roboticanary Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 I'm just looking to learn some new things, what wierd and wonderful things are you interested in or learning about at the moment. I've got a couple, although quick content warning, this does involve a bit of sex especially if you look it up. As for me, I have stumbled upon the topic of sexually active popes. The short is that 1. popes get accused of a lot of stuff (sometimes rightly), and 2. for a long time it was sort of ok to be sexually active before becoming pope, even married. I love how much obvious cynical power grabbing goes on throughout the history of the papacy. I have no idea how it would work but i genuinely wish someone would make a movie about the life of Pope Benedict IX, because the guy was just mental. maybe sometimes his life was exaggerated by his enemies but still, even the stuff we know like flat out selling the papacy seems amazing. I mean in general, my education was at a catholic secondary school so I got the, I suppose, cleansed history of the church, I had to learn about the theology of a couple of the schisms and vaguely new that, for example, a lot of martin luther's complaining was about the morals of the church, but unsurprisingly the absolute chaos of what was going on was not really talked about. The other thing I have been reading about, and have been looking into for a while is the time a group of firefighters decided, as a publicity stunt, to build a lady nessie and try to lure out the loch ness monster using sex appeal. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nix Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 I love listening to the podcast ‘No such thing as a fish’ because you learn weird and interesting facts every week (and it is very funny) Weird animal facts are my favourite; I recently learned that there is a baby bird in the Amazon that pretends to be a toxic moth caterpillar to avoid being eaten: 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roboticanary Posted October 1, 2022 Author Share Posted October 1, 2022 I've recently been having a look at this funny thing in US law called in rem jurisdiction. which just throws out some of the silliest sounding names i have heard. because in the US cases are described as a v b (i'm used to a and b) it always sounded like a fight to me, and in rem makes that really stupid because the case is bought against the item, rather than the presumed owner. so you end up with things like South Dakota v. Fifteen Impounded Cats United States v. 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Articles Labeled in Part Mrs. Moffat's Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness, or United States v. Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls or my new favourite Quantity of Books v. Kansas which the books won. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A User Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 4 hours ago, roboticanary said: I've recently been having a look at this funny thing in US law called in rem jurisdiction. which just throws out some of the silliest sounding names i have heard. because in the US cases are described as a v b (i'm used to a and b) it always sounded like a fight to me, and in rem makes that really stupid because the case is bought against the item, rather than the presumed owner. so you end up with things like South Dakota v. Fifteen Impounded Cats United States v. 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Articles Labeled in Part Mrs. Moffat's Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness, or United States v. Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls or my new favourite Quantity of Books v. Kansas which the books won. these titles are funny and the fact that a big old court named them like this makes it even funnier in other news, have you heard of lularoe? it has an epic af documentary called lularich which goes into amazing fucking details with interviews from ex employees and stuff im super into MLMs n stuff i also like watching illuminaughti and scam channels like jim browning 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm_leopardcat Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 Randomly things such as a random cool facts. Also, animals. History, I guess, to an extent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AromanticAardvark Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 On 10/1/2022 at 3:12 PM, roboticanary said: I've recently been having a look at this funny thing in US law called in rem jurisdiction. which just throws out some of the silliest sounding names i have heard. because in the US cases are described as a v b (i'm used to a and b) it always sounded like a fight to me, and in rem makes that really stupid because the case is bought against the item, rather than the presumed owner. so you end up with things like South Dakota v. Fifteen Impounded Cats United States v. 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Articles Labeled in Part Mrs. Moffat's Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness, or United States v. Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls or my new favourite Quantity of Books v. Kansas which the books won. But do these sound any less hilarious with "and"? South Dakota and Fifteen Impounded CatsUnited States and 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Articles Labeled in Part Mrs. Moffat's Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness United States and Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls And as for random things that interest me... I was interested in learning Middle English for a while, and while I'm no longer genuinely trying to learn it, it's still a fascinating language to me 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovebird Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 Religion and sprirtual stuff. I like learning about the niche parts, like local Catholic saints or how religious practices vary between different countries. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyTuneRein Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 (edited) Kinks. No reason. Edited December 17, 2022 by SkyTuneRein Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmbo Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 I learned that diabetes type one is an autoimmune disease. It was very interesting to me that I manage not to know this before now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gray Warlock Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 The history of bodybuilding. I find Bronze Era the most interesting. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeltaAro Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 The Eastern philosophy of nothingness. In Western philosophy nothingness is very neglected. It seems the 'argument' that goes like "there's nothing to say about nothingness" was too convincing. 🙃 1 hour ago, The Gray Warlock said: The history of bodybuilding. I find Bronze Era the most interesting. They look the most believable and healthiest. 😉 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulticulturalFarmer Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Well, I learned today that some engineering physics degrees are accredited in North America, at least the ones that have a certain number of engineering classes in them. Oh, and only a limited number of American programs are accredited, though nearly all Canadian programs are. Hm, what else? I learned a lot about how well chromebooks can work considering the low price you pay for them (that is if you just need a computer just for surfing the web and sending emails). I've been watching the BBC show "Call the Midwife" and learnt a lot about midwifery and public health in 1950s and 1960s England. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Newest Fabled Creature Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 I could go over just how gay and trans the Old Wild West was, which Hollywood and media often depict as a time of being straight, cisgender, and white, but a random thing that I can't help but let fascinate me (other than the Wild West) is Wooly Bear Caterpillars. They're amazing! And cute! Did you know, that they can freeze themselves in colder months, and depending on what climate they live in, if they had to do it often enough they can live for years as a result?! You can learn more about it in this video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HelloThere Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 33 minutes ago, The Newest Fabled Creature said: I could go over just how gay and trans the Old Wild West was, which Hollywood and media often depict as a time of being straight, cisgender, and white, but a random thing that I can't help but let fascinate me (other than the Wild West) is Wooly Bear Caterpillars. They're amazing! And cute! Did you know, that they can freeze themselves in colder months, and depending on what climate they live in, if they had to do it often enough they can live for years as a result?! You can learn more about it in this video. I just LOVE finding queer characters in movies and more recently, headcannoning some of them as aroace. I like talking about politics (but it’s getting boring and I hate that it’s all I can talk about, I hate being negative but I can’t not focus on issues that hurt us all), and I just ADORE gaming and drawing. I’m not amazing at either but that’s what time is for. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Newest Fabled Creature Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 10 minutes ago, HelloThere said: I just LOVE finding queer characters in movies and more recently, headcannoning some of them as aroace. I like talking about politics (but it’s getting boring and I hate that it’s all I can talk about, I hate being negative but I can’t not focus on issues that hurt us all), and I just ADORE gaming and drawing. I’m not amazing at either but that’s what time is for. I do like talking politics but I get wanting to talk about other things too, I could go on and on about a hyperfixation right now if I wanted to torture someone, or the Wild West at this point as well lmao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HelloThere Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 1 minute ago, The Newest Fabled Creature said: I do like talking politics but I get wanting to talk about other things too, I could go on and on about a hyperfixation right now if I wanted to torture someone, or the Wild West at this point as well lmao Oh yeah, I just dove into all the many things about The Owl House, and politics, trans rights, Gravity Falls, the new Spider-Man movie, and so many more things. I mean I don’t know everything about it I just tend to go down a long rabbit hole about some things and just take in all the shorter video content I can, I mean I have limits on long vids. XD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Newest Fabled Creature Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 8 minutes ago, HelloThere said: Oh yeah, I just dove into all the many things about The Owl House, and politics, trans rights, Gravity Falls, the new Spider-Man movie, and so many more things. I mean I don’t know everything about it I just tend to go down a long rabbit hole about some things and just take in all the shorter video content I can, I mean I have limits on long vids. XD It's why the only videos I can genuinely see myself making are video essay like shit, which I consume a lot of nowadays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HelloThere Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 3 minutes ago, The Newest Fabled Creature said: It's why the only videos I can genuinely see myself making are video essay like shit, which I consume a lot of nowadays. I never had the attention span for that, it was >20 minutes or nothing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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