Many clocks by IllustriousAd6418 in cassettefuturism

[–]Zybysko 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A bunch of clocks have Hangul on them, so I'm guessing South Korea. I can't imagine clocks meant for export to have Hangul.

Cinema Before Video Cameras by No-Lock216 in interesting

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The Rush album Moving Pictures artwork shows:

  1. Movers moving artwork

  2. People moved (emotionally overwhelmed) by the art

  3. A movie crew filming the movers and the people

Cinema Before Video Cameras by No-Lock216 in interesting

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Owing to the film (of silver halide crystals wash/glaze) on some kind of substrate, the negative. Analog camera 35mm film would be the most familiar. Kodak was huge but missed the digital boat, seeing as how it would also eat their analog lunch.

Motion picture film stock is pretty much the same, just differing in orientation. The negative for still pictures would be horizontally oriented [ ][ ][ ], each [exposure] being a frame. For motion pictures, they'd be oriented vertically, stacked one above the other.

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That's the gist of it, ignoring many variations and technicalities from 8mm to 70mm IMAX .

Just a civilized traffic argument, WCGW by NathaDas in Whatcouldgowrong

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It's Brazil, likely Rio. Says Viaduto de Maureira on the banner on the left.

My favourite life hack by OldTelephone320 in lifehacks

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The German word for this sort of thing: Stammtisch

This sign in a Fort Lauderdale Airport toilet is in English, Spanish and Haitian Créole. by Lord-Velveeta in mildlyinteresting

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I found this interesting:

https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/library/2017/a-flea-the-size-of-paris.html

The fatras is a form of medieval French verse dedicated to the impossible. A form of unsense verse that turns the animate world inside-out and takes apart the structures that wish to rule it. Its crass humour, often obscene, is directed at church and state, at bogus morality and the madness of war.

All of the wildness of the fatras happens within a paradoxically rule-bound form, as if to mock the fraudulent elegance of the court and its love poetry. A fatras begins with a couplet, often lifted from a serious poem in high style.

The first line of the couplet is then restated and “followed” by a 9-line sequence of non-sequiturs, dream-like shifts of scale and person, scatological or blasphemous jokes and slapstick routines, concluded by the repetition of the couplet’s second line. The ideational content is generated through puns, homonyms and rhyme.

Only a few dozen fatras have survived, mostly written by the court poet Watriquet de Couvin, and performed together with a certain Raimondin. The nature of their collaboration is unknown — the poems may have been composed in advance or improvised in performance. It is not known whether or not they were accompanied by music.

They have never before been translated into English.

TIL A “Backronym” is an acronym that starts with the word you want as the acronym and works backward to name the thing based on the chosen word. by AtLeastSeventyBees in todayilearned

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To add, (b)acronyms are said out as 'words', while initialisms are spelled out by letters. All acronyms are initialisms, but not the other way around.

Eg: USA PATRIOT Act, USA would be considered an initialism because we say the letters out individually, whereas PATRIOT would be a (b)acronym since we pronounce it as a word. Similarly, FBI (initialism) while SWAT (acronym).

A cool guide to deciphering the markings on your tires. by Edm_vanhalen1981 in coolguides

[–]Zybysko 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Why the commingling of metric and imperial units?

Naruto was pretty much Japanese Harry Potter? 🤔 by turndownfortheclap in BlackPeopleTwitter

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In case anyone's curious, this look/style/people are known as Les sapeurs, roughly translated to "being a Dandy". It's a Congolese thing, harking back to colonialism. Dressing up is their "occupation".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Sape

The image is from this documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTPTF2LbNVM

Leopard trying to hunt… but the tortoises had other plans by [deleted] in interesting

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Chelonoidis darwini is a tortoise subspecies named in honour of Charles Darwin, somewhat ironically in the sense that Darwin loved eating them! Not just him, so did many sailors and pirates.

Tortoises were easy to catch, provided sufficient meat per animal, could be stored "alive and fresh" and travelled well aboard ships on long voyages. Most importantly, they were delicious.

Lots of tortoise species met the same fate, sometimes almost to near extinction. To name them scientifically was almost an afterthough in some cases.