BTW… at some point they started using copyright protection somehow embedded in the tape inside (I’m no electronics tech)… and this trick quit working on a lot of them.
Also, IIRC it never did work well with transparent tape, cos the little light inside shined right through it. You had to use duct tape or black electric tape.
Meanwhile, it’s been almost a meme in sitcoms that somebody’s upset cos somebody else accidentally taped over the wedding or the will, or the important… whatever… and sometimes it makes no sense.
If they cared about the tape, why didn’t they knock out the d@mn tab?!
Not only do the girls all look like their mother, on the paternal side, Nicholas looks almost exactly like his English cousins, and Alexei had the hemophilia passed down through years of X chromosomes to his father’s genes, though it skipped Nicholas.
Actually, the hemophilia in royal families throughout Europe is traced back to Queen Victoria whose youngest son had it (he passed the gene on to his only daughter) and several of Victoria’s daughters carried the gene. Her daughter, Alice, passed it on to her daughter who became the Tsarina and was Alexei’s mother.
Because it’s an x-linked recessive gene, females very rarely exhibit hemophilia (they would need a hemophiliac father AND a carrier mother). Males have the disease because they only have one x chromosome having received it from mom and the y from dad.
The suspicion is that it was originally a mutation in Victoria’s father’s sperm as there is no indication of the disease in the family before her children. It’s somewhat analogous to Down syndrome with the mutation occurring in the older mother’s eggs.
There’s something similar in my family. Osteogenesis imperfecta, brittle bone disease. Nowhere before my mom’s younger siblings were born. My uncle passed it on to one of his kids. From studies on other families,if the dad remarries that wife is likely to give birth to kids with it, if the mother does she doesn’t have additional children with it. Which is how they’ve been able to determine it to be a mutation in sperm instead of egg.
And that’s it for today’s lesson in human biology.
Interesting… I had read years ago that Victoria was thought to have inherited the gene through her mother, and possibly, though not necessarily, through an illicit affair, involving her mother or a farther back female relative.
After reading what you just said, I rechecked, and I see that the story I read back then… including both the genes and the affair… has since been debunked by more reputable sources.
Thanks.
There are so many real pictures of old grocery stores out there, it seems silly to create one.
But I’m betting this is AI.
First… the eras seem mixed. 1960s glasses, a 1930s uniform, a modern can of tomato sauce that AFAIK has never come in that size. The antique looking margarine is way bigger than a pound should be, and the Wrigley’s display makes no sense.
A man’s hand just handing the cashier his change purse? Wrong on several counts.
And what is that… thing… on the counter? A roast? A cabbage?… I can’t tell, but it’s creepy.
And BTW we still counted change in the 90s, cos a lot of people still paid with … what is that stuff called?…. oh yeah… cash.
Around that time, registers started showing the change, instead of the total, after you entered the amount the customer gave you. I hated it, because I was so used to counting change UP (I still am, to tell the truth), not figuring out what it should be, and I had trained people that way.
“Okay, you gave me $20, your purchase was $5.84, a penny makes $5.85, this makes $6 (handing them a dime and a nickel) this (4 ones) makes 10, and a 10 makes $20.”
Seeing $14.16 in the display was nothing but confusing.
I was in a store years ago when they had a glitch in their system. Because it couldn’t calculate the change purchases had to be made by check (what’s that these days???) or credit card. No cash allowed.
One of my first jobs was in a movie theater, they didn’t have cash registers, just a money drawer. We had to add everything up in our heads and count back change! That was the early 70’s, I got paid $1 hour
If people would only be trained to count change UP to the tendered cash, instead of figuring out what the change should be, and counting that out, there’d be no problem with the register not displaying the change.
Unless you can’t add simple amounts, like adding 2¢ to 33¢ to make 35, and adding a nickel, then a dime, to make 50¢, it’s hard to make a mistake. You never have to think about how much the total change should be.
Sigh….
Let me go put on my “officially old” badge. I was awarded one a few comments north. 😉 I guess I need it
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Great rendition.
I kept trying to make it synchronize with the video below it, but it was hard to get the timing right.
Maybe cos we can’t get the basset videos, and humans just don’t have as much natural rhythm.
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There’s enough extra basset skin and fur in the part we can see of that neck and chest to make a whole Chihuahua.
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I guess it’s nice to be official.
Do I get a badge?
BTW… at some point they started using copyright protection somehow embedded in the tape inside (I’m no electronics tech)… and this trick quit working on a lot of them.
Also, IIRC it never did work well with transparent tape, cos the little light inside shined right through it. You had to use duct tape or black electric tape.
Meanwhile, it’s been almost a meme in sitcoms that somebody’s upset cos somebody else accidentally taped over the wedding or the will, or the important… whatever… and sometimes it makes no sense.
If they cared about the tape, why didn’t they knock out the d@mn tab?!
That’s an audio tape.
My cassette-players didn’t have a light, the write-/write-protect mechanism was mechanical.
badges? badges? we don need no steenking badges!—Treasure of the Sierra Madre’
Ha! Baconboy gave me one anyway!
Now I won’t have to explain the dopey things I do.
Here you go, Susan…
Thank you!
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The X chromosome is strong in that family…
Not only do the girls all look like their mother, on the paternal side, Nicholas looks almost exactly like his English cousins, and Alexei had the hemophilia passed down through years of X chromosomes to his father’s genes, though it skipped Nicholas.
Actually, the hemophilia in royal families throughout Europe is traced back to Queen Victoria whose youngest son had it (he passed the gene on to his only daughter) and several of Victoria’s daughters carried the gene. Her daughter, Alice, passed it on to her daughter who became the Tsarina and was Alexei’s mother.
Because it’s an x-linked recessive gene, females very rarely exhibit hemophilia (they would need a hemophiliac father AND a carrier mother). Males have the disease because they only have one x chromosome having received it from mom and the y from dad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilia_in_European_royalty
The suspicion is that it was originally a mutation in Victoria’s father’s sperm as there is no indication of the disease in the family before her children. It’s somewhat analogous to Down syndrome with the mutation occurring in the older mother’s eggs.
There’s something similar in my family. Osteogenesis imperfecta, brittle bone disease. Nowhere before my mom’s younger siblings were born. My uncle passed it on to one of his kids. From studies on other families,if the dad remarries that wife is likely to give birth to kids with it, if the mother does she doesn’t have additional children with it. Which is how they’ve been able to determine it to be a mutation in sperm instead of egg.
And that’s it for today’s lesson in human biology.
Sounds like there might be some adultery involved in Victoria’s ancestry.
Secrets?
Probably not. Her dad was older (51) and the older a guy gets the more mutated sperm he accumulates.
Interesting… I had read years ago that Victoria was thought to have inherited the gene through her mother, and possibly, though not necessarily, through an illicit affair, involving her mother or a farther back female relative.
After reading what you just said, I rechecked, and I see that the story I read back then… including both the genes and the affair… has since been debunked by more reputable sources.
Thanks.
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I wonder how difficult those would be to free climb?
You first.
Don’t see many handholds in the lighter, lower part. Mebbee above.
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“I’m my own Grandpa”
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There are so many real pictures of old grocery stores out there, it seems silly to create one.
But I’m betting this is AI.
First… the eras seem mixed. 1960s glasses, a 1930s uniform, a modern can of tomato sauce that AFAIK has never come in that size. The antique looking margarine is way bigger than a pound should be, and the Wrigley’s display makes no sense.
A man’s hand just handing the cashier his change purse? Wrong on several counts.
And what is that… thing… on the counter? A roast? A cabbage?… I can’t tell, but it’s creepy.
And BTW we still counted change in the 90s, cos a lot of people still paid with … what is that stuff called?…. oh yeah… cash.
Around that time, registers started showing the change, instead of the total, after you entered the amount the customer gave you. I hated it, because I was so used to counting change UP (I still am, to tell the truth), not figuring out what it should be, and I had trained people that way.
“Okay, you gave me $20, your purchase was $5.84, a penny makes $5.85, this makes $6 (handing them a dime and a nickel) this (4 ones) makes 10, and a 10 makes $20.”
Seeing $14.16 in the display was nothing but confusing.
I’m with you on counting change!
I was in a store years ago when they had a glitch in their system. Because it couldn’t calculate the change purchases had to be made by check (what’s that these days???) or credit card. No cash allowed.
One of my first jobs was in a movie theater, they didn’t have cash registers, just a money drawer. We had to add everything up in our heads and count back change! That was the early 70’s, I got paid $1 hour
If people would only be trained to count change UP to the tendered cash, instead of figuring out what the change should be, and counting that out, there’d be no problem with the register not displaying the change.
Unless you can’t add simple amounts, like adding 2¢ to 33¢ to make 35, and adding a nickel, then a dime, to make 50¢, it’s hard to make a mistake. You never have to think about how much the total change should be.
Sigh….
Let me go put on my “officially old” badge. I was awarded one a few comments north. 😉 I guess I need it
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He’s faking it. He can’t really read the words.
Do you know Melancholy Baby?
Melon Collie Baby.
The dog version.
Ruby Could Sing — Dave Stamey
Nice song… but I bet she was human. That’s cheating.
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You, too
It looks like they’re trying to enjoy a cup of chilled consomme, since it’s small and sitting in an ice bath.
And from their expressions, they’re wishing the photographers would leave them alone.
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These look to be pretty good, I don’t see anything to really argue with in most cases.
I agree… This is the first of these charts that seems to be mostly true, though of course I can’t claim to know them all.
At least it doesn’t use nonsense words or show bogus pictures..
It’s it possible that it was made by a human??
If not, it sounds like a human at least proofread it.
Or…. sigh…. AI is just getting that much better.
still a few miss spelled words ..
7: Mey dead for Grizzlies … Browv
12: An open face lesn to allowe …
Yeah, thanks, it was late and I was too tired to get out my fine toothed comb.
#12 is kind of funny. I’m sure it was supposed to say “an open-face lean-to allows” … so it understood one hyphen but not the next.
At least I said “mostly true”, though I can’t deny that I said it doesn’t use nonsense words. LOL
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or…don’t
Oh, it IS there…
Got it!
yep
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I don’t remember there being a giant in it!
They should have got him to save Tokyo from Godzilla!
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How cool would it be if you could do that in real life?
then the passengers wouldn’t know if they were coming or going
It works better for me held out farther, maybe just cos it makes the image smaller.
It works for me when I look at the guy under that black circle .
Types of Dog.
Squirrel Cuckoo.
Very chic tail, I’d say.
Squirrel; cuckoo.
3 great songs/performances.