• (cs) in reply to hans
    hans:
    Steve The Cynic:

    Bizarre coincidence time: did you know that French uses the same word, 'avocat' for both 'avocado' and 'lawyer'? No, I didn't either.

    The dutch word for that lawyer is 'advocaat', which is also a dutch word for a 'drink' (you need a spoon) that's similar to egg-nogg.
    The Dutch 'drink' (sold in bottles, but you need to eat it with a spoon, or put it on cake) is made with eggs, brandy, condensed milk, sugar and an E-number colourant to make it more yellow.

    Apparently, 'advocaatpeer' (lawyer's pear) is an alternative phrase for avocado, at least according to Wikipedia, although I've never hear of it before.

    Again according to Wikipedia, the word avocado comes from the Nahuatl word 'ahuácatl', which means, um, testicle.

    I think I'll get back to programming.

  • (cs) in reply to Severity One
    Severity One:
    The Dutch 'drink' (sold in bottles, but you need to eat it with a spoon, or put it on cake) is made with eggs, brandy, condensed milk, sugar and an E-number colourant to make it more yellow.
    The thickness depends on the brand; the higher the alcohol content, the less thick the drink tends to be (while also being a little bit harsher too). It's also great on pancakes with some ice cream. Like custard, but for post-teens.
  • Mr Clever Ideas (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    Bort:
    I like that all the spergs are tripping over themselves to smugly post "1 Calorie = 1000 calories" even though nobody in the entire universe has ever used the small "calories" when talking about food.
    Well, there was the "science" "experiment" we did at school once (back when setting fire to food was considered acceptable in school science classes). About 5ml of water and a thermometer in a test tube, and a peanut as heat source. Result: the water received about 400 calories, i.e. 0.4 Calories, of heat energy. And we discussed it in those terms when we wrote it up.

    But what do I know, anyway?

    As I recall, when you burn a peanut most of the energy gets released as smell.:-|

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is no-one pointing out that Tate & Lyle's lion-based logo is from the Bible. In the story of Samson, Samson kills a lion, then notices later that bees are nesting in its corpse. The riddle "Out of the eater came something to eat, out of the strong came something sweet" is part of Judges 14:14

    http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+14&version=CEB

  • Your Name Here (unregistered) in reply to Pretendo

    Yes, usually when people use calorie, they mean kcal (kilo calorie). The 280000 calories, would be 280kcal, roughly 60kcal per avocade which is not much. Not really a WTF.

  • (cs) in reply to Mr Clever Ideas
    Steve The Cynic:
    Bort:
    I like that all the spergs are tripping over themselves to smugly post "1 Calorie = 1000 calories" even though nobody in the entire universe has ever used the small "calories" when talking about food.
    Well, there was the "science" "experiment" we did at school once (back when setting fire to food was considered acceptable in school science classes). About 5ml of water and a thermometer in a test tube, and a peanut as heat source. Result: the water received about 400 calories, i.e. 0.4 Calories, of heat energy. And we discussed it in those terms when we wrote it up.

    But what do I know, anyway?

    Also, it was back when peanuts in any context were acceptable in school. Now they are lethal weapons.

  • cappeca (unregistered) in reply to Luiz Felipe
    Luiz Felipe:
    Spewin Coffee:
    '"As you might expect, this came from a government website," Steve wrote, "which may explain why it was vague and unhelpful."'

    The government is generally vague and unhelpful. SOPA is a case in point. Too soon?

    Here in brazil we have zero alchool law. You see what happen, everyone continue to drive alcoolized like nothing was wrong, just same as before, nothing changes because of some shity law.

    Yeah, well, except when they get busted on a roadblock and lose their driving license for good, which I see happening pretty much every weekend.

    Here in Brazil, the words for avocado and lawyer are "abacate" and "advogado" respectively. They have nothing to do with each other.

  • linepro (unregistered) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    Severity One:
    The Dutch 'drink' (sold in bottles, but you need to eat it with a spoon, or put it on cake) is made with eggs, brandy, condensed milk, sugar and an E-number colourant to make it more yellow.
    The thickness depends on the brand; the higher the alcohol content, the less thick the drink tends to be (while also being a little bit harsher too). It's also great on pancakes with some ice cream. Like custard, but for post-teens.

    TRWTF calling Advocaat great....

  • Jan (unregistered) in reply to Dude....
    Dude....:
    Anketam:
    whiskeylover:
    Will:
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  • (cs)

    Is it me, or are people on this site getting more and more illiterate?

  • Luiz Felipe (unregistered) in reply to cappeca
    cappeca:
    Luiz Felipe:
    Spewin Coffee:
    '"As you might expect, this came from a government website," Steve wrote, "which may explain why it was vague and unhelpful."'

    The government is generally vague and unhelpful. SOPA is a case in point. Too soon?

    Here in brazil we have zero alchool law. You see what happen, everyone continue to drive alcoolized like nothing was wrong, just same as before, nothing changes because of some shity law.

    Yeah, well, except when they get busted on a roadblock and lose their driving license for good, which I see happening pretty much every weekend.

    Here in Brazil, the words for avocado and lawyer are "abacate" and "advogado" respectively. They have nothing to do with each other.

    Yea, but people generaly aggree with the law. But when downloading, noone think that is doing a wrong thing. Wheel, if you take this in account, will see pretty much everyone will be busted for downloading things if SOPA is aproved. There is no jail for 70% of population.

    abacate = avocate advogado = avocado Almost certainly likely.

  • Santa Claus (unregistered) in reply to Daniel Smedegaard Buus
    Daniel Smedegaard Buus:
    The picture posted only show the "congrats" page, another interesting snapshot would be the google maps page it displays that shows me travelling from Copenhagen to somewhere in Africa at several thousand kilometers per hour.

    Yes, around this time of year Google Maps often shows me travelling from Europe to Africa at several thousand miles per hour, with frequent stops.

  • Santa Claus (unregistered) in reply to markfiend
    markfiend:
    TRWTF is no-one pointing out that Tate & Lyle's lion-based logo is from the Bible. In the story of Samson, Samson kills a lion, then notices later that bees are nesting in its corpse. The riddle "Out of the eater came something to eat, out of the strong came something sweet" is part of Judges 14:14

    http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+14&version=CEB

    Fortunately, whoever came up with that logo didn't read just a few pages further and make a logo basedon Judges 19:29.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    Surely the real WTFs are:

    (1) Somebody inventing two units of measurement whose names differ only in capitalization, and others agreeing to use this.

    (2) Someone using a unit of measurement whose name looks just like that of the unit of measurement commonly used to measure the quantity under discussion, and others than ridiculing people who find this confusing. Like, "This car gets over 40 miles per gallon. ... Well, OF COURSE I meant Roman miles, which are shorter than modern American miles. If you didn't realize that you are obviously a moron." Or "Yes, we said the product is is guaranteed to last for 10 years. But we meant Mercurian years, which are 88 Earth-days long. So I'm sorry, your guarantee is long since expired."

  • GEDCOM? (unregistered) in reply to Comic Book Guy
    Comic Book Guy:
    Totally aside, someone once told me (not sure if this is true or not) there's no 'P' in Pidgin....Given they were talking about Papua New Guinea (so I assume they mean Tok Pisin - which definitely has a 'p' in almost all the examples on wikipedia {that which never lies}) they must have been talking shit.

    Mi pinisim stori nau

    Pau hana is (Hawaiian) Pidgin for quitting time. Pordagee is someone who lacks common sense. pilau is messy. There's definitely the letter "p" in Hawaiian Creole English.

  • YourName (unregistered) in reply to Jeff
    Jeff:
    The Deal of the Day is not a WTF. The glasses cost $50, but the coupon's value is $25, so you only pay the other $25, saving 50%.

    I like the kneeling girl, however. Sure, her mouth should be open wider. And the glasses should probably come off in case I want to squirt some in her eye.

    The Deal of the day states.... Coupon value=$25 Coupon cost=$50 Therefore you are paying $50 for a coupon worth only $25.

  • Angel Avery (unregistered)

    The password one really got to me.

    My university insist on adding a new requirement everytime I have to change my password, which is like 3 times a year.

    Also, I once did not sign up for a website because it required a special character.

  • Christian Rosjat (unregistered)

    1000 calories are one kcal(kilo calories) and 279.883 kcal is not that much.

    I use ~1800kcal per day.

  • A Nonny Mouse (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic

    I can heartily recommend Lawyers with French Dressing. They taste so much better than lawyers with cross-dressing, and are less calories than lawyers with thousand island dressing.

  • A Nonny Mouse (unregistered) in reply to Language Nerd

    I suspect the concepts "lawyer" and "testicle" are closely connected in most people's minds, regardless of language or nationality.

  • UnStandard (unregistered) in reply to Mr Clever Ideas
    Mr Clever Ideas:
    Steve The Cynic:
    Bort:
    I like that all the spergs are tripping over themselves to smugly post "1 Calorie = 1000 calories" even though nobody in the entire universe has ever used the small "calories" when talking about food.
    Well, there was the "science" "experiment" we did at school once (back when setting fire to food was considered acceptable in school science classes). About 5ml of water and a thermometer in a test tube, and a peanut as heat source. Result: the water received about 400 calories, i.e. 0.4 Calories, of heat energy. And we discussed it in those terms when we wrote it up.

    But what do I know, anyway?

    As I recall, when you burn a peanut most of the energy gets released as smell.:-|

    Under 33 atm of oxygen in a bomb calorimeter a peanut is completely consumed once ignited electronically. No ash, no smoke, nothing remains. Near perfectly complete combustion. I forget my answer, but it was correct (obtained by measuring the temperature increase of the water bath the bomb calorimeter was placed in).

    Combustion products depend entirely on combustion conditions.

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