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[–] Enzy@feddit.nu 13 points 7 hours ago

Ok temu geralt

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 17 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

That's what we call him in our house, too.

Or "poor man's Henry Cavill" if we're feeling particularly saucy.

[–] Ezergill@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

In our house, we don't usually think of him, so he's mostly "that guy, whatshisname, y'know?"

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

Lol, I'm just hearing about that one for the first time. So spot on 🤣

[–] topperharlie@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

oh c'mon kamilah al-Jamil's sister, you know your fiance doesn't like being called that! xD

[–] Oaksey@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago
  • Billy Ray Cyrus's daughter's ex
[–] SirBucksworth@lemmy.world 41 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Oh, you’re Talking about the wrong Geralt?

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

You mean We-have-Geralt-at-home?

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[–] expletivedeleted@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

Frankly, for me, who gives a damn about either.

[–] Sumocat@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That ain’t Thor’s brother. He’s the brother of the actor who portrayed Thor on stage in Asgard and New Asgard.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Nah that's low key Thor's brother.

[–] softwarist@programming.dev 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] tea_n_typewriters@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

I think it’s Miley Cyrus’s ex.

[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 8 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I don't know why but she kinda looks like a Simpsons character on that photo.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

I hope it’s the angle, because the work done to her face makes her look inhuman.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

To me it looks like the 2004 fad where everyone had to look like complete morons in every photo while flaunting their life as being extravagant, but also having a deadness in their eyes that shows they have zero thoughts running through their head, and celebrating that fact.

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[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago (10 children)

I don't know who that bearded fellow is, and I don't care enough to find out. For anyone who'd like to tell me, instead please reply with some of your favourite numbers, colours, and/or historical anecdotes.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

144 is a dozen dozen, also known as a gross. I like it because it's got so damn many factors, it can be divided in all kinds of ways. I think we should switch to the dozenal (base 12) system, because it would make multiplication and division easier.

[–] Djehngo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

How do you feel about hours/minutes/days, degrees(for measuring angles) and pre-decimilozation currency?

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 58 minutes ago)

Pentadozenal (sextadecimal) time is very cool and sexy, same with angles. But I have no patience for nickels and shillings, that stuff is bullshit.

We should standardise measurements to the dozenal metric system. A mometer should be a dozen dozen dozen meters (1000 meters in dozenal).

A circle should have 260 degrees. That's two gross and six dozen, pronounced as two-gro six-do.

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Your views have merit and it's a shame that they will remain largely untested amongst the greater populace for repercussions unknowable perhaps forevermore.

[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I can't tell you my favourite number. It's illegal.

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Oh, that's interesting, I appreciate that. Strangely, I've heard of illegal primes before somewhere, but not illegal numbers as a whole. Thanks!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

In 1942 England was dealing with bombings from Germany. Not yet rockets, these were bombs dropped by plane. So eventually he British took one of the destroyed fields, and propped up an entire city made exclusively out of wood. Wooden buildings. Wooden people. Wooden cars. Ect. Build fast, painted fast. Goes up over the coarse of 2 days.

So when the Germans (nazis) returned a week later to take surveilence of where they need to bomb on their next run, they see this whole town that they didn't even know about on their maps. They decided to bomb it.

I forget what message Britain sent over the telegraph the next day, but it was something sarcastic.

Then, 2 years later, Germany tried to pull the same stunt in Holland. They wanted the allies to bomb this air strip they just installed. Except it too was all wood, and fake. So when the Allies learned of this new air strip, they sent a bombing crew of 19 bombers. They flew overhead, and only 1 plane released it's payload. It dropped it's bomb, and then......no explosion. They had dropped a wooden bomb, with the words "wood 4 wood" carved on it.

The allies were saying to the Germans "Bitch, we CREATED this trick! We know exactly what you did, and we aren't fooled."

Now, you may wonder why send an entire fleet, if they knew it was fake. The other 18 bombers had real bombs loaded, just in case they needed them. They didn't. They just released the 1 wooden bomb.

I always thought that was hilarious. That and the ghost army of 1944.

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Nice. Appreciate that write-ups, thanks!

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 19 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

Why yes, that is a historical anecdote

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

Favorite number is 8520 which is the postcode for a city where I uses to do telephone support. I hated the job but the number is easy to type on a numerical keyboard, so it always made me happy when someone from there called.

I don't have a favorite color, but I do have a preference for certain palettes.

Historical anecdote. I hope you like trains. The movie Doctor Zhivago was filmed during the Cold War, and since the setting is in Russia, it was impossible for Hollywood to do on location. Most of it was filmed in Spain and Portugal, but not all of the train scenes could be. See, the train track in Russia has a different (smaller) gauge than in Europe, with the exception of Finland who adopted the russian gauge for geographical reasons. Another hurdle though was that nobody had the Russian trains either, so they had to build them from scratch using old construction drawings from before the Cold War, where Finnish factories had produced some trains for Russia. So the Finnish factory rebooted in the mid 1960s to build a train and wagons from the 1900s, just for this movie. You will not find this info on wikipedia, which only mentions the Spanish trains.

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I was forced to watch this movie no less than 5 times before the age of 12

[–] musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Fun fact about wikipedia, a friend of mine attended wikimania. He told me that while there, he learned that many of the volunteers are neurodivergent men, this is why wikipedia contains so much detailed information on birds and trains.

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Train subculture goes back generations. It's a.techmeme from an era where autists were trainmen because they were (amongst) the only ones who could see the repercussions of this new and exciting technological leap.

[–] m4xie@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

My favorite number is i, often substituted in engineering with j. I love how something that seems so esoteric in is core definition actually describes an easily understood physical property of very basic electronic components, that being impedance.

As for colors, I love the chimerical colors.

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Oooo, I also love chimerical colours. Especially because I remember them after seeing them and can reproduce them visually in my mind and can picture them anytime I want after I've seen them and now reality is weirdly underwhelming because its color pallette is not only limited but boringer than it otherwise could (and perhaps should) actually be.

[–] 5765313496@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

So, both are imaginary, related to real phenomena. Nice!

[–] m4xie@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I guess so! 😂

I wonder if that says anything about me?

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago
[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed to be rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."

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

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

<3 Ramanujan.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Good answer. Not untrue

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It was that or be Miley Cyrus’ husband.

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