[11:10:21 PM] Brosencrantz: good hoax story went round tumblr today
[11:10:36 PM] Brosencrantz: involving samsung paying apple with 20 billion nickels
[11:22:50 PM] Hovercraft: 20 billion nickels would weigh 100 million kilograms
[11:23:21 PM] Hovercraft: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081130131743AAFuroy
[11:23:23 PM] Brosencrantz: the hoax did involve a fleet of trucks
[11:23:35 PM] Hovercraft: “You can research this information easily by yourself on the Internet.”
[11:23:45 PM] Brosencrantz: that’s what he’s doing :D
[11:23:52 PM] Hovercraft: I googled “weight of a nickel” and got that page, yes
[11:23:55 PM] Hovercraft: what a fuckass
[11:24:46 PM] Hovercraft: how much do you think a truck can carry?
[11:25:06 PM] Hovercraft: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_pounds_of_freight_can_a_semi_truck_carry righto
[11:25:27 PM] Hovercraft: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=how+much+can+a+truck+carry&sugexp=chrome,mod=13&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&q=75000+pounds+in+kilograms&oq=75000+pounds+in+kilograms&gs_l=serp.3…1369.8338.0.8453.25.23.0.2.2.1.138.1767.20j3.23.0…0.0…1c.bFaCccByV2c&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=e66a99fc09647756&biw=1858&bih=1019 okay
[11:25:43 PM] Brosencrantz: 34 tonnes!
[11:25:45 PM] Brosencrantz: not bad
[11:25:50 PM] Hovercraft: so about 3000 trucks would be needed
[11:26:02 PM] Brosencrantz: or a hundred journeys by 30 trucks
[11:26:15 PM] Brosencrantz: the logistics is not the biggest plothole here
[11:26:27 PM] Brosencrantz: the biggest plothole is why samsung has a billion dollars in 5c pieces
[11:26:50 PM] Hovercraft: do 20 billion nickels even exist?
[11:27:02 PM] Brosencrantz: I… dunno
[11:27:04 PM] Brosencrantz: probably
[11:27:23 PM] Brosencrantz: fucking coppers accumulate everywhere
[11:27:43 PM] Hovercraft: nickels are silver
[11:28:08 PM] Hovercraft: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_coins_exist_in_the_world FUCK
[11:28:08 PM] Brosencrantz: shit, so they are
[11:28:18 PM] Brosencrantz: probably not then
[11:32:12 PM] Hovercraft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Mint_coin_production hmm
[11:32:35 PM] Brosencrantz: are you a bad enough dude to copy that into a spreadsheet?
[11:32:58 PM] Brosencrantz: nickels have been minted since the civil war
[11:32:59 PM] Hovercraft: so they produce about 1 billion nickels per year, but don’t know how long they stay in circulation for
[11:33:05 PM] Hovercraft: probably several decades though
[11:33:18 PM] Brosencrantz: the hell happened in 2009?
[11:34:08 PM] Hovercraft: dunno, there didn’t need to be much of a top-up?
[11:34:28 PM] Hovercraft: so it’s feasible that 20 billion exist
[11:34:34 PM] Hovercraft: but getting that many in one place is absurd
[11:35:19 PM] Hovercraft: …why would I want to copy that into a spreadsheet?
[11:35:36 PM] Brosencrantz: I looked up a graph of the price of copper
[11:35:52 PM] Hovercraft: did it spike?
[11:36:05 PM] Brosencrantz: ish, it was at rock bottom early 2008 and climbed steeply, but carried on climbing
[11:36:11 PM] Brosencrantz: peaked mid 2010
[11:36:23 PM] Brosencrantz: looking at nickel now
[11:37:01 PM] Brosencrantz: nope, same story, very low through 08 then rising steadily
[11:37:38 PM] Brosencrantz: and nickel’s prices were highest in mid 06
[11:37:49 PM] Brosencrantz: when production was a billion and a half
[11:38:06 PM] Hovercraft: needs must
[11:38:25 PM] Brosencrantz: americans suck at seigniorage
[11:39:16 PM] Brosencrantz: I love that we can actually research this sort of shit effortlessly
[11:39:21 PM] Brosencrantz: for no better reason than because we’re BORED
[11:39:25 PM] Hovercraft: o/\o
[11:39:45 PM] Hovercraft: and to give us a sense of smug superiority over tumblr halfwits who swallow anything they’re told
[11:39:55 PM] Brosencrantz: like, in a shitty thriller twenty years ago researching this sort of information would involve an attractive harvard grad and a romance subplot
Tag: queue
More fun things at St. Michael’s Mount.
Seen at St Michael’s Mount.
They must have really liked their champagne.
Civ.
Brosencrantz:
[02:53:31] http://sergeydolya.livejournal.com/260172.html#cutid1 the fuck
Hovercraft:
[02:54:28] goodness me
Brosencrantz:
[02:55:48] what’s with the face on that woman being fucked by a dog
Hovercraft:
[02:55:52] wow, medieval western artists didn’t know about the vanishing point, but they at least had a go at painting things in perspective
Brosencrantz:
[02:55:57] she looks like a week of rigor mortis
Hovercraft:
[02:55:58] the japanese really didn’t have a fucking clue
Brosencrantz:
[02:56:30] yeah
[02:56:45] compare the european woman being fucked by the dog and the japanese woman being fucked by the dog and WHAT THE FUCK AM I SAYING
[02:57:07] also the european dog is cuter
[02:57:12] he looks like his name should be wuffles
[02:57:19] the japanese dog looks like a predatory fucking dinosaur
Hovercraft:
[02:57:24] I can’t fap to any of this
Proofing a friend’s thesis:
The first blow for Coastal Command followed two days later, with an attack against a surfaced submarine off the Scottish coast. [British] aircrew misidentified a RN submarine as hostile and attacked it with anti-submarine bombs; although causing no damage to the vessel, these severely damaged the attacking aircraft, forcing it to ditch.
God damn we’re good at war.
Life is no finishing school for young ladies. Everyone speaks the way he is made. The protocol chief, Dr Guth, speaks differently from Palivec, the landlord of The Chalice, and this novel is neither a handbook of drawing-room refinement nor a teaching manual of expressions to be used in polite society. It is a historical picture of a certain period of time.
Where it is necessary to use a strong expression which was actually said, I am not ashamed of reproducing it exactly as it was. I regard the use of polite circumlocutions or asterisks as the stupidest form of sham. The same words are used in parliament too.
It was once said, and very rightly, that a man who is well brought-up may read anything. The only people who boggle at what is perfectly natural are those who are the worst swine and the finest experts in filth. In their utterly contemptible pseudo-morality they ignore the contents and madly attack individual words.
Those who boggle at strong language are cowards, because it is real life which is shocking them, and weaklings like that are the very people who cause most harm to culture and character. They would like to see the nation grow up into a group of over-sensitive little people — masturbators of false culture of the type of St Aloysius, of whom it is said in the book of the monk Eustachius that when he heard a man breaking wind with deafening noise he immediately burst into tears and could only be consoled by prayers.
– Jaroslav Hašek, The Good Soldier Svejk.
underneath the open sky 