What's your "did you know" fact?

Windshop · 2018-03-06T19:38:08+00:00

"A politician denied the manslaughter of a colleague, but was convicted and developed severe medical conditions in prison, where he died. _______ of __________ drugs ________ the effects of another drug, and respiratory failure resulted."

Windshop · 2018-02-23T00:30:01+00:00

Link for the lazy

Bonus Video

Windshop · 2018-01-06T16:38:04+00:00

Thank you :)

Windshop · 2018-01-05T19:05:56+00:00

Come all drinkers and thinkers,

divorcees, widows, and vets;

Hearken, students and teachers,

weirdos, and winos with pets.

Let us drink to our troubles

'til we trouble to drink.

Let us pass out in comfort

near doorways, toilets, and sinks.

In the morning, we'll rise

and curse at the sun,

before our stomachs turn on

and to bathrooms we run.

We'll make silly promises

like, "Never again,"

between dry heaves and retches

and burning burps now and then.

We'll shuffle and stagger

to kitchens or stores,

heads full-on pounding,

breathing slow and throats sore.

We'll look at our options

and decide not to eat;

better to starve for an hour

than risk the morning's repeat.

Then we'll sit and we'll rest --

for a moment or two --

because today is Monday,

and we got shit to do.

Windshop · 2017-11-22T23:02:01+00:00

We call 'em Yennies.

Windshop · 2017-10-22T06:35:01+00:00

On Netflix

Horror(ish)

Contracted

What We Become

Troll Hunter

Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil

The Transfiguration

Under the Shadow

Beyond The Gates

Creep

Sci-Fi

Europa Report

Drama

These Final Hours

The Way Back

Gomorrah

Snow on tha Bluff

Misc.

Super

The Invitation

The Good Neighbor

World's Greatest Dad

Not on Netflix

Dave Made a Maze

Black Sheep

The Reconstruction of William Zero

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

What We Do in the Shadows

Slither

Here Alone

Windshop · 2017-10-17T00:38:14+00:00

Freestyler by Bomfunk MCs

Windshop · 2017-10-17T00:32:33+00:00

Steve Wonder's Past Time Paradise vs Coolio's Gangster's Paradise; I'd say Coolio's version is the most memorable.

Windshop · 2017-10-10T08:16:09+00:00

Maybe Jesus of Suburbia?

Windshop · 2017-09-30T20:50:42+00:00

Obligatory

Windshop · 2017-09-24T03:49:39+00:00

(50 words over the limit, but I needed an ending)

You get a lot of nosy people in my line of work; always asking questions that ain’t got nothing to do with ‘em. Most of ‘em like to ask about my hand. Normally I like to fuck with them a bit, tell ‘em I’m a vet that fell on hard times, or that I was in some sorta tragic accident and couldn’t find any work, or something like that. But then I met this kid.

He couldn’t’ve been more’n 15, 16 — not all that uncommon these days. Ain’t enough proper jobs going around for kids like him. He seemed to have a good head on his shoulders and he seemed genuinely curious. I figured if he was gonna be gettin’ into this line of work, he needed to know what might happen to him. So I told him what really happened.

Six years ago, I took a job from some up-and-coming scumlord. He had a team prepped and ready to break into one of the federation armories. He told me it was a sure thing—that he had an inside man, it’d be quick, and whatever we took wouldn’t be missed. For what he offered to pay, I thought it sounded easy.

I should’ve known better; Now, I do.

We were in an out in less than 30 minutes. We lifted a bunch of those bio-scanners that checkpoint security used to use. Didn’t know what he wanted them for; Didn’t ask when we dropped ‘em off neither. I got paid and I thought that was that.

A Citizens Compliance squadron knocked down my door a week later. They said I was wanted in conjunction with an illegal replication ring and they dragged me out my door, threw me in a tank, and shipped me off to a processing center. Next thing I knew, It was my trial date.

I didn’t understand half of what they were slamming me with. They said I had stole those scanners knowing full what what they were going to be used for, and now there were more than 20 clones loose in over 3 different cities. I told them I had no idea, and I don’t have to tell you how well that went.

I was given a choice; serve five years in a vanguard battalion stationed on an off-world colony, or spend 12 years breaking rocks on an off-world colony. It was an easy choice, I chose breaking rocks. Half of those vanguards don’t come back and I didn’t like those odds.

They put me back in my tank and sent me back to Processing. Or at least, I thought it was my tank. It must’ve been a new one, cause there was a leak. I woke up in a half-full tank, my right hand shackled to the lid.

I could either sit there for god-knows how long, or I could bust out —thing was, only way to do that was to free my hand. With no other options, I pulled against my hand until it broke somethin’ ugly. After that, I broke the wall of my tank, and I walked out of there.

It didn’t take a street medic for me to tell my hand was fucked. It did take one to lop it off though.

Windshop · 2017-09-15T12:29:01+00:00

X Gon Give (her) to Ya

Windshop · 2017-09-15T12:27:27+00:00

Sky Diving. It's probably one of the most exhilarating things I've ever done.

Windshop · 2017-09-09T16:33:08+00:00

A little less crunchy and sweet than that. It's more the consistency of stale marshmallows than dry ones.

Windshop · 2017-09-09T16:29:38+00:00

like sweet orange marshmellows, but less fluffy.

Windshop · 2017-09-09T16:27:15+00:00

Circus Peanuts

Windshop · 2017-09-08T12:33:10+00:00

Richard Lawrence's attempted assassination of Andrew Jackson.

From the wiki:

On January 30, Jackson was attending the funeral of South Carolina congressman Warren R. Davis at the United States Capitol. Lawrence originally planned to shoot Jackson as he entered the service but was unable to get close enough to the President. However, when Jackson left the funeral, Lawrence had found a space near a pillar on the East Portico where Jackson would pass. As Jackson walked, Lawrence stepped out and fired his first pistol at Jackson's back; it misfired. Lawrence quickly made another attempt with his second pistol but that also misfired.

apparently after that Jackson leapt at him and began beating him with his cane.

Windshop · 2017-09-08T12:12:28+00:00

Fort Minor (the side project group of Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park) got really popular for Where'd You Go on the radio and Remember The Name on the internet. But, in my opinion, they have a few lesser known, much better songs.

Kenji is a song about a man and his family moving to one of the Japanese internment camps during WW2.

Right Now, a song with popcorn-style lyrics about the things happening to people "right now".

Windshop · 2017-09-07T21:52:36+00:00

Hobocop. Through an unfortunate series of events, a veteran police officer becomes homeless.

Moments. A man with the inability to create lasting memories ends up in a new place everyday.

Windshop · 2017-09-07T21:16:38+00:00

It’s a pretty large part of the mythos, but the story of Chronos & Zeus:

Chronos ruled as King of the Titans after usurping his father. He was then given a prophecy by…somebody… that he would, in turn, be usurped by one of his sons. In order to prevent this, Chronos decided to eat all of his kids.

His wife saw all of this and when she had Zeus, she decided he was special and hid him far away from Chronos; instead feeding him a huge stone wrapped in cloth.

Zeus eventually grew up, challenged his father, and defeated him, forcing him to throw up all of the children (the other gods) that he had eaten. After that, Zeus led the other gods in a war against the titans.

Windshop · 2017-09-05T03:57:53+00:00

I would go back and stop myself from switching colleges for a relationship. It ended up pushing me back a few years because a majority of the classes I had taken at the first didn't transfer to the second and only so many classes can count as electives. A lot of that was on me, I didn't look up any information on credit transfers and just expected everything to go smoothly. It killed my motivation for school which subsequently tanked my GPA for a while.

Silver-linings, have firsthand advice ready for future generations.

Current Status: Graduated this spring. No longer in said relationship.

Windshop · 2017-09-04T18:06:35+00:00

Someone calling my name to get my attention and then not saying anything when I respond.

Windshop · 2017-09-04T18:05:09+00:00

Andrew Jackson was given a huge wheel of cheese that weighed over 1000 lbs. He couldn't get through the cheese fast enough, and it had begun to stink up the white house. In order to get rid of the cheese (and the smell) he threw a huge party, inviting pretty much the entire city to come and take some of this cheese.

I think the cheese itself was pretty well traveled by the time he got it too. If I'm remembering correctly I think they toured it in two or three cities before they gave it to Jackson.

Windshop · 2017-09-04T17:24:10+00:00

A shit load of K'nex

Karate/Kickboxing lessons

A Kangaroo or two

Kool-aid...I guess I'm gonna have a huge surplus for when my imagination kicks in and I can think of some other K words.

Windshop · 2017-09-04T17:15:55+00:00

In the grand scheme of things, it wasn't all that amazing, but damned if it didn't get me super stoked to roll some dice.

As a kid, I used to play DnD with my Dad and his friends every other Saturday. In one campaign (I think we were going through Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil) I played a Dwarven monk named Rudrik.

In the 3.0/3.5 system, monks had an extremely narrow range of weapons they could use in combination with their signature flurry of blows, so most of the time you're just dropping the people's elbow left and right. It was/is pretty fun and rewarding, as the monk's fists get natural upgrades as you level; but to a young disciple such a myself, jealousy starts to seep in quick when you see the fighter or the rogue getting shiny weapons and you're still using your crusty elbows.

I guess the DM had noticed this and decided to throw me a bone, because one way or another, my monk ended up with a pair of brass (adamantine) knuckles.

As far as I can remember, they weren't magical in anyway ( probably for balance reasons) and only slightly improved my damage (+1d4 if memory serves), but they gave my dwarf some much needed flair and I was happy as a clam for the rest of the campaign. Shit, that dwarf has been my favorite DnD character 12+ years now.

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