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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    It is socially acceptable to talk to your self, if an animal is present.
  • kwph
    kwph Posts: 7,375 Member
    Women do not like 2 be bothered at the gym (Just learned that)
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TED talks would be way shorter if people didn't start clapping every 10 seconds.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    TED talks would be way shorter if people didn't start clapping every 10 seconds.

    Gah, one of my BIGGEST pet peeves. It's like, let them speak and you clap on the inside.
  • angelxsss
    angelxsss Posts: 2,402 Member
    Timshel_ wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    TED talks would be way shorter if people didn't start clapping every 10 seconds.

    Gah, one of my BIGGEST pet peeves. It's like, let them speak and you clap on the inside.

    I had to go to a few HS graduations recently, and it bugged me that even though they said "hold your applause till the end" people clapped after every single person walked across the stage
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    angelxsss wrote: »
    Timshel_ wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    TED talks would be way shorter if people didn't start clapping every 10 seconds.

    Gah, one of my BIGGEST pet peeves. It's like, let them speak and you clap on the inside.

    I had to go to a few HS graduations recently, and it bugged me that even though they said "hold your applause till the end" people clapped after every single person walked across the stage

    People don't like to be told what to do. They are special snowflakes that rules do not apply to. In situations where roles are reversed they would also be the first to point you out for clapping when they didn't want you to.

    Human nature.
  • ChrisNels1
    ChrisNels1 Posts: 16,638 Member
    Timshel_ wrote: »
    angelxsss wrote: »
    Timshel_ wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    TED talks would be way shorter if people didn't start clapping every 10 seconds.

    Gah, one of my BIGGEST pet peeves. It's like, let them speak and you clap on the inside.

    I had to go to a few HS graduations recently, and it bugged me that even though they said "hold your applause till the end" people clapped after every single person walked across the stage

    People don't like to be told what to do. They are special snowflakes that rules do not apply to. In situations where roles are reversed they would also be the first to point you out for clapping when they didn't want you to.

    Human nature.

    That person worked dang hard for that degree and I'm going to acknowledge when their name is called. :smile:

  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    I want this in my life. Not sure if pushing 50 is the time to try, but I will. #lifegoals

    get-in-the-best-shape-of-your-life-with-these-awesome-glute-workouts.jpeg
  • synchkat
    synchkat Posts: 37,368 Member
    Timshel_ wrote: »
    I want this in my life. Not sure if pushing 50 is the time to try, but I will. #lifegoals

    get-in-the-best-shape-of-your-life-with-these-awesome-glute-workouts.jpeg

    I skate with 80 year olds with double hip replacements....50 is nothing!
  • kwph
    kwph Posts: 7,375 Member
    Omg ....I do that every morning ...Big Whoop ...(Oh wait ...He's not swinging from cables?) Yeah I can't do that ....
  • Dreamcrusher16
    Dreamcrusher16 Posts: 1,263 Member
    aerochic42 wrote: »
    ChrisNels1 wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    I never truly doubt myself more than when I'm trying to determine the appropriate portion of spaghetti to cook.

    http://www.thisisinsider.com/why-theres-a-hole-in-the-middle-of-spaghetti-spoons-2016-6

    Who knew?

    I've actually know about that trick for a while. However between my two spaghetti spoons, I HAVE THREE DIFFERENT SIZE HOLES.

    That's where I stopped reading and giggled
  • slimgirljo15
    slimgirljo15 Posts: 269,456 Member
    kwph wrote: »
    Omg ....I do that every morning ...Big Whoop ...(Oh wait ...He's not swinging from cables?) Yeah I can't do that ....

    I <3 you
  • kwph
    kwph Posts: 7,375 Member
    ♡
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    They won't ever really make That '90s Show, because it would basically just be Friends.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Drinking alcohol to get drunk is just drinking poison in the right dose to mess you up but not kill you.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Being somewhere you can't laugh makes things like 47 times funnier.
  • subcounter
    subcounter Posts: 2,382 Member
    The top of the Turtle Shell is called the CARAPACE. The bottom is called the PLASTRON. The shell is made up of 60 different bones, all connected together.
  • LP_Std
    LP_Std Posts: 41 Member
    Before my time, but I was told that Guitarists used to use tortoise shell to make their guitar picks. After it became illegal to do so, Dunlop developed a synthetic version called Tortex.
  • subcounter
    subcounter Posts: 2,382 Member
    LP_Std wrote: »
    Before my time, but I was told that Guitarists used to use tortoise shell to make their guitar picks. After it became illegal to do so, Dunlop developed a synthetic version called Tortex.

    You can tell a turtles gender by the noise it makes. The males grunt and the females hiss.
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  • kwph
    kwph Posts: 7,375 Member
    Most turtles have a waterbed & lava lamps inside their she'll incase they get lucky
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    It doesn't matter if you use or don't use your dust collector. Either way, it's just collecting dust.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    If you stuck your head in ground, the Earth becomes your helmet.
  • JeffreyOC
    JeffreyOC Posts: 810 Member
    Sometimes sloths mistake their own arms for tree branches and fall
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    When you drink milk, you drink the milk of hundreds of cows mixed together.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Intentionally losing a game of rock paper scissors is just as hard as winning it.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    The biggest thing you'll ever touch is the Earth.
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  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    From 1962 to 1977 The US's launch code for nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles was "00000000"

    The scary part is, all keyboards had repeat on by default when pushed and held down. Simply setting something on the keyboard that pushed the 0 could enter that.
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