1 Why isn't it called an oculus?

2 Whichever one of those means "the view scares the crap out of me" is the correct word.

3 It's really more of a rosette window than anything.

4 That's funny.  The thing that Roman Polanski does?  They call that the Chewbacca.

5 It would be a better photo if she were topless. Zero gravity knockers must look great!

6

They'd call it a stained glass window if I had to go near it.

7 haha...the ad i see on this thread says "hello china" but i thought it said "hell, china"

8 I don't give a shit what they call the windows. I want to know why they call it the "International" Space Station when we paid for 99% of it.

9 Um not being a trekkie star wars aficionado  maybe I'm missing something.
Cupola is an architectural term for a divided window, usually large and providing light to a home or barn, typically placed in a tower type form.

If you're looking at wiki it's all messed up.

Did I prove I have no sense of humor?

You know what they call the big window on the front of the Seaview?
The submarine window.

10 What window?

11 we paid for 99% of it.

Posted by: Vic at November 25, 2011 08:11 PM (YdQQY)

Why does this remind me of the UN and NATO?

12 I want to know why they call it the "International" Space Station when we paid for 99% of it.

They were looking toward the future when it falls out of orbit after we can't pay any more.

13

I don't give a shit what they call the windows. I want to know why they call it the "International" Space Station when we paid for 99% of it.

Maybe they foresaw the day when we would need to hitch rides to and from it.

14 You know what they call the big window on the front of the Seaview?
The submarine window.

What do you call the screen door?

15 It's really more of a TIE fighter window. http://bit.ly/vnlQi4 From early ISS checkouts: http://bit.ly/vszwlx

16 hi

17 #13 because the progs back then wanted to make sure the transgendered tribal leader from the uncontacted tribe in the Amazon would be able to claim as much credit for the effort to build and operate the space station as the most intelligent and educated NASA engineer from Topeka.

18 "Concentrate all your firepower on that Super Star Destroyer's 'Space Rosette'!"

19 I spent a lot of time in boom pods of a KC-135. It's not nearly as cool, but still better than poking yourself in the eye with a sharp stick. BTW, we didn't call them palpatine windows - we called them boom pod windows.

20 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.A stuttering clusterfuck of a troll is shitting in the thread below.

21

That's a green screen photo shop CGI fake conspiracy starring Ellen Ripley! True Fact!!

 

22 If that's a cupola, then what's a copula?

23 Cupola's films are overrated.

24 Another colossal waste of money brought to us by NASA.

25 5 It would be a better photo if she were topless. Zero gravity knockers must look great!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJconservative) at November 25, 2011 08:08 PM (nEUpB)

Of course I'm willing to be proven wrong (with evidence, of course), but I doubt it.  Zero-g does unflattering things to the human body.

26

 and more powerful together all from the operating time period... that are most likely probably the most requirement and motive

 

indeed, we much!

 

27 I'm not just an empty, glassy hole in space! I can act. No, really!

28 [Chuckles evilly] Good, good, let the fanboy flow through you.

29 "Your fanboy has made you strong."

30 May the fork be with you.

31

that sofia cupola sock hurt me

too funneh!

32

That's badass cool!

What's not cool and fucking scary is the glass floor panels on the bottom deck of the CN Tower in Toronto.

There's nothing freakier than watching rain drops fall down towards powerful searchlights aimed upwards towards you.

33 What the fuck is she doing gazing out the window? Doesn't it cost like a gajillion dollars a second for her to be up there? Get the fuck back to work inventing better bolt-sorting ants, or whatever it is you do, daydreamy!

34 Arrrggghhhh.  This workday will. not. end.

I'm pretty certain that I've been here for approximately 25 hours today, though the clock says it's been less than 6 hours.

Being tired and hungover probably doesn't help.

35 19 I spent a lot of time in boom pods of a KC-135. It's not nearly as cool, but still better than poking yourself in the eye with a sharp stick. BTW, we didn't call them palpatine windows - we called them boom pod windows.
_______

I'm sure that's just because if you weren't careful the pod would go boom.

36 34 What the fuck is she doing gazing out the window? Doesn't it cost like a gajillion dollars a second for her to be up there? Get the fuck back to work inventing better bolt-sorting ants, or whatever it is you do, daydreamy!

Posted by: Waterhouse at November 25, 2011 08:47 PM (mNk4J)

Or at least make a sammich for the guys who are working.

37 36 19 I spent a lot of time in boom pods of a KC-135. It's not nearly as cool, but still better than poking yourself in the eye with a sharp stick. BTW, we didn't call them palpatine windows - we called them boom pod windows.
_______

I'm sure that's just because if you weren't careful the pod would go boom.

Posted by: Anachronda at November 25, 2011 08:50 PM (6fER6)

That's one situation where you wouldn't ask the pilot to "open the pod bay doors".

38 ErikW. See last thread. I asked some more questions.

39

Or at least make a sammich for the guys who are working.

 

Ass, Hash or Titty Flash...nobody rides for free!

40 So where's the Lido deck on the ISS?

41

So where's the Lido deck on the ISS?

 

It's next to the rape-rape room.

42 Saw some bball highlights on ESPN; Michael Jordan has a kid playing for U. of South Fla.  You'd think he would have the stroke to get him in at NC, wouldn't you?

43 Is that the cruise director? I say, good woman, could you direct me to Inara's cabin?

44 36 19 I spent a lot of time in boom pods of a KC-135. It's not nearly as cool, but still better than poking yourself in the eye with a sharp stick. BTW, we didn't call them palpatine windows - we called them boom pod windows.
_______

I'm sure that's just because if you weren't careful the pod would go boom.

 

I was in some a/c at the business end of the boom when it boomed our bird.  It'll wake ya up.  The only time I ever saw Wake Island was out the boom pod window on a KC way up high.  It's a very small island.

45 You'd think he would have the stroke to get him in at NC, wouldn't you?

Posted by: L Rob in OK

 

His kid ain't that good.

46 44 Is that the cruise director? I say, good woman, could you direct me to Inara's cabin?

Posted by: typical disgusting moron shows up at the ISS at November 25, 2011 09:04 PM (mNk4J)

browncoat!

47 you ever consider not everyone is a starwarz fanboi? I didn't even know what you were talking about with Palpatine until I read some of the comments. The star wars series, other than the very first one, is some of the shittiest acting and dialog, corny effects, crappy characters and lame directing in movie history. However, since most people have the same level of taste in movies as the public level in taste which made the execrable lady gag gag a star, george lucas is a rich man today. Just don't try to tell those of us with the ability to think that this crap is anything but that, crap. I'm so fucking sick of people going on and on about star wars. Read a book, watch a quality movie, something.

48 I call my garage the "pod bay doors." 

49 Whichever one of those means "the view scares the crap out of me" is the correct word.

Yeah. Like that Tianmen glass bridge posted here a few days ago. Or that little platform that extends out over the Grand Canyon.

No thank you.

50 Oh, and I filled my belly at Cracker Barrel tonight. I think I sampled everything on the breakfast menu.

Yum.

51 I want to know why they call it the "International" Space Station when we paid for 99% of it.

Another colossal waste of money brought to us by NASA.

Ah, morons and science. You know, if I were a belligerent American, and I am, I'd say we own 99% of the "international" part of the ISS, which includes the modules made by the ESA, CSA, and JAXA (which of course we put up there and man).
But the "international" part of the ISS is only 45-50% of it.

Remember, the other half of it is actually Mir II.

And the ISS does have a lot of uses, it's just too small to matter. But we have to start somewhere. Trust me on this, or I'll bore you to death about it.

(watching the worst hockey game I've seen in while...)

52 I never realized Palpatine had a rack. The Power of the Dark Side!

53 Evening all, I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and found many bargains at Black Friday sales! And um, DocWeasel, nobody forced you to read or comment on this thread. If you don't like it, read and comment on something else. There's no need to be ugly to people who enjoy this.

54 8 I don't give a shit what they call the windows. I want to know why they call it the "International" Space Station when we paid for 99% of it. Posted by: Vic at November 25, 2011 08:11 PM (YdQQY) Because thanks to Darth Barak, we can only reach the place now begging third world countries like Russia, China, or India to take us there.

55 “White folks was [sic] in caves while we was building empires…. We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”

Yeah.  Right.

56 “White folks was [sic] in caves while we was building empires…. We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”

Sharpton.  Dumbfuck.

57 Remember, the other half of it is actually Mir II.

Which... the Russians constructed with our money.

58 57-Thank you for commenting on that. I read that in the sidebar, and I was wondering who the heck he meant. I mean, the earliest civilization was in Catalhayuk, in Turkey, and they certainly weren't Africans. So who does SHarpton say was doing all of this before the Greeks?

59 Which... the Russians constructed with our money.

It's a tradition.

60 Re my previous comment: Yeah. No.

61 Is that the cruise director? I say, good woman, could you direct me to Inara's cabin?

Posted by: typical disgusting moron shows up at the ISS at November 25, 2011 09:04 PM (mNk4J)

[turns around and grins]  Good man!  And I'm not old I'm 37.  Name's Isaac.  I'll be your bartender on this cruise.  See Gopher, the ship's Purser, for a guest list / cabin assignment.

62 Damn it.  I was supposed to return the rental car today.

63 You know what I call it?  Mine, all mine. 


What?  Oh, you meant the window, not what's behind it?  Who cares?

64 So who does SHarpton say was doing all of this before the Greeks? Posted by: moki at November 25, 2011 09:17 PM (dZmFh) Without going down this road too much, I suspect Sharpton must have watched the vidoe Michael Jackson walking like an Egyptian once too often. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeiFF0gvqcc Though to be fair, the Nubians to the South of Egypt were heavily influenced by the Egyptians, to the point of building their own pyramids, and at one point actually installed a Nubian dynasty in Egypt. And during ancient and Medieval times, Ethiopia was as civilized as any country in Europe (witness the "Ethiopian eunuch" referenced in the Acts of the Apostles).

65 What the hell does "coming up a cropper" mean, anyway?

66 What the hell does "coming up a cropper" mean, anyway?

It's one of those questions that everyone wanted to ask, but only you had the guts.

67 “White folks was [sic] in caves while we was building empires…. We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”

Hey, we all count like Arabs and our computers count like ancient Egyptians (base 12).  My people were once slaves and mercenaries in African, Arab and Persian empires, because they did big things back then.  And we were just barbarians (the majority of you from moron countries were civilized already).

Yay, hockey game over, I can leave now.

68

What the hell does "coming up a cropper" mean, anyway?

 

C'mon CoolCzech, you disappoint. You can make up something related to sex that I will buy.

69 @71: So what country are you from, Moronia?

70 69-I think it means either to fall (as in crop for a horse, ie, falling over the horse's neck when it stops suddenly) or to fail, as in a crop failure. At least, those were the contexts in which I have heard it used. I agree with you concerning the Ethiopians. They embraced Judaism quite early on, and then, via the Ethiopian Eunuch, embraced Christianity quickly as well. The Italians managed to muck up that place, as I recall. So, I guess Big Al may have a point there, albeit, a really small one.

71

What the hell does "coming up a cropper" mean, anyway?

Going to ruin or failure.

72 Oh dear God. I'm gonna have nightmares.

73 When I think of Cropper I think of The Colonel. He plays a mean guitar.

74 Yes, by all means, enjoy that 21st century view of space that John Glenn first enjoyed in the 20th century. That's progress. Meanwhile, the Chinese are testing space-based laser weapons on Barbie doll houses set up in the desert. Nice.

75 Come a cropper literally means falling off your horse...more or less means making a mistake, doing something stupid, etc.

See, reading Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer has its benefits.

76 I hope that window is strong enough to withstand the force of her head hitting it over and over as you bang her in Zero G....

77

72 Oh dear God. I'm gonna have nightmares.

Jumped up Jeebus.  Never heard of anything like that before.

78 72 Oh dear God. I'm gonna have nightmares. Jumped up Jeebus. Never heard of anything like that before. Posted by: L Rob in OK at November 25, 2011 09:37 PM (7yvLv) Oh My God! My Ding-a-ling!!

79 69 @71: So what country are you from, Moronia?

Posted by: CoolCzech at November 25, 2011 09:33 PM (niZvt)

When you travel ahead in time you're not supposed to interact, who knows what alternate timeline you've set in motion.

80 @74: Speaking of Barbie, I wonder how many traumatized boys turned gay because after they stripped their first Barbie they were horrified to find girls have nothing between their legs except a smooth plastic space...

81 Off, oddly appropriate sock...

82 From here, you will witness the final destruction of your Occutard Rape Tent and the end of your insignificant protest.

83 When you travel ahead in time you're not supposed to interact, who knows what alternate timeline you've set in motion. Posted by: lowandslow at November 25, 2011 09:39 PM (GZitp) Does that in result in Ace's double postings?

84

The ruins at Catalhayuk, in Turkey are indeed quite old, estimated to date from 6500-7000BC, but there are other sites just as old, and not related to it. The oldest Jericho ruins still seem to be the earliest stone buildings, dating to around 9000BC.

But in any event, none of this ties into Nubian, Ethiopian or any other sub-Saharan culture, at least not as an earlier influence. There are occasional Egyptian carvings wherein the facial differences between Egyptians and Nubians are shown ... by carving, a process that is not subject to fading from sunlight, or chemical reactions, or ... The Ethiopian ruins at Axum are reasonably impressive, but they do not predate Old Kingdom Egypt; they seem more influenced BY Egypt.

Al Sharpton is a whackjob. When he makes an historical claim, he's usually wrong.

85 Al Sharpton is a whackjob. When he makes an historical claim, he's usually wrong. Posted by: Arbalest at November 25, 2011 09:43 PM (9imoz) Besides, everyone knows it were the Czechs that popularized Professional Lesbian Tennis.

86 Al Sharpton is a whackjob. When he makes an historical claim, he's usually wrong.

Hence my inability to even work up a give-a-crap about the sidebar article.

Water is wet. Sharpton is an asswipe.

87 44 Is that the cruise director? I say, good woman, could you direct me to Inara's cabin?

Posted by: typical disgusting moron shows up at the ISS at November 25, 2011 09:04 PM (mNk4J)

it means you done fucked yourself up. stepped on your own dick.

originally used to describe a bad fall, used among horsemen to describe a particularly brutal faceplant .

dont believe me?

here your link

In fact, “come a cropper” is derived from a term for the rear end of a horse, the section of a horse's anatomy which tends to become highly visible when a rider falls. The words “croup” and “crupper” for a horse's rear are derived from Older Norse words meaning “bump,” and when people fell from horses in the 1700s, they were said to have fallen “neck and crop.” In 1858, eight years before Cropper invented his press, the term “come a cropper” popped up in print in reference to taking a bad fall during a hunting expedition, and this slang term entered the English language.

This slang term was originally used among riders, often in derisive descriptions of fellow riders who tried to take dangerous jumps or rode horses which they could not control. Given the widespread popularity of riding and hunting in England in the 1800s, it is not terribly surprising that this equestrian term started being used more generally among speakers of British English.

How do i know this?

because i rode rough stock in my youth and i used to specialize in particularly violent faceplants and sudden unscheduled dismounts.

88 Oh, and fuck off, docweasel. Every time you post on here it's to whine like a pussy. You don't get our pop culture references because you're a joyless, friendless cocksmoke. I bet you don't even like Ghostbusters, you queer. I hope you take the gas pipe, you cryin' bitch.

89 86 ... Besides, everyone knows it were the Czechs that popularized Professional Lesbian Tennis.

Posted by: CoolCzech at November 25, 2011 09:45 PM (niZvt)

 

... and the world owes Czechoslovikia a debt of gratitude for the popularization of tennis-butt.

90 89 How do i know this? because i rode rough stock in my youth and i used to specialize in particularly violent faceplants and sudden unscheduled dismounts. Googled it. Posted by: gushie ate too much at November 25, 2011 09:46 PM (QNeKQ FTFY

91 Damn, EOJ. That was a particularly nasty retort.

92 shit. cut and paste fail

This should be Re: ORIGENS OF COME A CROPPER!

it means you done fucked yourself up. stepped on your own dick.

originally used to describe a bad fall, used among horsemen to describe a particularly brutal faceplant .

dont believe me?

here your link

In fact, “come a cropper” is derived from a term for the rear end of a horse, the section of a horse's anatomy which tends to become highly visible when a rider falls. The words “croup” and “crupper” for a horse's rear are derived from Older Norse words meaning “bump,” and when people fell from horses in the 1700s, they were said to have fallen “neck and crop.” In 1858, eight years before Cropper invented his press, the term “come a cropper” popped up in print in reference to taking a bad fall during a hunting expedition, and this slang term entered the English language.

This slang term was originally used among riders, often in derisive descriptions of fellow riders who tried to take dangerous jumps or rode horses which they could not control. Given the widespread popularity of riding and hunting in England in the 1800s, it is not terribly surprising that this equestrian term started being used more generally among speakers of British English.

How do i know this?

because i rode rough stock in my youth and i used to specialize in particularly violent faceplants and sudden unscheduled dismounts.

Posted by: gushie ate too much at November 25, 2011 09:46 PM (QNeKQ)

93 Just think what you could tell that little space tart when she says that we have to be quiet because the others may hear. I would just tell her that in space, no one can hear you scream.

94 because i rode rough stock in my youth and i used to specialize in particularly violent faceplants and sudden unscheduled dismounts. Posted by: gushie ate too much at November 25, 2011 09:46 PM (QNeKQ Reminds me of my time with High School cheerleaders, heh, heh...

95 In Russia, if you flip a bird on t.v. you get fired.

In the U.S., you get elected to POTUS.

96 92 89 How do i know this?

because i rode rough stock in my youth and i used to specialize in particularly violent faceplants and sudden unscheduled dismounts. Googled it.

Posted by: gushie ate too much at November 25, 2011 09:46 PM (QNeKQ


FTFY

Posted by: CoolCzech at November 25, 2011 09:48 PM (niZvt)

CC

I fucked up my back working rough horses in 93 . Dont be a cock.  you dont know me. I googled you a good link because people like links.

97 Man, EOJ, if you unloaded on that guy anymore, you're bunghole would have stayed puckered for the rest of the evening, IYKWIM.

98 I was just teasing, gushie.

99 Dont blame me.  Teh ghey is because all the girls boobehs aren't pointy.

100 Gushie, anytime the hairy, wild-eyed galouts came up for riding, I always, always found something else to do.  Heck, I had enough trouble staying on the well-broke horses.

101 100 Dont blame me. Teh ghey is because all the girls boobehs aren't pointy. Posted by: Barbie Shaves at November 25, 2011 09:53 PM (TFeHR) Barbie bit my junk off with her vajajay!

102 50 Oh, and I filled my belly at Cracker Barrel tonight. I think I sampled everything on the breakfast menu.

No Cracker Barrels is the worst part about living in California.


No, really, it is.

103 99 I was just teasing, gushie.

Posted by: CoolCzech at November 25, 2011 09:52 PM (niZvt)

sorry im sensitive. that fall ended what might have been a brilliant career. Happened 20 years ago and yeah, im still butt hurt. Sorry i snapped at you. Im hittin the painkillers hard tonight in fact.

104 The drunk link (ONT) is here, thank God

105 @104: I am sorry about your accident - sounds like you were lucky not to be paralyzed or killed.

106 Off, Kevin sock

107 101 Gushie, anytime the hairy, wild-eyed galouts came up for riding, I always, always found something else to do.  Heck, I had enough trouble staying on the well-broke horses.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at November 25, 2011 09:54 PM (7yvLv)

then you are a much smarter person than me. I used to look for the norty ones with a crazy eye, and in fact if its not difficult im still kinda uninterested. (But it better have gaits smooth as silk!)

my black colt we are starting now even bucks smooth.

108 Girls, I like the drunks as they pay the bills.

109 Oh my!

Look who's here.

110 Nice pic, but why didn't you post the one where she's mooning the Chinese?

111 Gushie, I wasn't any smarter, just scared.  On to the ONT! Onward!

112 89 Oh, and fuck off, docweasel. Every time you post on here it's to whine like a pussy. You don't get our pop culture references because you're a joyless, friendless cocksmoke. I bet you don't even like Ghostbusters, you queer.

I hope you take the gas pipe, you cryin' bitch.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at November 25, 2011 09:46 PM (0yt4x)

Yep.  That's basically why Jeff chased him out at Protein Wisdom.

113 106 @104: I am sorry about your accident - sounds like you were lucky not to be paralyzed or killed.

Posted by: Kevin at November 25, 2011 09:56 PM (niZvt)

Yeah actually i was.  I had a compression fracture, didnt know it, and didnt seek help until it hurt so bad i hadnt slept for weeks.

i did however wreak any future as a professional rider of horses. Went to breeding end of the business, (i have a gift for applied genetics) and i let someone else do the rough stuff, or my next bad horse will land me in a wheelchair. I never ride with a helmet because i frankly would rather die of a head injury than live as a para.

that thought scares the piss outta me. Riding a rough gaited horse is RIGHT OUT, i will cry for days.

But yeah i lived, but just barely. My backs killin me tonight.

114 No Cracker Barrels is the worst part about living in California. No, really, it is. Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at November 25, 2011 09:54 PM (fjoLg) They have Cracker Barrel in the Northeast, too. Their stuff tastes awful good, but I just don't see how you can eat their regularly without eventually having to undergo a triple bypass.

115

84 Basically: The Egyptians brought civilisation, including writing and architecture, to Nubia during the Bronze Age. Nubia then adopted Egyptian culture as their own. Egypt meanwhile sank into DECADENCE and was pretty much worthless for the centuries 1150-750 BC. (Unless you count Shishak / Sheshonq's looting of Jerusalem, which, frankly, I don't.)

So in the 700s BC, the Nubians realised - hey, we actually care more about protecting Egypt and Egyptian culture than these Egyptians do! So, they took over. That would be the "25th Dynasty". Among their achievements was booting the Assyrians out of Judah and saving Jerusalem.

I'm definitely not one of those Afrocentrists, but I give the Nubians a lot of credit for the good they did do. Which was a lot of good.

116 Girls, we know the big boys bring pleasure, but they also bite.

Horses, let them run free

117 White folks was [sic] in caves while we was building empires…. We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.” ----------------------------------------- Geez Al, your people never even built boats to venture from the shores of a continent surround by water on 3 sides.

118 Rough gaited horses... Oh My!

119 Well, I'm calling it a night. I hope you feel better, gushie. I guess that after all these years, you must have consulted lots of specialists and there just ain't much they can do... Like you said, though - you could have wound up a talking head, like Christopher Reeve, heaven forbid. That's no small consolation...

120 I say horses that bite should

121

I found a really early example of the Palpatine Window:

http://tinyurl.com/7m3874t

 

 

122 92 Damn, EOJ. That was a particularly nasty retort. ----------------------------------- That wouldn't even make his Greatest Hits box set.

123 123 92 Damn, EOJ. That was a particularly nasty retort.
-----------------------------------

That wouldn't even make his Greatest Hits box set.

Posted by: Lojack at November 25, 2011 10:19 PM (AMNW2)

Heh.  Or the "100 Greatest EOJ Retorts in 130 Seconds" youtube video.

124 121 I say horses that bite should

Should be shot

125 Whos gonna ride your wild horses....

I been there

U2

Gypsie

126 Comon girls if a horse bites, repeatedly, what do you do?

127 Girls, "All the Pretty Horses"

They can be mean

You know it dont you?

Its no secret

A man will rise, a man will fall

128

127 Comon girls if a horse bites, repeatedly, what do you do?

----

You stay out of the way of its mouth.

129

127 Comon girls if a horse bites, repeatedly, what do you do?

----

My last answer about staying out of its way was serious BTW. Been around many a mean horse in my day. If you get close to its mouth, hold the halter, that way when he tries to bite you, you move away in direct proportion to its moving head.

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