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  • j cadej cade Posts: 2,310
    edited April 2021

    Malandar said:

    j cade said:

    Malandar said:

    kyoto kid said:

    ...shh, college students may start doing that at parties. 

    Yeah, the same ones eating Tide Pods...

    So none of them? But they'll make a joke about it on twitter and we'll get a bunch of scaremongering articles aimed at gullible boomers :)

    There wouldn't be warnings on Tide pod packages saying not to eat them if someone didn't do it. Remember warning labels are there because someone did what it is warning you not to do, and what does someone's age have to do with anything. I mean I am not a boomer, but even if I was what has that got to do with anything in this conversation, stop trying to start an argument where none exists.

    Yeah 5 year olds and toddlers like to eat them because they look like candy.

    In March 2013, Consumer Reports reported that "since early 2012, poison control centers nationwide have received reports of nearly 7,700 pod-related exposures to children age 5 years and younger." In 2012 and 2013, an average of one child was admitted to hospital every day as a result of eating Tide Pods.

     

     

    Then there was a dumb internet meme tide pod challenge where some teenagers in fact did (and a lot more pretended to) and it became the new terrifying thing kids these days are doing. oh no what is wrong with kids these days oh no society thing. But the warning predated the teen thing by years.

     

     

    As to why I mentioned it. As a relative youngish person there's a lot of "kids these days" type comments and if people get to make them I feel like I need to make some boomer jokes to balance the scales

     

    If y'all get to talk about those crazy teenagers eating tidepods I get to joke about what my proverbial grandma forwarded me from  wepromisethisisntmadeup.geocities.com

     

     

     

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  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,310

    j cade said:

    Malandar said:

    j cade said:

    Malandar said:

    kyoto kid said:

    ...shh, college students may start doing that at parties. 

    Yeah, the same ones eating Tide Pods...

    So none of them? But they'll make a joke about it on twitter and we'll get a bunch of scaremongering articles aimed at gullible boomers :)

    There wouldn't be warnings on Tide pod packages saying not to eat them if someone didn't do it. Remember warning labels are there because someone did what it is warning you not to do, and what does someone's age have to do with anything. I mean I am not a boomer, but even if I was what has that got to do with anything in this conversation, stop trying to start an argument where none exists.

    Yeah 5 year olds and toddlers like to eat them because they look like candy.

    In March 2013, Consumer Reports reported that "since early 2012, poison control centers nationwide have received reports of nearly 7,700 pod-related exposures to children age 5 years and younger." In 2012 and 2013, an average of one child was admitted to hospital every day as a result of eating Tide Pods.

     

     

    Then there was a dumb internet meme tide pod challenge where some teenagers in fact did (and a lot more pretended to) and it became the new terrifying thing kids these days are doing. oh no what is wrong with kids these days oh no society thing. But the warning predated the teen thing by years.

     

     

    As to why I mentioned it. As a relative youngish person there's a lot of "kids these days" type comments and if people get to make them I feel like I need to make some boomer jokes to balance the scales

     

    If y'all get to talk about those crazy teenagers eating tidepods I get to joke about what my proverbial grandma forwarded me from  wepromisethisisntmadeup.geocities.com

     

     

     

    I go by Snopes.  Tide didn't go on Twitter telling people not to eat them to reach pre-schoolers.

    FACT CHECK: Is the 'Tide Pod Challenge' a Real Thing? (snopes.com) 

  • j cadej cade Posts: 2,310
    edited April 2021

    Sevrin said:

    j cade said:

    Malandar said:

    j cade said:

    Malandar said:

    kyoto kid said:

    ...shh, college students may start doing that at parties. 

    Yeah, the same ones eating Tide Pods...

    So none of them? But they'll make a joke about it on twitter and we'll get a bunch of scaremongering articles aimed at gullible boomers :)

    There wouldn't be warnings on Tide pod packages saying not to eat them if someone didn't do it. Remember warning labels are there because someone did what it is warning you not to do, and what does someone's age have to do with anything. I mean I am not a boomer, but even if I was what has that got to do with anything in this conversation, stop trying to start an argument where none exists.

    Yeah 5 year olds and toddlers like to eat them because they look like candy.

    In March 2013, Consumer Reports reported that "since early 2012, poison control centers nationwide have received reports of nearly 7,700 pod-related exposures to children age 5 years and younger." In 2012 and 2013, an average of one child was admitted to hospital every day as a result of eating Tide Pods.

     

     

    Then there was a dumb internet meme tide pod challenge where some teenagers in fact did (and a lot more pretended to) and it became the new terrifying thing kids these days are doing. oh no what is wrong with kids these days oh no society thing. But the warning predated the teen thing by years.

     

     

    As to why I mentioned it. As a relative youngish person there's a lot of "kids these days" type comments and if people get to make them I feel like I need to make some boomer jokes to balance the scales

     

    If y'all get to talk about those crazy teenagers eating tidepods I get to joke about what my proverbial grandma forwarded me from  wepromisethisisntmadeup.geocities.com

     

     

     

    I go by Snopes.  Tide didn't go on Twitter telling people not to eat them to reach pre-schoolers.

    FACT CHECK: Is the 'Tide Pod Challenge' a Real Thing? (snopes.com) 

    I did mention that some (dumb) teens did in fact do it "Then there was a dumb internet meme tide pod challenge where some teenagers in fact did (and a lot more pretended to)

    but the warning on the container, and changing it from being see through predates and was in response to youg children eating them: your article mentions much the same

    "Following reports that young children had been mistaking them for candy and putting them in their mouths, the company added a safety latch to the pod containers."

    and from the meme year where the "tide pod challenge" was a thing

    "Furthermore, more than half the incidents so far this year have been deemed deliberate, as opposed to around a quarter in 2017"

    so even at the height of the supposed craze roughly half were still not teens purposefully ingesting them...

     

    From another article

     

    It’s true that since the Tide Pod Challenge began, the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPC) has received 86 reports of teenagers intentionally ingesting laundry detergent. Yet at the end of last year, the AAPC reported that over 10,500 children under the age of five were exposed to laundry pods in 2017 (for example ingesting, inhaling, or absorbing the detergent). If we are going to have a mass panic about poisonings, ten thousand children are clearly in greater danger than less than a hundred teens. So why was it that only the Tide Pod Challenge that made pearl-clutching headlines across the globe?

     

     

    Its more real than cow tipping, I'll give it that.

     

     

    edit okay I went of down a wormhole and this ones actually kid of funny

     

    There were 53 cases of teenagers ingesting tidepods in 2017. And 167 incidents involving adults older than 60 were reported.

    Those darn retirees it must be all that social media.

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  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,388

    McGyver said:

    bytescapes said:

    A couple of weeks ago (I think) there was an element of the main banner in the shop that pointed to the Tafi page in the Unity asset store. That page in turn links to maketafi.com, where you'll find press releases that refer to "Tafi, the avatar company and developer of the Daz 3D character system".

    Interestingly, Tafi is only described in this way in releases that also mention DAZ or DAZ products. Otherwise, it's usually described as something like "Tafi, the leading creator of custom 3D content for avatar and emoji systems". Sometimes it's "a leading creator" rather than "the leading creator". Descriptions of Tafi on the site itself -- for example on the 'About' page -- mostly don't seem to mention DAZ, as far as I can see.

    I see what you are implying... I'm starting to see the link to the Illuminati too...

    Firstly their choice of "TAFI" as the company name... clever because it subtly hints at the connection between the Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute and their experiments in the late 1970s using human Thrombin-Activatable Fibrinolysis Inhibitors injected into the livers of Wombats as part of a program to create an army of hybrid human/wombat super-soldiers... The program was shut down in 1979 after rumors of a horrible accident at the laboratory as well complaints about weird smells coming from the facility's cafeteria.

    It is believed the scientist in charge of the program is said to have taken all the research materials as well as several specimens with him and defected to Bolivia, but apparently even the Bolivians drew the line at using Wombats as super-soldiers. 

    That Scientist was none other than Dr. Joshua Thomas Tanner... or as he was more commonly known to those around him, "Josh Tom Tanner"... It is believed that after having his life's work rejected by the Bolivians, Dr. Tanner fled to the Soviet Union seeking to finish his work, the Soviets who’d entertain any crackpot idea jumped at the chance... but apparently Tanner’s plane crashed on the way to the secret lab in Siberia... according to intelligence reports, Neither Tanner’s body nor his specimens were ever found and supposedly the remains of the other passengers appeared to have been torn to shreds and partially eaten... the Soviets denied Tanner had ever met with them or had been in the country and denied reports about the other passengers, claiming that the other passengers had boarded the plane partially eaten to begin with and nothing unusual had occurred and they died in a routine plane crash.

    Despite Soviet denials, and quite mysteriously, right after the crash, a previously unknown scientist going by the name of Dr. John Ottermans appeared on the CIA's radar... Ottermans coincidentally was an expert on both wombats and human liver stuff... as well as being an amateur penguin wrestler which is something he apparently shared with the late Dr. Tanner.
    Ottermans even looked suspiciously identical to Tanner, but as the Soviets pointed out, he lacked Tanner's mustache, so he couldn't possibly be the same person.

    Presented with such overwhelming evidence, the CIA decided he probably wasn't Tanner, but they still kept an eye on him in case he grew a mustache or something more sinister... 

    By 1982 Ottermans was operating out of a laboratory next to a nuclear power plant near the northern Ukrainian city of Pripyat. 
    For the next several years Ottermans remained mustacheless, and apparently not up to anything dangerous, but early in 1986, a photo surfaced of Ottermans at an outdoor cafe, sporting a long handlebar mustache and wringing his hands while laughing manically. Both the CIA and MI6 sprung into action, with the goal to either capture or eliminate him... 

    By April they had located Ottermans and were moving in to get him, but their plans were thwarted by the meltdown of reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant. 
    Local inhabitants near the plant reported seeing unusually large glowing half-human/half-wombat figures running through the woods. 
    The Soviets denied the reports claiming the locals had mistakenly misidentified a species of local bioluminescent deer who under the right lighting, can easily appear as unusually large half-human/half-wombat monsters.

    Ottermans was never heard from again, but to this day the forests of the northern Ukraine still yield sightings of unusual “deer”.

     

    And from there Ottermans trail went cold.

     

    Years went by until the late 1990s when a unassuming man by the name of Jean Mothsnort opened up a wombat rehabilitation center in Salt Lake City, Utah. 
    Despite Utah having a distinct lack of wombats, Mothsnort chose Salt Lake City as the place he’d bring orphaned or abused wombats for rehabilitation. The location he chose was an unassuming brick building near the corner of 200 west and 200 south, which according to an article in a local newspaper, he’d chosen because of its proximity to several good restaurants and nearby Pioneer Park, where he enjoyed Penguin Wrestling on Sunday mornings with his fellow Penguin wrestling club members. 

    The aforementioned article was about local business people who had chosen to relocate to Salt Lake City and did not include a photo of Mothsnort, but it did mention his interest in human liver enzymes and how he had recently started a Liver Enzyme Bank for a charity he was sponsoring for people who couldn’t afford liver enzymes.

    Nothing else is known about Mothsnort or his charity... apparently he closed up his business and disappeared some time in the early 2010s and the space he occupied was eventually taken up by a digital art company that oddly enough started out making 3D medical models for teaching and research in nearby Draper, Utah... 

    Now, none of this should seem very unusual on the surface, and I don’t know how NFTs and Illuminati wombats would tie into all this...

    But...

    DAZ’s CEO is one “James Thornton”...

    And if you rearrange the letters of his name you get... Josh Tom Tanner, John Ottermans... and Jean Mothsnort... You also get Jan Hot Monster, Hons Rottenjam, Mans Hornet Jot and Roman Test Jon, but that’s neither here nor there...

    Still, you can’t ignore the fact that the same location as Mothsnort’s wombat rehabilitation center is now DAZ’s headquarters and that West 200 used to be known as Illuminati Boulevard and that DAZ moved from Draper to Salt Lake City after locals complained about the odors coming from their lunchroom... not to mention several employees being mauled by large glowing “deer”... and most disconcerting... Thornton doesn’t have a mustache.

    I leave you all to judge this for yourselfs... why all the smoke and mirrors, why all the newsletters trying to get us to buy NFTs and donate liver enzymes?

    I don't know what any of it means... but if you see a large glowing deer in your yard or on the elevator late at night... don't pet it or try and make conversation with it... just run... run as fast as you can.

    Well... that's all.

    Bye.

    Oh yeah, and trust no one, the truth is out there, yada, yada, yada, etc...

    Wait, the liver enzyme thing isn't real?

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066

    Khai-J-Bach said:

    McGyver said:

    Malandar said:

    Khai-J-Bach said:

    Daz owned by another company...

     

     

     

    what took you all so long to find out...? it's been public knowledge for some time... (seriously, it has... easy to look up public records...)

     

    Who sits and thinks Gee I wonder who owns DAZ and actually goes and does a goog search for it? I know I don't, I have better things to do with my time, like making characters and rendering them.

    Yeah, but when the Illuminati wombat hybrid super-soldiers come for your liver enzymes, you'll be sorry you didn't Google who owns DAZ or spend time rearranging the letters of James Thornton's name to prove he is actually John Ottermans, Jean Mothsnort and Josh Tom Tanner... (but not Jan Hot Monster)... And you'd also be unaware of a startling new development I discovered today... Thornton has a mustache again... and a beard!

    Well at least his avatar does over at Tafi...

    Not such a waste of time after all... was it, huh?

    aand you've been smoking something right?

     

    no conspiracy's involved. was a simple question a few years back, that led to a google search. no ulterior motives involved, just a answer found.


     

    I'm possibly offended that you believe I had to smoke something (a herring or salmon I presume) to write something absurd and that it can't be from the cumulative effects of the multiple head injuries I've worked hard at accumulating... also for some of us insanity is a choice we proudly make... but regardless, that post was a reference to another post I made earlier in the thread...please don't bother to look for it, it's actually less coherent and throughly unenjoyable to anyone solely interested in nonsatirical commentary... not to say that it was satirical and not wholly derived from a bunch of random suggestions submitted to me by the voices in my head... usually they are pretty witty, but lately they haven't been putting in a lot of effort and just this evening I called them out on it and now they aren't talking to me, so at the moment I'm just kinda winging it while hoping to figure out a way of ending this post without it seeming abrupt.

  • LucielLuciel Posts: 475

    McGyver said:

    I'm possibly offended that you believe I had to smoke something (a herring or salmon I presume) to write something absurd and that it can't be from the cumulative effects of the multiple head injuries I've worked hard at accumulating... also for some of us insanity is a choice we proudly make... but regardless, that post was a reference to another post I made earlier in the thread...please don't bother to look for it, it's actually less coherent and throughly unenjoyable to anyone solely interested in nonsatirical commentary... not to say that it was satirical and not wholly derived from a bunch of random suggestions submitted to me by the voices in my head... usually they are pretty witty, but lately they haven't been putting in a lot of effort and just this evening I called them out on it and now they aren't talking to me, so at the moment I'm just kinda winging it while hoping to figure out a way of ending this post without it seeming abrupt.

    Out of interest, what is a brupt and how do you seem it?

  • MalandarMalandar Posts: 776

    j cade said:

    Sevrin said:

    j cade said:

    Malandar said:

    j cade said:

    Malandar said:

    kyoto kid said:

    ...shh, college students may start doing that at parties. 

    Yeah, the same ones eating Tide Pods...

    So none of them? But they'll make a joke about it on twitter and we'll get a bunch of scaremongering articles aimed at gullible boomers :)

    There wouldn't be warnings on Tide pod packages saying not to eat them if someone didn't do it. Remember warning labels are there because someone did what it is warning you not to do, and what does someone's age have to do with anything. I mean I am not a boomer, but even if I was what has that got to do with anything in this conversation, stop trying to start an argument where none exists.

    Yeah 5 year olds and toddlers like to eat them because they look like candy.

    In March 2013, Consumer Reports reported that "since early 2012, poison control centers nationwide have received reports of nearly 7,700 pod-related exposures to children age 5 years and younger." In 2012 and 2013, an average of one child was admitted to hospital every day as a result of eating Tide Pods.

     

     

    Then there was a dumb internet meme tide pod challenge where some teenagers in fact did (and a lot more pretended to) and it became the new terrifying thing kids these days are doing. oh no what is wrong with kids these days oh no society thing. But the warning predated the teen thing by years.

     

     

    As to why I mentioned it. As a relative youngish person there's a lot of "kids these days" type comments and if people get to make them I feel like I need to make some boomer jokes to balance the scales

     

    If y'all get to talk about those crazy teenagers eating tidepods I get to joke about what my proverbial grandma forwarded me from  wepromisethisisntmadeup.geocities.com

     

     

     

    I go by Snopes.  Tide didn't go on Twitter telling people not to eat them to reach pre-schoolers.

    FACT CHECK: Is the 'Tide Pod Challenge' a Real Thing? (snopes.com) 

    I did mention that some (dumb) teens did in fact do it "Then there was a dumb internet meme tide pod challenge where some teenagers in fact did (and a lot more pretended to)

    but the warning on the container, and changing it from being see through predates and was in response to youg children eating them: your article mentions much the same

    "Following reports that young children had been mistaking them for candy and putting them in their mouths, the company added a safety latch to the pod containers."

    and from the meme year where the "tide pod challenge" was a thing

    "Furthermore, more than half the incidents so far this year have been deemed deliberate, as opposed to around a quarter in 2017"

    so even at the height of the supposed craze roughly half were still not teens purposefully ingesting them...

     

    From another article

     

    It’s true that since the Tide Pod Challenge began, the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPC) has received 86 reports of teenagers intentionally ingesting laundry detergent. Yet at the end of last year, the AAPC reported that over 10,500 children under the age of five were exposed to laundry pods in 2017 (for example ingesting, inhaling, or absorbing the detergent). If we are going to have a mass panic about poisonings, ten thousand children are clearly in greater danger than less than a hundred teens. So why was it that only the Tide Pod Challenge that made pearl-clutching headlines across the globe?

     

     

    Its more real than cow tipping, I'll give it that.

     

     

    edit okay I went of down a wormhole and this ones actually kid of funny

     

    There were 53 cases of teenagers ingesting tidepods in 2017. And 167 incidents involving adults older than 60 were reported.

    Those darn retirees it must be all that social media.

    What makes you think that cow tipping is not real?

  • Sven DullahSven Dullah Posts: 7,621

    Oh no, yet another OT thread...ah well...I'm hungry, what's for dinner?

  • RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631
    edited May 2021

    first time i am seeing Mcgyver taken serious here (or not: even more funny)

    Post edited by Ruphuss on
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066

    Luciel said:

    McGyver said:

    I'm possibly offended that you believe I had to smoke something (a herring or salmon I presume) to write something absurd and that it can't be from the cumulative effects of the multiple head injuries I've worked hard at accumulating... also for some of us insanity is a choice we proudly make... but regardless, that post was a reference to another post I made earlier in the thread...please don't bother to look for it, it's actually less coherent and throughly unenjoyable to anyone solely interested in nonsatirical commentary... not to say that it was satirical and not wholly derived from a bunch of random suggestions submitted to me by the voices in my head... usually they are pretty witty, but lately they haven't been putting in a lot of effort and just this evening I called them out on it and now they aren't talking to me, so at the moment I'm just kinda winging it while hoping to figure out a way of ending this post without it seeming abrupt.

    Out of interest, what is a brupt and how do you seem it?

    Actually I wrote "seeming like I burped" but predictive text changed it to "abrupt" which I think is a type of small South American rodent with a prehensile tail and that seemed rather enjoyable so I left it... that and I lost interest in writing because my cookie had fallen on the floor and rolled away.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066
    edited May 2021

    Sven Dullah said:

    Oh no, yet another OT thread...ah well...I'm hungry, what's for dinner?

    Well, according to the Beef Industry Council and Beef Board...

    https://youtu.be/756Ebep1xJA

    Post edited by McGyver on
  • Sven DullahSven Dullah Posts: 7,621

    McGyver said:

    Sven Dullah said:

    Oh no, yet another OT thread...ah well...I'm hungry, what's for dinner?

    Well, according to the Beef Industry Council and Beef Board...

    https://youtu.be/756Ebep1xJA

    Wait...did I spot some tafi on one of those plates?

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,840

    Sven Dullah said:

    McGyver said:

    Sven Dullah said:

    Oh no, yet another OT thread...ah well...I'm hungry, what's for dinner?

    Well, according to the Beef Industry Council and Beef Board...

    https://youtu.be/756Ebep1xJA

    Wait...did I spot some tafi on one of those plates?

    And now we've come full circle. 

  • IceScribeIceScribe Posts: 694

    I recall that DAZ has been sold 3 or four times? The headquarters remained in same place, but different owners. 

     

  • Sven DullahSven Dullah Posts: 7,621

    barbult said:

    Sven Dullah said:

    McGyver said:

    Sven Dullah said:

    Oh no, yet another OT thread...ah well...I'm hungry, what's for dinner?

    Well, according to the Beef Industry Council and Beef Board...

    https://youtu.be/756Ebep1xJA

    Wait...did I spot some tafi on one of those plates?

    And now we've come full circle. 

    Yup, the Bermuda Circle...

  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500

    IceScribe said:

    I recall that DAZ has been sold 3 or four times? The headquarters remained in same place, but different owners. 

     

    Maybe Epic will buy DAZ - they seem to be buying everything these days. 

  • DreamingGirlDreamingGirl Posts: 227

    marble said:

    IceScribe said:

    I recall that DAZ has been sold 3 or four times? The headquarters remained in same place, but different owners. 

     

    Maybe Epic will buy DAZ - they seem to be buying everything these days. 

    Just what I thought when I saw they bought ArtStation, buying Daz3D would fit neatly into that plan

  • RagazzineRagazzine Posts: 100

    nonesuch00 said:

    jestmart said:

    Sorry not a pitchfork, that is a garden fork.  Pitchforks have long handles and tines so you can pitch stuff (usually hay).

    Everyone I know still calls it a pitchfork or a sodbuster.

    Most people do. I quietly explain that it is a spading fork. Of course most people call a spade a shovel. 

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066
    edited May 2021

    Ragazzine said:

    nonesuch00 said:

    jestmart said:

    Sorry not a pitchfork, that is a garden fork.  Pitchforks have long handles and tines so you can pitch stuff (usually hay).

    Everyone I know still calls it a pitchfork or a sodbuster.

    Most people do. I quietly explain that it is a spading fork. Of course most people call a spade a shovel. 
     

    Around here we call it the big salad fork...

    Okay, it's just me, but it'll catch on eventually...

    Post edited by McGyver on
  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500

    Ragazzine said:

    nonesuch00 said:

    jestmart said:

    Sorry not a pitchfork, that is a garden fork.  Pitchforks have long handles and tines so you can pitch stuff (usually hay).

    Everyone I know still calls it a pitchfork or a sodbuster.

    Most people do. I quietly explain that it is a spading fork. Of course most people call a spade a shovel. 

    Most Americans maybe.  

  • LucielLuciel Posts: 475

    Ragazzine said:

    nonesuch00 said:

    jestmart said:

    Sorry not a pitchfork, that is a garden fork.  Pitchforks have long handles and tines so you can pitch stuff (usually hay).

    Everyone I know still calls it a pitchfork or a sodbuster.

    Most people do. I quietly explain that it is a spading fork. Of course most people call a spade a shovel. 

    Aren't a spade and a shovel different things? Spades are the long thinner ones for gardening, and a shovel is a wide one for... shovelling things??   

  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,172

    Luciel said:

    Ragazzine said:

    nonesuch00 said:

    jestmart said:

    Sorry not a pitchfork, that is a garden fork.  Pitchforks have long handles and tines so you can pitch stuff (usually hay).

    Everyone I know still calls it a pitchfork or a sodbuster.

    Most people do. I quietly explain that it is a spading fork. Of course most people call a spade a shovel. 

    Aren't a spade and a shovel different things? Spades are the long thinner ones for gardening, and a shovel is a wide one for... shovelling things??   

    Spade is pointed for cutting into soil, shovel is flat across the front, for scooping. At least that's how I always understood it ;)

     

  • LucielLuciel Posts: 475

    AllenArt said:

    Luciel said:

    Ragazzine said:

    nonesuch00 said:

    jestmart said:

    Sorry not a pitchfork, that is a garden fork.  Pitchforks have long handles and tines so you can pitch stuff (usually hay).

    Everyone I know still calls it a pitchfork or a sodbuster.

    Most people do. I quietly explain that it is a spading fork. Of course most people call a spade a shovel. 

    Aren't a spade and a shovel different things? Spades are the long thinner ones for gardening, and a shovel is a wide one for... shovelling things??   

    Spade is pointed for cutting into soil, shovel is flat across the front, for scooping. At least that's how I always understood it ;)

     

    I think matters might be more complicated! Those spades that are for children to use in sand, AND various shaped shapes (pointy/round/flat/wiggly/probably a bendy one) which i'm sure must be for some special purpose or something (also those pointy handheld trowels that are pointy spades).

    I'm sure there's a guide somewhere and a group of crazy people who write long articles on using the correct spade and how the half moon spade is the downfall of society...

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    Don't forget the spades made for communal workers, which have shafts made of chain to prevent them from using it as support to lean on.

  • namffuaknamffuak Posts: 4,188

    Luciel said:

    AllenArt said:

    Luciel said:

    Ragazzine said:

    nonesuch00 said:

    jestmart said:

    Sorry not a pitchfork, that is a garden fork.  Pitchforks have long handles and tines so you can pitch stuff (usually hay).

    Everyone I know still calls it a pitchfork or a sodbuster.

    Most people do. I quietly explain that it is a spading fork. Of course most people call a spade a shovel. 

    Aren't a spade and a shovel different things? Spades are the long thinner ones for gardening, and a shovel is a wide one for... shovelling things??   

    Spade is pointed for cutting into soil, shovel is flat across the front, for scooping. At least that's how I always understood it ;)

     

    I think matters might be more complicated! Those spades that are for children to use in sand, AND various shaped shapes (pointy/round/flat/wiggly/probably a bendy one) which i'm sure must be for some special purpose or something (also those pointy handheld trowels that are pointy spades).

    I'm sure there's a guide somewhere and a group of crazy people who write long articles on using the correct spade and how the half moon spade is the downfall of society...

    A spade has a flat square-ended blade with steps' on either side of the handle and is used for vertical cuts; a shovel is dished or scoop shaped and is used for scooping up and removing dirt or other loose material.

    What? Am I the only one who bothered to look it up? wink

  • docbotherdocbother Posts: 107

    As I read the McGyver post, I kept hearing the voice of John Cleese.

  • RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631

    epic buying daz ?

    oh please yes

    this shop is getting worse since they are child of tafi

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066

    docbother said:

    As I read the McGyver post, I kept hearing the voice of John Cleese.

    Strange you should say that, I did write that whilst eating Venezuelan Beaver Cheese, dressed as Sir Lancelot and reading it to my very stiff parrot Mr. Pollywannacracker in John Cleese's voice... and by Venezuelan Beaver Cheese, I mean Cheez-Wiz, and by Sir Lancelot I mean a ratty gorilla costume and my parrot is actually a dried out crab I found on the beach who's missing most of his legs... and he smells funny too... but I painted him blue so he does look very much like a parrot... at certain angles... with the right lighting... if you squint real hard...  and hold a picture of a parrot in front of him... then it's spot on... But I definitely do a good John Cleese impression... and I've even been told I look a lot like him too... at certain angles... with the right lighting... if you squint real hard...  and hold a picture of a parrot in front of me. 
    They are usually referring to my friend's parrot who's named Johncleese... he died of a heart attack years ago when I was watching him while my friend was away on holiday, so I stapled the poor parrot to his perch and nobody's been any the wiser these past twenty years. 
    It's all rather fantastic because his head fell off over a year ago and no one seems to have caught on that it's not some sort of strange molting behavior.

    But such is life... One day you are pining for the fiords and suddenly twenty years later your corpse is stapled to a perch and you head is laying on the floor of your cage.

  • ArtAngelArtAngel Posts: 1,797
    edited May 2021

    As long as DAZ doesn't sell out to Google I'm good (grin). Remember Picasso? It may be resting in peace at the graveyard. Most mortgage, insurance companies and other companys are subsidiaries. And I know insurance companies have parent's as as umbrellas, (so they don't get wet from the rain - HA HA HA - laughs alone). Most of us, not self-insured are ultimately covered by Lloyds of London because that's typically who insurance companies use as an umbrella (re-insurer) and sister companies are typical for any company that grows. But I don't own DAZ, reaches for the duck-tape, and  I don't have the right to tell it what to do, so I'll shut-up now. Unrolls tape and mumbles, "Mmmnnett offttt dfff . . .devil

     

    Edit (off topic) does anyone have a link that points to Meg 8.1 outfit?

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  • MalandarMalandar Posts: 776

    marble said:

    IceScribe said:

    I recall that DAZ has been sold 3 or four times? The headquarters remained in same place, but different owners. 

     

    Maybe Epic will buy DAZ - they seem to be buying everything these days. 

    I hope not. They have enough trouble with their own store.

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