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  • grumpopuppo
    grumpopuppo Posts: 90 Member
    TIL that it's very important that, when restarting a medication, you go back to your starting dose no matter what the instructions on the *kitten* pill bottle say. And if you don't, get ready for a wild (and painful) ride.
  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,034 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL That Snoopy is NASA's official safety mascot. Every astronaut since 1968 has worn a silver Snoopy pin into space; upon return, the astronauts present the pin as a special recognition to a civilian team member who helped keep them safe.

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    <3
  • THeADHDTurnip
    THeADHDTurnip Posts: 413 Member
    This one is pretty exciting. Today I learned that measuring 1 cup liquid has more volume than 1 cup dry.
    Exciting. Hey, I'm in my 30's so getting a new kitchen sink sponge can be pretty enthralling at times. :)
  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    Clever_User_Name wrote: »
    Supposedly warnings and points go from old account to new account and affect you longer than a year.

    Yes. If you are a reboot your warnings will come with you. A new name does not wipe the slate clean.

    10 warnings in a year results in a ban. Several warnings reguardless of timing will bump you up to 3 pointers, which means if you get another warning within 2 weeks you are banned (5 pts gets you banned)
  • sw33tp3a1
    sw33tp3a1 Posts: 5,065 Member
    4legsRbetterthan2 wrote: »
    Clever_User_Name wrote: »
    Supposedly warnings and points go from old account to new account and affect you longer than a year.

    Yes. If you are a reboot your warnings will come with you. A new name does not wipe the slate clean.

    10 warnings in a year results in a ban. Several warnings reguardless of timing will bump you up to 3 pointers, which means if you get another warning within 2 weeks you are banned (5 pts gets you banned)

    TIL how mfps point system works. Good thing I'm such a good girl I don't have to worry about it o:);)
  • rednote49
    rednote49 Posts: 124 Member
    If you eat waaaaay too much jello it gives you rainbow pee for at least a week. Hours at the emergency room freaking out the drs and nurses with neon orange, bright green, blood red and purple pee. It was something they hadn't seen before. Me, I thought I was dying :(
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  • Versicolour
    Versicolour Posts: 7,164 Member
    Today I sternly reminded myself (for the hundredth time) that no one actually cares as much about me as I would like, or as much as I care about them
  • empresssue
    empresssue Posts: 2,978 Member
    Actually reminded myself that you can’t fix stubborn or stupid. :(
  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    Versicolour wrote: »
    Today I sternly reminded myself (for the hundredth time) that no one actually cares as much about me as I would like, or as much as I care about them

    This makes me sad :(
  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    Clever_User_Name wrote: »
    TIL many of us are considered "Reboots"

    they'd never know if you didn't trip
  • empresssue
    empresssue Posts: 2,978 Member
    TIL that I’ve made a bigger positive impact than I thought. It’s nice to hear :)
  • Versicolour
    Versicolour Posts: 7,164 Member
    4legsRbetterthan2 wrote: »
    Versicolour wrote: »
    Today I sternly reminded myself (for the hundredth time) that no one actually cares as much about me as I would like, or as much as I care about them

    This makes me sad :(

    It's part of being me. You'd think after 37 years I would be used to it
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL: All mountains on Titan (a moon of Saturn) are named after locations from J.R.R Tolkien's Middle Earth.

    https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/SearchResults?target=TITAN&amp;featureType=Mons, montes
  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,034 Member
    edited January 2018
    Today I learned I want Karl Spracklen's job.

    In the public discourse of policy-makers and journalists, drinkers of (excessive) alcohol are portrayed either as irresponsible, immoral deviants or as gullible victims. In other words, the public discourse engenders a moral panic about alcohol-crazed individuals, who become what Cohen [1972. Folk devil and moral panics. London: Routledge] identifies as folk devils: the Other, abusing alcohol to create anti-social disorder. However, alcohol-drinking was, is and continues to be an everyday practice in the leisure lives of the majority of people in the UK. In this research article, I want to explore the serious leisure of whisky-tasting to provide a counter to the myth of the alcohol-drinker as folk devil, to try to construct a new public discourse of sensible drinking. I will draw on ethnographic work at whisky-tastings alongside interviews and analysis of on-line discourses. I show that participation in whisky-tasting events creates a safe space in which excessive amounts of alcohol are consumed, yet the norms of the particular habitus ensure that such drinking never leads to misbehaviour. In doing so, however, I will note that the respectability of whisky-drinking is associated with its masculine, white, privileged habitus – the folk devil becomes someone else, someone Other.

    ...The research in this article is partly reflective of my own ethnographic involvement in whisky-tastings over a period of two years, and my own position as a whisky enthusiast....

    Notes on contributor

    Karl Spracklen is a Professor of Leisure Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is the Chair of the Leisure Studies Association and Co-Convenor of the British Sociological Association Alcohol Study Group. His book, Constructing Leisure (Palgrave, 2011), explores the history of and philosophy of leisure, including the importance of drinking and eating as leisure.

    Spracklen, K. (2013). Respectable drinkers, sensible drinking, serious leisure: single-malt whisky enthusiasts and the moral panic of irresponsible Others. Contemporary Social Science, 8(1), 46-57.
  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,034 Member
    edited January 2018
    Clever_User_Name wrote: »
    TIL that my original username on here is active and someone else has it.

    YIKES! I just noticed a post from that account this morning and I thought it was you... Creepy. And not cool. UNFRIEND. Seems like a violation of privacy.

    eta: not finding on my friend's list... maybe just saw a post in the forums or something.
  • Iscah13
    Iscah13 Posts: 1,954 Member
    TIL people ( mostly men I assume) poop in airport garbage bins.
  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,034 Member
    Iscah13 wrote: »
    TIL people ( mostly men I assume) poop in airport garbage bins.

    I kind of want to know how you learned this.
  • Iscah13
    Iscah13 Posts: 1,954 Member
    ^ I’ve been watching BBC airline shows
  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,034 Member
    Iscah13 wrote: »
    ^ I’ve been watching BBC airline shows

    Whew.
  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    Canadians have timbits
    Americans have dount holes

    I think anyways
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL Walmart stocks up on strawberry Poptarts before a hurricane as it is a more popular prep item than bottled water.
  • caco_ethes
    caco_ethes Posts: 11,962 Member
    Today I learned how to tell you what day of the week any given date was/will be without looking it up and I’m dying to try it. But of course it won’t impress anyone if I do it over the internet. :grimace:
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    edited January 2018
    caco_ethes wrote: »
    Today I learned how to tell you what day of the week any given date was/will be without looking it up and I’m dying to try it. But of course it won’t impress anyone if I do it over the internet. :grimace:

    But what if I don't know the date, month, or year?
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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    caco_ethes wrote: »
    Today I learned how to tell you what day of the week any given date was/will be without looking it up and I’m dying to try it. But of course it won’t impress anyone if I do it over the internet. :grimace:

    That's so cool! I can't do that but I do have a perpetual calendar on my keychain

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    I don't think it's working. Today's not Saturday.
  • caco_ethes
    caco_ethes Posts: 11,962 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    caco_ethes wrote: »
    Today I learned how to tell you what day of the week any given date was/will be without looking it up and I’m dying to try it. But of course it won’t impress anyone if I do it over the internet. :grimace:

    That's so cool! I can't do that but I do have a perpetual calendar on my keychain

    wgxq9i3dj3d1.jpeg

    I don't think it's working. Today's not Saturday.

    Silly, that clearly says ‘Sun’, not Saturday.
  • caco_ethes
    caco_ethes Posts: 11,962 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    caco_ethes wrote: »
    Today I learned how to tell you what day of the week any given date was/will be without looking it up and I’m dying to try it. But of course it won’t impress anyone if I do it over the internet. :grimace:

    But what if I don't know the date, month, or year?

    Then you’re bad at this. :sweat_smile:
  • caco_ethes
    caco_ethes Posts: 11,962 Member
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    caco_ethes wrote: »
    Today I learned how to tell you what day of the week any given date was/will be without looking it up and I’m dying to try it. But of course it won’t impress anyone if I do it over the internet. :grimace:

    That's so cool! I can't do that but I do have a perpetual calendar on my keychain

    wgxq9i3dj3d1.jpeg

    I’m going to teach you!
  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    caco_ethes wrote: »
    Today I learned how to tell you what day of the week any given date was/will be without looking it up and I’m dying to try it. But of course it won’t impress anyone if I do it over the internet. :grimace:

    That's so cool! I can't do that but I do have a perpetual calendar on my keychain

    wgxq9i3dj3d1.jpeg

    my dad has 7 calendars he just keeps rotating

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