Random thought thread!

shift6 · 2011-06-25T22:10:48.000Z

Today I jumped out of an airplane at 13,000 feet. My first skydive, and man it was awesome.

Strato · 2011-06-25T23:25:41.000Z

Pogue Mahone:

You know it’s funny - I thought I knew my blood type, A positive, from a test we did in biology class in high school. But my mother says that both she and my father are O positive. Is it possible that I am A positive, or am I just misremembering the results? Or should I start digging up the post office routes in Louisiana mid-1972?

Generally speaking, no it isn’t possible, provided your parents have remembered their blood groups correctly. To be a group O, then the genotype is OO. The only common way you can be a group A is if one of your parents was a group A (either AA or AO genotype). Rarely however, a parent could have a Bombay blood group, which does make things a little more interesting, but that is incredibly rare. They will group as an O, however can still carry the A (or B) allele on their chromosome.

Edit: Another possibility is that a parent could be a rare A sub group as well.

Robert_Sharp · 2011-06-26T06:01:25.000Z

Maybe you were adopted!

John_Many_Jars · 2011-06-27T11:16:35.000Z

Drains!!6w0Detail.png768×576

Hee hee hee

It’s today’s shirt.woot.

Robert_Sharp · 2011-06-27T13:35:33.000Z

Has anyone else noticed that Brian Rubin is one of the most consistently nice people on the boards, and yet has the most instances of inappropriate posts about receiving facials and involuntary ejaculation?

BrianRubin · 2011-06-27T13:36:40.000Z

Robert Sharp:

Has anyone else noticed that Brian Rubin is one of the most consistently nice people on the boards, and yet has the most instances of inappropriate posts about receiving facials and involuntary ejaculation?

You should hear me when I get on a rant about jews and Hitler (I’m German and Jewish, so I can) ;)

Cormac · 2011-06-27T13:58:23.000Z

Robert Sharp:

Has anyone else noticed that Brian Rubin is one of the most consistently nice people on the boards, and yet has the most instances of inappropriate posts about receiving facials and involuntary ejaculation?

He also seems to be very active in pretty much EVERY thread I’m following currently! Not that I’m complaining… :)

BrianRubin · 2011-06-27T14:04:43.000Z

Hello, I’m Brian, and I’m a Qt3 addict. I also have no attention spa…SQUIRREL!

Bill_Dungsroman · 2011-06-28T08:31:45.000Z

I feel bad for English Knights. Of any of the titles of nobility or rank, knights have suffered the worst. They used to ride around on horseback and get into epic battles and generally earn their place in lore and legend. I’d love to have them time travel from the past and meet their contemporaries: Anthony Hopkins, Mick Jagger and Elton John. Put those 3 on horseback in full riding armor and have them joust.

shift6 · 2011-06-28T09:30:55.000Z

Yesterday I heard someone pronounce URL as “earl”. I’ve heard it said as “you arr ell” and “yerl” before, but never as the noble title. It was strange.

Omniscia · 2011-06-28T11:00:00.000Z

As in www.sandwich.net?

Aeon221 · 2011-06-28T11:13:52.000Z

One of my coworkers is having to work with Verizon on fixing a customer on a legacy connection. As in, some old ass telephone based thing we haven’t sold in years. We’re fighting the urge to update the ticket with dickbutt gifs. Goddamn lazy ass Verizon techs troll us with fucking hold music for hours. And since my base is next to his base, I have to fucking listen to that shit when he puts them on speakerphone.

Fuck you Verizon, fuck yoooooou.

John_Many_Jars · 2011-06-28T14:04:49.000Z

Bill Dungsroman:

I feel bad for English Knights. Of any of the titles of nobility or rank, knights have suffered the worst. They used to ride around on horseback and get into epic battles and generally earn their place in lore and legend. I’d love to have them time travel from the past and meet their contemporaries: Anthony Hopkins, Mick Jagger and Elton John. Put those 3 on horseback in full riding armor and have them joust.

I think they’d be very proud of the British Knights of the 80s.

ddtibbs · 2011-06-28T15:38:39.000Z

Bill Dungsroman:

I feel bad for English Knights. Of any of the titles of nobility or rank, knights have suffered the worst. They used to ride around on horseback and get into epic battles and generally earn their place in lore and legend. I’d love to have them time travel from the past and meet their contemporaries: Anthony Hopkins, Mick Jagger and Elton John. Put those 3 on horseback in full riding armor and have them joust.

These Knights of the Realm might be able to fight off a dragon.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/knights-of-the-realm/1317580

Houngan · 2011-06-28T16:52:34.000Z

Richard Grieco better act his dick off.

Omniscia · 2011-06-28T18:15:56.000Z

I just bought a whole album’s worth of karaoke MP3s from Amazon. What was I thinking?

Meghan_Bowyer · 2011-06-29T16:07:28.000Z

I’m glad Chicago museums are large enough to make dodging large noisy groups of children relatively easy.

That said, 10 minutes is too long for one individual to hog an exhibit at the science museum. Ok you tried to put out the flame with their controls and it didn’t work now fucking mooooooove.

Staff_Sergeant · 2011-06-29T16:53:25.000Z

wisefool:

I accidentally faxed a “unsubscribe” form to their voice sales number instead of the unsubscribe fax line. I was a bit busy but I kept hearing an exasperated voice pickup and say “hello hello” each time it dialed.

I think this may be my new modus operandi, it’s not like they’ll actually unsubscribe me off their fax spam.

Just noticed this. Hilarious.

CheesyPoof · 2011-06-29T18:43:58.000Z

God bless JetBlue and their “Even More” product.

BrianRubin · 2011-06-29T19:01:22.000Z

I got infected with a rootkit yesterday and got it removed today. I posted about it on Facebook, wherein nearly any post I make about my PC brings out people claiming how much better Macs are. ANY post. I’m tired of Mac owners trying to justify their purchases to me. Sigh.