What did you learn today TIL

[IdleBoast]

There is an insectivorous species of hyena (the aardwolf), that subsists mainly on termites.

It even has a long, sticky tongue.

[psiberzerker]

The Hobbit trilogy was supposed to be 2 movies, but Steve Jackson overshot them.

[IdleBoast]

Peter Jackson has a habit of doing that.

King Kong 1933: 100/104min (depending on the score).

King Kong 2005: 187min

Fun fact: if all parts of King Kong scaled up from a "real" gorilla in the same proportion, a sex scene involving full intercourse between Fay Wray and Kong would have been feasible.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/may/06/women-penis-size

[psiberzerker]

Ew?  I mean, okay.  Yeah, the head, and shoulders of an infant can fit through there, but why does it have to go to bestiality?

[IdleBoast]

Watch Jackson's version - he presents the relationship between Kong and Darrow as a teenage* crush on a pretty girl (the Kong in the film is an orphan, as shown by a brief shot of his parents' skeletons). The relationship becoming romantic is a trope I have even seen in superhero fiction (cf Wild Cards).


*That's how they justify Kong being 40' tall in King Kong, but 100' tall by the time he encounters Godzilla in the recent monster re-boots.

[psiberzerker]

The relationship becoming romantic is a trope I have even seen in superhero fiction (cf Wild Cards).

I know that.  (Might I point out that there's a grand total of 1 writer of superhero fiction on this board?)  But it's still a giant leap from a puppydog crush on a pretty lady to physically fucking a 100' gorilla.

[ChirpingGirl]

When urine exits the body, it maintains a temperature of 96 F.

[psiberzerker]

When urine exits the body, it maintains a temperature of 96 F.

Not indefinitely.  It's an electrolyte solution, so it cools to ambient temperature a little faster than distilled water.

If you don't piss it into a toilet, which tends to cool, and dilute it.

[ChirpingGirl]

That better not be a real deer. 

[Jed_]

That better not be a real deer. 

It is.

I’ve done that hunting to add venison to my freezer.  But I would never film it, make a slo-mo meme out of it, post it, or repost it.

[ChirpingGirl]

For fucks sake. 

[psiberzerker]

Sorry.  Too far?  I took it down.

[ChirpingGirl]

Way too far.

[psiberzerker]

GTK!

[seveninchblues]

I learned just how mentally-challenged teenage girls are and yet still somehow, at the same time, are able to understand one another...

I was in line at the grocery store with three of them behind me.  I wish I had the presence of mind to get an audio recording on my cellphone as the one girl told her two friends a story about her mother driving her somewhere, using the words: "My mom"... "drove me" and the word "like" at least fifty times.  I was waiting for something of substance to come after "like" but it was just "like" and "she" and laughter and nothing else and I wondered how these girls who were very pretty, and probably very popular in their crowd, ever made it past the third grade...

[psiberzerker]

You don't understand teenagers, and they're "Mentally challenged" when they understand each other just fine.

Maybe they should speak more clearly when they know you're listening?  It sounds like maybe they didn't want you, or anyone else to know what they're talking about, and they just know each other really well.

[psiberzerker]

Researching the 80 years War.  So, a lot, but I'm not going into tedious detail.  It's a lot, and you'd pretty much have to be a history nerd to enjoy much of it.

Basically, where Holland came from.

[ChirpingGirl]

I learned I'm sick and fuckin' tired of 104 degree heat and nuclear blast bright sunshine every motherfucking day!!!!!!

[psiberzerker]

...nuclear blast bright sunshine...

To be fair, the sun is a stable fusion reactor.

[ChirpingGirl]

I fuckin' don't care. I want cloud cover and cold.