to the dead end, then turn around and drive back the way they came. This is America in 2018. Virtually everyone has a GPS. Virtually everyone has a smartphone with a GPS. For those who are technologically disinclined, there are dead end signs when you first turn onto the street. Yet everyday people keep driving down the road and turning around immediately.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

It is amazing how many people get lost when they are driving. My office building is at the end of a dead end street. Everyday I see people driving down the street, come to the dead end, then turn around and drive back the way they came. This is America in 2018. Virtually everyone has a GPS. Virtually everyone has a smartphone with a GPS. For those who are technologically disinclined, there are dead end signs when you first turn onto the street. Yet everyday people keep driving down the road and turning around immediately.

Check the major map services. I knew some people who, when you punched their address into Yahoo maps (which was big at the time) and got directions the directions would send you down a street that actually didn't connect to their neighborhood. You'd get the same "turn right here and then left here (where there really wasn't any left turn available) for just about every address in their neighborhood. It could be that one of the services has your dead end street as connecting to something, and is sending people that way. The people who lived on that street got so tired of people driving back and forth looking for the missing turn that they put up a sign that said "Yahoo is wrong, try Googlemaps."

 

[Ryika]

Random video to showcase a realization of mine:

...this game is much easier to solve when you stare blankly at the screen instead of actually trying to follow the barrel with your eyes. That's true for other things as well.

Makes sense when you think about it, following movement is much easier when your eyes don't also create additional movement.

I wonder whether that has some useful real life applications somewhere.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I wonder whether that has some useful real life applications somewhere.

Duels on main street at high noon?

 

[Takhisis]

I was going to go for the far more mundane ‘that's how I win minstaGib matches’, but sure.

 

[Zkribbler]

Check the major map services. I knew some people who, when you punched their address into Yahoo maps (which was big at the time) and got directions the directions would send you down a street that actually didn't connect to their neighborhood.

Me too. My previous house in L.A. was in the hills. One road that went past, wandered through a quiet residential neighborhood, and came out on the other side of the hill. The residents didn't like strangers using "their" street as a thoroughfare and successfully petitioned the city to block off the exit, but one map service didn't get the memo.

In downtown LA is West 1st, a major street. Once upon a time, the City Council was considering changing the name to Tom Bradley Boulevard. The vote was held really late at night after the staff who records such matters had gone home. People differ on what the outcome of the vote was. So some maps now show it as West 1st; some show it as Tom Bradley.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I just realised that if you read law backwards it sounds like wall.

Mind
Blown
!

 

[Ryika]

Destiny is the destroyer of the Skeptic Community on youtube.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

While the fire at the National Museum of Brazil is tragic, I had to chuckle at the news that the Bendegó meteorite survived without major damage. I mean, it did already go through atmospheric entry

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Willpower is really a slowly regenerating resource.
After cutting carbs and alcohol and reducing my nicotine intake for the past couple of weeks I just went on a junk food binge. The only thing I ate today that wasn't deep fried was the chocolate ice cream.
Could be worse. I'm still sober.

 

[Synobun]

Deep fried ice cream is gross so good move.

 

[Tee Kay]

Deep fried ice cream is gross so good move.

Deep fried ice cream is like on my top 20 list of civilisation's greatest achievements and you can't convince me otherwise.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Deep fried ice cream is gross so good move.

Deep fried ice cream is like on my top 20 list of civilisation's greatest achievements and you can't convince me otherwise.

Wait, this actually exists ?
Is that a colonial thing or are the Scots to blame ?

 

[Arakhor]

I don't see how it could even be physically possible.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

It's a common dessert at Mexican restaurants here in the US. Sometimes it's actually friend, sometimes it's just rolled in cornflakes. It's usually served in a taco salad shell with whipped cream, sprinkles and chocolate syrup.