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    #2732
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    It's the Ghostbusters


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    #2733
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,245 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Bootup wrote: »
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    Actually, they were built by the Pharaoh's devoted followers.


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    #2734
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Victor wrote: »
    Actually, they were built by the Pharaoh's devoted followers.
    I once read somewhere that the builders were tradesmen, not slaves.
    Exactly how they worked that out, is anyone's guess!


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    #2735
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I once read somewhere that the builders were tradesmen, not slaves.
    Were they members of a union?


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    #2736
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    Were they members of a union?
    Probably, but I bet the management had a pyramid scheme for funding it.


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    #2737
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,245 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    mr_fegelien wrote: »
    rap-music-is-like-scissors-itgets-beat-by-rock-imgflip-com-53537222.png
    To be honest, wrap music is more like paper.


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    #2738
    TheIrishGrover
    Registered Users Posts: 5,968 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    ^^^^^^^^^^^

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    #2739
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,123 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    mike_ie wrote: »
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    Great design, improves concentration.


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    #2740
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    It's actually a lot closer to this!
    swastika-1.jpg?fit=700%2C400&ssl=1
    It only gets nazi when you have a bad working environment.


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    #2741
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    mike_ie wrote: »
    X4ZZwjM.png

    Except it's not. It's set in 2032. So now I presume the rest of it is nonsense too.

    (Posts like that annoy me way more than they should! :) )


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    #2742
    GinSoaked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭GinSoaked


    cdeb wrote: »
    Except it's not. It's set in 2032. So now I presume the rest of it is nonsense too.

    (Posts like that annoy me way more than they should! :) )

    I'm not going to watch the film to find out but I can find plenty of internet sources that say its set in 2020. Including wikipedia which in its article states both.


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    #2743
    alchemist33
    Registered Users Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Whatever year it is, the screenshot from Ebert's review is real - he really used those words. So still quite prophetic


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    #2744
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    GinSoaked wrote: »
    I'm not going to watch the film to find out but I can find plenty of internet sources that say its set in 2020. Including wikipedia which in its article states both.
    Hm. This is strange - the very first line of the wiki Plot piece says
    Plot
    In 2032,[7] the world is in turmoil.

    But then later, yeah, it says the film is set in 2020.

    So - I guess I have to recant my earlier scepticism, and go back to just not having any real interest in films. Seems safer that way. :)


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    #2745
    Hercule Poirot
    Registered Users Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Hercule Poirot


    mr_fegelien wrote: »
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    Link please. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_geHrGUcAE-2aj.jpg

    I'm afraid this is not true...was written by a comedy writer

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cambridge-caper/

    Don't know why I felt the need to check this, but I did..


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    #2746
    GinSoaked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭GinSoaked


    Hercule Poirot wrote: »
    I'm afraid this is not true...was written by a comedy writer

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cambridge-caper/

    Don't know why I felt the need to check this, but I did..

    You think your the only one that checks stuff :rolleyes:

    :D:D:D


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    #2747
    ganmo
    Registered Users Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
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    Not holding testicle fest?


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    #2748
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    ganmo wrote: »
    Not holding testicle fest?
    Personally, I think the story's bollocks.
    But at least they had the balls to report it! :p


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    #2749
    Pawwed Rig
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 22,293 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    I assume there is a caption missing here. Any ideas?

    https://66.media.tumblr.com/597d211b4021ce47ed61c2b91901dee2/tumblr_pkzqf6B62g1syuw80_540.jpg


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    #2750
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I had to look it up, then it made sense.
    In that cartoon there's no punch line
    :D


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    #2751
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Aw jeeze! :o


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    #2752
    Pawwed Rig
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 22,293 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Sweet lord


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    #2753
    locum-motion
    Registered Users Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭locum-motion


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
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    Surely that should be

    7/16” - 10c = 10mm

    (Ie minus not plus)


    Yes, maths is important, but not phucking up your maths is importanter.


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    #2754
    GinSoaked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭GinSoaked


    locum-motion wrote: »
    Surely that should be

    7/16” - 10c = 10mm

    (Ie minus not plus)


    Yes, maths is important, but not phucking up your maths is importanter.

    Well I though of it as a 7/16" spanner PLUS a 10 cents coin gives you a 10mm gap.


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    #2755
    locum-motion
    Registered Users Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭locum-motion


    GinSoaked wrote: »
    Well I though of it as a 7/16" spanner PLUS a 10 cents coin gives you a 10mm gap.

    When you phrase it like that, yes.

    But the meme phrased it in mathematical terms (while claiming that math (sic; stupid yanks) is important) and got it spectacularly wrong.


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    #2756
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The correct formula is 10mm +10cent =7/16"


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    #2757
    ganmo
    Registered Users Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Well that put a spanner in the works


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    #2758
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,700 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Deleted User wrote: »
    The correct formula is 10mm +10cent =7/16"
    The US yard is exactly 0.9144 meters.

    So 7/16" is 0.9144 / ( 3*12) * 7/16 meters = 11.1125 mm exactly which leaves a 1.1125mm gap.


    But a dime is 1.35 mm thick :eek:


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    #2759
    GinSoaked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭GinSoaked


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    The US yard is exactly 0.9144 meters.

    So 7/16" is 0.9144 / ( 3*12) * 7/16 meters = 11.1125 mm exactly which leaves a 1.1125mm gap.


    But a dime is 1.35 mm thick :eek:

    Just stop! Slow down and do it in stages.

    One inch is 0.9144 divided by 36 = 0.0254m, to get to millimeters we multiply by a thousand. So one US inch is 25.4mm (same as its always been :pac:)

    So if we take 7/16ths of 25.4 we get 11.11mm

    10mm + 1.35mm = 11.35mm

    The spanner seems to be 1.1mm to small and a dime at 1.35mm with the spanner on paper seems .2mm to big however with the tolerances involved I strongly suspect it would work.

    Edit> Sorry misunderstood Capt'n Midnight post but still think it would work.


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    #2760
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Cheap Chinese spanner could easily be 0.2mm out, or it was "persuaded" to fit!


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    #2761
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    joujoujou wrote: »
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
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    :o

    bottom right pic, we're going to build a fence, and we're going to get the Martians to pay for it...

    https://www.businessinsider.com/curiosity-rover-drilling-on-mars-2014-5?r=US&IR=T
    On Tuesday, the six-wheeled robot did a test drill, making a hole about half an inch wide and nearly an inch deep,


    Edit: top right, there was hardly a post there either, and I presume someones planting a hedge on the left...?


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