what I have learned today.

[Pedaldog.]

I only just figured out that the "Nes" in "Nescafe" is Nestle!

[Torslanda]

<Zarniwoop> 'DO try and keep up!' </Zarniwoop>

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Google are using balloons to bring the internet to millions.  They will be kept aloft by hot air from social media.

[Mr Larrington]

That Kerguelen Island was discovered two hundred years to the day before the Greasy Truckers Party at the Roundhouse.

[David Martin]

Today I discovered that HMS Unicorn, the frigate built for the Napoleonic wars but never fitted with masts or sailed, and for a while the oldest floating ship in the Royal Navy, is also the only sailing ship to have taken the surrender of a submarine in war time. Despite the Unicorn never leaving the dockside, a german U-boat, U2326 made port in Dundee and formally surrendered to the officer in charge. The frigate was named the HMS Cressy at the time.

The U-boat was then handed over to the French, but sank whilst crossing the Bay of Biscay with the loss of all hands.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Today I have discovered Arvo Pärt.

[andrewc]

Today I have discovered Arvo Pärt.

You lucky chap.  Such lovely music to encounter for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZe3mXlnfNc

[Canardly]

That is gorgeous.

[Mr Larrington]

Today I have discovered Arvo Pärt.

And claimed it for the Empire?

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

 CO2 bike tyre inflation cartridges are banned from passenger jets.

[Peter]

Today I have discovered Arvo Pärt.

You lucky chap.  Such lovely music to encounter for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZe3mXlnfNc

Try the Advent O Antiphons - it will soon be the season!

[Ham]

Tribology is the science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion. It includes the study and application of the principles of friction, lubrication and wear.

Who knew, eh? Probably a few on here

[Mr Larrington]

(Sings)
When two tribologists go to war
One is all that you can score.

I thang yew!

[billplumtree]

(Clouts Mr L round the lug)

[Steph]

 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34721419

[mcshroom]

My work has a Stargate!

(unfortunately not that sort of stargate)

[Kim]

Shame.  Dialling up P3W-451 would be a great way to dispose of unclear waste.

[Katie]

If you spread a pancake half with Nutella and half with peanut butter, and then fold it along the line between the two, roll it up and eat it, it's tastes like what I imagine being in heaven feels like.

I love my job.

[fuzzy]

If you spread a pancake half with Nutella and half with peanut butter, and then fold it along the line between the two, roll it up and eat it, it's tastes like what I imagine being in heaven feels like.

I love my job.

I soooooooo shouldn't have read that just before riding home in the pissing rain

[Katie]

If you spread a pancake half with Nutella and half with peanut butter, and then fold it along the line between the two, roll it up and eat it, it's tastes like what I imagine being in heaven feels like.

I love my job.

I soooooooo shouldn't have read that just before riding home in the pissing rain

I also don't have to ride anywhere until tomorrow, when it might have stopped raining.

Really love my job.

[fuzzy]

If you spread a pancake half with Nutella and half with peanut butter, and then fold it along the line between the two, roll it up and eat it, it's tastes like what I imagine being in heaven feels like.

I love my job.

I soooooooo shouldn't have read that just before riding home in the pissing rain

I also don't have to ride anywhere until tomorrow, when it might have stopped raining.

Really love my job.

You can go right off people.

 

[Cudzoziemiec]

Does this mean you are an Official Pancake Tester? *rewrites CV: ...extensive pancake experience, MSc Pancakeology,... *

[Katie]

If you spread a pancake half with Nutella and half with peanut butter, and then fold it along the line between the two, roll it up and eat it, it's tastes like what I imagine being in heaven feels like.

I love my job.

I soooooooo shouldn't have read that just before riding home in the pissing rain

I also don't have to ride anywhere until tomorrow, when it might have stopped raining.

Really love my job.

You can go right off people.

 

You don't want to do that, I make really good pancakes.

Does this mean you are an Official Pancake Tester? *rewrites CV: ...extensive pancake experience, MSc Pancakeology,... *

Oh I wish. Nope, just making pancakes for someone else and getting to nom the leftovers.

[geraldc]

There is a time capsule at the base of Cleopatra's needle

"On erection of the obelisk in 1878, a time capsule was concealed in the front part of the pedestal, containing : a set of 12 photographs of the best-looking English women of the day, a box of hairpins, a box of cigars, several tobacco pipes, a set of imperial weights, a baby's bottle, some children's toys, a shilling razor, a hydraulic jack and some samples of the cable used in the erection, a 3' bronze model of the monument, a complete set of contemporary British coins, a rupee, a portrait of Queen Victoria, a written history of the transport of the monument, plans on vellum, a translation of the inscriptions, copies of the Bible in several languages, a copy of John 3:16 in 215 languages,[6] a copy of Whitaker's Almanack, a Bradshaw Railway Guide, a map of London and copies of 10 daily newspapers."

I'm fascinated by the first item listed.

[Kim]

I'm fairly sure that's Victorian for 'pr0n'