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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jan 7, 2016 21:40:40 GMT
I found ashow recently, during the offseason of MBs, that might pique the interest of some of us around here called 'Adam Ruins Everything' (truTV, Thursday nights) featuring Adam Connover. The show aims to dispell common misconceptions and (dare I say it!) myths about the things we believe about life in general. Some of it is along the lines of common sense, other parts are 'why didn't I think of that'. Everything is highly bolstered with citations & experts. It is quite entertaining overall. On the episode "Adams Ruins Summer Fun", he discusses why kids in the US have summer vacation. The widely held belief is that kids have summer vacation because of the farming calendar, which is not true. It is because rich people didn't want their kids sitting in hot schoolhouses when they could be lounging at their cottage by the lake. He also discusses the 'summer slide' that occurs as school kids actually forget some of what they learned during the previous school year due to summer break. |
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 8, 2016 9:10:08 GMT
I found ashow recently, during the offseason of MBs, that might pique the interest of some of us around here called 'Adam Ruins Everything' (truTV, Thursday nights) featuring Adam Connover. The show aims to dispell common misconceptions and (dare I say it!) myths about the things we believe about life in general. Some of it is along the lines of common sense, other parts are 'why didn't I think of that'. Everything is highly bolstered with citations & experts. It is quite entertaining overall. On the episode "Adams Ruins Summer Fun", he discusses why kids in the US have summer vacation. The widely held belief is that kids have summer vacation because of the farming calendar, which is not true. It is because rich people didn't want their kids sitting in hot schoolhouses when they could be lounging at their cottage by the lake. He also discusses the 'summer slide' that occurs as school kids actually forget some of what they learned during the previous school year due to summer break. Partly true. In the UK, when Schooling first started, it was in Rural communities, and when Harvest came along, every able bodied person in the villages was expected to go give a hand. The land owners, be they churches or private landlords, of course, wanted the harvest in "ASAP", so they shut the schools so older kids could help. This was long before kids were protected by working hours agreements. |
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jan 8, 2016 14:43:03 GMT
In the US, farmers plant in the spring & harvest in the fall. The summer is mostly spent tending & watching the crops grow.
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Post by Cybermortis on Jan 8, 2016 17:54:10 GMT
I found ashow recently, during the offseason of MBs, that might pique the interest of some of us around here called 'Adam Ruins Everything' (truTV, Thursday nights) featuring Adam Connover. The show aims to dispell common misconceptions and (dare I say it!) myths about the things we believe about life in general. Some of it is along the lines of common sense, other parts are 'why didn't I think of that'. Everything is highly bolstered with citations & experts. It is quite entertaining overall. On the episode "Adams Ruins Summer Fun", he discusses why kids in the US have summer vacation. The widely held belief is that kids have summer vacation because of the farming calendar, which is not true. It is because rich people didn't want their kids sitting in hot schoolhouses when they could be lounging at their cottage by the lake. He also discusses the 'summer slide' that occurs as school kids actually forget some of what they learned during the previous school year due to summer break. Partly true. In the UK, when Schooling first started, it was in Rural communities, and when Harvest came along, every able bodied person in the villages was expected to go give a hand. The land owners, be they churches or private landlords, of course, wanted the harvest in "ASAP", so they shut the schools so older kids could help. This was long before kids were protected by working hours agreements. The kids of such periods would have been lucky to get Sunday schooling. Full time schooling for the lower classes only started to appear during the mid to late industrial revolution, where factory owners with a conscience and morals (and money to spare) started to build school houses for their workers children. Before that they employed kids in the factories who would work the same long hours as their parents. |
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 9, 2016 9:32:54 GMT
In the US, farmers plant in the spring & harvest in the fall. The summer is mostly spent tending & watching the crops grow. "Winter Crops", take a look at what comes up when you put that in the search engine.... There is a miss-conception that harvest is in "the fall" and thats the only harvest. Plus, school holidays have changed and moved over the years, the main summer holiday used to cover that "fall" harvest. Back in My day, my school was "Half empty" during the harvest, as many of the kids were from farming families. You remember I say I learnt to drive on a farm?... Yep. Me too... I was one of the farm hands in Harvest periods, I learnt to drive bringing in the full trailers from the fields. The school accepted we would be missing, what could they do?.. may of the school governors were the same farmers who needed the help. And we were "Learning" anyway... Post-War to 60's, this country was still recovering. We did what we needed to do. Grow food. All year round. Harvest summer period was the summer wheat and other grains, hard work, bought in as soon as it was ready, and at that time, sill a LOT of manual labour. Also winter feeds for farm animals started getting in for storage at that time as well. Re-sown fields held spuds for all year crops. |
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Post by the light works on Jan 10, 2016 15:51:58 GMT
I have the impression from the shows I have seen on TruTV that the majority of their fare consists of seeing a program that is doing well on another network, and building a show that resembles that show, but usually with exaggerated drama.
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Post by ironhold on Jan 10, 2016 17:09:10 GMT
I have the impression from the shows I have seen on TruTV that the majority of their fare consists of seeing a program that is doing well on another network, and building a show that resembles that show, but usually with exaggerated drama. Sadly, once upon a time they led the way in new programming. For example, before we had "Outrageous Acts of Science" we had "World's Dumbest". As it was, when the channel transitioned from Court TV to TruTV, they made it a point to bridge the gap by having police-related shows in the line-up, like "Cops", "Bait Car", and "Forensic Files". Several of the first few "World's Dumbest" episodes focused on criminals, and even included commentators with known criminal records or ties to major controversies (like singer Leif Garret and athlete Tonya Harding), something that actually helped to rehabilitate several of them and let them develop a new image. |
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Post by the light works on Jan 11, 2016 1:23:16 GMT
I have the impression from the shows I have seen on TruTV that the majority of their fare consists of seeing a program that is doing well on another network, and building a show that resembles that show, but usually with exaggerated drama. Sadly, once upon a time they led the way in new programming. For example, before we had "Outrageous Acts of Science" we had "World's Dumbest". As it was, when the channel transitioned from Court TV to TruTV, they made it a point to bridge the gap by having police-related shows in the line-up, like "Cops", "Bait Car", and "Forensic Files". Several of the first few "World's Dumbest" episodes focused on criminals, and even included commentators with known criminal records or ties to major controversies (like singer Leif Garret and athlete Tonya Harding), something that actually helped to rehabilitate several of them and let them develop a new image. I've seen Tonya on world's Dumbest - as a commentator, that is. |
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jan 11, 2016 16:46:49 GMT
Sadly, once upon a time they led the way in new programming. For example, before we had "Outrageous Acts of Science" we had "World's Dumbest". As it was, when the channel transitioned from Court TV to TruTV, they made it a point to bridge the gap by having police-related shows in the line-up, like "Cops", "Bait Car", and "Forensic Files". Several of the first few "World's Dumbest" episodes focused on criminals, and even included commentators with known criminal records or ties to major controversies (like singer Leif Garret and athlete Tonya Harding), something that actually helped to rehabilitate several of them and let them develop a new image. I've seen Tonya on world's Dumbest - as a commentator, that is. The cast of World's Dumbest looks like the Monday morning lineup at a Beverly Hills prison Tonya Harding Leif Garrett Danny Bonaduce Todd Bridges Daniel Baldwin (the lesser known brother) Frank Stallone (the unknown brother) *also featuring B-list comedians & comedy writers |
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Post by ironhold on Jan 11, 2016 17:47:49 GMT
I've seen Tonya on world's Dumbest - as a commentator, that is. The cast of World's Dumbest looks like the Monday morning lineup at a Beverly Hills prison Tonya Harding Leif Garrett Danny Bonaduce Todd Bridges Daniel Baldwin (the lesser known brother) Frank Stallone (the unknown brother) *also featuring B-list comedians & comedy writers Various episodes of "World's Dumbest Criminals" actually made fun of this. This includes one episode that featured a cartoon based on Bonaduce's arrest for assaulting a prostitute and a re-enactment of Garrett's most recent arrest for possession. Of course, they also had footage of Tonya Harding setting a world record (fastest top speed in a Model T), several efforts on Bonaduce's part to set world records, footage of Bonaduce putting on a martial arts exhibition, and footage of Bonaduce taken during various boxing matches he was involved in. |
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 12, 2016 8:31:00 GMT
We on the other side of the word have no idea what you are talking about?...
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Post by the light works on Jan 12, 2016 15:14:41 GMT
We on the other side of the word have no idea what you are talking about?... are you bragging o complaining? |
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jan 12, 2016 16:19:24 GMT
We on the other side of the word have no idea what you are talking about?... Don't worry, there's an app for that! Unfortuntely, there is such a thing as the 'World's Dumbest App'. It lets you follow the show and the actors on social media & such... |
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 13, 2016 8:28:31 GMT
We on the other side of the word have no idea what you are talking about?... Don't worry, there's an app for that! Unfortuntely, there is such a thing as the 'World's Dumbest App'. It lets you follow the show and the actors on social media & such... Having a title such as "The worlds dumbest app", I kinda sort of guess you know whats coming next. A real stupid app?... yep, abut right. |
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jan 13, 2016 13:28:20 GMT
Don't worry, there's an app for that! Unfortuntely, there is such a thing as the 'World's Dumbest App'. It lets you follow the show and the actors on social media & such... Having a title such as "The worlds dumbest app", I kinda sort of guess you know whats coming next. A real stupid app?... yep, abut right. Really stupid app? Fakebook?  |
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Post by the light works on Jan 13, 2016 15:13:58 GMT
most stupidest app. is lat like the most useless machine?  |
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Post by wvengineer on Jan 14, 2016 0:13:06 GMT
most stupidest app. is lat like the most useless machine? Okay, I actual want to see how that thing is built. |
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Post by the light works on Jan 14, 2016 2:50:33 GMT
most stupidest app. is lat like the most useless machine? Okay, I actual want to see how that thing is built. I think plans for them are pretty easy to find. it is basically a battery, a motor, a lever, and a rubber band to retract the lever when it shuts itself off. |
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 14, 2016 8:55:36 GMT
Okay, I actual want to see how that thing is built. I think plans for them are pretty easy to find. it is basically a battery, a motor, a lever, and a rubber band to retract the lever when it shuts itself off. The one I saw had a small servo motor working it, the elastic band or small spring holds the inner workings against the case, and then its just the shape of the rod that works it round the flap and retracts it when power is off. |
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