Weird, odd stuff

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The first-ever human washing machine was shown off at the Osaka expo in 1970. It was pod-like, made by Sanyo Electric Co. — that’s now part of the electronics giant Panasonic — and worked by filling with hot water to clean its test subjects with popping underwater bubbles and emitting ultrasonic waves.

An ultrasonic cleaner for people! How neat. Probably uses cavitation to clean the body.

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Do you feel smarter listening to Black Sabbath? You should! In fact, according to the study, metal is the genre exhibiting the most intelligence based upon lyrical vocabulary! As part of the Prodigy Education Study, it was determined that metal ranked above all other genres with an average of 41 percent lexical diversity.

I knew it!! They missed some excellent high IQ bands, though. Nightwish, just in general, Helion Prime, a science-based metal band is also really good on complex concepts.

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So that’s how I graduated college. (Along with the black light posters.)

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I maintain Deep Purple and Sabbath are the only reason i made it through med school. Still what keeps me going ar times.

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Is that from before or after the concert where Ozzy bit off a bat’s head?

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Of course! Now I’ve got “Smoke On The Water” stuck in my mind.

I got to see Black Sabbath in concert once, back in 1976. Needless to say the hall was filled with smoke. Of some sort.

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They invented showers?

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They took suspiciously a lot like the Swiss suicide pods.

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For those who don’t mind cold Tater Tots.

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I once tried to carbonate coconut water, and all I got was sticky and covered in the stuff. And, then I had to clean the counter and mop, gah.

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Sounds like a hot date. I’ll see myself out

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TIL you can spell ladle ladel in the US

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Only if one operates under the misapprehension that a dictionary is a militant lesbian separatist group.

ETA piss poor word choice

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https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=ladel&addon=opensearch

Results from walmart.com, amazon (for ladles) and so forth, it has entered common vernacular it seems.

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I have only ever seen ‘ladle’ when looking for cooking utensils here in Yankistan.

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Yeah, odd thing is, it actually makes sense from the consonant and vowel placement rules I learned in school. It would be lad-leh whereas laid el does kinda work better.

Stupid English language.

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