deanb Posted December 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 Anyone here ever see Courage the Cowardly Dog? Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Waldorf and Statler Posted December 11, 2012 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 11, 2012 I'm not usually enough of a fan of College Humor videos (at least newer ones) to recommend them to others but this one is pretty fucking good."Hold still, goddammit, Fuck!" 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted December 14, 2012 Report Share Posted December 14, 2012 I linked a thing on Facebook but this is the best bit. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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deanb Posted December 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2012 http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#the-world  I love the UK searched places Hotel Restaurant Pubs Camping Tesco : 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2012 Loving the classic professor. Also there's £197billion there. Holy fuck. Ouch, two stone a block. That's pretty damn heavy. Also going by todays rates n such, you probably are (over your lifetime of income) worth your weight in gold. Kinda surprised how little gold there is in the world. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchikoma Posted December 15, 2012 Report Share Posted December 15, 2012 Nice. I've seen some of that video series before... I disagree metals don't smell - steel can smell rather flinty, especially when burned or vaporized. (kinda nice, IMO...) I also made a chainmail t-shirt out of aluminum rings and it smells... metallic, like a metallic taste, for lack of better description. Gold is pretty inert though, so I don't expect much. (Then... a researcher who made plenty of cash making fragrance analogues found smell seems related to a vibrational frequency of molecules, so... who knows what the rules are? I could probably find that - it was on TED talks.) Â I'm a bit divided when it comes to gold: Â I like gold the material - it makes good tooth crowns, great conductive plating for contacts, good thermal reflector, nano gold can serve as a catalyst apparently, etc... it's very useful stuff. Â I hate gold as a commodity - not so much the market itself, just that it's been used for such gaudy displays of wealth and so many people have senselessly lost their lives for it. I almost never wear gold. Sometimes I make an exception for my replica "One Ring" From LotR, but it's really an atoms-thick coating of gold over a core of tungsten carbide... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 15, 2012 Report Share Posted December 15, 2012 I think metal itself doesn't smell or taste, and when you smell or taste it you're actually smelling/tasting other compounds associated with the metal, like trace amounts of rust on the surface, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchikoma Posted December 15, 2012 Report Share Posted December 15, 2012 (edited) That's quite possible, though I wonder at what point you'd consider it "not" the metal... I'd think iron(III) oxide hydroxide (rust) and aluminum oxide are part of the standard package on Earth. When I took welding in high school I wondered if the smells might be things like skin oils burning off, but it really doesn't seem so to me - for one thing you can get the same smell grinding a piece of steel that's already had the surface freshly ground off. Â I can't say anything about it authoritatively, but "metallic" is definitely a commonly understood sort of smell and taste, even if it only applies to a tiny fraction of a subset of the periodic table. Fairly opposite to "heavy" or "rich," but definitely not quite "tart" or "sour" either, even if it's similar... Â (edit: To take a tangent of a tangent here... I said steel can smell "flinty" before, but one should definitely not try smelling the "flint" from a lighter, as it's actually ferrocerium and the fumes can have toxic effects.) Edited December 15, 2012 by fuchikoma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2012 It's likely the compounds, of which gold doesn't form many, you are experiencing. Compounds formed through the combinations of chemicals in your saliva (which has many solvents) or created through high heat of welding/grinding with the gases in the air, notably oxygen. As he noted most other metal elements rather rapidly oxidize and react. One of the most common "metallic" tastes is blood, which is a form of iron oxide. Â Also don't attempt to eat/chew kitchen foil, especially if you have a filling. Your mouth is acidic enough to form a simple battery and all that entails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 15, 2012 Report Share Posted December 15, 2012 I agree that something smelling/tasting "metallic" is a very definite sensation, I'm just saying I don't think that's actually caused by the metal itself but rather associated compounds. It's just those compounds are (nearly) always present so as a practical matter it makes little difference. Â It's like how even though water itself is odorless you can still smell water because of the way the moisture in the air affects the way you smell the other things that are already in the air, like dust, etc. You're not actually really smelling the water itself, but from a practical, day-to-day standpoint it doesn't make any difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted December 15, 2012 Report Share Posted December 15, 2012 after yesterday here's a little something to make yourself feel better. It's also nice to see my uni in the list http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/moments-that-restored-our-faith-in-humanity-this-y 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Saturnine Tenshi Posted December 16, 2012 Report Share Posted December 16, 2012 Ugh. Not her. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 And the list: http://filmographile.tumblr.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Waldorf and Statler Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pIGgGV7uwU4 Â Reference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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deanb Posted December 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 It works surprisingly well (but I'm to understand most songs fit a very similar musical pattern, especially the ones that end up in charts)Also 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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