TIL: Today I Learned

[Phrossack]

Taken 3: Liam Neeson kidnaps his own family, and it's up to a gang of Albanians to save them.

 

[Kyriakos]

Taken 3: Liam Neeson kidnaps his own family, and it's up to a gang of Albanians to save them.

Actually (going by the trailer) in Taken 3 the albanian mafia sets up Neeson as having killed his ex-wife, the FBI/CIA (and of course the NSA ) don't bother to investigate much and now are on a manhunt supervised by Forest Whitaker, and Neeson is fighting most of the US police force in a couple of 'Merican states.


Link to video.

 

[Goodfella]

TIL there is a 3rd "Taken" movie.

By this point it's just bad parenting.

 

[Traitorfish]

Taken 3: Liam Neeson kidnaps his own family, and it's up to a gang of Albanians to save them.

+like a million points.

 

[Tee Kay]

TIL Wyoming is named after Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania, for it seems no particularly significant reason. The valley in turn got its name from the Munsee language, which by the way was the language indigenous to present-day New York City but nowadays is only spoken by about five people in Ontario.

 

[Hygro]

That would explain why Wyoming is such an east-coast sounding Native American name. Not that I'd thought of it before.

 

[Kyriakos]

TIL that 'One and the Same' (Ένα και ταυτ&#972 is an expression originating in the distinction between the notion of One, as defined by Parmenides (Elean philosopher of the early 5th century BC) and the term for 'the same', which in ancient Greek was "tauto" (Ταυτ&#972.
Parmenides is examining if the argument by Socrates to include the notion of "Eide/Ideas" in philosophical debate, can be of use in his own system of thinking.

(i also read some tens of pages on how One can be the Same, and at the same time not be the Same, and also be the only way it can be in this theory by Parmenides... ).

 

[shadowplay]

TIL Japanese deep fry maple leaves in the autumn, and call it "tempura momiji".

 

[madviking]

texas' love of frying things + canada's symbol = japan?

 

[Mouthwash]

TIL that M2TW can be completely rebalanced, with real defensive wars and incentive to construct buildings, simply by doubling recruitment costs and halving unit maintenance costs.

 

[Takhisis]

@shadowplay: do they actually eat that?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

TIL that M2TW can be completely rebalanced, with real defensive wars and incentive to construct buildings, simply by doubling recruitment costs and halving unit maintenance costs.

While this strikes me as 'way too easy to be true' I am willing to consider it.

 

[metatron]

TIL:
"Non-racists" are like the people who don't want their kids to read Anne Frank's diary in school because it's "pornographic".

 

[Phrossack]

TIL:
"Non-racists" are like the people who don't want their kids to read Anne Frank's diary in school because it's "pornographic".

Hä?

Are you referencing a recent, nonsensical thread?

 

[metatron]

Hä?

Are you referencing a recent, nonsensical thread?

Of course.

 

[Takhisis]

Are you capable of linking to it?

 

[Antilogic]

Yes, this thread deserves a countdown

January 1st, 2020 go!
[TIMER=01/1/2020 12:00 AM PST]Timer[/TIMER]

TIL about the timer feature on these forums. Sadly, it doesn't appear to work in quotes.

 

[bhsup]

Er... I'm watching it count down as we speak (type, whatever) in your post in the quote. It's kinda mesmerizing.

 

[Antilogic]

Wait, it works!

It didn't show up right after I posted, so I ninja-edited in that line about it not working.

But now it appears to be working.

Weird stuff is at play here.

 

[Kyriakos]

^The timer is a cool feature Might get boring pretty fast, though.