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They would leak right through your wallet. Would not recommend.
Astral tax deduction.Ivan Seeking said:
You must be thinking of sand dollars.Monsterboy said:I heard the aquarium owners use jellyfish as a currency. Everything else are priced at multiples of a jellyfish.
Those things? They've crumbled and blown away. Liquid assets are all the rage.BillTre said:You must be thinking of sand dollars.
No, not sure if this is a joke...but they didn't specify the species of jellyfish in the video.BillTre said:You must be thinking of sand dollars.
America passed the endangered species and wildlife act in 1973, which expressly forbid the sale or trade of wild animals for money. Around this same time period most other advanced countries passed similar laws This meant that zoo’s looking to fill out their enclosures could no longer just pay to win. Of course for existing zoo’s this wasn’t a major issue. Animals are great because they have an inbuilt copy an paste function. But this law did massively slow down the opening of any new parks, especially those that were to be run for profit. Even still, the existing parks did need to set up a system of trade to ensure that they got a fair chance at achieving these three main goals. So they had to figure out a system of exchange that didn’t involve money.
https://cryptonewmedia.press/wtf-is...as-a-global-reserve-currency-how-money-works/Now they couldn’t trade the animals for money or anything else of value, because of course that would break the various laws around the world, and encourage people to hunt live animals for profit. So instead they traded animals for animals. Now you might say well isn’t that just bartering? And you would be right, but there is one key difference, aquariums have a reserve currency… The Jellyfish.
A currency for every profession, I guess.Monsterboy said:I heard the aquarium owners use jellyfish as a currency. Everything else are priced at multiples of a jellyfish.
Haha, no she was Jewitch.Hornbein said:Astral tax deduction.
He does look like a very nice and gentle man.Ivan Seeking said:Here is something I recently learned that is surprising... A lot of young women have a thing for the now deceased Bob Ross. I first learned about this when I was dating a young lady in her 20s. She said he was hot! I've learned since that many young women apparently find him sexy and like to watch his old series, which taught people how to paint and ran for many years
View attachment 289719When you ask young women what they find sexy in a man, you get a lot of surprising answers. But the one that stopped me cold in my tracks came from a gorgeous young blonde woman. When I asked what she finds irresistibly sexy in a man, she said when she sees a man holding a baby!
On a similar note, Pink Floyd made a big come back with young women [which I totally understand], as well as vinyl.
Jarvis323 said:There is a viral trend of people watching/listening to Bob Ross to help them fall asleep.
He had a very calming voice and manner. I can understand using him to go to sleep! LOL! No doubt a lot of women got their Zen from Bob.Hornbein said:He does look like a very nice and gentle man.
There is a lot of variation.Ivan Seeking said:He had a very calming voice and manner. I can understand using him to go to sleep! LOL! No doubt a lot of women got their Zen from Bob.
The local police's phone number is 776-3333 and was 372-3333 20 years ago or so.jtbell said:While watching the TV news this morning I was reminded of the recent "in thing" among local law firms (the ones that advertise on TV, anyway): single-digit telephone numbers like 222-2222, 333-3333, 888-8888 and 999-9999.
As far as I know, this is a relatively new thing, just within the past few years. What's up with that? How did it get started? Is it even a nationwide thing, or just a local or regional oddity?
[added] Aha, it's not just here. I turned up a newspaper article from Springfield, Missouri.
For my lawyer you just dial 666.jtbell said:While watching the TV news this morning I was reminded of the recent "in thing" among local law firms (the ones that advertise on TV, anyway): single-digit telephone numbers like 222-2222, 333-3333, 888-8888 and 999-9999.
As far as I know, this is a relatively new thing, just within the past few years. What's up with that? How did it get started? Is it even a nationwide thing, or just a local or regional oddity?
[added] Aha, it's not just here. I turned up a newspaper article from Springfield, Missouri.
I'm an identity theft victim, so I froze and put an alert on my credit. The idea is to make it impossible for me, and also the people impersonating me, from being able to get a loan. The next few days I started getting all kinds of offers for preapproved loans. It's good to know those preapproved loans might still require approval. I'de like my loan approval to be contingent on a DNA test.Hornbein said:I once got a pre-approved credit card. However my application was rejected. The pre-approval was contingent on approval of the application.
From time to time I will search You Tube for a commercial and have to watch a commercial to see it.Jarvis323 said:Did anyone mention tip screens on ipads at places people previously didn't tip. People are now getting tips for taking your money. This didn't make sense until 2020.
Another one is commercials during trailers for movies; basically commercials during commercials. How long until the commercial commercials have commercials too?
Yes, but is it a commercial for a competing product? Now *that* would be smart advertising!Ivan Seeking said:From time to time I will search You Tube for a commercial and have to watch a commercial to see it.
This has even come up in law. there are old treaties defining fishing rights. One case came up invoking a treaty of, if I remember, the 13th century. Some category or other was entitled to take fish from certain seas (this was in the Channel Islands if I remember) but they were taking lobsters etc. which was contested.It was ruled that lobsters were fish at the time of the treaty.BillTre said:The lay fish designation is an older term than the fish as defined by biology.
Its seems to just refer to some animal living in the water. This meaning has been around for a long time.
Shellfish is another good example: molluscs and crustaceans (and maybe some other things).
Neither are anything like a fish (to biology), and they aren't even closely related to each other.
Moby Dick, the "Royal Fish."epenguin said:This has even come up in law. there are old treaties defining fishing rights.
Ivan Seeking said:What makes no sense?
William Shatner will go to space in about a week aboard Blue Origin. He has been to space many, many times. He should give someone else a chance.
Which is impressive considering that his character hasn't even been born yet.Ivan Seeking said:William Shatner will go to space in about a week aboard Blue Origin. He has been to space many, many times.
I think the point is that if they fall overboard, the enemy will not be able to find them. I'm not sure this has been thought through all the way.Vanadium 50 said:
Shatner said he plans to keep his nose stuck to the window. He just hopes nothing is outside and looking back.DaveC426913 said:
Something on the wing??Ivan Seeking said:He just hopes nothing is outside and looking back.