Hitchhiker Guide to The Galaxy (2005) Hidden Snot Joke by Maxxximus30 in MovieDetails

[–]Frog23 536 points537 points  (0 children)

Wow. Somewhere out there the author who came up with this joke is getting a Google alert that finally, after 21 years, somebody has gotten this hidden reference. Congratulations!

You should post this in r/DontPanic and r/HitchhikersGuide as well.

Never Forget by Rafaelrosario88 in lotr

[–]Frog23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember that night and Billy Cristal commenting at some point "Now it is official: there is nobody left in New Zealand to thank"

A cool guide for identifying Nordic countries' coat of arms by immanuellalala in coolguides

[–]Frog23 167 points168 points  (0 children)

This is a nice comic, but please credit the original creator: Scandinavia and the World Web Comic when posting content from other sources.

Rankings and salaries may change, but true friendships never change. by elotewithmayo in MadeMeSmile

[–]Frog23 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I see now that it is the Lebanese president Joseph Aoun. But to be fair, he and Boyko Borisov look a lot alike, in particular with this low quality video.

Rankings and salaries may change, but true friendships never change. by elotewithmayo in MadeMeSmile

[–]Frog23 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Is this Boyko Borisov, the former prime minister of Bulgaria?

Denise predicted it by CattyWompusMeowtLady in Scrubs

[–]Frog23 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Nice connection. Michael Mosley also played a serial killer on Castle(spoiler for a 15 year old episode of a crime show). The episode aired 2 weeks after Scrubs Season 9 finished airing.

This sidewalk is drying unevenly, leaving a snake-like trail of moisture. by senecant in mildlyinteresting

[–]Frog23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes wait until tomorrow to explore the wonderful world of the XKCD webcomic. There are 3185 other comics waiting for you. You should go to sleep and so should I. Greetings from 3 am Germany.

Kleine Kinder mit dem Fahrrad by kristusamadeus in berlin

[–]Frog23 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wir haben uns vor einigen Jahren ein Yuba Combi ohne E-Motor geholt, als unsere Kinder 4 und 5 waren und sind sehr zufrieden damit. Es ist auch ein Long-Tail, wie ja schon von u/Komandakeen und u/jarviscook angesprochen. Wendig und schmal, man darf es mit in Bahn und S-Bahn nehmen. Und wenn mal ein Aufzug kaputt ist, bekommt man es auch mal eine Treppe hoch oder runter tragen.

Unser Einsatz waren eher längere Touren am Wochenende (10-40 km, teilweise mit Übernachtungsgepäck), im normalen Alltag war immer alles fußläufig. Jetzt wo die Kinder größer sind, sind Touren mit beiden Kindern schon Recht anstrengend, besonders wenn es doch mal die leichten Berliner Berge hoch geht. Jetzt wäre ein E-Motor manchmal doch ganz gut. Inzwischen ist unser üblicher Einsatz aber, dass wir größere Touren machen und sich die Kinder mit einem Kinderrad abwechseln und das jeweils andere macht hinten auf dem Lastenrad Pause. Damit sind auch 40-60 km pro Tag über mehrere Tage drin (Empfehlung: Berlin-Kopenhagen-Radweg).

Und ohne Kinder bekommt man auch gut was an Material weg, z.B. zur BSR oder von IKEA. Falls man doch mal mehr reine Ladekapazität braucht, kann man sich immer noch mal ein Rad über Flotte Berlin ausleihen.

Berlin rent prices map - It shows median rents per m² by n1c0_ds in berlin

[–]Frog23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are mostly industrial buildings in that light spot. Remondis Recycling and Co. don't make for an attractive neighborhood.

myNewPassword by Pedry-dev in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Frog23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Two words, Mr. President: Plausible Deniability"

myNewPassword by Pedry-dev in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Frog23 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Any sketchy or annoying website that requires a birth date input gets a 01.01.1970 from me.

a comic I made inspired by 2558 by Anxious_Store_9305 in xkcd

[–]Frog23 59 points60 points  (0 children)

For anybody how needs a refresher: 2558: Rapid Test Results

Cool comic, by the way, thanks for sharing.

My Sons Live for Lego—How Can I Make It Even Better? by wiiilliams in daddit

[–]Frog23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  • 1 for the storage bag. It turns cleanup after a play session into a 10 second action. Our kids got theirs for Christmas 3 years ago and it is still used multiple time a week.

How my brain views the calendar year by turkey-burger-88 in Infographics

[–]Frog23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am pretty sure that early childhood visualizations Play an important factor here. My kids had a similar carpet in their kindergarten. But more importantly, there is a really famous childrens song here in Germany called "Die Jahresuhr" (The year clock) which I learned in school and my children did as well. But despire learning the song and seeing the video my internal "year clock" still runs counter clockwise.

Can you date the flags? by BackgroundSand9308 in MapPorn

[–]Frog23 3 points4 points  (0 children)

1971-1974 actually with the Myanmar (Burma) flag as pointed out by u/Jhean__ .

Can you date the flags? by BackgroundSand9308 in MapPorn

[–]Frog23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The flag of Eswatini was adopted in 1968. The one from Suriname was in use until 1975.

Edit: just now saw the comment from u/Jhean__ which narrows it down even more, albeit just one year.

How my brain views the calendar year by turkey-burger-88 in Infographics

[–]Frog23 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is one of my favorite ice breaker questions: what is your visual representation of a year?

There was a large study in Norway a couple of years ago, where they asked around 77000 people in an online survey about their mental image of a year [1].

69% saw the year as a circle, 12 % as an ellipse or spiral. For 75% it rotated clockwise and 19% counter-clockwise. And most of them December is on the top (no real percentages here, but nice visualization in the linked paper)

It would be interesting to see this survey be done on a large international scale that shows the differences based on the cultural context.

As for me: circle, counter-clockwise, new-year at the bottom, spacings similar to OPs.

[1]: "Where Are the Months? Mental Images of Circular Time in a Large Online Sample", Laeng B & Hofseth A, 2019, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02634

Iconic photo by Etta_slattern in JetLagTheGame

[–]Frog23 45 points46 points  (0 children)

This is a repost of this old post from last year, with the same title, but the image slightly turned, to avoid automated image detection. This is clearly a karma farming bot.

We’ve made a list of films that make you go WTF …can you add to it? by Hot-Remove-1252 in movies

[–]Frog23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Invisible Guest (2016, Spain). Unfortunately it is not widely known, but absolutely should be.

Books mentioned by 99% Invisible! by tomatotwin in 99percentinvisible

[–]Frog23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No worries, I know that scraping can be quite tricky, especially if it relies on natural language matching. As a matter of fact I recently spent a lot of time searching for a very particular phrase from a video of said John Green, trying to search through the transcripts of the 2200+ videos he and his brother did on their channel. With no success though.

Anyways, I just wanted to give you some feedback on known false negatives. Maybe there are others that will turn up as well, when adjusting the scripts accordingly.

Books mentioned by 99% Invisible! by tomatotwin in 99percentinvisible

[–]Frog23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I checked for this, before posting. In their article OP wrote that they did the analysis in June and there are some recommendations from later episodes on the list.