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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1740 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.

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« Reply #1741 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:
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1742 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.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1743 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
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1744 on: March 04, 2011, 03:27:30 PM »
Americium is the only mane made element readily available to consumers
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« Reply #1745 on: March 04, 2011, 04:18:05 PM »
The Swedish word "upplopp" means either "uprising" or "spurt".  :viking:

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« Reply #1746 on: March 04, 2011, 04:34:06 PM »
"Cucumber" is called "gurka" in Swedish" and "agurk" in Norwegian.  :facepalm2:

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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #1747 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.

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« Reply #1748 on: March 04, 2011, 06:37:05 PM »
The town I live in is home to Subway world headquarters
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« Reply #1749 on: March 04, 2011, 08:05:16 PM »
I have an irrational fear of blow-up balloons.  Hot air balloons and condoms are fine.
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« Reply #1750 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.

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« Reply #1751 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.

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« Reply #1752 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.

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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.

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« Reply #1753 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.

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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 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.

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« Reply #1754 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.
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