Today I learned...

[Buffalobiian]

Why did you use hot water in a shake in the first place?

It's really protein powder and I have it in a cup. The night was cold, so I decided to test out exactly what a denatured protein drink resulted in. I wasn't pleased.

[Animeniax]

Yeah that sounds pretty gross.

[lelouch]

Today I was flipping channels and saw a 7-on-7 high school touch football tournament on ESPN and the guys were frickin' huge. The top rated HIGH SCHOOL running back is 6'1" 232lbs.

A frickin' high schooler is that big and probably hasn't finished growing. People complain about all the hormones and chems the food industry injects into our food but I say let them do it. We'll evolve the human race into giants for the betterment of the species.

Yes and they'll grow up to beat their wives and children.

[Animeniax]

Yes and they'll grow up to beat their wives and children.

That's racist, sexist, and bigoted. Not all football players beat their wives or their children. Just have to make sure the wives and children get their dose of hormones and chemicals.

[Buffalobiian]

Ants (at least the leafcutter ants) do not "eat" the material that they collect, but use it to farm edible fungus instead.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n0SkIGARuo

In other news, I found that sleeping with a pillow in parallel to my body is rather comfortable.

[Kraco]

Ants (at least the leafcutter ants) do not "eat" the material that they collect, but use it to farm edible fungus instead.

You live in a Commonwealth country but never watched any of the excellent BBC Attenborough nature documentaries? Such a pity.


In other news, I found that sleeping with a pillow in parallel to my body is rather comfortable.

You got yourself a Fate dakimakura, huh?

[Buffalobiian]

You got yourself a Fate dakimakura, huh?

This was with a normal pillow, but that^ may now be a very real possibility.

[Buffalobiian]

I learned that if you apply a PNG file (lossless) as your desktop in Windows 7, what appears is instead a compressed (?JPEG) version of your file. If you apply a JPEG file, Windows leaves it alone.

This has implications since you have much more control compressing in Photoshop than in Windows (which was shit, that's why I picked it up). Not to mention that Windows desktop isn't colour managed either (I learned this a few weeks back), so your workaround is to convert the picture to your monitor's colour space. (The resultant file can be saved assigned with your ICC profile so any colour-managed program and computer will know how to compensate back to sRGB).

[Animeniax]

For all us loners/engorging eaters out there, here's a method of saving yourself from choking:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=82&v=Op2TjTQs7X0

I wonder what the chances are of knocking yourself unconscious by taking one on the chin like that. Then you'd die for sure unless you also dislodged the food from your throat.

[Buffalobiian]

That's interesting. He makes a good point that if you're alone without first aid, pretty much anything that might work would be done.

He's talking about a complete loss of airway here so I being unconscious actually doesn't matter (unless someone turns up later and you're no longer vocal about what's wrong with you)

[Kraco]

That was an informative video and well made as well. It would have been even better if he had played a little guitar at the end!

[Animeniax]

That's interesting. He makes a good point that if you're alone without first aid, pretty much anything that might work would be done.

He's talking about a complete loss of airway here so I being unconscious actually doesn't matter (unless someone turns up later and you're no longer vocal about what's wrong with you)

I've run into this problem a few times but it was never a complete loss of airway. Usually a finger down the throat produced the necessary heaving action. If you lose consciousness from KO'ing yourself, you won't be able to try other methods to save yourself, like a self-tracheotomy.


That was an informative video and well made as well. It would have been even better if he had played a little guitar at the end! Yeah that looks like quite a fun rumpus room. Though playing guitar at the end might have taken away from the seriousness of the subject matter.

[Buffalobiian]

I've run into this problem a few times but it was never a complete loss of airway. Usually a finger down the throat produced the necessary heaving action. If you lose consciousness from KO'ing yourself, you won't be able to try other methods to save yourself, like a self-tracheotomy.


Cricothyrotomy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricothyrotomy)*

;)

[Ryllharu]

I've choked before on a rather poorly prepared and poorly cut (by the cafeteria) piece of beef. It was mostly sinew.

As soon as I realized I couldn't breathe, I shoved my fingers down my throat and pulled the stringy offending piece of food out of my throat.

I think I'll stick with that method. If I can't reach it, then I might try this as a last ditch effort, but I'm pretty sure I'll go for chair/desk/countertop Heimlich first, the NIH recommends that.

Step 1: Clear the airway.

[shinta|hikari]

Chew better, eat slower.

[Ryllharu]

I chewed that piece for a good 3 minutes. It was all sinew and fat. It slipped down my throat.

What I should have done is spit it out once I realized it wasn't more than 5% meat.

[MFauli]

If you had properly chewed before swallowing, it´d have been impossible to choke on a piece of meat. Stop eating like a ... :o

[Kraco]

If you had properly chewed before swallowing, it´d have been impossible to choke on a piece of meat. Stop eating like a ... :o

You have filed your teeth like a cannibal? He just told it wasn't a piece of meat, it was all sinew. You can't chew that with normal human teeth.

[Buffalobiian]

Today I realised that audio data when played back at slow speeds sounds deeper because those sound waves have their wavelengths doubled when played back at 1/2 speed, thus dropping their frequency.

I had accepted the frequency changes associated with altered playback speeds as fact, but it never hit me that sonic frequency can not be independent of time with our audio recording techniques (unlike video frames).

[Animeniax]

Wtf today I learned the 3rd installment of the Starcraft 2 trilogy is coming out next week!!! I didn't even remember it was announced or planned, having completely forgotten about the game since I last played the 2nd part in 2013. Too many awesome games coming out this Nov!!!!

[Buffalobiian]

I shit a lot less since cutting down on diet coke.

I used to drink that a lot of diet cola and poo-ed daily with fairly large quantities. Like a medium/large carrot. The can does warn that overconsumption can cause diarrhoea (since the indigestible sugar draws water into your stools via osmosis), but this wasn't to that level, just large stools.

Lately I must be making super concentrated shit or something. I poo very little, and this is all I can pin it down to - not having artificial sugar bulking up my stool anymore. No feeling of constipation - just kinda empty.

That or my altered bowel habits are a sign of bowel cancer. But probably the coke.

You're welcome.

[Buffalobiian]

I learned that soft-shelled crabs are various species of newly molted crabs and not one specific species that is soft all the time.

[shinta|hikari]

Yeah, and they generally suck because most preparations involve breading and frying them, making the final dish greasy. Crab has a delicate flavor and is best without all that breading or oil.

I love crabs in almost all other forms, from Cajun boils to HK stir fried to simply steamed and dipped in fermented fish with lime to thai crab fried rice to king crab legs dipped in butter. I love eating their innards and eggs. Once I am done with a whole crab, only the lungs and inedible shell are left. However, I have always been disappointed with soft shelled crabs, even after trying it so many times in different restaurants of different cuisines.

[vejita613]

TIL I still have an account here. Time to take a trip down memory lane...

[Kraco]

TIL I still have an account here. Time to take a trip down memory lane...

You can leave Gotwoot but you can't make Gotwoot leave you.

[Buffalobiian]

3.2 tonnes of cocaine will last New Zealand 30 years. Or for Australia, about 1.

[shinta|hikari]

Is that due to population size or number of addicts?

[Buffalobiian]

Is that due to population size or number of addicts?

Both.

NZ population 5 million in 2021. AU 25mil.

5x the population, 30x the coke demand.

[shinta|hikari]

I meant coke addicts per capita.

[Buffalobiian]

No idea whether we have more users or our users are just harder.

[Buffalobiian]

Anime Song Singer Maon Kurosaki Passes Away at 35


Kurosaki made her first major debut with the album H.O.T.D. on September 22, 2010. The album contained all the ending songs she performed from the High School of the Dead TV anime. Her first two major single releases, "Magic∞World" and "Memories Last,” were used as the ending theme songs for the A Certain Magical Index II TV anime, a franchise she truly loved and admired, writing "Memories Last” based on how she empathized with Accelerator and Last Order.



Over the following decade, she’d sing theme songs for The Fruit of Grisaia, Accel World: Infinite Burst, Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School, Dances with the Dragons and saw her singles "Gravitation" and "Roar" used as the openings for A Certain Magical Index III in 2019. Kurosaki also made her acting debut in the BLOOD-CLUB DOLLS live-action adaptation of the Blood anime series in 2018.



Her latest single "More Strongly,” which was released on November 16, 2022, could be heard as the ending theme song for Reincarnated as a Sword.

https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2023/02/28-2/anime-song-singer-maon-kurosaki-passes-away-at-35


https://youtu.be/w-KBo7BYYKo?list=PLNIQBQMm0EYJAbr6lrCAQ4Dp3WRfhNmCg


I didn't know she died. Shame, I liked a heap of her songs as well.

[David75]

35 is young in a developped country. What caused her death if there's info somewhere ?
I probably have a skewed view of the reality but as I wrote already, somehow I think entertainment women die younger in Japan ?

[Buffalobiian]

News sources seem to vary about the exact details but she died from an epidural haematoma apparently. Some sites said she collapsed in 2021 and had surgery for this then died from "chronic disease" in 2023. I'm not sure if she had a rebleed or a complication from the surgery, or if she has a reason that makes her prone to rebleeding like a haemophilia or an underlying aneurysm. The exact mechanism leading to her death is obscure.

[David75]

I read the same things. Early 2018, of my client died at 39, heart just stopped as she was lacing her shoes, leaving two daughters aged 8 and 11. She was absolutely not in the risk category for a heart attack...
Somehow remembering that, I shouldn't have been so harsh. Shit happens.
RIP Maon Kurosaki.

[Kraco]

Too young, that's for sure.

[Buffalobiian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0926u5tJZpI

So because all Japanese porn has to be censored to be legal anyway, they can "fake" cumshots with artificial penises and squirt soymilk mixture on the girl.

I did not know that.

[David75]

At some point the system is so skewed it feels even more perveted than the real thing :cool:

[Buffalobiian]

Shouting at your computer makes it slower.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

[Buffalobiian]

https://youtu.be/FxAM4NCMIw4

The Japanese having 10g of sodium a day is pretty damn high. That's 5x the recommended daily intake.

That said, a packet of instant noodles has just over recommended 1.8g per day (usually 2.2g or so) if you drink the soup. And I used to eat several of these a day.

This spoon, while being cool in theory, probably would get a pass from me because:

-It's so thick. Thick spoons are weird to eat from.
-I eat way too quickly for this thing to work. My mouthfuls don't last that long.

[Buffalobiian]

Durian.

Looks like a mace. Smells funny.

I've seen this fruit before and heard all about how bad it smells, but that it has its fans who say it tastes nice.

I've never tried it. Actually, I still haven't. But my aunt gave me some durian-flavoured chocolate today to try and I felt adventurous. It came in the individual sealed packets that is standard for snacks, nothing special.

You can smell it from way outside the packet. It's pungent alright.

Eating it.. wasn't terrible, but wasn't great. I'd say "Oh, it's less offensive than I imagined from the smell. Slightly salty I guess?". Not something I'd want to try again, but it's done now.


Except no. It's not. The after-taste and breath lingers man.... I'm drowning myself with cola but it's still with me half an hour later. Actually, this might be making it worse because every time I'm burping from the cola I can smell it again.


Anyway, the point being, I learned that durian isn't a one-bite experience. You will experience it recirculating between your digestive and respiratory tract for hours to come.

[Kraco]

Good to know. Better stay away from it.

[David75]

I guess that's one of the many GERD tests, although not the wisest :) hahaha

[MFauli]

Durian.

Looks like a mace. Smells funny.

I've seen this fruit before and heard all about how bad it smells, but that it has its fans who say it tastes nice.

I've never tried it. Actually, I still haven't. But my aunt gave me some durian-flavoured chocolate today to try and I felt adventurous. It came in the individual sealed packets that is standard for snacks, nothing special.

You can smell it from way outside the packet. It's pungent alright.

Eating it.. wasn't terrible, but wasn't great. I'd say "Oh, it's less offensive than I imagined from the smell. Slightly salty I guess?". Not something I'd want to try again, but it's done now.


Except no. It's not. The after-taste and breath lingers man.... I'm drowning myself with cola but it's still with me half an hour later. Actually, this might be making it worse because every time I'm burping from the cola I can smell it again.


Anyway, the point being, I learned that durian isn't a one-bite experience. You will experience it recirculating between your digestive and respiratory tract for hours to come.

No try Surströmming and report back how that tasted ;D

[Buffalobiian]

No try Surströmming and report back how that tasted ;D

Yeah I've heard that's pretty foul.