Jump to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Surly Horns

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Post a pic/gif/tweet that makes you say "very cool"

Featured Replies

On 11/15/2024 at 7:44 AM, nnm said:

Sound up …

 

Because fingernails on the chalkboard just isn't as pretty.

  • Replies 1.8k
  • Views 169.7k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Most Popular Posts

Posted Images

55 minutes ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

If you had a dog that dumb, you'd shoot it. Just sayin'.

I’ve sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn’t want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.

 

Quote

The strange case of the Cook pine trees, that tilt by 8.55° towards the equator, whatever the zone they live on Earth.

 

468906456-1038511668315341-7970331842816

11 hours ago, PRONG HORN said:

Cook pine trees

They doin' meth?

  • Author
17 hours ago, PRONG HORN said:

 

 

468906456-1038511668315341-7970331842816

Shoot, all them trees in the panhandle lean like this. Ain’t curious atall.

1 hour ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

 

That is cool.

Never seen that photo before.

Thanks for sharing.

  • Author
11 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

 

Fake news.  When wars happen, UT students get busy sipping tea and don’t have time for military stuff. It is known. 

Per Wikipedia, on the floor of the Chesapeake Bay since 1911.

i discovered theres such a thing as a whistling arrowhead and now i want to shoot peopl ..err.. things with it

 

  • Author
  • Popular Post

 

  • Author

 

He's done that at least 10,000 times.

Went by the Round Rock library this afternoon. 
Thought the ribbon decoration was pretty cool..

 

IMG_6517.jpeg

IMG_6518.jpeg

49 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Damn nice looking library. 

It's a shame we'll have to close it soon because no one actually goes inside.

And because like 10x was spent on it compared to what should have been spent on it.

Same with schools, fire stations, and other public institutional buildings. I’m not saying these things should operate in shacks, but the scope creep on these buildings over the years has been insane.

5 hours ago, Macanudo said:

It's a shame we'll have to close it soon because no one actually goes inside.

No one goes inside anymore cause it’s too crowded in there. 

16 hours ago, thunderlounge said:

 

images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSozXkWEvh-hTvKUXLqfbm

On 12/17/2024 at 8:38 AM, thunderlounge said:

 

In October 2000 my dad, my brother, and I went camping at Lower Beaver Creek campground, just outside South Fork, Colorado.  It was off season and we had the campground to ourselves.  The squirrels had obviously been fed all summer by idiots who camped there, and were starving.  When I cooked our meals I used one hand to mix, stir, etc., and the other to fend off demon squirrels, intent on stealing our food.  It was highly annoying, and we all came close to being bitten.  That guy isn't doing that marmot any favors by feeding it.

  • Author
7 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

In October 2000 my dad, my brother, and I went camping at Lower Beaver Creek campground, just outside South Fork, Colorado.  It was off season and we had the campground to ourselves.  The squirrels had obviously been fed all summer by idiots who camped there, and were starving.  When I cooked our meals I used one hand to mix, stir, etc., and the other to fend off demon squirrels, intent on stealing our food.  It was highly annoying, and we all came close to being bitten.  That guy isn't doing that marmot any favors by feeding it.

n4qAYN.gif

13 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

In October 2000 my dad, my brother, and I went camping at Lower Beaver Creek campground, just outside South Fork, Colorado.  It was off season and we had the campground to ourselves.  The squirrels had obviously been fed all summer by idiots who camped there, and were starving.  When I cooked our meals I used one hand to mix, stir, etc., and the other to fend off demon squirrels, intent on stealing our food.  It was highly annoying, and we all came close to being bitten.  That guy isn't doing that marmot any favors by feeding it.

Eat the squirrels next time. 

23 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

In October 2000 my dad, my brother, and I went camping at Lower Beaver Creek campground, just outside South Fork, Colorado.  It was off season and we had the campground to ourselves.  The squirrels had obviously been fed all summer by idiots who camped there, and were starving.  When I cooked our meals I used one hand to mix, stir, etc., and the other to fend off demon squirrels, intent on stealing our food.  It was highly annoying, and we all came close to being bitten.  That guy isn't doing that marmot any favors by feeding it.


 

Debbie Downer Snl GIF by Saturday Night Live

2 hours ago, Scheiss Meister said:

That guy isn't doing that marmot any favors by feeding it.

worth it for the likes, bro. 

  • Author
2 hours ago, PRONG HORN said:

468980715-564213403032925-42833337632322

That's a result of the most commonly used world map being one that was developed for nautical reasons.  

This distortion is because of something called the Mercator Projection. Historically, maps can be traced back to the ancient times when explorations took place by using the magnetic compass and Pole Star for navigation. While traditional maps made on flat surfaces gave apt information but gave inaccurate size of countries or places depending on their position relative to the equator.

Putting a 3D planet on a two-dimensional map was something of a challenge for early cartographers and so Dutch geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator came up with a solution. In 1569 he designed a map that could be accurately used for navigation purposes, but the downside was that his system distorted the size of objects depending on their position relative to the equator. Because of this, landmasses like Antarctica and Greenland appeared much larger than they actually are.

https://geospatialworld.net/blogs/maps-that-show-why-some-countries-are-not-as-big-as-they-look/#:~:text=Why does this happen?,larger than they actually are.

Here's a to-scale world map:

1evcjsfm8qs11.png?w=1600&h=1200&q=88&f=2

As a kid I remember thinking Greenland and Scandinavia were fucking massive.  Was strange when I realized, probably in middle school, that they’re not.  

  • Author

 

  • Author
37 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Who?

*whom

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.