The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
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    *chinhands*
  • I'm not actually convinced that David Brat is a different person than Eric Cantor.  I mean, have you seen pictures of the two of them?
  • Adopting a new identity and then losing to it in order to get rid of his terrible reputation among the rest of his party? That makes more sense than what actually happened.
  • Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu


    This video is a mene in the Spanish speaking internet.
    That's all
  • kill living beings
    the important thing about short illions is that yllions are obviously superior to both anyway
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

    Things the USA still supports that the rest of the world doesn't understand

    -Imperial system
    -Month/Day/Year
    -A billion being 1000 millions
    -Israel

    Also, traffic lights changing straight from red to green.
  • Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu
    http://imgur.com/gallery/LJTKA
    I knew most of these (Showing off)

    I didn't know the difference between turtle and tortoise but in my defense we use the same word for both in Spanish
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    This is fucking hilarious win.

    I'll vote for Soviet Bear as soon as he learns to keep his text within the printable margins

    TRAITOR

    Anonus said:

    I'm reading the Soviet Bear stuff in the voice of Boris Badenov


    Or Jumba Jookiba
    I'm reading them in the voice of Heavy Weapons Guy.
  • Miko said:

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    who are these characters
  • Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu
    They are from Bravely Default
  • Haven said:

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    *chinhands*

    is this actually seriously on his door at RMC?

    this is actually pretty win
  • wait, it says "planet's problems"

    it's probably not him
  • edited 2014-06-13 17:31:14
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    http://imgur.com/gallery/LJTKA
    I knew most of these (Showing off)

    I didn't know the difference between turtle and tortoise but in my defense we use the same word for both in Spanish

    I thought those were all 'little known facts' everyone knows and feels smug about knowing.

    Like Frankenstein being the creator, not the monster, and bumblebee flight being scientifically understood.
  • Who dared to reblog the Soviet Bear post

    I'd scroll up to check, but I can't because the page is too sassing-frassing long now
  • edited 2014-06-13 17:33:21
    kill living beings
    Tachyon said:

    bumblebee flight being scientifically understood

    literally angry w/ rage atm
  • Who dared to reblog the Soviet Bear post


    I'd scroll up to check, but I can't because the page is too sassing-frassing long now
    WAT SIK MAN SEND BABY TO REPLY TO ME
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    Tachyon said:

    bumblebee flight being scientifically understood

    literally angry w/ rage atm
    Seriously?  Why?

    ("angry w/ rage" makes me assume you're not serious but I have to ask to be on the safe side)
  • kill living beings
    because i know scientists who work on bug flight, lel
  • Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu
  • kill living beings
    double inazuma kick
  • wait wait WAIT

    There's more than one kind of billion????
  • edited 2014-06-13 18:18:13
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Yes.

    There's the proper, logical billion, which is 1,000,000,000,000.

    And there's the rubbish billion used in America (and now the UK as well), which is 1,000,000,000, otherwise more sensibly known as a thousand million since that's all it is.
  • scientific notation ftw
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Tachyon said:

    Yes.

    There's the proper, logical billion, which is 1,000,000,000,000.

    And there's the rubbish billion used in America (and now the UK as well), which is 1,000,000,000, otherwise more sensibly known as a thousand million since that's all it is.

    Oh hush.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    scientific notation ftw

    Oh hush.


  • edited 2014-06-13 18:22:14
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Well, OK, they're called the long billion and the short billion, but giving them names makes the latter sound legitimate.
  • edited 2014-06-13 18:24:33
    fun fact

    in chinese, there are words for one, ten, hundred, thousand, and ten-thousand

    the word for ten-thousand is pronounced "mahn" (with a low tone) in cantonese

    in english, there are words for one, ten, hundred, thousand, million, billion, trillion

    so

    little me observed:

    in both languages, the unit after "thousand" starts with a "m" sound

    therefore

    little me concluded:

    in both languages, since the units after "thousand" start with the same sound, and numbers are all the same around the world, they must mean the same thing, both meaning 10^6

    FURTHERMORE

    little me extrapolated:

    since one post-thousand word had the same starting consonant
    that means the rest of them must too!

    so naturally, 10^9 = billion = bahn
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Well, you were sort of right, weren't you?

    For the wrong reason, but still.
  • edited 2014-06-13 18:26:51
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    frito-lay
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Well, the technical term for ten thousand of something is a myriad.
  • edited 2014-06-13 18:43:36
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Yes, a perfectly good term.  Although ten thousand is also perfectly unambiguous.

    Really it just annoys me that in this country 'billion' can mean two different numbers that are three orders of magnitude apart.  That's not exactly a slight margin, it's a huge difference, and introduces an enormous amount of ambiguity.

    What makes it all the more annoying is that the short form (which I maintain makes less mathematical and etymological sense) was only introduced here in imitation of America, in spite of the rest of the world doing things differently.
  • Tachyon said:

    Well, you were sort of right, weren't you?

    For the wrong reason, but still.

    no, not even close.

    first, 10^5 is "_sup _mahn", which means "ten ten-thousand", and 10^6 is "bak _mahn" which means "hundred ten-thousand, and 10^7 is "^tseen _mahn" which means "thousand ten-thousand".

    I think there might be another word for 10^8, but if there is, it definitely isn't "_bahn" or "_trahn" (or "_zahn", for that matter -- I used to think that "zillion" was the word for 10^12).
  • Tachyon said:

    Yes, a perfectly good term.  Although ten thousand is also perfectly unambiguous.

    Really it just annoys me that in this country 'billion' can mean two different numbers that are three orders of magnitude apart.  That's not exactly a slight margin, it's a huge difference, and introduces an enormous amount of ambiguity.

    What makes it all the more annoying is that the short form (which I maintain makes less mathematical and etymological sense) was only introduced here in imitation of America, in spite of the rest of the world doing things differently.

    also how there are like three different meanings for "ton"/"tonne"
  • also

    "peruse" has been misused so much no one really knows what it means any more

    it means reading quickly or reading slowly

    apparently just not reading at a normal speed
  • edited 2014-06-13 18:48:22
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    Tachyon said:

    Well, you were sort of right, weren't you?

    For the wrong reason, but still.

    no, not even close.

    first, 10^5 is "_sup _mahn", which means "ten ten-thousand", and 10^6 is "bak _mahn" which means "hundred ten-thousand, and 10^7 is "^tseen _mahn" which means "thousand ten-thousand".

    I think there might be another word for 10^8, but if there is, it definitely isn't "_bahn" or "_trahn" (or "_zahn", for that matter -- I used to think that "zillion" was the word for 10^12).
    Ah... I thought you were saying that 'bahn' was Chinese for 109, and that you assumed from that, correctly as it happened, that the number was called a 'billion' in English.

    I got the wrong end of the stick entirely.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    also

    "peruse" has been misused so much no one really knows what it means any more

    it means reading quickly or reading slowly

    apparently just not reading at a normal speed


    It means to study it slowly and thoroughly; anything else is a misuse and widely recognized as such.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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  • Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    image
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Centie, Anonus, watch this www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnBAMQhtjEk
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Dang it guys, if I'd have mentioned Net Neutrality, princesses, or Richie Rich , you'd be on that video like jam on toast.

    But seriously, please watch that video.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)

    Sipleportt.
  • Do as the gator says is just good advice in general. Never been steered wrong by a crocodilian.
  • More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
    I thought those were all 'little known facts' everyone knows and feels smug about knowing.

    Like Frankenstein being the creator, not the monster, and bumblebee flight being scientifically understood.
    I know those things and I don't feel smug about knowing them even though I wish they were better-known facts.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    I thought that people understood bumblebee flight anyway?
  • More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
    Also it's especially annoying that people don't know the story of Frankenstein, considering how much of a pop culture image the monster's face is.
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