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[Shizumapower]

Stone Mountain in GA is the largest manmade structure in the US and is completely hollow on the inside.

I use to live in the ATL and hiked that rock at least 5 times. It's a big rock.

Stone Mountain - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Freedom Gate Co.]

Did you know that pressing the crosswalk button doesn't change the traffic lights or cut down the wait time? No, mashing it repeatedly like a caveman won't work either.

The crosswalk button is there for those that aren't smart enough to cross the street themselves. It's kind of sad that grown 20 to 50 year old adults don't know how to cross the street without a lit up stick figure telling them to.

Or the fact 20 to 50 year old adults think mashing the button changes the light or cuts the wait time down despite them never actually experiencing either. For years.

 

[JimboJones]

The Easter Island heads have bodies.

Dad bod

 

[TDiddyLive]

Did you know that pressing the crosswalk button doesn't change the traffic lights or cut down the wait time? No, mashing it repeatedly like a caveman won't work either.

That's a lie. There are plenty of intersections that if a car doesn't trip the sensor then the only way the light will change is a pedestrian pushing the button.

I have also used a pedestrian button that was given too much authority. As a teenager I was waiting for some friends on the corner of a main street and a smaller street when I pushed the button to cross in the direction the main street was going and the red hand switched to a walk logo. I just stayed where I was and when the countdown appeared with the red hand I pressed it again and walk logo came back. I did this for about 10 minutes, all the while cross traffic continued building up until I stopped pressing and allowed the light to change.

SOME lights do nothing when the button is pressed, but tons are functional.

 

[MilkyJoe]

What blows my mind is how we are the only species in the known universe with cognitive abilities.

We're obviously not.

 

[mcz117chief]

There are plenty of intersections that if a car doesn't trip the sensor then the only way the light will change is a pedestrian pushing the button.

Yup, this is exactly true.

 

[Starlight Lotice]

The Swedes eat a Pizza with Banana, Pineapple and Curry Powder on it called the Africana.

 

[AnotherOne]

That negative 4 degrees looks like a guy taking a shit.

 

[Rean no Kiseki]

The Swedes eat a Pizza with Banana, Pineapple and Curry Powder on it called the Africana.

 

[Shizumapower]

That negative 4 degrees looks like a guy taking a shit.

Or taking an arrow to the knee.

 

[Shizumapower]

That's a lie. There are plenty of intersections that if a car doesn't trip the sensor then the only way the light will change is a pedestrian pushing the button.

I have also used a pedestrian button that was given too much authority. As a teenager I was waiting for some friends on the corner of a main street and a smaller street when I pushed the button to cross in the direction the main street was going and the red hand switched to a walk logo. I just stayed where I was and when the countdown appeared with the red hand I pressed it again and walk logo came back. I did this for about 10 minutes, all the while cross traffic continued building up until I stopped pressing and allowed the light to change.

SOME lights do nothing when the button is pressed, but tons are functional.

Good example.

Stoplights / crosswalks and do cops have ticket quotas, are questions I never get a complete answer for.

 

[GAMETA]

Brazilians speak Portuguese, not Spanish

Brazil has the largest amount of Japanese and Lebanese people outside of Japan and Lebanon

Brazil is bigger than the US without Alaska

 

[Mihos]

If you want to be an asshole, hold down the floor button on some elevators, it won't stop at any other floors along the way.

A fire fighter friend of mine taught me that.

 

[MetalAlien]

There are many planets and moons in our solar system that have many multiples of the amount of water on earth. Uranus is thought to have a huge mantel of water surrounding it's core. Some of the moons around Jupiter are thought to have much more water than earth.

 

[GV82]

Ask them if they have difficulty masturbating without external stimuli.

Can confirm yes when I was younger I used to steal previous days newspaper, tear out the page 3 girl from my dads newspaper then there was magazines & vhs tapes & nowadays the internet and girlfriends, can't beat physical touch.

 

[Valonquar]

 

[Shizumapower]

Brazilians speak Portuguese, not Spanish

Brazil has the largest amount of Japanese and Lebanese people outside of Japan and Lebanon

Brazil is bigger than the US without Alaska

We get it, you're from Brazil! ha! I didn't know any of these, except Portuguese,

 

[Prison Mike]

That negative 4 degrees looks like a guy taking a shit.

Or backing onto a dildo

 

[mcz117chief]

In many places milk comes in bags. It was ultra common here in Czech Rep too.

 

[Evil Calvin]

lol... modern times. i remember seeing this pic as an eye-opener:

These are really just the tips of monuments like the Washington Monument.

 

[Fushitsusha]

I found out some people don't have an inner monologue. It was described to me, by someone without an inner monologue, as not always thinking. I can't imagine it. Baffling.

NPC

 

[DragoonKain]

Charles Manson never actually killed anybody.

Most overrated serial killer ever. So much promise, didn't deliver. Total bust.

Jim Jones laughs at that so called "cultist"

 

[Slings and Arrows]

We're obviously not.

Go on...

 

[Phase]

That negative 4 degrees looks like a guy taking a shit.

Really trying not to touch the seat. Must be a public toilet.

 

[DESTROYA]

This title is misleading, how are supposed to post things you don't know if you don't know them? Hmmmmm

 

[ipukespiders]

While you can still find milk in bags in parts of Canada (Nova Scotia, for example) it comes in jugs and cartons mainly.
4 Liter jugs
4 Liter - split over 3 bags
2 Liter jugs
2 Liter gable top cartons
1 Liter gable top cartons
plus smaller sizes

 

[Mihos]

There are many planets and moons in our solar system that have many multiples of the amount of water on earth. Uranus is thought to have a huge mantel of water surrounding it's core. Some of the moons around Jupiter are thought to have much more water than earth.

 

[jshackles]

This title is misleading, how are supposed to post things you don't know if you don't know them? Hmmmmm

 

[Phase]

While you can still find milk in bags in parts of Canada (Nova Scotia, for example) it comes in jugs and cartons mainly.
4 Liter jugs
4 Liter - split over 3 bags
2 Liter jugs
2 Liter gable top cartons
1 Liter gable top cartons
plus smaller sizes

 

[Ikutachi]

Lighters were invented before the match.

 

[bitbydeath]

People always go on about how the Mona Lisa is blown out of proportion when you see it. (And it is)

But few mention this picture of Adam and God.

Being such a small painting and being surrounded by tons of others.

The Sistine Chapel is beautiful though but just not for that image.

 

[TDiddyLive]

Good example.

Stoplights / crosswalks and do cops have ticket quotas, are questions I never get a complete answer for.

I know cops don't have ticket quotas. Around 10 years ago some LAPD motorcycle officers sued the city because they were given terrible schedules and other punishments and were basically told it was because they didn't write enough tickets. Judge basically said giving them quotas was illegal because they can't force people to break the law. Officers won a couple million dollars.

Quick edit. Pulled up an article real quick. Turns out their were multiple lawsuits.

Archive blogs

Los Angeles Times blogs that were published between 2006 and 2013.

latimesblogs.latimes.com

 

[StreetsofBeige]

While you can still find milk in bags in parts of Canada (Nova Scotia, for example) it comes in jugs and cartons mainly.
4 Liter jugs
4 Liter - split over 3 bags
2 Liter jugs
2 Liter gable top cartons
1 Liter gable top cartons
plus smaller sizes

Ontario is

4L split into 3 bags
2L cartons
1L cartons
Then some individual servings like 250 and 500 ml cartons you might get at restaurants or convenience stores

Sometimes there are 2L plastic jugs..... which comes from specialty/obscure dairy brands. Pretty sure all the main brands don't use plastic jugs. But I think that Fairlife brand from Coke uses plastic(?)

 

[888]

I've never participated in present wrapping. So never been a struggle but makes sense.

 

[trikster40]

The Easter Island heads have bodies.

whhaaaaa??? I had to google because I thought this was a joke...

It's not.

 

[CyberPanda]

People actually make cum pancakes.

 

[Scopa]

I wonder why they decided to carve it with the cock hanging over the waistband. Did they walk around like that?

EDIT: Geez, I thought that was a waistband. Those are alien hands, man. Freaky deaky.

Brazilians speak Portuguese, not Spanish

Brazil has the largest amount of Japanese and Lebanese people outside of Japan and Lebanon

Brazil is bigger than the US without Alaska

Melbourne, Australia has the largest Greek population outside of Athens.

 

[MetalAlien]

People always go on about how the Mona Lisa is blown out of proportion when you see it. (And it is)

But few mention this picture of Adam and God.

Being such a small painting and being surrounded by tons of others.

The Sistine Chapel is beautiful though but just not for that image.

My favorite part of that picture is the sly way they sneak the holy spirit into it. Look who god has his arm wrapped around.

 

[plushyp]

Uncle Scrooge from Ducktales is called Uncle Robert in the Estonian dub. Also Chip and Dale from Chip'n'Dale: Rescue Rangers are called Tiku and Taku.

 

[Airola]

Uncle Scrooge from Ducktales is called Uncle Robert in the Estonian dub. Also Chip and Dale from Chip'n'Dale: Rescue Rangers are called Tiku and Taku.

They are Tiku and Taku in Finnish too. And Uncle Scrooge is Roope-setä ('setä' means uncle and Roope is his name).

 

[MilkyJoe]

No one knows how a bicycle works.

 

[lil puff]

Mind blowing recent experience

We occasionally get mice because it's an old city building, so I keep sticky traps in some areas.
I woke up Saturday around 5AM to pee, saw a mouse stuck on a trap and decided I'd take care of discarding it later after I officially woke up.

When I woke up that fucker wasn't there! I looked all around and the entire trap was gone. There is no way he could unstick himself from the trap and just walk away. Those things are extremely sticky.

What could possibly have happened? I can't wrap my head around this. Mind blown as fuck still.

 

[hariseldon]

Wahaca is amazing. Think Mexican tapas. Packed with flavour, absolutely delicious.

 

[Airola]

Mind blowing recent experience

We occasionally get mice because it's an old city building, so I keep sticky traps in some areas.
I woke up Saturday around 5AM to pee, saw a mouse stuck on a trap and decided I'd take care of discarding it later after I officially woke up.

When I woke up that fucker wasn't there! I looked all around and the entire trap was gone. There is no way he could unstick himself from the trap and just walk away. Those things are extremely sticky.

What could possibly have happened? I can't wrap my head around this. Mind blown as fuck still.

The mouse was a Jedi.

 

[hariseldon]

I found out some people don't have an inner monologue. It was described to me, by someone without an inner monologue, as not always thinking. I can't imagine it. Baffling.

Mine won't shut the fuck up. I honestly can't wrap my head around the concept of not having an inner monologue. So much thinking is done that way, how do people think?

 

[Grinchy]

I have the opposite problem. I can't turn the fucking thing off.

The only thing that shuts my brain up is weed. Unless it makes me think more that time.

 

[Armorian]

Mine won't shut the fuck up. I honestly can't wrap my head around the concept of not having an inner monologue. So much thinking is done that way, how do people think?

Some don't, obviously.

 

[Great Hair]

This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner .. guess it was something about dogs.

 

[Tranquil]

I found out some people don't have an inner monologue. It was described to me, by someone without an inner monologue, as not always thinking. I can't imagine it. Baffling.

Seems like that would make it impossible to do things like Math.

 

[DESTROYA]

Mind blowing recent experience

We occasionally get mice because it's an old city building, so I keep sticky traps in some areas.
I woke up Saturday around 5AM to pee, saw a mouse stuck on a trap and decided I'd take care of discarding it later after I officially woke up.

When I woke up that fucker wasn't there! I looked all around and the entire trap was gone. There is no way he could unstick himself from the trap and just walk away. Those things are extremely sticky.

What could possibly have happened? I can't wrap my head around this. Mind blown as fuck still.

You'll find it under your couch from the smell. The mouse could have partially been able to walk with only a limb or two free.
Use the snap traps they are more humane and do the deed instantly.

Kangaroos have 3 vaginas........Crikey!