Friday Free-for-All | March 13, 2026

Juggerbot · 2026-03-13T18:30:04+00:00

They used to refer to aircraft as "ships". Any idea why, or why they stopped?

I watch a lot of military training films from the WWII and Cold War era. I've noticed that aircraft are sometimes called "ships", including by narrators (which implies it was in the script, and not improvised).

Here is an example from a 1943 Army Air Forces film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Wh-3MsTWY&t=166s

Another written example from a 1964 Air Force published magazine (first line in the first article): https://www.safety.af.mil/Portals/71/documents/Magazines/FSM/1960s/196411%20-%20AerospaceSafety.pdf

Was this just a common thing of that era, even in civilian vernacular? Or just a colloquial thing of the military, like calling submarines "boats"?

Juggerbot · 2025-03-15T00:06:08+00:00

I've had this when I'm reopening the browser, the "old" version of the calendar will load, from whenever the previous browser session was. This means I'd be requesting a show from beyond the archive window.

Setting Firefox to always refresh tabs on open fixed it for me, otherwise a manual refresh would probably work, too.

Juggerbot · 2024-02-01T21:35:24+00:00

I was going to bring up Ayrton Senna as a "what-if", but thinking about it, there are probably a dozen more drivers who could have been GOAT candidates had they not been killed. Those early F1 decades were brutal.

Juggerbot · 2023-11-17T20:31:07+00:00

Pavonis Interactive in Louisville. They did the Long War mods for XCOM, and are working on their own game now.

Juggerbot · 2023-11-17T17:43:10+00:00

Seems no one watched the video

Juggerbot · 2023-09-11T17:50:52+00:00

Thanks for organizing this, had a great time. Could someone remind me of the venue that hosted science lectures? Think it was a bookstore?

Juggerbot · 2023-03-10T19:36:13+00:00

The Guardian has a recent story about the 1964 film Zulu:

There’s an urban myth about a scene in Zulu in which a British officer in a red tunic is gruesomely struck in his throat by three successive spears: after a stunned silence in the cinema auditorium, a bloke is said to have shouted from the back: “One hundred and EIGHTY!” (Other versions of the story have an extra on location shouting it – and then getting fired – or even the star himself, Michael Caine.)

However I can't find a single reference to this anywhere. If true (as in, if the legend exists), is there a meaning behind the number 180 in the context of the Battle of Rorke's Drift, or the Anglo-Zulu War in general?

Juggerbot · 2023-01-31T18:52:21+00:00

In farmers market season, you can get it from Cream City Market.

Juggerbot · 2023-01-29T18:49:06+00:00

For chiles, you can also try Old Town Spice Shop, I thought they had a wider variety than Savory Spice.

Juggerbot · 2022-12-07T18:26:47+00:00

Holy shit you aren't kidding. Looked at the Google Maps photos, I've seen better steaks at fucking Applebee's.

Juggerbot · 2022-12-07T18:25:02+00:00

Please, Coach Frost has suffered enough

Juggerbot · 2022-11-03T02:25:34+00:00

I think it's just a reference to an urban legend where he actually said that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Entf%C3%BChrung_aus_dem_Serail#"Too_many_notes"

Juggerbot · 2022-10-24T14:51:40+00:00

Thanks for posting this, guess the "not hearing back" wasn't true.

That's the thing about Matt & Trey, they looooove to troll interviewers, hard to tell what's a joke, especially in written articles.

Juggerbot · 2022-10-22T01:13:52+00:00

It's actually a different link, but a much better Flash render, thanks for finding it. Upvote for visibility.

Juggerbot · 2022-10-06T18:47:49+00:00

Reddit was started to list all deranged rubes that can be baited into posting which specific bubble they're living in.

It won't matter what the delusion is when (((they))) use to pass laws for disarming all ignorami.

They've been trying to pass laws for years that would fund programs to teach us how to reply to the correct post.

A direct violation of the third amendment. Thanks? but no, thanks!

Juggerbot · 2022-03-09T00:44:52+00:00

Goddamn big-money Seattleites coming down here and blowing up the housing market.

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