hasher 732 #1 Posted August 16, 2020 Defenestration Don't try this in a high rise. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BravoBravo 666 #2 Posted August 16, 2020 8 minutes ago, hasher said: Defenestration Don't try this in a high rise. Literally or figuratively? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hasher 732 #3 Posted August 16, 2020 3 minutes ago, BravoBravo said: Literally or figuratively? I figure if you throw something out of the window of a high rise you literally won't live there much longer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SloopJonB 7,964 #4 Posted August 16, 2020 One of my very favourite words. There is something nicely absurd about it - maybe because it's such an elaborate word for such a simple meaning. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ease the sheet. 1,282 #5 Posted August 17, 2020 Hasher's threads are like a window to his soul..... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mid 2,830 #6 Posted August 17, 2020 18 hours ago, hasher said: Defenestration Agathokakological Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snaggletooth 2,882 #7 Posted August 17, 2020 7 minutes ago, Mid said: Agathokakological Ive gotte notheng bad or goode to saye abote thisse worde. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snaggletooth 2,882 #8 Posted August 17, 2020 22 minutes ago, Ease the sheet. said: Hasher's threads are like a window fenestratione to his soul..... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ukuri 26 #9 Posted August 17, 2020 14 minutes ago, Snaggletooth said: Antidisestablishmentarianism. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SPORTSCAR 689 #10 Posted August 17, 2020 Eschew obfuscation! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ease the sheet. 1,282 #11 Posted August 17, 2020 Starboard. What? You fuckers know lots of people don't know what it means! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mid 2,830 #12 Posted August 17, 2020 1 minute ago, Ease the sheet. said: Starboard. Steel . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ease the sheet. 1,282 #13 Posted August 17, 2020 2 minutes ago, Mid said: Steel . Tonnes... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mid 2,830 #14 Posted August 17, 2020 1 minute ago, Ease the sheet. said: Tonnes... No Insurance . 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Navig8tor 1,137 #15 Posted August 17, 2020 Many a soul gets to learn Tonnage the hard way........ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ease the sheet. 1,282 #16 Posted August 17, 2020 2 hours ago, Mid said: No Insurance . No speaka da english.... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bplipschitz 297 #17 Posted August 17, 2020 On 8/16/2020 at 6:33 AM, hasher said: Defenestration Don't try this in a high rise. Been to Prague? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SloopJonB 7,964 #18 Posted August 17, 2020 8 hours ago, SPORTSCAR said: Eschew obfuscation! Espouse elucidation assiduously. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bacq2bacq 243 #19 Posted August 17, 2020 Death by defenestration? Ssssh...it happens. This urban legend is true. https://torontoist.com/2013/01/urban-legends-the-leaping-lawyer-of-bay-street/ Quote Garry Hoy, a 39-year-old senior partner with the law firm of Holden, Day, Wilson, had an unusual habit: bodychecking the windows of his office at Toronto’s TD Centre, notionally to demonstrate their tensile strength. On July 9, 1993, Hoy decided to liven up a party for incoming articling students by making his signature move on a 24th-storey window. At his first attempt, the window held... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Caca Cabeza 130 #20 Posted August 17, 2020 Let us all elucidate this turbid conundrum. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Lada 2,475 #21 Posted August 17, 2020 On 8/16/2020 at 1:43 PM, hasher said: I figure if you throw something out of the window of a high rise you literally won't live there much longer. I don't know about that. When I was young I used to drop grapes trying to hit the feral cats that infested the courtyard of my grandparent's 6th floor apartment in Rome. Rest easily, I never hit a cat. The flight path of a grape to hit a relatively small target from that height was quite beyond my young brain's ability to compensate for. Rome has a huge feral cat population, more than I've ever seen in any other city I've been to in the world. I suspect it was feral cats that nursed the infants Romulus and Remus, but saying it was a wolf sounds much better (and looks much better in statues). 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Lada 2,475 #22 Posted August 17, 2020 1 hour ago, bplipschitz said: Been to Prague? Ohhhh, good obscure historical reference. Well played. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chester 613 #23 Posted August 17, 2020 Perplexed as in: "there's a dude on the internet that starts a lot of threads and this behavior leaves me "perplexed" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snaggletooth 2,882 #24 Posted August 17, 2020 13 minutes ago, Ed Lada said: Rome has a huge feral cat population, more than I've ever seen in any other city I've been to in the world. What? Thay nevere heared of feline parmassian overt angelle haired pasta? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bacq2bacq 243 #25 Posted August 17, 2020 Snag, the sailing solecist... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Lada 2,475 #26 Posted August 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Snaggletooth said: What? Thay nevere heared of feline parmassian overt angelle haired pasta? From what my mother said, they might have tried it during WW II. Food was pretty scarce there for a while. One time my mother and her friend walked to the outskirts of town (Rome was smaller then) to get some fresh vegetables from a local farm and they got strafed by an Allied plane! They jumped in a nearby ditch and emerged unscathed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacradriver 631 #27 Posted August 17, 2020 3 hours ago, Ed Lada said: From what my mother said, they might have tried it during WW II. Food was pretty scarce there for a while. One time my mother and her friend walked to the outskirts of town (Rome was smaller then) to get some fresh vegetables from a local farm and they got strafed by an Allied plane! They jumped in a nearby ditch and emerged unscathed. Where ya been? Doing OK? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
atoyot 112 #28 Posted August 17, 2020 On 8/16/2020 at 7:33 AM, hasher said: Defenestration Don't try this in a high rise. Well, it is an election year.... either one would be fine with me. de·fen·es·tra·tion /dēˌfenəˈstrāSHən/ noun the action of throwing someone out of a window. "death by defenestration has a venerable history" 2. the action of dismissing someone from a position of power or authority. "that victory resulted in Churchill's own defenestration by the war-weary British electorate" 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gissie 814 #29 Posted August 17, 2020 On 8/16/2020 at 11:43 PM, hasher said: I figure if you throw something out of the window of a high rise you literally won't live there much longer. When I first lived in Hong Kong, throwing stuff out windows was standard practice. Every few months someone would be killed by things like fridges or aircon units descending from 20 floors up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hasher 732 #30 Posted August 17, 2020 5 minutes ago, Gissie said: When I first lived in Hong Kong, throwing stuff out windows was standard practice. Every few months someone would be killed by things like fridges or aircon units descending from 20 floors up. I don't think that happens today. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gissie 814 #31 Posted August 17, 2020 1 hour ago, hasher said: I don't think that happens today. Now it is more likely a protester from a police building... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SloopJonB 7,964 #32 Posted August 18, 2020 4 hours ago, hasher said: I don't think that happens today. Think again. https://globalnews.ca/video/7200970/chair-girl-to-be-sentenced-in-chair-throwing-incident-in-toronto Got 2 years probation, $2000 fine, 150 hours of service and a criminal record. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hasher 732 #33 Posted August 18, 2020 Just now, SloopJonB said: Think again. https://globalnews.ca/video/7200970/chair-girl-to-be-sentenced-in-chair-throwing-incident-in-toronto Got 2 years probation, $2000 fine, 150 hours of service and a criminal record. What I meant to say was, if you throw things onto the street, you will be arrested and prosecuted. You are correct. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Lada 2,475 #34 Posted August 18, 2020 9 hours ago, nacradriver said: Where ya been? Doing OK? I've been hanging around, not doing much. I don't have the strength or endurance to do much of anything except float in the pool and I can still lift a gin and tonic to my lips so that's nice. My wife brought home a bottle of Suntory Roku Gin a few weeks ago, and it is quite tasty. It's my new favorite gin now. Suntory makes some very nice Scotch too.Those clever Japanese! I'm not sure what I'll do come winter when the pool won't be available. Sit in front of my computer and talk to the dogs I guess. The upside is I love to do nothing and now I don't have to feel guilty about it because I can't do much else. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
luminary 34 #35 Posted August 18, 2020 autodidactics Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
On The Hard 340 #36 Posted August 19, 2020 "Normal backwardation" "Cantango" Never can keep these straight Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
