I watched that this week!

Today I learned that eel young are called grigs.

Oh yeah? Well, did you know that a group of accountants is called a 'balance'?
/geico commercial

I think my son is a sloth. He consistently blocks the toilet drain with poops the size of a red bull can.

WTF? dude. I asked him how often he poops and he said a couple of times a week.

Gonna sneak some Senna into his cornflakes...

Tell the little dude that there is no shame in it and teach him to use the plunger.




from personal experience

Yeah. We had a "mystery" clogger for a while. Nobody would admit it was them. Except I knew it was my daughter, because a parent can read their kids easily. So next time there was a brick in there, I showed them both how to unclog a toilet. That let her save face because her brother was in there too. And they both learned a life skill. Hasn't been a problem since.

BTW, I think plungers are gross. I prefer a bucket of water poured in from shoulder height. It's cleaner. I taught them both methods. Besides, if you plug up a friend's toilet, they might not have a plunger in there, but they probably have a water tight trash can you can fill from the tub spout.

They know. Buckets of water don't work, nor do plungers. They need to be broken up...

I finally got them to stop leaving catcher's mitts in there. baby steps.

Ugh..

Yeah, plungers *are* gross, but your preferred alternative sounds like a far riskier proposition. Putting More water into an already partly, maybe mostly full bowl with a finite capacity sounds dangerous. Sure, it's *possible* to drown a fire with gasoline, but I don't want to try it.

The toilet in our house can only take.... small bites, shall we say. Flush early and often. I don't ration the toilet paper, but the toilet does. And when it does, it is almost always during some point in the drain part of the flush cycle, leaving some material and some quantity of water in the bowl. Then the recharge/refill part of the cycle continues, refilling the bowl.

To me, moving that mess down the road with the minimum fuss, overflow, and nasty splashing (how the hell do you keep the splashing down?!) means using the plunger, carefully. The plunger can be, and is, cleaned afterward.

The worst case is when that early and often plan is begun not early enough and the second flush only lights the fuse of the bomb your sitting on. Detecting the detonation by the soaking of the scrotum in a big bowl full of filth is one of the worst surprises *ever*.

There's no time to find and fill a bucking fucket.

I understand your skepticism, but the bucket of water really works.

Depends on the bowl, properly executed plumbing, and ninja turtle population.

What if you poop twice a week?

A healthy digestive system should be pooping more often than that; ideally one formed movement per day. But it's not the worst health problem you could have...

We use a plunger with a snout.

Like this one:

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Try not to be too vigorous w/the plunging.

Gentle, like a lover.

You're full of shit. :haha:

Bored much? Do a Google image search for sexy plunger.

The results are...interesting.

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Those are extremely effective at clearing a clog, but more than once, I've had the log get pulled up inside the snout where it didn't want to come back out again. Then I found myself banging it against the inside of the bowl, trying to fling the shit out. I didn't like that.

The whole situation isn't very good, no matter how you look at it.

As long as they are going to limit us to a 1.6 gallon flush, they should mount the tanks up by the ceiling again, like they used to in the olden days. Then the flush would have some force behind it.

They still make them, they even make tanks that hide up in the wall, but that won't help if the bowl exit is not shaped properly.

You never see that blue shit in the water anymore. Was that just a fad? Is it still a thing in some parts of the country?

I'm picturing a lacrosse-type action.:lol2:

It clashes with the décor and turns the dog blue. :haha:

They still make it but my BIL, the plumber, says it's the worst thing for the rubber and plastic parts in the tank. (flapper, gaskets, etc)

You're damn right I am!

Yeah, I went looking for something similar when we had a perpetual mold problem in my stepkids' toilet tank (since it goes for 2 weeks at time without getting flushed,) and the internet and later a plumber assured me that the stuff would dissolve the internal workings of a toilet within 1-2 years.

Today I learned that Jupiter has sixty moons! When I went to fact check that DeGrasse fellow's claim, Wikipedia says sixty-seven! Regardless, Wow!

I wonder how big a satellite has to be, to be considered a moon.

detectable. there are billions of moons in our own solar system, since the definition of moon is natural object orbiting a planet. the rings of saturn are comprised of many, many, many "moons". Since you aksed.

Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.

♪ ♫G.I. Joe!♪ ♫

On safari the other day, I saw this example of what they (around here) call barn art. It's usually a loft door, sometimes the main doors, or the side of the barn.

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And, today, I learned about the Ninth Infantry Division, "The Old Reliables".

I found out that it was the Japanese who invented the fortune cookie. :D

No shit, really?:eek:

Yeah. The Chinese in China don't even know what fortune cookie is. It was the Japanese who brought it into the U.S., and if you go to this one city in Japan (I forgot where), you can find similar like fortune cookies, but with their own flavoring, like seaweed, etc. During the WWII when the Japanese were put into camps, the Chinese saw the opportunity and hijacked the idea and made it their own. :lol:

Don't sift homemade Tony's without a dust mask!

Today I learned about this bridge in Zanesville, Ohio:

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It's called the Y Bridge (can ya figger out why?) The story said Ripley's Believe It or Not refers to it as the only bridge in the world that you can cross and still be on the same side of the river.

Cool. Thank you for sharing that.

You're welcome.

Not so, you'll cross one river or another.

Not if the smaller one's a stream or a creek.

I have heard rumor that fortune cookies are sold as American novelty food.

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, by Jennifer 8. Lee, is worth a read if you're interested in where fortune cookies, General Tso's Chicken, and other "Chinese" food staples came from.

Do not handle hot pepper pods for seeds, then take a leak. Without washing hands. Not all bad. First time I've felt heat down there in a long time. :bolt:

Buster, my old man (72) got such a kick out of that last sentence.

Today Yesterday I learned some new stuff about recycling:

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I'd tell ya where I came across this info, but, I'm drawing a total blank.

Also, contact lenses.

I've learned to just always use rubber gloves.

Every time you take a leak? That's overkill!

I can't be too safe.

Oxytocin. Holy shit. Do we even have any control over what we do?

Saw this MIT student video on FB this morning.


This hormone controls so much of our behavior. It has a lot of female physical stuff it does around childbirth, but the interesting thing is the emotional trust, bonding, and generosity it causes in both men and women. And the hormone is produced when we witness others bonding or we are among friends or are physically touched. It totally manipulates our behavior, for example, it's probably responsible for us being monogamous. It increases our generosity and ability to interact with others. It even aids in wound healing by reducing inflammation. So having someone emotionally supporting you as you heal really does make a difference.

It's even a dessert topping and a floor polish.

How have I never heard of this hormone before?

Oxycontin is the antidote. ;)

Minifobette took prescription oxytocin for about three years. Made a massive difference for her in both sociability and speech.

Today I learned that if you go to a pretty involved kid's CPSE meeting clean-shaven and prepared, people around the table will start asking you to apply for positions that are not posted yet so they can staff the room the kid needs...

Nice! (Assuming you want one of these positions?)

I'm not sure. I really like what I'm doing now and my current administrator is very hands-off. A district job is mo money and they do have kids that need my skill set but I'd be jumping into a bit of an unknown administratively and it is a troubled district so who knows what kinds of shake-ups are coming... so bottom line, I don't know. I need to find out what the retirement implications would be as well.

Heads, you're part of an earnest attempt at improving the district system.
Tails, you're the sacrificial lamb to protect cronies when the shit hits the fan.

It sounded before like you don't have much job security where you are now.
Mo money is nice.
Will the district let you wear a cape? :cool:

And after that, I saw this next one in the 'Related Videos':

Today I learned that beavers teeth are strengthened with iron, and I wondered how. So Keryx found this: http://learnsomethingneweachday.word...ted-with-iron/

Oxytocin is fascinating.

Today I learned that the jackalope is not a mythical creature.

from Wired:

Fantastically Wrong: The Disturbing Reality That Spawned the Mythical Jackalope

I know!:eek:

That picture of the bunny infected with the shopes papilloma virus reminds me of the guy in India with the weird growth on his hands.

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And then reading through that thread of the guy with the hands, I see Kitsune made the same connection.

Both are caused by a papilloma virus. One is shopes papilloma and the other is human papilloma. And there's a vaccine for the human kind.