The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread Question Thread!

[RedRalph]

dont they both get banned regularly or somehting?

 

[D0NIMATRIX]

Every few months or so, yes. They seem to be proud of it, and they always come back.

 

[Brighteye]

Perfection has a lot of posts, many funny, many spam.
Fifty made friends with Perfection and with a group of hangers-on they build up their reputations as famous people by being mentioned a lot. A bit self-fulfilling really.

 

[ggganz]

Perfection once posted "I don't really love Fifty. It's just sex.".

 

[Abaddon]

It may be North Korea, or some other crackpot commie nation.. built a HUGE concrete hotel.. then didn't finish it.. anyone know what i mean?

 

[The Yankee]

In Pyongyang, the Ryugyong Hotel.

The Ryugyong Hotel (Korean: 류경호&#53588(or Ryu-Gyong Hotel or Yu-Kyung Hotel or the 105 Building) is an unfinished concrete skyscraper. It is intended for use as a hotel in Sojang-dong, in the Potong-gang District of Pyongyang, North Korea. The hotel's name comes from one of the historic names for Pyongyang: Ryugyong, or "capital of willows." Its 105 stories rise to a height of 330 m (1,083 ft), and it contains 360,000 m² (3.9 million square feet) of floor space, making it the most prominent feature of the city’s skyline and by far the largest structure in the country. Construction started in 1987 and ceased in 1992 due to financial difficulties. At one time, it would have been the world's tallest hotel.[1] Esquire Magazine dubbed it "The Worst Building in the History of Mankind" and noted that the government of North Korea has airbrushed the building out of pictures.[2]

 

[Abaddon]

Sweet, thanks. guess which thread that is going in

 

[dwaxe]

Is it better to study during the day or during the night?

 

[D0NIMATRIX]

Whenever you think most about what you're studying.

 

[D0NIMATRIX]

Have any of you ever clicked my lines of gibberish, or are they just there for nothing?

 

[Elrohir]

Wjhats the whole "Fifty and Perfection" thing? they seem to be OT legends but I havent seen them doing anyhting spectacular... dont mean that in a bad way, just wonder if I've missed somehting

They're kind of living memes. Just part of the wonderful subculture of CFC OT.

In Pyongyang, the Ryugyong Hotel.

Spoiler :

I actually kind of like how that looks....well, I would if it was finished. In an authoritarian "We don't need to follow your bourgeoisie rules of architecture" kind of way.

 

[The Yankee]

That building must look like a monstrosity compared to the rest of the city, though. And it somehow reminds me of a paper or Styrofoam cup, given it's thinness and it's curvature.

 

[Dubai Vol]

Is it better to study during the day or during the night?

All depends on the person. By the time I got to university, I had been working for ten years, 5 in the army, and found it much easier to get up at 4AM to do my work than to do anything after 5PM, when all my habits told me the day was over. I graduated in four years with highest honors (summa cum laude) but then I was only studying mechanical engineering, not liberal arts, so take it for what it's worth.

So it really is a matter of what works for you.

 

[The Yankee]

Whenever you have the energy to do it and are least likely to be distracted by other things (shows, other work, etc.), if you have your choice of times.

 

[general_kill]

Can someone tell me where the "Mc" and "Mac" in Irish last names come from and what they mean?

 

[Julian Delphiki]

Mc / Mac = "son" in Gaelic.

Irish Surname Meanings & Places of Origin

Ireland was one of the first countries to adopt hereditary surnames, many of which were devised during the reign of Brian Boru, the High King of Ireland, who fell defending Ireland from the Vikings at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014AD. Many of these names began as patronyms to define a son from his father or grandson from his grandfather. Thus, the reason for the common prefixes found on Irish surnames. Mac, sometimes written Mc, is the Gaelic word for "son" and was attached to the father's name or trade. O is a word all by itself, signifying "grandson" when attached to a grandfather's name or trade. The apostrophe that usually follows the O actually comes from a misunderstanding by English-speaking clerks in Elizabethan time, who interpreted it as a form of the word "of." Another common Irish prefix, Fritz, derives from the French word fils, also meaning "son."

 

[Abaddon]

Why does scratching an itch, simply spread the itch?

 

[Swedishguy]

Why does scratching an itch, simply spread the itch?

Why does it always itch when someone says that?

 

[Abaddon]

phycosymatic or something. (scratches left ear)

 

[Peck of Arabia]

Damnit, I'm sure this has happened before with the whole thinking about scrathing and itching etc...

My guess is that scratching is such a clumsy way of removing an irritant (especially with my brutally short nails) that it actually causes more skin irritation than it attempts to remove

Though having said that, it is a guess, and one of my guesses at that...