A bunch of beautiful examples of high-speed photography: [link]
The one at the top left is a Christmas tree ornament, filled with Jello and being hit by a pellet from a BB gun.
Here is your cup of coffee. Brewed from the finest Colombian lighter fluid.
Xander ,'Chosen'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - May 05, 2011 6:10:59 am PDT #6928 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
§ ita § - May 05, 2011 6:13:58 am PDT #6929 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Should I be trying to get a medical exemption from jury duty? I feel like a shithead.
Tom Scola - May 05, 2011 6:14:07 am PDT #6930 of 30001
hwæt
Jell-o at 6200 frames per second.
lisah - May 05, 2011 6:17:14 am PDT #6931 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Should I be trying to get a medical exemption from jury duty? I feel like a shithead.
If you think that your medical issues will make it impossible for you to serve, that's not being a shithead. If I were being tried, I wouldn't want somebody on the jury who was not able to give my case her full attention and consideration due to a medical issue.
§ ita § - May 05, 2011 6:19:37 am PDT #6932 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They say if I can work, I can serve. They didn't ask if I could work well.
tommyrot - May 05, 2011 6:21:28 am PDT #6933 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
They say if I can work, I can serve. They didn't ask if I could work well.
You could ask them if you could call in to jury duty from home.
Sorry. Did you tell them you frequently work from home because you can't make it to work?
le nubian - May 05, 2011 6:23:44 am PDT #6934 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ita,
reality is: you can barely work. You have had several sick days.
le nubian - May 05, 2011 6:24:33 am PDT #6935 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I think you need to be clear you aren't trying to get out of jury duty, but that you'd like a postponement of service.
§ ita § - May 05, 2011 6:34:25 am PDT #6936 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've postponed twice so far. I've gotten away with a lot. And you can you only postpone within ninety days. I won't be any better by then.
I guess I don't have the energy to fight it.
tommyrot - May 05, 2011 6:35:10 am PDT #6937 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Claude Stanley Choules died today at a nursing home in Perth, Australia, at the age of 110. Choules was the last known combat veteran of World War I.
World War I was raging when Choules began training with the British Royal Navy, just one month after he turned 14. In 1917, he joined the battleship HMS Revenge, from which he watched the 1918 surrender of the German High Seas Fleet, the main battle fleet of the German Navy during the war.
“There was no sign of fight left in the Germans as they came out of the mist at about 10 a.m.,” Choules wrote in his autobiography. The German flag, he recalled, was hauled down at sunset.