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Title: Post a useless fact
Post by: Thagomizer on June 29, 2007, 08:53:39 PM
The title says it all. Okay, let me start:

Did you know that you can save up to 15 gallons of water each day if you simply piss in the sink? I'll be back with more household tips soon!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Nomaken on June 29, 2007, 11:17:51 PM
I've got a kitty.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Mr Smith on June 29, 2007, 11:20:51 PM
McJagger(useless) has underpants.(fact)

 :laugh: ;)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on June 29, 2007, 11:27:12 PM
Does He even use underpants. ;D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Mr Smith on June 29, 2007, 11:28:05 PM
Does He even use underpants. ;D

Yes, I've seen them.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Scrapheap on June 30, 2007, 12:55:05 AM
Does He even use underpants. ;D

Yes, I've seen them.


Do you work for the underpants gnomes??
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on June 30, 2007, 01:39:02 AM
I've got a kitty.

Mine is newer.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on June 30, 2007, 01:47:36 AM

"I've just pissed in my pants... and nobody can do anything about it."


(Major Fambrough)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 30, 2007, 04:43:15 PM
McJagger(useless) has underpants.(fact)

 :laugh: ;)
fact:  it isn't that difficult for you to talk me out of them.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: The_P on July 01, 2007, 08:02:18 AM
Dhoulmagus is the prime antagonist of Dragon Quest VIII. W00t!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Zelda on July 01, 2007, 08:06:56 AM
I watch Benny & Joon twice a day. Once in the morning and again when I get home from work. All the same day since it's after midnight when I put it on when I get home.  I should start watching two other Spokane movies I have.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lucifer on July 01, 2007, 08:26:58 AM
dolphins have sprung loaded penii.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Zelda on July 01, 2007, 08:32:38 AM
El Caminos were stopped being made in 1987. Damn damn. I'd love to have a Benny & Joon car. My mother was happy about it because she hated them and thought they were dumb.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: The_P on July 01, 2007, 08:37:30 AM
dolphins have sprung loaded penii.

And dolphins are too nice to other bipedial animals for their own good. Hence why they're a delicacy in some eastern Asian regions.

Oh yeah...

(http://www.defunctgames.com/pic/reviewpics/revieweccothedolphin-2.jpg)

Ecco -- a Sega video game where you play the role of a dolphin who makes any violent sea-creature's body to explode with its high-pitched wails.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lucifer on July 01, 2007, 08:39:54 AM
i can do that, in real life, so if you're going to be horrible to dolphins, prepare to be exploded.

besides which, you numpty - since when are dolphins bipedal?  :P

how d'ya feel?  mighty real?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: El on July 01, 2007, 08:41:05 AM
Paraskavedekatriaphobia is fear of Friday the 13th.

The title says it all. Okay, let me start:

Did you know that you can save up to 15 gallons of water each day if you simply piss in the sink? I'll be back with more household tips soon!

I can't begin to describe how glad I am that you've pegged that fact as "useless."
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: El on July 01, 2007, 08:41:43 AM
dolphins have sprung loaded penii.

And dolphins are too nice to other bipedial animals for their own good. Hence why they're a delicacy in some eastern Asian regions.

Oh yeah...

(http://www.defunctgames.com/pic/reviewpics/revieweccothedolphin-2.jpg)

Ecco -- a Sega video game where you play the role of a dolphin who makes any violent sea-creature's body to explode with its high-pitched wails.

I really need to play that game to at least partial completion.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: The_P on July 01, 2007, 08:42:37 AM
i can do that, in real life, so if you're going to be horrible to dolphins, prepare to be exploded.

besides which, you numpty - since when are dolphins bipedal?  :P


But I didn't say fellow, my good fellow!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on July 01, 2007, 09:09:50 AM
Paraskavedekatriaphobia is fear of Friday the 13th.

The title says it all. Okay, let me start:

Did you know that you can save up to 15 gallons of water each day if you simply piss in the sink? I'll be back with more household tips soon!

I can't begin to describe how glad I am that you've pegged that fact as "useless."
:LMAO:

I+You
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on July 01, 2007, 08:48:29 PM
I have the biggest volcano books, pictures, magazines and related earth science collection in Maine. :wanker: :yawn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lucifer on July 02, 2007, 12:06:09 AM
how do you know?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Zelda on July 02, 2007, 01:20:05 AM
Jeremiah Checkik , director of B&J wanted the movie to take place in the Pacific Northwest. He picked Spokane because it has trains going through there all the time. Lots of them.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on July 02, 2007, 05:40:03 AM
how do you know?

I asked a state geologist and a lady who's a vulcanologist in Alaska who's from the town I live in.  (and visits periodically)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on July 02, 2007, 08:32:19 AM
I have discovered the hornet's nest responsible for stealing most of my spiders. This is war.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lucifer on July 02, 2007, 09:17:48 AM
I have discovered the hornet's nest responsible for stealing most of my spiders. This is war.

yay!  go DD!  i love spiders.   :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: The_P on July 02, 2007, 09:31:30 AM
I have discovered the hornet's nest responsible for stealing most of my spiders. This is war.

yay!  go DD!  i love spiders.   :laugh:

Even the ones that want to kill you?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lucifer on July 02, 2007, 09:32:14 AM
I have discovered the hornet's nest responsible for stealing most of my spiders. This is war.

yay!  go DD!  i love spiders.   :laugh:

Even the ones that want to kill you?

especially those.  best to keep on their good side, i find.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Zelda on July 02, 2007, 11:41:46 AM
During the filming of B&J, Ferguson's Cafe was closed for two weeks because they were filming several scenes there and they closed off the whole street and had traffic go the other way. Explains why you don't see any cars driving by or people walking by except for one person.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on July 02, 2007, 11:46:20 AM
I have discovered the hornet's nest responsible for stealing most of my spiders. This is war.

yay!  go DD!  i love spiders.   :laugh:

There will be a few more argiopes grow to breeding age in my garden after today.

:woohoo:
It was the relatively small kind of hornets (one inch long) which burrow into the ground to make nests, carry their captured, paralyzed prey into the burrow and lay their eggs on them so the maggots can feed (on MY spiders!!), as they grow. I had to dig about a foot and a half deep to find the center (and I only got stung once), but I got them all ... well, all the larvae and tending workers, anyway, and I put my beloved spiders out of their respective miseries. No poisons, either! Manual extermination, with a little help from the curious robins. I waited too long, though, since we were already overrun by night pests when I noticed the absence of spiders.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: duncvis on July 02, 2007, 05:00:11 PM
Yay for people who know their holistic pest control. :thumbup:

My useless fact: Yorkshire Water's accounts department is as much use as a chocolate teapot. :tantrum:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on July 02, 2007, 05:19:54 PM
Yay for people who know their holistic pest control. :thumbup:

My useless fact: Yorkshire Water's accounts department is as much use as a chocolate teapot. :tantrum:

That's the only way to go! Depending on the critter, there are many effective methods for control. What I had to do was an extreme way to deal with a band of terrorists. There are no natural controls for hornets and wasps, except nicotine sprays, but I don't have enough growing to save enough of the toxic compounds.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on July 02, 2007, 05:46:57 PM
For many reasons, as well as the fact that my daughter is allergic to bee/wasp stings........I actively exterminate any and all wasp nests that I find growing on our house.  I am vigilant :tooledup: and ruthless to protect my family.  My wife got a hornet sting on her butt from a sneak attack by a cowardly frankenstein computer god hornet that snuck into our house thru a hidden crack in the roof. >:(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Zelda on July 02, 2007, 05:49:50 PM
In B&J, when Joon receives an old Jack in the box as a gift; in the script, Sam leaves flowers on the doorstep but an hour before the shooting for the scene, the director decided to change the prop to an old jack in the box. So he had that prop manager go around looking for one and it was not easy finding one in Spokane.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: duncvis on July 02, 2007, 06:07:30 PM
For many reasons, as well as the fact that my daughter is allergic to bee/wasp stings........I actively exterminate any and all wasp nests that I find growing on our house.  I am vigilant :tooledup: and ruthless to protect my family.  My wife got a hornet sting on her butt from a sneak attack by a cowardly frankenstein computer god hornet that snuck into our house thru a hidden crack in the roof. >:(

:LMAO:

We get what you call yellow jackets flying down our chimney in summer. I take a similarly 'take no prisoners' approach to the fuckers. what use are wasps, other than as fishing bait as grubs?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on July 02, 2007, 06:12:02 PM
Outside, away from the house, I leave them alone, inside the house or on the house.....the motherfuckers DIE! >:(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on July 02, 2007, 06:14:42 PM
Sun 865,400 miles in diameter.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on July 02, 2007, 06:22:00 PM
Sun 865,400 miles in diameter.

Are you sure you want to get me started on astronomy?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on July 02, 2007, 06:23:38 PM
Outside, away from the house, I leave them alone, inside the house or on the house.....the motherfuckers DIE! >:(

Agreed.

Though, they are proficient pollenators in the garden. Fortunately none of us are allergic to their stings, but my wife.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on July 02, 2007, 06:29:26 PM
Ferguson's cafe was built in 1935 and it was a Sanderson's till 1956. There had been five other people who owned it since then. Now it has the sixth owners.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on July 02, 2007, 06:35:34 PM
Sun 865,400 miles in diameter.

Are you sure you want to get me started on astronomy?
Go for it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on July 02, 2007, 08:00:07 PM
My dad went to the World's Fair in Spokane in 1974 and never told anyone in my family about it till May 14th. He went with a friend.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on July 02, 2007, 08:17:36 PM
Spokane is located on the northernmost fringe of the Columbia flood basalts.  Last eruption was 15 million years ago.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on July 02, 2007, 08:20:02 PM
yey my favorite town was mentioned.  :clap:


When I was a little girl, I thought the downtown had castles because the buildings look like castles. Guesswhat, they sort of do so no wonder I thought that.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on July 02, 2007, 08:20:20 PM
My dad went to the World's Fair in Spokane in 1974 and never told anyone in my family about it till May 14th. He went with a friend.

That's the year I graduated (OK, almost graduated) high high school. How old is your dad.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Scrapheap on July 02, 2007, 08:21:10 PM
I fucked a girl from Spokane once... she looked like Olivia Newton John.

Real pretty girl but alas..... she was a dead fuck.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on July 02, 2007, 08:23:35 PM
My dad went to the World's Fair in Spokane in 1974 and never told anyone in my family about it till May 14th. He went with a friend.

That's the year I graduated (OK, almost graduated) high high school. How old is your dad.


Fifty-seven. He graduated in 1969.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on July 02, 2007, 08:25:53 PM
When I was 17, my pesky neighbor was going back home to Montana with his sister and his mom and their truck broke down in SPOKANE so his aunt had to drive 3 and a half hours to Spokane to get them. Lucky, er for where they broke down at.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Scrapheap on July 02, 2007, 08:39:42 PM
I fucked a girl from Spokane once... she looked like Olivia Newton John.

Real pretty girl but alas..... she was a dead fuck.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on July 02, 2007, 10:03:55 PM
The Earth is 12,756 km in diameter, 7926.2 miles in diameter.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on July 02, 2007, 10:13:11 PM
There is 24 hrs in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute.
And I’m 352 miles out of Spokane so six hours of driving without stopping.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Scrapheap on July 02, 2007, 10:26:18 PM
There is 24 hrs in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute.
And I’m 352 miles out of Spokane so six hours of driving without stopping.

You drive like an old granny.... I'd make it in less than 5.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on July 02, 2007, 10:51:31 PM
I am the Grand God Almighty of the Internet. :evillaugh: :eyebrows:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Scrapheap on July 02, 2007, 10:54:05 PM
I am the Grand God Almighty of the Internet. :evillaugh: :eyebrows:

But Flourescent comes in a close second.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on July 02, 2007, 10:54:17 PM
There is 24 hrs in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute.
And I’m 352 miles out of Spokane so six hours of driving without stopping.

You drive like an old granny.... I'd make it in less than 5.


I don't speed. Besides, I take I-84, I-82, Hwy 395 and then I-90 and it takes me into Spokane.

I should have had my Oregon's License back in the first week of May because I had been employed in the state since April 5th and I haven't even done it yet.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on July 03, 2007, 12:26:08 AM
In November I will have had my car license for 10 years.

I have had my forklift license for 8 years.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on July 03, 2007, 12:32:09 AM
My parents bought me a car as a high school graduation gift when I was 18. Mom took me to Europe too that year. We were gone for three weeks. I was given money from relatives as a graduation gift also in cards they sent me in mail. I used it for Europe.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on July 03, 2007, 12:51:56 AM
SG, you have some pretty cool parents, there.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on July 03, 2007, 12:58:04 AM
Thanks, I was spoiled with love.  :mwhaha:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lucifer on July 03, 2007, 01:12:13 AM
I am the Grand God Almighty of the Internet. :evillaugh: :eyebrows:

But Flourescent comes in a close second.  :laugh:

really?  that's quick.  i would've said "comes in about 3 seconds", but only 1 second...?  aren't you being a bit harsh?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: El on July 03, 2007, 07:53:30 AM
I am the Grand God Almighty of the Internet. :evillaugh: :eyebrows:

But Flourescent comes in a close second.  :laugh:

really?  that's quick.  i would've said "comes in about 3 seconds", but only 1 second...?  aren't you being a bit harsh?

My love for you grows deeper and sicker every day.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on July 03, 2007, 08:03:21 AM
It takes about a year for an Arthur (PBS kids show) episode to be made.


The Teletubbies didn't come to the USA till April 1998.

It takes 10 hrs a day for an episode to be shot. The grass has to be replaced every set. The heads need to come off every ten minutes due to carbon dioxide (sp). Tinky Winky is about 10 ft tall, Po is 6 ft 6 inches tall or 3 inches which is which. One man can fit inside the Noo Noo. The show was my old obsessions when I was 14 and was fixated on it. I still like them and have four talking Teletubbies and one huge Laa Laa doll and all the Teletubby key chains from McDonalds, few of the VHS tapes I got at a thrift shop, and the Christmas special VHS two tape VHS set. Also have a Teletubbies coloring book.


I am a child, inside of me. A kid at heart. My second BF had a fit about it and gave me a hard time about it. Found out I'm single again few days ago and felt happy. We had already broken up back in March and I didn't know it.


Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on July 03, 2007, 08:56:15 AM
I fucked a girl from Spokane once... she looked like Olivia Newton John.

Real pretty girl but alas..... she was a dead fuck.

I had a lover like that once.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on July 03, 2007, 12:49:49 PM
I fucked a girl from Spokane once... she looked like Olivia Newton John.

Real pretty girl but alas..... she was a dead fuck.

I had a lover like that once.

I think we all have, but I find it impossible to not take on most of the blame for her lack of enjoyment. I always feel like I haven't attended her "spots" well enough.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on July 03, 2007, 03:09:06 PM
I fucked a girl from Spokane once... she looked like Olivia Newton John.

Real pretty girl but alas..... she was a dead fuck.

I had a lover like that once.

I think we all have, but I find it impossible to not take on most of the blame for her lack of enjoyment. I always feel like I haven't attended her "spots" well enough.

This lady was well "attended" by me, but, she just wasn't a very responsive woman or communicative in bed.  I tried, asked what would please her, nothing.....! ???   It was a "one afternoon" stand.  I felt bad for a few years afterwards, but, then when I found women who did communicate their needs and wants during sex.  I realized it wasn't just me.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on July 04, 2007, 09:44:55 AM
I fucked a girl from Spokane once... she looked like Olivia Newton John.

Real pretty girl but alas..... she was a dead fuck.

I had a lover like that once.

I think we all have, but I find it impossible to not take on most of the blame for her lack of enjoyment. I always feel like I haven't attended her "spots" well enough.

This lady was well "attended" by me, but, she just wasn't a very responsive woman or communicative in bed.  I tried, asked what would please her, nothing.....! ???   It was a "one afternoon" stand.  I felt bad for a few years afterwards, but, then when I found women who did communicate their needs and wants during sex.  I realized it wasn't just me.

She probably would have made a worthwhile project, if you had had the time to invest. My dead fucks have turned out to be "sleeping vixens", more than once. There were times when all I had was time, though.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on July 04, 2007, 10:41:15 AM
Maybe, but, it wouldn't have happened with her.  She went and spent the night with an old boyfriend after she left my place.  The same boyfriend she complained about to me numerous times.  He was in the graduate program at the uni, whereas I was just a hotel maintenance person.  There were some other factors as well, but, that was 27 years ago and I moved out of state later that year and got too distracted and concerned for my own surviving life's lessons to moon over her for long.  She was a gorgeous blonde with an awesome body.  It was quite a boost to my ego to find that she did have a bit of lust for me.  It went a long way to help me get over getting dumped by my first lover ever.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on July 04, 2007, 12:12:56 PM
Spokane was origionally named Spokane Falls. It was founded in 1872.


"Spokane" means Children of the Sun. Its nickname is "The Lilac City."


The city held its world's fair there in 1974. It was the smallest city to hold one till Knoxville, TN held on in 1982.





Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on July 04, 2007, 12:39:31 PM
Maybe, but, it wouldn't have happened with her.  She went and spent the night with an old boyfriend after she left my place.  The same boyfriend she complained about to me numerous times.  He was in the graduate program at the uni, whereas I was just a hotel maintenance person.  There were some other factors as well, but, that was 27 years ago and I moved out of state later that year and got too distracted and concerned for my own surviving life's lessons to moon over her for long.  She was a gorgeous blonde with an awesome body.  It was quite a boost to my ego to find that she did have a bit of lust for me.  It went a long way to help me get over getting dumped by my first lover ever.

:woohoo:

We need that on a regular basis, it seems.


:hide:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on September 01, 2007, 07:01:59 PM
The Earth is a sphere.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: AlCapone on September 01, 2007, 07:19:31 PM
Did you know that Jack Thompson is actually an undercover advertisement agent of Rockstar Games?

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Jack_Thompson
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Tesla on September 01, 2007, 07:44:53 PM
The Earth is a sphere.
It's actually an oblate spheroid.

 :asthing: FTW!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: enronh on September 01, 2007, 09:04:17 PM
There is more than one way to skin a cactus.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on September 01, 2007, 09:10:14 PM
Trees have bark.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on September 01, 2007, 09:11:38 PM
The Earth is a sphere.
It's actually an oblate spheroid.

 :asthing: FTW!
Yeah would be technical on Me. :razz:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on September 02, 2007, 01:34:40 AM
Spokane started Father's Day in 1910.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: El on September 02, 2007, 10:18:12 AM
Supposedly this is the story (http://www.cia-stargate.org/ILOVEYOU1.html) behind the ASL sign for "I love you," though I do question it.  It certainly does look like a txting-like version of "I, L and Y," though.

At any rate, it does sort of annoy me when people confuse it with the corna.  It's not the same thing!!!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on September 02, 2007, 10:43:36 AM

The matriarch of the family who stole my vegetables last summer, who I was planning to appease with a gift of garden bounty, died two months ago.

I remember seeing all the cars parked everywhere, but I did not inquire. I assumed it was another pachanga.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on September 20, 2007, 09:42:09 PM
Many Blue bloods have or carry the gene for Hemophilia.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on September 24, 2007, 11:51:03 PM
We land on the moon.

(http://blogs.ancestry.com/circle/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/Moon%20landing.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on September 25, 2007, 02:54:44 PM
First fact:
My Solidago is over eight feeet high.

Second fact:
It is completely fallacious to blame Solidago for your allergy woes, dumbassses!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on September 25, 2007, 07:18:38 PM
First fact:
My Solidago is over eight feeet high.

Second fact:
It is completely fallacious to blame Solidago for your allergy woes, dumbassses!
People just see the flowers and figure that whats bugging them when in fact the worst ones people don't even think about like grasses and ragweed.

They used to make life preservers that were filled with fluff   from the seed pods of milkweed
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on October 02, 2007, 12:40:14 PM
The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty five years of service.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Tequila on October 02, 2007, 12:41:12 PM
The smallest country in the world by area is Monaco.  I think.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on October 02, 2007, 01:02:36 PM
Great Britain was the first country to issue postage stamps in 1840.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 02, 2007, 02:13:19 PM
No matter where you are, you are seldom more than six feet from a spider.

No matter where you are.


Aren't they beautiful?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Scrapheap on October 02, 2007, 08:22:54 PM
We land on the moon.

(http://blogs.ancestry.com/circle/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/Moon%20landing.jpg)

Niel Armstongs first words on the moon were "That's one small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind" Due to radio difficulties, everyon on earth heard " That's one small step for....man, one giant leap for mankind"
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on October 03, 2007, 05:28:40 AM


They used to make life preservers that were filled with fluff   from the seed pods of milkweed

Speaking of which. Life preservers were once yellow,
a color particularly attractive to sharks. Eventually got
called, yum yum yellow.  :shark:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 03, 2007, 06:41:16 AM
We land on the moon.

(http://blogs.ancestry.com/circle/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/Moon%20landing.jpg)

Niel Armstongs first words on the moon were "That's one small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind" Due to radio difficulties, everyon on earth heard " That's one small step for....man, one giant leap for mankind"

I would be interested to know what happened to the spiders on that trip.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on October 03, 2007, 06:48:40 AM
They went to mars,
and practiced their instruments.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: enronh on October 03, 2007, 07:12:00 AM
So where were the spiders while the fly tried to break our balls?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Scrapheap on October 03, 2007, 01:49:18 PM
They went to mars,
and practiced their instruments.

With Ziggy Stardust??
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Rabbit From Hell on October 03, 2007, 03:43:42 PM
^ pussies don't usually look that good
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Tequila on October 03, 2007, 04:14:17 PM
Mozambique is the only country in the Commonwealth that wasn't a British colony.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 03, 2007, 05:46:47 PM

I think I have a job!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Scrapheap on October 03, 2007, 07:55:53 PM

I think I have a job!

That's hardly a "usless" fact!!! Congatulations!!! (I hope). :party:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 03, 2007, 08:16:33 PM
I have over 1500 vacuum tubes  :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Scrapheap on October 03, 2007, 08:20:16 PM
I have over 1500 vacuum tubes  :o

Is there still a market for those??

My parents had the TV they bought in 1970 all the way up 'till '94.  :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 03, 2007, 08:25:50 PM
I have over 1500 vacuum tubes  :o

Is there still a market for those??

My parents had the TV they bought in 1970 all the way up 'till '94.  :o

Yes but it's mostly audio people,or collectors.  I still have and use tube equipment on a regular basis.  Some of them are very pricey
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on October 03, 2007, 09:28:28 PM
Banana Slugs are edible and nutritious.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 03, 2007, 09:59:54 PM
I have over 1500 vacuum tubes  :o

Is there still a market for those??

My parents had the TV they bought in 1970 all the way up 'till '94.  :o

Here's (http://www.tubeman.com/item443.htm) one of the better sounding tubes of interest to audiophiles. It's a modern tube of Chinese manufacture.

Gold plated connection pins, cryogenically treated ..... US$166.95 on sale. Some types are only ten bucks or even less, but this is the cream of the crop, until you get into some of the New- Old Stock RCAs and Telefunkens from the sixties. Double that price for NOS, Cryo'ed top brands.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: willow on October 03, 2007, 10:02:23 PM
in New Mexico, over eleven thousand people have visited a tortilla chip that appeared to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Scrapheap on October 03, 2007, 10:21:06 PM
in New Mexico, over eleven thousand people have visited a tortilla chip that appeared to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it.

Howdy stranger!!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on October 04, 2007, 02:06:23 AM
PDX stands for Portland, OR and it's the airport code for it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on October 04, 2007, 02:26:33 AM
The smallest country in the world by area is Monaco.  I think.

I thought that the smallest country in the world was Vatican City.  It is a sovereign country.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on October 04, 2007, 02:29:42 AM
The smallest Wal-Mart in the USA is located in Polson, Montana.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on October 04, 2007, 03:38:55 AM
The smallest country in the world by area is Monaco.  I think.

I thought that the smallest country in the world was Vatican City.  It is a sovereign country.

As far as those recognized in general.
I believe that the Italian govt recognizes
the Knights of Malta, however, whose
'country' consists of a couple of floors
of a building in Naples.

http://geography.about.com/od/politicalgeography/a/knightsmalta.htm
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Tequila on October 04, 2007, 04:30:36 AM
Yeah, but I'm not counting a country inhabited entirely by Papist kiddy-humpers and their followers though technically Vatican City is a country.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 04, 2007, 05:58:12 AM

I think I have a job!

That's hardly a "usless" fact!!! Congatulations!!! (I hope). :party:

Thanks. It seems things may work out, eventually. It's only an hourly wage, but I am thinking of it as a "foot in the doorway," which is more than I had last week.

I call it useless, because to everyone else who tries to apply this information to their own evil plans, I will become resistant.

 :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 04, 2007, 06:31:14 PM
Cashews and poison ivy belong to the same plant family Anacardiaceae
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: enronh on October 05, 2007, 02:03:36 PM
The Way of the Samurai is found in death. Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day, when one's body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears, and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one's master. And every day, without fail, one should consider himself as dead. This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 06, 2007, 05:24:56 PM

 :plus: to RupPup
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on October 08, 2007, 01:30:14 AM
Honey doesn't go off.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on October 08, 2007, 01:34:10 AM
Honey doesn't go off.

As in, it's not explosive?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on October 08, 2007, 05:05:02 AM
Honey doesn't go off.

As in, it's not explosive?

As in, it doesn't spoil.

I have had honey crystallize before, though.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 08, 2007, 05:26:58 AM

It depends on where you live, I believe. In south Texas, honey only last about four or five months, before it molds. If you pasteurized it and seal it into airtight jars, it will last a long time, even if it crystallizes. Once you open the jar, you have to eat it, though.

Once it has crystallized, all you have to do is heat it slightly, like in a pan of hot water, and it will be fine.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on October 08, 2007, 05:36:20 AM
Wow. Never saw it mold.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 08, 2007, 06:44:53 AM
Wow. Never saw it mold.

Everything molds in south Texas. It could be just the environment, I suppose. If you leave water out over night on your nightstand and don't pour it out the next morning, it will have mold growing by the afternoon and by the next day mold will be quite visible.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on October 08, 2007, 07:05:28 AM
Fast. Water molds here, shocked the
hell out of me. But it takes a few days.
Honey's fine though.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 08, 2007, 01:55:44 PM
Fast. Water molds here, shocked the
hell out of me. But it takes a few days.
Honey's fine though.

Yeah, my wife had a rough time understanding why I would freak out when she drank water that had been out overnight.
It's not that way in Indiana, but we have a different set of allergens, pests and annoyances to attack us. Thank gawd we have plenty of spiders, here!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on October 09, 2007, 12:37:45 AM
In The Simpsons, Matt Groaning got the name Ned Flanders and LoveJoy from the name of the streets here in Portland. He grew up here. The street isn't called Ned Flanders lol, it's called Flanders St. My uncle even typed in the name on google and a picture of Ned Flanders popped up.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on October 09, 2007, 12:43:35 AM
In The Simpsons, Matt Groaning got the name Ned Flanders and LoveJoy from the name of the streets here in Portland. He grew up here. The street isn't called Ned Flanders lol, it's called Flanders St. My uncle even typed in the name on google and a picture of Ned Flanders popped up.

Most of the names in the show come
from Springfield OR.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on October 09, 2007, 12:59:13 AM
There are lot of Springfields around. No one knows what state they live in. The show never says and probably never will.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on October 09, 2007, 02:59:22 AM
Nonetheless, nearly all of the Portland street names
which are used, also occur in Springfield/Eugene. And
some which don't occur in Portland (such as skinner) are
pretty specific to this area. Add the nuke, and the existence
of Shelbyville, and things seem pretty suspicious. Though, I
suspect that things have been toned down, over time.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 09, 2007, 01:03:23 PM

I initiated thirteen brand new, out-of-the-box laptops today, for display. My boss expected to have another guy who would do each one in succession. I did them all at the same time. He was impressed.

(I was a little nervous, because I had only seen Vista once)

*shows off biceps*
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on October 09, 2007, 11:08:57 PM
I initiated thirteen brand new, out-of-the-box laptops today, for display. My boss expected to have another guy who would do each one in succession. I did them all at the same time. He was impressed.
(I was a little nervous, because I had only seen Vista once)
*shows off biceps*
That's awesome.  :plus:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Randy on October 13, 2007, 12:29:31 PM
My hands are down my pants, keeping it warm :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Scrapheap on October 13, 2007, 12:30:50 PM

I initiated thirteen brand new, out-of-the-box laptops today, for display. My boss expected to have another guy who would do each one in succession. I did them all at the same time. He was impressed.

(I was a little nervous, because I had only seen Vista once)

*shows off biceps*

Congrats on the new job DD!!!! 

:1st: :headbang2: :best: :roses: :worship: :cheer: :party:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 13, 2007, 05:16:26 PM
Five and a half inches of dense packed cellulose insulation has a R value of 20
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on October 13, 2007, 08:09:45 PM
A three-and-a-half inch thich batt of fiberglass insulation has an R-value of 11.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 14, 2007, 11:59:53 AM
NO!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Scrapheap on October 14, 2007, 12:21:13 PM
Que??
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 14, 2007, 12:33:08 PM


I have to get away fro m her.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on October 14, 2007, 01:16:11 PM
NO!

I think that it does have an R-value of 11, but I guess the R-value could depend on the exact condition of the insulation.

http://www.coloradoenergy.org/procorner/stuff/r-values.htm
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 14, 2007, 01:41:17 PM
NO!

I think that it does have an R-value of 11, but I guess the R-value could depend on the exact condition of the insulation.

http://www.coloradoenergy.org/procorner/stuff/r-values.htm


It depends on the density of the fiberglass.  Plain fiberglass has a R value of 11 for three and a half inches, medium density a r-13 and high density r-15
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 14, 2007, 01:44:47 PM
NO!

I think that it does have an R-value of 11, but I guess the R-value could depend on the exact condition of the insulation.

http://www.coloradoenergy.org/procorner/stuff/r-values.htm


sorry, I'm on a different wavelebgth roght now. I can't thingk about insulatiion at this level of crinminimnal behaviour.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: El on October 14, 2007, 02:59:28 PM
It is potentially cheaper to rent a moon bounce for a day than a hooker for an hour.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 14, 2007, 03:25:24 PM
It is potentially cheaper to rent a moon bounce for a day than a hooker for an hour.
But if you rent both think of the fun :eyebrows:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on October 29, 2007, 06:29:00 AM
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: enronh on October 29, 2007, 07:05:11 AM
It is potentially cheaper to rent a moon bounce for a day than a hooker for an hour.
But if you rent both think of the fun :eyebrows:

Or a hooker and a pogo stick!  ;D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 29, 2007, 09:14:12 AM

My eight month old ocelot-looking kitty is very good at Surprise-Hello Pouncing.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Randy on October 29, 2007, 11:34:20 AM
/me burps loudly in Peaguy's ear
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 29, 2007, 01:24:18 PM
Tungsten has almost exactly the same density as gold.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on October 29, 2007, 03:08:41 PM
The Olsen Twins weren't credited on Full House during the first season. In the second season they were fianlly credited but as Mary kate Ashley Olsen because the directed didn't want anyone to know Michelle was played by twins.

The show was shot down in LA and they used the same San Francisco scenes in every episode and they used look a like people in the car when they drove across the Golden gate Bridge so the actors never rode across the bridge.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: enronh on October 29, 2007, 03:56:28 PM
The Olsen Twins weren't credited on Full House during the first season. In the second season they were fianlly credited but as Mary kate Ashley Olsen because the directed didn't want anyone to know Michelle was played by twins.

The show was shot down in LA and they used the same San Francisco scenes in every episode and they used look a like people in the car when they drove across the Golden gate Bridge so the actors never rode across the bridge.

Hubba-Hubba!   :drool:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 29, 2007, 06:07:10 PM
Luminous dials  were made with radium paint during WW2 but later it was found to be too dangerous.  I have one of the radios.  Sorry on a chemistry kick at the moment ;D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Gluey on October 29, 2007, 09:10:24 PM
I drink Silk and vitasoy.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: enronh on October 30, 2007, 01:31:03 AM
The Olsen Twins weren't credited on Full House during the first season. In the second season they were fianlly credited but as Mary kate Ashley Olsen because the directed didn't want anyone to know Michelle was played by twins.

The show was shot down in LA and they used the same San Francisco scenes in every episode and they used look a like people in the car when they drove across the Golden gate Bridge so the actors never rode across the bridge.

Hubba-Hubba!   :drool:

Even you'd do them Spokane Girl!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 01, 2007, 09:19:56 AM
The neighbor I can't stand got toilet papered and nobody else in the neighborhood did :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on November 01, 2007, 10:39:23 AM
The neighbor I can't stand got toilet papered and nobody else in the neighborhood did :green:

Did you do it?  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Rabbit From Hell on November 01, 2007, 01:54:07 PM
The outer part of my Iris is green and the inner part is brown.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 01, 2007, 04:48:13 PM
The outer part of my anus is brown,
and the inner is pink.

Playing with your digital camera again or are you old school and use mirrors? :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on November 01, 2007, 04:53:17 PM
I don't have a camera.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: purposefulinsanity on November 01, 2007, 05:05:39 PM
I don't have a camera.

Thank fuck for that :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on November 01, 2007, 05:07:36 PM
I don't have a camera.

Thank fuck for that :P

IF I ever got one, AND was willing to
post such things, you'd be quite right.

Y'all could've seen my 'roids, in gory detail.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 02, 2007, 06:57:46 PM
That could be interesting, if you had them named.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: vodz on November 02, 2007, 07:17:49 PM
this is post 156 in this thread
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on November 03, 2007, 02:56:32 AM
No, this is. >:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 03, 2007, 09:41:06 AM
Some digital cameras can see the near infrared and you can see the infrared LEDs on remotes light up
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 03, 2007, 10:00:13 AM
Some digital cameras can see the near infrared and you can see the infrared LEDs on remotes light up

They all can. It depends on the "color temperature" that you want to capture. Many of the professional grade digital cameras are quite capable of capturing images, well past the typical visible spectrum. Accessing the images through software manipulation is also very easy.

It opens whole new worlds to the forensic scientist and amateur experimenter, alike.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 05, 2007, 05:41:01 PM
Some digital cameras can see the near infrared and you can see the infrared LEDs on remotes light up

They all can. It depends on the "color temperature" that you want to capture. Many of the professional grade digital cameras are quite capable of capturing images, well past the typical visible spectrum. Accessing the images through software manipulation is also very easy.

It opens whole new worlds to the forensic scientist and amateur experimenter, alike.
What filters on Photoshop would you use to see those images?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 05, 2007, 05:41:43 PM
Bismuth is starting to be used quite widely as a replacement for lead in hunting ammunition, because of the concern about the toxic effects of lead in the environment.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: enronh on November 05, 2007, 05:44:58 PM
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern."
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: enronh on November 08, 2007, 03:56:29 PM
The greatest achievement  appearances.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 08, 2007, 07:11:44 PM
Some digital cameras can see the near infrared and you can see the infrared LEDs on remotes light up

They all can. It depends on the "color temperature" that you want to capture. Many of the professional grade digital cameras are quite capable of capturing images, well past the typical visible spectrum. Accessing the images through software manipulation is also very easy.

It opens whole new worlds to the forensic scientist and amateur experimenter, alike.
What filters on Photoshop would you use to see those images?


It's more about how you adjust the colors. Increasing and decreasing gamma, contrast, brightness, saturation and hue will allow your camera to see  well beyond the visible spectrum. There is some science to bring into play, but it is still mostly art.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 08, 2007, 07:33:59 PM
Some digital cameras can see the near infrared and you can see the infrared LEDs on remotes light up

They all can. It depends on the "color temperature" that you want to capture. Many of the professional grade digital cameras are quite capable of capturing images, well past the typical visible spectrum. Accessing the images through software manipulation is also very easy.

It opens whole new worlds to the forensic scientist and amateur experimenter, alike.
What filters on Photoshop would you use to see those images?


It's more about how you adjust the colors. Increasing and decreasing gamma, contrast, brightness, saturation and hue will allow your camera to see  well beyond the visible spectrum. There is some science to bring into play, but it is still mostly art.

I had an article about making an infrared flash light and using a digital camera as a cheap and dirty night vision
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 08, 2007, 08:02:05 PM
Some digital cameras can see the near infrared and you can see the infrared LEDs on remotes light up

They all can. It depends on the "color temperature" that you want to capture. Many of the professional grade digital cameras are quite capable of capturing images, well past the typical visible spectrum. Accessing the images through software manipulation is also very easy.

It opens whole new worlds to the forensic scientist and amateur experimenter, alike.
What filters on Photoshop would you use to see those images?


It's more about how you adjust the colors. Increasing and decreasing gamma, contrast, brightness, saturation and hue will allow your camera to see  well beyond the visible spectrum. There is some science to bring into play, but it is still mostly art.

I had an article about making an infrared flash light and using a digital camera as a cheap and dirty night vision

Obviously, filtering your light source (or your lens, but that is more hit and miss) in some way might actually lean toward the scientific approach. That is how it becomes more predictable. If you know how much of which end of the spectrum you are capturing, then "altering an image" to extract hidden information is a bit more straightforward and repeatable.

If you are just making an image using visible light and then later trying to alter it with software, the problem of "how much" to alter always arises.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 10, 2007, 08:17:04 PM
Osmium and Iridium are the two most dense elements in pure form.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 23, 2007, 04:24:55 PM


Thread killer!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 23, 2007, 04:27:39 PM

I actually forgot about this thread, until this morning. I got up really early to go to work and my cat was PISSED!!!

She has chosen me as her person and my early (way too early!!) rambling gave her a case of the vapors or something. She grumbled like a jealous bitch the whole time I was getting ready.

:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on November 26, 2007, 03:21:14 AM
I am not a real knight.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 28, 2007, 05:02:03 PM

Yes you are.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 28, 2007, 05:03:28 PM
My cat tries to keep me from leaving in the morning. She even resorts to biting and pulling me away from the door.

She is nearly full grown, born in March, but she has never been outside. I don't want to lose her to the fucking traffic, like I did my litttle dog feriend, Snuggles, back in February.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 01, 2007, 08:08:58 PM
The house across the street from me is vacant because they couldn't keep up the the payments now it for sale.  Too bad they were at least tolerable
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on December 02, 2007, 12:43:33 AM
The house across the street from me is vacant because they couldn't keep up the the payments now it for sale.  Too bad they were at least tolerable

You should buy the house, if you like the neighborhood!

I hate my neighborhood!

well, except for a few of the neighbors.

It's really the fucking through street they have amde (used to be a quiet streeet!) that I really hate.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: SovaNu on December 02, 2007, 12:47:11 AM
i need to pee and i don't feel like going cuz i'm listening to Vivaldi because Richard inspired me to download Four Seasons. :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 02, 2007, 07:18:35 AM
The house across the street from me is vacant because they couldn't keep up the the payments now it for sale.  Too bad they were at least tolerable

You should buy the house, if you like the neighborhood!

I hate my neighborhood!

well, except for a few of the neighbors.

It's really the fucking through street they have amde (used to be a quiet streeet!) that I really hate.

I want to move everybody is  too close here and it's getting snobby.   My street has been made the new through street too when I moved here it was very quiet
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on December 03, 2007, 05:02:44 PM
The house across the street from me is vacant because they couldn't keep up the the payments now it for sale.  Too bad they were at least tolerable

You should buy the house, if you like the neighborhood!

I hate my neighborhood!

well, except for a few of the neighbors.

It's really the fucking through street they have amde (used to be a quiet streeet!) that I really hate.

I want to move everybody is  too close here and it's getting snobby.   My street has been made the new through street too when I moved here it was very quiet

That happend about six years ago to us. It has now been discovered that you can bypass the town at high speed, if you whip down our street.

I actually went to the city council meetings a few years ago to get something done about it. I wanted a twenty five mile speed limit, more fourway stops and a couple of speed bumps in the residential portions.

They laughed, under their breath and told me to accept progress. I tried to organize some of the neighbors into a committee (along with my neighbor across the street) and they continued to flip us off, (even though there were fifteen residents at their meeting! It's a very small town) by telling us that this street must be kept open for the police and emergency vehicles. We tried to point out the OTHER main street, two blocks away and zoned commercial(!!) that the council already GAVE to the Firestone plant as a thoroughfare for their employees to zip through town to the Firestone plant. That wasn't good enough! They still want our street. (My wife's mom was living here, then, when this started, and that was all before they widened the street. This all happened over about four years, after which we moved into this house, due to finances. I could no longer afford two houses, after losing my job.)

So, I proposed that the whole DAMN street be re-zoned as commercial property. That would slightly raise the land value for all the ones who are most annoyed by the extra traffic and make it possible for us to sell at a profit and get out. NO! They won't do that either.

It has been a nightmare! I never ever want anymore to do with city politics.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 03, 2007, 05:07:35 PM
The speed limit is 25 mph on our street they go 50 and more.  Yeah my  town is useless  also might be better now after the elections thou the power balance has changed greatly
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: maldoror on December 03, 2007, 10:59:39 PM
I've made 10 videos of myself performing the same Leonard Cohen song and I will never upload any of them.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: SovaNu on December 03, 2007, 11:04:45 PM
come on.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: maldoror on December 04, 2007, 01:13:14 AM
*comes on*
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: SovaNu on December 04, 2007, 01:26:50 AM
good. post the videos then.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: maldoror on December 04, 2007, 01:08:37 PM
Why don't you post a video?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 04, 2007, 01:23:42 PM
Lighter flints are not flint at all but cerium and other rare earth elements mixed with iron
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: enronh on December 04, 2007, 01:37:37 PM
I've made 10 videos of myself performing the same Leonard Cohen song and I will never upload any of them.

Which one?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: SovaNu on December 06, 2007, 03:06:02 AM
Why don't you post a video?

cuz you're the goodlooking one.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 02, 2008, 05:10:48 PM
Don't want this one to die so

I buy probably over $300 worth of duct tape a year know more when I do my taxes
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on January 02, 2008, 06:21:10 PM
I was born in the first NHS hospital to open in England, almost exactly 40 years later
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on January 02, 2008, 07:22:19 PM
Is it still there? 

The hospital where I was born was torn down to make a new hospital.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on January 02, 2008, 08:49:00 PM
It's still here yeah. My mum and step-dad used to work there, it's near where I live.
It had a different name till just after I was born there though.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on January 02, 2008, 09:04:07 PM
Wow, it's about 60 years old.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 02, 2008, 10:00:46 PM
Wow, it's about 60 years old.

Seems weird, huh?

I grew up in a place where there was almost nothing old at all. Moving to Indiana and discovering real antiques was sort of fun.

There were a few ruined buildings from the Spanish, in south Texas, but most buildings were not built to last and anything left lying around either rusted away rather quickly or was buried in a flood.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 02, 2008, 10:37:28 PM
Try the northeast.

Or europe.

Or china.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 03, 2008, 03:21:44 PM
Try the northeast.

Or europe.

Or china.  :laugh:

Northeast?

Isn't that even newer in reference to white civilization and their ratpacking ways?

..... or are you saying that hundred year old shit still exists and does not dissolve as quickly as in the south coastal areas.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 03, 2008, 03:26:38 PM


..... or are you saying that hundred year old shit still exists and does not dissolve as quickly as in the south coastal areas.


I know that there are buildings from the late 1600's
around.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 03, 2008, 03:28:42 PM


..... or are you saying that hundred year old shit still exists and does not dissolve as quickly as in the south coastal areas.


I know that there are buildings from the late 1600's
around.

My town has a bunch from then it was founded in 1639
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 03, 2008, 04:01:57 PM


..... or are you saying that hundred year old shit still exists and does not dissolve as quickly as in the south coastal areas.


I know that there are buildings from the late 1600's
around.

My town has a bunch from then it was founded in 1639

Check out this thread I found. (http://www.city-data.com/forum/texas/200797-pictures-south-texas-mexico-border.html) This is where I grew up, along the Rio Grande River. They call these buildings "old" but they were mostly made just before WWI.

There is one old Spanish Mission, which I can't find a pic of (yet) that still exists in my old stomping grounds, (built some time during pre-French rule of Mexico) but most everything is gone from the time of Texas' independence and before. The town where I went to high school was established in 1889 as a train stop, just inside the border with Mexico. Needless to say there is an incredible history of train robberies, (mostly robbing the payroll of the army patrols :D) and Texas Ranger activity during that time. One of the Rangers was my great grandfather and his two brothers were in the cavalry in that area, trying to make it safe for white people to settle. It still took two generations before the so-called law  quit shooting people at random for being Mexican.

I was born about eighteen years after a massive raid, (perpetrated by the Grandfather of the man who was mayor of the town when I was in school) which took the lives of many legal residents, in order to confiscate all the court records and move the county seat a bit farther north, away from the border. That was in 1937. I was born in 1955)

They were still not organized into a decent community in the sixties. This is why there is nothing old. They wouldn't stop burning each other's shit to the ground in order to try things their own way.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 03, 2008, 04:05:22 PM
Don't see a link.  ???

there's nothing old out here.
At all.

Late 1800's is when the earliest real buildings
showed up.

I miss Ft Niagara.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 03, 2008, 04:15:50 PM
Don't see a link.  ???

there's nothing old out here.
At all.

Late 1800's is when the earliest real buildings
showed up.

I miss Ft Niagara.

Sorry.
I messed up the link at first then I discovered it it after adding more personal trivia.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lemon Aguilera on January 03, 2008, 04:16:43 PM
i watched Piratess Of The Caribbean, their clothes reminded me of you, Cal. :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 03, 2008, 04:21:40 PM

BTW, only n00bs notice or need signs which warn of rattlesnakes. Rattlesnakes are everywhere.

I've been struck three times, but one never got through my boots and sunk fangs into my skin. :D

Scorpions are a different story though.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on January 03, 2008, 04:32:07 PM

BTW, only n00bs notice or need signs which warn of rattlesnakes. Rattlesnakes are everywhere.

I've been struck three times, but one never got through my boots and sunk fangs into my skin. :D

Scorpions are a different story though.

There is only one common poisonous species of snake in Colorado: the western rattlesnake, which is native to the plains, so you won't find a rattlesnake much above 7500 feet elevation here.  I have been lucky, because I used to have a snake phobia.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 03, 2008, 04:33:38 PM

BTW, only n00bs notice or need signs which warn of rattlesnakes. Rattlesnakes are everywhere.

I've been struck three times, but one never got through my boots and sunk fangs into my skin. :D

Scorpions are a different story though.

Like the alligator signs in Florida :laugh:  When I lived there the oldest house in town was from around 1900
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 03, 2008, 04:35:18 PM


Sorry.
I messed up the link at first then I discovered it it after adding more personal trivia.

thanks.

One of the buildings reminds me
of a VERY old church, in St. Augustine.
I think 'twas 1600's
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 03, 2008, 04:36:24 PM


Scorpions are a different story though.

Know someone who woke up,
with one in his mouth.  :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 03, 2008, 04:39:56 PM

BTW, only n00bs notice or need signs which warn of rattlesnakes. Rattlesnakes are everywhere.

I've been struck three times, but one never got through my boots and sunk fangs into my skin. :D

Scorpions are a different story though.

Like the alligator signs in Florida :laugh:  When I lived there the oldest house in town was from around 1900

Yes, exactly.
The written history is quite recent in many areas of the south.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 03, 2008, 04:47:08 PM


Scorpions are a different story though.

Know someone who woke up,
with one in his mouth.  :o

They never did that to me, because their little clicking sounds wake me up as they move. They get in your clothes when you are not looking, though. I have never lost a battle with a scorpion in my pants, but I have mental scars from teh trauma. FUCK!

My cousins used to come to stay with us for several weeks in the summer while their parents went away to work. My poor mom kept all seven of us alive somehow.

My brother and I returned once to live with them after they had been away at our house most of the summer. Their house had become infested with scorpions during their time away. There were hundreds of them in the house when we arrived. Like cockroaches-in every drawer, under the bedclothes, in the bath, fucking everywhere!! I never wanted to stay with them again.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 03, 2008, 04:49:11 PM
I think you've given me nightmares.
And I'm awake.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 03, 2008, 04:52:02 PM
My ex brother in law emptied his M-16 in his sleeping bag in Vietnam thinking there was a snake in it there wasn't :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 03, 2008, 04:53:58 PM

BTW, only n00bs notice or need signs which warn of rattlesnakes. Rattlesnakes are everywhere.

I've been struck three times, but one never got through my boots and sunk fangs into my skin. :D

Scorpions are a different story though.

There is only one common poisonous species of snake in Colorado: the western rattlesnake, which is native to the plains, so you won't find a rattlesnake much above 7500 feet elevation here.  I have been lucky, because I used to have a snake phobia.

I've never been afraid of snakes, but rattles freak me WAY out!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on January 03, 2008, 05:03:20 PM

BTW, only n00bs notice or need signs which warn of rattlesnakes. Rattlesnakes are everywhere.

I've been struck three times, but one never got through my boots and sunk fangs into my skin. :D

Scorpions are a different story though.

There is only one common poisonous species of snake in Colorado: the western rattlesnake, which is native to the plains, so you won't find a rattlesnake much above 7500 feet elevation here.  I have been lucky, because I used to have a snake phobia.
They have two snakes in Manchester museum. I've never seen them move though :(
There's a green one who sleeps on a branch curled up

The church that used to be where my Sophie tree is was on fire on February 6th 1850, so it had to close for a few months. Then it got bombed by the Luftwaffe nearly 100 years later. And Elizabeth Gaskell lived just round the corner.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on January 03, 2008, 05:04:56 PM
Another useless fact is that today I slept with the TV on and there was a documentary on about sardines. I had that exact documentary in my dream except it was loads of women instead of sardiones. I dunno why. I also dreamed about Nazy Germany / Ancient Egypt. They were trying to find Jewish people in these big pyramids. Fucking weird.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 03, 2008, 05:05:35 PM
I saved a baby copperhead from people who wanted to kill it on a job site once I released it in the woods nearby on the way home
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on January 03, 2008, 05:55:08 PM
I saved a baby copperhead from people who wanted to kill it on a job site once I released it in the woods nearby on the way home

 :eh:

I am screaming in my mind at the thought of you picking it up, Parts. 

Copperheads are poisonous and I think that they bite more people than any other sort of venomous snake in the US.  Even though a copperhead bite may not be as likely to kill you as some of the other snakes, it would still hurt like hell and possibly harm the use of the body part that is bitten.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 03, 2008, 06:24:24 PM
I knew what it was and was careful it was just over a foot long didn't think it would do much.  I guess it's just the biologist in me that makes me do such things.  They are not very common around here even in the rural area I was in it would be sad to see them all gone
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 03, 2008, 07:31:00 PM
I knew what it was and was careful it was just over a foot long didn't think it would do much.  I guess it's just the biologist in me that makes me do such things.  They are not very common around here even in the rural area I was in it would be sad to see them all gone

Well. Ahm, Prayoud ovv ya!

As horrid as it may seem to resist stomping the life out of a poisonous reptile on sight, they do serve a "wholelife" purpose and the world is a safer place with them in it, as long as we don't try nesting together.

Obviously, handling dangerous animals is not for those with fear of them, only respect for them, in their hearts.
I have chosen a more immediate dispensation in the past though. I fed a nest of baby rattlers to brood of baby 'possums, once. I have also used them as fishing bait. I have seen very few worms wriggle like a tiny rattler on a hook.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on January 06, 2008, 12:33:50 AM
Quote
This is a grammatically valid English sentence:

    Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

It was discovered/invented in 1972 by University of Buffalo linguist William J. Rapaport. It means "Buffalo from the city of Buffalo that are intimidated by other buffalo from the city of Buffalo themselves intimidate a third group of buffalo, also from Buffalo."
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 06, 2008, 12:41:22 AM
He was one of my profs.

Did a lot of AI - language oriented stuff.
And was a cheater at bridge.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 06, 2008, 01:02:51 AM
5Y3 is a full wave rectifier tube
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 06, 2008, 03:12:26 PM
5Y3 is a full wave rectifier tube

Ah, but there are others, too.

I use a 5Y3 in my little minimalist amp, sometimes. (it actually will use about twenty five different rectifier tubes)

It uses anything similar to an EL84  or an SV83 (there are about nine output tubes that I can use)(input tube must be either one of three known possibilities, though) for an output of just under two watts SET.

It is the most incredibly clean and pure and musical sound I have ever heard. I have heard many amps, too.

... not just a few. In fact, I can only think of seven amplifiers that I have not heard.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 06, 2008, 03:23:05 PM


... not just a few. In fact, I can only think of seven amplifiers that I have not heard.

I can't think of ANY.  :laugh:

Somehow, I think you've heard more than me I, though.



EDITED for grammar, but I think it sounded
better, incorrect.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 06, 2008, 04:14:13 PM
"I" and "Me"  represents a war that can never end.

There will be no peace between "I" and "Me."




the amps ... I made it my work for most of my life and now it is my hobby. I may have understated if you consider hundreds of which I would have no interest in hearing perform.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on January 06, 2008, 04:20:44 PM

There will be no peace between "I" and "Me."


Shouldn't that be '"Me" and "I"'?   :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 06, 2008, 04:21:12 PM
Yes there are lots of tubes I mainly use them in radio applications though ever need one or two ask :)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 06, 2008, 04:49:22 PM

There will be no peace between "I" and "Me."


Shouldn't that be '"Me" and "I"'?   :orly:

I think the war has yet to decide that issue.

Grammatically speaking, though, sure.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 06, 2008, 05:41:22 PM

There will be no peace between "I" and "Me."


I want a piece of me.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 06, 2008, 06:48:33 PM
Yes there are lots of tubes I mainly use them in radio applications though ever need one or two ask :)


I would take any older American made or German made 5Y3, 5R4W rectifier tubes you have on hand.

Any 6N1P, 6H2N or SV83/EL84 types (or their variants) also.

Not interested in Chinese or Russian tubes, other than Sovteks with the eagle imprint

 8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 06, 2008, 07:01:38 PM
All the tubes I have are older American or European ones not all new in the box but tested.  I still use them is some radios and equipment when fixing things so it wouldn't be all I have on hand but if you need a couple or any weird ones PM
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 15, 2008, 08:20:53 PM
12345 is a zip code for     Schenectady New York
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Rabbit From Hell on January 16, 2008, 03:53:09 AM
prop jobs don't work at high altitudes because there is not enough air for the propellors to push against
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Rabbit From Hell on January 16, 2008, 03:54:38 AM
jets don't work well at low altitudes because air drag at the lower altitudes severly limits the speed the plane can fly at efficiently and without falling apart from vibrations
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Rabbit From Hell on January 16, 2008, 03:56:57 AM
The F-22 is capable of flying at supersonic speeds without the use of afterburners, this is the 'supercruise' thing you might have heard about.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Rabbit From Hell on January 16, 2008, 04:00:58 AM
The avionic package of the f-22 alone gives the pilot a huge advantage to PWN any other fighter in existence because it uses a computer to perform mundane tasks that pilots of lesser fighters must do themselves.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Rabbit From Hell on January 16, 2008, 04:03:11 AM
The machine gun on an a-10 was designed by israel and can shoot a (presumably) non-radioactive u238 slug through tanks and bunkers.


Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Rabbit From Hell on January 16, 2008, 04:04:47 AM
Shooting the bottom of an F-4 Fantom is futile, it's more heavily armoured than any other jet.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Rabbit From Hell on January 16, 2008, 04:06:59 AM
The B-2 flies like a rock with a jet engine attached.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Rabbit From Hell on January 16, 2008, 04:10:02 AM
If you're a civilian and you find those facts not to be useless you need to re-check your job description.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 16, 2008, 04:13:56 AM
GIVEN the place that contacted me,
I might just need to know some of that.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 16, 2008, 08:06:34 AM
All the tubes I have are older American or European ones not all new in the box but tested.  I still use them is some radios and equipment when fixing things so it wouldn't be all I have on hand but if you need a couple or any weird ones PM

Has it really been a week since this conversation began?!?

This has been a sort of fucked up week. Thank gawd that it flew by at super-life speed. I wonder - is there a life barrier that must be breached in order to enter super-life speed? If so, does it create a shock wave?
 ::)





Parts, I am really interested in Mullard, RCA, or Telefunken branded 5Y3s, 5R4W, 6DJ8, 12AX7, or EL84.

I don't know enough about the nuts and bolts of old radios to know if those specific types were used.

These tube types that I have listed are very common in modern tube type equipment, which I own. This, obviously, makes them more desirable than most types and a resulting rarity ensues, along with a higher price often being expected.  I would certainly be interested in any "deals,too good to pass up" you might have encountered in your dives, but I would not want to rip you off.


You might scan this guy's site (http://www.tubeman.com/).  He has an excellent reputation for quality service among the tube hi-fi crowd.

Another one, here, (http://www.vacuumtube.com/webuy.htm) who buys tubes outright and is known for his fairness.


You may have some treasures, if you haven't catalogued them recently.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 16, 2008, 08:10:12 AM
A net friend of mine made a lamp from a huge, old broadcast tube that he had acquired (posted a pic - I'll have to find it).  He runs the heater section, only, and has positioned it in his home's entryway as a nightlight.

:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on January 16, 2008, 11:07:01 AM
I'm not wearing any socks  :toporly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: vodz on January 16, 2008, 11:12:38 AM
a useless fact
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 16, 2008, 02:51:43 PM
francisco franco is STILL dead.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 17, 2008, 06:45:49 PM
francisco franco is STILL dead.

Are you sure he took me out for Chinese food last week :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 17, 2008, 07:11:39 PM
Hope you didn't sleep with him.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 17, 2008, 07:42:34 PM
Hope you didn't sleep with him.

Like I would after he wouldn't buy drinks :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 17, 2008, 07:58:55 PM
I'm NOT wearing the top hat, any longer.  >:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 18, 2008, 09:24:38 AM


Bobby Fischer is dead. (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1704861,00.html?xid=feed-rss-netzero)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 18, 2008, 09:30:24 AM
Although not exactly a useless fact to everyone, you can buy a kit to make yourself an authentic, historically accurate trebuchet, even if you are not inclined to do the necessary engineering or research medieval weaponry yourself.



It's clicky.
(http://img.rlt.com/l/10201.jpg) (http://www.trebuchet.com/)

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 18, 2008, 10:22:44 AM
I made a small catapult for my kids it threw golf ball about 100 feet
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/parts67/Picture643.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: duncvis on January 18, 2008, 01:43:56 PM


Bobby Fischer is dead. (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1704861,00.html?xid=feed-rss-netzero)

I read that earlier too. Seems like an interesting guy, if a bit fucking loopy. I think I'd like to have met him.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 19, 2008, 01:00:57 PM
There is nothing good to drink at my house :'(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 19, 2008, 01:15:55 PM
Although not exactly a useless fact to everyone, you can buy a kit to make yourself an authentic, historically accurate trebuchet, even if you are not inclined to do the necessary engineering or research medieval weaponry yourself.


That's a lot of money, for something so small.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on January 19, 2008, 03:48:38 PM
i'm in bed
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 19, 2008, 04:16:37 PM
Although not exactly a useless fact to everyone, you can buy a kit to make yourself an authentic, historically accurate trebuchet, even if you are not inclined to do the necessary engineering or research medieval weaponry yourself.


That's a lot of money, for something so small.

I think it's a bargain, considering that the kit consists of over one hundred forty, precision computer cut pieces, complete assembly instructions, including pictures. Models with this degree of authenticity are usually pricey, ya know.

If you would prefer to do all the cutting on your own shop equipment and scale it as you see fit, you can also purchase sets of plans by download or CD for only around twenty bucks.

... or for about forty bucks you can buy their complete course, with many plans, lots of theory, virtual simulator programs, etc. Even some tips on competition.

Useless!

:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 19, 2008, 04:47:18 PM
ON the chance that I'd be willing to spend
that kind of money, I think I'd rather do it all
myself. Even if the result wasn't as nice.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 19, 2008, 07:07:26 PM

Money only has value when you buy something with it, Ebeneezer.

... or is it Anti-Midas?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on January 19, 2008, 07:08:16 PM
where I live we pay for things with £s
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 19, 2008, 07:13:16 PM

Money only has value when you buy something with it, Ebeneezer.

... or is it Anti-Midas?

I horde. And compare different values.
Got an accordion for $40 once, and it's
tainted my feelings about what things are
worth. Went for years, measuring everything
in terms of how many accordions they were
worth.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 19, 2008, 07:32:10 PM
where I live we pay for things with £s

I'm sorry.


:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 19, 2008, 07:36:09 PM

Money only has value when you buy something with it, Ebeneezer.

... or is it Anti-Midas?

I horde. And compare different values.
Got an accordion for $40 once, and it's
tainted my feelings about what things are
worth. Went for years, measuring everything
in terms of how many accordions they were
worth.  :laugh:

With me, it's usually PA equipment, especially big speakers.

I did find a hurdy gurdy once, too cheap. It didn't work, but I fixed it. Somehow I never made the transition to assessing the value of things in hurdy gurdies.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: duncvis on January 21, 2008, 03:07:11 AM
Somehow I never made the transition to assessing the value of things in hurdy gurdies.

classic quote. coming to a random post out of context soon.  :eyebrows:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 21, 2008, 07:59:27 PM
I like having at least five pillows on the bed so I can sleep well :-[
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on January 21, 2008, 08:02:37 PM
I'm wearing blue shorts and a purple shirt.

I don't know shit about fashion.  :party:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 21, 2008, 08:27:41 PM
soph owns velcro gloves :indeed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on January 21, 2008, 08:29:30 PM
What are you on about? :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 21, 2008, 08:40:06 PM
 :dankesh:

Does it matter?

(too little sleep, really)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: duncvis on January 21, 2008, 09:36:47 PM
This is the second night running my daughter has kicked me off my couch.  >:( :yawn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 23, 2008, 05:15:59 PM
I fell asleep in a chair last night :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on January 23, 2008, 07:11:08 PM
i haven't cried for nearly 4 hours  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 23, 2008, 07:30:06 PM
i haven't cried for nearly 4 hours  :zoinks:
:clap: try and keep it up
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Rabbit From Hell on January 23, 2008, 07:39:24 PM
I've been getting a lot of gas today. :stinker:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Gluey on January 26, 2008, 12:05:13 AM
My pet rat, Splinter is crawling around in my shirt and bra.
She's so cute and so soft.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 26, 2008, 10:48:32 AM
Lucky rat :eyebrows:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on January 26, 2008, 10:31:08 PM
omg we're all going to die!!!!!!!  :orly:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7211443.stm
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: zaftig on January 26, 2008, 10:43:06 PM
"In his estimate, the satellite weighs about 20,000 pounds (9,072kg) and is the size of a small bus."

Double or single-decker?  :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on January 26, 2008, 10:46:41 PM
I'm not sure  :zoinks:

The SF chronicle says it is disabled

Why must they discriminate against the disabled??? :(

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/01/26/national/w122451S43.DTL

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on January 26, 2008, 10:47:13 PM
Disabled spies are people too
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 27, 2008, 12:28:35 PM
They say it might also have components made of Beryllium which is a toxic light weight metal used in the aerospace industry
Title: Re: spam a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 27, 2008, 04:10:23 PM
Heh, saw some chinese guys putting chains
on their car. Hell, where I'm from, those things
are illegal. Totally pointless, as it's just slush
on the roads.
Title: Re: spam a useless fact
Post by: Soph on January 27, 2008, 07:40:48 PM
I'm experiencing a "temporary problem" with yahoo mail  :(
Title: Re: spam a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on January 28, 2008, 07:04:05 AM
My dermatitis is finally letting up!   :thumbup:
Title: Re: spam a useless fact
Post by: Soph on January 28, 2008, 01:07:19 PM
these crisps taste like wine  ???
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 28, 2008, 05:08:30 PM
By which you mean piss?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on January 28, 2008, 05:28:41 PM
Not piss wine, winey f,lavoured alcohol or something
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 28, 2008, 06:55:59 PM
My new paint sprayer has amputation warnings on it :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: duncvis on January 28, 2008, 08:46:28 PM
scary ass spray gun.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 28, 2008, 08:48:27 PM
Max pressure is 3500 lbs.  One place I worked a guy took a few fingers off with one that shot hot tar on foundations
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: duncvis on January 28, 2008, 08:49:40 PM
holy crap.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on January 28, 2008, 09:49:15 PM
As I said, be CAREFUL using it
for pleasure.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on January 28, 2008, 09:51:49 PM
Yes you don't want to spray paint your penis off  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 28, 2008, 11:36:14 PM

Yeah, three thousand five hundred pounds per square inch is one wicked sprayer!

Cool tools rule!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on January 29, 2008, 04:49:30 AM
Max pressure is 3500 lbs.  One place I worked a guy took a few fingers off with one that shot hot tar on foundations

I was trying to imagine how a paint gun could amputate.  This makes sense.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 29, 2008, 08:16:10 AM
Max pressure is 3500 lbs.  One place I worked a guy took a few fingers off with one that shot hot tar on foundations

I was trying to imagine how a paint gun could amputate.  This makes sense.

When I was in high school, the big competitive push at the carwash chains was the POWER in pounds per square inch at the nozzle, which was available for the customer after depositing a quarter.

There were several accidents where people were cut by the powerful stream of water and air. A few chains were held liable.There was even a distraught parent who was washing her little boys dirty feet and stripped the skin off of the tops of his toes.

Oh, the stupidity of the American push for greenbacks or in this case, Washington quarters instead of whole dollars.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on January 29, 2008, 08:40:36 AM
Max pressure is 3500 lbs.  One place I worked a guy took a few fingers off with one that shot hot tar on foundations

I was trying to imagine how a paint gun could amputate.  This makes sense.

I saw a show somewhere about how very high pressure water jets are used to make precision cuts in sheet metal.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 29, 2008, 09:40:53 AM
Max pressure is 3500 lbs.  One place I worked a guy took a few fingers off with one that shot hot tar on foundations

I was trying to imagine how a paint gun could amputate.  This makes sense.

I saw a show somewhere about how very high pressure water jets are used to make precision cuts in sheet metal.

Kind of like the old dilemma about how to contain a universal solvent ...

What are the nozzles made from and how long do they last?

:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on January 29, 2008, 11:03:30 AM
Max pressure is 3500 lbs.  One place I worked a guy took a few fingers off with one that shot hot tar on foundations

I was trying to imagine how a paint gun could amputate.  This makes sense.

I saw a show somewhere about how very high pressure water jets are used to make precision cuts in sheet metal.

Kind of like the old dilemma about how to contain a universal solvent ...

What are the nozzles made from and how long do they last?

:D

Not sure what the nozzles are made of, but, it was pretty awesome at how neat and clean and precise the lettering or image was that they were cutting.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on February 06, 2008, 07:45:59 PM
I have 8 finger and 2 thumbs.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on February 06, 2008, 07:47:24 PM
My grandad had less than 8 fingers
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on February 06, 2008, 08:57:49 PM
I have 10 toes and I have stubbed everyone of them at least once this week.   :'(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on February 06, 2008, 08:58:51 PM
I banged my elbow on the wall before :(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 06, 2008, 10:02:14 PM
Max pressure is 3500 lbs.  One place I worked a guy took a few fingers off with one that shot hot tar on foundations

I was trying to imagine how a paint gun could amputate.  This makes sense.

I saw a show somewhere about how very high pressure water jets are used to make precision cuts in sheet metal.

Kind of like the old dilemma about how to contain a universal solvent ...

What are the nozzles made from and how long do they last?

:D

The nozzles are carbide I don't how long they last but I have about 6 of them
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on February 07, 2008, 07:06:57 AM
It snowed last night, again.  ::)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 07, 2008, 01:17:55 PM
I scraped a quarter of an inch of ice off my windshield at about four thirty this morning.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on February 07, 2008, 03:31:32 PM
The snow pile by our front door is just about 8 feet high and approx 8 feet wide and long with more snow coming.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 07, 2008, 03:51:44 PM
*beams high energy microwaves in Ozy's direction*

Oh, FUCK!

Sorry about all the slush and half frozen mud everywhere.

I literally HATE like fuck to wish my life away, but I'm ready for spring!!11
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 07, 2008, 03:57:30 PM
The snow pile by our front door is just about 8 feet high and approx 8 feet wide and long with more snow coming.

BTW, Central Indiabanana has no snow on the ground. The latest heat waves and spring-like storms have melted it all away.

We have roads closed from flooding, instead.

Really, we can go east to the newest main highway and get out of town north or south, but that's about it! Almost all east/west roads are closed and all the old north/south roads are closed, due to flooding.

:D



no really

 
:D

Loads and re-loads weapon of choice in maniacal stupor over and over and over again.




No really

:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on February 07, 2008, 03:58:12 PM
My feet are cold
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on February 07, 2008, 04:55:57 PM
*beams high energy microwaves in Ozy's direction*

Oh, FUCK!

Sorry about all the slush and half frozen mud everywhere.

I literally HATE like fuck to wish my life away, but I'm ready for spring!!11

I'm ready to live in Florida!!   :laugh:  I'm sure certain parts of Georgia that are suffering from a mega drought would LOVE to have our snow!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 07, 2008, 05:31:48 PM
*beams high energy microwaves in Ozy's direction*

Oh, FUCK!

Sorry about all the slush and half frozen mud everywhere.

I literally HATE like fuck to wish my life away, but I'm ready for spring!!11

I'm ready to live in Florida!!   :laugh:  I'm sure certain parts of Georgia that are suffering from a mega drought would LOVE to have our snow!


I miss the south Texas Gulf Coast this time of year more than any other time.

Fresh seafood, concerts, walks on the beach, amazing sunrises, bikinis, and more birds than seems right.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on February 07, 2008, 06:48:43 PM
*beams high energy microwaves in Ozy's direction*

Oh, FUCK!

Sorry about all the slush and half frozen mud everywhere.

I literally HATE like fuck to wish my life away, but I'm ready for spring!!11

I'm ready to live in Florida!!   :laugh:  I'm sure certain parts of Georgia that are suffering from a mega drought would LOVE to have our snow!


I miss the south Texas Gulf Coast this time of year more than any other time.

Fresh seafood, concerts, walks on the beach, amazing sunrises, bikinis, and more birds than seems right.

 Your making me :drool: , stop it!!   :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: zaftig on February 07, 2008, 07:41:31 PM
My half-term is fast approaching  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 07, 2008, 10:12:01 PM
The woman news anchor is wearing way to much make up
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on February 08, 2008, 07:56:41 PM
I am not a giraffe.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: zaftig on February 08, 2008, 08:22:19 PM
I am watching the newest episode of The L Word.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on February 08, 2008, 08:54:34 PM
I am not a rhinoceros.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: zaftig on February 08, 2008, 08:56:43 PM
I want Shane.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on February 08, 2008, 09:05:29 PM
I am not a penguin
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on February 08, 2008, 09:13:04 PM
I play Freelancer to much.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on February 08, 2008, 09:14:01 PM
I'm wearing pajamas that I bought in Minnesota.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 08, 2008, 09:14:51 PM
I have never been to Minnesota.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on February 08, 2008, 09:36:59 PM
I have never been to Russia
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: duncvis on February 08, 2008, 09:41:56 PM
I have never been to loads of interesting sounding places. Yet.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on February 08, 2008, 09:42:58 PM
I can successfully put my duvet inside the duvet cover in less than 20 minutes
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Rabbit From Hell on February 08, 2008, 10:15:19 PM
Quote from: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) in which participants play editors of a hypothetical online encyclopedia, where they try to insert misinformation that they are randomly assigned when they create their accounts, while preventing contrary information from being entered by others. Players with similar misinformation to promote will generally form "guilds" in order to aid each other.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 08, 2008, 10:26:25 PM
I feel like  I am high but have not had anything that could do that :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on February 09, 2008, 04:30:29 AM
The boardgame, Campaign North Africa takes an estimated
2700 hours to play.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Rabbit From Hell on February 09, 2008, 04:33:18 AM
The boardgame, Campaign North Africa takes an estimated
2700 hours to play.

Screw you guys, I'm going home.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on February 09, 2008, 04:34:47 AM
 :zoinks:

Don't think anyone's ever finished it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Rabbit From Hell on February 09, 2008, 04:35:33 AM
Why the hell would you play it?  That's like playing WoW or Wikipedia.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on February 09, 2008, 04:36:57 AM
The Japanese wargamed the battle for midway.
Twice, their carrier force had to be 'resurected'
from the dead, because of the inconceivable
results which came from the games.

Pity they didn't pay attention to them.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on February 09, 2008, 04:38:33 AM
Why the hell would you play it?  That's like playing WoW or Wikipedia.

There are shorter scenarios.
Mainly though, the only reason I
can think of, is in order to say you
did so.

But, keeping track of water evaporation rates
for brigade sized units just isn't my idea of
fun.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on February 09, 2008, 04:42:57 AM
Hasbro now controls more than half the
worldwide boardgaming market. The state
of which rather shows why monopolies are
a BAD thing.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on February 09, 2008, 06:51:47 AM
I have never been to Minnesota.

If you'v ever been to any mid western state, then you'v seen what Minnesota looks like!!   :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 09, 2008, 07:44:41 AM
I have never been off the East Coast :'(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 09, 2008, 05:00:07 PM


a useless fact
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lucifer on February 09, 2008, 05:01:40 PM
:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on February 09, 2008, 06:26:56 PM


a useless fact

Shoulda seen that one coming.   :plus:   :laugh:

I shovelled and hacked off at least a ton of ice off my porch roof and another section of roof.  Damn near knocked me off the ladder that I was standing on when they slid down.  :o  Not to worry, I would have fallen into a snow pile that was only three feet below the roof edge. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 09, 2008, 06:36:21 PM
We haven't even had 4 inches of snow at once this winter
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on February 09, 2008, 06:40:38 PM
I'm exerting all my considerable psionic powers and directing the next three storms into CT.   :evillaugh:  ANd away from MAine!   :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 09, 2008, 06:45:11 PM
Please do when they cancel school I can work days instead of nights there :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on February 09, 2008, 06:50:13 PM
By your command.............................. :toporly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Soph on February 09, 2008, 06:57:29 PM
my heart is beating funny tonight
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: zaftig on February 10, 2008, 08:01:10 AM
My tissues smell of bubblegum.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 10, 2008, 08:09:24 AM
By your command.............................. :toporly:

All we got is rain last night
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on February 10, 2008, 08:17:02 AM
In WWII, the RAF saved some money
on their parachutes, by not including
a backup ripcord.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on February 10, 2008, 12:10:40 PM
By your command.............................. :toporly:

All we got is rain last night

The Gods are mocking me!!   :grrr:  I shall have to kill them in the time honored Klingon fashion!   :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 10, 2008, 05:50:16 PM
Had a second interview with the corporate representatives from the company's "HARVEST"  faction.  I really don't like strangers who I am expected to impress favorably.

I can't remember what the acronym stands for, but it refers to the company policy on promoting from within the company for supervisory staff.

In a way, this could be good news, but it might just as well be a useless fact.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on February 10, 2008, 08:42:21 PM
Had a second interview with the corporate representatives from the company's "HARVEST"  faction.  I really don't like strangers who I am expected to impress favorably.

I can't remember what the acronym stands for, but it refers to the company policy on promoting from within the company for supervisory staff.

In a way, this could be good news, but it might just as well be a useless fact.

Given the impression you've made...

 :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Gluey on February 10, 2008, 10:38:44 PM
My rat loves me.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on February 10, 2008, 10:44:13 PM
Phoenix was the largest city without a rail system.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 11, 2008, 01:07:05 PM
Had a second interview with the corporate representatives from the company's "HARVEST"  faction.  I really don't like strangers who I am expected to impress favorably.

I can't remember what the acronym stands for, but it refers to the company policy on promoting from within the company for supervisory staff.

In a way, this could be good news, but it might just as well be a useless fact.

Given the impression you've made...

 :thumbup:


Thanks.
I have just done my job to the besst of my ability. It is not a complicated job. Simple reading, followwing instructions to the letter, but being determined to finnish if the instructions are incorrrect.

The most difficult part for an average dope would be the arrival, with open eyes, at four AM, ready for what ever comes. I am up already. I might as well make a few bucks, ya know.

I honestly can not think of any one thing that may have set me apart from the rest of the crew.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on February 11, 2008, 11:00:53 PM


I honestly can not think of any one thing that may have set me apart from the rest of the crew.

Eh? Thought you came up with a better
way of doing things.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Rabbit From Hell on February 12, 2008, 12:45:43 AM
I'm making this post from my iPaq with my infrared keyboard. That I got with my very first PDA.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Gluey on February 12, 2008, 02:06:29 AM
Rats are sweet. Rats are cute.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Gluey on February 12, 2008, 02:14:42 AM
I'm a huge Beatles fan and Ringo is my favorite Beatle.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on February 12, 2008, 04:25:11 AM
I've got a big turd stuck in my rectum.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Gluey on February 12, 2008, 05:22:28 AM
you can get the tarnish off your jewelry by using toothpaste that contains fluoride.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 12, 2008, 04:48:23 PM


I honestly can not think of any one thing that may have set me apart from the rest of the crew.

Eh? Thought you came up with a better
way of doing things.

Everything I do, I do my own way. I was probably bitching about how stupid something was done, but yes, I am always trying to make things work more smoothly and efficiently.

They probably do this to all who are new and I have become overly suspicious, apprehensive and cautious over nothing.

It could possibly be good news, but it is difficult to see beyond the interview stages.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on February 12, 2008, 05:22:42 PM
Don't worry.

What I meant was that you got them
to institute a change.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calandale on March 11, 2008, 10:55:40 PM
Cool, the phone company bill that I was worried
I wouldn't pay on time indicates that they owe
me money. Not surprising, I guess.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 12, 2008, 06:07:15 AM
My business phone line still gets call from bill collectors for the people who had the number before me six years ago ::)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: jman on March 12, 2008, 06:15:53 AM
I found a shortcut to get from my house to New Kensington, in about 20-25 minutes whereas normally it takes about half hour 45 minutes.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on March 12, 2008, 01:57:30 PM
I did not shovel snow today.   :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 12, 2008, 03:35:41 PM

*hijacks bandwagon*



Now you see it.



(http://www.meerkats.net/popgif.gif)




Now you don't.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 12, 2008, 03:37:32 PM


Meerkats can climb trees.



(http://www.meerkats.net/photos-sentry/sentry_alain_degre.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Sophgay on March 12, 2008, 03:41:38 PM
i'm singing very badly
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 12, 2008, 03:55:29 PM

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!"


(http://www.meerkats.net/photos%20baby/babiesplaying_alain_degre.jpg)



Scarlet and Rhett have nothing on meerkat love.


Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 12, 2008, 03:57:57 PM


Meerkats are competitive at an early age.



(http://itech.pjc.edu/sctag/Meerkat/meerkat_babiesx.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 12, 2008, 04:51:56 PM


M.C. stands for Meer Cat!



Hammertime!


(http://www.clunkyrobot.com/images/meerkat_blogthumb.jpg)


"Can't touch this!"
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 12, 2008, 04:54:34 PM


Meerkats are highly evolved and are known to persue interracial relationships.


(http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/images/meerkats.jpg)


Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lucifer on March 12, 2008, 05:02:31 PM

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!"


(http://www.meerkats.net/photos%20baby/babiesplaying_alain_degre.jpg)



Scarlet and Rhett have nothing on meerkat love.

"tell me, honestly - does my breath smell?"
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 14, 2008, 06:34:38 PM

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!"


(http://www.meerkats.net/photos%20baby/babiesplaying_alain_degre.jpg)



Scarlet and Rhett have nothing on meerkat love.

"tell me, honestly - does my breath smell?"

Your breath smells like you've been at the termite's asswine again. You probably shouldn't drive.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Persona on March 14, 2008, 06:45:07 PM

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!"


(http://www.meerkats.net/photos%20baby/babiesplaying_alain_degre.jpg)



Scarlet and Rhett have nothing on meerkat love.

"tell me, honestly - does my breath smell?"

 :lol:  :plus:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 14, 2008, 07:58:10 PM
The area where the Meerkats are at the Bronx zoo really smalls bad :eh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Sophgay on March 15, 2008, 08:03:21 PM
Lucozade is not appropriate for replacing hte fluid lost during diarrhoea
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: jman on March 15, 2008, 08:10:58 PM
I once drove on route 666, it was in the middle of the woods out in the middle of nowhere, it was quite scary.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 17, 2008, 07:51:14 PM
I skipped work today
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on March 17, 2008, 08:01:04 PM
I did housework as I tried to de-stress myself.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Sophgay on March 18, 2008, 08:03:49 AM
i had a shower
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on March 18, 2008, 09:18:40 AM
I'm going to go refill my birdfeeders in a minute.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Sophgay on March 18, 2008, 09:20:37 AM
i'm not too sexy for my shorts
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on March 18, 2008, 09:59:53 AM
i'm not too sexy for my shorts

Your too sexy for your cat??   ;)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Sophgay on March 18, 2008, 10:01:32 AM
definitely :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on March 18, 2008, 10:03:05 AM
Are you too sexy for your shirts

Soooo sexy it huuurts.?? :eyebrows:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Sophgay on March 18, 2008, 10:06:12 AM
:laugh:

very painful

it's so hard being this sexy :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Peter on March 18, 2008, 10:43:30 AM
My dog drank from my aquarium.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Sophgay on March 18, 2008, 10:46:18 AM
my cat drank from the toilet once :'(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on March 18, 2008, 11:13:06 AM
:laugh:

very painful

it's so hard being this sexy :P

Your such a SEXY beast!   :eyebrows:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Sophgay on March 18, 2008, 11:18:08 AM
your observation is correct!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 18, 2008, 01:21:22 PM
my cat drank from the toilet once :'(

My cat waits just outside the shower door while I shower. When I get done she immediately runs into the dripping wet shower and drinks from the water droplets. She does this everyday.

Once she got in there with me while I was showering. She didn't stay long. She was pissed!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Sophgay on March 18, 2008, 01:23:44 PM
:laugh:

flo sometimes follows me around everywhere, and when i go into the bathroom, she stops. becuase she doesn't lieke bathrooms. she's like me. i think she has mild ocd. she definitely has social anxiety disorder and possibly agoraphobia as well anyway
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Persona on March 18, 2008, 07:04:33 PM
I love my red rug.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Persona on March 18, 2008, 07:07:47 PM
and I started biting my nails again.

Also this is my 600 post.  Yay to me.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on March 18, 2008, 07:11:11 PM
I am out of my mind........back in 12 hours!   :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Sophgay on March 18, 2008, 07:12:08 PM
by the time you get back, i'll have moved into your mind
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Persona on March 18, 2008, 07:13:04 PM
My mind eloped with yours.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on March 18, 2008, 07:34:37 PM
You really don't want to move into my mind.....................it's a pretty scary place! :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: SovaNu on March 19, 2008, 07:32:15 AM
why would i post a useless fact?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Sophgay on March 19, 2008, 07:35:57 AM
for a useless reason
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: SovaNu on March 19, 2008, 07:36:38 AM
there's no fact useless in my mind. :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Sophgay on March 19, 2008, 07:37:16 AM
^ that is a useless fact :D
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Post by: Parts on March 19, 2008, 11:16:53 AM
my dog marley likes sleeping under the covers on the bed
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Persona on March 20, 2008, 12:50:38 AM
It is morning.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Al Swearegen on March 20, 2008, 07:27:19 AM
I threw up last night

(Thanks to Vodzy)  :clap:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: duncvis on March 20, 2008, 07:39:18 AM
I threw up last night

(Thanks to Vodzy)  :clap:

if you think that was bad, don't google 'two girls one cup'  >:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Al Swearegen on March 20, 2008, 07:06:31 PM
Consider me warned  :clap:
Fuck that picture is burnt into my retina.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on March 20, 2008, 07:16:30 PM
Better your retina than your brain.  Eyes you can gouge out and live a full life.   :P  As for your brain..............................those images will HAUNT you forever, for eternity...  :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 20, 2008, 08:36:41 PM

OK, it's not fact, but there is something different in things that I feel, right now. I have responded differently to the same exact stimuli, in the last week.

Honestly, I am not into astrology, but I saw this today and I thought it was amazingly applicable.

Quote

Athena's Web: Powerful Full Moon Friday
By DON CEROW
Published on March 21, 2008

AS we begin our WEBWeek, we are immediately met by the power of the Full Moon. Although the Moon goes through this cycle every month, there is an extra charge that we're working with this month, and it will require a little more attention to properly handle. This is strong stuff.

The Full Moon has a tendency to flush events. As the Earth is sandwiched between the Sun and Moon, it is as if these two were tugging on a rope tied to the Earth. Our planet is stretched by the gravitational pulls, causing it to bulge at the equator.

But this attraction also pulls on the tides and our emotional bodies. We feel the pull. The Full Moon occurs the day after the Vernal Equinox this year and is exact at 1 degree and 52 minutes of Libra.

Those who have planets in their charts from one to three degrees of the cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn) will most feel the ramifications of this lunation. Because these are the early degrees of the cardinal signs, there's a real kick to the energy. This can manifest as being youthful, strong, eager and enthusiastic. For some it might seem as though wild animals were pulling to break their leash. For others it can initiate powerful new directions, throwing a great deal of excitement, energy and re-direction into fresh projects.

But it is not for this reason alone that this month is particularly potent. At the end of January, Pluto entered Capricorn. As of this Full Moon, Pluto is now at 1 degree and 7 minutes of Capricorn, very close to the degree alignment of the Full Moon at 1 Libra 52. Together, this pattern (a T-square) can cause some deep-seated changes in how we tackle the tasks at hand.

Pluto digs deep. It finds problems and ferrets them out, searching for the nest, core, or essence of the situation and then using all its power to eradicate it. We tend to get attached to our ways of being, whatever they may be. If life is good, why change? If things aren't so good, people often hang on, clinging to what they know rather than facing the darkness and uncertainty of the unknown. Pluto plows through emotional attachments like a hot knife through butter. It terminates and transforms. It's time to say good-bye, or at least it feels that way.

Because the Full Moon is in Aries and Libra, interpersonal relationships are being heavily weighed upon. Our perception is that the partner isn't pulling his or her weight and that the situation must stop. We tend to experience this combination in personal terms, but it can also represent business partners and allies. With Pluto in Capricorn, professional interests can be woven into the mix.

We may not have enough money (Pluto) or time (Capricorn) to get the job done. Secrets (Pluto) may come to light, revealing misuse of money (Capricorn), affairs (Pluto), corporate power (Capricorn) or mutual resources (Pluto), which can refer to anything that you've been saving, not just money. Laws (Libra) could be broken (Pluto), and this is when we find out.

This alignment will flush a powerful emotional discharge. Venom (Pluto) may be released and the seamier side of life could be brought to the forefront.

On the high side, this is a wonderful time to recycle, regenerate, throw out what no longer serves and turn over a new leaf. If the gods are happy with our offerings, they are less likely to carve a path of their own design for us to learn through. It's up to you.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Sophgay on March 21, 2008, 09:30:39 AM
i'm a useless fact
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Persona on March 21, 2008, 11:39:40 AM
Less useless than me.

My library books are way overdue.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 21, 2008, 02:14:45 PM
I was  librarian in collage and I'll give you a pass on them being overdue
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Persona on March 21, 2008, 02:24:03 PM
 :dankesh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on March 22, 2008, 09:58:54 AM
I'm home after driving 220 + miles in 24 hours. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Sophgay on March 22, 2008, 10:01:21 AM
i'm listening to radiohead
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 22, 2008, 06:33:31 PM
My dog likes Altoids which is good because he has bad breath
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 03, 2008, 06:04:19 PM
I like old threads
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on June 03, 2008, 08:05:00 PM
I don't like old threads
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 04, 2008, 04:56:16 AM
What about old yarns? :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on June 04, 2008, 07:38:38 AM
Nope, can't say as it interests me!   :yawn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on June 04, 2008, 12:19:00 PM
I am only receiving five FM stations  today. The air is loaded with natural EMI.


Lady of the Guard, "Oh, are you expected?"

Lady Earth,  "No, more like dreaded. Hahaha."
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 09, 2008, 03:35:07 PM
I just burnt my tongue on my rice
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on June 09, 2008, 03:52:47 PM
Just got my 190,917 mileage car back from the garage!  It's still running well!  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on June 09, 2008, 05:18:15 PM
I have learned a great deal of pool chemistry in the past couple of weeks, as it applies to the extremely "hard" Indiana water.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on June 10, 2008, 08:19:03 PM
Learning about super volcanoes.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on June 11, 2008, 06:03:05 AM
Learning about super volcanoes.

I'v been looking that up for some time now.  Found two books about supervolcanoes at Border's Books several months ago.   8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 11, 2008, 11:33:54 AM
Could not fit into the crawl space I went to work on today :-[
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on June 11, 2008, 11:37:06 AM
I fell asleep during a program about supervolcanoes, and missed half the show. :-[  Now I have to wait and see if it's repeated on the History Channel another time! 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 11, 2008, 11:41:10 AM
I fell asleep during a program about supervolcanoes, and missed half the show. :-[  Now I have to wait and see if it's repeated on the History Channel another time! 

Don't worry the History channel runs things to death before they stop.  It will be on many more times
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on June 11, 2008, 12:11:03 PM
I fell asleep during a program about supervolcanoes, and missed half the show. :-[  Now I have to wait and see if it's repeated on the History Channel another time! 

Don't worry the History channel runs things to death before they stop.  It will be on many more times

Hopefully and at a time(s) when I'm able to watch.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on June 11, 2008, 12:30:17 PM
I fell asleep during a program about supervolcanoes, and missed half the show. :-[  Now I have to wait and see if it's repeated on the History Channel another time! 

Don't worry the History channel runs things to death before they stop.  It will be on many more times

Hopefully and at a time(s) when I'm able to watch.

DVR time, pal.

No more worries about missing things once you are set up with one of those jobbies.

Even a boxed DVD recorder would help, now that blank DVD media is usually around a quarter per disk. I found TDK DVD+R media on clearance a couple of weeks ago for a dime per disk.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lucifer on June 11, 2008, 02:58:41 PM
some bint called Daina Taimina came up with something called "hyberbolic crochet", which meant mathematicians were able to represent hyperbolic models easily and effectively.

ain't that just fab - crochet being used where conventional maths was failing to come up with anything which really worked.  ;D

and here's a photo or two:

(http://blog.electronature.com/images/hyperbolic_crochet.jpg)

(http://amarkonmywall.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/reef1.jpg)
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Post by: odeon on June 11, 2008, 03:57:23 PM
That is pretty cool.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on June 13, 2008, 11:20:50 PM
I have learned a great deal of pool chemistry in the past couple of weeks, as it applies to the extremely "hard" Indiana water.

Just wait until the birds start cleaning their babies' droppings out of their nests into your pool.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on June 14, 2008, 02:56:55 AM
I have learned a great deal of pool chemistry in the past couple of weeks, as it applies to the extremely "hard" Indiana water.
Just wait until the birds start cleaning their babies' droppings out of their nests into your pool.
:laugh: That is so positive!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on June 14, 2008, 06:41:36 AM
I killed 4 mosquitos this morning in our upstairs bedroom.   :grrr:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 14, 2008, 07:58:44 AM
Salt marsh mosquitoes are very active even during the day and I have the pleasure of having a salt marsh near my house
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on June 14, 2008, 10:44:26 AM
Salt marsh mosquitoes are very active even during the day and I have the pleasure of having a salt marsh near my house

I know all about Salt Marsh Mosquito's from my days living near the NH coast in my college days.  Vicious and fast, I counted 10+ once that landed and drilled in on my bare legs and sucked blood in what seemed like an instant.  I had been biking and had stopped at a shady wooded spot for a rest.  I didn't stay there long, my legs looked like I had waded thru a slaughterhouse after I went into a frenzy of slapping and smooshing. 

The only thing that can compare to that is the blackfly season in June in Northern Maine.  Baxter State Park specifically!  When your scratching numerous blood clots out of your scalp after a hike and while hiking you look like you've been sprinkled with living black pepper bits.  It's bad!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on June 14, 2008, 04:09:38 PM

nope, it's been done before.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on June 16, 2008, 10:26:44 AM

nope, it's been done before.

Have you figured out how to stop them from doing it?

They are driving me crazy.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on June 16, 2008, 02:57:29 PM
We bought a "new" car today.  Actually a 2007 Toyota Corolla that was used in a rental agency, 30,000.  My wee beastie was a 1998 Ford Escort SE with 191,000 miles on it and it was starting to feel it too.  Plus we got an upgrade in gas mileage Escort was 19/25 (town/highway mileage)  The Corolla gets 30/35.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 16, 2008, 04:42:50 PM
We bought a "new" car today.  Actually a 2007 Toyota Corolla that was used in a rental agency, 30,000.  My wee beastie was a 1998 Ford Escort SE with 191,000 miles on it and it was starting to feel it too.  Plus we got an upgrade in gas mileage Escort was 19/25 (town/highway mileage)  The Corolla gets 30/35.

I am jealous of that mileage I only get 8-9 around town and 13 on the highway.  So I don't drive much unless I have to
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on June 16, 2008, 05:23:33 PM
We bought a "new" car today.  Actually a 2007 Toyota Corolla that was used in a rental agency, 30,000.  My wee beastie was a 1998 Ford Escort SE with 191,000 miles on it and it was starting to feel it too.  Plus we got an upgrade in gas mileage Escort was 19/25 (town/highway mileage)  The Corolla gets 30/35.

 8)

What color is it?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on June 16, 2008, 05:44:23 PM
We bought a "new" car today.  Actually a 2007 Toyota Corolla that was used in a rental agency, 30,000.  My wee beastie was a 1998 Ford Escort SE with 191,000 miles on it and it was starting to feel it too.  Plus we got an upgrade in gas mileage Escort was 19/25 (town/highway mileage)  The Corolla gets 30/35.

 8)

What color is it?

Grey, so I'm, going to name this car "Gandalf" as in "Gandalf the Grey".  Yes, I have a habit of namiing my transportation modes after LOTR characters.    :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on June 17, 2008, 04:56:01 AM
What color is it?
That is always the first question I ask when someone gets a new car.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on June 17, 2008, 10:20:19 AM
I have a bifid uvula (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvula#Bifid_uvula).
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on June 17, 2008, 11:03:07 AM
I fell asleep during a program about supervolcanoes, and missed half the show. :-[  Now I have to wait and see if it's repeated on the History Channel another time! 

I see stuff like that available to download on P2P all the time. Heaps of History Channel stuff.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on June 17, 2008, 01:29:21 PM
We bought a "new" car today.  Actually a 2007 Toyota Corolla that was used in a rental agency, 30,000.  My wee beastie was a 1998 Ford Escort SE with 191,000 miles on it and it was starting to feel it too.  Plus we got an upgrade in gas mileage Escort was 19/25 (town/highway mileage)  The Corolla gets 30/35.

 8)

What color is it?

Grey, so I'm, going to name this car "Gandalf" as in "Gandalf the Grey".  Yes, I have a habit of namiing my transportation modes after LOTR characters.    :green:

What was the old car's name?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on June 17, 2008, 01:30:51 PM
I have a bifid uvula (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvula#Bifid_uvula).

 :o

Does it cause you to have any problems?

Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvula#Uvula_in_fashion
Today, the uvula is one of many body parts that people pierce. However, uvula piercings are very dangerous compared to other forms of body piercing, as the risks involved include swelling, throat edema, choking, and uvular infection.
/me runs away screaming.


Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Tesla on June 17, 2008, 01:46:13 PM
I have a bifid uvula (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvula#Bifid_uvula).

 :o

Does it cause you to have any problems?

Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvula#Uvula_in_fashion
Today, the uvula is one of many body parts that people pierce. However, uvula piercings are very dangerous compared to other forms of body piercing, as the risks involved include swelling, throat edema, choking, and uvular infection.
/me runs away screaming.



Wow... pierced uvulas!  I must have had a really bad snoring fit one night due to alcohol and a crappy inflatable mattress.  My uvula swelled up to twice it's normal size, it was uncomfortable as hell.  I can't imagine having a piercing in it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on June 17, 2008, 02:00:50 PM
We bought a "new" car today.  Actually a 2007 Toyota Corolla that was used in a rental agency, 30,000.  My wee beastie was a 1998 Ford Escort SE with 191,000 miles on it and it was starting to feel it too.  Plus we got an upgrade in gas mileage Escort was 19/25 (town/highway mileage)  The Corolla gets 30/35.

 8)

What color is it?

Grey, so I'm, going to name this car "Gandalf" as in "Gandalf the Grey".  Yes, I have a habit of namiing my transportation modes after LOTR characters.    :green:

What was the old car's name?

Galadriel
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Tesla on June 17, 2008, 02:03:51 PM
I always wanted a rally fast silver Audi.  I was going to name is Shadowfax.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 17, 2008, 02:30:54 PM
We had our Volvo serviced today.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on June 17, 2008, 02:48:15 PM
I updated the car insurance for the new wheels!   :hotrodder:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on June 18, 2008, 03:31:38 AM
I have a bifid uvula (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvula#Bifid_uvula).

 :o

Does it cause you to have any problems?

Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvula#Uvula_in_fashion
Today, the uvula is one of many body parts that people pierce. However, uvula piercings are very dangerous compared to other forms of body piercing, as the risks involved include swelling, throat edema, choking, and uvular infection.
/me runs away screaming.




As far as I know, no. It's been this way all my life, so I have no idea what it's like to have a normal one.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on June 18, 2008, 10:51:48 PM
As far as I know, no. It's been this way all my life, so I have no idea what it's like to have a normal one.

I know someone who had recurring tonsillitis that was untreated for a long time when she was a child, so the doctor had to actually remove her uvula because it was so infected.

It made her more likely to have things go down the wrong way when she ate or drank something.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on June 19, 2008, 01:04:41 AM

nope, it's been done before.

Have you figured out how to stop them from doing it?

They are driving me crazy.

Uhm, I was posting in jest regarding the topic title, not responding to a specific post.

... or did you already know that and the "useless facts" are driving you CRAZY!?! I don't think they can be stopped.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Tesla on June 19, 2008, 12:08:31 PM
Here's something I just read and thought was interesting.

I have been considering re shingling my roof, and was wondering about different colors and how they would affect the temperatures inside the home... this isn't the same thing, but is related and interesting.  Apparently all those dark colored roofs actually create hot spots in the local environment called heat islands:

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According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, for millions of Americans living in and around cities, heat islands are of growing concern. The "heat island effect" describes urban and suburban temperatures that are 2 to 10 degrees F (1 to 6 degrees C) hotter than nearby rural areas. Higher temperatures can impact communities by increasing peak energy demand and air conditioning costs. Several cities throughout the United States are looking into ways to combat the phenomenon. A cool roof can have a positive impact on its surroundings. It not only eases energy consumption at peak demand times, but a cool roof can also reduce the impact on the surrounding outside air temperature, potentially lessening the heat island effect.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on June 19, 2008, 02:00:09 PM
Here's something I just read and thought was interesting.

I have been considering re shingling my roof, and was wondering about different colors and how they would affect the temperatures inside the home... this isn't the same thing, but is related and interesting.  Apparently all those dark colored roofs actually create hot spots in the local environment called heat islands:

Quote
According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, for millions of Americans living in and around cities, heat islands are of growing concern. The "heat island effect" describes urban and suburban temperatures that are 2 to 10 degrees F (1 to 6 degrees C) hotter than nearby rural areas. Higher temperatures can impact communities by increasing peak energy demand and air conditioning costs. Several cities throughout the United States are looking into ways to combat the phenomenon. A cool roof can have a positive impact on its surroundings. It not only eases energy consumption at peak demand times, but a cool roof can also reduce the impact on the surrounding outside air temperature, potentially lessening the heat island effect.

We had our roof re-shingled in the lightest gray that was available in the type of asphalt shingle we needed.  The only lighter color would have been white.

If your roof does not have enough venting, it would be good to add some vents.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on June 19, 2008, 02:02:32 PM

nope, it's been done before.

Have you figured out how to stop them from doing it?

They are driving me crazy.

Uhm, I was posting in jest regarding the topic title, not responding to a specific post.

... or did you already know that and the "useless facts" are driving you CRAZY!?! I don't think they can be stopped.

Oh.  I thought that you were answering this:

I have learned a great deal of pool chemistry in the past couple of weeks, as it applies to the extremely "hard" Indiana water.

Just wait until the birds start cleaning their babies' droppings out of their nests into your pool.



Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on June 19, 2008, 02:42:37 PM

nope, it's been done before.

Have you figured out how to stop them from doing it?

They are driving me crazy.

Uhm, I was posting in jest regarding the topic title, not responding to a specific post.

... or did you already know that and the "useless facts" are driving you CRAZY!?! I don't think they can be stopped.

Oh.  I thought that you were answering this:

I have learned a great deal of pool chemistry in the past couple of weeks, as it applies to the extremely "hard" Indiana water.

Just wait until the birds start cleaning their babies' droppings out of their nests into your pool.





EWWW! That would be a problem.
Increased N would mean rapid algae growth, which leads to excessive O2, which means rapid depletion of Cl, disrupting the entire balance.

Aside from that ... YuK!


I know, Japanese eat bird nests, but I'm not Turning Japanese,  anytime soon, are you?


OBTW, I micro-manage the local chirper's nesting placement early in the spring, with my own presence and by playing music. It's easy to do here, because the leaves come very late in the season and the "twitterpated" wingers need shelter for their nests. They see me working in the garden and place their nests near the periphery of the property.

The only N-heavy problem I have this year is the early invasion of beetles which seem doomed once they hit the water. I have a nice skimmer with this new pool, though.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Peter on June 19, 2008, 03:02:31 PM
I know, Japanese eat bird nests, but I'm not Turning Japanese,  anytime soon, are you?

They eat birds nests?  Wouldn't they be kind of twiggy and full of poo and feathers and things?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: omega on June 19, 2008, 03:14:22 PM
/me wonders what the definition of a "useless fact" is. Which in itself might be a useless fact of course.

But I am pretty sure the fact that the color of the network cable that is attached to my printer is green, is a useless fact to the average reader.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on June 19, 2008, 03:54:05 PM
I know, Japanese eat bird nests, but I'm not Turning Japanese,  anytime soon, are you?

They eat birds nests?  Wouldn't they be kind of twiggy and full of poo and feathers and things?

I'm sorry, Peter. I thought of the song and wanted to use it as a slight nod toward humor, disregarding the particular differences in Squintenese cultures, due to my pervasive racism.

:D

It's actually the Chinese who eat swift nests (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird's_nest_soup), in a soup.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 19, 2008, 04:40:09 PM
/me wonders what the definition of a "useless fact" is. Which in itself might be a useless fact of course.

But I am pretty sure the fact that the color of the network cable that is attached to my printer is green, is a useless fact to the average reader.

Mine is yellow. See, now it's useful, all of a sudden, since I'm now using it to talk to you. :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on June 19, 2008, 05:09:51 PM

"There is nothing new under the sun,"  so I'm heading for the shade.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on June 20, 2008, 02:27:38 AM
/me wonders what the definition of a "useless fact" is. Which in itself might be a useless fact of course.

But I am pretty sure the fact that the color of the network cable that is attached to my printer is green, is a useless fact to the average reader.

All the network cables in my house are green cos I replaced everything with brand new Cat6 to go with my gigabit switches and all the motherboards in this house have built in gigabit lan ports.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: omega on June 20, 2008, 03:16:50 AM
All the network cables in my house are green cos I replaced everything with brand new Cat6 to go with my gigabit switches and all the motherboards in this house have built in gigabit lan ports.
Yesterday I extended my printer network cable with another green network cable. We also got one red network cable atached to an XBOX, all other network cables are grey here.

Also there is a bird walking on the pavement accross the street.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 20, 2008, 06:14:54 AM
I have two real stuffed alligators
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on June 20, 2008, 07:39:34 AM
I have two real stuffed alligators

How is this fact useless? That is friggin awesome!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on June 20, 2008, 10:16:11 AM
I have two real stuffed alligators

 :o

How big are they?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 20, 2008, 11:57:44 AM
I have two real stuffed alligators

 :o

How big are they?

Two and a half feet of so.  My grandmother had some that where around five feet. Yes the weirdness in my family goes way back :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Tesla on June 20, 2008, 01:55:00 PM
I have two real stuffed alligators

 :o

How big are they?

Two and a half feet of so.  My grandmother had some that where around five feet. Yes the weirdness in my family goes way back :laugh:
Some friends of mine caught one on the side of the road, put it into the back of their pickup truck and paraded it around at a party.

They ended up setting it free in Payne's prairie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payne%27s_Prairie)... 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 20, 2008, 02:12:06 PM
I have two real stuffed alligators

 :o

How big are they?

Two and a half feet of so.  My grandmother had some that where around five feet. Yes the weirdness in my family goes way back :laugh:
Some friends of mine caught one on the side of the road, put it into the back of their pickup truck and paraded it around at a party.

They ended up setting it free in Payne's prairie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payne%27s_Prairie)... 

I knew someone in high school that had on in the trunk of their car for over a week after catching it  smelled really bad
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 23, 2008, 04:02:36 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTyzTJTNhNk
He will be missed
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 25, 2008, 08:58:08 PM
Going to my brothers for the fourth of july
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on June 26, 2008, 01:23:42 PM
Going to my brothers for the fourth of july

I'm not. My brother lives a thousand miles away.



Actually, I just looked it up.  It's 1188.0 miles (1912.0 km), according to ask.com.
 :'(

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on June 26, 2008, 04:15:18 PM
I don't have a brother...................thank Cthulhu! 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 26, 2008, 04:41:29 PM
I have one.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on June 26, 2008, 04:51:24 PM
I hope you have a good relationship with him.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 26, 2008, 04:59:20 PM
It's a decent one.
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Post by: DirtDawg on June 26, 2008, 05:18:59 PM


Same here.

We get along great, haven't fought since our teens, and he's a smart guy. I don't get to talk to smart people enough, these days.

I miss him.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on June 26, 2008, 05:29:59 PM
Going to my brothers for the fourth of july

I'm not. My brother lives a thousand miles away.



Actually, I just looked it up.  It's 1188.0 miles (1912.0 km), according to ask.com.
 :'(



My brother is pretty far away too, about 1400 miles.

The other brother's grave is about 1000 miles away from me. 

He died almost exactly a year ago.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on June 26, 2008, 09:35:42 PM
Going to my brothers for the fourth of july

I'm not. My brother lives a thousand miles away.



Actually, I just looked it up.  It's 1188.0 miles (1912.0 km), according to ask.com.
 :'(



My brother is pretty far away too, about 1400 miles.

The other brother's grave is about 1000 miles away from me. 

He died almost exactly a year ago.

"Small world/We have stuff in common"  remark coming ...


My brother lost his oldest son four years ago, two weeks after his son's twenty first birthday ... almost exactly four years.

(it never gets any easier, like they say it does)

:hug:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on July 05, 2008, 05:24:32 PM
OHfuck!

I just went out and re-created the level of sound I was blasting into the neighborhood last night around midnight as a personal defense to all the goddamn fireworks, most of which are illegal in Indiana.

After about five minutes, I pulled it back to normal. Anyone within about a six or eight block radius last night was likely to be offended by my heavy rock music, no matter the rest of the noise.

I knew it was cranking out like hell, but I was not in a condition to care about things outside of my own dodgy nerves.

:headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on July 05, 2008, 05:45:06 PM
OHfuck!

I just went out and re-created the level of sound I was blasting into the neighborhood last night around midnight as a personal defense to all the goddamn fireworks, most of which are illegal in Indiana.

After about five minutes, I pulled it back to normal. Anyone within about a six or eight block radius last night was likely to be offended by my heavy rock music, no matter the rest of the noise.

I knew it was cranking out like hell, but I was not in a condition to care about things outside of my own dodgy nerves.

:headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang:
 

 :plus:  I know how you feel, oh yeah, I hear what your saying!   :indeed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on July 07, 2008, 01:52:49 AM
About 60 people die each year from getting hit by lightning.

I wonder how many of them get hit by lightning and survive?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 07, 2008, 05:10:38 AM
You can pick up Canadian dimes with a magnet
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Peter on July 07, 2008, 05:58:20 AM
OHfuck!

I just went out and re-created the level of sound I was blasting into the neighborhood last night around midnight as a personal defense to all the goddamn fireworks, most of which are illegal in Indiana.

After about five minutes, I pulled it back to normal. Anyone within about a six or eight block radius last night was likely to be offended by my heavy rock music, no matter the rest of the noise.

I knew it was cranking out like hell, but I was not in a condition to care about things outside of my own dodgy nerves.

:headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang:

How does it feel to own audio gear that's powerful enough to be used as an area-denial weapon?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on July 07, 2008, 09:58:26 AM
OHfuck!

I just went out and re-created the level of sound I was blasting into the neighborhood last night around midnight as a personal defense to all the goddamn fireworks, most of which are illegal in Indiana.

After about five minutes, I pulled it back to normal. Anyone within about a six or eight block radius last night was likely to be offended by my heavy rock music, no matter the rest of the noise.

I knew it was cranking out like hell, but I was not in a condition to care about things outside of my own dodgy nerves.

:headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang:

How does it feel to own audio gear that's powerful enough to be used as an area-denial weapon?

I know no other way.

I was fourteen when I first saved enough of my lawnmowing, stall shoveling, and (we kept chickens and ducks) egg selling money and bought a BIG bass amp. My dad had given me a Fender Precision bass instrument (an early sixties model - I still have it) the year before, which I had been playing through one of his guitar amps. I have ever since had some way to make defensively loud and powerful sounds in my care. I eventually made a decent living applying this interest.
I know no other way (repeated for emphasis).


Most of my stuff is old (Uhm, Vintage, that is ...) and big, but it would be cool to gather some of the newer, high-tech PA stuff some day. No real need, though.





A Full Standard, useless fact, we have there, folks!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on July 07, 2008, 04:09:40 PM
I can do that with some of my equipment, too. :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on July 07, 2008, 04:57:05 PM
I can do that with some of my equipment, too. :zoinks:

... but I gather that yours is mostly, more modern.

I am peripherally jealous, in some ways.




I would love to have cinema-style digi things .....
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on July 08, 2008, 02:40:11 PM
I can do that with some of my equipment, too. :zoinks:

... but I gather that yours is mostly, more modern.

Not all of it. My garage system has a Sensurround subwoofer thingy that is round 35 years old now. :zoinks:

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I am peripherally jealous, in some ways.




I would love to have cinema-style digi things .....

Only the fairly modern ones have the potential to sound good in anything but cinemas with cinema speakers. Well, there have been exceptions, notably the Dolby processors of old, but there's a lot of junk out there, too.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on July 08, 2008, 03:27:52 PM
I can do that with some of my equipment, too. :zoinks:

... but I gather that yours is mostly, more modern.

Not all of it. My garage system has a Sensurround subwoofer thingy that is round 35 years old now. :zoinks:
Technology which enables propagation of subaudible wavelengths has not changed in theory since the mid twenties. Some of the hardware is better, but "the song remains the same."

I would expect that a high quality reproduction system from thirty five years ago would sound as good today as it ever could, if it is in mechanically good condition.

My coolest/best sounding subwoofer system is driven by four, JBL E140 bass instrument drivers (circa 1976) which have been converted to produce lower frequency resonances and move a bit more air than stock. (yes, they are customised) They fucking kick ass!

Old speakers are fine! I have not seen anything modern that can even approach the quality of sounds I can create without spending many thousands of dollars.
 
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I am peripherally jealous, in some ways.




I would love to have cinema-style digi things .....

Only the fairly modern ones have the potential to sound good in anything but cinemas with cinema speakers. Well, there have been exceptions, notably the Dolby processors of old, but there's a lot of junk out there, too.

This is an area I would enjoy exploring more.

I have only seen modern digital hardware I would assess as junk, but I know better equipment exists.
I had a Dolby Digital Surround processor that I experimented with in the early nineties, but it was a leased item and I could not afford to buy it outright at the time. I was not able to take my system (which was designed around the severe requirements of live rock performance) in that direction then, but it opened my eyes and my ears to the possibilities.

 :'(


OH, interestingly, the "Demo CD" that accompanied the DDS (if I remember correctly, it wasn't called DDS, though) unit featured, none other than Ostein Seivag, (sorry, I doubt if I have the spelling correct) a well respected (these days, not then) Swedish New Age genre musician.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on July 09, 2008, 04:28:35 PM
Dolby SRD, right?

The top-of-the-line Dolby Digital cinema processors today are toys, to be honest, and I much prefer the ones made during the nineties. The modern ones can produce very good sound, though, if you know what you are doing (and have the proper gear).

You have to remember that they are made for cinema sound tracks (optical and digital)--you can't expect perfection if you hook up a CD player.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: punkdrew on July 09, 2008, 04:54:49 PM
To me, you would get the same results if you taped pillows to the fronts of your speakers.

My favorite useless fact of all time:

"Penguins is practically chickens."
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Gluey on July 09, 2008, 05:10:16 PM
You can sponge paint a small terricota pot in less than one minute. Trust me I did it today to transplant my cacti.
Maybe I will show pictures.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on July 10, 2008, 05:26:48 PM
You can sponge paint a small terricota pot in less than one minute. Trust me I did it today to transplant my cacti.
Maybe I will show pictures.

Yes, but it takes about two weeks to sponge paint an entire bedroom with four colors and two layering depth-enhancing washes (which must dry completely) during the process.

It looks really cool though when you're done.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on July 10, 2008, 07:37:39 PM
You can sponge paint a small terricota pot in less than one minute. Trust me I did it today to transplant my cacti.
Maybe I will show pictures.

Yes, but it takes about two weeks to sponge paint an entire bedroom with four colors and two layering depth-enhancing washes (which must dry completely) during the process.

It looks really cool though when you're done.

I think that it took me longer to sponge paint my daughter's bedroom with just two colors.

 :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on July 10, 2008, 10:06:31 PM
I've had a little more experience doing faux painting, though. Remember, I worked as a photographer for a large company and during the off season, I re-built literally dozens of photographic sets in six different locations, every single year.


:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on July 11, 2008, 12:30:14 AM
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: GalileoAce on July 11, 2008, 08:07:33 PM
An interesting but useless fact I learned whilst trawling Wikipedia.

Peter Davison, who played the fifth Doctor in Doctor Who, was and is the youngest to play the role, and when he reprised it in the mini-episode "Time Crash" (alongside David Tennant) he was older (at 56) than William Hartnell (at 55) when he first played the role of the first Doctor in "The Unearthly Child" serial.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on July 12, 2008, 01:34:32 AM
Fact: GalileoAce can spend four solid hours looking at articles on Wikipedia.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: enronh on July 25, 2008, 01:27:42 PM
One man's useless fact is anothers man's not so useless fact.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 25, 2008, 02:07:01 PM
The coffee cups and water bottles have reached the height of the passenger seat in my truck 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on July 25, 2008, 02:13:52 PM
I built a roll-around, self-contained cart that holds ALL my outdoor stereo gear today - the electronics part, anyway and there is room for expansion as necessary.  The speakers are still stacked up outside on the back deck, at least until snow threatens.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 27, 2008, 05:25:03 AM
The flesh in my gum has almost healed, it seems.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: enronh on July 27, 2008, 01:02:09 PM
Peace is worth it

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 29, 2008, 04:44:25 PM
I have too much stuff
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 29, 2008, 04:46:23 PM
I've smoked a small cigar and is thinking about smoking another one.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 29, 2008, 04:49:16 PM
Very good considering that it's Sumatra tobacco and not Havanna tobacco. 8)

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Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 31, 2008, 01:27:37 AM
It's 29 days since I had a haircut.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on August 03, 2008, 12:03:12 PM
I can't even remember the last time that I paid for a haircut.

I cut my own hair.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ApotheosisIV on August 04, 2008, 12:10:56 PM
I'm off for a shit in a minute.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 04, 2008, 12:37:52 PM
It rains cats and dogs here.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on August 04, 2008, 03:19:41 PM
It only rains dogs here--the cat got itself killed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 07, 2008, 06:35:33 AM
The melody of the Horst Wessel Lied probably comes from the song Der Abenteurer (The Adventurer):

    "Ich lebte einst im deutschen Vaterlande
    Bei goldner Freiheit achtzehn Jahr dahin.
    Da zog die Neubegierde mich zum Strande,
    Und ich bestieg ein Schiff mit frohem Sinn."

   

    "Once I lived in the German fatherland
    In golden freedom for eighteen years.
    Then curiosity lured me to the beach
    And I boarded a ship in cheerfulness."
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on August 13, 2008, 02:22:02 PM
My back is killing me in those shitty plastic chairs.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 13, 2008, 02:25:52 PM
I'm tired and have to go to a meeting at 7pm :yawn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on August 13, 2008, 04:18:44 PM
I mowed my lawn today!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on August 13, 2008, 05:18:05 PM
I went to work today.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 13, 2008, 06:17:52 PM
I use about 50 rolls of duck tape a year :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on August 13, 2008, 06:44:19 PM
I had some "exercise" with the missus tonight!   :eyebrows:  AND NO, there are no pics, AND it happened! :-*
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 13, 2008, 06:55:29 PM
I had some "exercise" with the missus tonight!   :eyebrows:  AND NO, there are no pics, AND it happened! :-*

Audio tape?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on August 13, 2008, 07:04:49 PM
I had some "exercise" with the missus tonight!   :eyebrows:  AND NO, there are no pics, AND it happened! :-*

Audio tape?

Nada!  :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on August 13, 2008, 07:19:06 PM
I had some "exercise" with the missus tonight!   :eyebrows:  AND NO, there are no pics, AND it happened! :-*

*breaks into classic rock lyrics, "I'm baaaaaaacccckkkk! Back in the saddle again!"*

Uhm, yeah. It's all going on here.

Life is good!

(have some catching up to do. I am impressed with my self, really.)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on August 13, 2008, 11:32:36 PM
I had some "exercise" with the missus tonight!   :eyebrows:  AND NO, there are no pics, AND it happened! :-*

Pon Far eh?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 13, 2008, 11:33:32 PM
I'm heating the oven to roast coffee beans.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 14, 2008, 12:15:39 AM
"Ballar" means "buttocks" in Danish but "balls"(testicles) in Swedish.  :book:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 14, 2008, 12:26:55 AM
"Ball" comes from Protogermanic "*balluz" which comes from Protoindoeuropean "*bhel-" which means "to swell".  :book:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 14, 2008, 12:29:42 AM
English "shed" and Swedish "sked" (spoon) come from the same root as "shit"; the original Protoindoeuropean meaning is "to divide" or "separate"; *skheid- ".  :book:  :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 14, 2008, 01:04:04 AM
"Asshole" is not attested in writing before 1935.  :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 14, 2008, 01:10:53 AM
The word "gun" origins from the name "Gunilda", a cannon in Windsor Castle in 1330. "Gunilda" comes from the Old Nordic names "Gunnr" and "Hildur", both meaning "war". "Gunnar" and "Gunilla" are still common names among people in my parents' generation.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on August 14, 2008, 05:37:46 AM
"Asshole" is not attested in writing before 1935.  :green:

The concept was well-known in ancient times, however. :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 14, 2008, 06:10:21 AM
Yup, and: "---chiefly U.S.; from dial. variant pronunciation of arse (q.v.). The loss of -r- before -s- attested in several other words (e.g. burst/bust, curse/cuss, horse/hoss, barse/bass). Indirect evidence of the change from arse to ass can be traced to 1785 (in euphemistic avoidance of ass 'donkey' by polite speakers) and perhaps to Shakespeare, if Nick Bottom transformed into a donkey in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream. (1594) is the word-play some think it is."
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on August 14, 2008, 06:17:58 AM
I had some "exercise" with the missus tonight!   :eyebrows:  AND NO, there are no pics, AND it happened! :-*

Pon Far eh?

Our minds were one!   :vulcan:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: GalileoAce on August 14, 2008, 06:19:40 AM
:plus:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 19, 2008, 08:50:14 PM
I am bored tonight
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: GalileoAce on August 19, 2008, 11:08:17 PM
Sarpino's makes awesome pizza
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Mr Smith on August 20, 2008, 08:22:35 AM
Pizza hutt has gone bust in Tauranga.

The food at my workplace has gone downhill.

Half the people at work don't like the dickface.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on August 20, 2008, 06:57:35 PM
I just got home from retrieving the offspring from camp.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: enronh on August 20, 2008, 07:13:13 PM
I had a really good shit 10 mins ago.  8)

Did you have with ketchup or mustard?   ;)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: GalileoAce on August 22, 2008, 05:43:17 AM
Tools are useful.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: El on August 22, 2008, 01:27:17 PM
The temperature at my desk is 72.8 degrees.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on August 22, 2008, 01:31:30 PM
I own a surrealistic Lasse Åberg painting.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on August 22, 2008, 03:40:20 PM
I bought a new Volcano book. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 22, 2008, 04:09:23 PM
Mowed part of the lawn today :yawn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on August 22, 2008, 05:45:04 PM
Went and got my new prescription for Ritalin!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: GalileoAce on August 22, 2008, 09:00:07 PM
The temperature at my desk is 72.8 degrees.
F or C?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Alex179 on August 22, 2008, 10:18:28 PM
F for sure.   I would think her desk is indoors lol.   
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on August 23, 2008, 08:01:09 AM
I love Prague.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on August 23, 2008, 11:53:22 AM


I love Austin.


... miss it, alll!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on August 23, 2008, 12:48:52 PM
I'm afraid of flying but flying fascinates me.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on August 23, 2008, 01:32:27 PM
Found an empty birth control pill pack at the end of our road.  It's a dead end with a loop type road.  It had the name of a girl (high school senior) I know who lives at the opposite end of our association road.

Some people should be careful about the trash they throw out their car windows!   ::)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 28, 2008, 09:55:01 AM
I have not had a banana today :'(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on August 28, 2008, 09:55:57 AM
I have not had a banana today :'(

Shouldn't that be your bitch for today?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on August 28, 2008, 10:14:00 AM
I killed a bunch of Mosquito's today!   
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on August 28, 2008, 10:23:46 AM
I killed a bunch of Mosquito's today!   

My hero!

 :1st:

How did you kill them?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on August 28, 2008, 11:37:08 AM
slap slap slap slap slap slap slap........when they swarm you as bad as they are doing this season, you lose count after awhile!   :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on August 28, 2008, 05:01:08 PM

Our season has been ant and spider heavy and I've seen very few mosquitoes.
They don't really bite me, but I usually hear them and it drives me bonkers, but not this year.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on August 28, 2008, 05:29:19 PM
slap slap slap slap slap slap slap........when they swarm you as bad as they are doing this season, you lose count after awhile!   :P

Mosquitoes carry West Nile virus here, so we have to be careful.  I actually know two people who got very sick from it and some people have died.

Mosquitoes just love me, so I need to use repellent.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on August 28, 2008, 05:30:34 PM
I went near the woods today to retrieve some slate for a little landscaping job.  I could hear the whine of the mosquito's before I even entered the woods and as soon as I got inside the tree line...... DING DING DING goes the dinner bell.  I grabbed the slate and broke the world record for the 100 yard dash before the blood loss reached critical levels!   :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on August 28, 2008, 05:32:09 PM
slap slap slap slap slap slap slap........when they swarm you as bad as they are doing this season, you lose count after awhile!   :P

Mosquitoes carry West Nile virus here, so we have to be careful.  I actually know two people who got very sick from it and some people have died.

Mosquitoes just love me, so I need to use repellent.

Here it's west nile virus and eastern equine encephalitis that are the big problems.  NY State requires an immunization of all children for EEE. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on August 28, 2008, 06:09:55 PM
slap slap slap slap slap slap slap........when they swarm you as bad as they are doing this season, you lose count after awhile!   :P

Mosquitoes carry West Nile virus here, so we have to be careful.  I actually know two people who got very sick from it and some people have died.

Mosquitoes just love me, so I need to use repellent.

Holy shit! I never knew Colorado was leading the nation.

I just googled and found this old news ...

"West Nile Virus Update

West Nile Virus Update–Nov. 3, 2003
By Guangye Hu

U.S.

During 2003, a total of 7,764 human cases of WNV infection has been reported from Colorado (2170), Nebraska (1,540), South Dakota (964), Texas (470), North Dakota (422), Wyoming (320), Montana (218), Pennsylvania (212), New Mexico (196), Iowa (141), Minnesota (137), Ohio (95), Kansas (85), Louisiana (84), Florida (78), Oklahoma (68), New York (67), Mississippi (56), Illinois (48), Maryland (45), Missouri (43), Georgia (36), Alabama (30), Indiana (30), New Jersey (26), North Carolina (23), Arkansas (21), Virginia (21), Tennessee (20), Massachusetts (17), Kentucky (14), Wisconsin (13), Delaware (13), Connecticut (12), Michigan (6), Rhode Island (5), Vermont (3), Arizona (3), District of Columbia (3), New Hampshire (2), California (2), Nevada (2), South Carolina (1), Utah (1), and West Virginia (1)."




This is from the CDC:

"West Nile Virus Update --- United States, January 1--August 19, 2008

This report summarizes 2008 West Nile virus (WNV) surveillance data reported to CDC through ArboNET as of 3 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time, August 19, 2008. A total of 28 states have reported 236 cases of human WNV illness to CDC (Figure, Table). A total of 137 (58%) cases for which such data were available occurred in males; median age of patients was 48 years (range: 10 months--86 years). Dates of illness onset ranged from January 17 to August 14; two cases were fatal."




I'd say that reduction is really good news, but I do not know how to track any inconsistency in reporting habits. I fear that reporting the infections has fallen off faster than the number of cases across the population.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on August 28, 2008, 06:16:39 PM
To be blunt, I look at those figures and those are pretty lite figures in comparison to the total populations of each state.   Plus, each case might have had something that made them more vulnerable to West Nile Virus.  Either very young or very old or immuno-compromised.  The only reason AMber recieved the vaccination was that NY state requires it for kids attending school/camp in THAT state.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on August 28, 2008, 06:44:31 PM
Probably right. I really suspect whether the practice of reporting is done accurately.

I wonder if the official word from the CDC that there has not been a single human case of West Nile Virus in Indiana since summer '07 is BS, too. We have just been really lucky to not have a mosquito problem this year. It was bad last year, though, despite the state spraying every week.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on August 28, 2008, 06:54:22 PM
To be blunt, I look at those figures and those are pretty lite figures in comparison to the total populations of each state.   Plus, each case might have had something that made them more vulnerable to West Nile Virus.  Either very young or very old or immuno-compromised.  The only reason AMber recieved the vaccination was that NY state requires it for kids attending school/camp in THAT state.

The two adults I know here who got very sick from it were both very healthy men before they got West Nile Virus and they both wound up in the hospital, one of them in the ICU.  They both spent a lot of time outdoors, which is how they got bitten.  It took both of them a very long time to get better.

I also know a child who got it when he was three.  Perfectly healthy before, but not so much now.  He had febrile seizures because of West Nile Virus and he still has issues from having had it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on August 28, 2008, 07:01:08 PM
slap slap slap slap slap slap slap........when they swarm you as bad as they are doing this season, you lose count after awhile!   :P

Mosquitoes carry West Nile virus here, so we have to be careful.  I actually know two people who got very sick from it and some people have died.

Mosquitoes just love me, so I need to use repellent.

Holy shit! I never knew Colorado was leading the nation.

I just googled and found this old news ...

"West Nile Virus Update

West Nile Virus Update–Nov. 3, 2003
By Guangye Hu

U.S.

During 2003, a total of 7,764 human cases of WNV infection has been reported from Colorado (2170), Nebraska (1,540), South Dakota (964), Texas (470), North Dakota (422), Wyoming (320), Montana (218), Pennsylvania (212), New Mexico (196), Iowa (141), Minnesota (137), Ohio (95), Kansas (85), Louisiana (84), Florida (78), Oklahoma (68), New York (67), Mississippi (56), Illinois (48), Maryland (45), Missouri (43), Georgia (36), Alabama (30), Indiana (30), New Jersey (26), North Carolina (23), Arkansas (21), Virginia (21), Tennessee (20), Massachusetts (17), Kentucky (14), Wisconsin (13), Delaware (13), Connecticut (12), Michigan (6), Rhode Island (5), Vermont (3), Arizona (3), District of Columbia (3), New Hampshire (2), California (2), Nevada (2), South Carolina (1), Utah (1), and West Virginia (1)."




This is from the CDC:

"West Nile Virus Update --- United States, January 1--August 19, 2008

This report summarizes 2008 West Nile virus (WNV) surveillance data reported to CDC through ArboNET as of 3 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time, August 19, 2008. A total of 28 states have reported 236 cases of human WNV illness to CDC (Figure, Table). A total of 137 (58%) cases for which such data were available occurred in males; median age of patients was 48 years (range: 10 months--86 years). Dates of illness onset ranged from January 17 to August 14; two cases were fatal."




I'd say that reduction is really good news, but I do not know how to track any inconsistency in reporting habits. I fear that reporting the infections has fallen off faster than the number of cases across the population.

I think that reporting is down and also probably many of the more susceptible birds who were hosts to West Nile Virus have died off by now.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on August 28, 2008, 08:26:36 PM
My grandfather died of West Nile Virus but he was already fairly old and ill, and had just had a major personal loss. He lived in Nebraska.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 29, 2008, 04:05:51 PM
My favorite colors are green and blue
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on August 29, 2008, 04:32:42 PM
I hate most people!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on August 29, 2008, 04:37:33 PM
I hate most people!

^off topic post!


That fact can be quite useful, at least to you.

 :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on August 29, 2008, 05:09:16 PM
I hate most people!

I hate all of them.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on August 29, 2008, 05:18:49 PM
Feel the love!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on August 29, 2008, 05:20:19 PM
No point in that.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on August 29, 2008, 06:24:53 PM
No point in that.

Bumper stickers I bought recently:

"I'm not anti-social, I don't like you!"

"Even the voices in my head don't like you!"

 :laugh:

I should also add that the psych. evaluation classified me as having "Social avoidant problems."  Problem, what problem!?   :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on August 30, 2008, 12:01:13 PM

My wife's grandmother used to babysit for Jim Davis (cartoonist, famous for Garfield) when he was a child. They are from the same farming community in Indiana.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 31, 2008, 07:09:17 PM
I have 4 teens in my house right know :hide:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on August 31, 2008, 07:15:44 PM
I have 4 teens in my house right know :hide:

I have one and thats more than enough!  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 31, 2008, 07:27:38 PM
There where eight before :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on August 31, 2008, 07:38:00 PM
And then there were none!   :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 31, 2008, 07:40:53 PM
just fresh patches of new cement in the basement >:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: GalileoAce on September 01, 2008, 08:08:08 AM
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on September 01, 2008, 07:58:11 PM
Found an empty beer keg today
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: GalileoAce on September 01, 2008, 09:29:42 PM
Fill it?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on September 03, 2008, 04:33:22 PM
Has a tear near the bottom I'm scraping it.  29 pounds of aluminum
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on September 06, 2008, 11:31:29 AM
My hair is now short-ish again.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ozymandias on September 06, 2008, 02:14:23 PM
I'm going to go make a cup of tea.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on September 09, 2008, 11:14:19 AM
I found a working radial arm saw from craftsmen this morning :headbang2:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: The_Chosen_One on September 09, 2008, 08:37:37 PM
Shit stinks. And that's as useless a fact as you can get.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: GalileoAce on September 09, 2008, 10:40:04 PM
But can you eat it?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: The_Chosen_One on September 10, 2008, 12:29:47 AM
Only if you're desperate. Are you?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: GalileoAce on September 10, 2008, 12:39:00 AM
Not really.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on September 10, 2008, 08:53:28 PM
there are crickets outside making noise
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on September 10, 2008, 10:51:25 PM

... and cicadas!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: The_Chosen_One on September 10, 2008, 10:54:52 PM
Howzat!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on September 10, 2008, 11:15:41 PM
Howzat!

Cicadas are incredibly noisy this year and as a matter of curiosity, even the crickets sound different. I had never seen the "cicada killer" hornets this far north, either.

This whole summer has been very strange - a cool one on average, with very heavy rainfall early on, then none at all.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: The_Chosen_One on September 11, 2008, 12:56:16 AM
I was picturing cicadas playing cricket; I mean, how would they bowl? I mean, if it were dolphins they'd be bowling flippers.....
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 11, 2008, 02:18:46 PM
dolphins have sprung loaded penii.

Dolphins are more intelligent than humans.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2008, 02:20:58 PM
But they can't knit well.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lucifer on September 11, 2008, 02:33:59 PM
dolphins have sprung loaded penii.

Dolphins are more intelligent than humans.

that's what i said.

:LMAO:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lucifer on September 11, 2008, 02:34:14 PM
But they can't knit well.

:LMAO:

 :plus:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 02, 2008, 11:42:42 AM

A couple of years ago, I was doing two or three hours per week of volunteer work for the school my kids attend. They told me one day that they did not need me anymore. I was BUMMED!

Today, my wife started the same thing at the new school. This seemed like a really uplifting thing for her. I'm not sure what she will be doing, but hopefully, she will have the opportunity to get to know more closely the teachers who are working with our kids, as I did before.
She gets karma, at least!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on October 02, 2008, 12:39:55 PM
dolphins have sprung loaded penii.

Dolphins are more intelligent than humans.

that's what i said.

:LMAO:

Oh! ;)

 :plus:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 04, 2008, 07:21:38 PM
I have three drill presses in my basement and only one works
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: klox on October 05, 2008, 07:14:56 PM
Hitler often wore shoes.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 05, 2008, 07:29:31 PM
I often don't wear shoes
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on October 05, 2008, 08:13:25 PM
I am not wearing any shoes right now.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 06, 2008, 07:47:24 AM

When my mom recently came to visit, she brought me several pounds of pistachios from the Pistachio Tree Ranch growers in New Mexico.

She knows how much I love pistachios and fresh ones are hard to find, here.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on October 06, 2008, 08:15:04 AM
I am not wearing any shoes right now.

 :o

I'll never look at you the same way.

The odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field are approximately 3,720 to 1.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 07, 2008, 04:50:40 PM
Last Thursday, my wife went in to the school to do some volunteer work and was not busy at all, so she doodled.

She does glass etching in her spare time and has been trying to draw an etchable scene with a water mill, stream, fence, winding road thing. Problem with etching is that too much detail destroys it. She went back today and found that the office ladies had pulled her doodling out of the recycle bin, framed them and hung them on the wall.

She was a little embarrassed. They were doodles that she threw away. Why would someone do this?

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on October 07, 2008, 04:57:07 PM
 :laugh: My partner pulls my crap out of the trash and insists he's going to get rich off it someday. I think it's a matter of supply-and-demand: in their little spheres, even throwaway creativity is too valuable to waste. There's no thought of the artist's desires or property rights because once it's in the trash it's assumed to be given up.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 07, 2008, 05:24:02 PM
:laugh: My partner pulls my crap out of the trash and insists he's going to get rich off it someday. I think it's a matter of supply-and-demand: in their little spheres, even throwaway creativity is too valuable to waste. There's no thought of the artist's desires or property rights because once it's in the trash it's assumed to be given up.
Having no regard for the artist's rights, came first to my mind.

You are probably right. I had not thought of the supply and demand of creativity.
For a long time, I thought everyone was as creative as those I worked around.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on October 08, 2008, 12:02:25 PM
Scientists have not been able to explain a 1998 study showing a bright light shone on the backs of human knees can reset the brain's sleep-wake clock.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: duncvis on October 08, 2008, 01:55:35 PM
that belongs in the WTF thread.  :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 08, 2008, 01:59:45 PM


I'm wondering how to use it.

 :headbang2:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on October 09, 2008, 07:50:41 PM
 :laugh: Getting anywhere?

I'm still arguing with my chemistry.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on October 09, 2008, 08:30:17 PM
Wrong Planet has 21,842 members.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 10, 2008, 01:12:25 PM

My hair is now part of my massive compost heap.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: enronh on October 10, 2008, 05:31:39 PM
Wrong Planet has 21,842 members.


..and Alex P. has his member on his head?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 10, 2008, 05:41:17 PM
Wrong Planet has 21,842 members.


It would be fewer if he agreed to delete those of us that want no part of it. And fewer still if he deleted his sock puppets.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: klox on October 10, 2008, 08:00:46 PM
About ~5 of those members are me.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on October 10, 2008, 09:11:30 PM
Wrong Planet has 21,842 members.
It would be fewer if he agreed to delete those of us that want no part of it. And fewer still if he deleted his sock puppets.

But then it wouldn't look as popular and couldn't generate as much advertising.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on October 10, 2008, 10:38:43 PM
Wrong Planet has 21,842 members.


It would be fewer if he agreed to delete those of us that want no part of it. And fewer still if he deleted his sock puppets.

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Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 11, 2008, 02:50:32 PM
Wrong Planet has 21,842 members.
It would be fewer if he agreed to delete those of us that want no part of it. And fewer still if he deleted his sock puppets.

But then it wouldn't look as popular and couldn't generate as much advertising.

It would be more honest.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on October 13, 2008, 07:44:57 PM
I am real.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 14, 2008, 11:50:20 AM
I'm not.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: duncvis on October 14, 2008, 11:54:13 AM
I might be.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 14, 2008, 11:57:08 AM
Would you know?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: duncvis on October 14, 2008, 11:59:38 AM
I might.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 14, 2008, 12:03:33 PM
I might be.

Quoted as a harbinger of fun yet to come.

Care to elucidate?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: duncvis on October 14, 2008, 12:05:24 PM
Not much to expand on really. I could be in the Matrix.  :eyebrows:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 14, 2008, 12:19:24 PM
Ah, I thought you meant that you were finalising the orchestration for some symphonic concert of whiners you intended to conduct a couple of planets away.

I would buy season tickets.

:rofl:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on October 14, 2008, 12:45:52 PM
27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 14, 2008, 01:57:30 PM
Not much to expand on really. I could be in the Matrix.  :eyebrows:

We're all in the Matrix. 8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lucifer on October 14, 2008, 03:07:35 PM
but i have the best trinity outfit.   8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 14, 2008, 03:32:07 PM
:drool:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 14, 2008, 04:06:50 PM
but i have the best trinity outfit.   8)

Somehow, I knew this, already.


...   probably no shortage of leather polishers on call either, eh?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on October 14, 2008, 06:32:51 PM
The Cats Meow has been open for 23 years and there is also a movie out there with the same name.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 21, 2008, 05:44:20 PM
Both my dogs are asleep on the couch
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on October 21, 2008, 05:51:38 PM
I took a shower today for the first time in six days. :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 21, 2008, 08:03:43 PM
Both my dogs are asleep on the couch

My cat always nestles beneath my computer chair, almost touching my feet, and if I make the slightest movement she warns of her presence with a ""mmmrrowerrrrpp"" type sound.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 24, 2008, 04:14:09 PM
I have three drill presses but only one works
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 24, 2008, 04:16:04 PM
I have three drill presses but only one works

I have three cohabitants, but only one works.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on October 24, 2008, 06:13:36 PM
Not once in any of the Star Wars films is a character seen brushing their teeth.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 25, 2008, 02:34:34 PM
The force is with them. Or they have dental implants.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 25, 2008, 02:58:15 PM
One of my dogs likes to sleep under the covers
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 25, 2008, 04:05:50 PM
One of my dogs likes to sleep under the covers

:D
So does my cat. She plows under the covers all the way down to my knees, at least, turns around, comes back up to my chin and snuggles up close with only her nose sticking out.

She's full grown now - last winter she was still "like a teen age cat" and I thought all that was just cute kitten-like behavior, but now that the weather has turned cold, she is doing it all again.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on October 26, 2008, 11:11:48 AM
I have met and talked to Gael Garcia Bernal.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 26, 2008, 04:18:29 PM
I drank beer with Stellan Skarsgård.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 26, 2008, 05:31:22 PM
I have met and talked to Gael Garcia Bernal.

Tongue or not?

(fucking love the avie!)

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 26, 2008, 05:38:37 PM

Some asswipe sprayed my car (it was parked on the street) with Sprite or some kind of heavily sugared drink during the night. It froze and when I hit it with my wipers (not yet knowing what it was), it was crystallised into an almost-impossible-to-see-through mess that refused to wipe off until I had mostly emptied my washer fluid reservoir.

 :violin:


I'll be so glad when Halloween pranking season is done.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 29, 2008, 05:38:12 PM
^^^^^
I was wrong!

I must correct this false accusation, with apologies included to all known and closet asswipes within earshot.

My car was not sprayed with pop, although it was dried sugary crap (literally) I was having trouble getting off the windshield. I have discovered that my car, due to where I park, I suppose, has been used as a mating place for a huge swarm of nectar-eating, ground-nesting wasps. I went out this morning and found the entire front fender and half of the hood covered in wasps. (all smoking little cigarettes, I might have seen, had I looked more closely)

I don't mean just a few!

It was still before daybreak and I could only see by the city lights. I was stunned, because at first I thought "some asswipe" had come back and tried to burn my car. I thought it looked like the paint was curling after being blasted with a torch. As I stepped close enough to have a better look, I heard them. My car is white, but the front quarter was so thickly covered in wasps, it looked black.

What I had interpreted as a "spray pattern"  must have been caused by the swarm beginning on the shaded area of the car and moving on to the hood and windshield after sundown, dragging some of their sugar-rich urine with them as they tried to keep up with the new arrivals to the swarm. I also had the thought that it was some waspy version of honey, but upon beginning the effort to clean it again, I recognized the smell of urine.

I've seen a swarm like this twice before in the woods, but never in the city center and never before on a car.

I've been  :pwned:

I did not park my car there, today.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: WolFish on October 29, 2008, 10:53:19 PM
damn...
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on October 29, 2008, 11:02:55 PM
Wow.

I wonder if they will find your car again, because their pheromones must be all over it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 30, 2008, 03:57:34 AM
Wow.

I wonder if they will find your car again, because their pheromones must be all over it.

I am sure they will have no problem finding my car on the other side of the house, but the orgy apparently starts in the shade near sundown and my car was parked in the sun, yesterday.

What I wonder is how many of these mass orgies does it take to fertilize all the females (these wasps lay fertilized eggs), wind up the season and dig in for the winter. It was very close to freezing yesterday and they were still active. I swept them off enough to get in the car and very few even tried to fly.
 
Not very many days left before all the nights turn to hard freeze. It has been at least three days of this mating fest, I am positive.

It was well below freezing overnight, with heavy due fall. There was no orgy last night. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: WolFish on October 31, 2008, 12:56:36 AM
when i was 4 years old i had a nightmare about wasp eggs hatching in my bed
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 02, 2008, 08:40:25 PM
I was attached by a rooster hen I was 3
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on November 03, 2008, 11:06:19 AM
There are 15 Smarties per roll.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 03, 2008, 01:10:20 PM
Funny you mention candy. I had a bite today of modern candycrap - first time in many years I have tried candy, other than chocolate or something I made, myself.

I was going to post in the bitch thread about trying a "Laffy Taffy."   It was banana flavored, supposedly.  I can remember having "Kits" when I was a kid and they were taffy-like, artificially flavored, sugar-rich, bullshit candy. I was expecting to be over wrought with flavors which I could smell, but hardly taste.

I had one in my mouth for about thirty seconds. It flipped me, the FUCK, out!! I immediately began to hiccup. I spat it out on the third hiccup. About one minute later, I began to sweat profusely, managed to control the hiccups, but my nose also began to run like I had a cold or like something was attacking an allergy.
I actually spat it about forty feet and was within a couple of inches of the trash compactor door.

Now, my mouth, three hours later mind you, is still numb. I can only feel my tongue if I bite down into it. my palate has no tactile sensation at all. I even drug my fingernail across my palate a few times to make sure of this. My mouth is completely numb from a Laffy Taffy, banana flavored candy.

It was entirely too strong for me.

 :violin:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on November 03, 2008, 01:13:06 PM
Funny you mention candy. I had a bite today of modern candycrap - first time in many years I have tried candy, other than chocolate or something I made, myself.

I was going to post in the bitch thread about trying a "Laffy Taffy."   It was banana flavored, supposedly.  I can remember having "Kits" when I was a kid and they were taffy-like, artificially flavored, sugar-rich, bullshit candy. I was expecting to be over wrought with flavors which I could smell, but hardly taste.

I had one in my mouth for about thirty seconds. It flipped me, the FUCK, out!! I immediately began to hiccup. I spat it out on the third hiccup. About one minute later, I began to sweat profusely, managed to control the hiccups, but my nose also began to run like I had a cold or like something was attacking an allergy.
I actually spat it about forty feet and was within a couple of inches of the trash compactor door.

Now, my mouth, three hours later mind you, is still numb. I can only feel my tongue if I bite down into it. my palate has no tactile sensation at all. I even drug my fingernail across my palate a few times to make sure of this. My mouth is completely numb from a Laffy Taffy, banana flavored candy.

It was entirely too strong for me.

 :violin:

You must be allergic to one of the ingredients, I think.  I wonder if it is the artificial banana flavoring.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 03, 2008, 01:16:26 PM
It must be something alongg those lines.

It felt like poison.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 03, 2008, 01:30:58 PM
I may be a little hyper, but I'll be damned before I allow any of that kind of crap across my kids. They seem to each have much the same reactions to things as myself.

I let them keep their Halloween  "Malted Milk Balls,"  "Tootsie Rolls,"  "Hershey's" and "Mars"  products, but all the rest have one or two ingredients which we have been advised to avoid.

I did let them eat the "Gummy"  tongues and eyeballs they got this year, though.

 :lol:

How the hell can you tell a kid they can't eat a gummy eyeball?







(I made it - and I didn't even look, until now. I made it!)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: SovaNu on November 03, 2008, 01:34:05 PM
i love eyeballs.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 03, 2008, 02:57:14 PM
i love eyeballs.

Toasted or on a stick?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Peter on November 04, 2008, 02:34:53 AM
I used to eat loads of sweets as a kid; my favourites were the various gummy ones.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Scrapheap on November 06, 2008, 01:28:29 AM
50% of your shit, by volume, is bacteria that lives on your intestines.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on November 07, 2008, 09:29:45 PM
I am left handed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: klox on November 08, 2008, 05:07:29 PM
Lower income earners have a higher marginal prospensity to consume.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on November 09, 2008, 08:26:45 PM
I am left handed.
So am I. :)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 09, 2008, 08:30:39 PM
I am right handed but can do many things lefty too like juggle but not write
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on November 10, 2008, 03:44:51 PM
My father was left-handed, but was forced to use his right hand for writing in school. Left-handedness was too freaky back then.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 10, 2008, 04:28:08 PM
My father was left-handed, but was forced to use his right hand for writing in school. Left-handedness was too freaky back then.

My mother and father knew people like that my older sister was of the generation that they just stopped doing that too on a regular basis
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on November 10, 2008, 04:31:03 PM
My father was left-handed, but was forced to use his right hand for writing in school. Left-handedness was too freaky back then.

My mother and father knew people like that my older sister was of the generation that they just stopped doing that too on a regular basis

It was commonplace back then. No wonder some people wrote like MDs.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 10, 2008, 04:35:34 PM
My father was left-handed, but was forced to use his right hand for writing in school. Left-handedness was too freaky back then.

My mother and father knew people like that my older sister was of the generation that they just stopped doing that too on a regular basis

It was commonplace back then. No wonder some people wrote like MDs.

I'm right handed and I write like that now :P   It was so bad in school they tried to teach me to type in 3rd grade
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: WolFish on November 15, 2008, 08:22:01 PM
DirtDawg had 17070 posts at some point today
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on November 16, 2008, 07:32:54 AM
My father was left-handed, but was forced to use his right hand for writing in school. Left-handedness was too freaky back then.
My mother and father knew people like that my older sister was of the generation that they just stopped doing that too on a regular basis
It was commonplace back then. No wonder some people wrote like MDs.
I'm right handed and I write like that now :P   It was so bad in school they tried to teach me to type in 3rd grade
I always smudge my writing and get ink on the edge of my hand. I am quicker at writing than typing. GA is the other way around and he is left-handed as well.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 16, 2008, 01:24:53 PM
DirtDawg had 17070 posts at some point today

What's up. Are you freaky about bilaterally sequenced digit placements in numbers as well?




.....     or are you just amazed that Odeon would allow such a total waste of bandwidth to occur on his watch?



I made it past that number, though!

*removes opaque tape from left side of monitor screen*
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 16, 2008, 01:28:24 PM
My father was left-handed, but was forced to use his right hand for writing in school. Left-handedness was too freaky back then.

My father and my brother as well.

Useless fact:

Every second child in the history of my family is left-handed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on November 16, 2008, 03:53:52 PM
.....     or are you just amazed that Odeon would allow such a total waste of bandwidth to occur on his watch?

I am. :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on November 16, 2008, 03:55:07 PM
My father was left-handed, but was forced to use his right hand for writing in school. Left-handedness was too freaky back then.

My father and my brother as well.

Useless fact:

Every second child in the history of my family is left-handed.

Useless fact: most of my family on my father's side is (or was) left-handed. And my daugher is probably mostly ambidextrous.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Frolic_Fun on November 16, 2008, 05:14:04 PM
I count in multiples of 2.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 16, 2008, 08:06:07 PM
Our household goes though more than a gallon of milk a day
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on November 17, 2008, 10:36:57 AM
I hate polo shirts with a passion and do not own any. If I get any as gifts, they go into either a re-gifting box or are thrown away. Nobody listens.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: WolFish on November 17, 2008, 11:09:54 AM
DirtDawg had 17070 posts at some point today

What's up. Are you freaky about bilaterally sequenced digit placements in numbers as well?

1370 karma 17080 posts
i like numbers and patterns.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 17, 2008, 03:19:21 PM
DirtDawg had 17070 posts at some point today

What's up. Are you freaky about bilaterally sequenced digit placements in numbers as well?

1370 karma 17080 posts
i like numbers and patterns.
Yes, i enjoy them at times.
I use them, I find wisdom within them, I play with them, I defend myself with them, I like them, often they serve me, but I will not be chased by them.

Some of them, especially the ones with multiple meanings, haunt my mental spaces, spaces often supplied in short of other considerations. I hate them for this.
There is much guilt I feel in numbers and even more in patterns.
I tend to use them as more than tools and there is some masturbatory shame associated with the pleasure.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on November 17, 2008, 08:47:30 PM
I'm only comfortable with the volume level on my Surround Sound Receiver if it ends in a 0, 2, 5, or an 8.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 17, 2008, 10:42:52 PM
I'm only comfortable with the volume level on my Surround Sound Receiver if it ends in a 0, 2, 5, or an 8.

That would be difficult to do with my Denon receiver. The volume display is (not arbitrarily, but it might as well be) divided into thirds of a whole number. The whole numbers each represent an increment of three decibels, but the graduations are, for example, 10.0, 10.3, 10.6 11.0, etc. Unless decimals don't affect your comfort, you would have to be satisfied with increasing or decreasing the volume by three decibels at a time. (BTW, That's just the way the display works. The actual volume level setting is completely and smoothly vernier)

That's really quite a difference to my ears.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: WolFish on November 17, 2008, 11:56:46 PM
very soon (today) there will be 437777 posts.

i like 7s

my father is ambidexterous but writes with his left hand
i am ambidexterous and write with my right hand slightly less than 4/5 of the time.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on November 18, 2008, 02:27:56 AM
Dolby processors have decimal volume adjustment increments. Volume 7.0 is usually calibrated at 85 dBA.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on November 18, 2008, 03:01:50 AM
My Surround Sound Reciever is a Sony STR-K660P and it goes up to 70 which is meant to be in correlation to "Total System Power: 70w X 6"

I have no idea if that is a good way to represent it or not but meh, you turn the dial, it gets louder, can't go wrong there.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Natalia Evans on November 18, 2008, 03:07:34 AM
I saw my car on google maps in satellite view when I was viewing my aunt and uncle's street.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 18, 2008, 03:22:08 PM
I saw my car on google maps in satellite view when I was viewing my aunt and uncle's street.

Kinda creepy huh?  I can see mine on too
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 18, 2008, 04:27:23 PM
Dolby processors have decimal volume adjustment increments. Volume 7.0 is usually calibrated at 85 dBA.

Even though my Denon is considered a top grade unit, with incredibly fast response and low distortion, it is still a consumer grade receiver.

The amplifiers I use for my bi-amped LFE channel are professional grade, though, and are calibrated in negative numbered decibels. The setting of "Zero"  on the volume control means that the input sensitivity is adjusted to reach full power with an input voltage of 0.775 volts (reference to 0dBm). Obviously, the complexity of my LFE channel set up makes the writing on the dials meaningless. I use a pink noise analyser, sometimes.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on November 18, 2008, 04:49:34 PM
We only have eight planets in Sol system.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 18, 2008, 04:54:07 PM
As big as I am I can fit through a 16inch by 16inch hole
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on November 19, 2008, 03:00:30 AM
That's what she said!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 19, 2008, 06:15:41 AM
We didn't turn our heat on till yesterday even though it's been down near freezing at night
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on November 19, 2008, 03:38:56 PM
Dolby processors have decimal volume adjustment increments. Volume 7.0 is usually calibrated at 85 dBA.

Even though my Denon is considered a top grade unit, with incredibly fast response and low distortion, it is still a consumer grade receiver.

The amplifiers I use for my bi-amped LFE channel are professional grade, though, and are calibrated in negative numbered decibels. The setting of "Zero"  on the volume control means that the input sensitivity is adjusted to reach full power with an input voltage of 0.775 volts (reference to 0dBm). Obviously, the complexity of my LFE channel set up makes the writing on the dials meaningless. I use a pink noise analyser, sometimes.


0.775 Volts is a lot. Dolby processors are still calibrated at less than half of that amplitude (300mV).

I always use an RTA when setting up a sound system, these days. I move the mic around a lot, too, just to see the acoustics. But simply listening can often give better results.

I wish I had a multiplexer. And a better mic.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on November 20, 2008, 04:11:19 AM
As big as I am I can fit through a 16inch by 16inch hole

Is that the size of people's openings into their attics?

I had a weird dream that I was separated from my daughter in a mall.

She had gone through an open window that locked closed in front of me before I could go through.

I could not open it. 

I could not break it since it was some sort of special thick green glass.

Frantic to find a way to reach her, I went into the next room and the heavy steel door locked shut behind me.

The only way out of this room that I could find was a tunnel through the wall out into the rest of the mall, but my end of the tunnel wasn't even quite big enough to even fit my head through. 

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 20, 2008, 05:44:40 AM
Quote
Is that the size of people's openings into their attics?

That's the small end of the size of holes into attics and crawls
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on November 20, 2008, 12:10:49 PM
Halloween packs of M&Ms come with 21-25 pieces on average.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on November 20, 2008, 12:26:00 PM
I have this thing I like to do in the shower while i'm getting ready in the morning. I like to squat like i'm gonna pounce, get a really serious look on my face, and hum the terminator theme. Works real good to get me motivated, unless the shower curtain sticks to my terminator leg.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on November 20, 2008, 03:53:39 PM
I have this thing I like to do in the shower while i'm getting ready in the morning. I like to squat like i'm gonna pounce, get a really serious look on my face, and hum the terminator theme. Works real good to get me motivated, unless the shower curtain sticks to my terminator leg.

And it motivated you to post this junk twice?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lucifer on November 20, 2008, 05:32:03 PM
As big as I am I can fit through a 16inch by 16inch hole

Is that the size of people's openings into their attics?

I had a weird dream that I was separated from my daughter in a mall.

She had gone through an open window that locked closed in front of me before I could go through.

I could not open it. 

I could not break it since it was some sort of special thick green glass.

Frantic to find a way to reach her, I went into the next room and the heavy steel door locked shut behind me.

The only way out of this room that I could find was a tunnel through the wall out into the rest of the mall, but my end of the tunnel wasn't even quite big enough to even fit my head through. 



/dreams explosives for callaway.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on November 20, 2008, 08:00:07 PM

/dreams explosives for callaway.

:thanks:

I woke up trying to figure out ways I could enlarge my end of the tunnel.

 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on November 21, 2008, 08:39:04 AM
I have this thing I like to do in the shower while i'm getting ready in the morning. I like to squat like i'm gonna pounce, get a really serious look on my face, and hum the terminator theme. Works real good to get me motivated, unless the shower curtain sticks to my terminator leg.

And it motivated you to post this junk twice?

Ah. Thats just something I like to say.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on November 21, 2008, 03:40:52 PM
Thankfully the host doesn't bill us by the kilobyte.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 21, 2008, 04:02:36 PM
I am using 4 different brands of insulation on the house I am working on
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on November 27, 2008, 04:16:03 AM
Most explosives were ironically enough discovered by mistake when trying to make a medicine. Black powder is supposed to have been invented by Taoist monks, who wanted to create a life elixire. Nitroglycerin is actually used as a medicine and is never used as an explosive on its own anymore, except in demonstrations. Most "modern" explosives were invented by Germans in the late 19th Century, including the ones that terrorists and people making bombs at home for the fun of it use. TNT was invented my the German-American Windelbrand. There are very few nations that have invented explosives. Non-German inventors of modern explosives were either Italian, American, French, Swiss or Swedish. Most explosives contain nitrogen in some form. One of the few exceptions is the very powerful, easy-made and dangerous tricycloacetonperoxide.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 27, 2008, 06:58:13 AM
I have the day off for Thanksgiving
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: WolFish on November 28, 2008, 06:29:37 PM
odeon has 27,000 posts today.

calandale holds the record at over 37,000 posts.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on November 28, 2008, 07:00:17 PM
I have over 50000 posts on different boards all in all.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on November 28, 2008, 07:30:19 PM
Thou art the greatest loser of them all.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on November 28, 2008, 07:34:19 PM
I am the bravest.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on November 28, 2008, 07:54:40 PM
On the 10th of September 1919, brave Austria had to cede a piece of Carinthia, south of the watershed, to cowardly Italy. The population was mixed German-Slovenic. Not a single Italian lived in the area. The old border pillar is still there.

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Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on November 28, 2008, 09:39:20 PM
odeon has 27,000 posts today.

calandale holds the record at over 37,000 posts.

Actually, I think McJagger still holds that record.  He asked to have around 20,000 posts deducted from his post count.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Nocturnalist! on November 28, 2008, 09:44:55 PM
I am the bravest.  8)

You are a racist.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on November 29, 2008, 05:26:15 AM
That's one of the reasons that I'm brave. I'm not PC.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: duncvis on November 29, 2008, 05:36:15 AM
That's one of the reasons that I'm stupid. I can't tell the difference between being PC and having enough intelligence not to stereotype whole groups when I rarely leave my quiet little village.  8)

fixed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on November 29, 2008, 03:17:19 PM
odeon has 27,000 posts today.

calandale holds the record at over 37,000 posts.

Actually, I think McJagger still holds that record.  He asked to have around 20,000 posts deducted from his post count.

Cal is close, I think, if not ahead.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 29, 2008, 09:32:12 PM
I have to hook the trailer up in the morning
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 29, 2008, 10:21:46 PM

Maybe you should trail up the hoooker in the evening, instead.

:yikes:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on December 05, 2008, 04:55:53 AM
The land border between Sweden and Finland follows three rivers in the northeast. Just a small part of the border is a land border, namley on the tiny island Märket in the Baltic. In 1885 the Russians (whom Finland belonged to from 1809 to 1918) built a lighthouse on the Swedish side of the island due to the lack of correct maps. Because of that the border was redrawn in 1985 and got the following peculiar shape:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/M%C3%A4rket_Island_map.svg/620px-M%C3%A4rket_Island_map.svg.png)

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 05, 2008, 06:22:03 AM
I have 3 compressors
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: WolFish on December 05, 2008, 10:21:04 AM
this is post 442439.

soon it will be 442442.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on December 05, 2008, 03:47:16 PM
I have 3 compressors

I have only one.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: punkdrew on December 05, 2008, 09:51:34 PM
Penguins is practically chickens.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on December 07, 2008, 12:18:20 PM
I stole a book from a shop on Friday.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on December 07, 2008, 01:18:09 PM
I stole a book from the university once. It was a pro-German book from 1911. I thought I deserved it more than the university, since I'm more pro-German than they are.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: klox on December 08, 2008, 02:43:50 AM
There is a mug on my desk.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: enronh on December 08, 2008, 03:00:34 AM
I stole a book from a shop on Friday.

Which one?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on December 08, 2008, 04:19:13 AM
I have 3 compressors
Seeing this after TheoK's post really made me laugh and I don't know why.

:plus:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 08, 2008, 03:11:27 PM
I got covered in cellulose today
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on December 08, 2008, 03:13:16 PM
I got covered in teenage girl urine today. Not. But I wish I had been.  :angel:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on December 09, 2008, 08:11:53 AM

My shitty, modern coffee maker has gone on the fritz, lost its mind and failed.

A few days ago, I began using an old Pyrex, clear glass percolator. This morning, I carefully reformed and adapted my gold plated coffee strainer, which I bought for the Braun, to replace the stainless steel strainer that came originally with the old pot.

First cup since the re-fit is brewing now.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on December 09, 2008, 08:22:38 AM
Glass percolator is brave.  8)

(http://bokrister.tekproj.bth.se/prylar/donPedro.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on December 09, 2008, 08:55:09 AM
That does look brave, but mine is like this ... very American. In fact every single piece is inscribed (not really inscribed, because it is moulded into the glass, and stamped on the stainless steel rim that holds the handle), "Made in USA,"  made  back when stating such really meant a product of higher quality.


(http://www.hillhousewares.com/large_images/dinnerware%206%20014.jpg)

The bottom of the "coffee holding area," which is frictionally attached, originally made from stainless steel, is what I replaced with a coffee-lover's gold plated screen.

It makes outstanding coffee. :headbang2:

This one was my grandfather's, bought in the early sixties (I was approaching puberty), and my mum had it for many years after he died.

It is mine, now and I can NOT justify my NOT using it for over ten years. I actually own another one, just like it, as a back-up, but it was one I found at a garage sale.

It has been sitting atop my kitchen cabinets as an ornament since my kids were born.

:embarrassed as fuck!:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on December 09, 2008, 09:01:16 AM
The one above was very common in Sweden in the '60s and '70s. I still use them to this day. No filter, no metal taste, very high temperature. No need for cleaning with other than water.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on December 09, 2008, 09:16:33 AM
The one above was very common in Sweden in the '60s and '70s. I still use them to this day. No filter, no metal taste, very high temperature. No need for cleaning with other than water.



What's the spring looking thing inside the riser?

Mine sits on my convection cooktop with no protection and the only metal the liquid sees is the strainer screen.

My grandfather (who I suspect was exactly like me - atypical autistic spazz) usually left the insides out and just dumped the grounds into the pot and set the thing on a wood burning stove. He did not mind some chewy-gooies in his brew.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on December 09, 2008, 09:20:37 AM
The spring is to hold a plate, which works as a filter, in place. It's actually a kind of vacuum filtration.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on December 09, 2008, 09:24:07 AM
Cool.

BTW, keeping a wood burning stove in your living room, like my grandfather did, is brave. Wood stacked nearby, with no accounting for feminine interior decorating schemes, is also brave.

He also came home after a hunt and cleaned all his guns in the living room, warming his feet by the stove.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on December 09, 2008, 09:27:09 AM
My father uses to repair parts of car engines and such on the kitchen table.  :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on December 09, 2008, 09:32:19 AM
My father uses to repair parts of car engines and such on the kitchen table.  :green:

My grandfather gutted his kills on the porch, but he skinned, dressed, butchered, and packaged his kills on the kitchen table.

Most of his mechanical stuff, tractor oriented, happened in his barn.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on December 09, 2008, 09:32:58 AM
I can actually "speak cat". Its almost like when a baby can't really talk yet but as their parent, you know what they are trying to say. I could actually understand my cats completely, and knew how to "meow" back at them the right way.

When I was a little younger, I used to curl up with my cat poco, and sort of roll around like she did. I think I must actually be part cat, or maybe had been a cat in a past life.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on December 09, 2008, 10:15:43 AM

I comprehend a number of insect languages, some prey animals, but mostly I "speak" dog.

I seem to do OK understanding my cats through the years, but I can't seem to make them understand me or really care what I want for that matter.

Dogs are completely owned by my way of vocal, hand and eye movements, though. I think dogs are incredibly intelligent. I have encountered several bears, when I lived in Tennessee and in my travels on foot through Idaho, Colorado, up through Northern Canada, but they seem reluctant to engage with humans, despite their intelligence. They think of us as enemy competitors and they mostly want us to go away.
Dogs seem to regard us as really smart dogs and they will follow us, due tho their pack instincts.

I have no concept of what it would be like to speak cat and get some kind of response, other than a lift of a tail or a shift of an ear and a wink.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on December 09, 2008, 10:55:21 AM

I comprehend a number of insect languages, some prey animals, but mostly I "speak" dog.

I seem to do OK understanding my cats through the years, but I can't seem to make them understand me or really care what I want for that matter.

Dogs are completely owned by my way of vocal, hand and eye movements, though. I think dogs are incredibly intelligent. I have encountered several bears, when I lived in Tennessee and in my travels on foot through Idaho, Colorado, up through Northern Canada, but they seem reluctant to engage with humans, despite their intelligence. They think of us as enemy competitors and they mostly want us to go away.
Dogs seem to regard us as really smart dogs and they will follow us, due tho their pack instincts.

I have no concept of what it would be like to speak cat and get some kind of response, other than a lift of a tail or a shift of an ear and a wink.


All kinds of shit. Theres the happy chirp, which is like "WHERE ARE YOU?" or "HERE I AM". Or theres the chatter which means "DO WANT". Theres also the purr, the sleepy purr, the squeal, the growl, the hiss, the Intrigued meow, the noncomittal meow, the agressive purr, the inquisitive chirp, etc. They actually almost have a spoken language.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on December 09, 2008, 11:00:59 AM

I comprehend a number of insect languages, some prey animals, but mostly I "speak" dog.

I seem to do OK understanding my cats through the years, but I can't seem to make them understand me or really care what I want for that matter.

Dogs are completely owned by my way of vocal, hand and eye movements, though. I think dogs are incredibly intelligent. I have encountered several bears, when I lived in Tennessee and in my travels on foot through Idaho, Colorado, up through Northern Canada, but they seem reluctant to engage with humans, despite their intelligence. They think of us as enemy competitors and they mostly want us to go away.
Dogs seem to regard us as really smart dogs and they will follow us, due tho their pack instincts.

I have no concept of what it would be like to speak cat and get some kind of response, other than a lift of a tail or a shift of an ear and a wink.


All kinds of shit. Theres the happy chirp, which is like "WHERE ARE YOU?" or "HERE I AM". Or theres the chatter which means "DO WANT". Theres also the purr, the sleepy purr, the squeal, the growl, the hiss, the Intrigued meow, the noncomittal meow, the agressive purr, the inquisitive chirp, etc. They actually almost have a spoken language.


Yeah, I know! I can understand it, but I'll be damned if I can speak it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on December 09, 2008, 11:47:58 AM

I comprehend a number of insect languages, some prey animals, but mostly I "speak" dog.

I seem to do OK understanding my cats through the years, but I can't seem to make them understand me or really care what I want for that matter.

Dogs are completely owned by my way of vocal, hand and eye movements, though. I think dogs are incredibly intelligent. I have encountered several bears, when I lived in Tennessee and in my travels on foot through Idaho, Colorado, up through Northern Canada, but they seem reluctant to engage with humans, despite their intelligence. They think of us as enemy competitors and they mostly want us to go away.
Dogs seem to regard us as really smart dogs and they will follow us, due tho their pack instincts.

I have no concept of what it would be like to speak cat and get some kind of response, other than a lift of a tail or a shift of an ear and a wink.


All kinds of shit. Theres the happy chirp, which is like "WHERE ARE YOU?" or "HERE I AM". Or theres the chatter which means "DO WANT". Theres also the purr, the sleepy purr, the squeal, the growl, the hiss, the Intrigued meow, the noncomittal meow, the agressive purr, the inquisitive chirp, etc. They actually almost have a spoken language.


Yeah, I know! I can understand it, but I'll be damned if I can speak it.

I can. I don't have to use my tongue to make a purring or a rapid noise. I can do it in the back of my throat for some reason. Real helpful cause a lot of things a cat says have that rolling sound to it.

Its funny too cause people I know think i'm wierd. they'll see my cat and hear it just say "meow" a bunch of times, but i'll know shes saying something like "Hey dad follow me theres something cool in here!" or "Hey pick me up dammit!".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 09, 2008, 03:26:02 PM
The vinyl siding on the house I am working on was done very poorly
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on December 09, 2008, 03:55:10 PM

I comprehend a number of insect languages, some prey animals, but mostly I "speak" dog.

I seem to do OK understanding my cats through the years, but I can't seem to make them understand me or really care what I want for that matter.

Dogs are completely owned by my way of vocal, hand and eye movements, though. I think dogs are incredibly intelligent. I have encountered several bears, when I lived in Tennessee and in my travels on foot through Idaho, Colorado, up through Northern Canada, but they seem reluctant to engage with humans, despite their intelligence. They think of us as enemy competitors and they mostly want us to go away.
Dogs seem to regard us as really smart dogs and they will follow us, due tho their pack instincts.

I have no concept of what it would be like to speak cat and get some kind of response, other than a lift of a tail or a shift of an ear and a wink.


All kinds of shit. Theres the happy chirp, which is like "WHERE ARE YOU?" or "HERE I AM". Or theres the chatter which means "DO WANT". Theres also the purr, the sleepy purr, the squeal, the growl, the hiss, the Intrigued meow, the noncomittal meow, the agressive purr, the inquisitive chirp, etc. They actually almost have a spoken language.


Yeah, I know! I can understand it, but I'll be damned if I can speak it.

I can. I don't have to use my tongue to make a purring or a rapid noise. I can do it in the back of my throat for some reason. Real helpful cause a lot of things a cat says have that rolling sound to it.

Its funny too cause people I know think i'm wierd. they'll see my cat and hear it just say "meow" a bunch of times, but i'll know shes saying something like "Hey dad follow me theres something cool in here!" or "Hey pick me up dammit!".

A cat talked to me earlier today. He said that the Nobel prize in medicine should have been given to that chauffeur guy who came up with the idea in the first place. I think your cat should get out more. :P
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Post by: renaeden on December 09, 2008, 09:41:36 PM
I can actually "speak cat". Its almost like when a baby can't really talk yet but as their parent, you know what they are trying to say. I could actually understand my cats completely, and knew how to "meow" back at them the right way.

When I was a little younger, I used to curl up with my cat poco, and sort of roll around like she did. I think I must actually be part cat, or maybe had been a cat in a past life.
Am wondering if you have seen these:

cat chirping at birds:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=NkkaDRJK7m0

And two cats talking:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U0udLH974&feature=related
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Post by: Parts on December 10, 2008, 05:55:49 AM
Must be cals cat  :laugh:
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Post by: DirtDawg on December 10, 2008, 03:57:50 PM
I can actually "speak cat". Its almost like when a baby can't really talk yet but as their parent, you know what they are trying to say. I could actually understand my cats completely, and knew how to "meow" back at them the right way.

When I was a little younger, I used to curl up with my cat poco, and sort of roll around like she did. I think I must actually be part cat, or maybe had been a cat in a past life.
Am wondering if you have seen these:

cat chirping at birds:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=NkkaDRJK7m0

And two cats talking:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U0udLH974&feature=related

I can't get your vids, but from what I understand from your text, every cat I have ever known has done this.

When we lived in the country, as a kid and a young adult, I often had twenty or more cats. The country is rough on the cat population, as you may imagine. They always talked to each other. Some did it without vocalising, though. This has always intrigued me about cats. My logical mind does not believe that this is possible, but I have witnessed this behavior on too many occasions to ignore it completely.
I once had a tiny, runt tom survive from a litter that was eaten by coyotes, who never said a "word."  Even when he was infantile, all he had to do was look at the other cats, in his way, and they gave him room, first chance at the feed bowl, brought him live, stunned prey, etc. He was obviously an alpha from his earliest interactions with the other cats and it was all telepathic or "eye-contact"  related. He was mostly mute. I wondered if he actually had a voice, until once (he was teen-like, not fully grown)  he screamed. He had a scream that sent all other cats running away, but it had no effect on dogs. Fortunately, he was also extremely fast and lived to be my friend for many years.
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Post by: TheoK on December 12, 2008, 04:43:18 AM
Bronx is named after the Swedish captain Jonas Brunck, who was the first white man to settle in the area.
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Post by: Parts on December 12, 2008, 05:42:41 AM
I can get to the Bronx in an hour or less driving
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Post by: TheoK on December 12, 2008, 09:33:22 AM
Most of the Syrian-Turkish border is drawn along the railroad Haleb-Mosul.
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Post by: Parts on December 12, 2008, 12:04:25 PM
Interstate 95 was closed in my town north bound for about 5 hours  traffic hell :thumbdn:
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Post by: Trigger 11 on December 12, 2008, 02:18:24 PM
I have only had sex in two continents.
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Post by: TheoK on December 12, 2008, 02:27:03 PM
Most of my women were not from my county. They often even weren't from Götaland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6taland).
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Post by: odeon on December 12, 2008, 03:22:18 PM
Most of my women were not from my county. They often even weren't from Götaland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6taland).

And most of them legally blind or legally insane. Or both.
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Post by: TheoK on December 12, 2008, 03:28:22 PM
Linda was the best student at her school and another of them was a high school teacher in Uppsala, who also shared many of my political views.  8)
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Post by: odeon on December 12, 2008, 04:34:53 PM
Linda was the best student at her school and another of them was a high school teacher in Uppsala, who also shared many of my political views.  8)

Legally moronic, then. ::)
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Post by: TheoK on December 12, 2008, 05:00:12 PM
Whatever.

My BRAVE German cigar-cutter looks like this:

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Post by: odeon on December 12, 2008, 06:03:44 PM
See if your dick can fit into that thing.
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Post by: TheoK on December 12, 2008, 06:18:25 PM
Nope. It's just 20 mm.  8)

I bet you don't smoke cigars. It takes bravery to smoke real cigars.  8)



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Post by: odeon on December 12, 2008, 06:22:44 PM
Nope. It's just 20 mm.  8)

Yes, small enough to fit in one of those.

Quote
I bet you don't smoke cigars. It takes bravery to smoke real cigars.  8)

I used to. It's brave to stop.
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Post by: TheoK on December 12, 2008, 06:25:25 PM
One cigar a day won't increase the risk of getting cancer very much. Just more of Big Brother's lies to make us feel uncomfortable.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: WolFish on December 13, 2008, 03:42:49 AM
today someone will make post 444444. i made post 444100.
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Post by: Parts on December 13, 2008, 05:19:59 AM
Nope. It's just 20 mm.  8)

I bet you don't smoke cigars. It takes bravery to smoke real cigars.  8)



i have some 20mm ammo :zoinks:
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Post by: TheoK on December 13, 2008, 05:48:40 AM
Damned, I want a 20 mm automatic cannon.  :(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 13, 2008, 05:52:27 AM
I have only one or two shells for it so a bolt action would do

Hve a 37mm ww2 anti tank round too :o
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Post by: TheoK on December 13, 2008, 06:04:51 AM
Brave!  :litigious: :arrr:
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Post by: Phlexor on December 13, 2008, 09:52:11 AM
One cigar a day won't increase the risk of getting cancer very much. Just more of Big Brother's lies to make us feel uncomfortable.

Unless you want mouth cancer.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on December 13, 2008, 11:14:25 AM
One cigar a day won't increase the risk of getting cancer very much. Just more of Big Brother's lies to make us feel uncomfortable.

Unless you want mouth cancer.

The German department of health says that three cigars a day increase the risk for mouth cancer considerably. They usually don't do understatements.
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Post by: Lucifer on December 13, 2008, 03:19:56 PM
Damned, I want a 20 mm automatic cannon.  :(

if you've been a Good Boy, you can ask Santa to bring you one.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 13, 2008, 06:13:34 PM
I put 20 inches of insulation in someones attic today
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Post by: TheoK on December 13, 2008, 06:21:43 PM
The last Swedish Knight who wasn't a royal person died last week.
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Post by: RageBeoulve on December 14, 2008, 12:51:40 PM
See if your dick can fit into that thing.

I fucking loled. :thumbup:
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Post by: Phlexor on December 14, 2008, 10:30:16 PM
One cigar a day won't increase the risk of getting cancer very much. Just more of Big Brother's lies to make us feel uncomfortable.

Unless you want mouth cancer.

The German department of health says that three cigars a day increase the risk for mouth cancer considerably. They usually don't do understatements.

The sad truth is that it is more likely to be your genetics that increase the risk of any cancer than increasing the activity. I had a friend that only smoked cigars every now and again and he eventually had to have something removed from his mouth.
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Post by: TheoK on December 15, 2008, 03:51:14 AM
Well, Sigmund Fraud Freud smoked cigars and got cancer and 36(!) operations of his mouth. He was kind of brave, though I don't give very much for freudianism.
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Post by: Leto729 on December 15, 2008, 01:15:31 PM
Hitler was a Nazi.
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Post by: TheoK on December 15, 2008, 01:22:49 PM
 :zoinks:
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Post by: Parts on December 15, 2008, 10:14:47 PM
i have over half a ton of insulation in my trailer
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Post by: P7PSP on December 15, 2008, 10:33:49 PM
Catherine the Great did not suffer death by horse fucking. www.snopes.com/risque/animals/catherine.asp (http://www.snopes.com/risque/animals/catherine.asp)
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Post by: TheoK on December 16, 2008, 05:17:53 AM
My right inner ear itches.
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Post by: enronh on December 16, 2008, 05:47:11 AM
Don't have a useless fact today.

..other than this one.
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Post by: Callaway on December 16, 2008, 07:45:17 AM
Catherine the Great did not suffer death by horse fucking. www.snopes.com/risque/animals/catherine.asp (http://www.snopes.com/risque/animals/catherine.asp)

True, she had a stroke.
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Post by: Parts on December 16, 2008, 02:48:29 PM
My right inner ear itches.


Itching your inner ear with an ice pick is not a good idea
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Post by: odeon on December 16, 2008, 03:08:04 PM
My right inner ear itches.


Itching your inner ear with an ice pick is not a good idea

But in this particular case it might be. :zoinks:
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Post by: DirtDawg on December 16, 2008, 04:01:04 PM

Maybe some fisting of the ear itch would be in order?
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Post by: TheoK on December 17, 2008, 07:49:50 AM
My cute little ear.  :(
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Post by: TheoK on December 17, 2008, 06:18:43 PM
Lower Saxony had the same border to the west in 962, when Otto the Great founded the first German Empire, as it has today.

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Post by: TheoK on December 17, 2008, 06:27:18 PM
Ironically Lower Saxony was re-established as a state by the Brits during the occupation after WWII.

It has its own "Land" anthem, written already in the 1920s, when Lower Saxony's bulk still consisted of the Prussian province Hannover.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXdlPtRTUeU
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Post by: Leto729 on December 17, 2008, 06:33:05 PM
Nice anthem very musical. :zoinks:
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Post by: TheoK on December 17, 2008, 06:45:58 PM
Bavaria also has its own anthem. It sounds like a psalm.  :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceaVemRQNfA
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Post by: P7PSP on December 17, 2008, 08:17:03 PM
Stalin may have inspired Elvis Presley's pompadour.
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Post by: TheoK on December 17, 2008, 08:27:53 PM
Stalin studied to become a priest when he was young. When Germany had declared war he was so nervous that he began his speech with "Brothers and sisters..." like Russian priests begin their preaches instead of "Comrades..."
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Post by: Leto729 on December 17, 2008, 08:29:42 PM
Stalin studied to become a priest when he was young. When Germany had declared war he was so nervous that he began his speech with "Brothers and sisters..." like Russian priests begin their preaches insteead of "Comrades..."
Really wow.
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Post by: TheoK on December 17, 2008, 08:30:02 PM
Yup.  8)
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Post by: Leto729 on December 17, 2008, 08:35:55 PM
Yup.  8)
Where is the speech?
Has it been translated into English.
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Post by: TheoK on December 17, 2008, 08:45:45 PM
I don't know if it has been translated. Probably. I read about it in a history book many years ago.
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Post by: Leto729 on December 17, 2008, 08:48:40 PM
I don't know if it has been translated. Probably. I read about it in a history book many years ago.
Okay.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on December 17, 2008, 10:40:06 PM
I love Firefox!

The damned electricity went off for half an hour, earlier tonight. Probably to do with ice on the wires or it would have been restored much more quickly.

The reason I love Firefox, right now, is that I was in the middle of an enormously long post (you know how windy I can get at times, but this was on a music site - even worse!) when we went black! Damn!! Double DAMN!!

When I started up again, I found that FF had saved my incomplete post in the browser cache and I was able to finish it.

YaY!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on December 17, 2008, 11:08:04 PM
I find Firefox useful too. :zoinks:
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Post by: Blasted on December 19, 2008, 06:38:56 AM
I met Richard Dawkins yesterday.  Wonderful man.
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Post by: DirtDawg on December 19, 2008, 07:49:25 AM
Continuing with "the power went out" useless fact ...

When I got to work, yesterday, apparently, many of our systems had failed, due to surges and nulls while they were trying to re-start the power grid.

I had one hour to replace several "blackbox" computers (I call them this, because they are simple, self contained, DC powered, players, basically, which do nothing else. One important box was not replaceable, so I hooked that system up to a clearance item laptop and hid it beneath the overstock items on the shelf) which run the displays, touch screen download areas, loop sales promos, etc.

I didn't make it, but my choice of priorities impressed the district guys (I used the sale flier which came out the day before, DUH!) who showed up just before we opened for their monthly inspection.

They were all bitchin' about the hotel being blacked out.
:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on December 19, 2008, 06:17:37 PM
Sweden was constitutionally divided into counties for the first time in 1634. There were 11 counties in Sweden Proper and 23 in the entire Kingdom. 9 of those counties (in Sweden Proper) still exist, most of them with only slightly changed boundaries. The number of counties between 1810 and 1997 was 24, except for 1819-25, when the county of Öland was established and then re-incorporated into Kalmar county. The number of historical provinces in Sweden Proper was also earlier considered to be 24.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: duncvis on December 20, 2008, 01:45:37 AM
Hot 'lemon' flu remedies are always fucking horrible.  :thumbdn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: WolFish on December 21, 2008, 04:09:13 AM
today is national haiku day
figures. honor poetic form but not solstice. not sure which was here first.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on December 21, 2008, 05:12:48 AM
Solstice celebration was here before haikus, of course, if you mean in the western world. Solstice it self has been here for at least 5 billion years.  :smarty:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: WolFish on December 21, 2008, 11:44:05 AM
Solstice it self has been here for at least 5 billion years.
... :hahaha:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on December 21, 2008, 03:30:23 PM
Five?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on December 22, 2008, 06:37:23 AM
Yes, the Earth is approximately 5 billion years old.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on December 25, 2008, 11:24:57 PM
Yes, the Earth is approximately 5 billion years old.

Look fellow. I'm going to point out the obvious. Humans have not been around but for a few thousand years.  :orly:
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Post by: Parts on December 26, 2008, 12:17:38 PM
Five?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHIo4VruGZY.html
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on December 26, 2008, 12:18:12 PM
What does that have to do with anything? The solstice is an astronomical fact.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on December 26, 2008, 03:05:22 PM

I've just posted a meaningless response to the "Post A Useless Fact"  thread.


 :indeed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on December 27, 2008, 11:12:23 AM
I'd never blow up this road sign, if I came close to it.  8)

(http://www.okemo.com/okemosummer/images/vermont_roadsign.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on December 27, 2008, 12:09:02 PM
I have an annoying fuck of a flu which is causing me to feel half-dead.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on December 28, 2008, 11:25:56 AM
I've found the most awesome video switch box ever and I am wishing really hard to make it mine:

http://www.cablechick.com.au/cables/digitech-6-way-component-svhs-composite-video-digital-coax-toslink-with-remote.html
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Post by: P7PSP on December 29, 2008, 03:33:24 PM
According to the Poor Mans James Bond book the discoverer of NitroCellulose T.J. Pelouze was sitting at home in the kitchen mixing sulfuric and nitric acids and spilled them on the table. He quickly wiped up the mess with the table cloth and rinsed it out thoroughly and set it on top of the stove to dry so his wife wouldn't find out, but the heat set it off and blew up the kitchen. I have not been able to find independent verification of this and Kurt Saxon has been known to be FOS at times.
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Post by: TheoK on December 29, 2008, 03:59:09 PM
According to the Poor Mans James Bond book the discoverer of NitroCellulose T.J. Pelouze was sitting at home in the kitchen mixing sulfuric and nitric acids and spilled them on the table. He quickly wiped up the mess with the table cloth and rinsed it out thoroughly and set it on top of the stove to dry so his wife wouldn't find out, but the heat set it off and blew up the kitchen. I have not been able to find independent verification of this and Kurt Saxon has been known to be FOS at times.

Kurt's right in this respect, though.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on December 30, 2008, 04:38:14 AM
A German driving license is for life - the same license.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on December 30, 2008, 12:27:42 PM
A German driving license is for life - the same license.

... and I can think of several other reasons to disallow their input from our legal processes.

I think most states in this union are too lax in their licensing. Not only personal licenses, but the actual roadworthiness of peoples'  cars should be more strict.


Every single fucking day, I see someone driving who should have had to prove-up before taking the fucking wheel!!  Driving is NOT a right. It is a hard-earned privilege to be maintained at personal expense!!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on December 30, 2008, 12:31:15 PM
Swedish motorcycle and car licenses are for life too, but you have to renew the physical license every 10th year. In Germany you have the same physical license your whole life.

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Post by: TheoK on December 30, 2008, 12:37:38 PM
You know you luuurve the cars of ze Master Race.  8)



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Post by: odeon on December 30, 2008, 04:21:57 PM
Nice car.
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Post by: TheoK on December 30, 2008, 04:29:02 PM
And expensive.  :-\
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Post by: TheoK on December 30, 2008, 10:42:12 PM
Sigtuna is the oldest Swedish town still inhabited. It was founded 980 by King Erik the Victorius. It's the last Swedish town that still has a mayor, and he's just an honour mayor. It is situated in the province Uppland and the county of Stockholm.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on December 30, 2008, 10:45:35 PM
I find that car ugly, sorry.
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Post by: TheoK on December 30, 2008, 10:56:50 PM
Blasphemy!  :o Not only is Mercedes-Benz the oldest car in the world, that particular car is one of the fastest that you can drive on a public road (and only in Germany, since it's the only country that still has highways with no speed limits that are good enough for that velocity): 324 kmph or 202 mph.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on December 30, 2008, 11:11:30 PM
Sigtuna is the oldest Swedish town still inhabited. It was founded 980 by King Erik the Victorius. It's the last Swedish town that still has a mayor, and he's just an honour mayor. It is situated in the province Uppland and the county of Stockholm.
So what is the City/Town government of the other Cities in Sweden structured like ?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on December 30, 2008, 11:21:22 PM
There is a council which is like a parliament in miniature. There is a chairman of the council but s/he isn't called "mayor" and hasn't got the same function as an old Swedish mayor had. Before 1965 or so a Swedish mayor was also a judge in the municipal court.
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Post by: P7PSP on December 30, 2008, 11:34:49 PM
That's a lot of power in comparison to what a Mayor is here.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on December 30, 2008, 11:37:39 PM
That was a lot of power and the reason why mayors were abolished.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on December 31, 2008, 04:15:53 PM
I find that car ugly, sorry.

eyah, ti probbably rides hardd  and ill'll bet it goes tooo fast.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on December 31, 2008, 04:25:42 PM
You can't drive too fast. I drove 170 kmph through a tunnel and over a bridge in the middle of the night in a heavy rain. Brave!  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on December 31, 2008, 04:32:42 PM


*hannnds Tig a set of magick sarcasm glassess*


Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 31, 2008, 05:55:54 PM
I look at cars and trucks for there usefulness   fancy doesn't impress me much what would I use it for.  I can carry about 1900lbs in my truck or tow about 14,000.  And it doesn't matte if I throw my empty coffee cups on the floor :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on December 31, 2008, 05:59:06 PM
When my brother and his friends were younger we used to look for girls in my Volvo 142 and also go out in the woods and blow up pipe bombs. We called that going on a "mission".  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on December 31, 2008, 09:29:00 PM



Music is the sweet sea I fish in for sad want of swimming.
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Post by: Pyraxis on December 31, 2008, 09:56:32 PM
The loss of the head and arms of the Nike of Samothrace "is held by many to enhance the statue's depiction of the supernatural." (Wikipedia)





( arrrrggghhhh.... )
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: enronh on December 31, 2008, 10:25:56 PM
'tis 2009!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 31, 2008, 10:27:18 PM
another 33 minutes here
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Post by: TheoK on January 01, 2009, 04:21:30 AM



Music is the sweet sea I fish in for sad want of swimming.

I think it is for most people. I love Beethovens 9th symphony more the older I get. Sadly they have hijacked the text of the song to the EU "anthem".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on January 01, 2009, 05:38:58 AM
There is a Costco and an Ikea near Edinburgh.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 01, 2009, 05:40:46 AM
Sweden never signed the peace treaty with San Marino in the peace of Westphalia in 1648.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 01, 2009, 08:00:23 AM
My brother studied at the same aviation school as one of the WTC terrorists for a short while.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on January 02, 2009, 09:07:14 AM
Blasphemy!  :o Not only is Mercedes-Benz the oldest car in the world, that particular car is one of the fastest that you can drive on a public road (and only in Germany, since it's the only country that still has highways with no speed limits that are good enough for that velocity): 324 kmph or 202 mph.

So what if Mercefes-Benz is the oldest car in the world. I mean would bang the oldest chick in the world?

The car still looks ugly.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 02, 2009, 09:09:26 AM
Cars are not like broads.  8)

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Post by: Phlexor on January 02, 2009, 10:40:24 AM
Cars are not like broads.  8)



Have it your way, but it's still an ugly car. I never said it wasn't any good, I just don't like how it looks. It's too busy and to many surface details etc, the angles are just seem wrong to me in what I think makes up a good looking car.

Now this is a good looking car:

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Post by: DirtDawg on January 02, 2009, 11:07:08 AM
I remember seeing one of those, once.
It was in the parking lot of a Jaguar dealer, which was near one of our studio locations. I had the impression that Daddy-Deep-Pockets was there to buy his spoiled, plain  daughter a new Jag.

:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 02, 2009, 11:25:01 AM
My wife bought a can of tomato soup and on the side was an ad, "FREE GAS FOR A YEAR!"

I am very hesitant to try this soup.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on January 02, 2009, 03:46:35 PM
There are no "for" loops in XSLT. If you need one, you need to cheat using recursive templates.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 04, 2009, 02:04:43 PM


I feel weak -  like I couldn't hit any sand if I stumbled downhill from atop a dune.

This is  likely from using too much of me, venting on my sup. I went overboard! (he's the guy who used to hit me, playing his jock games with everyone around him, until I put him on the floor twice and shoved him back once to make him understand that while I recognize that he is younger, stronger, I can easily see his weaknesses. He can't play those games anymore, since he was promoted, obviously.  It was not his weakness I was yelling at, though, it was his strengths which he is afraid to use. I should have supported him better, instead of criticizing so harshly)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on January 05, 2009, 09:21:53 AM
Saturday my odometer said my car had "Error" miles on it. The fuel and temperature guages stopped working and the a bunch of indicator lights were stuck on. In addition, the daytime running lights stayed on when the car was shut off and the alarm wouldn't set, plus the stereo was "locked" and unusable.

I disconnected the battery overnight and now it works fine.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on January 05, 2009, 11:23:16 AM
Saturday my odometer said my car had "Error" miles on it. The fuel and temperature guages stopped working and the a bunch of indicator lights were stuck on. In addition, the daytime running lights stayed on when the car was shut off and the alarm wouldn't set, plus the stereo was "locked" and unusable.

I disconnected the battery overnight and now it works fine.

That was weird, but I'm glad that disconnecting the battery fixed it.  What kind of car is it?  Did you have to enter a code into the stereo to make it work?  My car has a special stereo code to enter if the battery is disconnected, i guess to discourage people from breaking into your car to steal it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on January 05, 2009, 04:40:57 PM
Saturday my odometer said my car had "Error" miles on it. The fuel and temperature guages stopped working and the a bunch of indicator lights were stuck on. In addition, the daytime running lights stayed on when the car was shut off and the alarm wouldn't set, plus the stereo was "locked" and unusable.

I disconnected the battery overnight and now it works fine.

Damn. I was about to suggest that you reboot the damn thing. ;D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on January 06, 2009, 09:01:29 AM
I can actually "speak cat". Its almost like when a baby can't really talk yet but as their parent, you know what they are trying to say. I could actually understand my cats completely, and knew how to "meow" back at them the right way.

When I was a little younger, I used to curl up with my cat poco, and sort of roll around like she did. I think I must actually be part cat, or maybe had been a cat in a past life.
Am wondering if you have seen these:

cat chirping at birds:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=NkkaDRJK7m0

And two cats talking:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U0udLH974&feature=related

Yeah in the top vid, thats the "chattering" I was talking about. With some cats they do it real soft and rapid though. It means "Holy fucking shit that looks fun!" or "I WANT. I HAVE THAT NOW K?" On the bottom they were just hanging out. Real relaxed. I know it sounds like mkay mkay mkay. But it was really just cuddle/comfort sounds. Humans think things like I love you etc. Cats don't think like that. Their thought process is more like "you're warm", or "I come closer now k?" or, "I like this". Thats what I love about cats. So simplified.

Lolol. I am Lance, the cat whisperer.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 06, 2009, 10:59:24 AM
My brother and most of his family are going to India in a few weeks
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 06, 2009, 11:05:10 AM
Brave!  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on January 06, 2009, 11:17:11 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yCuOdC3-7s&feature=related

See renaeden this is more common of the "chattering". Its normally quieter and more rapid. It kind of conveys a predatory urge doesn't it? The one in the video you found seemed a bit overstimmed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on January 06, 2009, 11:40:11 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2ftLpb530&feature=related

Take these two kids for example. Take a guess at what they were trying to say. I know...  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 07, 2009, 09:20:09 PM
My house is 1500 square feet
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 07, 2009, 09:22:12 PM
Grandma will be 87 in three days.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 11, 2009, 11:41:49 AM
Swedish has more nouns for relatives than any other Germanic language, maybe except Icelandic.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 11, 2009, 03:24:37 PM
Swedish has more nouns for relatives than any other Germanic language, maybe except Icelandic.

why do you allow Islanders to punk you off.

get some nouns, Swede!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 11, 2009, 03:27:29 PM
Yay, I'll go berserk and take their nouns! :arrr:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 11, 2009, 03:59:48 PM
I unpacked a big fancy television, today that has 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, plasma, 480Hz refresh rate (fucking gamers delight!!) six-way split screen, 78"= bigg enough to see a bunch of different shit on screeen, a net connection which locates weather, stocks, travel info, Youtube, Myspace, fucking everything on the net, I think.

net browsing from your TV remote, built in!!

Only $nineK!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on January 11, 2009, 04:46:49 PM
Every Dolby cinema sound processor there ever was has the same flaw: you can't have the sound off for *both* projectors in a two-projector setup at the same time, unless you switch to a non-sync format. One projector will always be on. In later models they added a Mute function but they've never fixed that basic flaw.

That's why some of us construct a changeover circuit that allows it when installing Dolby processors.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 13, 2009, 02:50:03 AM
The social democrats and the communists used to carry revolvers in Sweden in the 1920s, which is one of the reasons that Sweden got its first gun law. Hard to imagine today.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 14, 2009, 09:01:05 PM

Symmetrical symbiosis escapism!!

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Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on January 15, 2009, 01:09:54 AM
I like that sort of thing too.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 15, 2009, 03:02:58 AM
In France and Germany they sell sugar, coffee etc in "pounds". A French or German "pound", however, is not 454 grams, like an English or American pound, or 425 grams, like an old Swedish pound, but exactly ½ kilo.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 17, 2009, 10:37:43 AM
I just shot 3 tiger rockets just for the lulz.  :smarty:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Dexter Morgan on January 17, 2009, 10:51:24 AM
This is a sentence.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on January 17, 2009, 12:17:40 PM
This not
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 17, 2009, 06:07:17 PM
The border between (Swedish) Finland and Russia in 1721 and Finland and Russia today both start immediately east of the church of Vederlax/Virolahti.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on January 17, 2009, 09:16:50 PM
Rosslyn Chapel is currently covered by a steel exterior roof to protect the stone from rain.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on January 18, 2009, 12:24:36 AM
In spite of his outstanding body of work Dr Seuss ( Theodor Geisel ) never won the Caldecott Medal or the Newberry.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 20, 2009, 07:36:03 AM
The borders of Savolax are usually drawn wrong on Finnish maps but correctly on Swedish. Here I have taken the map of historical Finnish provinces from Wikipedia and corrected them. Savolax is yellow, Karelia is dark green. The little lonely dark green dot is the parish of Nuijamaa.

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Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on January 20, 2009, 11:05:42 AM
The Xenon bulbs we use lose their warranty after only 200 hours of service.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 20, 2009, 11:08:51 AM
In the early nuclear weapons they used a mix of 70% TNT and 30% barium nitrate to push the radioactive components together and start the nuclear process. Barium was used due to its high density.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Frolic_Fun on January 20, 2009, 06:02:58 PM
My eyes sometimes go green. :S
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 20, 2009, 06:05:17 PM
That's due to barium poisoning.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on January 20, 2009, 06:55:15 PM
They use small amounts of gold in nuclear weapons.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 20, 2009, 06:59:49 PM
Gold can be dissolved in a mix of 3 parts 37% HCl and 1 part 99% HNO3 called "king's water" in Swedish ("aqua regiæ" in Latin).
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 20, 2009, 07:12:15 PM
Gold can be dissolved in a mix of 3 parts 37% HCl and 1 part 99% HNO3 called "king's water" in Swedish ("aqua regiæ" in Latin).

Keep that shit away from my snobby-assed stereo cables!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on January 21, 2009, 05:43:34 PM
They use small amounts of gold in nuclear weapons.

But it's a more recent addition, right?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 21, 2009, 06:33:26 PM
My brother is in India
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 21, 2009, 06:48:13 PM
They use small amounts of gold in nuclear weapons.

But it's a more recent addition, right?

No. They made it already in the 1950s. It's to avoid radiation starting a nuclear chain-reaction by mistake. They separate the uranium/plutonium from the neutron source with thin gold foil.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 21, 2009, 06:48:32 PM
My brother is in India

My brother is in town.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on January 22, 2009, 02:34:19 AM
They use small amounts of gold in nuclear weapons.

But it's a more recent addition, right?

No. They made it already in the 1950s. It's to avoid radiation starting a nuclear chain-reaction by mistake. They separate the uranium/plutonium from the neutron source with thin gold foil.

I think they use nickel in the Hiroshima bomb, as well as in most detonator bombs for the early H bombs in the fifties. Gold makes sense, though.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Gluey on January 22, 2009, 02:48:48 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5-G2_1Zj6c
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 23, 2009, 07:07:08 AM
In German all nouns begin with a capital letter, except the noun " bißchen" ("little bit"), probably while it functions more like an adjective or adverb that an noun. But on the other hand adjectives can become nouns in German "substantivierte Adjektive" and will then also get their first letter capitalized.  :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 23, 2009, 11:08:56 AM

My wife is going to have to carry around an undercover FBI agent, wearing a "Brown"  uniform and posing as a trainee.  There is a large company, that has had a large quantity of "letter checks"  stolen  -  the kind most companies use these days, with special ink backgrounds and hidden watermarks to prevent fraud. Kind of defeats the purpose of all that authentication and security shit, if the checks get stolen. 

In order to enhance the perceived authenticity of these fake checks to the banks where these checks are being cashed, they are using mass mailing services to get real postal markings and having the checks mailed to hundreds of post office boxes around the nation. One of the services which has processed over two hundred of the bad checks is on my wife's normal pick-up route. This big company has already spent millions of dollars switching over to a new checking system, due to this, but the losses from cashing these checks are even larger.
Quite a scam! 
It has all been accomplished very suddenly, by a crook who knows the company's system.

So, she has to kick around with an armed G-Man until they catch the crooks. I tried to point out that it is as much for her safety as it is a chance to catch the crooks, in case they try to jack her truck after the pick-up is made. She should appreciate having the Big Man along with her.
I don't think that she wanted to hear that and I doubt that it helped.

:yikes:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 23, 2009, 11:52:05 AM
"Diet Coke" is called "Cola Light" in Sweden, despite that "light" isn't in the Swedish vocabulary while "diet" is.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 24, 2009, 05:47:21 AM
A river in one of the Nordic countries is called "älv" in Swedish, while a river in all other countries is called "flod". "Flod" also means "high tide" in Swedish.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on January 24, 2009, 07:11:02 AM
My brother is in India

My husband is in Delhi, India.

Maybe he and your brother are in the same place?

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 24, 2009, 07:25:51 AM
"Tös" means "girl" where I live, though only old folks or real hillbillies use that word. In Norwegian, however, it means "whore", even though this province was once Norwegian. The usual Norwegian word for "girl" is "jente", which also exists in Swedish; "jänta". I actually used the pretty archaic word "flicka", that is a purely Swedish word, when I was a child. Though the most common word for "girl" today is "tjej", which comes from the Gypsy Romani language.  ::) The Danes use the word "pige" which in Swedish means "maid".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 24, 2009, 07:30:42 AM
The Swedish word for "boy" is "pojke", which comes from the Finnish "poika". An older word is "gosse", which in Norwegian is "gutt" and still used by them today. The usual word is "kille", though, which means "bloke" or "dude". In Danish they once again use the word "dreng", which in Swedish means "farm-hand".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on January 24, 2009, 10:25:24 AM
Interesting. I alwas thought it was the other way around, with "pojke".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 24, 2009, 11:31:52 AM
Nope. "Gosse" or "pilt" is Germanic, while "pojke" is Finno-Ugrian.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on January 24, 2009, 05:20:58 PM
SPDIF out from a motherboard that plug into a VGA cards SPDIF in can only transmit PCM over the VGA cards HDMI and not Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect due to I think timing issues. That sucks.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 24, 2009, 10:46:59 PM


I was wrongg!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on January 25, 2009, 01:02:04 PM


I was wrongg!

About?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 25, 2009, 02:14:32 PM
I had a great nap
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 25, 2009, 02:23:19 PM




I was wrongg!

About?


... about how my cunty tantrum would be viewed by the peers (that term is used as a conversational device, for I have yet to find anyone I would call peeer after a few blinks) who share my workplace.

It seems as if there were many others who felt the same way as I and I just happened to be the one hard ass who made a harshly defined point of NOT PARTICIPATING. I have become something of a minor hero in the eyes of many of the people who also did NOT want to participate in the  "pie-in-the-face"  bullshit.

This development is almost as bad, from the perspective of a person who wants to make only small, shallow tracks in life, as being seen as a cunty punk-assed whiner  (which is how I left the meeting, yesterday - feeling like a total loser, whiner, poor sport), because instead of everyone overstimming me with some kind of ridicule, they are overstimming me now with some kind of acceptance and some crap that feels like worship.

I've had my coffee for now and I am mostly calm, but I still can't feel anything. I had an expectation, when my tactiles went away so quickly, that it might be a while before I could feeel again. Feeling usually comes to my tongue, first and there is nothing, nuthun zero, zip, nada!





To be quite frank with myself, though, there are so many things that I am wrong about that I can only post reasonably acccurately about the most painful for now.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on January 25, 2009, 03:13:33 PM
You only want to make small tracks in life? Why?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 25, 2009, 04:21:19 PM

(This life.)

... because I do not want to take the chance that some roots may grow. I would prefer wings over roots.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on January 25, 2009, 04:46:43 PM
Ah. That's different.




My random factoid of the day is that I have three different to-do lists and a couple dozen stickies currently sitting around my computer waiting to be taken care of.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 26, 2009, 03:47:22 AM
Göring didn't wear a German gun for his own protection but a S&W revolver.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Frolic_Fun on January 26, 2009, 06:04:47 AM
Every digital camera is really B/W, but use a special filter (called a bayer filter) to bring out colour that's made of squares of red, green and blue. The camera then blurs each colour and upscales them to the proper size, giving you a colour image. This also means that our cameras are only 1/3-1/4 the megapixels the manufacturers claim, depending on the size of the CCD/CMOS sensor and the kind of bayer filter used. :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 26, 2009, 06:34:47 AM
A Swedish pound was 425.076 grams. A Swedish inch was 2.48 cm. An old Swedish mile was 10690 meters.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 26, 2009, 07:45:16 AM
Ah. That's different.

 
Maybe, but I have not always tried for the "leave no trace"  goal. Even before there were companies making money from people's Carbon Guilt, selling Carbon Forgiveness in the form of personalized tree planting projects (complete with little placards inscribed with the names of the guilty fools who have given the companies money for offsetting people's guilt which has developed from media exposure of their continued use of big SUVs), I was an avid tree planter.

It has always been a fascinating thing to me to nurture a seed and I can never get enough of this. I was particularly intrigued by the challenge of bringing to life those shy, hesitant, "double dormant" seeds, which take more than one year to germinate.
It's not so easy anymore, though, because most of the parks here are no longer left to the wild. They are landscaped to meet a set of standards created some city planning commission. I can no longer just randomly go around in early spring stomping-in tree seedlings where they are needed. They can't stop me from my habit of stealth-broadcasting of native wildflower seeds, though.
 :headbang2:
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My random factoid of the day is that I have three different to-do lists and a couple dozen stickies currently sitting around my computer waiting to be taken care of.

So, you got a larger monitor in order to keep better tabs on all the ways that you procrastinate?

 :zoinks:


I need a bigger garage/work area for the same reason.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on January 26, 2009, 07:43:23 PM
Procrastination? I prefer to think of it as shooting for the moon.  :P And they're actually physical stickies - I have an annoying habit of coming up with my best ideas when I'm on the clock for something entirely different, so I spend a lot of the day scribbling things down, ripping them off and shoving them in my bag before some coworker notices the errant flow of passion.

I have only one seed I'm attempting to nurture at the moment. Actually it's a cutting, and I can't figure out if it's slowly dying or struggling to make roots and come back. There are three leaves, two are yellowish but still thick and have stubbornly not fallen off. It's in the sun and has a little soil at the bottom and I haven't a clue how moist to keep it.

I have no sense for this yet.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 26, 2009, 10:04:11 PM
Procrastination? I prefer to think of it as shooting for the moon.  :P

You were supposed to smile, that's all.

 :angel:
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I have only one seed I'm attempting to nurture at the moment. Actually it's a cutting, and I can't figure out if it's slowly dying or struggling to make roots and come back. There are three leaves, two are yellowish but still thick and have stubbornly not fallen off. It's in the sun and has a little soil at the bottom and I haven't a clue how moist to keep it.

I have no sense for this yet.



Did you use rooting hormone on your clipping?  If not, it's too late now, because it must be used in the first few hours after the cutting is taken or it will not be absorbed into the tissues. Not all types of plants need it though. Either way, don't give up. Get some help from science, if necessary.
Direct sun is generally not right for rootless clippings, though. It will be fine with indirect sun, until it has a root or two. There will be no photosynthesis, until a root forms, so the sun does nothing but dry it out (although direct sun does hinder some fungal colonies which are your main enemy).  Warmth from below (the rooting media should be kept warmer than the surrounding air), high humidity in the surrounding air (in the neighborhood of one hundred percent humidity is usually best, so this means a covering) and sterile conditions, especially freedom from fungi are the most important things to provide when taking cuttings. (I actually scrub up and use surgeons gloves when I take cuttings and all my containers, scissors and coverings have been boiled and the cuttings are immediately dipped into a container of fresh growth hormone to aide in rooting, then placed immediately into sterile media and covered with glass. Obviously, there are certain types of plants, especially woody perennials that are not so picky. For instance, I have seen willow, basically any salix, prunings root right into the ground where they were thrown.) The only other major concern is the time of year you took your cutting. Plants are naturally loaded with growth and especially rooting hormones in spring. In the fall, plants are generally trying to go dormant and cuttings may not root well.

Even if your cutting does not "take" (grow roots)  do not abandon the idea of starting our own plants. There are very few plants that can not be propagated asexually (as in taking cuttings). The most important benefit to this type of propagation is that the plant you root will have the exact same DNA and growth/color/size and flowering habits (and all other characteristics) as the parent plant. It will be an exact copy.

My most recent successes in growing from cuttings have been Clematis. I took multiple cuttings from seven different cultivars last year and I have at least one plant successfully dormant, all outdoors, from all seven types. One of the Chinese types I have, all five of the cuttings I took rooted successfully.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on January 26, 2009, 10:34:16 PM
How would I know if fungus was hurting it? Is there anything that could be seen?

I had no idea rooting hormone existed and it's too late now. I can cover it though and put it on something black for heat. I didn't want to make it too wet because I thought that might make it grow mold, and because I think the adult plant is supposed to be kept fairly dry, but that could easily be wrong. It's one of these. (http://"http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/interiorscape/Philodendron_domesticum.html") It had one root about an inch long before I took it out of water and put it in soil instead. I can't see through the soil how the root is doing, but the yellow leaves got me worried.




...another useless fact: I am two blocks down from Callaway Dr.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 28, 2009, 01:17:02 PM
The King has name-day today.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 28, 2009, 03:50:02 PM
The King has name-day today.

Elvis :elvis: :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 28, 2009, 04:18:08 PM
Hm, not really.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 28, 2009, 04:38:22 PM
How would I know if fungus was hurting it? Is there anything that could be seen?


Not until it's too late, unfortunately. Fungus spores are generally microscopic and the damage they cause, due to their parasitic use of the plant tissues, is microscopic until it goes so far that even we "numb humans"  can see it.
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I had no idea rooting hormone existed and it's too late now. I can cover it though and put it on something black for heat. I didn't want to make it too wet because I thought that might make it grow mold, and because I think the adult plant is supposed to be kept fairly dry, but that could easily be wrong. It's one of these. (http://"http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/interiorscape/Philodendron_domesticum.html") It had one root about an inch long before I took it out of water and put it in soil instead. I can't see through the soil how the root is doing, but the yellow leaves got me worried.

Cover it, keep it moist, hope it was sterile. That's about all you can do, now. Still, don't give up. It WILL work, once you meet its needs.

BTW, your link does not work. I have no idea what plant you are trying to root. I may have experience rooting hundreds of plants, but there are literally hundreds of millions of species that respond well to asexual reproduction efforts. I am not a good source. Read up on your specific plant.

... and try again!!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on January 28, 2009, 06:29:14 PM
Good points. I will.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 28, 2009, 06:34:29 PM
cheratussin ac syrup tastes like shit :eh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 31, 2009, 10:47:31 AM
Good points. I will.

I looked back at your link and at least I now know which plant you are trying to grow. Philodendrons are usually easy to propagate asexually. I have seen women drop a stem into a mason jar of water, set it in the window, with no accounting whatsoever for the plant's needs, and they will still root.

I have a Monstera, which is closely related, that I started from a haphazardly broken-off piece of stem I found in a pizza place then brought home in my pocket.

Good luck!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 31, 2009, 01:47:00 PM
I have just gotten off the phone with my brother. He is preparing to attend the convention of music educators where they are going to honor our father next week for his life's work. He is taking his son, who will tape the entire ceremony for me to watch.

He is THE MAN!


... my little brother, taking the heat for me. He's awesome!


I was afraid from the beginning that I would not be able to handle all that
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 31, 2009, 06:49:00 PM
Xanax is one of the nastiest tasting pills you would thin they would coat it
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on February 01, 2009, 07:18:06 AM
Xanax is one of the nastiest tasting pills you would thin they would coat it

That's probably so little kids will spit them out when they think that they are lollies or something.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 01, 2009, 05:34:02 PM



I, no I, noI ...no,  I am the only, anal retentive, Holier-Than-Thou (nods to milla) CUNT who has actually cleared his entire walkway (Mine is three times larger than any other save for the preacher across the street who keeps a coffin and a Harley Fatboy in his garage).

A winner is me!!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 02, 2009, 12:44:45 AM
Xanax is one of the nastiest tasting pills you would thin they would coat it

Never tasted them, but valium is pretty bitter. Rohypnol, though, are sweet and nice in their taste.  :eyebrows:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on February 02, 2009, 03:04:29 AM
Xanax is one of the nastiest tasting pills you would thin they would coat it

Never tasted them, but valium is pretty bitter. Rohypnol, though, are sweet and nice in their taste.  :eyebrows:
Maybe you guys should try smoking hash oil, it's easier on the body and tastes sweet.
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Post by: RageBeoulve on February 02, 2009, 02:59:14 PM
Pure dxm has always been my drug of choice. It makes me have the most incredible dreams, and I love the comfortable, snuggly feeling it gives me.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 02, 2009, 04:55:15 PM
Xanax is one of the nastiest tasting pills you would thin they would coat it

Never tasted them, but valium is pretty bitter. Rohypnol, though, are sweet and nice in their taste.  :eyebrows:
Maybe you guys should try smoking hash oil, it's easier on the body and tastes sweet.

I wish my wife got me to stop all that now everything has to have a RX :-[
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Post by: Phlexor on February 03, 2009, 09:37:55 AM
I mowed the lawn today cos it was way too long.
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Post by: Peter on February 03, 2009, 10:17:07 AM
Xanax is one of the nastiest tasting pills you would thin they would coat it

Never tasted them, but valium is pretty bitter. Rohypnol, though, are sweet and nice in their taste.  :eyebrows:
Maybe you guys should try smoking hash oil, it's easier on the body and tastes sweet.

I wish my wife got me to stop all that now everything has to have a RX :-[

What's an RX?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 03, 2009, 11:13:03 AM
Xanax is one of the nastiest tasting pills you would thin they would coat it

Never tasted them, but valium is pretty bitter. Rohypnol, though, are sweet and nice in their taste.  :eyebrows:
Maybe you guys should try smoking hash oil, it's easier on the body and tastes sweet.

I wish my wife got me to stop all that now everything has to have a RX :-[

What's an RX?

Generally speaking, It means "a prescription"
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 03, 2009, 11:17:15 AM
I was going to try to make a "cool" Bengal fire today, but I couldn't be arsed.  :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 03, 2009, 11:22:38 AM
Cotton breather fabric I use for work comes in 6000sf rolls
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 12, 2009, 06:32:12 PM
Hitler had a gun license but not a driver's license.
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Post by: TheoK on February 12, 2009, 06:42:08 PM
"Och" is Swedish for "and". It's the only Swedish word with a "k" sound that's spelled with "ch". It was a book printer in Stockholm, Ignatius Meurer, who proposed it in the 1670's to separate it from "ock" which means "too/also". In Norwegian and Danish they spell it "og".
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Post by: Leto729 on February 12, 2009, 11:16:25 PM
I am Hilter lol or not lol
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Post by: odeon on February 13, 2009, 03:35:08 PM
Hitler had a gun license but not a driver's license.

I can only imagine how awful he would have been on the autobahn, considering what he did with the help of his friends and some weapons.
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Post by: TheoK on February 13, 2009, 03:39:33 PM
Hitler had a gun license but not a driver's license.

I can only imagine how awful he would have been on the autobahn, considering what he did with the help of his friends and some weapons.

There is a film with Göring on the autobahn, though, when he drives at about 200 kmph and takes his hands of the steering wheel and holds them up in the air.  :green:
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Post by: odeon on February 13, 2009, 03:42:33 PM
What kind of car did he drive?
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Post by: TheoK on February 13, 2009, 03:48:15 PM
Don't remember but it was some kind of racer car, possibly a Mercedes or some Italian car.
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Post by: odeon on February 13, 2009, 03:49:29 PM
Probably. 200 mph was extraordinary back then.
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Post by: TheoK on February 13, 2009, 03:50:28 PM
No, no, not miles, kilometres. kmph. Though a few cars could even make that in miles.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on February 13, 2009, 03:51:58 PM
Oops. Apparently I missed the "k". :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on February 13, 2009, 09:27:13 PM
The white of my left eye is completely blood red.
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Post by: Callaway on February 14, 2009, 03:11:44 AM
The white of my left eye is completely blood red.

What happened to your eye?
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Post by: odeon on February 14, 2009, 05:42:10 AM
The white of my left eye is completely blood red.

A blood vessel burst, probably. Should be nothing to worry about but go see a doctor anyway. :-\
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Post by: DirtDawg on February 14, 2009, 04:23:35 PM
Eyes have the highest rate of healing of any other organ in the entire body.  If it has not began to clear up by twelve or so hours that have passed - definitely see a doctor.

If it is clearing already and you know why it happened -  then I hope the other guy has worse injuries!
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Post by: odeon on February 14, 2009, 04:25:30 PM
 :indeed:

My OCD's always focused on my eyes. I'm always going blind. Therefore I'm glad that it's not about my eyes.
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Post by: RageBeoulve on February 14, 2009, 08:39:37 PM
The white of my left eye is completely blood red.

What happened to your eye?
The white of my left eye is completely blood red.

A blood vessel burst, probably. Should be nothing to worry about but go see a doctor anyway. :-\

Actually I was already in the hospital. I got hit in the face with a bat, and it broke my nose, parts of my eye socket, and inflicted horrible bruising.

The white of my left eye is still completely red, but the bruising is subsiding, and my nose is mending. I kind of like it. I have one mean eye and one nice eye now. Lol.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on February 14, 2009, 08:41:12 PM
The white of my left eye is completely blood red.

What happened to your eye?
The white of my left eye is completely blood red.

A blood vessel burst, probably. Should be nothing to worry about but go see a doctor anyway. :-\

Actually I was already in the hospital. I got hit in the face with a bat, and it broke my nose, parts of my eye socket, and inflicted horrible bruising.

The white of my left eye is still completely red, but the bruising is subsiding, and my nose is mending. I kind of like it. I have one mean eye and one nice eye now. Lol.

 :o

Are you going to be OK?
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Post by: RageBeoulve on February 14, 2009, 08:49:54 PM
Hahaha! I'm fine. I have vicodin, and i've been hit a helluva a lot harder. The most i'll get out of this is some scars and a slightly different face. I'm already covered in scars anyway, so no big deal. :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on February 14, 2009, 10:37:27 PM
Did you move to that place yet?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: El on February 15, 2009, 10:04:18 AM
The top of my cat's head smells like the scented candle I've lit a couple of times in my kitchen.
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Post by: RageBeoulve on February 15, 2009, 03:36:14 PM
Did you move to that place yet?

No not quite yet. Its taking medicaid a while to go through.

Also...

The top of my cat's head smells like the scented candle I've lit a couple of times in my kitchen.

 :kitten: AWWWWW
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on February 15, 2009, 11:25:36 PM
I saw a friend at the gun show today and bought a nice little fixed blade drop point knife with a 3" blade of ATS 34 steel and canvas micarta handle with full tang from him. It is a practical size knife, I bought a similar model from him several years back with red jigged bone handle, he'll probably never be a famous knife maker but I like his work. I also ordered a bone handled Bowie from him that I should get in about 4 months. I'll post pictures of todays purchase and the red fox model later.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 17, 2009, 06:31:05 AM
The SS soldiers had oat porridge and mineral water for breakfast.
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Post by: P7PSP on February 17, 2009, 06:42:17 AM
Himmler had some fucked up dietary notions. I'm pretty sure that Reinhard Heydrich was a meat and potatoes type of guy. I doubt that most vegetarians could get out of a car with grenade shrapnel and seat springs in their back to shoot at their assassins. And I know from eating Seventh Day Adventist food that meat substitute does not taste like meat.
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Post by: TheoK on February 17, 2009, 07:05:58 AM
Heydrich was BRAVE even if most of the world hated him.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on February 17, 2009, 07:08:41 AM
He was a tough son of a bitch.
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Post by: TheoK on February 17, 2009, 07:14:39 AM
His autopsy protocol says that he probably died of poisoning from undetonated TNT in his spleen.  8)
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Post by: P7PSP on February 17, 2009, 07:32:01 AM
Then it's a good thing for him it didn't detonate. That might have killed him.  :green: :asthing:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 17, 2009, 10:33:07 AM
Chlorates and perchlorates were licensed in Sweden in 1942, probably while you can make pretty strong plastic explosives of them with simple means.

Surprisingly they became totally free again in 1988.
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Post by: RageBeoulve on February 17, 2009, 11:01:46 AM
I can make a very large bomb just from stuff I could find in your house.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 17, 2009, 11:03:33 AM
So could I.  :eyebrows:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 17, 2009, 06:42:08 PM
There are two scientifically accepted definitions of a high explosive:

1. Something is a high explosive if the VOD exceeds 1000 metres/second.

2. Something is a high explosive if the VOD is higher than the speed of the sound through the explosive.

All explosives that fulfil 1) also fulfil 2).

All methods are scientifically accepted to make the VOD fulfil the criterias, like detonating a mechanicaly pressed amount of the explosive in a metal tube.

Black powder in a metal tube can explode at about 400 m/s and thus do not by far fulfil even 1).

Dynamite for civilian use usually has a VOD of 3000-5000 m/s.

Military TNT, which by tradition is the explosive that all others are compared with, has a VOD of about 7000 m/s.

The fastest not thermobaric explosive in the world is TNGU, which detonates at the "magic" 10000 m/s limit. Recently the Russians have succeeded making thermobaric bombs that might have a VOD 6-8 times higher than that(!)

Flash powder fulfils the criterias of a HE if the quantity is large enough; it becomes "self-confining" then. The VOD is at least 1400 m/s, which is relatively much, considering that flash is just a mix of two or more oxidizers/fuels and not a chemical compound.
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Post by: RageBeoulve on February 17, 2009, 07:55:44 PM
Impressive. I see you've read into this. :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 17, 2009, 08:55:30 PM
And not just read.  :angel:

Yup. It's one of my obsessions.  8)

The greatest explosion ever in Sweden was in 1966, when 66000 tons of TNT were detonated in northern Lappland to simulate a nuclear explosion. 8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 17, 2009, 09:14:20 PM
The first German towns to be captured by US troops in WWII were Eschweiler and Stohlberg in the Rhineland.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on February 18, 2009, 11:28:57 AM
 :zoinks: Lol aspie intrests FTW.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 19, 2009, 02:55:23 AM
 :agreed: :cuckoo: :asthing:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: vodz on February 19, 2009, 06:20:53 AM
In Czech, "fact" is spelt f-a-k-t and pronounced "fucked". :lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 19, 2009, 06:28:37 AM
In Swedish it's "faktum" in singular and "fakta" in plural just like in Latin.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 20, 2009, 04:00:38 AM
Joseph Goebbels had his name in gold on all his cigarettes.

Winston Churchill had a tobacco plantation in Cuba; his cigars were made by Romeo y Julieta especially for him and imported to Britain by Dunhill.
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Post by: TheoK on February 20, 2009, 08:05:46 AM
The last German to get the Knight's Cross with diamonds was general von Saucken who held the mouth of the Vistula river in West Prussia until the capitulation. He got it on the 8th of May, the very capitulation day. He spent 10 years in Soviet prisons and prison camps, despite the fact that he was never convicted for any real war crimes. He got 10 years just for commanding German troops and he despised the Nazis. The original sentence was 25 years in prison camp.
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Post by: TheoK on February 20, 2009, 08:37:15 AM
There was a Grand Cross of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (typically German lengthy name  :P ); Blücher got it in 1814 and Hindenburg got it in 1918. They were personally designed for them. Hitler planned to re-introduce it after the war to people who had made exceptional efforts. There's only a prototype of it and it's in the war museum at West Point.

Göring got the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds after the victory over France in 1940. He was the only one who got the decoration with golden Oak Leaves. All other got them in silver. You got Iron Crosses step by step; to get the Iron Cross First Class, you'd first have to get the Second Class. To get the Oak Leaves, you'd first have to get the Swords. To get the Diamonds, you'd first have to get the Oak Leaves. Et cetera.
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Post by: TheoK on February 20, 2009, 08:51:25 AM
The cowardly cunts who made the post-war German laws prohibited the heroes from WWII to wear their Nights Crosses, since there is a swastika on them.

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds and the prototype for the Grand Star Cross.


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Post by: Parts on February 20, 2009, 09:37:54 AM
My truck is red
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Post by: DirtDawg on February 20, 2009, 05:21:57 PM
I was once told by a carnival "palm reader"  that I don't have a lifeline. She kept telling me to relax my hand, but I was as relaxed as I could be.

She finally found it and said that it was extremely long, too long, but it was broken in three places. She said that it meant that my life has ended and re-started twice already. I almost fell out of the chair, because that is true.

I wonder when the next break will occur.   :-\

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on February 20, 2009, 09:58:04 PM
I can do a hundred and twenty three pushups in under two minutes.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Peter on February 21, 2009, 12:46:30 PM
I currently weigh 65kg.
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Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on February 21, 2009, 12:52:04 PM
Only thing I ate today was flax seed, but I feel pretty calmn, sedated enough now to lie down.

4 grams of glutamine and .9grams of fish oil over 2 grams of glutamine and  .3 grams of fish oil.  Both doses of fish oil were encentric coated to 3  times better absorption.

I might be enough to cause aurosal, and its seems like it might.  I have monitored these states a few times, so I can see patterns.  I wanted to program myself, and or a suitable mate.

Its 1:51pm here right now.

Probably burning fat .  I felt a bit weak at first, but now I am feeling energized.  I just misspelled a word  to, maybe its from not eating or something.  I fixed the word "week" to "weak".  I must not be a word I favor either, especially in this time. "It", again, preventing a potientally disturbing though I guess, by right hemispheric activity, my minor hemisphere.

I didn't do it on purpose, I guess.  Some of these things go preconsciously.  I just stuffed my face with vegetables and ship, went right through me like water.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 21, 2009, 01:28:47 PM
I currently weigh 65kg.

HOLY (fucking) SHIT!!

(that seems to be the expression de jour)

I have you by almost half - thirty kg. Right now, I'm ninety five and a quarter kilograms. Last summer I was swimming, kicking the bag a lot, almost running during my morning constitutionals, lifting many heavy things at work, eating mostly fresh vegetables and fruits - I was down below my "fighting weight" from my teen years at 84.8 kilograms (My wife took pics, but I don't think i will post them, even though I have considered the bragging rights available to me from cultivating a decent set of abs, being so "old," disgusting  and all). I had not felt so healthy in some time!!  Putting twenty five pounds (actually over ten kg   :hide:) back on during the falll and winter has showed me some thing about how weak I have become to the expectations of food - even though it has not helped, but hurt me, instead. SAD is a bitch, for real.

When I was in high school (at eighteen), I boxed on teh school team, but I had trouble keeping my weight below the "Heavy Weight"  category. I was usually a pound or two over the break point, when match time came. That always made me the lightest "Heavy Weight"  to compete.  I won a few matches, but I would have done much better in the lighter weight category. I was fast and no one ever hit me, not even once, in a match, so my wins were technical, but not KOs. It was points based and I scored more points by landing clean blows, even though the guys were so much bigger than I was that i could barely hurt them. I could not hurt most of them, except to slow them down even more than they already were which allowed me to place my punches even more precisely and keep them from breathing.

The only way to beat a guy who is faster than you is to keep moving, block him effectively and dance around, not letting him take away your breath with his best punches. Only problem is that when the faster guy has more stamina, you will still run out of breath and slow down even more as he begins to plant even better punches into your vast midsection. I enjoyed the chaos of the boxing ring almost as much as I did the deliberateness of baseball.

 :lol:

I promise this time, though, if I get back to my fighting weight this summer, I will post a pic.
It's really fucked up that i have let myself go so badly in the past few months.
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Post by: TheoK on February 21, 2009, 02:19:17 PM
My grandfather weighed 48.5 kilos or a little over 100 lbs on the 1th of March 1935, age 14. I have his old note book from school.
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Post by: odeon on February 21, 2009, 03:01:49 PM
I weigh about 70 kg.  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 25, 2009, 06:58:50 PM


I need.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 25, 2009, 07:16:40 PM
I am alone in the living room :asthing:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 25, 2009, 07:21:28 PM
The Swede is tired.  :(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 25, 2009, 07:33:20 PM
I should be took, some klonopin, but alas I am not
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 25, 2009, 07:36:52 PM
It's 2:36 in the morning here...
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 25, 2009, 07:41:57 PM
Only 8:41 here
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 26, 2009, 08:56:30 PM
I have nothing to do tommrow
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2009, 03:32:09 AM
My stomach is bad as usual when I've been to fucking McDonalds the day before.  :finger:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 27, 2009, 06:04:32 AM
My stomach is bad as usual when I've been to fucking McDonalds the day before.  :finger:

That's the same worldwide.   What I don't understand is all the people who complain about American exporting it's culture but if nobody went to to McDonalds they wouldn't make any money and not expand where worldwide.  I don't even go to them here 
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Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2009, 06:20:46 AM
It's easy to eat there when you're at the mall.  :-\

You better export the 2nd Amendment instead. :litigious:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2009, 07:14:45 AM
The Mexicans have a naval academy named after the German Grand Admiral and last Führer Karl Dönitz.  :green:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7FPO73mhtc
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 27, 2009, 02:19:41 PM
It's easy to eat there when you're at the mall.  :-\

You better export the 2nd Amendment instead. :litigious:


Love too but to many complaints
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on February 27, 2009, 03:33:29 PM
It's probably easier if we just give Lit to you guys. Less trouble all around.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 27, 2009, 04:50:52 PM
It's probably easier if we just give Lit to you guys. Less trouble all around.

Help him get a green card then :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2009, 05:14:58 PM
 :agreed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 27, 2009, 05:17:56 PM
He'd fit in here the US is full of nuts
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2009, 05:19:25 PM
 :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 27, 2009, 05:29:36 PM
To be honest he'd would not be any worse than some of the ones we have let come in under refugee status from the Balkans and Africa I have me some of them where down right scary
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2009, 05:31:29 PM
Of course I'm not crazy. I'm a white Arayan male, who has gone to university and has an IQ pretty above average.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 27, 2009, 05:34:43 PM
And what is in your past  would prevent you from coming here? I think you'd like it
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on February 28, 2009, 08:29:26 AM
It's a deal, then. You can have him. ;D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 28, 2009, 10:39:01 AM
Crate him up :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on February 28, 2009, 01:18:24 PM
:laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 28, 2009, 06:47:16 PM
Six people live in my house :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on February 28, 2009, 07:03:11 PM
And you're willing to have a seventh delivered by mail?  :zombiefuck:


There is a candle on my windowsill.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 28, 2009, 07:09:55 PM
Sure
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Diesel on February 28, 2009, 08:48:18 PM
A 1973 Mercedes-Benz 220 diesel with a 4 speed manual transmission will do the 1/4 mile faster than it does 0-60.  :asthing:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on March 01, 2009, 01:23:43 AM
Six people live in my house :o

After Monday there will be 7 people living in my house  :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on March 01, 2009, 02:23:00 AM
I have 49 friends on FaceBook! ::)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 01, 2009, 12:26:21 PM
I don't have FaceBook.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 01, 2009, 02:28:42 PM
My dog just fell off the couch in his sleep and freaked out :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 01, 2009, 03:29:18 PM


My Gawd despises the very air I breathe. All the air I exhale is tainted with my own fears.

I must take on new air with each breath.

No air is fully safe!!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 01, 2009, 03:29:44 PM


It is Gawd's air.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 01, 2009, 03:33:30 PM
.

Fuck the fuck out of most of the liquid parts of him ,  for it is MY land.


My feet are grounded upon solid ground and HE/IT can have to differences.





*inserts bad word*
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on March 02, 2009, 09:08:00 AM
My dog just fell off the couch in his sleep and freaked out :laugh:
Dogs are fucking hilarious.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 07, 2009, 06:07:27 PM
The smell of rotten eggs seems to cause erections. That's what some researchers found out in Napels.


Pretty useless fact, the smell will chase any possible partner away for miles.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 07, 2009, 07:14:45 PM

I can smell in the past, so to speak.

I would say that I have a dawg's nose, but dawgs seem to only have four re-actions to what they smell, such as,  Eat-it, Piss-on-it, Fuck-it, or Run-away.

I may react quite differently, but possibly some elements of all four of the previously described "typical" reactions may also be included.

Rotten eggs abound with history to a refined sniffer.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 08, 2009, 03:40:53 PM
My street is on goggle street view you can see my truck and messy yard
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Diesel on March 09, 2009, 05:40:51 PM
Hitting a wild turkey with your left shoulder and bicep while traveling around 40-45 mph on a motorycle hurts......

...........A LOT!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 09, 2009, 07:41:09 PM
Hitting a wild turkey with your left shoulder and bicep while traveling around 40-45 mph on a motorycle hurts......

...........A LOT!

We have tons of them around here I wouldn't want to hit one with my truck let alone on a motorcycle
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 10, 2009, 04:57:36 AM
We have no wild turkeys here. I want turkey.  :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on March 10, 2009, 05:27:38 AM
If I don't leave for college soon, I will most definitely be late.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 10, 2009, 05:32:24 AM
This (http://www.wildturkeybourbon.com/) Wild Turkey is also very good.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Diesel on March 10, 2009, 08:50:29 AM
This (http://www.wildturkeybourbon.com/) Wild Turkey is also very good.  8)

Distilled not very far from me....bout a 20 minuet drive.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 10, 2009, 10:21:53 AM
Hitting a wild turkey with your left shoulder and bicep while traveling around 40-45 mph on a motorycle hurts......

...........A LOT!

Yeah, I'lll bet it does! Did you collect it for the dinner table or did it get away?



Wild turkey is fucking awesome - even the white meat is dark-ish. LoL



Wild turkey is native to the Americas. Euro-types do not qualify.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 10, 2009, 10:23:10 AM
This (http://www.wildturkeybourbon.com/) Wild Turkey is also very good.  8)

Distilled not very far from me....bout a 20 minuet drive.

Also not advised at your shoulder or biceps with 40/45 mph
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 10, 2009, 10:23:47 AM
 :plus:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Diesel on March 10, 2009, 04:01:42 PM
Every road going vehicle currently in my possesion was built in Germany. :hitler:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Diesel on March 10, 2009, 05:01:21 PM
Hitting a wild turkey with your left shoulder and bicep while traveling around 40-45 mph on a motorycle hurts......

...........A LOT!

Yeah, I'lll bet it does! Did you collect it for the dinner table or did it get away?



Wild turkey is fucking awesome - even the white meat is dark-ish. LoL



Wild turkey is native to the Americas. Euro-types do not qualify.



It got away.  >:(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 11, 2009, 07:56:29 AM
Every road going vehicle currently in my possesion was built in Germany. :hitler:

BRAVE!  :agreed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 15, 2009, 01:55:31 PM
I see lots of spambots coming this way.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 15, 2009, 03:56:30 PM
Modzilla's been at it, I know.

It's almost funny how hateful she can be. That she could be the cause of any of her problems is completely beyond her.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 16, 2009, 02:53:06 PM

My day was uneventful, except for the part about my brother-in-law.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 16, 2009, 03:32:39 PM
I loaded and took to the dump over 1200lbs of crap and junk from my yard today.  Still have 5-600 steel and 300 of so aluminum for the scrap yard
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Diesel on March 17, 2009, 09:03:04 AM
I have never eaten a corn-dog.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 17, 2009, 09:51:50 AM
I will never eat a corn dog :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on March 17, 2009, 11:08:14 AM
I have eaten a corn dog.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on March 17, 2009, 11:47:50 AM
I will never eat another corn dog! :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 17, 2009, 03:11:33 PM
I have no idea what a corn dog is.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Mr Smith on March 17, 2009, 03:13:45 PM
Quote
Post a useless fact

http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,10537.0.html
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 17, 2009, 03:18:26 PM
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Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on March 17, 2009, 05:57:25 PM
I have no idea what a corn dog is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_dog

This is a picture of a corn dog:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Corndog_outside.jpg)

It is made by putting a weiner on a wooden stick, dipping it into cornmeal batter and then deep frying or baking it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 17, 2009, 05:58:24 PM
It looks like a cut off dick.  :scratchhead:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 17, 2009, 06:22:00 PM
In Europe we have real sausages in the delicatessen stores.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on March 17, 2009, 06:28:15 PM
It looks like a cut off dick.  :scratchhead:

Yes, people here can be strange.   :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 17, 2009, 07:43:46 PM
I have no idea what a corn dog is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_dog

This is a picture of a corn dog:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Corndog_outside.jpg)

It is made by putting a weiner on a wooden stick, dipping it into cornmeal batter and then deep frying or baking it.

Back to whence you came THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: SleepyDragon on March 17, 2009, 11:25:29 PM
They call those things "battered savs" in Australia, but I don't think the difference in name makes any difference to the flavour. :barf:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on March 18, 2009, 12:09:32 AM
They call those things "battered savs" in Australia, but I don't think the difference in name makes any difference to the flavour. :barf:

Not really the same thing. I like both but corn dogs are hard to come by around here.

Battered Savs or Frankfurt in batter is just regular batter usually sold in fish and chip shops.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saveloy
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: SleepyDragon on March 18, 2009, 12:16:13 AM
Maybe I'll look up some recipes online. Disgusting they may be, but looking at all the pix is making me ravenous. ;D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: QuirkyCarla on March 18, 2009, 02:51:53 AM
I'm tired.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 18, 2009, 02:04:07 PM
It looks like a cut off dick.  :scratchhead:

Yes, people here can be strange.   :laugh:

... especially when they cut those things even more and skip the sticks.

I make corndogs by cutting them into short pieces and floating them in hot oil.

It roX
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 18, 2009, 03:11:30 PM
My wife and I shared large things today.  We had a two hour talk. We went beyond many of the things that we have spoken about in the past. She has admitted to having stalked my posts on  a dozen fora. When you see the "Lurker 'Dawg"  it is probably NOT me. I often pop in at odd times, posst a bit and disappear, the lurker is probably not me. It is most likely my wife. I have given her all my log-in info, so she can see for herself where I go when I need a rest from my own world. She says that she has never posted and will not EVER post in my name. OK -  I believes her. We went on.

I told her of the tme... She did not know this about me, but ... alas, due to my forum life she found out and asked for more details  ...

I shared details of the time when I tried to kill the guy who set up several roughians to gang rape me.  (she knew of the gang rape incident, but did not know that six tears later I tried to kill the guy in charge or that I had gone to his broken body after he had slammed into my trap and re-started the bleeding by jerking lose his ruined arm - then had a change of heart and called for an ambulance) I was only just becoming aware that I could defend myself when that whole gang rape thing happened, at fifteen. I was lucky enought o escape with only a bit of axle grease up my ass and the grease gun made a formidable weapon against six twenty year olds, determined to brutalize me.
 More things about my "hard"  times came forth.

I have been able to share things with her for the first time, today, many things that I have not been able to share with you electrons/faceless "friends."
Also the time I "ended"  my previpos relationship, by preventing by gun work a gang rape, slit throat and robbery of my ex-wife-to-be (old girlfirend I alsmost married)(hated me from that single instant, because I became her dad - who she already hated) by using a hidden pistol to make the bad guys  all go away.


... and the time I bashed in the head of the leader of a gang who were going to steal my fancy cameras in San Antonio... and the time I was state's witness to a drug murder ... and the time I smashed my car into a guy for shooting at me... and the time I pulled the knife out of the chest of one of my friends in a gang fight and plunged it into the throat of the guy who had stabbed him ... and the time I had given up fleeing to stand against two guys who had killed both my best dogs and set fire to my car ...

This has been a very motivating day and despite many surprises, she is still with me ...

I know that she knew she had a decent man, but I don't think that she knew that she had a man who was no longer totally green.

The fact that she left for work and kissed me deeply shows me that she has accepted the worst of me, along with the best.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 18, 2009, 03:16:17 PM
Your an interesting man dawg and that is no useless fact
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on March 18, 2009, 03:19:56 PM
Your an interesting man dawg and that is no useless fact

 :agreed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 18, 2009, 03:27:21 PM
Your an interesting man dawg and that is no useless fact

I have held so much from her, trying to be he best man I can

She has been with me through some tough times, but to me, these times with her have been my best times.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on March 18, 2009, 06:00:09 PM
The fact that she left for work and kissed me deeply shows me that she has accepted the worst of me, along with the best.

The worst? No man should have to go through all that. The fact that you did it kicking and screaming and are still here today to tell the tale says more than enough.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 18, 2009, 08:15:25 PM
The fact that she left for work and kissed me deeply shows me that she has accepted the worst of me, along with the best.

The worst? No man should have to go through all that. The fact that you did it kicking and screaming and are still here today to tell the tale says more than enough.

I live now in a place where most of the people my age have no knowledge of gang violence. It was easy to have peers where I grew up, but here, I am as much of an outcast as ever. I truly have no one to talk to about some of this shit.

I'm not saying that for ... :violin:

I am saying that my life is now mostly predictable and I am grateful.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: driftingblizzard on March 20, 2009, 02:14:46 PM
I think I'm going to light the fireplace tonight.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on March 22, 2009, 01:16:25 AM
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 22, 2009, 07:01:26 AM
There are dog nose marks all over my front windows
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 22, 2009, 09:16:42 AM
I spotted Callaway on DV.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 22, 2009, 01:55:28 PM
I like to hang out near the body piercing joints and hit on the females who emerge walking like cowboys, or at least limping.








(Knot true, but as we alll know - the best comedy comes directly from real life happenstance  ...   :lol:  there is a bit to this - I'm am just knot sure what ...)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 22, 2009, 06:23:58 PM
Just got my new Northern Tool catalogue 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on March 22, 2009, 08:18:06 PM
I spotted Callaway on DV.  :zoinks:

You must have been checking IP addresses.  I was checking for DirtDawg to try to get independent evidence that his account over there has been deleted.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 22, 2009, 09:38:22 PM
I spotted Callaway on DV.  :zoinks:

You must have been checking IP addresses.  I was checking for DirtDawg to try to get independent evidence that his account over there has been deleted.

Yep. I check IP addresses all the time to stop spam bots. I take my mission very seriously.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on March 23, 2009, 12:14:40 AM
I spotted Callaway on DV.  :zoinks:

You must have been checking IP addresses.  I was checking for DirtDawg to try to get independent evidence that his account over there has been deleted.

Yep. I check IP addresses all the time to stop spam bots. I take my mission very seriously.  8)

Do you get many spam bots trying to register there?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 23, 2009, 04:59:47 AM
I spotted Callaway on DV.  :zoinks:

You must have been checking IP addresses.  I was checking for DirtDawg to try to get independent evidence that his account over there has been deleted.

Yep. I check IP addresses all the time to stop spam bots. I take my mission very seriously.  8)

Do you get many spam bots trying to register there?

They come every now and then. But we ban them in a BRAVE way. :arrr:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: driftingblizzard on March 23, 2009, 12:49:19 PM
http://www.whiotv.com/nationalnews/18991020/detail.html

maybe not such a useless fact...
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 23, 2009, 01:27:17 PM
I spotted Callaway on DV.  :zoinks:

You must have been checking IP addresses.  I was checking for DirtDawg to try to get independent evidence that his account over there has been deleted.

Yep. I check IP addresses all the time to stop spam bots. I take my mission very seriously.  8)

Do you get many spam bots trying to register there?

They come every now and then. But we ban them in a BRAVE way. :arrr:

Paranoid, much?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: SleepyDragon on March 23, 2009, 06:12:03 PM
In the Yellow Pages directory of Queensland's Gold Coast region, there are approximately 12 pages of listings for adult entertainment and escort and/or sexual services. Whenever I go there, I find myself wondering how many of the random people I see on the streets, or in the shops, are on the game. Must be quite a lot.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 23, 2009, 06:16:27 PM
I blew over 1500 lbs of insulation into a house today
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on March 24, 2009, 06:55:26 AM
I blew over 1500 lbs of insulation into a house today

Your mouth must be sore  ;)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: driftingblizzard on March 24, 2009, 07:14:40 AM
I blew over 1500 lbs of insulation into a house today

Your mouth must be sore  ;)

 :plus:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: driftingblizzard on March 24, 2009, 10:01:20 AM
In the Yellow Pages directory of Queensland's Gold Coast region, there are approximately 12 pages of listings for adult entertainment and escort and/or sexual services. Whenever I go there, I find myself wondering how many of the random people I see on the streets, or in the shops, are on the game. Must be quite a lot.

You'd be suprised what some people walking by you have just finished doing...   :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 25, 2009, 04:26:30 AM
I lived in the dorms for two years in room 311
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 25, 2009, 10:55:02 AM
I am the strongest man at work (OK fuck OFF!! Yeah, I work around a bunch of geeknerds)
NO one can touch me!

A fixture broke in the computer aisle and there were six guys trying to hold it up, all of them, about to cry, being stupid as hell! I ran around to the end where leverage would not fight me and picked the entire thirty six foot line of computer loaded display shelving up, while the others made it stay there. I held it for about five minutes while I told them how to support it until we could fix it.

LoL!

only one computer took a dump, but it still worked fine afterward. It was a Dell.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 25, 2009, 05:30:47 PM
I'm 38 years and two months today.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 29, 2009, 10:47:54 AM
I'm here.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 29, 2009, 11:03:36 AM
I am your father.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 29, 2009, 12:33:14 PM
I'm here.

me too
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 29, 2009, 01:28:27 PM
I'm here.

.....    And now your gone
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 29, 2009, 03:28:51 PM
I'm here.

.....    And now your gone

Am not. :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 30, 2009, 01:36:34 AM
I couldn't sleep last night, so I went up and ate three hard-boiled eggs with Kalles Kaviar.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: QuirkyCarla on March 30, 2009, 05:24:41 AM
My room is a mess right now.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Diesel on March 30, 2009, 09:28:37 AM
I farted.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on March 30, 2009, 02:24:15 PM
It is snowing outside.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on March 30, 2009, 06:50:19 PM
It is snowing outside.

We planned to go to Mount Rushmore for our daughter's spring break but there were blizzards there, so we went to Roswell and Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 31, 2009, 07:55:22 AM
For the entire life of my cat (short, so far. She is just two years old), I have given her our purified drinking water.

I feel that Indiana water is toxic and we do not drink it. I want my kitty to be healthy as well.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 31, 2009, 07:58:14 AM
 :tinfoil:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on March 31, 2009, 08:18:47 AM
:tinfoil:

HAHAHA!! Oh so what the government does to drinking water isn't on your list of conspiracies?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 31, 2009, 08:23:02 AM
I don't drink state or commune water.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 31, 2009, 08:29:02 AM
:tinfoil:

Fool.

Central Indiana water is mostly collected from limestone springs. Ever seen what develops as limestone springs drip?  Ever heard of a stalagmite? I don't want those in my kidneys. Our water is some of the hardest water in the entire world, loaded with salts and saturated with calcium, sulphur, magnesium. It causes health problems. You might notice an increased occurrence of kidney stones here, if you looked into it.

I don't have to test this tap water to know better than to drink it. I can smell the chemicals, especially salts, in it.

Like I said, I want my kitty to be healthy, as well.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Diesel on March 31, 2009, 10:40:14 AM
 :indeed:

When I lived in Indy the water was horrible. Hardest water I ever experienced.

.....I drank mostly beer those days though anyway.
But I never felt clearn after a shower and my hair (long) was next to impossible to get untangled.
All the of the Indy transplants i came across complained about the water.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 31, 2009, 10:43:36 AM
In Florida they have sulfur water it smells like rotten eggs when it comes out of the well and not much better after it's treated
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 31, 2009, 10:52:11 AM
Calcium and magnesium are only healthy. There's pretty hard water in most of Sweden too. Ridiculous.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on March 31, 2009, 02:18:03 PM
Calcium and magnesium are only healthy. There's pretty hard water in most of Sweden too. Ridiculous.

Wouldn't it depend on the exact concentration?

I mean a certain amount of NaCl (table salt) is healthy and necessary for life, but you would not want a significant concentration of NaCl in your drinking water.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 31, 2009, 02:22:30 PM
Buying shoes with girls that don't want pink is a quest.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on March 31, 2009, 02:24:12 PM
It is snowing outside.

We planned to go to Mount Rushmore for our daughter's spring break but there were blizzards there, so we went to Roswell and Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.

 :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 31, 2009, 04:33:42 PM
Calcium and magnesium are only healthy. There's pretty hard water in most of Sweden too. Ridiculous.

 ::)

Salts, silly.

Do you understand what salts are? Neutralised/combined positive and negative elemental ions? I am not talking about carbon-bearing forms of those elements in compound, which we generally need in high quantities to survive. We call that food. If we could metabolise these types of salts, there would be no need to farm the planet or hunt for meat. We could just eat the soil. These salts of various ions are a hazard to health in the concentrations presented in many local water supplies.
Mine is one where they have difficulty keeping the concentrations below the national specification without the addition of several other harmful chemicals. In theory, the harmful chemicals (which are intended to create combined colloidal compounds from the near saturation level of salts and then are filtered or settle out to be dredged up and hauled away later) are actually being ingested, due to the high demand for water in most cities and the city's inability to keep up with the demand. People are drinking and cooking with water that has, not only a hazardous level of certain salts, but has had additional coagulating chemicals introduced, but too little time passes before the water is needed by the public. So the action expected of the coagulating chemicals has not occurred, yet. It will still occur, chemically, but it happens inside our bodies!
All you have to do to prove the presence of these chemicals in your tap water supply, is to make some ice and allow it to melt in a clear glass. If there are coagulating solid-like (often white-ish) speckles settling on the bottom, then your water has some bad shit in it. Don't drink it!



Read up, some. Go back and study biochemistry for a bit, then we'll talk.



 :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Silk on March 31, 2009, 05:48:30 PM
I am very hyper right now. :woohoo:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 31, 2009, 06:37:15 PM
Calcium and magnesium are only healthy. There's pretty hard water in most of Sweden too. Ridiculous.

Wouldn't it depend on the exact concentration?

I mean a certain amount of NaCl (table salt) is healthy and necessary for life, but you would not want a significant concentration of NaCl in your drinking water.

It's unlikely that the concentration in limestone water could be harmful.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 31, 2009, 06:48:30 PM
Calcium and magnesium are only healthy. There's pretty hard water in most of Sweden too. Ridiculous.

 ::)

Salts, silly.

Do you understand what salts are? Neutralised/combined positive and negative elemental ions? I am not talking about carbon-bearing forms of those elements in compound, which we generally need in high quantities to survive. We call that food. If we could metabolise these types of salts, there would be no need to farm the planet or hunt for meat. We could just eat the soil. These salts of various ions are a hazard to health in the concentrations presented in many local water supplies.
Mine is one where they have difficulty keeping the concentrations below the national specification without the addition of several other harmful chemicals. In theory, the harmful chemicals (which are intended to create combined colloidal compounds from the near saturation level of salts and then are filtered or settle out to be dredged up and hauled away later) are actually being ingested, due to the high demand for water in most cities and the city's inability to keep up with the demand. People are drinking and cooking with water that has, not only a hazardous level of certain salts, but has had additional coagulating chemicals introduced, but too little time passes before the water is needed by the public. So the action expected of the coagulating chemicals has not occurred, yet. It will still occur, chemically, but it happens inside our bodies!
All you have to do to prove the presence of these chemicals in your tap water supply, is to make some ice and allow it to melt in a clear glass. If there are coagulating solid-like (often white-ish) speckles settling on the bottom, then your water has some bad shit in it. Don't drink it!



Read up, some. Go back and study biochemistry for a bit, then we'll talk.



 :zoinks:


I studied chemistry in high school, jerk. And your definition of salts is - of course - wrong. There are ions in many molecules that aren't salt molecules. A salt is a derivate of an acid; usually, but not always, a chemical compound of an acid and a metal.

I never heard of water being poisonous from calcium or magnesium salts. "Natural" calcium and magnesium salts are usually just healthy. When water is declared undrinkable in Europe, it's usually either because there are dangerous amounts of bacteria in it or chemicals from farming or industries. In Sweden the water is usually drinkable as it is from wells and even lakes and rivers; they just add a very small amount of chlorine in it to kill bacteria.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 31, 2009, 07:10:11 PM
That fluoride that the authorities pour into the drinking water in the US is probably much more dangerous than any natural calcium and magnesium salt on the planet.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 31, 2009, 07:18:47 PM
Parts of Ct have high concentrations(well by government standards) of Uranium
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Christopher McCandless on March 31, 2009, 07:23:19 PM
That fluoride that the authorities pour into the drinking water in the US is probably much more dangerous than any natural calcium and magnesium salt on the planet.

Might want to look up what Greenpeace did to Peru in the early nineties before saying that.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 31, 2009, 07:34:26 PM
Parts of Ct have high concentrations(well by government standards) of Uranium

We have radium in the rocks here, but I'm not afraid of drinking the water anyway.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 03, 2009, 04:29:56 AM
We had a Slovakian spambot on DV yesterday. Today we have a Russian.  :borg:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on April 03, 2009, 01:32:28 PM
Calcium and magnesium are only healthy. There's pretty hard water in most of Sweden too. Ridiculous.

 ::)

Salts, silly.

Do you understand what salts are? Neutralised/combined positive and negative elemental ions? I am not talking about carbon-bearing forms of those elements in compound, which we generally need in high quantities to survive. We call that food. If we could metabolise these types of salts, there would be no need to farm the planet or hunt for meat. We could just eat the soil. These salts of various ions are a hazard to health in the concentrations presented in many local water supplies.
Mine is one where they have difficulty keeping the concentrations below the national specification without the addition of several other harmful chemicals. In theory, the harmful chemicals (which are intended to create combined colloidal compounds from the near saturation level of salts and then are filtered or settle out to be dredged up and hauled away later) are actually being ingested, due to the high demand for water in most cities and the city's inability to keep up with the demand. People are drinking and cooking with water that has, not only a hazardous level of certain salts, but has had additional coagulating chemicals introduced, but too little time passes before the water is needed by the public. So the action expected of the coagulating chemicals has not occurred, yet. It will still occur, chemically, but it happens inside our bodies!
All you have to do to prove the presence of these chemicals in your tap water supply, is to make some ice and allow it to melt in a clear glass. If there are coagulating solid-like (often white-ish) speckles settling on the bottom, then your water has some bad shit in it. Don't drink it!



Read up, some. Go back and study biochemistry for a bit, then we'll talk.



 :zoinks:


I studied chemistry in high school, jerk. And your definition of salts is - of course - wrong. There are ions in many molecules that aren't salt molecules. A salt is a derivate of an acid; usually, but not always, a chemical compound of an acid and a metal.

I never heard of water being poisonous from calcium or magnesium salts. "Natural" calcium and magnesium salts are usually just healthy. When water is declared undrinkable in Europe, it's usually either because there are dangerous amounts of bacteria in it or chemicals from farming or industries. In Sweden the water is usually drinkable as it is from wells and even lakes and rivers; they just add a very small amount of chlorine in it to kill bacteria.

Interesting, really (and we are all very impressed - I mean we really are!), but the only difference in what you psoted (yeah, that's what you do, isn't it?) and what I posted is that you chose to make a point of the "mechanical" process which creates various salts, while I chose to point out the relevant point, supporting my use of the term "toxic" (the usage of which obviously was meant to be incendiary) as it applies to BIO-chemistry.

Did you notice that I did NOT mention hydrogen potential, as you did. It is hardly part of the danger, since most of those carbon-bearing, ion-rich compounds we eat can present from both sides of the hydrogen potential scale and hardly present a problem. What I was trying to express, is that the salts which cause problems are "ELECTRICALLY" neutral. Let's find out what that means to a biological process, then move one, please.

Electrical (positive/negative) neutrality in a molecule implies that the molecules are NOT repelled or attracted to each other in a powerful way. They can "float right next to each other" in the fullness of any biological process.  However, the fact that these particular types of salt molecules are neutral in potential of "electrical charge"  means that (since they are, as I stated, made up of  neutralised combinations of opposing ions) they also sport a bipolar (duality) "mechanical" configuration and, when the geometry is just right, these molecules will attract end to end - remember they are bipolar. They will make little chains/groups where one negative pole attracts another (neutralised, electrically, which allows them to be "close together" (remember?)   as the bio process continues) positive pole. It is this property that becomes dangerous to us if the concentration of these salts is high in our bodies. Little chains of neutralised ions create BIG groups of (OK, some metals if you must) non-metabolizible salts. This is where kidney stones come from, DUH!!

I am saddened that I had to spell this out so elementarily for you to understand why I supply my cat with purified water, but you DID seem to need more information to grasp why my cat is special.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on April 03, 2009, 01:48:52 PM

Sorry, Callaway, I had to get to his level of understanding to make this point. (doubt that i made it, but I tried)

I am sure that you could have explained it using "proper" terms and made him understand more fully, but I was referring to my cat's water.

Honestly, I would NOT allow my cat to drink after him, but that is a longer explanation.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 03, 2009, 04:07:36 PM
Salts form crystals, yes. You still don't get kidney stone from the water you drink.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 03, 2009, 04:28:55 PM
I actually checked Wikipedia, and it says that fluoridation of the water, like in the US, is a potential risk for the forming of kidney stones. Calcium is probably not, except calcium oxalate. There's rarely calcium oxalate in drinking water.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on April 03, 2009, 04:34:45 PM

... and I doubt seriously that you have seen the same analysis of our water supply that I have.


You need to stop, because I am as smart as you are and, aside from that, I know more.

 :lol:



Kidding, of course. I don't know how my shit tastes.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 03, 2009, 04:38:45 PM
Limestone=calcium carbonate. Carbonates don't form kidney stones.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on April 03, 2009, 04:55:49 PM
Oops!

My HT system was so loud that I did not here the phone ring or the first few knocks on the door.

Kids are outside (in view out the window) and the neighbor kid's mom came by to get her kid.

 :-[



(I was playing Ravi Shankar, loud enough to shake the sidewalk outside, by her definition - cool, considering there are no low notes in a sitar. Lol)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 03, 2009, 06:04:33 PM
Latvian spam bot on DV. Soon we have had all of Eastern Europe there.  ::)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on April 03, 2009, 07:35:39 PM
One of the mothers of a girl spending the night at my daughter's sleepover tonight forgot to bring her kid's "stuff" as in sleeping bag, pajamas, toothbrush, etc. WTF? Apparently she dates some guy on again and off again who lives with them when it is on. We have our suspicions they are taking advantage of being alone...
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on April 04, 2009, 01:31:49 AM
That's kind of sad she forgot all that stuff for a sleepover.  Did she go and get them or can her daughter get along OK without them?

We have fleece sleeping bag liners which could be used as warm weather sleeping bags themselves, but we live too far away for it to do you any good.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 04, 2009, 04:44:27 AM
Latvian spam bot on DV. Soon we have had all of Eastern Europe there.  ::)

Are they trying to register? Try setting the complexity of the visual verification image to maximum.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 04, 2009, 05:08:07 AM
Some of them try to. A few actually succeeded last year before Modzilla managed to change the settings.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 04, 2009, 05:16:04 AM
Latvian spam bot on DV. Soon we have had all of Eastern Europe there.  ::)

Are they trying to register? Try setting the complexity of the visual verification image to maximum.

What ever you did her worked great
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 04, 2009, 10:29:17 AM
Some of them try to. A few actually succeeded last year before Modzilla managed to change the settings.

She probably changed the visual verification settings, then. If there's more trouble, I'd suggest you to trace the bots and ban the whole IP range at the server. Some of the bots are programmed to click their way through the site in just seconds and sometimes cause heavy workloads.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 04, 2009, 02:59:02 PM
I keep reading "post a useless fart" and then wonder if there are usefull ones, for others than the perpetrator that is.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 04, 2009, 03:02:20 PM
Now we had a German spambot from Erfurt in Thuringia. :hitler:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on April 05, 2009, 05:19:43 AM
I keep reading "post a useless fart" and then wonder if there are usefull ones, for others than the perpetrator that is.
:plus: The answer is yes there are useful farts for other than the perpetrator. That would be those where one can be an entertained observer of the mischief from a safe distance. :rofl:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 05, 2009, 05:34:30 AM
An Israeli spambot! Kosher-bosher viscious Jew doctor simply pushes the starting button!  :yikes: :GA: :tinfoil: :tantrum: :arrr:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 05, 2009, 03:38:04 PM
An Israeli spambot! Kosher-bosher viscious Jew doctor simply pushes the starting button!  :yikes: :GA: :tinfoil: :tantrum: :arrr:

They are watching you :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 05, 2009, 03:39:12 PM
I know! But they'll never get me alive!  :hide: :kapow:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 05, 2009, 03:44:39 PM
And now a spambot from the Ukraine.  :scratchhead: :borg:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 06, 2009, 01:17:44 AM
From Petrozadovsk in Russian Karelia!  :borg: :yikes: :zombiefuck: :tantrum: :tinfoil: :soapbox: :litigious: :arrr:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 12, 2009, 07:12:50 PM
I'm going to bed :yawn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on April 12, 2009, 09:58:00 PM
I posted this.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 13, 2009, 07:52:28 AM
Switched from KPackage to Synaptic.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on April 13, 2009, 08:34:50 AM
Bought The Tubes Greatest Hits, The Beatles Rubber Soul and Incubus' new CD this weekend.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 13, 2009, 10:51:10 AM
My eyes itch
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on April 13, 2009, 12:51:01 PM
My ankle hurts.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Small Penis on April 13, 2009, 03:48:43 PM
is laughing at odeon for using a package manager
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 13, 2009, 04:02:20 PM
is laughing at amerikasend because  he thinks he's funny :hahaha:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: QuirkyCarla on April 13, 2009, 06:57:57 PM
I just ordered pizza.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Small Penis on April 13, 2009, 07:32:54 PM
is laughing at amerikasend because he thinks he's super duper funny, but is still laughing at odeon for using synaptic package manager.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 14, 2009, 02:21:21 AM
I just ordered pizza.

I had pizza yesterday. :toporly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on April 14, 2009, 02:24:38 PM
I did not sleep last night.



Not by choice, as I was exhausted. Two huge Milestones have been reached with the kids (very different, but both huge and at the same time, fuck me, no, Wait!! FUCK is ME!!)


Right now, I am running on adrenaline or some such crap.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 14, 2009, 02:32:18 PM
is laughing at odeon for using a package manager

Why? It provides me with an overview that is hard to achieve if I only use apt.

Silly little amerikasend. Did you think something like that would annoy me?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: key Stats on April 14, 2009, 03:17:36 PM
Tramadol Hydrochloride is very popular on the Gaza strip
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 14, 2009, 04:18:17 PM
Tramadol Hydrochloride isn't very common in the US
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: key Stats on April 14, 2009, 04:20:59 PM
In Spain you can buy it over the counter.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 15, 2009, 04:08:05 AM
In Spain you can buy it over the counter.

In Bosnia too. They're BRAVER in southern Europe. :arrr:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 15, 2009, 04:43:03 AM
I used to work with lots Bosnians 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on April 16, 2009, 03:23:50 PM
I often "Mark As Read"  new replies when I see the final poster.

I never did that before.  I do not feel left out.

... but my wings have been too long, folded.


 :hahaha:
(me)(various shit)

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 16, 2009, 03:37:02 PM
Linus Torvalds writes a blog hosted by the Linux Foundation.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 18, 2009, 07:50:16 AM
The can of Black powder I found the other day was made  in Scotland
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: SleepyDragon on April 18, 2009, 03:17:35 PM
Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon contains more laughs per page than Peter Hamilton's Pandora's Star.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 18, 2009, 04:09:40 PM
I have Peter Hamilton's Pandora's Star in my room but have yet to read it
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 18, 2009, 04:35:18 PM
You an bind up an angle grinder with your shirt when it slips and hits you in the chest.  It also puts the grinder in an awkward position to turn off
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 19, 2009, 05:07:51 AM
The WebCollage screensaver is broken in KDE 4.2. :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 21, 2009, 04:35:32 AM
Swedish Kings are usually called Karl and/or Gustav, while Danish Kings are called Christian and/or Fredrik and Norwegian Kings are called Harald, Haakon or Olaf.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 21, 2009, 06:19:39 AM
One of my relatives, who's a businessman, forced Bert Karlsson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Karlsson) to sell a ground estate by blocking his front door with a truck trailer.  :zoinks:

Have I told this before?  :eyebrow:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on April 21, 2009, 07:30:46 AM
Swedish Kings are usually called Karl and/or Gustav, while Danish Kings are called Christian and/or Fredrik and Norwegian Kings are called Harald, Haakon or Olaf.
Does the current King Harald have a Blue Tooth?  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 21, 2009, 07:33:35 AM
Swedish Kings are usually called Karl and/or Gustav, while Danish Kings are called Christian and/or Fredrik and Norwegian Kings are called Harald, Haakon or Olaf.
Does the current King Harald have a Blue Tooth?  :zoinks:

Not in his mouth as far as I know, but I've never met him. Though "blue" in old Norse means "black". Harald Bluetooth had black, rotten teeth.  :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on April 21, 2009, 09:53:31 AM
I read the Magnus Magnusson' "Vikingss" some years back. It is a fascinating book. :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 21, 2009, 10:01:05 AM
 :arrr:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 21, 2009, 01:43:06 PM
One of my relatives, who's a businessman, forced Bert Karlsson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Karlsson) to sell a ground estate by blocking his front door with a truck trailer.  :zoinks:

Have I told this before?  :eyebrow:

Yes, I think you did tell us.

I remember reading about this. :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 21, 2009, 11:50:29 PM
Yup. Bert himself told it in his autobiography.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 22, 2009, 12:52:24 AM
I just flossed and brushed my teeth. :toporly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 22, 2009, 07:02:33 AM
I found  pair of needle nose pliers this morning while walking along the river
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 24, 2009, 01:57:47 AM
It's exactly 20 years since I got my driver's license.  :hotrodder:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 25, 2009, 02:18:37 PM
They lowered the price on 10 yo Talisker with 20 kronor or about $2.50.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 25, 2009, 03:43:47 PM
My coffee is 122.5F
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on April 25, 2009, 04:06:47 PM
My coffee is 122.5F

My Coke slurpee is 0° C.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 25, 2009, 04:07:49 PM
My body temperature when I'm still is almost always exactly 37.5 oC.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 25, 2009, 06:01:47 PM
A hedgehog is making a hell of a noise in my garden right now.

Poor sleeping neighbours  >:D

(Their birds will try waking me in 4 hours, so there is justice....)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 26, 2009, 07:16:13 PM
even after Much klonopin I am still gritting my teeth
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on April 26, 2009, 11:46:46 PM


IT IS DONE!!!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 27, 2009, 09:32:47 AM
What is?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on April 27, 2009, 11:38:53 AM
Physical Inventory of every SKU-able product in our store, counted twice - thrice on big ticket items.

 :clap:




(That's why I had such a long day, yesterday.)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on April 27, 2009, 11:43:59 AM
I hated doing inventory at my first job when I was a teenager. Combined with dealing with people, I swore never to work in retail again.

Hmm...useless fact huh? ^That counts, doesn't it?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 27, 2009, 12:11:03 PM
I used to get inventory where I used to work but it was warehouse inventory the regulars that worked out there were kinda stupid and my boss knew I was good with numbers and somewhat anal about procedure
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on April 27, 2009, 12:15:57 PM
I hated doing inventory at my first job when I was a teenager. Combined with dealing with people, I swore never to work in retail again.

Hmm...useless fact huh? ^That counts, doesn't it?

Hardly useless, but I think it counts, anyway.
 :mushie:


Here's the thing. I have been "pegged."   I am noted for being one of the most likely people, anal enough to sort out impossible discrepancies in the counts. There are six of us who have been so pegged and our team job was not counting, but "detailing"  the high dollar items and finding out why the numbers don't match what was expected.


(You DO understand that that is even worse, right? Finding out exactly how and why someone else can't count and fulfilling the enormous expectation of delivering a more definable solution than, "He's a fucking idiot!!"  can be considerably more tedious than the actual counting.)

:hair:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on April 27, 2009, 12:49:52 PM
I hated doing inventory at my first job when I was a teenager. Combined with dealing with people, I swore never to work in retail again.

Hmm...useless fact huh? ^That counts, doesn't it?

Hardly useless, but I think it counts, anyway.
 :mushie:


Here's the thing. I have been "pegged."   I am noted for being one of the most likely people, anal enough to sort out impossible discrepancies in the counts. There are six of us who have been so pegged and our team job was not counting, but "detailing"  the high dollar items and finding out why the numbers don't match what was expected.


(You DO understand that that is even worse, right? Finding out exactly how and why someone else can't count and fulfilling the enormous expectation of delivering a more definable solution than, "He's a fucking idiot!!"  can be considerably more tedious than the actual counting.)

:hair:

I was sixteen and working with a bunch of other sixteen-year olds, mostly brainless, and really stupid redneck managers. I'm a math person, an analytical person, and a logical person. I completely understand how it can be dealing with others in such a regard. I would have rather been left alone for a few days in the store to do it all myself than rely on the incompetence of others.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on April 27, 2009, 01:05:05 PM
I hated doing inventory at my first job when I was a teenager. Combined with dealing with people, I swore never to work in retail again.

Hmm...useless fact huh? ^That counts, doesn't it?

Hardly useless, but I think it counts, anyway.
 :mushie:


Here's the thing. I have been "pegged."   I am noted for being one of the most likely people, anal enough to sort out impossible discrepancies in the counts. There are six of us who have been so pegged and our team job was not counting, but "detailing"  the high dollar items and finding out why the numbers don't match what was expected.


(You DO understand that that is even worse, right? Finding out exactly how and why someone else can't count and fulfilling the enormous expectation of delivering a more definable solution than, "He's a fucking idiot!!"  can be considerably more tedious than the actual counting.)

:hair:

I was sixteen and working with a bunch of other sixteen-year olds, mostly brainless, and really stupid redneck managers. I'm a math person, an analytical person, and a logical person. I completely understand how it can be dealing with others in such a regard. I would have rather been left alone for a few days in the store to do it all myself than rely on the incompetence of others.

... exactly, but it has to be done in twelve hours while the store is closed. It's a big store!!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on April 27, 2009, 01:14:22 PM
I hated doing inventory at my first job when I was a teenager. Combined with dealing with people, I swore never to work in retail again.

Hmm...useless fact huh? ^That counts, doesn't it?

Hardly useless, but I think it counts, anyway.
 :mushie:


Here's the thing. I have been "pegged."   I am noted for being one of the most likely people, anal enough to sort out impossible discrepancies in the counts. There are six of us who have been so pegged and our team job was not counting, but "detailing"  the high dollar items and finding out why the numbers don't match what was expected.


(You DO understand that that is even worse, right? Finding out exactly how and why someone else can't count and fulfilling the enormous expectation of delivering a more definable solution than, "He's a fucking idiot!!"  can be considerably more tedious than the actual counting.)

:hair:

I was sixteen and working with a bunch of other sixteen-year olds, mostly brainless, and really stupid redneck managers. I'm a math person, an analytical person, and a logical person. I completely understand how it can be dealing with others in such a regard. I would have rather been left alone for a few days in the store to do it all myself than rely on the incompetence of others.

... exactly, but it has to be done in twelve hours while the store is closed. It's a big store!!

You may notice I tend to post what I consider the ideal situation or the scenario if I lived in a Utopia.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on April 28, 2009, 06:43:26 PM
I hated doing inventory at my first job when I was a teenager. Combined with dealing with people, I swore never to work in retail again.

Hmm...useless fact huh? ^That counts, doesn't it?

Hardly useless, but I think it counts, anyway.
 :mushie:


Here's the thing. I have been "pegged."   I am noted for being one of the most likely people, anal enough to sort out impossible discrepancies in the counts. There are six of us who have been so pegged and our team job was not counting, but "detailing"  the high dollar items and finding out why the numbers don't match what was expected.


(You DO understand that that is even worse, right? Finding out exactly how and why someone else can't count and fulfilling the enormous expectation of delivering a more definable solution than, "He's a fucking idiot!!"  can be considerably more tedious than the actual counting.)

:hair:

I was sixteen and working with a bunch of other sixteen-year olds, mostly brainless, and really stupid redneck managers. I'm a math person, an analytical person, and a logical person. I completely understand how it can be dealing with others in such a regard. I would have rather been left alone for a few days in the store to do it all myself than rely on the incompetence of others.

... exactly, but it has to be done in twelve hours while the store is closed. It's a big store!!

You may notice I tend to post what I consider the ideal situation or the scenario if I lived in a Utopia.

I have, in fact, noticed that.

I often post as if my scars still itched, even though the pain is fairly well and deeply buried - marked so as to be not forgotten, however.



(OK, another biblical reference ... lol)

Hell, if I can show others where the stepping stones are, then it is less likely that I will be the only one who appears to walk on water. I would like it that way.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on April 28, 2009, 06:47:09 PM
I don't know that you are. You seem to crave a good carnal fucking like the next guy.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on April 28, 2009, 07:02:27 PM
That was meant for someone else, right?


... or have you again confused me with with the the "next guy?"


Carnal fucking has very little to do with the appearance of walking on water, except to other "next guys."

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on April 28, 2009, 07:09:44 PM
I'm probably confused. Don't mind me.

 :gwah:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: SleepyDragon on April 28, 2009, 11:27:49 PM
There are many references to dogs in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 29, 2009, 01:28:16 AM
I have three nutrition supplement tablets on my desk right now.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on May 05, 2009, 05:36:31 PM
The package of biscuits I bought today contained 41 cookies.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on May 06, 2009, 08:44:56 AM
I found out that penis in conjunction to the size of your hand thing is true. :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on May 06, 2009, 10:11:44 AM
I found out that penis in conjunction to the size of your hand thing is true. :o

So, what's the formula?

  :evillaugh:

After some layoffs at my husband's former company, someone wrote on the grass (apparently in gasoline) in front of the office the words, "John Smith* has tiny hands and a very small penis."

*Name changed to protect the boss' identity.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on May 06, 2009, 10:26:46 AM
Well with pinkie and thumb spread as far as they go. That is erect dick length. Not joking. :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on May 06, 2009, 10:48:31 AM
So that's why girls are always asking to compare their hands to mine and then measuring different lengths when I have my hand spread out before them. :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 06, 2009, 10:52:02 AM
My cock isn't big but it always hurts when I fuck the whores girls up the poop-chute.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on May 06, 2009, 10:58:18 AM
Well with pinkie and thumb spread as far as they go. That is erect dick length. Not joking. :laugh:

 :lol:

Gee, by that logic, I have an eight-and-a-half inch long penis, or at least I would have if I actually had one.

There was this former member who had an ex-boyfriend who had a three-and-a-half inch long penis.  Can you picture how tiny his little hands must have been?

:LMAO:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on May 06, 2009, 10:58:55 AM
My cock isn't big but it always hurts when I fuck the whores girls up the poop-chute.  8)

You've never had anal sex! :wanker:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 06, 2009, 11:03:47 AM
:toporly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on May 06, 2009, 12:41:49 PM
Lol Callaway. If you were a guy you'd be hung. :lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on May 06, 2009, 12:50:02 PM
Lol Callaway. When you were a guy you were hung. :lol:

Corrected! :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 06, 2009, 02:47:55 PM
I now have 4 drill presses
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on May 06, 2009, 02:52:28 PM
I now have over 200 "friends" on FaceBoook! Yay! I am so popular, just like I always wanted to be. ::)

Now I need to figure out how to block most of their news shit, so I can actually see stuff from my old school mates and relatives.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: jawbrodt on May 07, 2009, 11:12:57 PM
My lawnmower has a half-tank of gas. ::)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on May 08, 2009, 07:54:13 AM
I've turned off the ringer on my cell phone, again.

Apparently the people at work think that calling me is a good idea.

WTF!!!

They not seem to have a clue as to the meaning of "bedrest,"   as per doctor's orders.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on May 08, 2009, 08:16:20 AM
I've turned off the ringer on my cell phone, again.

Apparently the people at work think that calling me is a good idea.

WTF!!!

They not seem to have a clue as to the meaning of "bedrest,"   as per doctor's orders.

I kept the cordless phone in my pocket because everyone kept calling me and I needed to deal with the stuff.

Turning off the ringer is an even better idea.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on May 11, 2009, 12:54:31 PM
Some kids in my sister's class when I went to pick her up from school said I looked like Snow White  :lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 13, 2009, 06:02:52 PM
Bendaroos are $19.95
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 14, 2009, 01:41:49 AM
5 kilos of coffee beans were 720 kronor. :toporly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: jawbrodt on May 14, 2009, 02:43:20 AM
BLT's have bacon, lettuce, and tomato on them. That's why they're called BLT's. :wanker:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 24, 2009, 01:19:32 PM
I found out today, while looking on old maps, that a strip of land that I always thought was part of Savolax actually seems to be a strip of Tavastland. That's my conclusion after having studied a very well done map of Finland from 1875. Well, there will be no counties or provinces at all in Finland from January 1th next year anyway.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on May 25, 2009, 06:59:40 AM
I'm horny  :o I thought Citalopram practically made me asexual lmao.

Damn, I love boyish lesbians :pinkbeat:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 25, 2009, 09:07:29 AM
I'm horny  :o I thought Citalopram practically made me asexual lmao.

Damn, I love boyish lesbians :pinkbeat:

 :eyebrows:


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Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on May 25, 2009, 09:20:34 AM
I'm horny  :o I thought Citalopram practically made me asexual lmao.

Damn, I love boyish lesbians :pinkbeat:

 :eyebrows:


 :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on May 27, 2009, 01:11:14 PM
I have never in my life had a girl say yes when I asked her out. Every time I have ever gone out with a girl, she asked me.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on May 27, 2009, 01:18:55 PM
Isn't that a useful fact?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on May 27, 2009, 02:01:07 PM

I have heard that they "fired" Tony George as Big Cahunah, Guru, Chief, Boss Hogg, CEO or what ever the fuck from the Indianapolis Speedway. He is the guy who saved the track from a tax default loss of property and confiscation by the IRS during the eighties, when the last major economic crash made racing not so profitable and the guy who sent C.A.R.T.  down the road and created the Indy Racing League.

I understand that his sisters were among those who voted against him. Yes, he has made his family many millions of dollars, by turning the racing scene at Indy into a worldwide affair, and saved the raceway from IRS disposal, brought two more annual races to town, yet he is ousted from control of the track.

On the surface, all the local redneck, low-life interviews who have made ignoramous commentary, aired statewide in the media, have stated that they remember when the race was a big deal and every one lived the Month Of May for the race.

What I remember and have witnessed is that this city, the capitol of our state, is no longer populated by old school Native Hoosiers and Indianapolis, in the business world, has become a "stepping stone/just another wrung"  in the world of back-stabbing corporate ladder climbers and not that many "true hoosiers" actually live and work and pay taxes here these days and the ones who do live here, are not the big money clients who buy the massive suites at the sports events.

I used to be quite a race fan and I have seen the decline over the years in what the "tradition of racing in Indianapolis" means to the average person. It was not the fault of Tony George that the "end of an era"  (a fucking amazing and important era, too) happened on his watch. I think he has been removed from office at a time when his forethought will be greatly missed.
I fully expect to see things go even further downhill from where they are now. It is no one person's fault. It is a sign of our times and no one can take full blame.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on May 27, 2009, 02:07:29 PM
Isn't that a useful fact?

I guess if I had some intent in posting it. I was just making fun of myself.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on May 27, 2009, 03:05:15 PM
My DVD collection weighs almost 5 kgs.  Thinking of lifting it a few times each day to tone my arms.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on May 27, 2009, 06:01:46 PM
I'm seeing the smileys animated for the first time today.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 27, 2009, 06:12:14 PM
I live about 500 meters from a parish boundary that also was a commune boundary until 26 days before my birth.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on May 28, 2009, 02:42:27 PM

I have heard that they "fired" Tony George ....


Someone has been  :pwned:

The Tony George family has released a joint statement denying any truth to this story, which was all the news during yesterday's "Speed" network broadcasts.

 :lol:


I'm glad, but I wonder what happened that made them run with the story, broadcasting it worldwide, before it was properly confirmed.
 :hahaha:
(Speed)(racing fans)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 28, 2009, 04:14:28 PM
My dog is wandering aimlessly around the house as the other one sleeps
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 29, 2009, 06:12:48 PM
Bought 2 rolls of black duct tape today and a nine volt battery
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on May 29, 2009, 08:07:38 PM
Having the landline from A,T&T removed from our house on Monday. We are now, as of today, fully cellular/wireless for phone communication.

Three lines we got at a great discount, because of my job (a full two percent more discount than my wife's job can offer :D), one for me, one for her and one for the homestead. I chose the Nokia flipper, vidcam, music player, G3, web mail thingy - all the hardware was free (basically the simplest, most humble, user friendly cell phones we offer at work).





Addendum:

I am tired of paying fifty nine dollars for the privilege of accessing to the local 911 service on a landline on which I keep the ringer turned off all the time, anyway.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on May 30, 2009, 10:41:11 AM
Bought 2 rolls of black duct tape today and a nine volt battery

Sounds kinky  :eyebrows:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on May 30, 2009, 10:43:26 AM
Bought 2 rolls of black duct tape today and a nine volt battery

Sounds kinky  :eyebrows:

 :lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 30, 2009, 03:00:13 PM
Bought 2 rolls of black duct tape today and a nine volt battery

Sounds kinky  :eyebrows:

Come on over and find out :eyebrows:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on May 30, 2009, 04:40:46 PM
I'm posting from my phone internets.
That's taking my addiction to a whole new level :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on May 31, 2009, 09:55:43 AM
Bought 2 rolls of black duct tape today and a nine volt battery

Sounds kinky  :eyebrows:

Come on over and find out :eyebrows:

Aw, you remembered that I like to watch, how sweet.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 31, 2009, 11:24:23 AM
Having the landline from A,T&T removed from our house on Monday. We are now, as of today, fully cellular/wireless for phone communication.

Three lines we got at a great discount, because of my job (a full two percent more discount than my wife's job can offer :D), one for me, one for her and one for the homestead. I chose the Nokia flipper, vidcam, music player, G3, web mail thingy - all the hardware was free (basically the simplest, most humble, user friendly cell phones we offer at work).





Addendum:

I am tired of paying fifty nine dollars for the privilege of accessing to the local 911 service on a landline on which I keep the ringer turned off all the time, anyway.

We have thought of that my only worry is service going out.  After 911 the NYC metro are cell phone service was fucked for days even as far as where I live.  That and my wife has had the same number since high school
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on May 31, 2009, 06:16:39 PM
Having the landline from A,T&T removed from our house on Monday. We are now, as of today, fully cellular/wireless for phone communication.

Three lines we got at a great discount, because of my job (a full two percent more discount than my wife's job can offer :D), one for me, one for her and one for the homestead. I chose the Nokia flipper, vidcam, music player, G3, web mail thingy - all the hardware was free (basically the simplest, most humble, user friendly cell phones we offer at work).





Addendum:

I am tired of paying fifty nine dollars for the privilege of accessing to the local 911 service on a landline on which I keep the ringer turned off all the time, anyway.

We have thought of that my only worry is service going out.  After 911 the NYC metro are cell phone service was fucked for days even as far as where I live.  That and my wife has had the same number since high school

Where I grew up, rough weather took down lines and poles fairly often, interrupting telephone and electrical service.

Most people have cellars, generators, diesel or propane tanks, two way radios, wells, bicycles, livestock, etc. (... or certainly one of their neighbors does) Telephones have never impressed me as hallmarks of dependability, anyway.


Some plans allow you to capture your existing number for a small fee, if that is really a problem for you.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on May 31, 2009, 06:20:55 PM
Today marked twelve years of legal bullshit. Four days ago was fourteen years total of bullshit. She was supposed to hook me up with one of her friends so I could get laid. :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 01, 2009, 05:42:23 PM
my right eye itches but not the left :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 01, 2009, 06:56:35 PM
my right eye itches but not the left :-\

Whoa man mine too. Creepy!  :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 02, 2009, 10:34:04 AM
Twins! :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 02, 2009, 11:07:45 AM
It's a conspiracy! :tinfoil: :arrr:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 02, 2009, 01:40:21 PM
AT&Ts rep will come over here Saturday morning to get my Uverse TV hooked up and my phone, internet and TV will cost $80 for 6 months and then $90 for the next 6 months. I haven't had TV for about 34 months. I like the Sci Fi channel shows like Tremors, Lexx and used to watch Babylon 5 there as well but I bought all 5 seasons on DVD about 3 weeks ago. I also like Law & Order, they had a lot of good cast members but Jerry Orbach as Lenny Brisco was my favorite, he also did a whole lot of good supporting roles in movies.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 02, 2009, 05:33:33 PM
One of my neighbors has a cock rooster I can hear it every morning
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 04, 2009, 06:01:08 AM
Today is voting day.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 04, 2009, 06:40:52 AM
Sunday is voting day.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Frolic_Fun on June 04, 2009, 07:17:48 AM
I'm not voting. Neither is my mother.

Anyways... I've 2 missing knuckles on each hand.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on June 04, 2009, 07:23:16 AM
I'm not voting. Neither is my mother.

Anyways... I've 2 missing knuckles on each hand.

Pics.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on June 04, 2009, 08:52:22 AM
Dick Cheney came out of the closet to say people should have the right to enter into any type of union (relationship) they choose. What a douche fornot speaking this during his reign as VP. His daughter is a lesbian.

People who choose not to vote have no right to complain.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 04, 2009, 09:19:57 AM
Dick Cheney came out of the closet to say people should have the right to enter into any type of union (relationship) they choose. What a douche fornot speaking this during his reign as VP. His daughter is a lesbian.

People who choose not to vote have no right to complain.

We vote for the EU parliament. They're more or less powerless anyway, and small nations like Sweden have very few members. I voted for the Pirate Party, though! :arrr:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 04, 2009, 03:23:47 PM
The carpenter working on the same house as I am is missing a pinkie finger :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on June 04, 2009, 05:37:47 PM
The tadpoles in the back yard have a home again and I narrowly avoided getting soaked.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on June 04, 2009, 06:21:38 PM
The proliferation of bluetooth connected, hands-free communication, via the various cell networks, has made it appear that crazy people who to talk to themselves are fucking everywhere!!

:yikes:


Get me the fuck out of here!!!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 04, 2009, 06:21:44 PM
I have never lost a duel
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 04, 2009, 06:22:31 PM
I have never lost a duel

wat
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 04, 2009, 10:15:42 PM
People who choose not to vote have no right to complain.
Not correct at all, the 1st Amendment puts no such limitations on peoples right to seek redress of grievances, freedom of speech or anything else covered by the 1st Amendment. In cases where people only see a choice of Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum why should they vote for either if they don't want to?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 04, 2009, 10:22:42 PM
I have 900 posts now! Yay for me, I am moving into postwhore POSTWHORE territory.  :fart:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 05, 2009, 10:58:29 AM
I have 8 posts  :moon:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 11:00:53 AM
That's BRAVE!  :agreed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 05, 2009, 11:31:38 AM
I'm bored.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 11:32:53 AM
A bored Pole. A poled bore.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 05, 2009, 11:34:59 AM
Watch that you don't get a pole up your arse.

(http://image.hotdog.hu/_data/members2/186/736186/images/cannibal.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 11:37:30 AM
 :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 05, 2009, 11:40:42 AM
If you close your eyes and think hard, you can even imagine it's Hitler cock instead  :zoinks: 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 05, 2009, 11:41:42 AM
Or do you need to see Hitler fucking a Nazi pony to come?   :(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 11:43:01 AM
Adolf beat the Polish army within a month, bint.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 05, 2009, 11:52:02 AM
They still fought back though until the very end.  Hitler when he lost, killed himself.  How's that for a loser?  :orly:

(http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s235/revmyspace2/graphics/Misc/Funny/9_funny_original_emo_hitler.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 11:53:15 AM
Suicide is BRAVE. Roman officers killed themselves after a lost battle.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 05, 2009, 11:54:28 AM
Too bad you're NOT BRAVE enough to kill yourself  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 11:56:24 AM
I'm brave enough, but I don't feel the motivation yet. And I want to make sure that I kill as many niggers/Arabs/Yougoslavs/Albanians or pigs or politicians at the same time, if I commit suicide.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 05, 2009, 11:58:23 AM
Coward.  :yawn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 11:59:21 AM
They deserve it. The subhumans chose to come here and impure Sweden and the pigs and politicians chose to be oppressors.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 05, 2009, 12:15:42 PM
Suicide is not fucking brave, tards. Its the ultimate cop out. The final way to give up. Only cowards kill themselves. :thumbdn:

To bravely give your life is to die fighting for something that really matters to you. :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 05, 2009, 12:24:28 PM
^ Thefore Lit would be brave if he killed himself in front of the Swedish parliament.  A sort of protest, no?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 05, 2009, 12:26:43 PM
:popcorn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 05, 2009, 12:27:41 PM
^ Thefore Lit would be brave if he killed himself in front of the Swedish parliament.  A sort of protest, no?  :zoinks:



Tee hee :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 12:27:58 PM
Like I said, give me a truck full of ANFO, so I can take those 359 creeps with me.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 05, 2009, 12:28:58 PM
"Give"? You make a lousy terrorist.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 05, 2009, 12:30:00 PM
Like I said, give me a truck full of ANFO, so I can take those 359 creeps with me.

Lit. Bud. Thats a bit more on the right track, but we've already talked about this. Killing a bunch of government officials wouldn't really change anything. You'd die in vain because they'd make it look like you were a terrorist, replace them with a bunch more corrupt assholes, and everything would go back to the way it was.

Not the answer, bro.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 12:31:15 PM
But if I was going to die of cancer anyway, it would be a funnier way to die.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 05, 2009, 12:31:23 PM
"Give"? You make a lousy terrorist.

Oh and o-man is right. If you were serious, you'd just take that shit and do it anyway. You want change? Its not given to you. You gotta TAKE THAT SHIT.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 05, 2009, 12:32:37 PM
What, not brave enough to provide your own ammo?  :o

Like I said, give me a truck full of ANFO, so I can take those 359 creeps with me.

Lit. Bud. Thats a bit more on the right track, but we've already talked about this. Killing a bunch of government officials wouldn't really change anything. You'd die in vain because they'd make it look like you were a terrorist, replace them with a bunch more corrupt assholes, and everything would go back to the way it was.

Not the answer, bro.

Which is why Lit should just have one target, himself  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 05, 2009, 12:33:51 PM
"Give"? You make a lousy terrorist.

Oh and o-man is right. If you were serious, you'd just take that shit and do it anyway. You want change? Its not given to you. You gotta TAKE THAT SHIT.

He's too used to people giving him everything he needs and not working for it :lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 05, 2009, 12:34:44 PM
"Give"? You make a lousy terrorist.

Oh and o-man is right. If you were serious, you'd just take that shit and do it anyway. You want change? Its not given to you. You gotta TAKE THAT SHIT.

He's too used to people giving him everything he needs and not working for it :lol:

Maybe he hopes the state will provide with him with the explosives, too?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 12:35:21 PM
What, not brave enough to provide your own ammo?  :o

They used to sell ammonium nitrate as fertilizer in 500 kg packages here, but after Oklahoma City the cowards put an end to that. They won't give the people a fair chance to revolt.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 12:36:18 PM
"Give"? You make a lousy terrorist.

Oh and o-man is right. If you were serious, you'd just take that shit and do it anyway. You want change? Its not given to you. You gotta TAKE THAT SHIT.

He's too used to people giving him everything he needs and not working for it :lol:

Maybe he hopes the state will provide with him with the explosives, too?

No, they should just allow me to buy it in quantities big enough. I can pay for it myself.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 05, 2009, 12:36:29 PM
What, not brave enough to provide your own ammo?  :o

They used to sell ammonium nitrate as fertilizer in 500 kg packages here, but after Oklahoma City the cowards put an end to that. They won't give the people a fair chance to revolt.

:LMAO:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 12:37:41 PM
What, not brave enough to provide your own ammo?  :o

They used to sell ammonium nitrate as fertilizer in 500 kg packages here, but after Oklahoma City the cowards put an end to that. They won't give the people a fair chance to revolt.

:LMAO:

Isn't it true then? Just like the gun law. The cowards know that they oppress the people, so they stop the people from getting the means to get back on them.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 05, 2009, 12:38:33 PM
What, not brave enough to provide your own ammo?  :o

They used to sell ammonium nitrate as fertilizer in 500 kg packages here, but after Oklahoma City the cowards put an end to that. They won't give the people a fair chance to revolt.

:LMAO:

Isn't it true then? Just like the gun law. The cowards know that they oppress the people, so they stop the people from getting the means to get back on them.

:rofl:

You'd make an incredibly bad terrorist.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 05, 2009, 12:39:51 PM
Litigous. They are making fun of you because you depend on the NTs you seem to hate so much, and the evil government. Most of us have moved past being angry about having to deal with a slightly harder struggle than most, and have accepted the additional strength the "struggle" has provided us with.

Playing "pretend to be an nt" has become almost like second nature to me personally, and i've gotten quite good at it. So good in fact that I plan to go to college to become a teacher, and try and develop software on the side. You gotta move on man. I'm not depending on the nts to take care of me, and you don't really need to either.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 12:40:18 PM
What, not brave enough to provide your own ammo?  :o

They used to sell ammonium nitrate as fertilizer in 500 kg packages here, but after Oklahoma City the cowards put an end to that. They won't give the people a fair chance to revolt.

:LMAO:

Isn't it true then? Just like the gun law. The cowards know that they oppress the people, so they stop the people from getting the means to get back on them.

:rofl:

You'd make an incredibly bad terrorist.

Look at the US. Anyone can become a terrorist there. They're not as cowardly as European politicians. They give you a fair chance to take them out.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 05, 2009, 12:41:05 PM
You are kidding, right?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 05, 2009, 12:41:17 PM
What, not brave enough to provide your own ammo?  :o

They used to sell ammonium nitrate as fertilizer in 500 kg packages here, but after Oklahoma City the cowards put an end to that. They won't give the people a fair chance to revolt.

Look man. Thats like a kid saying he's going to run away from home, but then returning upon discovering that mommy doesn't want him to cross the street. Cmon.  ::)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 12:43:08 PM
You are kidding, right?

No. The 2nd Amendment actually says so, and George Washington himself said that a people should always have guns and ammunition enough to fight its own government if they had to.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 05, 2009, 12:45:53 PM
You are kidding, right?

No. The 2nd Amendment actually says so, and George Washington himself said that a people should always have guns and ammunition enough to fight its own government if they had to.

Yeah it does, but the evil government is slowly taking them away. Yeah yeah I know.

Personally i'd rather avoid fighting until something really major happens. Like they really DO take my guns away or something. Then I would actually do something about it, and I garauntee i'd make a difference. I'd have a better idea than just jihading a bunch of politicians.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 05, 2009, 12:47:36 PM
You are kidding, right?

No. The 2nd Amendment actually says so, and George Washington himself said that a people should always have guns and ammunition enough to fight its own government if they had to.

Then you're a fucking laugh riot, someone who cannot be taken seriously. Have you any idea of how pathetic you sound when you whine about the government not making it easy for you to obtain explosives?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 12:48:35 PM
You are kidding, right?

No. The 2nd Amendment actually says so, and George Washington himself said that a people should always have guns and ammunition enough to fight its own government if they had to.

Yeah it does, but the evil government is slowly taking them away. Yeah yeah I know.

Personally i'd rather avoid fighting until something really major happens. Like they really DO take my guns away or something. Then I would actually do something about it, and I garauntee i'd make a difference. I'd have a better idea than just jihading a bunch of politicians.

Then it will be too late, like it is already in most of Europe. You should have gone to Washington, D.C. and killed them many years ago.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 05, 2009, 12:49:24 PM
You are kidding, right?

No. The 2nd Amendment actually says so, and George Washington himself said that a people should always have guns and ammunition enough to fight its own government if they had to.

Then you're a fucking laugh riot, someone who cannot be taken seriously. Have you any idea of how pathetic you sound when you whine about the government not making it easy for you to obtain explosives?

I have to agree man. If your problem with them is their disregard of the rules, why don't you say fuck the rules too and do something about it?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 12:50:24 PM
You are kidding, right?

No. The 2nd Amendment actually says so, and George Washington himself said that a people should always have guns and ammunition enough to fight its own government if they had to.

Then you're a fucking laugh riot, someone who cannot be taken seriously. Have you any idea of how pathetic you sound when you whine about the government not making it easy for you to obtain explosives?

Why? The US constitution says you have a right to have the means to fight an unjust government, and the first US president said those words literally. So why should I be laughed at?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 05, 2009, 12:50:51 PM
He'd probably stop at the red light before driving his truckful of explosives into the parliament. :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 05, 2009, 12:51:00 PM
You are kidding, right?

No. The 2nd Amendment actually says so, and George Washington himself said that a people should always have guns and ammunition enough to fight its own government if they had to.

Yeah it does, but the evil government is slowly taking them away. Yeah yeah I know.

Personally i'd rather avoid fighting until something really major happens. Like they really DO take my guns away or something. Then I would actually do something about it, and I garauntee i'd make a difference. I'd have a better idea than just jihading a bunch of politicians.

Then it will be too late, like it is already in most of Europe. You should have gone to Washington, D.C. and killed them many years ago.

Unfortunately it is not that simple. It must be carefully planned and you must have the full backing of the american people in order to start a revolt and completely overthrow the offending govt. You can't do shit by yourself. Sorry man.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 12:51:24 PM
You are kidding, right?

No. The 2nd Amendment actually says so, and George Washington himself said that a people should always have guns and ammunition enough to fight its own government if they had to.

Then you're a fucking laugh riot, someone who cannot be taken seriously. Have you any idea of how pathetic you sound when you whine about the government not making it easy for you to obtain explosives?

I have to agree man. If your problem with them is their disregard of the rules, why don't you say fuck the rules too and do something about it?

Do you realize how hard it is to obtain 1 ton of ammonium nitrate without a permission?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 05, 2009, 12:52:12 PM
He'd probably stop at the red light before driving his truckful of explosives into the parliament. :laugh:

I really don't think he understands. Seriously.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 12:52:57 PM
He'd probably stop at the red light before driving his truckful of explosives into the parliament. :laugh:

Yes, like when I blew up that sign. That was very obedient of me.  ::) But that a small amount I have no problem to make. But it won't do for the parliament.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 05, 2009, 12:53:07 PM
You are kidding, right?

No. The 2nd Amendment actually says so, and George Washington himself said that a people should always have guns and ammunition enough to fight its own government if they had to.

Then you're a fucking laugh riot, someone who cannot be taken seriously. Have you any idea of how pathetic you sound when you whine about the government not making it easy for you to obtain explosives?

Why? The US constitution says you have a right to have the means to fight an unjust government, and the first US president said those words literally. So why should I be laughed at?

Because you're so incredibly naive, still. You figure it out. You claim to be intelligent.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 05, 2009, 12:53:37 PM
You are kidding, right?

No. The 2nd Amendment actually says so, and George Washington himself said that a people should always have guns and ammunition enough to fight its own government if they had to.

Then you're a fucking laugh riot, someone who cannot be taken seriously. Have you any idea of how pathetic you sound when you whine about the government not making it easy for you to obtain explosives?

I have to agree man. If your problem with them is their disregard of the rules, why don't you say fuck the rules too and do something about it?

Do you realize how hard it is to obtain 1 ton of ammonium nitrate without a permission?

Well put that weapon in your hand and take it by force, soldier! I mean damn. If you're going to be a hero, then be a fucking hero. :eyebrows:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 05, 2009, 12:54:00 PM
He'd probably stop at the red light before driving his truckful of explosives into the parliament. :laugh:

Yes, like when I blew up that sign. That was very obedient of me.  ::) But that a small amount I have no problem to make. But it won't do for the parliament.

:LMAO:

That showed them!

:rofl:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 05, 2009, 12:54:56 PM
Lit is better than comedy  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 12:56:01 PM
He'd probably stop at the red light before driving his truckful of explosives into the parliament. :laugh:

Yes, like when I blew up that sign. That was very obedient of me.  ::) But that a small amount I have no problem to make. But it won't do for the parliament.

:LMAO:

That showed them!

:rofl:

If every person they gave a cowardly speed ticket did that, it would show them, yes. Several thousands of traffic signs blown away would cost money and might even cause chaos.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 05, 2009, 12:56:34 PM
:LMAO :LMAO: :LMAO:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 12:57:54 PM
:LMAO :LMAO: :LMAO:

So it isn't true? You, for instance, would never dare to blow up anything.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 05, 2009, 12:58:52 PM
:rofl:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 05, 2009, 12:59:08 PM
He'd probably stop at the red light before driving his truckful of explosives into the parliament. :laugh:

Yes, like when I blew up that sign. That was very obedient of me.  ::) But that a small amount I have no problem to make. But it won't do for the parliament.

:LMAO:

That showed them!

:rofl:

If every person they gave a cowardly speed ticket did that, it would show them, yes. Several thousands of traffic signs blown away would cost money and might even cause chaos.

But you won't cause several thousand to do it. You're doing it wrong man. The way you do things, it would be in the news the next day as some wierdo blowing something up. Everyone would say aww thats too bad and nothing would come out of it.

You have to put a bit of thought into revolution man.  ::)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 12:59:41 PM
:rofl:

So you have blown something up? When? What?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 05, 2009, 01:00:26 PM
We can always be BRAVE and blow Lit up  :orly: :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 05, 2009, 01:00:40 PM
We can always be BRAVE and blow Lit up  :orly: :orly:

 :orly: :orly: :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 01:01:46 PM
You'd never dare to.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2009, 01:05:08 PM
He'd probably stop at the red light before driving his truckful of explosives into the parliament. :laugh:

Yes, like when I blew up that sign. That was very obedient of me.  ::) But that a small amount I have no problem to make. But it won't do for the parliament.

:LMAO:

That showed them!

:rofl:

If every person they gave a cowardly speed ticket did that, it would show them, yes. Several thousands of traffic signs blown away would cost money and might even cause chaos.

But you won't cause several thousand to do it. You're doing it wrong man. The way you do things, it would be in the news the next day as some wierdo blowing something up. Everyone would say aww thats too bad and nothing would come out of it.

You have to put a bit of thought into revolution man.  ::)

No, you don't understand. Society works, just because most people are so obedient. If everyone stopped obeying the law like one man, the state would collaps within hours.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on June 05, 2009, 01:26:26 PM
People who choose not to vote have no right to complain.
Not correct at all, the 1st Amendment puts no such limitations on peoples right to seek redress of grievances, freedom of speech or anything else covered by the 1st Amendment. In cases where people only see a choice of Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum why should they vote for either if they don't want to?

As soon as I posted that I knew I should have revised it, but figured I would let someone reply before further discussing. What I really mean is not participating in the process at all. Sure, legally they still have a right to complain, but they lose some credibility when they are apathetic to the process then come in at the end.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 05, 2009, 01:27:32 PM
I forgot to vote this week :thumbdn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on June 05, 2009, 04:26:24 PM


A "friend"  from work came up to me after hearing me talk about how artistic, yet, extremely wasteful of paper my kids were.

She told me that her father was a butcher, had something in her car for me and  we walked out to the lot. She gave me the end of a roll of  butcher paper for them. The roll has more than an inch left on it and it is thirty two inches wide.


This will keep them in paper to blast through for a couple of months, especially if I ration it wisely.

FUCKING AWESOME.

I can not think of a better thing for them for them.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 05, 2009, 04:28:03 PM
That is so cool.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 05, 2009, 04:34:21 PM
My cousin is raising money for the NAS at school
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 05, 2009, 04:37:48 PM
He'd probably stop at the red light before driving his truckful of explosives into the parliament. :laugh:

Yes, like when I blew up that sign. That was very obedient of me.  ::) But that a small amount I have no problem to make. But it won't do for the parliament.

:LMAO:

That showed them!

:rofl:

If every person they gave a cowardly speed ticket did that, it would show them, yes. Several thousands of traffic signs blown away would cost money and might even cause chaos.

But you won't cause several thousand to do it. You're doing it wrong man. The way you do things, it would be in the news the next day as some wierdo blowing something up. Everyone would say aww thats too bad and nothing would come out of it.

You have to put a bit of thought into revolution man.  ::)

No, you don't understand. Society works, just because most people are so obedient. If everyone stopped obeying the law like one man, the state would collaps within hours.
No no. YOU don't understand. I agree that if thousands of people did something we'd see some change, but I don't think people would follow you dude.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 05, 2009, 08:30:00 PM
People who choose not to vote have no right to complain.
Not correct at all, the 1st Amendment puts no such limitations on peoples right to seek redress of grievances, freedom of speech or anything else covered by the 1st Amendment. In cases where people only see a choice of Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum why should they vote for either if they don't want to?

As soon as I posted that I knew I should have revised it, but figured I would let someone reply before further discussing. What I really mean is not participating in the process at all. Sure, legally they still have a right to complain, but they lose some credibility when they are apathetic to the process then come in at the end.
:agreed: Putting effort into changing something rather than just complainig about it does give a person greater credibility.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 05, 2009, 08:47:03 PM
What, not brave enough to provide your own ammo?  :o

They used to sell ammonium nitrate as fertilizer in 500 kg packages here, but after Oklahoma City the cowards put an end to that. They won't give the people a fair chance to revolt.
If you look at the two most successful Euro Red outfits from the late 1960s-1970s, Red Army Faction and Red Brigades, you'll see that, prior to being Soviet clients, Holger Meins and company were willing to rob banks and blow shit up which is why the KGB thought it worthwhie to underwrite them. Likewise Renato Curcio was laying groundwork and infrastructure prior to the death of Giangiancomo Feltrinelli and would have gotten the ball rolling anyway, but with Feltrinelli's death he saw a rare opportunity and raided some of Feltrinelli's accounts in Switzerland because he knew how to sieze the fucking day! Otherwise his friend would have continued with occasional donations but, like Hanoi Jane or any other member of the Strawberry Reich, Feltrinelli was not about to fuck up his lavish lifestyle to commit 100% to commie stupidity.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 06, 2009, 02:38:54 AM
What, not brave enough to provide your own ammo?  :o

They used to sell ammonium nitrate as fertilizer in 500 kg packages here, but after Oklahoma City the cowards put an end to that. They won't give the people a fair chance to revolt.
If you look at the two most successful Euro Red outfits from the late 1960s-1970s, Red Army Faction and Red Brigades, you'll see that, prior to being Soviet clients, Holger Meins and company were willing to rob banks and blow shit up which is why the KGB thought it worthwhie to underwrite them. Likewise Renato Curcio was laying groundwork and infrastructure prior to the death of Giangiancomo Feltrinelli and would have gotten the ball rolling anyway, but with Feltrinelli's death he saw a rare opportunity and raided some of Feltrinelli's accounts in Switzerland because he knew how to sieze the fucking day! Otherwise his friend would have continued with occasional donations but, like Hanoi Jane or any other member of the Strawberry Reich, Feltrinelli was not about to fuck up his lavish lifestyle to commit 100% to commie stupidity.

I'm just one man, but I'd be willing to do that if 5-6 people would co-operate with me.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 06, 2009, 02:47:15 AM
Hitlers Children by Jillian Becker is an excellent starting point in looking into RAF. I really admire Gabrielle Krocher Tiedmann, Gordon Kahl and such who bloody the systems nose on occasion.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 06, 2009, 02:50:40 AM
Hitlers Children by Jillian Becker is an excellent starting point in looking into RAF. I really admire Gabrielle Krocher Tiedmann, Gordon Kahl and such who bloody the systems nose on occasion.

I'm not very skilled in these things, however. I know how to make bombs but I have no military training, since I dodged out of the army on purpose. But I'd give it a try if I got some support from a few others.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 06, 2009, 03:18:29 AM
Lit I wrote that because I thought you might find it interesting, not because I want you to do a suicide charge at a water treatment plant or something. Realistically Praxis in some times and places should be solitary with no "come get notes" or undue chest thumping. Walter "Roy" Moody was caught because he forgot he was under 24 hour surviellance and he picked a target of to personal of a nature to him. But that does not mean that Federal Judges should be allowed to behave as Black Robed Commisars ruling by Judicial Fiat. Anyway this is all hypothetical bs so it doesn't matter.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 06, 2009, 03:23:21 AM
Lit I wrote that because I thought you might find it interesting, not because I want you to do a suicide charge at a water treatment plant or something. Realistically Praxis in some times and places should be solitary with no "come get notes" or undue chest thumping. Walter "Roy" Moody was caught because he forgot he was under 24 hour surviellance and he picked a target of to personal of a nature to him. But that does not mean that Federal Judges should be allowed to behave as Black Robed Commisars ruling by Judicial Fiat. Anyway this is all hypothetical bs so it doesn't matter.

 ;)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 06, 2009, 11:04:37 AM
What, not brave enough to provide your own ammo?  :o

They used to sell ammonium nitrate as fertilizer in 500 kg packages here, but after Oklahoma City the cowards put an end to that. They won't give the people a fair chance to revolt.
If you look at the two most successful Euro Red outfits from the late 1960s-1970s, Red Army Faction and Red Brigades, you'll see that, prior to being Soviet clients, Holger Meins and company were willing to rob banks and blow shit up which is why the KGB thought it worthwhie to underwrite them. Likewise Renato Curcio was laying groundwork and infrastructure prior to the death of Giangiancomo Feltrinelli and would have gotten the ball rolling anyway, but with Feltrinelli's death he saw a rare opportunity and raided some of Feltrinelli's accounts in Switzerland because he knew how to sieze the fucking day! Otherwise his friend would have continued with occasional donations but, like Hanoi Jane or any other member of the Strawberry Reich, Feltrinelli was not about to fuck up his lavish lifestyle to commit 100% to commie stupidity.

I'm just one man, but I'd be willing to do that if 5-6 people would co-operate with me.  8)

Convince them.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2009, 04:19:29 PM
What, not brave enough to provide your own ammo?  :o

They used to sell ammonium nitrate as fertilizer in 500 kg packages here, but after Oklahoma City the cowards put an end to that. They won't give the people a fair chance to revolt.
If you look at the two most successful Euro Red outfits from the late 1960s-1970s, Red Army Faction and Red Brigades, you'll see that, prior to being Soviet clients, Holger Meins and company were willing to rob banks and blow shit up which is why the KGB thought it worthwhie to underwrite them. Likewise Renato Curcio was laying groundwork and infrastructure prior to the death of Giangiancomo Feltrinelli and would have gotten the ball rolling anyway, but with Feltrinelli's death he saw a rare opportunity and raided some of Feltrinelli's accounts in Switzerland because he knew how to sieze the fucking day! Otherwise his friend would have continued with occasional donations but, like Hanoi Jane or any other member of the Strawberry Reich, Feltrinelli was not about to fuck up his lavish lifestyle to commit 100% to commie stupidity.

I'm just one man, but I'd be willing to do that if 5-6 people would co-operate with me.  8)

Convince them.

I think he wants others to do that, too.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 06, 2009, 05:19:08 PM
What, not brave enough to provide your own ammo?  :o

They used to sell ammonium nitrate as fertilizer in 500 kg packages here, but after Oklahoma City the cowards put an end to that. They won't give the people a fair chance to revolt.
If you look at the two most successful Euro Red outfits from the late 1960s-1970s, Red Army Faction and Red Brigades, you'll see that, prior to being Soviet clients, Holger Meins and company were willing to rob banks and blow shit up which is why the KGB thought it worthwhie to underwrite them. Likewise Renato Curcio was laying groundwork and infrastructure prior to the death of Giangiancomo Feltrinelli and would have gotten the ball rolling anyway, but with Feltrinelli's death he saw a rare opportunity and raided some of Feltrinelli's accounts in Switzerland because he knew how to sieze the fucking day! Otherwise his friend would have continued with occasional donations but, like Hanoi Jane or any other member of the Strawberry Reich, Feltrinelli was not about to fuck up his lavish lifestyle to commit 100% to commie stupidity.

I'm just one man, but I'd be willing to do that if 5-6 people would co-operate with me.  8)

Convince them.

I think he wants others to do that, too.

The more I learn, the less respect I have. :'(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 06, 2009, 05:19:51 PM
The more I read your posts, the hornier I get  :moon:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 06, 2009, 05:25:21 PM
Promise :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on June 06, 2009, 06:00:48 PM
The more I read your posts, the hornier I get  :moon:

Christ on a pole, beaten half to death in the pouring rain, begging a Roman to pierce his lung to speed this up ... DUDE, you are just as boring!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 06, 2009, 06:03:39 PM
 :sheep:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 07, 2009, 06:02:04 AM
The more I read your posts, the hornier I get  :moon:

Christ on a pole, beaten half to death in the pouring rain, begging a Roman to pierce his lung to speed this up ... DUDE, you are just as boring!

He's a troll, Dawg. We've seen his kind before.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 07, 2009, 06:21:40 AM
He's a turtle.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 07, 2009, 06:30:02 AM
Is he in the turtle club?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 07, 2009, 06:43:26 AM
He's in the turtle wax.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 07, 2009, 07:49:57 AM
Correction: he's a sexy troll  :agreed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 07, 2009, 07:57:00 AM
Turtles are sexy? Who could have known, Parts, who could have known... :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 07, 2009, 08:03:45 AM
Dude everybody nows that  :chicken:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 07, 2009, 08:08:22 AM
Why wasn't I told?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on June 07, 2009, 08:37:45 AM
But you were! (http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,985.msg474593.html#msg474593)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 07, 2009, 08:40:07 AM
TOS violation? Goddammit that looked like some good porn too  :(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 07, 2009, 08:48:00 AM
The owner of this site lacks BRAVERY!  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 07, 2009, 08:53:05 AM
I lack a BRAIN!  :zoinks:

Fixed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 07, 2009, 10:03:40 AM
The more I read your posts, the hornier I get  :moon:

Christ on a pole, beaten half to death in the pouring rain, begging a Roman to pierce his lung to speed this up ... DUDE, you are just as boring!

He's a troll, Dawg. We've seen his kind before.

I called troll on his second post, and I was right. I have a bit of troll in me as well, so I can see them a mile away. :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 07, 2009, 10:31:53 AM
 :cheer:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 07, 2009, 12:23:05 PM
I lack a BRAIN!  :zoinks:

Fixed.

 :lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on June 07, 2009, 12:48:25 PM
The more I read your posts, the hornier I get  :moon:

Christ on a pole, beaten half to death in the pouring rain, begging a Roman to pierce his lung to speed this up ... DUDE, you are just as boring!

He's a troll, Dawg. We've seen his kind before.

What does attracting this small caliber of misfire trollery say about us?

 :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on June 07, 2009, 12:49:21 PM
That we've already burned through all the high-caliber misfire trollery?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 07, 2009, 12:52:43 PM
He (or she) is not even remotely convincing.  Even Lit could do better than that.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 07, 2009, 01:14:18 PM
What am I  supposed to be convincing you all of?  :shamone:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 07, 2009, 01:34:41 PM
What am I  supposed to be convincing you all of?  :shamone:

Of being a full-quality troll  :zoinks: 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 07, 2009, 01:38:28 PM
He (or she) is not even remotely convincing.  Even Lit could do better than that.

It's not a "real" troll, just someone who thinks it's fun to behave like one.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 07, 2009, 01:42:52 PM
I'm not a troll!!!  :bigcry:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 07, 2009, 02:32:40 PM
I'm not a troll!!!  :bigcry:

Man shut the fuck up, pissant.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 07, 2009, 02:58:44 PM
You shut the fuck up, faggot  :indeed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 07, 2009, 04:09:24 PM
You shut the fuck up, faggot  :indeed:

Lmao. You're such a low quality troll that I can actually counter troll you and you buy into it. You're just a failure man. Its kind of funny actually.  ::)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 07, 2009, 04:10:37 PM
I counter-counter-trolled you, gayboy  :police:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on June 11, 2009, 03:22:59 PM
It is very expensive to get turned into a female and damn near impossible to go back once you're done trying it out for a bit.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 11, 2009, 03:24:37 PM
It is very expensive to get turned into a female and damn near impossible to go back once you're done trying it out for a bit.

Not if you live in Sweden. Guess who pays for your gender-bendering - the taxpayers state.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 11, 2009, 03:59:06 PM
If they can finance one kind of spaz, why not another? :smarty:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 11, 2009, 04:03:19 PM
It is very expensive to get turned into a female and damn near impossible to go back once you're done trying it out for a bit.

What do they make it out of if you want to go back :-\
BTW I can't imagine saying "Yes cut off my dick" :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 11, 2009, 04:04:42 PM
 :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 11, 2009, 04:28:58 PM
Pretty buzzed right now :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 12, 2009, 09:59:24 AM
Tomorrow is Warsaw Pride.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 12, 2009, 05:29:44 PM
last night was a mystery to me
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 12, 2009, 05:31:16 PM
Me too dude

I woke up and was like, "wtf, what is parts doing in my bed?"  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 12, 2009, 05:37:24 PM
If you have to ask then you'll never know. :eyebrows:  BTW do you have airfare back to NYC?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 13, 2009, 02:54:30 PM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 15, 2009, 07:53:53 PM
Back to te cutting it off will they let you keep it :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on June 15, 2009, 08:04:19 PM
Back to te cutting it off will they let you keep it :zombiefuck:

I think they reuse the skin from the penis to make a vagina, so no, you don't get to keep it.

What would you do with it anyway, keep it preserved in formaldehyde?

:yikes:

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 16, 2009, 04:59:30 AM
They would not let my foster sons grandfather keep the leg he had cut off either
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 16, 2009, 06:26:28 AM
They would not let my foster sons grandfather keep the leg he had cut off either

Callaway is right. They turn your cock and your nutsack inside out and use the flesh from those to make the vagina. Theres no going back. And the dicks gone afterwards.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: GalileoAce on June 18, 2009, 09:14:00 AM
The Knife that Mayor Richard Wilkins III gives to Faith in Season 3 of Buffy The Vampire Slayer is either the same or very similar to the knife seen in the Star Trek: Nemesis posters.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 18, 2009, 09:17:51 AM
A Swedish commune is supposed to collaps economically, when it has a population below 5000 people. Interestingly enough, that's just below the maximum size of Plato's ideal state; 5041 people.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 18, 2009, 11:58:07 AM
Coconuts don't burst when thrown in a fire they just crack and make farting noises as the steam escapes
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 18, 2009, 12:36:30 PM
My cat is licking her right foot
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 18, 2009, 01:31:03 PM
My cat is licking her right foot

 :green: Cat.  :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on June 18, 2009, 02:45:53 PM
For the first time, I have made it through all ten pages of Recernt Posts AND the New Replies updates and no one is talking to me.

I can now do this without being rude to anyone I care about.

I won't tolerate rudeness, and I try to make my own rudeness more about a lesson or two than the actual rudeness. I trust that you've actually noticed this.


I'll see you guys after a short bit of time passes.


Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 18, 2009, 02:48:42 PM
 ???
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 18, 2009, 02:58:50 PM
For the first time, I have made it through all ten pages of Recernt Posts AND the New Replies updates and no one is talking to me.

I can now do this without being rude to anyone I care about.

I won't tolerate rudeness, and I try to make my own rudeness more about a lesson or two than the actual rudeness. I trust that you've actually noticed this.


I'll see you guys after a short bit of time passes.




Lolwut?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 18, 2009, 03:36:50 PM
For the first time, I have made it through all ten pages of Recernt Posts AND the New Replies updates and no one is talking to me.

I can now do this without being rude to anyone I care about.

I won't tolerate rudeness, and I try to make my own rudeness more about a lesson or two than the actual rudeness. I trust that you've actually noticed this.


I'll see you guys after a short bit of time passes.




:(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Small Penis on June 18, 2009, 04:17:22 PM
Me and trigger11 are boyfriend and boyfriend
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 18, 2009, 04:48:36 PM
For the first time, I have made it through all ten pages of Recernt Posts AND the New Replies updates and no one is talking to me.

I can now do this without being rude to anyone I care about.

I won't tolerate rudeness, and I try to make my own rudeness more about a lesson or two than the actual rudeness. I trust that you've actually noticed this.


I'll see you guys after a short bit of time passes.




:(

Hey big O. What was he trying to say?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 18, 2009, 05:47:31 PM
 
Coconuts don't burst when thrown in a fire they just crack and make farting noises as the steam escapes
:lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on June 18, 2009, 05:51:50 PM
For the first time, I have made it through all ten pages of Recernt Posts AND the New Replies updates and no one is talking to me.

I can now do this without being rude to anyone I care about.

I won't tolerate rudeness, and I try to make my own rudeness more about a lesson or two than the actual rudeness. I trust that you've actually noticed this.


I'll see you guys after a short bit of time passes.




OK, but you will be missed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on June 18, 2009, 05:55:12 PM
Hey big O. What was he trying to say?

Temporarily goodbye.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 18, 2009, 06:29:34 PM
Hey big O. What was he trying to say?

Temporarily goodbye.

I could do with a personal assistant.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on June 18, 2009, 06:31:38 PM
 :rofl:

I'll hold them, you punch?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 18, 2009, 06:32:59 PM
:rofl:

I'll hold them, you punch?

If i'm punching, you better hold on tight.  :zoinks:

Its a fucking deal!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 19, 2009, 07:01:56 AM
I'm addicted to a MindJolt game called Bouncing Balls  :-[

I'm the second highest scorer out of my facebook friends  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: GalileoAce on June 19, 2009, 07:09:49 AM
Facebook is as useful as it is evil.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 19, 2009, 07:41:50 AM
Cast iron boilers are A LOT heavier than they look
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 19, 2009, 07:51:17 AM
The old school bath tubs were heavier then shit as well.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: GalileoAce on June 19, 2009, 07:53:39 AM
How heavy is shit?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 19, 2009, 11:32:38 AM
Depends on how much you have :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on June 19, 2009, 11:37:08 AM


Facebook is as useful as it is evil.

That's been said about myself as well.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 19, 2009, 11:39:01 AM
And variables such as floater or sinker, cohesive log or diarrheal belly rumbler, corn or no corn etc.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on June 19, 2009, 11:42:24 AM


dry docker or double dry docker
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 19, 2009, 11:53:11 AM


dry docker or double dry docker

 :duh: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 19, 2009, 12:27:55 PM


dry docker or double dry docker
:respect: I have never pulled off a double dry docker. I didn't realize it was possible w/o medical intervention, like a bowel caeserian section. :runaway:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 20, 2009, 06:13:58 AM
For the first time, I have made it through all ten pages of Recernt Posts AND the New Replies updates and no one is talking to me.

I can now do this without being rude to anyone I care about.

I won't tolerate rudeness, and I try to make my own rudeness more about a lesson or two than the actual rudeness. I trust that you've actually noticed this.


I'll see you guys after a short bit of time passes.




:(

Hey big O. What was he trying to say?

I think he feels ignored.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 20, 2009, 06:23:15 AM
For the first time, I have made it through all ten pages of Recernt Posts AND the New Replies updates and no one is talking to me.

I can now do this without being rude to anyone I care about.

I won't tolerate rudeness, and I try to make my own rudeness more about a lesson or two than the actual rudeness. I trust that you've actually noticed this.


I'll see you guys after a short bit of time passes.




:(

Hey big O. What was he trying to say?

I think he feels ignored.

DD come back  :(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: GalileoAce on June 20, 2009, 06:45:18 AM
For the first time, I have made it through all ten pages of Recernt Posts AND the New Replies updates and no one is talking to me.

I can now do this without being rude to anyone I care about.

I won't tolerate rudeness, and I try to make my own rudeness more about a lesson or two than the actual rudeness. I trust that you've actually noticed this.


I'll see you guys after a short bit of time passes.




:(

Hey big O. What was he trying to say?

I think he feels ignored.

Who?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on June 20, 2009, 08:06:38 AM
For the first time, I have made it through all ten pages of Recernt Posts AND the New Replies updates and no one is talking to me.

I can now do this without being rude to anyone I care about.

I won't tolerate rudeness, and I try to make my own rudeness more about a lesson or two than the actual rudeness. I trust that you've actually noticed this.


I'll see you guys after a short bit of time passes.
Awwww. I just updated the Photo Thread (which took quite some time because I go through all of it) and I was the only one online the whole while. You don't see me chucking a sad about it do you.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on June 20, 2009, 09:22:57 AM
For the first time, I have made it through all ten pages of Recernt Posts AND the New Replies updates and no one is talking to me.

I can now do this without being rude to anyone I care about.

I won't tolerate rudeness, and I try to make my own rudeness more about a lesson or two than the actual rudeness. I trust that you've actually noticed this.


I'll see you guys after a short bit of time passes.
Awwww. I just updated the Photo Thread (which took quite some time because I go through all of it) and I was the only one online the whole while. You don't see me chucking a sad about it do you.

I'd say it's home and job stress that's also contributing a little. Probably job more so it seems. I could be wrong.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on June 20, 2009, 09:49:42 AM
I can understand that. That bit about stress, I mean.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 20, 2009, 10:57:59 AM
For the first time, I have made it through all ten pages of Recernt Posts AND the New Replies updates and no one is talking to me.

I can now do this without being rude to anyone I care about.

I won't tolerate rudeness, and I try to make my own rudeness more about a lesson or two than the actual rudeness. I trust that you've actually noticed this.


I'll see you guys after a short bit of time passes.
Awwww. I just updated the Photo Thread (which took quite some time because I go through all of it) and I was the only one online the whole while. You don't see me chucking a sad about it do you.

I noticed he overstims a lot. Probably he has a stressful job. Is fine. He'll be back.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on June 20, 2009, 11:07:22 AM
For the first time, I have made it through all ten pages of Recernt Posts AND the New Replies updates and no one is talking to me.

I can now do this without being rude to anyone I care about.

I won't tolerate rudeness, and I try to make my own rudeness more about a lesson or two than the actual rudeness. I trust that you've actually noticed this.


I'll see you guys after a short bit of time passes.
Awwww. I just updated the Photo Thread (which took quite some time because I go through all of it) and I was the only one online the whole while. You don't see me chucking a sad about it do you.

I noticed he overstims a lot. Probably he has a stressful job. Is fine. He'll be back.  :zoinks:

He does have a stressful job.  Even though he is very good at it, it seems to take a lot out of him.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 20, 2009, 11:09:10 AM
He needs some rohypnol.  :mushie:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on June 20, 2009, 11:18:03 AM
I don't think he does.

Medicines often have the exact opposite of the expected effect on him anyway.

Coffee makes him feel calm and sleepy and valium makes him feel hyper and aggressive.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 20, 2009, 11:18:36 AM
The he needs crystal meth.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: GalileoAce on June 20, 2009, 08:56:56 PM
Powerthirst?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on June 20, 2009, 09:49:55 PM


Powerthirst?


FOUR HUNDRED BABIES
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on June 20, 2009, 11:11:56 PM
For the first time, I have made it through all ten pages of Recernt Posts AND the New Replies updates and no one is talking to me.

I can now do this without being rude to anyone I care about.

I won't tolerate rudeness, and I try to make my own rudeness more about a lesson or two than the actual rudeness. I trust that you've actually noticed this.


I'll see you guys after a short bit of time passes.
Awwww. I just updated the Photo Thread (which took quite some time because I go through all of it) and I was the only one online the whole while. You don't see me chucking a sad about it do you.

I love it when Renaeden gets fiesty!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on June 20, 2009, 11:14:20 PM
He needs some rohypnol.  :mushie:

Unlike you, who needs a Bazooka up your ass.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on June 21, 2009, 12:01:47 AM
I don't think he does.

Medicines often have the exact opposite of the expected effect on him anyway.

Coffee makes him feel calm and sleepy and valium makes him feel hyper and aggressive.
These effects are not unknown:
Quote
Benzodiazepines are generally safe and effective in the short term, although cognitive impairments or paradoxical effects such as aggression or behavioral disinhibition occasionally occur.[6]
- Wikipedia.

And I guess most people know about the CNS stimulant effects in people with ADHD, for example.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 21, 2009, 01:10:45 AM
He needs some rohypnol.  :mushie:

Unlike you, who needs a Bazooka up your ass.

 :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 21, 2009, 06:00:11 AM
He needs some rohypnol.  :mushie:

Unlike you, who needs a Bazooka up your ass.

 :zoinks:

Will you post pictures if THAT happens? :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 21, 2009, 10:23:42 AM
I have just been called a fat-hating meanie on Twitter  :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 21, 2009, 10:26:39 AM
I have just been called a fat-hating meanie on Twitter  :green:

I like a little fat content in the ass but thats about it. ;D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on June 21, 2009, 10:28:06 AM


I have just been called a fat-hating meanie on Twitter  :green:


Whenever I see your name I think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEDw9xgSmSc
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 21, 2009, 10:41:04 AM


I have just been called a fat-hating meanie on Twitter  :green:


Whenever I see your name I think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEDw9xgSmSc


 :laugh:

I got it from a song

XTC - Summer's Cauldron

I have just been called a fat-hating meanie on Twitter  :green:

I like a little fat content in the ass but thats about it. ;D

 :eyelash:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 21, 2009, 10:59:24 AM
He needs some rohypnol.  :mushie:

Unlike you, who needs a Bazooka up your ass.

 :zoinks:

Will you post pictures if THAT happens? :P

 :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 21, 2009, 11:04:03 AM
Lit you know what?  You're actually growing on me  :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 21, 2009, 11:05:03 AM
 8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 21, 2009, 12:04:30 PM
8 more posts and my post count will be the year I was born  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 21, 2009, 02:12:03 PM
When I'm bored I listen to shit music.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 21, 2009, 03:06:55 PM
He needs some rohypnol.  :mushie:

Unlike you, who needs a Bazooka up your ass.

 :zoinks:

Will you post pictures if THAT happens? :P

 :-\

You'll have to admit that it would beat that lawnmower video. ;)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 21, 2009, 03:07:26 PM
8 more posts and my post count will be the year I was born  8)

Lessee...

2024? :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 21, 2009, 09:50:43 PM
He needs some rohypnol.  :mushie:

Unlike you, who needs a Bazooka up your ass.

 :zoinks:

Will you post pictures if THAT happens? :P

 :-\

You'll have to admit that it would beat that lawnmower video. ;)

Hm...yeah, I guess so.  :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 22, 2009, 08:35:35 AM
Lit you know what?  You're actually growing on me  :o

I'll grow in you.  :eyelash:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 22, 2009, 08:38:52 AM
Lit you know what?  You're actually growing on me  :o

I'll grow in you.  :eyelash:

Sir, I believe you're making me blush :toporly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 22, 2009, 09:11:36 AM
My cat just smiled at me, then yawned, then stretched her legs and curled up. Then she put her arm over her face. And now she's just shook her head and started washong behind her ears. I could continue this commentary.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 22, 2009, 09:20:58 AM
The kids here have school till Thursday
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 22, 2009, 09:53:58 AM
There are three kids in my house :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 22, 2009, 09:56:18 AM
Kill them! :arrr:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on June 22, 2009, 10:04:13 AM


Fuck them! :anal:


fixed

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on June 22, 2009, 11:25:22 AM
My dog got her head stuck in a plastic container before :duh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on June 22, 2009, 02:14:36 PM
For the first time, I have made it through all ten pages of Recernt Posts AND the New Replies updates and no one is talking to me.

I can now do this without being rude to anyone I care about.

I won't tolerate rudeness, and I try to make my own rudeness more about a lesson or two than the actual rudeness. I trust that you've actually noticed this.


I'll see you guys after a short bit of time passes.
Awwww. I just updated the Photo Thread (which took quite some time because I go through all of it) and I was the only one online the whole while. You don't see me chucking a sad about it do you.

I'd say it's home and job stress that's also contributing a little. Probably job more so it seems. I could be wrong.

You are closer than you think, but it's not the job so much as what I NEED to do with myself.

I practically wasted last summer, did very little, regret it more than the previous year, when I did about same amount of nothing.

I plan to move ahead this summer and, at the very least, come back with some good stories after a bit of further living.




I expect the same from all.
 :lol:









... and thanks, Odeon, for being a pal.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on June 22, 2009, 02:18:34 PM
For the first time, I have made it through all ten pages of Recernt Posts AND the New Replies updates and no one is talking to me.

I can now do this without being rude to anyone I care about.

I won't tolerate rudeness, and I try to make my own rudeness more about a lesson or two than the actual rudeness. I trust that you've actually noticed this.


I'll see you guys after a short bit of time passes.
Awwww. I just updated the Photo Thread (which took quite some time because I go through all of it) and I was the only one online the whole while. You don't see me chucking a sad about it do you.

I love it when Renaeden gets fiesty!

Yeah, it's cute as hell, but I don't think she knows as much about me as she thinks she does.



It's not about any of you, so please, everyone(!!), enjoy your time, because that's what I am planning to do with my welcome gift of summer.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on June 23, 2009, 01:25:58 AM
For the first time, I have made it through all ten pages of Recernt Posts AND the New Replies updates and no one is talking to me.

I can now do this without being rude to anyone I care about.

I won't tolerate rudeness, and I try to make my own rudeness more about a lesson or two than the actual rudeness. I trust that you've actually noticed this.


I'll see you guys after a short bit of time passes.
Awwww. I just updated the Photo Thread (which took quite some time because I go through all of it) and I was the only one online the whole while. You don't see me chucking a sad about it do you.

I'd say it's home and job stress that's also contributing a little. Probably job more so it seems. I could be wrong.

You are closer than you think, but it's not the job so much as what I NEED to do with myself.

I practically wasted last summer, did very little, regret it more than the previous year, when I did about same amount of nothing.

I plan to move ahead this summer and, at the very least, come back with some good stories after a bit of further living.




I expect the same from all.
 :lol:









... and thanks, Odeon, for being a pal.

Oh, the old, nothing has changed in a few years thing even though you are doing the same thing day in day out, funk.

I merely meant that it seemed you were doing really well at work except for all the public praise your higher up were giving you which isn't exactly what you wanted.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 23, 2009, 01:34:29 AM
You are closer than you think, but it's not the job so much as what I NEED to do with myself.

I practically wasted last summer, did very little, regret it more than the previous year, when I did about same amount of nothing.

I plan to move ahead this summer and, at the very least, come back with some good stories after a bit of further living.




I expect the same from all.
 :lol:









... and thanks, Odeon, for being a pal.
:plus: Not seizing the day results in regrets.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 23, 2009, 01:30:34 PM
... and thanks, Odeon, for being a pal.

Any time, mate. :)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 23, 2009, 03:58:27 PM
For the first time, I have made it through all ten pages of Recernt Posts AND the New Replies updates and no one is talking to me.

I can now do this without being rude to anyone I care about.

I won't tolerate rudeness, and I try to make my own rudeness more about a lesson or two than the actual rudeness. I trust that you've actually noticed this.


I'll see you guys after a short bit of time passes.
Awwww. I just updated the Photo Thread (which took quite some time because I go through all of it) and I was the only one online the whole while. You don't see me chucking a sad about it do you.

I'd say it's home and job stress that's also contributing a little. Probably job more so it seems. I could be wrong.

You are closer than you think, but it's not the job so much as what I NEED to do with myself.

I practically wasted last summer, did very little, regret it more than the previous year, when I did about same amount of nothing.

I plan to move ahead this summer and, at the very least, come back with some good stories after a bit of further living.




I expect the same from all.
 :lol:









... and thanks, Odeon, for being a pal.

 :plus: Trying to do more this summer too already I did more than last year which is pitiful
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 24, 2009, 09:59:24 AM
The saying "bless you" after someone sneezing originated from the fact that back in the day, someone sneezing meant that they will soon die.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Phlexor on June 24, 2009, 10:13:24 AM
The saying "bless you" after someone sneezing originated from the fact that back in the day, someone sneezing meant that they will soon die.

This is even a more useless fact. For a laugh a while back, I decided to swap saying excuse me after burping with bless you after sneezing and visa versa.

That didn't last as long as I had envisioned it to.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 24, 2009, 10:24:55 AM
The saying "bless you" after someone sneezing originated from the fact that back in the day, someone sneezing meant that they will soon die.

This is even a more useless fact. For a laugh a while back, I decided to swap saying excuse me after burping with bless you after sneezing and visa versa.

That didn't last as long as I had envisioned it to.

That would have really confused me   :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 24, 2009, 12:26:53 PM
This is my 1200th post.  :woohoo:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Blasted on June 24, 2009, 12:28:38 PM
This is my 1200th post.  :woohoo:

Yay! You post whore  :laugh:

 :congrats:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 24, 2009, 12:42:15 PM
Thanks Sergeant Major Bint, the praise of one's peers is what counts.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 24, 2009, 12:59:57 PM
We have got you know >:D there is no going back :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 24, 2009, 01:03:17 PM
Yeah my post count per day for the last few days is way up. I hope I don't turn into a 'tard like Tim Tex!  :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 24, 2009, 01:46:18 PM
It's the old Midsummer Day today. The 24th of June was Midsummer Day in Sweden until 1953, despite the fact that the calender was changed already in 1753, so that the summer solstice is always on June 21th since 1753.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 24, 2009, 01:47:35 PM
Do Swedes get drunk and light fireworks for midSummer day?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 24, 2009, 01:50:40 PM
Do Swedes get drunk and light fireworks for midSummer day?

We get drunk alright but fireworks are for New Year's Eve and Easter.  ;)

When I was a kid I liked dancing around the Maypole.  8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44xiJPZwNNc
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 24, 2009, 02:12:33 PM
This is my 1200th post.  :woohoo:

 :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 24, 2009, 02:14:23 PM
Just 29500 more and I'll be almost caught up with you odeon. :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on June 24, 2009, 02:14:40 PM

We have got you know >:D there is no going back :laugh:


(http://blog.davender.com/uploaded_images/borg-706601.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 24, 2009, 02:15:36 PM
Just 29500 more and I'll be almost caught up with you odeon. :evillaugh:

Shouldn't take you long. :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 24, 2009, 02:17:07 PM
Damn, I think I have 100000 posts or so on different forums. What does that make me? The Superduper-Über-Postwhore?  :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 24, 2009, 02:18:42 PM
It makes you Calandale. ;D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 24, 2009, 02:19:26 PM
 :o :zombiefuck::GA:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 25, 2011, 07:46:22 PM

I like old, dead game threads.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on January 25, 2011, 07:54:12 PM
Old dead game threads smell of cedar shavings.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 25, 2011, 07:55:17 PM
Old dead game threads smell of cedar shavings.

Cedar smells lovely though!  :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on January 25, 2011, 09:00:20 PM
"Homesick "is my favorite song by the cure


Hey hey!
Just one more and I'll walk away
All the everything you win
Turns to nothing today
And I forget how to move
When my mouth is this dry
And my eyes are bursting hearts
In a blood-stained sky

Oh it was sweet
It was wild
And oh how we...
I trembled
Stuck in honey
Honey
Cling to me...

So just one more
Just one more go
Inspire in me the desire in me
To never go home

Oh just one more
And I'll walk away
All the everything you win
Turns to nothing today
So just one more
Just one more go
Inspire in me the desire in me
To never go home
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on January 29, 2011, 03:49:40 PM
 i was once in JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOUR DREAMCOAT

well i was in the school version anyway

I WAS A PIECE OF CORN
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on January 29, 2011, 03:50:43 PM
Here is a useless fact



I gave up causal sex  ;)




for  :pinkbeat: :pinkbeat: :pinkbeat: :pinkbeat: :pinkbeat:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 29, 2011, 03:57:21 PM
There are lots of empty coffee cups on the floor of my truck
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on January 29, 2011, 04:01:30 PM
-40°C equals -40°F .

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on January 29, 2011, 04:06:02 PM
120 mesh equals 120µm.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on January 29, 2011, 04:25:26 PM
There are lots of empty coffee cups on the floor of my truck




there are lots of things to do with empty coffee cups
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/missteresabrown/farm/MonaLisa.jpg?t=1296339789)
 :lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on January 30, 2011, 04:01:29 PM
General Razorbeard (how's that for useless?)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 30, 2011, 04:02:06 PM
General Razorbeard (how's that for useless?)

But is he fact, or fiction?   :chin:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on January 30, 2011, 04:03:36 PM
General Razorbeard (how's that for useless?)

But is he fact, or fiction?   :chin:

The fact is that he posts here, AND is useless.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 30, 2011, 04:05:14 PM
I have over two feet of snow on my front lawn
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 30, 2011, 04:06:18 PM
I have a big shaker of kosher salt in my kitchen!  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on January 30, 2011, 04:10:46 PM


I may be starting to believe that there may be others who enjoy old dead threads.

:hair:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 08, 2011, 04:10:14 PM
i like reading old threads too :screwy:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 08, 2011, 08:03:14 PM
My washer and dryer are in the outside laundry room.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on February 08, 2011, 08:19:39 PM
My washer, dryer, and freezer are in my laundry room which is in my house and connects to the garage, the family room, and a half bath.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on February 08, 2011, 08:21:30 PM
If it's only half a bath, how does the water stay in? :dunno:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on February 08, 2011, 10:55:57 PM
If it's only half a bath, how does the water stay in? :dunno:

 :lol:

Good question.  A half bath here means a bathroom with just a toilet and a sink.  A full bath is a bathroom that has at least a toilet, a sink, and a bathtub (with or without a shower).  A three-quarter bath means a bathroom with a toilet, a sink, and a shower, but no bathtub.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on February 08, 2011, 11:01:34 PM
What about one with a shower and a toilet? That is what I have and the room adjoins the laundry which is where the hand basin/laundry trough is.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on February 08, 2011, 11:04:20 PM
What about one with a shower and a toilet? That is what I have and the room adjoins the laundry which is where the hand basin/laundry trough is.

I think that probably would still be called a three-quarters bath, since there's a sink where you could wash your hands in the adjoining laundry room.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on February 08, 2011, 11:10:03 PM
What about one with a shower and a toilet? That is what I have and the room adjoins the laundry which is where the hand basin/laundry trough is.

I think that probably would still be called a three-quarters bath, since there's a sink where you could wash your hands in the adjoining laundry room.
Yes I think so too. It is an odd set-up that I have never seen in any other house. As my parents have an ensuite, I have that three-quarters bathroom to myself which is good as I don't like sharing toilets with other people. :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 09, 2011, 01:29:35 AM
I had not seen toilets in bathrooms till I was 15. Bathing and depositing were seen as separate actions that needed separate rooms I think. Now most bathrooms do have a toilet bowl. This is the first house I live in where it is the case. Still find it strange.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 09, 2011, 05:40:11 AM
Funny. When I was a child I always thought that they should be separate, even though I never lived in such a house.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on February 09, 2011, 06:19:13 AM
All my watches are set faster than the actual time.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on February 09, 2011, 06:20:23 AM
My blackberry beeping now at 11.24pm makes me mad and wondering who sent me an email at this time.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on February 09, 2011, 06:33:11 AM
yep, the person fits this thread.

Useless. Sabataging. Cunt.

Useless fact no.2 ...said U.S.C. is always treated like a petulant schoolboy and pandered to.

Useless fact no.3 ....he probably puts send delay on his emails so that ones he writes at 3pm don't go out of our system until a nominated time, so he 'appears' to be working all hours. I bet if I logged on to my work computer he would be showing as not logged on.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on February 09, 2011, 06:43:20 AM
So you have a USC at work? What a pain that must be. I have been lucky to have only worked with a few of those.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 09, 2011, 07:57:33 AM
The nail that's grown back on my formerly-broken pinkie is still runty and crescent-shaped!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Binty on February 09, 2011, 10:22:44 AM
I am content  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 09, 2011, 10:30:03 AM
Our eastern parish boundary was also a municipal boundary until the year I was born.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 09, 2011, 10:43:34 AM
i was born in the year of decimalisation
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 09, 2011, 10:45:31 AM
The decimalisation was completed in Sweden already in 1876.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ShyOne on February 09, 2011, 10:47:41 AM
A recent study shows that parrots tend to have a side dominance like humans do, too. Most parrots are left-handed (well, legged) apparently.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 09, 2011, 11:28:41 AM
just slightly behind you then....1971
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 09, 2011, 11:31:28 AM
A recent study shows that parrots tend to have a side dominance like humans do, too. Most parrots are left-handed (well, legged) apparently.

That fact might come in "handy" if I ever find myself in a    :boxers:    with a parrot...
I'll try to notice his dominant hand, and protect myself against his punches!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ShyOne on February 09, 2011, 11:52:42 AM
A recent study shows that parrots tend to have a side dominance like humans do, too. Most parrots are left-handed (well, legged) apparently.

That fact might come in "handy" if I ever find myself in a    :boxers:    with a parrot...
I'll try to notice his dominant hand, and protect myself against his punches!
:lol: I'd love to see that. Not you getting beat up by a parrot, but anyone against a parrot. Also, I like your "handy" pun :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 09, 2011, 12:11:30 PM
A recent study shows that parrots tend to have a side dominance like humans do, too. Most parrots are left-handed (well, legged) apparently.

That fact might come in "handy" if I ever find myself in a    :boxers:    with a parrot...
I'll try to notice his dominant hand, and protect myself against his punches!
:lol: I'd love to see that. Not you getting beat up by a parrot, but anyone against a parrot. Also, I like your "handy" pun :laugh:

Thank you! I do try to entertain while I am here!   :roses:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 09, 2011, 01:50:51 PM
Humans alternate nostrils when breathing.  As one gets swollen, the other one is used and the cycle continues.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on February 09, 2011, 03:12:34 PM
human urine is completely sterile

You can get covered in it and it wont hurt you, might actually clean you up a bit  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 09, 2011, 04:36:42 PM
human urine is completely sterile

You can get covered in it and it wont hurt you, might actually clean you up a bit  :thumbup:

It was believed in medieval times to whiten skin.  I think I'd prefer to be dark.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 09, 2011, 05:20:49 PM
human urine is completely sterile

You can get covered in it and it wont hurt you, might actually clean you up a bit  :thumbup:

It was believed in medieval times to whiten skin.  I think I'd prefer to be dark.

And have a look at this  (http://www.drug3k.com/forum1/Dental/Will-Gargling-your-own-urine-whiten-your-teeth-48156.htm)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on February 10, 2011, 12:12:21 AM
Slumber Party Barbie of 1965 came with her own “How to Lose Weight” book. One of the tips: “Don’t eat.”
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 10, 2011, 03:03:02 AM
i have a speeding ticket...for 36mph in a 30mph area ....ffs :facepalm:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on February 10, 2011, 03:43:58 AM
i have a speeding ticket...for 36mph in a 30mph area ....ffs :facepalm:

I have one for driving 35 kmh in a 30 kmh area.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 10, 2011, 03:49:08 AM
mm its a great way to empty your pockets  -  motoring.

i would catch the bus but they are always full of people who smell funny
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ShyOne on February 10, 2011, 08:05:49 AM
Slumber Party Barbie of 1965 came with her own “How to Lose Weight” book. One of the tips: “Don’t eat.”
Seriously? That's awful :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 10, 2011, 10:10:28 AM
i have a speeding ticket...for 36mph in a 30mph area ....ffs :facepalm:

I have one for driving 35 kmh in a 30 kmh area.

Then you know what you have to do. Road sign blast alert!  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 10, 2011, 11:26:30 AM
I have a small wound in my left nostril, probably due to the time of the year. Always drier here in the winter.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on February 11, 2011, 05:24:23 PM
i have a speeding ticket...for 36mph in a 30mph area ....ffs :facepalm:

I have one for driving 35 kmh in a 30 kmh area.

Then you know what you have to do. Road sign blast alert!  :viking:

:laugh:

I paid the fine, that's all.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on February 11, 2011, 05:26:58 PM
Ruger LCP weighs 12 ounces (340 grams) loaded with 7 rounds of 95 grain hardball.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 11, 2011, 05:33:57 PM
One Swedish pound almost exactly equals 425 gram, i.e. a little less than an English one. The same goes for the Swedish inch, that was 24.8 mm instead of 25.4 mm like the English.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 11, 2011, 08:48:38 PM
One Swedish pound almost exactly equals 425 gram, i.e. a little less than an English one. The same goes for the Swedish inch, that was 24.8 mm instead of 25.4 mm like the English.

Did they shrink because of the cold in Sweden?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 12, 2011, 07:59:37 AM
Hm, maybe.  :orly:

But on the other hand a Swedish mile is 10 kilometers and an old Swedish mile was more than 11 kilometers.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 12, 2011, 08:02:07 AM
Hm, maybe.  :orly:

But on the other hand a Swedish mile is 10 kilometers and an old Swedish mile was more than 11 kilometers.  :viking:

That's because modern Swedes are lazy! The Swedes of olden times were more   :viking:  !
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 12, 2011, 08:18:45 AM
Hm, there were even different miles in every province.  :viking:

"In Norway and Sweden, a mil is a unit of length which is equal to 10 kilometres and commonly used in everyday language. However in more formal situations, such as on road signs and when there is risk of confusion with English miles, kilometres are used instead. The traditional Swedish mil spanned the range from 6000-14,485 metres, depending on province. It was however standardized in 1649 to 36,000 Swedish feet, or 10.687 kilometers. The Norwegian mil was 11.298 kilometers. When the metric system was introduced in the Norwegian-Swedish union in 1889, it standardized the mil to exactly 10 kilometres."

Mile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 12, 2011, 11:29:45 AM
My truck is filthy
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 12, 2011, 11:30:47 AM
My truck is filthy

I don't have a truck, but if I did, it would be filthy.  :paperbag:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 12, 2011, 11:34:04 AM
I live closer to the neighbour town than "my" town.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 12, 2011, 05:09:33 PM
i have dyed my hair

and it's officially called

chocolate blonde
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 12, 2011, 05:11:16 PM
i have dyed my hair

and it's officially called

chocolate blonde

Is that it in your current avatar?   :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 12, 2011, 05:11:46 PM
A modern Swedish mile is also known as a myriameter, though not in everyday speech (myria=10000).
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 12, 2011, 05:18:22 PM
i have dyed my hair

and it's officially called

chocolate blonde

Is that it in your current avatar?   :orly:

its a similar colour,  but the avatar was when i was a chocolate/caramel/blonde before christmas!  i keep changing the colour of it...can't help it.   its been all the blonde shades,  blonde mixed with brown,  very very dark...and even bright red.  nawtee cus i got split ends....gonna look for some pics now when it's been red.  lol
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 12, 2011, 05:44:13 PM
I just got back from Home Despot
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Icequeen on February 12, 2011, 06:13:55 PM
I just got back from Home Despot

Still waiting for them to mail me my paintbrushes.

Got $53.00 worth of brushes last week for around $4.50 including tax, free shipping too. :thumbup:

Spring is just around the corner, hopefully  :-\ .
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 12, 2011, 06:17:52 PM
Quote
Spring is just around the corner, hopefully   

that is music to my ears :headbang2:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 12, 2011, 09:24:09 PM
Quote
Spring is just around the corner, hopefully   

that is music to my ears :headbang2:

Mine too, oddly enough. This has been my most congested winter yet, it's getting to be annoying!  :violin:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on February 12, 2011, 10:30:11 PM
I am nearing #5,000!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on February 13, 2011, 12:21:43 AM
I live closer to the neighbour town than "my" town.


I live closer to West Virginia than Pittsburgh, but I'm still considered "metropolitan city area"  :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on February 13, 2011, 12:22:49 AM
I live closer to the neighbour town than "my" town.


I live closer to West Virginia than Pittsburgh, but I'm still considered "metropolitan city area"  :-\
Is it the funny accent?  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on February 13, 2011, 12:27:07 AM
I live closer to the neighbour town than "my" town.


I live closer to West Virginia than Pittsburgh, but I'm still considered "metropolitan city area"  :-\
Is it the funny accent?  :zoinks:


Well, I was born in West Virgnina so I do admit that while I've tried to "flatten" my voice as much as possible, the twang sneaks up on me sometimes. 'specially when drunk  :laugh:

The people where I live now ??? Some have a pittsburgh accent some have more of a southern accent. And then there is that generic ghetto accent  ::) ugh.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 13, 2011, 09:17:52 AM
I am nearing #5,000!

At 5,000 posts you will become officially Obsessive! Go, man, go!    :hamsterwheel:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 13, 2011, 09:20:01 AM
I live closer to the neighbour town than "my" town.


I live closer to West Virginia than Pittsburgh, but I'm still considered "metropolitan city area"  :-\
Is it the funny accent?  :zoinks:


Well, I was born in West Virgnina so I do admit that while I've tried to "flatten" my voice as much as possible, the twang sneaks up on me sometimes. 'specially when drunk  :laugh:

The people where I live now ??? Some have a pittsburgh accent some have more of a southern accent. And then there is that generic ghetto accent  ::) ugh.

Although born and raised in central Massachusetts, I have never developed the local accent, and just sound generically northeastern.  :angel:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on February 13, 2011, 10:04:29 AM
Warren recorded this cover when he knew he was dying of mesothelioma.  :tooledup: :litigious: :clap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKHFWpaTUmY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKHFWpaTUmY)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 13, 2011, 01:34:43 PM
The most simple "plastic" explosive you can make is made of 90% potassium chlorate and 10% vaseline. Will be more like dough in consistency though almost  about as powerful as AN.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 13, 2011, 01:36:23 PM
It is not a law that New Orleanians call everyone "Cher".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 13, 2011, 01:39:58 PM
It was legal to rape your wife in Sweden until 1965.  :eyebrows:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 13, 2011, 02:28:50 PM
It was legal to rape your wife in Sweden until 1965.  :eyebrows:

We were even worse. Was true till 1991. After that it was illegal, and it also became illegal to rape your husband since then.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 13, 2011, 03:23:48 PM
I have a Jesus action figure
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 13, 2011, 07:42:37 PM
The lightning bug is the only insect that does not rely primarily on sound in attracting a mate.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 14, 2011, 04:12:57 AM
when i was little,  my beloved goldfish 'Bryan'  (aptly named after a ginger haired boy in my class)  jumped out of his
bowl one night.   he landed on the floor and my mother had left the 'underfloor central heating' on all night..

...i can always recall my mother trying to get Bryan up with the spatula :headslap:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ZEGH8578 on February 14, 2011, 04:34:33 AM
Diplodocus fossils has been found with signs of massive arthritis
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 14, 2011, 05:41:21 AM
I have a Jesus action figure

What does it do?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on February 14, 2011, 06:18:18 AM
when i was little,  my beloved goldfish 'Bryan'  (aptly named after a ginger haired boy in my class)  jumped out of his
bowl one night.   he landed on the floor and my mother had left the 'underfloor central heating' on all night..

...i can always recall my mother trying to get Bryan up with the spatula :headslap:
Goldfish remind me of The Cat In The Hat.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 14, 2011, 06:24:18 AM
when i was little,  my beloved goldfish 'Bryan'  (aptly named after a ginger haired boy in my class)  jumped out of his
bowl one night.   he landed on the floor and my mother had left the 'underfloor central heating' on all night..

...i can always recall my mother trying to get Bryan up with the spatula :headslap:

Awww, here he is in spirit, he is now a wizard on the Other Side! ----->  :witchygoldfish:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on February 14, 2011, 06:26:17 AM
when i was little,  my beloved goldfish 'Bryan'  (aptly named after a ginger haired boy in my class)  jumped out of his
bowl one night.   he landed on the floor and my mother had left the 'underfloor central heating' on all night..

...i can always recall my mother trying to get Bryan up with the spatula :headslap:

Awww, here he is in spirit, he is now a wizard on the Other Side! ----->  :witchygoldfish:
:lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 14, 2011, 08:44:11 AM
I have a Jesus action figure

What does it do?

Same as the real one nothing :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ShyOne on February 14, 2011, 12:47:16 PM
Orange peel is good at curing nausea.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 14, 2011, 02:11:53 PM
I have a brief case but almost never use it
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 14, 2011, 08:01:10 PM
I have a Jesus action figure

What does it do?

Same as the real one nothing :zoinks:

 :evilplus:  You're going straight to hell, young man!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 14, 2011, 08:02:35 PM
Orange peel is good at curing nausea.

 :plus:   Cool fact, quite useful also! Do you eat the whole peel, or add it to your tea, or what?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ShyOne on February 14, 2011, 08:20:52 PM
Orange peel is good at curing nausea.

 :plus:   Cool fact, quite useful also! Do you eat the whole peel, or add it to your tea, or what?
It depends really. Some say to eat or to chew or suck the peel helps, other say to eat an orange, others say sniff the peel... Whatever rocks ye cock really.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 14, 2011, 08:22:48 PM
Orange peel is good at curing nausea.

 :plus:   Cool fact, quite useful also! Do you eat the whole peel, or add it to your tea, or what?
It depends really. Some say to eat or to chew or suck the peel helps, other say to eat an orange, others say sniff the peel... Whatever rocks ye cock really.

I don't have a cock! Will the orange peel still work for me?   :snowman:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ShyOne on February 14, 2011, 08:25:52 PM
Orange peel is good at curing nausea.

 :plus:   Cool fact, quite useful also! Do you eat the whole peel, or add it to your tea, or what?
It depends really. Some say to eat or to chew or suck the peel helps, other say to eat an orange, others say sniff the peel... Whatever rocks ye cock really.

I don't have a cock! Will the orange peel still work for me?   :snowman:
Pleases ye malteasers? Tingles your pringle? Tickles your pickle? Well, even if you have none of those it should still work. :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on February 15, 2011, 12:28:20 AM
Orange peel is good at curing nausea.

 :plus:   Cool fact, quite useful also! Do you eat the whole peel, or add it to your tea, or what?
It depends really. Some say to eat or to chew or suck the peel helps, other say to eat an orange, others say sniff the peel... Whatever rocks ye cock really.

I don't have a cock! Will the orange peel still work for me?   :snowman:
Pleases ye malteasers? Tingles your pringle? Tickles your pickle? Well, even if you have none of those it should still work. :green:
If you Brits spoke proper English cbc wouldn't be confused.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ShyOne on February 15, 2011, 05:45:39 AM
Orange peel is good at curing nausea.

 :plus:   Cool fact, quite useful also! Do you eat the whole peel, or add it to your tea, or what?
It depends really. Some say to eat or to chew or suck the peel helps, other say to eat an orange, others say sniff the peel... Whatever rocks ye cock really.

I don't have a cock! Will the orange peel still work for me?   :snowman:
Pleases ye malteasers? Tingles your pringle? Tickles your pickle? Well, even if you have none of those it should still work. :green:
If you Brits spoke proper English cbc wouldn't be confused.  :zoinks:
Funny, as I read this I was eating crumpets with a pot o' tea. No shit.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on February 15, 2011, 05:59:42 AM
That's great.  :lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 15, 2011, 06:00:21 AM
Orange peel is good at curing nausea.

 :plus:   Cool fact, quite useful also! Do you eat the whole peel, or add it to your tea, or what?
It depends really. Some say to eat or to chew or suck the peel helps, other say to eat an orange, others say sniff the peel... Whatever rocks ye cock really.

I don't have a cock! Will the orange peel still work for me?   :snowman:
Pleases ye malteasers? Tingles your pringle? Tickles your pickle? Well, even if you have none of those it should still work. :green:
If you Brits spoke proper English cbc wouldn't be confused.  :zoinks:
Funny, as I read this I was eating crumpets with a pot o' tea. No shit.

I'm making :coffee: but unfortunately I have no donut!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on February 15, 2011, 06:07:24 AM
You can have one of mine, vous desire cinnamon or powdered?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 15, 2011, 06:11:35 AM
You can have one of mine, vous desire cinnamon or powdered?

Ooooo, powdered please, merci beaucoup!   :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on February 15, 2011, 06:15:17 AM
Vous etes la Madame bienvenue.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 15, 2011, 06:18:18 AM
Vous etes la Madame bienvenue.  :thumbup:

Et vous etes trop gentil.  :)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on February 16, 2011, 08:59:07 AM
Orange peel is good at curing nausea.

 :plus:   Cool fact, quite useful also! Do you eat the whole peel, or add it to your tea, or what?
It depends really. Some say to eat or to chew or suck the peel helps, other say to eat an orange, others say sniff the peel... Whatever rocks ye cock really.

I don't have a cock! Will the orange peel still work for me?   :snowman:
Pleases ye malteasers? Tingles your pringle? Tickles your pickle? Well, even if you have none of those it should still work. :green:
If you Brits spoke proper English cbc wouldn't be confused.  :zoinks:

I loled so hard I got a headache PPK.  :plus:

Those british dumbasses need to learn from the americans cause we invented english. Always talking their cockypop or whatever the fuck that is.  :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ShyOne on February 16, 2011, 09:05:45 AM
Orange peel is good at curing nausea.

 :plus:   Cool fact, quite useful also! Do you eat the whole peel, or add it to your tea, or what?
It depends really. Some say to eat or to chew or suck the peel helps, other say to eat an orange, others say sniff the peel... Whatever rocks ye cock really.

I don't have a cock! Will the orange peel still work for me?   :snowman:
Pleases ye malteasers? Tingles your pringle? Tickles your pickle? Well, even if you have none of those it should still work. :green:
If you Brits spoke proper English cbc wouldn't be confused.  :zoinks:

I loled so hard I got a headache PPK.  :plus:

Those british dumbasses need to learn from the americans cause we invented english. Always talking their cockypop or whatever the fuck that is.  :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:
Hey, you called me a dumbass :'(! You racist bastard, I'll go kill myself right away! :violin:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on February 16, 2011, 09:06:26 AM
I just loled again.  :LOL:

Oh by the way, nice to meet you crip. In case you haven't noticed, i'm rough around the edges, but a nice guy.  :LOL:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on February 16, 2011, 12:23:01 PM
There's unrest in the colonies again? :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on February 16, 2011, 12:27:43 PM
LOL
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Squidusa on February 16, 2011, 02:22:59 PM
Orange peel is good at curing nausea.

 :plus:   Cool fact, quite useful also! Do you eat the whole peel, or add it to your tea, or what?
It depends really. Some say to eat or to chew or suck the peel helps, other say to eat an orange, others say sniff the peel... Whatever rocks ye cock really.

I don't have a cock! Will the orange peel still work for me?   :snowman:
Pleases ye malteasers? Tingles your pringle? Tickles your pickle? Well, even if you have none of those it should still work. :green:
If you Brits spoke proper English cbc wouldn't be confused.  :zoinks:

I loled so hard I got a headache PPK.  :plus:

Those british dumbasses need to learn from the americans cause we invented english. Always talking their cockypop or whatever the fuck that is.  :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:



How can you invent an language that has the name of another country in it?  :orly:



























At least we didn't invent Mcdonalds anyway  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 16, 2011, 04:00:40 PM
It's starting to get dark here
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 16, 2011, 04:57:30 PM
I have hyperextensibility of the metacarpaphalangeal joints. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 17, 2011, 11:37:31 AM
Today a "plasshop" opened in Amsterdam's main shopping street. The place to go for peeing  in a hygienic and entertaining way when you are shopping. JSYK
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 17, 2011, 11:39:51 AM
Today a "plasshop" opened in Amsterdam's main shopping street. The place to go for peeing  in a hygienic and entertaining way when you are shopping. JSYK

The hygienic part I understand, the entertaining part has my little mind all confused.   :blonde:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on February 17, 2011, 11:41:31 AM
I have hyperextensibility of the metacarpaphalangeal joints. 


I read that as you have the hypersexuality of a metaphysical joint :)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on February 17, 2011, 11:42:36 AM
Orange peel is good at curing nausea.

 :plus:   Cool fact, quite useful also! Do you eat the whole peel, or add it to your tea, or what?
It depends really. Some say to eat or to chew or suck the peel helps, other say to eat an orange, others say sniff the peel... Whatever rocks ye cock really.

I don't have a cock! Will the orange peel still work for me?   :snowman:
Pleases ye malteasers? Tingles your pringle? Tickles your pickle? Well, even if you have none of those it should still work. :green:
If you Brits spoke proper English cbc wouldn't be confused.  :zoinks:

I loled so hard I got a headache PPK.  :plus:

Those british dumbasses need to learn from the americans cause we invented english. Always talking their cockypop or whatever the fuck that is.  :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:



How can you invent an language that has the name of another country in it?  :orly:



























At least we didn't invent Mcdonalds anyway  :zoinks:

Shutup. God told me what I know. *puts on cowboy hat*
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 17, 2011, 11:43:51 AM
There hasn't been a murder in my home parish since around 1750.  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 17, 2011, 12:16:41 PM
Today a "plasshop" opened in Amsterdam's main shopping street. The place to go for peeing  in a hygienic and entertaining way when you are shopping. JSYK

The hygienic part I understand, the entertaining part has my little mind all confused.   :blonde:

Sneak preview of 2theloo. Every cubicle is decorated differently.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 17, 2011, 12:18:26 PM
With tulips in different colours. :toporly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on February 17, 2011, 12:24:03 PM
I have hyperextensibility of the metacarpaphalangeal joints. 

 :o

I do too.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on February 17, 2011, 12:28:03 PM
Today a "plasshop" opened in Amsterdam's main shopping street. The place to go for peeing  in a hygienic and entertaining way when you are shopping. JSYK

The hygienic part I understand, the entertaining part has my little mind all confused.   :blonde:

Sneak preview of 2theloo. Every cubicle is decorated differently.

This one looks pretty.

(http://www.hartvannederland.nl/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/19648_SBSP-AD_Lichaam-en-verzorging-toilet.jpg)

How much does it cost to use it?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 18, 2011, 08:17:33 AM
Today a "plasshop" opened in Amsterdam's main shopping street. The place to go for peeing  in a hygienic and entertaining way when you are shopping. JSYK

The hygienic part I understand, the entertaining part has my little mind all confused.   :blonde:

Sneak preview of 2theloo. Every cubicle is decorated differently.

This one looks pretty.

(http://www.hartvannederland.nl/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/19648_SBSP-AD_Lichaam-en-verzorging-toilet.jpg)

How much does it cost to use it?

What I read, 1 euro, that's a bargain. They also provide things like sanitary towels if you need them.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 19, 2011, 06:10:57 PM
Hitler had a 1.5 kilo armour-plate in his military hat. That's why it's so deep down just above the eyebrows on most pics and films.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 19, 2011, 08:06:00 PM
I have hyperextensibility of the metacarpaphalangeal joints. 

 :o

I do too.


I also have it in my knees and hips (and in my elbows to a lesser extent.)  Being this way adds a certain range to certain positions in the matrimonial bed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on February 19, 2011, 09:16:55 PM
I have hyperextensibility of the metacarpaphalangeal joints. 

 :o

I do too.


I also have it in my knees and hips (and in my elbows to a lesser extent.)  Being this way adds a certain range to certain positions in the matrimonial bed.

Yeah, I'm pretty flexible too.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 23, 2011, 08:52:34 AM
In the 2001 UK census

400'00 people put as their religion  'jedi'
 :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on February 23, 2011, 09:05:35 AM
In the 2001 UK census

400'00 people put as their religion  'jedi'
 :zombiefuck:

:LOL:

You know Lucas borrowed that concept, right?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 23, 2011, 09:44:45 AM
In the 2001 UK census

400'00 people put as their religion  'jedi'
 :zombiefuck:


 :rofl:

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on February 23, 2011, 09:45:42 AM
Hey I don't blame them. In fact that kind of thing gives me a glimmer of hope for humanity.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 23, 2011, 09:49:39 AM
Hey I don't blame them. In fact that kind of thing gives me a glimmer of hope for humanity.

I for one would like to have access to the Force! Oh HELL yeah!    :vader:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 23, 2011, 09:51:04 AM
Hey I don't blame them. In fact that kind of thing gives me a glimmer of hope for humanity.

I know. It is amazing that so many chose that. There are more other inspiring epic stories beside the usual religious ones.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 23, 2011, 09:51:33 AM
Hey I don't blame them. In fact that kind of thing gives me a glimmer of hope for humanity.

I for one would like to have access to the Force! Oh HELL yeah!    :vader:

It lies within you.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 23, 2011, 09:52:51 AM
Hey I don't blame them. In fact that kind of thing gives me a glimmer of hope for humanity.

I for one would like to have access to the Force! Oh HELL yeah!    :vader:

It lies within you.

*looks within*   Where?   :dunno:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 23, 2011, 09:56:19 AM
Hey I don't blame them. In fact that kind of thing gives me a glimmer of hope for humanity.

I for one would like to have access to the Force! Oh HELL yeah!    :vader:

It lies within you.

*looks within*   Where?   :dunno:

You ooze it. You only need focussing.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 23, 2011, 10:00:26 AM
Hey I don't blame them. In fact that kind of thing gives me a glimmer of hope for humanity.

I for one would like to have access to the Force! Oh HELL yeah!    :vader:

It lies within you.

*looks within*   Where?   :dunno:

You ooze it. You only need focussing.

Focus was always a problem for me, that's true. Though I agree with Palpatine, anger  occasionally focuses me!   :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 23, 2011, 10:01:54 AM
Hey I don't blame them. In fact that kind of thing gives me a glimmer of hope for humanity.

I for one would like to have access to the Force! Oh HELL yeah!    :vader:

It lies within you.

*looks within*   Where?   :dunno:

You ooze it. You only need focussing.

Focus was always a problem for me, that's true. Though I agree with Palpatine, anger  occasionally focuses me!   :orly:

Anger I find hard to focus, but, I learned a lot the past years.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 23, 2011, 10:03:45 AM
The day I heard Mandela was set free, I was in a meeting with a guy who was born on the very day Mandela was imprisoned.
That made time very visual.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on February 23, 2011, 10:11:38 AM
Hey I don't blame them. In fact that kind of thing gives me a glimmer of hope for humanity.

I for one would like to have access to the Force! Oh HELL yeah!    :vader:

It lies within you.

*looks within*   Where?   :dunno:

You ooze it. You only need focussing.

Shes right. I display a lot of supernatural behavior, but theres a secret to it. Anyone can do these things. Its not magic, we just haven't explained it yet thats all. Its not something you can see or touch either. Its all mental.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 23, 2011, 10:14:04 AM
Hey I don't blame them. In fact that kind of thing gives me a glimmer of hope for humanity.

I for one would like to have access to the Force! Oh HELL yeah!    :vader:

It lies within you.

*looks within*   Where?   :dunno:

You ooze it. You only need focussing.

Shes right. I display a lot of supernatural behavior, but theres a secret to it. Anyone can do these things. Its not magic, we just haven't explained it yet thats all. Its not something you can see or touch either. Its all mental.

What's the secret?   :meditate:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 23, 2011, 11:20:51 AM
The secret is, as always, to be  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on February 23, 2011, 11:29:46 AM
The secret is your mind.

Seriously.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 23, 2011, 11:41:57 AM
The secret is your mind.

Seriously.

That's not helping me. I need specifics.  :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on February 23, 2011, 11:48:07 AM
The secret is your mind.

Seriously.

That's not helping me. I need specifics.  :autism:

:/

I'm the last person you should ask, really. To follow in my footsteps, you'd have to die. I think dying is usually like, fatal.

I can tell you this tho. It might help to meditate.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 23, 2011, 11:52:37 AM
The secret is your mind.

Seriously.

That's not helping me. I need specifics.  :autism:

:/

I'm the last person you should ask, really. To follow in my footsteps, you'd have to die. I think dying is usually like, fatal.

I can tell you this tho. It might help to meditate.

Dunno if I can evict all the clutter from my brain though.
There are always going to be a few little rogue thoughts rattling around in there!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on February 23, 2011, 11:55:54 AM
Takes practice. :snowman:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 23, 2011, 01:25:02 PM
The last battle fought on Swedish soil was won by the Swedes, but the war that it was part of was lost and was the worst defeat Sweden ever faced.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 23, 2011, 01:54:12 PM
The secret is your mind.

Seriously.

That's not helping me. I need specifics.  :autism:

:/

I'm the last person you should ask, really. To follow in my footsteps, you'd have to die. I think dying is usually like, fatal.

I can tell you this tho. It might help to meditate.

Dunno if I can evict all the clutter from my brain though.
There are always going to be a few little rogue thoughts rattling around in there!  :laugh:

Try to see all your thoughts at once, without thinking on them. Don't know if that makes sense to you. They may start spinning so fast that your mind clears itself for a while.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 23, 2011, 03:36:14 PM


My project is almost done ....
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 23, 2011, 04:31:59 PM
I drove by the beach today
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on February 23, 2011, 04:51:57 PM
I had to use my asthma spray today.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 23, 2011, 04:54:42 PM

Can not really expound much without tears, but my expectation of the purity of life's force has changed.

Even when you do your best, you could still fail, and  leave people behind who needed you to remain for them.

Have not really talked much about it here, but my "new neighbor" (Iraqi war veteran),  did not come home this week end. He was home, but died in a bar fight a month after leaving the Marines and all that was his life for the past four years.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on February 23, 2011, 04:55:56 PM

Can not really expound much without tears, but my expectation of the purity of life's force has changed.

Even when you do your best, you could still fail, and  leave people behind who needed you to remain for them.

Have not really talked much about it here, but my "new neighbor" (Iraqi war veteran),  did not come home this week end. He was home, but died in a bar fight a month after leaving the Marines and all that was his life for the past four years.

That's pretty awful. Survive Iraq only to die in a bar fight.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 23, 2011, 04:56:21 PM

Been a rough week. I had kids over through the coldest nights.

I could not attend the funeral.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 23, 2011, 05:02:57 PM

Can not really expound much without tears, but my expectation of the purity of life's force has changed.

Even when you do your best, you could still fail, and  leave people behind who needed you to remain for them.

Have not really talked much about it here, but my "new neighbor" (Iraqi war veteran),  did not come home this week end. He was home, but died in a bar fight a month after leaving the Marines and all that was his life for the past four years.

That's pretty awful. Survive Iraq only to die in a bar fight.

Indeed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 23, 2011, 05:05:21 PM

Can not really expound much without tears, but my expectation of the purity of life's force has changed.

Even when you do your best, you could still fail, and  leave people behind who needed you to remain for them.

Have not really talked much about it here, but my "new neighbor" (Iraqi war veteran),  did not come home this week end. He was home, but died in a bar fight a month after leaving the Marines and all that was his life for the past four years.

That's pretty awful. Survive Iraq only to die in a bar fight.


It was about a month and a half ago, when I first met him at the kids' bus stop. He had dyed his buzzed hair purple/pink and pierced everything visable in a week and wore horrid clothes, mostly cut up militaria, rings on every finger, AMERICAN shithead, clothes, ipod.

I decided immediately that "I have known this man" (remember, I was a bit too young to be in Viet Nam, even though many of my friends went to help and I could see in his eyes the same things I saw in the few friends who came home so long ago) and I could could instantly see his pain and I vowed to become his friend)( I would find a way to welcome hm to the neighborhood.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 23, 2011, 05:06:18 PM
it just fucking sucks ass that he could not stay home with his family and had to get too drunk to stay alive.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 23, 2011, 05:09:11 PM


I have all kinds of shit to have shown him that would probably have been an interest, and matbe created a "conversation or two" or at least a barbeque, but instead, I see his kids left here and they have no father.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 23, 2011, 05:10:44 PM


I could not attend the funeral.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 23, 2011, 05:11:52 PM


Useless fact:


Life is way too damn long to put interest in people you barely know. It just hurts if you do.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 23, 2011, 05:12:02 PM
I had to use my asthma spray today.

How soon can you get more?  ???
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 23, 2011, 05:12:18 PM
Can you send his kids a token of your condolences?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 23, 2011, 05:14:58 PM


Useless fact:


Life is way too damn long to put interest in people you barely know. It just hurts if you do.

 :hug:

Not taking an interest in people you might get to know makes life damn too empty.

Have been avoiding people for a very long time. May hurt taking an interest, but the emptiness is worse IMO.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on February 23, 2011, 05:15:39 PM
I had to use my asthma spray today.

How soon can you get more?  ???

I have a prescription so I'm fine. I had to go to the vet's and I'm allergic to quite a few of the critters in there, so that's why I needed a puff.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 23, 2011, 05:18:35 PM
I had to use my asthma spray today.

How soon can you get more?  ???

I have a prescription so I'm fine. I had to go to the vet's and I'm allergic to quite a few of the critters in there, so that's why I needed a puff.

I'm slightly allergic myself, though not enough to need an inhaler. During my eight years
at my former landlady's house, living with all her pets, I took a whole lot  of antihistamines!   :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on February 23, 2011, 05:22:06 PM
Antihistamines are evil, though.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 23, 2011, 05:41:17 PM
Christopher Walken is my favourite actor :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 23, 2011, 05:50:28 PM
The lights are out on the right side of my trailer
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on February 23, 2011, 06:08:06 PM


Useless fact:


Life is way too damn long to put interest in people you barely know. It just hurts if you do.

 :hug:

Not taking an interest in people you might get to know makes life damn too empty.

Have been avoiding people for a very long time. May hurt taking an interest, but the emptiness is worse IMO.







That is simply brilliant.

Thank you.

I have known both fullness (which can be a burden)  and emptiness (which can be a burden)  and if I had a way to balance the two, I would be "full."

Again, sheer brilliance on your part, once again.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ShyOne on February 26, 2011, 06:48:41 PM
An elephant's corpse provides around 6 million calories of food, 70% of which are typically consumed by vultures. Useless fact because it was given out by Channel 4, so no idea if it's actually right.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 26, 2011, 06:51:28 PM
There is still piles of snow in my front yard
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 26, 2011, 07:55:26 PM
Almost all birds have 2 drumsticks, but can't play the drums.  Maybe it has something to do with getting the drums to the gig?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 26, 2011, 09:37:37 PM
Almost all birds have 2 drumsticks, but can't play the drums.  Maybe it has something to do with getting the drums to the gig?

Yeah, I hear birds are bad at getting to the gig, maybe it's because they're so flighty!    :oneliner:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 27, 2011, 12:29:19 AM
We were originally the States of America, not "United" because it's not capitalized.   

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2011, 08:25:47 AM
Sweden Denmark and the UK are nominally monarchies but despite that part of a Union of states. Pretty weird.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 27, 2011, 08:44:34 AM
Sweden Denmark and the UK are nominally monarchies but despite that part of a Union of states. Pretty weird.

Hey, you forgot the Netherlands. It's plural with a reason. Not that the original states have much of power left to them, but, the start was a union of separate legal "entities".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2011, 08:49:12 AM
Sweden Denmark and the UK are nominally monarchies but despite that part of a Union of states. Pretty weird.

Hey, you forgot the Netherlands. It's plural with a reason. Not that the original states have much of power left to them, but, the start was a union of separate legal "entities".

So was Sweden, though some provinces are probably an anachronistic "re-construction" to make it more impressive. 24 "historical" provinces. The one I live in was originally Norwegian and as part of Norway one of the most important there.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 27, 2011, 08:54:43 AM
Sweden Denmark and the UK are nominally monarchies but despite that part of a Union of states. Pretty weird.

Hey, you forgot the Netherlands. It's plural with a reason. Not that the original states have much of power left to them, but, the start was a union of separate legal "entities".

So was Sweden, though some provinces are probably an anachronistic "re-construction" to make it more impressive. 24 "historical" provinces. The one I live in was originally Norwegian and as part of Norway one of the most important there.
The Netherlands started with 7, we now have 12 provinces. It was once bigger, when part of Belgium was part of the union of the Netherlands of course, but then it wasn't a monarchy.

We started out as a Republic, and have a quite young monarchy.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2011, 09:02:11 AM
Sweden Denmark and the UK are nominally monarchies but despite that part of a Union of states. Pretty weird.

Hey, you forgot the Netherlands. It's plural with a reason. Not that the original states have much of power left to them, but, the start was a union of separate legal "entities".

So was Sweden, though some provinces are probably an anachronistic "re-construction" to make it more impressive. 24 "historical" provinces. The one I live in was originally Norwegian and as part of Norway one of the most important there.
The Netherlands started with 7, we now have 12 provinces. It was once bigger, when part of Belgium was part of the union of the Netherlands of course, but then it wasn't a monarchy.

We started out as a Republic, and have a quite young monarchy.

You started right, ended wrong.

Sweden was once more than twice as big, even had a colony in America, which "you" took, by the way, and which "you" in "your" turn had to give up to the Brits.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 27, 2011, 09:04:13 AM
Sweden Denmark and the UK are nominally monarchies but despite that part of a Union of states. Pretty weird.

Hey, you forgot the Netherlands. It's plural with a reason. Not that the original states have much of power left to them, but, the start was a union of separate legal "entities".

So was Sweden, though some provinces are probably an anachronistic "re-construction" to make it more impressive. 24 "historical" provinces. The one I live in was originally Norwegian and as part of Norway one of the most important there.
The Netherlands started with 7, we now have 12 provinces. It was once bigger, when part of Belgium was part of the union of the Netherlands of course, but then it wasn't a monarchy.

We started out as a Republic, and have a quite young monarchy.

You started right, ended wrong.

Sweden was once more than twice as big, even had a colony in America, which "you" took, by the way, and which "you" in "your" turn had to give up to the Brits.
New York/New Amsterdam?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2011, 09:07:56 AM
No, but pretty close. New Sweden in Delaware. It was also Dutch for a short while.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Scrapheap on February 27, 2011, 10:48:45 AM
The name of the city of Malibu comes from a Chumash Indian word, one of the few Chumash names that most people have heard of.

My town, Lompoc, is a Chumash word too, it means "small lagoon".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 27, 2011, 01:35:04 PM
The new boardwalk at the beach near my house is almost done
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2011, 01:40:03 PM
New Sweden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden)  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2011, 02:13:38 PM
One of my pal's neighbours shot himself today rather than having to go to a senior home.  :viking:

On the negative side that means one gun owner less in Sweden.  :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 27, 2011, 02:25:46 PM
One of my pal's neighbours shot himself today rather than having to go to a senior home.  :viking:

On the negative side that means one gun owner less in Sweden.  :-\

Yikes, that's actually rather sad, for him and for his family.  :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2011, 02:31:48 PM
Not for him. He didn't have to go to a senior home.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 27, 2011, 02:34:40 PM
Not for him. He didn't have to go to a senior home.  :viking:

Are senior homes really that bad over there? Was he terminally ill or losing his memory?   :chin:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2011, 02:53:54 PM
They're not worse than in America, but a senior home is a senior home.  :thumbdn:

He seems just to have been unable to take care of his house etc.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 27, 2011, 02:56:07 PM
They're not worse than in America, but a senior home is a senior home.  :thumbdn:

He seems just to have been unable to take care of his house etc.

It's too bad he couldn't have gotten housekeeping help, if that's all he needed.  ???
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2011, 03:10:35 PM
He probably could have but probably didn't want that.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 27, 2011, 03:56:56 PM
Ten percent of men are left handed

while only eight percent of women are :zoinks:

i am a leftie :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 27, 2011, 04:21:32 PM
Only five out of every 100,000 paper clips are used to clip paper   :evillaugh:

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 27, 2011, 04:23:08 PM
Only five out of every 100,000 paper clips are used to clip paper   :evillaugh:

Are you making that up?  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 27, 2011, 04:28:04 PM
A cockroach can live for three days after you behead it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 27, 2011, 04:29:01 PM
Only five out of every 100,000 paper clips are used to clip paper   :evillaugh:

Are you making that up?  :zoinks:

no i am sorting out some books and just found some funny facts :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 27, 2011, 04:30:47 PM
A pig's orgasm can  last for upto 30 minutes.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 27, 2011, 04:33:12 PM
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. :thumbdn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 27, 2011, 04:38:21 PM
On the island of Jersey it's against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 27, 2011, 04:42:51 PM
cows can not vomit :thumbup:


but they sure can shit :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on February 27, 2011, 04:45:42 PM
Wondering for what so many paperclips would otherwise be used. Use lots of them, but only for clipping paper.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 27, 2011, 04:49:38 PM
A pig's orgasm can  last for upto 30 minutes.

That should be of interest to Pentagram  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 27, 2011, 04:50:19 PM
Wondering for what so many paperclips would otherwise be used. Use lots of them, but only for clipping paper.

When I was 12 or so, making necklaces with paperclips and coloured tape was a real hype.   :orly:

Half of the kids in class were decorated with them.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2011, 05:11:21 PM
Most chemicals are legal to buy without a permit in Sweden but not to mix. Chlorates and perchlorates were licensed in 1942 but were free again in 1988, which is rather unusual in Sweden. It's pretty rare in our country that restrictions or bans are abolished once they are implemented.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2011, 05:27:59 PM
In December 1944 Belgium was formally annexed by the Third Reich as the Reichsgaue Flandern and Wallonien. At that time almost all of Begium was already lost.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Scrapheap on February 27, 2011, 05:33:11 PM
One of my pal's neighbours shot himself today rather than having to go to a senior home.  :viking:

On the negative side that means one gun owner less in Sweden.  :-\

I hear that Sweden has a high suicide rate. Is this true??
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2011, 05:43:24 PM
One of my pal's neighbours shot himself today rather than having to go to a senior home.  :viking:

On the negative side that means one gun owner less in Sweden.  :-\

I hear that Sweden has a high suicide rate. Is this true??

Yes, pretty high. About 50% higher than in the US. Despite the low percentage of gun owners about one Swede daily shoots himself. Other methods that are popular are ODs, hanging oneself, cutting the wrists or jumping in front of trains.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on February 27, 2011, 05:51:39 PM
Is it the long winters?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2011, 05:53:36 PM
Is it the long winters?

I guess that's one of the reasons at least.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 27, 2011, 06:05:29 PM
One of my pal's neighbours shot himself today rather than having to go to a senior home.  :viking:

On the negative side that means one gun owner less in Sweden.  :-\

I hear that Sweden has a high suicide rate. Is this true??

It is high, but not as high as in Belgium or Finland. Lithuania was on the top of the wikipedia list, based on WHO statistics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate)

In Belgium the taboo on depression seems to be part of the reason that the suicide rate is that high.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2011, 06:11:13 PM
Fucking Catholic church again.  :thumbdn:

In Sweden it's almost unusual that you are not somewhat depressed. I think about 25% of the Swedes have at one time or another medicated with anti-depressants.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 28, 2011, 06:37:31 AM
A pig's orgasm can  last for upto 30 minutes.

oh dear god... :hide:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 28, 2011, 04:46:15 PM
Earwigs have two penises that are larger than its body.  The second is believed to be there in case the first snaps off.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 28, 2011, 04:53:27 PM
They are called "tvestjärtar" - "twin tails" in Sweden.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 28, 2011, 05:00:15 PM
They are called "tvestjärtar" - "twin tails" in Sweden.  :viking:

They are called "oorworm" in Dutch, and "Knieptang" in my dialect. The latter means "pincer". I like that name.  :arrr:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 28, 2011, 05:01:21 PM
 :agreed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 28, 2011, 05:04:43 PM
Now wondering if I pronounce "tvestjärtar" right. :D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 28, 2011, 05:06:48 PM
Probably not.  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 28, 2011, 05:15:57 PM
 :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on February 28, 2011, 05:19:51 PM
Not many foreigners can pronounce Swedish correctly. Swedish sounds weird...like...Dutch...or something. :toporly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on February 28, 2011, 05:23:42 PM
Only five out of every 100,000 paper clips are used to clip paper   :evillaugh:

Are you making that up?  :zoinks:

no i am sorting out some books and just found some funny facts :zoinks:

How do they find out things like this?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 28, 2011, 05:27:11 PM
Not many foreigners can pronounce Swedish correctly. Swedish sounds weird...like...Dutch...or something. :toporly:

 :lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 28, 2011, 05:49:31 PM
The steel toes in my steel toed work shoes are actually aluminum
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 28, 2011, 08:46:05 PM
The steel toes in my steel toed work shoes are actually aluminum

Will the aluminum protect you as well as steel would?   :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 01, 2011, 05:45:45 AM
The steel toes in my steel toed work shoes are actually aluminum

Will the aluminum protect you as well as steel would?   :orly:

Yes they will work to the rated wieght.  I took them out of my old ones in hopes of making toe guards for when I work in crawl spaces to keep the newer ones in better shape
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calavera on March 01, 2011, 05:55:42 AM
Useless Fact: I was actually born on April Fools' Day.

It makes much sense.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on March 01, 2011, 06:01:45 AM
^No one is likely to forget when your birthday is then. Imagine having your birthday on Christmas Day. A friend of mine's birthday is on that day.
Ten percent of men are left handed

while only eight percent of women are :zoinks:

i am a leftie :laugh:
As am I. And so is GA (Kayleigh).
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on March 01, 2011, 06:07:35 AM
^No one is likely to forget when your birthday is then. Imagine having your birthday on Christmas Day. A friend of mine's birthday is on that day.
Ten percent of men are left handed

while only eight percent of women are :zoinks:

i am a leftie :laugh:
As am I. And so is GA (Kayleigh).

Lefties are HAAAWWWTTT!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calavera on March 01, 2011, 06:09:38 AM
^No one is likely to forget when your birthday is then. Imagine having your birthday on Christmas Day. A friend of mine's birthday is on that day.

The problem is that no one believes me whenever my birthday arrives. :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calavera on March 01, 2011, 06:11:29 AM
Lefties are HAAAWWWTTT!

I bet that chick in your avatar is left-handed.

She can shoot me any day.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 01, 2011, 06:16:11 AM
Lefties are HAAAWWWTTT!

I bet that chick in your avatar is left-handed.

She can shoot me any day.

But she's got the gun in her right hand. It seems you are out of luck.   :dunno:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calavera on March 01, 2011, 06:17:46 AM
But she's got the gun in her right hand. It seems you are out of luck.   :dunno:

No problem. Sometimes staying alive is worth it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 01, 2011, 06:28:04 AM
But she's got the gun in her right hand. It seems you are out of luck.   :dunno:

No problem. Sometimes staying alive is worth it.

So either way, it's a win! I like that!   :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 01, 2011, 06:28:45 AM
My lips are sore thanks to low air humidity.  :thumbdn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 01, 2011, 09:16:11 AM
Google's HTML converter is better than Microsoft's--it produces cleaner HTML.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on March 01, 2011, 01:57:31 PM
I can lick my own nose.

And also, one should not try to polish down nails with the knifegrinder. It get's sad.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on March 01, 2011, 02:04:18 PM
I can lick my own nose.

And also, one should not try to polish down nails with the knifegrinder. It get's sad.

i can do that with my tongue too,  can't do that thing where people curl there tongue to make a circle :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on March 01, 2011, 02:19:38 PM
I can lick my own nose.

And also, one should not try to polish down nails with the knifegrinder. It get's sad.

i can do that with my tongue too,  can't do that thing where people curl there tongue to make a circle :zoinks:

I can!
I think my biologyteacher said something about genetics being the reason that some people really can't roll their tounge like that.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on March 01, 2011, 09:14:52 PM
I can lick my own nose.

And also, one should not try to polish down nails with the knifegrinder. It get's sad.

i can do that with my tongue too,  can't do that thing where people curl there tongue to make a circle :zoinks:

I can!
I think my biologyteacher said something about genetics being the reason that some people really can't roll their tounge like that.

I can and my husband can but our daughter cannot.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 01, 2011, 09:18:10 PM
I can lick my own nose.

And also, one should not try to polish down nails with the knifegrinder. It get's sad.

i can do that with my tongue too,  can't do that thing where people curl there tongue to make a circle :zoinks:

I can!
I think my biologyteacher said something about genetics being the reason that some people really can't roll their tounge like that.

My friend, who can roll hers, told me the same thing.  :thumbup:



I can neither curl my tongue nor wink properly, but I can  raise one eyebrow.  :eyebrow:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on March 01, 2011, 10:47:27 PM
Ampere is a DIY punk band based in Amherst, Massachusetts known for their short (10–15 minutes) but extremely loud and intense live shows.

Origin    Amherst, MA

Genres    Hardcore Punk, screamo

Years active    2002–present

Labels    Ebullition Records, No Idea Records, various

Members

Will Killingsworth
Andy Skelly
Meghan Minior
Stephen Pierce

(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1085/958430573_644665720c.jpg)




you can download their whole discography for free here !

http://elementaryrevolt.blogspot.com/2010/05/ampere-discography-so-far-2002-2008.html
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on March 02, 2011, 03:57:01 AM
my two little fingers are bent

they bend at the joint going inwards

like a boomerang shape
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 02, 2011, 04:11:25 AM
my two little fingers are bent

they bend at the joint going inwards

like a boomerang shape

Have they always been this way? Let's see a picture!   :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on March 02, 2011, 04:59:30 AM
I only paint my toenails red, and I only paint my fingernails black. I think anything else looks silly.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on March 02, 2011, 05:01:12 AM
rats cannot vomit. something in their anatomy prevents it. A good way to kill a rat is to give it lots of beer. It will drink and drink, and die from alcohol poisoning.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on March 02, 2011, 05:04:05 AM
I read somewhere that if you pour alcohol on a scorpion, it will sting itself to death.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 02, 2011, 09:18:50 AM
"Alcohol" is arabic and means "finely powdered" or "volatile".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 02, 2011, 10:32:09 AM
my two little fingers are bent

they bend at the joint going inwards

like a boomerang shape

How about your little toes?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on March 02, 2011, 10:50:13 AM
Horses can't vomit either.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 02, 2011, 01:10:13 PM
Damned!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on March 02, 2011, 01:29:03 PM
my two little fingers are bent

they bend at the joint going inwards

like a boomerang shape

Have they always been this way? Let's see a picture!   :orly:


yeah always,  and my little toes are straight
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/missteresabrown/intensity/IMG_0380.jpg?t=1299086333)

and here's another one of my spazzy fingers
 :green:
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/missteresabrown/intensity/IMG_0383.jpg?t=1299093454)
 :finger:
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/missteresabrown/intensity/IMG_0384.jpg?t=1299094029)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Diesel on March 02, 2011, 01:38:04 PM
Our newly installed virus software at work is called "Sophos Protection"  :eyelash:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 02, 2011, 02:36:44 PM
Our newly installed virus software at work is called "Sophos Protection"  :eyelash:

Does it help against Soph, or is Soph doing the protecting?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on March 02, 2011, 04:02:15 PM
my two little fingers are bent

they bend at the joint going inwards

like a boomerang shape

Have they always been this way? Let's see a picture!   :orly:


yeah always,  and my little toes are straight
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/missteresabrown/intensity/IMG_0380.jpg?t=1299086333)

Freak!
Freakfreakfreakfreak!

Gather the villagers, we will catch the abomination at the old windmill!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 02, 2011, 04:13:09 PM
my two little fingers are bent

they bend at the joint going inwards

like a boomerang shape

Have they always been this way? Let's see a picture!   :orly:


yeah always,  and my little toes are straight
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/missteresabrown/intensity/IMG_0380.jpg?t=1299086333)

and here's another one of my spazzy fingers
 :green:
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/missteresabrown/intensity/IMG_0383.jpg?t=1299093454)
 :finger:
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/missteresabrown/intensity/IMG_0384.jpg?t=1299094029)

I had a friend with little fingers like that. She had some webbed toes. It ran in her family IIRC.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 02, 2011, 04:49:09 PM
Scrap copper is around two dollars a pound
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 02, 2011, 04:52:30 PM
Sweden once had the biggest copper mine in the world. Actually the whole county of Dalarna was re-named after it and re-gained it's old name as late as 1997.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 02, 2011, 04:53:34 PM
Copper is one of my favorite metals
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Diesel on March 02, 2011, 04:55:36 PM
Our newly installed virus software at work is called "Sophos Protection"  :eyelash:

Does it help against Soph, or is Soph doing the protecting?


Not sure, I was hoping he'd chime in and let us know.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 02, 2011, 04:56:46 PM
Copper is one of my favorite metals

Copper is  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on March 02, 2011, 05:08:07 PM
Coppermountain  :laugh:

Useless fact: I'm very childish.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 02, 2011, 08:05:12 PM
Need to lose weight.  Even my sweat pants are tight.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 03, 2011, 04:50:46 AM
Black powder is able to real detonation in quantities above 250 kilos.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on March 03, 2011, 04:59:45 AM
my two little fingers are bent

they bend at the joint going inwards

like a boomerang shape

Have they always been this way? Let's see a picture!   :orly:


yeah always,  and my little toes are straight
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/missteresabrown/intensity/IMG_0380.jpg?t=1299086333)

and here's another one of my spazzy fingers
 :green:
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/missteresabrown/intensity/IMG_0383.jpg?t=1299093454)
 :finger:
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/missteresabrown/intensity/IMG_0384.jpg?t=1299094029)

I had a friend with little fingers like that. She had some webbed toes. It ran in her family IIRC.


Webbed toes,  wtf do they look like,  OMG no my tootsies are 'normal'
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 03, 2011, 05:11:55 AM
Webbed toes:

(http://www.hkpp.org/images/webfootb2.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 03, 2011, 05:27:55 AM
Sweden and Nazi Germany were two of the first contries in the world to incorporate big rural areas into towns. The whole Karlskoga  Hundred (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_(county_subdivision)) was incorporated into the town of Karlskoga already in 1940. The Swedish town of Kiruna was in 1948 the largest incorporated town in the world, counted in area. Now Archangelsk is the biggest.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on March 03, 2011, 06:19:52 AM
In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin. ;D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on March 03, 2011, 06:23:54 AM
SHORTEST WAR???
The Anglo-Zanzibar War was fought between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar on 27 August 1896. The conflict lasted approximately 40 minutes.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 03, 2011, 06:24:52 AM
Swedish cough medicine contained heroin until 1967.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 03, 2011, 09:32:20 AM
Sweden has 13 dioceses, most of which are based on the medieval provinces. The oldest one is the archdiocese of Lund, founded in 1060, the youngest the diocese of Stockholm, from 1942.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on March 03, 2011, 03:03:30 PM
Thought the cheese slicer was a Dutch invention.. well, turns out a Norwegian carpenter created the thing in 1925..
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 03, 2011, 03:08:51 PM
The Swedes invented the boat-propeller, the telephone, the dynamite, the ball bearing and many other things back in the  :viking: days.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 03, 2011, 04:39:22 PM
The V2-rockets had a warhead with 975 kilos (about 1 short ton) of amatol, an explosive made by mixing TNT with ammonium nitrate. The fine thing with amatol is that even with 80% of ammonium nitrate it's almost as powerful as TNT itself, though TNT is much harder to produce, even commercially, than ammonium nitrate. :arrr:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 04, 2011, 02:27:40 PM
The Swedes invented the boat-propeller, the telephone, the dynamite, the ball bearing and many other things back in the  :viking: days.

The telephone? Er, no.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on March 04, 2011, 02:32:08 PM
if your mobile phone is set to "predictive"  texts   if you type in   smirnof   it reads  poison
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 04, 2011, 03:27:30 PM
Americium is the only mane made element readily available to consumers
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 04, 2011, 04:18:05 PM
The Swedish word "upplopp" means either "uprising" or "spurt".  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 04, 2011, 04:34:06 PM
"Cucumber" is called "gurka" in Swedish" and "agurk" in Norwegian.  :facepalm2:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on March 04, 2011, 06:31:59 PM
"Cucumber" is called "gurka" in Swedish" and "agurk" in Norwegian.  :facepalm2:

Gurka makes sense because those small pickled cucumbers are called gherkins.

My useless fact for the day: The term "Aspie/s"....I hate it. For some reason it irritates the fuck out of me, hugely. Maybe it's because that is all they seem to use over at WP and it feels like a babyish term. Not sure...but it's irritating.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 04, 2011, 06:37:05 PM
The town I live in is home to Subway world headquarters
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 04, 2011, 08:05:16 PM
I have an irrational fear of blow-up balloons.  Hot air balloons and condoms are fine.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on March 04, 2011, 11:13:48 PM
My useless fact for the day: The term "Aspie/s"....I hate it. For some reason it irritates the fuck out of me, hugely. Maybe it's because that is all they seem to use over at WP and it feels like a babyish term. Not sure...but it's irritating.
But you are part of the Aspie Elite. Does it bother you?

I am HFA so aspie doesn't bother me.

I have an irrational fear of blow-up balloons.  Hot air balloons and condoms are fine.
My mum hates balloons, she won't have them in the house. I think she hates how you never know when they will pop.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on March 04, 2011, 11:22:26 PM
Never understood the aspie elite thing; though just figured it's some sort of old joke from long before I joined.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Scrapheap on March 04, 2011, 11:36:40 PM
Never understood the aspie elite thing; though just figured it's some sort of old joke from long before I joined.

 :indeed:

IIRC, it's from when Ascan called Dunc, P.I. odeon and some others "aspie elitists" back in 2006. It became the running joke when this place was new.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on March 05, 2011, 03:41:26 AM
Never understood the aspie elite thing; though just figured it's some sort of old joke from long before I joined.

 :indeed:

IIRC, it's from when Ascan called Dunc, P.I. odeon and some others "aspie elitists" back in 2006. It became the running joke when this place was new.

That's it.  He intended it as some kind of insult that they were "Aspie Elitists" and Intensity was a barely legal, completely unethical, den of iniquity for "Aspie Elitists."  I started the "Aspie Elite" custom title thread (http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,1319.0.html) and invited everyone to sign up for a custom title that contained "Aspie Elite" as a sort of show of solidarity with these so-called "Aspie Elitists" and Dunc took his intended insult and put it on Intensity's front page.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 05, 2011, 05:17:13 AM
I was the first to be accused of belonging to an aspie elite, as a matter of fact. That happened because I was a mod or admin on three fora, and ascunt couldn't handle it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 05, 2011, 07:38:37 AM
Despite not being "democratic" Prussia had no laws against homosexuality until 1871, when the Second Reich was founded. It also had no gun laws until 1920, while "democratic" UK had both harsh punishments for homosexuality and licensed guns as early as 1903.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 05, 2011, 08:05:27 AM
Where I sit now was under more than a mile of ice during the last Ice Age
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 05, 2011, 08:08:18 AM
Where I sit now was under more than a mile of ice during the last Ice Age

Ditto.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 06, 2011, 09:55:33 AM
The German expression "Auf Tauchstation"="Be alert" (literally "at diving station") comes from a popular book in Nazi Germany about submarine Captain Müller, who was rescued from his submarine sinking thanks to a big air bubble in his pants.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on March 06, 2011, 09:56:59 AM
The German expression "Auf Tauchstation"="Be alert" (literally "at diving station") comes from a popular book in Nazi Germany about submarine Captain Müller, who was rescued from his submarine sinking thanks to a big air bubble in his pants.  :viking:
A fart?  ???
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 06, 2011, 09:58:53 AM
Maybe. It was a famous kid book back then anyway, and the expression has survived 70 years.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on March 06, 2011, 10:09:52 AM
Farts are  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 06, 2011, 10:11:02 AM
 :agreed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 06, 2011, 04:10:47 PM
Francis E. Dec wanted Poland to get back the borders it had under Bogislaw the Brave!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 06, 2011, 05:31:46 PM
The only area in the Third Reich that was evacuated in due time before the Red Army invaded was the Memel district in northern East Prussia. The civilan population was allowed to leave the area already in October 1944. In the rest of the eastern provinces the evacuation was allowed first on the 20th of January 1945, eight days after the Soviet offensive along the whole central eastern front had begun.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 06, 2011, 06:29:44 PM
The British dumped 200 small pox infected POW's on the beach of my town during the Revolution.  They were brought to the sick house which was near my friends house where most of them died along with a couple people who helped them.  There is a large monument in the cemetery down town where they buried them  and a plaque by the beach
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 06, 2011, 06:50:52 PM
The British dumped 200 small pox infected POW's on the beach of my town during the Revolution.  They were brought to the sick house which was near my friends house where most of them died along with a couple people who helped them.  There is a large monument in the cemetery down town where they buried them  and a plaque by the beach

I'm glad they are remembered. They and their helpers were  :viking:  !
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 07, 2011, 01:54:32 AM


Another  "scientist"  has claimed to have discovered evidence of fossilized bacteria in a meteoroid, indicating that life has indeed evolved outside our solar system.

Posted yesterday, actually, with some nice pics if anyone is interested and has not yet heard.

 8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 07, 2011, 06:17:01 AM
My home parish and whole or parts of the neighbour parishes were presumably a small kingdom about 1500 years ago. There are no real evidence that this is a fact, but it is a fact that some names on places here are so old that their original meaning is lost, which indicates that the area doubtlessly was inhabited 1500 years ago.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 08, 2011, 08:21:16 AM
Potassium salts are usually non-hygroscopic, with the exception for potassium carbonate, that is so hygroscopic that it's even delisquescent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliquescent#Deliquescence).
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 08, 2011, 08:30:38 AM
Sodium salts on the other hand are usually hygroscopic. One of the few exceptions is sodium-aluminium hexaflouride, or cryolite, which is used in aeroplanes, as a precursor for flourides in tooth pastes and as a yellow colourant in fireworks.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on March 08, 2011, 09:19:03 AM
im not wearing any panties :)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on March 08, 2011, 09:25:50 AM
I got pics of the eiffel tower today and visited les invalides. This nook fucking sucks to post from.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 08, 2011, 09:26:52 AM
I got pics of the eiffel tower today and visited les invalides. This nook fucking sucks to post from.

I hope the trip is everything you hoped for! (Especially the food!)   :eiffel:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on March 08, 2011, 09:34:06 AM
The croissant I had for breakfast was right up there with the best bread I ever had. Iwill post pics of that passiterrie when I get back cbc. I haven't taken that pic yet but I remember you want it and that shop has great stuff. I got a tarte du pomme there too.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 08, 2011, 09:35:14 AM
The croissant I had for breakfast was right up there with the best bread I ever had. Iwill post pics of that passiterrie when I get back cbc. I haven't taken that pic yet but I remember you want it and that shop has great stuff. I got a tarte du pomme there too.

Thank you, I love hearing about other people's food adventures! Are you ordering in French?   :eiffel:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 08, 2011, 09:35:50 AM
im not wearing any panties :)

Me either!  ;)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on March 08, 2011, 10:19:15 AM
 
im not wearing any panties :)

Me either!  ;)
. Good on ya for not wearing panties.  :thumbup: of course you would probably have a better shot with eris if you wore them.  :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 08, 2011, 10:21:21 AM
 
im not wearing any panties :)

Me either!  ;)
. Good on ya for not wearing panties.  :thumbup: of course you would probably have a better shot with eris if you wore them.  :autism:

I see you got the innuendo.  :LOL:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 08, 2011, 01:12:49 PM


Another  "scientist"  has claimed to have discovered evidence of fossilized bacteria in a meteoroid, indicating that life has indeed evolved outside our solar system.

Posted yesterday, actually, with some nice pics if anyone is interested and has not yet heard.

 8)

Saw that too. Very cool if his findings hold water.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on March 08, 2011, 05:06:44 PM
The nails of fingers grow approx. 3 mm. per month.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 08, 2011, 05:16:16 PM
The nails of fingers grow approx. 3 mm. per month.

Not mine! I  CUT  them!  :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on March 08, 2011, 05:32:01 PM
^
Iz do too (or bite them) but still.. that's the approx. speed they grow.

(well, I was looking for dents in nails.. or better put.. I was trying to find out why do my thumb nails get a little bit.. bumpy (or something) at times.. while they're ok or appear normal on other times.. ) (um, little white spots on nails is mainly caused by a Zinc shortage but why they get bumpy.. ) (?)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on March 08, 2011, 05:36:10 PM
^
Iz do too (or bite them) but still.. that's the approx. speed they grow.

(well, I was looking for dents in nails.. or better put.. I was trying to find out why do my thumb nails get a little bit.. bumpy (or something) at times.. while they're ok or appear normal on other times.. ) (um, little white spots on nails is mainly caused by a Zinc shortage but why they get bumpy.. ) (?)

If you mean the horizonal bumps, I think that I remember reading that can be caused by injuring your finger near the nail bed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 08, 2011, 05:39:34 PM
The Davy Crockett was a very small nuke only 51 lb (23 kg) fired from a recoilless gun it had a range of less than three miles
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on March 08, 2011, 05:57:45 PM
^
Iz do too (or bite them) but still.. that's the approx. speed they grow.

(well, I was looking for dents in nails.. or better put.. I was trying to find out why do my thumb nails get a little bit.. bumpy (or something) at times.. while they're ok or appear normal on other times.. ) (um, little white spots on nails is mainly caused by a Zinc shortage but why they get bumpy.. ) (?)
http://www.normanallan.com/Med/askdr/horizontal.htm
http://www.normanallan.com/Med/askdr/finger.html
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on March 08, 2011, 06:13:36 PM

Yes, I meant horizontal bumps.. and injury can be a cause.. but there are more causes.. like hormonal changes, some sicknesses, others..

I've had this.. well, assumption really.. that needs questioning.. The assumption (or question thus) here is: Is there a correlation between getting bumpy thumb nails and mood phases? A bit wild maybe.. but when I've had a couple of serious depressions before the bumpiness of said nails were there too.. quite apparently or clearly there..

Well, been a bit 'on and off' depressed the last two months (not big time) and yeah.. the hor. dents/bumps are back.. 

Um, I have a loooong history of studying my (or other one's) hands and normally they're 'flat' (ok).. it just got me wondering a bit.. (not concluding anything yet though)

.. well, useless facts.. right?

*Hey, too  late.. edit.. Thanks for the links, Jack. (look 'into' them)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 09, 2011, 08:44:48 AM
Yellow powder is a cheap and simple explosive, about 3 times more powerful than black powder. It was (probably) invented in the US in the early 19th century.

The composition is:
55% potassium nitrate
27% potassium carbonate
18% sulfur

The only disadvantage is that it's useless for practical purposes, since it won't explode from a fuse or even from a blasting cap. It only explodes when the composition is heated.  :facepalm2:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 09, 2011, 09:16:14 AM
Austria annexed Bukovina from Moldavia in 1775 just to get access to a road between Transylvania and Galicia, the latter annexed from Poland in 1772.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 09, 2011, 10:52:03 AM
Sulfuric acid is called svavelsyra in Swedish, though in my local dialect people used to call it betrell, which means "bitter fire".  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on March 09, 2011, 01:24:29 PM
White powder can be purchased by Kryolan.
It's good to know if you are silly goth.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on March 09, 2011, 02:54:29 PM
I really love 'Kaiser' rolls and this is a picture of two with sesame seeds on them. (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Kaiserbroodjes1151.JPG/250px-Kaiserbroodjes1151.JPG)

Oh, but.. sesame seeds on a kaiser roll are optional.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on March 09, 2011, 02:58:14 PM
4 of the participants in Big Brother Sweden has just been put in a small russian gulag, forced to chop wood, live in a shed and all things gulagish.


Me thinks me like this punishment!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Acaciavine on March 09, 2011, 04:04:31 PM
When sulfur burns a blue flame is born, and it's best seen in the dark.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 09, 2011, 04:18:09 PM
Vermont has about the same area and population as the Swedish province Småland.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 09, 2011, 04:26:26 PM


OK, enough of that shit!!

Can we talk about girls with no pants?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 09, 2011, 04:26:57 PM
 :agreed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 09, 2011, 04:29:12 PM
To be a speech therapist apparently you need a lot of certificates.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 09, 2011, 04:30:39 PM


OK, enough of that shit!!

Can we talk about girls with no pants?

Since when does that belong in a useless fact thread.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on March 09, 2011, 04:34:09 PM


OK, enough of that shit!!

Can we talk about girls with no pants?

There are some pics o' that lurking somewhere in a thread as we speak.  :eyebrows:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 09, 2011, 04:34:32 PM


OK, enough of that shit!!

Can we talk about girls with no pants?

Since when does that belong in a useless fact thread.  :laugh:

Yes it is an IMPORTANT fact
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on March 09, 2011, 04:35:21 PM
Really useless fact: once again, I've been drunk at the computer and chatted up some dude who isn't good looking at all.

Fuck my fucking bag-in-box-glasses!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 09, 2011, 04:36:39 PM
I usually only puke from drinking lots of red wine, never whisky, vodka or anything really strong and not white wine or beer either.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 09, 2011, 04:40:28 PM


OK, enough of that shit!!

Can we talk about girls with no pants?

Since when does that belong in a useless fact thread.  :laugh:

You are projecting, making assumptions and trying to parse dispersions upon girls with NO pants. Aside from that, if you are trying to profess that without pants you become even MORE useful, then, PLEASE demonstrate.

(I was just trying to distract Tig.   :laugh:)







(OK, shit!!  I was also distracting myself)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 09, 2011, 04:46:26 PM


OK, enough of that shit!!

Can we talk about girls with no pants?

Since when does that belong in a useless fact thread.  :laugh:

You are projecting, making assumptions and trying to parse dispersions upon girls with NO pants. Aside from that, if you are trying to profess that without pants you become even MORE useful, then, PLEASE demonstrate.

(I was just trying to distract Tig.   :laugh:)

 :lol:

Now I am almost reeling, with my pants on. And soon I will be sleeping without them.
Boring usefulness, but.... it is what it is.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 09, 2011, 04:53:23 PM
This girl is going to bed now.

And, she wears only bed covers when sleeping.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 09, 2011, 05:28:10 PM
I really love 'Kaiser' rolls and this is a picture of two with sesame seeds on them. (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Kaiserbroodjes1151.JPG/250px-Kaiserbroodjes1151.JPG)

Oh, but.. sesame seeds on a kaiser roll are optional.

Some have poppy seeds instead! I like those too!   :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on March 09, 2011, 05:33:35 PM
(^ that was just an over the top silly dry post.. )

Plus, maybe it's wrong but.. I sometimes laugh my socks off over the silly shit I post on some fora.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 09, 2011, 05:34:26 PM
(^ that was just an over the top silly dry post.. )

Plus, maybe it's wrong but.. I sometimes laugh my socks off over the silly shit I post on some fora.

I didn't pick up on the dryness. I'm sometimes a bit dumb that way!   :snowman:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on March 09, 2011, 05:47:09 PM

No, sorry.. it's not my aim to fool people.. and don't think you're a bit dumb.. I just have a totally bizarre sense of fora humour.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 09, 2011, 05:47:54 PM
The Sedan atomic test was to investigate if it was practical to use nukes for mining or cratering for civilian use
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 09, 2011, 05:51:46 PM
Nukes are  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 09, 2011, 07:47:54 PM

No, sorry.. it's not my aim to fool people.. and don't think you're a bit dumb.. I just have a totally bizarre sense of fora humour.

Don't be sorry, I embrace my ditzy moments! I liked your Kaiser roll post very much. Bread rules.   :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 10, 2011, 02:30:28 AM
I have a headache. :P

It's a completely useless fact, even for me.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 10, 2011, 04:42:32 AM
I have a headache. :P

It's a completely useless fact, even for me.

True.

I have a headache too. Just as useless.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on March 10, 2011, 12:33:19 PM
i don't mind wearing a silly red nose for comic relief day

-  it covers the wonky hooter i have - perfectly
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 10, 2011, 01:49:51 PM
Radios made between 1953 and 1963 in the US had 640 or 1240 kHz marked by the triangle-in-circle   symbol of Civil Defense so people knew where to listen for instructions  in in case of nuclear attack
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on March 10, 2011, 07:02:11 PM
My computer suffers from me spending too mych time in sites like eFukt and UselessJunk.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 10, 2011, 08:11:55 PM
According to massive amounts of empirical geological evidence, the earth has most likely suffered from a "complete"  freezedown and near loss of any sign of life, twice in its four and a half billion year history.

... but life has also survived a total of SIX massive impacts (Uhm, six, definable, still, that is) from asteroids capable of impacting the mantle of the earth and subsequently evaporating the entire ocean base.

It becomes apparent to some scientists that life may have begun, been stopped and begun again, on this lonely little planet, special because it is one of the rare ones with actual liquid water upon its surface and a large moon nearby capable of causing constant tidal activity, and yet, here I am, all evolved and shit, posting on the internet.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on March 10, 2011, 08:19:13 PM
and yet, here I am, all evolved and shit
:laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 10, 2011, 08:22:30 PM
i don't mind wearing a silly red nose for comic relief day

-  it covers the wonky hooter i have - perfectly

Your hooter is fine and suits you!  :)


I should also warn you that in the U.S., "hooter" is slang for boob.
Just in case Scrap offers to take a look at your wonky hooter and try to fix it for you!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 10, 2011, 08:31:37 PM
i don't mind wearing a silly red nose for comic relief day

-  it covers the wonky hooter i have - perfectly


Like CBC just said, your hooter is about right. Nothing to worry about, seriously. Hell most people have a crooked face (I am a recovering portrait photographer; I have spent many years of my life trying to make "average" people look "normal"  for the camera. It was an impossible task and it took its toll upon my sense of what is important and what is certainly NOT important)

I can tell you that when you stick out your tongue, no one even looks at your hooter.


Honestly, I am more interested in that sharp tongue you flash from time to time.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Scrapheap on March 10, 2011, 09:53:18 PM
According to massive amounts of empirical geological evidence, the earth has most likely suffered from a "complete"  freezedown and near loss of any sign of life, twice in its four and a half billion year history.

... but life has also survived a total of SIX massive impacts (Uhm, six, definable, still, that is) from asteroids capable of impacting the mantle of the earth and subsequently evaporating the entire ocean base.

It becomes apparent to some scientists that life may have begun, been stopped and begun again, on this lonely little planet, special because it is one of the rare ones with actual liquid water upon its surface and a large moon nearby capable of causing constant tidal activity, and yet, here I am, all evolved and shit, posting on the internet.

It is amazing that  we're all here despite the odds being against us. But in a Universe that's as massive as it is, someone had to win the lottery. We were holding a winning ticket.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on March 11, 2011, 12:05:18 PM
Quote
  I can tell you that when you stick out your tongue, no one even looks at your hooter.

have my tongue hanging out a lot.  when i am concentrating, especially if painting or writing it just makes it's way to the outside!  mind you it is a beast and far bigger than my snotter

*have decided not to use 'hooter' after what cbc said,  i think snotter sounds better than nose*
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 11, 2011, 12:10:23 PM
When I blow my nose now, the snot is the same colour as peasoup.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on March 11, 2011, 12:41:13 PM
When I blow my nose now, the snot is the same colour as peasoup.

I think you need to go to the doctor.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 11, 2011, 12:42:41 PM
I'll wait a few more days. I have no fever. The thing is to be  :viking: and endure.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 11, 2011, 01:59:41 PM
My city was home to a Nike anti ballistic missile site in the 1950's.  Now the control  buildings   are storage and the launch site a baseball field
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 11, 2011, 02:12:20 PM
My home town burned down in 1806. Since the citizens had let their ships sail into the Baltic with food to Russia during the Napoleonic wars, "we" got help from S:t Petersburg to rebuild it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on March 11, 2011, 02:16:16 PM
I'm not wearing panties.
I'm airing it out.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on March 11, 2011, 03:14:25 PM
i am crap at parking

i am extremely crap at reversing into a parking space
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 11, 2011, 03:31:00 PM
I'm not very good at parking either. I live out in the countryside, so there's plenty of space here. But when I go to town, I must park with a little more precision.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 11, 2011, 04:30:24 PM
I  always drove trucks for work and  am pretty good at parking and backing even with a trailer now.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 11, 2011, 05:08:26 PM
/rocks back and forth

I'm an excellent driver.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 11, 2011, 05:20:34 PM
i am crap at parking

i am extremely crap at reversing into a parking space
I found that the easiest way to park. Going in nose first is the hardest.

Been a long time that I did that.  :-\ 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 11, 2011, 05:29:15 PM
You buy a little tank and then you simply smash the cars with ze little tank.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 11, 2011, 05:31:27 PM
You buy a little tank and then you simply smash the cars with ze little tank.  :viking:

You make be think of Gruber, with ze little tank.  :eyelash:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 11, 2011, 05:42:18 PM
Lieutenant Gruber was  :viking: but a little :ghey:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 11, 2011, 05:43:47 PM
Lieutenant Gruber was  :viking: but a little :ghey:

He was my favourite.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 11, 2011, 05:46:18 PM
Lieutenant Gruber was  :viking: but a little :ghey:

I wonder how that series turned out, when they dubbed it in German. So much of the fun will be gone when dubbed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 12, 2011, 04:08:05 AM
/still rocks back and forth

I'm an excellent driver.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 12, 2011, 09:35:07 AM
The most stable border in Europe is the one between Germany and the Netherlands. It has been the same for 800 years, except 1807-10, when Napoleon incorporated Ostfriesland into the Kingdom of Holland, and except for some very small annexations that the Netherlands did after WWII. Furthermore, most of those annexations were annihilated in the 1960's, so that the border has only moved a few hundred meters on a couple of places.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 12, 2011, 10:21:39 AM
That did not stop farmers having the farm on one side of the border, and their land on the other side.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 12, 2011, 10:23:19 AM
That did not stop farmers having the farm on one side of the border, and their land on the other side.

Same with Sweden and Norway. The border goes straight through some farms, especially in the south.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 12, 2011, 01:52:30 PM
Japan  has moved 8 feet eastward with the earthquake.  Will that make flights cheaper?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 12, 2011, 02:32:27 PM
No, more expensive. Maps will have to be redrawn.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 12, 2011, 03:17:45 PM
Two of the judges that sentenced Charles I to death when Oliver Cromwell came to power in England fled to New Haven Ct after Charles II came to power and hid out in Judge's Cave near where I used to live in collage
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 12, 2011, 06:34:05 PM
/rocks back and forth

I'm an excellent driver.

Excellent!

I am a very cautious driver, these days.

Always, I have been one who does an extremely meticulous and "perfect"  job of parking, "no matter how long it takes."

I am not so good at parking either, sometimes, but I have often gotten out of my car and noticed it parked "stupid"  and gotten back in, fired it up and corrected my poor parking.


Then, of course, I check it twelve times from various angles as I am walking away, just to make sure. (... but sometimes, I am confident, for NO apparent reason).

:hide:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on March 12, 2011, 06:59:42 PM
/rocks back and forth

I'm an excellent driver.

Excellent!

I am a very cautious driver, these days.

Always, I have been one who does an extremely meticulous and "perfect"  job of parking, "no matter how long it takes."

I am not so good at parking either, sometimes, but I have often gotten out of my car and noticed it parked "stupid"  and gotten back in, fired it up and corrected my poor parking.

:hide:

I find that parking slightly diagonal,  or with one wheel on the kerb is expected of me now anyway - so its a win, win situation


mind you i am not this bad
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMttMj4Iyu0  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMttMj4Iyu0)
 :clap:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa_PB5rY8Wo  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa_PB5rY8Wo)
 :clap:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8sbuVcUe4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8sbuVcUe4)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 13, 2011, 12:13:58 PM
I'm not wearing panties.
I'm airing it out.

 :plus:   for creating a vivid image for the men, with so few words!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 13, 2011, 12:15:40 PM
/still rocks back and forth

I'm an excellent driver.

Why are you rocking? Do you get anxious when you read about bad driving?   :nerd!:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 13, 2011, 12:20:39 PM
/rocks back and forth

I'm an excellent driver.

Excellent!

I am a very cautious driver, these days.

Always, I have been one who does an extremely meticulous and "perfect"  job of parking, "no matter how long it takes."

I am not so good at parking either, sometimes, but I have often gotten out of my car and noticed it parked "stupid"  and gotten back in, fired it up and corrected my poor parking.

:hide:

I find that parking slightly diagonal,  or with one wheel on the kerb is expected of me now anyway - so its a win, win situation


mind you i am not this bad
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMttMj4Iyu0  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMttMj4Iyu0)
 :clap:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa_PB5rY8Wo  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa_PB5rY8Wo)
 :clap:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8sbuVcUe4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8sbuVcUe4)

That second one, with its daffy song in the background, made me laugh like a fool!   :LMAO:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 13, 2011, 12:46:55 PM
I like parking with a truck I view it as a challenge and do very well even with big box trucks 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 13, 2011, 02:09:00 PM
The banana plant is an herb, but it's fruit is a berry.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on March 13, 2011, 02:10:08 PM
/still rocks back and forth

I'm an excellent driver.

Why are you rocking? Do you get anxious when you read about bad driving?   :nerd!:
It's a Rainman reference.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 13, 2011, 04:26:55 PM
/still rocks back and forth

I'm an excellent driver.

Why are you rocking? Do you get anxious when you read about bad driving?   :nerd!:

Everyone missed my Rain Man reference. :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if8dDNhaea0&NR=1
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on March 13, 2011, 04:30:55 PM
/still rocks back and forth

I'm an excellent driver.

Why are you rocking? Do you get anxious when you read about bad driving?   :nerd!:

Everyone missed my Rain Man reference. :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if8dDNhaea0&NR=1

no i clocked it -  it came to me when i was away from computer -  then i saw jack had already posted
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 13, 2011, 04:33:40 PM
Thank goodness. I was a bit worried that you might all think how dull I am. No, wait, you still could.  :-[
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 13, 2011, 04:54:19 PM
/still rocks back and forth

I'm an excellent driver.

Why are you rocking? Do you get anxious when you read about bad driving?   :nerd!:

Everyone missed my Rain Man reference. :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if8dDNhaea0&NR=1

^ Jack understood it.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on March 13, 2011, 05:36:31 PM
/still rocks back and forth

I'm an excellent driver.

Why are you rocking? Do you get anxious when you read about bad driving?   :nerd!:

Everyone missed my Rain Man reference. :(


No, I totally got the Rain Man reference.  Your dad lets you drive the Buick slow in the driveway.   :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 13, 2011, 05:57:15 PM
/rocks back and forth

I'm an excellent driver.

Excellent!

I am a very cautious driver, these days.

Always, I have been one who does an extremely meticulous and "perfect"  job of parking, "no matter how long it takes."

I am not so good at parking either, sometimes, but I have often gotten out of my car and noticed it parked "stupid"  and gotten back in, fired it up and corrected my poor parking.

:hide:

I find that parking slightly diagonal,  or with one wheel on the kerb is expected of me now anyway - so its a win, win situation


mind you i am not this bad
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMttMj4Iyu0  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMttMj4Iyu0)
 :clap:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa_PB5rY8Wo  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa_PB5rY8Wo)
 :clap:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8sbuVcUe4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8sbuVcUe4)


NO! FUCK NO!!!


I would go back and re-park.

FUCK NO!!!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 13, 2011, 06:00:30 PM


Wanna be extra stupid?

I always allow enough time to park and I am "NEVER"  late.


I am NOT a youth. I am on time (which actually makes me late, but we can talk about that another time.)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 13, 2011, 06:48:54 PM


Japan may never be the same.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 14, 2011, 09:49:41 AM
The man playing Count Dracula in Nosferatu was Max Schreck, which is very funny, since "Schreck" is German for "horror".  :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on March 14, 2011, 10:36:37 AM
Orchid was a hardcore punk/scrEMO  band from Massachusetts.

they were awesome, but are no more

I think everyone should listen to scrEmo. It's good for the soul.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 14, 2011, 04:38:20 PM
Poverty will only get you in the Poor House.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 14, 2011, 04:40:19 PM
Poorhouses have been economised away.  :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 14, 2011, 05:54:53 PM
Boston is at a latitude similar to Barcelona, Rome and Istanbul
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 14, 2011, 05:57:46 PM
Boston is at a latitude similar to Barcelona, Rome and Istanbul

The Worcester accent is basically the Boston accent, but not everybody in either city has it.   :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 14, 2011, 06:00:35 PM
I saw The Grateful Dead in the Worcester in 1987
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 14, 2011, 06:12:56 PM
Boston is at a latitude similar to Barcelona, Rome and Istanbul

Boston, however, is not at an attitude similar to Barcelona, Rome and Istanbul.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 14, 2011, 06:14:47 PM
Boston is at a latitude similar to Barcelona, Rome and Istanbul

Boston, however, is not at an attitude similar to Barcelona, Rome and Istanbul.

 :plus:   for saying what I was thinking! I'll bet Boston drivers are crazier than drivers in any of those other cities!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 15, 2011, 02:14:43 AM
Boston is at a latitude similar to Barcelona, Rome and Istanbul

Boston, however, is not at an attitude similar to Barcelona, Rome and Istanbul.

 :plus:   for saying what I was thinking! I'll bet Boston drivers are crazier than drivers in any of those other cities!
In Rome it is safer to cross the street as a blonde.

Traffic lights are meaningless
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 15, 2011, 03:44:38 PM
The main rings of Saturn contain approximately thirty five trillion trillion tons of water, frozen in suspension for the most part, with trillions upon trillions of tons of various other compounds and raw elements. Just accounting for the water alone, this represents about twenty six million times the amount of water on earth, orbiting Saturn.

The Cassini Project (http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/) has photographed geyser activity, not only upon several of the moons circling Saturn, but within massive conglomerates which orbit as parts of the rings. This indicates, without question, that there is liquid water beneath the surface of many of the moons and massive formations orbiting Saturn.



Sorry, forgot to link the geysers:


Enceladus (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Enceladus)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 15, 2011, 03:51:13 PM
If the sun went out it'd take 8 mins 20 s to observe it on Earth.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 15, 2011, 04:10:24 PM
OK, but  ...




The moon, Daphnis is caught in one of Saturn's rings, tidally affected constantly by its proximity to Saturn. Since its orbit does not exactly match that of the rest of the ring, due to its mass, velocity, it interferes greatly with the free, locked mass of the ring and creates amazingly beautiful,  mountainous regions within the ring where it is trapped. The "mountain ranges" come and go and change constantly in response to the elliptical orbit of Daphnis.


Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 15, 2011, 04:24:20 PM
1 teaspoon of neutron star matter weighs about the same as an average mountain.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on March 15, 2011, 04:24:58 PM
1 teaspoon of neutron star matter weighs about the same as an average mountain.  :viking:
Neutron stars are  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 15, 2011, 04:54:57 PM
1 teaspoon of neutron star matter weighs about the same as an average mountain.  :viking:
Neutron stars are  :viking:

They can't be brave, they're inanimate.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 15, 2011, 05:12:23 PM
Mt Washington in New Hampshire is the highest point in the North eastern US at 6,288 ft (1,917 m) also has the record for highest wind gusts 231 mph (372 km/h)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on March 15, 2011, 05:29:42 PM
1 teaspoon of neutron star matter weighs about the same as an average mountain.  :viking:
Neutron stars are  :viking:

They can't be brave, they're inanimate.  :P
They have a defined orbit and are, therefore, not inanimate. Furthermore spewing radiation in mass quantities is  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 15, 2011, 05:31:52 PM
1 teaspoon of neutron star matter weighs about the same as an average mountain.  :viking:
Neutron stars are  :viking:

They can't be brave, they're inanimate.  :P
They have a defined orbit and are, therefore, not inanimate. Furthermore spewing radiation in mass quantities is  :viking:

Geek. :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 15, 2011, 05:56:28 PM
1 teaspoon of neutron star matter weighs about the same as an average mountain.  :viking:
Neutron stars are  :viking:

They can't be brave, they're inanimate.  :P

Bigot.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 15, 2011, 06:07:52 PM
1 teaspoon of neutron star matter weighs about the same as an average mountain.  :viking:
Neutron stars are  :viking:

They can't be brave, they're inanimate.  :P

Bigot.

MEAN!  :bigcry:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 15, 2011, 06:09:40 PM
1 teaspoon of neutron star matter weighs about the same as an average mountain.  :viking:
Neutron stars are  :viking:

They can't be brave, they're inanimate.  :P

Bigot.

MEAN!  :bigcry:
:evillaugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 16, 2011, 04:14:23 AM
Black holes are even braver, because they literally make spaghetti of you and don't even let the light out.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 16, 2011, 05:05:49 AM
Black holes are even braver, because they literally make spaghetti of you and don't even let the light out.  :viking:

Mmmmm spaghetti...  :drool:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on March 16, 2011, 05:24:14 AM
Ugggh, sick of our fucking fire alarm going off in the carpark.

"Evacuate the building now"....yep, I think I was the only knob who actually thinks the one day I don't evacuate will be the day there is a real fire.

Anyway...got to perve on some firies...and was not in my jim jams...so I guess I got a little perve time as payback.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 16, 2011, 06:28:49 AM
They take fire alarms dead serious in the army, so when one went off in the barracks we evacuated EVERY time.Immediately. Wound up outside in my underwear a lot. ::)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on March 16, 2011, 06:44:54 AM
They take fire alarms dead serious in the army, so when one went off in the barracks we evacuated EVERY time.Immediately. Wound up outside in my underwear a lot. ::)

Well, you could have had the courtesy to take pics!  :eyebrows:

Yeah, I'm a stickler for that stuff. I'd rather be out of the building...but people think it's never going to happen to them, so I'm usually the only person out of the gazillion units that's out the front like a safety Nigel No Mates.  :hahaha:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 16, 2011, 06:50:19 AM
Hey, better safe than sorry.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on March 16, 2011, 07:17:57 AM
They take fire alarms dead serious in the army, so when one went off in the barracks we evacuated EVERY time.Immediately. Wound up outside in my underwear a lot. ::)

Well, you could have had the courtesy to take pics!  :eyebrows:

Yeah, I'm a stickler for that stuff. I'd rather be out of the building...but people think it's never going to happen to them, so I'm usually the only person out of the gazillion units that's out the front like a safety Nigel No Mates.  :hahaha:

I think that Rick Rescorla's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla) coworkers at Morgan Stanley probably thought that he was a Nigel No Mates when he led them in several fire drills before 9-11, but most of them lived because of him getting them out of the building immediately when there was a real emergency.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on March 16, 2011, 07:30:21 AM
They take fire alarms dead serious in the army, so when one went off in the barracks we evacuated EVERY time.Immediately. Wound up outside in my underwear a lot. ::)

Well, you could have had the courtesy to take pics!  :eyebrows:

Yeah, I'm a stickler for that stuff. I'd rather be out of the building...but people think it's never going to happen to them, so I'm usually the only person out of the gazillion units that's out the front like a safety Nigel No Mates.  :hahaha:

I think that Rick Rescorla's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla) coworkers at Morgan Stanley probably thought that he was a Nigel No Mates when he led them in several fire drills before 9-11, but most of them lived because of him getting them out of the building immediately when there was a real emergency.

Special man, hey. Yes, I was actually watching a show about that the other day.

We had a component in my uni degree that was about the study of human behaviour in fires. Absolutely fascinating...I find the subject interesting. Apparently, for example people in shopping centres tend to retrace their steps back to the car if a fire alarm goes off, rather than go to the nearest exit. We saw so much footage, that it's kind of second nature for me now to check where the fire exit signs are when I enter a building, any building!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 16, 2011, 08:10:12 AM
You could see the smoke from the WTC from my friend's house which is on a hill in one of the highest points in my town
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2011, 08:25:34 AM
Black holes are even braver, because they literally make spaghetti of you and don't even let the light out.  :viking:

Not literally, no. The "spaghetti effect" refers to the (very significant) variation with distance of the black hole's gravitational pull when sufficiently near it. For example, if your feet were pointing at the black hole, the pull on them would be stronger than the pull on, say, your knees, and so your feet would be pulled towards the black hole at a faster rate than the knees. Figuratively speaking, the black hole would make spaghetti out of you.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 16, 2011, 08:27:35 AM
Black holes are even braver, because they literally make spaghetti of you and don't even let the light out.  :viking:

Not literally, no. The "spaghetti effect" refers to the (very significant) variation with distance of the black hole's gravitational pull when sufficiently near it. For example, if your feet were pointing at the black hole, the pull on them would be stronger than the pull on, say, your knees, and so your feet would be pulled towards the black hole at a faster rate than the knees. Figuratively speaking, the black hole would make spaghetti out of you.

A two dimensional "data" version of you would also eternally smear across the event horizon too, which is what anyone would see if they were watching.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 16, 2011, 07:16:47 PM

without question, there is not a single lametard soul on this site who is interested in the many moons orbiting saturn.

i have hundreds of pics to share, but alas, as is usual, i find no peer.

... useless factt, indeeed




 :asthing:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on March 16, 2011, 07:19:32 PM

without question, there is not a single lametard soul on this site who is interested in the many moons orbiting saturn.

i have hundreds of pics to share, but alas, as is usual, i find no peer.

... useless factt, indeeed




 :asthing:

How do you know that? Just because you didn't share your lametard interest, maybe they didn't either? :P

Personally, I love all that stuff, I just find that I can go into a zone - albeit a happy one, when getting into intricate space talk!

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 16, 2011, 07:42:12 PM
what?

want to see pics of thirty seven thousand mile high geysers, from the polar regions of Enseladas, made up of seventy nine percent water, blanketing a full one fourth of the planet/moon from each eruption?

wish we had time to talk.



EDIT:

Did I really write "miles?"

I meant feet, obviously. 


... or maybe I was suffering from a kind of Freudian Geyser Grandeur that is more comical than what is apparent at first look.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on March 16, 2011, 09:05:19 PM
want to see pics of thirty seven thousand mile high geysers, from the polar regions of Enseladas, made up of seventy nine percent water, blanketing a full one fourth of the planet/moon from each eruption?
Yes. Go for it; moon us.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Leto729 on March 16, 2011, 10:06:39 PM
I am on IM right now.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Scrapheap on March 16, 2011, 10:27:30 PM
I am on IM right now.

Hiya Kevv!!!  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 17, 2011, 06:34:50 AM
what?

want to see pics of thirty seven thousand mile high geysers, from the polar regions of Enseladas, made up of seventy nine percent water, blanketing a full one fourth of the planet/moon from each eruption?

wish we had time to talk.



I'm into europa pretty hardcore lately. Mostly because I have a gut feeling things live under the ice.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 17, 2011, 06:40:12 AM
I'm into Europa too. Europa is Swedish for Europe.  :P

Seriously, I used to be more into astronomy than I am now. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 17, 2011, 07:32:09 AM
Well the one i'm talking about is a moon orbiting jupiter, and its pretty much been proven it has a global ocean. Two magnetospheres. :P

(http://astrobio.net/albums/giant/acd.sized.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 17, 2011, 07:40:11 AM
Global oceans are  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on March 17, 2011, 07:43:32 AM
Well the one i'm talking about is a moon orbiting jupiter, and its pretty much been proven it has a global ocean. Two magnetospheres. :P

(http://astrobio.net/albums/giant/acd.sized.jpg)

Stop itttt!!!!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 17, 2011, 07:45:00 AM
Well the one i'm talking about is a moon orbiting jupiter, and its pretty much been proven it has a global ocean. Two magnetospheres. :P

(http://astrobio.net/albums/giant/acd.sized.jpg)

Stop itttt!!!!

 :-[ Whaaaat?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on March 17, 2011, 07:52:47 AM
Well the one i'm talking about is a moon orbiting jupiter, and its pretty much been proven it has a global ocean. Two magnetospheres. :P

(http://astrobio.net/albums/giant/acd.sized.jpg)

Stop itttt!!!!

 :-[ Whaaaat?

Equivalent to porn...will send me off into subliminal stratospheres. :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 17, 2011, 07:55:14 AM
Lmao.

You're something else, you know that? :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on March 17, 2011, 08:06:57 AM
Lmao.

You're something else, you know that? :laugh:

Oh come on, you know space talk and mathematics is the language of luuurve.

Oh well, night night to you guys on the other side of the big blue and green ball of quakiness and shakiness, and of rain and wind and fire and snow!

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 17, 2011, 08:08:32 AM
Lmao.

You're something else, you know that? :laugh:

Oh come on, you know space talk and mathematics is the language of luuurve.

Oh well, night night to you guys on the other side of the big blue and green ball of quakiness and shakiness, and of rain and wind and fire and snow!



Night eclair.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on March 18, 2011, 02:44:41 PM
Did you know that 'orchid' is derived from the Greek word orchis (or όρχις).. and that it basically means.. testicle.. (something to do with the two bulbs one orchid plant has)  :orly:   
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 18, 2011, 04:41:39 PM

without question, there is not a single lametard soul on this site who is interested in the many moons orbiting saturn.

i have hundreds of pics to share, but alas, as is usual, i find no peer.

... useless factt, indeeed




 :asthing:

Nope. I am very interested. I regularly check NASA's site for more.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 18, 2011, 04:45:48 PM
Black holes are even braver, because they literally make spaghetti of you and don't even let the light out.  :viking:

Not literally, no. The "spaghetti effect" refers to the (very significant) variation with distance of the black hole's gravitational pull when sufficiently near it. For example, if your feet were pointing at the black hole, the pull on them would be stronger than the pull on, say, your knees, and so your feet would be pulled towards the black hole at a faster rate than the knees. Figuratively speaking, the black hole would make spaghetti out of you.

A two dimensional "data" version of you would also eternally smear across the event horizon too, which is what anyone would see if they were watching.

The spaghetti thingy would happen before that.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on March 18, 2011, 06:33:09 PM
stop talking about spaghetti, you're reminding me of that Top Gear thread
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on March 18, 2011, 08:31:01 PM
here are some cheats for sim city on Super Nintendo :)


Debug menu:
When you begin the game, immediately start a new city. When in-game, go to the "Save/Load" menu and select "End". When you see the sleeping moon and the "See you soon, Goodbye!" message, Press Left, A, Right, Y, Up, B, Down, X, Select, Start, Start, Select, R(2), L(2) on controller two. The Debug menu will appear to confirm correct code entry. The following options will now become available.
Information in this section was contributed by Joshua Dettmann.

    Sound Test: As its name implies, it allows you to play both background music and game sounds.

    No Disasters: Disables your ability to cause disasters and almost completely disables disasters during scenarios. It does not always work. You can still get plane crashes and sometimes nuclear disasters during a new city under Hard mode.

    Needless Money: This allows you to build anything you can currently build for free, regardless of how much money you currently have.

    Valve Max: This forces your [R C I] graph at the upper right-hand corner of the game to stay max positive no matter what.

    Water Reclaim: This gives your "Bull Doze Area" the ability to replace water with land. Select "Bull Doze Area" and you can bulldoze water just like bulldozing trees and/or shorelines.

    Memory: This option is important. If you enable any cheats on the Debug menu, make sure to put "Memory" on "Set", then reset the game to activate any cheats from the Debug menu. If memory is on "Set", you can return to the Debug menu at anytime by going to the "Save/Load" menu and selecting "End" at anytime without inputting the code again. Putting the "Memory" option on "CLS" will get rid of the debug menu and return the game to normal. Note: This will also disable any activated cheats and you will have to re-input the code




Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 21, 2011, 06:34:14 PM

without question, there is not a single lametard soul on this site who is interested in the many moons orbiting saturn.

i have hundreds of pics to share, but alas, as is usual, i find no peer.

... useless factt, indeeed




 :asthing:

Nope. I am very interested. I regularly check NASA's site for more.

Do not ignore spitzer.caltech.edu  and  hubblesite.org


They often post raw images available before NASA edits them for public consumption.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 22, 2011, 02:03:22 AM

without question, there is not a single lametard soul on this site who is interested in the many moons orbiting saturn.

i have hundreds of pics to share, but alas, as is usual, i find no peer.

... useless factt, indeeed




 :asthing:

Nope. I am very interested. I regularly check NASA's site for more.

Do not ignore spitzer.caltech.edu  and  hubblesite.org


They often post raw images available before NASA edits them for public consumption.

Knew of, and use, the latter but had missed the former. :plus:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 22, 2011, 12:31:11 PM
Forty foot ladders are heavy as fuck :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on March 28, 2011, 12:25:07 AM
"The common people of Russia are generally ignorant and rude, or barbarous; and most of them are slaves to the nobles."

"Norwegians are honest and hospitable, but rude and illiterate."

"The swedes have public schools, and are generally well informed and honest, as well as intelligent and sprightly."

"The danes are honest and industrious people, but not distinguished for enterprise or learning."

"The french are gay, polished, active and industrious and celebrated for their ingenuity and skill in the arts and sciences."

"The spaniards are haughtly and bigoted, but  :viking: and generous."

In case you didn't know.

http://picasaweb.google.com/108052342941058956110/GeographyBook#slideshow/5528137598059217874 (http://picasaweb.google.com/108052342941058956110/GeographyBook#slideshow/5528137598059217874)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on March 28, 2011, 07:25:57 PM
http://www.cracked.com/article_17019_5-real-life-soldiers-who-make-rambo-look-like-pussy.html (http://www.cracked.com/article_17019_5-real-life-soldiers-who-make-rambo-look-like-pussy.html)

5 real life soldiers who make rambo look like a pussy.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 28, 2011, 11:15:56 PM
The Finnish guy was brave. Most of the Finns were. That's why they could kick Russki ass for several months in 1939-40 before they finally got beaten, even though they were outnumbered 1:10.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 28, 2011, 11:44:19 PM
The Swedish word finger is neutrum but unlike other (genuinly Swedish) words that are neutrum it has another plural: fingrar.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 29, 2011, 02:11:23 AM
I read "Post a useless fart" again. How is that for a useless fact.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 29, 2011, 02:16:51 AM
I called my mobile, because I could not find it.

Sirius did not even look up when it started to ring and vibrate under his bum.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 29, 2011, 06:11:14 AM
I called my mobile, because I could not find it.

Sirius did not even look up when it started to ring and vibrate under his bum.  :laugh:

I love cats, they bring so much laughter to life. :heart:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 29, 2011, 07:24:31 AM
I called my mobile, because I could not find it.

Sirius did not even look up when it started to ring and vibrate under his bum.  :laugh:

im in ur house, hidin ur fone
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Binty on March 29, 2011, 09:40:37 AM
I called my mobile, because I could not find it.

Sirius did not even look up when it started to ring and vibrate under his bum.  :laugh:

That's what Tazzy would do  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on March 29, 2011, 09:41:10 AM
both giraffes and humans have 7 bones in their neck
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 29, 2011, 09:44:51 AM
The universe has a lot of mass that we can't see.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on March 29, 2011, 11:21:10 AM
Isnt there twice as much dark matter in the universe than regular matter ? I think so ...



And Bittorent is purple now. :) cute
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 29, 2011, 11:55:05 AM
It's actually at least 70% dark matter in the universe. :nerd!:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 29, 2011, 12:39:24 PM
Mass without atoms. Figure that one out. :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 29, 2011, 01:01:49 PM
The old punch cards they used for computers were made the size of dollar bills because there were already containers and such made to handle them
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on March 29, 2011, 01:47:30 PM


That punch card technology (developed by IBM) was used extensively by the Nazis.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 29, 2011, 02:14:10 PM
The Nazis were the first to ban heavy metals in some industries and restricting smoking to certain areas.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 29, 2011, 02:56:28 PM
Every time I came across this thread, I couldn't think of a useless fact, until now.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on March 29, 2011, 10:26:12 PM
The Nazis were the first to ban heavy metals in some industries and restricting smoking to certain areas.

That's what I've been saying!
Prohibiting smoking is nazistuff!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on March 29, 2011, 11:49:27 PM
I have never had occasion to use CPR training.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on March 30, 2011, 04:41:26 AM
When i moved into this house about six years ago i really hated my bathroom.  The sink, loo, bath etc were new but they were 'grey'  (i mean as if i don't already get my fair share of grey)  the tiles were evil in pink and flowers.  So i painted the tiles in silver and i bought loads of mirror tiles to go over some of them.  I thought it would be 'cool' to get everyone who came round to position a tile for me...they did.  No.  Cool it wasn't.  I had hoped it would look 'arty'  it just looked a right mess.  My folks and my friends must be blind or boss eyed.  Anyway i just lived with it.

I started getting em off about a week ago.  Cracked a few.  Damn why did i use 'hard as nails' glue???  anyway im putting them up now, my way, i did have to buy a few more mirrors and i have now fifty mirrored stars (various sizes) for the ceiling.  I am trying to get it so i can see the back of my hair without having to hold another mirror up,  and also my bum to see how big it looks.  Cool eh?

It is looking good so far,  however (and i did't plan this)  when you sit on the loo, you have a mirror in front and either side of you.  Slightly offputting :screwy:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 30, 2011, 04:43:57 AM
When i moved into this house about six years ago i really hated my bathroom.  The sink, loo, bath etc were new but they were 'grey'  (i mean as if i don't already get my fair share of grey)  the tiles were evil in pink and flowers.  So i painted the tiles in silver and i bought loads of mirror tiles to go over some of them.  I thought it would be 'cool' to get everyone who came round to position a tile for me...they did.  No.  Cool it wasn't.  I had hoped it would look 'arty'  it just looked a right mess.  My folks and my friends must be blind or boss eyed.  Anyway i just lived with it.

I started getting em off about a week ago.  Cracked a few.  Damn why did i use 'hard as nails' glue???  anyway im putting them up now, my way, i did have to buy a few more mirrors and i have now fifty mirrored stars (various sizes) for the ceiling.  I am trying to get it so i can see the back of my hair without having to hold another mirror up,  and also my bum to see how big it looks.  Cool eh?

It is looking good so far,  however (and i did't plan this)  when you sit on the loo, you have a mirror in front and either side of you.  Slightly offputting :screwy:

I absolutely love it that you want a mirrored tile in which to check out your bum.   :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on March 30, 2011, 04:46:46 AM
When i moved into this house about six years ago i really hated my bathroom.  The sink, loo, bath etc were new but they were 'grey'  (i mean as if i don't already get my fair share of grey)  the tiles were evil in pink and flowers.  So i painted the tiles in silver and i bought loads of mirror tiles to go over some of them.  I thought it would be 'cool' to get everyone who came round to position a tile for me...they did.  No.  Cool it wasn't.  I had hoped it would look 'arty'  it just looked a right mess.  My folks and my friends must be blind or boss eyed.  Anyway i just lived with it.

I started getting em off about a week ago.  Cracked a few.  Damn why did i use 'hard as nails' glue???  anyway im putting them up now, my way, i did have to buy a few more mirrors and i have now fifty mirrored stars (various sizes) for the ceiling.  I am trying to get it so i can see the back of my hair without having to hold another mirror up,  and also my bum to see how big it looks.  Cool eh?

It is looking good so far,  however (and i did't plan this)  when you sit on the loo, you have a mirror in front and either side of you.  Slightly offputting :screwy:

I absolutely love it that you want a mirrored tile in which to check out your bum.   :2thumbsup:

between me and you it needed more than one!   :lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 30, 2011, 04:48:31 AM
When i moved into this house about six years ago i really hated my bathroom.  The sink, loo, bath etc were new but they were 'grey'  (i mean as if i don't already get my fair share of grey)  the tiles were evil in pink and flowers.  So i painted the tiles in silver and i bought loads of mirror tiles to go over some of them.  I thought it would be 'cool' to get everyone who came round to position a tile for me...they did.  No.  Cool it wasn't.  I had hoped it would look 'arty'  it just looked a right mess.  My folks and my friends must be blind or boss eyed.  Anyway i just lived with it.

I started getting em off about a week ago.  Cracked a few.  Damn why did i use 'hard as nails' glue???  anyway im putting them up now, my way, i did have to buy a few more mirrors and i have now fifty mirrored stars (various sizes) for the ceiling.  I am trying to get it so i can see the back of my hair without having to hold another mirror up,  and also my bum to see how big it looks.  Cool eh?

It is looking good so far,  however (and i did't plan this)  when you sit on the loo, you have a mirror in front and either side of you.  Slightly offputting :screwy:

I absolutely love it that you want a mirrored tile in which to check out your bum.   :2thumbsup:

between me and you it needed more than one!   :lol:

One per cheek then? Sounds like MY butt! Maybe you're part Weeble!   :snowman:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 30, 2011, 04:53:16 AM
The FOP rendering software was rewritten from the ground up between versions 0.20.5 and 0.9x.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on March 30, 2011, 02:21:22 PM
My family name is originally German (halfway the 18th century some German bloke, my grand-grand-grand-(?) father, moved to Holland) but the useless, kinda funny, fact is that when you translate my last name into English it becomes.. Hollywood. (I feel kinda cheesy about it though) 

 :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 30, 2011, 02:35:52 PM
My last name also sounds funny for an English-speaker, both the Swedish and the translated form.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 30, 2011, 02:53:27 PM
My family name is originally German (halfway the 18th century some German bloke, my grand-grand-grand-(?) father, moved to Holland) but the useless, kinda funny, fact is that when you translate my last name into English it becomes.. Hollywood. (I feel kinda cheesy about it though) 

 :orly:

And everyone asks you if you are related to an ice-skater?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on March 30, 2011, 02:55:05 PM
^
^
Ja, Theo Knäckebröd does sound a bit funny..  :green:

(nah, silly jokelet)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on March 30, 2011, 02:57:04 PM
Quote
And everyone asks you if you are related to an ice-skater?

Some indeed do. Morons assuming I'm related to an even bigger moron.

But hey..
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 30, 2011, 03:07:02 PM
Quote
And everyone asks you if you are related to an ice-skater?

Some indeed do. Morons assuming I'm related to an even bigger moron.

But hey..

They've asked me about being related to a football-player or a singer.  :facepalm2:

 ;D But hey... indeed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 30, 2011, 03:39:31 PM
Quote
And everyone asks you if you are related to an ice-skater?

Some indeed do. Morons assuming I'm related to an even bigger moron.

But hey..

They've asked me about being related to a football-player or a singer.  :facepalm2:

 ;D But hey... indeed.

Our old town drunk shared his last name with me.  People always though we were related :thumbdn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 30, 2011, 03:43:52 PM
Quote
And everyone asks you if you are related to an ice-skater?

Some indeed do. Morons assuming I'm related to an even bigger moron.

But hey..

They've asked me about being related to a football-player or a singer.  :facepalm2:

 ;D But hey... indeed.

Our old town drunk shared his last name with me.  People always though we were related :thumbdn:

Got the same name as my dentist.

Now that is not so bad. But my brother almost has the same phone number as the dentist too, and he lives in the same village.

Brings out the sadist in him.  :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 30, 2011, 04:36:11 PM
Guisseppi Verdi translates to Joseph Green.
Julio Iglesia translates to Jules Church.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 30, 2011, 04:36:52 PM
Vermont translates to Green Mountain.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 30, 2011, 04:39:17 PM
Hitler translates to small farmer or woodsman; "Hüttler"=a man who owns a "Hütte"=cabin or small farm.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 30, 2011, 04:42:26 PM
New Orleans was named for the Duc d'Orleans (masculine) but has feminine endings in the French name, La Nouvelle New Orleans.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 30, 2011, 04:44:05 PM
New Orleans was named for the Duc d'Orleans (masculine) but has feminine endings in the French name, La Nouvelle New Orleans.

Was the Duke an effeminate man?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 30, 2011, 04:48:55 PM
Bogesund, a small town in Västergötland, was renamed into Ulricehamn in 1741 to honour the passed away widow queen Ulrika Eleonora.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 30, 2011, 04:54:43 PM
The northern part of my home province was known by Jordanes already in 550.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 30, 2011, 04:58:21 PM
The only languages that still have the old Germanic name for a physician are the Scandinavian languages and Polish - läkare, leger etc. In Polish it's a loan word, of course. Not even German has the original name. German uses the word Artzt, which is old Greek for "the eldest".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Binty on March 30, 2011, 05:00:54 PM
The only languages that still have the old Germanic name for a physician are the Scandinavian languages and Polish - läkare, leger etc. In Polish it's a loan word, of course. Not even German has the original name. German uses the word Artzt, which is old Greek for "the eldest".

Lekarz  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 30, 2011, 05:01:31 PM
The only languages that still have the old Germanic name for a physician are the Scandinavian languages and Polish - läkare, leger etc. In Polish it's a loan word, of course. Not even German has the original name. German uses the word Artzt, which is old Greek for "the eldest".

Lekarz  8)

 :agreed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on March 30, 2011, 05:06:09 PM
In German you can make every masculine noun concerning occupation, ethnicity, ranks, social status etc into a feminine one. When you use the noun collectively for men and women, you capitalize the feminine suffix, like this for example: BürgerInnen=male and female citizens.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 30, 2011, 05:30:18 PM

Technically, there is no possible way to cheat while playing Peek-A-Boo.

 ;D




*smiles at Tig, fully resolved and confident in that my latest statement of pure fact is even more brilliant, enlightened and profound than any of his*
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on March 30, 2011, 05:41:10 PM
Read something on CNET, last tight, alluding to the possibility that,  "on board chipset giant, Realtek,"  will include DRM functionality in its next generation of chipsets, which will prevent any form of copying of digital media.

Basically you and I will not be affected, since most computer savvy people, upgrade their sound with a PCI or external based card.  However, for about ninety percent of casual users, this will effectively STOP many forms of ripping or copying of digital media.

:hair:

Another front lost!  RETREAT!!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on March 30, 2011, 11:54:25 PM
The circumference of my ass is a baffeling 104cm.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 31, 2011, 08:53:55 AM
The circumference of my ass is a baffeling 104cm.
(http://www.joystiq.com/media/2006/03/metal_gear_awesome_meryls_butt.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on March 31, 2011, 02:28:49 PM
Did you know that when you full-size inflate an Anaconda.. you'll get an Elephant? (http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif) (<you)

 :LOL:

(surry, but this sprung to mind seeing the photograph of the Anaconda held up by a couple of guys.. in some thread here)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Binty on April 02, 2011, 11:23:10 PM
(http://russiandream.tumblr.com/photo/1280/2082254041/1/tumblr_lcpjjmELgl1qduevw)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on April 02, 2011, 11:37:27 PM
How did the other really hotspots happen further north of Chernobyl? Is that from something that was dumped there via air particles landing?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on April 02, 2011, 11:57:47 PM
How did the other really hotspots happen further north of Chernobyl? Is that from something that was dumped there via air particles landing?

Apologies if I am having a blonde moment!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 02, 2011, 11:59:45 PM
How did the other really hotspots happen further north of Chernobyl? Is that from something that was dumped there via air particles landing?

Apologies if I am having a blonde moment!

You're comprehending better than I am at this point. I think I need to go to bed!   :dunce:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 03, 2011, 06:57:51 AM
How did the other really hotspots happen further north of Chernobyl? Is that from something that was dumped there via air particles landing?

Apologies if I am having a blonde moment!

You're comprehending better than I am at this point. I think I need to go to bed!   :dunce:

Don't know how the groundwater streams are there. That could explain things maybe.

Or maybe those red areas absorbed more of the Cesium, and it washed away/diluted more in other places.

Some one with more expertise about the area there should be able to answer this.




Did you know that every year there are swine being declared not fit to eat in Germany because of Chernobyl? Depends on the year how big the percentage is of swine that are too radioactive to eat. One year they eat more mushrooms than other years.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 03, 2011, 07:09:56 AM
In some parts of Sweden mooses and deers were declared unfit to eat for many years. Though I still believe in nuclear power but better not the uranium type.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on April 03, 2011, 07:25:02 AM
I have a hair in my left eyebrow that isn't as 'soft' as the others. In fact it's really hard/tough.. and after I've pulled it out.. a new one just returns a few weeks later.

(and oh, I have to pull it out for otherwise I keep fidgeting with it endlessly)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 03, 2011, 07:25:34 AM
How did the other really hotspots happen further north of Chernobyl? Is that from something that was dumped there via air particles landing?

Apologies if I am having a blonde moment!

You're comprehending better than I am at this point. I think I need to go to bed!   :dunce:

Don't know how the groundwater streams are there. That could explain things maybe.

Or maybe those red areas absorbed more of the Cesium, and it washed away/diluted more in other places.

Some one with more expertise about the area there should be able to answer this.




Did you know that every year there are swine being declared not fit to eat in Germany because of Chernobyl? Depends on the year how big the percentage is of swine that are too radioactive to eat. One year they eat more mushrooms than other years.

Ground water is one explanation. Rain another.

Can't remember if there was an explosion or not but I think there was, and in that case the area is most likely where some the radioactive fallout ended up (which means that the wind was also a factor).
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 03, 2011, 07:28:03 AM
How did the other really hotspots happen further north of Chernobyl? Is that from something that was dumped there via air particles landing?

Apologies if I am having a blonde moment!

You're comprehending better than I am at this point. I think I need to go to bed!   :dunce:

Don't know how the groundwater streams are there. That could explain things maybe.

Or maybe those red areas absorbed more of the Cesium, and it washed away/diluted more in other places.

Some one with more expertise about the area there should be able to answer this.




Did you know that every year there are swine being declared not fit to eat in Germany because of Chernobyl? Depends on the year how big the percentage is of swine that are too radioactive to eat. One year they eat more mushrooms than other years.

Ground water is one explanation. Rain another.

Can't remember if there was an explosion or not but I think there was, and in that case the area is most likely where some the radioactive fallout ended up (which means that the wind was also a factor).

IIRC the wind was not southwest may 1986
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on April 03, 2011, 10:14:16 AM
Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on April 03, 2011, 10:16:37 AM
Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.



I never knew that. Thank you. I always liked clubs...
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on April 03, 2011, 10:55:59 AM


http://www.longshadowofchernobyl.com
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 03, 2011, 03:54:12 PM
Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.



I never knew that. Thank you. I always liked clubs...

I always liked club sandwiches!   :halitosis: 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 03, 2011, 05:19:31 PM
If you read the name of thread fast enough, it reads Post a useless fart.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 03, 2011, 05:21:57 PM
They make cat fur coats in China
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on April 03, 2011, 05:22:45 PM
If you read the name of thread fast enough, it reads Post a useless fart.

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WVMhlp23-zk/RektfCp0YMI/AAAAAAAAAX0/fIJm9Wn0t5E/s400/cartoon03fart.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on April 03, 2011, 05:30:36 PM
If you read the name of thread fast enough, it reads Post a useless fart.

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WVMhlp23-zk/RektfCp0YMI/AAAAAAAAAX0/fIJm9Wn0t5E/s400/cartoon03fart.jpg)
:thumbup: :lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: d_olson27 on April 04, 2011, 11:00:19 PM
You can actually catch and contain a fart via the bubbles in a bathtub.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on April 06, 2011, 02:23:05 PM
I'm about to kill the first mosquito of the year.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on April 06, 2011, 02:26:22 PM
Parts trunk might have belonged to Winnie Judd.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on April 06, 2011, 02:37:28 PM
Parts trunk might have belonged to Winnie Judd.  :viking:
It is actually ebf's trunk. Parts may try to abscond with it though.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 07, 2011, 03:16:43 AM
I'm about to kill the first mosquito of the year.

Wow, you live in a good place then. January most of the times is the month when I slap the first one.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on April 07, 2011, 01:10:36 PM
^
Really? Mmmm, now I'm wondering if it was the first of the year. Think the little fuckers are usually (and logically) earlier around here than 'round where you live.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 07, 2011, 01:12:17 PM
I'm playing with my grandfathers old fountain pen, a Parker.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 07, 2011, 02:04:37 PM
^
Really? Mmmm, now I'm wondering if it was the first of the year. Think the little fuckers are usually (and logically) earlier around here than 'round where you live.

I live in a bad patch of my village. Means that I have them all year around. Two streets from me, they hardly have the critters.
On the plus side, I have now been the prey of our local mosquitoes so often that I don't get hives from them any more. My oldest is nearing that stage. My youngest still can look like a raisin-roll now and then.
If a mosquito at my parents, 70 km form here, has a go at me, I will get a red itching bump.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on April 07, 2011, 02:09:43 PM
^
Really? Mmmm, now I'm wondering if it was the first of the year. Think the little fuckers are usually (and logically) earlier around here than 'round where you live.

I live in a bad patch of my village. Means that I have them all year around. Two streets from me, they hardly have the critters.
On the plus side, I have now been the prey of our local mosquitoes so often that I don't get hives from them any more. My oldest is nearing that stage. My youngest still can look like a raisin-roll now and then.
If a mosquito at my parents, 70 km form here, has a go at me, I will get a red itching bump.
An immunity to local mosquito saliva? Cool.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 07, 2011, 02:12:29 PM
^
Really? Mmmm, now I'm wondering if it was the first of the year. Think the little fuckers are usually (and logically) earlier around here than 'round where you live.

I live in a bad patch of my village. Means that I have them all year around. Two streets from me, they hardly have the critters.
On the plus side, I have now been the prey of our local mosquitoes so often that I don't get hives from them any more. My oldest is nearing that stage. My youngest still can look like a raisin-roll now and then.
If a mosquito at my parents, 70 km form here, has a go at me, I will get a red itching bump.
An immunity to local mosquito saliva? Cool.

Took me ten years, but it is worth it.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on April 07, 2011, 02:35:38 PM
I, bugger, do not compute here, Hyke. Year 'round? With the previous winter's cold? Um, do you have a basement? (me asking.. for mosquitoes rarely come from outside, with e.g. last December temperatures.. being cold blooded creatures.. they must have come from a sheltered place)

Oink?

(surry, don't mean to whine above)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 07, 2011, 02:43:40 PM
I, bugger, do not compute here, Hyke. Year 'round? With the previous winter's cold? Um, do you have a basement? (me asking.. for mosquitoes rarely come from outside, with e.g. last December temperatures.. being cold blooded creatures.. they must have come from a sheltered place)

Oink?

(surry, don't mean to whine above)

Well, it looks like it is slowly getting better.

I live in a part of the village where they didn't put drainage in the ground. Living below sea-level, that is just dumb.
So, till last year, I always had water under my house, was under the whole block, and under the houses at the other side of the street too. So, lots of breeding opportunities.
Now they are finally dealing with the water problem. And I did have less mosquitoes this January than in the 20 Januaries before. And there have been pretty cold years in those 20 years too.
There is hoping for winters in the future for me.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 07, 2011, 03:13:43 PM
The Prussian royal anthem was Heil Dir im Siegerkranz (Hail Thee in victory laurel). It had the same melody as God save the King/Queen. In the Third Reich they also had this song but changed the text to Heil Dir im Führerglanz (Hail Thee in Führer-glory).
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on April 07, 2011, 03:18:44 PM


I have never seen a mosquito in January. There's usually still three feet of snow on the ground then. We probably won't be seeing them around here for a couple months yet.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on April 07, 2011, 03:23:13 PM


I have never seen a mosquito in January. There's usually still three feet of snow on the ground then. We probably won't be seeing them around here for a couple months yet.
But you get lots when they are in season don't you?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on April 07, 2011, 03:25:50 PM
Quote

Well, it looks like it is slowly getting better.

I live in a part of the village where they didn't put drainage in the ground. Living below sea-level, that is just dumb.
So, till last year, I always had water under my house, was under the whole block, and under the houses at the other side of the street too. So, lots of breeding opportunities.
Now they are finally dealing with the water problem. And I did have less mosquitoes this January than in the 20 Januaries before. And there have been pretty cold years in those 20 years too.
There is hoping for winters in the future for me.


Yeah, poor drainage in combo with below sea-level polder-areas seem to do the trick. (Do I have any advice here, I'm wondering.. All around spreading some salt in the 'kruipruimte' maybe? Nah, too impractical probs.)

Dunno.

Um, I was born in a village a little southwards from Amsterdam on a 'polder spot' about 3/4 meters below sea-level. (um, as extra, free of charge, info there) Now live 5m above, I think.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on April 07, 2011, 03:29:28 PM




I have never seen a mosquito in January. There's usually still three feet of snow on the ground then. We probably won't be seeing them around here for a couple months yet.
But you get lots when they are in season don't you?


Usually, yeah. Depends on how wet the spring is. Should have lots this summer.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on April 07, 2011, 03:44:25 PM
Ick. I'm allergic to mosquitoes. Any time I get a bite, it swells up bigger than a toonie.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on April 07, 2011, 04:13:57 PM


Ick. I'm allergic to mosquitoes. Any time I get a bite, it swells up bigger than a toonie.


For those who don't speak Canuck...


(http://canamgirl.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/istockphoto_3031008_canadian_two_dollar_coin_or_toonie_in_hand.jpg)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_2_dollar_coin
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on April 07, 2011, 04:16:44 PM
Oh, right. Thank you! :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on April 07, 2011, 06:53:51 PM


Ick. I'm allergic to mosquitoes. Any time I get a bite, it swells up bigger than a toonie.


For those who don't speak Canuck...


(http://canamgirl.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/istockphoto_3031008_canadian_two_dollar_coin_or_toonie_in_hand.jpg)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_2_dollar_coin
You have been assimilated. :borg:  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on April 07, 2011, 07:55:23 PM
:lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 07, 2011, 11:52:18 PM
I, bugger, do not compute here, Hyke. Year 'round? With the previous winter's cold? Um, do you have a basement? (me asking.. for mosquitoes rarely come from outside, with e.g. last December temperatures.. being cold blooded creatures.. they must have come from a sheltered place)

Oink?

(surry, don't mean to whine above)

Well, it looks like it is slowly getting better.

I live in a part of the village where they didn't put drainage in the ground. Living below sea-level, that is just dumb.
So, till last year, I always had water under my house, was under the whole block, and under the houses at the other side of the street too. So, lots of breeding opportunities.
Now they are finally dealing with the water problem. And I did have less mosquitoes this January than in the 20 Januaries before. And there have been pretty cold years in those 20 years too.
There is hoping for winters in the future for me.

I'm glad the drainage issue is finally being addressed in your area. Mosquitoes can carry dangerous diseases.   :thumbdn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on April 08, 2011, 03:42:00 AM
I will be gravely confused by the new bills.
200crowns bills? Why? It'll only jack upp the prices and....yeah...make me confused.

Do any of you non-swedish ppl regonize these guys?

(http://www.sydsvenskan-img.se/archive/00941/Sedlar_941973k.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on April 08, 2011, 03:42:55 AM
Oh...their names was on there.

 :facepalm2:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 08, 2011, 04:08:27 AM
:LMAO:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 08, 2011, 05:32:33 AM
Being a dictator makes you absent-minded.  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 08, 2011, 05:33:02 AM
Only  Greta Garbo and Odeon's favorite Ingmar Bergman
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 08, 2011, 05:40:43 AM
Ingmar was  :viking:

The Swedish equivalent of the IRS harassed him for many years, so he used to sit in his summer house with a loaded rifle. :litigious:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 08, 2011, 05:57:25 AM
I will be gravely confused by the new bills.
200crowns bills? Why? It'll only jack upp the prices and....yeah...make me confused.

Do any of you non-swedish ppl regonize these guys?

(http://www.sydsvenskan-img.se/archive/00941/Sedlar_941973k.jpg)


I know about Garbo and Bergman, though the captions helped me.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 08, 2011, 05:58:26 AM
Ingmar Bergman must die! :arrr:

No, wait, he already is dead... right. Carry on.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on April 08, 2011, 07:19:38 AM
Oh...their names was on there.

 :facepalm2:

 :laugh:

 :plus:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 08, 2011, 08:37:20 AM
There are a lot of deer living in the park by my house even after they culled 17 of them from the island just off shore
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 08, 2011, 08:38:25 AM
Deer are  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 08, 2011, 08:40:10 AM
Deer are  :viking:

They are the most dangerous animal around here besides man in terms of property damage.  My son hit one with his car about three weeks ago and needs a new hood
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on April 08, 2011, 08:47:35 AM


Deer are   :autism:


stupid ass split hooved useless assholes
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 08, 2011, 08:50:32 AM
They're cute little animals.  :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on April 08, 2011, 08:52:14 AM
They're cute little animals.  :-\

They can be plagues and pests Theo, but I admire your cutesy side for the fauna of the planet. I'm surprised you don't want to use them for target practice, actually.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 08, 2011, 08:52:45 AM
They're cute little animals.  :-\

Tasty too  :devour:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on April 08, 2011, 08:53:04 AM


barely any meat on them, and they wreck everything they touch.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 08, 2011, 08:53:22 AM
They're cute little animals.  :-\

They can be plagues and pests Theo, but I admire your cutesy side for the fauna of the planet. I'm surprised you don't want to use them for target practice, actually.

Just humans deserve to die, not innocent creatures. :arrr:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on April 08, 2011, 08:56:08 AM
They're cute little animals.  :-\

They can be plagues and pests Theo, but I admire your cutesy side for the fauna of the planet. I'm surprised you don't want to use them for target practice, actually.

Just humans deserve to die, not innocent creatures. :arrr:

Is there no such thing as an innocent human being? :/
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 08, 2011, 09:00:21 AM
They're cute little animals.  :-\

They can be plagues and pests Theo, but I admire your cutesy side for the fauna of the planet. I'm surprised you don't want to use them for target practice, actually.

Just humans deserve to die, not innocent creatures. :arrr:

Is there no such thing as an innocent human being? :/

Sure. I am. :toporly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on April 08, 2011, 09:07:52 AM
62 degrees Fahrenheit is the minimum temperature required for a grasshopper to be able to hop.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 08, 2011, 09:08:51 AM
300oC is the temperature when black powder ignites spontaneously.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on April 08, 2011, 09:09:23 AM


62 degrees Fahrenheit is the minimum temperature required for a grasshopper to be able to hop.


So at 61oF and below they are grasswalkers?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on April 08, 2011, 09:12:39 AM


62 degrees Fahrenheit is the minimum temperature required for a grasshopper to be able to hop.


So at 61oF and below they are grasswalkers?
:laugh: I guess so
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on April 08, 2011, 04:29:53 PM
When I was a vegetarian for two (teenage, needless to say) years I used to dream vividly about hunting deer with crosbow and start to slaughter them with a big ass knife andeating the almost still beating heart.

The dreams stopepd when I strated eating meat again.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 08, 2011, 04:33:55 PM


Deer are   :autism:


stupid ass split hooved useless assholes

  :evilplus:   for a ridiculously venomous description of Bambi!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 08, 2011, 04:37:32 PM
When I was a vegetarian for two (teenage, needless to say) years I used to dream vividly about hunting deer with crosbow and start to slaughter them with a big ass knife andeating the almost still beating heart.

The dreams stopepd when I strated eating meat again.

Now I know what sign to wait for.  :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 08, 2011, 04:38:31 PM
When I was a vegetarian for two (teenage, needless to say) years I used to dream vividly about hunting deer with crosbow and start to slaughter them with a big ass knife andeating the almost still beating heart.

The dreams stopepd when I strated eating meat again.

Now I know what sign to wait for.  :autism:

When did you last eat meat, hyke?   :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 08, 2011, 04:50:09 PM
When I was a vegetarian for two (teenage, needless to say) years I used to dream vividly about hunting deer with crosbow and start to slaughter them with a big ass knife andeating the almost still beating heart.

The dreams stopepd when I strated eating meat again.

Now I know what sign to wait for.  :autism:

When did you last eat meat, hyke?   :orly:

Bit after I left the parental house, so, I guess at 19.
From around 6 till then I had only eaten the bare minimum of meat.
Change of butchers at age 6 completely put me off.
I did love homegrown chicken though. That taste hadn't changed of course.

And, I have to say, a real chicken still smells delicious when being prepared. The watery fast grown ones make me almost sick when I smell them being cooked.
That smell is soo different.

I do still eat fish, and want to keep that up. My digestive system is not that well adjusted to meat anymore. That's what made me stop eating meat completely around 19. I got sick every time I ate meat. Don't want that to happen with fish too.

I have tried to learn my kids to eat meat, and fish, but, they have become very strict vegetarians.  :asthing:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 08, 2011, 04:55:15 PM
When I was a vegetarian for two (teenage, needless to say) years I used to dream vividly about hunting deer with crosbow and start to slaughter them with a big ass knife andeating the almost still beating heart.

The dreams stopepd when I strated eating meat again.

Wow...I've heard of vegetarians going back to meat because it's what their bodies needed, but your story is in a class by itelf!
Have you ever used a crossbow and a big hunting knife in real life, or did they just appear in your dreams?    :nerd!:
 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 08, 2011, 04:55:37 PM
I will be gravely confused by the new bills.
200crowns bills? Why? It'll only jack upp the prices and....yeah...make me confused.

Do any of you non-swedish ppl regonize these guys?

(http://www.sydsvenskan-img.se/archive/00941/Sedlar_941973k.jpg)

Dag = UN leader
Bergman = director
Garbo = actress
Nillson = opera singer
Evert, I assume is a musician
Astria, I assume is a novelist or poet
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 08, 2011, 04:56:29 PM
Evert had his summer house only few kilometers from where I live.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 08, 2011, 05:01:10 PM
Nilson and Taube are not triggering a thing in my memory.

But, Hammerskjold and Lindgren I have read things of them. (Only small bits of the first)  It would be nearly impossible never to have heard of Garbo and Bergman I think.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 08, 2011, 05:03:50 PM
Evert Taube (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evert_Taube)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on April 09, 2011, 05:05:05 AM
When I was a vegetarian for two (teenage, needless to say) years I used to dream vividly about hunting deer with crosbow and start to slaughter them with a big ass knife andeating the almost still beating heart.

The dreams stopepd when I strated eating meat again.

Wow...I've heard of vegetarians going back to meat because it's what their bodies needed, but your story is in a class by itelf!
Have you ever used a crossbow and a big hunting knife in real life, or did they just appear in your dreams?    :nerd!:
 

Only in my dreams.
But it's not too late yet  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on April 09, 2011, 05:08:56 AM
I will be gravely confused by the new bills.
200crowns bills? Why? It'll only jack upp the prices and....yeah...make me confused.

Do any of you non-swedish ppl regonize these guys?

(http://www.sydsvenskan-img.se/archive/00941/Sedlar_941973k.jpg)

Dag = UN leader
Bergman = director
Garbo = actress
Nillson = opera singer
Evert, I assume is a musician
Astria, I assume is a novelist or poet

Astrid Lindgren is the author of Pippi Longstocking and...hm...I don't know what other characters are known outside of Sweden...The brothers Lionheart perhaps, Mio in the land of Faraway and Ronia the robbers daughter.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 09, 2011, 05:10:27 AM
Lotta in Troublemaker Street. :toporly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 09, 2011, 05:13:58 AM
And Eeeeeemil.....! :arrr:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 09, 2011, 05:19:06 AM
 :viking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap10T00_sOE
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 09, 2011, 07:15:12 AM
When I was a vegetarian for two (teenage, needless to say) years I used to dream vividly about hunting deer with crosbow and start to slaughter them with a big ass knife andeating the almost still beating heart.

The dreams stopepd when I strated eating meat again.

Wow...I've heard of vegetarians going back to meat because it's what their bodies needed, but your story is in a class by itelf!
Have you ever used a crossbow and a big hunting knife in real life, or did they just appear in your dreams?    :nerd!:
 

Only in my dreams.
But it's not too late yet  :laugh:

Luckily for me, I look nothing like a deer! So happy hunting, I say!   :snowman:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on April 09, 2011, 11:06:59 AM
When I was a vegetarian for two (teenage, needless to say) years I used to dream vividly about hunting deer with crosbow and start to slaughter them with a big ass knife andeating the almost still beating heart.

The dreams stopepd when I strated eating meat again.

Wow...I've heard of vegetarians going back to meat because it's what their bodies needed, but your story is in a class by itelf!
Have you ever used a crossbow and a big hunting knife in real life, or did they just appear in your dreams?    :nerd!:
 

Only in my dreams.
But it's not too late yet  :laugh:

Luckily for me, I look nothing like a deer! So happy hunting, I say!   :snowman:

Oh, I guess I'll just start by...hm...aquiering a crossbow for one, then hiding in the woods shooting at dead objects.
Only thing is I'm not very fond of the outdoors.
Not when I'm sober at least...so I guess I'll have a bottle of vermouth before I head out.

This could be exciting...
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'Butterflies' on April 09, 2011, 08:30:10 PM
I grew up near where another famous Swede lived. Alfred Nobels old house is a couple of miles from where I was brought up, and he had a factory, The Westquarter Chemical Factory where they made explosives and detonators. It was only a few minutes walk from where I grew up. It was derelect when I was a kid, and we would play in it. It was all overgrown and was really spooky. There was an underground bunker, but it was sealed up and we could never manage to open it :grrr:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 10, 2011, 01:28:47 AM
Alfred was  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 10, 2011, 01:33:16 AM
I was so drunk last night that I see some posts that I don't even remember I made.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on April 10, 2011, 01:34:01 AM
I'm watching football and I just googled the player I'm perving on.

He's younger than my son.  :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 10, 2011, 01:38:54 AM
 :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on April 10, 2011, 01:42:23 AM
I was so drunk last night that I see some posts that I don't even remember I made.  :viking:

LOL...don't you hate that!

Sounds like you and Odeon got on it a bit.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 10, 2011, 01:44:55 AM
 :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Eclair on April 10, 2011, 02:41:21 AM
I'm watching TV and they have a story on about Greg Page (The Yellow Wiggle)...and how sad it is that he lost a substantial amount of his millions in the GFC.

He may have to sell his Elvis memorabilia collection, the 4th largest in the world. ::)

How am I supposed to feel sad about this? Why are they portraying this as a sad story?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 10, 2011, 05:08:29 AM
:o

:eyelash:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 10, 2011, 06:02:52 AM
I was so drunk last night that I see some posts that I don't even remember I made.  :viking:

You and odeon should get together and commiserate later, with ice bags on your aching heads.   :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 10, 2011, 07:25:53 AM
My town is one of the few around here where the settlers bought the land from the natives instead of just taking it
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 10, 2011, 10:07:21 AM
I was so drunk last night that I see some posts that I don't even remember I made.  :viking:

Does that mean I have to give back the diamond ring you gave me last night?  :(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 10, 2011, 10:09:09 AM
 :indeed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 10, 2011, 10:09:28 AM
I was so drunk last night that I see some posts that I don't even remember I made.  :viking:

Does that mean I have to give back the diamond ring you gave me last night?  :(

Awww, I'm sure Lit will be a gentleman and let you keep it as a token of his devotion.  :hug:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 10, 2011, 10:10:30 AM
He's already said no, the heart breaker.  I just hope he'll be a good father to the twins we're going to have.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 10, 2011, 10:10:52 AM
:indeed:

HEY! I just told Queen Victoria that you would let her keep the ring! Don't make me get mean!  :dom:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 10, 2011, 10:13:14 AM
He's already said no, the heart breaker.  I just hope he'll be a good father to the twins we're going to have.

Awww, twins? That's adorable! They'll be little Royal Vikings, with the best traits of each parent! A dynasty is born!  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 10, 2011, 10:50:36 AM
He's already said no, the heart breaker.  I just hope he'll be a good father to the twins we're going to have.

Awww, twins? That's adorable! They'll be little Royal Vikings, with the best traits of each parent! A dynasty is born!  :viking:


And now I am wondering if they will get a cute little pony ass, or a dignified royal butt, sign of accumulated wisdom. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 10, 2011, 10:51:59 AM
:toporly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on April 10, 2011, 01:50:29 PM
He's already said no, the heart breaker.  I just hope he'll be a good father to the twins we're going to have.

Awww, twins? That's adorable! They'll be little Royal Vikings, with the best traits of each parent! A dynasty is born!  :viking:
William The Conqueror was of Norsemen stock.  :viking: And a brutal bastard too.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 12, 2011, 11:48:32 AM
I got laser-gunned the other day.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 12, 2011, 11:50:51 AM
Getting laser-gunned is  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 12, 2011, 11:53:24 AM
Getting laser-gunned is  :viking:

I tried to race as fast as I could, but they didn't book me for speeding.  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 12, 2011, 12:34:39 PM
Took me years to get my first speeding ticket. I've been caught on laser a few times but always got away... until that faithful day in January, a little more than three years ago.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 12, 2011, 12:41:50 PM
You must get revenge on a road sign.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 12, 2011, 12:42:49 PM
It's in a very well lit area.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on April 12, 2011, 12:45:13 PM
Well lit areas are not  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 12, 2011, 12:46:44 PM
It's very unlit here. I'm the only lit thing in my area. :toporly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on April 12, 2011, 01:32:23 PM
I'm at hospital on Friday 13th lol (at the clinic, not any of the other stuff)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on April 12, 2011, 01:57:16 PM


I got laser-gunned the other day.


(http://i566.photobucket.com/albums/ss102/konpie/azerz-pew-pew-pew.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 12, 2011, 03:39:29 PM
I grew up near where another famous Swede lived. Alfred Nobels old house is a couple of miles from where I was brought up, and he had a factory, The Westquarter Chemical Factory where they made explosives and detonators. It was only a few minutes walk from where I grew up. It was derelect when I was a kid, and we would play in it. It was all overgrown and was really spooky. There was an underground bunker, but it was sealed up and we could never manage to open it :grrr:

Awesome  :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 12, 2011, 08:09:15 PM
My useless fact is that there are no useless facts. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 13, 2011, 01:24:33 AM
It's in a very well lit area.

You must shoot the lampposts first.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 13, 2011, 11:23:55 AM
Shooting lampposts is.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 13, 2011, 11:25:43 AM
Copper salts are the only salts used in pyrotechnics that (to some degree) ressemble the colour of the flame they will have when in a mixture. All other colour donors are plain white salts.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 13, 2011, 11:28:51 AM
You used to be able to buy copper sulfate for killing roots growing into your sewer pipes but it is illegal in Ct now
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 13, 2011, 11:29:46 AM
Wtf? It's even legal in Sweden.  ???
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on April 13, 2011, 02:33:24 PM
i have never ever seen,  or reported to have seen, the Loch Ness Monster!

uncanny?  i know :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 13, 2011, 02:35:05 PM
Nessie is  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on April 13, 2011, 02:47:17 PM
Nessie is not brave enough to show me his tinky winky :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Squidusa on April 13, 2011, 02:52:25 PM
Nessie is not brave enough to show me his tinky winky :zoinks:

I don't think Nessie is of any relation to scrap dear.  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on April 13, 2011, 02:58:20 PM
Nessie is not brave enough to show me his tinky winky :zoinks:

I don't think Nessie is of any relation to scrap dear.  :orly:
:good:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 13, 2011, 04:21:39 PM
Wtf? It's even legal in Sweden.  ???

Illegal to sell for that application I should say
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 13, 2011, 05:43:07 PM
i have never ever seen,  or reported to have seen, the Loch Ness Monster!

uncanny?  i know :zoinks:

But you live in England, and the Loch Ness Monster lives in Scotland!  You're in the wrong naighborhood.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on April 13, 2011, 06:14:29 PM
John W. Booth was  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on April 13, 2011, 06:41:17 PM
John W. Boothe was  :viking:

The man who shot Abraham Lincoln?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 13, 2011, 08:17:35 PM
John W. Boothe was  :viking:

I dunno about that.  He acted pretty cowardly once the deed was done.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on April 13, 2011, 08:34:25 PM
John W. Boothe was  :viking:

I dunno about that.  He acted pretty cowardly once the deed was done.
I don't consider trying to get to the South and then refusing to surrender when the barn was surrounded cowardly. Is your assessment of his courage based on his motivations, or his actions?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 13, 2011, 08:39:22 PM
John W. Boothe was  :viking:

I dunno about that.  He acted pretty cowardly once the deed was done.
I don't consider trying to get to the South and then refusing to surrender when the barn was surrounded cowardly. Is your assessment of his courage based on his motivations, or his actions?

Have you watched the recent "American Experience" on the Lincoln Assassination?  It was pretty good.

I think in general it was the running that I found to be cowardly.  The Civil War had just ended.  If you wanted to kill for your cause you should be willing to die for your cause, just like all the Confederates he claimed to represent.  Men who lined up across a field and took turns shooting at each other without retreating or seeking cover.  Sneaking around and shooting a man from behind and then running is less  :viking: than  :tinfoil:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on April 13, 2011, 08:47:57 PM
John W. Boothe was  :viking:

I dunno about that.  He acted pretty cowardly once the deed was done.
I don't consider trying to get to the South and then refusing to surrender when the barn was surrounded cowardly. Is your assessment of his courage based on his motivations, or his actions?

Have you watched the recent "American Experience" on the Lincoln Assassination?  It was pretty good.

I think in general it was the running that I found to be cowardly.  The Civil War had just ended.  If you wanted to kill for your cause you should be willing to die for your cause, just like all the Confederates he claimed to represent.  Men who lined up across a field and took turns shooting at each other without retreating or seeking cover.  Sneaking around and shooting a man from behind and then running is less  :viking: than  :tinfoil:
OTOH successfully assassinating someone and getting away to be an ongoing thorn in their side is more likely to get others to try and emulate that action. When the SOE team that assassinated Heydrich sought to escape afterward rather than fall on their swords were they cowards? Or Claus von Stauffenberg for leaving the staff meeting?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 14, 2011, 12:01:42 AM
Assasinating a head of state or secret service chief is  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on April 14, 2011, 12:13:18 AM
Assasinating a head of state or secret service chief is  :viking:
:agreed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 14, 2011, 02:14:08 PM
Only 10 more months until Valentine's Day.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 14, 2011, 02:15:54 PM
Only 10 more months until Valentine's Day.

    ^ A useless fact about a useless day!  :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: d_olson27 on April 14, 2011, 02:58:26 PM
In fact, it's 261 days until Valentine's Day.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on April 14, 2011, 03:51:11 PM
There is something seriously wrong with people who try to cheat when playing Peek-A-Boo!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 14, 2011, 03:52:46 PM
There is something seriously wrong with people who try to cheat when playing Peek-A-Boo!

  Some people can't stand to lose at anything!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 14, 2011, 04:27:58 PM
There is something seriously wrong with people who try to cheat when playing Peek-A-Boo!

This made me laugh.

Very accurate observation.  :laugh:

Thank you.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on April 14, 2011, 10:21:51 PM
Holy shit, I got a 1.8 MB a second download rate. I got a movie in 10 minutes.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on April 15, 2011, 08:54:08 AM
Holy shit, I got a 1.8 MB a second download rate. I got a movie in 10 minutes.

Sorry, but that seems like quarter speed to me.

 :asthing:


I assume you visit a few servers that restrict download speeds?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on April 15, 2011, 10:31:23 AM
I'm mildly dyslaclculectic so I won't even begin to count how may days are left to Steak&BJ Day. (March 14)

http://www.steakandbjday.com/
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on April 15, 2011, 02:53:09 PM
The colour of gondolas in Venice can only be black. (they must be by law.. since the second half of the 17th century.. )
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 15, 2011, 03:00:58 PM
It's illegal to drink in Venezuela before 11 AM.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 15, 2011, 03:03:09 PM
Judges started wearing black robes to mourn the death of Queen Anne in 1714.  Before then, any color was okay, even red. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 15, 2011, 03:07:02 PM
Murder was legal in Sweden until about 1200.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on April 15, 2011, 03:08:59 PM
Mussels that didn't open, while most others did open after cooking them properly, are perfectly well edible. They're just a lot tougher, let's say muscle-wise, than the others.

Oh, those already open before cooking are bad though.

(did know this but S. Fry just mentioned it again on QI)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 15, 2011, 03:10:59 PM
Copper has its name from the island Cyprus.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 15, 2011, 03:55:27 PM
Murder was legal in Sweden until about 1200.

Murder was (essentially) legal in the US until the mid-1800's.  You could shoot a man in the back at a saloon if he had given you proper provocation.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 15, 2011, 03:56:43 PM
Everywhere? And how would you prove that there was "proper provocation"?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 15, 2011, 03:59:13 PM
Everywhere? And how would you prove that there was "proper provocation"?

Mainly in the western territories.  You would still go to trial, but would not be convicted if you could convince the jury that you were provoked.  Depending on the jury this could be as little as calling someone a name or spitting on them.

These same territories would hang you for stealing a horse or cattle.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 15, 2011, 04:03:50 PM
Everywhere? And how would you prove that there was "proper provocation"?

Mainly in the western territories.  You would still go to trial, but would not be convicted if you could convince the jury that you were provoked.  Depending on the jury this could be as little as calling someone a name or spitting on them.

These same territories would hang you for stealing a horse or cattle.

Thank god for their sense of what really mattered. ;D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 15, 2011, 04:06:35 PM
Everywhere? And how would you prove that there was "proper provocation"?

Mainly in the western territories.  You would still go to trial, but would not be convicted if you could convince the jury that you were provoked.  Depending on the jury this could be as little as calling someone a name or spitting on them.

These same territories would hang you for stealing a horse or cattle.

Thank god for their sense of what really mattered. ;D

It hasn't changed all that much.  In the US property crimes still have higher penalties except for drugs (or if the criminal wears a suit to work and steals millions at a time)

My sister's ex-boyfriend held her and their baby daughter hostage at gunpoint for half an afternoon until the cops kicked down the door and arrested him.  He was given 6 months for taking them hostage and 6 years because the gun he used was stolen.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 15, 2011, 04:08:22 PM
WTF?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 15, 2011, 04:10:56 PM
WTF?

That's what I asked.  He was released on parole after 4 years and immediately stole a car, got wasted on something and passed out in an intersection.  Now he is doing another ten years in the clink.  Good thing he didn't run someone over or they might have tacked on another few months.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 15, 2011, 04:14:55 PM
WTF?

That's what I asked.  He was released on parole after 4 years and immediately stole a car, got wasted on something and passed out in an intersection.  Now he is doing another ten years in the clink.  Good thing he didn't run someone over or they might have tacked on another few months.

And if he had a joint on him they probably would have added  two years :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 15, 2011, 04:18:11 PM
Weird. In Sweden it would have been the taking of hostage that was a serious crime. Illegal possession of a gun isn't that serious, despite the strict gun law. Possession of a joint wouldn't give prison at all.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 15, 2011, 04:19:27 PM
WTF?

That's what I asked.  He was released on parole after 4 years and immediately stole a car, got wasted on something and passed out in an intersection.  Now he is doing another ten years in the clink.  Good thing he didn't run someone over or they might have tacked on another few months.

I've never been one to endorse guns but what that guy would need is the kind of justice once offered in the western territories.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 15, 2011, 04:19:59 PM
Weird. In Sweden it would have been the taking of hostage that was a serious crime. Illegal possession of a gun isn't that serious, despite the strict gun law. Possession of a joint wouldn't give prison at all.

We sometimes do get it right.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 15, 2011, 04:20:56 PM
 :agreed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 15, 2011, 04:21:52 PM
WTF?

That's what I asked.  He was released on parole after 4 years and immediately stole a car, got wasted on something and passed out in an intersection.  Now he is doing another ten years in the clink.  Good thing he didn't run someone over or they might have tacked on another few months.

I've never been one to endorse guns but what that guy would need is the kind of justice once offered in the western territories.

The prison he is in is privately run, and affectionately referred to by the local media as "gladiator school".   :ATM:

He may yet get what is coming to him.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 15, 2011, 04:23:22 PM
I hope so.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Isabitch on April 15, 2011, 09:21:32 PM
Male cats have spines on their penises which makes withdrawal painful for the female cat and the reason they always screech during mating.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 16, 2011, 08:38:52 AM
Male cats have spines on their penises which makes withdrawal painful for the female cat and the reason they always screech during mating.

That is hardly a useless fact if you are a female cat.  A little warning goes a long way  :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 16, 2011, 09:27:52 AM
When Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden in 1814, the Swedish negotiator didn't know that the Färö islands, Iceland and Greenland were originally Norwegian territories. Thus Denmark kept these lands. To this very day Greenland is still a part of Denmark. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 16, 2011, 12:51:54 PM
Less than 10 medications from 1890 are still in use with original composition and label. One of them is Aspirin, the original from Bayer (back then Bayer and Villiger). The box still looks like it did in original and the composition is the same.  :viking:

(http://fidgie.spotlife.se/files/2011/04/aspirin-300x175.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 16, 2011, 01:29:13 PM
The age of consent in Tennessee is 18.

Bestiality was only legal in Tennessee until 2007, and is now a felony.

Someone is up shit creek on both accounts.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 16, 2011, 01:40:28 PM
Bestiality is legal in Sweden since 1944.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 17, 2011, 07:36:50 AM
When you launch a firework shell from a mortar, you should, unlike when you fire any kind of gun, have a small "glitch" between the pipe and the shell. This is due to the low density of firework shells; the atmospherical pressure equals 11 m of mercury(!), so quite some gas from the lift should be allowed to pass around the shell to decrease the local air pressure. The recently passed away Takeo Shimizu, the Grand Master of fireworks all times and categories made a table for this.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 17, 2011, 12:52:23 PM
In 5 more posts I become a full fledged whore.  Maybe I get new stars or something, time will tell.  :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Isabitch on April 17, 2011, 01:17:18 PM
My cats are poop machines.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 17, 2011, 02:28:08 PM
Antarctica has lots of snow.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on April 21, 2011, 07:07:59 AM
Where do the happiest people in the world live? They released results on the news this morning. The top 3 countries where people report being happiest with their life:

1. Denmark
2. Canada & Sweden (tied)
3. Australia

The bottom two in the poll were Chad and Kenya.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 21, 2011, 07:17:45 AM
You can not buy lottery tickets in South Carolina after 10pm  yet you can get all the beer and fireworks you want at gas stations
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 21, 2011, 08:29:52 AM
Where do the happiest people in the world live? They released results on the news this morning. The top 3 countries where people report being happiest with their life:

1. Denmark
2. Canada & Sweden (tied)
3. Australia

The bottom two in the poll were Chad and Kenya.

Depends very much on how you count. Regarding social security, yes, probably. Regarding happiness as a subjective feeling, I'd be very sceptical, at least what Sweden concerns.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 21, 2011, 07:30:16 PM
The closest Waffle House to my house is 169miles :'(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 21, 2011, 07:40:21 PM
The closest Waffle House to my house is 169miles :'(

You have my sympathy.  I only have to travel about 12 miles.  When I was a child and we traveled between Houston and New Orleans my parents would never stop at Stuckeys (maybe once or twice in an emergency).  When I started driving I made damn sure I stopped at every Stuckeys I could.  Now that Stuckeys are no more, we stop at Waffle House when we travel.  The menu covers all meals and the cooking is fairly consistent.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: d_olson27 on April 21, 2011, 10:33:52 PM
Catnip will affect any kind of feline, up to and including tigers.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 21, 2011, 10:36:27 PM
Catnip will affect any kind of feline, up to and including tigers.

 I've heard some felines (individuals, not breeds) are not affected by catnip at all.  Is that true?   :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: d_olson27 on April 21, 2011, 10:39:10 PM
Catnip will affect any kind of feline, up to and including tigers.

 I've heard some felines (individuals, not breeds) are not affected by catnip at all.  Is that true?   :orly:

No idea. I could see it, though.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on April 22, 2011, 03:54:45 AM
We don't have waffle houses in Sweden.

We do have a tradition during the easter week, that on thursday the kids dress up as påskkärringar (easterbitches, roughly translated) wich looks like kind little red-cheaked witches on brooms and they go from house to house giving out badly painted easter cards and getting candy in return.

I'm sure there are similar traditions in the other nordiv countries....?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 22, 2011, 03:59:20 AM
And we have Easter fireworks, at least in some parts of Sweden.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 22, 2011, 05:07:29 AM
A firework shell bursting in the mortar is called a "flowerpot". :toporly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 22, 2011, 10:30:50 AM
Catnip will affect any kind of feline, up to and including tigers.

 I've heard some felines (individuals, not breeds) are not affected by catnip at all.  Is that true?   :orly:

Yes.  It is similar in activity to marijuana, just specific to feline neurochemistry.  For some individuals nothing happens.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 22, 2011, 11:54:58 AM
Baltimore smells bad
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on April 23, 2011, 05:56:11 AM
Very early in today's morning I made a bid for this bike.. (see link*).. suppose to be good bikes but he wants more that I offered.. (mmmm, think I'm going to email him back offering an even lower price now)  (nah)

http://fietsen-brommers.marktplaats.nl/fietsen-mountainbikes-en-atb/442172960-mountainbike-intersens-shimano-deore.html (http://fietsen-brommers.marktplaats.nl/fietsen-mountainbikes-en-atb/442172960-mountainbike-intersens-shimano-deore.html)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on April 23, 2011, 06:27:44 AM
Very early in today's morning I made a bid for this bike.. (see link*).. suppose to be good bikes but he wants more that I offered.. (mmmm, think I'm going to email him back offering an even lower price now)  (nah)

http://fietsen-brommers.marktplaats.nl/fietsen-mountainbikes-en-atb/442172960-mountainbike-intersens-shimano-deore.html (http://fietsen-brommers.marktplaats.nl/fietsen-mountainbikes-en-atb/442172960-mountainbike-intersens-shimano-deore.html)

That looks like a nice mountain bike in good condition, but 345 Euros sounds kind of expensive.  How much did you offer?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on April 23, 2011, 06:58:56 AM
€274 I've offered for the bike (which is almost $400). Via email he says he wants €295. Thinking about if I should check the bike out and maybe go for it when it looks/rides OK.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on April 23, 2011, 07:06:24 AM
€274 I've offered for the bike (which is almost $400). Via email he says he wants €295. Thinking about if I should check the bike out and maybe go for it when it looks/rides OK.

You're really not that far apart on the price, just €21.  I think that if you want the bike, you need to check it out anyway.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on April 23, 2011, 07:16:49 AM
Yep. (thanks) Well, going to shower now, get some groceries after that and write him an email back after dinner to set up a date to check the bike out. (€21 is about peanuts.. yes.. )

Um, really fancy long bike rides through nearby forest areas now.. (http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii269/theogrit/1sm463bike.gif) (hee hee)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 23, 2011, 02:30:54 PM
A VW "Beetle" is unexpectedly "thirsty"; its 1 litre engine craves about 25% more petrol than a 2.5 liter motor in a modern Volvo, that is almost twice as heavy and has at least twice as many horsepowers.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on April 23, 2011, 02:59:24 PM
My dreamcar is a beetle. Preferably from -56 or sometime around there.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 23, 2011, 06:22:29 PM
My dreamcar is a beetle. Preferably from -56 or sometime around there.



I remember back in 61 or 62 my girlfriend's parents bought a VW Microbus.  No, they weren't early hippies.  They had 9 kids. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 23, 2011, 10:47:16 PM
A completely useless fact - my grandfather is dying from AML, and his children are useless, and all the responsibility of giving him whatever comfort and support that is possible at this moment is falling on two of his grandchildren.  At least I'm not completely alone.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on April 23, 2011, 11:14:41 PM
My dreamcar is a beetle. Preferably from -56 or sometime around there.
I would like a Mini, one of the new ones.

A completely useless fact - my grandfather is dying from AML, and his children are useless, and all the responsibility of giving him whatever comfort and support that is possible at this moment is falling on two of his grandchildren.  At least I'm not completely alone.
That is sad. :(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on April 24, 2011, 03:40:52 AM
A completely useless fact - my grandfather is dying from AML, and his children are useless, and all the responsibility of giving him whatever comfort and support that is possible at this moment is falling on two of his grandchildren.  At least I'm not completely alone.

That's awful, MLA.  How many children and grandchidren does he have?

I remember a pastor saying that it was sad when a parent could take care of seven children yet seven children couldn't take care of one parent.

Has your grandfather had chemotherapy?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on April 24, 2011, 04:31:37 AM
the shower door is broken
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 24, 2011, 08:45:22 AM
A completely useless fact - my grandfather is dying from AML, and his children are useless, and all the responsibility of giving him whatever comfort and support that is possible at this moment is falling on two of his grandchildren.  At least I'm not completely alone.

That's awful, MLA.  How many children and grandchidren does he have?

I remember a pastor saying that it was sad when a parent could take care of seven children yet seven children couldn't take care of one parent.

Has your grandfather had chemotherapy?

He has three sons and 6 grandchildren.  At his age (86) the oncologist does not recommend chemotherapy.  It is just going to take its course.  They gave him 3 months to live, back in December.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Al Swearegen on April 24, 2011, 08:47:52 AM
A completely useless fact - my grandfather is dying from AML, and his children are useless, and all the responsibility of giving him whatever comfort and support that is possible at this moment is falling on two of his grandchildren.  At least I'm not completely alone.

That's awful, MLA.  How many children and grandchidren does he have?

I remember a pastor saying that it was sad when a parent could take care of seven children yet seven children couldn't take care of one parent.

Has your grandfather had chemotherapy?

He has three sons and 6 grandchildren.  At his age (86) the oncologist does not recommend chemotherapy.  It is just going to take its course.  They gave him 3 months to live, back in December.

What is AML?

Sorry he is dying in a bad way and that his support is diminished
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on April 24, 2011, 10:46:51 AM
A completely useless fact - my grandfather is dying from AML, and his children are useless, and all the responsibility of giving him whatever comfort and support that is possible at this moment is falling on two of his grandchildren.  At least I'm not completely alone.

That's awful, MLA.  How many children and grandchidren does he have?

I remember a pastor saying that it was sad when a parent could take care of seven children yet seven children couldn't take care of one parent.

Has your grandfather had chemotherapy?

He has three sons and 6 grandchildren.  At his age (86) the oncologist does not recommend chemotherapy.  It is just going to take its course.  They gave him 3 months to live, back in December.

What is AML?

Sorry he is dying in a bad way and that his support is diminished

I was assuming that MLA meant Acute Myeloid Leukemia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_myeloid_leukemia).

Quote
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), also known as acute myelogenous leukemia, is a cancer of the myeloid line of blood cells, characterized by the rapid growth of abnormal white blood cells that accumulate in the bone marrow and interfere with the production of normal blood cells. AML is the most common acute leukemia affecting adults, and its incidence increases with age. Although AML is a relatively rare disease, accounting for approximately 1.2% of cancer deaths in the United States,[1] its incidence is expected to increase as the population ages.

The symptoms of AML are caused by replacement of normal bone marrow with leukemic cells, which causes a drop in red blood cells, platelets, and normal white blood cells. These symptoms include fatigue, shortness of breath, easy bruising and bleeding, and increased risk of infection. Several risk factors and chromosomal abnormalities have been identified, but the specific cause isn't clear. As an acute leukemia, AML progresses rapidly and is typically fatal within weeks or months if left untreated.

AML has several subtypes; treatment and prognosis varies among subtypes. Five-year survival varies from 15–70%, and relapse rate varies from 78–33%, depending on subtype. AML is treated initially with chemotherapy aimed at inducing a remission; patients may go on to receive additional chemotherapy or a hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Recent research into the genetics of AML has resulted in the availability of tests that can predict which drug or drugs may work best for a particular patient, as well as how long that patient is likely to survive.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 24, 2011, 12:05:13 PM
Where do the happiest people in the world live? They released results on the news this morning. The top 3 countries where people report being happiest with their life:

1. Denmark
2. Canada & Sweden (tied)
3. Australia

The bottom two in the poll were Chad and Kenya.

Interesting. My daughter wants to move to the UK.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 24, 2011, 12:06:45 PM
A VW "Beetle" is unexpectedly "thirsty"; its 1 litre engine craves about 25% more petrol than a 2.5 liter motor in a modern Volvo, that is almost twice as heavy and has at least twice as many horsepowers.

Yet the modern Volvo is generally considered to be "thirsty".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 24, 2011, 12:07:47 PM
A VW "Beetle" is unexpectedly "thirsty"; its 1 litre engine craves about 25% more petrol than a 2.5 liter motor in a modern Volvo, that is almost twice as heavy and has at least twice as many horsepowers.

Yet the modern Volvo is generally considered to be "thirsty".

Yep. Depends on what you compare it to.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 24, 2011, 12:51:42 PM
A completely useless fact - my grandfather is dying from AML, and his children are useless, and all the responsibility of giving him whatever comfort and support that is possible at this moment is falling on two of his grandchildren.  At least I'm not completely alone.

That's awful, MLA.  How many children and grandchidren does he have?

I remember a pastor saying that it was sad when a parent could take care of seven children yet seven children couldn't take care of one parent.

Has your grandfather had chemotherapy?

He has three sons and 6 grandchildren.  At his age (86) the oncologist does not recommend chemotherapy.  It is just going to take its course.  They gave him 3 months to live, back in December.

What is AML?

Sorry he is dying in a bad way and that his support is diminished

I was assuming that MLA meant Acute Myeloid Leukemia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_myeloid_leukemia).

Quote
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), also known as acute myelogenous leukemia, is a cancer of the myeloid line of blood cells, characterized by the rapid growth of abnormal white blood cells that accumulate in the bone marrow and interfere with the production of normal blood cells. AML is the most common acute leukemia affecting adults, and its incidence increases with age. Although AML is a relatively rare disease, accounting for approximately 1.2% of cancer deaths in the United States,[1] its incidence is expected to increase as the population ages.

The symptoms of AML are caused by replacement of normal bone marrow with leukemic cells, which causes a drop in red blood cells, platelets, and normal white blood cells. These symptoms include fatigue, shortness of breath, easy bruising and bleeding, and increased risk of infection. Several risk factors and chromosomal abnormalities have been identified, but the specific cause isn't clear. As an acute leukemia, AML progresses rapidly and is typically fatal within weeks or months if left untreated.

AML has several subtypes; treatment and prognosis varies among subtypes. Five-year survival varies from 15–70%, and relapse rate varies from 78–33%, depending on subtype. AML is treated initially with chemotherapy aimed at inducing a remission; patients may go on to receive additional chemotherapy or a hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Recent research into the genetics of AML has resulted in the availability of tests that can predict which drug or drugs may work best for a particular patient, as well as how long that patient is likely to survive.

Yes, this.  Very bad and untreatable at his age.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 24, 2011, 12:57:34 PM
Sorry to hear it. :(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on April 24, 2011, 02:35:57 PM
Don't know what to say other than.. me too, I'm sorry to hear that, MLA.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on April 24, 2011, 05:04:17 PM
I'm sorry that this has happened, MLA.  It's hard to lose someone you love, no matter what their age.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on April 24, 2011, 05:29:56 PM
Yes, that's sad. Shame you aren't getting more family support.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 24, 2011, 07:30:24 PM
Thanks everyone.  It just sucks that the generation above mine is basically abdicating their responsibility.  They will show up to collect the (very large) sum of money when it is all over, but ask them to show up and act like they give a damn and they are nowhere to be seen.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on April 24, 2011, 11:27:52 PM
Thanks everyone.  It just sucks that the generation above mine is basically abdicating their responsibility.  They will show up to collect the (very large) sum of money when it is all over, but ask them to show up and act like they give a damn and they are nowhere to be seen.

Based on my limited experience with Mormons, it's very surprising to me that they would behave with such a total lack of compassion to their own father.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 25, 2011, 09:05:01 AM
I'm sorry MLA.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on April 25, 2011, 09:06:38 AM
JOSEPH SMITH WAS A PROPHET DUM DUM DUM DUM DUMMMMMB

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2705/4522029444_308fe30504_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Al Swearegen on April 25, 2011, 09:14:29 AM
Take care MLA
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 25, 2011, 10:24:38 AM
Thanks everyone.  It just sucks that the generation above mine is basically abdicating their responsibility.  They will show up to collect the (very large) sum of money when it is all over, but ask them to show up and act like they give a damn and they are nowhere to be seen.

Based on my limited experience with Mormons, it's very surprising to me that they would behave with such a total lack of compassion to their own father.

This is happening on my father's side.  The Mormons are on my mother's side.  They are both dying right now, but my paternal grandfather seems to be going much more quickly and is far more distressed about it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 25, 2011, 10:25:05 AM
Thanks everyone.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 25, 2011, 10:31:12 AM
Thanks everyone.  It just sucks that the generation above mine is basically abdicating their responsibility.  They will show up to collect the (very large) sum of money when it is all over, but ask them to show up and act like they give a damn and they are nowhere to be seen.

Based on my limited experience with Mormons, it's very surprising to me that they would behave with such a total lack of compassion to their own father.

This is happening on my father's side.  The Mormons are on my mother's side.  They are both dying right now, but my paternal grandfather seems to be going much more quickly and is far more distressed about it.

I hope you and the other grandchild can make him a bit more at ease.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on April 25, 2011, 02:41:19 PM
Thanks everyone.  It just sucks that the generation above mine is basically abdicating their responsibility.  They will show up to collect the (very large) sum of money when it is all over, but ask them to show up and act like they give a damn and they are nowhere to be seen.

Based on my limited experience with Mormons, it's very surprising to me that they would behave with such a total lack of compassion to their own father.

This is happening on my father's side.  The Mormons are on my mother's side.  They are both dying right now, but my paternal grandfather seems to be going much more quickly and is far more distressed about it.

Oh, I thought that they were on both sides.  Sorry.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on April 25, 2011, 02:45:14 PM
I kinda miss zomg sometimes
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 25, 2011, 04:34:23 PM
Thanks everyone.  It just sucks that the generation above mine is basically abdicating their responsibility.  They will show up to collect the (very large) sum of money when it is all over, but ask them to show up and act like they give a damn and they are nowhere to be seen.

Based on my limited experience with Mormons, it's very surprising to me that they would behave with such a total lack of compassion to their own father.

This is happening on my father's side.  The Mormons are on my mother's side.  They are both dying right now, but my paternal grandfather seems to be going much more quickly and is far more distressed about it.

Oh, I thought that they were on both sides.  Sorry.

Nothing to be sorry about.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 25, 2011, 04:42:58 PM
I kinda miss zomg sometimes

You must be  :viking: and start it anew.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 25, 2011, 04:50:51 PM
A hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 25, 2011, 04:52:16 PM
You can't see the difference between a male and female European robin, though the males are more prone to sing.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on April 25, 2011, 05:28:11 PM
I kinda miss zomg sometimes

You must be  :viking: and start it anew.

haha I would probably consider that if I had someone to start/run it with again. Being the only admin is really irritating/boring imo.

Also don't think I have the energy to build up and sustain a new forum from scratch. zomg got a lot of members early on from a wp exodus. Doubt many would join this time.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 25, 2011, 05:30:02 PM
I am an excellent admin. I'm even an admin on AspieChaos.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on April 25, 2011, 05:31:26 PM
Me too I think. was last time I checked anyway. I can't keep track of chaos tho - milla is always trying to get me to go back there, but I just can't get into it. Plus it all seems to be about cal and his harem of women :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 25, 2011, 05:33:31 PM
Cal is an idiot in my opinion. Buttcoffee on the other hand is really funny, and Soleiyu can be fun the few times he wants to show his good sides.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on April 25, 2011, 05:42:20 PM
is soleiyu on chaos?

buttcoffee is funny yeah, although I think he goes too far sometimes

I like Cal, but we disagree on a lot and he is definitely an ass sometimes. we have had our ups and downs, but I've known him longer than probably anyone else I still talk to online, and thing he's a good guy really
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 25, 2011, 05:43:53 PM
Cal is an idiot in my opinion. Buttcoffee on the other hand is really funny, and Soleiyu can be fun the few times he wants to show his good sides.

I've not seen you that hard on Sol before.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 26, 2011, 11:28:11 AM
Sol is an idiot.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on April 26, 2011, 02:07:59 PM
Yep, Sol's a bizarre chap, imo too. Do like Buttceebaby though.

Um, useless fact.. I still wonder why the Robin (Erithacus rubecula) is 'filled' under the Turdidae family.  :orly: Well, it doesn't compute with me. (but don't know which family it should be a member of instead though)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 26, 2011, 02:13:12 PM
Yep, Sol's a bizarre chap, imo too. Do like Buttceebaby though.

Um, useless fact.. I still wonder why the Robin (Erithacus rubecula) is 'filled' under the Turdidae family.  :orly: Well, it doesn't compute with me. (but don't know which family it should be a member of instead though)

Look at their behaviour. Robins act quite a bit like small thrushs. Though they are recently re-categorized as being members of the Muscicapidae family.  :toporly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on April 26, 2011, 02:22:31 PM
OK, they kinda act alike sometimes and I didn't know about them being re-categorized. To be honest I think the Muscicapidae
family is indeed a better fit. That's a pretty 'broad'-going family as it is. Turdidae fam. is very much less so, I think. (e.g. very similarly shaped, food preference, etc.. ) 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on April 26, 2011, 02:23:31 PM
In Nova Scotia you can find Sober Island. That would be located 30 miles away from Wine Harbor
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 26, 2011, 02:28:56 PM
In May 1945, just two weeks after "V-Day", Winston Churchill wanted the US, the UK, the Poles and even 100000 Germans to attack the Soviet Union: Operation Unthinkable (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable) The plans were cancelled, though, since the Soviets were superior 3:1 and the Americans were very unwilling to the plan and also feared that Japan, yet not defeated, would ally with the Soviet Union.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 26, 2011, 02:37:27 PM
I just like saying turd-a-day (keeps the doctors away).
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on April 26, 2011, 02:57:33 PM
Um, Turds-R-Us.. (a franchise chain selling yeah.. turds) (or or or a job intermediation company that's tries to find work for spazzies and other intelligent HFAers)

OK, too off tracky maybe..  :autism:

(carry on)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 26, 2011, 02:59:14 PM
Um, Turds-R-Us.. (a franchise chain selling yeah.. turds) (or or or a job intermediation company that's tries to find work for spazzies and other intelligent HFAers)

OK, too off tracky maybe..  :autism:

(carry on)

Now carrying turds is a bit much, so be picky what to carry when carrying on.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 26, 2011, 03:01:35 PM
Another Nova Scotia fact,  I love Nova Scotia

The munitions ship SS Mont-Blanc exploded in Halifax harbor in 1917 killing about 2000 people.  The explosion had an estimated yield of 2.9 kt which is in the range of a small tactical nuke
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 26, 2011, 03:02:45 PM
One of my relatives shot the last wolf in this province on the ice of a fiord in 1916.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 26, 2011, 03:04:56 PM
Wolves are off the endangered list in Idaho and Montana
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on April 26, 2011, 03:09:52 PM
Um, Turds-R-Us.. (a franchise chain selling yeah.. turds) (or or or a job intermediation company that's tries to find work for spazzies and other intelligent HFAers)

OK, too off tracky maybe..  :autism:

(carry on)

Now carrying turds is a bit much, so be picky what to carry when carrying on.

Um, thanks (for the advice) :LOL:

Other useless fact?

It's forbidden/prohibited to use 'human menure' to enrich the soil in Holland.
(have known a chap that did so to boast his garden marijuana plants) (eeeeeew)
(he had ridiculusly big plants though)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 26, 2011, 03:16:13 PM
Um, Turds-R-Us.. (a franchise chain selling yeah.. turds) (or or or a job intermediation company that's tries to find work for spazzies and other intelligent HFAers)

OK, too off tracky maybe..  :autism:

(carry on)

Now carrying turds is a bit much, so be picky what to carry when carrying on.

Um, thanks (for the advice) :LOL:

Other useless fact?

It's forbidden/prohibited to use 'human menure' to enrich the soil in Holland.
(have known a chap that did so to boast his garden marijuana plants) (eeeeeew)
(he had ridiculusly big plants though)

I 'heard' rumours that some garlic from China has been grown on soil enriched with human manure.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on April 26, 2011, 03:19:50 PM
Yep. (thanks) Well, going to shower now, get some groceries after that and write him an email back after dinner to set up a date to check the bike out. (€21 is about peanuts.. yes.. )

Um, really fancy long bike rides through nearby forest areas now.. (http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii269/theogrit/1sm463bike.gif) (hee hee)

Did you get the bike?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on April 26, 2011, 03:26:31 PM
^
^
Aaah, don't wanna know. (I use quite a lot of garlic in dishes and stuff like that tend to never leave my head after being heard)

~

Um, el mountainbike? I'm going to check out the bike coming Friday. Really hope it's a good bike for me.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 26, 2011, 03:32:45 PM
Mountainbike? You don't have any mountains in tulipland, do you?  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 26, 2011, 03:34:54 PM
^
^
Aaah, don't wanna know. (I use quite a lot of garlic in dishes and stuff like that tend to never leave my head after being heard)

~

Um, el mountainbike? I'm going to check out the bike coming Friday. Really hope it's a good bike for me.


LOL, me too. Spanish garlic is safe though. :D

I'm now trying to grow my own. Planted some cloves last autumn. If all goes as planned, I should be able to harvest some garlic at the end of summer.
Read later that there are types of garlic that fit Dutch conditions a lot better than the garlic that is sold in stores. Will have a look for that when I find the time. Would love lots and lots of garlic from my own garden.

Mostly use dried cow manure btw.  :asthing:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 26, 2011, 03:53:59 PM
Night soil is  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on April 26, 2011, 03:59:52 PM
Mountainbike? You don't have any mountains in tulipland, do you?  :orly:

Hey, I live in Bergen op Z.. and bergen, like in your language (bärga?) also I think, means mountains. Um, I have to climb up 'giant' hills up to 5 meters (above sea level). :LOL:

Nah, those bikes rid like smooth everywhere. Off track, through forests, even in the city.. good all rides kinda bike, in my opinion.

~

And yep, for an other useless facto.. Holland has indeed no mountains. Highest hill here is about 322 ms above sea level. I.e. the 'Vaalserberg' in the province called Limburg (S.E. part of Holland).
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 26, 2011, 04:01:29 PM
A mountain=ett berg
Two mountains=två berg
The mountain=berget
The mountains=bergen

 :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 26, 2011, 04:04:18 PM
Where I live, it is so flat, that indeed, a molehill does look like a mountain.  :autism: 


(apart from the dikes of course)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on April 26, 2011, 04:11:00 PM
^
^
Ah, even closer-by thus..

Eén berg, twee bergen in Dutch.. and yeah, mountains are called 'bergen' here idem ditto. 3 cheers for German based languages, I say.
 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 26, 2011, 04:20:19 PM
Germanic languages are  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on April 26, 2011, 05:34:25 PM
Germanic languages are  :viking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf8HRnViNHw
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 26, 2011, 05:47:05 PM
My wife can speak German
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on April 26, 2011, 06:17:06 PM
George Washington was deathly afraid of being buried alive. After he died, he wanted to be laid out for three days just to make sure he was dead.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on April 26, 2011, 06:18:01 PM
he shoulda been  :viking: and got cremated
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 26, 2011, 06:20:59 PM
406 area code is Montana, I got two hang up calls on my cell from there today :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 26, 2011, 06:21:54 PM
Alfred Nobel was also terrified to be buried alive, so he ordered that his arteries should be removed from his body and then the body be cremated.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 26, 2011, 06:23:30 PM
Alfred Nobel was also terrified to be buried alive, so he ordered that his arteries should be removed from his body and then the body be cremated.

 I guess if he got through all those steps without reviving, he could rest assured that he really was dead.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 26, 2011, 06:24:00 PM
406 area code is Montana, I got two hang up calls on my cell from there today :-\

Montana is  :viking: A 14 yo is allowed to carry a gun there.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 26, 2011, 06:24:13 PM
Alfred Nobel was also terrified to be buried alive, so he ordered that his arteries should be removed from his body and then the body be cremated.

 I guess if he got through all those steps without reviving, he could rest assured that he really was dead.  :thumbup:

 :agreed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 26, 2011, 06:45:51 PM
406 area code is Montana, I got two hang up calls on my cell from there today :-\

Montana is  :viking: A 14 yo is allowed to carry a gun there.

They have very liberal open carry laws there.  My brother went out to hunt elk and wore a 45 almost the entire time there, in stores restaurants everywhere he said it felt very strange and did it mostly just because he could
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 26, 2011, 06:49:02 PM
406 area code is Montana, I got two hang up calls on my cell from there today :-\

Montana is  :viking: A 14 yo is allowed to carry a gun there.

They have very liberal open carry laws there.  My brother went out to hunt elk and wore a 45 almost the entire time there, in stores restaurants everywhere he said it felt very strange and did it mostly just because he could

 I'd love to live someplace where I could wear a .45 all over town!  That sounds like lots of fun!   :snowman:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on April 26, 2011, 08:47:03 PM
until some 14 year old aspie finally flips and goes on a shooting spree while you're out doing your shopping :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on April 26, 2011, 09:06:36 PM
At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa.

 :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 26, 2011, 09:09:41 PM
At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa.

 :zombiefuck:

Um ...... eww
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Adam on April 26, 2011, 09:11:42 PM
what kind of mother is ok with her 13 year old daughter being with some old bloke?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 26, 2011, 09:13:14 PM
A bad one.

2 more posts to 1500.  Seems like just a few days ago I was postwhoring to get to 500.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 27, 2011, 05:40:50 AM
until some 14 year old aspie finally flips and goes on a shooting spree while you're out doing your shopping :autism:

 Oh well, I'm not likely to move to Montana anyway, but a girl can dream!   :cheer:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 27, 2011, 08:07:30 AM
406 area code is Montana, I got two hang up calls on my cell from there today :-\

Montana is  :viking: A 14 yo is allowed to carry a gun there.

They have very liberal open carry laws there.  My brother went out to hunt elk and wore a 45 almost the entire time there, in stores restaurants everywhere he said it felt very strange and did it mostly just because he could

 I'd love to live someplace where I could wear a .45 all over town!  That sounds like lots of fun!   :snowman:

You can do that in Vermont, for example. And no waiting period or anything. In Europe only Switzerland and the Czech Republic have a RTC at all, and the Czech Republic demand that you have a license for it.

 In Sweden there is no RTC and in the UK there isn't even a right to own a .45 at all.  :thumbdn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on April 27, 2011, 11:35:00 AM
Peter Karpin, a German espionage agent in World War I, was seized by French Intelligence agents in 1914 as soon as he entered the country. Keeping his capture a secret, the French sent fake reports from Karpin to Germany and intercepted the agent's wages and expense money until Karpin escaped in 1917. With those funds the French purchased an automobile, which, in 1919, in occupied Rurh, accidentally ran down and killed a man, who proved to be Peter Karpin.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 27, 2011, 11:40:58 AM
The red Bengal fires used in Berlin in 1871 to celebrate the victory over France consisted of 80% of strontium nitrate and 20% shellac. No potassium chlorate, which was/is otherwise almost always used in organic Bengal fires. In addition it burned better if a little moist.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 27, 2011, 11:59:37 AM
The red Bengal fires used in Berlin in 1871 to celebrate the victory over France consisted of 80% of strontium nitrate and 20% shellac. No potassium chlorate, which was/is otherwise almost always used in organic Bengal fires. In addition it burned better if a little moist.

What is a Bengal fire?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 27, 2011, 12:23:24 PM
Bengal illuminations (http://www.pyroguide.com/index.php?title=Bengal_illuminations)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 27, 2011, 01:12:49 PM
At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa.

 :zombiefuck:

 :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on April 27, 2011, 01:33:31 PM
At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa.

 :zombiefuck:

 :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVoFlFm3I1o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 27, 2011, 03:41:14 PM
Something bounced against the outer wall. Probably a moose.  :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 27, 2011, 03:43:36 PM
Something bounced against the outer wall. Probably a moose.  :o

Have a lot of them around?  And can you hunt them?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 27, 2011, 04:21:41 PM
No rifle. But if you have a rifle and hunting ground you make hunt them, though just in October and November I think.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 27, 2011, 04:31:58 PM
No rifle. But if you have a rifle and hunting ground you make hunt them, though just in October and November I think.
Hunt them with rockets that would be :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 27, 2011, 05:05:22 PM
 :agreed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on April 27, 2011, 05:13:38 PM


Temple Grandin drives a Nissan Murano.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 27, 2011, 05:28:45 PM
I drive a 1995 "champagne" coloured Volvo 850 2.5 SE with a 10 valve engine.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on April 27, 2011, 05:29:29 PM


Sedan or wagon?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 27, 2011, 05:30:54 PM
Sedan, which you can read from the model number. The Wagon is called 855. :toporly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on April 27, 2011, 05:33:34 PM


That must be a European thing. In North America, both the sedans and wagons are 850s. I always liked the 240. Those things are bulletproof.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 27, 2011, 05:44:39 PM
Volvo used to have a last digit for the number of doors: 142 and 242 had two doors, 144 and 244 had 4 and 145 and 245 hade 5; i.e. they were wagons. After the 940 series, which actually came before the 850, they usually stopped to put in the last digit, except for the wagons.

The 240 is a bit boring but very reliable and safe, like an old faithful dog. I have had two of them.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on April 27, 2011, 05:51:29 PM
I like my Volvo.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on April 27, 2011, 05:56:50 PM


I like my Ford.


 :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on April 27, 2011, 06:08:34 PM


I like my Ford.


 :zoinks:

:smarty:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 28, 2011, 05:42:02 AM
The 850 and forwards are a new generation in the Volvo family, since they have either FWD or AWD. Before that all Volvos except for a few experimental ones were always RWD.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 28, 2011, 05:56:56 AM
I like my Chevy :icequeen:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 28, 2011, 06:06:11 AM
I like my Chevy :icequeen:

    Lots of room in it for big sweet dogs.  :doggie: :heart:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 28, 2011, 06:08:26 AM
I like my Chevy :icequeen:

    Lots of room in it for big sweet dogs.  :doggie: :heart:

 :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on April 28, 2011, 04:59:47 PM
The Swedish Instrument of Government from 1634, which among other things created most counties that still exist to this day, was never ratified properly, since no Swedish monarch accepted it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on April 28, 2011, 05:46:10 PM
George Washington had to borrow money so he could travel to his inauguration
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 28, 2011, 06:29:55 PM
Two for one post


Henry Rifles has adds on TV here

Regular coffee has different meanings in the South it's black in New England it's with cream and sugar
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 28, 2011, 06:37:23 PM
  I am intrigued and mystified by parts' new avatar!  :chin:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 28, 2011, 06:38:52 PM
  I am intrigued and mystified by parts' new avatar!  :chin:

Did you ever watch Babylon 5?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 28, 2011, 06:39:23 PM
  I am intrigued and mystified by parts' new avatar!  :chin:

Did you ever watch Babylon 5?

 No, is that a scary alien?   :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 30, 2011, 03:57:13 PM
After another 70000 posts CBC's postcount will be 92929  :asthing:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on April 30, 2011, 06:10:57 PM
After another 70000 posts CBC's postcount will be 92929  :asthing:

And she's been online for over 90 minutes by now, only making 4 posts.

Go CBC, go, you need to do more.  :asthing: :asthing: :asthing:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 30, 2011, 06:11:34 PM
After another 70000 posts CBC's postcount will be 92929  :asthing:

   *gets to work on the next 70,000 posts, the quicker to reach this awesome new number!*    :hamsterwheel:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on April 30, 2011, 06:22:48 PM
The rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd took their name from a high school teacher named Leonard Skinner who had suspended several students for having long hair.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 30, 2011, 06:27:59 PM
     Despite hating most of Toto's songs, 
    I cannot help loving this one!
    :dunno:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUGWZ59gMZk
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 30, 2011, 06:52:36 PM
  I am intrigued and mystified by parts' new avatar!  :chin:

Did you ever watch Babylon 5?

 No, is that a scary alien?   :orly:

It's Kosh from that show
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 30, 2011, 06:56:35 PM
  I am intrigued and mystified by parts' new avatar!  :chin:

Did you ever watch Babylon 5?

 No, is that a scary alien?   :orly:

It's Kosh from that show

  Hi Kosh, nice to meet you!  Nice green eye you have there!  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 30, 2011, 07:01:55 PM
  I am intrigued and mystified by parts' new avatar!  :chin:

Did you ever watch Babylon 5?

 No, is that a scary alien?   :orly:

It's Kosh from that show

  Hi Kosh, nice to meet you!  Nice green eye you have there!  :thumbup:
.  If you like Science fiction I would highly recommend the series
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 30, 2011, 07:05:24 PM
  I am intrigued and mystified by parts' new avatar!  :chin:

Did you ever watch Babylon 5?

 No, is that a scary alien?   :orly:

It's Kosh from that show

  Hi Kosh, nice to meet you!  Nice green eye you have there!  :thumbup:
.  If you like Science fiction I would highly recommend the series

   Thank you, I will keep it in mind.   :borg:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 30, 2011, 07:07:35 PM
It must be watched in order though as it has a theme running throughout
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 30, 2011, 07:10:27 PM
It must be watched in order though as it has a theme running throughout

  I may not have the discipline for such an endeavor.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 30, 2011, 07:18:29 PM
It must be watched in order though as it has a theme running throughout

  I may not have the discipline for such an endeavor.  :zoinks:

Take extra ADD meds them :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 30, 2011, 07:22:38 PM
It must be watched in order though as it has a theme running throughout

  I may not have the discipline for such an endeavor.  :zoinks:

Take extra ADD meds them :P

  Not good to change the dose without proper medical supervision!  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 30, 2011, 07:23:51 PM
It must be watched in order though as it has a theme running throughout

  I may not have the discipline for such an endeavor.  :zoinks:

Take extra ADD meds them :P

  Not good to change the dose without proper medical supervision!  :P

Then have a few coffees with them  :P :P :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 30, 2011, 07:28:53 PM
It must be watched in order though as it has a theme running throughout

  I may not have the discipline for such an endeavor.  :zoinks:

Take extra ADD meds them :P

  Not good to change the dose without proper medical supervision!  :P

Then have a few coffees with them  :P :P :P

  You're such a bad influence!    :roflol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 30, 2011, 07:34:58 PM
It must be watched in order though as it has a theme running throughout

  I may not have the discipline for such an endeavor.  :zoinks:

Take extra ADD meds them :P

  Not good to change the dose without proper medical supervision!  :P

Then have a few coffees with them  :P :P :P

  You're such a bad influence!    :roflol:

I try my best :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 30, 2011, 08:47:08 PM
Do not store a banana and a plastic bag of potato chips in the same lunch box.  You may end up with banana flavored potato chips.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 30, 2011, 08:56:22 PM
Do not store a banana and a plastic bag of potato chips in the same lunch box.  You may end up with banana flavored potato chips.

   You say that as if it were a bad thing.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on May 01, 2011, 01:13:03 AM
It is a bad thing. Yech. :sick:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on May 01, 2011, 01:57:59 AM
My daughter likes to mix potato chips into her ice cream sometimes, then she offers me a bite of it.

:sick:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on May 01, 2011, 04:47:51 AM
That is gross too. I used to know someone who at McDonald's used to dip their fries into their sundae. I like to keep my foods separate.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 01, 2011, 05:13:45 AM
That is gross too. I used to know someone who at McDonald's used to dip their fries into their sundae. I like to keep my foods separate.

 :agreed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 01, 2011, 10:50:55 AM
The Trinity site, home to the first nuclear detonation, is open to the public once a year and I want to go  :parts:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on May 01, 2011, 11:00:01 AM
It must be watched in order though as it has a theme running throughout

I was excited to see the entire series was added to Netflix streaming service recently.  I only watched the first two seasons previously.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 01, 2011, 11:03:54 AM
It must be watched in order though as it has a theme running throughout

I was excited to see the entire series was added to Netflix streaming service recently.  I only watched the first two seasons previously.

I love the show and even have some on dvd.  I watched it as it came out and waiting for the next episode was unbearable it was almost canceled also before it was finished.  Crusade the spin off was only one season it wasn't bad but not great either.  Have you watched all of Farscape?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on May 01, 2011, 02:29:27 PM
swedish male models into tpe bdsm are rare and elusive, like the wood nymph.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on May 01, 2011, 09:06:33 PM
It is a bad thing. Yech. :sick:
:lol:

Jim Morrison found the name "The Doors" for his rock band in the title of Aldous Huxley's book "The Doors of Perception", which extolls the use of hallucinogenic drugs.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on May 02, 2011, 08:11:35 AM
It must be watched in order though as it has a theme running throughout

I was excited to see the entire series was added to Netflix streaming service recently.  I only watched the first two seasons previously.

I love the show and even have some on dvd.  I watched it as it came out and waiting for the next episode was unbearable it was almost canceled also before it was finished.  Crusade the spin off was only one season it wasn't bad but not great either.  Have you watched all of Farscape?

Never seen any of it.  Good?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on May 02, 2011, 09:54:05 AM
The Katydid bug hears through holes in its back legs.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on May 02, 2011, 01:05:57 PM
Thyme contains about 30 times more iron than spinach does.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on May 02, 2011, 01:30:29 PM
i have nine hairdryers :screwy:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on May 02, 2011, 01:32:33 PM
Rissy.

both useless and a fact.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 03, 2011, 05:42:33 AM
The British government was the first in the world to legislate against potassium chlorate and sulfur in the same pyrotechnic device in 1894. Not only the mixture of them in the same composition was forbidden but also the both compounds in any kind of contact with each other.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 03, 2011, 06:09:52 AM
i have nine hairdryers :screwy:

 Have Squid come over to help you with your hair, and it'll be dry in no time!   :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 03, 2011, 06:39:47 AM
There is a stop sign at the end of my street lots of people completely  ignore
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on May 03, 2011, 06:45:21 AM
Odeon was the first person to give karma under the system we have now which started in June, 2008. Doesn't feel that long ago.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 03, 2011, 06:51:07 AM
Odeon was the first person to give karma under the system we have now which started in June, 2008. Doesn't feel that long ago.

No it doesn't and that makes me feel old
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on May 03, 2011, 08:05:09 AM
Dude parts I checked out farscape. P cool man. *Hi-five*

I wanna fuck the grey alien chick lmao.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 03, 2011, 09:03:35 AM
There is a stop sign at the end of my street lots of people completely  ignore

  Maybe that stop sign needs a speed bump to keep it company!  :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on May 03, 2011, 09:05:41 AM
when a guy pees, you can like, feel it

it gets like rubbery almost and you can feel the stream, like a hose.

you can actually FEEL the stream


TMI ? yes

anyone want to know how i know that ?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on May 03, 2011, 09:07:10 AM
Cause you held it for a guy while he went. 8)


Personally that would be impossible with me. If my dick was in your hand, it'd be hard as a rock. Garaunteed every time.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on May 03, 2011, 09:10:23 AM
yes more than once. More than a hundred times probably

and yes that tends to be an issue

"just go outside for a minute it'll go down"
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on May 03, 2011, 09:12:22 AM
yes more than once. More than a hundred times probably

and yes that tends to be an issue

"just go outside for a minute it'll go down"

No amount of that would work. As soon as you came back and your hand drew near.. ATTENTION PRIVATE.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on May 03, 2011, 09:22:02 AM
yes that happens a lot too :D

sometimes takes a few tries lol

its also an issue when I cant see over their heads.

Cause I DO want to look



Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on May 03, 2011, 09:22:58 AM
You could see over my head lmao. But I just wouldn't be able to piss.  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on May 03, 2011, 09:25:44 AM
one time, when I stood behind a boy and put my arms around him, and grabbed it, it went off like a goddamn torpedo.

wasnt what i was expecting but ehh sometimes when boys find actual real girls into fetishes they get a bit excited

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on May 03, 2011, 09:27:44 AM
Lol if you mean went off semen wise, that wouldn't happen either. It takes me a good while.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on May 03, 2011, 09:33:17 AM
promise ? :x

:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on May 03, 2011, 09:36:41 AM
promise ? :x

:D
Promise.  8)

Especially when i'm on anti-depressants. I can still cum, but goddamn its tough.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on May 03, 2011, 09:41:12 AM
ug. antidepressants.

I was on one called celexa or something, it TOTALLY NUMBED MY GENITALS.

I would try and try and try and no matter what I couldnt get off

I was like WTF, I refused

I will NOT live without it
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on May 03, 2011, 09:42:46 AM
Doesn't numb my genitals, it actually intensifies stuff. But I'm slower warming up to an argasm.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 03, 2011, 03:08:23 PM
The first nuclear powered submarine in on display and open for tours at Groton sub base about 60 miles from where I live :parts:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 03, 2011, 03:48:46 PM
Germany had no speed limits outside towns and cities until 1976. In 1975 seat belts in the front seat became compulsory. Since most Germans refused to obey the law, the German Bundestag lowered the speed limit on roads that weren't Autobahns to 100 kmph. In the beginning there weren't any tickets on driving without a seat belt either.

Civil disobedience is  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on May 03, 2011, 04:32:40 PM
In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato hidden in the asteroid field

In Return of the Jedi there is a tennis shoe hidden among the rebel fleet
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 03, 2011, 04:43:48 PM
The worst peace treaty that a state was ever forced to sign and still remaining independent was probably the treaty of Trianon on the 4th of June 1920. Hungary had to cede about 72% of its territory to Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia. A small area was also ceded to Austria shortly thereafter.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on May 03, 2011, 04:44:45 PM
The worst peace treaty that a state was ever forced to sign and still remaining independent was probably the treaty of Trianon on the 4th of June 1920. Hungary had to cede about 72% of its territory to Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia. A small area was also ceded to Austria shortly thereafter.

Wow. They got screwed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 03, 2011, 04:45:37 PM
Yup.  :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 03, 2011, 05:50:14 PM
The USAF lost a thermonuclear bomb off Savannah Ga on Feb. 5, 1958 in a plane crash and have never found it :parts:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on May 03, 2011, 07:39:07 PM
The USAF lost a thermonuclear bomb off Savannah Ga on Feb. 5, 1958 in a plane crash and have never found it :parts:

It's actually in my garage  :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on May 03, 2011, 07:40:59 PM
i don't have a garage

so it won't be in mine :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on May 03, 2011, 07:44:53 PM
I've been to Savannah and I have a garage but that's all I'm going to say  :M
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 03, 2011, 11:25:13 PM
Sweden had plans for making its own nuclear weapons but never made reality of them.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on May 04, 2011, 12:37:55 AM
In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato hidden in the asteroid field

In Return of the Jedi there is a tennis shoe hidden among the rebel fleet

And the mothership in Close Encounters of the Third Kind is supposed to have a replica of the Empire State Building with King Kong on top of it. I have tried to look for it but haven't been able to confirm.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on May 04, 2011, 09:07:50 AM
Sweden had plans for making its own nuclear weapons but never made reality of them.

This is every country isn't it?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 04, 2011, 09:16:53 AM
Sweden had plans for making its own nuclear weapons but never made reality of them.

This is every country isn't it?

No, I don't think so. Sweden has all the possiblities though: we have nuclear power and our own uranium sources, so it would be quite possible to do.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 04, 2011, 09:18:59 AM
Both Brazil and Argentina had nuclear weapons programs at one point :parts:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on May 04, 2011, 10:53:00 AM
In Redondo Beach, Calif., a police officer arrested a driver after a short chase and charged him with drunk driving. Officer Joseph Fonteno's suspicions were aroused when he saw the white Mazda MX-7 rolling down Pacific Coast Highway with half of a traffic-light pole, including the lights, lying across its hood. The driver had hit the pole on a median strip and simply kept driving. According to Fonteno, when the driver was asked about the pole, he said, "It came with the car when I bought it."

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on May 04, 2011, 01:08:27 PM
Sweden had plans for making its own nuclear weapons but never made reality of them.

This is every country isn't it?

No, I don't think so. Sweden has all the possiblities though: we have nuclear power and our own uranium sources, so it would be quite possible to do.

They were more than just plans. Our first nuclear plant was designed with nuclear weapons in mind--they were supposed to produce plutonium at one point, if I remember it correctly. The decision not to go ahead was political; we had both the technology and the know-how.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 04, 2011, 01:10:08 PM
That was unusually  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 04, 2011, 03:53:56 PM
South Africa built at least six nuclear weapons and dismantled all of them when they ended their nuclear program :parts:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 05, 2011, 07:23:35 AM
The Volvo 850 was the first car in the world with a 5 cylinder transverse engine. Thanks to that it also has a very short transmission.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on May 05, 2011, 08:32:55 AM
i got some gladiator sandals
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on May 05, 2011, 09:31:55 AM
im going to go pee.


in like 30 seconds, I will be peeing
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on May 05, 2011, 09:34:35 AM
I peed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on May 05, 2011, 09:36:14 AM
I peed.
:cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on May 05, 2011, 09:37:08 AM
I peed.
:lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on May 05, 2011, 09:37:43 AM
^^ yes it is quite an accomplishment. It's the most Ive done all day.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on May 05, 2011, 10:08:35 AM
here is something random

I found a notebooks I havent used for years, and inside it someone ( most certainly not me ) wrote


"Peggy is an Angel. Jay can ride us like Angel wings into a brighter day where we laugh more than we weep and we give more than we can possiblly ever ask for"


Not only do I not know who wrote it, I have no fucking clue who Peggy or Jay are.


Im really confused ???
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on May 05, 2011, 10:19:38 AM
Lawl likely just a guest that was tripping bawls one day.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on May 05, 2011, 11:58:02 AM
That was unusually  :viking:

To abandon our plans to build a Swedish a-bomb?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 05, 2011, 12:13:12 PM
No, the plans.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 05, 2011, 01:37:36 PM
Adolf Eichmann wanted a bottle of Carmel for his last meal. He got it and drank half of the bottle.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on May 05, 2011, 02:13:19 PM
Adolf Eichmann wanted a bottle of Carmel for his last meal. He got it and drank half of the bottle.

For a second, I thought it was some exotic liquor. Then I realized what you meant and though "ewwwwww"
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 05, 2011, 02:47:36 PM
Prior to 1960 uranium oxides were used in glazes on some orange  Fiestaware :parts:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 05, 2011, 02:52:01 PM
Nazi Germany had tooth paste with thorium in it to kill bacterias. Radioactive toothpaste is  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on May 05, 2011, 04:56:52 PM
Adolf Eichmann wanted a bottle of Carmel for his last meal. He got it and drank half of the bottle.

For a second, I thought it was some exotic liquor. Then I realized what you meant and though "ewwwwww"

I am still trying to figure it out  :dunno:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on May 05, 2011, 05:14:25 PM
Maybe meant caramel.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on May 05, 2011, 05:18:14 PM
Nevermind, just looked it up; is a wine.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on May 05, 2011, 06:10:22 PM
Then what's eww about it? I'm still lost  :asthing:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on May 05, 2011, 07:01:49 PM
Then what's eww about it? I'm still lost  :asthing:

Because it is Israeli and he is a Nazi?  :dunno:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on May 05, 2011, 07:19:04 PM
Then what's eww about it? I'm still lost  :asthing:

Because it is Israeli and he is a Nazi?  :dunno:
Still doesn't make sense to me. although this wouldn't be the first time  :facepalm2:

:laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on May 05, 2011, 07:20:07 PM
I thought he meant caramel  :asthing:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 06, 2011, 04:16:25 AM
Carmel is an Israeli wine, that was the irony in it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 06, 2011, 05:29:32 AM
Today in 1937 at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey the Hindenburg crashed.  When the Zeppelins were still running my mom's family would go to the beach and watch them go over Long Island Sound toward NY
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 06, 2011, 05:32:15 AM
Today in 1937 at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey the Hindenburg crashed.  When the Zeppelins were still running my mom's family would go to the beach and watch them go over Long Island Sound toward NY

 What a sad anniversary.  The first time I ever saw that footage, it was incorporated into an episode of The Waltons.   :chin:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 06, 2011, 05:36:09 AM
Today in 1937 at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey the Hindenburg crashed.  When the Zeppelins were still running my mom's family would go to the beach and watch them go over Long Island Sound toward NY

 What a sad anniversary.  The first time I ever saw that footage, it was incorporated into an episode of The Waltons.   :chin:

Yes and on my actual birthday too.  Not as many people died in the accident as you may think only  35 of the 97 on board but it was spectacular
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 06, 2011, 05:38:46 AM
Today in 1937 at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey the Hindenburg crashed.  When the Zeppelins were still running my mom's family would go to the beach and watch them go over Long Island Sound toward NY

 What a sad anniversary.  The first time I ever saw that footage, it was incorporated into an episode of The Waltons.   :chin:

Yes and on my actual birthday too.  Not as many people died in the accident as you may think only  35 of the 97 on board but it was spectacular

 I did not realize that.  It's amazing that so many survived!   :nerd!:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 06, 2011, 07:30:34 AM
Zeppelins are  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 06, 2011, 09:22:32 AM
MSY is the airline designation for New Orleans.  The obvious initials were assigned/taken by an airport in South America (IIRC).  MSY stands for Moisant Stock Yards where the airport was built.  Moisant was an aviator who crashed his racing airplane there 12.31.1910.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 06, 2011, 09:35:20 AM
BMW stands for Bayerische Motoren-Werk, "Bavarian Engine Factory". They first only made motorcycles.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 06, 2011, 10:05:13 AM
Zeppelins filled with hydrogen are dangerous :danger:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 06, 2011, 03:14:12 PM
In organic red stars with potassium chlorate as the main oxidizer and chlorine donor and strontium nitrate as the colour donor you usually have the same percentage of potassium chlorate and strontium nitrate, usually around 38% of each.

In the UK, Japan and other countries strontium nitrate is often not used, though, due to the high air humidity in those countries and the hygroscopic nature of strontium nitrate. Instead strontium carbonate is used, but then the potassium chlorate percentage must be almost the double while the carbonate must be less than half.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on May 06, 2011, 07:43:26 PM
Tyson Mitchell of Iowa City, Iowa walked into the police station, for some reason that nobody understands, and asked the dispatcher if he was wanted for any crimes. He was and was also arrested, on the spot. But wait! There's more! The police found several bags of cocaine in his pocket.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 06, 2011, 10:20:48 PM
Tyson Mitchell of Iowa City, Iowa walked into the police station, for some reason that nobody understands, and asked the dispatcher if he was wanted for any crimes. He was and was also arrested, on the spot. But wait! There's more! The police found several bags of cocaine in his pocket.



And I assume they issued an APB for his brain.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 07, 2011, 05:09:35 AM
Lead acetate was once used as a sweetener leading to poisoning :danger:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on May 07, 2011, 05:52:37 AM
Catnip, or Nepeta cataria, is an herb with nepetalactone in it. Many think that when cats inhale nepetalactone, it affects hormones that arouse sexual feelings, or at least alter their brain functioning to make them feel "high." Catnip was originally made, using nepetalactone as a natural bug repellant, but roaming cats would rip up the plants before they could be put to their intended task.

smart cats  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on May 07, 2011, 06:28:31 AM
I remember getting catnip for our cats and they were just indifferent to it. Some cats are not affected by it, it seems.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on May 07, 2011, 08:52:09 AM
I remember getting catnip for our cats and they were just indifferent to it. Some cats are not affected by it, it seems.
That's true. Destiny loves it. It's like kitty crack to her, but Harley could not have cared less about the stuff.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 08, 2011, 09:19:30 AM
I just found out that the reaction I'm doing with copper carbonate and acetic acid would be 1:1 by weight if I used 99% acetic acid. Though 8 times as much 12% will do.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 08, 2011, 10:34:01 AM
The US modified a Convair B-36 (XB-36H)to test to see if they could create a nuclear powered bomber even flying with an active three megawatt  nuclear reactor in the bomb bay.  The results of the trails proved it unfeasible and the program was canceled.  They sure tried some crazy shit didn't they.  And yes the Russians had a similar program :parts:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on May 08, 2011, 07:26:40 PM
Carbonated water, with nothing else in it, can dissolve limestone, talc, and many other low-Moh's hardness minerals. Coincidentally, carbonated water is the main ingredient in soda.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 09, 2011, 11:52:20 AM
Zeppelins filled with hydrogen are dangerous :danger:

 I did not know we had that excellent new symbol!  Did you upload it?   :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 09, 2011, 11:53:43 AM
The US modified a Convair B-36 (XB-36H)to test to see if they could create a nuclear powered bomber even flying with an active three megawatt  nuclear reactor in the bomb bay.  The results of the trails proved it unfeasible and the program was canceled.  They sure tried some crazy shit didn't they.  And yes the Russians had a similar program :parts:

 Another great new smiley!  Now I can post all the time about hazards, and encourage others to be as neurotic as I am!   :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 09, 2011, 01:12:31 PM
Zeppelins filled with hydrogen are dangerous :danger:

 I did not know we had that excellent new symbol!  Did you upload it?   :orly:

Yeah we needed those
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 09, 2011, 01:16:51 PM
Zeppelins filled with hydrogen are dangerous :danger:

 I did not know we had that excellent new symbol!  Did you upload it?   :orly:

Yeah we needed those

   :danger:  should be on the  "Are you sure you want to come in?"  page!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 09, 2011, 02:55:53 PM
In Sweden "doctor" is used as an honour title even for people who aren't doctors. In Sweden only specialists are M.D's. "Ordinary" physicians and dentists are "only" "licentiates" in Sweden.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on May 09, 2011, 03:13:20 PM
In Sweden "doctor" is used as an honour title even for people who aren't doctors. In Sweden only specialists are M.D's. "Ordinary" physicians and dentists are "only" "licentiates" in Sweden.

In Sweden, seeking medical attention is  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on May 09, 2011, 03:14:19 PM
im going to clean out the basement of a family dollar



bye !
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 09, 2011, 04:58:56 PM
Thomas Edison and RCA had competing phonographs.  The Edison Diamond Disk was 80 RPM  and RCA 78 RPM.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on May 09, 2011, 05:10:09 PM
Figlet, an ASCII font converter program, stands for Frank, Ian and Glenn's LETters
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 09, 2011, 06:06:19 PM
This is only uninteresting to the USA

My mother was a bridesmaid in the wedding of John Laroquette's parents. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on May 09, 2011, 07:34:26 PM
This is only uninteresting to the USA

My mother was a bridesmaid in the wedding of John Laroquette's parents. 

I find that interesting.  :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on May 09, 2011, 07:47:28 PM
This is only uninteresting to the USA

My mother was a bridesmaid in the wedding of John Laroquette's parents. 

I find that interesting.  :autism:


:agreed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 10, 2011, 12:01:20 AM
No idea who he is.

On the other side not many Americans will find it interesting that Clark Olofsson lived in this parish during some summers, when he was a child, while quite many Swedes would find it interesting.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 10, 2011, 12:06:15 AM
No idea who he is.

On the other side not many Americans will find it interesting that Clark Olofsson lived in this parish during some summers, when he was a child, while quite many Swedes would find it interesting.

  This is John Larroquette on TV in the 80s... :thumbup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czI2hfSas2Y
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 10, 2011, 12:18:23 AM
Clark Olofsson is the guy with the beard. The cool one just sitting there. In the end he says "The party is over" :viking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbSDaz7w1PA
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 10, 2011, 12:20:55 AM
 I'd never heard of a Swede with the first name CLARK before! What's happening in that scene?  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on May 10, 2011, 12:22:04 AM
Clark Olofsson is the guy with the beard. The cool one just sitting there. In the end he says "The party is over" :viking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbSDaz7w1PA
Robbing banks is  :viking: Have you seen "Killing Zoe" Lit?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 10, 2011, 12:23:17 AM
No, I have to do that.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on May 10, 2011, 12:27:46 AM
No, I have to do that.  :viking:
Aside from excellent violence and drug use it has Julie Delpy naked.  :thumbup: Julie Delpy naked is  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 10, 2011, 01:44:07 AM
In 1952 a West German court posthumously overruled the death sentence against Hitler's advicer General Alfred Jodl in Nuremberg in 1946.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 10, 2011, 09:37:06 PM
What is second degree murder in America is manslaughter in Sweden.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on May 11, 2011, 05:33:31 AM
Bob Marley died this day 30 years ago. Not that I believe in an afterlife but I hope he roams in the herblike gardens of Eden.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on May 11, 2011, 12:58:51 PM
Wouldn't Eden be hell, then? :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on May 11, 2011, 01:28:14 PM
Um, why? Well, for him it would be nice, I guess.

But, thanks.. I'm now picturing Jesus, them whiny apostles and all the double faced popes there too. (http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii269/theogrit/1sm155cleric.gif)

(poor Bob)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on May 11, 2011, 01:33:16 PM
Bob Marley performing in Eden? No thanks.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 11, 2011, 01:35:42 PM
Bob Marley died this day 30 years ago. Not that I believe in an afterlife but I hope he roams in the herblike gardens of Eden.

He received a state funeral a thing usually reserved for a head of state.  
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 11, 2011, 01:37:08 PM
I have glass ionomer fillings in two cavities and composite in two.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on May 11, 2011, 02:55:12 PM
I have a blackhead on my lower back. I can't reach it. My mother plays surgeon on it sometimes.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on May 11, 2011, 04:02:12 PM
I have glass ionomer fillings in two cavities and composite in two.

I had a glass inonomer filling in the crown I had a root canal on, but it has been replaced with a composite filling now.  I have mercury amalgam fillings and composite fillings.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Enos on May 11, 2011, 06:23:08 PM
There was once a study carried out in various bars that showed a correlation between the point in a woman's menstrual cycle and how provocatively she was dressing.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on May 11, 2011, 06:34:49 PM
There was once a study carried out in various bars that showed a correlation between the point in a woman's menstrual cycle and how provocatively she was dressing.
Hi Crackers.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on May 11, 2011, 06:44:31 PM
A lawyer defending a man accused of burglary tried this creative defense: "My client merely inserted his arm into the window and removed a few trifling articles. His arm is not himself, and I fail to see how you can punish the whole individual for an offense committed by his limb." "Well put," the judge replied. "Using your logic, I sentence the defendant's arm to one year's imprisonment. He can accompany it or not, as he chooses." The defendant smiled. With his lawyer's assistance he detached his artificial limb, laid it on the bench, and walked out.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on May 11, 2011, 07:17:46 PM
There was once a study carried out in various bars that showed a correlation between the point in a woman's menstrual cycle and how provocatively she was dressing.

That's not useless at all  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on May 11, 2011, 07:21:57 PM
Enos' avatar has a titty. Thought you would like to know.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on May 12, 2011, 02:06:37 PM
The early early ancestors of the dolphin first came out of ocean, developed evolution-wise a 'tad' further
on land and then.. later on.. 'decided' to get back and live in the salty soup again.

(well, I don't blame them or anything)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Enos on May 12, 2011, 03:20:44 PM
Enos' avatar has a titty. Thought you would like to know.

Not just a titty, but full blown nudity this time! :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on May 12, 2011, 04:34:44 PM
:laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on May 12, 2011, 08:03:53 PM
I love polish dill pickles. They're way better than kosher dills.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on May 13, 2011, 03:05:00 PM
^
I could make an educated guess here but instead I'm going to ask.. What exactly are Polish dill pickles?

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on May 13, 2011, 04:45:13 PM
Polish dills are pickled for 2+ months whereas kosher dills are ready in a few weeks. Koshers are brined with kosher salt and water but polish pickles have vinegar and lots of garlic.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on May 13, 2011, 06:07:57 PM
Ah, thanks. Think Holland knows the Polish variant too. Well, sorta. Gherkins put in a jar with, I think, a vinegar/water mixture and added mustard seeds, dill and other herbs. They're very nice indeed.

Um, the variant with the salt brined ones will probably never be a success here, I think.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Celticgoddess on May 13, 2011, 06:44:03 PM
Yes, the Holland variety sounds very similiar. I don't know why the kosher ones are more popular here. I haven't seen a jar of polish pickles in stores until very recently. So I buy 3 huge jars at a time because they store well.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calavera on May 13, 2011, 07:57:33 PM
Enos' avatar has a titty. Thought you would like to know.

Not just a titty, but full blown nudity this time! :o

It's incest!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Enos on May 14, 2011, 01:44:00 PM
Enos' avatar has a titty. Thought you would like to know.

Not just a titty, but full blown nudity this time! :o

It's incest!

Hm? Do explain

Do explain...
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on May 14, 2011, 01:48:44 PM


Polish dills are pickled for 2+ months whereas kosher dills are ready in a few weeks. Koshers are brined with kosher salt and water but polish pickles have vinegar and lots of garlic.


The Polish dills sound like those big pickles you would get in a deli.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 16, 2011, 12:29:11 AM
A cupboard was originally a simple board or table on which to place cups or mugs--recorded use of such a name dates back to at least the Middle Ages. For the last few centuries, "cupboard" has referred to a storage area enclosed by doors.


Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 16, 2011, 01:59:59 PM
There a a couple houses in my town built in the 1600's  while not as old as things in Europe very old for the US
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on May 16, 2011, 03:01:10 PM
Bergen op Zoom, um, the stupid/arrogant city I reside in, has the oldest hotel of Holland. Supposed to be older than 1397 (at least that's what been said here)

http://www.hoteldedraak.nl/en/index2.htm (http://www.hoteldedraak.nl/en/index2.htm)
(oh, I hold no grudges against the hotel ofc.)

(Oh fart, *edit.. it's not meant to 'over-top' you, parts.. brain just made that connection reading your previous post here.)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on May 18, 2011, 02:35:22 AM
The oldest in the place I live are human beings...........

Trees and houses all are younger.
And some policy about preserve the landscape seems to prevent us having trees older than I am.  :thumbdn:

That's what I do miss here, history in landscape, housing and trees.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 18, 2011, 05:17:39 AM
Near where I grew up there were still a couple old growth trees from before the area was settled that where over 400 years old.  They were tucked away in a ravine in the north of the town next to mine owned by the Nature Conservancy
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 18, 2011, 05:37:48 AM
The oldest in the place I live are human beings...........

Trees and houses all are younger.
And some policy about preserve the landscape seems to prevent us having trees older than I am.  :thumbdn:

That's what I do miss here, history in landscape, housing and trees.

 That confuses me.  How does cutting down older trees preserve the landscape?  ???
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 18, 2011, 09:39:22 AM
The first message sent across the first transatlantic telegraph in 1858 was "Glory to God in the highest; on earth, peace and good will toward men."
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Stalin on May 18, 2011, 03:40:39 PM
It's a year for lemmings this year.
My mom saw tons of em up at the cabin. No trains, just confused little buggers running around being angry.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 18, 2011, 03:46:24 PM
The oldest in the place I live are human beings...........

Trees and houses all are younger.
And some policy about preserve the landscape seems to prevent us having trees older than I am.  :thumbdn:

That's what I do miss here, history in landscape, housing and trees.

 That confuses me.  How does cutting down older trees preserve the landscape?  ???

While not exactly landscape, having large vegetation close to dikes and levees will weaken their stability and strength.  We had some pretty vitrolic homeowners who were forced to remove large trees that were too close to levees after Katrina.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 18, 2011, 04:46:19 PM
The oldest in the place I live are human beings...........

Trees and houses all are younger.
And some policy about preserve the landscape seems to prevent us having trees older than I am.  :thumbdn:

That's what I do miss here, history in landscape, housing and trees.

 That confuses me.  How does cutting down older trees preserve the landscape?  ???

While not exactly landscape, having large vegetation close to dikes and levees will weaken their stability and strength.  We had some pretty vitrolic homeowners who were forced to remove large trees that were too close to levees after Katrina.

 Ah, OK, when I hear  "preservation,"  I think first about historical stuff, and couldn't understand the point of culling old trees.  :chin:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 18, 2011, 05:55:18 PM
Soylent Green is people



and is good with lots of ketchup
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 18, 2011, 06:43:38 PM
The oldest in the place I live are human beings...........

Trees and houses all are younger.
And some policy about preserve the landscape seems to prevent us having trees older than I am.  :thumbdn:

That's what I do miss here, history in landscape, housing and trees.

 That confuses me.  How does cutting down older trees preserve the landscape?  ???

While not exactly landscape, having large vegetation close to dikes and levees will weaken their stability and strength.  We had some pretty vitrolic homeowners who were forced to remove large trees that were too close to levees after Katrina.

 Ah, OK, when I hear  "preservation,"  I think first about historical stuff, and couldn't understand the point of culling old trees.  :chin:

My post may not be the reason, but it's the only thing I could think of.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 18, 2011, 06:46:21 PM
The oldest in the place I live are human beings...........

Trees and houses all are younger.
And some policy about preserve the landscape seems to prevent us having trees older than I am.  :thumbdn:

That's what I do miss here, history in landscape, housing and trees.

 That confuses me.  How does cutting down older trees preserve the landscape?  ???

While not exactly landscape, having large vegetation close to dikes and levees will weaken their stability and strength.  We had some pretty vitrolic homeowners who were forced to remove large trees that were too close to levees after Katrina.

 Ah, OK, when I hear  "preservation,"  I think first about historical stuff, and couldn't understand the point of culling old trees.  :chin:

My post may not be the reason, but it's the only thing I could think of.

I had similar thoughts.  Here it the opposite big old trees that are anywhere near public land are very difficult to cut down.   
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 18, 2011, 06:51:52 PM
Darn.  I knew a useless fact, but I forgot it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on May 18, 2011, 07:17:41 PM
The oldest in the place I live are human beings...........

Trees and houses all are younger.
And some policy about preserve the landscape seems to prevent us having trees older than I am.  :thumbdn:

That's what I do miss here, history in landscape, housing and trees.

 That confuses me.  How does cutting down older trees preserve the landscape?  ???

While not exactly landscape, having large vegetation close to dikes and levees will weaken their stability and strength.  We had some pretty vitrolic homeowners who were forced to remove large trees that were too close to levees after Katrina.

 Ah, OK, when I hear  "preservation,"  I think first about historical stuff, and couldn't understand the point of culling old trees.  :chin:

My post may not be the reason, but it's the only thing I could think of.
I doubt that any of the people who cut down their trees even read your post.  :zoinks:
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Post by: bodie on May 19, 2011, 05:43:27 PM
Gary Gilmore was executed at Utah State Prison in January 1976.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on May 19, 2011, 05:49:39 PM
Gary Gilmore was executed by a firing squad (his choice)
Utah's tradition dictated that a firing squad comprise five men — four of them with live rounds, and one with a blank round,
so that each of the shooters could cast doubt to having fired a fatal shot.

Upon inspection of the clothes worn by Gary Gilmore at his execution,  it was revealed that five bullet holes were found.
Indicating they were not taking any chances with blank rounds!
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Post by: 'andersom' on May 20, 2011, 02:53:27 AM
The oldest in the place I live are human beings...........

Trees and houses all are younger.
And some policy about preserve the landscape seems to prevent us having trees older than I am.  :thumbdn:

That's what I do miss here, history in landscape, housing and trees.

 That confuses me.  How does cutting down older trees preserve the landscape?  ???

While not exactly landscape, having large vegetation close to dikes and levees will weaken their stability and strength.  We had some pretty vitrolic homeowners who were forced to remove large trees that were too close to levees after Katrina.

 Ah, OK, when I hear  "preservation,"  I think first about historical stuff, and couldn't understand the point of culling old trees.  :chin:

My post may not be the reason, but it's the only thing I could think of.

I had similar thoughts.  Here it the opposite big old trees that are anywhere near public land are very difficult to cut down.   

The latter is true for most places in the Netherlands I think. But.... I live on new land, and they want it to look new all the time. Preserve the pioneering look of it. I don't get that, why not let this new landscape evolve. But, it is what it is.

Not far from me there is a former island, mainly a peat heap in the landscape, and a big peat-heap below the surface too. There are some older buildings and older trees on there. Because it is now not an island any-more, it is sinking. The past 40 years the surface of the island has sunk over a meter. If it would go on like that, in a couple of hundred years, the former island would not be a hillock in the flat landscape, but an inverted version of that, a pit. People want to preserve the island shape though. So, they have created wetlands around the former island. I live in the make-able place of the Netherlands. God forbid that anything here would develop on it's own into a mature landscape. Kind of like how they photo-shop models into forever-young shapes.

There is one other reason for lack of trees. Some trees harbour and spread diseases for bulb-plants. And since there are a lot of tulip/lily/other bulb-plant farmers here, it does make kind of sense that those trees aren't welcome here.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 20, 2011, 12:04:41 PM
When you are at the top of a page here, hitting the go up button is pretty useless, no matter how often you try.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on May 30, 2011, 03:58:03 AM
Some roads in the municipality I live in have weird names.

Wrecks-way, Air-plane-way, Vicar-way, Mammoth-way, road of disgrace.
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Post by: Queen Victoria on May 30, 2011, 08:47:52 AM
Some roads in the municipality I live in have weird names.

Wrecks-way, Air-plane-way, Vicar-way, Mammoth-way, road of disgrace.

Some streets in New Orleans were
Frenchman
Desire
Good Children

In St. Bernard Parish Easy Street is between Success and Prosperity Streets.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 30, 2011, 08:50:18 AM
In the year 2005, out of 154 breeds,  the German Shepherd ranked fourth
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on May 31, 2011, 01:19:49 AM
Some roads in the municipality I live in have weird names.

Wrecks-way, Air-plane-way, Vicar-way, Mammoth-way, road of disgrace.

Some streets in New Orleans were
Frenchman
Desire
Good Children

In St. Bernard Parish Easy Street is between Success and Prosperity Streets.

The gloomy names I find amusing. Like the Wrecks-way, Accident-road, and that Road of disgrace. Why give roads a name like that?

Near my parents there is the "Way of pleasant opportunity". And yes, there are quite some places to hide in the green there.  :eyelash:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on June 02, 2011, 07:02:46 AM
I just ate a pear and after that I shared the remains of it with the blackbirds in my garden. Um, and an extra free of charge useless facto also is, that they tend to love little pieces of pears but are a bit nonchalant about it at the moment. (methinks in Spring they have enough food to be found already)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 02, 2011, 07:10:47 AM
People used to eat and drink heath food containing radium thinking it was good for them
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Post by: odeon on June 02, 2011, 10:39:43 AM
Yeah, radium got glowing reviews then. :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 02, 2011, 01:01:43 PM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on June 02, 2011, 02:07:50 PM
Boy cameltoe is called "Moose Knuckles"
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on June 04, 2011, 03:11:07 PM
There are 772276 posts on this board, after I hit the post button, unless someone else posted before me, then there may be 772277  :santa:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 04, 2011, 04:04:53 PM
Some Fiestaware made before the 70's had Uranium compounds in the glaze are radioactive :parts:  I of course have a plate that at times pegs the meter on my Geiger counter at 10 MREM/hour  :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Genesis on June 04, 2011, 07:35:01 PM
Did you know that clown fish can change genders without a sex change?  :green: :green: :green: :green: :green: :green: :lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on June 04, 2011, 07:38:45 PM
Did you know that clown fish can change genders without a sex change?  :green: :green: :green: :green: :green: :green: :lol:

Did you know that Amazon Mollies are almost all female and that they can reproduce without male contribution?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Genesis on June 04, 2011, 07:41:48 PM
Yes I am aware of the Mollies getting pregnant, I had a mollie named after a male LOTOR character, and I thought it was "he" and she got pregnant with two babies. How was I suppose to know when a Mollie named after Orlando Bloom was going to get pregnant. I'll die laughing if I have to  :lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on June 05, 2011, 09:21:10 AM
Wood is hygroscopic. :orly: It reacts on the humidity of the air around it. High humidity means the wood will expend a bit due to it absorbing moist from the air. Dry air will cause the wood to shrink a bit due to the piece of wood will give off moisture.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on June 05, 2011, 09:25:33 AM
The Wikipedia dictionary defines "Troll" as:

Quote
To send (an e-mail message or posting on the Internet) intended to provoke a response from the reader by containing errors

Huh?  We have a much better definition here should they choose to drop in and take a look.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 06, 2011, 05:12:46 AM
Depleted Uranium has been used as ballast weights on airplanes  :parts:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 06, 2011, 05:14:27 AM
Depleted Uranium has been used as ballast weights on airplanes  :parts:

 They should use ME instead, then I could fly free, and I'm safer than uranium!  :snowman:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on June 07, 2011, 04:56:05 AM
I once had a japanese fighting fish called   zsar zsar


and my goldfish was called 'chompy'
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 07, 2011, 05:13:09 AM
I once had a japanese fighting fish called   zsar zsar


and my goldfish was called 'chompy'

  Did your goldfish look like this? ----->  :witchygoldfish:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 07, 2011, 10:17:50 AM
Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition). :glug:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Icequeen on June 07, 2011, 10:23:21 AM
A good carnuba wax smells like bananas.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on June 07, 2011, 10:55:58 AM
Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition). :glug:

But they were amongst the first to ratify the 21st.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on June 07, 2011, 10:57:13 AM
The 27th Amendment took 203 years to be ratified.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 07, 2011, 11:13:05 AM
Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition). :glug:

But they were amongst the first to ratify the 21st.  :zoinks:

Yet we still can't buy beer on Sunday :facepalm2:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on June 08, 2011, 02:14:18 PM

Male territorial birds can be beyond aggressive if there's a dispute with a neighbouring competitor. E.g. the robin, the little bird we kinda see as a friendly/nice bird, can fight his rival till death in the mating period.

Also, the male blackbird in my garden looks like he's been in some quite severe fights too. (well, his rough/bit damaged appearance now can be caused by defending his offspring (or his lady) against magpies, crows, cats, etc. as well)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 08, 2011, 07:01:27 PM

Male territorial birds can be beyond aggressive if there's a dispute with a neighbouring competitor. E.g. the robin, the little bird we kinda see as a friendly/nice bird, can fight his rival till death in the mating period.

Also, the male blackbird in my garden looks like he's been in some quite severe fights too. (well, his rough/bit damaged appearance now can be caused by defending his offspring (or his lady) against magpies, crows, cats, etc. as well)

 Or, maybe his mate is one of THOSE wives ...  :rollingpin:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 08, 2011, 07:06:35 PM
Depleted Uranium has been used as ballast weights on airplanes  :parts:

 They should use ME instead, then I could fly free, and I'm safer than uranium!  :snowman:
EPA approved.  :thumbup:

I once had a japanese fighting fish called   zsar zsar


and my goldfish was called 'chompy'
Betas look cool, but a Cichlid would woof it down in one piece.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 08, 2011, 07:33:55 PM
The governor of Connecticut used to be mayor of the town I grew up in
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on June 08, 2011, 10:29:39 PM
The guitar google for today is awesome, and that's a fact.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on June 09, 2011, 05:05:35 AM
The guitar google for today is awesome, and that's a fact.
:thumbup:

In FireFox I get in in colour, on IE without.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 09, 2011, 05:09:10 AM
The average persons radiation exposure in the US is 620 mrem :parts:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on June 14, 2011, 01:39:19 PM
Birds don't perspire. (or can't sweat)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on June 14, 2011, 05:40:38 PM
my hair bears a striking resemblance to a pot noodle
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 14, 2011, 05:43:47 PM
my hair bears a striking resemblance to a pot noodle

 Awww, that's the cutest description ever.   :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on June 14, 2011, 05:48:50 PM
he didnt text me tonight, but i think he is sleeping
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 14, 2011, 06:14:09 PM
Connecticut was an important iron producing state in colonial times up until almost the civil war
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on June 14, 2011, 10:29:03 PM
I clean out my pipe every other day.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on June 14, 2011, 10:29:22 PM
It is not raining outside.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on June 14, 2011, 10:30:09 PM
Once I went camping, and got scared by an angry duck in the dark. I couldn't see it, but I got too close to it and it got mad, so I ran.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 15, 2011, 05:31:02 AM
Silver Sands state park near my house is 47 acres and has one of the largest heron and egret rookeries in the state
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on June 15, 2011, 07:14:11 AM
Silver Sands state park near my house is 47 acres and has one of the largest heron and egret rookeries in the state
:o Silver Sands is the name of the area where GA lives.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on June 17, 2011, 07:45:07 AM
Yesterday I bought myself a pair of purple pants. (oh, and a hat)  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on June 19, 2011, 03:34:48 AM
purple pants sound groovy
 :needpics:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 20, 2011, 06:51:20 PM
Uranium nitrates were once used in some photographic toners :parts:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on June 22, 2011, 01:27:55 PM
The ocean 'quahog' (Arctica islandica) is most likely the animal that lives the longest time on this planet.. for the hard-shelled creature can have a lifespan that exceeds 400 years.  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Semicolon on June 22, 2011, 10:24:35 PM
purple pants sound groovy
 :needpics:

(http://www.absolut-ism.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/mc-hammer.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 22, 2011, 11:35:28 PM
There is no Save-A-Lot in Navasta Texas.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 23, 2011, 01:57:05 PM
There are no Publix  north of Tennessee
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on June 23, 2011, 02:06:50 PM
Thought about it but think I'm not going to photograph my new groovy purple pants.. cos yeah, that would be a bit lame and make a boring picture, IMO. (surry)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on June 24, 2011, 05:09:55 AM
Thought about it but think I'm not going to photograph my new groovy purple pants.. cos yeah, that would be a bit lame and make a boring picture, IMO. (surry)
I don't think it would be boring but ok.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Semicolon on June 24, 2011, 04:07:18 PM
Thought about it but think I'm not going to photograph my new groovy purple pants.. cos yeah, that would be a bit lame and make a boring picture, IMO. (surry)

:needpics:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on June 25, 2011, 08:35:37 AM
Grrr.... but ok then.
(http://images.buzzillions.com/images_products/01/49/marvel-hulk-13-deluxe-raging-action-figure-in-purple-pants_1929377_175.jpg) :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on June 25, 2011, 09:07:21 AM
here are some ACTUAL silly town names in my home state of Pennsylvania.


Asylum, PA

Balls Mills, PA

Big Beaver, PA

Bird-In-Hand, PA

Blue Ball, PA

Bumpville, PA

Climax, PA

Intercourse, PA



and not going to go into great detail, but I am originally from West Virginia, and once lived near a town called

Mt Gay


:)



Oh, and right on the PA/WV border, there is a GIANT statue of a big steel deer.

whats so funny about that ?

It has GIANT steel balls

:)

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 26, 2011, 07:04:59 PM
When traveling through Pennsylvania on I 80 the state is 311.07 miles and it seems like it will never end
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 26, 2011, 07:08:57 PM
On 26 June 1498, the toothbrush was invented in China.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on June 27, 2011, 02:13:03 PM
I'm making a chicken broth. It's simmering at the moment.  (hope I don't forget to get it off 'the fire' in about half an hour)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 27, 2011, 07:38:38 PM
nine volt batteries have six 1.5 volt cells in them similar to AAA batteries
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 27, 2011, 09:25:52 PM
I'm making a chicken broth. It's simmering at the moment.  (hope I don't forget to get it off 'the fire' in about half an hour)

If the chicken was autistic, would it be stimming instead of simmering?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 28, 2011, 05:02:08 AM
One of the largest agricultural industries in the Catskills is raising ducks for Foie Gras and it is shipped worldwide :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on June 28, 2011, 05:09:03 PM
Sigmund Freud used cocaine (and other substances) in his days.. and ja, I.. never liked cocaine users one bit.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 28, 2011, 05:29:11 PM
Hopefully this post will get us to the top of another page.  That purple suited figure is mildly disturbing to me.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on June 28, 2011, 05:33:35 PM
Je vous en prie, madame.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 28, 2011, 05:36:55 PM
Je vous en prie, madame.  :P

Mercy buttercup, Monsewer.  (That's a redneck pronunciation for Merci beaucoup, Monsieur.)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on June 28, 2011, 06:19:28 PM
Dunno.. I hardly know what it fully implies.. A redneck? Why? Mentioning it?

Someone who's arrogantly stupid, right? Stupidly arrogant?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 28, 2011, 07:31:57 PM
Lead acetate was used as a sweetener in ancient Rome :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on June 28, 2011, 07:41:47 PM
Kyriarchy is an intersectional elaboration of patriarchy.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on June 30, 2011, 12:13:34 AM
Dunno.. I hardly know what it fully implies.. A redneck? Why? Mentioning it?

Someone who's arrogantly stupid, right? Stupidly arrogant?

Here's the definition of redneck--a glorious lack of sophistication.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9ZZieKPesw

I love Jeff Foxworthy.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on June 30, 2011, 01:22:15 AM
The word for hangover in German and Dutch is the same word as the word for a male cat: "Kater".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on June 30, 2011, 05:46:45 AM
Nou, ik ben meer een hondenmens. (proost!)  :orly:

(tjah, 't is een nutteloos feitje) :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on June 30, 2011, 05:57:11 AM
The word for hangover in German and Dutch is the same word as the word for a male cat: "Kater".
There is a politician here in Australia whose name is Bob Katter. :D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on June 30, 2011, 05:59:04 AM
The word for hangover in German and Dutch is the same word as the word for a male cat: "Kater".
There is a politician here in Australia whose name is Bob Katter. :D

Does he drink a lot? :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on June 30, 2011, 06:14:39 AM
The word for hangover in German and Dutch is the same word as the word for a male cat: "Kater".
There is a politician here in Australia whose name is Bob Katter. :D

Does he drink a lot? :orly:
I don't know but he has displayed some pretty weird views on things. Here he is being homophobic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3wZw_iX4gg&feature=related
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on June 30, 2011, 08:23:36 AM
Here he is being homophobic.


I expected a Soph drawing after that sentence  :asthing:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on June 30, 2011, 09:34:26 AM
I can't draw as well as Soph can. Maybe he can post some when he comes back. :)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on July 03, 2011, 04:26:44 PM
The SGML standard, on which the www as we know it is based, was created in part by an IBM lawyer.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 03, 2011, 09:06:34 PM
The SGML standard, on which the www as we know it is based, was created in part by an IBM lawyer.

that answers a hell of a lot of questions.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 04, 2011, 11:42:22 AM
Grateful Dead Live at The Centrum on 1987-04-03 is the most downloaded show on Internet Archive and one that I was actually at.  The Centrum is in Wooster Ma
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on July 09, 2011, 03:01:09 PM
The SGML standard, on which the www as we know it is based, was created in part by an IBM lawyer.

that answers a hell of a lot of questions.

And creates a host of new ones. :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 09, 2011, 03:21:55 PM
A quick brown fox jumped over a lazy sleeping dog.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 09, 2011, 04:15:29 PM
There is a Swiss spambot trying to register an account on the board right now
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on July 09, 2011, 05:52:59 PM
There is a Swiss spambot trying to register an account on the board right now

It's in a for a surprise. :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 09, 2011, 06:49:40 PM
There is a Swiss spambot trying to register an account on the board right now

It's in a for a surprise. :zoinks:

Awww it didn't make it past the bot traps :'(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on July 10, 2011, 01:33:23 AM
The number 1 album on Triple J's Hottest 100 Australian albums of all time is Powderfinger's Odyssey Number Five. :)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on July 10, 2011, 03:07:07 AM
That is very useful to know. :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on July 10, 2011, 03:18:17 AM
That is very useful to know. :laugh:
It is a useless fact! I own the album so I am pretty happy it is #1.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on July 10, 2011, 03:28:04 AM
That is very useful to know. :laugh:
It is a useless fact! I own the album so I am pretty happy it is #1.

OK then. Have it your way, but it did brighten my morning. :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 10, 2011, 06:23:10 PM
Nikola Tesla was born on this day in  1856.  I wish Tesla would post again
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on July 11, 2011, 02:25:16 AM
Agreed. Tesla is cool.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on July 14, 2011, 02:37:48 PM
Today the French celebrate 'le quatorze juillet'.. for on this day in 1789 folks stormed the Bastille (Saint-Antoine, a prison in them days). This 'storming' later became the symbol of the French revolution and kinda marks the beginning of the 'all men are born equal' perception.  :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 14, 2011, 05:44:36 PM
Today the French celebrate 'le quatorze juillet'.. for on this day in 1789 folks stormed the Bastille (Saint-Antoine, a prison in them days). This 'storming' later became the symbol of the French revolution and kinda marks the beginning of the 'all men are born equal' perception.  :2thumbsup:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."  Thomas Jefferson, 1776
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 14, 2011, 07:30:29 PM
They built ships in my town in colonial days
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 14, 2011, 08:06:03 PM
My Great-great Grandfather's company was paving Bourbon Street when he died.  About 3 weeks after the funeral the newspaper ran an editorial asking when the paving would resume.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on July 14, 2011, 11:20:41 PM
Quote
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Euclid_definitions.html

Book 1 of The Elements begins with numerous definitions followed by the famous five postulates. Then, before Euclid starts to prove theorems, he gives a list of common notions. The first few definitions are:

    Def. 1.1. A point is that which has no part.
    Def. 1.2. A line is a breadthless length.
    Def. 1.3. The extremities of lines are points.
    Def. 1.4. A straight line lies equally with respect to the points on itself.

The postulates are ones of construction such as:

    One can draw a straight line from any point to any point.

The common notions are axioms such as:

    Things equal to the same thing are also equal to one another.

We should note certain things.

    Euclid seems to define a point twice (definitions 1 and 3) and a line twice (definitions 2 and 4). This is rather strange.

    Euclid never makes use of the definitions and never refers to them in the rest of the text.

    Some concepts are never defined. For example there is no notion of ordering the points on a line, so the idea that one point is between two others is never defined, but of course it is used.

    As we noted in The real numbers: Pythagoras to Stevin, Book V of The Elements considers magnitudes and the theory of proportion of magnitudes. However Euclid leaves the concept of magnitude undefined and this appears to modern readers as though Euclid has failed to set up magnitudes with the rigour for which he is famed.

    When Euclid introduces magnitudes and numbers he gives some definitions but no postulates or common notions. For example one might expect Euclid to postulate a + b = b + a, (a + b) + c = a + (b + c), etc., but he does not.

    When Euclid introduces numbers in Book VII he does make a definition rather similar to the basic ones at the beginning of Book I:

    A unit is that by virtue of which each of the things that exist are called one.


Some historians have suggested that the difference between the way that basic definitions occur at the beginning of Book I and of Book V is not because Euclid was less rigorous in Book V, rather they suggest that Euclid always left his basic concepts undefined and the definitions at the beginning of Book I are later additions. What is the evidence for this?

The first comment would be that this would explain why Euclid never refers to the basic definitions. If they were not in the text that Euclid wrote then of course he couldn't refer to them. The next point to note is that they are very similar to the work which is ascribed to Heron called Definitions of terms in geometry. This contains 133 definitions of geometrical terms beginning with points, lines etc. which are very close to those given by Euclid. In [2] Knorr argues convincingly that this work is in fact due to Diophantus. The point here is the following. Is Definitions of terms in geometry based on Euclid's Elements or have the basic definitions from this work been inserted into later versions of The Elements?

We have to consider what Sextus Empiricus says about definitions. First note that Sextus wrote about 200 AD and it was believed until comparatively recently that Heron lived later than this. Were this the case, then of course Sextus could not have referred to anything written by Heron. However more recently Heron has been dated to the first century AD and this tells us that Sextus wrote after Heron. The other part of the puzzle we have to consider here is the earliest version of Euclid's Elements to be found. When Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, Herculaneum together with Pompeii and Stabiae, was destroyed. Herculaneum was buried by a compact mass of material about 16 m deep which preserved the city until excavations began in the 18th century. Special conditions of humidity of the ground conserved wood, cloth, food, and in particular papyri which give us important information. One papyrus found there contains fragments of The Elements and was clearly written before 79 AD. Since Philodemus, a student of Zeno of Sidon, took his library of papyri there some time soon after 75 BC the version of The Elements is likely to be of around that date.

Let us go back to Sextus who writes about "mathematicians describing geometrical entities" and it is interesting that the word "describing" is not used in The Elements but is used by Heron in Definitions of terms in geometry. Again the descriptions he gives are closer to the exact words appearing in Heron than those of Euclid. When Sextus give "the definition of a circle" he uses the word "definition" which is that of Euclid. Sextus quotes the precise definition of a circle which appears in the Herculaneum fragment. This does not include a definition of "circumference" although Euclid does use the notion of circumference of a circle. The later versions of The Elements which have come down to us include a definition of "circumference" within the definition of a circle.

None of the above proves whether the basic definitions of geometric objects have been added to The Elements later. They do show fairly convincingly that the definition of a circle has been extended to include the definition of circumference in later editions of the book. The hypothesis is that Sextus has The Elements and Definitions of terms in geometry in front of him when he is writing and he uses the word "describe" when he refers to Heron and "define" when he refers to Euclid. Even if this is correct it still doesn't prove that the version of The Elements sitting in front of Sextus does not contain basic definitions of geometric objects but it does make such a possibility at least worth debating. What do you think?

One last point to think about. We quoted above:

    Def. 1.4. A straight line lies equally with respect to the points on itself.

What does this mean? It does seem a strange description for Euclid to give, for it appears to be meaningless. Compare it with the definition of a straight line in Definitions of terms in geometry:

    A straight line is a line that equally with respect to all points on itself lies straight and maximally taut between its extremities.

Again we ask the reader: do you think that the definition appearing in The Elements is a corruption of Heron's definition and so was added later, or do you think that Euclid gave a rather poor definition which was improved by Heron? Why do neither use the definition of a straight line as the shortest distance between two points?

References (2 books/articles)

Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on July 15, 2011, 03:29:41 AM
Gothenburg and Kokkola, my birthplace, were founded by the same Swedish king.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on July 16, 2011, 02:00:36 PM
The Czech consume the most beer per capita on this planet. Followed by Ireland, Germany, Austria, Australia, UK, etc.. (wiki-link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_beer_consumption_per_capita (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_beer_consumption_per_capita) )

Other useless fact.. I haven't touched the stuff for over 3 years now.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on July 16, 2011, 05:16:11 PM
The radio/tv tower that made watching TV possible for me as a 4 year old collapsed yesterday.

Back in the days I was 4, it was one of the two landmarks that were lit with coloured light at night. They stood out for miles and miles and miles.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on July 16, 2011, 05:30:06 PM
The Czech consume the most beer per capita on this planet. Followed by Ireland, Germany, Austria, Australia, UK, etc.. (wiki-link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_beer_consumption_per_capita (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_beer_consumption_per_capita) )

Other useless fact.. I haven't touched the stuff for over 3 years now.

That is why I love the Czech Republic. ;D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 16, 2011, 07:04:19 PM
Today  in 1945 first atomic bomb was detonated :parts:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on July 16, 2011, 07:20:37 PM
the world is flat :tard:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 16, 2011, 07:29:23 PM
the world is flat :tard:

 Yes, and the sun goes around it to keep us warm!  :tard:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on July 17, 2011, 04:36:08 AM
The moon is made of cheese. :tard:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 17, 2011, 11:16:13 AM
Plutonium was once used in pacemaker batteries  :zombiefuck:  :parts:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 17, 2011, 11:17:22 AM
There are times when children are a pain in the royal arse.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on July 17, 2011, 01:59:22 PM

Maybe not really a useless fact but.. phytoplankton 'provide' a bit more than 50% of all the oxygen around on this planet.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 17, 2011, 07:32:31 PM
Many old pre 90's lantern mantles contained thorium which is radioactive :parts:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on July 18, 2011, 03:04:46 AM
SF, the major Swedish cinema chain, plans to have completely replaced their 35mm projectors with digital projectors by the end of 2012.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on July 18, 2011, 06:00:30 AM
There are times when children are a pain in the royal arse.

Especially during royal delivery.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 18, 2011, 01:13:39 PM
There are times when children are a pain in the royal arse.

Especially during royal delivery.

that's not exactly where the pain is in delivery.  Besides she was an expected CSection (transverse breech)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ShyOne on July 18, 2011, 02:25:00 PM
Spectating is a spectator sport! :prude:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on July 18, 2011, 04:47:36 PM
There are times when children are a pain in the royal arse.

Especially during royal delivery.

that's not exactly where the pain is in delivery.  Besides she was an expected CSection (transverse breech)

Well, in my experience the pain spreads further than just the birthcanal.

But, indeed, the epic centre of the pain is not there.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 18, 2011, 06:54:46 PM
Promethium is one of two elements with an atomic number under 84 that are radioactive :parts:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on July 20, 2011, 03:13:49 AM
The term "couch potato" was created by writer Jack Mingo.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 20, 2011, 05:01:33 AM
 I tend to have bloodshot eyes fairly often even though I don't     :stoned:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calavera on July 20, 2011, 05:10:08 AM
I tend to have bloodshot eyes fairly often even though I don't     :stoned:

Too much Intensity Squared. :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 20, 2011, 05:15:41 AM
I tend to have bloodshot eyes fairly often even though I don't     :stoned:

Too much Intensity Squared. :autism:

 Then there's no cure?   :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calavera on July 20, 2011, 05:39:17 AM
I tend to have bloodshot eyes fairly often even though I don't     :stoned:

Too much Intensity Squared. :autism:

 Then there's no cure?   :orly:

I'm afraid not. :asthing:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 20, 2011, 05:41:11 AM
I tend to have bloodshot eyes fairly often even though I don't     :stoned:

Too much Intensity Squared. :autism:

 Then there's no cure?   :orly:

I'm afraid not. :asthing:

 I'll just have to go to the mall and buy some red shirts to go with my eyes!   :cheer:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calavera on July 20, 2011, 05:42:09 AM
I tend to have bloodshot eyes fairly often even though I don't     :stoned:

Too much Intensity Squared. :autism:

 Then there's no cure?   :orly:

I'm afraid not. :asthing:

 I'll just have to go to the mall and buy some red shirts to go with my eyes!   :cheer:

That would be hot actually. >:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 20, 2011, 05:45:19 AM
I tend to have bloodshot eyes fairly often even though I don't     :stoned:

Too much Intensity Squared. :autism:

 Then there's no cure?   :orly:

I'm afraid not. :asthing:

 I'll just have to go to the mall and buy some red shirts to go with my eyes!   :cheer:

That would be hot actually. >:D

 Especially if I added thigh-high boots!  :cfm:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calavera on July 20, 2011, 05:55:29 AM
Don't forget to post a picture ... and make sure you wear red thigh boots like this:

(http://gallery.roadbikereview.com/data/roadbike/500/red-patent-leather-thigh-high-boots.jpg)

 :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 20, 2011, 06:00:23 AM
Don't forget to post a picture ... and make sure you wear red thigh boots like this:

(http://gallery.roadbikereview.com/data/roadbike/500/red-patent-leather-thigh-high-boots.jpg)

 :2thumbsup:

 Those are gorgeous boots!  However, I doubt there are any such boots that could accomodate my epic legs. 
 I come from a long line of stocky women!   :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calavera on July 20, 2011, 06:08:09 AM
They're pretty flexible, though. Any pair of legs will fit them.

Stocky is not the end of the world.

I love a woman who wears red, by the way. Don't know why exactly. I just do. :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 20, 2011, 06:10:50 AM
They're pretty flexible, though. Any pair of legs will fit them.

Stocky is not the end of the world.

I love a woman who wears red, by the way. Don't know why exactly. I just do. :autism:

 Stocky is cool, I can live with it even when it limits my fashion options.  :laugh:



 And red is a confident color, that's probably why you like woman who wear it.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calavera on July 20, 2011, 06:28:48 AM
They're pretty flexible, though. Any pair of legs will fit them.

Stocky is not the end of the world.

I love a woman who wears red, by the way. Don't know why exactly. I just do. :autism:

 Stocky is cool, I can live with it even when it limits my fashion options.  :laugh:



 And red is a confident color, that's probably why you like woman who wear it.  :viking:

Does this mean I'm submissive?

Better not give any ideas to some of the ladies here, lol.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on July 20, 2011, 06:49:18 AM
They're pretty flexible, though. Any pair of legs will fit them.

Stocky is not the end of the world.

I love a woman who wears red, by the way. Don't know why exactly. I just do. :autism:

 Stocky is cool, I can live with it even when it limits my fashion options.  :laugh:



 And red is a confident color, that's probably why you like woman who wear it.  :viking:

Does this mean I'm submissive?

Better not give any ideas to some of the ladies here, lol.

That, or that you are confident enough to like a confident lady.  :-*
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calavera on July 20, 2011, 07:03:06 AM
They're pretty flexible, though. Any pair of legs will fit them.

Stocky is not the end of the world.

I love a woman who wears red, by the way. Don't know why exactly. I just do. :autism:

 Stocky is cool, I can live with it even when it limits my fashion options.  :laugh:



 And red is a confident color, that's probably why you like woman who wear it.  :viking:

Does this mean I'm submissive?

Better not give any ideas to some of the ladies here, lol.

That, or that you are confident enough to like a confident lady.  :-*

Interesting take. I should've thought of that one from before.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on July 20, 2011, 07:18:34 AM
i am wearing red leather boots right now :2thumbsup:

not thigh high

just boxing boots :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on July 20, 2011, 07:22:17 AM
i am wearing red leather boots right now :2thumbsup:

not thigh high

just boxing boots :evillaugh:

Sign of confidence I take it.  Or are you in a defensive stage?

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on July 20, 2011, 07:22:21 AM
They're pretty flexible, though. Any pair of legs will fit them.

Stocky is not the end of the world.

I love a woman who wears red, by the way. Don't know why exactly. I just do. :autism:

 Stocky is cool, I can live with it even when it limits my fashion options.  :laugh:



 And red is a confident color, that's probably why you like woman who wear it.  :viking:

Does this mean I'm submissive?

Better not give any ideas to some of the ladies here, lol.

Oh no MCalavera don't disillusion me,  you can't be submissive :(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on July 20, 2011, 07:24:56 AM
i am wearing red leather boots right now :2thumbsup:

not thigh high

just boxing boots :evillaugh:

Sign of confidence I take it.  Or are you in a defensive stage?
yeah confident but not in a sexual way...just they are flat and comfy and
feel sure footed in them enough to play swingball with the urchin :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calavera on July 20, 2011, 07:25:18 AM
i am wearing red leather boots right now :2thumbsup:

not thigh high

just boxing boots :evillaugh:

Red boxing boots? I'll let you come and box me any day. :-[

There goes the confident me, lol.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calavera on July 20, 2011, 07:29:26 AM
They're pretty flexible, though. Any pair of legs will fit them.

Stocky is not the end of the world.

I love a woman who wears red, by the way. Don't know why exactly. I just do. :autism:

 Stocky is cool, I can live with it even when it limits my fashion options.  :laugh:



 And red is a confident color, that's probably why you like woman who wear it.  :viking:

Does this mean I'm submissive?

Better not give any ideas to some of the ladies here, lol.

Oh no MCalavera don't disillusion me,  you can't be submissive :(

Not to worry, there's still hope ... just as long as no lady wears red.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on July 20, 2011, 07:33:55 AM
i am wearing red leather boots right now :2thumbsup:

not thigh high

just boxing boots :evillaugh:

Sign of confidence I take it.  Or are you in a defensive stage?
yeah confident but not in a sexual way...just they are flat and comfy and
feel sure footed in them enough to play swingball with the urchin :2thumbsup:

I need to get myself new shoes.....

Don't like shopping, but once I have new shoes, that fit well, I'm a new woman.

Thinking on a pair of Dr Martens again. Takes a few weeks of blister care, but after that, they are like home
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on July 20, 2011, 07:39:10 AM
i am wearing red leather boots right now :2thumbsup:

not thigh high

just boxing boots :evillaugh:

Sign of confidence I take it.  Or are you in a defensive stage?
yeah confident but not in a sexual way...just they are flat and comfy and
feel sure footed in them enough to play swingball with the urchin :2thumbsup:

I need to get myself new shoes.....

Don't like shopping, but once I have new shoes, that fit well, I'm a new woman.

Thinking on a pair of Dr Martens again. Takes a few weeks of blister care, but after that, they are like home
Yeah i really rate DM's and i buy them for the boy.  I dunno if you have army,navy shops by you,  but i don't buy doc's anymore for myself i buy second hand army boots!  They are great and last years!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on July 20, 2011, 07:42:34 AM
i am wearing red leather boots right now :2thumbsup:

not thigh high

just boxing boots :evillaugh:

Sign of confidence I take it.  Or are you in a defensive stage?
yeah confident but not in a sexual way...just they are flat and comfy and
feel sure footed in them enough to play swingball with the urchin :2thumbsup:

I need to get myself new shoes.....

Don't like shopping, but once I have new shoes, that fit well, I'm a new woman.

Thinking on a pair of Dr Martens again. Takes a few weeks of blister care, but after that, they are like home
Yeah i really rate DM's and i buy them for the boy.  I dunno if you have army,navy shops by you,  but i don't buy doc's anymore for myself i buy second hand army boots!  They are great and last years!

Haven't found "kistjes", army boots in my size yet. I've got very wide, small feet. Wide kids boots of DM works for me. Think I deserve that treat this year. :D

Just showed my youngest (very ladylike tomboy) pics of the DM and she was abhorred.  :asthing: :2thumbsup: :lol:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on July 20, 2011, 10:54:48 AM
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/missteresabrown/7727_132887122186_628777186_3011622.jpg?t=1311180789)

these are the DM's i got for the urchin
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 20, 2011, 10:56:50 AM
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/missteresabrown/7727_132887122186_628777186_3011622.jpg?t=1311180789)

these are the DM's i got for the urchin

Your going to turn him into a Leprechaun  :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on July 20, 2011, 10:58:04 AM
 :2thumbsup: @ bodi

 :lol: @ parts
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on July 20, 2011, 01:50:04 PM
 :LMAO:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 20, 2011, 06:02:40 PM
Did you miss the part that said "bouncing" in the shoe tag?  Should have bought him some that say "attatched to the earth."
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on July 20, 2011, 06:15:17 PM
Did you miss the part that said "bouncing" in the shoe tag?  Should have bought him some that say "attatched to the earth."

A ball and chain comes to mind :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on July 20, 2011, 06:19:21 PM
Don't forget to post a picture ... and make sure you wear red thigh boots like this:

(http://gallery.roadbikereview.com/data/roadbike/500/red-patent-leather-thigh-high-boots.jpg)

 :2thumbsup:

Hawt.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on July 21, 2011, 04:07:49 PM
Light takes about 8 minutes to travel from the sun to get to the earth (for one to see it).
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on July 21, 2011, 04:18:06 PM
Light takes about 8 minutes to travel from the sun to get to the earth (for one to see it).

The theory of relativity states that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.  If the sun suddenly disappeared would it take 8 minutes for the earth to notice that the sun was no longer there and continue on in a straight line instead of the current orbit?  No, it happens instantaneously.  So how does that information get from one object to another faster than the speed of light, thereby disproving E=MC2?  This is one of the basic questions trying to be answered by quantum theory, string theory and the TOE.  Fascinating stuff.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on July 21, 2011, 04:18:31 PM
An average adult is covered by 20 square feet of skin.

ewwwwww
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on July 21, 2011, 06:17:58 PM
Light takes about 8 minutes to travel from the sun to get to the earth (for one to see it).

The theory of relativity states that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.  If the sun suddenly disappeared would it take 8 minutes for the earth to notice that the sun was no longer there and continue on in a straight line instead of the current orbit?  No, it happens instantaneously.  So how does that information get from one object to another faster than the speed of light, thereby disproving E=MC2?  This is one of the basic questions trying to be answered by quantum theory, string theory and the TOE.  Fascinating stuff.

Not sure I grasp it all but the time it takes light to travel between the sun and surface earth is that distance : the speed of light = a little over 8 minutes on average. Min and max distance between sun/earth vary a bit cos of earth's orbit around the sun being ecliptic.

Um, must say I just restarted getting interested in physics again and must admit I do not know much about quatum physics and string theory.. and 'TOE trying to combine the theories' with the theory of relativity.

Bet a theory, a group of 'scientists' claiming it to be the theory of everything, is doomed to fail. Scientists that excludes doubt completely.. well, dunno.... I'm not a scientist. I'm foremost/upmost a sceptic and really don't believe mankind one day will fully understand everything.

I really do.

Think also, not talking about our sun and taking a more distant star as an example here; if it were to suddenly disappear.. implode/gone.. we on earth will only notice its missing when the light provided by it stopped many many many years ago, depending on its distance from us.

Well, our sun suddenly disappearing probably will have quite a faster 'reaction' being 'noticed' here on earth than the little over 8 minutes sunlight takes to get here, I'm reckoning. Guess there might be a factor of influence faster than the speed of light taking place then.

Not sure at all.. but instantanously? Mmmm.

Above is me brain-storming mostly and still wondering; What do we really know for certain?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 21, 2011, 06:53:41 PM
Light takes about 8 minutes to travel from the sun to get to the earth (for one to see it).

I guess the Universe is expanding.  When I was in school I thought I was taught it was 4 minutes.   :dunno:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on July 21, 2011, 07:05:41 PM
But oink? You believe god created all, don't you, QV? As a certain, right?

(um, you're quoting me again, deludi-ess)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 21, 2011, 07:08:12 PM
But oink? You believe god created all, don't you, QV? As a certain, right?

(um, you're quoting me again, deludi-ess)

Yes, G_d did create it all.  But as is usual as things age, they get flatter and wider, hence the solar system is getting wider (expanding).
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on July 22, 2011, 02:58:54 AM
Light takes about 8 minutes to travel from the sun to get to the earth (for one to see it).

The theory of relativity states that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.  If the sun suddenly disappeared would it take 8 minutes for the earth to notice that the sun was no longer there and continue on in a straight line instead of the current orbit?  No, it happens instantaneously.  So how does that information get from one object to another faster than the speed of light, thereby disproving E=MC2?  This is one of the basic questions trying to be answered by quantum theory, string theory and the TOE.  Fascinating stuff.

Think "shortcut".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 22, 2011, 09:15:30 AM
The US had and probably still does a man portable nuclear demolition devise that weighs in at only  150 lbs(68 kg) and looks like a big cylindrical back pack :parts:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on July 22, 2011, 10:01:08 AM
The US had and probably still does a man portable nuclear demolition devise that weighs in at only  150 lbs(68 kg) and looks like a big cylindrical back pack :parts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuke)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 22, 2011, 10:14:05 AM
The US had and probably still does a man portable nuclear demolition devise that weighs in at only  150 lbs(68 kg) and looks like a big cylindrical back pack :parts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuke)

Smaller ones I am sure were made but the backpack one is the smallest one that has the most reliable information on.  I am sure they are still kicking around even though we say they aren't
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on July 22, 2011, 10:53:31 AM
The US had and probably still does a man portable nuclear demolition devise that weighs in at only  150 lbs(68 kg) and looks like a big cylindrical back pack :parts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuke)

Smaller ones I am sure were made but the backpack one is the smallest one that has the most reliable information on.  I am sure they are still kicking around even though we say they aren't

The Davy Crockett is pretty interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device))

As well as the M65:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M65_Atomic_Cannon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M65_Atomic_Cannon)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 22, 2011, 12:46:14 PM
The US had and probably still does a man portable nuclear demolition devise that weighs in at only  150 lbs(68 kg) and looks like a big cylindrical back pack :parts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuke)

Smaller ones I am sure were made but the backpack one is the smallest one that has the most reliable information on.  I am sure they are still kicking around even though we say they aren't


The Davy Crockett is pretty interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device))

As well as the M65:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M65_Atomic_Cannon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M65_Atomic_Cannon)

I find all things atomic very interesting and used a photo of the M65 as an AV here for awhile
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on July 22, 2011, 01:58:22 PM
The US had and probably still does a man portable nuclear demolition devise that weighs in at only  150 lbs(68 kg) and looks like a big cylindrical back pack :parts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuke)

Smaller ones I am sure were made but the backpack one is the smallest one that has the most reliable information on.  I am sure they are still kicking around even though we say they aren't


The Davy Crockett is pretty interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device))

As well as the M65:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M65_Atomic_Cannon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M65_Atomic_Cannon)

I find all things atomic very interesting and used a photo of the M65 as an AV here for awhile

I have been reading up on atomic weapons pretty heavily lately myself.  Almost a mini-SI  :asthing:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on August 24, 2011, 05:39:38 PM
The smallest caucasian dicks are to be found in the US.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 24, 2011, 06:14:43 PM
The smallest caucasian dicks are to be found in the US.

As are some of the biggest assholes
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on August 24, 2011, 06:22:23 PM
The smallest caucasian dicks are to be found in the US.

As are some of the biggest assholes
we do have a lot of dickheads.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on August 24, 2011, 06:27:06 PM
*edit to leave nothing..

nothing
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 06, 2011, 12:30:51 PM
i made it back to northern california.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on September 06, 2011, 12:35:27 PM
i made it back to northern california.  :zoinks:



:)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 06, 2011, 12:39:48 PM
hows it going eris? nothing is new with me. although i am going to flirt all the way home. I wanna rape someone BAD.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on September 21, 2011, 07:24:07 AM

I was thinking what to reply to Eris in the music thread and plop, remembered there was a pan with broth on the stove. Well, needed to save the chicken meat.. ch. meat's not nice to (re-) use in the to make soup (from said broth) if it boils/simmers longer than p/m 45 minutes (imo).

(Suitable thread? Um, who cares.. )
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on September 21, 2011, 05:29:34 PM
There are tons of chipmunks where I have been working
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on September 22, 2011, 09:41:39 PM
People have been playing "Humans vs. Zombies" at my uni all week.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on September 22, 2011, 09:46:56 PM
What's that?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on September 22, 2011, 10:05:42 PM
There is an actual site for it:
http://humansvszombies.org/ (http://humansvszombies.org/)
And here is an explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humans_vs._Zombies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humans_vs._Zombies)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on September 22, 2011, 10:24:32 PM
Thanks. So, are you still among the living living?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on September 23, 2011, 03:51:32 PM
Useless? Dunno. (it's old but maybe some forgot) but bananas are bend/curved the way the are because the (young) fruit grows upwards to where the sunlight comes from. Like this..
(http://www.dieter-kloessing.de/CostaRica-Reisen/GrafikenCR/2a-Bananen/02-Banane-020.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on September 23, 2011, 05:11:20 PM
only 6 more posts till 3000
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on September 23, 2011, 05:19:11 PM
only 6 more posts till 3000

Congrats, you made it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on September 23, 2011, 05:59:42 PM
 :plus:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on September 23, 2011, 07:29:46 PM
Useless? Dunno. (it's old but maybe some forgot) but bananas are bend/curved the way the are because the (young) fruit grows upwards to where the sunlight comes from. Like this..
(http://www.dieter-kloessing.de/CostaRica-Reisen/GrafikenCR/2a-Bananen/02-Banane-020.jpg)
Good pic.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 23, 2011, 07:29:59 PM
Damn.  Every fact I can think of is useful, even if to win an argument with.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on September 24, 2011, 04:00:10 AM
Thanks. So, are you still among the living living?
I wasn't playing the game, I had classes and studying to do heh. GA was a moderator though and enjoyed the whole thing very much.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Al Swearegen on September 24, 2011, 04:47:27 AM
By the time you finsh reading this many seconds of your life will have been extinguished and you will be that much closer to death....

Now for something a little less depressing. Who likes kangaroos?


Kangaroo (Rémi GAILLARD) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81szj1vpEu8#)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 24, 2011, 02:07:24 PM
If that stupid kangaroo is found dead, look for me first.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on September 24, 2011, 04:56:34 PM
If that stupid kangaroo is found dead, look for me first.

You had kangaroo for dinner?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 24, 2011, 06:39:52 PM
If that stupid kangaroo is found dead, look for me first.

You had kangaroo for dinner?

It's going to be appetizer for my allligator chilli.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on September 25, 2011, 03:08:36 AM
If that stupid kangaroo is found dead, look for me first.

You had kangaroo for dinner?

It's going to be appetizer for my allligator chilli.

What will be for dessert?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 25, 2011, 04:29:08 AM
If that stupid kangaroo is found dead, look for me first.

You had kangaroo for dinner?

It's going to be appetizer for my allligator chilli.

What will be for dessert?

 Chocolate MOUSSE, of course!   :oneliner:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on September 25, 2011, 08:11:36 AM
The local Home Despot Depot has yet to recover fully from the hurricane and still has limited batteries and flash lights
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 25, 2011, 09:02:39 AM
This isn't really a useless fact, but it fits in with Part's post.  FEMA uses Waffle House as an index on how fast an area is recovering from a disaster.  It seems that Waffle House is common enough that almost every area has one.  They have a disaster plan that they can begin serving a limited menu without electricity.  I would imagine they have small generators that keep the refrigerators running.  The faster the Waffle House opens, the less serious the disaster.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on October 01, 2011, 03:01:14 PM
Birds, reptiles and amphibians have what is called a cloaca. It's both their 'exit' (of all excrement but also the eggs) and their reproductive organ.  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on October 01, 2011, 03:11:26 PM
I only like Douwe Egberts coffee.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on October 01, 2011, 03:17:11 PM


I only like Douwe Egberts coffee.


My mom really likes that coffee. I've heard it's very good, have not tried it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on October 01, 2011, 03:21:24 PM


I only like Douwe Egberts coffee.


My mom really likes that coffee. I've heard it's very good, have not tried it.
   It is.  You should.  I am not a big coffee person,  was reared on
tea,  but when i do a coffee it has to be that!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 01, 2011, 03:23:24 PM
Never heard of that one. :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on October 01, 2011, 03:44:35 PM
Warren Zevon was placed in a gifted student program when he was young. As part of that program he was personally tutored by Igor Stravinsky. Igor died before his protege put out his best work. He would have been proud had he lived to see it. http://www.mysticgames.com/famouspeople/WarrenZevon.htm (http://www.mysticgames.com/famouspeople/WarrenZevon.htm)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on October 01, 2011, 04:16:40 PM
I only like Douwe Egberts coffee.

I've been raised on that.  :coffee:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on October 01, 2011, 04:46:14 PM
I only like Douwe Egberts coffee.

I've been raised on that.  :coffee:
Is it dutch? my jar just says anno 1753
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on October 01, 2011, 04:55:53 PM
I only like Douwe Egberts coffee.

I've been raised on that.  :coffee:
Is it dutch? my jar just says anno 1753
That's really old coffee, get fresh stuff.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 01, 2011, 05:02:49 PM
I only like Douwe Egberts coffee.

I've been raised on that.  :coffee:
Is it dutch? my jar just says anno 1753
That's really old coffee, get fresh stuff.

 :evilplus:   for being a quick-witted smartass!  :rofl:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 02, 2011, 06:47:48 AM
This isn't really a useless fact, but it fits in with Part's post.  FEMA uses Waffle House as an index on how fast an area is recovering from a disaster.  It seems that Waffle House is common enough that almost every area has one.  They have a disaster plan that they can begin serving a limited menu without electricity.  I would imagine they have small generators that keep the refrigerators running.  The faster the Waffle House opens, the less serious the disaster.

I read about that and was in a Waffle House in North Carolina in the spring only hours after tornadoes had gone through the general area and there was a lot of damage not far from it.  Houses in pieces and trees where everywhere but they where open and only did not have milk
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 02, 2011, 11:59:04 AM
quite useful fact actually.  There's a Waffle house about 5 miles from here and one is supposedly supposed to open nearer.  Ah, civilization is saved.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 02, 2011, 11:59:38 AM
I removed the last of a splinter from the ball of my foot to day.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on October 02, 2011, 12:04:45 PM


How long had it been in there?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 02, 2011, 12:07:42 PM
GROSS, READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.


A couple of weeks.  I thought I had got it all out.  When removing splinters sometimes the blood will hide the rest of the splinter and then you think it's the scab under the skin?  It still felt a little "off" so I completed the task and put TeaTree Oil on it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 06, 2011, 03:53:24 PM
Duct sealing mastic is very yucky
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on October 06, 2011, 05:10:03 PM
the "boys are better" thread turned me on
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on October 07, 2011, 09:43:29 AM
the "boys are better" thread turned me on

Who knew Richard had that effect  :dunno:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on October 07, 2011, 03:51:09 PM
v  'Hello!'
(http://www.aquariumslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/mantis_shrimp.jpg)

Nah, posting it as a kinda useless fact.. it's a mantis shrimp.. but look at those colours.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on October 07, 2011, 03:57:24 PM
quite useful fact actually.  There's a Waffle house about 5 miles from here and one is supposedly supposed to open nearer.  Ah, civilization is saved.

i live at about 3 miles from a Waffle House.

New Kids On The Block was  there a few years ago doing a reunion tour. My friends and I almost went just to LOL at them. You must realize, this is a very very bad area, and that is the fucking Waffle House. Way to go NKOTB, you've made it big  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Binty on October 07, 2011, 04:03:36 PM
v  'Hello!'
(http://www.aquariumslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/mantis_shrimp.jpg)

Nah, posting it as a kinda useless fact.. it's a mantis shrimp.. but look at those colours.

I like cuttlefish.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 07, 2011, 04:07:34 PM
Lots of people ignore the stop sign at the end of my street
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on October 07, 2011, 04:36:27 PM
^
^ Cuttlefish are cool. Almost equally weird as these crustaceans, like lobsters, shrimps and krill, but they're not related really. Cuttlefish are like squiddy. (http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif)

Listening to Wham whilst eating herrings. :LOL:

(surry, I like absurdness)

Um, do think the light-'game' (some) cuttlefish can produce over the length of their bodies is.. remarkable.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 07, 2011, 05:06:41 PM
GROSS, READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.


A couple of weeks.  I thought I had got it all out.  When removing splinters sometimes the blood will hide the rest of the splinter and then you think it's the scab under the skin?  It still felt a little "off" so I completed the task and put TeaTree Oil on it.

 I once got a splinter in my knee and couldn't remove it.  It disappeared for weeks, then emerged under a blister.   :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on October 08, 2011, 07:44:13 AM
'Also kings and philosophers um, shit.. and so do ladies', M. de Montaigne wrote once.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Binty on October 08, 2011, 07:44:48 AM
^
^ Cuttlefish are cool. Almost equally weird as these crustaceans, like lobsters, shrimps and krill, but they're not related really. Cuttlefish are like squiddy. (http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif)

Listening to Wham whilst eating herrings. :LOL:

(surry, I like absurdness)

Um, do think the light-'game' (some) cuttlefish can produce over the length of their bodies is.. remarkable.

I agree; it's too cool.  I also like how they camouflage themselves :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on October 08, 2011, 08:05:53 AM
Um, found this YT video.. (it's got everything..  :laugh: ..like sex, violence.. but also the colour-changing 'thing')
BBC / Discovery "Life" Giant Cuttlefish sequence (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlhx5fKDrrg#ws)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on October 08, 2011, 10:57:39 AM
I have some nice new pink fluffy jim-jams
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 08, 2011, 11:00:24 AM
I have some nice new pink fluffy jim-jams

 Awww so cute, will you be posting pics of yourself wearing them?  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on October 08, 2011, 11:01:26 AM
I have some nice new pink fluffy jim-jams

 Awww so cute, will you be posting pics of yourself wearing them?  :viking:

heavens no, some things are sacred!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 08, 2011, 11:02:31 AM
I have some nice new pink fluffy jim-jams

 Awww so cute, will you be posting pics of yourself wearing them?  :viking:

heavens no, some things are sacred!

 I see you are a nice churchgoing girl like me!  :angel:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on October 08, 2011, 11:06:51 AM
a godfearing wench lol
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 08, 2011, 11:08:39 AM
a godfearing wench lol

 Let's get to Mass together!  Maybe we can get PPK to accompany us!   :christ:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 08, 2011, 11:22:56 AM
You need to pray more. :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 08, 2011, 11:26:09 AM
You need to pray more. :orly:

 We are ALL going to Mass tomorrow!  You, PPK, Bodie and me!  :police:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on October 08, 2011, 11:29:39 AM
a mass what?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 08, 2011, 11:33:52 AM
a mass what?

 Silly Bodie, a Catholic Mass!  Get your rosary and let's go!   :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on October 08, 2011, 11:36:58 AM
a mass what?

 Silly Bodie, a Catholic Mass!  Get your rosary and let's go!   :2thumbsup:

It might clash with the other things i worship!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 08, 2011, 11:37:48 AM
a mass what?

 Silly Bodie, a Catholic Mass!  Get your rosary and let's go!   :2thumbsup:

It might clash with the other things i worship!

 There will BE no other things, young lady!   :christ:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on October 08, 2011, 11:41:54 AM
a mass what?

 Silly Bodie, a Catholic Mass!  Get your rosary and let's go!   :2thumbsup:

It might clash with the other things i worship!

 There will BE no other things, young lady!   :christ:
I know your game weeble,  you think by dragging me along your
confession will not look so bad,  after mine....
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 08, 2011, 11:43:15 AM
a mass what?

 Silly Bodie, a Catholic Mass!  Get your rosary and let's go!   :2thumbsup:

It might clash with the other things i worship!

 There will BE no other things, young lady!   :christ:
I know your game weeble,  you think by dragging me along your
confession will not look so bad,  after mine....

 Well, I do have a lot of swear words to admit to ...  :-[
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on October 08, 2011, 11:45:26 AM
Yes let's drag Odeon along,  that way we will both look angels
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 08, 2011, 11:46:45 AM
Yes let's drag Odeon along,  that way we will both look angels

 Yes, the men will make us look positively saintly!  :angel:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on October 08, 2011, 12:05:31 PM
 :hmmm:
I have just seen young eris spying this thread

*Bodi hatches a plan*

Imagine if we could get the young eris to accompany us on the path
to righteousness?  Not only would we look saintly, i reckon we would
be granted a 'backstage pass' to that room,  up there :poke:

*Pictures turning up with the cloaked weeble at eris's door  "Yes my pretty
we just want you to come with us to check out...erm... to buy some candle
wax"  and bundles the young eris off to church!  What a prize!  There would
be a record number of hail mary's methinks.   We may need to coax psychophant into joining our mission  -  in case Father Diddlydums has a heart attack!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 08, 2011, 12:13:55 PM
:hmmm:
I have just seen young eris spying this thread

*Bodi hatches a plan*

Imagine if we could get the young eris to accompany us on the path
to righteousness?  Not only would we look saintly, i reckon we would
be granted a 'backstage pass' to that room,  up there :poke:

*Pictures turning up with the cloaked weeble at eris's door  "Yes my pretty
we just want you to come with us to check out...erm... to buy some candle
wax"  and bundles the young eris off to church!  What a prize!  There would
be a record number of hail mary's methinks.   We may need to coax psychophant into joining our mission  -  in case Father Diddlydums has a heart attack!

 Indeed, but we must plan discreetly so the young Eris doesn't know what we are up to!  :ninja:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on October 08, 2011, 12:35:19 PM
ok "sssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

mums the word
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 08, 2011, 12:37:24 PM
ok "sssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

mums the word

 That's the spirit!  We don't want her to overhear us plotting.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on October 09, 2011, 03:07:45 AM
:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 09, 2011, 04:32:20 AM
You need to pray more. :orly:

 We are ALL going to Mass tomorrow!  You, PPK, Bodie and me!  :police:

And do a mass exodus?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 09, 2011, 04:54:49 AM
You need to pray more. :orly:

 We are ALL going to Mass tomorrow!  You, PPK, Bodie and me!  :police:

And do a mass exodus?

 No exodusing till the priest's exit procession is over! :harp:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 09, 2011, 05:23:43 AM
You need to pray more. :orly:

 We are ALL going to Mass tomorrow!  You, PPK, Bodie and me!  :police:

And do a mass exodus?

 No exodusing till the priest's exit procession is over! :harp:

Sorry but I think I'll pass.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 09, 2011, 05:43:34 AM
I can not remember the last time I went to a catholic mass and that's a fact
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Icequeen on October 09, 2011, 06:16:20 AM
I can not remember the last time I went to a catholic mass and that's a fact

I think I was 13.  :laugh:

*Icequeen makes a speedy exit before they make plans for her*

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 09, 2011, 06:30:06 AM
I can not remember the last time I went to a catholic mass and that's a fact

I think I was 13.  :laugh:

*Icequeen makes a speedy exit before they make plans for her*

 *chases after Icequeen, waving the hymnal*   Why don't you want to go?   :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on October 09, 2011, 09:00:44 PM
I can not remember the last time I went to a catholic mass and that's a fact

I think I was 13.  :laugh:

*Icequeen makes a speedy exit before they make plans for her*

 *chases after Icequeen, waving the hymnal*   Why don't you want to go?   :zoinks:

I think that it might be the same reason you don't want a pair of 18 year old Mormon missionaries coming to your home and sharing the Book of Mormon with you.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 09, 2011, 09:54:48 PM
I can not remember the last time I went to a catholic mass and that's a fact

I think I was 13.  :laugh:

*Icequeen makes a speedy exit before they make plans for her*

 *chases after Icequeen, waving the hymnal*   Why don't you want to go?   :zoinks:

I think that it might be the same reason you don't want a pair of 18 year old Mormon missionaries coming to your home and sharing the Book of Mormon with you.

 Nonsense, the Mormon missionaries can come along to Mass with us as well!   :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on October 10, 2011, 09:32:09 AM
Although the word 'useless' in the thread title often makes me wonder.. Is, what I wish to post, useless enough? Or is.... (well, what ever)

~

Solariums (solaria?) are forbidden in Brazil. Well, I heard it on the news as a side note to the news that California 'prohibs' :P it for teenagers (<18) to use them.
 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on November 06, 2011, 06:19:36 AM
I only buy (and use/not collect or suttin'/duh) a block soap and shower gel/cream of the same brand. I.e. Palmolive (almond).. and this for years and years now. Quite boring.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 06, 2011, 06:28:38 AM
I only buy (and use/not collect or suttin'/duh) a block soap and shower gel/cream of the same brand. I.e. Palmolive (almond).. and this for years and years now. Quite boring.

 Almond is a very pleasant scent, and by now it is your signature scent.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on November 06, 2011, 08:11:21 AM
Well, it's a very mild and quite neutral scent. I like it. (think the almond oil is in it for its moisturising effect also though)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on November 06, 2011, 08:49:40 AM

Solariums (solaria?) are forbidden in Brazil. Well, I heard it on the news as a side note to the news that California 'prohibs' :P it for teenagers (<18) to use them.
 
What are you referring here, lutra? Only know a solarium as a sun room. Are you talking about tanning beds?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on November 06, 2011, 08:52:26 AM
Oh, nevermind. Just looked it up.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 06, 2011, 09:00:31 AM
There must be 30 feral cats living in the small park on the river where I walk Max.  There is a lady who drives a Smart car that feeds them and gives me dirty looks  I assume it's because I walk Max there 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on November 06, 2011, 11:47:39 AM
I switched to channel 13 for the home WiFi.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 06, 2011, 03:00:57 PM
Although the word 'useless' in the thread title often makes me wonder.. Is, what I wish to post, useless enough? Or is.... (well, what ever)

~

Solariums (solaria?) are forbidden in Brazil. Well, I heard it on the news as a side note to the news that California 'prohibs' :P it for teenagers (<18) to use them.

Are solaria tanning beds?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Binty on November 06, 2011, 03:20:39 PM
We say solarium too in Polish.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 06, 2011, 03:31:05 PM
We say solarium too in Polish.

 I am about 1/8 Polish!  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 06, 2011, 05:56:49 PM
Ron and Hermione did "IT" before their last scene at Hogwarts.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 06, 2011, 06:04:44 PM
Ron and Hermione did "IT" before their last scene at Hogwarts.

 That characters, or the actors?  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 06, 2011, 06:10:09 PM
Ron and Hermione did "IT" before their last scene at Hogwarts.

 That characters, or the actors?  :orly:

the characters.  The actors are Rupert and Emma.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 06, 2011, 06:30:52 PM
Ron and Hermione did "IT" before their last scene at Hogwarts.

 That characters, or the actors?  :orly:

The characters.  The actors are Rupert and Emma.

 Thank you, I am completely out of that whole Harry Potter loop!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 06, 2011, 08:34:18 PM
Ron and Hermione did "IT" before their last scene at Hogwarts.

 That characters, or the actors?  :orly:

The characters.  The actors are Rupert and Emma.

 Thank you, I am completely out of that whole Harry Potter loop!  :laugh:

INFIDEL.  HISS. BOO.  I've only seen each movie at least twice at the shows, bought all the DVDs, read the series three times.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on November 07, 2011, 12:28:29 PM


I saw one of them at an IMAX theater in 3D. I like the Harry Potter movies.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on November 07, 2011, 04:15:19 PM


I saw one of them at an IMAX theater in 3D. I like the Harry Potter movies.

Me too, but I felt cheated when only a small part of the movie I saw at the IMAX was in 3-D.  I think it was Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 07, 2011, 06:23:52 PM
My nephew made it into the arts section in the Wall Street Journal today
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 07, 2011, 06:45:50 PM
My nephew made it into the arts section in the Wall Street Journal today

 That's very cool!  What kind of art does he do?   :toporly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 07, 2011, 06:57:02 PM
My nephew made it into the arts section in the Wall Street Journal today

 That's very cool!  What kind of art does he do?   :toporly:

He works for some artist guy named Tom Sachs and sells grilled cheese sandwiches off  a moped.  It was about his bosses opening and him selling the grilled cheeses outside with a photo of him and quotes.  It might let you read the article as a trial it let me but not my wife. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204190704577022412186707218.html?mod=googlenews_wsj (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204190704577022412186707218.html?mod=googlenews_wsj)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 07, 2011, 07:00:27 PM
My nephew made it into the arts section in the Wall Street Journal today

 That's very cool!  What kind of art does he do?   :toporly:

He works for some artist guy named Tom Sachs and sells grilled cheese sandwiches off  a moped.  It was about his bosses opening and him selling the grilled cheeses outside with a photo of him and quotes.  It might let you read the article as a trial it let me but not my wife. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204190704577022412186707218.html?mod=googlenews_wsj (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204190704577022412186707218.html?mod=googlenews_wsj)

 It won't let me read without subscribing, but anyway, good for him!
 By the way, I LOVE grilled cheese sandwiches, he is doing a great
 service to the world!  :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 07, 2011, 07:04:58 PM
He sold them in Germany for awhile and he is apparently well known among the bar crowd in NYC
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 07, 2011, 07:07:24 PM
He sold them in Germany for awhile and he is apparently well known among the bar crowd in NYC

 I've read that grilled cheese sandwiches are gaining respect in the restaurant world!
 Apparently many restaurants now feature specialty grilled-cheese sandwiches.  :drool:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 07, 2011, 07:10:48 PM
I love them myself too.  Here is a photo of him from the article
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 07, 2011, 07:15:32 PM
I love them myself too.  Here is a photo of him from the article

 Thank you, what a cool little lunch cart the moped makes!   :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on November 07, 2011, 07:27:33 PM
Was about to post something gross about bacteria but.. tjah, since the previous dialogue is about food..

/end useless post
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on November 07, 2011, 09:18:32 PM
Jack is now curious about lutra's useless bacterial fact.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on November 07, 2011, 10:41:51 PM
I saw one of them at an IMAX theater in 3D. I like the Harry Potter movies.
They would be good to see in IMAX I think. But the 3D I am not bothered about since I can't see in 3D.

I was a bit disappointed about the ending of the 7th Harry Potter movie. The last battle with Harry and Voldemort wasn't the same as the book version. There were other inconsistencies as well.

parts, I feel like eating a grilled cheese sandwich now.

Also curious about lutra's post.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on November 07, 2011, 11:29:33 PM
I can't see in 3D.
Why not?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on November 07, 2011, 11:39:30 PM
I can't see in 3D.
Why not?
Was born with a squint (strabismus), had lots of operations that failed to fully correct it and resulted in me using my right eye way more than the left (called amblyopia). I had to wear a patch over my right eye when I was little to make me use my left eye more or else I would have gone blind in it. So I didn't end up developing stereo vision like people normally do. Everything looks flat but I am used to it as I don't know any different.

I talked about this in my Sensory Abilities and Disabilities class and the others were fascinated by it. I got asked heaps of questions about it. :paperbag:

Sorry if TMI...
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on November 07, 2011, 11:45:35 PM
No, not TMI at all. Very interesting really.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on November 07, 2011, 11:56:56 PM
No, not TMI at all. Very interesting really.
Thanks. :)
And I guess it does fit in this thread.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on November 08, 2011, 06:01:22 AM
Jack is now curious about lutra's useless bacterial fact.

Really? But it's undoable to unlearn this though.. (suit self)

It was this I wrote in the early morning of the current day..

As, 'Flora' needs fungi to properly function (for seeds to develop they need interaction with some particular form of fungi/later on too), 'Fauna', us man included of course, needs bacteria to properly function also. No kid ya. Your bowel system, to properly work, needs the help of millions of them.

Um, useless fact here maybe is.. that this is being dropped here® by an OCD-ish/a bit germ-phobic chap. Well, leaning towards that earlier in life.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on November 08, 2011, 04:52:19 PM
I can't see in 3D.
Why not?
Was born with a squint (strabismus), had lots of operations that failed to fully correct it and resulted in me using my right eye way more than the left (called amblyopia). I had to wear a patch over my right eye when I was little to make me use my left eye more or else I would have gone blind in it. So I didn't end up developing stereo vision like people normally do. Everything looks flat but I am used to it as I don't know any different.

I talked about this in my Sensory Abilities and Disabilities class and the others were fascinated by it. I got asked heaps of questions about it. :paperbag:

Sorry if TMI...

I'm the same. no 3D for me.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Osensitive1 on November 08, 2011, 05:11:18 PM
Jack is now curious about lutra's useless bacterial fact.

Really? But it's undoable to unlearn this though.. (suit self)

It was this I wrote in the early morning of the current day..

As, 'Flora' needs fungi to properly function (for seeds to develop they need interaction with some particular form of fungi/later on too), 'Fauna', us man included of course, needs bacteria to properly function also. No kid ya. Your bowel system, to properly work, needs the help of millions of them.

Um, useless fact here maybe is.. that this is being dropped here® by an OCD-ish/a bit germ-phobic chap. Well, leaning towards that earlier in life.  :zoinks:


:)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on November 08, 2011, 11:52:15 PM
I can't see in 3D.
Why not?
Was born with a squint (strabismus), had lots of operations that failed to fully correct it and resulted in me using my right eye way more than the left (called amblyopia). I had to wear a patch over my right eye when I was little to make me use my left eye more or else I would have gone blind in it. So I didn't end up developing stereo vision like people normally do. Everything looks flat but I am used to it as I don't know any different.

I talked about this in my Sensory Abilities and Disabilities class and the others were fascinated by it. I got asked heaps of questions about it. :paperbag:

Sorry if TMI...
I'm the same. no 3D for me.
When I was really young, a lot of my autism-related behaviours were thought to be due to my eye problems. I got taken to doctors about it and that is what they said. Did anything like this happen to you?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on November 09, 2011, 12:28:45 PM
I can't see in 3D.
Why not?
Was born with a squint (strabismus), had lots of operations that failed to fully correct it and resulted in me using my right eye way more than the left (called amblyopia). I had to wear a patch over my right eye when I was little to make me use my left eye more or else I would have gone blind in it. So I didn't end up developing stereo vision like people normally do. Everything looks flat but I am used to it as I don't know any different.

I talked about this in my Sensory Abilities and Disabilities class and the others were fascinated by it. I got asked heaps of questions about it. :paperbag:

Sorry if TMI...
I'm the same. no 3D for me.
When I was really young, a lot of my autism-related behaviours were thought to be due to my eye problems. I got taken to doctors about it and that is what they said. Did anything like this happen to you?

No, not that I can remember. This was way before anyone knew anything about autism, though. I was considered to be a weird kid, though. They did lots of tests because they couldn't figure me out.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 11, 2011, 06:07:00 PM
Connecticut has an overpopulation of white tailed deer
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: philosopher on November 11, 2011, 09:26:04 PM
Fragilariophyceae is a group of pennate diatoms lacking a raphe.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Scrapheap on November 12, 2011, 12:26:25 AM
Fragilariophyceae is a group of pennate diatoms lacking a raphe.

You ripped that verbatim from wikipedia.  :thumbdn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 12, 2011, 06:54:53 AM
Looking at diatoms through a microscope for hours causes eyestrain even when using a very good microscope
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on November 12, 2011, 07:48:13 AM
Fragilariophyceae is a group of pennate diatoms lacking a raphe.
You ripped that verbatim from wikipedia.  :thumbdn:
Eh, it is still a fact. The only bit I know is diatoms. I know they are teeny tiny as parts said.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: earthboundmisfit on November 12, 2011, 11:37:08 PM


Viscosity is defined as a fluid's internal resistance to flow.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 13, 2011, 05:25:16 PM
The Bahamas print a fifty cent bank note and a three dollar bill
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: philosopher on November 13, 2011, 05:32:25 PM
1973 book Sybil fictionalized the story of Shirley Ardell Mason.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Binty on November 13, 2011, 05:35:47 PM
1973 book Sybil fictionalized the story of Shirley Ardell Mason.

Not only fictionalised, but completely invented the disorder too.  It annoyed me.  Have you seen the film?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on November 24, 2011, 10:25:10 AM
I'm on my way to the shower.  :orly:

4, 3, 2, 1..

(and off.. )
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 24, 2011, 11:16:17 AM
Pope Sylvester II was the pope in the year 1000 and was a pretty interesting guy who promoted the study of science and mathematics.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 24, 2011, 03:24:33 PM
It's about 2 1/2 years until the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War One (28 July, 1914).
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 24, 2011, 03:46:01 PM
One of my grandfathers lied about his age and joined the army during WW1.  He was in an artillery unit in France.  One of my great uncles was an officer during WW1 and was put in charge of an all black army unit that never went to France they just stayed in Louisiana and trained.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 24, 2011, 04:36:04 PM
One of my grandfathers lied about his age and joined the army during WW1.  He was in an artillery unit in France.  One of my great uncles was an officer during WW1 and was put in charge of an all black army unit that never went to France they just stayed in Louisiana and trained.

 Both my parents (long before they met) and both of my mother's brothers
 were in the military.  Sometimes I wish I had served my country too.  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 24, 2011, 06:59:37 PM
One of my grandfathers lied about his age and joined the army during WW1.  He was in an artillery unit in France.  One of my great uncles was an officer during WW1 and was put in charge of an all black army unit that never went to France they just stayed in Louisiana and trained.

 Both my parents (long before they met) and both of my mother's brothers
 were in the military.  Sometimes I wish I had served my country too.  :orly:

I considered the Coast Guard when I was finishing up high school due to my interest in marine biology and oceanography  but went to college and studied it instead
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on November 25, 2011, 03:49:36 AM
I tried to join the army but failed the psych test. I wonder why? :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 25, 2011, 06:35:58 AM
I tried to join the army but failed the psych test. I wonder why? :autism:

 I would surely have failed the physical, or been kicked out of basic training.  :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on November 25, 2011, 07:10:06 AM
Watching some nature program on my telly I just heard Attenborough say that red kangaroos (in top gear) are faster than race horses. Useless facto maybe but it got me thinking.. 'shabbadabbadoo, those kangaroos are pretty fast'.   :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 25, 2011, 08:39:47 AM
Watching some nature program on my telly I just heard Attenborough say that red kangaroos (in top gear) are faster than race horses. Useless facto maybe but it got me thinking.. 'shabbadabbadoo, those kangaroos are pretty fast'.   :orly:

You can't ride them though, and the speed just gives them more momentum when their giant foot is flying towards your face :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on November 25, 2011, 09:01:33 AM
....
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on November 25, 2011, 10:10:18 AM
It's been said that Casanova ate more than 50 oysters a day (/some days).  :santa:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 25, 2011, 04:01:14 PM
At one time oysters were so plentiful in London that they were regularly eaten by the poor. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 25, 2011, 04:19:01 PM
At one time oysters were so plentiful in London that they were regularly eaten by the poor.

It was like that with lobster also at one point.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on November 25, 2011, 04:32:24 PM
^ Yeah.. and both (plus lots of other seafood too) are quite expensive to buy nowadays. Shame.. for it is top food.


Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on November 25, 2011, 06:57:27 PM
De 'echte Bergse clique' is sneu en achterbaks vooral. Useless/incomprehensible info for you maybe but right as rain nonetheless.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 25, 2011, 08:25:32 PM
De 'echte Bergse clique' is sneu en achterbaks vooral. Useless/incomprehensible info for you maybe but right as rain nonetheless.


The "real mountain clique" is sad and deceitful above all. 


I'll keep it in mind the next time I climb the New Orleans Mountains.  lol.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on November 26, 2011, 09:35:02 AM
Do that.. lol

I will too.. (concerning Berregenaeren).
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 26, 2011, 09:46:21 AM
The city I live in has a population of just under 53,000
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 26, 2011, 11:20:53 AM
I figured this out on my own a while back.  In the USA the rural areas have a saying, "chewing the fat" to refer to friendly talk among men, usually sitting outside a store (the old days).  Well, if bacon is cooked crisp you can eat it quickly.  If it's not, then you have to take time to chew the fat.  The old-timers had the time to socialize and "chew the fat."

P.S.  I can't abide crisp bacon.   
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 26, 2011, 03:16:24 PM
The town I live in, Milford Ct, has just over 14 miles of shoreline on Long Island Sound more than any other town in Ct
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 26, 2011, 07:57:19 PM
I met someone today from Connecticut, but I didn't find out exactly where.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 26, 2011, 08:14:29 PM
I figured this out on my own a while back.  In the USA the rural areas have a saying, "chewing the fat" to refer to friendly talk among men, usually sitting outside a store (the old days).  Well, if bacon is cooked crisp you can eat it quickly.  If it's not, then you have to take time to chew the fat.  The old-timers had the time to socialize and "chew the fat."

P.S.  I can't abide crisp bacon.

 I got busy in the kitchen   :multitask:   and made you some chewy bacon!  :bacon:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 26, 2011, 08:42:05 PM
I figured this out on my own a while back.  In the USA the rural areas have a saying, "chewing the fat" to refer to friendly talk among men, usually sitting outside a store (the old days).  Well, if bacon is cooked crisp you can eat it quickly.  If it's not, then you have to take time to chew the fat.  The old-timers had the time to socialize and "chew the fat."

P.S.  I can't abide crisp bacon.

 I got busy in the kitchen   :multitask:   and made you some chewy bacon!  :bacon:

Well, thank you honey.  Let's sit a spell and chew the fat.  How you been?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 26, 2011, 08:49:00 PM
I figured this out on my own a while back.  In the USA the rural areas have a saying, "chewing the fat" to refer to friendly talk among men, usually sitting outside a store (the old days).  Well, if bacon is cooked crisp you can eat it quickly.  If it's not, then you have to take time to chew the fat.  The old-timers had the time to socialize and "chew the fat."

P.S.  I can't abide crisp bacon.

 I got busy in the kitchen   :multitask:   and made you some chewy bacon!  :bacon:

Well, thank you honey.  Let's sit a spell and chew the fat.  How you been?

 I've been just fine, getting a tad plump these days, how about you?  :)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 26, 2011, 08:51:21 PM
I figured this out on my own a while back.  In the USA the rural areas have a saying, "chewing the fat" to refer to friendly talk among men, usually sitting outside a store (the old days).  Well, if bacon is cooked crisp you can eat it quickly.  If it's not, then you have to take time to chew the fat.  The old-timers had the time to socialize and "chew the fat."

P.S.  I can't abide crisp bacon.

 I got busy in the kitchen   :multitask:   and made you some chewy bacon!  :bacon:

Well, thank you honey.  Let's sit a spell and chew the fat.  How you been?

 I've been just fine, getting a tad plump these days, how about you?  :)

I'm been gett'n a dad burn headache from all this arguin' back and forth, back and forth on here.  Seems people ought to be able to git along better.  Not be so intense, know what I mean?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 26, 2011, 08:53:06 PM
I figured this out on my own a while back.  In the USA the rural areas have a saying, "chewing the fat" to refer to friendly talk among men, usually sitting outside a store (the old days).  Well, if bacon is cooked crisp you can eat it quickly.  If it's not, then you have to take time to chew the fat.  The old-timers had the time to socialize and "chew the fat."

P.S.  I can't abide crisp bacon.

 I got busy in the kitchen   :multitask:   and made you some chewy bacon!  :bacon:

Well, thank you honey.  Let's sit a spell and chew the fat.  How you been?

 I've been just fine, getting a tad plump these days, how about you?  :)

I'm been gett'n a dad burn headache from all this arguin' back and forth, back and forth on here.  Seems people ought to be able to git along better.  Not be so intense, know what I mean?

 Maybe some sweet tea and good music will help everyone relax!   :nicegear:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 26, 2011, 08:55:17 PM
I figured this out on my own a while back.  In the USA the rural areas have a saying, "chewing the fat" to refer to friendly talk among men, usually sitting outside a store (the old days).  Well, if bacon is cooked crisp you can eat it quickly.  If it's not, then you have to take time to chew the fat.  The old-timers had the time to socialize and "chew the fat."

P.S.  I can't abide crisp bacon.

 I got busy in the kitchen   :multitask:   and made you some chewy bacon!  :bacon:

Well, thank you honey.  Let's sit a spell and chew the fat.  How you been?

 I've been just fine, getting a tad plump these days, how about you?  :)

I'm been gett'n a dad burn headache from all this arguin' back and forth, back and forth on here.  Seems people ought to be able to git along better.  Not be so intense, know what I mean?

 Maybe some sweet tea and good music will help everyone relax!   :nicegear:

How's that crop of old people you've been growin' doin?  Any good ones in the bunch?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 26, 2011, 08:56:43 PM
I figured this out on my own a while back.  In the USA the rural areas have a saying, "chewing the fat" to refer to friendly talk among men, usually sitting outside a store (the old days).  Well, if bacon is cooked crisp you can eat it quickly.  If it's not, then you have to take time to chew the fat.  The old-timers had the time to socialize and "chew the fat."

P.S.  I can't abide crisp bacon.

 I got busy in the kitchen   :multitask:   and made you some chewy bacon!  :bacon:

Well, thank you honey.  Let's sit a spell and chew the fat.  How you been?

 I've been just fine, getting a tad plump these days, how about you?  :)

I'm been gett'n a dad burn headache from all this arguin' back and forth, back and forth on here.  Seems people ought to be able to git along better.  Not be so intense, know what I mean?

 Maybe some sweet tea and good music will help everyone relax!   :nicegear:

How's that crop of old people you've been growin' doin?  Any good ones in the bunch?

 As always, good ones and bad ones!  But we try to make meals they will like!  :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on November 27, 2011, 06:02:23 AM
I figured this out on my own a while back.  In the USA the rural areas have a saying, "chewing the fat" to refer to friendly talk among men, usually sitting outside a store (the old days).  Well, if bacon is cooked crisp you can eat it quickly.  If it's not, then you have to take time to chew the fat.  The old-timers had the time to socialize and "chew the fat."

P.S.  I can't abide crisp bacon.

I like crisp but not burned bacon.

I had some bacon that was nearly perfect in the Raleigh-Durham airport yesterday morning, along with some scrambled eggs and grits.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ShyOne on November 27, 2011, 07:20:19 AM
Maine produces more toothpicks than any other U.S state, apparently.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 27, 2011, 07:50:14 AM
Maine car lenience plates say Vacationland on them. My wife's family had a vacation home there we went to every year till they sold it just before 2000.  We even considered moving there
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 27, 2011, 09:30:57 AM
(http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/images/aldus.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on November 29, 2011, 04:48:50 PM
Just heard about Gaudi's, a famous Catalan architect, death and what 'caused' it. It being mentioned in a TV show about 15 minutes ago.

Um, quote from Wiki:
On 7 June 1926, Gaudí was taking his daily walk to the Sant Felip Neri church for his habitual prayer and confession. While walking along the Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes between Girona and Bailén streets, he was struck by a passing tram and lost consciousness. Assumed to be a beggar because of his lack of identity documents and shabby clothing, the unconscious Gaudí did not receive immediate aid. Eventually a police officer transported him in a taxi to the Santa Creu Hospital, where he received rudimentary care. By the time that the chaplain of the Sagrada Família, Mosén Gil Parés, recognised him on the following day, Gaudí's condition had deteriorated too severely to benefit from additional treatment. Gaudí died on 10 June 1926 at the age of 73 and was buried two days later. A large crowd gathered to bid farewell to him in the chapel of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in the crypt of the Sagrada Família.

Useless fact?


Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on November 29, 2011, 04:53:12 PM
(http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/images/aldus.jpg)

Your fact appears to be rather shy Your Highness. It seems to prefer to remain unseen.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 29, 2011, 06:17:51 PM
(http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/images/aldus.jpg)

Your fact appears to be rather shy Your Highness. It seems to prefer to remain unseen.

Can you see it now?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 29, 2011, 06:18:45 PM
Florence was founded in 59 C.E. by Julius Caesar as a retirement town for his soldiers.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 01, 2011, 08:02:11 PM
There was a revolutionary war gun emplacement about a mile from my house on a site now occupied by condos. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on December 03, 2011, 06:38:39 AM
Almost half of the times I turn my (old-fashion/fat ass) TV off it turns on after a couple of seconds again. I need to off it twice then.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 03, 2011, 11:26:03 AM
Almost half of the times I turn my (old-fashion/fat ass) TV off it turns on after a couple of seconds again. I need to off it twice then.

"Off" in the US is a slang verb for murder someone.  Has picture of Lutra shooting the TV twice.   :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on December 03, 2011, 11:52:15 AM
^ Thought it maybe had some sexual reference (turned on/to off twice) too but ja..   :zombiefuck:

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 04, 2011, 11:54:39 AM
Connecticut never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) :glug:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 04, 2011, 03:45:03 PM
Connecticut never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) :glug:

  :party: :party:
 It must have been a real party state then! 
   :party: :party:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on December 08, 2011, 05:26:13 PM
When it rains quite severely and there are strong winds from the south/west a/o west the Velux window, in the attic's roof, lets in rain that much I need to close it completely. Even a little gap will 'soak' stuff under it because of the leakage.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 08, 2011, 08:20:53 PM
The 'Whose online' feature shows when someone is using spell check
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on December 08, 2011, 08:48:24 PM
The 'Whose online' feature shows when someone is using spell check
I didnt know there was spell check
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on December 08, 2011, 08:49:56 PM
The 'Whose online' feature shows when someone is using spell check
I didnt know there was spell check

The Spell Check buton is right next to the Post and Preview buttons when you make a post.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on December 08, 2011, 08:53:15 PM
The 'Whose online' feature shows when someone is using spell check
I didnt know there was spell check

The Spell Check buton is right next to the Post and Preview buttons when you make a post.
Thanx...
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on December 09, 2011, 02:13:42 AM
The 'Whose online' feature shows when someone is using spell check
I used to see Jack using it a fair bit.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 09, 2011, 06:02:08 PM
I use the one that come with the Google tool bar
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on December 10, 2011, 03:39:44 AM
I don't use spell check, it says that a lot of words are wrong when they aren't. Like ok, perseverate, reminds, optometrist, etc. There are more that I can't remember. I don't trust the one in MS Word that I use for assignments either.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 11, 2011, 07:48:06 PM
 The Russian Woodpecker was an over the horizon radar the soviets used during the cold war that could be heard in the short wave band as a tapping sound.  I remember hearing it
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 11, 2011, 09:28:31 PM
The 'Whose online' feature shows when someone is using spell check
I didnt know there was spell check

 I am the spell check.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on December 12, 2011, 06:40:00 AM
One of the old cold war watchtowers, meant to warn us in case the Russians would come in their airplanes, with atomic bombs, is still there, within 5 km from where I live.

I feel safe now, remembering the lessons at primary school how to hide under white sheets, and take Iodine supplements well. :hide:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2011, 06:51:28 AM
The 'Whose online' feature shows when someone is using spell check
I didnt know there was spell check

 I am the spell check.  8)

Shouldn't you be the walrus?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2011, 06:51:48 AM
One of the old cold war watchtowers, meant to warn us in case the Russians would come in their airplanes, with atomic bombs, is still there, within 5 km from where I live.

I feel safe now, remembering the lessons at primary school how to hide under white sheets, and take Iodine supplements well. :hide:

Why the white sheets?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on December 12, 2011, 06:56:18 AM
One of the old cold war watchtowers, meant to warn us in case the Russians would come in their airplanes, with atomic bombs, is still there, within 5 km from where I live.

I feel safe now, remembering the lessons at primary school how to hide under white sheets, and take Iodine supplements well. :hide:

Why the white sheets?

For giving a false sense of security against radiation.  :zoinks:

For the hotshots, there were bunkers, but, the rest of the people wanted to be safe too. So, hiding in cupboards, under staircases, under tables, and, preferably covered under white sheets was the thing to do.

White sheets reflect light, so, they would reflect radiation too, of course.......

When you look at cold war safety regulations, lots of them is nothing more than that, bogus, to keep the majority of the people from panicking.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2011, 06:57:54 AM
One of the old cold war watchtowers, meant to warn us in case the Russians would come in their airplanes, with atomic bombs, is still there, within 5 km from where I live.

I feel safe now, remembering the lessons at primary school how to hide under white sheets, and take Iodine supplements well. :hide:

Why the white sheets?

For giving a false sense of security against radiation.  :zoinks:

For the hotshots, there were bunkers, but, the rest of the people wanted to be safe too. So, hiding in cupboards, under staircases, under tables, and, preferably covered under white sheets was the thing to do.

White sheets reflect light, so, they would reflect radiation too, of course.......

When you look at cold war safety regulations, lots of them is nothing more than that, bogus, to keep the majority of the people from panicking.

If it were only that simple, the white sheets I mean.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on December 12, 2011, 07:42:49 AM
My dad used to be an annoying dick about my brothers and I watching wrestling because it is scripted but then he would watch Roller Derby stupid scripted shit..  :thumbdn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on December 12, 2011, 07:45:54 AM
Roller Derby is becoming popular here and I just don't get the point of it. :dunno:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on December 12, 2011, 03:24:19 PM
One of the old cold war watchtowers, meant to warn us in case the Russians would come in their airplanes, with atomic bombs, is still there, within 5 km from where I live.

I feel safe now, remembering the lessons at primary school how to hide under white sheets, and take Iodine supplements well. :hide:

Why the white sheets?

For giving a false sense of security against radiation.  :zoinks:

For the hotshots, there were bunkers, but, the rest of the people wanted to be safe too. So, hiding in cupboards, under staircases, under tables, and, preferably covered under white sheets was the thing to do.

White sheets reflect light, so, they would reflect radiation too, of course.......

When you look at cold war safety regulations, lots of them is nothing more than that, bogus, to keep the majority of the people from panicking.

Wouldn't it also help keep out the fine dust from the fallout that contains Cesium and radioactive Iodine and keep you from breathing or ingesting alpha particles?  Maybe white sheets show the dust better?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 12, 2011, 03:34:02 PM
Roller Derby is becoming popular here and I just don't get the point of it. :dunno:

Neither do I it's just weird :dunno:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 12, 2011, 03:41:01 PM
One of the old cold war watchtowers, meant to warn us in case the Russians would come in their airplanes, with atomic bombs, is still there, within 5 km from where I live.

I feel safe now, remembering the lessons at primary school how to hide under white sheets, and take Iodine supplements well. :hide:

Why the white sheets?

For giving a false sense of security against radiation.  :zoinks:

For the hotshots, there were bunkers, but, the rest of the people wanted to be safe too. So, hiding in cupboards, under staircases, under tables, and, preferably covered under white sheets was the thing to do.

White sheets reflect light, so, they would reflect radiation too, of course.......

When you look at cold war safety regulations, lots of them is nothing more than that, bogus, to keep the majority of the people from panicking.

Wouldn't it also help keep out the fine dust from the fallout that contains Cesium and radioactive Iodine and keep you from breathing or ingesting alpha particles?  Maybe white sheets show the dust better?

Most of the safety stuff they published was just to make people feel like they were doing something and had some control about what was going on.   
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on December 12, 2011, 05:25:20 PM
One of the old cold war watchtowers, meant to warn us in case the Russians would come in their airplanes, with atomic bombs, is still there, within 5 km from where I live.

I feel safe now, remembering the lessons at primary school how to hide under white sheets, and take Iodine supplements well. :hide:

Why the white sheets?

For giving a false sense of security against radiation.  :zoinks:

For the hotshots, there were bunkers, but, the rest of the people wanted to be safe too. So, hiding in cupboards, under staircases, under tables, and, preferably covered under white sheets was the thing to do.

White sheets reflect light, so, they would reflect radiation too, of course.......

When you look at cold war safety regulations, lots of them is nothing more than that, bogus, to keep the majority of the people from panicking.

Wouldn't it also help keep out the fine dust from the fallout that contains Cesium and radioactive Iodine and keep you from breathing or ingesting alpha particles?  Maybe white sheets show the dust better?

Most of the safety stuff they published was just to make people feel like they were doing something and had some control about what was going on.
:indeed:

It did keep panic at bay. And, as such, it worked. Sheets are useless against radiation, but, the false security it gave made life less threatening, and thus, less stressful for lots of people.

I would love to have some cold war pamphlets with security advise on them.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 12, 2011, 05:37:14 PM
One of the old cold war watchtowers, meant to warn us in case the Russians would come in their airplanes, with atomic bombs, is still there, within 5 km from where I live.

I feel safe now, remembering the lessons at primary school how to hide under white sheets, and take Iodine supplements well. :hide:

Why the white sheets?

For giving a false sense of security against radiation.  :zoinks:

For the hotshots, there were bunkers, but, the rest of the people wanted to be safe too. So, hiding in cupboards, under staircases, under tables, and, preferably covered under white sheets was the thing to do.

White sheets reflect light, so, they would reflect radiation too, of course.......

When you look at cold war safety regulations, lots of them is nothing more than that, bogus, to keep the majority of the people from panicking.

Wouldn't it also help keep out the fine dust from the fallout that contains Cesium and radioactive Iodine and keep you from breathing or ingesting alpha particles?  Maybe white sheets show the dust better?

Most of the safety stuff they published was just to make people feel like they were doing something and had some control about what was going on.
:indeed:

It did keep panic at bay. And, as such, it worked. Sheets are useless against radiation, but, the false security it gave made life less threatening, and thus, less stressful for lots of people.

I would love to have some cold war pamphlets with security advise on them.

I collect cold war stuff and am getting one as part of my payment on a house I am doing work on.  It has hung in a cupboard there since it was new
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on December 12, 2011, 05:42:35 PM
@ Parts, AWESOME, I'm green with envy now.  :green:



Once the use of bicycles was taxed. You had to ad a platelet on your bike, to show that you had paid the taxes of that year. Some people got their name hammered in the platelet, because they were stolen quite a lot. Others did not attach it to their bike, but had it on them all the time.

It wasn't big, and looked lots better than what you get nowadays from the tax department.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 12, 2011, 06:15:33 PM
The 'Whose online' feature shows when someone is using spell check
I didnt know there was spell check

 I am the spell check.  8)

Shouldn't you be the walrus?

 I'm too busy being the Weeble!  But if I were a pinniped I'd be a Harbor Seal.   :seal:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on December 23, 2011, 09:22:11 AM
The otter closes its ears and nostrils when he swims. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 23, 2011, 11:29:37 AM
During the American Revolution the British dumped 200 POWs who were gravely ill with small pox and fevers on the beach in my town.  Most died along with some who cared for them at the sick house.  There is a mass grave and a large monument in the cemetery downtown
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 27, 2011, 12:40:37 PM
During the American Revolution the British dumped 200 POWs who were gravely ill with small pox and fevers on the beach in my town.  Most died along with some who cared for them at the sick house.  There is a mass grave and a large monument in the cemetery downtown

 Long may they be remembered.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on December 27, 2011, 12:55:43 PM
The 'Whose online' feature shows when someone is using spell check
I didnt know there was spell check

 I am the spell check.  8)

Shouldn't you be the walrus?

 I'm too busy being the Weeble!  But if I were a pinniped I'd be a Harbor Seal.   :seal:
I am the pinniped. :seal:

You are the egg.  :cbc:

Get it straight.  :police:

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 27, 2011, 01:00:27 PM
The 'Whose online' feature shows when someone is using spell check
I didnt know there was spell check

 I am the spell check.  8)

Shouldn't you be the walrus?

 I'm too busy being the Weeble!  But if I were a pinniped I'd be a Harbor Seal.   :seal:
I am the pinniped. :seal:

You are the egg.  :cbc:

Get it straight.  :police:

 But if I were a pinniped, I'd be a  :seal: 


 Just sayin'. :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on December 27, 2011, 01:02:52 PM
:P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 27, 2011, 01:12:59 PM
:P

 I can do that too, see? ----->  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on December 27, 2011, 02:50:57 PM
Edit to remove something: too lame a joke. (surry)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 27, 2011, 04:28:16 PM
Plutonium was once used in pacemaker batteries :parts:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 27, 2011, 05:00:08 PM
Edit to remove something: too lame a joke. (surry)

You always have the option of removing the post, which I've done a time or two.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on December 28, 2011, 08:53:58 AM
^ Yes, I know.

~

Yesterday I (rudely) laughed out loud when I spoke with some guy and heard his voice for the first time. You see, I thought he was speaking in a silly voice, to act funny, but it turned out to be that he actually talks like that.  :LOL:

Was probs a faux pas but I don't care. :lutra:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 29, 2011, 06:35:21 PM
Radium was once thought to have healthful effects and products containing it were sold as a cure alls
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Genesis on December 29, 2011, 06:52:21 PM
My parakeet has attitude problems
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on December 29, 2011, 08:16:18 PM
My parakeet has attitude problems

How long have you had the parakeet?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 29, 2011, 08:25:07 PM
My parakeet has attitude problems

I'll send Chirp and Hedwig over to teach it some manners and correct it's attitude (and altitude too.)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Genesis on January 01, 2012, 05:10:56 PM
My parakeet has attitude problems

How long have you had the parakeet?

I've had her for almost five years.... gotten her when she might of been three months....
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on January 01, 2012, 05:13:45 PM
My parakeet has attitude problems

How long have you had the parakeet?

I've had her for almost five years.... gotten her when she might of been three months....

How long has she had problems?  Did something in her world change near the time her problems started?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Genesis on January 01, 2012, 05:28:29 PM
She was the loner in the cage at the pet store.... when I had her by herself, shes been mean, when shes with other birds shes fine.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calavera on January 02, 2012, 11:59:28 AM
^ Yes, I know.

~

Yesterday I (rudely) laughed out loud when I spoke with some guy and heard his voice for the first time. You see, I thought he was speaking in a silly voice, to act funny, but it turned out to be that he actually talks like that.  :LOL:

Was probs a faux pas but I don't care. :lutra:

:LMAO: That cracked me up.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on January 02, 2012, 01:46:50 PM
^ Ja, still makes me laugh thinking about the encounter.

Another useless fact could be here that I chuckle quite randomly during the day thinking spontaneously about random silly stuff. Do this mostly when I'm alone but it could happen in, let's say, a supermarket too.

Others, noticing when this out of the blue chuckle happens, might view this as.. what ever.. but I do this sometimes.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 02, 2012, 02:44:41 PM
They have mounted a revolutionary war cannon downtown that was donated to the city over the summer
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on January 02, 2012, 03:57:13 PM
When I was new here Parts thought that Wandrew and I might be the same person.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 02, 2012, 04:02:59 PM
When I was new here Parts thought that Wandrew and I might be the same person.

 When I was first here reading your posts I thought you were mean and scary.  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on January 04, 2012, 05:06:44 PM
When I was new here Parts thought that Wandrew and I might be the same person.

 When I was first here reading your posts I thought you were mean and scary.  :orly:

And now you know for shure?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on January 10, 2012, 06:09:47 PM
I am alive :headbang2:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 10, 2012, 06:30:49 PM
There are six Google bots on site right now
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on January 11, 2012, 12:47:48 AM
There's this thrush (Turdus philomelos/=awesome name) here that thinks that it's spring already for he keeps on singing his repetitive repertoire for about a week now. Other birds, like the robin and some finches, seem to thinks so too. Phff, silly fuckers.

(T has been mild here for that stretch of time and.. dunno)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: eris on January 11, 2012, 02:21:42 AM
he said i can tie him up
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on January 11, 2012, 04:03:29 AM
^ Ja, still makes me laugh thinking about the encounter.

Another useless fact could be here that I chuckle quite randomly during the day thinking spontaneously about random silly stuff. Do this mostly when I'm alone but it could happen in, let's say, a supermarket too.

Others, noticing when this out of the blue chuckle happens, might view this as.. what ever.. but I do this sometimes.
I do this too.   People think 'qwackers'  which makes me do it more.  If it keeps them away i don't mind them thinking i am a little mad.


I have seen what i thought to be others do it but it turned out to be they were laughing in a conversation on their phone which wasn't visible and they were using a bluetooth handsfree ear thingy.   So, if it happens again and i feel embarrassed i am going to put my hand on my ear (as if i am adjusting imaginary ear piece)  and say "Ok well i have to go, I'll call you later"

Hey presto -  how to look crazy and uncrazy at the drop of a hat!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on January 11, 2012, 09:46:50 AM
^ Don't consider myself (nor you) crazy, I just chuckle sometimes. Folks might not know as of why but I don't care. It's just me reliving/remembering something I found funny (before).

Oh, and I don't feel embarrassed when someone may notice.. I generally don't give two (or three) hoolays what folks may or may not think about me. Especially not in this city of utter morons.   

 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ShyOne on January 11, 2012, 03:25:20 PM
Today marks the 1st anniversary of my presence on i2!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 11, 2012, 04:35:31 PM
Today marks the 1st anniversary of my presence on i2!

Actually it's quite useful.  I'm sure you'll get a lot of congrats, +s, etc.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 11, 2012, 05:01:03 PM
Today marks the 1st anniversary of my presence on i2!

Actually it's quite useful.  I'm sure you'll get a lot of congrats, +s, etc.

 Indeed, congratulations and have some cake, young lady!   :cake:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ShyOne on January 11, 2012, 05:09:27 PM
Thanks! Is it pancake?  :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 11, 2012, 05:13:07 PM
Thanks! Is it pancake?  :autism:

 Yes, a stack of them, with real maple syrup, eat up!  :drool:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ShyOne on January 11, 2012, 05:21:13 PM
Shall do CBC!


useless fact: my throat's gargling so much I sound like a wonky drain. :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 11, 2012, 05:22:22 PM
Shall do CBC!


useless fact: my throat's gargling so much I sound like a wonky drain. :orly:

 Are you sick with bronchitis, like I was?  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ShyOne on January 11, 2012, 05:25:57 PM
No, it just does that out of the blue. Especially if I've had a drink recently. Pretty embarrassing :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on January 11, 2012, 05:30:20 PM
Today marks the 1st anniversary of my presence on i2!

:congrats:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calavera on January 11, 2012, 05:45:45 PM
No, it just does that out of the blue. Especially if I've had a drink recently. Pretty embarrassing :P

Lesson of the day. Stop drinking water so much.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 11, 2012, 06:07:35 PM
Long Island Sound is about 15 miles across where my town is and I can see Long Island from my roof
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Genesis on January 11, 2012, 08:26:22 PM
Pakistan gained its independence in 1947, the time I set foot and lived there was 1992
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 11, 2012, 09:47:44 PM
Hawaii's statehood is almost 10 years younger than my age.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on January 12, 2012, 09:51:39 PM
Hawaii's statehood is almost 10 years younger than my age.
bout the same for me
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 13, 2012, 06:03:28 AM
The first nuclear sub the USS Nautilus is on display and open for tours in Groton Ct
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 21, 2012, 04:13:42 PM
Squirrel Appreciation Day (http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/January/squirrelappreciation.htm)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on January 21, 2012, 11:13:42 PM
There are currently ten pens on my desk.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 21, 2012, 11:18:20 PM
There are currently ten pens on my desk.

 You don't need ten pens!   *grabs some and runs away*   :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on January 21, 2012, 11:27:55 PM
Ha! You got the ones that don't work! And the fabric pen.

I need the green one back though  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 21, 2012, 11:33:19 PM
Ha! You got the ones that don't work! And the fabric pen.

I need the green one back though  :zoinks:

 The green one's MINE!  I need it 'cause I'm part Irish!  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on January 21, 2012, 11:34:33 PM
I'll trade you a blue one and a white one  :chin:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 21, 2012, 11:39:04 PM
I'll trade you a blue one and a white one  :chin:

 What am I supposed to do with a white pen?  Is that a joke?  :rofl:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on January 21, 2012, 11:40:47 PM
The OUTSIDE of it is white.  :LOL:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 21, 2012, 11:44:18 PM
They now have white tatoos.

(http://offbeatink.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/White-Ink-Tattoo-300x217.jpg)

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Post by: Pyraxis on January 21, 2012, 11:46:58 PM
Oh awesome. Too bad they don't work on dark skin.
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 21, 2012, 11:53:27 PM
They now have white tatoos.

(http://offbeatink.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/White-Ink-Tattoo-300x217.jpg)

 Oh yeah, I've heard of those.  Melissa Etheridge has one that reads "skin."  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 21, 2012, 11:54:05 PM
The OUTSIDE of it is white.  :LOL:

 Who cares what color the outside is?  Are you building a pen rainbow?  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on January 22, 2012, 12:00:22 AM
Not any more  :bigcry:

Hm. I have a colored pencil blender, that's kind of a real white pen. Or perhaps you would like the one with the light in it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 22, 2012, 12:02:07 AM
Not any more  :bigcry:

Hm. I have a colored pencil blender, that's kind of a real white pen. Or perhaps you would like the one with the light in it.

 I would like ALL of those fine writing implements, thx very much!  :green:
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Post by: Pyraxis on January 22, 2012, 12:08:15 AM
Greedy bitch!

*sneaks up behind CBC, snatches away the green pen*
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 22, 2012, 12:23:29 AM
Greedy bitch!

*sneaks up behind CBC, snatches away the green pen*

 *looks shocked, runs a few steps after Pyraxis, gives up, sits down and CRIES!*   :bigcry:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on January 22, 2012, 12:49:22 AM
Aw, there there, you wanna borrow it instead?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Zippo on January 22, 2012, 12:52:51 AM
*uppercuts pyraxis in the jaw, takes all of her pens and gives them the CBC* "the queens asistant gets what she wants or the muscle gets mad."
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Post by: Pyraxis on January 22, 2012, 12:55:37 AM
 :LOL:

*picks herself up off the floor and delivers a swift kick in the balls, scattering pens everywhere*
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 22, 2012, 12:56:47 AM
Aw, there there, you wanna borrow it instead?

 Oooooo, can I?  *scoots over, takes the pen and wobbles for joy!* :cbc:
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Post by: Zippo on January 22, 2012, 09:36:26 AM
:LOL:

*picks herself up off the floor and delivers a swift kick in the balls, scattering pens everywhere*


i never had any balls your attack is invalid.
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Post by: Pyraxis on January 22, 2012, 10:15:55 AM
 :asthing:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on January 22, 2012, 12:20:11 PM
This thread is useless.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 22, 2012, 12:46:06 PM
There was a wood palisade around the original settlement in my town and it was not far from where I am now
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Post by: Queen Victoria on January 22, 2012, 12:49:59 PM
The first ships brought African Slaves to the French colony of Louisiana in 1719.  They landed in Mobile, Alabama.
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Post by: Pyraxis on January 22, 2012, 09:48:05 PM
This thread is useless.  :laugh:

This thread increases CBC's post count.

(Is that not a worthy goal? :laugh: )
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 22, 2012, 10:49:59 PM
This thread is useless.  :laugh:

This thread increases CBC's post count.

(Is that not a worthy goal? :laugh: )


 Pyraxis is supportive of my personal goals!  That's a fact!  :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on January 23, 2012, 02:45:27 AM
This thread is useless.  :laugh:

This thread increases CBC's post count.

(Is that not a worthy goal? :laugh: )

You're right. I stand corrected.
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Post by: lutra on January 24, 2012, 03:09:08 PM
This year my birthday is on a Friday.  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 24, 2012, 03:39:54 PM
This year my birthday is on a Friday.  :orly:

 Mine's on a Saturday and I think I have that weekend off!  :headbang2:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on January 24, 2012, 04:07:43 PM
Think a bottle of champagne is in order then (um, for both birthdays). :celebrate:

(lahlahlah.. :laugh: )
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 24, 2012, 04:09:34 PM
Think a bottle of champagne is in order then (um, for both birthdays). :celebrate:

(lahlahlah.. :laugh: )

 I'd prefer a bottle of  orange juice!  :2thumbsup:
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Post by: lutra on January 24, 2012, 04:16:44 PM
Suit self. Bet I'll forget to get me some anyway. Still a long stretch (of time) between now and August 24.

Oinky doinky doinky.. Iz going to turn 42 y/o then. (http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif)
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 24, 2012, 04:17:51 PM
Suit self. Bet I'll forget to get me some anyway. Still a long stretch (of time) between now and August 24.

Oinky doinky doinky.. Iz going to turn 42 y/o then. (http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif)

 I'm older than you!  I will turn 46 in March!   :GA:
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Post by: lutra on January 24, 2012, 04:40:36 PM
^ Yes, but like you I could pass for 30 y/o just as well, I think. Which is.. dunno..

Just trying to stay young at heart (a tadski), I suppose.. isn't a bad thing.

:lutra:
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 24, 2012, 05:30:43 PM
^ Yes, but like you I could pass for 30 y/o just as well, I think. Which is.. dunno..

Just trying to stay young at heart (a tadski), I suppose.. isn't a bad thing.

:lutra:

 Thank you, I certainly am young in mind!  Let's enjoy being youthful!   :lutra:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on January 25, 2012, 01:20:12 AM
My birthday is on a Saturday too.
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Post by: Parts on January 25, 2012, 06:14:33 AM
Mine is on a Sunday
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 25, 2012, 06:54:32 AM
Mine is on a Sunday

 I assume you will celebrate it appropriately, by going to Mass.  :pope:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Calavera on January 25, 2012, 07:09:18 AM
Oh, shit. Mine's on a Sunday, too.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 25, 2012, 10:38:41 AM
Mine is on a Sunday

 I assume you will celebrate it appropriately, by going to Mass.  :pope:

No I don't think I will be going to Boston :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on January 26, 2012, 05:17:25 AM
The highest T ever recorded in Holland was 38.6°C/102°F (08-23-'44/wiki/?).
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Post by: renaeden on January 26, 2012, 06:06:21 AM
^We had higher than that today (39°C). It was 41.1°C yesterday. I am trying to stay cool inside with all the windows and doors shut to keep the heat out. I have the air conditioning set to 26°C so it is warm but not unbearable.
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 26, 2012, 07:04:41 AM
Mine is on a Sunday

 I assume you will celebrate it appropriately, by going to Mass.  :pope:

No I don't think I will be going to Boston :zoinks:

 There are Catholic churches in Connecticut, get yourself to one of them!   :christ:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on January 26, 2012, 09:01:34 AM
^We had higher than that today (39°C). It was 41.1°C yesterday. I am trying to stay cool inside with all the windows and doors shut to keep the heat out. I have the air conditioning set to 26°C so it is warm but not unbearable.

I posted my previous post after I read yours in the weather thread and the question came to mind, 'What would be the highest temperature Holland ever 'had'?

Well, anyway, hope you can cope a bit with those extreme high Ts. Think I wouldn't cope at all and turn nocturnal during Summer. Kinda start disliking Ts above 25*C already.
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Post by: renaeden on January 26, 2012, 09:10:05 AM
^We had higher than that today (39°C). It was 41.1°C yesterday. I am trying to stay cool inside with all the windows and doors shut to keep the heat out. I have the air conditioning set to 26°C so it is warm but not unbearable.
I posted my previous post after I read yours in the weather thread and the question came to mind, 'What would be the highest temperature Holland ever 'had'?

Well, anyway, hope you can cope a bit with those extreme high Ts. Think I wouldn't cope at all and turn nocturnal during Summer. Kinda start disliking Ts above 25*C already.
Thanks. :)
The temperature probably won't go below 25°C tonight so it is hard to sleep when it is like this. It is hard to cope with. I get kind of depressed because it is hard to go out and do anything productive when it is this hot. I want to sweep the back patio because there is sand everywhere from last week's storm but it is really hot. I will just have to do it in the morning I think.
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Post by: lutra on January 26, 2012, 09:26:50 AM
^ Hope for you that there's a bit of wind from the ocean (no storm). Well, that tends to help/moderate highs temperatures in this neck of the woods. Not sure it does at your whereabouts though.

And yeah, to stay indoors with the AC 'on low'/windows and doors shut can get one a tadski depressed. Not being able to do what have you. Bummer.

Cannot think of anything helpful to say but hope for you (others there) that the weather will soon change for the better (um, lower Ts, I mean.. not more sunshine and heat :P).
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Post by: Queen Victoria on January 26, 2012, 09:43:32 AM
Sir Les tends to be a bit long-winded in his posts.
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Post by: renaeden on January 27, 2012, 09:29:04 AM
^ Hope for you that there's a bit of wind from the ocean (no storm). Well, that tends to help/moderate highs temperatures in this neck of the woods. Not sure it does at your whereabouts though.

And yeah, to stay indoors with the AC 'on low'/windows and doors shut can get one a tadski depressed. Not being able to do what have you. Bummer.

Cannot think of anything helpful to say but hope for you (others there) that the weather will soon change for the better (um, lower Ts, I mean.. not more sunshine and heat :P).
We are getting a bit of storm action from the north but no rain. It is indeed better when we get wind coming off the sea, it is the same here as where you are. Still no end in sight, would definitely prefer temperatures in the 20s.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on January 27, 2012, 04:32:10 PM
My daughters BD is next Saturday.

That's not a useless fact at all.

Just means that I have to blow up balloons this very night.



couple of weeks later, my BD will also be on a Saturday.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 27, 2012, 05:24:39 PM
One of my son's is taking the SATs tomorrow morning
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Post by: eris on January 27, 2012, 07:08:09 PM
I am completely nude from the waist down. I live alone so it doesnt matter.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on January 28, 2012, 03:50:51 AM
I am completely nude from the waist down. I live alone so it doesnt matter.

Post pictures if you want it to matter.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 28, 2012, 11:45:51 AM
Ulan Bator, the capitol of Mongolia, has a population of almost 1.2 million people and has Alcoholic Anonymous meetings.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 28, 2012, 11:50:47 AM
One of my son's is taking the SATs tomorrow morning

 Good luck to him, I remember taking those, what a pain in the ass!  :crossed:
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Post by: Queen Victoria on January 28, 2012, 11:51:59 AM
One of my son's is taking the SATs tomorrow morning

 Good luck to him, I remember taking those, what a pain in the ass!  :crossed:

So, maybe he won't have to sit for the SATS and can stand instead.  Then the pain would be in his feet.
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 28, 2012, 05:08:24 PM
One of my son's is taking the SATs tomorrow morning

 Good luck to him, I remember taking those, what a pain in the ass!  :crossed:

So, maybe he won't have to sit for the SATS and can stand instead.  Then the pain would be in his feet.

 Those tests take a long time, sitting is a must!  I hope he did well!  :viking:
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Post by: odeon on January 29, 2012, 02:55:38 AM
The time code on today's last festival feature at the cinema is fucked.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 30, 2012, 08:44:37 AM
Near where I used to go to school there are  ruins called the Gungywamp  which have many theories on who made them 
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Post by: odeon on February 01, 2012, 01:32:01 PM
Both of the cinema's rectifiers produce 30.5 Volts with a normal workload.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on February 01, 2012, 07:01:17 PM
my blackberry just shutdown for the evening
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 01, 2012, 07:03:17 PM
my blackberry just shutdown for the evening

 Does it just do that randomly when it's tired of working?  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on February 01, 2012, 07:11:33 PM
my blackberry just shutdown for the evening

 Does it just do that randomly when it's tired of working?  :orly:
scheduled to cut off between 8 pm and 7am everyday....
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 01, 2012, 07:28:33 PM
my blackberry just shutdown for the evening

 Does it just do that randomly when it's tired of working?  :orly:
scheduled to cut off between 8 pm and 7am everyday....

 Who schedules it?  Is it part of the payment plan?  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 01, 2012, 07:36:53 PM
St. John's  Newfoundland has a shortwave station CKZN on 6160 khz with 300 Watts that I can at times receive at my house
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on February 01, 2012, 07:37:40 PM
my blackberry just shutdown for the evening

 Does it just do that randomly when it's tired of working?  :orly:
scheduled to cut off between 8 pm and 7am everyday....

 Who schedules it?  Is it part of the payment plan?  :orly:
uhhhh, I scheduled it
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 01, 2012, 08:06:17 PM
St. John's  Newfoundland has a shortwave station CKZN on 6160 khz with 300 Watts that I can at times receive at my house

 How did St. John teach his Newfoundland to run a radio station?  :doggie:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 01, 2012, 08:08:18 PM
St. John's  Newfoundland has a shortwave station CKZN on 6160 khz with 300 Watts that I can at times receive at my house

 How did St. John teach his Newfoundland to run a radio station?  :doggie:

With great skill and endless patience :nerdy:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 02, 2012, 05:29:56 PM
This post number, 12521, is a palindrome?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 02, 2012, 05:33:55 PM
This post number, 12521, is a palindrome?

 Indeed it is, Your Majesty, well done!  :clap:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 02, 2012, 05:36:00 PM
I just wasn't sure if palindrome was the proper word for a number like that.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 02, 2012, 05:46:10 PM
They should have come up with a word for palindrome that was a palindrome
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 02, 2012, 10:02:40 PM
Well, a number sequence like that is a palindrome.  And blame Ben Jonson for naming it.

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction, with general allowances for adjustments to punctuation and word dividers.

Composing literature in palindromes is an example of constrained writing. The word "palindrome" was coined from Greek roots palin (πάλιν; "again") and dromos (δρóμος; "way, direction") by English writer Ben Jonson in the 17th century. The actual Greek phrase to describe the phenomenon is karkinikê epigrafê (καρκινικὴ επιγραφή; crab inscription), or simply karkinoi (καρκίνοι; crabs), alluding to the backward movement of crabs, like an inscription that can be read backwards.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on February 03, 2012, 03:11:55 AM
Dolby made a sound processor card for SR noise reduction called Cat 280T. When the patent expired, Smart Technologies made an SR card called Copycat 280T.

And got away with it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 03, 2012, 07:55:54 AM
The blade of my blender is sharp.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 03, 2012, 07:56:27 AM
I am wearing a metallic band aid.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 03, 2012, 07:56:57 AM
^^ and ^ are related  :hahaha:
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Post by: Callaway on February 03, 2012, 07:58:47 AM
OUCH!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 03, 2012, 08:04:04 AM
Just a small cut, while doing the dishes. Usually the blade rotates away when I clean it. This time it was somewhat stuck.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 03, 2012, 04:53:16 PM
Martin Heinrich Klaproth, discovered Uranium  in 1789.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on February 26, 2012, 10:24:57 AM
When I go to the toilet/bathroom (to deliver a message) I always take something to read with me. Newspaper usually. TMI maybe but.. (hey)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 26, 2012, 10:38:00 AM
^^ and ^ are related  :hahaha:

 I was afraid of that.  I hope you applied antibiotic ointment!  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 26, 2012, 10:39:07 AM
When I go to the toilet/bathroom (to deliver a message) I always take something to read with me. Newspaper usually. TMI maybe but.. (hey)

 Your avatar seems very devout, so appropriate for a Sunday!  :pope:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 26, 2012, 11:55:43 AM
^^ and ^ are related  :hahaha:

 I was afraid of that.  I hope you applied antibiotic ointment!  :orly:

Nope.

Small wound, bleeding well, it cleaned itself.

Were it to infect, I'd use a povidone-iodine solution, or biogaze, before thinking of getting a prescription for antibiotic ointment.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 26, 2012, 11:56:26 AM
When I go to the toilet/bathroom (to deliver a message) I always take something to read with me. Newspaper usually. TMI maybe but.. (hey)

Newspapers can contain TMI indeed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 26, 2012, 11:57:26 AM
^^ and ^ are related  :hahaha:

 I was afraid of that.  I hope you applied antibiotic ointment!  :orly:

Nope.

Small wound, bleeding well, it cleaned itself.

Were it to infect, I'd use a povidone-iodine solution, or biogaze, before thinking of getting a prescription for antibiotic ointment.

 Here in the States, you can get antibiotic ointment over the counter.   :hyke:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 26, 2012, 12:10:36 PM
^^ and ^ are related  :hahaha:

 I was afraid of that.  I hope you applied antibiotic ointment!  :orly:

Nope.

Small wound, bleeding well, it cleaned itself.

Were it to infect, I'd use a povidone-iodine solution, or biogaze, before thinking of getting a prescription for antibiotic ointment.

 Here in the States, you can get antibiotic ointment over the counter.   :hyke:

They are not keen on improving resistance to anti-biotics in bugs here. And, the other things work fine too.
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Post by: Callaway on February 27, 2012, 11:54:30 PM
^^ and ^ are related  :hahaha:

 I was afraid of that.  I hope you applied antibiotic ointment!  :orly:

Nope.

Small wound, bleeding well, it cleaned itself.

Were it to infect, I'd use a povidone-iodine solution, or biogaze, before thinking of getting a prescription for antibiotic ointment.

You can't get Neosporin ointment there?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 29, 2012, 02:28:10 PM
^^ and ^ are related  :hahaha:

 I was afraid of that.  I hope you applied antibiotic ointment!  :orly:

Nope.

Small wound, bleeding well, it cleaned itself.

Were it to infect, I'd use a povidone-iodine solution, or biogaze, before thinking of getting a prescription for antibiotic ointment.

You can't get Neosporin ointment there?

I've notseen antibiotic ointments that were sold over the counter. Antimyotica are sold over the counter though.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 29, 2012, 02:36:18 PM
The worlds first nuclear powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is on display in Groton Connecticut. :parts:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on February 29, 2012, 06:32:58 PM
^^ and ^ are related  :hahaha:

 I was afraid of that.  I hope you applied antibiotic ointment!  :orly:

Nope.

Small wound, bleeding well, it cleaned itself.

Were it to infect, I'd use a povidone-iodine solution, or biogaze, before thinking of getting a prescription for antibiotic ointment.

You can't get Neosporin ointment there?

I've notseen antibiotic ointments that were sold over the counter. Antimyotica are sold over the counter though.

We can buy anti-fungal ointments and creams over the counter here too.
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Post by: skyblue1 on February 29, 2012, 08:39:07 PM
 :include:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 29, 2012, 08:41:33 PM
 I have a cowlick on the back of my head at the moment.   :hyke:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 29, 2012, 08:45:42 PM
I have a cowlick on the back of my head at the moment.   :hyke:

And just what exactly have you and Hyke been up to lately?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on February 29, 2012, 10:24:45 PM
The worlds first nuclear powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is on display in Groton Connecticut. :parts:
I worked on the Nautius in 1982.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 01, 2012, 04:02:33 AM
I have a cowlick on the back of my head at the moment.   :hyke:

And just what exactly have you and Hyke been up to lately?

We won't tell. :smarty:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 01, 2012, 09:25:35 AM
The worlds first nuclear powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is on display in Groton Connecticut. :parts:
I worked on the Nautius in 1982.
I have been on the tour many times might have even seen your work.
It's tight in there must have been fun :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 01, 2012, 10:31:14 AM
I have a cowlick on the back of my head at the moment.   :hyke:

And just what exactly have you and Hyke been up to lately?

We won't tell. :smarty:

I also bear some of your handiwork.  I have cowlicks on each side of the nape of my hair in the back.  Makes wearing short hair a bit frustrating, but then I don't really mind because although I am a Mom, I don't have eyes in the back of my head to be bothered by them.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 01, 2012, 04:08:20 PM
The small island just off the coast of my town is supposed to be haunted (http://fun.resplace.net/Emoticons/Halloween/FlyingGhost.gif)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 01, 2012, 04:18:23 PM
The small island just off the coast of my town is supposed to be haunted (http://fun.resplace.net/Emoticons/Halloween/FlyingGhost.gif)

 Can we please have that cute little ghost smiley?  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 01, 2012, 06:07:10 PM
I have a cowlick on the back of my head at the moment.   :hyke:

And just what exactly have you and Hyke been up to lately?

We won't tell. :smarty:

I also bear some of your handiwork.  I have cowlicks on each side of the nape of my hair in the back.  Makes wearing short hair a bit frustrating, but then I don't really mind because although I am a Mom, I don't have eyes in the back of my head to be bothered by them.


I haz amazing skillz.


I have cowlicks in my neck too, one on the left, and one on the right of the nape of my neck. I'm blessed, they are mirrored well, so, as long as my hair is short enough, it looks like it is intended to be the way it is.
When it grows longer, I get a kind of short tail in the middle of my neck and, at the side, some hairs start to stand out.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 01, 2012, 06:16:50 PM
 I think I found a silver hair in my left eyebrow today.   :prude:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 01, 2012, 06:56:33 PM
 :boo:  : boo :  there you go :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 01, 2012, 07:04:44 PM
:boo:  : boo :  there you go :thumbup:

 Awww, thank you, it's so cute!   :boo:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 01, 2012, 07:42:23 PM
Private (military rank) = The term derives from the medieval term "private soldiers" (a term still used in the United Kingdom), denoting soldiers who were either hired, conscripted, or feudalized into service by a nobleman forming an army. The usage of "private" dates from the 18th century, when the army of Napoleon Bonaparte first established the permanent rank of soldat.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on March 01, 2012, 08:08:40 PM
The worlds first nuclear powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is on display in Groton Connecticut. :parts:
I worked on the Nautius in 1982.
I have been on the tour many times might have even seen your work.
It's tight in there must have been fun :thumbup:
:indeed: Working @ Mare Island was a good job.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 19, 2012, 08:36:40 PM
Supermarkets have their best sales timed for the 1st of the month or the 3rd of the month because a lot of people are paid on the first and Social Security checks used to go out on the third. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 24, 2012, 08:10:01 PM
Old Buick Skylarks got poor mileage I saw this in my friends garage today

(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/parts67/008-26.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 04, 2012, 09:42:56 PM
In the closing days of World War I, a group of Choctaws serving in the U.S. Army used their native language as the basis for secret communication among Americans, as Germans could not understand it. They are now called the Choctaw Code Talkers. The Choctaws were the Native American innovators who served as code talkers. Captain Lawrence, a company commander, overheard Solomon Louis and Mitchell Bobb conversing in the Choctaw language. He learned there were eight Choctaw men in the battalion.

Fourteen Choctaw Indian men in the Army's 36th Division trained to use their language for military communications. Their communications, which could not be understood by Germans, helped the American Expeditionary Force win several key battles in the Meuse-Argonne Campaign in France, during the last big German offensive of the war. Within 24 hours after the US Army starting using the Choctaw speakers, they turned the tide of battle by controlling their communications. In less than 72 hours, the Germans were retreating and the Allies were on full attack. The 14 Choctaw Code Talkers were Albert Billy, Mitchell Bobb, Victor Brown, Ben Caterby, James Edwards, Tobias Frazer, Ben Hampton, Solomon Louis, Pete Maytubby, Jeff Nelson, Joseph Oklahombi, Robert Taylor, Calvin Wilson, and Captain Walter Veach.

More than 70 years passed before the contributions of the Choctaw Code talkers were fully recognized. On November 3, 1989, in recognition of the important role the Choctaw Code Talkers played during World War I, the French government presented the Chevalier de L'Ordre National du Mérite (the Knight of the National Order of Merit) to the Choctaws Code Talkers.[citation needed]

The US Army again used Choctaw speakers for coded language during World War II.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on April 04, 2012, 10:22:54 PM
I can pull my balls back sometimes and wipe my ass with them. its quite a cool trick if i do say so myself,  :laugh: :puppy:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 26, 2012, 03:36:44 PM
The Paugusset indians  had a summer camp on the shores of the Housatonic River where I walk  Max in the precolonial days.  There is even an archeologist report in the local library they had written up before developing some of the land. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on April 26, 2012, 05:48:42 PM
andrew lucks autograph is going to be the most forged siggy on ebay I'm shure.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on April 29, 2012, 08:56:38 PM
I'm naked.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on April 30, 2012, 08:44:25 AM
I'm naked.

 :needpics:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on April 30, 2012, 09:10:54 AM
I'm naked.

 :needpics:
:indeed:   just what I was thinking
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on April 30, 2012, 04:50:40 PM
I'm naked.

 :needpics:

QFT
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on April 30, 2012, 10:10:49 PM
My shoe size is 11. So's Paris Hilton's. I'm 6 feet. She's only 5'8".
Her hands and feet are huge on her boney body.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 01, 2012, 10:13:22 AM
The Connecticut State insect is the Praying Mantis.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on May 17, 2012, 10:17:17 PM
the unofficial state gem of arizona is fire agate
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 18, 2012, 08:34:09 AM
The official state convict of Louisiana is any politician, past, present or future.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on May 18, 2012, 10:11:20 AM
I could probably re-cut my new fire agate but i wont, the gem layer runs really deep in this fatty!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on May 18, 2012, 10:59:31 AM
The Connecticut State insect is the Praying Mantis.
:thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on May 18, 2012, 01:48:13 PM
two friends are better than one!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on May 19, 2012, 05:42:39 AM
I heard on the tv that there is a place in Scotland called Twatt.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 19, 2012, 05:47:42 AM
two friends are better than one!  :laugh:

 Unless they go off somewhere without you.  :emosad:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on May 19, 2012, 11:02:18 AM
The reason fire agate shows diffrent colors is because of interference and not diffraction, i didnt know this until recently.
The difference is, Interference is much like how if you spray down the cement floor on your garage. the water and oil dont mix and it makes a rainbow effect of colors floating ontop of the water, Diffraction breaks the light into a different spectrum of color when it leaves the gemstone. much like a water droplet can make a rainbow
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on May 19, 2012, 03:46:17 PM
E.B. White was born on July 11, 1899. That fact may be useless but White was cool.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on May 19, 2012, 04:51:27 PM
I'm approaching the year 1899 in my post count.  >:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 19, 2012, 04:59:58 PM
I'm approaching the year 1899 in my post count.  >:D

 Why is that year significant?  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on May 19, 2012, 05:01:50 PM
it isnt. this is the post a useless fact topic and ppk mentioned the year 1899 so I thought i'd add some useless info on my approach to that date in my post count

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 19, 2012, 07:47:00 PM
There is a Spanish anchor from around 1600 on display  down by the harbor in a park that was found just off shore from my town
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on May 19, 2012, 11:44:07 PM
I'm approaching the year 1899 in my post count.  >:D

 Why is that year significant?  :orly:
E.B. White was born on July 11, 1899. That fact may be useless but White was cool.
Because E.B. White was born that year. Why do you hate Charlotte's Web?  :thumbdn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on May 20, 2012, 10:35:52 AM
Omfg. yes it is a significant date, charlottes web was one of my all-time favs
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on June 19, 2012, 02:59:38 PM
I have a white Mercedes sprinter van
with the letters

van helsing
above the windscreen :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 19, 2012, 03:02:31 PM
I don't like posting in this thread because I feel that most facts I can come up with are not useless.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on June 19, 2012, 03:33:08 PM
^ like that one!

nah, trust me, you are good at it :hahaha:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 19, 2012, 03:35:01 PM
Why, thank you, how nice of you.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on June 19, 2012, 03:38:31 PM
my grump-o-meter went off the scales just then
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 19, 2012, 03:41:15 PM
Something wrong with the instrument. They need to be properly calibrated, you know.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on June 19, 2012, 03:53:11 PM
are you telling me off? :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 19, 2012, 03:56:06 PM
Sternly, yes.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on June 19, 2012, 04:34:48 PM
Sternly, yes.

 :o :o :o

would that be in like an overbearing kind of way?....not shouting but
firmly telling me about my misdemeanor and informing me of the
correct steps i need to take to ... (gulps and starts fanning herself with a piece of paper)    ..... to  please you again!!!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 19, 2012, 08:10:36 PM
There is no skybluepink crayon.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 19, 2012, 11:28:00 PM
Sternly, yes.

 :o :o :o

would that be in like an overbearing kind of way?....not shouting but
firmly telling me about my misdemeanor and informing me of the
correct steps i need to take to ... (gulps and starts fanning herself with a piece of paper)    ..... to  please you again!!!

It would involve everything required to make you see the errors of your ways. Disciplinary action would be needed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on June 20, 2012, 01:03:28 AM
Yikes...i need to get a bigger fan

runs for the shower
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 20, 2012, 05:50:11 AM
Yikes...i need to get a bigger fan

runs for the shower

 Fans are no good in extreme heat, you need air conditioning!   :melt:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 20, 2012, 08:32:06 AM
Conelrad was the early version of the emergency broadcast system and transmitted on 640 and 1240 kHz in case of nuclear attack
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 06, 2012, 05:07:14 PM
Middle High German magedin meant "unmarried young aristocratic woman". Modern German Mädchen simply means "girl". Modern English maid means "servant girl". This is called pejoration of meaning.

Swedish kvinna means "woman". Thus English queen is an amelioration of meaning.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 06, 2012, 05:09:06 PM
Middle High German magedin meant "unmarried young aristocratic woman". Modern German Mädchen simply means "girl". Modern English maid means "servant girl". This is called pejoration of meaning.

Swedish kvinna means "woman". Thus English queen is an amelioration of meaning.

  LIT, how are you?  I was afraid you had blown yourself up!   :arrr:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 06, 2012, 05:15:33 PM
I'm pretty OK, thanks.  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 06, 2012, 05:36:07 PM
Oh, I found out that Francis E. Dec was right once again. It did in fact exist a short-lived Slovenian "Empire" or at least a great part of Europe populated with Slovenes: Slovensk historia (http://www.slovenienhistoria.se/) Alas, the page is just in Swedish.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 06, 2012, 06:11:03 PM
On this day in 1944 the big top burned in Hartford Ct killing almost 170 people.  My father was supposed to go but was sick that day.
Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_circus_fire)
 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 06, 2012, 06:18:05 PM
On this day in 1944 the big top burned in Hartford Ct killing almost 170 people.  My father was supposed to go but was sick that day.
Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_circus_fire)

  I remember reading about that horrible fire.  :(  I'm glad your dad wasn't there.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 06, 2012, 06:35:35 PM
On this day in 1944 the big top burned in Hartford Ct killing almost 170 people.  My father was supposed to go but was sick that day.
Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_circus_fire)

  I remember reading about that horrible fire.  :(  I'm glad your dad wasn't there.
Me too.  If he was there you might be missing parts :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 09, 2012, 05:20:53 AM
This Swedish band, "Clenched fists", prasised Stalin as late as in the 1970's.

One of their members, Maria Ahlström, had a seat in the town council in one of the neighbour towns here as late as 2004. She was still a member of the Communist Party  ::)

Sången om Stalin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5hwypHonzw#)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on July 09, 2012, 05:32:20 AM
N.W. European fishermen may catch 405,000,000 kilo of herring this season. I'll be eating 3 or 4 kilos of them, I reckon.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 15, 2012, 10:40:33 AM
When Schopenhauer was angry at his dog he shouted "Mensch!" to him  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 15, 2012, 10:46:03 AM
On this day in 1944 the big top burned in Hartford Ct killing almost 170 people.  My father was supposed to go but was sick that day.
Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_circus_fire)

  I remember reading about that horrible fire.  :(  I'm glad your dad wasn't there.
Me too.  If he was there you might be missing parts :zoinks:

    :oneliner:   Oh brother ...  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 15, 2012, 12:53:12 PM
Bill Clinton lived in a beach house less than a half mile from my house when he went to Yale law school in 1970-71
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 15, 2012, 04:29:16 PM
The Latin name for nitric acid is aqua fortis, literally "brave water". Some of an understatement, I think  :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 15, 2012, 05:30:00 PM
Mica, mica, parva stella,
Miror quaenam sis tam bella.
Splendens eminus in illo
Alba vella gemma caelo.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 15, 2012, 05:34:09 PM
Nice. We have that in Swedish too. "Blinka lilla stjärna där".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 15, 2012, 05:52:55 PM
I learned it as a Senior in High School when I took Latin.

PA is 7 and 1/2 years older than I am.  We were talking about our high school experiences.  We both had the same Latin teacher, although we went to different public school systems and she had married in the interim.  Aah, Miss Leidenheimer, Mrs. Blackburn.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 15, 2012, 05:55:29 PM
I wish I had learned Latin in high school. It's much easier to learn when you are 16. Well, well.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 15, 2012, 05:58:06 PM
There's not too much I remember after 45 years.  I took 2 years of French and 1 year of Latin in high school.  One year of Russian and 1 semester of Spanish in college. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 15, 2012, 06:00:29 PM
Oh, I haven't studied English since high school either, and that is 22 years ago :smarty:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 15, 2012, 06:03:27 PM
I never could understand why words like "chevalier" and "caballero" were derived from the Latin for "horse" which is "equus."  Finally, in one of the books I read on the development of English (one of my hobbies), I found out about Vulgar vs Classical Latin.  While not from that book, here's something from the web on the two latins.

Vulgar Latin - The Father of the Modern Romance Languages

No, Vulgar Latin isn't Latin filled with profanities or simply a slangy version of Classical Latin, although there certainly were vulgar words in Vulgar Latin.

Rather, Vulgar Latin is the father of the Romance languages: the Latin taught at schools, Classical Latin, is their grandfather.

Vulgar Latin, was spoken differently in different countries, where, over time, it became such familiar modern languages as Spanish, Italian, French, Catalan, Romanian, and Portuguese. There are others less commonly spoken.

The Spread of Latin

When the Roman Empire expanded, the language and customs of the Romans spread to peoples who already had their own languages and cultures. The growing Empire required soldiers be positioned at all the outposts. These soldiers came from all over the Empire and spoke Latin diluted by their native tongues.

The Latin Spoken in Rome

In Rome itself, the common people did not speak the stilted Latin that we know of as Classical Latin, the literary language of the first century B.C.

Not even the aristocrats, like Cicero, actually spoke the literary language, although they wrote it.

Evidence? We can say this because in some of Cicero's personal correspondence, his Latin was less than the polished form we think of as typically Ciceronian.

Classical Latin was, therefore, not the lingua franca of the Roman Empire, even if Latin, in one form or another was.

Difference Between Vulgar Latin and Classical Latin

Throughout the Empire, Latin was spoken in many forms, but it was basically the version of Latin called Vulgar Latin, the fast-changing Latin of the common people (the word vulgar comes from the Latin word for the common people, like the Greek hoi polloi 'the many'). Vulgar Latin was a simpler form of literary Latin.
•It dropped terminal letters and syllables (or they metathesized).
•It decreased the use of inflections, since prepositions (ad (> à) and de) came to serve in place of case endings on nouns.
•Colorful or slang (what we think of as 'vulgar') terms replaced traditional ones -- testa meaning 'jar' replaced caput for 'head'.
 
You may see some of what had happened to Latin by the 3rd or 4th century A.D. when a list of 227 fascinating "corrections" [basically, Vulgar Latin, wrong; Classical Latin, right] was compiled by Probus.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 15, 2012, 06:08:45 PM
Throughout most of history written language (and that goes for most languages) has been different from the spoken. Until 1981 the Bible in Swedish had plural forms for the verbs. Except for some very isolated and odd dialects there haven't been any plural forms in spoken Swedish since the beginning of the 18th Century. Plural forms of verbs were also in ordinary books and newspapers until about 1950. Already then they hadn't been in use for 250 years in everyday language.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on July 23, 2012, 05:50:10 AM
(I already have an other good one but.. ) ..my, over a hundred years old/'Amsterdam's household', cookbook doesn't have a recipe for French onion soup.    :o
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on July 23, 2012, 06:54:26 AM
(I already have an other good one but.. ) ..my, over a hundred years old/'Amsterdam's household', cookbook doesn't have a recipe for French onion soup.    :o

You've got that one?

My mother has it too I think, or she has a similar one, where my aunt had the Amsterdam one. Sometimes that cook book amazes me with what is not in it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on July 23, 2012, 07:13:13 AM
^ Um, I have several cook books (um, ¾ of numerous).. but I tend to read what the Amsterdam one has to say too.

And ja, the old book misses quite a bit of recipes.. but that's not really surprising for it was first published in 1910. Well, it's quite a good cook book considering. I do divide boiling times of vegetables in two though. Times mentioned in book are (old fashion style) way too long.

Well, not having French onion soup in it is a.. fail.   
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 23, 2012, 05:01:00 PM
Comparing newer and older cookbooks is interesting.  What was cheap and commonly available in the past may be expensive today.  For example, chicken was more expensive than beef or pork.  Oysters were fairly cheap.  There were fewer bean recipes.

One good cookbook that I sometimes use is Escoffier.  Rather than being full of Haute Cuisine it has a healthy serving of Plain Cooking.  Recipes for simple foods, using techniques that can be used on more complex foods as well.  It was only $1 at a garage sale and I've used it so much it's falling to pieces.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 23, 2012, 05:14:47 PM
The pizza was the Roman junkfood - too. It comes from the Latin verb pinsere - to press. The Romans got it from the Greeks. It looked a bit different and there were no tomatoes on it, but olive oil, cheese and herbal spices were there already 2000 years ago.

The Latin word for pizza is placenta Neapolitana - cake from Naples.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 24, 2012, 03:38:43 AM
I use the classic Latin pronunciation, i.e. I pronounce v as English w. This is confusing, since this makes me sometimes pronounce any v as w and the other way around  :facepalm2:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on July 24, 2012, 08:17:08 AM
^ Um, I have several cook books (um, ¾ of numerous)..
:plus:

I have a few myself too. 3/4 of several maybe. I'm too obnoxious to follow any recipe though. I see them as 'guidelines'. That can turn out well, and awful too.
Having dinner at my place, it's a gamble.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 28, 2012, 01:28:13 PM
Portugal doesn't have a national motto.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 30, 2012, 03:00:23 AM
"Baltic" is Lithuanian and means "white". The Swedish province name Blekinge literally means "bleaching" and also got its namn from the Baltic having "bright" water.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on July 31, 2012, 08:45:39 AM
"Bleek" means "bleach" in Dutch.
But, "de bleek" also is the name of the field of grass used for bleach-drying white washing, in days past.

Still is a sensible option, btw, if you have a stain that doesn't come out in the washing, the sun may do the trick.  :laundry:

So, this is a not completely useless fact.  :M
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 31, 2012, 08:49:37 AM
"Duel" is derived from the older Latin form for the noun for "war" - duellum. It is cognate with an Old Greek word meaning "to destroy, to make suffer". Already at Ceasar's time the Romans used the word bellum, though. Duellum was archaic very early.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on July 31, 2012, 09:14:42 AM
The letter "b" is not used in the Finnish language, other than in loanwords. OTOH, there are LOTS of them.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 31, 2012, 09:26:15 AM
Latin doesn't have the letter "k". It doesn't have to, since everything with a "c" in Classic Latin is pronounced like "k". It does have the letter "y" for Greek loanwords, though. That letter was called "the Greek i" by the Romans.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on July 31, 2012, 09:37:45 AM
Latin doesn't have the letter "k". It doesn't have to, since everything with a "c" in Classic Latin is pronounced like "k". It does have the letter "y" for Greek loanwords, though. That letter was called "the Greek i" by the Romans.

The y was called "de griekse ÿ" in Dutch.

The ÿ (OK, written a bit different) only disappeared from the Dutch alphabet and typewriters when computers became common. I still miss it. Whenever the ÿ is being used, we now use "ij".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 31, 2012, 11:39:10 AM
Thanks to Peter and Catherine the Greats, Russian has a large number of French loan words.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on July 31, 2012, 11:43:18 AM
Most loan words in Swedish are German and came here through the Hansa during the Middle Age.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on July 31, 2012, 10:19:16 PM
The area where I live was a huge manufacturing center during WW2 making everything from Tommy guns to fighter planes.  This is one of the reasons there is such good tool pickings at the estate sales.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 01, 2012, 10:12:32 AM
In the late Empire a Roman aristocrat consumed about 250µm of lead each day. Plebeians consumed about 35µm and slaves about 15µm. Aristocrats and plebeians drank about 2 liters of wine every day. Slaves only drank about 0.75 liters.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 01, 2012, 05:09:00 PM
Many city names in Italian are wry forms of Latin. Bologna was called Bononia in Latin. Piacenza was called Placentia. The current names are simply not just forms that originated from language changes but also from misunderstandings of the original names.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 01, 2012, 08:41:46 PM
  I can still use my broken hairbrush.  :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 01, 2012, 08:47:39 PM
It's hilarious to give your husband a weight loss cookbook and ask him to pick out some recipes he'd like.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 02, 2012, 04:27:16 AM
The old Swedish pronoun for the 2nd person plural was I (it's not pronounced as the English pronoun for the 1st person singular but like "ee").

In modern Swedish it's ni.

How did the "n" come there? 

When Swedish verbs still had plural forms, "you come/are coming" was I kommen. If this was in the form of a question, it was kommen I? Since the other plural forms were vi komma, de komma and the singular form is kommer, people somehow viewed the limit of the pronoun to be before the "n".

The old pronoun still exists in some dialects among older people and/or people who have lived in the same place most of their lives. My mother often says I, though without the verb in plural. Plural forms of verbs in spoken Swedish only exist in very few places like in some villages in northern Dalarna.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 03, 2012, 05:18:46 AM
The only state in Europe and one of the few in the world not claiming to be a democracy is the Vatican. In theory it's also the last absolute monarchy in Europe, since the Pope has the right to do whatever he wants within the Vatican, just like the absolute monarchs once had.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 03, 2012, 09:09:01 AM
Swedish snut="cop" is cognate with English snout  :eyebrows:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 03, 2012, 02:41:58 PM
Since the 1970's the German language is dying in Alsace, but since 2000 it's growing in South Tyrol.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 04, 2012, 03:34:28 AM
Sonia Saviange, the actress playing the pianist in Salò, killed herself IRL too.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 04, 2012, 04:14:50 AM
Black powder was once wrongly attributed to the Swabian monk Berthold Schwarz. This is probably due to two facts:

1. One of the first gunpowder factories in Europe was situated in Augsburg, the capital of Swabia.
2. Also in German the namn Schwarzpulver is used, so it's likely to be a folk etymology as well.

The truth is, however, that black powder was named so by Americans towards the end oh the 19th Century to discriminate it from the then newly invented smokeless guncotton.

It's however probably also false that black powder was invented in China. It's now believed that it was invented in India or Turkey or perhaps by the Greeks, although the Chinese used it very early. This misunderstanding stems from Chinese diplomates repeatedly claiming for foreign diplomates that black powder was invented in China.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 04, 2012, 05:00:55 AM
Within two hours and 19 minutes I'll be un-banned from that other board.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 04, 2012, 06:57:26 AM
Within two hours and 19 minutes I'll be un-banned from that other board.

  And within 2 hours and 20 minutes you'll be re-banned?  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 04, 2012, 07:26:49 AM
 :agreed: :indeed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 04, 2012, 07:33:24 AM
They have forgotten to un-ban be. I'll kill them for that! :arrr:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 04, 2012, 09:02:07 AM
Now I'm back on track  :viking: But I take a trip to the island first. It's very apricus today  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lestat on August 04, 2012, 12:20:29 PM
What are you using it for couldbe?  o_0

I still have my two broken hairbrushes, damn things were a ripoff price, nearly 20 quid! but they were the only ones with the type of bristles I feel comfortable with at the time that I could find. One of them was my former housemate's, but buggered if I was going to let her keep it, I bought it, the nasty little slag lied, stole, stole and hid my pain meds, benzos and other meds to make me withdraw, then come to the 'rescue' with some of her own to win brownie points, attacked me (lol, and got flattened for the trouble, tried blaming any of her crap on apparently having other personalities, cried rape about other people, even her own family...most virulent little devil whore I have ever had the displeasure of having to deal with)

Kept the brushes though, even though the handles snapped off fairly quickly...and EWWW the handles were padded with a layer of thin rubber, underneath which was some kind of ridiculously sticky gel, that got bloody everywhere. Glad it didn't get in my hair, I'd never have got it out, it wasn't water soluble for one.

What other board, lit? WP? I registered on that technicolor dribble of  pus-saturated sewage (-'s forum), posted an introduction, and perhaps 2-3 more posts, and got banned after no more than a couple of days, for no reason whatsoever.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 04, 2012, 12:24:28 PM
Nah, a Swedish board.

I'm actually not banned from WP, which surprises me, since they usually ban me on moderated boards sooner or later.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 04, 2012, 06:54:45 PM
What are you using it for couldbe?  o_0

  I can still brush my hair with it if I hold the bristly part.  :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on August 05, 2012, 01:05:35 AM
Nah, a Swedish board.

I'm actually not banned from WP, which surprises me, since they usually ban me on moderated boards sooner or later.

I think it's hilarious that you aren't banned there. Everyone is, except for you. :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 05, 2012, 12:36:05 PM
The house where the café is is one of the very few houses that weren't destroyed in the 1806 fire  :)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 06, 2012, 06:03:06 AM
The easternmost border river of Italy Proper during Augustus' reign was Arsia in the eastern part of the Istrian peninsula. As late as 1975 Italian nationalists claimed that their government was betraying Italy by ceding all of Istria but the city of Trieste to Yugoslavia.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on August 06, 2012, 07:16:25 AM
Useless facto: Um, I'm not banned from WP also.. but I was never accepted (as a member/half a year ago) on a Dutch 'asperger' forum. Oh well, paranoid føckers..
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 06, 2012, 09:06:33 AM
I have never been banned anywhere :M
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on August 06, 2012, 10:20:35 AM
Useless facto: Um, I'm not banned from WP also.. but I was never accepted (as a member/half a year ago) on a Dutch 'asperger' forum. Oh well, paranoid føckers..

So, worth a try, if I am craving for my first ban?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on August 06, 2012, 11:01:00 AM
^ Well, don't bother, I say.. but this is the forum I meant there. http://www.aspergersyndroom.nl/index.php/Forum/Index/1-asperger-forum.html (http://www.aspergersyndroom.nl/index.php/Forum/Index/1-asperger-forum.html)

Why are most (or the few we have) Dutch AS/HFA fora so annoyingly whiny? Yeah yeah, I occasionally do a bit of whining meself but..

..meh.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on August 06, 2012, 03:40:07 PM

Dog bite, tomorrow evening two weeks ago 'received', left a hard little bump on my middle finger (left hand). Thank Gaea the finger is fine again though.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 06, 2012, 05:57:37 PM
New Haven Connecticut had their first telephone book in February 1878,  it had only fifty people in it and was the first one ever issued.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 07, 2012, 01:06:28 AM
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein went to the same school in Linz as Hitler and had the same history teacher.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on August 07, 2012, 09:14:47 AM
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein went to the same school in Linz as Hitler and had the same history teacher.

I knew there was something shady about that Wittgenstein
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 07, 2012, 09:34:12 AM
 :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 07, 2012, 01:38:58 PM
When God creates Eve out of Adam's rib, Latin uses the word Virago, that literally means "(out) of man". "Man" is vir in Latin. Swedish and German invent feminine forms of the masculin form; maninna and Männin. English simply uses woman, although that word doesn't originally have a feminine connotation. In Old English both persons in a married couple were "women".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on August 07, 2012, 01:47:00 PM
Not 100/100 sure here but I thought the pupils of human beings stay the same size throughout their lives. Nose and ears, on the other hand, keep gradually growing as we age.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 07, 2012, 04:36:06 PM
Native Americans in northern Michigan mined and used copper for tools as early as 5000BCE
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 08, 2012, 01:51:05 AM
Västerås, the capital of Västmanland county, has its name misspelled. The name doesn't have anything to do with ås, which means "low hill" but with os, that is the Latin as well as Proto-Germanic name for "mouth". The original name of the city was Västra Aros="Mouth of the western creek". The creek/small river in question is Svartån, that has it's "delta" in Västerås, where it reaches the lake Mälaren. There was also a Östra Aros, that is Uppsala today. It also has a creek, Fyrisån, that reaches Mälaren at the outskirts of the city.

Skövde in Västergötland also has its name twisted. The original name is Skades vi(h)="The place where Skade is worshipped". Skade was the goddess of hunting and winter in the Norse mythology.

The name Skade is mysterious itself. She is androgynous. The name has a masculine form, since in Old Nordic, as in Swedish still today, women's name ended with -a not -e. She is usually depicted with androgynous traits as well.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on August 11, 2012, 05:44:11 PM
I have an I.Q. of 145, yet lack any drive to utilize it. :tard: I also lack common sense.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 11, 2012, 06:36:28 PM
I have an I.Q. of 145, yet lack any drive to utilize it. :tard: I also lack common sense.

  I am like you, except that my I.Q. is lower.  I suck.  :tard:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 11, 2012, 07:09:15 PM
Intelligence without discipline is mostly useless.  I'm smart, but lazy and clueless for the most part.  This is a major reason for our present family state of affairs.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on August 11, 2012, 08:19:14 PM
Intelligence without discipline is mostly useless.  I'm smart, but lazy and clueless for the most part.  This is a major reason for our present family state of affairs.

QFT

Paraphrasing George Lucas: Talent without hard work is useless.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 12, 2012, 01:22:14 AM
Possitsobrina et Partes ineunt sunt  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 12, 2012, 02:18:42 PM
Socks were invented by Romans patrolling the border towards Germania.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 12, 2012, 02:34:58 PM
On my bottle of olive oil it says "Non filtrato". If it had been Latin instead of Italian, it had been "Non filtratum or Non philtratum".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 12, 2012, 04:02:12 PM
23 million people live within 50 miles of Long Island Sound and I am one of them with it less than a mile away from where I sit now
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 12, 2012, 04:13:46 PM
Oh, it doesn't live 23 million people in whole of northern Europe  :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 12, 2012, 04:16:45 PM
Well Long Island Sound borders parts of New York City so that is a very big part of the population included
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 12, 2012, 04:18:37 PM
The closest really big city from where I live is Hamburg. Sweden doesn't have really big cities like the UK, continental Europe, Canada or the US.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 12, 2012, 04:23:23 PM
The closest really big city from where I live is Hamburg. Sweden doesn't have really big cities like the UK, continental Europe, Canada or the US.

I am right around 70 miles from midtown Manhattan closer than that to the Bronx.  I would love to be far from any big city but I am stuck here.  When I first got married we looked into moving to Maine up near where Ozy lives but the work situation was not good there
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on August 12, 2012, 04:28:04 PM
The closest really big city from where I live is Hamburg. Sweden doesn't have really big cities like the UK, continental Europe, Canada or the US.
I was born in Hamburg

It was a lot different back in 1950
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 12, 2012, 04:29:03 PM
The closest really big city from where I live is Hamburg. Sweden doesn't have really big cities like the UK, continental Europe, Canada or the US.
I was born in Hamburg

It was a lot different back in 1950

So I'd guess  ;)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 12, 2012, 04:29:54 PM
The closest really big city from where I live is Hamburg. Sweden doesn't have really big cities like the UK, continental Europe, Canada or the US.
I was born in Hamburg

It was a lot different back in 1950

  Were you born on a military base?  And do you speak any German?   :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on August 12, 2012, 04:33:03 PM
The closest really big city from where I live is Hamburg. Sweden doesn't have really big cities like the UK, continental Europe, Canada or the US.
I was born in Hamburg

It was a lot different back in 1950

  Were you born on a military base?  And do you speak any German?   :orly:
I was born at the Hamburg evacuation hospital (civilian)

actually have a german birth certificate

dont speak a word of german
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 12, 2012, 04:34:25 PM
Schade. Deutsch ist doch eine nette Sprache und wird von etwa 125 Millionen Menschen gesprochen  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 13, 2012, 09:34:20 AM
In the Roman Empire a region was a subdivision of a province. Today it's usually the other way around.

Region has to do with rex and regina as well as Reich. They are all cognates.

The first province outside Italy Proper was Gallia Narbonensis or Provincia. Today the northeastern part of Provincia is French Provence.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 01, 2012, 01:20:04 PM
Until Anschluß all of Austria but upper Carinthia had traffic on the left side of the road. The Austrians got one day to change to driving on the right side. Because of this thirteen German soldiers were killed in traffic accidents.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 03, 2012, 04:33:33 AM
Since 1884 all historical provinces in Sweden are titular duchies. In Finland only four are titular duchies, while five are titular counties. Out of the administrative counties only Blekinge and Gotland in Sweden and Åland in Finland have exactly the same boundaries that they have when they were created, although most Swedish counties roughly correspond with the historical provinces. Until 1967 Skåne, Halland and Småland also exactly corresponded to the counties that they were divided into. The county of Östergötland corresponded exactly to the historical province except that the county also encompassed the parish of Kvarsebo and a few villages in Närke.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 05, 2012, 04:26:08 PM
Iesus is usually counted to the fourth Latin declension, but it doesn't follow the usual pattern of that declension due to the word being an Arameic/Hebrew loan word. It's Iesus in nominative and Iesum in accusative. In all other cases it's Iesu. In the Nordic languages and German the genitive and vocative Jesu is sometimes still used.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 05, 2012, 11:12:19 PM
I have a penis and I am not afraid to use it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lestat on September 06, 2012, 08:39:47 AM
'jesu' is the form I knew it/use it in, almost entirely as part of a blasphemous curse/expression of frustration/anger/surprise.


Semi-useless fact: I have a short, narrow vein just to the left of my left forefingers knuckle that stays put when it gets colder. Most of the rest seem to head south for the winter and stay deep down and a real fucking nuisance to aim for. Its really a bloody fiddly one though, I can reliably hit it, but it demands I keep the angle absolutely precise, and the depth of the needle has to be perfect, 1mm either way and it goes either too shallow or too steep an angle and I can't draw blood back into my syringe (called registering the shot, slight vacuum is applied with one finger on the plunger of one's rig, not much, just a little, so as soon as the tip enters the target vein, blood will flow backwards into the solution)

Once that happens then I know I won't miss and shoot anything subcut (subcutaneous, an infection risk with anything not sterilized, although I do sterilize my IV solution using single-use sterile 0.2 micron filters that plug onto the end of a rig. Subcut shots hurt, so even with for ex. a vet-grade vial of K I would avoid that route; deliberately at least, although I've missed a fair few times when learning to shoot, and when doing methoxetamine or PCP derivatives....lol its bloody difficult enough to put the goods int a vial, open a glass amp of sterile water without spilling it everywhere thanks to vision going all squirrelly, body going numb, and depth perception being fucked up beyond any hope of recognition, I typically preload a few boosters for if I want them later, and stick to IM only, after the 1st or maybe second, despite how much I hate IM'ing anything.)

And yay...I found an oxy 40 that I didn't even know I had. Done half, still cooking the rest...an appetizer before the main meal so to speak :D (I.e my strawberry cream drink, the rest of the OC, a low dose of chlormethiazole, and some clonidine, with an antihistamine to lessen any itching caused by the opioid. And to boot, the damn synthetic skin graft thingy I'm stuck with at the moment, that itches like all fuckdom, I have a hunch I may be allergic to the glue.

And ooh yay...I just worked out that I'd run out of meds on a weekend, which means I can go get them earlier, tomorrow. which means 3 days worth of OC to play with 'free' (well, I get all my meds for no cost, but I mean, without having to worry about supply running out.) and that I can shoot 80mg rather than just 1 40. Sure, one pill alone is nice but it just doesn't hit the spot.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on September 06, 2012, 08:55:37 AM
I have a penis and I am not afraid to use it.

But it's useless?  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lestat on September 06, 2012, 09:03:21 AM
Quote from: Trigger 11 on Yesterday at 11:12:19 PM
I have a penis and I am not afraid to use it.

Who does it belong to? :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 06, 2012, 09:12:39 AM
  I like to post in Georgia font!  :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 06, 2012, 10:30:41 AM
I have a penis and I am not afraid to use it.

But it's useless?  :zoinks:

That was mean! :'(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 06, 2012, 10:32:37 AM
Quote from: Trigger 11 on Yesterday at 11:12:19 PM
I have a penis and I am not afraid to use it.

Who does it belong to? :P

There are a few I'd gladly let own it so long as they took good care of it. :mischief:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 06, 2012, 11:25:29 AM
Sir Les is quite fond of himself, no?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 06, 2012, 11:26:44 AM
Sir Les is quite fond of himself, no?

  I find Sir Les to be confident, but not particularly egotistical.  :apondering:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 06, 2012, 11:29:27 AM
Sir Les is quite fond of himself, no?

  I find Sir Les to be confident, but not particularly egotistical.  :apondering:

Being cheeky seeing as he quotes himself in his signature! :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 06, 2012, 11:30:51 AM
Sir Les is quite fond of himself, no?

  I find Sir Les to be confident, but not particularly egotistical.  :apondering:

Being cheeky seeing as he quotes himself in his signature! :autism:

  He has to quote himself in order to quote the argument.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on September 06, 2012, 12:34:13 PM
Sir Les is quite fond of himself, no?

  I find Sir Les to be confident, but not particularly egotistical.  :apondering:

Being cheeky seeing as he quotes himself in his signature! :autism:

He is quoting an ex-member who proved to be far too sensitive and had to leave.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 07, 2012, 10:48:41 AM
Hole and cell are cognates from Proto-Indo-European *kel- "to cover".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 07, 2012, 04:10:17 PM
In the two original stanzas - the only ones sung today - of the Swedish national anthem the word "Sweden" isn't mentioned.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 07, 2012, 05:25:22 PM
Swedish advokat=attorney is Latin and literally means "speaks for". In Swiss German the word Fürsprech is used, which means exactly the same.

German Verwaltung and Swedish förvaltning, both used for "administration", literally mean "violating for" of German Gewalt=violence.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 07, 2012, 07:45:01 PM
Sometimes when people write in West Swedish dialect, they use the ö for words that in standard Swedish use o, like in körv, which is korv in standard Swedish (meaning "sausage"). This is wrong, because the dialect sound is an ablaut and not an umlaut. Thus it should be spelled kôrv, which more educated people also do.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 08, 2012, 02:19:53 AM
The usual development of an Indo-European language is to go from "synthetic" to "analytic". English is one of the best examples of this. This means that declensions and inflections disappear and that prepositions etc take their place.

Among Germanic languages Icelandic is the one that is still very "synthetic". Färöisk comes second and German third.

Baltic and Slavic languages are the most old-fashioned Indo-European languages still spoken in Europe. Polish has over 50 forms for every verb. The most old-fashioned language of all in Europe is Lithuanian, where you can still find many words that existed in Latin, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on September 08, 2012, 02:48:09 AM
Sometimes when people write in West Swedish dialect, they use the ö for words that in standard Swedish use o, like in körv, which is korv in standard Swedish (meaning "sausage"). This is wrong, because the dialect sound is an ablaut and not an umlaut. Thus it should be spelled kôrv, which more educated people also do.

This is actually a very useful fact, should you ever want to speak Swedish the proper way. :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on September 08, 2012, 02:49:48 AM
The XLink W3C specification was originally a part of the proposed XML specification, along with what is now known as XSLT.

It was first referred to as XLL, the XML Linking Language.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 08, 2012, 03:21:18 AM
Athens is plurale tantum in English, which means that it only has the plural form and not the singular. This is most probably due to the fact that most Latin forms of the name have an -s; Athenis in dative, ablative and locative, Athenas in accusative.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on September 08, 2012, 01:04:12 PM
SGML, the forefather of XML, was sometimes referred to as Sounds Good, Maybe Later, by some implementors.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 08, 2012, 01:22:12 PM
It's less than 12 inches and greater than 2 inches.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lestat on September 08, 2012, 05:02:25 PM
I went to the local pakishop a bit ago, luck enough to arrive in the nick of time, and duck under the shutters as they were going down. Stocked up on coke, got some electrolyte drinks, a pack of cigars, 3 bags on bonfire toffee. I'd forgotten how much I love treacle toffee.

Currently munching on a few long jelly snakes.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 10, 2012, 04:46:36 PM
'Going to heaven in a wheelbarrow' was a euphemistic way of saying 'going to hell'.

Sly way to insult someone without them realizing it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 15, 2012, 06:55:51 PM
The Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg's novels often take place in the county of Kronoberg in Småland, where he was born and grew up. However, due to the greater commune reform in the 1970's the 340 old year county border was moved, so that his birthplace is now in Kalmar county instead  :facepalm2:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 21, 2012, 02:01:52 AM
It's 152 years since Schopenhauer died today.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 21, 2012, 09:22:19 AM
"Boy" originally meant "young male slave". The word is cognate with Swedish boja=chain.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on September 21, 2012, 09:56:15 AM
Connecticut's state bird is the robin
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on September 22, 2012, 12:31:18 AM
Connecticut's state bird is the robin
Interesting. Western Australia's state bird is the black swan.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 22, 2012, 04:39:47 PM
The origin of the name London is obscure and debated, as is its actual "founding" date.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 22, 2012, 04:49:21 PM
The oldest known Germanic settlements are current Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark, Skåne, Halland, Bohuslän, Östfold and Vestfold. Maybe Germanic tribes lived here 3500 years ago already.

"Germanic" simply means "related".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on September 23, 2012, 03:55:43 AM
The cardboard sleeve that comes wrapped around takeaway coffees is called a zarf.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on September 24, 2012, 10:17:38 PM
 "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Genesis on September 24, 2012, 10:46:51 PM
I've traveled across the pond to see the world.... yet what I normally don't see is an attractive girl at the Charles Du Gaul Airport in Paris.... hothothothothothot  :zombiefuck:  :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 25, 2012, 06:22:53 PM
Tommorrow, I'll be buying Cryptopsys new album. (self titled)

http://cryptopsyofficial.bandcamp.com/track/two-pound-torch (http://cryptopsyofficial.bandcamp.com/track/two-pound-torch)

 >:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lestat on September 25, 2012, 08:51:42 PM
IIRC, edgar allan poe died of rabies.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 25, 2012, 09:20:29 PM
IIRC, edgar allan poe died of rabies.

  The jury's still out on that one.  :orly:


  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe#Death (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe#Death)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on September 25, 2012, 10:03:57 PM
I've traveled across the pond to see the world.... yet what I normally don't see is an attractive girl at the Charles Du Gaul Airport in Paris.... hothothothothothot  :zombiefuck:  :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup:
Paris is fucking great.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 25, 2012, 10:51:20 PM
Sic, Lutetia bona est!  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on September 26, 2012, 06:48:12 AM
lunch-break is over, even when it is a really belated one.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 26, 2012, 03:07:26 PM
I'm eating crackers with real butter on them  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on September 26, 2012, 03:13:32 PM
My boss is an idiot.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 26, 2012, 03:14:45 PM
You must kill him! Julius Caesar would have done that! Not that he would have tolerated a boss at all, but you know what I mean!  :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on September 26, 2012, 03:18:24 PM
IIRC, edgar allan poe died of rabies.

  The jury's still out on that one.  :orly:


  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe#Death (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe#Death)


Here's more information, which makes rabies unlikely:

http://www.eapoe.org/geninfo/poedeath.htm (http://www.eapoe.org/geninfo/poedeath.htm)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 26, 2012, 03:19:22 PM
Poe was  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on September 26, 2012, 03:35:45 PM
You must kill him! Julius Caesar would have done that! Not that he would have tolerated a boss at all, but you know what I mean!  :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr:
:agreed: Once he crossed the Rubicon it was be the boss or die.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 26, 2012, 04:13:58 PM
I'm eating crackers with real butter on them  8)

Do you eat them butter side down so the butter embraces your taste buds?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 26, 2012, 04:15:10 PM
No. Maybe I should  :-\
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Post by: Parts on September 26, 2012, 05:59:20 PM
The monk parakeets that have a colony in my town are descendant from birds that were released in the 60's down in NYC
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Post by: TheoK on September 27, 2012, 03:24:28 PM
The President in Salò was a Latin teacher apart from being an actor  :orly:
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Post by: TheoK on September 28, 2012, 03:37:30 PM
There was a French author, maybe Alexandre Dumas the Younger, who was so addicted to coffee that he drank it in big soup bowls towards the end of his life  :viking:
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Post by: P7PSP on September 28, 2012, 04:00:10 PM
There was a French author, maybe Alexandre Dumas the Younger, who was so addicted to coffee that he drank it in big soup bowls towards the end of his life  :viking:
Irving Wallace mentioned that in The Book of Lists.
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Post by: TheoK on September 28, 2012, 04:01:20 PM
I usually remember things very exactly, but I can't remember which French author it was. It was one of those late 19th Century guys, though.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on September 28, 2012, 04:08:15 PM
I usually remember things very exactly, but I can't remember which French author it was. It was one of those late 19th Century guys, though.
It was Dumas in Wallace's book.
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Post by: TheoK on September 28, 2012, 04:10:02 PM
Ah, good, then my memory is still OK  :thumbup:
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Post by: odeon on September 28, 2012, 04:17:25 PM
You must kill him! Julius Caesar would have done that! Not that he would have tolerated a boss at all, but you know what I mean!  :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr:

Yes, I do know what you mean. I'd love to. I'd make the most out of it. I'd be at my most creative, I'd relish every second. Watch an episode of Dexter and you'll know what I mean. Problem is, it seems to be against the law in some obscure way. Apparently idiots are protected by the law, somehow.
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Post by: TheoK on September 28, 2012, 04:18:20 PM
You see: Lysander was right :toporly:
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Post by: odeon on September 28, 2012, 04:19:14 PM
:laugh:
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Post by: TheoK on September 30, 2012, 04:51:20 PM
Carajo most probably comes from an unattested Latin word *c(h)araculum, which in turn would be a diminutive of Greek charax, menaning "stick".
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 30, 2012, 05:18:25 PM
I'm eating crackers with real butter on them  8)

  That's a fine snack, one I often enjoy.  :viking:
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 30, 2012, 05:20:01 PM
  I am getting grayer, but my hair is so fine-textured that it's hard to tell.  8)
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Post by: midlifeaspie on September 30, 2012, 06:28:36 PM
I usually remember things very exactly, but I can't remember which French author it was. It was one of those late 19th Century guys, though.

I wonder if a big soup bowl in the late 19th century was any bigger than the 20 or 30 ounce coffees that Starbucks sells today.
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Post by: Queen Victoria on September 30, 2012, 07:34:12 PM
I usually remember things very exactly, but I can't remember which French author it was. It was one of those late 19th Century guys, though.

I wonder if a big soup bowl in the late 19th century was any bigger than the 20 or 30 ounce coffees that Starbucks sells today.

No, it wasn't.  I was around then.
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Post by: Queen Victoria on September 30, 2012, 10:14:40 PM
It's time for our Halloween avatars.
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Post by: 'andersom' on October 01, 2012, 06:09:10 AM
There was a French author, maybe Alexandre Dumas the Younger, who was so addicted to coffee that he drank it in big soup bowls towards the end of his life  :viking:

I did that with tea, strong black tea, with milk and sugar, around my twenties. Had three of those bowls for breakfast every morning. And, the bowl wasn't a polite one, it was HUGE.
 :viking:
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Post by: Callaway on October 01, 2012, 09:17:00 PM
It's time for our Halloween avatars.

OK, guess who I am.

 :green:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on October 04, 2012, 01:59:41 AM
Just read in an email, send to me by bol.com (a company that merely sells stuff via internet), that my order was cancelled for some stupid reason.

Well, okay..  :santa:
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Post by: 'andersom' on October 04, 2012, 03:55:56 AM
Just read in an email, send to me by bol.com (a company that merely sells stuff via internet), that my order was cancelled for some stupid reason.

Well, okay..  :santa:

Had an email like that yesterday, only part of my order was cancelled though.

Last year, they cancelled an order weeks after I had placed it, told me it was impossible to obtain. Found it later at the Free Record Shop, also online, for an even lower price.
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Post by: lutra on October 04, 2012, 07:15:19 AM
^ They said I had to order again and pay upfront. Come again? I've ordered books and other stuff there before and paying after I've got the products (home) wasn't a problem then. Now it is, for some reason and..

Well, wrote a short email (basically) saying.. 'Do you lot (= :tard: ) want to sell me the phone or not?'

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Post by: TheoK on October 06, 2012, 08:59:39 AM
Swedish å=creek is cognate with Latin aqua. They supposedly stem from a Proto-Indo-European verb *h₂ekʷeh₂=to drink.
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Post by: Genesis on October 07, 2012, 04:48:37 PM
Apparently Topeka Kansas was considered to be Google Kansas.... (For a day)
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Post by: lutra on October 09, 2012, 06:38:39 AM
It's 17½°C in this room.  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on October 09, 2012, 03:13:43 PM
I am useless at facts. :-*
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Post by: odeon on October 09, 2012, 11:23:53 PM
The fact is that I'm posting in this thread right now.
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 11, 2012, 09:07:57 AM
  The Albanians are vacuuming.  :nerdy:
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Post by: 'andersom' on October 11, 2012, 10:09:30 AM
The Polish aren't.  :M
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Post by: Queen Victoria on October 11, 2012, 11:43:21 AM
The Kingston Trio:

"They're rioting in Africa,
They're starving in Spain,
The French hate the Yugoslavs,
And Texas needs rain."

Things don't change much in 50 years.
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Post by: midlifeaspie on October 11, 2012, 12:48:03 PM
The Kingston Trio:

"They're rioting in Africa,
They're starving in Spain,
The French hate the Yugoslavs,
And Texas needs rain."

Things don't change much in 50 years.

Well, Yugoslavia is gone.  The rest seems pretty much the same.
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Post by: TheoK on October 11, 2012, 12:56:01 PM
Yugoslavs are dregs, although they're a bit brave at the same time, because they don't give a damn about nonsense like gunlaws.
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Post by: midlifeaspie on October 11, 2012, 01:16:15 PM
Yugoslavs are dregs, although they're a bit brave at the same time, because they don't give a damn about nonsense like gunlaws.

Which country are you talking about?  All former Yugoslavian nations?
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Post by: TheoK on October 11, 2012, 01:19:00 PM
Mostly those in the south. Slovenia and Croatia are a bit brave too, but they are more like western European countries nevertheless.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on October 11, 2012, 01:21:21 PM
Mostly those in the south. Slovenia and Croatia are a bit brave too, but they are more like western European countries nevertheless.

I imagine spending a lot of time being shot at tends to loosen your gun laws :)
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Post by: TheoK on October 11, 2012, 01:23:03 PM
 :agreed:
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Post by: TheoK on October 11, 2012, 01:41:55 PM
The Proto-Germanic verb tawojan became tun in German and do in English. In Swedish it is extinct, although it exists as tæja in Icelandic. Swedish has the noun dåd=deed, though.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on October 11, 2012, 03:31:04 PM
I am factually challenged  :headbang2:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 11, 2012, 05:55:22 PM
It is about 2850 miles to the equator from where I am now
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Post by: Queen Victoria on October 11, 2012, 07:04:27 PM
We have presidential candidates in 11 political parties on the Louisiana ballot this November 6.

Republican
Democratic
Libertarian
Green
Constitution
Justice
Prohibition
Socialist Workers
Socialist Equality
Party for Socialism and Liberation
We the People
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Post by: odeon on October 11, 2012, 11:22:25 PM
A friend of mine was born a Serb, grew up in Tanzania and South Africa, moved to New Zealand and married an American, finally settling in Washington state. She is a writer, loves to travel, and sometimes produces articles for travel mags in addition to writing novels.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on October 12, 2012, 08:12:31 AM
When the Vikings had cut their nails, they hid the cut off pieces thoroughly, because they believed that the forces of Evil might otherwise build a ship of the pieces and come and take the owner of them to Hel - Hell. The ship's name was Nagelfar. Still today, 1000 years later, there is a Swedish verb nagelfara, meaning "examine throroughly".
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Post by: midlifeaspie on October 12, 2012, 08:59:08 AM
We have presidential candidates in 11 political parties on the Louisiana ballot this November 6.

Republican
Democratic
Libertarian
Green
Constitution
Justice
Prohibition
Socialist Workers
Socialist Equality
Party for Socialism and Liberation
We the People

The Prohibition party is going to kick some serious ass this year  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 12, 2012, 02:02:47 PM
We have presidential candidates in 11 political parties on the Louisiana ballot this November 6.

Republican
Democratic
Libertarian
Green
Constitution
Justice
Prohibition
Socialist Workers
Socialist Equality
Party for Socialism and Liberation
We the People

The Prohibition party is going to kick some serious ass this year  :viking:

I don't think they'll get too many votes here.  Besides alcohol, they'd like to ban drugs, cigarettes, commercial vice, and pornography.  Makes Romney seem like quite the Libertarian. 
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Post by: Queen Victoria on October 13, 2012, 10:43:47 PM
Saw on the internet, but didn't read the article.  A baby was born weighing 8 lbs, 9 ounces on 10/11/12 at 13:14.
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Post by: TheoK on October 14, 2012, 11:06:03 AM
The Romans would probably have liked this wine, at least the slaves and peasants, who usually drank sour, cheap wine  :)
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 14, 2012, 05:41:14 PM
Saw on the internet, but didn't read the article.  A baby was born weighing 8 lbs, 9 ounces on 10/11/12 at 13:14.

  And now for his 15 minutes of fame!   :flash:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 16, 2012, 04:23:24 PM
The presidential debate tonight is in Hempstead, NY which is about 40 miles from where I sit.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on October 16, 2012, 09:08:06 PM
The presidential debate tonight is in Hempstead, NY which is about 40 miles from where I sit.

What did you think about it?

The first one was close to me.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 16, 2012, 11:17:44 PM
The presidential debate tonight is in Hempstead, NY which is about 40 miles from where I sit.

What did you think about it?

The first one was close to me.

Depressing, can we have a do over and start fresh with new candidates
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Post by: odeon on October 16, 2012, 11:29:24 PM
Yeah, you need new ones. :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on October 17, 2012, 07:17:28 AM
The presidential debate tonight is in Hempstead, NY which is about 40 miles from where I sit.

What did you think about it?

The first one was close to me.

Depressing, can we have a do over and start fresh with new candidates

That would be nice, but I think we are pretty much stuck with one or the other.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 17, 2012, 10:31:17 AM
The presidential debate tonight is in Hempstead, NY which is about 40 miles from where I sit.

What did you think about it?

The first one was close to me.

Depressing, can we have a do over and start fresh with new candidates

That would be nice, but I think we are pretty much stuck with one or the other.

I know :-\  It would be nice if someday there was a viable third party as neither really appeals to me even on there good days.  It matters little who I vote for being in Connecticut which already in Obama's pocket. I will be voting for Gary Johnson the Libertarian candidate,  I don't agree with everything they say but I think it's better than what the others propose.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Callaway on October 17, 2012, 01:06:37 PM
The presidential debate tonight is in Hempstead, NY which is about 40 miles from where I sit.

What did you think about it?

The first one was close to me.

Depressing, can we have a do over and start fresh with new candidates

That would be nice, but I think we are pretty much stuck with one or the other.

I know :-\  It would be nice if someday there was a viable third party as neither really appeals to me even on there good days.  It matters little who I vote for being in Connecticut which already in Obama's pocket. I will be voting for Gary Johnson the Libertarian candidate,  I don't agree with everything they say but I think it's better than what the others propose.

I'm in a swing state, so I get tons of political calls every single day and even some door-to-door visitors, which I hate.  I'm not sure which way we will swing this time.
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Post by: odeon on October 17, 2012, 11:20:37 PM
Vote for Arnold.
(http://invertedsoapbox.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/arnold_vote4me.jpg)
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Post by: midlifeaspie on October 18, 2012, 12:56:52 PM
Vote for Arnold.
(http://invertedsoapbox.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/arnold_vote4me.jpg)

(http://assets.diylol.com/hfs/a76/593/822/resized/schwarzenegger-lol-meme-generator-you-came-in-that-thing-you-re-braver-than-i-thought-678e27.jpg?1305739864.jpg)

(http://cmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Arnold-Schwarzenegger-cheating-scandal-on-Maria-Meme.jpg)

(http://cmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Arnold-Schwarzenegger-cheating-scandal-Meme.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on October 28, 2012, 03:36:25 AM
Ριχάρδος μέγιστος ἰδιώτης παντῶν ἐστί  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 28, 2012, 06:00:46 PM
Ριχάρδος μέγιστος ἰδιώτης παντῶν ἐστί  :zoinks:

  What language is that?  It looks kind of Russian ... is it Cyrillic?  :orly:
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Post by: Lestat on October 28, 2012, 06:07:41 PM
Thats the greek alphabet.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 28, 2012, 06:09:13 PM
Thats the greek alphabet.

  Obviously my classics education is lacking.  :zoinks:   Was I close?
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Post by: Queen Victoria on October 28, 2012, 07:48:26 PM
(http://static.jigidi.com/scripts/jig_thumb.php?s=m&v=1&id=6EVB8HN5)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 28, 2012, 07:50:22 PM
Thats the greek alphabet.

  Obviously my classics education is lacking.  :zoinks:   Was I close?

Education, schmeduction.  Your manners are perfectly Victorian and that is what is important.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 28, 2012, 07:51:42 PM
Thats the greek alphabet.

  Obviously my classics education is lacking.  :zoinks:   Was I close?

Education, schmeduction.  Your manners are perfectly Victorian and that is what is important.

  Thank you, Your Majesty! :cbc: :tea:   I brought you some tea!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 28, 2012, 08:03:00 PM
Thats the greek alphabet.

  Obviously my classics education is lacking.  :zoinks:   Was I close?

Education, schmeduction.  Your manners are perfectly Victorian and that is what is important.

  Thank you, Your Majesty! :cbc: :tea:   I brought you some tea!

Lady Weeble, you run a mean kitchen, the tea is perfect as usual.  Thank you.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 28, 2012, 08:06:22 PM
Thats the greek alphabet.

  Obviously my classics education is lacking.  :zoinks:   Was I close?

Education, schmeduction.  Your manners are perfectly Victorian and that is what is important.

  Thank you, Your Majesty! :cbc: :tea:   I brought you some tea!

Lady Weeble, you run a mean kitchen, the tea is perfect as usual.  Thank you.

  You're welcome, Your Majesty! :cbc: *wobbles off to clean the kitchen*
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on October 29, 2012, 03:52:45 AM
I'm now ridiculing Ricky in Greek instead of Latin  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on October 29, 2012, 09:36:07 AM
I'm now ridiculing Ricky in Greek instead of Latin  :viking:

I do it in plain English and he still doesn't understand most of it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on October 29, 2012, 09:37:55 AM
 :lol1:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 29, 2012, 03:08:09 PM
  I still have power, for now.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on October 29, 2012, 04:13:45 PM
  I still have power, for now.  :thumbup:
That is a useful fact. I would care if you or Parts was hurt by the storm.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on October 29, 2012, 04:15:52 PM
Partes et Possitsobrina fortes sunt!  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 29, 2012, 04:20:13 PM
  I still have power, for now.  :thumbup:
That is a useful fact. I would care if you or Parts was hurt by the storm.

  You be safe too, in earthquake country.  :hug:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 29, 2012, 04:21:33 PM
Partes et Possitsobrina fortes sunt!  :viking:

  Parts has not posted in awhile, I'll bet he is out taking storm pictures!  :viking:
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Post by: Jesse on October 29, 2012, 09:33:02 PM
I'm wide awake.  :O_o:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on November 02, 2012, 07:03:22 AM
The city I live in, Bergen op Zoom, celebrates its 800th birthday this year.. and nowadays it has 65,582 inhabitants.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on November 02, 2012, 08:31:35 AM
Sigtuna in Sweden is about 1030 years old as a charetered city, the oldest in Sweden  8)
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Post by: lutra on November 02, 2012, 08:40:54 AM
Um, I should've mentioned the word 'chartered' in my previous post here too..

Don't know (now) what the oldest chartered city is in Hollland..

*looks it up*
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Post by: lutra on November 02, 2012, 08:54:54 AM
It's a city in Friesland (upnorth). Stavoren, in Dutch, and it has its city-rights since 1068.

Um, peanuts.. when you compare it with the ruin city they recently have found in Bulgaria. It's near a salt mine and it's been said the inhabitants were quite rich (salt was a precious commodity back then). 'Oldest' city of Europe they say it is.. and it dates back to the 5th millennium before the year zero.
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Post by: TheoK on November 02, 2012, 09:40:49 AM
Hm, even older than Rome 8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on November 13, 2012, 07:47:24 AM
I have a lamp hanging, from the ceiling/here above 'me' messy table, which has an energy saving bulb (of 10W) in it. Oooh?  :orly: Wow, you might think.. but what I wanted to share (hic et nunc) is that the inside of the armature is spray painted a warm yellowy-orange colour and the light that it provides is like the colours seen at some sunsets. Quite nice.. and on a grey day as this it's on and ja, I'd say it kind of always lifts my mood a little.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on November 13, 2012, 02:36:48 PM
Someone is snoring very loudly, next door.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on November 13, 2012, 02:42:13 PM
You know what you have to do! :arrr:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on November 13, 2012, 03:17:59 PM
You know what you have to do! :arrr:

Quote Caesar in Latin? :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on November 13, 2012, 03:18:15 PM
 :agreed: :indeed: :nerdy:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on November 17, 2012, 08:30:54 AM
English "Jew" is not cognate with Swedish/German "Jude", Latin "iudaeus" etc. "Jew" is an old English word for "fraudster".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 17, 2012, 08:42:17 AM
You know what you have to do! :arrr:

  Yes, express concern in a tactful way and suggest the neighbor see his doctor
   and be tested for sleep apnea.  You could be doing him a great favor!  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on November 17, 2012, 10:42:28 AM
Ost, the Swedish word for "cheese", is cognate with Latin ius, that means "justice". The word originally meant "purity".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on November 18, 2012, 05:45:00 PM
"Coffee" is feminine in Arabic, from which it comes, masculine in Italian and German and neuter in Swedish. In Latin it would probably either have been neuter coffeum or feminine cafea  :nerdy:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on November 23, 2012, 02:00:41 PM
Without being certain whether I was 'on time', too late or prematurely born (gotto ask me mum that soon).. my parents did a bit of bedroom dancing/had sex this coming week 43 years ago and nine months later.. 'plop'.. TADAAH/hellø.. there was I. :lutra:

(and such an important contribution to the world it was :zoinks: )
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on November 25, 2012, 03:14:49 PM
Without being certain whether I was 'on time', too late or prematurely born (gotto ask me mum that soon).. my parents did a bit of bedroom dancing/had sex this coming week 43 years ago and nine months later.. 'plop'.. TADAAH/hellø.. there was I. :lutra:

(and such an important contribution to the world it was :zoinks: )

Well, the first two weeks of her pregnancy, she wasn't pregnant yet, so, you could have been the result of a St. Nic. surprise, poem and all.  :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on November 26, 2012, 09:54:01 AM
Without being certain whether I was 'on time', too late or prematurely born (gotto ask me mum that soon).. my parents did a bit of bedroom dancing/had sex this coming week 43 years ago and nine months later.. 'plop'.. TADAAH/hellø.. there was I. :lutra:

(and such an important contribution to the world it was :zoinks: )

Well, the first two weeks of her pregnancy, she wasn't pregnant yet, so, you could have been the result of a St. Nic. surprise, poem and all.  :2thumbsup:

And it's ten months, not nine. ;)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on November 26, 2012, 12:08:14 PM
(http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif) It is? Since when?

Well, I talked to my mother about 'this' yesterday and she was like.. (http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif) 'Did you post that?'

Um, jah.. but but but, she also said I was more or less 'on time'.

Plus  :bounce:  I was breastfed till I turned 14 y/o too.. (http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif)

(nah/the latter)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on November 26, 2012, 12:21:02 PM
Since always.  40 weeks / 4 weeks per month = 10 (lunar) months. (One still isn't technically pregnant during those first two weeks)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on November 26, 2012, 12:38:31 PM
Well, fine.. but here in Holland we say or count the time a woman is pregnant in (calendar) months. Probably counting in weeks is more accurate.

Um, I merely tried, not that seriously, post the fact my parents did a bit of bedroom dancing around these days (of calendar) 43 years ago. In weeks.. it remains more or less the same.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on November 26, 2012, 12:50:42 PM
Counting in weeks is how the obstetrician does it :nerdy:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 26, 2012, 03:53:16 PM
PA didn't believe in the lunar month calendar until we counted the lunar months.  He was born exactly 10 lunar months after his parents were married.

My parents were married early October, 1948, and I was born late August, 1949, almost 2 weeks overdue.  I weighed 5 lbs.    When Mom took me to some doctor when I was a child, he told her I was premature because of some feature I had.  I suspect that she lost a baby and became pregnant almost immediately.  But 60+ years later nothing can be proved one way or the other.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on November 26, 2012, 04:30:43 PM
Since always.  40 weeks / 4 weeks per month = 10 (lunar) months. (One still isn't technically pregnant during those first two weeks)
I'm Moving to Arizona!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17bfFzLQc7g#)

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on November 26, 2012, 04:31:23 PM
^

To bring it back to the useless facts.  :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on November 27, 2012, 04:07:50 AM
The Polar bear has transparent hairs and a black skin underneath its 'white' fur.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lestat on November 27, 2012, 03:28:57 PM
And enough vitamin A in its liver to poison anybody eating it.
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Post by: lutra on November 27, 2012, 04:24:39 PM
^
Ah, bugger.. I just fancied some polar bear's liver. You know.. with some fava beans and a nice chianti. (http://autsider.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)

Nah.

Dunno.. what you say probably goes for the liver, of Polar bear/eating it, but doubt (a bit) it would harm someone that much when s/he would eat a part of the flesh of its, say, upper leg. (Um, properly prepared that is.. but also, of course, not promoting such a thing/we, mankind, already doomed the poor creature to go extinct, in the quite near future, as it is, I'm afraid)
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Post by: Lestat on November 27, 2012, 04:28:42 PM
I meant eating the liver.

Although trichinosis might be a risk eating undercooked polar bear.
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Post by: Parts on November 27, 2012, 04:42:18 PM
My father went to school with Bob Crane from Hogan's Heroes.  He didn't know him though
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Post by: bodie on November 27, 2012, 07:52:47 PM
My singing voice is so bad i was asked to mime during the school christmas carol concert.

I did.

I mimed "shit"  and  "fuck"  all through O come all ye faithfull  :headbang2:
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Post by: Lestat on November 27, 2012, 11:12:18 PM
Lol, I remember that myself. Changing the words to the nauseating, mindless fairytale garbage I was pushed to sing in school.


As if teaching kids about how good it was for some preacher man to be backstabbed, and subsequently subjected to a showtrial, made to carry the instrument of his own torture/execution to the place of execution, and thence nailed to a piece of wood and left to die is appropriate in the first place.

Maybe if they were to do it with our politicians yes, but not as a rule. Such things are, IMO, a little distasteful.


Although I suppose at least it aint catholicism, teaching the wee ones to eat human flesh, and drink the blood of martyrs :CanofWorms:
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 29, 2012, 02:16:37 PM
And enough vitamin A in its liver to poison anybody eating it.

  Sled dogs apparently also have toxic livers.  I read about it in an account of an ill-fated polar expedition
  I will look it up later and post a link.  I can't do it right now, too busy.   :autism:
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Post by: P7PSP on November 29, 2012, 06:23:53 PM
And enough vitamin A in its liver to poison anybody eating it.

  Sled dogs apparently also have toxic livers.  I read about it in an account of an ill-fated polar expedition
  I will look it up later and post a link.  I can't do it right now, too busy.   :autism:
The Scott expedition. Scott was  :viking: :viking:
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 02, 2012, 11:53:59 AM
And enough vitamin A in its liver to poison anybody eating it.

  Sled dogs apparently also have toxic livers.  I read about it in an account of an ill-fated polar expedition
  I will look it up later and post a link.  I can't do it right now, too busy.   :autism:
The Scott expedition. Scott was  :viking: :viking:

    :plus:   Here is a link about another one, specifically mentioning dogs' livers as
                     probable sources of toxicity due to high levels of Vitamin A:

 
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Mertz#Legacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Mertz#Legacy)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 04, 2012, 01:32:48 AM
  It's 2:32 a.m. and I am still awake.  :tard:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on December 04, 2012, 10:19:05 AM
There are no useless facts :M
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on December 04, 2012, 10:21:17 AM
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Post by: midlifeaspie on December 04, 2012, 10:21:39 AM
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Post by: midlifeaspie on December 04, 2012, 10:22:02 AM
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Post by: midlifeaspie on December 04, 2012, 10:22:39 AM
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Post by: midlifeaspie on December 04, 2012, 10:23:15 AM
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Post by: midlifeaspie on December 04, 2012, 10:23:46 AM
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Post by: midlifeaspie on December 04, 2012, 10:24:09 AM
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Post by: midlifeaspie on December 04, 2012, 10:25:22 AM
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Post by: midlifeaspie on December 04, 2012, 10:25:54 AM
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Post by: midlifeaspie on December 04, 2012, 10:26:25 AM
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Post by: midlifeaspie on December 04, 2012, 10:26:57 AM
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Post by: midlifeaspie on December 04, 2012, 11:59:55 AM
A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 20x1013 watts and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes. According to the 1993 World Almanac, the entire human race used energy at a rate of 1013 watts in 1990, a rate less than 20% of the power of a hurricane.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 04, 2012, 06:46:26 PM
The Trinity Site where the first atomic bomb was detonated was designated a National Historic Landmark and is open to visitors twice a year.  It is also on my list of places I want to visit
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Genesis on December 05, 2012, 11:05:43 PM
No one gives a shit if you are miserable.... your just asking for it because you ban evaded a forum 3 times already.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on December 06, 2012, 03:43:51 AM
No one gives a shit if you are miserable.... your just asking for it because you ban evaded a forum 3 times already.

Can you give proof, that this piece of useless information indeed belongs within the realm of facts?  :nerdy:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: midlifeaspie on December 06, 2012, 09:51:18 AM
No one gives a shit if you are miserable.... your just asking for it because you ban evaded a forum 3 times already.

You are right, this is fucking useless.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 06, 2012, 10:23:14 AM
No one gives a shit if you are miserable.... your just asking for it because you ban evaded a forum 3 times already.

They might piss on you instead.
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Post by: Queen Victoria on December 08, 2012, 08:55:40 PM
Lest one think that we have deteriorate culturally, both the exterior of the Notre Dame Cathedral and Greek statues were originally painted.  As far as is known, there is no link, merely bad taste.
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Post by: lutra on December 09, 2012, 01:23:37 PM
Due to the rain, and my bicycle (ATB) not having mudguards (or fenders) on it, I 'was forced' to walk to a supermarket in order to get me my groceries this afternoon. It's almost undo-able to hold an umbrella up on my bike also.. so, fine, I walked.. and did this about 5 times the last week. Blah, but yesterday after I did so I got muscular pains in my calves.. and this afternoon, those parts of my legs started to cramp up and made me walk, well, oddly. I normally have a bit of a soldier's pace, quite routine-like and rhythmical but ja, not so today.  :sexymush:

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on December 12, 2012, 03:00:30 PM
Some raw milk cheeses from France (probs other places as well) have literally 1000s and 1000s of tiny cheese mites in them.

Jesus C, just saw a 'microscopic' clip (of extremely zoomed-in 'moving pictures') of it and.. ja, that's frikkin' and utterly gross.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 24, 2012, 05:29:20 PM
On very old maps a stream went though the very back of my yard.  The stream is not there anymore but when there is very heavy rainfall and the pipes they ran the stream  in clog up I can get up to two feet of water back there, twice it has knocked down the fence
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Post by: skyblue1 on December 30, 2012, 09:53:45 AM
(http://guy-sports.com/fun_pictures/new_year_diet.jpg)
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Post by: Genesis on December 30, 2012, 12:55:06 PM
Moby's album last night was clearly about Sex and Drugs.

Whoa... seriously?

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on December 30, 2012, 03:58:07 PM
There are about 5000 graves under the New Haven green which had been used as a cemetery until 1821 when they moved the head stones but left the bodies like in Poltergeist and made it a park and like the movie people see ghosts there 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 30, 2012, 09:37:12 PM
There are about 5000 graves under the New Haven green which had been used as a cemetery until 1821 when they moved the head stones but left the bodies like in Poltergeist and made it a park and like the movie people see ghosts there

Burying underground seems so weird to me.  The only family member who is underground is my Dad who's buried in a military cemetery.  Everyone else is above ground.  However, my father-in-law was cremated and his ashes spread in a bayou.
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Post by: odeon on December 31, 2012, 03:11:58 AM
Burial anywhere seems weird to me. Better burn the corpse, the space is needed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on December 31, 2012, 05:51:31 AM
You can only buy a grave here for ninety five years.

Churchyards give you a lot more time, but of course they were all full up a long time ago.

Cremation makes sense.

Staying alive is my plan, though. :zoinks:
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 31, 2012, 07:02:57 AM
You can only buy a grave here for ninety five years.

Churchyards give you a lot more time, but of course they were all full up a long time ago.

Cremation makes sense.

Staying alive is my plan, though. :zoinks:

  So what happens when the 95 years are up?  :zombiefuck:  And does that apply to ancient graves, or just newer ones?
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Post by: Icequeen on December 31, 2012, 08:20:02 AM
My mom was scattered in the stream she played in as a kid.

My dad on top of a huge hill were the white trillum bloomed overlooking the farm he grew up on.

2 years after we scattered his ashes, his brother told us he dug them up and moved them to were "he" wanted them. I'm sure there was nothing to "dig up" by that time, except maybe some drama. Family. :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on January 02, 2013, 06:34:55 PM
I had a preference for disappearing in bog. Get myself on pause in the carbon cycle, for a couple of thousand years at least. No headstones, or anything else. Don't think it is allowed here.
And, I am not ready for it yet either.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on April 30, 2013, 03:36:16 AM
You can only buy a grave here for ninety five years.

Churchyards give you a lot more time, but of course they were all full up a long time ago.

Cremation makes sense.

Staying alive is my plan, though. :zoinks:

  So what happens when the 95 years are up?  :zombiefuck:  And does that apply to ancient graves, or just newer ones?

It applies to all Cemetery's that are run by the council.  After 95 years you are guppy chow.  They will dig your grave with a digger, add some top soil and start again.     At one time most graves were for 250 years, but they stopped doing that in the 1950's when they realised there wouldn't be enough room in England for the dead and the living!

Graves belonging to a church are as rare as rocking horse shit.  Many old churches have honoured agreements made hundreds of years ago and will just leave graves alone.  I doubt if it is possible to purchase a churchyard grave now, but if you could you will be  granted a lot longer but will have to pay a lot more.

Exhumations are different too, between cemetery's and church yards.  Much harder to exhume a body from a churchyard. Maybe it is because it is consecrated ground.
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Post by: Queen Victoria on April 30, 2013, 09:40:53 AM
In New Orleans proper burial above ground in private family tombs is the norm.  There is a "Potter's field" for the poor or unidentified remains.  Cremation has become accepted here, but is not awfully commonplace. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 01, 2013, 08:38:24 PM
I had a preference for disappearing in bog. Get myself on pause in the carbon cycle, for a couple of thousand years at least. No headstones, or anything else. Don't think it is allowed here.
And, I am not ready for it yet either.

  You'd have to be discreet about the location.  Now that bog bodies have been found, someone might try to find you.  :-\
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Post by: skyblue1 on May 02, 2013, 08:00:59 PM
Baby calf

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Human calf

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 02, 2013, 08:45:31 PM
  I cannot wear stylish knee-high boots because of my thick and powerful calf muscles.  :M
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on May 03, 2013, 05:13:43 AM
^ Heehee, but I can.







Um, wait?!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 03, 2013, 06:44:10 AM
"Fine" wine for the Romans was, maybe contrary to popular belief, not red but white.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 05, 2013, 04:22:06 PM
The name "Byzantine Empire" was never used by its inhabitants. They called their country (in Greek) "Roman Kingdom" or "Roman Empire" and themselves "Romans". The "Byzantine Empire" also had a flag, unlike the Roman Empire, that only had a coat of arms.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 07, 2013, 11:05:09 AM
The Allied lied to the Germans just after the capitulation, probably to keep them in check. They said that Germany would keep the borders of 1937. This they never meant.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on May 08, 2013, 03:33:52 AM
Choice of thread? Wwwuuhh..

(butz.. ) Yesterday's afternoon I 'babysat' the three kiddos of my sister. We went for, in a park nearby, and played miniature golf (what we here call midget golf, btw) and after that we played some dominoes and I baked all of us pancakes a little later. It was a good/nice/cosy afternoon.. and their dad (sis' hub) picked them up at half past eight again.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 10, 2013, 06:50:11 PM
Almost all Romans drank wine, although the quality differed a lot. The finest Roman wine was Falerner, grown in the Falernian fields in the northwestern part of Campania. It could be more than hundred years old.

Most people drank their wine diluted, although the rich often added honey and spices to the wine to make it really sweet and tasty. This wine was called mulsum.

A simpler wine was posca. It wasn't stored very long and was not sweetened. This was the wine that soldiers drank.

The simplest wine was lora. This was more like vinegar than wine and was what slaves and the really poor drank.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 10, 2013, 07:22:06 PM
The Romans had very little furniture. Even for rich people it was unusual to have a chair with a back on it.

The most common Roman piece of furniture was the lectus, something like a combined chaise longue and a bed.
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 10, 2013, 08:19:53 PM
  ^ And how were the vomitoria furnished?   :trollface:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 10, 2013, 08:23:20 PM
I told you that was a myth  :facepalm2:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 10, 2013, 08:24:48 PM
I told you that was a myth  :facepalm2:

  I must have missed that post, I'm terribly sorry.  :angel:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on May 11, 2013, 09:10:45 AM
Long Island Sound is about ten miles across where I live
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on May 11, 2013, 06:46:11 PM
Welp. I keep coming back here because I can be myself, everywhere else cramps my damn style
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 11, 2013, 08:15:25 PM
I think richard may hold the forum record for negative karma.

Probably useless except to richard - glad you're back.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on May 11, 2013, 09:31:47 PM
Thanks Queen. I'm really happy to see MLA gone, that guy was butthurt beyond all all hell. fucking fat pig with red hair
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on May 11, 2013, 09:34:50 PM
Thanks Queen. I'm really happy to see MLA gone, that guy was butthurt beyond all all hell. fucking fat pig with red hair

Nono his son was a ginger.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on May 11, 2013, 09:36:56 PM
Haha. yeah, well. needless to say I'm happy he's gone. he'll get fired from his job and be back probably
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on May 11, 2013, 10:08:32 PM
Oh shit, its tomorrow
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 11, 2013, 10:31:43 PM
If you listen to the radio when you're half asleep you can get some weird dreams.  I listen to the radio from about 6 a.m. until I get up, whenever that is.  I often fall back asleep, well always fall back asleep.

I was listening to the Garden Show and had a dream where there were small rose bushes in a checkerboard pattern.  I was hurrying to fertilize them by putting pieces of cut-up chicken on them because someone wanted me to go somewhere.  And I had to be very particular on how I placed the chicken on the rose bushes. 

I don't need hallucinogenics, I simply listen to the radio and tune into my head.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: El-Presidente on May 12, 2013, 02:04:40 PM
Welp. I keep coming back here because I can be myself, everywhere else cramps my damn style

Hej dood. Nice to meet you. Have heard lots about you.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 12, 2013, 07:41:44 PM
I own a red union suit with the back flap and all.  I have no idea why I bought it.

A union suit is a type of one-piece long underwear. Created in Utica, New York, United States, it originated as women's wear during the 19th-century United States clothing reform efforts, as an alternative to constricting garments, and soon gained popularity among men as well. The first union suit was patented in 1868 as "emancipation union under flannel".[1] Traditionally made of red flannel with long arms and long legs, it buttoned up the front and had a button-up flap in the rear covering the buttocks (colloquially known as the "access hatch", "drop seat", "fireman's flap", and other names), allowing the wearer to eliminate bodily waste without removing the garment. Depending on the size, some union suits can have a dozen buttons on the front to be fastened through buttonholes from the neck down to the groin area.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 13, 2013, 04:57:02 AM
The Romans wiped their arses with a wet sponge on a stick like this. It seems pretty hygienic, but the sponge wasn't thrown away after the first person had used it. Though the Romans didn't have our modern concept of bacteria, of course. As I posted in this thread (I think) doctors didn't start to wash their hands before performing surgery until the end of the 19th Century  :facepalm2:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: El-Presidente on May 14, 2013, 09:44:50 AM
I own a red union suit with the back flap and all.  I have no idea why I bought it.

A union suit is a type of one-piece long underwear. Created in Utica, New York, United States, it originated as women's wear during the 19th-century United States clothing reform efforts, as an alternative to constricting garments, and soon gained popularity among men as well. The first union suit was patented in 1868 as "emancipation union under flannel".[1] Traditionally made of red flannel with long arms and long legs, it buttoned up the front and had a button-up flap in the rear covering the buttocks (colloquially known as the "access hatch", "drop seat", "fireman's flap", and other names), allowing the wearer to eliminate bodily waste without removing the garment. Depending on the size, some union suits can have a dozen buttons on the front to be fastened through buttonholes from the neck down to the groin area.

I like the idea of doing a Richard without undressing.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 17, 2013, 11:20:52 AM
The Romans didn't use butter as food, just to smear on wounds etc.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 17, 2013, 11:35:48 AM
On Intensity, if you're polite, you're polite.

OMW it did it.   :facepalm2:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 19, 2013, 06:26:34 AM
The Romans didn't use butter as food, just to smear on wounds etc.

  Weren't too bright, were they?  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 19, 2013, 07:27:08 AM
They didn't consider it food. Most people today don't consider insects food, although their nutrition value is very high.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 19, 2013, 07:35:07 AM
They didn't consider it food. Most people today don't consider insects food, although their nutrition value is very high.

  But butter is a delicious dairy product, so fatty and wholesome!  :dunno:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on May 19, 2013, 07:36:05 AM
They didn't consider it food. Most people today don't consider insects food, although their nutrition value is very high.

  But butter is a delicious dairy product, so fatty and wholesome!  :dunno:

Amen.  :hyke:

Good for the Roman skin too.

Butter is allsome.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 19, 2013, 07:41:13 AM
They didn't consider it food. Most people today don't consider insects food, although their nutrition value is very high.

  But butter is a delicious dairy product, so fatty and wholesome!  :dunno:

Amen.  :hyke:

Good for the Roman skin too.

Butter is allsome.

  Time for a breakfast of buttered toast and Swiss cheese!   :cheese:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on May 19, 2013, 07:42:48 AM
They didn't consider it food. Most people today don't consider insects food, although their nutrition value is very high.

  But butter is a delicious dairy product, so fatty and wholesome!  :dunno:

Amen.  :hyke:

Good for the Roman skin too.

Butter is allsome.

  Time for a breakfast of buttered toast and Swiss cheese!   :cheese:

Time to quit snacking, and to move on some music again.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 19, 2013, 07:44:19 AM
They didn't consider it food. Most people today don't consider insects food, although their nutrition value is very high.

  But butter is a delicious dairy product, so fatty and wholesome!  :dunno:

Amen.  :hyke:

Good for the Roman skin too.

Butter is allsome.

  Time for a breakfast of buttered toast and Swiss cheese!   :cheese:

Time to quit snacking, and to move on some music again.

  Music will inspire you to work with determination and focus!  :headbang2:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on May 19, 2013, 07:45:35 AM
They didn't consider it food. Most people today don't consider insects food, although their nutrition value is very high.

  But butter is a delicious dairy product, so fatty and wholesome!  :dunno:

Amen.  :hyke:

Good for the Roman skin too.

Butter is allsome.

  Time for a breakfast of buttered toast and Swiss cheese!   :cheese:

Time to quit snacking, and to move on some music again.

  Music will inspire you to work with determination and focus!  :headbang2:

And it can help to burn the butter, in a pleasant way.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 20, 2013, 03:35:27 AM
When you have a hiatal hernia and manage to keep the acid down, it will often taste of bile in your mouth instead  :thumbdn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 20, 2013, 05:42:33 AM
When you have a hiatal hernia and manage to keep the acid down, it will often taste of bile in your mouth instead  :thumbdn:

  Are you going to have the hernia fixed anytime?  :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 20, 2013, 05:49:18 AM
When you have a hiatal hernia and manage to keep the acid down, it will often taste of bile in your mouth instead  :thumbdn:

  Are you going to have the hernia fixed anytime?  :-\

Eventually I will have no choice. I will probably ask my doc about a new GI series and then, if it doesn't get better, no matter what the GI series reveals, ask for pH monitoring. The pH monitoring will indicate if and what sort of surgery will be necessary  :(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ZEGH8578 on May 26, 2013, 11:17:34 PM
We say "wings" but birds have arms, which are structured the same way as human arms.

They have hands, and they still have the 3 fingers inherited from dinosaurs, although two of them are almost completely fused. Their thumb is still free, and is used to maneuver the "alula", a small "micro-wing" that they use for fine navigation.

Their legs are almost unchanged from the dinosaurs, except their fibula has shrunk, and partially fused to the fibula, and their metatarsals are - like their hands - fused together.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on May 27, 2013, 03:02:04 AM
When you have a hiatal hernia and manage to keep the acid down, it will often taste of bile in your mouth instead  :thumbdn:

  Are you going to have the hernia fixed anytime?  :-\

Eventually I will have no choice. I will probably ask my doc about a new GI series and then, if it doesn't get better, no matter what the GI series reveals, ask for pH monitoring. The pH monitoring will indicate if and what sort of surgery will be necessary  :(
I hope you can resolve it without resorting to surgery.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on May 27, 2013, 03:03:42 PM
I have never left anyone negative feedback on ebay. :trollface:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 27, 2013, 03:13:49 PM
A columbarium was a Roman building containing tombs. It was looked upon as very honourable to finance such a building.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on May 27, 2013, 03:14:33 PM
I have never left anyone negative feedback on ebay. :trollface:
what about neutral?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 27, 2013, 03:20:10 PM
The Romans had their names on the plumbing in the house.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 27, 2013, 03:31:08 PM
Originally Roman slaves had no names of their own. They were called after their master's name + puer=boy, which in spoken Latin became por. So Marcus's slave was called Marcipor, for instance.

Later the slaves got names of their own, usually reflecting their etnical origin, followed by the master's name in genitive and the word servus.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on May 27, 2013, 08:28:51 PM
I have never left anyone negative feedback on ebay. :trollface:
what about neutral?
nope. Once I bought something online from this store there and the shipping time said 6-10 business days, and came fucking almost a month later. even then I left positive feedback, why I don't know. I guess I just don't really want to smite someone else like that
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on May 27, 2013, 08:42:03 PM
I have never left anyone negative feedback on ebay. :trollface:
what about neutral?
nope. Once I bought something online from this store there and the shipping time said 6-10 business days, and came fucking almost a month later. even then I left positive feedback, why I don't know. I guess I just don't really want to smite someone else like that
the other customers should know that they take too long to ship.
I sell sometImes.  And occasionally I was on vacation when the item sold.  I always communicate with the buyers, and offer them a free battery or something else if they have to wait.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on May 27, 2013, 08:47:46 PM
Then you are considerate. That one store I bought from didn't even give me a tracking number or mark the item shipped, I was about ready to open a case against them to get my money back but it came like latterly that day. I'll never buy anything from that store again, and I think that store did a lot of sales so he didn't really care about a couple hundred negative feedback. Here is his store do not buy from him, check out all of the shit people give him.  :laugh:

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=moviemars&&_trksid=p2047675.l2560&rt=nc&iid=380642559194&sspagename=VIP:feedback&ftab=FeedbackAsSeller (http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=moviemars&&_trksid=p2047675.l2560&rt=nc&iid=380642559194&sspagename=VIP:feedback&ftab=FeedbackAsSeller)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on May 27, 2013, 08:56:00 PM
That's a lot of negative feedback.  Still his feedback is 99.5.

He must be rich, bitch.


I bet he gets orders then buys the product afterwards.  That is why his shipping time is so slow.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on May 27, 2013, 09:03:17 PM
I know. how can his feedback be so damn good? its really misleading, I was fucking mad too. like everyday I kept checking the mail after about a week of my order, somehow I managed to get through it but never again. now when I buy stuff off of ebay I go to their feedback page first to make sure there arent tons if unhappy people
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on May 27, 2013, 09:12:40 PM
I know. how can his feedback be so damn good? its really misleading, I was fucking mad too. like everyday I kept checking the mail after about a week of my order, somehow I managed to get through it but never again. now when I buy stuff off of ebay I go to their feedback page first to make sure there arent tons if unhappy people
if I don't get my stuff within a week I contact the seller.  If they don't respond within a week after I contact eBay.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 27, 2013, 09:59:41 PM
I know. how can his feedback be so damn good? its really misleading, I was fucking mad too. like everyday I kept checking the mail after about a week of my order, somehow I managed to get through it but never again. now when I buy stuff off of ebay I go to their feedback page first to make sure there arent tons if unhappy people
if I don't get my stuff within a week I contact the seller.  If they don't respond within a week after I contact eBay.

  I buy my stuff at the store and I take it home the same day, top THAT!  :M :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on May 28, 2013, 07:56:33 AM
Its probably best to do that, I only shop at Ebay because I can't find certain things in stores. besides CDs are becoming hard to find and then when you do find them they only carry the popular ones. not actually good ones
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on May 28, 2013, 05:56:17 PM
I know. how can his feedback be so damn good? its really misleading, I was fucking mad too. like everyday I kept checking the mail after about a week of my order, somehow I managed to get through it but never again. now when I buy stuff off of ebay I go to their feedback page first to make sure there arent tons if unhappy people
if I don't get my stuff within a week I contact the seller.  If they don't respond within a week after I contact eBay.

  I buy my stuff at the store and I take it home the same day, top THAT!  :M :P
to the moon Alice. To. The. Moon!!!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 28, 2013, 06:03:27 PM
I know. how can his feedback be so damn good? its really misleading, I was fucking mad too. like everyday I kept checking the mail after about a week of my order, somehow I managed to get through it but never again. now when I buy stuff off of ebay I go to their feedback page first to make sure there arent tons if unhappy people
if I don't get my stuff within a week I contact the seller.  If they don't respond within a week after I contact eBay.

  I buy my stuff at the store and I take it home the same day, top THAT!  :M :P
to the moon Alice. To. The. Moon!!!

  I bought a frozen dinner at the store after work and I've already eaten it!   :fuckyeahdance:   Cash and carry, baby!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on May 28, 2013, 07:02:22 PM
marry me mommy.  :cbc:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on May 29, 2013, 11:06:06 PM
When you have a hiatal hernia and manage to keep the acid down, it will often taste of bile in your mouth instead  :thumbdn:

  Are you going to have the hernia fixed anytime?  :-\

Eventually I will have no choice. I will probably ask my doc about a new GI series and then, if it doesn't get better, no matter what the GI series reveals, ask for pH monitoring. The pH monitoring will indicate if and what sort of surgery will be necessary  :(

:(

Sorry to hear that you're still having problems with this.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on May 29, 2013, 11:07:09 PM
I left negative feedback at Amazon Marketplace yesterday.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 30, 2013, 01:02:25 PM
Legs and breasts of chickens were called dark meat and light meat, respectively, because leg and breast were too scandalous for proper Victorian ladies to say.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 30, 2013, 01:07:41 PM
The German language in Alsace is almost extinguished. Unlike in eastern Europe the Germans there weren't forced to move, but in 1975, 30 years after the war, French authorities forbade the use of German in the schools etc. Now the German language is protected, but it is probably too late.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on May 30, 2013, 01:08:41 PM
The Romans ate barefoot, at least at finer dinners.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on May 30, 2013, 06:12:48 PM
nothing beats a cold cup of Ice water. so hot the Ice cubes sweat,  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on May 30, 2013, 06:14:30 PM
The Romans ate barefoot, at least at finer dinners.

That's actually a useful fact.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 30, 2013, 07:21:56 PM
I left negative feedback at Amazon Marketplace yesterday.

  Awww, don't spread negativity, turn that frown upside down!   :snowman:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on May 31, 2013, 01:26:33 PM
I love being tired. and then going to sleep
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on May 31, 2013, 07:15:10 PM
I left negative feedback at Amazon Marketplace yesterday.

  Awww, don't spread negativity, turn that frown upside down!   :snowman:
:indeed: Why you be hatin odeon?  :hahaha:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on May 31, 2013, 08:52:45 PM
I want to boink a pregnant woman.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Icequeen on June 01, 2013, 11:42:45 AM
I don't like tea.

I've tried all types, peppermint is fair...but still don't really like it, never have.

I'd make a lousy Brit. :-[
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 01, 2013, 03:37:51 PM
I love being tired. and then going to sleep

  And then drinking :coffee:  to revive and start the cycle all over again!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 01, 2013, 07:55:03 PM
 :mo:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: BadgerTom on June 01, 2013, 07:56:20 PM
Niles is a lot more intelligent than i gave him credit!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 01, 2013, 07:57:56 PM
Did someone say something?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 02, 2013, 07:52:19 AM
EDIT is through with us.  Who is he?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 02, 2013, 07:58:38 AM
EDIT is through with us.  Who is he?
where did you read that?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 02, 2013, 08:11:15 AM
The Romans ate barefoot, at least at finer dinners.

That's actually a useful fact.

Maybe if I find a time machine  :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 02, 2013, 11:43:00 AM
...   is through with us.  Who is he?
where did you read that?

Facebook/Spazztard
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 02, 2013, 03:18:27 PM
One of my Fire Agate's has what looks like a wad of cum in it. Cool!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 02, 2013, 03:35:56 PM
One of my Fire Agate's has what looks like a wad of cum in it. Cool!  :laugh:
she got paid extra for the money shot.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 02, 2013, 05:37:55 PM
It looks like a snake head.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 02, 2013, 05:43:38 PM
**********  is through with us.  Who is he?
where did you read that?

Facebook/Spazztard

  That is Scrapheap.  He has requested account deletion.  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 02, 2013, 07:54:20 PM
It looks like a snake head.
I should be getting that baby sometime this week. :blonde:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 02, 2013, 11:08:57 PM
........... is through with us.  Who is he?
Putting his name here seems is inappropriate.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Genesis on June 02, 2013, 11:16:34 PM
I've had a bird or birds since second grade... the kind of bird personalities that my trio has are listed as the following:

1. Sociopath
2. Macho Male
3. The silent one
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 02, 2013, 11:19:27 PM
What type of birds are they?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 02, 2013, 11:25:49 PM
QV, McJ:

I removed a member's name from your posts. I believe he has asked not to have it mentioned here.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 03, 2013, 11:20:33 AM
"Arena" should have an h added to it etymologically - it's originally Etruscan, by the way. "Humid" on the other hand has wrongly had an h added to it. It should be "umid".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on June 03, 2013, 03:39:08 PM
The Romans ate barefoot, at least at finer dinners.

That's actually a useful fact.

Maybe if I find a time machine  :-\

OR if you wanted to throw an ancient Rome theme party, OR were critiquing a movie set in ancient Rome, or if you simply wanted to pretend, now you know how to do it properly.

They probably washed their feet before eating as well.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 03, 2013, 03:41:26 PM
I could invite the girls from the café to a convivium  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 03, 2013, 03:42:41 PM
QV, McJ:

I removed a member's name from your posts. I believe he has asked not to have it mentioned here.

Okay, I just didn't know who he was.  However, I may be 63, but my memory is still good and I remember his name.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 04, 2013, 04:34:09 PM
I'm down to one store for all of my fire agate purchases. everyone else is either too expencive now or just way to inconsiderate  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: BadgerTom on June 04, 2013, 04:36:08 PM
Nile.



You did say a useless fact right!?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 04, 2013, 04:40:15 PM
dude. is dragonballz on yet? can you find something else to do besides comment on everything I have to say?

Useless because it doesn't matter to anyone else but me.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: BadgerTom on June 04, 2013, 05:24:27 PM
You have Collected all seven DragonBalls, speak wisely and i will grant you wishes within my power!

That Wish CANNOT be Granted! Douchefag!

BadgerTom has already left once, he cannot leave again!

He's not Krillin, or Yamcha!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 04, 2013, 07:09:03 PM
fucking worthless. I tell you, today I found a Ice Cream for $1. At the little America Truck stop! :blonde:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ZEGH8578 on June 04, 2013, 07:19:38 PM
I wish I had weed
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on June 04, 2013, 07:23:49 PM
** passes bowl to zegh

cough, cough

here, man
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 04, 2013, 07:28:23 PM
 :dunno:
Don't mind the ore on skyblue1s lip.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on June 04, 2013, 07:32:06 PM
dumbass cant spell


:dunno:
Don't mind the ore sore on skyblue1's lip.

barfight,,,,shoulda seen the other guy
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 04, 2013, 07:35:51 PM

dumbass cant spell


:dunno:
Don't mind the ore sore on skyblue1s lip.

barfight,,,,shoulda seen the other guy
you mean a hairdresser fight at the salon?
Should've seen the other guy in the salmon polo shirt.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on June 04, 2013, 07:37:59 PM

dumbass cant spell


:dunno:
Don't mind the ore sore on skyblue1s lip.

barfight,,,,shoulda seen the other guy
you mean a hairdresser fight at the salon?
Should've seen the other guy in the salmon polo shirt.
soooo, he plays for the Panthers and can wear what he wants

and it was at the bar
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 04, 2013, 07:40:06 PM

dumbass cant spell


:dunno:
Don't mind the ore sore on skyblue1s lip.

barfight,,,,shoulda seen the other guy
you mean a hairdresser fight at the salon?
Should've seen the other guy in the salmon polo shirt.
soooo, he plays for the Panthers and can wear what he wants

and it was at the bar
youve mistaken salon and saloon.
Saloon is where cowboys drink.
Salon is where cougars get their hair styled by fruit loops.
 :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on June 04, 2013, 07:43:26 PM

dumbass cant spell


:dunno:
Don't mind the ore sore on skyblue1s lip.

barfight,,,,shoulda seen the other guy
you mean a hairdresser fight at the salon?
Should've seen the other guy in the salmon polo shirt.
soooo, he plays for the Panthers and can wear what he wants

and it was at the bar
youve mistaken salon and saloon.
Saloon is where cowboys drink.
Salon is where cougars get their hair styled by fruit loops.
 :laugh:
Aint a cowboy or a hairdresser

So eye dont go to either of those places

You can tell us of your experiences, if you wish
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DayGlowRandy on June 04, 2013, 07:46:47 PM
Right handed people tend to live longer than left handed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on June 04, 2013, 07:54:28 PM
I like pooping
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ZEGH8578 on June 04, 2013, 07:54:48 PM
I have a new idea, but I can't elaborate, cus I'll jinx it :M
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 04, 2013, 09:04:36 PM
my metabolism better not slow down
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 04, 2013, 10:04:52 PM
Hoppe's No. 9 Solvent has been in production since 1903.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: El-Presidente on June 05, 2013, 02:53:53 AM
I like brown shoes
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2013, 03:17:31 AM
I always buy black shoes. Most of my clothes are black.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: El-Presidente on June 05, 2013, 03:23:21 AM
I always buy black shoes. Most of my clothes are black.

Do you like black ladies  :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ZEGH8578 on June 05, 2013, 05:27:42 AM
I prefer mostly black clothes too. I like the uniformity of it, and how it leaves nothing to be focused upon. It reduces all "style" to just outfit.
As soon as colors come into the picture, you begin to make statements, "ORANGE! CUS I LIKE ORANGES!!!"

Gray is also acceptable. Sometimes I wear all gray. Like a cloud :0

Not as a rule tho, I wear whatever is on top of my clean clothes piles, but most of that is dark colored :D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2013, 05:36:22 AM
I always buy black shoes. Most of my clothes are black.

Do you like black ladies  :autism:

Depends on how slutty they are  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 05, 2013, 08:24:12 PM
The sun went down. thankfully
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: BadgerTom on June 05, 2013, 08:30:58 PM
you can't touch your tongue with your elbow, whilst falling off a mountain!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 05, 2013, 09:10:31 PM
My cum was yellow today.  :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: BadgerTom on June 05, 2013, 09:16:47 PM
You should stop drinking so much piss!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 05, 2013, 09:41:25 PM
I'm having a difficult time, lately, reading all the posts o intensity squared.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: BadgerTom on June 05, 2013, 10:33:50 PM
get a second/third monitor!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on June 05, 2013, 10:34:25 PM
I am addicted to kissing my cats. I get withdrawal. :3
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 06, 2013, 08:44:33 AM
One of my Fire Agate's clearly would have a market value of $100 per carat.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: BadgerTom on June 06, 2013, 09:32:28 AM
I wish i could care about Nile's jewelcrafting eccentricities!

They sound SO fascinating...
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on June 06, 2013, 12:58:38 PM
It's 25C still in the room (attic, that is) I'm in.  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 06, 2013, 03:07:22 PM
I wish i could care about Nile's jewelcrafting eccentricities!

They sound SO fascinating...
They are. when you get a bunch of them in a case, that is.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on June 06, 2013, 03:09:47 PM
I am making a fired turkey prop at film school. Will post pics later.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on June 06, 2013, 03:12:37 PM
I am making a fired turkey prop at film school. Will post pics later.

Is the turkey losing his job, or going up in flames?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on June 06, 2013, 03:20:28 PM
I am making a fired turkey prop at film school. Will post pics later.

Is the turkey losing his job, or going up in flames?

Prop food to be used in movies. This is going on my portfolio.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on June 06, 2013, 03:27:24 PM
I am making a fired turkey prop at film school. Will post pics later.

Is the turkey losing his job, or going up in flames?

Prop food to be used in movies. This is going on my portfolio.

Cool. Will await the pics.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 06, 2013, 03:36:43 PM
I think. I think. I think. I think,   :laugh: :eyebrow:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: BadgerTom on June 06, 2013, 03:41:19 PM
I think. I think. I think. I think,   :laugh: :eyebrow:

Try not to strain yourself!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 06, 2013, 03:56:57 PM
I am making a fired turkey prop at film school. Will post pics later.

Is the turkey losing his job, or going up in flames?

Prop food to be used in movies. This is going on my portfolio.

What is it made out of?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 06, 2013, 06:19:46 PM
One of the gems I bought I paid too much for. It isn't that great, the other one is well worth da money
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 06, 2013, 06:21:44 PM
fucking worthless. I tell you, today I found a Ice Cream for $1. At the little America Truck stop! :blonde:

  How much ice cream did you get for that dollar, and what flavor was it?  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: BadgerTom on June 06, 2013, 06:23:47 PM
One of the gems I bought I paid too much for. It isn't that great, the other one is well worth da money

Why do you write nearly perfectly then fuck it up by saying "da", are you russian!?

it's *the not da...
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 06, 2013, 06:24:22 PM
It was a decent sized Icream weeble. I'd say a good 9 inches,  :zoinks:

Chocolate. it was a welcoming surprise, you cant find anything of substance for a dollar these days.

I will be back there
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 06, 2013, 07:58:36 PM
I just finished all new posts. First time today.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 06, 2013, 08:00:17 PM
Still I pop bubble wrap whenever I get hold of some.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ZEGH8578 on June 06, 2013, 08:03:16 PM
Still I pop bubble wrap whenever I get hold of some.

I handled bubble wrap just days ago

it was perfect too, the good kind, with big, tense, rounded bubbles (as opposed to the cheap, squishy kind)
it was so tempting
but I had to be a grown-up, and not behave like a kid around bubble wrap.

I popped ONE bubble! I HAD TO!!!!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 06, 2013, 08:43:05 PM
Still I pop bubble wrap whenever I get hold of some.

I handled bubble wrap just days ago

it was perfect too, the good kind, with big, tense, rounded bubbles (as opposed to the cheap, squishy kind)
it was so tempting
but I had to be a grown-up, and not behave like a kid around bubble wrap.

I popped ONE bubble! I HAD TO!!!!
did anyone notice
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 06, 2013, 08:47:18 PM
I like how you said that so casually. haha
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 09, 2013, 05:00:19 AM
It is believed that "brave" comes from Latin pravus+barbarus. This is funny since those words mean "wicked" and "barbarian"  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: BadgerTom on June 09, 2013, 06:55:01 AM
McJaggers arse is rumoured to have created the Kuiper belt!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ZEGH8578 on June 09, 2013, 07:16:18 AM
McJaggers arse is rumoured to have created the Kuiper belt!

That is unlikely, because of several reasons:
1. Distance, too far away for any human to get there by any possible means
2. Environment: Utterly lethal
3. Asteroids are very large, and would not fit inside a persons butt. Especially not millions of them.

So - before you decide to spout your ill-spirited rumors, you might want to consider, you are amongst intelligent people now! With intelligence in their brains! In their heads!:M!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 09, 2013, 07:26:41 AM
McJaggers arse is rumoured to have created the Kuiper belt!
i thought it was...fun nah!!!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 09, 2013, 12:04:10 PM
At one point in my life I had a fear of being murdered. every once in awhile it shows back up, but isn't a huge problem like it once was
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 09, 2013, 12:07:03 PM
At one point in my life I had a fear of being murdered. every once in awhile it shows back up, but isn't a huge problem like it once was
richard Ramirez gonna getcha.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 09, 2013, 12:15:04 PM
RR is dead son. I'm not afraid of the dead killing me
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on June 09, 2013, 12:16:51 PM
RR is dead son. I'm not afraid of the dead killing me
zombies will get you in the end
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: BadgerTom on June 09, 2013, 01:26:02 PM
Is Dick Fat? Don't forget Rule #1... Cardio!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 09, 2013, 04:01:58 PM
RR is dead son. I'm not afraid of the dead killing me

  Haven't you been watching TV lately?  Zombies are everywhere!  :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 09, 2013, 04:30:43 PM
I better find a place to hide,  :GA:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 09, 2013, 04:33:03 PM
I better find a place to hide,  :GA:

  You need to develop a cloaking device!   :skywarp:   Then you can walk around undetected!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 09, 2013, 04:34:50 PM
You need to develop a cloaking device!   :skywarp:   Then you can walk around undetected!
That is one cool smiley. I think I will use it more often,  :nerdy:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 09, 2013, 04:36:37 PM
You need to develop a cloaking device!   :skywarp:   Then you can walk around undetected!
That is one cool smiley. I think I will use it more often,  :nerdy:

  I found it on the Hidden Smileys list, I love that page!   :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 09, 2013, 04:58:10 PM
 :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: BadgerTom on June 09, 2013, 08:24:59 PM
RR is dead son. I'm not afraid of the dead killing me

  Haven't you been watching TV lately?  Zombies are everywhere!  :zombiefuck:

I'll just take a page from Bill Murrays book and use makeup and act like Dick!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 09, 2013, 09:45:20 PM
The summer of 2013. When bager fell in love with a giant Dick. (true story) non-fiction. check your local listings for details about airtime. A huge dramatic hit, garenteed to please

Oh. Oh. Fatstest one to catch the spelling error get free tickets. Bager you are disqualified, people in the movie cannot receive prizes ment for the public
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 15, 2013, 10:07:07 AM
The word pedagouge comes from pedagogus. A pedagogus was a special slave who followed rich Roman boys to school and also attended school together with them.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 15, 2013, 10:13:38 AM
I love snail mail.  Opening a letter is better than opening a link.
Save the USPS.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 15, 2013, 10:30:30 AM
I love snail mail.  Opening a letter is better than opening a link.
Save the USPS.

  My cousin ( in her early 60s ) is old-fashioned.  She is not on Facebook and she does not text.
   She tells her daughters, "If you want to get in touch with me, call me, or write me a letter."  :toporly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 15, 2013, 10:31:45 AM
Is she a real cousin and not just a couldbecousin?  :nerdy:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on June 15, 2013, 10:32:22 AM
I like letters.

They are great to deliver too. Bills are boring to deliver.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 15, 2013, 10:32:58 AM
Is she a real cousin and not just a couldbecousin?  :nerdy:

  She is the real daughter of my late mother's real cousin!  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 15, 2013, 10:35:03 AM
I like letters.

They are great to deliver too. Bills are boring to deliver.

  I haven't written a letter in ages!   :chores:   I really should, letters are so civilized!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 15, 2013, 03:07:34 PM
Spencer Tracy once had a hot dog in my home town on his way to Oslo.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 15, 2013, 03:45:57 PM
Fully erect, my penis is 10 times its flaccid size.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 15, 2013, 05:09:40 PM
Fully erect, my penis is 10 times its flaccid size.

  This thread is for useless facts, not outright lies.  :trollface:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 15, 2013, 05:17:49 PM
Fully erect, my penis is 10 times its flaccid size.

  This thread is for useless facts, not outright lies.  :trollface:
length, not girth.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 15, 2013, 05:20:18 PM
Fully erect, my penis is 10 times its flaccid size.

  This thread is for useless facts, not outright lies.  :trollface:
length, not girth.

  I don't believe a word of it.  :M
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 15, 2013, 05:22:15 PM
Fully erect, my penis is 10 times its flaccid size.

  This thread is for useless facts, not outright lies.  :trollface:
length, not girth.

  I don't believe a word of it.  :M
im really, really small when flacid?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 15, 2013, 05:28:12 PM
Fully erect, my penis is 10 times its flaccid size.

  This thread is for useless facts, not outright lies.  :trollface:
length, not girth.

  I don't believe a word of it.  :M
im really, really small when flacid?

  I dunno, I really don't know from private parts.  Just trollin'.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 15, 2013, 05:41:35 PM
My ring. I wonder if its getting made? I hope so.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on June 15, 2013, 11:20:12 PM
My ring. I wonder if its getting made? I hope so.

Every time I see your username I have a sudden, strong desire to read Harry Potter, starting from the first time he snuck out using the Marauder's Map.

For this reason, I avoid reading your username because I could never do that. I have to start from the beginning. And I don't feel like reading the first chapter of the first book again....


....or do I?


Dang it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 16, 2013, 03:09:01 AM
"Hypocrite" is Greek and means "I choose below".
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 16, 2013, 07:05:23 AM
Most fathers want a nap on Father's Day.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 16, 2013, 12:44:04 PM
My ring. I wonder if its getting made? I hope so.

Every time I see your username I have a sudden, strong desire to read Harry Potter, starting from the first time he snuck out using the Marauder's Map.

For this reason, I avoid reading your username because I could never do that. I have to start from the beginning. And I don't feel like reading the first chapter of the first book again....


....or do I?


Dang it.

I need to start re-reading HP again.  This will be my 6th re-reading of the series.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 16, 2013, 04:30:34 PM
Indicolite, Or Indigolite Tourmaline Is almost always very heavily included. once you own such a nice blue gemstone you will really ask youself the question. Does it really get any better than this?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 16, 2013, 04:54:46 PM
Indicolite, Or Indigolite Tourmaline Is almost always very heavily included. once you own such a nice blue gemstone you will really ask youself the question. Does it really get any better than this?

  It's Sunday evening, my laundry is underway, I have cable and internet, and I still have plenty of
  food in the fridge to get me through the night.  Truly, it doesn't get any better than that!   :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 16, 2013, 04:58:38 PM
Apparently. you have never been a witness,  :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 16, 2013, 05:02:42 PM
Apparently. you have never been a witness,  :evillaugh:

  A witness to what?  To a crime?  I don't want to witness a crime!   :runaway:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 16, 2013, 05:03:47 PM
To Blue Tourmaline.  :facepalm2: :CanofWorms: >:D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 16, 2013, 05:05:42 PM
To Blue Tourmaline.  :facepalm2: :CanofWorms: >:D

  Well, in grade school I once had an aquamarine ring, that is my birthstone.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 21, 2013, 04:24:10 PM
It's a magic night according to Swedish folklore, but it feels more like a rainy night  :(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 21, 2013, 05:34:18 PM
It's a magic night according to Swedish folklore, but it feels more like a rainy night  :(

  But the rain makes the flowers grow, and flowers are magic!   :flowersex:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 22, 2013, 03:12:33 PM
Things happen for a reason?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jack on June 22, 2013, 03:19:44 PM
Things happen because they must.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 22, 2013, 05:18:59 PM
Some things do not happen because they mustn't :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jack on June 22, 2013, 05:41:09 PM
Absolutely. :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 22, 2013, 06:14:50 PM
All things work according to him.  He is Jesus Christ your savior. :lol1:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 22, 2013, 06:16:24 PM
Governor Piyush Jindal of Louisiana
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on June 22, 2013, 06:18:07 PM
My avi pic is 3 years old. I have lost weight since then. I won't post any newer pics until I am the weight I want to be.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: AspieMomma on June 22, 2013, 10:51:40 PM
My avi pic is 3 years old. I have lost weight since then. I won't post any newer pics until I am the weight I want to be.

You tease!  Don't deprive me of a fresh image of your perfect eyebrows!

Why not post an interim pic?  It will give you a confidence boost.   :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 23, 2013, 02:14:34 AM
All things work according to him.  He is Jesus Christ your savior. :lol1:

  God is not mocked, young man.  You'd best repent, this is Sunday!  :christ:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 23, 2013, 02:18:08 AM
Things happen because they must.

Things happen because they can. :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 23, 2013, 02:19:35 AM
All things work according to him.  He is Jesus Christ your savior. :lol1:

  God is not mocked, young man.  You'd best repent, this is Sunday!  :christ:

Some things God clearly left to the following Monday. :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on June 23, 2013, 02:28:29 AM
Avoid disaster by not going up in a hot air balloon if a hurricane is due.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 23, 2013, 02:31:52 AM
All things work according to him.  He is Jesus Christ your savior. :lol1:

  God is not mocked, young man.  You'd best repent, this is Sunday!  :christ:

Some things God clearly left to the following Monday. :P

  Mockers and blasphemers will face judgment, all in God's own time.  :M
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on June 23, 2013, 03:09:37 AM
All things work according to him.  He is Jesus Christ your savior. :lol1:

  God is not mocked, young man.  You'd best repent, this is Sunday!  :christ:

Some things God clearly left to the following Monday. :P

  Mockers and blasphemers will face judgment, all in God's own time.  :M

All of which he leaves to yet another Monday.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 23, 2013, 05:02:21 AM
All things work according to him.  He is Jesus Christ your savior. :lol1:

  God is not mocked, young man.  You'd best repent, this is Sunday!  :christ:

Some things God clearly left to the following Monday. :P

  Mockers and blasphemers will face judgment, all in God's own time.  :M

All of which he leaves to yet another Monday.  :P

  Mondays suck.  Except every other week, when I have Tuesday off, which makes them almost like Fridays.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jack on June 23, 2013, 06:47:58 AM
Things happen because they must.

Things happen because they can. :zoinks:

They can, they must, and they will.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 23, 2013, 08:40:35 AM
All things work according to him.  He is Jesus Christ your savior. :lol1:

  God is not mocked, young man.  You'd best repent, this is Sunday!  :christ:
i shan't. The FSM will protect me.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 23, 2013, 01:40:24 PM
I will have enough money for my tourmaline. maybe
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 23, 2013, 04:25:53 PM
All things work according to him.  He is Jesus Christ your savior. :lol1:

  God is not mocked, young man.  You'd best repent, this is Sunday!  :christ:
i shan't. The FSM will protect me.

           Dude, remember, when you need to call on me, just use my smiley!  :fsm:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 23, 2013, 04:31:30 PM
Mcworker doesn't plus me anymore.  :'(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 23, 2013, 04:39:19 PM
Mcworker doesn't plus me anymore.  :'(

  He picked up a job today, he's probably at work right now.  He will return later.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 23, 2013, 04:43:40 PM
He stopped plusing me ever since he found out I didn't have his work ethic.  :laugh:

 :tard:

 :zoinks:

 :autism:

 :dunno:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 23, 2013, 04:47:25 PM
He stopped plusing me ever since he found out I didn't have his work ethic.  :laugh:

 :tard:

 :zoinks:

 :autism:

 :dunno:

  Maybe he will plus you for attempting that yard sale.  :apondering:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 23, 2013, 04:50:05 PM
In Suecia iam Dies Lunae est  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 23, 2013, 04:51:42 PM
Uhh. yeah he probably will, but only because you mentioned it. he thinks I'm taking his money, :LMAO:

Hes a scorned worker. I used to be the same way when I worked, its what living in this horrible culture does to people.

If your not like me, you are weird. and I will bark at you and or treat you like shit, in hopes that you become more like me.

Did I get it? I think I did.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on June 23, 2013, 07:55:44 PM
Gajillion:

A large, undefined number.

Could refer to several, or a massive amount.

Used in extreme over-exaggeration for humorous or emphatic purposes

Me: there's like a gajillion stars, we're so infintesimal.

Friend: dude, infintesimal isn't a word

Me: yuh huh. *nods*

Friend: STFU and pass the pipe PLZTHX
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 23, 2013, 08:02:07 PM
Uhh. yeah he probably will, but only because you mentioned it. he thinks I'm taking his money, :LMAO:

Hes a scorned worker. I used to be the same way when I worked, its what living in this horrible culture does to people.

If your not like me, you are weird. and I will bark at you and or treat you like shit, in hopes that you become more like me.

Did I get it? I think I did.  :zoinks:
actually, I think my tax dollars going to keep others above water, via welfare type offerings, is my tax dollars well spent. I'm not a hater of regular people.
I hate corporate welfare. Mi hate the fact hat Walmart is subsidized by my tax dollars.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on June 23, 2013, 11:01:49 PM
I am now gainfully employed :D
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jack on June 23, 2013, 11:04:00 PM
Congratulations. :)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on June 23, 2013, 11:08:54 PM
Congratulations. :)

Thanks :D

It's only part-time but its a good start.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on June 24, 2013, 04:59:20 AM
It's a magic night according to Swedish folklore, but it feels more like a rainy night  :(

Did you put flowers under your pillow?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on June 24, 2013, 10:43:31 AM
No. I don't get the nerd girl or the other ones anyway  :(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on June 24, 2013, 11:24:52 AM
Max still has his winter coat
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 24, 2013, 12:33:28 PM
Congratulations. :)

Thanks :D

It's only part-time but its a good start.


 :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 24, 2013, 06:35:57 PM
All things work according to him.  He is Jesus Christ your savior. :lol1:

  God is not mocked, young man.  You'd best repent, this is Sunday!  :christ:

Some things God clearly left to the following Monday. :P

  Mockers and blasphemers will face judgment, all in God's own time.  :M

All of which he leaves to yet another Monday.  :P

  Mondays suck.  Except every other week, when I have Tuesday off, which makes them almost like Fridays.  :P
CBC likes to channel Brenda Ann Spencer. It is a trait that I found alarming but I did not dare mention it when she was here on the West Coast.   :zombiefuck:

Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2I84-A9duY#)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: McGiver on June 24, 2013, 06:58:44 PM
I am now gainfully employed :D
now you don't have to self loath. :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 24, 2013, 07:44:17 PM
All things work according to him.  He is Jesus Christ your savior. :lol1:

  God is not mocked, young man.  You'd best repent, this is Sunday!  :christ:

Some things God clearly left to the following Monday. :P

  Mockers and blasphemers will face judgment, all in God's own time.  :M

All of which he leaves to yet another Monday.  :P

  Mondays suck.  Except every other week, when I have Tuesday off, which makes them almost like Fridays.  :P
CBC likes to channel Brenda Ann Spencer. It is a trait that I found alarming but I did not dare mention it when she was here on the West Coast.   :zombiefuck:

  Strange that you took me to the shooting range, despite your misgivings.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on June 24, 2013, 08:28:31 PM
 :indeed: you are good at keeping your crazyness under wraps.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on June 24, 2013, 09:33:11 PM
Uhh. yeah he probably will, but only because you mentioned it. he thinks I'm taking his money, :LMAO:

Hes a scorned worker. I used to be the same way when I worked, its what living in this horrible culture does to people.

If your not like me, you are weird. and I will bark at you and or treat you like shit, in hopes that you become more like me.

Did I get it? I think I did.  :zoinks:
actually, I think my tax dollars going to keep others above water, via welfare type offerings, is my tax dollars well spent. I'm not a hater of regular people.
I hate corporate welfare. Mi hate the fact hat Walmart is subsidized by my tax dollars.

 :agreed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 24, 2013, 11:24:59 PM
:indeed: you are good at keeping your crazyness under wraps.

  And you are clever at deflecting the blame back toward me while minimizing your own enabling.  :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on June 25, 2013, 04:06:39 PM

Roots of plants take in nutrients, to successfully grow/live/survive, only in a liquid form.

Did you know that?

Also, plants, more precisely so their roots, live in symbiosis with fungi. 

Nil fungi.. no plants.

(no kid ya, too)

Nil (proper) bacteria.. no fauna, I believe also.. but ja, lack a proper backing-up for this idea, now..

.. but, but, think of your 'bowel system', for a while. When the bacteria 'garden' there is 'upset'.. you are too.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on June 25, 2013, 04:12:15 PM

Roots of plants take in nutrients, to successfully grow/live/survive, only in a liquid form.

Did you know that?

Also, plants, more precisely so their roots, live in symbiosis with fungi. 

Nil fungi.. no plants.

(no kid ya, too)

Nil (proper) bacteria.. no fauna, I believe also.. but ja, lack a proper backing-up for this idea, now..

.. but, but, think of your 'bowel system', for a while. When the bacteria 'garden' there is 'upset'.. you are too.

Since bacteria break up debris so that nutrients can be solved in water, I guess it is safe to say that in an area that is not "in vitro" plants without bacteria will not fare well.

In vitro the food can be administered in a liquid form, so, who knows, in lab conditions, maybe plants can grow without bacteria.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on June 25, 2013, 04:24:45 PM
I need five more posts, this one included, before I want to go to bed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on June 25, 2013, 04:26:12 PM

Roots of plants take in nutrients, to successfully grow/live/survive, only in a liquid form.

Did you know that?

Also, plants, more precisely so their roots, live in symbiosis with fungi. 

Nil fungi.. no plants.

(no kid ya, too)

Nil (proper) bacteria.. no fauna, I believe also.. but ja, lack a proper backing-up for this idea, now..

.. but, but, think of your 'bowel system', for a while. When the bacteria 'garden' there is 'upset'.. you are too.

This belongs in the possibly useful fact thread.

For some trees and hedges, it can be vital to transport some of the original soil they grew in to the place they are transferred to, or they will perish.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on June 25, 2013, 09:15:26 PM
pegmatites are special areas of rocks that usually contain gemstones
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on June 25, 2013, 09:18:08 PM
pegmatites are special areas of rocks that usually contain gemstones
http://www.pegmatite.com/ (http://www.pegmatite.com/)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on August 23, 2013, 11:49:39 AM
Troublemaline is Tourmaline that has gotten into trouble
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on August 31, 2013, 04:00:04 PM
It's the 1 of September here now.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on August 31, 2013, 04:36:00 PM
Today has been a good day for rain. I'm very pleased with this summers rainfall so far!  :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on August 31, 2013, 06:06:18 PM
It's the 1 of September here now.

Wow, here too.

Time does fly.  :M
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on August 31, 2013, 08:06:34 PM
Hopefully, I will live by the ocean by this next summer.  :santa:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 31, 2013, 09:50:11 PM
  I will be on vacation from Tuesday 9/3 through Sunday 9/8.    :spitscreen:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Semicolon on September 01, 2013, 05:35:28 AM
  I will be on vacation from Tuesday 9/3 through Sunday 9/8.    :spitscreen:

But you'll still be here?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 01, 2013, 06:02:42 AM
  I will be on vacation from Tuesday 9/3 through Sunday 9/8.    :spitscreen:

But you'll still be here?

  Yes I will be, postwhoring my way up to 40,000!   :hamsterwheel:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: P7PSP on September 01, 2013, 06:24:18 AM
  I will be on vacation from Tuesday 9/3 through Sunday 9/8.    :spitscreen:

But you'll still be here?

  Yes I will be, postwhoring my way up to 40,000!   :hamsterwheel:
Of course you will.  :hahaha:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on September 01, 2013, 06:37:39 AM
761 posts to go.
:cbc: :cbc: :cbc:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 01, 2013, 05:05:26 PM
I hope I can get to 5,000 posts before I move!  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 01, 2013, 05:06:47 PM
761 posts to go.
:cbc: :cbc: :cbc:

  Hyke is a wise bovine, she understands the power of encouragement.  :M
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 01, 2013, 05:08:29 PM
I hope I can get to 5,000 posts before I move!  :thumbup:

  Where are you moving ...  *Shatner pause*  ... and  why?   :dunno:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 01, 2013, 05:12:47 PM
Oh boy. well my Dad offered for me to move back in with him,  :laugh:
Why? My Mother is unemployed atm and having issues. I gave her a deadline which looks like the time will run out

So. I must move, I'm really tired of helping my family out. these last few years it has been nothing but that, so its nice of my dad (even though I have issues with him) to be helping me out for a change.

Ultimately, I want to end up somewhere near the Ocean. when this is all said and done, I have lived virtually all over the country and have yet to live next to the Sea.  :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 01, 2013, 05:14:34 PM
Oh boy. well my Dad offered for me to move back in with him,  :laugh:
Why? My Mother is unemployed atm and having issues. I gave her a deadline which looks like the time will run out

So. I must move, I'm really tired of helping my family out. these last few years it has been nothing but that, so its nice of my dad (even though I have issues with him) to be helping me out for a change.

Ultimately, I want to end up somewhere near the Ocean. when this is all said and done, I have lived virtually all over the country and have yet to live next to the Sea.  :2thumbsup:

  If you move in with your dad, be sure your stuff is secure.  :police:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 01, 2013, 05:18:50 PM
True. and while I'm there I'm going to ask if he has seen the "lost puppy." I'm sure he hasn't and even if he did steal it, Oh well.
I have so many other great gemstones so I wont be fingering them,  :zoinks: as much as I did last time I was there
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 01, 2013, 05:21:11 PM
True. and while I'm there I'm going to ask if he has seen the "lost puppy." I'm sure he hasn't and even if he did steal it, Oh well.
I have so many other great gemstones so I wont be fingering them,  :zoinks: as much as I did last time I was there

  Perhaps a locked safe would be a good thing to have.  :police:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 01, 2013, 05:22:19 PM
True. and while I'm there I'm going to ask if he has seen the "lost puppy." I'm sure he hasn't and even if he did steal it, Oh well.
I have so many other great gemstones so I wont be fingering them,  :zoinks: as much as I did last time I was there

  Perhaps a locked safe would be a good thing to have.  :police:

  And I mean that wherever you live.  You have quite a collection of stones now!  :police:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 01, 2013, 05:27:20 PM
You have quite a collection of stones now!  :police:
Well its true.  :2thumbsup:

I want to expand my collection however, when I get back out to California and when all of this stuff settles down that is.
My ultimate goal in life now is to be a beach bum. lately I have had the hots for the Ocean and I don't know why!

There's all kinds of great stuff down at the beach. it really is a wonderful place  :)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on September 01, 2013, 05:30:07 PM
You have quite a collection of stones now!  :police:
Well its true.  :2thumbsup:

I want to expand my collection however, when I get back out to California and when all of this stuff settles down that is.
My ultimate goal in life now is to be a beach bum. lately I have had the hots for the Ocean and I don't know why!

There's all kinds of great stuff down at the beach. it really is a wonderful place  :)

You could scan it with a metal detector. I forget which beach still has Spanish gold coins and jewelry.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on September 01, 2013, 05:33:34 PM
I have a history with my 'all in one'  remote control.   I keep losing it.  I sometimes hide it from the urchin as he tends to take the batteries out for one of his toys.  Anyway I spend too much time searching for the damn thing so I put a tail on the mo fo.  Yes a tail.  A long stringy tail with feathers and bells from the cat toys.

When it goes down the back or the side of the sofa I will just pull its tail which is about 1 metre and growing.  I don't care if anyone thinks 'nutter' at least I won't be spending any more time searching for the remote   :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 01, 2013, 05:35:30 PM
I have a history with my 'all in one'  remote control.   I keep losing it.  I sometimes hide it from the urchin as he tends to take the batteries out for one of his toys.  Anyway I spend too much time searching for the damn thing so I put a tail on the mo fo.  Yes a tail.  A long stringy tail with feathers and bells from the cat toys.

When it goes down the back or the side of the sofa I will just pull its tail which is about 1 metre and growing.  I don't care if anyone thinks 'nutter' at least I won't be spending any more time searching for the remote   :zoinks:

  That makes sense!  Same concept as a key chain.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 01, 2013, 05:37:28 PM
You could scan it with a metal detector.
Oh, I plan on buying a good MD. All kinds of good stuff to be found down at the beach,  :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on September 01, 2013, 05:39:40 PM
You have quite a collection of stones now!  :police:
Well its true.  :2thumbsup:

I want to expand my collection however, when I get back out to California and when all of this stuff settles down that is.
My ultimate goal in life now is to be a beach bum. lately I have had the hots for the Ocean and I don't know why!

There's all kinds of great stuff down at the beach. it really is a wonderful place  :)

You could scan it with a metal detector. I forget which beach still has Spanish gold coins and jewelry.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/15/treasure-coast-gold-coins-florida_n_3600469.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/15/treasure-coast-gold-coins-florida_n_3600469.html)

http://www.1715treasurefleet.com/latest-news/vero-beach-mother-daughter-team-find-solid-gold-bird-statue-from-1715-treasure-fleet-off-fort-pierce (http://www.1715treasurefleet.com/latest-news/vero-beach-mother-daughter-team-find-solid-gold-bird-statue-from-1715-treasure-fleet-off-fort-pierce)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 01, 2013, 05:44:29 PM
Oh yeah. people do find treasure with metal detectors, no doubt.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on September 01, 2013, 05:46:28 PM
I think in this case your obsessive aspie nature is beneficial. I could probably find a ton of shit if it was my special interest.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 01, 2013, 05:50:48 PM
Well, I'm certain to find a lot of junk along with the occasional treasure. I have owned a metal detector before and you wont believe how much worthless stuff is really on the ground. pennys, aluminium soda tabs etc.  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 01, 2013, 05:51:46 PM
Well, I'm certain to find a lot of junk along with the occasional treasure. I have owned a metal detector before and you wont believe how much worthless stuff is really on the ground. pennys, aluminium soda tabs etc.  :P

  Pennies are not worthless, young man!  A penny saved is a penny earned!  :M
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 01, 2013, 06:00:01 PM
I throw them away when I get them. I can't be botherd collecting 100 of them to make a measly $1.  :probe:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: conlang returns on September 01, 2013, 06:08:35 PM
If you don't want the pennies, I'll take them. 

I'm a bit of a collector. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 01, 2013, 06:17:50 PM
Well I gave you a  :plus: instead of a penny. why? It would cost me too much pennies to send them to you!  :police:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: conlang returns on September 01, 2013, 07:36:18 PM
Well I gave you a  :plus: instead of a penny. why? It would cost me too much pennies to send them to you!  :police:

LOL.  Thanks. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 01, 2013, 07:53:37 PM
Your welcome.  :)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 02, 2013, 02:52:21 PM
The 19th century porn novel Flossie was written by a woman, although she is unknown. How does one know that? Flossie's and Eva's clothes are described in detail, while Jack's clothing is hardly mentioned. The performance of cunnilingus is also described in detail.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 02, 2013, 07:36:26 PM
I would rob a bank, but I'm too nervous to.  :santa:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 02, 2013, 08:42:48 PM
I would rob a bank, but I'm too nervous to.  :santa:

  I once heard that bank robbery is a popular choice of impulsive, desperate, ill-prepared, stupid criminals. 
   I love the story I read about a bank robber who fled the bank on foot.  What a dumbass!  :police:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 02, 2013, 08:59:44 PM
I once heard that bank robbery is a popular choice of impulsive, desperate, ill-prepared, stupid criminals. 
Here some guy handed the teller notes saying this was a stick up and he got away with robbing like a few banks.
people in this town are afraid of some guy walking in and casually handing them a note demanding all the money
If you were going to rob a bank, boy this is the place to do it!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on September 09, 2013, 11:11:19 PM
Robbing a bank is so 20th century.  :M
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 10, 2013, 10:39:11 AM
The Romans knew that Earth was a sphere already 2000 years ago. It is also obvious that learned Romans didn't believe in any gods. Yet the stupid Christian church murdered people for saying that Earth was a sphere more than 1000 years after the fall of the Roman Empire. Still today idiots believe in God, Allah and whatever nonsense.

I hate people  :thumbdn:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 10, 2013, 08:43:55 PM
The fire agate from mexico tends to be flat, almost stain glass effect however any type really can come from there.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 10, 2013, 08:46:08 PM
Things are usually found in the last place you look because you stop looking for it when you've found it.  However, my camera is still missing.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 12, 2013, 04:44:39 PM
I'm going to start calling one of my sisters Darma. its like calling her Drama without further causing more of it,  :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on September 12, 2013, 09:00:25 PM


I actually love my Cadillac Escalade, but FUCK!!


Leaving me stranded SUXX

My old Ford never treated me this way.

 :violin:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on September 13, 2013, 02:31:59 AM
My Volvo never let me down!  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on September 14, 2013, 09:46:00 PM
My Volvo never let me down!  :orly:

Volvo?
  NO!
Seriously a Volvo is difficult to even find around here. I bought a comfortable SUV type of car that I could fit in, comfortably.

I do not ever see myself wadding my body up into such a small car.  Honestly, I have tried to own a small car before and I could not. 

At my age, just getting into a tiny pussy-tight car is difficult.

Trust me, I will never own another foreign car. I will continue to buy American, even when I explore the used market. Having an electrical part fail is a part of life.

Foreign cars are all too small and they totally suck from the start!


   ...   in my opinion, that is.  (remember, I AM FROM TEXAS!!)

You can keep your fucking Volvos in Sverge!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 15, 2013, 09:08:29 PM
Fire Agate makes a great ring stone. hard, rare and valuable. to bad people will never understand its importance

Why with worthless opals which I might add you can find everywhere exept the north and south poles hogging the spotlight!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on September 15, 2013, 11:21:43 PM
The Romans knew that Earth was a sphere already 2000 years ago. It is also obvious that learned Romans didn't believe in any gods. Yet the stupid Christian church murdered people for saying that Earth was a sphere more than 1000 years after the fall of the Roman Empire. Still today idiots believe in God, Allah and whatever nonsense.

I hate people  :thumbdn:

Yet rejection of the state-approved religion was equal to treason under the imperial cult.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 16, 2013, 10:09:32 PM
Aren't you glad you're not a slug?

Slugs are hermaphrodites, having both female and male reproductive organs. Once a slug has located a mate, they encircle each other and sperm is exchanged through their protruded genitalia. A few days later, the slugs lay around thirty eggs in a hole in the ground, or beneath the cover of an object such as a fallen log.

Apophallation is a commonly seen practice among many slugs. In apophallating species, the penis curls like a corkscrew and during mating, it often becomes entangled in the mate's genitalia. Apophallation allows the slugs to separate themselves by one or both of the slugs chewing off the other's penis. Once its penis has been removed, the slug is still able to mate using only the female parts of its reproductive system.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on September 16, 2013, 11:43:41 PM
Aren't you glad you're not a slug?

Slugs are hermaphrodites, having both female and male reproductive organs. Once a slug has located a mate, they encircle each other and sperm is exchanged through their protruded genitalia. A few days later, the slugs lay around thirty eggs in a hole in the ground, or beneath the cover of an object such as a fallen log.

Apophallation is a commonly seen practice among many slugs. In apophallating species, the penis curls like a corkscrew and during mating, it often becomes entangled in the mate's genitalia. Apophallation allows the slugs to separate themselves by one or both of the slugs chewing off the other's penis. Once its penis has been removed, the slug is still able to mate using only the female parts of its reproductive system.

Never knew those critters were that kinky.
Should have known they had it in them. They cannibalise without a problem too.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Genesis on September 17, 2013, 09:53:13 PM
When you get  :pwned: , make sure its not that one method, or you will still get  :pwned:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 21, 2013, 01:29:50 PM
Well. I'm wearing the Fire Agate ring I had made! its great color combination has proved to be worth wearing.  :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 21, 2013, 02:01:25 PM
I'm going to start calling one of my sisters Darma. its like calling her Drama without further causing more of it,  :P

  That will work for 5 minutes.  Then she'll ask,  "Why are you calling me Darma?"  and off we go!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jesse on September 22, 2013, 11:54:11 AM
The only way in dealing with a dramatic person (especially a family member) is this. unless you want to give them the silent treatment

Let them know how much of a bitch they really are. honesty is the best policy, and I'm certain they will stay away from you.
I have been in this situation with a family member (not saying who) but I can tell you it works. also feels fucking great too! :blonde:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on October 22, 2013, 09:48:30 PM
I showered just now
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 22, 2013, 11:09:35 PM
I'm going to have more coffee............... now.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Genesis on October 23, 2013, 12:13:49 AM
My Cat is sleeping on my bed
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: RageBeoulve on October 23, 2013, 11:24:26 AM
Space rome.

http://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/usspac/visbook.pdf (http://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/usspac/visbook.pdf)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ZEGH8578 on October 25, 2013, 12:53:29 PM
Birds have epic tongues sometimes. Some ducks have sharp, jagged tongues, like saws.
Herons have spear-like tongues, likely to keep squirmy fish nicely impaled in their beaks
(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6095/6218118083_ced7ff6374_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on October 25, 2013, 02:12:17 PM
The only American president ever being a PhD was Woodrow Wilson.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 25, 2013, 03:09:11 PM
The only American president ever being a PhD was Woodrow Wilson.

  How many Swedish presidents have been PhDs?  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on October 25, 2013, 04:27:31 PM
 :tard:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on October 26, 2013, 01:57:31 PM
In the Roman Empire only rich men would get bald. I don't remember exactly why, but it had something to do with genetics (of course) and men then only getting bald by eating much fat.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ZEGH8578 on October 26, 2013, 03:02:19 PM
In the Roman Empire only rich men would get bald. I don't remember exactly why, but it had something to do with genetics (of course) and men then only getting bald by eating much fat.

This sounds very strange. How can genetics predetermine your fortune?
You are born into genetics - but economy is a variable.

I would rather suspect that they had some cultural idea that baldness was a sign of wealth, and then maybe would shave their heads or something, to signal this? Idunno, but this sounds like a very odd coincidence.

What happened to all dirt-broke people, who suffered from male pattern baldness?
They were "disappeared" >:I
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on October 26, 2013, 03:04:50 PM
No no, wealthy men, who could afford to eat much fat, got bald. The metabolism back then should have been of such a kind that you only got bald if you ate an abundance of fat.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ZEGH8578 on October 26, 2013, 04:47:58 PM
No no, wealthy men, who could afford to eat much fat, got bald. The metabolism back then should have been of such a kind that you only got bald if you ate an abundance of fat.

Whaaat? I've never heard of this...
Not denying it, but it sounds very strange.
Do you have any sources that confirm the biology behind this? Baldness has to do, amongst other, with testosteron levels, which in turn is genetic
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on October 26, 2013, 04:51:00 PM
I think it was on English Wiki but I'm not 100% sure.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ZEGH8578 on October 26, 2013, 04:55:29 PM
I think it was on English Wiki but I'm not 100% sure.

If you are right, then it shows another example of culture affecting genetics. This is not uncommon. European boobies are big and firm, because Europeans culturally put a lot of emphasis on boob-aesthetics. Ergo culture affects genetics.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ZEGH8578 on October 26, 2013, 08:39:00 PM
The commonly spoofed/used dog name Fido comes from latin, and means "faithful".
The popularization of the name is likely to stem from an Italian dog, who waited 14 years for his (deceased) master to return, a story that gained much attention at the time.
(The story is similar to a very public Japanese one, and many others)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 26, 2013, 09:12:18 PM
I think it was on English Wiki but I'm not 100% sure.

You are asserting a Wiki reference?

Really?

Do you not know how wiki works?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: ZEGH8578 on October 26, 2013, 09:25:19 PM
DirtDawg, wiki is a perfectly fine source - if you check its sources as well. It is not a primary source, but it is still a well of legitimate information.

Random fact: The gorilla Koko has shown animals ability to create personal names. She named her favorite cat All Ball, probably signifying something very delightful, "all" being self explanatory, in being a wide, big, all-encompassing notion, "Ball" being something fun, joyous, etc.

Koko also named a parrot Devil-Tooth, devil for the red color of the feathers, and tooth being the imposing beak.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on October 27, 2013, 03:24:21 AM
In the Roman Empire only rich men would get bald. I don't remember exactly why, but it had something to do with genetics (of course) and men then only getting bald by eating much fat.

Did the poor men die before having the chance of getting bald?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on October 27, 2013, 04:09:54 AM
In the Roman Empire only rich men would get bald. I don't remember exactly why, but it had something to do with genetics (of course) and men then only getting bald by eating much fat.

Did the poor men die before having the chance of getting bald?

No, the article I read claimed that only wealthy men had such a metabolism that they got bald.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on October 27, 2013, 04:41:04 AM
Grandpa never celebrates birthdays, including his own.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 27, 2013, 11:58:47 PM
Julius Caesar tried to hide his baldness. :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on October 28, 2013, 05:12:53 PM
There was a Nike missile site in my town.  The launch area is now a baseball field and the command and control area is used as storage by the schools
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 28, 2013, 07:04:31 PM
Grandpa never celebrates birthdays, including his own.


My "granpa" is long dead these days. He had a farmstead which he had to defend on a number of occasions.

Once My Granddad killed a Texas county Sheriff, who was at the time wearing a KKK outfit and trying to burn my grandfather's barn with a band of other KKK thugs.

My granddad was attacked because he had allowed a black family of seventeen to live in his barn, along with his livestock, as that family worked toward a piece of the land they all worked together.  My grandfather was in question for even working with blacks.

The family had been kicked off the land they had been working. My Granddad took them in as best as he could.

When the KKK approached his house on horses, he recognized several of the riders, due to his work as a blacksmith.  He recognized the horses they were riding and he recognized the voices he heard.

He called them by name (he knew who most of them were by his work on their horses) and asked them to leave his barn standing. It did not work. The mob of KKK assholes went in to burn down his barn (because blacks lived there)  My Granddad shot twice with his double barrel shotgun. Killing the Sheriff and wounding his neighbor.

My father was only six when this happened and remembered this incident to his deathbed.   It was 1932 when this happened.  The KKK ran all over the western Texas region in those times, trying to remove the last of the black families from the area.

Once the local Deputy knew what had happened on that night, my granddad was never charged with any crime. His action was, rightfully, accepted as protecting his property under the law.

That was only the start of him having to defend his taking in a "black" family as it turned out, however. The KKK was not yet done.



I am pretty sure I have related this story to a few of you, but once is once. IT is a story worth repeating, for its own sake!!

Never let us forget what it means to have the freedom to bear arms!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Pyraxis on October 28, 2013, 07:52:53 PM
I hadn't heard it before. That is an awesome story and I want to know what happened after that.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 28, 2013, 11:57:19 PM
Your Granddad was BRAVE. +
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 29, 2013, 12:25:47 AM

You have to bear in mind that my granddad was born in 1895. He was the third son of the youngest of five brothers. My great granddad  (born in 1860) was the only one of his four other brothers who chose farmstead living instead of a life with the Texas Rangers.  My great grandfather (and all of us since that time, until my father broke into music) was a farmer, but his brothers (born from 1847 to 1859) and one other uncle (born 1834) were all Texas Rangers during the 1870s to the 1920s.

Interestingly, my great, great, great grand mother began a family tradition with her first born child. Little did she know her grand children would turn out to be fairly important men, despite her extremely modest life. She began a tradition of keeping a penny (one cent coin) for every child that was born to the family. She kept them all safe, tucked away in her bible. Her idea was that while we will probably always be poor, none of us will ever be broke.  Kind of a joke, but true brilliance!

When my grandfather reached an old age (he was seventy two and I was twelve), he chose to put me in charge of his great grandmother's family heirloom collection of one cent coins (most of them still have a bit of shine to them) going back to the 1820s (well, I already had a kind of beginner coin collection and that is why I was chosen, but this one collection had actual value to me and pictures and various mementos. I still have it all.)


This year I have taken the time to bring the heirloom collection up to date.  It is kind of interesting how many more MODERN coins there are than older coins.  Life, no matter the humble beginnings, always finds a way to increase.


I will talk more about the other bit after I have re-read my father's book. I do not want to mix up the dates.
Remember, I have been taking fairly strong opiates for well over two years, now.  Well, up until I "kicked"  about six weeks ago. (My doc suggested and I managed it.) I am off them, thank GOD!!!! I can actually sleep a couple of hours at a time, now.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: jedicounsellor on October 29, 2013, 01:32:49 AM
There are more pyramids in Sudan, than in Egypt.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on October 29, 2013, 02:08:49 AM
I hadn't heard it before. That is an awesome story and I want to know what happened after that.

seconded.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 29, 2013, 12:56:24 PM
Thanks for sharing your family with us DirtDawg.  They are very upright and admirable folk.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 29, 2013, 03:40:35 PM
They are indeed. Thank you, DD.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on October 29, 2013, 09:16:49 PM
I'm always falling in love. What the hell!?
This is why I should never socialise.


Also, hydraulic fracturing can really screw up the landscape. Scarily so.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on October 29, 2013, 09:17:56 PM
In Sweden we say töm och glöm  :M
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on October 29, 2013, 09:20:59 PM
Actually, that fracturing fact is useful :P

töm och glöm ? google translator said "drain and forget"...
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on October 29, 2013, 09:22:35 PM
"Empty and forget" is a better translation  :viking:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on October 29, 2013, 09:27:28 PM
"Empty and forget" is a better translation  :viking:

My spaz brain is having trouble with interpretation.
Does this mean empty the ground of oil and gas and forget?
or does it mean empty my head of thoughts and forget?
or does it mean empty a glass of beer and forget?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on October 29, 2013, 09:52:27 PM
" Progress was a wonderful thing; its just gone on too long."
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on October 29, 2013, 09:54:24 PM
" Progress was a wonderful thing; its just gone on too long."

Interesting quote  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on October 29, 2013, 09:58:53 PM
" Progress was a wonderful thing; its just gone on too long."

Interesting quote  :thumbup:
Frank Zappa, I think
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on October 29, 2013, 10:05:22 PM
"Empty and forget" is a better translation  :viking:

My spaz brain is having trouble with interpretation.
Does this mean empty the ground of oil and gas and forget?
or does it mean empty my head of thoughts and forget?
or does it mean empty a glass of beer and forget?

Empty your balls and forget the girl  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 29, 2013, 11:52:45 PM
That's gotta hurt.  :zombiefuck:

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on October 30, 2013, 12:45:31 AM
 :rofl:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Semicolon on October 30, 2013, 03:40:33 AM
"Empty and forget" is a better translation  :viking:

My spaz brain is having trouble with interpretation.
Does this mean empty the ground of oil and gas and forget?
or does it mean empty my head of thoughts and forget?
or does it mean empty a glass of beer and forget?

Empty your balls and forget the girl  :thumbup:

:plus:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 31, 2013, 12:27:25 AM
Our company's mail server is down.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on October 31, 2013, 02:11:23 PM
Our company's mail server is down.

Better call CBC to the rescue!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Semicolon on November 01, 2013, 08:43:13 AM
Our company's mail server is down.

Better call CBC to the rescue!

:hahaha:

You mean Hyke. :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on November 01, 2013, 12:36:15 PM
Our company's mail server is down.

Better call CBC to the rescue!

:hahaha:

You mean Hyke. :P

I made a career change. So, no Hyke to the rescue. No, no, not me. (Though, a paid trip to Sweden, just to deliver a few letters, would be nice.)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Semicolon on November 01, 2013, 02:05:15 PM
Our company's mail server is down.

Better call CBC to the rescue!

:hahaha:

You mean Hyke. :P

I made a career change. So, no Hyke to the rescue. No, no, not me. (Though, a paid trip to Sweden, just to deliver a few letters, would be nice.)

:(

You would have to bike through Denmark. :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on November 01, 2013, 02:11:29 PM
Corn fillers in dog and cat food makes their poo smell much much worse.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on November 01, 2013, 03:26:02 PM
Our company's mail server is down.

Better call CBC to the rescue!

:hahaha:

You mean Hyke. :P

I made a career change. So, no Hyke to the rescue. No, no, not me. (Though, a paid trip to Sweden, just to deliver a few letters, would be nice.)

:(

You would have to bike through Denmark. :P

Denmark can be skipped. I could take a ferry in Germany.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 01, 2013, 05:01:37 PM
Our company's mail server is down.

Better call CBC to the rescue!

  Here I am! :cbc: I will do what I can from my desktop in America!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Semicolon on November 01, 2013, 07:23:29 PM
Our company's mail server is down.

Better call CBC to the rescue!

:hahaha:

You mean Hyke. :P

I made a career change. So, no Hyke to the rescue. No, no, not me. (Though, a paid trip to Sweden, just to deliver a few letters, would be nice.)

:(

You would have to bike through Denmark. :P

Denmark can be skipped. I could take a ferry in Germany.

You'd get more exercise if you biked. :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on November 01, 2013, 08:32:30 PM
DFGL has a dick! :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Genesis on November 01, 2013, 09:01:21 PM
I am afraid of blondes (Not all blondes... just a select few)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: skyblue1 on November 01, 2013, 09:12:56 PM
I am afraid of only one redhead
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Genesis on November 01, 2013, 09:15:18 PM
I am afraid of only one redhead

I don't need to guess on this one?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on November 02, 2013, 12:50:21 AM
Our company's mail server is down.

Better call CBC to the rescue!

  Here I am! :cbc: I will do what I can from my desktop in America!

DON'T WORRY ODEON!!!! CBC is on it.  :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on November 02, 2013, 12:53:44 AM
Our company's mail server is down.

Better call CBC to the rescue!

:hahaha:

You mean Hyke. :P

I made a career change. So, no Hyke to the rescue. No, no, not me. (Though, a paid trip to Sweden, just to deliver a few letters, would be nice.)

:(

You would have to bike through Denmark. :P

Denmark can be skipped. I could take a ferry in Germany.


Did you know that Denmark recently ................. nevermind.

In real life you would have just witnessed a genuine aspie information dispersal moment. *sigh*
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on November 02, 2013, 02:20:52 AM
Our company's mail server is down.

Better call CBC to the rescue!

:hahaha:

You mean Hyke. :P

I made a career change. So, no Hyke to the rescue. No, no, not me. (Though, a paid trip to Sweden, just to deliver a few letters, would be nice.)

:(

You would have to bike through Denmark. :P

Denmark can be skipped. I could take a ferry in Germany.

You'd get more exercise if you biked. :P

Skipping a ferry would mean I would have to go all the way through Russia and Northern Finland too. I do have a dynamo on my bike, but, that is a lot of darkness to bike through. And will have to bring too many types of clothing, because of the range in temperatures too. 
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on November 02, 2013, 04:17:38 AM
Our company's mail server is down.

Better call CBC to the rescue!

:hahaha:

You mean Hyke. :P

I made a career change. So, no Hyke to the rescue. No, no, not me. (Though, a paid trip to Sweden, just to deliver a few letters, would be nice.)

:(

You would have to bike through Denmark. :P

Denmark can be skipped. I could take a ferry in Germany.


Did you know that Denmark recently ................. nevermind.

In real life you would have just witnessed a genuine aspie information dispersal moment. *sigh*

The post following yours, I had to keep myself from doing the same.  :asthing:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on November 02, 2013, 02:04:59 PM
Our company's mail server is down.

Better call CBC to the rescue!

:hahaha:

You mean Hyke. :P

I made a career change. So, no Hyke to the rescue. No, no, not me. (Though, a paid trip to Sweden, just to deliver a few letters, would be nice.)

:(

You would have to bike through Denmark. :P

Denmark can be skipped. I could take a ferry in Germany.


Did you know that Denmark recently ................. nevermind.

In real life you would have just witnessed a genuine aspie information dispersal moment. *sigh*

The post following yours, I had to keep myself from doing the same.  :asthing:

 :asthing:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Semicolon on November 02, 2013, 02:41:52 PM
Our company's mail server is down.

Better call CBC to the rescue!

:hahaha:

You mean Hyke. :P

I made a career change. So, no Hyke to the rescue. No, no, not me. (Though, a paid trip to Sweden, just to deliver a few letters, would be nice.)

:(

You would have to bike through Denmark. :P

Denmark can be skipped. I could take a ferry in Germany.


Did you know that Denmark recently ................. nevermind.

In real life you would have just witnessed a genuine aspie information dispersal moment. *sigh*

The post following yours, I had to keep myself from doing the same.  :asthing:

 :asthing:

:asthing:
:asthing:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on November 02, 2013, 02:42:29 PM
My cat George is the male cat version of me.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on November 02, 2013, 02:43:44 PM
My armpits smell differently. My left armpit smells a little bit like a cunt  :facepalm2:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Semicolon on November 02, 2013, 03:03:51 PM
My armpits smell differently. My left armpit smells a little bit like a cunt  :facepalm2:

You should wipe your left armpit's sweat on a rag and save it. Then, the next time you :wanker:, close your eyes and smell it. :zoinks:

It disturbed me a little to write that. :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on November 02, 2013, 03:04:43 PM
My armpits smell differently. My left armpit smells a little bit like a cunt  :facepalm2:

You should wipe your left armpit's sweat on a rag and save it. Then, the next time you :wanker:, close your eyes and smell it. :zoinks:

It aroused me a little to write that.  :hahaha:

fixed.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Semicolon on November 02, 2013, 03:15:54 PM
My armpits smell differently. My left armpit smells a little bit like a cunt  :facepalm2:

You should wipe your left armpit's sweat on a rag and save it. Then, the next time you :wanker:, close your eyes and smell it. :zoinks:

It aroused me a little to write that.  :hahaha:

fixed.

I was channeling Rage. That's the sort of advice that he would give. :CanofWorms:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on November 02, 2013, 03:22:14 PM
My armpits smell differently. My left armpit smells a little bit like a cunt  :facepalm2:

You should wipe your left armpit's sweat on a rag and save it. Then, the next time you :wanker:, close your eyes and smell it. :zoinks:

It aroused me a little to write that.  :hahaha:

fixed.

I was channeling Rage. That's the sort of advice that he would give. :CanofWorms:

 :pinkbeat: Bear.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on November 02, 2013, 03:31:58 PM
Our company's mail server is down.

Better call CBC to the rescue!

:hahaha:

You mean Hyke. :P

I made a career change. So, no Hyke to the rescue. No, no, not me. (Though, a paid trip to Sweden, just to deliver a few letters, would be nice.)

:(

You would have to bike through Denmark. :P

Denmark can be skipped. I could take a ferry in Germany.


Did you know that Denmark recently ................. nevermind.

In real life you would have just witnessed a genuine aspie information dispersal moment. *sigh*

The post following yours, I had to keep myself from doing the same.  :asthing:

 :asthing:

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Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Semicolon on November 02, 2013, 03:46:23 PM
Have you not seen the new marquee? Now, the smilies can move in either direction. :2thumbsup:

Synchronized spazzing should be an Olympic sport. :thumbup:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on November 02, 2013, 04:09:05 PM
Have you not seen the new marquee? Now, the smilies can move in either direction. :2thumbsup:

Synchronized spazzing should be an Olympic sport. :thumbup:

I like bats.   :flyingbat:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: jedicounsellor on November 03, 2013, 01:29:59 AM
How do I stop watching this thread?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Semicolon on November 03, 2013, 06:17:59 PM
Have you not seen the new marquee? Now, the smilies can move in either direction. :2thumbsup:

Synchronized spazzing should be an Olympic sport. :thumbup:

I like bats.   :flyingbat:

I have posted a bat ballet somewhere. :hyke:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on November 03, 2013, 10:57:02 PM
THE ASTHINGS ARE MOVING AT DIFFERENT SPEEDS!!! :GA:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 03, 2013, 11:33:51 PM
THE ASTHINGS ARE MOVING AT DIFFERENT SPEEDS!!! :GA:

Yeah, someone needs to explain why they do not meet exactly in THE MIDDLE, right?


 :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA:

OH SHIT!!!

NO, really. I mean it!!

OH SHIT!!


 :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on November 04, 2013, 12:12:35 AM
There's an easy explanation to that one. See if someone spots it.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on November 04, 2013, 12:20:48 AM
There's an easy explanation to that one. See if someone spots it.

is it because they aren't aligned to the center?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Semicolon on November 04, 2013, 06:09:06 AM
How do I stop watching this thread?

Start reading this (http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,6546.0.html) thread. :thumbup:

There's an easy explanation to that one. See if someone spots it.

They look like they meet in the center of the post to me. :tard: This isn't aligned with the center of the page.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 04, 2013, 02:42:53 PM


Well yeah, but that insults my proprioception sense. I want to move my chair, drag the monitor over to the side, or look away or hide from the YIKES!!

:yikes:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jack on November 04, 2013, 05:28:02 PM
There's an easy explanation to that one. See if someone spots it.

:)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 07, 2013, 11:12:12 PM
Here's several:

In the 19th century, surgeons wore white gowns, but in the 20th century surgeons began to wear cyan or green surgical gowns, for several reasons.

First, in the brightly-lit operating room, green reflected less light than white and caused less strain on the eyes of the medical team.

Second, cyan is the complementary color of red, so red blood on a cyan gown looks black or gray, and not red, and is not as vivid.

Also, since red and green are complementary colors, shifting your sight to green after staring at red for long periods of time does not cause green after-images, as shifting from red to white will do.

Lastly, since green is considered one of the most restful and soothing colors, it causes less anxiety to patients.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 08, 2013, 05:17:25 AM
Someone drowns near the island just off the beach near my house almost every year some years more than one person does.  This is the first year in about ten that nobody has :)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on November 09, 2013, 01:54:33 AM
I llive about six blocks away from a major river run.

I often hear wolves this time of year.  In the fall they come closer to the living areas of humans.


All year long we have lone coyotes raiding our garbage, making noise at night, taking outdoor cats or small pets, but one can tell the difference between the two quite easily once they "speak up." 

While at first it can be unnerving, wolves make an amazing sound when howling.

Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Bastet on November 09, 2013, 02:00:23 AM
I had a dream years ago I lived in a wolf pack.  It was awesome.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: TheoK on November 13, 2013, 08:18:38 PM
Per Nyström was county governor in the county of Göteborg and Bohus 1950-71. Ironically his birth parish Västerlanda was transferred to Älvsborg county due to the municipality reform in 1967.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on January 31, 2014, 12:58:49 PM
My kitty cat clock's tail stopped moving
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 31, 2014, 02:57:43 PM
 
My kitty cat clock's tail stopped moving

:kitten:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on February 01, 2014, 03:19:33 AM
It's an epidemic. The projection booth's dinosaur clock has stopped working. :GA:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 02, 2014, 06:52:54 AM
I still hear the clock in the Kitchen tick. It is running a bit behind though.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 02, 2014, 07:06:35 AM
I forgot to wind my wind up clock I keep next to my chair and this thread reminded me

Useless fact,  I keep a wind up clock next to my favorite chair, another fact it has a radioluminescent dial that is still visible although just barely
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on February 21, 2014, 11:12:13 PM
During the Cold War there were Nike missiles based in my town, now the launch site is a baseball field and park ,and the command center is storage for the city schools, and the barracks is veterans housing
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on February 23, 2014, 07:16:47 AM
I've brought this up before.. in some thread here, months ago.. but did you know that bacteria cells outnumber your own body cells by a factor of 10 to 1 (p/m). No frikkin' kid ya.  :GA:

Inside and out.. they're all over the place. Like really.. but luckily most of 'them' are helpful for you.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 23, 2014, 01:10:15 PM
Some members probably don't like mushy stuff.  So, off with their heads so they won't have to read it.

(NO ONE has said anything about this, but I know there is probably one member [and more than one] who doesn't like this stuff.  That's okay, there are things I don't like and simply ignore them.  That's why I labeled it Mushy Stuff.  This post was made mostly in jest.  Contemplating this post, if I have to do this much explaining about and non-existent comments, maybe the post shouldn't be made.  Eh.)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jack on February 23, 2014, 01:29:16 PM
Are you concerned people don't like your thread?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 23, 2014, 04:59:58 PM
Mushy Stuff is good stuff.   :2thumbsup:

I don't know who wouldn't like it.. but boo and hiss to them.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 23, 2014, 07:43:18 PM
Just that some members may not like the huggy/feely little old lady stuff.  They prefer the huggy/feely hot young chick stuff.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jack on February 23, 2014, 08:42:08 PM
It's respectable if the hot stuff is reserved for Prince Albert. :laugh: It's a nice thread.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 23, 2014, 09:21:17 PM
It's respectable if the hot stuff is reserved for Prince Albert. :laugh: It's a nice thread.

Since when has I2 been respectable?   :eyebrows:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 24, 2014, 03:12:13 AM
Mushy Stuff is good stuff.   :2thumbsup:

I don't know who wouldn't like it.. but boo and hiss to them.
:indeed:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on February 24, 2014, 03:35:34 AM
Mushy Stuff is good stuff.   :2thumbsup:

I don't know who wouldn't like it.. but boo and hiss to them.
:indeed:

Such an act against the Crown would be treason! The perpetrators would be hastily rounded up and sent to The Tower.  A 'Guilty' plea would be extracted from them and they would be hung, drawn and quartered! Heads would be placed on spikes on London Bridge for all to see.


 :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on February 24, 2014, 03:59:42 AM
Mushy Stuff is good stuff.   :2thumbsup:

I don't know who wouldn't like it.. but boo and hiss to them.
:indeed:

Such an act against the Crown would be treason! The perpetrators would be hastily rounded up and sent to The Tower.  A 'Guilty' plea would be extracted from them and they would be hung, drawn and quartered! Heads would be placed on spikes on London Bridge for all to see.


 :zoinks:

And at the main roads entering the states of Louisiana and Massachusetts too.

(We need lots of heads rolling, maybe it is time to find them on other places than I2 alone)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jack on February 24, 2014, 05:09:02 AM
It's respectable if the hot stuff is reserved for Prince Albert. :laugh: It's a nice thread.

Since when has I2 been respectable?   :eyebrows:

:laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on February 25, 2014, 12:20:44 AM
It's respectable if the hot stuff is reserved for Prince Albert. :laugh: It's a nice thread.

Since when has I2 been respectable?   :eyebrows:

We are not? :-\
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on February 27, 2014, 09:02:05 PM
Wassup people!

I have this nagging feeling that I left off mid-conversation, but I cannot remember which conversation.... :/
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 28, 2014, 12:39:17 AM
Wassup people!

I have this nagging feeling that I left off mid-conversation, but I cannot remember which conversation.... :/

Let's see.  It probably had to do with sex. Or maybe sex.  Or maybe sex. :dunno:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on February 28, 2014, 12:39:42 AM
Wassup people!

I have this nagging feeling that I left off mid-conversation, but I cannot remember which conversation.... :/

Who are you? :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 28, 2014, 12:50:12 AM
I just finished reading Food Town, a history of food, cooking, restaurants, New Orleans, and Hurricane Katrina.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on February 28, 2014, 02:57:23 AM
Wassup people!

I have this nagging feeling that I left off mid-conversation, but I cannot remember which conversation.... :/

Let's see.  It probably had to do with sex. Or maybe sex.  Or maybe sex. :dunno:

Lmao! Probably  :apondering:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on February 28, 2014, 02:58:40 AM
Wassup people!

I have this nagging feeling that I left off mid-conversation, but I cannot remember which conversation.... :/

Who are you? :zoinks:

I am the Ghost of Forums past... :orly:

:P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Semicolon on February 28, 2014, 06:03:45 AM
Wassup people!

I have this nagging feeling that I left off mid-conversation, but I cannot remember which conversation.... :/

Let's see.  It probably had to do with sex. Or maybe sex.  Or maybe sex. :dunno:

Everything has to do with sex if you have the right fetish. :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 06, 2014, 12:04:12 AM
Wassup people!

I have this nagging feeling that I left off mid-conversation, but I cannot remember which conversation.... :/

Who are you? :zoinks:

I am the Ghost of Forums past... :orly:

:P

Hey, I already know I'm a grumpy old man. No need to rub it in. :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on March 06, 2014, 03:07:34 AM
Wassup people!

I have this nagging feeling that I left off mid-conversation, but I cannot remember which conversation.... :/

Who are you? :zoinks:

I am the Ghost of Forums past... :orly:

:P

Hey, I already know I'm a grumpy old man. No need to rub it in. :zoinks:

I'm just scroogin with you.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 06, 2014, 05:12:30 AM
^

Your postcount is 2442
Your karma 222

Looks nice, together.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on August 19, 2014, 11:54:55 AM
I got the house down to 65 deg F last night.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on August 20, 2014, 01:03:17 PM
People who buy land for the scenery are cunts.

That's like buying a fckin ocean because the sun sets nicely on it.

Or breathing because the air smells nice.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on August 20, 2014, 04:07:23 PM
I overslept this morning.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on August 20, 2014, 04:53:42 PM
People who buy land for the scenery are cunts.

 :violin:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jack on August 20, 2014, 07:01:41 PM
People who buy land for the scenery are cunts.

That's like buying a fckin ocean because the sun sets nicely on it.

Or breathing because the air smells nice.
Why wouldn't one consider the scenery when purchasing property?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: sg1008 on August 20, 2014, 11:56:33 PM
People who buy land for the scenery are cunts.

That's like buying a fckin ocean because the sun sets nicely on it.

Or breathing because the air smells nice.
Why wouldn't one consider the scenery when purchasing property?

Land is much more than scenery. Therein exists multiple ecosystems and the potential for medicine, food, water, and animal development. It's life! Not simply a pretty picture! It is absolutely vital to the earth's greater biodiversity!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 21, 2014, 03:02:00 PM
Just as important as scenery is buying property on a critical infrastructure line.  We're on the electric line for the waste treatment plant and get back on line very, very quickly.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jack on August 21, 2014, 05:40:16 PM
People who buy land for the scenery are cunts.

That's like buying a fckin ocean because the sun sets nicely on it.

Or breathing because the air smells nice.
Why wouldn't one consider the scenery when purchasing property?

Land is much more than scenery. Therein exists multiple ecosystems and the potential for medicine, food, water, and animal development. It's life! Not simply a pretty picture! It is absolutely vital to the earth's greater biodiversity!
What are you even talking about? Yes, people consider more, but scenery and smell are things to be considered.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on August 21, 2014, 05:49:33 PM
These past two months have been an incredible learning experience for my son and I.

As he approaches his manhood, he is curious about his heritage. He is demanding to know about his family history.

My father died on the third of July 1998. We buried him on the sixth of July along with all the distractions that are common in Texas on Independence Day. It was a nightmare, truly.
My son want now to know who he was. How do I do this? I have an hard time relating anything about what a fucking awesome man my father was.

I want to give him the whole story. His great grandfather killing one of his best own friends defending a family who lived in his barn, while his "friends"  were wearing white hoods and hating blacks for no reason. Even HIS uncles and great uncles who were Texas Rangers in the 1880s and helped to make Texas safe for people to farm and ranch.

I have shown my son pics of all these people he is descended from and he still wants more.

Useless fact?

My son has become obsessed with his heritage.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 21, 2014, 06:59:18 PM
I don't eat yogurt
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jack on August 21, 2014, 07:00:55 PM
Vile stuff, yogurt.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 21, 2014, 07:04:32 PM
I used to eat it then I got a mouthful of some that was way past it's expiration date,  I had a bad cold at the time so there was no warning, now even twenty some years later the thought of eating it turns my stomach :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jack on August 21, 2014, 07:10:20 PM
Can't do sweet goo of any sort. Had stomach problems as a child and had to eat baby food for about a year or so; ruined me for it. My first encounter with an éclair was traumatizing. Sweet goo is horrible, but hidden surprise sweet goo is the worst. :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on August 21, 2014, 07:13:24 PM
No creampie surprise then :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jack on August 21, 2014, 07:18:20 PM
Creampies are for the goo eaters. :M
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on August 21, 2014, 08:10:37 PM
What are you even talking about?

Po-Mo gobbledegook mostly.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on September 01, 2014, 01:24:46 PM
Did you know.. that most Japanese 'in-crowd' sumo-wrestlers are quite pervy homosexuals? :løl:

Like really fat ones..

Or, like catholic priests (incluis other upwards licking clergy in that niche) it's an all male group/bonding thing, isn't it?

Hahahaha..

(sørry)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Kasa on September 25, 2014, 10:29:34 AM
8 feet is the height that breaks bones when you jump from it
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: bodie on September 25, 2014, 12:58:41 PM
Putting a super slinky thin iphone 6 in your back pocket,  which ideally should be in the area of your fat, round botty cheeks, will cause it to bend a little

 :o     this has been a surprise result for some people


 :hahaha:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Jack on September 25, 2014, 03:57:12 PM
8 feet is the height that breaks bones when you jump from it
Welcome back.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on September 25, 2014, 08:40:37 PM
 
Found a reference to one of my great great uncles online. (do not really want to identify my family so well, but, ...)

My son was amazed to find this ancient Texas history read out as I have described it to him.  The killer point was that an old pic I have from my family's archives (which my Mom keeps at this point in time) was posted from a newspaper about my great uncle killing this bad guy from 1887. My Mom has the original metal rendering of this image that the newspaper published.

Things like this have really helped my son to solidify his place AND helped him to see the possibility of a future, instead of just dismissing the idea of future as bullshit.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on September 27, 2014, 02:05:27 AM
Putting a super slinky thin iphone 6 in your back pocket,  which ideally should be in the area of your fat, round botty cheeks, will cause it to bend a little

 :o     this has been a surprise result for some people


 :hahaha:

Apple claims that a total of nine people have contacted them about this.

I'm not sure what they were expecting, tbh. It's an expensive little gadget and certainly not the only one that can bend when handled carelessly.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: DirtDawg on October 01, 2014, 11:09:07 PM

Went out and paid to shoot at a public range, FUCK!! Spent almost thirty bucks for a half hour, FUCK

I allowed my son to shoot a 22LR semi-auto pistol (it was a really old Ruger Mark II) AND a 22LR semi-auto carbine (nothing else like it - a simple 10-22 Ruger - pretty much the best of the best until you get into serious target shooting) for his first time out.

Hard to say much, but he was happy and wants to do this again, soon.

I just used paper targets. What is he going to be like shooting a real rifle at a jug of painted water or something as similar to a human body. What is he going to feel when he experiences the raw power and the amazing array of diverse weapons his father owns?

We have begun to explore.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 25, 2014, 03:28:08 AM
Most posts here are useless. :M
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on October 25, 2014, 03:30:02 AM
There is entertainment value.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on October 25, 2014, 03:31:09 AM
Not saying it's a bad thing. :P
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 05, 2016, 08:26:19 PM
Most posts here are useless. :M

  Noooooo!  Every post adds a lousy thousandth of a point to my post-per-day average!   :GA:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 05, 2016, 09:40:28 PM
Richard Galbraith will vote for anyone other than Polly Thomas.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 06, 2016, 03:26:12 AM
Most posts here are useless. :M

  Noooooo!  Every post adds a lousy thousandth of a point to my post-per-day average!   :GA:

And that's useful how? :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 06, 2016, 03:37:21 AM
Most posts here are useless. :M

  Noooooo!  Every post adds a lousy thousandth of a point to my post-per-day average!   :GA:

And that's useful how? :zoinks:

  To get my post-per-day average up, quite obviously.  :M
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 06, 2016, 03:42:10 AM
Most posts here are useless. :M

  Noooooo!  Every post adds a lousy thousandth of a point to my post-per-day average!   :GA:

And that's useful how? :zoinks:

  To get my post-per-day average up, quite obviously.  :M

I repeat: how is that useful? :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 06, 2016, 03:47:49 AM
  You're mean.  You just want me to slow down and fall behind.  :emosad:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 06, 2016, 01:14:16 PM
  You're mean.  You just want me to slow down and fall behind.  :emosad:

Not THAT mean. This little discussion helped your postcount. :)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 06, 2016, 02:07:30 PM
  You're mean.  You just want me to slow down and fall behind.  :emosad:

Not THAT mean. This little discussion helped your postcount. :)

  Why, yes it did!  Ka-chinnggg!  More posts = more money!   :woohoo:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 06, 2016, 02:18:46 PM
  You're mean.  You just want me to slow down and fall behind.  :emosad:

Not THAT mean. This little discussion helped your postcount. :)

  Why, yes it did!  Ka-chinnggg!  More posts = more money!   :woohoo:

It's how it's done. Postwhoring is a way of life.  :meditate:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 06, 2016, 04:26:38 PM
  I'm on here posting while the Moomin sleeps.  :trollskull:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 07, 2016, 01:49:27 PM
  I'm on here posting while the Moomin sleeps.  :trollskull:

Well, I'm here now and you are not.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 08, 2016, 06:53:10 AM
  I'm on here posting while the Moomin sleeps.  :trollskull:

Well, I'm here now and you are not.

  Clearly you are invisible.  I can't see you, la la la! :trollface:   :boo:  <--- pissed-off ghost Moomin
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 08, 2016, 09:50:05 AM
  I'm on here posting while the Moomin sleeps.  :trollskull:

Well, I'm here now and you are not.

  Clearly you are invisible.  I can't see you, la la la! :trollface:   :boo:  <--- pissed-off ghost Moomin

You're only pretending to be here, Weeble.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 08, 2016, 05:59:31 PM
It's just me and Butterflies.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 08, 2016, 05:59:55 PM
And that gopher thing.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 08, 2016, 06:00:28 PM
 :eyelash:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 09, 2016, 07:08:20 AM
And that gopher thing.

  Gophers are extremely destructive.  What if he's chewing up the database?  >:(
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 09, 2016, 08:49:19 AM
And that gopher thing.

  Gophers are extremely destructive.  What if he's chewing up the database?  >:(

It will not chew it, but keep it safe in it's cheek pouches.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on March 09, 2016, 03:16:14 PM
And that gopher thing.

  Gophers are extremely destructive.  What if he's chewing up the database?  >:(

He'll have to eat antiacids or he'll be really sick tomorrow.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 09, 2016, 06:59:16 PM
I leave the data crunching for Jack.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 10, 2016, 09:29:42 AM
I leave the data crunching for Jack.  :zoinks:

  You really are a lazy little sack of mulch, aren't you?  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 10, 2016, 06:53:06 PM
I leave the data crunching for Jack.  :zoinks:

  You really are a lazy little sack of mulch, aren't you?  :laugh:

Some days I'm super lazy. Those days are just like other days except I also wear a cape.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 10, 2016, 07:00:03 PM
I leave the data crunching for Jack.  :zoinks:

  You really are a lazy little sack of mulch, aren't you?  :laugh:

Some days I'm super lazy. Those days are just like other days except I also wear a cape.  :zoinks:

  Somebody drew you getting wasted on grape juice or wine or sizzurp or whatever. :trollface:

                           (http://drawception.com/pub/panels/2012/5-28/rYYzKxbMcP-6.png)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 10, 2016, 07:04:30 PM
 :lol1:   :plus:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 10, 2016, 07:05:59 PM
  Useless fact:  I just Googled  "gopher wearing a cape."  :fp:  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 10, 2016, 07:18:51 PM
 :lol1:   :plus:  :plus:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 11, 2016, 06:53:52 PM
  Useless fact:  I just Googled  "gopher wearing a cape."  :fp:  :laugh:

 :zoinks:

(http://worth1000.s3.amazonaws.com/submissions/510500/510950_163a_sqr.jpg)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: lutra on March 12, 2016, 06:43:32 AM
My father's grandfather had quite a big goatee on his chin.  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on March 12, 2016, 04:39:16 PM
Stepping in wet spackling compound with bare feet feels the same as stepping in dog shit :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on March 12, 2016, 05:20:44 PM
It's disturbing to know that you seem to know the feel of dog shit between your toes.  :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 24, 2016, 08:00:40 PM
Gelatin is not made from plants, as I assumed, but from ground-up animal collagens.  Still delicious.  :autism:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 24, 2016, 08:03:21 PM
Gelatin is not made from plants, as I assumed, but from ground-up animal collagens.  Still delicious.  :autism:

That is why they make kosher gelatin.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 24, 2016, 08:13:24 PM
Gelatin is not made from plants, as I assumed, but from ground-up animal collagens.  Still delicious.  :autism:

That is why they make kosher gelatin.

    You can use that to make treats for Passover!  :2thumbsup:

(http://whatjewwannaeat.com/wp-content/uploads/Manischewitz-Red-Wine-Jello-Shots-5.png)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on April 24, 2016, 10:35:37 PM
Gelatin is not made from plants, as I assumed, but from ground-up animal collagens.  Still delicious.  :autism:

That is why they make kosher gelatin.
My friend who is a strict vegetarian, found that there is gelatin in certain deodorants. So she gave her deodorant to her mum and went out and bought new stuff.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Lestat on August 04, 2016, 02:10:46 PM
There are both animal gelatin in use AND vegetable-derived gelatin.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 02, 2016, 11:10:07 PM
I can't think of anything.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2016, 06:35:10 AM
That's fairly useless.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 03, 2016, 07:41:43 AM
That's fairly useless.

 :asthing:

I did good, then!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 03, 2016, 09:24:25 AM
There are both animal gelatin in use AND vegetable-derived gelatin.

Of course.  The vegetable-derived gelatin is used in kosher foods.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Icequeen on September 03, 2016, 03:26:50 PM
SO got his first smartphone awhile back. Now I need a leash so that he doesn't walk into things/people while in the store because he can't put it down. :roar:

I'm actually having fun with it though. He has this annoying habit of grabbing my ass in public...but now I've discovered I can easily slip away and leave him walking behind someone else.  >:D

He almost grabbed this guy's ass in Walmart the other day...not sure who was more disturbed him or the dude who almost got groped.

 :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2016, 03:35:28 PM
:rofl: +
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: renaeden on September 03, 2016, 11:22:43 PM
SO got his first smartphone awhile back. Now I need a leash so that he doesn't walk into things/people while in the store because he can't put it down. :roar:

I'm actually having fun with it though. He has this annoying habit of grabbing my ass in public...but now I've discovered I can easily slip away and leave him walking behind someone else.  >:D

He almost grabbed this guy's ass in Walmart the other day...not sure who was more disturbed him or the dude who almost got groped.

 :zoinks:
:lol1: I have just Yayed you for something else, I owe you one, bloody hilarious!
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 04, 2016, 08:09:15 AM
Weebles wobble and can be knocked down if you smack them pretty hard.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 04, 2016, 08:10:44 AM
Weebles wobble and can be knocked down if you smack them pretty hard.

  This Weeble :cbc: weighs almost 200 pounds. 
  Smacking me would feel like smacking the side of a mountain!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 04, 2016, 08:12:22 AM
Weebles wobble and can be knocked down if you smack them pretty hard.

  This Weeble :cbc: weighs almost 200 pounds. 
  Smacking me would feel like smacking the side of a mountain!  :laugh:


Well...the toys had a lt of false advertising. They'd fly right off the table if you smacked them.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 04, 2016, 08:13:17 AM
Weebles wobble and can be knocked down if you smack them pretty hard.

  This Weeble :cbc: weighs almost 200 pounds. 
  Smacking me would feel like smacking the side of a mountain!  :laugh:


Well...the toys had a lt of false advertising. They'd fly right off the table if you smacked them.

  But they landed upright!  That's the real point of the ads.  8)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 04, 2016, 08:14:35 AM
Weebles wobble and can be knocked down if you smack them pretty hard.

  This Weeble :cbc: weighs almost 200 pounds. 
  Smacking me would feel like smacking the side of a mountain!  :laugh:


Well...the toys had a lt of false advertising. They'd fly right off the table if you smacked them.

  But they landed upright!  That's the real point of the ads.  8)

Damn you and your facts. :MLA:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 04, 2016, 09:39:21 AM
I gave my first negative karma in a long time, but it was deserved.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Al Swearegen on September 08, 2016, 04:50:18 AM
I gave my first negative karma in a long time, but it was deserved.

Well let's assess that. It was to me and your reason was that I was implying I was inferring/implying things inappropriate with this. You have said elsewhere i was inferring Odeon's a rapist. Interesting enough I HAVE actually called Odeon a rapist in return for him calling me a bigot. So I do not have an issue calling him a rapist direct if I am so inclined and so do not imply what I can just as easily say outright.

I am a lot of things but subtle is not one of them. What was said was straight up. Sweden has a high rape and sexual assault and Swedish men are raping Swedish women at higher numbers than anywhere but Lesotho apparently. My rather unsubtle pointed remark was Swedish people as a whole  do not seem to take this seriously and that neither does Odeon.

So, no, you fucked up Trigger, again.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'Butterflies' on September 08, 2016, 06:59:01 AM

 Interesting enough I HAVE actually called Odeon a rrapist in return for him calling me a bigot. So I do not have an issue calling him a rrapist direct if I am so inclined and so do not imply what I can just as easily say outright.



Odeon called you a name that you don't like, so by your logic, you can make up shit about him and call him a rrapist.

So, does that mean that if you call someone a name that they dislike, they have the right to make up shit about you, and present it as fact? For instance, a dangerous father and a child abuser?

Or, do you think that maybe that kind of behaviour is utterly pathetic, and beneath the contempt of everyone here?
Do you not think it's time you grew up?
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Al Swearegen on September 08, 2016, 07:37:18 AM

 Interesting enough I HAVE actually called Odeon a rrapist in return for him calling me a bigot. So I do not have an issue calling him a rrapist direct if I am so inclined and so do not imply what I can just as easily say outright.



Odeon called you a name that you don't like, so by your logic, you can make up shit about him and call him a rrapist.

So, does that mean that if you call someone a name that they dislike, they have the right to make up shit about you, and present it as fact? For instance, a dangerous father and a child abuser?

Or, do you think that maybe that kind of behaviour is utterly pathetic, and beneath the contempt of everyone here?
Do you not think it's time you grew up?

I have a great idea, Butterflies. I will run it by you and you tell me how it sounds.

How about you interject in every disagreement I have with Odeon. When you do please downplay and downgrade anything he has said, and exaggerate everything I do, and spindoctor motive I don't have, to further extenuate the situation. Then on the basis of this non-reality make a comment on it?

Do you like that? Are you keen to join in that idea? I mean its disingenuous and pathetic but I think it is right in your wheelhouse.

So if we can bring it all back from Never never land, yes Odeon I called Odeon a name after he called me a name. Only a fool would think this is somehow unfair. As for me being called dangerous Father and an abuser on I2, its been done (Bint said I was a paedophile and used to rape my son) and I did not cry about it. So if you ask me how I felt, I did not care that much.

Pathetic is you Butterflies. You are beneath my contempt.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'Butterflies' on September 08, 2016, 09:07:56 AM

 Interesting enough I HAVE actually called Odeon a rrapist in return for him calling me a bigot. So I do not have an issue calling him a rrapist direct if I am so inclined and so do not imply what I can just as easily say outright.



Odeon called you a name that you don't like, so by your logic, you can make up shit about him and call him a rrapist.

So, does that mean that if you call someone a name that they dislike, they have the right to make up shit about you, and present it as fact? For instance, a dangerous father and a child abuser?

Or, do you think that maybe that kind of behaviour is utterly pathetic, and beneath the contempt of everyone here?
Do you not think it's time you grew up?

I have a great idea, Butterflies. I will run it by you and you tell me how it sounds.

How about you interject in every disagreement I have with Odeon. When you do please downplay and downgrade anything he has said, and exaggerate everything I do, and spindoctor motive I don't have, to further extenuate the situation. Then on the basis of this non-reality make a comment on it?

Do you like that? Are you keen to join in that idea? I mean its disingenuous and pathetic but I think it is right in your wheelhouse.

So if we can bring it all back from Never never land, yes Odeon I called Odeon a name after he called me a name. Only a fool would think this is somehow unfair. As for me being called dangerous Father and an abuser on I2, its been done (Bint said I was a paedophile and used to rape my son) and I did not cry about it. So if you ask me how I felt, I did not care that much.

Pathetic is you Butterflies. You are beneath my contempt.

Well, that was a long-winded way to not answer my question :laugh:

I didn't ask you if you would cry.


I asked you if someone has a right to call you a dangerous dad and a child abuser, just because you called them a name they disagreed with. I also asked you if you would think their behaviour was pathetic.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Al Swearegen on September 08, 2016, 09:13:53 AM

 Interesting enough I HAVE actually called Odeon a rrapist in return for him calling me a bigot. So I do not have an issue calling him a rrapist direct if I am so inclined and so do not imply what I can just as easily say outright.



Odeon called you a name that you don't like, so by your logic, you can make up shit about him and call him a rrapist.

So, does that mean that if you call someone a name that they dislike, they have the right to make up shit about you, and present it as fact? For instance, a dangerous father and a child abuser?

Or, do you think that maybe that kind of behaviour is utterly pathetic, and beneath the contempt of everyone here?
Do you not think it's time you grew up?

I have a great idea, Butterflies. I will run it by you and you tell me how it sounds.

How about you interject in every disagreement I have with Odeon. When you do please downplay and downgrade anything he has said, and exaggerate everything I do, and spindoctor motive I don't have, to further extenuate the situation. Then on the basis of this non-reality make a comment on it?

Do you like that? Are you keen to join in that idea? I mean its disingenuous and pathetic but I think it is right in your wheelhouse.

So if we can bring it all back from Never never land, yes Odeon I called Odeon a name after he called me a name. Only a fool would think this is somehow unfair. As for me being called dangerous Father and an abuser on I2, its been done (Bint said I was a paedophile and used to rape my son) and I did not cry about it. So if you ask me how I felt, I did not care that much.

Pathetic is you Butterflies. You are beneath my contempt.

Well, that was a long-winded way to not answer my question :laugh:

I didn't ask you if you would cry.


I asked you if someone has a right to call you a dangerous dad and a child abuser, just because you called them a name they disagreed with. I also asked you if you would think their behaviour was pathetic.

I dismissed it out of hand. I made a note when others defended me that I was giving it to her. I laughed at how incensed she was that people were getting angry at her. Was it her right to call me that? Free forum. She can say whatever she likes. But if she does she has to face the backlash of doing so. Same as everyone here.
If someone out of the blue attacks me, that is okay, but that gives me free reign to attack them back. Same applies with me to them.
People can say what they want here.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: WolFish on September 19, 2016, 05:52:00 PM
arrrgh.
it be talk like a pirate day today.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 19, 2016, 05:54:05 PM
arrrgh.
it be talk like a pirate day today.

:pirate: How’d ye like to scrape the barnacles off of me rudder?  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on September 20, 2016, 04:06:59 PM
arrrgh.
it be talk like a pirate day today.

Me grandmother was born on a pirate day.

Her right hand was a pirate hand.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 20, 2016, 09:45:17 PM
arrrgh.
it be talk like a pirate day today.

Me grandmother was born on a pirate day.

Her right hand was a pirate hand.

Your grandma had a hook?  :orly:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 21, 2016, 05:48:42 AM
arrrgh.
it be talk like a pirate day today.

Me grandmother was born on a pirate day.

Her right hand was a pirate hand.

Your grandma had a hook?  :orly:

  You stole my punchline!   :odeon:
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: odeon on September 21, 2016, 02:34:21 PM
You crooked people. I'm hooked now.
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: 'andersom' on September 22, 2016, 12:31:50 PM
You crooked people. I'm hooked now.

As was my grandmother's hand. It stood perpendicularly on her wrist. Her wrist stood in an angle to her arm too. The effect was a hook.

(She had been stung by a wasp when she was only a few days old. Her whole arm grew twisted as a result. Surgery later in life made things a lot better. She ended with "just" the hooked hand/wrist. She became a teacher in textile crafts with that hand. As a five year old, I think I was the last pupil she taught how to knit.)
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Parts on November 27, 2016, 03:41:47 PM
My grandmothers house was white with black shutters
Title: Re: Post a useless fact
Post by: Icequeen on November 27, 2016, 04:59:49 PM
The house my grandparents rented for years looked like it was ready to fall over, everything leaned including the windows.

I remember these:

(http://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0612/25/small-warm-morning-wood-coal-stove_1_2e3a2d7785c90e09be796e3d0e940da3.jpg)

They had two, the place was like 98 degrees in the middle of a January blizzard.