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Carruthers 09-14-2019 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 1038600)
Standard size of a toilet is 72.4 cm tall, 49.4 cm wide, and 71 cm deep. That's roughly 253,936 cubic centimeters.

Now of course it's not a solid rectangular prism, those measurements are the extremities, so let's say as little as 1/3 of that volume is actual gold. That's 84,645 cubic centimeters (again with rounding.)

Solid gold weighs 19.32 grams per cubic centimeter. Meaning this thing weighs about 1,635,346 grams = 1,635 kilograms = 3,605 pounds = 1.64 tons.

The article mentions they used "at least two vehicles" to get away, which makes sense, but that's a hell of a thing to dolly out the door in the first place.
The weight of the contraption also crossed my mind.
The photo in my post mentioned above shows the throne installed on wooden floorboards which I assume are at Blenheim Palace on the ground floor and hopefully well supported.
I can't imagine that anyone would risk installing it on an upper floor!

sexobon 09-14-2019 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Carruthers (Post 1038615)
Your post followed shortly after mine...great minds and all that. ;)

Carruthers 09-14-2019 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by sexobon (Post 1038617)
Your post followed shortly after mine...great minds and all that. ;)
All is now clear!

Many thanks. :thumb:

xoxoxoBruce 09-14-2019 10:52 PM
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It's a shame this is B&W so you can't see the gold.

It weighed less than 250 lbs, but the flooding caused significant damage.

tw 09-15-2019 07:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Carruthers (Post 1038616)
I can't imagine that anyone would risk installing it on an upper floor!
Three 2x10s spaced so that all share that load in a room maybe 6 feet wide. That would support (ballpark) maybe 3000 pounds.

monster 09-15-2019 10:05 AM
Meanwhile in New Zealand....

Man takes clown to redundancy meeting

sexobon 09-17-2019 08:19 PM
Meanwhile in Oklahoma...
 
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...all is not OK:

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Teenage waitress arrested for saying she wanted to ‘shoot 400 people for fun' with her new AK-47

A teenage waitress in Oklahoma was arrested after showing off photos of her new AK-47 to a coworker and telling her she was going to shoot up hundreds of people at her former high school. …

… Wilson had been expelled from the high school over violent incidents and was suspended at one point when she was found with a knife. …


… A report said that Wilson told authorities she used to be suicidal and “borderline homicidal to the people of McAlester school because she was bullied.” ...

… Wilson was charged with felony terrorist hoax and is being held in jail on $250,000 bond.
I pity the fools who didn't leave her a tip!

tw 09-17-2019 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by sexobon (Post 1038760)
I pity the fools who didn't leave her a tip!
If you don't leave a tip, then you have a one minute head start. Leaving others to confront an angry waitress.

Does that make you complicit in their murder?

Carruthers 09-19-2019 04:49 AM
Meanwhile, in Worcester Massachusetts.....

...or was it Worcester, England?

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Runner completes 'wrong' Worcester half marathon

A runner who accidentally signed up to the wrong half marathon completed the race distance on the same day - just on the other side of the Atlantic.

Sheila Pereira booked a place at the Worcester City Half Marathon, thinking it was in her hometown of Worcester, Massachusetts.

But the event was 3,200 miles away in the English city of the same name.

Undeterred, Ms Pereira ran 13.1 miles on her own in the US on the same day as the Worcestershire event.

She has been praised by UK organisers, who are sending her a race finisher's pack including a participation medal and T-shirt.

Legendary British athlete Steve Cram, who runs Events of the North, which set up Sunday's event along with Worcester City Council, invited Ms Pereira to the UK for a future edition of the race.

"We organise events throughout the country and some of them do attract entries from overseas," he said.

"Those are usually from runners who are visiting the UK for another reason and have taken the opportunity to take part in a race while here.

"That's what we assumed that Sheila was doing.

"We'd love to welcome Sheila in person next year - I don't know much about Worcester, Massachusetts, but Worcester, England, is a beautiful city and well worth a visit."

Ms Pereira, 42, added: "Participating even though I was some distance from the Worcester City Runs [it] was awesome.

"The love of running crosses boundaries and I hope to have the opportunity to take part in person in the future."
These things happen.

LINK

xoxoxoBruce 09-19-2019 08:53 AM
I wonder how they pronounce it, here it's wus-ter?

Carruthers 09-19-2019 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1038804)
I wonder how they pronounce it, here it's wus-ter?
Tis the same here.

Happy Monkey 09-25-2019 07:52 PM
Ask Jeeves™.

Gravdigr 09-26-2019 08:35 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1038804)
...here it's wus-ter?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Carruthers (Post 1038806)
Tis the same here.
Made me think of this (occurs at about :37 seconds):



Baron of whutnow?:eyebrow:

monster 11-08-2019 07:45 PM
....France
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50354918

sexobon 11-09-2019 07:03 AM
He took a practical joke too far and people got pissed.

sexobon 11-28-2019 07:44 AM
Meanwhile in Germany...
 
Fuhgeddaboudit.

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Germany's Highest Court Rules Convicted Murderer Has the 'Right to Be Forgotten' Online

Germany's highest court decided that a man convicted of murder in 1982 has the right to be forgotten, meaning his name can be removed from online search results.

Also known as the "right to erasure", the "right to be forgotten" rule gives EU citizens the right to request that data about them be deleted.

In a statement released on Wednesday, the judges said that while it was allowable for search engines to provide news reports on current crimes, "the justifiable public interest in reports that made perpetrators identifiable decreased over time."

The man hoping to be forgotten was part of a major news story in Germany in 1982. As a crew member of a sailing ship named Apollonia, the man shot and killed two people and severely injured another following an argument on board. …

… Germany has a long history of data protection, dating back to the 1960s. In 1977, Germany enacted the first Data Protection Act at the federal level. They also have what one newspaper described as "one of the world's toughest laws around hate speech." ...

henry quirk 11-28-2019 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by sexobon (Post 1042302)
Fuhgeddaboudit.
The only thing that ought to be in the Memory Hole is the Memory Hole.

Urbane Guerrilla 12-07-2019 11:34 PM
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Originally Posted by henry quirk (Post 1042310)
The only thing that ought to be in the Memory Hole is the Memory Hole.
:morncoff: True.

monster 12-13-2019 07:00 PM
Meanwhile in California

Penis fish

sexobon 12-14-2019 08:09 AM
Meanwhile in Dallas, Texas...
 
:facepalm:

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SEAL Running for Congress Violates Rules by Showing Up in Uniform, Launches Campaign in Wrong District

It wasn't the best way to start a Congressional campaign. Retired U.S. Navy SEAL Floyd McLendon wore his Navy dress whites to his campaign kickoff in Dallas, Texas in November. Unfortunately, it's against regulation to wear his uniform to such an event—which was held in the wrong district.

His choice to wear his Navy dress whites uniform violated a Department of Defense policy which prohibits members of the Navy and Marine Corps from "wearing uniforms of the naval service while attending or participating in a demonstration, assembly, or activity knowing that a purpose of the demonstration, assembly or activity supports personal or partisan views on political, social, economic or religious issues."

That regulation also applies to retired Navy SEALS, such as McLendon.

McLendon, who is running for a seat in the 32nd Congressional District, kicked off his campaign in the 30th Congressional District.

"I don't know if I can think of a time where somebody kicked off their campaign in some place that wasn't in their district," Lone Star Project Democratic strategist told Business Insider. "And then it would be really outrageous is when they didn't realize it was in their district. They need to have a pretty darn good reason for kicking off their event in a district in another one they're running in." ...

Griff 12-14-2019 08:22 AM
not the best launch

xoxoxoBruce 12-14-2019 01:37 PM
My guess is the R movers/shakers/strategists picked him out and talked him into running. I can hear them saying we'll handle everything you just show up when and where you're told and we'll get you the job... and chicks for free.

tw 12-15-2019 04:48 PM
With gerrymandering, sometimes you can be in the wrong district when at the wrong house on a block.

sexobon 12-19-2019 10:17 PM
Meanwhile in the UK...
 
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The toilet, as a technology, has been steadily improving. Indoor plumbing is far superior to chamber pots and outhouses, and automatic-flush sensors beat pulling a grimy handle manually. But a design concept that rapidly attained online notoriety this week brazenly suggested that the way to make toilets better is to make them worse.

The concept, called the StandardToilet, has a seat that’s set at an incline and lightly strains users’ legs, making it unpleasant to sit on for longer than five minutes or so. The discomfort is intentional: The toilet gets people, especially workers, out of the bathroom (and off their phones) and back to whatever it is they’re supposed to be doing. To this end, according to the StandardToilet website, “the optimum angle of the gradient shall be between 11-13 degrees.” Its patent, though, covers everything from a gentle 5 degrees to a perilous 35, which would be like perching on a playground slide.

The makers of the StandardToilet declined a request for a phone interview, but explained to me over email that the toilet’s angled seat accomplishes two goals: On top of getting employees back to work in a timely manner, its design, the makers claim, reduces the risk of hemorrhoids. “We see it as a win/win situation for both employers and employees,” said a representative handling press inquiries.
theatlantic.com

standardtoilet.net

btaloos.co.uk

xoxoxoBruce 12-20-2019 12:36 AM
They grossly underestimate the ability of the bear to shit in the woods. ;)

Griff 12-20-2019 06:29 AM
That must be the crapper Orange Lad is whining about.

Carruthers 12-20-2019 06:52 AM
From the letters column of this morning's edition of The Times...

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SPIKED SEAT

Sir, Reading about the mechanical process that discourages lounging on the lavatory (report, Dec 18, and letter, Dec 19) brought back the painful memory of the steel spike that jutted from the wall behind the place of blessed repose in the Appelby Frodingham steelworks in Scunthorpe.

Leaning back to savour a moment’s blessed respite from the blast furnaces brought you up sharply and with considerable pain.
I immediately joined the union but the spike of Scunthorpe steel, which had been put there by management, remained in place until the 1970s.

Steve Pound

MP for Ealing North 1997-2019; London W7

xoxoxoBruce 12-20-2019 10:58 PM
At Westinghouse Steam Turbine they took all the doors off the stalls.

glatt 12-21-2019 09:00 AM
Meanwhile in Harpers Ferry, the Appalachian Trail is going to be closed for a while.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...cedaed0996.jpg

xoxoxoBruce 12-21-2019 11:48 PM
I'll bet it was the PTA.

BigV 12-22-2019 12:03 AM
Wade for it......

No, really. Wade for it.

BigV 12-22-2019 12:04 AM
J/K

That's def a real river.. Ya better swim. Or risk the wreckage of the bridge.

Gravdigr 12-22-2019 07:18 PM
Luckily, they were carrying a trainload of water wings and styrofoam coolers...

sexobon 01-19-2020 09:16 AM
Meanwhile in the USA...
 
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Do you have the right stuff to become a space cadet?

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The first Space Force uniforms have reached the Pentagon, and people are making fun of the camouflage print

The United States Space Force debuted the first ever uniforms for members of the newly created unit. …

A tweet sent from the official Space Force account pictured the camouflage uniform with the "U.S. Space Force" nameplate and "United States Space Command" patch.

Twitter users immediately began to poke fun at the uniform's print, questioning why space troops wouldn't wear black uniforms if they wanted to blend into their surroundings. ...

… However, others pointed out that there are no immediate plans to put space troops in space, so the uniforms will be worn by people still on Earth - and camouflage doesn't have to serve an actual camouflaging purpose, it has just became the traditional print for US military members. ...
Their uniforms should be pink 'cause pink is the new black.

Undertoad 01-19-2020 09:30 AM
Please to note that Twitter opinions are the entire source and raison d'etre of this "news article".

Please also to note that New Media Journalists are angry as hell that they are being laid off because nobody is clicking on their lazy-ass shit.

sexobon 01-19-2020 09:55 AM
That uniform has a four star general's rank on it and they're stickin' it to the man.

Gravdigr 01-19-2020 12:01 PM
I'm patiently waiting for someone in the Space Force with the last name of Tom to attain the rank of Major...

sexobon 01-19-2020 01:21 PM
Send a FOIA request to ground control so they'll notify you.

sexobon 01-24-2020 11:37 PM
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Say no more...

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Griff 01-25-2020 07:52 AM
I assume the Roddenberry estate gets paid.

Clodfobble 01-25-2020 10:51 AM
I don't mind that it looks like the Starfleet logo. Did you see some of the early designs they were considering? Derivative or not, at least this one doesn't look like crap.

Luce 01-29-2020 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 1045464)
I don't mind that it looks like the Starfleet logo. Did you see some of the early designs they were considering? Derivative or not, at least this one doesn't look like crap.
Nothing says "Starfleet Values" like killer satellites.

tw 01-29-2020 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Luce (Post 1045700)
Nothing says "Starfleet Values" like killer satellites.
Logo will show a satellite with a big toothy shark smile.

sexobon 02-21-2020 07:47 PM
Meanwhile in Utah...
 
Awwwwww.

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Utah mom called 911 when she was desperate for baby formula. Police delivered it

… A Utah mother desperate to feed her six-week-old baby in the middle of the night phoned 911 for assistance - and the police department said it was exactly the right call.

Shannon Bird told USA Today she was at her wits' end around 2 a.m. on January 28 and didn't know where else to turn.

She told the newspaper she was unable to breastfeed, was fresh out of the milk she usually kept stored in her freezer, she had five children at home, and her husband was out of town.

Bird said she was unwell and didn't feel able to load all five children into her car, and none of her neighbors answered her calls for help. So she dialed 911.

"I don't even know what to do. This is so stupid … I can't make any milk for her right now, and I have no formula, and I have no idea how I can get formula to her," Bird told the 911 dispatcher, asking if an officer could come to the house and mind her children while she went to the store for formula.

"My milk just literally dried out," she said on the call. "This is my fifth kid and this has never happened."

But officers were soon dispatched to Bird's home carrying a gallon of cow's milk from the store, according to CNN. When Bird told them she needed baby formula instead, they returned to the store and delivered it to her - refusing to allow Bird to repay them.

"I was just glad to be able to help," Officer Brett Wagstaff told Inside Edition.

"They went above and beyond and helped me when I was most in need," Bird told CNN.

The Lone Peak Police Department told USA Today in a statement that Bird made the right call. "If someone feels they are having an emergency or need police assistance then call us," the statement said.

xoxoxoBruce 02-21-2020 11:26 PM
Around here they would have told her to eat shit and die.

tw 02-22-2020 12:31 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1047055)
... they would have told her to eat shit and die.
A tautology.

xoxoxoBruce 02-22-2020 07:54 AM
Nay, most everyone eats shit every day, it's the ppm that counts.

Urbane Guerrilla 02-23-2020 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by tw (Post 1047064)
A tautology.
Unless you insert commas.

Urbane Guerrilla 02-24-2020 06:28 PM
Commas improve phrases like "Let's eat Grandma." Certainly from Grandma's point of view.

sexobon 02-24-2020 08:30 PM
Meanwhile in Idaho...
 
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BOISE, Idaho — An 11-year-old girl toting a loaded AR-15 assault weapon appeared Monday at a legislative hearing with her grandfather, who is supporting a proposal that would allow visitors to Idaho who can legally possess firearms to carry a concealed handgun within city limits.

Charles Nielsen addressed the committee that voted to send the legislation to the full House as Bailey Nielsen stood at his side with the weapon slung over her right shoulder, but did not say anything.

“Bailey is carrying a loaded AR-15,” Charles Nielsen told lawmakers. “People live in fear, terrified of that which they do not understand. She's been shooting since she was 5 years old. She got her first deer with this weapon at 9. She carries it responsibly. She knows how not to put her finger on the trigger. We live in fear in a society that is fed fear on a daily basis.”

He said Bailey was an example of someone who could responsibly handle a gun, and lawmakers should extend that to non-residents.

“When they come to Idaho, they should be able to carry concealed, because they carry responsibly,” he said. “They're law-abiding citizens. It's the criminal we have to worry about.” ...

BigV 02-24-2020 08:38 PM
Who are the polite members of that slice of society there?

xoxoxoBruce 02-25-2020 12:15 AM
Evidently bad people don't visit Idaho so it's OK for any visitor to carry.:rolleyes:

Griff 02-25-2020 06:44 AM
It's weird how this debate is really between two terrified groups of people. I guess a lot of politics is like that? #armedandliberal

sexobon 02-25-2020 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1047289)
Evidently bad people don't visit Idaho so it's OK for any visitor to carry.:rolleyes:
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Originally Posted by sexobon (Post 1047277)
… a proposal that would allow visitors to Idaho who can legally possess firearms to carry a concealed handgun within city limits. ...

Urbane Guerrilla 02-25-2020 10:50 PM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1047289)
Evidently bad people don't visit Idaho so it's OK for any visitor to carry.:rolleyes:

They tend not to survive in their badness.

You know, like even if Feds come to Ruby Ridge...

Seriously, ce bon Bruce is incapable of understanding that you get, have, and maintain those rights and liberties -- for that matter good manners -- that you, me, and that gal behind the tree can enforce, in our hundreds of millions, which makes the work of enforcement a light one for any individual. Enforcement of individual rights and liberties by means of killing-tools works, regardless of whatever force, fraud, or advertising may be militated against them by those who find individual rights and independence inconvenient -- to any degree from slightly to severely. (e.g., authority from modern Japan to Nazi Germany). Not that I'm going to tell you it's a nice thing, for it is not. Bruce's incapacity, though, does not place anyone else here under the slightest obligation to follow him in his tyranny-acquiescence, his devotion to, even undying love for, the way that is less than liberty. One suspects Bruce lacks a needed degree of self-awareness -- or good grades in Civics class.

Jesus Christ himself understood how necessary killing tools are; Luke 22:36 reads "Let him who hath no sword sell his cloak and buy one." Knew what was coming, he did. Also gives you an idea of what you could get an iron sword for in first-century Palestine.

I would not be surprised to discover Bruce was raised from boyhood under the Sullivan Acts, in NYC, which has not enjoyed the full suite of human rights since their 1911 enactment. Warps the perspective towards a non-free mentality -- and worse.

Urbane Guerrilla 02-25-2020 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 1047302)
It's weird how this debate is really between two terrified groups of people. I guess a lot of politics is like that? #armedandliberal
:neutral: You've noticed I tend to see the debate as between the people of freedom and the people of slavery.

Me, I've seen a lot of that thing nameable as state barbarism... I can tell you stories about the fear it brings.

On a related note regarding fear, have you heard that what allows Mexican cartels their reign of terror is that Mexico has very strict gun control laws? No wonder the cartels, too, exercise rampant tyranny -- south of the border. They have trouble gaining that ascendancy north of it.

Urbane Guerrilla 02-25-2020 11:05 PM
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Originally Posted by BigV (Post 1047278)
Who are the polite members of that slice of society there?
Rhetorical Q I'm sure, but it gets an answer: everyone in the picture. I can say that from experience.

xoxoxoBruce 02-25-2020 11:57 PM
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Urbane Guerrilla 02-26-2020 01:48 AM
If you're going to use the seldom amusing Pearls Before Swine as your philosophical guide...

a) Nine Chickweed Lane might be better food for thought
or
b) God help you.

At least, it might rid you of that whining quality.

Urbane Guerrilla 02-26-2020 02:16 AM
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Originally Posted by sexobon (Post 1045007)
Do you have the right stuff to become a space cadet?



Their uniforms should be pink 'cause pink is the new black.
Hee. Well, anyway, black or a Keith Laumer-style midnight blue, how about some insignia ideas?

Air Force radiused chevrons with USN-style rating badges in place of that star inside the circle -- 'cos, you know, space Navy.

Even symbolically, wings don't work in vacuum; how about qualified space pilots bearing a representation of the M82 active galaxy on their breast? It's rather winglike, enough to suggest. Red filaments about the center, and that star or globular cluster on one side and a bit below adding its gleam.


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