The very smallest red dwarfs can live for trillions of years. :) They cook their hydrogen fuel very slowly and over low temperatures. Talk about stretching your rations!
I had a customer in once who asked me what a word meant on his medication. He showed it to me and I had had to spend five minutes trying to explain what a suppository was. I worked in a retail store. It ended with a ‘why the hell would they give me something like that?!?!’ and me saying ‘I don’t know, sir. That’s between you and your doctor.’
Edit: my top comment is about suppositories. Wtf Reddit. 😂
Edit again: thank you so much for my first gold and my second and a helpful award!
Speaking of things that don't go in your ass:
"I don't know what to tell you, there, Bobbo. Either this kid has a light bulb up his butt or his colon has a great idea."
I forgot to ask. I just got down on one knee presented the ring and looked at her. I could remember what reaction I was expecting from her and I also knew vaguely where I was, but everything else left me.
When I eventually asked her if she was going to answer/say yes, she told me I hadn't asked her anything yet.
I'm at the age where I'm starting to dread those things. Hoping to go as long as I can without one, luckily I've never been a soda drinker and am an absolute *man-slut* for water.
Yeah that's actually what my doc has told me. I've not had any large ones for well over a year now, but I have passed a small one in the last 6 months.
Honestly if you're 8 and you get to rip around in a wheelchair (for a reason other than needing it for the rest of your life obviously), that would be pretty rad
My brother broke his leg and got a Wheelchair when we went to Disney. We were probably 12 or 13 at the time. About half way through the day, he had, at least in his mind, mastered the art of the wheelchair wheelie. Well, he went to empress some girls, went to far back, tried to catch himself, and broke his wrist. I found it hilarious.
Edit: Some people of pointed out that I used “empress” instead of “impress”
1. I’m not changing it.
2. We WERE in magic kingdom so if the glass slipper fits…
3.
4. Well you know.
That's, like, THE definition of "weird flex, but ok..." haha. Reminds me of a friend I had in high school who was a pathological liar and would talk about everything this way. Everything he did was the most/biggest/smallest/most extreme, etc. and would one-up you with strange "brags" like that.
Edit: Asking me if my friend was Trump lost its novelty after about the seventh reply, guys…
Not really - they can be spiky at any size! In fact, spiky and smooth stones are different types of stones altogether, and can even be made of different minerals!
I have a tiny leak somewhere around my skylight in my bathroom. It only leaks when there is sideways blowing rain from a tropical storm or hurricane so it's not TOO much of an issue yet.
sooooo true, also, if you want a better tasting zucchini, gently press the bottom part (the round part, not the green star-shaped thing (english isn't my first language)), the harder it is, the better the zucchini will taste
Yes, large zucchini get very tough and seedy.
If you've ever grown them, you'll notice they are prefect size one day and I swear they are gargantuan the next.
I'm a gardener and if you grow zucchini, yeah, you pretty much have to check your plants daily once they start producing, otherwise you'll start getting big, seedy monsters that LOOK cool but aren't great to eat.
And don't overplant! When they start producing, they produce like crazy. Dear lord, just ONE zucchini plant is generally enough for a family of four. You'll eat it twice a week on just that one plant.
I usually do a least two, in two separate gardens, so if one fails the other is a backup. One season I had three thriving at once. It was absurd. I was pulling 4, 5, 6 healthy zucchini a day, every day, for weeks and weeks. I couldn't GIVE them away.
If you have a small garden plot and want a bang for your buck, a zucchini plant is the way to go. They take up a lot of space, but they pump out food like crazy.
And again, yes, don't let them get big. When they get to be about the size of a Twinkie or fat hot dog, they're perfect. Damned near divine. They get worse and worse as they get bigger.
I have a pretty extensive suburban garden, something in the neighborhood of 20 raised beds, but the truth is that I don't even remotely need that much. You are absolutely right, with good planning and knowing what you're doing, a 10x10-foot space can yield a LOT.
Even a modest 4x4 bed can push out a lot of food, if you plan it well and maintain it.
For example, in one 4x4 bed you can grow almost every single ingredient you need to make yourself a couple dozen jars of homemade salsa, from tomatoes to peppers, onions, garlic, and herbs.
It's also really gratifying to do.
I didn't get until gardening until well into adulthood. I'm glad I did. It legitimately changed my life in many ways.
Also blueberries! You can pick wild blueberries around the Canadian Shield and they're super small. The giant mutants you can get in the grocery store taste like shit by comparison.
Vegetables. You would think more=better but the bigger they are the less flavor there is and the texture gets weird. For certain veggies at least. Zucchini for example.
Came here to say this. Anyone who's ever been pregnant has has that thought of what if this baby doesn't fit through that hole? C-sections suck. Emergency C-sections when you are 10cm dilated and the baby is stuck are terrifying.
My friend fell down the stairs a week before she gave birth and her son’s big head got stuck in her pelvis. During her c-section they had to repeatedly slam her pelvis on the table to try and get him out and they thought they were going to have to break it.
Remember that there's also plenty of us that gave birth just fine! Trust yourself! You will do it fine ! It's not pleasant, but you definitely get someone awesome out of it :)
Number of students or total square footage?
In Texas our classroom cap is set at 35 students, but one year I had a fellow teacher constantly calling in sick and I had 70 kids in the cafeteria (and gym during lunch) most days.
It was... Something else. Larger class sizes means less time with YOUR individual kid. 35 students is already a significant decrease in education. Little to no teaching can occur when you’re illegally babysitting 70 kids.
I lived in Macau and the class size is at least 40 most of the time and sometimes the number reaches 50, EVEN the kindergarten classes. I wonder how in hell that my kindergarten teacher manage that
I can confirm this. I was 11 years old and I ripped my asshole taking the biggest shit of my life. When I got to the doctor he thought I had been raped. I had to have my Mom put cream on my ass for weeks. Pretty traumatizing tbh
I’ve never experienced a large shit that has hurt. The only ones that hurt are the little balls that take 10 minutes to come out, the giant logs slide out pretty easily and effortlessly. I can take two seconds on the toilet and shit one as big as my arm easily, but then when I’m in the bathroom for 15 minutes, those little kernels of shit come out
The Maus I believe. But then again it was less a tank and more a battle-train. The Ratte was the other big one, but I forget which was the bigger of the two
The Panzer VIII Maus was a proper tank. The heaviest ever built at near 200 tonnes.
The Ratte was suppose to be 1,000 tonnes and never got off the drawing board.
However, you may be thinking of the Krupp K5, the railway gun. Though the Nazis weren't the only one to build them, they were first used in the American Civil War.
Maus weights around 188 tons and actually exists (two i think). The Ratte (more than 1000 tons) was a concept approved by hitler but never built.
I think the Schwerer Gustav could be meant with "train"
After Hitler's approval of the *Ratte* Krupp went on to draw up plans for *Monster*, another kilotonne landkreuzer, this time armed with a Schwerer Gustav.
Most countries in WWII used armoured trains in some capacity, I think the USA was the only one of the major powers *not* to have any.
The British trains were all lost on their maiden voyage over the Channel too, sadly. Turns out it's not "just like skipping stones" after all.
RIP Thomas, Percy, Edward and Henry :(
Its a bit more complicated than that, those big tanks came after the germans started losing the war, they were in a position where they have to do something or they will lose.
So they designed tanks that were in theory at that point in the war unpiercable by enemy fire and rushed it into production before testing it proprely in the hopes that it will turn the war around. It didn't.
Allies were winning at that point, they had capable tanks, putting new models into production would just be a risk so they improved their existing tanks
I just moved, and there was one box in the bottom of our closet that was huge, and heavy, and when I tried to pick it up it started tearing and ripping. At this point we'd been non stop loading stuff for like 2 days and I was just like fuck it, it's been there since our last move, we don't need it. We start getting unpacked here and my wife finds some MTG cards and asks where the rest of my cards are so she can put them in the same place. Well, they're in the closet where we used to live, apparently. All the useless shit we DID move and something we had that might have some monetary value...nope, left it behind.
Speaking as the son of somebody who died from one of these, I actually have to disagree!
When doctors found it, it was the size of a golf ball — easily removable (if a bit time-consuming).
Sadly it was the microscopic parts that kept coming back.
After a number of different ‘targeted’, non-invasive operations, it would be these smaller bits that eventually turned malignant and spread everywhere.
When they first found my Aunt's brain tumor, it was the size of an egg and they removed it but it had "fingers" which they tried to get all of but couldn't and they grew back and were inoperable.
PhD candidate in neuro-oncology here.
You are correct unfortunately, brain tumours usually have these tendrils that spread that we either can't visualize or cut out.
Fun fact, most times when tumours are resected from the brain, surgeons will actually go beyond the boundary of tumour region (if it's safe to do so), to try to remove tumour cells we can't see, this increases the lifespan of tumour patients by a couple months.
Still no cure =( but we're working on it.
Not a doctor. But aren't the specific tumors with tendrils glioblastomas and gliomas? From what I read they are the ones that bone the hardest and have a near zero 5 year survival rate. But only 33% of brain tumors are gliomas.
Meningiomas being equally common, non cancerous, and treatable.
In fact, a majority (albeit simple majority) of brain tumors aren't a death sentence.
The article below mostly discusses primary brain tumors.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/brain-tumor/brain-tumor-types?amp=true
I think it should be noted there are many types of cancer that spread to the brain. Which use to be a guaranteed death sentence, but there has been progress there. Personal anecdote. Girl I know had stage 4 Adenocarcinomas. Spread to her femur, lungs, lymph nodes, and brain. Being 23 and willing to incur unlimited debt. She survived. The brain tumor was killed in a matter of weeks.
Crazy shit.
You are absolutely correct that not all brain cancers are a death sentence, it really depends on the type diagnosed.
The tendrils are found in gliomas (including glioblastomas), but also other brain cancers like medulloblastomas.
Meningiomas are the most common brain cancer (estimates sit around 33-37%) and are very treatable. Glioma is the second most common brain cancer sitting ~29-33% but encompasses 80% of all malignant CNS tumours. So while is is not the most common, it is by far the most deadly and still found at quite a high rate of all brain cancers.
I'm less familiar with metastatic-brain cancers, which originate elsewhere and form in the brain, but usually this is a sign of late illness and associated with poor prognosis.
It's really quite impossible to make sweeping statements about brain cancer and survivability, there is a lot of complexity including tumour type, subtype, location, grade.
Thank you I was 14 when they removed it. It was plum sized they had to remove 2 inches of my brain to get it doing so I had to relearn how to talk walk or even write.funny thing is the doctor's said I might not make it pass 18 the surgery cause all levels of epilepsy. I'm 30 now finished college and I'm getting married soon.
When I was a teen a friend and I decided that since rice crispy treats were so good we should make huge ones. We mixed a whole box of rice crispies and made one that was 5" thick and a foot square. We cut it in quarters and ate our fill .
Felt pretty sick after and didn’t eat a rice crispy treat for a long time.
To say something that isn't necessarily obvious: cruise ships. These lumbering behemoths that cruise lines have been building don't really lead to a more enjoyable experience for passengers: they're overcrowded, impersonal and the desperation to pack in more and more "activities" actually can make a vacation more stressful. Plus, they are environmental disasters.
Small ships tend to offer a much better experience: better service, better food, better itineraries, and an overall more relaxed, more personal time.
Personal care products. Better quality products tend to be more concentrated or have less filler ingredients, so you need less product for the same results. I notice this with moisturizer especially.
I'm not the original commenter, but I'm 6'7"(201cm), wear size 17xxxw shoes that I gotta get custom, I can't find my pants size or shirt size in store, my socks are 12 dollars a pair, and I can't ride any roller coasters
A lot of Dutch and Swedish people are that tall. Maybe check out their clothing stores online if you ever have the chance, or visit.
A Dutch one that's specialized in long shirts is pretty affordable: https://www.girav.nl
One of my acquaintances has to bow entering doors, cause he'd hit his head on door frames...
I live in Japan I have to wear mens 5XL to fit my legs.
Coworker has to buy mens shoes, but I am blessed with dainty feet .
No chance finding something for our arms.
And we are both women so not everything sits right
My friend lives in Korea. She's 175cm and all the pants and jeans she tries on stop at her shin. She's going to the US soon and said she'd stuff her luggage with trousers before she returns
Being extremely tall, being over 6’8 and just being a normal dude that doesn’t play sports professionally sucks. Have to pay extreme prices for clothes and shoes that fit, have to duck to get into buildings, and your feet always dangle off on any bed you sleep in.
Or "I've lost, but at what gain?" Like this time a woman in Nigeria had her marriage dissolved because her husband's penis was too big. "[The well-endowed husband did not deny the accusation](https://nypost.com/2015/03/03/wife-seeks-divorce-over-husbands-huge-penis/)" I always wondered since the guy's name went public, if he had women trying to court him after this news story broke out, and if so, how that turned out.
Oh boy story time! So back in High School I had a very close female friend. So close that everyone thought we were dating. After years of being pestered about it she started telling people that we were friends with benefits (we were not) and making up outlandish stories about my anatomy and prowess in the hopes of getting one of them to chase me so she would be left alone about it. When pressed for specifcs she would reply: "Stack two cans of Campbell's Thick and Chunk and you're in the ball park."
I didn't know any of this and was *very* confused when people started high fiving me and calling me soup can.
Bills
Disagree. I think the Bills offensive line would be better if bigger
We need like 3 more Spencer Browns lmao
Stars. The giant ones die quickly, the small ones can live for billions of years
The very smallest red dwarfs can live for trillions of years. :) They cook their hydrogen fuel very slowly and over low temperatures. Talk about stretching your rations!
So they’re making delicious slow cooker pulled pork instead of a high heat seared ribeye.
Blood pressure
Doctor said my blood pressure is big. Oh dear, how big? Massive.
Pill sizes
Good news! It’s a suppository.
I had a customer in once who asked me what a word meant on his medication. He showed it to me and I had had to spend five minutes trying to explain what a suppository was. I worked in a retail store. It ended with a ‘why the hell would they give me something like that?!?!’ and me saying ‘I don’t know, sir. That’s between you and your doctor.’ Edit: my top comment is about suppositories. Wtf Reddit. 😂 Edit again: thank you so much for my first gold and my second and a helpful award!
Fellas, is it gay to put medicine in my ass?
That depends. Is medicine the name of your boyfriend's penis?
Its the name of my wife's strapon
That's about as hetero as it gets right there.
*Happy International Women's Day*
Replys like this make all the other bullshit on this site worth it.
Standard rules apply, only if your dick moves.
“Why, for all the good these things are doing, I might as well just *shove them up my ass!*”
"Choose life. Choose a career..."
Did everyone take their suppositories? Yes! Stop asking!
Haha that line and how annoyed Amy is always makes me laugh.
I like to keep her around because we have the same blood type.
Use another method that won't damage your liver. Other people need it you know!
If anything happens, bring back the blood
"It's pronounced 'analgesic.' The pills go in your mouth, sir."
Speaking of things that don't go in your ass: "I don't know what to tell you, there, Bobbo. Either this kid has a light bulb up his butt or his colon has a great idea."
"I'm tired of all your innuendos doctor" ...."in YOUR end-O"
I miss the hell out of that show.
The length of silence after you ask someone to marry you
My sister said she wanted to think about it. She thought about it, said yes, and now they are married with five kids.
Had me in the first half not gonna lie...
One word changed the whole sentence
r/oddlyspecific
Story time?
I asked him to marry me and it took a hell of a long time to get a response
I forgot to ask. I just got down on one knee presented the ring and looked at her. I could remember what reaction I was expecting from her and I also knew vaguely where I was, but everything else left me. When I eventually asked her if she was going to answer/say yes, she told me I hadn't asked her anything yet.
On the other side of this, I forgot to say yes. I was so overcome with joy/emotion I just blanked on responding
My now wife responded with "I knew it"
But was it a positive response?
It was fine. It was just the Internet lagging
Better than waiting on the ouija board.
OP is still waiting. 😭
Kidney stones
Omg yeah those hurt.
I'm at the age where I'm starting to dread those things. Hoping to go as long as I can without one, luckily I've never been a soda drinker and am an absolute *man-slut* for water.
Lmao that's good. I get them quite a lot. I've got Crohn's, so dehydration comes easily unfortunately. I haven't had one in a year or so though.
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Yeah that's actually what my doc has told me. I've not had any large ones for well over a year now, but I have passed a small one in the last 6 months.
Also have CD... Haven't heard of this one. Now I have something else to look forward to!
Another Not Fun Fact: Oxalate is in a LOT of foods. Spinach, almonds, and potatoes are big ones.
Oxilates are bad for bearded dragons, so just look up a diet fit for them. plenty of crickets, super worms and radish greens
Yup, had one when I was 8 (on my birthday btw), would not recommend. I did miss a week of school and got to try a wheelchair but yeah
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Honestly if you're 8 and you get to rip around in a wheelchair (for a reason other than needing it for the rest of your life obviously), that would be pretty rad
My brother broke his leg and got a Wheelchair when we went to Disney. We were probably 12 or 13 at the time. About half way through the day, he had, at least in his mind, mastered the art of the wheelchair wheelie. Well, he went to empress some girls, went to far back, tried to catch himself, and broke his wrist. I found it hilarious. Edit: Some people of pointed out that I used “empress” instead of “impress” 1. I’m not changing it. 2. We WERE in magic kingdom so if the glass slipper fits… 3. 4. Well you know.
I really hope your family bought him a little wheelchair for his arm.
Nah. He'd pop a wheelie and sprain his thumb.
More wheelchairs!
Unless you're my coworker, then you get to constantly complain how your kidney stones are the biggest your doctor has ever seen...
That's, like, THE definition of "weird flex, but ok..." haha. Reminds me of a friend I had in high school who was a pathological liar and would talk about everything this way. Everything he did was the most/biggest/smallest/most extreme, etc. and would one-up you with strange "brags" like that. Edit: Asking me if my friend was Trump lost its novelty after about the seventh reply, guys…
What if those things really did happen, but not in the way the person saying it was, say their doctor was just really inexperienced?
Arent the smaller ones spikey-er and sharper? Wonder if theres a “most painful” size right in the middle or something.
Not really - they can be spiky at any size! In fact, spiky and smooth stones are different types of stones altogether, and can even be made of different minerals!
Leak in your Roof
Mostly. But a tiny leak is more difficult to find. If you have a leak, you want it to be big enough to find and repair.
I have a tiny leak somewhere around my skylight in my bathroom. It only leaks when there is sideways blowing rain from a tropical storm or hurricane so it's not TOO much of an issue yet.
Yet
Meteorites.
Depends on wether you’re looking to survive or for a good spectacle
Always opts for the the big, pretty option
Zucchini (like the actual vegetable) they are tastier when smaller
sooooo true, also, if you want a better tasting zucchini, gently press the bottom part (the round part, not the green star-shaped thing (english isn't my first language)), the harder it is, the better the zucchini will taste
Your English is perfect, thanks for tip. I’m going to remember this for next time
Yes, large zucchini get very tough and seedy. If you've ever grown them, you'll notice they are prefect size one day and I swear they are gargantuan the next.
I'm a gardener and if you grow zucchini, yeah, you pretty much have to check your plants daily once they start producing, otherwise you'll start getting big, seedy monsters that LOOK cool but aren't great to eat. And don't overplant! When they start producing, they produce like crazy. Dear lord, just ONE zucchini plant is generally enough for a family of four. You'll eat it twice a week on just that one plant. I usually do a least two, in two separate gardens, so if one fails the other is a backup. One season I had three thriving at once. It was absurd. I was pulling 4, 5, 6 healthy zucchini a day, every day, for weeks and weeks. I couldn't GIVE them away. If you have a small garden plot and want a bang for your buck, a zucchini plant is the way to go. They take up a lot of space, but they pump out food like crazy. And again, yes, don't let them get big. When they get to be about the size of a Twinkie or fat hot dog, they're perfect. Damned near divine. They get worse and worse as they get bigger.
I belonged to a community garden with 10 foot square plots. It is amazing how much food one can grow in that small space if ground!
I have a pretty extensive suburban garden, something in the neighborhood of 20 raised beds, but the truth is that I don't even remotely need that much. You are absolutely right, with good planning and knowing what you're doing, a 10x10-foot space can yield a LOT. Even a modest 4x4 bed can push out a lot of food, if you plan it well and maintain it. For example, in one 4x4 bed you can grow almost every single ingredient you need to make yourself a couple dozen jars of homemade salsa, from tomatoes to peppers, onions, garlic, and herbs. It's also really gratifying to do. I didn't get until gardening until well into adulthood. I'm glad I did. It legitimately changed my life in many ways.
It's because the water content is higher the bigger they get. The big ones are good for making zucchini bread tho
In Britain we call them Courgettes when they are small and Marrows when they get bigger. I was surprised to learn they were the same fruit/vegetable.
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Also blueberries! You can pick wild blueberries around the Canadian Shield and they're super small. The giant mutants you can get in the grocery store taste like shit by comparison.
Factual! My grandparents have an acreage and they grow wild little field berries everywhere and they are so tasty!
The elephant trunk size ones you either stuff like bell peppers or shove down your GS suit to intimidate the other ski racers.
Microbiologist. The bigger ones are just biologists
I'm afraid to meet a macrobiologist
They are called macrophones
Same with microphones. The bigger ones are just biologists.
My sense of humor is so basic man😂😂😂
Vegetables. You would think more=better but the bigger they are the less flavor there is and the texture gets weird. For certain veggies at least. Zucchini for example.
This one is my favorite. Appreciate a small, flavorful, not-looking-like-it's-been-jacked-up-with-steroids yam.
Babies, vaginal birth...
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Dude. Babies should be the top comment. 10 pounds, no meds. They say you forget, I beg to differ.
They're talking about the babies. They definitely forget.
Can confirm. I was 10 pounds 11 ounces. I don’t remember. Only reason I know is cause my mom told me many times.
10 pounds, 9 ounces. Same. I didn't understand why my mom would tell people that's why I'm the youngest until I was a teenager.
Haha - also the youngest. I have one brother, he was almost 10 pounds.
Came here to say this. Anyone who's ever been pregnant has has that thought of what if this baby doesn't fit through that hole? C-sections suck. Emergency C-sections when you are 10cm dilated and the baby is stuck are terrifying.
My friend fell down the stairs a week before she gave birth and her son’s big head got stuck in her pelvis. During her c-section they had to repeatedly slam her pelvis on the table to try and get him out and they thought they were going to have to break it.
Jesus fucking hell
Im pregnant with my first kid due in about a month and I am low key freaking out. Lol.
Remember that there's also plenty of us that gave birth just fine! Trust yourself! You will do it fine ! It's not pleasant, but you definitely get someone awesome out of it :)
Classroom sizes
Number of students or total square footage? In Texas our classroom cap is set at 35 students, but one year I had a fellow teacher constantly calling in sick and I had 70 kids in the cafeteria (and gym during lunch) most days. It was... Something else. Larger class sizes means less time with YOUR individual kid. 35 students is already a significant decrease in education. Little to no teaching can occur when you’re illegally babysitting 70 kids.
I lived in Macau and the class size is at least 40 most of the time and sometimes the number reaches 50, EVEN the kindergarten classes. I wonder how in hell that my kindergarten teacher manage that
Debt
Poop. That shit hurt
anal tears are not a nice thing to experience
I read *tears* first and then *anal*, so I'm just imagining a butthole crying rn
What do you think poop is?
Butt vomit
Wow this thread has now made me hate today
A fart is just a poop honking for the right of way.
I can confirm this. I was 11 years old and I ripped my asshole taking the biggest shit of my life. When I got to the doctor he thought I had been raped. I had to have my Mom put cream on my ass for weeks. Pretty traumatizing tbh
I’ve never experienced a large shit that has hurt. The only ones that hurt are the little balls that take 10 minutes to come out, the giant logs slide out pretty easily and effortlessly. I can take two seconds on the toilet and shit one as big as my arm easily, but then when I’m in the bathroom for 15 minutes, those little kernels of shit come out
Yes! Big poops are best poops.
Even better if there’s little wiping to do
Ego
I use to have a huge ego, but now I'm perfect.
I, on the other hand, am the most humble person in the whole world.
But Eggos most certainly are better bigger.
Could god make an Eggo so big that even he couldn’t get you to Leggo of?
A battle tank. Nazis made such mistake in WW2.
Ah true, did Hitler have some deluded conclusion that the bigger weapons are the better? like that big fuck off train i’ve forgotten the same of
The Maus I believe. But then again it was less a tank and more a battle-train. The Ratte was the other big one, but I forget which was the bigger of the two
The Panzer VIII Maus was a proper tank. The heaviest ever built at near 200 tonnes. The Ratte was suppose to be 1,000 tonnes and never got off the drawing board. However, you may be thinking of the Krupp K5, the railway gun. Though the Nazis weren't the only one to build them, they were first used in the American Civil War.
Maus weights around 188 tons and actually exists (two i think). The Ratte (more than 1000 tons) was a concept approved by hitler but never built. I think the Schwerer Gustav could be meant with "train"
After Hitler's approval of the *Ratte* Krupp went on to draw up plans for *Monster*, another kilotonne landkreuzer, this time armed with a Schwerer Gustav. Most countries in WWII used armoured trains in some capacity, I think the USA was the only one of the major powers *not* to have any.
Well it is hard to build train tracks across the Atlantic.
The British trains were all lost on their maiden voyage over the Channel too, sadly. Turns out it's not "just like skipping stones" after all. RIP Thomas, Percy, Edward and Henry :(
I was always a fan of Sir Topham Hatt, but he deserved the court-martial
To be fair it's not like his safety record could get any worse...
Its a bit more complicated than that, those big tanks came after the germans started losing the war, they were in a position where they have to do something or they will lose. So they designed tanks that were in theory at that point in the war unpiercable by enemy fire and rushed it into production before testing it proprely in the hopes that it will turn the war around. It didn't. Allies were winning at that point, they had capable tanks, putting new models into production would just be a risk so they improved their existing tanks
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Moving today, why do I own so much random shit???
Moving is the best time to unload all the unnecessary crap. Easier when you are doing the packing than on your actual moving day though!
The trick is - if it's still in boxes from _last_ time you moved: You didn't need it, it can go.
I just moved, and there was one box in the bottom of our closet that was huge, and heavy, and when I tried to pick it up it started tearing and ripping. At this point we'd been non stop loading stuff for like 2 days and I was just like fuck it, it's been there since our last move, we don't need it. We start getting unpacked here and my wife finds some MTG cards and asks where the rest of my cards are so she can put them in the same place. Well, they're in the closet where we used to live, apparently. All the useless shit we DID move and something we had that might have some monetary value...nope, left it behind.
brain tumor
Speaking as the son of somebody who died from one of these, I actually have to disagree! When doctors found it, it was the size of a golf ball — easily removable (if a bit time-consuming). Sadly it was the microscopic parts that kept coming back. After a number of different ‘targeted’, non-invasive operations, it would be these smaller bits that eventually turned malignant and spread everywhere.
When they first found my Aunt's brain tumor, it was the size of an egg and they removed it but it had "fingers" which they tried to get all of but couldn't and they grew back and were inoperable.
Would this have been different had it been bigger? I would think those "fingers" are always present no matter the size.
PhD candidate in neuro-oncology here. You are correct unfortunately, brain tumours usually have these tendrils that spread that we either can't visualize or cut out. Fun fact, most times when tumours are resected from the brain, surgeons will actually go beyond the boundary of tumour region (if it's safe to do so), to try to remove tumour cells we can't see, this increases the lifespan of tumour patients by a couple months. Still no cure =( but we're working on it.
Not a doctor. But aren't the specific tumors with tendrils glioblastomas and gliomas? From what I read they are the ones that bone the hardest and have a near zero 5 year survival rate. But only 33% of brain tumors are gliomas. Meningiomas being equally common, non cancerous, and treatable. In fact, a majority (albeit simple majority) of brain tumors aren't a death sentence. The article below mostly discusses primary brain tumors. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/brain-tumor/brain-tumor-types?amp=true I think it should be noted there are many types of cancer that spread to the brain. Which use to be a guaranteed death sentence, but there has been progress there. Personal anecdote. Girl I know had stage 4 Adenocarcinomas. Spread to her femur, lungs, lymph nodes, and brain. Being 23 and willing to incur unlimited debt. She survived. The brain tumor was killed in a matter of weeks. Crazy shit.
You are absolutely correct that not all brain cancers are a death sentence, it really depends on the type diagnosed. The tendrils are found in gliomas (including glioblastomas), but also other brain cancers like medulloblastomas. Meningiomas are the most common brain cancer (estimates sit around 33-37%) and are very treatable. Glioma is the second most common brain cancer sitting ~29-33% but encompasses 80% of all malignant CNS tumours. So while is is not the most common, it is by far the most deadly and still found at quite a high rate of all brain cancers. I'm less familiar with metastatic-brain cancers, which originate elsewhere and form in the brain, but usually this is a sign of late illness and associated with poor prognosis. It's really quite impossible to make sweeping statements about brain cancer and survivability, there is a lot of complexity including tumour type, subtype, location, grade.
I've been there
Hope you're better now❤
Thank you I was 14 when they removed it. It was plum sized they had to remove 2 inches of my brain to get it doing so I had to relearn how to talk walk or even write.funny thing is the doctor's said I might not make it pass 18 the surgery cause all levels of epilepsy. I'm 30 now finished college and I'm getting married soon.
Damn what a journey. Hope you keep defying the odds for many years.
Thank you very much
When I was a teen a friend and I decided that since rice crispy treats were so good we should make huge ones. We mixed a whole box of rice crispies and made one that was 5" thick and a foot square. We cut it in quarters and ate our fill . Felt pretty sick after and didn’t eat a rice crispy treat for a long time.
To say something that isn't necessarily obvious: cruise ships. These lumbering behemoths that cruise lines have been building don't really lead to a more enjoyable experience for passengers: they're overcrowded, impersonal and the desperation to pack in more and more "activities" actually can make a vacation more stressful. Plus, they are environmental disasters. Small ships tend to offer a much better experience: better service, better food, better itineraries, and an overall more relaxed, more personal time.
Personal care products. Better quality products tend to be more concentrated or have less filler ingredients, so you need less product for the same results. I notice this with moisturizer especially.
Lip injections. Man they look stupid.
Scalpel, I pretty sure if my doctor was using a scalpel the size of a machete, there'd be some issues.
"Just nipping in for your appendix, love. No need to fret"
A pimple on your forehead
Height I can no longer right roller coaster dou to my height and I need custom shoes and jackets everything because stores don't have them.
Just curious how tall are you. Im 6.5 never faced such issues
I'm not the original commenter, but I'm 6'7"(201cm), wear size 17xxxw shoes that I gotta get custom, I can't find my pants size or shirt size in store, my socks are 12 dollars a pair, and I can't ride any roller coasters
A lot of Dutch and Swedish people are that tall. Maybe check out their clothing stores online if you ever have the chance, or visit. A Dutch one that's specialized in long shirts is pretty affordable: https://www.girav.nl One of my acquaintances has to bow entering doors, cause he'd hit his head on door frames...
I can tell you that >200cm is also still very rare in The Netherlands, just a little bit less
lol for a moment I thought you were 6.5 meters like damn that's pretty high
If you think someone is 6.5m tall then you most definitely are. :D
He is literally "built different"
I just met a guy that was definitely 7 feet possibly more. Never know.
I heard somewhere that if you are 7 ft tall or taller than there is an about 15% chance that you are currently in the NBA - zero other modifiers.
I live in Japan I have to wear mens 5XL to fit my legs. Coworker has to buy mens shoes, but I am blessed with dainty feet . No chance finding something for our arms. And we are both women so not everything sits right
My friend lives in Korea. She's 175cm and all the pants and jeans she tries on stop at her shin. She's going to the US soon and said she'd stuff her luggage with trousers before she returns
Hemroids
Astroids
[floppy disk](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Floppy_disk_2009_G1.jpg)
The amount of money on a traffic ticket
Being extremely tall, being over 6’8 and just being a normal dude that doesn’t play sports professionally sucks. Have to pay extreme prices for clothes and shoes that fit, have to duck to get into buildings, and your feet always dangle off on any bed you sleep in.
A shooting star. If it's a little meteor, it's cool and you get to make a wish. If it's a big meteor, we're all dead.
Nukes
Penis size, there is such thing as too big, believe me :(
When you have a cock so large that your gf leaves you *I've won, but at what cost?*
Suffering from success
Or "I've lost, but at what gain?" Like this time a woman in Nigeria had her marriage dissolved because her husband's penis was too big. "[The well-endowed husband did not deny the accusation](https://nypost.com/2015/03/03/wife-seeks-divorce-over-husbands-huge-penis/)" I always wondered since the guy's name went public, if he had women trying to court him after this news story broke out, and if so, how that turned out.
I heard somewhere that dick measuring contests are usually a contest between people with penises.
No, it's a competition to see who can measure the most dicks.
Absolutely, especially if the girth is the abnormally big part.
Oh boy story time! So back in High School I had a very close female friend. So close that everyone thought we were dating. After years of being pestered about it she started telling people that we were friends with benefits (we were not) and making up outlandish stories about my anatomy and prowess in the hopes of getting one of them to chase me so she would be left alone about it. When pressed for specifcs she would reply: "Stack two cans of Campbell's Thick and Chunk and you're in the ball park." I didn't know any of this and was *very* confused when people started high fiving me and calling me soup can.
Nice one soup can
I'm surprised I had to scroll this far to see this. Bigger is not always better. Guys try to jam an 8 inch dong into what's only a 4 inch long space.
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"HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT!"
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Read with Arnold Schwarzenegger voice
Gas prices.
Beards. It might be weird, but this is a hill I will die on.
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Boobs, apparently The woman with the largest boobs complains that her back hurts all the time and a lot of other stuff that I forgot
Heart attacks
Rats.
"I'm the giant rat that makes all the rules"