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Front Door Dilemma

Hello I heard a line from a YouTube video "G.I.JOE Operation Dragonfire: The Movie!" Here's the YouTube link . It starts at 25:20 . The original line: Well guys, we can't go in the front door because it's protected by the force field. I thought the line would go: Well guys, we can't go in the front door because there's a DOOR. It's locked, guys. 🤔 Comparable to: Well guys, we can't go through the wall because there's a wall. Quite solid, that. It's protected by the force field of concretes.

The Trumpet Emoji

Hi. 👋 You know the trumpet emoji. This exhibit below: 🎺 Lovely little brass instrument. Iconic. Cheerful. The Lineup Let's take a tour, shall we. Windows — upward. Proud. Dignified. Directionally makes sense. Sound travels upward, bounces off the ceiling, fills the room. The audience hears music. Completely alone in this position. ✅ Trumpet emoji on Windows (Linux distros.) OpenMoji — horizontal. Anatomically accurate actually. Precisely correct. Also alone in this. ✅ Trumpet emoji on OpenMoji (Linux distros.) Noto — downward. And before you ask — yes, Noto is Google's own font. Trumpet emoji on Noto Apple (iOS, macOS, iPadOS, every device with a bitten fruit on the back) — downward. Beautifully rendered. Photorealistic. Lovingly crafted in exquisite gold detail. Aimed squarely at the floor across every single Apple device on earth, with magnificent, unwavering consistency. Trumpet emoji on various Apple platfo...

GARTH

There was once a hero in the Daily Mirror. He ran from 1943 to 1997. Fifty-four years. His name was Garth. This is his complete biography, more or less. The Wardrobe Garth wore a T-shirt. Trousers. Occasionally shirtless and even au naturel, when the situation called for it — or simply when he couldn't be bothered. That was the full extent of the deliberation. No cape, helmet, armour forged in a secret underground facility. No glowing chest emblem requiring seventeen minutes of explanation. No iconic silhouette recognisable from a distance of four hundred metres. Plenty of no's. Just Garth, dressed approximately like a bloke who'd nipped out for a pint and stumbled into a crisis. He dealt with the crisis. Then, presumably, continued to the pub. ⬆️ A CAPE! You said no cape! A HELMET! YOU SAID NO HELMET! Well, hanging cloth rather than cape. Look at it — it's barely doing anything. It's just sort of... there! Hanging of...

Comical Chess: Bird Opening — Confining The Queen

I Played White Hi! 👋 The "Bird Opening" position: ...Black boldly plunged the queen deep into White's territory, only to be confined. So in this, ... ⬆️ That is a description done backwards. Let's observe. You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on the chessboard. But first, click the board. Bird Opening Bird Opening is taken from Bird's Opening , named after 19th-century English master Henry Bird (1830–1908) who championed 1.f4 for decades. As chess authorities moved toward standardising opening nomenclature, the possessive was dropped in favour of treating the name as a descriptive label rather than one of ownership — much like "Victorian" rather than "Victoria's". 🤔 The Nomenclature Continuing "Victorian" rather than "Victoria's". Well if we're genuinely following the ...

Rogue Chess: Bishop's Opening: Calabrese Countergambit

I Played Black This is the "Bishop's Opening: Calabrese Countergambit" position: What made it properly rogue : I sacrificed material twice. The f-pawn gambit itself (well... err...), then the bishop ( 15...Bxh2+ ). I castled queenside into an open position while launching a kingside attack. White's queen walked into 14. Qxc6+ . Well, back to number 1. Honestly, White had a reasonable position until they got greedy with that queen. I was baiting for it actually. That innocent looking 13...e4 ? — Greetings, gentlemen. Please do capture me. These are my hands. Ah. Let's watch. You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on the chessboard. But first, click the board. Calabrese So "Calabrese" refers to a place — specifically Calabria, the region at the very toe of the boot of Italy. The countergambit is named after Michele...

David and His Telescope

Hi! 👋 The title sounds like a charming children's picture book. Little David on the cover, little telescope, sheep in the background, lovely pastoral scene. As such: Well, that's a bazooka perhaps. And one sheep has five legs. Sheep can have all the legs they can have. Another sheep is very small with three legs. They can also have their own flairs. — I'm me. What are you going to do about it? — The last sheep is as if it's planted, like a plant, sheep plant. "Lovely pastoral scene", where? The image itself is around three point six metres away from "charming". But actually, this will be about David and Bathsheba. Right Let's consult the NIV (New International Version). It's taken from 2 Samuel 11:2 . ⬇️ One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, ⬆️ Right. Let's stop there. We have two ...
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