Plasma Man wrote:TIL that some people that wish to promote breastfeeding style themselves as being "lactivitsts". I find this simultaneously terrible and awesome.
Sorry to respond late on this, but I'm going to go with awesome. My wife is a breast feeding support midwife and freelance lactation consultant. I always thought her job was pretty cool to start with (stressful, but cool. Couple of days ago she delivered a baby within 5 min of getting into work, in a corridor just outside the lifts. She didn't have time to get her coat off).
However, I now can't wait for her to wake up to tell her she's a lactivist. It sounds like a really specialist branch of the special forces. Can I get her a black jump suit and a balaklava?
[hey, a page topper I'm reasonably happy with!]
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Giant Speck wrote:You're a demon! DEMON!!!!
Oregonaut wrote:CURSE YOU VILLAIN!!
PhoenixEnigma wrote:Jumble is either the best or worst Santa ever, and I can't figure out which. Possibly both.
emceng wrote:I recently learned that Teddy Roosevelt was pretty much a racist asshole. I'm also gradually learning that pretty much everyone is a dick.
Yeah, you can find a reason to hate anyone if you look long enough.
emceng wrote:I recently learned that Teddy Roosevelt was pretty much a racist asshole. I'm also gradually learning that pretty much everyone is a dick.
He also had an attitude of "It it breathes, I'll kill it."
On the other hand, he was also the first President to have a black American invited to a formal dinner, if not the first black man ever. And got his ass chewed out so much by everyone else (read: Whitey) that he never did it again. He was anti-School Segregation. He just also believe that Europeans were more intellectually developed than people from anywhere else. As did a metric asston of people at the time, many of them very well educated.
Was he racist? Sure. So was basically every other white man.
TIL that Neill Blomkamp (co-writer and director of District 9) is working on a new sci-fi movie called Elysium and it's going to star Jodie Foster. I love her!
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy marshmallows, which are kinda the same thing.
Kyreles wrote:A 5 year old girl from peru had a baby in the 30s. At 5. 5 years old. And she had a baby. In Peru. And she's 5. Wow. A 5-year-old had a baby.
Today I learned that the order Primates is in the clade Euarchonta, containing the orders Dermoptera and Scandentia, which is in the clade Euarchontoglires, also containing Rodentia and Lagamorpha.
In other words, we're more closely related to fucking treeshrews and hamsters than real mammals like dogs and cats.
Damn.
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Kyreles wrote:A 5 year old girl from peru had a baby in the 30s. At 5. 5 years old. And she had a baby. In Peru. And she's 5. Wow. A 5-year-old had a baby.
Ephemeron wrote:Today I learned, I share my birthday with Mr Snuffleupagus, thanks to an chart that shows you which fictional character shares your birthday. There's one for every day of the year.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo! I share the same birthday as Aquaman!
Ephemeron wrote:Today I learned, I share my birthday with Mr Snuffleupagus, thanks to an chart that shows you which fictional character shares your birthday. There's one for every day of the year.
Wow. Mine's Malcolm from Malcolm in the Middle and he's the same age as me. Also, Frankie Muniz (who played Malcolm) was actually born on Dec 5th but in 1985. Wow.
Summer is miles and miles away, and no one would ask me to stay. And I, should contemplate this change... to ease the pain. And I, should step out of the rain... turn away.
Ephemeron wrote:Today I learned, I share my birthday with Mr Snuffleupagus, thanks to an chart that shows you which fictional character shares your birthday. There's one for every day of the year.
Some character I've never heard of from some show I've never heard of .... I think I'll just stick with the Battle of Waterloo and the US declaring war on the British Empire.
My solution to 'linear warriors, quadratic wizards': Exponential warriors, factorial wizards.
emceng wrote:Yeah, I was expecting someone cool, that I might actually have heard of. I got an actress from a TV show I've never seen that aired in the 70s.
What day were you? Maybe we can put together a much more kickass list.
Hawknc wrote:I don't know if you've never heard of trolling, or if you're just very good at it.
Magnanimous wrote:Also it's not her box... It's Prometheus's Box. She just opens it.
I know this is a page late... but that was Epimethius, not Prometheus. Epimethius was Prometheus' much dumber brother who never thought things through. fun creation myth there too.
clockworkmonk wrote:I know this is a page late... but that was Epimethius, not Prometheus. Epimethius was Prometheus' much dumber brother who never thought things through. fun creation myth there too.
Ah, good to know. Also it turns out it wasn't a box at all--it was a jar. Mistranslations!
addams wrote:Torture is Not how to get information. The way to get information is with Blue Berry Pancakes.
clockworkmonk wrote:I know this is a page late... but that was Epimethius, not Prometheus. Epimethius was Prometheus' much dumber brother who never thought things through. fun creation myth there too.
Ah, good to know. Also it turns out it wasn't a box at all--it was a jar. Mistranslations!
Wasn't it an amphora jar, the kind they used to keep wine in? No wonder others were interested in what it contained.
clockworkmonk wrote:I know this is a page late... but that was Epimethius, not Prometheus. Epimethius was Prometheus' much dumber brother who never thought things through. fun creation myth there too.
Ah, good to know. Also it turns out it wasn't a box at all--it was a jar. Mistranslations!
Wasn't it an amphora jar, the kind they used to keep wine in? No wonder others were interested in what it contained.
why not boxed wine? It's both a box and a (dozen) jar(s)!
Prometheus stole fire, causing not a small amount of upset on mount Olympus. In a plot against humanity, Epimethius was given a wife, Pandora. Now Epimethius was pretty excited about this, but he did have a jar filled with ills. This could lead to trouble, as Pandora was very curious. Epimethius banned her from opening his jar. But one day he was out and her curiosity overcame her and she opened the jar. out came all the troubles and ills in the world. Seeing this, Pandora closed the jar as quick as possible, but only one thing remained in the jar, hope.
also related, how Epimethius created Man, but went to Prometheus after realizing claws and fins and flight weren't cutting it. So Prometheus gave them reason.
also how the burnt offerings to Zeus were selected, the taking of fire from man, then the subsequent theft of fire, and punishment of Prometheus.
emceng wrote:Yeah, I was expecting someone cool, that I might actually have heard of. I got an actress from a TV show I've never seen that aired in the 70s.
What day were you? Maybe we can put together a much more kickass list.
June 18th 1912, if you believe my profile.
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. - CS Lewis
You win! You get me being born (although the year's off by a fair bit)! Oh, and Napoleon losing the Battle of Waterloo, and the United States of America declaring war and invading the British Empire.
My solution to 'linear warriors, quadratic wizards': Exponential warriors, factorial wizards.
clockworkmonk wrote:lets see how much I can remember from myth.
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Prometheus stole fire, causing not a small amount of upset on mount Olympus. In a plot against humanity, Epimethius was given a wife, Pandora. Now Epimethius was pretty excited about this, but he did have a jar filled with ills. This could lead to trouble, as Pandora was very curious. Epimethius banned her from opening his jar. But one day he was out and her curiosity overcame her and she opened the jar. out came all the troubles and ills in the world. Seeing this, Pandora closed the jar as quick as possible, but only one thing remained in the jar, hope.
also related, how Epimethius created Man, but went to Prometheus after realizing claws and fins and flight weren't cutting it. So Prometheus gave them reason.
also how the burnt offerings to Zeus were selected, the taking of fire from man, then the subsequent theft of fire, and punishment of Prometheus.
Finally, a Pandora's box myth that actually makes any sort of reasonable sense, as opposed to "Here, take this box, it contains ills! Don't open it!" "But I'm so curious!" *opens box*
