Beached Whales

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[officialprincefroggy]

Mrs. Claus opens "The Year Without a Santa Claus" by claiming the eponymous year took place "before you were born". Seeing as the movie was released in 1974, this means the year must have been before then.

Bounding this on the lower end is the presence of ice hockey - mentioned by Heat Miser - and the use of telephones. Ice hockey was invented in 1875, while Alexander Graham Bell built the telephone in 1876, meaning the year must post-date these. These figures give a range of approximately 100 years during which Santa may have taken his holiday.

Yet, narrowing this further is the presence of a December calendar counting the 1st to a Wednesday. Between 1876 and 1974, only the Decembers of 1880, 1886, 1897, 1909, 1915, 1920, 1926, 1937, 1943, 1948, 1954, 1965, and 1971 started on a Wednesday.

But still this can be narrowed further.

When Santa set out that Christmas Eve, we see what appears to be an almost full Moon in the sky. Within the years listed, only 1920 had a full Moon on Christmas.

Ergo, 1920 was the year without a Santa Claus.

[nylarac]

[warningsine]

[highlighteretcigarettes]

[crap-userrname16]

[greater-than-the-sword]

It's almost like school is the ONLY place most people will ever encounter an analog clock in this day and age. They don't get any practice in outside of school and for good reason. Analog clocks are so last century. They are pretty, but they are going the way of the sundial. I reckon most kids these days also can't use a fountain pen or a slide rule. They don't even make kids wash their slates or clap out their chalk dust from the chalkboard erasers.

[keepcatholic]

Learning how to read an analog clock usually involves learning the skill of skip counting (i.e. counting by 5s, 10s, 15s, etc.). Skip counting is typically viewed as a precursor to learning multiplication and the reason why young students are usually taught to interpret the face of a clock before learning multiplication itself. It also helps children learn how to count faster by grouping. Reading a clock is also the earliest (and only) introduction most children ever get to counting in a system other than base 10, which is extremely helpful later when learning about angles/geometry and other subjects where the sexagesimal system is standard like geography and astronomy.

I get what you are saying about not getting too attached to outdated technologies and systems, but an early introduction to the sexagesimal system is one of Chesterton’s ‘fences across the road’ we should absolutely leave up, lest we create a whole new set of problems.

[dootlock-deactivated20170417]

[tentacleteapot]

Didn’t Reba kill Krillin in the manga too? I’m surprised they left that part in, she’s such a complex villain I feel like they won’t have time to explore her motivations.

[newfoods]

pushed pork

[a-suspicious-lack-of-bagel]

not a new food. sausages.

[dailycatsblog]

[dailycatsblog]

[noah-wyles]

she's the best of us

[catchymemes]

[catchymemes]

[beachtomywhale]

As a non-american, do you ever look up a recipe for a whimsical holiday treat online and it says something insane like "use a choco-peppermint coffee creamer, such as you can find in any grocery store" and you suddenly don't know what planet you're on

[my-dailydreams]

[nesmamomen]

I BEG YOU, THEY DOESN'T DESERVE TO DIE

BABYS NEEDS MILK AND FOOD I BEG YOU

BABYS NEEDS MILK AND FOOD I BEG YOU

BABYS NEEDS MILK AND FOOD I BEG YOU

BABYS NEEDS MILK AND FOOD I BEG YOU

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[infectiouspiss]

dinking my oiter

[dogpuppy]

[gothhabiba]

men make it absolutely impossible to practice humility

[gothhabiba]

what you say: “I think this is the case”

what men hear: “I have no idea whatsoever, but here’s a totally random guess”

what you say: “I’m not an expert on this subject”

what men hear: “I don’t know anything about this subject and need its bare fundamentals explained to me”

what you say: “I could be better read in this area”

what men hear: “I have never read anything in this area”

[gothhabiba]

like okay fuck it nevermind I’m actually an expert in every subject I’ve ever read or heard about. in fact I know everything.

[ef-1]

My favouritest sport fact ever is that in 1990s 2 cardiac surgeons watched an f1 race to save the lives of countless kids. The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) kept losing the lives of patients after successful heart surgeries. Specifically the 10-15 minutes after a bonefide clinically successful surgery patients would die:

And so the two surgeons filmed a handover after heart surgery and sent it to the Ferrari pitcrew who were told to critique and improve handover process

And from this:

we got this:

The error rate during patien handovers dropped from 30% to 10% with the F1 informed protocol.

I literally love this fact so much because being an pitcrew member is such a thankless job because theyre underpaid and overworked mechanics and they literally saved lives in this instance.

[utopians]

man how the hell is this stupid ass sport legal. why do we funnel HIGH SCHOOLERS into this

[utopians]

jesus christ????

[taragrimface]

what the fuck.

[hypokeimena]

#the worst is when a kid fucking dies #and his parents try to raise awareness that your kid could fucking die #but all they get is other parents telling them their kid died because he was bad at football