elucubra
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- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 2 days ago:
Europe’s royal shuffling is rife with things like that. Most royal families have blood ties with each other, and historically have agreed to place one of theirs on another countries throne to keep collective hold on the continent.
“The German Kaiser (Wilhelm II), Russian Czar (Nicholas II), and English King (George V) were all first cousins. Their grandmother was England’s Queen Victoria, making the English and German kings first cousins. The English and Russian kings were also first cousins, as their mothers were sisters.”
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 2 days ago:
Colonialism has generally never played nice for the conquered, however, some, like the Romans, and to a certain extent the Moors, Ottomans, Spanish, and others were somewhat integrating, excesses and plunder non withstanding, and contributed to the conquered. Belgian Congo was pure evil.
I have Belgian blood, BTW.
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 2 days ago:
So, because they love cricket, they can’t love basketball? Spain, which has 2 orders of magnitude less the population, is a powerhouse both in football and basketball.
- Comment on This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. 4 days ago:
There is always someone out there who finds you attractive.
It may take more tries to find than average, but once (and this is key), you understand that rejection is thoroughly harmless, you will find one of these.
- Comment on It’s always too little or too much. There is no in between 4 days ago:
That is an American measure. Imprecise as fuck.
The metric conversion is:
For an ISO standard size adult hand (adjust +/-13% to take into account hand size deviation from ISO standard):
For spaghetti sizes 5-6, make the ok sign with your hand, placing the fingernail of your index finger against the base of your thumb for une person, against the middle joint for 2 people, and to the tip for 3 people.
The pressure exerted by the index finger to the thumb joints should be 9.81 kPa +/- 15%.
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
Ah. Not really common in my part of the world.
- Comment on Two anus facts in a row. 1 week ago:
Another anus fact: I pull facts out of my anus regularly.
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
Don’t bring maths and shit here!
What I actually meant to write was 300 % more efficient, 1/3 the cost.
But yeah, it’s bad etiquette to correct strangers, especially when you are right.
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
I was actually being faeticious, pointing out how half of the quotes in the internet are attributed to Mr. Clemens, half to Groucho Marx, and half to Tsun Zu.
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
Forester XT SG ( STi if possible) would like a word. Actually the SF with the manual transmission and the high/low lever was a fucking blast. I owned one, and it was a blast.
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
It pulls in warm air from the room it’s in
Until the room is cooled enough that you are using the air you have paid to cool, to cool the evaporator. Portables are shit.
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
Portables are hot garbage. Get a proper air source wall split. Cheap and immensly cheaper as a heat source that anything you use right now.
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
Rrong! The vast majority are reversible air source heat pumps, which means that they cost 1/3 to operate as heat sources in winter. Win all year round.
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
As far as I know they are mosty designed for vertically sliding windows, uncommon in Europe. For american style sliding windows a think they are brilliant.
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
So? If you want a fireplace you need a chimney.
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
The northern half, basically. Down south we very well do. What a lot of people are unaware of is that an air source split costs peanuts, and lowers your heating bills like 300-400%. Yeah not 30, 300%
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
I wish I could upvote this 100x.
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
Portable units are absolute shit. For a little more you can buy a split like the OP’s picture, that is an Air source heat pump, which is 3 to 4 times more economical to run than any other heat source. Plus they can run off solar panels, if the roof is yours.
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
Mark Twain, actually.
- Comment on ngl it gets you pretty buzzed 3 weeks ago:
That’s why he’s making that face
- Comment on Just hanging with the boys 4 weeks ago:
I’ve had aquariums on and off through the decades. My last one was a 150 L tank, very well planted, and three small schools, zebras, lneons and guppies. All of them keep to small areas in the wild, and see to be fine in that sort of surroundings. Also, schools are mesmerizing. A Japanese aquarist, Takashi Amano was famous for designing huge aquariums, with massive forests, and just a few fish.
- Comment on Just hanging with the boys 4 weeks ago:
Oh , you two, get a room already!
- Comment on There was a time when people had to deal with all of these being separate 5 weeks ago:
I’m always surprised I these conversations that almost no one mentions always having a useful, generally charged, decent close range flashlight.
I’m old enough to ha e experienced that having a zippo was the most reliable way to see close range stuff. Flashlights were basically dead battery containers.
- Comment on stony tony 5 weeks ago:
No way!
- Comment on Mr Fraser, if you're nasty 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Hello 911, it's me again 5 weeks ago:
Nope. It will become art when it’s first used for its intended purpose
- Comment on Lefty tax 1 month ago:
Yes you can. You just need a mirror, like Leonardo da Vinci did
- Comment on Gold 1 month ago:
Gold is a actually extremely useful, and has a ton of practical applications where it’s not used because of cost.
- Comment on amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity 2 months ago:
. Just call it 90 minutes. If you use minutes it sounds like less time
- Comment on Some of you are too young to know what this is 2 months ago:
That’s a myth. DVDs tend to lose synchronicity if you don’t rewind them and always turn them the same direction. Why do you think there is subtitle timing adjustment in most media players?