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  • Lagonda
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    #1981
    Re: The random thought thread

    Originally posted by 20 year tech
    Why do they make white underwear .... Seriously lol
    Well I can think of a few reasons why.........here's just one of them!!



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    • NeoMatrix
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      #1982
      Re: The random thought thread

      Originally posted by Lagonda
      Well I can think of a few reasons why.........here's just one of them!!



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      Re: Highly visible clothing in the work place .
      Luv the industrial "Hi-vis" clothing. It should always be mandatory for women female gender to wear clothing that makes those highly noticeable in the work place. According to my OHS safety officer, for safety reason of course. Luv how the reflective white contrasts to a point against the lower background tone. It definitely reflects well in any light. Sure makes for a stunning contrast against the dullness of the day.

      Any more noticeable "High Vis" clothing out there....?





      I would have clicked the like button to lagonda, but nobody finds
      "High-Vis" clothing very interesting, do they?....
      IMHO it's better to be safe at home with all that work related High Vis clothing removed...

      Just my humble opinion of coarse...
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      • Iowatech
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        #1983
        Re: The random thought thread

        Apparently back in the day people here thought importing hippopotamus into the U.S. was a good thing. In the fullness of time it turned out that was a very bad idea.
        Don't have a cow but, at one point in history, it could have been that Americans weren't having cows at all. Had the country's cuisine gone on a different trajectory, Americans may have all been eating hippo meat instead.

        Yikes, that was close!

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        • Lagonda
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          #1984
          Re: The random thought thread

          Originally posted by Iowatech
          Apparently back in the day people here thought importing hippopotamus into the U.S. was a good thing. In the fullness of time it turned out that was a very bad idea.
          Don't have a cow but, at one point in history, it could have been that Americans weren't having cows at all. Had the country's cuisine gone on a different trajectory, Americans may have all been eating hippo meat instead.

          Yikes, that was close!
          Since more people in Africa are killed by hippos then crocodiles you seem to have made the right decision there.
          At least 50% of IT is a solution looking for a problem.

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          • fixthecopier
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            #1985
            Re: The random thought thread

            Sometimes those who yell and scream the loudest are clueless as to what is going on. Too quick to jump to conclusions.



            NPR tweets Declaration of Independence, and Trump supporters are angered | The Olympian
            The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking

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            • fixthecopier
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              #1986
              Re: The random thought thread

              This is really interesting

              The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking

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              • fixthecopier
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                #1987
                Re: The random thought thread

                Think I found a use for leftover ink cartridges.


                The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking

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                • ZOOTECH
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                  #1988
                  Re: The random thought thread

                  Originally posted by fixthecopier
                  Think I found a use for leftover ink cartridges.


                  WOW, man - that took me back to the '60-70s concerts I saw.
                  "You can't trust your eyes, if your mind is out of focus" --

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                  • NeoMatrix
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                    #1989
                    Re: The random thought thread

                    Originally posted by fixthecopier
                    Think I found a use for leftover ink cartridges.

                    {snip }

                    Re: Oil colours on milk/water.

                    Nice high speed photography. Sound track fits the moment....

                    I remember students in arts class placing a sheet of paper over the top of the liquid and catching the image, then letting it dry.
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                    • NeoMatrix
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                      #1990
                      Re: The random thought thread

                      It's Friday, this day 07-07-17.
                      It's the end of the financial year,(tax time). I loath tax time.

                      May all your Monday's be Fridays.

                      May all your tax dollars be your dollars.



                      ...have a not unnice tax period...
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                      • gneebore
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                        #1991
                        Re: The random thought thread

                        Originally posted by fixthecopier
                        Sometimes those who yell and scream the loudest are clueless as to what is going on. Too quick to jump to conclusions.



                        NPR tweets Declaration of Independence, and Trump supporters are angered | The Olympian
                        These sorts of tweets videos and tapes can be found for all sorts of dimwitted responses to any question. Most famous being the petition to ban dihydro monoxide from the water supply. Funny thing is the actual article you linked has no mention of Trump supporters. But they do say

                        "The tweets went unrecognized as containing the text of one of our nation’s most important documents by some on Twitter. People tweeted that NPR’s thread was trash, that it was inciting revolution and was a reason the public organization should be defunded.
                        Some seemed to imply that the thread was directed at President Donald Trump."

                        Not exactly saying that the Trump supporters were angered at all. If you look you can see that the NPR tweets were breaking down the Declaration into very small segments and in some instances not even recognizable as part of the complete document. Yes there are one or two quotes that are instantly recognizable. And a few that are taken out of order and rarely quoted or taught as part of the document. Something that has been shown can make any document or treatise unrecognizable. Or in extreme instances made to seem the exact opposite of what the document was written for.

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                        • fixthecopier
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                          #1992
                          Re: The random thought thread





                          Regardless of who you support politically, I posted that as a snapshot of what seems to be the norm in America today. Get a small bit of info and then jump on top of your soapbox and start yelling. In my opinion, when confronted with something that seems outrageous you have 3 choices...

                          Wait, relax , be patient and research and gather more info.

                          Ignor it and go about your business remembering that in this country you have many freedoms like speech and press.

                          Totally lose your shit, get offended, run to the internet, demand people be fired or worse for offending you and refuse to admit you are wrong even when confronted by evidence.


                          I didn't post it to start debate, just thought it was amusing.
                          The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking

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                          • slimslob
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                            #1993
                            Re: The random thought thread

                            Originally posted by fixthecopier
                            Sometimes those who yell and scream the loudest are clueless as to what is going on. Too quick to jump to conclusions.



                            NPR tweets Declaration of Independence, and Trump supporters are angered | The Olympian
                            Originally posted by fixthecopier
                            Regardless of who you support politically, I posted that as a snapshot of what seems to be the norm in America today. Get a small bit of info and then jump on top of your soapbox and start yelling. In my opinion, when confronted with something that seems outrageous you have 3 choices...

                            Wait, relax , be patient and research and gather more info.

                            Ignor it and go about your business remembering that in this country you have many freedoms like speech and press.

                            Totally lose your shit, get offended, run to the internet, demand people be fired or worse for offending you and refuse to admit you are wrong even when confronted by evidence.


                            I didn't post it to start debate, just thought it was amusing.
                            One of the reasons I do not use Twitter is that they limit your posts to 140 characters. They have eased that to some extent in that if you retweet another tweet, even one of your own, that the character of the retweeted post are merely included as a link and do not count toward your total character count. Had whoever NPR is, is might not be National Public Radio, used the current concept of retweeting, they could have built a final tweet that incorporated the entire Declaration of Independence with all content in the proper order.

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                            • gneebore
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                              #1994
                              Re: The random thought thread

                              Originally posted by fixthecopier
                              Regardless of who you support politically, I posted that as a snapshot of what seems to be the norm in America today. Get a small bit of info and then jump on top of your soapbox and start yelling. In my opinion, when confronted with something that seems outrageous you have 3 choices...

                              Wait, relax , be patient and research and gather more info.

                              Ignor it and go about your business remembering that in this country you have many freedoms like speech and press.

                              Totally lose your shit, get offended, run to the internet, demand people be fired or worse for offending you and refuse to admit you are wrong even when confronted by evidence.


                              I didn't post it to start debate, just thought it was amusing.
                              My point was the original link did not have the any reference to Trump supporters angered. It did have the sentence stating that some of those responding were saying the tweets were directed at Trump. There were other links with the entire article from the Olympian which did loudly proclaim the respondents as angered trump supporters. None of which had anything other than the original The Olympian article. So my questioning or reply was to wonder where the "Trump supporters angered" part of your link actually came from.

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                              • gneebore
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                                #1995
                                Re: The random thought thread

                                Originally posted by slimslob
                                One of the reasons I do not use Twitter is that they limit your posts to 140 characters. They have eased that to some extent in that if you retweet another tweet, even one of your own, that the character of the retweeted post are merely included as a link and do not count toward your total character count. Had whoever NPR is, is might not be National Public Radio, used the current concept of retweeting, they could have built a final tweet that incorporated the entire Declaration of Independence with all content in the proper order.
                                The tweets were deliberately used as they were to get a response NPR wanted. If they wanted to tweet the Declaration of Independence they could have tweeted a jpg of the document. Or they could have tweeted a video of someone reciting it. The tweets broke recognizable full sentences into phrases that could be misinterpreted by anyone, Except maybe a historical scholar that has memorized the entire declaration. Yeap something they had us actually do in school way back in the late, fifties early sixties, was memorize the preamble to both the Constitution and the Declaration. Oh yeah that was fifty-five to sixty years ago. And I admit there were phrases they tweeted that I did recognize and one or two I didn't. But if I had been reading the tweets as published online and in order they would have made sense to me. But the few times I actually tried to used twitter the first tweets I tried to read and were supposedly tweeted in order to form a completely reasoned thought thread were out of order and actually missing one or two middle tweets that would have made the thread of tweets make sense. Main reason why I stopped using or reading twitter.

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