Stronger how? Tensile strength, shear strength, load-bearing capacity? If so, in what form? Cube, cylinder, an extruded filament...?
I don't know exactly, but some woods have a tensile strength of nearly double that of standard stainless steel. But, more importantly, 10 pounds of wood is a lot bigger than 10 pounds of steel.
Got a letter regarding my BC Medical Services Plan, apparently I haven't paid my account in months and they're gonna send collections after my delinquent ass. Nevermind they haven't sent me a single goddamned invoice since October. Nevermind that my employer has been paying for this shit since December, when I got a new job. And of course, my absolute latest deadline before they throw me in debtors prison is December 26th. I called HR today to confirm that I was indeed set up in the group MSP plan, and it came off my last pay-cheque. I hear they have free healthcare in Canada. I should move there.
It's absolutely fair to say that muscle weighs more than fat, because for an equal volume of both, muscle does weigh more. You might as well not say anything weighs more than anything if you're always going to assume you're dealing with equally weighted portions of the two.
In fairness, she probably encountered someone who said something retarded like "ten pounds of muscle weighs more than ten pounds of fat".
That's quite the rage, girl! This is one of those old "answer quickly" riddles though: what weighs more, a ton of feathers or a ton of bricks. Most people miss when they are trying to be fast. No need to get too rage-y, it's psychology. :)
Well, yeah. 1000 pounds will only buy you about an ounce of gold. It will buy you a shitload of feathers.
Fun fact: Elyscape likes fun facts. I find of late I am experiencing a certain nerd discontent over Internet memes. They're like buying a loaf of week-old bread -- stale from the start. I think part of it is that they're lazy conversational filler or here on BF a cheap way to farm Likes (and there are people who try conspicuously to get them). A few examples would be: Go home, _____, you're drunk. I MUST EXPRESS EVERY SENTIMENT IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE IT'S FUNNY, AMIRITE? amirite wat/wut what the I don't even all the ____ (feels/things, etc.) <squee> *hugs* *shrugs* Maybe I should change my avatar to this:
Well, back in 2008 they were acceptable. Now, in place of "WAT," please to be using "dafuq??" instead.
I noticed you'd used 'what the I don't even' a few times lately, RyanMM. I was not singling you out, honest!
When I heard this one, I thought it must be a quote from a movie because it became so widely used so quickly. Apparently it was just a thing a lot of people thought was clever for whatever reason.
Websites that automatically redirect you to their mobile site's front page when you come in from a direct link to a specific article. Fuck you, page. You're making it hard for me to use you, you're making it impossible for me to want to use you.
People who call me demanding that I fix a mistake that they made and was no fault of my airline. They should realize I will be far more willing to fight for them with a supervisor to get an exception if they arent screaming and swearing at me.
NOT SHOUTY ENOUGH Also, italics always implied whispering, since they are delicate and fancy. Bold was for louder, IMO.
"I'm having trouble controlling THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE!" It's worth noting this was the funniest joke in the entire Austin Powers franchise to me.
I don't think I've done any of these, but there not really memes right? The *does a thing* wording can be for any action, not just huggin' 'n shruggin'. It's still lazy (although it doesn't really bother me), but not so much a meme as internetspeakz or whatever.
Yes, those are technically not memes so much as visual emotes or whatnot. The Black Death goes back to 14th century Europe.
You just explained a mystery to me. That was one of my least favorite "jokes" told by my human female in WoW, and I had no idea where it was from. Does this mean my other least favorite, "I like to fart in the bathtub," is from something too?
If it is, it's nothing I'm familiar with. I was always surprised by how many of the WoW character jokes needed context - you'd think they'd realize that pop culture references aren't usually funny all by themselves.
These days, I keep all my passwords safely(ish) stored in 1Password. Upside: I don't need to start changing everything I foolishly kept the same or close to the same when things happen like Sony revealing they keep everyone's information in an unencrypted notepad file publically reachable at www.sony.com/everyonesinformation.txt or whatever it is they did that time it made them shamefacedly shut down PSN for a few months. (To be fair, I might be exaggerating. But it was that incident that made me start getting more careful about such things.) Downside: my passwords are all such that they're difficult to just type in. Nerd rage accordingly: times when I have to enter my password, and I'm not allowed to paste into the password field. Because increasing the chances of typos is more secure, I suppose. Now, this was in getting Games For Windows Live to function on my PC. GFWL actually runs based on nerd rage, so this isn't too surprising.
That's one of the things I like about LastPass: their password generator has the option to make "pronounceable" passwords which are much easier to remember. For example, here's one I just generated: tightnavocre.
Nerd rage: people who clean up their friends list on Facebook and then make a big announcement like "Congratulations, if you can read this, you made the cut!"
