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[Phlexor]

Wouldn't a suction cup and a glass cutter be better?

[renaeden]

Or really long arms.

["couldbecousin"]

Or a vacuum cleaner with a powerful hose attachment! 

[Yuri Bezmenov]

The rock station had a good trivia question this morning:

Apple Inc. just topped $1Trillion in net worth but it's far from the wealthiest corporation in history.

The largest and wealthiest corporation in world history would be worth roughly $8Trillion in today's dollars.

What was the name of this company??

[DirtDawg]

I do know that one, but I won't spoil it for the others.

I heard a similar show, today. I was amazed.

[Yuri Bezmenov]

 

Yeah, on other member here might know it to because they learned it in school.

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

I'm guessing the Dutch East Indies company. Or whatever it was called.

[Al Swearegen]

Rothchild's conglomerate would have to rate or would if it was one company/organisation. But Yeah probably the Dutch East Indies company

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

[Jack]

What does that graph relate to? Deaths, a certain location, per a certain number of people?

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

What does that graph relate to? Deaths, a certain location, per a certain number of people?

I suspect that it's a useless mixture of all those things.

[DirtDawg]

I noticed the bee sting statistic.
When my daughter was three she was stung by a fairly large bee. I do know the difference, but around here everyone calls every stinging, flying insect a bee - just ignorance. It was not a wasp or hornet, it was a large bee that stung her and it was a bit traumatic to her for a while.

We live within a couple of miles of a large hospital and quite often one of those heavy, noisy "lifeline" helicopters flies over. My daughter would freak the fuck out and run inside at the first sight of one of them. She was terrified and in my efforts to calm her I discovered the root of her fear of helicopters.

She was very scared that the helicopter would swoop down and sting her. It took a while to get her past this. 

She has been stung several times in the past fifteen years and no longer seems to have a fear of aircraft.

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

We have bulldog ants around here. Big bitey critters that sometimes kill people.

At least 100 people die in the US from bee sting every year. In Africa I imagine that number would be much higher. The graph I shared looks like it was made up on the spot.

[Al Swearegen]

We have bulldog ants around here. Big bitey critters that sometimes kill people.

At least 100 people die in the US from bee sting every year. In Africa I imagine that number would be much higher. The graph I shared looks like it was made up on the spot.

I think you should play with them

[DirtDawg]

I forgot to mention this last night, but yesterday, after I picked up my daughte (AND she had to pop back home to change, of course) we went to watch the start of a hot air balloon race. Thirty four hot air balloons took off in rapid succession.

It actually took almost an hour because there was very little wind until they got to a certain elevation and could get out of the way of the next one's take off.

Not all the balloons were in the race. Several toward the end of the take offs were only there for whatever reason someone goes up in a hot air balloon.
Anyway, it was quite a visual and heart enriching spectacle.

A few years ago I attended this event and they got them all off in about twenty minutes. It was very windy that day and the balloons just zipped away as soon as they were off the ground, clearing the way for the next racer.