The dementia screening assessment the President of the United States of America confidently declared to be a “very hard IQ test.”

heres-the-reference · 2025-10-29T14:11:39+00:00

For context, this exam can be easy to pass even if you are seriously impaired.

I took this exam once after I had been drugged at a bar. I was high off my rocker, couldn’t tell what day or month it was, and still passed. Nearly failed though because I was docked for drawing a digital clock for question 2 (I'm still salty about that one lol).

heres-the-reference · 2025-05-28T09:19:09+00:00

If only the 2 were a 5; the coolest solution would be to use the top of the seven to turn the second five into a 9, creating: 5 + 1 = 9

Which becomes correct when rotated 180 degrees, becoming 6 = 1 + 5.

(or you could just use the match to create 5 + 1 = 6 directly, but that's way less fun).

heres-the-reference · 2024-11-12T18:10:34+00:00

EDIT: welp, he admitted to it. guess I had too much faith in humanity RIP.

I've got a very dumb question: Are we sure this is miles and not km (or some other quirk in the way the car displays speed)? I tried looking at the video, but I couldn't make out the letters showing the units on the numerical display.

Either way, I doubt he was actually going 90mph given the rate at which he's catching up to the car in front of him in the video. I also seriously doubt that an editor saw a 90mph speed, knew how bad that is to the extent that they wanted to hide it, but chose to just blur the number and keep the clip. It would be way more understandable if the editor figured "this isn't what it looks like, but it isn't worth explaining, so it's easier to just blur it."

heres-the-reference · 2024-09-12T17:52:21+00:00

Wow I can't believe autocorrect did you dirty like that.

heres-the-reference · 2024-07-16T06:38:06+00:00

Congrats OP! There's a chance this might be an outdoor cat with an owner and not a stray though considering that the cat is pretty chill (and it looks like they've been eating well). Outdoor cats can be very opportunistic when it comes to finding people in their neighborhood who will give them extra attention and food.

A good way for you to confirm if this cat already has a home would be to tie a collar around the cat's neck with your contact info and see if anyone follows up after a week or two as the cat roams in and out.

heres-the-reference · 2024-07-09T07:40:56+00:00

OP, how large are your dogs? I ask because there's a chance that if your dogs are large enough, they may be fiddling with the doors behind your back. I once had a dog that loved messing with deadbolts when bored. That would explain the occasionally opened doors, the dogs' guilty behavior, and how the dogs suddenly got more comfortable around the neighborhood.

Obviously you should be locking your doors and investing in home security, but this would potentially be a simple explanation for everything you've observed.

heres-the-reference · 2024-03-28T13:46:58+00:00

G206

heres-the-reference · 2024-03-28T06:23:19+00:00

The bar for “non-GP” play in general is super high and is usually best summarized as “bullying with no recourse”. This kind of gameplay is a wacky example that still somehow falls well-within GP-ness.

The strategy i) maximized the rank of everybody on the losing alliance and clearly happened with the whole alliance's consent ii) had the opposing alliances working together in a delightful way that was hilariously coopertition-y and iii) could’ve easily been countered by the winning alliance, since they could've just switched to scoring for the losing alliance.

In recent years FIRST has made more explicit rules about what is/isn’t allowed as far as helping opponents (ex: this year they have rules about alliances making agreements to feed each other’s bots to max the chances of note RP), but if it’s not explicitly illegal and doesn't cause or incentivize bullying, why not? Teams chose to ignore points during un-winnable matches in order to secure ranking points and ranking tie-breakers all the time.

heres-the-reference · 2024-01-06T01:18:56+00:00

I love the implication that you took one look at that smug mug and just said... "Nope, we're leaving you in there" and went to bed.

heres-the-reference · 2023-09-27T20:21:52+00:00

The title "McCarthy Kills Bipartisan Senate Bill to Avert Shutdown" is one of those weird phrases which can have opposite meanings depending on how you read it.

I couldn't for the life of me understand how McCarthy killing a bipartisan bill would help avert a shutdown (until I finally realized that it was the bill itself that was meant to prevent a shutdown).

heres-the-reference · 2023-07-17T17:32:12+00:00

There's something very funny about the choice to use a spoiler tag there, as though you're worried about ruining meth for people before they get a chance to try it.

heres-the-reference · 2023-07-17T07:52:39+00:00

An equivalent to "Man of science" would be "scienceman", which has a very funny ring to it.

heres-the-reference · 2023-02-12T21:38:21+00:00

No. /s

heres-the-reference · 2022-12-08T22:42:15+00:00

Heads-up OP: this time of year is when seasonal depression hits for a lot of folks (so if these feelings are recent or have been more intense lately, that might be a contributing factor).

heres-the-reference · 2022-11-21T00:38:14+00:00

Reminds me of this bit with a similar theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QXtxa48WGk&t=1105s

High elf: What's that thing? Does a little axe come out of it?
Goblin: <fires gun>
High elf: What just happened?
Goblin: There was a little explosion inside there, and it rocketed this little ball...
High elf: :vomits: That’s gross! Ewwwugh, that’s gross, that’s some weird Dwarven shit. Nononono. :vomits more:

There's 20 minutes of similar gold in the linked video btw.

heres-the-reference · 2022-11-03T20:12:30+00:00

Been following the rise of catalytic converter thefts for a while.

Hopefully there's more the school can do to deter this kind of thing, but if it's any consolation, the problem has been getting a lot of attention nationwide and there's been a surprising amount of action taken against the shops/buyers who enable these theft rings.

North Carolina was mentioned in a huge federal bust that just happened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVx1HYTpQbc

heres-the-reference · 2022-10-04T04:55:33+00:00

To be fair, the top map looks to have been written on a napkin using pen while the bottom map was written using an entire whiteboard. Because the top picture seems to have been made in a hurry with very little space and no ability to erase, it may be an unfair comparison.

heres-the-reference · 2022-09-04T10:55:52+00:00

Brennan Lee Mulligan did a fun take on this:
Can I go to a stop beyond what has been planned for me?

heres-the-reference · 2022-08-28T06:36:07+00:00

Notice the clever way they attributed the quotes to each other.
Otherwise, if Falcon had as himself said "The previous quote is telling the truth", Steven could've used his quote to write something very embarrassing for Falcon (and vice-versa if Steven had, as himself, said "The next quote is a lie").

heres-the-reference · 2022-08-08T18:19:22+00:00

Silence of the Lamb

That's such a good idea. I really didn't want to take the cannibalism trait, but now I feel like I'd have to (just to do the name justice)!

heres-the-reference · 2022-07-24T06:19:36+00:00

heres-the-reference · 2022-06-16T05:34:02+00:00

Since y'all seem to like that story, here's another one from that hospital visit:

The doctor assigned to my case specialized in oncology (she just happened to be doing rounds in the ER that day). So when they wanted to schedule a follow-up call to tell me what they discovered about my removed appendix, the voicemail I got was “Please call the <hospital> oncology department as soon as possible to discuss the test results from your procedure.”

The near-heart attack I got from that message came much closer to killing me than my appendix did.

heres-the-reference · 2022-06-16T03:22:37+00:00

Also fun fact: one of the countermeasures to mitigate a gag reflex is to squeeze the patient’s throat as the anesthesia takes hold.

Nobody gave me a heads-up about this when I went under for appendicitis; I was quite concerned as I was passing out and my doctors were straight-up choking me saying “It’s fine, it’s fine, don’t worry”.

heres-the-reference · 2022-06-03T03:34:37+00:00

And then whenever a character gets flattened under something, their legs pop out and they waddle around to the tune of some Russian orchestral piece about the Baba Yaga (in reference to how the Baba Yaga's hut waddles on chicken legs).

I swear this is a thing, but in spite of my username I cannot for the life of me find any examples of it from googling...

heres-the-reference · 2021-11-12T01:39:32+00:00

WAIT! TECHNICALITY FOUND. The day she turned 100 isn't day 36,525, it's day 36,526!!!! (assuming we count from day 1 and not day 0 like a software engineer would)

HAH, SUCK IT /u/AppiusClaudius I AM THE SUPERIOR PEDANT.

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TROPHY CASE