If presented with an old 1970-2000 era landline phone, I can call someone by rapidly hanging up in the pattern of their phone number.
Used to do those in payphones as a kid. The numbers were disabled when no coins were inserted, effectively disabling tone dialing impossible. But pulse dialing still worked.
I am pretty sure I could do it sans phone and only the handle, by rapidly pulling the plug out of the socket and putting it back in.
Never thought to try it when I had the chance.
In case anyone is wondering, this is how old phones with rotary dials worked: you wound the dial to the digit you needed and the built-in mechanism would automatically wind it back; as it did it would momentarily disconnect the line as it passed each digit generating pulses that the exchange would count. If you still live somewhere where landline phones exist odds are this still works because the exchange maintains backwards compatibility with pulse dialling.
Up until about twenty years ago virtually every supermarket had a phone by the checkouts with a single pre-programmed button for a local taxi company; we used this trick all the time to call home, our mates, etc.
You’re welcome to dial into my Modem on which Doom is listening for a connection at 40c3 :3
The “brat” in “bratwurst” doesn’t come from “braten”, which means to fry. It actually comes from the old German word “brät”, which means finely chopped meat.
That’s so brät
You are telling me Wurstsalat Crew did lie to me?
Like 15% of people can rumble their ears and make a sound only they can hear
I always just assumed this was a thing anyone could do, Is there some other name for this i can look into?
Auto-Earatic Affixation
I’m convinced people that “can’t” just don’t know how.
It’s the same movement as closing your throat off so you can open your mouth underwater, and you just push “up” past that till it puts pressure on the eustachian tubes, and the rumble is your muscle fibers contracting against that which resonates on your eardrums.
Anyone can do it, it’s just hard to explain
That’s a minor sound when I do it if I understand correctly. Audible but light. I can flex the muscles in my jaw/tongue as one would to attempt to pop ears, but pushing out from the back of the mouth and pulling my jaw backwards. I think it slightly restricts blood flow and makes it turbulent past the ear. Sounds like pulsar tinnitus (probably not relatable) but constant as long as I hold it.
Yeah, that’s it.
I think some people just do the “water lock” thing to close their jaw off naturally to try and stop a yawn, and that’s how they “discover” they can do it.
That’s odd, I can do either of those things independently. Maybe it’s just wired that way for some people?
It also makes several values in EEG charts go up
Oh thats interesting, i wonder what causes it, the thinking of doing it or actually doing it
@ascend it’s easier for me to do when I squeeze my eyes shut and yawn. I don’t know why
Ooh, I can make a little rumble thunder happen if I do that! But why would anyone want to? And weirdly, just yawning doesn’t really do it, but squeezing the eyes while yawning does. Huh.
I often do it to dampen unpleasant noises. Car alarm? Siren? I make my ears go Frrrrrrrrrrrr. It helps a lot.
Mine sounds like a snare drum.
**Grostesques ** are mythical or fantastical creatures carved into the sides of building. If they have been designed to drain water away from the building, they are called gargoyles .
That’s not useless! I’m totally using this to impress someone, someday.
“Loanword” is a calque, and “calque” is a loanword.
Whats a calque
It’s a loanword from the French “calque”
A compound word that enters another language via direct translation of its parts.
As an example, “loanword” comes from German “Lehnwort”, with Lehn = loan and Wort = word.
The English horn is neither English nor a horn.
rats can’t vomit flamingos are pink due to diet. otherwise they’d be grey
If they didn’t diet they’d be fat and fall over
This is also the reason they sleep with one leg up. If they raised both, they’d fall.
An electric eel is not an eel.
A mountain goat is not a goat.
A maned wolf is not a wolf.
A mountain chicken is not a chicken.Also, there is an animal called the Headless Chicken Fish.
Rocky Mountain oysters are not oysters
I’d argue that’s a useful thing to know.
Also, there is an animal called the Headless Chicken Fish.
Let me guess; it’s a species of antelope.
A koala is not a bear.
It is a marsupial which is a different branch of the mammal tree.Toilet duck is not a duck
Spanish fly is not a fly
Spruce goose is not a goose
Capitalist pig is not a pig
The sun will explode. Eventually. Interesting and fascinating, yes. Useful? Nope.
None, because knowledge and the search for it is an end unto itself, so all facts are useful to learn and know.
Fair enough, but what is the least useful fact you know?
My newly least useful fact is that knowledge and the search for it is an end unto itself, so all facts are useful to learn and know.
The dog that played specks girlfriend in Pee Wees big adventure is also the same dog that played precious in silence of the lambs.
This feels like one of those fun facts that theatres would have on screen with cheesy background music if you showed up to a movie too early
The guy who played Cowboy Curtis on PeeWees playhouse also played Morpheus in the Matrix.
There are several rivers in England called the Derwent.
One of them flows into the Ouse in Yorkshire, another flows into the Trent in Derbyshire, both of which later combine to form the Humber estuary, so the Humber has two Derwents in it
Forza Horizon 4 has an awesome open map based on several disparate areas of England and Scotland pushed together. It includes the Derwent Reservoir and damn, which drains into one of the Rivers Derwent, which leads to Derwent Water - none of which are actually connected in real life. I thought that was a neat Easter Egg.
The definition of a second is the time it takes for a caesium-133 atom to fluctuate between its two hyperfine ground state 9,192,631,770 times (I did not look the number up).
Congrats 😃👍 btw in that time light in vacuum will travel 299,792,458 metres (didn’t look that up either)
The synths that were used in the first doom reboot’s music were made from samples of an actual chainsaw running.
But wouldn’t it be useful if I can use it here?
Are you this person who, at the family gathering, will loudly decline words in a long dead language they forced you to learn 50 years ago, just to call it useful?
