Are you a weirdo?

[Sergeant Wilson]

14 minutes ago, JamieT1314 said:

Another lover of maps here. Once spent an afternoon on google maps traversing the canal network of great britian. Pretty sure got from london to glasgow, spotted a few nice boozers on the way.
There is a pub on the cowal peninsula that has the toilet covered in maps, great idea.

I go for virtual walks, usually around football grounds, checking routes to pubs and train stations etc.

[Black Dug]

For the map appreciation society, are you aware of the National Library of Scotland's historical map overlay?
Basically you search for a point of interest and it brings up a present day map but there's a wee slider that will allow you to fade to historical maps that are georeferenced. It's fascinating - beware you can spend ours doing so (us map freaks can at least). You have been warned!

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=20&lat=55.9791&lon=-3.7196&layers=168&b=1

[19QOS19]

Nothing wrong with the Beckham pictures. I expect those who are 'outraged' are the same kind of weirdos who see something sexual with it, which is the disturbing thing.

[mathematics]

On 11/29/2018 at 10:31, sugna said:

I may be able to help, here. I note that those are all (not only multiples of 3 but also) powers of 3. Maybe you have an exponential weirdness rather than a multiplicative one. However, while that may be bad news for large exponents - as your weirdness is "not in NP" - you can take advantage of the fact that 3⁰ is 1, and just touch things once. Problem solved!

Like everyone on P&B, I have plenty weirdnesses of my own; like a minority on here, I am aware of quite a few of them. The "internal" one that I've pretty much always done, and doesn't mark me out as weird to observers, is reducing any 3-digit or 4-digit number I see to its prime factors. Car registrations - not so much nowadays - 24-hour clock times, row counts in data sets retrieved by DB queries, the last 4 digits of phone numbers written in the old "house phone" format... I even choose my PINs to be primes so that I won't start doing it at the cash dispenser.

(If anyone would like to verify that my PINs are primes, PM me for details.)

Ramanujan thread for this pish.

[hk blues]

3 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said:

Nothing wrong with the Beckham pictures. I expect those who are 'outraged' are the same kind of weirdos who see something sexual with it, which is the disturbing thing.

Others disagree - all about opinions.  

[Sergeant Wilson]

49 minutes ago, Black Dug said:

For the map appreciation society, are you aware of the National Library of Scotland's historical map overlay?
Basically you search for a point of interest and it brings up a present day map but there's a wee slider that will allow you to fade to historical maps that are georeferenced. It's fascinating - beware you can spend ours doing so (us map freaks can at least). You have been warned!

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=20&lat=55.9791&lon=-3.7196&layers=168&b=1
 

National productivity will nosedive next week.

[Melanius Mullarkey]

55 minutes ago, Black Dug said:

For the map appreciation society, are you aware of the National Library of Scotland's historical map overlay?
Basically you search for a point of interest and it brings up a present day map but there's a wee slider that will allow you to fade to historical maps that are georeferenced. It's fascinating - beware you can spend ours doing so (us map freaks can at least). You have been warned!

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=20&lat=55.9791&lon=-3.7196&layers=168&b=1
 

Thanks. Thanks a fucking lot.

[Black Dug]

Thanks. Thanks a fucking lot.

[emoji23] What did you think you were doing today?

[sjc]

I worked with a guy from Cambridge that enjoyed watching his wife get demolished by well hung black guys. 

Being told the in depth details on a journey from Leeds to Manchester wasn't pleasant and his gargoyle like features made my image of his wife even less flattering. I gave serious consideration to exiting the car at 70mph on the M62.

[Marshmallo]

1 minute ago, sjc said:

I worked with a guy from Cambridge that enjoyed watching his wife get demolished by well hung black guys. 

Being told the in depth details on a journey from Leeds to Manchester wasn't pleasant and his gargoyle like features made my image of his wife even less flattering. I gave serious consideration to exiting the car at 70mph on the M62.

@DHOTYA

[sjc]

12 minutes ago, Marshmallo said:

@DHOTYA

You're right, I didn't really give serious consideration to jumping out a moving car. That would be crazy.

[tarapoa]

For the map appreciation society, are you aware of the National Library of Scotland's historical map overlay?
Basically you search for a point of interest and it brings up a present day map but there's a wee slider that will allow you to fade to historical maps that are georeferenced. It's fascinating - beware you can spend ours doing so (us map freaks can at least). You have been warned!

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=20&lat=55.9791&lon=-3.7196&layers=168&b=1

I’ve already allocated a day of the 18 days off I have coming up later this month to this. May need more....

[Dee Man]

7 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

I go for virtual walks, usually around football grounds, checking routes to pubs and train stations etc.

I can't wait until the day you can have the full matchday experience in virtual reality so you don't have to leave the comfort of your house to experience abject disappointment. 

[Sergeant Wilson]

14 minutes ago, Dee Man said:

I can't wait until the day you can have the full matchday experience in virtual reality so you don't have to leave the comfort of your house to experience abject disappointment. 

I don't do it a home, do you think I'm mental?

 

I do it at work!

[Rovers2017]

When at home, I always rinse my cutlery prior to eating with it even if it's sparkly clean. I get a nervous disposition when I'm at someone else's house and they give me a glass and I can see dust particles in it. 

Food related also, my friends think I'm weird because whenever I've ate something greasy with my hands that I immediately go wash my hands afterwards instead of just wiping the grease on a napkin. 

Beastly behavior touching your phone after a greasy burger. 

[Jacksgranda]

19 minutes ago, Rovers2017 said:

When at home, I always rinse my cutlery prior to eating with it even if it's sparkly clean. I get a nervous disposition when I'm at someone else's house and they give me a glass and I can see dust particles in it. 

Food related also, my friends think I'm weird because whenever I've ate something greasy with my hands that I immediately go wash my hands afterwards instead of just wiping the grease on a napkin. 

Beastly behavior touching your phone after a greasy burger. 

Euphemism?

[Black Dug]

One thing I can't do is set my alarm clock to a regular time like 0700, 0645 etc. It has to be set at 0703, 0827 etc. Guess in a weird insignificant way I'm rebelling to the rest of my life which is pretty regimented...

[Sergeant Wilson]

2 minutes ago, Black Dug said:

One thing I can't do is set my alarm clock to a regular time like 0700, 0645 etc. It has to be set at 0703, 0827 etc. Guess in a weird insignificant way I'm rebelling to the rest of my life which is pretty regimented...

Those are regular times.

[Black Dug]

Those are regular times.

Guess I'm not weird at all then, that's a relief!

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

2 hours ago, Black Dug said:

One thing I can't do is set my alarm clock to a regular time like 0700, 0645 etc. It has to be set at 0703, 0827 etc. Guess in a weird insignificant way I'm rebelling to the rest of my life which is pretty regimented...

If you set your alarm for e.g. 06:27 or 06:57 you can turn on your TV and catch some tidy Scottish newsreaders on BBC1, according to a friend.