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A nice variation : if someone has a separate flat screen monitor on an arm above their desk, flip the screen upside down as noted by local, and then turn the screen through 180 degrees too. Nothing's noticably wrong (because the 'picture' is still the right way up) until they go to hit the power button or suchlike on the screen at the end of the day, and it's not where they were expecting it to be... |
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boo 13,901 posts
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localnotail 23,079 posts
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Registered 13 years agoCentipedes are carnivorous, millipedes are detritivorous (feed on dead and decaying matter). -
Murbs 25,152 posts
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Registered 17 years agolocalnotail wrote:
Oooh. I like that one.
Centipedes are carnivorous, millipedes are detritivorous (feed on dead and decaying matter). -
I don't. They freak me out. -
localnotail 23,079 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI like them, they are like mecha-insects, and they do useful things. Not so keen on the human ones though. -
THFourteen 54,987 posts
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Registered 16 years agolocalnotail wrote:
doesnt work for me
I have just learned that pressing ctrl+alt+ an arrow key rotates the screen display in that direction.
This will end badly for my IT-illiterate colleagues. There may even be tears.
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DaM 17,729 posts
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Today I learned that monitoring an NQT = paperwork. -
Murbal wrote:
House centipede - can bite (with modified legs!), which can hurt humans (similar to other insect stings). If you can stand them, will prey on other beasties effectively.
localnotail wrote:
Oooh. I like that one.
Centipedes are carnivorous, millipedes are detritivorous (feed on dead and decaying matter).
Millipede - if they are in the house, put them in some leaf litter outside. Can't hurt you at all (unless they are the kind that can do this). UK millipedes just roll into a cute little whirl - like a pastry! - if you scare them.
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Blaketown 5,658 posts
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Registered 14 years agoDaM wrote:
I was going to post a Mormon fact too.
Mormons wear special undergarments!
Recently gained a Mormon church in Utah as a client so I've been interested in all things Mormon for a week or so. Today I learned that they think native Americans are descended from jews from around the same time as Jesus popped over to the states for a quick visit. Also, that there are a tribe of people that live on the moon. Though they deny that one pretty vigorously since the whole, we've actually been to the moon, thing. -
Blaketown wrote:
Have you seen the South Park episode on Mormons?
I was going to post a Mormon fact too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_About_Mormons
Based on real-life Mormon events, and with a real ex-Mormon's Mormon voice.
I think it's pretty fucking awesome. -
X201 22,150 posts
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Registered 16 years agoTHFourteen wrote:
Think its a shortcut on Intel graphics chips.
localnotail wrote:
doesnt work for me
I have just learned that pressing ctrl+alt+ an arrow key rotates the screen display in that direction.
This will end badly for my IT-illiterate colleagues. There may even be tears. -
mikeck 1,937 posts
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Registered 14 years agoX201 wrote:
This will make work today 100% more interesting!
THFourteen wrote:
Think its a shortcut on Intel graphics chips.
localnotail wrote:
doesnt work for me
I have just learned that pressing ctrl+alt+ an arrow key rotates the screen display in that direction.
This will end badly for my IT-illiterate colleagues. There may even be tears. -
Salaman 24,162 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI just accidentally dragged a link from my bookmark toolbar into the URL input bar. And (unsurprisingly I guess) that opened the site I wanted.
Never knew you could do that although as I accidentally did it I fully expected it to work like that as it just seemed like it'd make sense. -
AdmiralPellaeon 347 posts
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Registered 14 years agoToday I learnt that Die hard was originally written as a Commando sequel & Minority report was going to be a Total recall sequel. -
AdmiralPellaeon wrote:
True about Minority Report but not Die Hard. Die Hard was supposed to be a sequel to the Frank Sinatra film the Detective (the book Die Hard is based on is the second in that series).
Today I learnt that Die hard was originally written as a Commando sequel & Minority report was going to be a Total recall sequel. -
mrpon 37,367 posts
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Registered 15 years agoThe PS4 won't play PS3 games.
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Die Hard 2 was supposed to be the Commando sequel - some stuff is left-over from it, like the fictional country and whatnot. Die Hard 3 was originally supposed to be Lethal Weapon 4. Die Hard 4 was supposed to be a stand-alone film, but then got rewritten. -
Woody_Guthrie 10 posts
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Registered 10 years agoZip-lining upsidedown is both possible and painful. -
Rusty_M 7,172 posts
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Registered 14 years agoit's not painful at all if you right yourself before you hit anything. -
Woody_Guthrie 10 posts
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Registered 10 years agoI was upsidedown, holding on for dear life was all I could do. Until I hit the end and got thrown...It was worth it. -
Blaketown 5,658 posts
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Registered 14 years agoYou mean Wikipedia is innacurate?
I've never heard such a thing.
A sequel was written by De Souza and Frank Darabont, based on the 1979 book Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp (which is, itself, a sequel to his 1966 novel The Detective, made into a film of the same name in 1968 featuring Frank Sinatra and Lee Remick), but Schwarzenegger was not interested in making a sequel as his previous sequel (Conan the Destroyer) was less successful critically and did not do as well domestically at the box office. The script was reworked with a new central character, eventually played by Bruce Willis, and was retitled Die Hard.[5] The fictitious country of Val Verde is later nodded to in the sequel to Die Hard.
IMDB claim the same thing to be fair along with the fact Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson and Richard Gere all turned the role down before Willis got on board.
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MetalDog 24,076 posts
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Registered 20 years agoInterchangeable.
As are lit/lighted, leaned/leant, spelled/spelt, dreamt/dreamed, I believe.
You can probably find people willing to argue the toss over any of them, but it doesn't matter. -
billythekid 12,595 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI prefer to use learnt, burnt, spelt etc. I'm sure that's what I was taught at school. -
MetalDog 24,076 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI think Anglo English does lean towards learnt, lit, etc.
American English leans towards learned, lighted, etc.
But it doesn't matter.gif)
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DodgyPast 9,353 posts
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Registered 16 years agoMetalDog wrote:
Is does if I'm teaching. They need the t sound and you don't get the t sound with ed after n, m and l, you get the d sound.
I think Anglo English does lean towards learnt, lit, etc.
American English leans towards learned, lighted, etc.
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it is LEARNT you mongrels
"exact same"
"multiple times"
"looked visibly..."
F OFF with your learned
the only way learned is acceptable is in the context of talking about the learned professions
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