The Off Topic Topic

[CountDeMoney]

erhmehgerd Engrish is herd

[garbon]

erhmehgerd Engrish is herd

It's about time everyone spoke American given the state of English.

[Josquius]

 stagnatory just sounds more....i dunno. involved. its a bit weird when the topic is stagnation but sounds like its much more personal and happening.hmm.....


and hey, if theres one thing english is good at its redundant words

[Habbaku]

Your entire post is a rape of the American language.

[garbon]

Your entire post is a rape of the American language.

Using apostrophes leads to catastrophes.

[Josquius]

im on a train, posting with my phone

[Ideologue]

Applied to a compliance gig at Aflac.  Didn't have any specific work experience requirements, just a B.A.

I think my app got submitted before I was done though, but I think it's okay because I spent like the last forty minutes tweaking it and trying to spin spin spin my doc review XP points (in fairness, it was easier than I thought--it uses the very words "document review" in the job description) and law degree (it does require applying laws, communicating the substance of laws, and advising actions based on laws, but is TOTALLY NOT a lawyer job), and in substance the application was complete.

The position sounds rad.  Pros: room for advancement; utilizes a legal training without being a lawyer job; probably pays as well if not better than current job without 50 hour weeks; IT'S NOT TEMPORARY; job will entail real responsibilities.  Cons: may not be able to listen to podcasts and music all day or smoke whenever I want; fucking cocksucker motherfuckers ask for a criminal history, but not in Romneychussetts--my direct employer is based MA, does that count?; job will entail real responsibilities; totally won't get it.

[garbon]

im on a train, posting with my phone

Then don't post on your phone. I learned what happens when you post on a kindle fire.

[Josquius]

im on a train, posting with my phone

Then don't post on your phone. I learned what happens when you post on a kindle fire.

whats that?
and hey, gotta kill the time somehow and finished my book :p

[fhdz]

erhmehgerd Engrish is herd

[jimmy olsen]

There's a very slight chance an enormous 50km comet will slam into Mars. That'd be super cool to watch.

http://spaceobs.org/en/tag/c2013-a1-siding-spring/

Since C/2013 A1 is a hyperbolic comet and moves in a retrograde orbit, its velocity with respect to the planet will be very high, approximately 56 km/s. With the current estimate of the absolute magnitude of the nucleus M2 = 10.3, which might indicate the diameter up to 50 km, the energy of impact might reach the equivalent of staggering 2×10¹º megatonnes! This kind of event can leave a crater 500 km across and 2 km deep. Such an event would overshadow even the famous bombardment of Jupiter by the disintegrated comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 in July 1994, which by some estimates was originally 15 km in diameter.

[Josquius]

Just a bazillion more to go and we'll have the place terraformed in no time!

[The Larch]

So in 1990 no state had 20% or greater obesity, 20 years later no state has an obesity rate under 20%. 

I know it's not proper math, but if weight is a normal bell curve, we could be talking about an obesity increase of 1 percentile each year.  Or at least in that ball park.

Yeah it's nuts. Too much too fast, and it's worldwide. It's hard to believe that our eating habits or exercise levels are really so vastly different than they were in the 80s.

When did HFCS got introduced as the main industrial sweetener in the US? When I was there last year everybody in our group was amazed at how sweet every foodstuff that used it was, even stuff that wasn't supposed to be sweet.

[Liep]

Denmark got a new so called "Super Hospital"... for pets. It comes with a 24/7 emergency room and a cancer treatment ward.

At first I was shocked that people actually wanted to spent thousands of kroners on pets, and seemingly without regard to what's best for the animal. But then I remembered buying a MacBook Air just because it looked good.

[garbon]

Did you know that Pfizer makes ChapStick? I had no idea. Finally got some knowledge out of AE training.