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Post by Rikku on Aug 21, 2011 1:08:15 GMT -5
His father told us that there are Three Reasons to wear a life jacket. I think I remember the gist of them? Well enough, anyway.
1. So if, no, when things go wrong, you'll have a better chance at surviving. Obviously. Maybe it'll help, maybe it won't, but it's worth it.
2. So even if you don't survive they will find you. Your body will float and so they will find it, and your family will be able to have the flesh-that-is-all-that's-left-of-you; more importantly, they will know. They won't always be half-hoping, even though they know how stupid it is, that you'll show up again somehow, that you got away somehow, that you're alive. They'll know. This is a Good Thing no matter how heartbreaking it is, because that sort of hope isn't very nice.
3. And, of course, so that the media and elderly relatives won't go on and on about how thick you were for not wearing a life jacket.
... That is what I learned today. Here's hoping everyone there took it to heart, and maybe you as well.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2011 5:37:27 GMT -5
I learned that goosebumps are the same process which allow cats (and other mammals) to fluff their fur up like a Christmas tree.
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Post by Tiger on Aug 21, 2011 10:16:24 GMT -5
Hazel is not just a fancy word for "goldish-brown". It means "gold and green".
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Post by Gelquie on Aug 21, 2011 22:00:12 GMT -5
Salmonella in eggs comes from the outside part of the shell and is not in the yolk, unless the infection was already in the hen.
Huh.
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Post by Tiger on Aug 22, 2011 7:25:15 GMT -5
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Post by Omni on Aug 30, 2011 21:08:11 GMT -5
Halapeño peppers aren't that hot. 1-800 numbers are free to call. (The company you call pays instead.) We recently got a speech-to-text program. It has you read stories aloud so it can more-easily recognize your voice. I've run out of stories to read... but I've found out where the story data is stored. The coding looks simple enough, so I should be able to add more things to read without a problem.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2011 21:09:30 GMT -5
Today I learned that the reason it remains so cold in my room is because other rooms in the suite are warmer, so they keep turning the temperature down. :T
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Post by Jove on Aug 30, 2011 21:16:44 GMT -5
I learned that adult cats do not meow at each other. Meowing is a behavior of mother cats and their kittens calling to one another, and cats meow at humans for the same reason (asking for food/attention) but they do not meow at other adults.
Hissing/growling is a completely different story, of course.
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Post by Omni on Sept 1, 2011 13:23:24 GMT -5
Apparently PM backups don't include images. This includes standard smileys; you don't even see the plain text variation.
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Post by Komori on Sept 2, 2011 15:01:12 GMT -5
Hummingbirds eat ants, spiders, and other little bugs as part of their diet. They don't just eat flower nectar.
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Post by Breakingchains on Sept 5, 2011 12:14:38 GMT -5
I learned about Tamar of Georgia, a historical woman who happens to share my first name. She carried the title of King, was the first woman to rule Georgia in her own right, and remains a popular and idealized figure. As for why this was so interesting to me, personally... My name was taken from the bible, which, to my knowledge, contains two Tamars; and both of their stories are rather... sordid. >>; As in, "Wow, that's a real downer of a namesake" sordid. So, call this a breath of fresh air, I guess?
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Post by Lizzie on Sept 6, 2011 16:17:44 GMT -5
I learned that if you actually are brave and ask people for their numbers so you can text them, 99.99999999999999% of people will give the number to you. The other .00000000000001% are jerks who don't deserve your attention anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2011 16:26:17 GMT -5
In Puritan Salem, it was illegal to wear purple. O.o
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2011 16:43:09 GMT -5
In Puritan Salem, it was illegal to wear purple. O.o It was like that in the Medieval times, too. The plants they got the dye from were really rare and expensive, so purple came to be a color of wealth and royalty. If someone wore purple in Salem, where plainness was valued, they'd be seen as a gaudy show-off.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2011 16:59:01 GMT -5
In Puritan Salem, it was illegal to wear purple. O.o It was like that in the Medieval times, too. The plants they got the dye from were really rare and expensive, so purple came to be a color of wealth and royalty. If someone wore purple in Salem, where plainness was valued, they'd be seen as a gaudy show-off. Thanks for clearing that up. At first I thought it had something to do with their religion (and I couldn't fathom why).
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