TIL: Today I Learned
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I got to enjoy that cinema masterpiece with him!
I thought it was a made up name, like Gotham, Metropolis or Seattle!
Fun fact: one side of State Line Ave is wet (liquor sales) and one side is dry (no liquor sales). Texas is the dry side.
So is GothamI've got news for you. Metropolis is real, too!
Metropolis, Illinois - Wikipedia
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I love quirks like this. There's a town that straddles Alberta and Saskatchewan, called Lloydminster. The drinking age is 18 in AB, but 19 in SK, so guess which side of town the kids love. It's also messy for DST - SK doesn't observe it, but AB does. The whole town of Lloydminster does, but if you work outside of town in SK, you are in a different time zone at home than at work. I can only imagine how late/early people sometimes are on those time switch days.
My sister used to live in Alabama, very close to the divider between the Eastern and Central time zones. She knew a number of people who lived on one side and worked on the other. Their solution was to just live on work time. Set every clock in your house to the time zone your work is in and you avoid all those issues.
You then just have to deal with converting for everything else in your life, but nothing's perfect.
I've heard you can drive a 30 min stretch of highway that passes through different NA land and bounce between timezones 4 times in Arizona
USA Time Zone Anomalies, Part I - Twelve Mile Circle - An Appreciation of Unusual Places
Part One goes into detail on the Hopi-Navajo time zone anomalies in Arizona and focuses on Idaho's famous Time Zone Bridge.
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--Patrick
Today I learned that in Taiwan, Article 5 of the Employment Service Act forbids discrimination against job applicants or employees on the basis of their horoscope sign.
I am curious about the events that necessitated enshrining this requirement in law.
I am curious about the events that necessitated enshrining this requirement in law.
Ugh, that's such a wood monkey thing to say, honestly, why do we even allow your kind on here?
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(wait, does it differentiate between Western and Chinese horoscope? I kind of assumed in Taiwan the Chinese zodaic would be more prevalent)
Apology Act, 2009 - Wikipedia
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Saying "sorry" is not necessarily an admission of guilt in Ontario, Canada.
Huh. Now I hear it.
I'm pretty sure that in Bang Bang, Niki Minaj spells "Gang Bang" (fast forward to 2:55...the board doesn't let me embed time codes)
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The board DOES let you embed time codes. Before you post your media link, add a colon followed by the total number of seconds to skip (so "0HDdjwpPM3Y:175" in your case).
--Patrick
I totally pasted with a time code. Dunno why it didn't take it. Regardless, post fixed with time code.
The media plug-in is iffy at times, but yes it can successfully translate YouTube’s “link with current time” into the proper syntax. When it feels like it.
—Patrick
I mean, this is the same song people thought the lyrics were, "Cherry pie/cherry pie/no you can't read my Poker Face", soooooo not that shocking.
I guess I'm not the only one who hears it..there's a whole meme about it
GasBandit
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I never had problem discerning "can't read my" but maybe that's just because the context was so obvious. I didn't catch the "fuck her face" part.
Besides, these days singers are WAY less intelligible. I'm still not sure I've got all the words figured out for "Dance Monkey" by Tones and I.
"And when you're done, I'll make you doobie dabba day-ay! Auugh ahh day!"
"Do it all again", in case you really didn't know :-P
GasBandit
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I mean, that's what the lyric sheet says, but the lyric sheet for Poker Face ALSO did not have the word fuck on it.
