Here are the stories I think this site is lacking:
- Revolutionary breakthrough in solar energy / battery tech will, um, revolutionise... everything. Or something. Again.
- Tesla Cars did something new. Numerous posters explain how this 'electricity' thing will never catch on.
- Cancer cured in the lab! Scientists have discovered that simply dropping a petri dish full of cancer cells into a vat of boiling oil kills 100% of the cancer! Human trials are still 5-10 years away. Mice nervous.
- Flying cars only 5 years away! It's time for that guy with the pretty-cool-but-totally-impractical-for-about-a-hu ndred-different-reasons prototype of a flying car to do the news cycle and drum up some more funding.
- As above, but MARS! Yeah, Mars One need some more suckers to invest in their brochure-printing business.
- Bill Gates: Billionaire philanthropist or complete dick? You decide.
- Everything is about Obama: Something interesting and techy happened in, say, Nepal. Within ten posts, it devolves into a series of essays about why Obamacare is flawed, countered by detailed explanations of everything wrong with the republican party, followed by a comprehensive interpretations of the US law that show that this whole Nepalese thing is unconstitutional anyway, and will probably be struck down by the Supreme Court.
- Old Memes Are Better Than New Memes: Discuss. What the fuck is a "hot grit" anyway?
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(Score: 3, Informative) by rts008 on Tuesday February 25 2014, @07:14PM
'Hot grits' (always plural) refer to a type of hot cereal in the southern USA. Grits are made from corn, but is similar in appearance and texture to 'Cream of Wheat', or 'Malt-O-Meal'.
Or:(if not a Yank, or Yankee)
Gruel or mush, made from corn, typically served hot, with breakfast...sadly, without Natalie Portman.
Porridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porridge [wikipedia.org] is a useful word (you'll find your grits beneath "maize"), although not very specific and sometimes confused with rice puddings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_pudding [wikipedia.org] which are common in the UK and Nordic countries (where they can be both breakfast and dinner).
(Score: 4, Interesting) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:32AM
Here are the stories I think this site is lacking:
- Revolutionary breakthrough in solar energy / battery tech will, um, revolutionise... everything. Or something. Again.
- Tesla Cars did something new. Numerous posters explain how this 'electricity' thing will never catch on.
- Cancer cured in the lab! Scientists have discovered that simply dropping a petri dish full of cancer cells into a vat of boiling oil kills 100% of the cancer! Human trials are still 5-10 years away. Mice nervous.
- Flying cars only 5 years away! It's time for that guy with the pretty-cool-but-totally-impractical-for-about-a-hu ndred-different-reasons prototype of a flying car to do the news cycle and drum up some more funding.
- As above, but MARS! Yeah, Mars One need some more suckers to invest in their brochure-printing business.
- Bill Gates: Billionaire philanthropist or complete dick? You decide.
- Everything is about Obama: Something interesting and techy happened in, say, Nepal. Within ten posts, it devolves into a series of essays about why Obamacare is flawed, countered by detailed explanations of everything wrong with the republican party, followed by a comprehensive interpretations of the US law that show that this whole Nepalese thing is unconstitutional anyway, and will probably be struck down by the Supreme Court.
- Old Memes Are Better Than New Memes: Discuss. What the fuck is a "hot grit" anyway?
(Score: 3, Informative) by rts008 on Tuesday February 25 2014, @07:14PM
What the fuck is a "hot grit" anyway?
'Hot grits' (always plural) refer to a type of hot cereal in the southern USA. Grits are made from corn, but is similar in appearance and texture to 'Cream of Wheat', or 'Malt-O-Meal'.
Or:(if not a Yank, or Yankee)
Gruel or mush, made from corn, typically served hot, with breakfast...sadly, without Natalie Portman.
(Score: 1) by Yog-Yogguth on Wednesday February 26 2014, @09:57PM
Porridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porridge [wikipedia.org] is a useful word (you'll find your grits beneath "maize"), although not very specific and sometimes confused with rice puddings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_pudding [wikipedia.org] which are common in the UK and Nordic countries (where they can be both breakfast and dinner).
Buck Feta? Duck Fice! And Guck Foogle too!
(Score: 1) by SMI on Wednesday February 26 2014, @02:12AM
That second to last one about Obama is the funniest thing I've read in quite a while... Thanks!