TIL: Today I Learned

[Ferocitus]

More poo tips please everyone.

One More Turn is a marketing phrase, not a reason to soil yourself.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Yeah, learning about this changed my life, and it can change yours too.

I have performed a valuable public service!

 

[Takhisis]

Thanks going to try this right now.

So, how did it go?

 

[sophie]

There was an article on New Scientist several years ago on precisely that. USians tend to have a nastily sweeter tooth, probably because of that corn syrup thing.

That whole health insurance thing might also have something to do with it.

 

[Takhisis]

How so?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

So, how did it go?

Enquiring minds want to know...but this would be a really bad time for the old "pics or it didn't happen."

 

[Takhisis]

But this is research!

 

[AdamCrock]

But this is research!

.....and remember You're doing it for posterity !

 

[Birdjaguar]

TIL: GRRM is going to finish Winds of Winter before he writes any scripts for HBOs "Fire & Blood" GOT spin off.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

TIL: GRRM is going to finish Winds of Winter before he writes any scripts for HBOs "Fire & Blood" GOT spin off.

This rumor has no credibility. GRRM and the word "finish" in the same sentence are an instant tilt on the BS-o-meter.

 

[Takhisis]

Ever since a certain South Park episode I just keep hearing a choral version of ‘Wiener, wiener, wiener’ whenever ASoIaF, GoT or their creator are mentioned.

 

[Kyriakos]

You know, people, chances are that GRRRRRRRRM Martin won't even be a name 50 years from now.
Go back 100, 150, 200 years and try to find who the most famous authors were then - almost always it is people you won't have heard of, nor will you hear about them again. Though in the case of the english language (due to the US) a few may have lingered around longer than they deserved (due to the rippling effect with 'popular culture' and the movie industry)

 

[Timsup2nothin]

You know, people, chances are that GRRRRRRRRM Martin won't even be a name 50 years from now.
Go back 100, 150, 200 years and try to find who the most famous authors were then - almost always it is people you won't have heard of, nor will you hear about them again. Though in the case of the english language (due to the US) a few may have lingered around longer than they deserved (due to the rippling effect with 'popular culture' and the movie industry)

A writer of fiction in the 1940s who was famous enough that her books were consistently picked up for movie adaptations, and we are still stuck with her delusions of philosophic grandeur today: Ayn Rand.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

...I always assumed Ayn Rand was a male and never actually checked.

So, uh, TIL?

 

[Lexicus]

...I always assumed Ayn Rand was a male and never actually checked.

lmao really?
just to clarify, I'm not judging you at all because she's obviously not worth looking into or expending any mental energy on, but it's funny to me nonetheless
I really hate Ayn Rand

 

[Kyriakos]

A writer of fiction in the 1940s who was famous enough that her books were consistently picked up for movie adaptations, and we are still stuck with her delusions of philosophic grandeur today: Ayn Rand.

Which more than likely is a (primarily) US phenomenon. Movie industry is a relatively recent paragon in the preservation of an author's name (or work). I doubt Rand would be known at all nowdays if not for films/tv shows (?)

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

just to clarify, I'm not judging you at all because she's obviously not worth looking into or expending any mental energy on, but it's funny to me nonetheless

The only use I ever found of it was being able to make this awful visual pun in Garry's Mod:

Spoiler :

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Which more than likely is a (primarily) US phenomenon. Movie industry is a relatively recent paragon in the preservation of an author's name (or work). I doubt Rand would be known at all if not for films (?)

Swing and a miss. I mentioned the films as an indication that she was famous "in her own time," which even I am not old enough to vouch for first hand. I found out they were made while looking for any indication that she was well known in her time, because I thought that she had been. I doubt that one person in a hundred that recognizes her name today has ever seen a film based on her books.

 

[Kyriakos]

Swing and a miss. I mentioned the films as an indication that she was famous "in her own time," which even i am not old enough to vouch for first hand. I found out they were made while looking for any indication that she was well known in her time, because I thought that she had been. I doubt that one person in a hundred that recognizes her name today has ever seen a film based on her books.

I have seen a trailer- I think. Showed a lot of trains

Though in her case it seems to be about pop-culture (and polititrolling) in the US.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I have seen a trailer- I think. Showed a lot of trains

Though in her case it seems to be about pop-culture (and polititrolling) in the US.

I actually tried to watch an updated version from...maybe the 1990s...it was actually slower than the book, which is saying something.