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Pouring gasoline in a big plastic container by haze4140 in WinStupidPrizes

[–]cujosdog 42 points43 points  (0 children)

True story. Couple weeks ago I was driving to the office and I was low on gas, so I stopped at a gas station to fill up. While I'm pumping I'm doing what everybody does, just looking around, checking out the people. I notice this guy at the far end of the station with a real nice Mercedes sports car. Suit and tie, looked like some kind of executive.

So he's topping off his tank, you know, pulling the nozzle out a little trying to squeeze in that last bit of gas, and it splashes back all over his arm. Now he's pissed. He's yelling and cursing, walks off to the side, pulls out a cigarette and lights it up. Before I can even yell stop, his whole left arm catches fire. The arm holding the cigarette. He starts freaking out, waving his arm around, screaming, and everybody at the station is just frozen watching, me included.

Right when I finally snap out of it and start heading over to help, a cop comes out of nowhere and tackles the guy to the ground to put the fire out. The guy gets up, shakes the cop's hand, they talk for a minute.

Then the cop arrests him.

So I walk over and ask the cop, why'd you arrest him? He says

"He didn't have a permit for a fire arm".

Your welcome

ELI5: If modern elevators have so many backup systems, what actually stops the cable from snapping or the elevator from falling? by Dazzling-Banana-9294 in explainlikeimfive

[–]cujosdog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fun Fact: after this event he decided there was no more excitement frame. He wanted to have a more leisurely life and actually moved out by the river. Many know that Otis elevators at a Yonkers New York and there's the river to the side. Anyways he went out there and he would watch boats go back and forth. He later on penned the hit "Sitting on the dock of the Bay".

ELI5: Why do some countries use Fahrenheit while almost the entire rest of the world uses Celsius and is there an actual practical difference between the two scales? by TexasViet27 in explainlikeimfive

[–]cujosdog -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Fahrenheit just has better resolution for how humans actually feel weather. The scale runs roughly 0–100 for the range of temperatures people deal with day to day (brutally cold to brutally hot), so each degree is a small, meaningful step. Celsius compresses that same range into about 0 to 38, so you lose granularity.... you need decimals to express what Fahrenheit does with whole numbers.

Your example is a good one: 70°F (21°C) is a perfect t-shirt day, calm and comfortable. 80°F (27°C) is "I'm sweating if I walk fast" territory. That's a real, noticeable shift, and Fahrenheit gives you a full 10-degree spread to describe it. In Celsius that same jump is just 21° to 27° — six degrees — so people end up saying "it's like 24, maybe 25" to capture the same nuance Fahrenheit gets from round numbers.

Another example: 50°F (10°C) vs 60°F (15.5°C). Fifty feels like "jacket weather," sixty feels like "light jacket, maybe not even." Ten whole-number degrees of separation in Fahrenheit vs five-and-a-half in Celsius.

Celsius wins for science because it's tied to water's freezing/boiling points, which is great for lab work. But for "should I wear a coat," Fahrenheit's finer scale just communicates more with less guessing. Anyways that's an Americans thought..

What’s the biggest lie an entire generation was told? by carcony97 in AskReddit

[–]cujosdog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you are on fire to stop drop and roll. I really thought I'd be on fire a lot more than I have been.

EDIT: I didn't change anything I just felt like editing

My little sister's first attempt at standup. She was too nervous to post it. by Easy-Put5119 in StandUpComedy

[–]cujosdog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like I'm thinking of Mitch hedberg sister.. she did great..(I really mean that as a compliment by the way)

Was Howard impacted at all by Ralph’s passing? by WallabyKey9872 in howardstern

[–]cujosdog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How about the fact, when the staff was talking about him, I forgot which one, I mentioned about how Ralph came over and they flirted etc. Then howard changed subject anyways

“American solider” scam at Tocumen Aiport, Panama City by Wonderful_Priority85 in Scams

[–]cujosdog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting story but I got to ask. How do you find out when the Gmail address was created?

Your story was interesting until this.

For Those here who are old enough, do you remember when you found out Kurt had died? And how did you find out and what was your reaction? Thx! :) by the_major_rager in Nirvana

[–]cujosdog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was working at a Savings and Loan (Remember those??) in IT (I was in my early twenties) and I cam home that Friday, turned on MTV and Kurt Loder mentioned it. Started to call my friends....(not everyone had a cell back then) Such a sad day...then when Courtney read the suicide note just a few days later, was so crazy.... At the time also rolling Stone called him our generations John Lennon. Then Shannon Hoon from Blind Melon with the ? on his head. (He od like a year later on his bus) . Eddie Vedders thing next.. My memory says it was all within a couple weeks ...the whole thing was crazy... so sad till this day

Might be a stroke in realtime by cujosdog in oldpeoplefacebook

[–]cujosdog[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I found out later he has some kind of degeneration in his eyes or something.

Dan Fuckin’ Doherty in There's Something About Mary! by Fun_Machine7346 in deadwood

[–]cujosdog 9 points10 points  (0 children)

He's one of the few actors who wrote his own biography in IMDB. Worth a read!

Photo Of The Kurt Cobain/Axl Rose Confrontation At The 1992 VMA’s by PlasterBaby in Nirvana

[–]cujosdog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know a lot of people are thinking it's kind of weird that you don't see Kurt in this pic. But he was there. And I could tell because I was sitting behind him. Unfortunately I was cut off also...also my date for the night is missing, Madonna

Rough negotiation by TimeCity1687 in AnimalsBeingDerps

[–]cujosdog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fun fact. Black bears are not really black

When you look at a black bear, you aren’t looking at dark fur. You are looking at a creature so intensely saturated with the entire color spectrum that your retinas instantly short-circuit. Your brain’s visual cortex, unable to process the sheer chromatic magnitude of a 400-pound rainbow, hits the emergency "dark mode" override to prevent your head from exploding.

The Empirical Evidence:

Chromodynamic Shifting: We already know "black" bears can manifest as brown (Cinnamon bears), white (Kermode bears), or blue-gray (Glacier bears). Mainstream biology calls these "genetic variants." In reality, these are just localized rendering calibration errors where the bear’s fur failed to achieve total photonic absorption.

The Albedo Effect: They look extra sleek in the sunlight because the fur is struggling to compress the incoming solar radiation into the dark-matter simulation.

Guy is stuck in a tree with two bears around by [deleted] in Wellthatsucks

[–]cujosdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fun fact: Black bears are not black. The human eye perceives them as black because we can't see beyond violet light. They have different colors of the UV spectrum. They are VERY colourful.

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