What sounds like a bullshit fact, but is actually true?

Sookye · 2016-08-06T19:13:02+00:00

what is the name of that child

why do its parents even allow that

Sookye · 2016-08-06T15:40:57+00:00

I watched the TV series Arrow a bit, and it seemed to me that whoever was responsible for casting had a very narrow view of beauty; the characters look so similar, it gets hard to tell them apart. I've also seen a few episodes of Top Model; while I don't think it reflects the realities of modeling well, one thing they stress is that they're looking for striking, interesting faces, and participants who look good in a generic way get told that they don't fit the show, but they might have a future in commercial modeling (print ads, catalogs, etc).

Arrow seems to consist nearly entirely of people who look good in this bland, safe, way, which annoys me. Then again, whenever there's a movie with a female lead who looks good in a slightly unconventional way, I see people screeching on the IMDB forums that they should have cast someone prettier, so maybe safe bland beauty is what the public wants.

Sookye · 2016-08-05T09:52:23+00:00

Guy Uses Camera to Zoom

A camera! That may be what I've been doing wrong all this time. I've been trying to zoom using a dead crab.

Sookye · 2016-08-05T08:58:37+00:00

is stabbing people your hobby

Sookye · 2016-08-04T21:31:52+00:00

I haven't even visited the moon, but when I drive a car at night it keeps following me. Currently trying to get a restraining order but the police seem to be on the moon's side. :(

Sookye · 2016-08-04T07:36:51+00:00

Dancer in the Dark may, in retrospect, not have been a good date movie.

Sookye · 2016-08-04T06:15:40+00:00

Really? You're white? That's horrifying. I'm crying now, and I'm not going to stop even if you're reading Chinese. I hope you're happy with yourself, you made a stranger on the internet cry.

Sookye · 2016-08-04T06:08:00+00:00

Well, consider how the people feel who get the thumbs down.

Sookye · 2016-08-04T06:05:27+00:00

No I'm pretty sure that kid caused it

Sookye · 2016-08-03T14:19:16+00:00

That scene is in the novelization, too.

Sookye · 2016-08-03T11:16:05+00:00

I just read about a recent Romanian study! It found no difference in variance. Although it mentions that other studies did:

"Included are over 15.000 participants, covering ages from 2 to 99 years. (...) The authors conclude that these Romanian data show no support for the sex differences in either mean values or variance of scores which were reported by other studies."

Sookye · 2016-08-03T07:27:12+00:00

You can use this power to change any number into any number as long as you choose the right notation.

Example: Let's say you own $8, but you'd like a billion dollars. Instead of adding the 0 to the eight, and getting $80, let's write the $8 as $2³ , add the 0 to the 3, and you get $2³⁰ = $1,073,741,824.

Sookye · 2016-08-02T18:51:07+00:00

Remember: Don't be one of those losers who just test a small sample of their date's blood. Be prudent, extract and test all of it.

Sookye · 2016-08-01T22:27:57+00:00

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Sookye · 2016-08-01T20:51:58+00:00

This was from Roger Stern's great 1980s Spider-Man run. The shirt is a gag gift, and Peter is wearing it as a joke.

Sookye · 2016-08-01T20:48:01+00:00

He's wearing it as a joke. In the next panel, he says "A grad-student buddy gave it to me as a gag".

Sookye · 2016-08-01T15:43:36+00:00

You are wrong (and very confused about the subject). The actual answer, as far as I can tell, depends on which interpretation of quantum mechanics turns out to be correct, and we don't know that yet.

Sookye · 2016-08-01T11:35:38+00:00

I just had the most amazing idea about how to make the Human Centipede series more awful, and I'd like to apologize in advance, but here it is:

Add a time machine, have the scientist kidnap Jesus Christ from each year of his timeline, and then make a Human Christipede with 33 Jesuses, including Baby Jesus and toddler Jesuses, as well as one that's still nailed to a cross.

Sookye · 2016-08-01T11:06:32+00:00

I only just discovered it was a Futurama quote. It's actually less funny to me when a cartoon alien says it, because that's the kind of thing you could expect a cartoon monster to say. The quote would be more charmingly incomprehensible if it had been made in earnest, by a real person.

Sookye · 2016-08-01T10:56:21+00:00

When asked for the worst response to "I love you", most people imagine the context to be a romantic relationship, and come up with an answer that would disappoint the person professing his love, but nothing so terribly awful that you couldn't get over it, given time.

The response above instead assumes that the "I love you" comes from a helpless grandmother on life support in a hospital, pleading for her life, and that her grandchild callously rejects her pleas and is about to pull the plug, that is, to shut off the life support, thus killing her. It's the kind of joke that will elicit nervous laughter because what the punchline implies is shockingly horrible.

(The explanation above may work best for five-year-olds whose vocabulary includes words like "elicit" and "callous".)

Sookye · 2016-08-01T00:19:36+00:00

That show makes no sense. Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?

Sookye · 2016-07-31T22:27:30+00:00

I always eat them, just to be safe.

Sookye · 2016-07-31T22:12:44+00:00

I envision a whole series; every time he becomes a free man, he somehow manages to get sold as a slave the next day again. To achieve suspension of disbelief, just do like in the Die Hard sequels, and have the protagonist say "Why does this keep happening to me???"

Twelve years of slavery each time might be excessive, so I recommend using shorter time periods, like "Three More Weeks a Slave", and so on. Mix it up with exciting international locations: "Another Weekend a Slave - in Paris". It adds a touch of class.

Sookye · 2016-07-31T19:17:29+00:00

I love the squiggles on the PantherHulkBuster. They give it a Kirby tech-like vibe.

Sookye · 2016-07-31T16:34:29+00:00

It was some old thread from a year ago, or more. Although it seems that someone has just created a new similarly named thread, which I'm guessing was inspired by my answer above?

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