The Off Topic Topic

[katmai]

Besides the fact we were suppose to get only about 45% or less coverage it was moot as raining here.

[Savonarola]

We got about 88% here; without the glasses you couldn't really tell.   

[alfred russel]

We got 97% and until the last minute the sun was obscured by clouds. People were getting disappointed and frustrated, and I was proud of myself for saying, "We are so lucky! We were supposed to only get a 97% solar eclipse, but instead we are getting a 100% cumulus eclipse!" (when I am killed by an angry mob at some point, I know I had it coming)

Then the sun came out and I realized:

a) the sun is really bright. Without the glasses it was still blinding.
b) the sun is really bright. Even with 97% coverage it was still relatively light out.

[derspiess]

Yeah, that really disappointed me when I was a kid and we had a partial eclipse sometime in the mid 80s.  I wanted to see darkness, animals freaking out, cavemen throwing spears at the eclipse, etc.

[alfred russel]

Yeah, that really disappointed me when I was a kid and we had a partial eclipse sometime in the mid 80s.  I wanted to see darkness, animals freaking out, cavemen throwing spears at the eclipse, etc.

Talking to people who made the trip to see the total eclipse, it wasn't until it got to 100% that it really got dark and was cool to see. 

[CountDeMoney]

Yeah, that really disappointed me when I was a kid and we had a partial eclipse sometime in the mid 80s.  I wanted to see darkness, animals freaking out, cavemen throwing spears at the eclipse, etc.

We've called off the war with the Phoenicians.

[Eddie Teach]

Yeah, that really disappointed me when I was a kid and we had a partial eclipse sometime in the mid 80s.  I wanted to see darkness, animals freaking out, cavemen throwing spears at the eclipse, etc.

Talking to people who made the trip to see the total eclipse, it wasn't until it got to 100% that it really got dark and was cool to see.

Cal wants to give them wedgies.

[Caliga]

On my 13 hour drive back from Florida last Saturday I ran across a Canadian XM station that had country music in French.  Did not know that was a thing.

Check this out bro.  Country music is surprisingly popular in Australia.  I was watching a video the other day by an Australian country music star who is an Aborigine.

This guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_H_Williams

[Zanza]

[Caliga]

Can you really do that? 

[dps]

Can you really do that? 

Sell a rug for 100 pounds?  Yeah, I guess so if you're in the UK.

[Grey Fox]

On my 13 hour drive back from Florida last Saturday I ran across a Canadian XM station that had country music in French.  Did not know that was a thing.

It's a thing.

In Quebec, all the best selling physical cd albums are country music.

[CountDeMoney]

On my 13 hour drive back from Florida last Saturday I ran across a Canadian XM station that had country music in French.  Did not know that was a thing.

It's a thing.

In Quebec, all the best selling physical cd albums are country music.

After "Swedish Death Metal," "Québécois and Western" isn't so weird.

[Josquius]

dog rug

That is just horrific.
Even putting aside the animal as a rug thing and the animal you're friends with as a rug thing...
The head.
Just...ughhhhhh. Having this big sticky up head from a rug.....

[garbon]

dog rug

That is just horrific.
Even putting aside the animal as a rug thing and the animal you're friends with as a rug thing...
The head.
Just...ughhhhhh. Having this big sticky up head from a rug.....

Yeah, no tradition of rugs with heads.