The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXXI

[Commodore]

@Commodore
Might it be a matter oft musscle relaxation in your back?

I've thought of that and that seems to be my wife's take on it as well. I do sit a lot throughout the day due to my job, which does cause tension in the lower back so this might be the most likely culprit.

Does the skin get sore (just for clarification)?

No, the skin doesn't get sore. It feels like the muscles (or possibly the kidneys themselves, it's hard to tell) that get sore.

I did find someone else online who has this issue too and the explanation they got from their doctor was it has something to do with breathing habits for those who take really hot showers. According to this doctor, when you take really hot showers, you tend to breathe shallower and less frequently without even noticing you're doing it. Apparently this can cause something called respiratory acidosis temporarily as the kidneys attempt to compensate for the increased levels of CO2 in the body.

Of course this is coming from someone online who claims this is what their doctor told them, so I'd have to ask my doctor about it before running with that diagnosis.

Have you ruled out something like fibromyalgia?

I haven't ruled anything out since no one, not even my doctor, has been able to give me a clear answer on this.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Does super bowl only last one day or did I miss something?

 

[Hygro]

Yes. It's one game.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Man I thought it was like a series or something with all the hollabaloo

that's pretty lame tbh

 

[The_J]

But how many people do it? Is it common?

I'd guess it's not uncommon.

No, the skin doesn't get sore. It feels like the muscles (or possibly the kidneys themselves, it's hard to tell) that get sore.

The kidneys themself cannot really be, you don't have the right receptors down there to feel this type of feelings (I think).
But yeah, no idea o_O.

I did find someone else online who has this issue too and the explanation they got from their doctor was it has something to do with breathing habits for those who take really hot showers. According to this doctor, when you take really hot showers, you tend to breathe shallower and less frequently without even noticing you're doing it. Apparently this can cause something called respiratory acidosis temporarily as the kidneys attempt to compensate for the increased levels of CO2 in the body.

Of course this is coming from someone online who claims this is what their doctor told them, so I'd have to ask my doctor about it before running with that diagnosis.

My knee-jerk reaction to this is that it must be BS. Else nobody would go to the sauna.

 

[Takhisis]

Man I thought it was like

a series or something with all the hollabaloo

that's pretty lame tbh

Well, it is 'Murican football.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

The impression I get from television is that the Superbowl is a sporting event that's larger than the World Cup and the Olympics combined. The actual sport itself is something else, it seems like it has far more confusing rules than cricket and that game has lengthy confusing rules that take longer to explain than to play the game.

 

[warpus]

I remember some Americans trying to claim at some point in the past that the Superbowl was watched by more people than the World Cup final was. As part of their argument was "data" that showed that more than 500 million people in the U.S. watch the event each year.

Anyway, my question of the day: Is there a website that performs one task and one task only that you wish would exist, that now doesn't? For example, there is a website out there where you can find the cheapest phone company to sign up with in France, if you enter the amount of data and number of minutes you want. Another example, there exists a website that shows you the exact antipode of where you are, after you plug in coordinates or select where you are on a map. Another example: A website that tells you what anagrams exist for the text you enter.

Is there anything you ever wanted to exist that you've been unable to find? Something that performs 1 task, whatever it is? Something you instead have to look up each time or do calculations for or whatever?

 

[sophie]

I remember some Americans trying to claim at some point in the past that the Superbowl was watched by more people than the World Cup final was. As part of their argument was "data" that showed that more than 500 million people in the U.S. watch the event each year.

Anyway, my question of the day: Is there a website that performs one task and one task only that you wish would exist, that now doesn't? For example, there is a website out there where you can find the cheapest phone company to sign up with in France, if you enter the amount of data and number of minutes you want. Another example, there exists a website that shows you the exact antipode of where you are, after you plug in coordinates or select where you are on a map. Another example: A website that tells you what anagrams exist for the text you enter.

Is there anything you ever wanted to exist that you've been unable to find? Something that performs 1 task, whatever it is? Something you instead have to look up each time or do calculations for or whatever?

That argument generally rests on "More people in the US watch the Superbowl than do the World Cup". Football is sustained at this point by the fact that it is an American institution; it is the most popular sport in the country. So the sport has to maintain that image or people might realize that there are better sports out there and watch something else.

 

[Takhisis]

So it's popular because it's popular?

 

[Arakhor]

I'm fairly certain that Olympic coverage is more extensive than US football coverage.

 

[warpus]

amous for being famous is a pejorative term for someone who attains celebrity status for no particularly identifiable reason {...}

People who have been described as "famous for being famous" include Angelyne,[2] Paris Hilton,[3] Katie Price[4] and the Kardashian family.[5]

Paris Hilton and the Kardashians are famous because they had sex on camera and we got to watch them perform sex acts on other people. Right? That's pretty identifiable.

 

[Old Hippy]

Man I thought it was like a series or something with all the hollabaloo

that's pretty lame tbh

you should develop a taste for international test cricket a four day match played in a series of up to 5 tests over the summer where your team is playing for a draw on the last day against Pakistan and hoping for rain
with the series at one each

that's exciting....
after twenty days glued to the TV screen

 

[Arakhor]

When I was growing up in the 90s, Pakistan and Bagladesh were amongst the worst-performing teams. Hoping to merely draw against one of them would really have been the pits.

 

[Takhisis]

Paris Hilton and the Kardashians are famous because they had sex on camera and we got to watch them perform sex acts on other people. Right? That's pretty identifiable.

And why aren't more porn ‘stars’ famous?

 

[Traitorfish]

That argument generally rests on "More people in the US watch the Superbowl than do the World Cup". Football is sustained at this point by the fact that it is an American institution; it is the most popular sport in the country. So the sport has to maintain that image or people might realize that there are better sports out there and watch something else.

Out of interest, and I suppose in keeping with the thread topic, when did popular interest shift from baseball to American football? My understanding is that baseball used to be the sport of the workingman, while football was basically something that happened in universities, and certainly baseball is the iconic American sport in a way which rugby-with-motorcycle-helmets will never be, so what happened?

 

[warpus]

And why aren't more porn ‘stars’ famous?

Some of them are. But most of them aren't famous because they're just doing their job. They're showing up to work and putting in their shift, big deal, I do that every day too

 

[shadowplay]

Out of interest, and I suppose in keeping with the thread topic, when did popular interest shift from baseball to American football? My understanding is that baseball used to be the sport of the workingman, while football was basically something that happened in universities, and certainly baseball is the iconic American sport in a way which rugby-with-motorcycle-helmets will never be, so what happened?

 

[Gori the Grey]

Out of interest, and I suppose in keeping with the thread topic, when did popular interest shift from baseball to American football? My understanding is that baseball used to be the sport of the workingman, while football was basically something that happened in universities, and certainly baseball is the iconic American sport in a way which rugby-with-motorcycle-helmets will never be, so what happened?

You can actually ask the internet questions like that and get answers:

https://www.quora.com/When-and-why-...he-MLB-as-Americas-most-popular-sports-league

So, 1958, if you listen to this guy.

 

[Farm Boy]

And why aren't more porn ‘stars’ famous?

People don't like fessing up to their broad circle of peers that they have favorite porn stars. I imagine it would be pretty mortifying to see a string of "likes" lined up on your father's social media for everybody to see who he prefers watching getting the business. Hilton and Kardashian are famous otherwise so talking about them has some cover. Also, random speculation on the shift from clunky, onerous-to-acquire, "branding" for quality to ubiquitous, free, perpetual novelty.

There's a big difference in the environments that gave rise to Playboy, gave rise to Debbie Does Dallas, and gave rise to GirlsDoPorn.