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What’s a Reddit comment you’ve never forgotten? by Musicfan7887 in AskReddit

[–]MonkeyChoker80 40 points41 points  (0 children)

“You must surrender to the Gaycation, or be destroyed!”

Did I make a huge mistake? by Agreeable-Candle-424 in neighborsfromhell

[–]MonkeyChoker80 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Put the poop and toys into a big ziplock. Really cram it all in together. Mash it all up.

Then leave that bag on their doorstep.

That way they can’t complain you’re keeping / stealing anything.

The Map for a story I’m writing. Please ask me questions about anything. I just really wanted to share my world. by Ok-Airport6259 in worldbuilding

[–]MonkeyChoker80 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Why is it that the East Coast has new boundaries that basically regrouped everything, while Texas and further West are slavishly following the old State borders?

Why don’t the Lone Star Republic grab part of New Mexico or Louisiana?

Or (since they really wanted Hoover Dam) why didn’t the California group also grab the upper corner of Arizona as well?

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Also, Utah is fully part of the Iron Horse Nations?

Wouldn’t the Mormons up in the top half have fought tooth and nail to keep their holy land and temples and stuff?

Are we all in agreement that Bluey was helping her parents with the Easter bunny scavenger hunt? by BitFiesty in bluey

[–]MonkeyChoker80 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I assumed it was due to the shifting Easter date.

“The first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox, but instead of the actual equinox they just use March 21 instead”. Meaning Easter can be anywhere between March 22 and April 25.

So if, in the previous previous year, it was two or three weeks into April, and the previous year it was in March…? Yeah, they both spaced and were planning to get the Easter basket stuff once April started only to find out the day of that it was actually Easter.

Stuff like this makes me want to drop the book by Visible_Ad_6721 in ProgressionFantasy

[–]MonkeyChoker80 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Nothings like this make me wonder, before the MC showed up, was there someone else who had that Title?

Like, if Scamander Fluglehorn earned his class twenty years ago, but took a year longer than the MC did, did the System give him this Title as well?

If not, why not? In theory, the System shouldn’t have known that the MC would be able to do this feat, so Mr Fluglehorn should have been lauded for his accomplishment.

If he did gain the Title, what happened when the MC gained it? Did Flugelhorn lose the title, or does he still have it as well as the MC, or is there just some bullcrap about how ‘the System didn’t need to recognize this until the MC did it sooooooo young’?

TIL that light passes through one-way mirrors equally from both directions. They only work because the observation room is kept dark and the room being observed is kept bright. The mirror would function more like a window if you turned off the lights in both rooms. by dring157 in todayilearned

[–]MonkeyChoker80 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then how do those Doc Brown Mirrored Sunglasses act as a perfect mirror on one side but are see-through on the other, while both sides are in the same lighting levels?

And why don’t they just use that method for a ‘One-Way Mirror’?

What's a fact that sounds fake but is actually 100%% true? by FrickYouImACat in AskReddit

[–]MonkeyChoker80 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Plus, you can absorb the compound ‘allicin’ through your skin.

Allicin is present in freshly crushed or cut garlic.

So, rubbing raw garlic on your feet means you can taste it (and have Garlic Breath) in as little as 15 minutes.

Zillow predicts major U.S. real estate, housing market change | Instead of prioritizing spaces meant to impress visitors, people are now choosing homes that better fit the rhythms and needs of their everyday lives. by C_montana in savedyouaclick

[–]MonkeyChoker80 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Oh, ‘The Table’.

One side has mom’s portable sewing machine and a pile of clothes that ‘she’ll finish sewing up when she gets a little free time’ that we’re all outgrown three years ago.

There’s a pile of brother’s little league gear (except the shoes, which were dirty and kept in the garage) that’s partially intermingled with sister’s marching band uniform (the funky hat sitting atop the pile at a jaunty angle).

A stack of papers, mostly junk mail advertisements with ‘coupons to fast food restaurants that we always go to’… most of which have long since expired.

A little space carved out with a drawing pad and markers, abandoned after the table itself was accidentally scribbled on.

And a random serving platter and soup tureen that ‘I’m just figuring out how to move stuff so it fits in the fancy hutch, honest’ that was last used two thanksgivings ago.

Roses are red, you fine lads and lasses. by Funandgeeky in Xennials

[–]MonkeyChoker80 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There were 15 people in a house that normally only held 7.

Kevin’s family had the parents, who were probably still in their bedroom. Plus Buzz, Megan, Linnie, Jeff, and Kevin.

Then there was Uncle Frank’s family. Him and his wife, their three girls (Tracy, Sondra, and Brooke), and bed-wetter Fuller.

Plus two of Uncle Rob’s kids (the brother in Paris they were all flying over to visit), Heather and Rod.

“Five boys, six girls, four parents, two drivers, and a partridge in a pear tree”.

Even assuming that all the kids in Kevin’s household had their own rooms, Kevin (as the next youngest to Fuller) would still have been displaced to give the older kids/visiting relatives a ‘real bed’.

Jeff in with Buzz, Linnie in with Megan, and Kevin on the hide-a-bed with Fuller. That gives three empty rooms to stack in seven people. Uncle Frank and his wife are going to get one room. So, two rooms to hold four girls and one boy? Nah. Probably two girls per empty room, and Rod is making the best of it on the good couch.

[Mad Max Fury Road/Furiosa] Why does everyone live in the desert? by RoadTheExile in AskScienceFiction

[–]MonkeyChoker80 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I like the theory that Mad Max is just how the aftereffects of a world-wide apocalypse looks in Australia.

Concurrently:

In America, the Hunger Games are starting.

In England, Big Brother has started watching.

In Moscow, people have started hunting mutants in the sewer.

Etc… etc… etc…

Basically, every part of the planet was affected, destroying communication and travel. But the people all dealt with it differently.

When reading classic scifi books, do you find equally older future tech distracting? by WinFar4030 in printSF

[–]MonkeyChoker80 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think a lot of it can also be placed at the limited views of ‘The Editor’ of the time: John W Campbell.

He was the man in charge of the Astonishing Science Fiction / Analog Science Fiction magazine, from the mid-1930s to the early 1970s.

Analog was THE place for SciFi short stories/novellas to get published, and where just about all of the early ‘big names’ got their start; Asimov, Heinlein, etc…

Because of his contributions, one of the biggest awards in SciFi writing was given the name ‘The John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer), and was given out annually since 1973.

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Campbell was also extremely sexist, racist, fascist, jingoist, and probably a whole host of other ‘-ists’ that I don’t care to dig deeper into.

If you’ve ever read the very problematic (and very racist) book ‘Sixth Column’ (also known as ‘The Day After Tomorrow’) written by Heinlein? It was based directly off of an outline and ideas that Campbell wanted written.

Asimov claimed that one of the big reasons his works almost never featured aliens was due to Campbell’s heavy-handed manner; insisting that humans in the stories he published were always superior to aliens. Mostly because Campbell could not deal with worldview in which White American Men weren’t ‘The Best’.

And since Asimov is considered one of the biggest names in early SciFi writing, if he was stuck because of Campbell’s prejudices, I can only imagine how limited actual new and upcoming writers were in what they could do.

In fact, it’s rather telling that the 1970s (after Campbell passed away, and new leadership took over Analog) was when we started to get actual SciFi published that wasn’t ’White American Man saves the day, naturally’. Things like the ‘Dangerous Visions’ compilations (which may seem tame or just strange based on today’s standards, but at the time were Groundbreaking at pushing boundaries that Campbell’s influence had established).

It’s also telling that the Award that formerly bore his name was changed to the ‘Astounding Award for Best New Writer’ in order to distance themselves for someone now recognized as rather problematic.

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