i can. I hear that if you can't, you're probably a faggot

You take that back or I'll smite you with my beaded bag.

Ooooh. I can do it!


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I used to have to use it to ignore people, now I have Bluetooth hearing aids.

I've been doing it my whole life.

I just didn't know what I was doing.

Left ear only; but, easy peasy that one.

Thank you for expressing my answer perfectly.

Now I'm curious if it's genetic? can your kids, siblings and parents do it? the article doesn't mention how the population is divided, %wise. I need moaaaar facts. About this thing I can't do. It doesn't sound fun though (haha)

Can you wiggle your ears?

How do you do this? Think about it? Move some part of your face or head?

nope

but I can wiggle all of my toes independently -which apparently you shouldn't be able to- well I could until I had foot surgery -that foot is still recovering, the two toes that shouldn't be independent are "as they should be " :/ ...but I'm working on it :D

If you can wiggle your ears, it's those muscles. If you can't... look upward as high and hard as you can (with your eyeballs, not your head), close your eyelids, and clench your jaw repeatedly.

Nope, 40 years of hearing aids may have something to do with it.

For me, it's somewhat tied to pushing the back sides of my tongue, near the back of the teeth, slightly up and forward. Not directly tied, as I can do either without the other.

Interesting. Funny how different people have different nerve control.

I can do the rumbling ears independent of any other movement. Although it requires a little focus and I probably stop blinking and breathing as I do it. Experimenting now, I can blink, breathe, and ear rumble all at the same time, but it’s awkward.

I can wiggle one ear only, and it’s completely different muscles from the ear rumbling. YMMV

Yeah, I should say for me it's different muscles from the ears wiggling, but they tend to engage at the same time. I can wiggle my ears without the sound, but I have to concentrate really, really hard to make the noise without moving my ears.

Also, I've never tried to wiggle just one ear--I can do the right one independently, but not the left. Something to practice!

That’s the superpower I want.

well the doc did say that the over-flexibility of my feet was what led to the injury that led to the surgery though....

You are so weird.:3_eyes:

Can any of you twiddle your thumbs in opposite direction?

Meaning, the thumbs cross twice per rotation. Try.

I can slowly, and i have to think about it.

I can’t. They would crash into each other twice per rotation.

Like this

Nicely done!

You're Amazing.

That's ugly as sin. :eyebrow:
Not your thumbs, the gold leaf bowl that came up.

your cookies


i get a guitar builder after it ends

"Welding helmets. How fast is auto darken?"

At least it's not Taylor Swift coming up next.

my cookies?

YOUR cookies!

This is what I got.

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Jay Leno & Dennis Gage

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Yeah, I watch a lot of car stuff.

Today, I Learned, is Galactic Tick Day.

TIL about how the term hackneyed came to be. I figured it was related to Hackney in London somehow, and knew of hackney horses and that London cabs are called hackney carriages/cabs...

Turns out it is related to those.... they became so commonplace (and worn?) that they term hackneyed came into use to describe that concept.

there are many sites with this info, here are two

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hac1.htm
http://www.word-detective.com/2015/10/hackneyed/

Not an amazing discovery, granted, but someone might find it interesting

I was in the Hackney business for many years, and I learned something.

You was a hack?

I also learned what zulu time was and why it was called that.

So she says at 222017QMAR20.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date-t...ate_Time_Group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ary_time_zones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC−04:00

https://www.timetemperature.com/tzmi/annarbor.shtml

I still date checks I write with the shortened date only form (e.g. 22MAR20).

Timestamps must be sortable

so I say at 20200322225015

Did you Google that string?

tut tut. someone could add 2 digits after the 20 to change the date.....

It would be rejected in that format.

BTW, the military DTG is arranged so the info therein deemed most important to military operations comes first in case that part of the message gets cut off.

Q?

"Q" is the military time zone. There are 24 time zones designated A-Z excepting "I" and "O" so as not to be confused with numbers "1" and "0" respectively.

Eastern Standard Time (EST) becomes Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) during Daylight Savings Time (DST), when monster posted, and transitions from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) -5 to GMT -4 or "R" to "Q" in military "Z" (Zulu) Time. GMT never changes to DST.

Universal Time Coordinated/Universal Coordinated Time (UTC/UCT) is the successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) a.k.a. military “Zulu” Time. The terms represent the same time zone; but, with different implications in various countries.

The Cellar displays the GMT offset at the bottom of the page.

Now I've said my ABCs. Tell me what you think of me?

On second thought, never mind. :p:

Didn't know about the Q zone.

I thank you.

about untouchable numbers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untouchable_number

I just haven't figured out why they're special or needed a name

Ice Cream Barge WW2.

https://www.navalhistory.org/2019/07...as-sweet-tooth

By World War II, when other Allied countries banned ice cream, the United States held fast to the tasty symbol of their perseverance in difficult times. Arguing successfully that ice cream had morale and caloric value for overseas troops, all branches of the U.S. Military began providing the treat to soldiers in whatever form they could. In the U.S. Navy, some of the most interesting ice cream-driven projects occurred. The most well-known project is the $1 million spent on converting a concrete barge into an ice cream factory that was towed around the Pacific, delivering ice cream to ship’s that did not have the equipment to create their own. Those ships that could make ice cream were also equipped with soda fountains – a common place in the United States where ice cream was served – to provide the sailors not just with the taste, but the feel of home. As if these projects were not enough to show the U.S. Military’s dedication to the treat, some U.S. Airmen found a fascinating solution to provide dairy confections to their comrades.

Interesting, thanks

Just from the wiki, it appears that if one could prove that there was an odd untouchable number other than five, that would disprove "a slightly stronger version of the Goldbach conjecture", which is a thing I've heard the name of before.


So there's that.

TIL What autochthonous means.

TBH, TIL autochthonous was a word.

I have weird facebook friends -he used in in a conversational post about grilling sausages.

I suspect this new knowledge is not going to do me any good in games of Scrabble and Boggle and the like, but I look forward to an opportunity to just toss it casually into a conversation.....

and no, look it up your darn self ... not like you're short on time right now....

Well, looks like confirmation of a common question. Yes, yes he does.

About Graupel as it tried to prevent me from going for a run.

https://www.mlive.com/weather/2020/0...m-the-sky.html

The long head of the triceps attaches to the scapula*.

It is commonly known that the triceps makes up 75% of upper arm mass, therefore focus on biceps training isn't the way to get "big" arms. But it changes everything when you realize that the largest and strongest component of the triceps isn't strictly an "arm" muscle-- it is activated by arm position relative to the torso.

*shoulder blade

In theory, but sometimes we say hold my beer and alter ourselves. Hurts like a mutha too.

For a good and edifying use of the term, read through McPhee's Annals of the Former World where it attains some prominence in the volume Rising From The Plain. All about Wyoming -- which is a more subtly strange place than I'd thought. There's oil here and there under Yellowstone NP...

Annals is four books, written over many years, about plate tectonic theory and about rocks. And his writing makes the rocks sing. It'll change your view of what you're hiking around on.

You might even start toting an Estwing geologists' pick. I've got one of those.

I have a geology teacher for a parent. I'll pass, thanks

I had a geology teacher for a favorite -- I didn't. Was about then I bought that pick. And a 10-power foldie-up magnifying glass for closer looks.

Yesterday but close enough. Stopped at Burger King on the way home and they threw a handful of napkins in the bag. Looking at them they unfold to about 13" x 8" (330mm x 203mm), and 0.0023" (0.058mm) thick... the exact same thickness as my single ply toilet paper.
They break down quite quickly in water too.
Just sayin', ya know. :cool:

On accident? You're dead to me.


Or, TIL Cloddfobble is an ignorant hick.

I wondered why it took years to earn a cab drivers licence in London.
OK, big city lots of streets but years, really? Aha, I see a problem...

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Not 52 new streets, 52 streets named New. :facepalm:

Good riddance, I say! You're probably one of those nightmare people who stands "on" line instead of "in" line.