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Pilsner posted:Opposed to what we use in my country:
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TinTower posted:1994, actually. IIRC Douglas Adams had a joke about men only being needed to put the plugs on cords. I had to get that one explained to me.
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Jun 10, 2016 15:16
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hackbunny posted:The American everyday object with a surprisingly alien design, for me, was the doorknob. American doorknobs manage to feel big and heavy and flimsy at the same time. Big rattly spring-loaded things that threaten to come off in your hand at the slightest provocation Would you mind posting a comparison?
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Jun 10, 2016 15:22
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moller posted:<swamp water> When I was a little kid and would mix flavors at the soda taps my father referred to it as "swamp water." It's weird to see that other people called it that as well.
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Jun 10, 2016 16:25
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TinTower posted:Britain's plugs are the best "we put a FUSE in every plug because our national wiring standard involves insane ring circuits that would burn down every house otherwise" hmm yes perfect
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Jun 10, 2016 16:57
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Dick Trauma posted:When I was a little kid and would mix flavors at the soda taps my father referred to it as "swamp water." It's weird to see that other people called it that as well. I've heard it be called a Suicide. My mother insists that she was the first one to ever do it at the old Tasty Freeze in Berkley, Michigan (currently a Frosty Freeze on Coolidge) back in the 1970s.
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Jun 10, 2016 17:16
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Jack in the Box has them in the East Bay. I'm a Midwesterner, but thanks. twistedmentat posted:Yep, mine too. I think I prefer the lime more, because coke orange tastes like old classic kids drink swamp water. That's when you put some of all the pops in a cup, the orange always over powers the rest. I pretty much love lime anything. On a similar front, more places need good cherry limeaid.
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Jun 10, 2016 17:21
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Pilsner posted:Something I've noticed for a long time that's just godawful: American light switches and wall plugs. Example: Sometimes it's okay to leave things alone. Also, you can hit an American light switch easier in the dark. Just wipe your hand on the wall. Lining up the screws on the faceplates is also a good way to impress people with your OCD. Our wall sockets are in fact garbage, but there's no feasible way to overcome the inertia on those.
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Jun 10, 2016 17:32
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Explosionface posted:Also, you can hit an American light switch easier in the dark. Just wipe your hand on the wall.
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Jun 10, 2016 17:47
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Explosionface posted:Sometimes it's okay to leave things alone. Also, you can hit an American light switch easier in the dark. Just wipe your hand on the wall. Lining up the screws on the faceplates is also a good way to impress people with your OCD. What's wrong with American wall sockets? They're polarized, grounded, and backwards-compatible with older two-prong devices. With current code updates mandating tamper-resistant shutters, they're even hard for little Timmy to electrocute himself without REALLY trying. Plus, if you switch to using Decora for everything, it's easy to get keystone plates for up to six keystones so you can have a bunch of low-voltage stuff with the same cover plates as your outlets and switches.
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Jun 10, 2016 17:47
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hackbunny posted:Compact, inline, symmetrical (AC polarity is a lie). Neutral is typically tied to ground, so there's definitely a difference safety-wise even though there isn't a fundamental electrical difference. Though I suppose with symmetric plugs the appliances are all designed such that they're sufficiently safe regardless of which is hot and which is neutral. But you could run into issues if you use a travel adapter with an appliance designed for a polarized plug...
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Jun 10, 2016 17:49
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Flipperwaldt posted:But can you elbow it when you've got your hands full? I know I certainly can and do. Magnus Praeda posted:What's wrong with American wall sockets? They're polarized, grounded, and backwards-compatible with older two-prong devices. With current code updates mandating tamper-resistant shutters, they're even hard for little Timmy to electrocute himself without REALLY trying. My biggest issues are usually plugs finding a way to come out just a little bit exposing live conductors or the polarized part causing wall warts to always be in the wrong orientation. The incremental improvements over time have definitely helped.
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Jun 10, 2016 17:52
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Explosionface posted:Sometimes it's okay to leave things alone. Also, you can hit an American light switch easier in the dark. Just wipe your hand on the wall. Lining up the screws on the faceplates is also a good way to impress people with your OCD. I don't think so, you just hit these ones closer to the top or bottom, you can also do it easily with an elbow (or even nose) if your hands are busy or dirty. The sockets are definitely lovely, yeah. UK plugs/sockets look like over-engineered garbage. EU are fine even though the grounded ones are too bulky for my taste. The "best" ones I've seen so far are definitely the Thai ones, just check this out:  Used it myself with EU and American plugs and they work fine if a bit loose with the thinner EU prongs. I would guess they'd also work with UK and Australian ones, at least.
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Tunicate posted:Yeah you can make soda, but what's your MPM? This was a few pages back, but just wanted to say I got this (and found it funny!) For those not in the know, it's Margaritas per Minute, from the wonderful Margarita making machine thread in GBS a number of years ago.
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mobby_6kl posted:I don't think so, you just hit these ones closer to the top or bottom, you can also do it easily with an elbow (or even nose) if your hands are busy or dirty. The sockets are definitely lovely, yeah. They work with almost anything, including British, Aussie and even Chinese:  Which seem to be that design just to be contrary.
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Aristophanes posted:Come to NZ/Australia. There's Schweppes raspberry, and it's a common part of drink dispensers. It tastes great mixed with coke. Coke with (orange) Fanta is great. What's funny and stupid is they released a Lemon Fanta for a while. Even though Coke already and still make this: 
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Magnus Praeda posted:What's wrong with American wall sockets? They're polarized, grounded, and backwards-compatible with older two-prong devices. With current code updates mandating tamper-resistant shutters, they're even hard for little Timmy to electrocute himself without REALLY trying. US uses 110v so there is less risk, as such, they can be simpler. Most other countries use 220v? to my understanding. As such, there is significant risk to grounding out. I've zapped myself with 110 many a time but after getting myself with 220 once, I'll never do it again. It sucks to have your whole body lock up. Rewiring a cable end for a welder with the other end plugged in is not a good idea. Live and learn.
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Jun 11, 2016 02:39
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Croccers posted:The Raspberry in Coke-branded soda fountains is actually Kirks Raspberry (It's all Coca-Cola Amatil anyway). gently caress Lift. It's Solo or nothing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mJSOaO7cAU (every kid in class tried to do the kayak slide back then after seeing it) It's one of the later ads but the 80s ones were just as bad.
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Croccers posted:The Raspberry in Coke-branded soda fountains is actually Kirks Raspberry (It's all Coca-Cola Amatil anyway).  http://www.coca-colajourney.com.au/brands/fanta/fanta-lemon http://www.coca-colajourney.com.au/brands/lift/ They still sell both, apparently 
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moller posted:suicide Samizdata posted:I'm a Midwesterner, but thanks. Grape is my goto flavor, but thanks to 90s comedians, there's a huge stigma attached to grape pop. Lime is my backup, then orange. I can't think of the last time I saw a coffee vending machine. I guess people would be skeptical these days of just getting coffee in a paper cup from a machine.
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Jun 11, 2016 06:55
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twistedmentat posted:Grape is my goto flavor, but thanks to 90s comedians, there's a huge stigma attached to grape pop. Lime is my backup, then orange. 90s comedians are the reason I don't stand in front of brick walls, roll up the sleeves on my blazer, or gently caress other men.
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nocal posted:90s comedians are the reason I don't stand in front of brick walls, roll up the sleeves on my blazer, or gently caress other men.
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Collateral Damage posted:Coke Lime Yeah that was disgusting, they should have just called it Coke with Flavor Additives 315 and 361 (TM), with the advertising line "Can YOU work out what it tastes like?" Pilsner posted:
Switches like that are good for attaching a system of strings and pulleys to when you're a kid (I learned from a friend). mobby_6kl posted:The "best" ones I've seen so far are definitely the Thai ones, just check this out: It looks like these are in a hotel, unless every house in Thailand also needs you to insert a door pass into a slot to get any of the lights to turn on?  Lots of hotels have those universal sockets, does literally every house in Thailand actually have them?
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Still better than my GTX 760, or the 9500 GT I had before it.
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Pilsner posted:Something I've noticed for a long time that's just godawful: American light switches and wall plugs. Example: Americans have lots of options for wall switches and outlets, like     But the old fashioned toggle switches and outlets cost less than 50 cents each. The stuff with hidden screws is a bit more expensive, and most people don't care enough to either request it in new construction, or to replace their existing ones.
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Samizdata posted:Still better than my GTX 760, or the 9500 GT I had before it. You wouldn't buy it anymore with Pascal cards outperforming and undercutting it, though. EDIT: You could probably argue this extends to halo computer components in general, really. dont be mean to me has a new favorite as of 09:03 on Jun 11, 2016 |
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GTX 760: still not as obsolete as my 650 Ti! What's rather mind blowing is that, despite being orders of magnitude slower than anything in the 10xx range, it still runs everything very acceptably at 1080p.Buttcoin purse posted:It looks like these are in a hotel, unless every house in Thailand also needs you to insert a door pass into a slot to get any of the lights to turn on? Yes this was from a hotel, but every single socket that I've seen there in two weeks was like that. Either they do a brilliant job of guessing where a tourist might possibly show up, or they're just all like that 
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I bought a GTX 970 6 months ago  It's now hopelessly outdated AND basically worthless.
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lazydog posted:Americans have lots of options for wall switches and outlets, like This is the best plug because it's 
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Jun 11, 2016 09:49
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less than three posted:This is the best plug because it's  
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mobby_6kl posted:GTX 760: still not as obsolete as my 650 Ti! What's rather mind blowing is that, despite being orders of magnitude slower than anything in the 10xx range, it still runs everything very acceptably at 1080p. Yeah. I mean, there's things like bus-powered GTX 950s out there, and unless you're used to ALL THE GRAPHICS cards you'd probably be fine with one. Most people's gaming is on phones these days, and when they aren't they still have their experiences shaped by 360s and PS3s. Maybe sick graphics generally belong in this thread, I dunno.
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Why did the switches with the knob you push in die out?
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I have a GeForce GT 720 which seemed pretty great when I got it for free, and I mostly don't play any games on it that aren't in DOSBox anyway, but now when I try to play the recently-released Doom E1M8 from John Romero in the Doomsday engine with all the high res textures, 3D models, etc., I don't get very many FPS. I thought just about any card should be good enough to play a game from 23 years ago Anyway this all means I have no freaking idea why a GTX 970 is obsolete. Surely they are still making drivers for it? Did a new version of DirectX or shader model or something come out that Grand Theft Auto 17 is going to use and GTX 970 doesn't support it?
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Buttcoin purse posted:Doomsday engine with all the high res textures, 3D models, etc. By that point, it absolutely isn't a game from 23 years ago anymore. Firstly, the Doomsday engine is horribly unoptimized, GZDoom is so much better. Secondly, hi-res textures and 3D models in Doom? What are you, some kind of heretic?
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cheerfullydrab posted:Why did the switches with the knob you push in die out? they're too hard to push and dimmers make the new style light bulbs explode or something
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Buttcoin purse posted:Anyway this all means I have no freaking idea why a GTX 970 is obsolete. Surely they are still making drivers for it? Did a new version of DirectX or shader model or something come out that Grand Theft Auto 17 is going to use and GTX 970 doesn't support it? It's not obsolete, but when it comes to GPUs some people divide the world into "obsolete" and "cutting edge". It's nonsense, and it sells graphics cards.
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Jedit posted:It's nonsense, and it sells graphics cards. Makes sense to me.
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KozmoNaut posted:By that point, it absolutely isn't a game from 23 years ago anymore.
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