Rds1983 Posted August 28 VT Supporter Share Posted August 28 17 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Penguin fan here. Calling bullshit on this one as if I recall, Penguins don’t pee. Fine, be a party pooper. Instead of bullshit, how about penguin shit? Which is in piles so big that it can be seen from space. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 4 hours ago, Rds1983 said: Fine, be a party pooper. Instead of bullshit, how about penguin shit? Which is in piles so big that it can be seen from space. Given that your lie about penguin pee was outed so quickly and categorically, I’m not inclined to believe any of your other anti penguin propaganda. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted August 28 VT Supporter Share Posted August 28 Penguins aren't penguins*. *This is actually true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 28 VT Supporter Share Posted August 28 5 minutes ago, Chindie said: Penguins aren't penguins This is a shocking revelation on a par with the discovery that William Shakespeare's plays were not written by him, but by another man of the same name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted August 28 Moderator Share Posted August 28 9 minutes ago, Chindie said: Penguins aren't penguins*. *This is actually true. And Manta rays aren't Manta rays, kind of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted August 28 VT Supporter Share Posted August 28 2 minutes ago, mjmooney said: This is a shocking revelation on a par with the discovery that William Shakespeare's plays were not written by him, but by another man of the same name. Perhaps. **** it, it fits the topic. The original penguin was a creature also known as the great auk, which looked a bit like what we now call a penguin. The great auk was a found throughout the Northern Atlantic coasts, but only bred in places with very specific conditions - isolated rocky islands with high food supplies and easy access to the sea, which are surprisingly rare. They were hunted for meat, and their eggs were also popular food sources. By the 16th century they had started to disappear from Europe, driven largely by the discovery their down was excellent, and by the mid-19th century they'd been wiped out. What we know today as penguins, which only live in the southern hemisphere, were named so because they looked like the original penguin, the great auk, but they actually aren't closely related at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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T-Dog Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 15 hours ago, Stevo985 said: Jose is the other (living) non italian to win Serie A, if anyone was wondering Absolute Grade A trivia that. There's some mad data out there that is begging to be discovered, but I've a couple of ciders so I'll allow the convo for tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted September 8 VT Supporter Share Posted September 8 You know when you go to an old fashioned arcade or amusements and they have the 2p machine (or the 10p if your rich), well in America they've taken the humble 2p pusher and made it into high stakes. This game here, the bloke has paid $100k to play, which got him 50 'plays', aka 50 quarters, and whatever he wins can also be out back in as tokens essentially. Except... It's not real. Obviously the whole thing doesn't make any sense, but there are versions of this very game in a few places in the US (and many more where is explicitly banned). But for some reason there's a thriving community online that, well... watches people play. And the ones that 'play the biggest stakes' do the biggest views. They make up narratives and storylines - the manager tried to ban me, we paid to reset the machine, etc etc. They talk about having big days in prior games and how good a return they're making. They edit in generic casino noise. But all it is is they've got a coin pusher machine and a camera. And they get paid for this. People donate to help them 'clear debts' and whatnot. Videos get hundreds of thousands of views. The internet is weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nor-Cal Villan Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Chindie said: You know when you go to an old fashioned arcade or amusements and they have the 2p machine (or the 10p if your rich), well in America they've taken the humble 2p pusher and made it into high stakes. This game here, the bloke has paid $100k to play, which got him 50 'plays', aka 50 quarters, and whatever he wins can also be out back in as tokens essentially. Except... It's not real. Obviously the whole thing doesn't make any sense, but there are versions of this very game in a few places in the US (and many more where is explicitly banned). But for some reason there's a thriving community online that, well... watches people play. And the ones that 'play the biggest stakes' do the biggest views. They make up narratives and storylines - the manager tried to ban me, we paid to reset the machine, etc etc. They talk about having big days in prior games and how good a return they're making. They edit in generic casino noise. But all it is is they've got a coin pusher machine and a camera. And they get paid for this. People donate to help them 'clear debts' and whatnot. Videos get hundreds of thousands of views. The internet is weird. People are more weird Edited September 8 by Nor-Cal Villan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 32 minutes ago, Chindie said: You know when you go to an old fashioned arcade or amusements and they have the 2p machine (or the 10p if your rich), well in America they've taken the humble 2p pusher and made it into high stakes. This game here, the bloke has paid $100k to play, which got him 50 'plays', aka 50 quarters, and whatever he wins can also be out back in as tokens essentially. Except... It's not real. Obviously the whole thing doesn't make any sense, but there are versions of this very game in a few places in the US (and many more where is explicitly banned). But for some reason there's a thriving community online that, well... watches people play. And the ones that 'play the biggest stakes' do the biggest views. They make up narratives and storylines - the manager tried to ban me, we paid to reset the machine, etc etc. They talk about having big days in prior games and how good a return they're making. They edit in generic casino noise. But all it is is they've got a coin pusher machine and a camera. And they get paid for this. People donate to help them 'clear debts' and whatnot. Videos get hundreds of thousands of views. The internet is weird. I watch a lot of slot videos and some of them have at home slots with edited in casino sounds. Thankfully they are easy to spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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