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Arsenic Lupin posted:Yup. My college handed them out. My roommate got invitations to host party freshman week because she looked so good in her face book (what it was called) photo.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Total derail but holy poo poo are you the oldest goon now that we banned the pedophile Chicago cop some years back? Nah, I've seen some older ones here and there.
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Mar 31, 2021 19:48
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Nah, I've seen some older ones here and there. lol you idiot they died ten years ago this very night
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Mar 31, 2021 19:57
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Nah, I've seen some older ones here and there. Would not have guessed 61 from your userpic but now you've got me wondering how old the oldest Homestuck fan is/was
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I went to the same university for my BA and MA, so 7 years total. All 7 years (and some prior) the editor of our humor magazine managed to sweet talk/bribe someone on the yearbook staff into printing his pic as Juan Valdez, Agriculture Major (note: we had no agriculture program). I never bought a college yearbook but when I saw one I HAD to check. Which is now, of course, a joke most likely lost on folks younger than me.
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Mar 31, 2021 20:24
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People in movies getting coffee is probably weird to younger people. Like this scene from Clerks. Yeah, look at that dummy...drinking cold coffee. The ridiculousness of it all.
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Mar 31, 2021 21:07
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Son of a Vondruke! posted:Holy poo poo, that's awesome. What was he like? (Of course I'm referring to Chewbacca) He was a super chill dude who went by Chuy and played a bunch of handball. If you brought up his name he just laughed about it and said something like "yeah my parents are hippies" Last I heard he joined the military.
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Slimy Hog posted:He was a super chill dude who went by Chuy and played a bunch of handball. If you brought up his name he just laughed about it and said something like "yeah my parents are hippies"
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Imagined posted:My wife went to a rural high school where the entire graduating class was 30 people. Meanwhile my high school had to use the local minor league sports arena for our graduation ceremony. Same. The ceremony at the end of my freshman year was at our local minor-league baseball stadium (I was in band, we played the ceremony). After that, it moved to our local community college's football stadium until we finally got our own football stadium some time after I graduated. Back at my parents' house are 3 (I think) high school yearbooks, a high school class ring and letter jacket, and 1 university yearbook. (I'm a sucker for rituals and ceremonies.)
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Apr 1, 2021 07:32
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Blood Nightmaster posted:Would not have guessed 61 from your userpic but now you've got me wondering how old the oldest Homestuck fan is/was Homestuck is a weird thing because Andrew Hussie is 41, and it's full of references that the average Homestuck fan should have been too young to get. Pontius Pilate posted:I’m fairly young by SA standards (29, experienced plenty of overhead projectors in my life tho) and I used to sweet talk a bored high school librarian into doing all the physical labor of putting together my tri-fold poster boards; I assume those are basically extinct outside of, like, maybe science fairs, which could well be dead as well? Science fairs are still going strong. I judged at one a couple of years ago. But yeah, they're fast moving towards the academic style of large-format printed posters. I saw a few posters that would put the average masters student to shame, and these were from grade 12s. (A bunch of 12th graders are now doing research rotations in academic labs and getting their names on peer-reviewed papers.)
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Apr 1, 2021 08:02
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Krispy Wafer posted:People in movies getting coffee is probably weird to younger people. Like this scene from Clerks. I'm old enough to remember when ice coffee was introduced in my country and how weird everyone thought it was. Like, everyone though it was just a fad that would disappear.
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Apr 1, 2021 11:10
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Science fairs are still going strong. I judged at one a couple of years ago. But yeah, they're fast moving towards the academic style of large-format printed posters. I saw a few posters that would put the average masters student to shame, and these were from grade 12s. Speaking of old references:  https://www.somethingawful.com/fashion-swat/science-fair-swat/1/ (Seriously, it's probably my favorite front page article in this site's history.)
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Blood Nightmaster posted:Would not have guessed 61 from your userpic but now you've got me wondering how old the oldest Homestuck fan is/was Can't get that precise number, but there are at least 15 of us over 50. https://public.tableau.com/profile/makin.smith#!/vizhome/HomestuckCommunitySurvey2020FanCensus/HomestuckCommunitySurvey2020FanCensus
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Can't get that precise number, but there are at least 15 of us over 50. https://public.tableau.com/profile/makin.smith#!/vizhome/HomestuckCommunitySurvey2020FanCensus/HomestuckCommunitySurvey2020FanCensus  e: I know nothing about Homestuck, just thought it was funny/interesting.
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Imagined posted:drat dude, more like MightyJoe66. Not quite there yet, but close.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Homestuck is a weird thing because Andrew Hussie is 41, and it's full of references that the average Homestuck fan should have been too young to get. This is true, a lot of the early comic has a ton of gags related to what could best be described as "late 80's to early 90's movies that were either direct to video schlock or felt like they should have been", so presumably things Hussie would have nostalgia for. I think for a lot of us the stuff we didn't have any memories of just came across as non sequitur humor instead. The really wild thing to me is that the average age of a fan in 2020 was apparently 18-19, because I remember the comic being at its peak a literal decade ago when I was still in college. I guess it makes sense in that the crux of the material is literally terminally online teenagers? Like we're only gonna get more of those as the years go on, not less Also yeah the pie chart is pretty accurate
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Lead out in cuffs posted:(A bunch of 12th graders are now doing research rotations in academic labs and getting their names on peer-reviewed papers.)  That sounds really impressive to me. Is it as big of an accomplishment as it sounds or is there a weird catch?
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Cheesus posted:
The bar for authorship in the lab sciences is pretty low compared to other fields. You do have to make a contribution of some sort, but you don't have to make a substantive contribution. Having that authorship is a very good thing for the students involved, but it's mostly a matter of them having the opportunity to work on projects in whatever lab they're attached to. That's mostly a matter of who their parents/schools know.
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ultrafilter posted:The bar for authorship in the lab sciences is pretty low compared to other fields. You do have to make a contribution of some sort, but you don't have to make a substantive contribution. Having that authorship is a very good thing for the students involved, but it's mostly a matter of them having the opportunity to work on projects in whatever lab they're attached to. That's mostly a matter of who their parents/schools know.
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That, but also does signal that you know your way around a research lab. If I was interviewing a kid that stuck that on their CV/resume, I'd expect them to be able to talk about what they did and what the research was about/what conclusions there were. Doing well in an unpaid/poorly paid lab position instead of having to work to help make rent is both a privilege thing and legit separator, just tangled together. It's enriched for wealthy kids (poor kids never get the opportunity) and ones good in research. Wealthy kids who are bad at research and poor kids of all kinds are left out.
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Pretty sure this thread covered iceboxes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cdP99R2tQE let me tell you honey we gonna move away from here i don't need no iceman i'm gonna get you a frigidaire Ray Charles had quite a few songs about women either doin him wrong or doing services for him and paying for things
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To be fair, iceboxes have been a weird concept for decades. The idea of big chunks of ice that you sawed chunks off of is odd. Are ice picks even a thing unless you’re a fishmonger or a horror movie villain?
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Krispy Wafer posted:To be fair, iceboxes have been a weird concept for decades. The idea of big chunks of ice that you sawed chunks off of is odd. Are ice picks even a thing unless you’re a fishmonger or a horror movie villain? I have an old rear end ice hammer for use with an ice box. It was my grandmother's. It has a small ax side for big chunks and sort of a meat tenderizer looking side for making crushed ice or meat tenderizing. It's pretty nifty. It's good if you want to make cube steak. Not that normal people want to make cube steak but I've done it before with it. It wasn't good. All cube steak is terrible. It's nifty and you'll never see one. I can't even find a proper picture online. Showing someone flaking off ice for a mint julep would definitely confuse kids. I don't think my kids even know what an icebox looks like. I've shown them one, it's just in one ear and out the other. They have no reference.
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Oh man I loved the old pulp detective novels where inevitably they would would bring a block of ice and a bottle of rye to the room every night. They’d be chipping off ice and drinking all night, then one day waking up to a DEAD PERSON with an ice pick in their back and no memory. Good thing the survivor was always a detective, and a Darned Good One. I think this started in Red Harvest but when I was on my pulp kick I ran into it a lot. It’s hard to believe how much short fiction was cranked out when a person could make a living at it.
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god drat, red harvest is such a good book.
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Good lord ice pics are an old reference, you might as well be in a mystery thriller novel about trying to solve a murder at some old abandoned cabin out in the boonies far from civilization if you use those.
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mostlygray posted:It's good if you want to make cube steak. Not that normal people want to make cube steak but I've done it before with it. It wasn't good. All cube steak is terrible.  Bread and chicken fry cubed steak and it's great.nishi koichi posted:god drat, red harvest is such a good book. 
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Still my favourite reference to ice-picks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig3nOyrFRwc
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An ice pick was a major plot point of Basic Instinct, back when couples would go out to a crowded movie theater to be titillated instead of the privacy of their own homes. Other than that though the only other time I’ve thought about ice picks is when I learned about lobotomies. After that it took a long time for me to forget about ice picks.
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I used an ice pick like two summers ago when someone bought some bags of gas station ice that had mostly frozen together into one big block. I was mostly just surprised that someone in 2019 had an ice pick.
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Last night, I watched Gorky Park, and a few times in the movie, they turned a rotary phone to a number and then put a pencil in the dial to keep it there. This is confounding to me. Apparently, it was a trick to block phones to incoming calls and prevent the phone from being used to spy on people. I figured that's what it was for, but I wanted to make sure because it's such a specific thing to show.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I used an ice pick like two summers ago when someone bought some bags of gas station ice that had mostly frozen together into one big block. I was mostly just surprised that someone in 2019 had an ice pick. I find just putting the bag on a chopping block and giving it a good whacking with a rolling pin works pretty well
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I've used a screwdriver as an ice pick many times but just to break up ice blocks to fit in coolers never to put the ice in drinks.
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Source4Leko posted:I've used a screwdriver as an ice pick many times but just to break up ice blocks to fit in coolers never to put the ice in drinks. I want a screwdriver ‘Phillips head or flat’?
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Cracker King posted:I want a screwdriver Robertson, that way it's made with horrible Canadian spirits
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Vodka, orange juice, and milk of magnesia - a Phillips screwdriver.
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Cemetry Gator posted:Last night, I watched Gorky Park, and a few times in the movie, they turned a rotary phone to a number and then put a pencil in the dial to keep it there. The microphone is disconnected from the circuit when the dial is anywhere other than its resting position. This is because the pulses were sent down the same copper wire that the voice was carried on. If the microphone had still been connected, it would work in reverse as a speaker and produce sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skwq5Y1-HJo&t=141s I don’t know that this is a reference lost on modern audiences as much as a trick of the trade that the public never knew about.
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Platystemon posted:The microphone is disconnected from the circuit when the dial is anywhere other than its resting position. This is basically how most of the old school phone phreaking worked, right?
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The rotary dial pulses are not audio, they basically are hanging up the phone and picking it up rapidly. You could technically dial by tapping the hook if you were good enough.
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Platystemon posted:The microphone is disconnected from the circuit when the dial is anywhere other than its resting position. Wait, it's not common to have your place of residence and office bugged? Have I ripped my apartment walls and mattress apart for nothing? And will the person flashing their headlights using Morse code to tell me not to look for any bugs please stop. It's really annoying.
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