The Off Topic Topic

[Eddie Teach]

420.
I just don't get it.

It is/was the code cops used for possession of marijuana.

[merithyn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHn_lLbnm8c

I have no feel for Centigrade, and the actual conversion formula is just to much to run every time Beeb says "it's a balmy -15C today!"

So handy approximation formula.

2 times Centigrade + 30 ~Farenheit.

(Farenheit -30) / 2 ~ Centigrade.

  I'm shocked that you are just now finding this out.

I learned this about 10 years ago, but Max hated when I used it because it's not accurate. *rollseyes*

[Maladict]

420.
I just don't get it.

It is/was the code cops used for possession of marijuana.

I was thinking along Austrian lines 

[Josquius]

420.
I just don't get it.

It is/was the code cops used for possession of marijuana.

Is this true?
That...actually makes a lot more sense than what I've read before about it just being a random time people smoked weed.

[Grey Fox]

AFAIK, that's an urban legend.

High Times magazine popularized the use of it. Don't remember why.

[Barrister]

420.
I just don't get it.

It is/was the code cops used for possession of marijuana.

Is this true?
That...actually makes a lot more sense than what I've read before about it just being a random time people smoked weed.

It is not.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/420/

420 is the penal code section for marijuana use in California. Nope. Section 420 of the California penal code refers to obstructing entry on public land. The penal codes of other states list different entries for 420, but none of them matches anything having to do with marijuana.
However, on 1 January 2004 the Governor of California signed that state's Senate Bill 420, which regulates marijuana used for medical purposes. This bill comes years after the term '420' was associated with marijuana and indeed its number likely was chosen because of the existing pop culture connection. This is the tail wagging the dog, not the other way around.

It's the Los Angeles or New York police radio code for marijuana smoking in progress.It's not the police radio code for anything, let alone that.

[PDH]

It is a time thing.  It was originally going to be "3:30" but they didn't get around to it for almost another hour.

[Eddie Teach]

  ok then.

[Caliga]

R.I.P. Walter Mondale

[Valmy]

R.I.P. Walter Mondale

He won Minnesota. RIP

[Savonarola]

In the list I got from Pocket today there was an article entitled:  "There's a Name for the Blah You're Feeling; It's Called Languishing."

I knew it.

(If anyone cares the article is from The New York Times, but I think it pay walls you after a few articles.)

[Josquius]

It is a time thing.  It was originally going to be "3:30" but they didn't get around to it for almost another hour.

So it's back to being random and making no sense

[Barrister]

It is a time thing.  It was originally going to be "3:30" but they didn't get around to it for almost another hour.

So it's back to being random and making no sense

Well we are talking about a psychoactive drug...

[Admiral Yi]

Bernie Madoff dead at 82.

[Josquius]

Saw my aunt on Sunday.
She gave me 50p for my kid. Apparently its a tradition you give kids silver when you meet them for the first time.
She says when her kids were born she took them for a walk and got quite a bit of money from people for this.
Now. I've never heard of this tradition at all.
Anyone?
Or is it super local?