TIL: Today I Learned

[Takhisis]

Do what ? Piss into canals ? The only reason I don't do that is that there are no canals here and I have to make due with trees, bushes or the Rhine on a night of drunken debauchery.

I know the Germans are sticklers for rules, so this proves that using the Rhine as a public urinal is allowed only when somebody engages in drunken debauchery.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Moderator Action: Ok, we're going to void the discussion of urine, and move on to something else, k?

 

[Takhisis]

I wonder whether blood pressure also comes down after defecating…

 

[Arakhor]

Moderator Action: Let's move off all private bodily topics for a while, shall we?

 

[Takhisis]

Bawwwwwww.

TIL people can really be stupid enough to call their child Goku (article in Españish).

 

[Manfred Belheim]

TIL: Newly-appointed moderators apparently like to moderate to an excessive degree.

Moderator Action: PDMA is not permitted on the site. Neither is trolling moderators. --LM
Please read the forum rules: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422889

 

[Broken_Erika]

Yep.
Also
TIL: Kittens Love Power Buttons!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Today I learned that the Sausalito Record Plant obtained fresh tanks of industrial-grade nitrous oxide weekly, claiming it was critical for the recording process. It was actually just for everyone to get high on.

 

[Snerk]

Some would say that is quite critical for the recording process.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I think I have a handle on the basic terminology of IP. You patent an invention, you copyright a work of art, and you trademark something identifying your company/brand/product.

 

[Traitorfish]

After another thread touched on the cheerfully deranged Conservative Bible Project, and I fell down the inevitable rabbit hole, TIL that Conservapedia maintains a glossary of what it calls "conservative words". These include "abortuary", a 2spoopy alternative to abortion clinic (fine, I guess), "activism", because conservatives should be political active (um), and "AM", because getting up in the morning expresses a conservative work ethic (!!??).

Other conservative word include "boomerang", "exceptional", "locomotive" and, this one is really curious, "Kafkaesque", which they cite as expressing the horrors of "Leftist control of a bureaucracy". Apparently nobody told them that Kafka was a Jewish socialist?

 

[Kyriakos]

After another thread touched on the cheerfully deranged Conservative Bible Project, and I fell down the inevitable rabbit hole, TIL that Conservapedia maintains a glossary of what it calls "conservative words". These include "abortuary", a 2spoopy alternative to abortion clinic (fine, I guess), "activism", because conservatives should be political active (um), and "AM", because getting up in the morning expresses a conservative work ethic (!!??).

Other conservative word include "boomerang", "exceptional", "locomotive" and, this one is really curious, "Kafkaesque", which they cite as expressing the horrors of "Leftist control of a bureaucracy". Apparently nobody told them that Kafka was a Jewish socialist?

Well, socialist might be stretching it, but he certainly was pro-working class (on an individual level, for he was apparently apolitical). While working in the Workers insurance company of Bohemia (gov organization for workers' insurance) his main job was to examine reparations paid to workers as a result of maiming or other serious accident while using machinery. Cheerful, and actually kafkaesque

 

[Arakhor]

Conservapedia is totally bonkers. Not only is Schafly really odd, with some very silly ideas and equally poor judgement, it's impossible to tell which members of his team are as conservative as him or are simply trolls. Schafly also tends to alienate his genuine staff, such that one former admin decamped to form his own creationist encyclopaedia called ASK.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

TIL that idiocy is still idiocy if you add -opedia to the end of it, but the idiots feel much better about themselves.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Uncyclopedia is better. Just Sayin.
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Conservipedia

 

[Birdjaguar]

I think I have a handle on the basic terminology of IP. You patent an invention, you copyright a work of art, and you trademark something identifying your company/brand/product.

Yes you have those basics down. Processes can be patented too.

 

[Arakhor]

Strahd von Zarovich, one of D&D's most iconic villains, is apparently bisexual, though it's not stated whether this is due to his vampiric passions or not.

 

[Snerk]

Roll d20: >10 bang bros, <11 bang hoes

 

[Ryika]

My city has an unemployment rate of almost 15%. That's 4 times more than average (3.6%) of Germany as a whole.

 

[Hrothbern]

My city has an unemployment rate of almost 15%. That's 4 times more than average (3.6%) of Germany as a whole.

And the average rent per sqm for an appartment of your city compared to average in Germany ?
Differences being pretty big as from what I remember and typical the opposite of the unemployment rate (leaving Berlin out).

What I mean: is it not so that because of the lack of public housing in Germany (only 5%), causing a big variation in rents, the low rents in certain areas draw more unemployed people or put in other words: people only leave if they get a sound job elsewhere.