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Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Gross domestic product based on PPP valudation of country GDP matches the "county" MegaLounges so far, predicts Japan next. Have I solved the puzzle?
My thinking as it happened.
If I'm right, the next MegaLounges will be /r/MegaLoungeJapan, /r/MegaLoungeIndia, /r/MegaLoungeUnitedStates, and finally /r/MegaLoungeChina before we need a new theme.
Edit: Further evidence: I note that all of these lounges already seem to exist (with the exception of United States, which could be going by a … -
Merry Christmas, MegaLoungeUK
Well, it's now Christmas here in Britain, anyway!
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TIL that in 1967 a brand of foot powder was elected mayor of a town in Ecuador
Picoaza is a relatively small village near Ecuador’s Pacific coast. It's the site of an archaeological treasure: a settlement dating back before the time of Christopher Columbus. It's also a rather poor area, where clean drinking water, sewer systems, and telephone service are inadequate at best.
It is also the only town in the known world … -
Fun fact: Brazil is the only country in the world named after a tree [details in comments]
When Portugese explorers landed in the area of South America we now call Brazil in the year 1500, they discovered the caesalpinia echinata tree growing there. They noticed that this tree had a similar red-coloured wood as the related Sappanwood (caesalpinia sappan) tree, native to Asia, and that a similarly-useful red dye could be … -
Last night I dreamed that I met Greypo
We were chatting about the MegaLounges etc.; he seemed agitated that I have multiple Reddit accounts (and one of my 'other' ones had recently found its way into the MegaLounge after a comment I'd made, using it). I ended up enumerating my accounts, to him (I've made a couple of throwaways over the years, … -
You know what they call a MegaLounge in France?
A Royale Lounge with Cheese.
Here! Have some cheese. Cheese! CHEESE! CHEESE FOR EVERYBODY!!!
I might not be getting enough sleep.
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The Irregular Verbs
I like the irregular verbs of English, all 180 of them, because of what they tell us about the history of the language and the human minds that have perpetuated it.
The irregulars are defiantly quirky. Thousands of verbs monotonously take the -ed suffix for their past tense forms, but ring mutates to rang, not ringed, … -
Ship to ship
Oglaf
I completely lost it at "Three days later the heterosexual frigate was recommissioned as a bisexual cruiser." -
Seeing as you're all visiting my quirky little country, let me show you where I work.
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At 4:39pm I got an email to say that the 4:30pm bus had been cancelled. I'd left to catch the bus at 4:20pm.
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Hey, decadeclub: you know what happened an *actual* decade ago?
Ten years ago, this week:
Half-Life 2 was released, over a year behind schedule. Delays had been blamed on the theft of source code from Valve's network during a hack attack, leading to many in the community asking "don't they have backups?"
Yasser Arafat died at the age of 75, after a … -
A huggy home run.
AltA huggy home run
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Going to a memorial service today? Help update the national record of your war memorial.
Since 1989, the War Memorials Archive has been trying to keep an up-to-date database for everybody to read, showing the location of every war memorial in the UK as well of details of the dead commemorated there. But their records are incomplete, and sadly many memorials (especially rural ones) are degrading: someday the information … -
"The Law You Won't Be Told" - jury nullification explained [4:30]
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Map of the Lounges, version 2 (moderately censored edition) [description/history in comments]
[this post was originally made to a private subreddit; versions of it posted to more-exclusive private subreddits are not replicated on this blog]