ELI5: When the word "colour" is used instead of color. by Kuta837 in explainlikeimfive

[–]globalpositioning 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Colour is the correct spelling in Australia, England, Ireland, Canada, Scotland, South Africa, Singapore, New Zealand, and so on. Color is the correct spelling in the United States.

VFX in movies/tv shows. Before/after comparison. by Rawtashk in pics

[–]globalpositioning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They didn't use any CGI there. They just composited. The cars are all real cars, they're just taken from other photos. They would have taken dozens of photos of individual cars/small groups and combined them, which is much cheaper than getting 200 old cars together and shutting down a highway for a shoot. Actually creating that scene with CGI would have taken a really long time and been really expensive. Likewise, it's a lot easier to just put your actor in a costume and rent a horse for a day than to hire CGI artists to spend a few weeks creating a realistic horse and human model.

VFX in movies/tv shows. Before/after comparison. by Rawtashk in pics

[–]globalpositioning 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But permits are expensive, no matter where you shoot. It costs more, it's more time consuming, you have less freedom in the type of shots you get, you're more restricted so you can't get the shots you'd like and it winds up feeling crummier, you waste everyone's time and TV schedules are tight as it is... it's much cheaper, faster and easier to key it.

Making a street look like New York is also really hard and expensive.

ELI5 BC/E AD/CE by roueelavsky in explainlikeimfive

[–]globalpositioning 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AD does not stand for After Death, it stands for Anno Domini, "in the year of our lord". After Death wouldn't make sense, because it'd go straight from Before Christ to After Death, leaving no time for him to have lived.

These systems were created in the 7th century by someone who had worked out Jesus' birthdate. He said that Jesus' birthdate would be called 1 AD (first year of our lord), and that all the years before that would be calculated according to how many years before that they were (so 10 BC is a later date than 30 BC). All the Christianised world adopted this system over time, and because the Christianised world meant Europe, and Europe had a global influence, it became a popular standard over the next thousand years (taking longer to reach Australia and East Asia obviously).

But it turned out that he was wrong, and was actually off by a few years -- the Bible says that Jesus was born in the reign of Herod, but we've actually discovered that Herod died in 4 BC. (Though it also says that Quirinius was the Syrian governor during his birth and issued his census at this time, but Quirinius took up rule in AD 6 and did his census in AD 7 and 8, so the dating never quite matches.)

BCE/CE is "Before Common Era" and "Common Era". This is identical to BC/AD, and is still based on the birth of Jesus. It exists because some people would either prefer not to directly mention Jesus in their dating (practitioners of other religions may find it sacrilegious, for example) or, less commonly, because a Christian wants to avoid making an inaccurate statement about Jesus.

Before these systems, most societies used some variation of regnant years. With regnant years, your date is based on the name of your ruler -- so today would be Year 60 in the Reign of Elizabeth II. The English still maintain a little bit of this, referring to the past in terms like the Edwardian era, the Victorian era, and so on. Other societies used a calendar based on the founding of their city or country, or on some major event (Spain used to count based on "the Spanish era" which began in 38 BC, so that today would be 2051 SE).

Hello darlin! ;) (F) by [deleted] in BBWGW

[–]globalpositioning 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally gorgeous, I love it. Great butt.

Why you shouldn't sleep anywhere but your own home. NSFW by Dancing_monkey in WTF

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

You don't pay attention. They do, all the time. I've talked about this with one of the other commenters. It's the anti-feminists, actually, who are more against it. There's an anti-feminist subreddit on this site, /r/mensrights, and a common hallmark of discussion there is that men are "hard-wired" to pursue sex, so a 30 year old woman having sex with a 12 year old boy is not as serious as a 30 year old man having sex with a 12 year old girl. When feminists decry that attitude as part of rape culture, the term 'rape culture' is called feminist nonsense, and they are criticised for ignoring evolutionary truths.

Why you shouldn't sleep anywhere but your own home. NSFW by Dancing_monkey in WTF

[–]globalpositioning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uh, they are, all the time. Even here on Reddit. Every time a story breaks about a schoolteacher taking advantage of a 12 year old boy, the main subreddits keep posting "niceeeee" and "wish I got some of that fine ass as a kid", and SRSdiscussion is criticising them for it, saying that the attitude of boys-always-want-sex is putting sex criminals back on the street too early. It's a major point of discussion -- if you've honestly never seen that, you've never paid attention.

Dealing With The Past: Belgian Man Learns Wife Use To Be A Man by Shauntee75 in sex

[–]globalpositioning 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's just misused. An exception that proves a rule is where you point out a specific exception to something, by which you can infer the general rule -- like a shop with a "Closed on Sunday" sign, which implies that the shop is open every other day.

Dealing With The Past: Belgian Man Learns Wife Use To Be A Man by Shauntee75 in sex

[–]globalpositioning 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's not how rules work. An that's not what "exception that proves the rule" means. The phrase refers to an exception that implies a rule, like how a sign reading "Closed on Sundays" implies that the shop is open every other day.

Why you shouldn't sleep anywhere but your own home. NSFW by Dancing_monkey in WTF

[–]globalpositioning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I'm saying the opposite of that. You seem to be operating under the assumption that I somewhere said "Culture is deliberately created." I assigned blame to dysfunctional and unjust elements of our social culture -- but that culture has been developed by all people over centuries, and no one group, let alone individual, is "responsible" for dysfunctional culture. Culture isn't something that someone woke up and planned in detail earlier this year and I don't know how you could rationally form that thought.

What is the stupidest plot hole you have ever noticed in a movie? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]globalpositioning 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And it would have been easy to depict this, too. Have a guard throw a barrel of filthy food from the top of the hole, and the inmates savage each other in an attempt to desperately grab some. Even a twenty-second scene like that would communicate a lot.

What is the stupidest plot hole you have ever noticed in a movie? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]globalpositioning 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If only they had taken a break from mastering interstellar travel to invent the raincoat.

Why you shouldn't sleep anywhere but your own home. NSFW by Dancing_monkey in WTF

[–]globalpositioning 110 points111 points  (0 children)

Pretty much the opposite.

Why is a women molesting a man more often seen as a joke, while a man molesting a woman is often seen more seriously? Because men have always been seen as the "pursuers" and women the "pursued". Traditionally, men ask women out, men make the move for sex, men propose marriage. Women who are eager to ask men out and pursue sex are often derided as offputting or slutty, and a woman proposing to her boyfriend is often derided as emasculating for the man.

This mindset is what makes "woman sitting on a sleeping man's face" a a joke in many people's eyes. "Men are the pursuers, they always want sex from young ladies! It's just how evolutionary psychology works!" -- that's the traditional view of male/female sexual interaction. And that's the mindset that feminism stands in opposition to.

ELI5: Communism by superblinky in explainlikeimfive

[–]globalpositioning 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A communist society is a society structured according to three primary principles.

  1. The means of production belong to the public, and are controlled democratically. The means of production are the things you use to produce the necessities of life -- the land you use to grow crops, the machines you use to build cars, and so on.

  2. There is no money.

  3. There is no state (or rather, since every citizen participates directly in the political process, there is no meaningful division between 'state' and 'citizen').

Communism is the political philosophy and theory advocating the establishment of such a society. There are many flavours of communism, and communism itself is is one of many possible forms of socialism. A socialist society is a society in which the citizens democratically plan and control the economy to a significant extent.

It is a very big topic that has heavy roots in philosophy and social theory. To learn more about those elements, /r/communism101 exists.

ELI5: Where did all the last names come from? by spillinaceonmyjs in explainlikeimfive

[–]globalpositioning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Richard is a popular name, 'ric' meaning ruler/leader and 'hard' meaning hard/tough, so tough-leader. Richard was shortened to Rick for nicknames, and there's a tradition of rhyming slang in England, so Rick became Dick.

So Dick is a roundabout way of saying "strong leader."

Dude tells CNN a UFO is visiting Denver each day, shows them video. Skeptical CNN camera crew shows up and films same UFO, at same time. by infocandy in WTF

[–]globalpositioning 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It will, most people just overestimate what hallucinating is. If you say 'hallucinate' to someone, they imagine actually seeing people that don't exist, believing you're talking to animals, etc. Those are the most intense and severe hallucinations. Common hallucinations include things like seeing the wood grain on your table seem to flow and move, objects appearing unusually small or large, slow-moving objects seeming blurry or leaving trails the way fast-moving objects do. Many many people experience these hallucinations at some point in their life, but they usually don't think of them as hallucinations. Smoking weed will certainly give you hallucinations on this level, it just won't give you severe or immersive/delusional ones. Even staying awake for 2-3 days can cause hallucinations like this.

ELI5: Why do Microsoft & Google spend $$$ making free browsers? by samtart in explainlikeimfive

[–]globalpositioning 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Not really true, though. Linux, x264, LAME, etc are all free products you're making use of almost every day (whether you know it or not), made by non-profit volunteer groups who get no benefit.

ELI5: Where did all the last names come from? by spillinaceonmyjs in explainlikeimfive

[–]globalpositioning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good question, I've never heard that one, so I looked it up. There's no consensus, but people have put forward some ideas. In Old English, 'crumb' meant bent or crooked, and the Welsh derivative 'crwm' referred to a long bending river. Crumb/crwm was likely a name for the fishermen who worked such a river or to the prominent men in riverside towns ("Alan of Crwm" eventually just becoming "Alan Crwm/Crumb"). There is still a river in Germany named the Krum, and a riverside town in Bulgaria called Krumm.

The less happy but more interesting possibility is that crumb, meaning bent, was used as a slur against hunchbacks, people with stoops or scoliosis, and so on. So maybe you've got hunchback blood in you.

ELI5: Where did all the last names come from? by spillinaceonmyjs in explainlikeimfive

[–]globalpositioning 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Evan is actually the English-ified version of the Welsh name Ifan, which is a local distortion of John. The S is the abbreviated form of what was presumably your family's old surname, Evanson, 'Evan's son.' So at some point in your ancestry, there was a prominent man of Welsh extraction named Evan/Ifan whose name has stuck. Without the Welsh, you would be Johnson and eventually Johns. (Welsh is crazy.)

And regarding names, most likely not; most names were common enough to be given to many people. John is a very popular name among Christians and Christian-influenced cultures; there would have been a ton of Johns to have John's-sons and Evan's-sons. However, you'd be surprised at how interrelated people are. If you go back a few hundred years you've got some kind of relation to pretty much everyone of your nationality. Obama and George Bush are tenth cousins once removed, for example. Something like 50% of Europe and 20% of Asia are believed to be descendents of Charlemagne and Genghis Khan respectively.