Sunday, June 9, 2019

529 - Fools And Their Ideas

[2:44 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
An absolutely insane time period in history - the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
Just insane stuff
[2:46 PM] 
Fought against savages with a violent religion and too much gold...and THAT was the SPANISH
[2:47 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Heh
Like even just building a bunch of ships while inland to wage a naval battle on the lake
[2:49 PM] 
All the people the Aztecs killed to keep the sun rising...
How many more than that did the Spanish kill for God?
[3:01 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
The Aztec's brutality motivated the Spaniards to fight better
Because they knew if they surrendered or were caught they'd have their beating hearts cut out and be cannibalized



[12:45 PM] 
Mr. Brown working for Discovery: Science Channel now?
(Commercial announcer...space graphics) "Could the Sun really hurl Mercury into the Earth?"
(scientist dork) "It would be devastating.  It would end all life on Earth."
(animation of Mercury crashing into Earth)
I turn to Matt
"You realize, of course, that the odds of this are about the same as taking two blind people, putting them 100 yards apart, giving them each a gun, not telling them when or which direction to shoot, and they try to hit each other's bullets in mid air? How about let's talk about something more likely...like a direct hit from a solar flare."
(Matt) "No kidding.  And someone decided to spend money on making a show about it."
[12:51 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
heheh
[12:52 PM] 
That episode probably cost more to make and show than I'll make in my life
[12:55 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
I wish some loaded idiot would just give me a tiny fraction of his money



[9:13 AM] 
[(Photo 1) First modern Briton shown irritated about nickname.] https://phys.org/news/2018-02-dna-modern-briton-dark-skin.html
[(Photo 2) Shown with model makers Adrie and Alfons, poorly suppressing Cheddar Man's grumbling comments in front of the press.]
[9:19 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
[read this on twitter this AM] Ironically 'Cheddar Man' sounds like a slur you'd call a white guy
[9:30 AM] 
Cheddar Man should start making commercials for the British Cheese Council
There are thousands of good words in Britain to evoke the idea of an ancient Briton...
...
"Cheddar"



[8:13 AM] Mr. Blue
"Sir I'm afraid we can't allow you to win money while gambling.  What do you think this is? A charity?"
What he was doing isn’t illegal. He’s basically an ‘advantaged player’ because he knows what he’s doing. The Hard Rock has a strict no-tolerance policy for non-suckers."
[8:22]
"He just waltzed in here, la-dee-da, and started winning at games.  It's just rude that he'd learn to play well like that.  I started as a carney, and we could sniff out a guy who practiced and knew the tricks like that! (snaps fingers)"
[8:40 AM]  Mr. Blue
"Gentlemen! You can't gamble in here - this is a casino!"
[8:43 AM]   
"If you want reliable high-paying gambling income, invest in a stock index!  Get out!"
(Spock and Kirk in casino security, looking at flashing readout of blackjack table) "Mr. Affleck knew exactly when to 'Hit'."
[8:56 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
See, the counting cards thing is always hard
because once your brain starts doing it you can't stop
[8:56 AM] 
Yeah, after all the required training how could you stop?
[8:56 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
You practice Black Jack every day of your life, you're going to know what's coming
[8:56 AM] 
exactly
unless they make you get drunk before playing or something
[8:57 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
That happens with my father in law playing rummy.
My mother said my grandpa would always know the cards too.



[8:25 AM] 
People that act like heroes for reporting phishing emails to IT are weird
"I knew it was spam. I just thought I should report it to you. Have you ever seen anything like this before?"
[8:30 AM] Mr. Blue
Heh
[8:31 AM]   
"Good Lord!  No, sir!  Why...this changes everything!  I have to call the FBI next -- I'm betting there's a medal in your future."
[8:35 AM]  Mr. Blue
LOL



[2:31 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
I could tell as soon as this guy started talking he was a dick
They all talk with a special tone
Like “by the way, I'm very smart”
Then he confirmed it by saying he is an educated person...which says to me he is not.
Then the reason he was brewing a dick also confirms it because it was stupid.
But said its unfair and he is not happy
[2:35 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
sounds like a real snowflake
[2:36 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
yeah
[2:37 PM] 
(reads "brewing a dick")
"That's ... it may be brilliant." 
[2:40 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
"Sir, I'm a complete dumbfuck moron... and i'm probably still smarter than you."
(That'd be me saying that, not you Mr. Brown. lol)
[2:42 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
lol
[2:42 PM] 
LOL
[2:44 PM] 
If all y'all weren't smarter than 99.5% of the people that we deal with, we probably wouldn't have been running this chat this long.
[2:58 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
We are all eccentric
[3:02 PM] 
The purview of the intelligent...or the insane.  Gotta burn off the extra IQ on something or you get The Alzheimer's
[3:03 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
I sometimes think I'm getting Dementia or Alzheimer's now
But then i remember i have lots of issues that can contribute to brain fog
[3:05 PM] 
"Well the tests are back, and your brain is burning itself for something to keep it from diving right into an oblivion of depression because you are too smart.  Have you ever considered hobbies like...oh...decorating your entire property with garden gnomes, or wearing polka-dots with stripes every day?"
[3:06 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
lol
[3:08 PM] 
I'd always assumed the racing random associations and strange comments and stuff in my head were like that for everyone.  
My mistake.
[3:08 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
yeah
I don't always catch what you're saying, and you don't always catch what i'm saying
lol
[3:09 PM] 
It's a kind of magic
[3:09 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
non-stop everything everywhere at one time in one place in my brain
all connected in some fashion.
I throw people off in conversations because they can't figure out how i got to the subject from what they said
Or i just start in the middle of a thought
[3:10 PM] 
I used to be "on" all the time. 
I would formulate and say stuff long before I thought about any consequences or if it made any sense at all. 
[3:13 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Yeah i still do that
I say the wrong thing, not cause i'm an asshole but because i'm moving so fast
[3:13 PM] 
"I don't understand" was a common phrase in a lot of my conversations.
I can still get rolling way too hard if I'm interested in what I'm telling someone.  If you've ever seen me just stop...and say something like "OK it's your turn."
I had to self-train that.  :(



[8:17 AM] 
Nuke attack article advice: If the explosion was ground based, you can also protect yourself by getting above the blast—usually higher than the ninth floor of a building. Be sure to stay near the center of the building in a room with substantial walls.
But that's the advice – if you see the flash – how to take shelter before the blast wave comes if you even get a chance.
I think a better way to put it would probably be:
If the explosion was ground based...
And you are already far enough away...
In the center of a building...
In a room with substantial walls...
On the 9th floor or higher...
And the whole building doesn't collapse or burn with you in it...
...
You got lucky.
(Just sayin'.)
[8:24 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
I picture a Loony Tunes-esque scenario where the bottom 7 floors are obliterated and the building falls perfectly down and the 8th floor becomes the 1st floor.
Depending on where the blast is, you might want to just jump right out in front of it to end your suffering.
"Surviving" a nuclear blast isn't always preferable
[8:25 AM] 
It was a fairly positive article past the "If you are standing here, goodbye" parts.



[12:55 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
In the opening minutes of the film, Bourne has his nightmare in Goa and goes to the bathroom. We hear the fluorescent lamp ballast (choke) buzzing at 60Hz, however if Bourne is in Goa, India like the film says then it should be buzzing at 50Hz.”
Find who posted that to the Bourne Supremacy IMDB goofs page and have them publicly executed
[1:00 PM] 
Yup
Hehe!
I picture a 45YO savant tub of lard sitting in the dark of his parents' basement listening to Foley in films and ID-ing the effects.
[1:03 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
And bothering to know the specific Hz of Goa as opposed to Sikkim or Punjab
[1:03 PM] 
"Well THAT was obviously not a 100 watt GE Soft White popping.  That was a '74 Kodak Instamatic Flashbar...charge #3. Just who are these people trying to fool?
[1:03 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
They did a joke like that on the Simpsons (of course)
At a Q&A for Itchy and Scratchy – some nerdy guy:  "In season 4 episode 35, when Itchy is playing Scratchy's rib cage like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession and yet two separate notes can be easily identified.  Boy, I hope someone got fired for that blunder."
[1:15 PM] 
LOL

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