What did you learn today?

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[PWRL]

That 3 out of 5 vendors quoting 90 process pressure gauges for a project on my desk CANNOT quote correctly even when given 3 chances. 3 strikes and yer' outta there!

What is a process pressure gauge?

 

[the harp unstrung]

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[D M C]

Today I learned that over on the DB side of TalkBass they've got a sub-forum titled "Double Bass Pedagogy".
I had to look that up...seems it's a fancy word for learnin'.
How come they get the fancy words?
I feel insulted...or violated...or offended...or something.
I'm gonna have to fix myself a strong whiskey.

I feel both vitiated and insulated.

 

[the harp unstrung]

I'm gonna have to fix myself a strong whiskey.

Is there any other kind?!

 

[Tom Bomb]

Does Australia need a 'right to repair'? Tractor Hackers stateside are going in to bat for the right to reignite but not everyone is happy about that. In Sweden, you can now get a tax break if you truss up the old gizmo and go again. Sounds like a good idea. Lots of promises broken, and grumble they will, but all is not lost.

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[Knavery]

I learned that my wife and my mom are a lot alike. My mom is visiting from Minnesota, and we haven't spent this much time together since I lived at home damn near 30 years ago. It's uncanny and a little frightening...

 

[Tom Bomb]

Today, I learnt of a 'Pretty casual new world record': Game of Thrones star lifts 474 kilograms. Tomorrow, I'll be doing my level best to forget what I learnt today

 

[roller]

Not today... but recently, I learned that an everything bagel gets even more delicious with a healthy application of jalapeño cream cheese.

 

[PillO]

Today I discovered yet another reason to dislike the Royal Canadian Legion.

 

[the harp unstrung]

Not today... but recently, I learned that an everything bagel gets even more delicious with a healthy application of jalapeño cream cheese.

Oh! Hell! Yes!!

 

[GIBrat51]

I learned that a hard, little rock that gets stuck between a front brake caliper and it's rotor on your Nissan Frontier 4x4 - will cost you a brake rotor, and a bill for $178...

 

[Tom Bomb]

Turns out, '10% or 15% of drinkers are alcoholic. And 'Alcoholics Anonymous was founded on the basis of a psychedelic trip'

Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, recovered from his…in those days they called it chronic inebriation, as a result of having a psychedelic experience, when he felt God. He said, 'I felt a wind, not of air but of spirit blowing through me.' He was on the top of a mountain in the presence of God. And that's what stopped him drinking, and he never drank again after that. And Wilson was a remarkable man. Not only did he set up Alcoholics Anonymous but he also persuaded the US government to fund research on the use of psychedelics to treat alcoholism. …
Psychedelics, addiction, and mental health

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[roller]

I learned last weekend that gin (apart from beer... or wine... or tequila) gives me a slightly different type of buzz/drunk than other alcohols.

 

[Jeff Scott]

I just learned that I am really glad I did not buy a Tesla!

 

[beaglesandbass]

Today I learned that one of the episodes of Game of Thrones final season took 11 weeks to film.

 

[the harp unstrung]

I learned last weekend that gin (apart from beer... or wine... or tequila) gives me a slightly different type of buzz/drunk than other alcohols.

I feel that way about Rum.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Just discovered that "the FDA in October 2018 opted to ban seven synthetic food additives known to cause harm — synthetically derived benzophenone, ethyl acrylate, methyl eugenol, myrcene, pulegone, pyridine and styrene — ingredients you typically don’t see on food labels since they’re grouped together under the term “artificial flavors.”" Invalid Link Removed. Giving them all a wide berth, for the duration.

 

[slobake]

Euchre

 

[PWRL]

Euchre

I learned Spades once, but I forgot it. I still know Go Fish.