What have you learnt today?

[Husar]

I've learned that if you ask random Americans on the street, a lot of them will not be able to tell you who Edward Snowden is or what he did. I also repeated some spanish but I'm not sure whether I learnt anything as I only have BDocs flying around in my head right now, back to work it is...
Oh, I also learnt that pollen can imitate smog if it comes in high density.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

You got me reading. Apparently, pollen will explode if: concentrations equal 60g per cubic meter or more, a high heat source/flame is present, and the cloud is contained in some manner (in a building; surrounded on three sides by tall buildings, some form of tent). I think ALL of us would be allergic to pollen in the form of a fuel air explosion.

[Hooahguy]

Thankfully it poured last night, so the pollen washed away. It will be back though, it always does.

And Seamus Fermanagh that is mildly terrifying.

[Husar]

And Seamus Fermanagh that is mildly terrifying.

I assume that those who survive the oxidation of the pollen will have fewer problems with allergies however.

As for what I have learnt so far today, how to ask someone out in Spanish, that Schiller died young and that Goethe had a penchant for beauty and thought that prisms violate light because they tear it apart. I also learnt that when one is on a university with two campi in neighboring cities, one should be careful about signing up for Spanish courses because one might sign up for a course in the other city and then the uni plays inflexible and refuses to switch courses even though there is a course with fewer signups in one's own city that hasn't even started yet. I also learnt that the university shuttle bus that connects the two campi takes only 20 minutes. And the day isn't even over yet.

[SwordsMaster]

Cha-cha is not only a caribbean dance. It is also a 70-90% alcohol Georgian spirit made from grapes. The hangover is like wearing a skull with nails on the inside.

[Montmorency]

I assume that those who survive the oxidation of the pollen will have fewer problems with allergies however.

As for what I have learnt so far today, how to ask someone out in Spanish, that Schiller died young and that Goethe had a penchant for beauty and thought that prisms violate light because they tear it apart. I also learnt that when one is on a university with two campi in neighboring cities, one should be careful about signing up for Spanish courses because one might sign up for a course in the other city and then the uni plays inflexible and refuses to switch courses even though there is a course with fewer signups in one's own city that hasn't even started yet. I also learnt that the university shuttle bus that connects the two campi takes only 20 minutes. And the day isn't even over yet.

Obviously the problem is the extensive metropolitan transit network in your area. If travelling and commuting were more difficult for everyone, then they wouldn't be able to act this way.

The solution is to privatize the transit network until everyone gets sick of it and buys a car - from nationalized factories, of course.

[a completely inoffensive name]

I learned that you can graduate with a degree in engineering and still think the stupidest **** in the world.

I don't want to tell the whole story here, but it involves a man who seems to believe that women should have no problem drinking water contaminated with BPA because, "their bodies can handle the extra estrogen". FML, I'm graduating with this guy.

[SwordsMaster]

ACIN, you'll realise quickly almost anyone can get a degree. In almost anything. And 20 years later they will be considered a 'senior engineer'. Regardless of whether they have actually learnt anything in 20 years.
This is one of my learnings this week.

[Husar]

I learned that you can graduate with a degree in engineering and still think the stupidest **** in the world.

I don't want to tell the whole story here, but it involves a man who seems to believe that women should have no problem drinking water contaminated with BPA because, "their bodies can handle the extra estrogen". FML, I'm graduating with this guy.

I recommend you join the food babe army and campaign for better food and drink with them.

[Gilrandir]

I've learned that if you ask random Americans on the street, a lot of them will not be able to tell you who Edward Snowden is or what he did.

This one is misplaced. You should put it in the thread "What others learnt from you".

[Husar]

This one is misplaced. You should put it in the thread "What others learnt from you".

I didn't ask random Americans because I can't afford to fly there, I merely watched John Oliver report on it.

[Gilrandir]

I didn't ask random Americans because I can't afford to fly there, I merely watched John Oliver report on it.

Again misplaced. This one should go to "What others learnt from John Oliver" thread.

[SwordsMaster]

There is nothing that will earn you a man's enmity faster than removing the excuse he was using for his failures.

[Montmorency]

Einstein was correct to criticize non-locality and superposition. Quantum entanglement seems like hooey.

I am ever-more-deeply suspicious of quantum theory, if not the whole edifice of quantum physics as a whole, that such notions retain their dominance.

Who the is John Bell?

[Montmorency]

For example...