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  • Wrong place wrong time during a controlled demolition

    • TIL research has found that swearing can reduce the perception of pain (providing a measurable analgesic effect) by as much as 33%. Because swearing is processed in so many different parts of the ...

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  • I remember seeing this as well. I'm much more of a Brian Blessed than a Stephen Fry, unfortunately for my pain threshold...

    • TIL the Scottish term for counter-clockwise is widdershins

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  • This is a big part of why I love them so much. Hardly a week goes by that I don't think of the "boots theory of socio-economic unfairness" from Men at Arms!

    • TIL the Scottish term for counter-clockwise is widdershins

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  • Bill Phillips seems like a pretty cool guy, certainly fits the mad scientist archetype!

    I actually haven't read Making Money but I will now :)

    • TIL the Scottish term for counter-clockwise is widdershins

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  • I learned this term from Terry Pratchett a few years ago as the disc in discworld rotates and the four cardinal directions are rimward, hubward, turnwise and widdershins. Instead of north south east west.

    Edit: though I never knew it was a real word!