| ▲ | Nothing Doing(futilitycloset.com) |
| 40 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 16 comments |
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| ▲ | swader999 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| I need this for some past companies I've worked at. |
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| ▲ | layer8 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It’s curious how there seem to be so few combinations of place and time where nothing important happened. |
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| ▲ | gumby a day ago | parent [-] | | It’s just the macro perspective. Down around the Planck limit, there’s something going on all the time, everywhere, all at once! |
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| ▲ | tolugenius 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Funny, does anyone know the history of any of the markers? I'm just curious why this is global thing really. |
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| ▲ | LahvacCz 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | The one from Míšov, Czech Republic is tribute to the running joke of nonexistent genius Jara Cimmrman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1ra_Cimrman | | |
| ▲ | cryzinger 2 days ago | parent [-] | | The bust (if you even can call it that...) pictured in the article is terrifying! |
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| ▲ | Photogrammaton 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The plaque is identical in two of the photos (one from Ireland, one from Luxembourg), and the wording is identical in those two plus a third (from Western Australia). That makes me curious. | |
| ▲ | wccrawford 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | You don't think this is just a joke that multiple people thought of independently? Some of them might be in reaction to a local event, or even a worldwide event that had no local impact. But I think they're mostly just jokes. | |
| ▲ | clickety_clack 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Was it in a Monty python sketch or something? |
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| ▲ | bckr 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| My great grandmother taught me that “nothing doing” meant something similar to “there’s nothing for it”. |
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| ▲ | arjie 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I’m in my late thirties and it was still in common use in India, and perhaps specifically among Anglo Indians? But it meant more like “no chance”. “Can I go out to the movies with my friends?” “Nothing doing! You have an exam tomorrow” Or failure to do something. “I tried to fix it myself but nothing doing”. | | |
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| ▲ | TRiG_Ireland 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The Futility Closet website (and, formerly, podcast) is an amazing treasure trove of fascinating facts. |
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| ▲ | rzzzt 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 1897 seems like an important year. |
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| ▲ | ButlerianJihad a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| "I just wanted to mention, for those who have asked... Absolutely nothing whatsoever happened today in Sector 83 by 9 by 12." https://youtu.be/vZt5_27mGcE?si=PaeEaF9Ws0aDvMMt I am totally sure I've seen that plaque in O'Hungry's. It's a San Diego classic. It's reassuring to know that there are such places around the world. |
