I envy soft glassblowers. If Flameworkers want to do this we need a lathe or hand tools that havent been in production since 2003 and thus have to be made custom. >.< *shakes punty at them*
Well, it’s better than last time I guess o_o Last season I finished above 1400 but I was initially placed at around 1100 with only one win and nine losses. So I guess this is improvement?
I had so many exhausting games, holy shit, people were so goddamn rude. And like, these aren’t even trolls they’re just straight up furious when we’re playing really badly. The Mercy that told me to fuck myself because my shield was on cooldown at the wrong time was like “but I’m taking this game seriously cause I want to be the best” like honey you’re mid-bronze your it’s not like you’re trying to get into top500 ok.
Miraculously the team I had on Temple of Anubis was kind of lukewarm but at least cooperative and this one guy was like yay, let’s rock this! It went to sudden death where both teams had one minute to take point A. We defended first and succeeded then we all agreed to all be tanks and shields so we went into the fight with Rein/Orisa/Winston/Zarya/D.Va and one Mercy again a Rein/Orisa/D.Va/Bastion/Torb/Reaper and we took the point successfully.
It’s weird how that works when you stop demoralising your team eh And even during the games where we did play badly and were going to lose I just enjoyed not being pissed off at people throwing hissy fits because the pixels on the screen didn’t go in a way they liked.
Railroad Tracks
The U.S. Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.
That’s an exceedingly odd number.
Why was that gauge used?
Because that’s the way they built them in England, and English expatriates designed the U.S. Railroads.
Why did the English build them like that?
Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that’s the gauge they used.
Why did ‘they’ use that gauge then?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Why did the wagons have that particular Odd wheel spacing?
Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that’s the spacing of the wheel ruts.
So, who built those old rutted roads?
Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including England) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts in the roads?
Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear
of destroying their wagon wheels.
Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
Therefore, the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot.
In other words, bureaucracies live forever.
So the next time you are handed a specification, procedure, or process, and wonder, ‘What horse’s ass came up with this?’,
you may be exactly right.
Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses.
Now, the twist to the story:
When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, you will notice that there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs.
The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah.
The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit larger,
but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site.
The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains
and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel.
The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know,
is about as wide as two horses’ behinds.
So, a major Space Shuttle design feature
of what is arguably the world’s most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse’s ass.
And you thought being a horse’s ass wasn’t important!
Now you know, Horses’ Asses control almost everything.
Explains a whole lot of stuff, doesn’t it?
This is the single most mind blowing fact I’ve read on tumblr, every day is a school day-thank you.
Nice history lesson!
My daughter and I were just discussing this very subject.
And even during the games where we did play badly and were going to lose I just enjoyed not being pissed off at people throwing hissy fits because the pixels on the screen didn’t go in a way they liked.
Pass Through Fire 